The Express. — London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. eases Ur T 10 11•••Ibbsti at tb• O li Iramtal im " Tb• lisoms,* Lawlei It••• Int yaw. sus bb ld% , lassorimbrapi. by eo ea re • reaseeks. THE DAILY NEWS LONDON MORNING Irlatal=res=r9"•A•ardatiOrsi. num isdl allsiod Mier Nk• arms ••41 who 4ft —••••—ls M ••■■••• N• ••••••• ma la Or ._,.d rare. erg laismellea •NAgorl UN Mr. slimy, awl POW pew Is ••• WOWS IS RNLI AEA AND I IA • L ppittribl•NaLe• MIN Na. A impelell ta 4 I'l mina %MOM • • ALL OVINNIIVI ADVINTIONM 7 4 Cr kr li•Nt • dienalw id masa ••• . 1 bodaitst es Nramas le Us AMON= ;r et W. "" be t=l4 "NM •I ta , 4 2 1 1% rirsio 4 seni nab vaily Is web I au psi Igsww, paid I. atrium* Poadlls ads& etc exprcoo* Tito ♦ LITIMIIAMes. Dminiew. Carom, unr• cwt. Mks renew. M.. rim v.reratut ViivAiranCtalrot— 2l b" ig."rn FRINCINOL Two Immo, A GANZ or lONFL—AM LINO itenuto TILL SOOF)10. W.Ma 0. Lars.—Deda Kis 64 halt. 9.44. SUMMIT. fie FIRM FLO INNOr . blew. lir. Cr owed. t t AlibUrZoliPav Ilk• —lleaugia•S Walla L MOE WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tee DOT—US nisg. Aftermacs. 116 I. Teammaro—Varwas. 116 Aflame's. ti tn. LONDON, THURBDAT, APRIL 23. TO OUR A DOUBLE NUMBER of the EXPRESS will be published ON SATURDAYS ea usual, dtuing the. Peelisuneutary 'Weems. We shall make no apology to our readers foe draw ing their attention to the latest overt act of the London General Omnibus Company. In the days of buckram such matters may possibly have been thanght beneath the dignity of journalism. But the world is wiser than it was. History, with vest advantage to itself and its readers, has of late al mond,' from its Mild., and it would be aboard in deed if we chroniclers of the day did not follow its wimple. Landinemes menus t aibil Londineen a toads alierium set. There are some two million of as within the metropolitan limits. It is not a city, but a province we inhabit. Our streets extend over more miles than separate John o'Groat's from the Land's-end. Except for the porphyropeisiti, the plutocracy that lolls in landaus, and the respecta bility that rejoices in broughams—it has become a daily problem of considerable importance how best to inverse this city of inconvenient distances. For the future, indeed, superb projects are in store. Sir JOl5lll Parton promises some day or other to carry us ea the wings of steam far above the roar of Cheap side, on aerial railways, under roofs of crystal. Mr. LIONILL GISBORNE—if Sir 81-WANIN Hsu. and Mr. Tinrsues approve, and the public will pay—engages to embank the Thames for us, and sweep as along from the West to the East, without let or hindrance, at a dizzy elevation above high-water mark. Other projectors propose the humbler scheme of street tram ways, to be traversed without intermission by inces sant relays of monster omnibuses. Mach, no doubt, ma~said le or against any ce all of these pro- Meanwhile time Sin badness presses, Lon don iscreassa—and we can't wait. Everybody of course knows all about the great Leiden Omnibus Association. It was started with the estensfisie object of supplying the great metro politan want. Roomy carriages, civil servants, in creased weed, fewer delay., reduced fares, end a genes' system of cornispowdences, were in a short time to leave the Londoner no cause to envy the superior omnibus accommodation of Paris and New York. We were well disposed to be hopeful, but not sufficiently juvenile to be sanguine. The scheme was started by a company, and launched with a prospectus; and our recent experience d.cons panies and prospectuses had been anything but re souring. The company, moreover, was a monopoly; and we certainly did feel that if there was one pro position out of the range of the exact sciences more etrtein than another it was this, that the interests of • monopoly and of the public can never by any pas i• bility be identical. It soon became evident that the London General Omnibus Company was destined rather to illustrate than refute the correetnese of this (economical maxim. From that time to this its history has been a series of unfulfilled promises and realised diesppointusents. The carriages of the even pany are not improved; their pees is met needed; there is no inereses of civility ar ventilation. The unprotected female still struggles desgerously with opesmodle umbrella, in the hopeless Abet to stop a eseloster with whom all mews of eons multiestien are carefully eat off. Paterfamilias, in the interior, still eddies over the reek of wet straw, or perishes is the draught of open windows. Young England, on the knife-board, maintains without ease a peek's!' which he has not reached and mania quit without danger. The Com paq, ia a ward, mks' things pleasant to its pro prietary by making them as unpleasant as possible to the public; and the patient public, in return for its frustrated hopes, has the consolation of knowing . . . . . . . . _ ... that it is in the grip of a monopoly, which contrives to extract from its discomfort a revenue of from ten to eleven thousand pounds sterling per week, latterly, a hope of better things has been again _ presented to ea. A rival is in the field. The Saloon Omnibus Company (Limited) has got into work. Without going quite the length of Sir R. CAIDEN, mid declaring that everybody who has ever ridden in • Saloon Omnibus will always be glad to ride in it again," we may aver without danger of contradiction that the Salo** Omnibus makes an infinitely nearer approach to the ideal of a perfect street conveyance for all classes than any kind of carriage that has yet been con trived. In fact, it may well be doubted whether, considering all the necessary limitations of speed, space, and weight, any cleverer or more satisfactory piece of workmanship could have been turned out. Now, mark how the monopolists treat this laudable effort for the better accommodation of the public. The matter came up on Tuesday before the Court of Aldermen, on a petition presented by the Direc tors of the Saloon Omnibus Company, pray ing to have stands allotted at the Royal Ex change and Flower Pot to certain of their mini .. . _ buseiTwhich had jest acenmeuced running between Deleon and the City. It appeared that, "having no recognised time appointed for them," these Saloon Ornnibtems had been treated as intruders by the time keepers of the monopolist Company, and had been, like " Joe of Tom•Aloee's," kept moving on, so as to interfere with the possibility of their taking up pareengers. The discussion of the petition brought op Sir It. W. CARDEN, Alderman of London and M.P. for Oloucenter. Ilia statement we copy nr- Intim from our report :—" I think it right to men tion that as soon as the Saloon Omnibuses were started the London Omnibus Company gave instructions to their servants tai MOW One tales immediately before and aflame hamedii behind each Saloon Omnibus:* So strictly has direction been earned out, that when the other day it was necessary for one of the Saloon Omnibuses to be taken to Drury-lane, for the purpose of having kaitedies repaired, k was preceded end followed on its way Ilmee by asasibusse belonging to the Leedom Company, which actually remained in front of and behind it during the question of repairing the spring. Upon being remonstrated with, the servants at the London Omnibus Company said they bad no alternative but to obey their orders, which were ' one behind and one before wherever you go.'" _ . What do the London public think of that Mat improvement introduced by the London General Omnibus Company? Most frequenters of our , streets must have witnessed the pleasing speetaele of • race between opposition omnibuses—some probably may have experienced the pleasure of attempting to affect an entrance into the foremost of the two vehicles, under the agreeable conditions of being ran down by the pole of the pursuer, and thrust bodily into the penethdia of the pursued, making wild havoc of the tempers and toes of fellow-sufferers in blind efforts to find a resting place. (heat, however, are the inventive powers of capital. The monopolist Company has improved on the old practice, by the simple and beautiful precept, " one behind and one before wherever you go." It is not enough to pursue and pole, the new practice is, besides this, to obstruct and fold. What is the remedy ? The legal means of stopping the nuisenee most be left to the authori ties; but there is another soda more effectual remedy is the halide of the public, sad that is, never to get into a London General, whether "before or behind," when they can find room in a Saloon Omnibus. CTIONB.-IRISH COUNTY FRAN CHISE.-THZ BALLOT. A letter on the resoilta and teachings of Irish elections, from the pen of the veteran reformer, Mr. W. Sharman Crawford, appears in the Daily News. Mr. Crawford describes the nature of the county franchise in Ireland, and the various eircumstances which render freedom of election almost impoosible. This is not the only evil of the present unprotected conditioa of the electors. " The desire," observes Mr. Crawford, " of the landed aristocracy to sustain their political dominion induces them to withhold their assent from any law te give security to the Maud for labour or capital expended ; and alai from mating any kind of tenure, which would give the tenant even a temporary independence. The tenants have been converted into serfs. As such they are the instruments in the hands of their landlords to raise themselves to poli tical power through the medium of the political franchise held by the tenant, but wed by the land lord for the objects of his own ambition or profit. "These are the lessons which the lower orders re ceive from those who aught to be their instructors in the higher chimes. By sash proceedings as I have referred to, virtue, morality, religioc, honour, and patriotism are set at nought ; the principles of the whole community are tainted, and the conduct of man towards man in all the relations of society corrupted and vitiated. Under such circumstances as these, the franchise is a curse instead of a privilege to thaws who hold it. _ _ _ "It is understood and expected that a new Reform Bill will be celled for by the English people. Let them take wanting by the effects of the Irish occu pation franchise as it now exists. The extension of the suffrage in Ireland has been a deep misfortune to the voters on whom it has been conferred ; and instead of inereming the fair power of the popular voice has tended immensely to increase the lordly dominion above the democratic principle of the eoustitutiou. _ _ _ Thew "Are things so to remain? The futility of Lad John Russell's Anti-Corruption Act has been demonstrated, if not in England, at least fully in leetsnd. Will the legislature refuse to Ireland the only practicable remtdy which has ever yet been Cr:4— 'the ballot' ? Will the people of Eng h the example of Ireland before their eyes, accept a Reform Act giving an extension of the suf frage without the ballot ? " I venture to maintain that 'if a Reform Act be pasecdextentling tho suffrage, 'unaccompanied by a provision for taking the votes of the electors by secret ballot, it will be a worthless delusion, convert ing the people into the instruments of their own subjection to the landed and monied aristocracy, thus dividing the whole community simply into two classes of tyrants and slaves. " The peot uirw , however, may depend upon this, that without a le such as they had for the old Re form Aet they will not get the ballot. There will be plenty of aristocrats willing to court popularity by an extension of the suffrage, well knowing from the example of Ireland its effect in securing their own tyrannic power ; but the ballot never will be yielded by that party till the movement by the people in its support becomes of that nature that it will be more dangerous to the legitimate rights of the aris tocracy to withhold than to yield it." THE WATERFORD ESTATE IN COUNTY DERRY-PETITION OP THE TENANTRY FOR LIBERTY OF Daring the berry of the late election we mold sot pceOhly make team for sawerees comassicetices wet to es for lunettes, sad siscesst the wet we wore obliged to ad.-a .6. =el W sad Wordy r ad by ids emeatry ia county Dim. We wow sableha s copy el this rework able doesswet, 'Add amid all to be reel with solvated interest : TO TIM M"! SOOLS ?SI 11•14117 IS OP WATIMPOILD. " TIM petition se the mienlined Mats on the maw of Pessaisrs, ia the mat, of Loadoadary, Handy elionsth,—Thst your tam* an gradl y at tasked at yam knish!, sad ,yser dually, sad tirt Asir mead his dg lbws seek belay to mat an IYi iilC . tiny ors rased I. team yaw Isrleidp a. .ayallosisd Se the ism*, ysar levishWs Mtn , and that lea St: Milo anselinier senvle • ; tile list ougssedly pew Os sepia ye agpses i x t Fa i l s punk rea, at do dram, esserl *air .111111 s• the el *ale oakum; earl that ).• will llwdbabss W%se ms ent arl mummillue We to probil Om tb• mai NOM mei, if shelisd •140 i• la Omni Oh isurir Iwo An* dor as. "MB Merbrlm rommIl• • rowel as their pot, =rift do ad milelpals a edema ; sad Me amiested Ire., din, a deptilles is oa your lordship, sad they,* la ditty lasesid, *II sow d) pray." falior The ealeshei mete ha the 5... N. x Beres, el I No Ilk% dr suweeepatleetve treer e trw s = Illratahsre sow, =e i ewswar to dr meewlell et he emewe - 70bees to hr ;mailman is pew thee, bug we weld net moor Sol epee foe hen : TO TIE TOMOS OT TIE DOW STA/MAID. . - Lord Waterford's temats la poseriou of bie lordship • reply to their recsocelst volitive to the election. The reply I have received through Mr. Beresiard, Ids spat ; sad now I give Mr. Beredord's batter without sots or coseroeut, which you .61 please publish la Theredel:. 6fineteni. arid oblige Yowte., wnssiCL M. Hawes. " Newtowidireavedy, April 6, 1667." brook, Aprll3, 1567. " Sir,—l on directed by ta m .rquts of Worerford to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, together with a we °aria' frets wino of hie Wants in thio coon end and to say that be would 'risk 'tom to rote for Mr. Clark and Sir H. Bram at the asealag Your. fsithhilly, " ' Hey. N. M. Brown.' "' J. B. Bunsrona. We understand that his Royal 11 lihasar the Priam of Webs purpose to b prong at tin waft of the Arehotologioel Isseltato is Chow, nest hts, provided proper meadow& GM he nub bT Ye oleopOloo.—Cdrater While in the eastern gallery of the Manchester Exhlbitios, yomenday, on admirable phoessiveli of the Primes of Os& rod thfir mite or tam by Wiled and Co. Tag Ammon MEMO aosdon of the amositis• we YU as Mond, at likup lb. A/br im 11••••• i• Os Asir. Theses.lory andi List 1.,. pmelosk sal Old Owl st Oat 10. mind amilleist Mgr nem• dissuras um pftwini dot 116. et Miens, ad W. Thom, of taw lie. diode fir • olosal, tit art tart t• timed the sem of MK .a •~. '63, 4 , 6 The MMus of 11.41111. am Mame of Bohenloho Inapesbasg, saml den Parma Fasese, pail • visit to the Gases rehab, thanlag, vibes tho Princesses of II °loathe task ass OE bar 10#417 ea thine departure for the Coe dawn. Prima Alesetebilei Go Mahan *float ad the Prisons of Hthuithe Inapthhog la the Amon% at Canoes tem% Ut. Jame's. • Wow Aka% Minis* by Captain Da Plat, prodded at the flenGsical bill's alma aasetlag, fa Hanover-egaun rietarbiribweasa: Mated Woks, alleambi by Yr. Gibbs, went yerter day to Cammeat. The Duero el Gloucester coatianas its a precarious state. The Doke of Orshefries *ailed her Royal Hittlusees maw• day, at Gloweler I The Dutra efOsolseldes, the Effellibiry Grand Duchess ot Yeddelhasett *ea% awl the Nimes Mary of Cam bridge, tidld the Dueler it Kant and the Priam. of Holestshe ],Asst: yeisiday, sad took base of the Primers el Usisealies sad re Prisms Nodose, The niacin et Nehealshe Dries sad the Primer resikee, aileadal Ity Wand Itelplosa. ha Clemson Houma, ii. Jams% he the mob& gel Inward by the Booth Lim Railway to Dover, 1111 Mel Y Gars any. A Cabinet Coned woe held yeehnia afternoon at the official residence et the Plat Lad of the Treasury, in Dewning-Mrast The Ministers pre sent were :—Viscount Palmation, the Lad Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the et Landowne, Sir George Grey, the Earl et Mr. Baal tart' Labouchere, Lord Panaase, the llor of tie Exchequer, , Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. it. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Aldaley, the Duke of Argyll, and the Right lion. M. T. Baines. MOO' Owl bad an interview with Ur. Beeretary Laboveliere reeerday. Dr. Ihndwith sad Mr. Stemmas had also isterriews with the tight hos. gentleenan at the Cakeial-eSen - TM Earl soil Comers Omnile urived is tore yaMer day mania( kola Pane. This morning the following bulletin was laud; - "Gloseeetar Home, April 28,1867, 9 a.m. " Her Royal Illefams the Dechate of Moscow km pared a quieter eight. Ha royal blettmeas rural Me - remains much the maw (64Pel) "FRAncu ILiwinrs, M.D. "Rosast Faaaroom, N.D. "E. IL Mita." _ DZPARTI:RE OP LORD ED:mt.-11W Excellency the Earl of Elgin took his departure for Peri on Ttimday efternoon, ecootepanied by the Countess, and would reach the French capital yesterday afternoon. The gentlemen emaciated with the noble mai in hie mission to China left London on Tuesday and yeastday, to meet his Facellemey, end thin proceed via Meneilles to Alesendrle. The Fart of Elgin intends to stay two or three days In Prix. The countess will then take leave of him and return to town in the awls put of neat week. The (indium attached to the minks are the Ilea. F. Beam, Kr. Oliphant, Yr. Carew, mad Kr. FUsroy. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lord Albert Lemma Gower have left eadlaid-hoesee, hr Castle Howard, Yorimbire, to visit the Countess of Carlisle. The Duke and Lord IRonakl Lemma Gower left the isms (Tuerday) own ing, far Cliellea-perk, neer Maidenhead. The Duchess Dowager of Norfolk, accompanied by Lard and lady George Kanner% left town ymterday, on • Melt to the Duke of fastbrs§abd, et Cliddcn, Ducks. - - T►e~Duke and Dachas d Argyll left Campden hill, Konalagka, lest maim cm a whit to the Duke of Betherbrad, at Clients& Mr. Frederick Peel, Under-Secretary of State for the War Depertmeat, retuned to tows MA night trots his am; Hampton, Werwleholdre. The Duke of Bowden& has joined the duchess sad dually et Montages Hawn Whitehall, ban flootlaad. Lady Catherine Weyland was safely delivered of s daughter yesterday, st the family residence in Eaton place. Her lody•Vp mad the infant are programing very favourably. The Count and Countess Lettow and suite have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jerraya-street. L Comte do Camera, sad family pare left the same oushiiihnieat for Paris. . - Sir Clifford and Lady Constable, during the Easter holidays, have been entertaining at Burton Consteble the tallowing disUngnishad pirate —The Countess of AMA's end Lady Helen M•lkensell„ Sir Henry and Lady Annette de Traced, Lady Onendalin Talbot, Lady Stared, end the Hon. Miens Lane Fox Mrs. Ooldsruid, SW Maxwell sad Lady Wallace, Sir Ho bert and Lady Gerard, Lord Wawa, Mr. Hurry Milbanke, lion. T. Stowe, Mr. Boding- Sold, Mr. C. Sena, Mr. Meargeld, Captain D'Eyacasut, Mr. Ferguesce, and Mr. Cecil de Traord. On Wednesday and Friday two plays ware given in the pirate theatre— Still Water. Bra Deep, and Little Taddkkiae. The arsairrar meting sae escaent. Covers were laid daily for 40 gents. Th. Princess Orloff has left Douglas's Hotel, Edinburgh, for the Booth. The Earl and Coantess of Fife have left Duff Hour, for lease Hosea, Morayshire, which they kayo in • day or two kr Leedom. We (Cluiftetedssis Boisisiner) regret to learn that the beads et LA litalredisp is all fa • very smatiactory mate. Hie Itedalpi has, during the peat week, sawed a sneers Wages; Si. ameba Ise guest wanly tonsken him, and we Isar there ens la add lisps ot his aireate treovery. This mania. of Copt. Parker, R.N., second son of Aland Sir Walden Parr, 0.C.8., and Mlle Pined, doesiese of W. M. Prod, Ear, at Debars", user dry bridge, will he ceislorated ea Saturday next, the lith, at Corawood. A grand "catholic charity ball" was given in the Pahlie items, Nei, ea Woodsy Eight, under the pipe mere et the Dasher al Leeds, Lay Clttie,d Comebie, e.g oar Wise drank. The amber peewit was rfs. This Bishop of Durham held a confirmation in the Dabs Cathedral ea Neater. The etteadeace of pew meow was wombat bee thee usual. The health of the Bishop of Glotioestor and Bristol, Ala kr ems time peat hie aimed some razisty, bee bees sellehady fedora to admit at Ids hedehip's rememl IFIMI lie twideme et CHM. te hla wet, Itolbwetiala Yew, war Stmt. His kohl* and &Mk leek tkak de mean ea Today. At the election yesterday se two proctors to re resist the diocese of Maseleetat is the Convocation at Tort, the he. rectors, Crewe Deed sad Hanby, were reposed ter meta:ties by the high dear& party. The emspeatele premed In emir 11601 Nam law" *IMAM Cimit. WWI; sad Coma Arr. The blehey amemed the emit et the votes to be:—Cases thresh, 4h; Chem Pen, 4s; Canoe Drs .l, 111; Coma Amity. et. Tu. brii4pliserr• &await ami gamma &ay ; of tirisibilog ma ogee afar et voles fite Clime Per; sad Demi* lie &did me 'ragtag the seetigee le be settled by Clemeedos, Ilteelk be Wend la lad Ilia prim to give a mew vote, AitcIIDILICOIIIT OW TAI37ITOWnwa Venerable the Arthimees at Tamer bee meowed his latish= to hold Ids thatiel Ole Maim Coats et the *how* NE, via .—Teaelal s T meir eiTits= ; Ceroberea, !May, May 21; 7, mei II:. Dewier, Friday. 2 1 / 1 111. Agar* le • wish =11111•191 by the :=7: tit Ardadriarmy at the het vtellegen, the thud b hole bees Whale dee with the dew et Patti ado Cod - Brd, teorrsois the ley of the viatatioe. The Aiehateeme, iniedied. atter the dieser. le ad rift rralla le the wt of church-mtge., sad hem whim, -Iletsile Mohr, Do. Woirr.—lles Rev. Dr. Wolff is just re tired le kis lbws,' km learisikk whore he barn Mee mirk( kr seme Ilees yak Dm* Ns sky there Ms tire wee norin esseoisl posikng sod alhorler hoboes on mhos hr ho Mr* et do dreihnis holliodeas In N.; sod se mad law bin rbibriebrerr sod smilonois ea ell rellyreme_ ormilsos eriereM his le Chdetbse d every emerieillse that it lemiesil Ms name= Mars pre sume i t Mk seer by Mk= et Irk meat ea Ms Mirky the Wm I mi it in di creek pima* Net we seeks the peratelisa ate Ark ser_depat river basin% aresibed se tom :—" • lelbelle akelka to the Rev. Jae* irnig MD., by hie Mob isloiree. A.D. 111117: disk by Merle el the Zwarlisal party. Ilia pa- Mika= edema Mr Welk base m Mr= kit with great amoolosilms of input • waft Wm* d them west eel le art him ea !Woke= irle the slim mil yoked theirelless *hie merheik esewieg Aka hew nimble hod =wer thejeysee etas elsoolibilb. tosinesi. Pa, EVENING, APRIL 23, LATEST .INTELLIG: PRUSSIA AND S, There is a rut conflict of opinion in Paris u to the probabb result of the new reference made to their respective governments by the Swiss and Rrusaian plenipotentiaries. The Sii , ck, which, f rom the beginning of the difficulty has always e',ood up manfully for Switzerland, now says, in a ve r y positive manner, that the solution is close at bend, that the . . latest objections have been removed, an a that the points of detail which yet remained to VA arranged cannot possibly prevent a settlement equally honourable for both parties. Our Paris correspondent, however, thinks that this impression of the Sleek, although pobably founded upon no less authority tics the opinion of Dr. Kern himself, may tarn out to be too sanguine. The Swiss plenipotentiary, moving in the atmosphere of the court of the Tuileries, where he has been very much flattered, may very possibly have taken a view of the new proposition which may not be confirmed by his government. It is certain that, according to all the latest correspondence from Berne, a serious resistance is to be expected there. Letters from Berlin are in a more conciliatory tone, bat the reason is that the project of the mediatinj powers is supposed to be very favourable to Prussia. The Paris correspondent of the Times (second edition), writing yesterday evening, says : Dr. Kern left lest night for BOW with the dewed of the arrangement adopted by the rapes etatives of the bar Power, and aseeped by him abject to the appro. Wien of the Federal Cereaell. Dr. leans poßnmf Napes is light, bat I bar his hest is heavy. The arnagement le be from bdag Mee what, In the buoyancy of his lost hopes and the certitude of his ewe powers of penraseles sad general diploamtle skill, he bad promised to the brim Peres hes, es I hays steady ebeerved, reduced her terms so hr as the mosey le Neolened ; she now accepts, and Dr. Kern sepses for Bwitserlead to pay 1,000.000 k. by way of Indemnity ; the King of Prude reels the title of Prime of Neuftchatel, sad Switairland will give him • parents reelecting the roper sbniniestion of charitable insulations to Neufchatel. Than ere other condi tions, hat thole I mention are, I believe, the most imports& ; the representstins of the bar Powers adopted them se the beds of ea maw met ea the Ist of April (skis mom 1 and Ile Mee has ESN been taken is with the diikelties lad denW on puttee the Protocol or COSVISike in form. We may be certain that • solution whisk gives so iadirect right to the King of Praise to internee r the internal afters of the canton trader the pretext of seeing the guarantee pro party executal, sad the cantinesace of the title of Prime of Neufchatel, will be very badly received in Switzerland. The Swim will not believe that the Wag end the royalist peer de not still meditate the separation from the Federation of that Nets, and that they will carry it into execution on the bet ferramble oppertenity. If the Federal Coun cil, white is divided* into two nearly equal parties, some the arrangement, ft will be with the greatest repug nance. Many people here dead that acceptance; but what can Switselead do else awassß Berate ? As to great and general dismedestion swag the mum then is so doabt. Dr. Kern, swain nothing extreedinery sews, will be beck about the end of the month to sign the convention. PERSIA. The following is the Persian account of the late action between the British and Persian troops, taken from the Teheran Gazette of the letrsjah,l273 (25th February, 1867): toys.ora-Moulk occinnudostes to is In baste the fol lowing news, amid nth February :—The 7th 'nat. the Esc. lish miss* leaving with this tea pieces of same, bed occupied the Thale-Kwateh. situated et bur begins fres Boobies, with the Intention of min oar troops a check swims to their complete concentstion at beed-qnseters— Souja-001-Moralk, having desired to anticipate the English in their plan, took with him 3,000 enrols infantry, 300 hareems, sad twelve Sees of mom to attack the enemy's camp during the night. Ile wicked the muse fight. After he had left Boarme-lan a league behind his rein began to fell in torrents. The Engliil who bad left Djah-Koutali a Signe behind them retreated at the approach of our troops, end sheltseed themelete behind rcas mid in cavern; while oar tromp, being in a great plain, without shelter, and imposed to heavy rain, with drew to their amp. The English troops, thus premiered from therein, tenoned to reach Bostrass-Jan before daylight. Souje ool-lloulk punned them with his 3,ooopkkedtroope and eight pieces al manta. The English advanced gaud ensconced the ennui of our troops by a shot. The English, seeing that they meld not tainsport their smantnitioa on camels, in imosomence of the mad, bung it, and retreated towards Boners. Our troops gemmed them to within four legman of that place. la the meantime, two other Bullet regi ments sad 400 comity, with 10 pieces al mama, came from Usehire to their eminence. After the snivel of this re linamement the. English Mined mend, sad the battle begun. Although the amebic of our Imam woe mach infe rior to that of the enemy, they fought with gmat detnmina non and courage. The battle commenced at daylight, and lasted four hours sod a hat without tnteemleaka. Our troops Mowed the greatest bravery; twice they penetrated into the inemy's rents end brake theca. We bed heard that Madder, this gown who Ind arrived at Buthirr, was killed b; the battle; bat that amount to not tmo. On side the tuliplsOonned Kouli-Klum Isvan-Schir sad the telly Ali-Khan, Kera-Quealou, in penetrating into the enemy's lime wort wounded, the fiat with a map-shot end the ascend with a sabre-cut, but their wounds are not se. ripen Dating the entire battle the rain never creed to tummy the ecenbateata. It fell with mak faros that the two parties ware famed to IRINAIIte, Lavin several pima of amen in the mud. For tho same . . reran the number of killed could net be sneer. tabled. We ere told that the English lest h. the bottle from 300 to 1,000 inns ; our for is fres 300 to 600. We daily enact mere details from the illeatrions Mohammed Khan, Commander of the Guards of his Majesty the Shah, who, when we are going to prim, should have arrived at the head-quitters of our amiy, and who will not fail to communicate the details of this battle, which we will hasten to publish In nor nest number._ - - A letter from Teheran, of the 6th of March, pub. tithed in the Nord of Brunel", rya: Another memenger has arrived from Fare. The news brought by him con Arms that publiebed in the TeAtrom Gazettr. The tom of the enemy is estimated at from 1,700 to 1,000 men. Our lose is not considemble meowed with that of the enemy. It does not exceed 300 to 400 men. The amen which were left in the mod have been recovered by oar troops. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OCZ OWN PARIS, WIDNIIIIIMY Evirynto. This evening's Pays announces that the Grand Duke Constantine will arrive in Paris on Thursday, April 30, and will remain tiU May 16. During his stay there will be Rtes in Paris and at Fontainebleau, a grand ball at the Tuileries, a grand soiree at the liotel de Ville, races in the Bois de Boulogne, a hunt at Fontainebleau, and a review at the Champ de Mare. There will be two " commands "at the opera. Marro Spada will be represented on the first occasion, and the Corsairs on the second. The Prince will leave Paris on the 16th of May for Bordeaux, and after seeing the town will embark on board the imperial yacht the Heine Hortense which will be in waiting to receive him. Marshal Bandon, the Governor of Algeria, who, according to an announcement, which turns out to have been incorrect, was to have gone to Toulon to meet the Grand Duke, left Marseilles on Monday for Algiers. He was accompanied by one of his aides-de-camp, a son of Prince Bibesco of Wallachia. The Bourse opened better, under the influence of a rise in Consols, grounded, it was thought, upon an improved state of the money market in London. At . _ 1857. one moulent it was expected that the Rents would takes a decided upward movement. This hope was, however, disappointed. Quotations ruled very dull in the latter part of the day, and tle Threes closed at 69fr. 35c. for, and 691 r. 30c., with a rise of 10c. for cash and a fall of sc. for account. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. Railways were weak at rather lower prices than yesterday. I understand that the Credit Mobilier, being de sirous of effecting an operation in Russian railways which it could not lawfully do without the consent of the government, has been refused the authorisa tion. It is announced that the Minister of the Interior has determined to dispense with the formality of the "verification of passports and visas," in the cue of travellers arriving at Boulogne by boats coming from England. In the absence of any in formation as to the reasons for this mea sure, I am not sure that I apprehend the import of it. I do not think it can be considered as an instalment of any appreciable value towards the abolition of the ridiculous passport system. If, indeed, the minister had relaxed the rule in a con verse direction, and allowed people to embark from Boulogne to England without the neoessity of show ing passports, the convenience to English travellers would have been immense. But it has never been the custom to require the production of a from passengers landing at the Boulogne pierarer; are asked, indeed, whether they have passports, but if they have not, their names are taken down and they are allowed to pass on. When ones in the streets of Boulogne, there is no practical impediment in the way of going on to Paris ; or, indeed, to any other part' of France without a pempret. The only real difficulty is to get out of France without one. Ido not there fore see any essential reform in SA new regaiatiam. " The inhabitants of Plosabitees," says a War from Paris in the Nord of Brume* "expect that the Emperor will again visit them this year, and stay for a month. His Majesty, it is said, will net be accompanied by the Empress, but at the end et August will accompany her to Biarritz, where they Prreto pass the rest of the season." new Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Morlot, will be installed on Saturday at Notre Dame. The bells of all the churches in Paris will be rung in celebration of the event on Friday evening, and also matins at noon on the day of the installation. The death of the Duchess of Ragusa, which was announced by all the French papers two days ago, is contradicted. She is, however, seriously a TURKEY. (vßoit ovi OWN CONSTANTINOPLR, Aram 13. We hear from Belgrade that Captain Magnan, of the French navy , has arrived there. He has suc ceeded in forming a French company, the title of which is thus given, " Premiire Compagnie Fran !Also de Bateaux i Vapeur sur le Danube et sea Affiuens." Those steamers that used to ply on the Rhone are being sent to the Danube ; one of them, the Lyonnalse, has been at Belgrade for sometime, and is now to commence running from Widdin to Belgrade, and from the latter place up the Save. As soon as the other steamboats arrive the trip is to be extended to Galati. The company, by way of com mencement, has already published ita tariff, which is found to be 10 per cent. less than the Austrian. A great quantity of Slavonic books have been con fiscated here and at Varna, which were destined for Bulgaria and Bosnia. In most of these books the following prayer occurs:—" May God destroy the Turkish empire, and bestow it on the ort ho dox Emperor!" It is declared in these works, to all appearance officially, that they have been printed at the command of the Emperor Alexander 11. and the Holy Synod. As the Russian ambassador, M. Boa tenieff, entered his protest against the Circassian expedition, why should not the Porte demand se curity against this holy conspiracy ? I took a walk yesterday in front of the Sultan's palace, and saw children approaching it from every street ; they were singing, and I asked what it all meant I was told that on that day the youngest son of the Sultan had begun learning to read, and that was why all the schoolboys, from far and near, had come to congratulate hishoy-highness. I went with them into the palace, when I heard what it was about, and there they were, ranged in a circle by their khodzas, or teachers. The prince appeared, and received their greeting, after which he ordered a distribution of sweetmeat. among them, which had the effect of a dismissal without any of its harshness. Great agito • tion prevails in the Danubian Princi palities, on which account the Austrian troops are placed near one frontier, and a Russian observation corps near the other, for the purpose, perhaps, of wet feriug in case of any outbreak. It is to be hoped the Wallachians will keep order without requiring the oil of a foreign power to still the waves of sedition. The several commissioners have been received enthusiastically, but the French commis sioner moot so. The card of membership adopted by the Wanachian political club, bearing the mottos " Union, self-g overnment , a constitution, and a foreign prince , were described in a previous letter. It is rumoured here that the French commissioner, M. Talleyrand Perigord, is somehow mixed up with the printing and disseminating of these cards. The result of the commission of inquiry about the expedition of Mehemed Bey from this capital is now published. Mchemed Bey, Fehrad Pasha, and Ismail Pasha are declared guilty. The government of the Porte has pared against them the sentence of banishment, and the two last-named individuals go into exile this very day, one to Browns, the other to Ismid. The international commissioners for the regulation of the frontier in Armenia have to meet at Kars on the 13th of May next. ENGLISHMEN LN AUSTRIA. TO THR ZDITOR OP TOO EXPRISO. Eta,—Will you allow ma a corner in your columns in reply to a writer in the Iliossehefd Won*, whose account of hie Austrian experiences appeared in the Express of Ist week. He evidently piques himself upon hie docile acquiesces°, in the recommendation of his Imperial gaoler, not to write to the English papers upon the subject. Of census every man is at liberty to pocket an affront, if he thinks proper, or if any good le likely to come of it, but it is a little too bad to taunt those who are of a different opinion with a love of notoriety or am bitioua cravings for the crown of martyrdom, and to lamina ate, forsooth, that became cigars and heltheimer were distributed to him by his indulgent keepers, that therefore the statemente of the "correspondent of a leading ionised," who was incarcerated in 1852, must have been highly coloured—not to say exaggerated. With respect to the simple narration of facts wntten the day after I wee in the public streets of Vienna, I have nothing to add 10, nor detract from it, and I can ma nu re th e we lt er in the " Household Words" that there was no haeMsetirwr to melee things pleasant, and the cigars in my pocket were tibia from use, themfore, smoking was out of the yuedion, and if he would take the trouble to refer to the published owes pondenee, he will see nothing in my letter about " bare moi," "block bread," or ' Gamenlaufen." The arks I heard being in the evening could not hare been mad lap the military punishment he describes. If this writer is to be credited, there hare been no lee than five similar outrages upon Englishmen in Austria since my cassoceurred, and the sufferers all agreed not to publish thou. ViSTIIICOL This tacit submission to wrong gratifying to the police authonties m o u r+it h s, t t the eFLoe observed by the aggrieved affords a clue to the isepasity that ham attended the sets in for you need - not be re minded that secrecy is the very LL6 and soul of absolutism, and that the police at all despotic conntrice love darkness rather than light. It may be an agreeable reminiscence, and may salt theparpose of a cockney tourist, or of an undergraduate boat upon sight-mel‘ and adventure, to point a moral or adorn a tale with "a peep into Austrian prisons,' or " a night with a turnkey ;" but to a plain man, professionally engaged in the country where these things are done, I am aware him the Austrian esperiencee ha describes are far from profitable, and until the much-vaunted Anglo-Ambian Alliance bear some tangible fruit in the sitipe of a treaty or enderstseding affecting the treatment of British subjects, or travelling in the Austrian deouniciaL i r ig er ty the per poses of buena' r or pleasure, I would receemnend my fellow-countrymen to avoid that treacherous frontr—if they would not Apure in the newspapers, or become "House , hold Word." Sir Hamilton Seymour may do much to raise the . character, and I may say the honou r , o f th e B r i t i s h anima in the eyes of the ruling poorest' Austria. The least he can do is to make the Foreign-4k" passport (without which no Englishman can visit Austria) respected. As keg aa Englishmen are wantonly insulted or detained, it is but a grandiloquent putt and a sham. 1 remain, &e. B. HARWOOD. THE ELECTRIC TBLEORAPR. The electric telegraph has become a valuable anzillary to the service of the Post-office. Its annotates male of the arrival of the foreign whet. in sight of the Hoeft west give the warning for preparation for the raw diedherles of fareiga and colonial mails, which are now Qi imam nteipallede. During the recent elections, the gees meat became beensdietely acquainted with the result. of the contests through the medium of the telegraph Oct in by the Peet-eace AAR throughout the couatre. Tn e d a er ika this arrangement an ill1111(1140 number of election =Memeeen reached the General Poet-otfice daily, an Ph Si .ones eammunicated to the government. The talegraph is now extended to almost every railway teen in the kingdom. By mean, of the submarine cables mum the British Channel to Calais, ()geed, en d the Hague, almost every European capital is en rapport with London. The longest extension of the telegraph, st mem; is that between London and lialekleva, through Vienna and Varna, end between the English metropolis./ Simpheropol, by way of St. Petersburg and Moscow. T. Russianrailromb will extend it to all parts of . north-tene t Europe. The waggon-road bout the Mueassippi to the Padne, decided on by the United State. government, win Icing California into immediate telegraphic ceoununantim with New York. In a abort time Europe will be telegraph". rally joined with the north-western pats of Africa; &adj. Meditemeneen will be crossed by eubmarine cables from north to south. Lisbon ill being joined to London rai Madrid, by telegraph, by lumen. of which new. will reach England four or nere days in advance of the Brazilian and Gibraltar mail packets from South America, the Cape de Verde, and the Spe nish and Portuguese towns on the Peninsular coast. Thelareg down of the Atlantic submarine cable will mark an era in mks history of the telegreph, for it will test the practicability Of telegraphic communication with almost every part of the civilised world. The distance between Ireland and New foundland, the termini of the Atlantic cable, is nearly 2,000 miles. By means of that cable we shall have telegraphh oreeneunicatica with New Orleans, near the Gulf of Mexico, • dletenoe of 4,000 mile., and at no distant period with Sin such longer distance. Already • plan foe Me needs, by tehgeeph the Woe hided/lands with Europe, the the United States, has been projected, and apparently cable oak accompisisd by extending the telegraph to Smash and knit theme to the Bahamas, or from New Orleans to the sentliresslera point of the United States, and from theme WPM the Mesita of Florida to Cuba. From Cuba a mew* to of short submarine cables could be laid dove Is Meek Guiana and Trinidad by way of St. Thomas, mg Wade the whole of the Antilles. The distance betimes awe adjoining two of the latter does not exceed 493 mil% sod many et the cables would not be longer than that which ansielies hoar Dover to Ostend. From Jamaica to Coke the dislann is only 700 mike, or the latter Oaks could be reached from St. T ho mas's by land and sea tekvapbe, the Spanish main. }'rom Colon the wires could be aerial serer the Panama railroad to the western terminus of that line, from which they could be extended to the numerate end wealthy towns on the New Grenadian, Equadonen, Ps. Tartan, Bolivian, end Chilian cow, from Buenaventura ta Valparaiso. Thil line, with the one through the United States to the Pacific, would place Europe in immediate communication with the gold mines of California the silver mines of Peru, and the pearl ilehnite of Panama. From lievannide, meow the Madera Onif, the distance is 810 miles; but Raise Ind could be joined to Panama, from wham the who= carried overland to the city of Mexico, end hem thanes .the great specie shipping ports ot Vega Cros and T Teeniest _to the met, the sea line between th=s Eli in Canard to Meeker le less than 1,000 miles ; ken the Weer pies le Mahe the distesce is 981 mike ; ad hem Maya to Ma capilsi e m t= ca t is 819 miles. Wreeip there Is • between Akashi& re lead t=fisa is bat 1,300 nilles letgth, and are Aim is Bombay the distance is Gay 1,914 ram Ile Bap at Blowy the Mediterrantan, and Ans• tin leas being cabled, Landon would be ads. 14triy united with the whole of India. Free to Point de Gallo the Mitence is only lid miles, and a submarine cable between these two ppo d l a e t s e could be separated at Colombo or Trincomalee. From Pend de Gallo to Penang the sea line is 1,213 railed Eva the diatoms of the letter place to Calcutta is but 1,286 miles, and • submarine cable from the northern to the southern palate of the bay of Bengal could be divided at one of our settle. meats on the Burmese coast. Singapore is 381 miles freer Penang, and 1,437 milts nom Hong Kong. Batavia is alp 520 miles from Singapore, and but 2,089 miles from i c il Georges Sound. From the latter place the telwao o be easily carried to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, ad across Bum straits to Tasmania. It thus appeal, that if the Atlantic cable mimed& there would be no physical obstacle to connecting together by telegraph meet of the chief sespeeln in Europe, America, Aria, Africa, and Australis, and that, too, without touching at any spot inhabited by eavegte, whore the defence of telegraph wires would be expensive. /a all the distances above-mentioned, the see line is a Weight one, end only in one instance a trifle longer than the cable which will be necessary to connect Valentia, in Ireland, with St. John's, in Newfoundland. THE GC Le STREAM IN THE ATLANTIC. --The general description of the gulf-strewn, apse from any pees sent question as to ita weave, la that of a vast and rapid ocean-current, issuing from the bruin of the Mexican ea end Caribbean Sea, doubling the southern ceszf a n p :id a sa preening forwards to the north-coat, in a line to the American coed ; touching on the southern bodies ed the Grand Banks of Newfounatiand, end at some seas= partially pawing over them • thence, with increasing width and diffusion, traversing the whole breadth of the Attende e with a central direction tower& the British Islas ; and !Wally loving itself, by Hill wider diffuoion, in the Bayer Biwa', an our own shores, and upon the lung Has of the Norwegisa coaster. Its identity In physical characters is premed throughout the many thousand miles of its continuous dew —the only change undergone la that of degree. As it waters gradually commingle with thew of the surround! sea, their deep blue tint declinea, their kg' h temptable, diusiniabee, the speed with which they peas forwards deka But tskii4 the strewn in its total course, it well warms* the vivid dawription of our author, and the name be hasten upon It of • "river in the ocean." Title epithet to memory the jell illsreande of Homer), is, in trier= tidy appropriate to this vent warrant ; so constant and new *moue in ate muse; ands° terengelydetacked from the mew of ocean waters; which, whit* seemingly cleft asunder to give path to its &et impulse, are yet ever pressing upon IS, gradually impairing its tome and destroying its individuality. The maximum of velocity where the stream quits tie narrow channel of Derain', whieh comprewes its egress dew the gulf, is about four mike an hour. Off Cape Hatteras, la North Carolina, where it has gained a breadth of 76 mike the velocity is reduced to three mile.. Oa the parallel dike Newfoundland banks it is further reduced to a mile and algal an hour, end this gradual abatement of force is madame sea, the Atlantic. The temperature of the current endow goes similar change. The highest observed is about SS deg,. Fahrenheit. Between Cape Hatter. and Nes-founded. though lessened in amount, the warmth of the stream la winter is still 25 or 30 dme above that of the ocean through which it flows. Nor I. this heat wholly lost when it rescluy and is spread over, the masts of Northern Europa TM waters, thus constantly Sewing to us from the trapled region., bring warmth as well .1 abundant moisture to use own islands; end Ireland especially, upon which they wee directly impinge. doubtless derives much of its peculiwite d climate, its moisture, verdure, and abundant vegetate% from this source. Were it needful to seek proof of the pas manence of the great natural phenomenon of which we M speaking, we might end it in thoae curious passages of wrist geographers—romponius Meta and I. Solinus Poly's**. for example—which describe the peculiarities of the leek soil and climate eighteen centuries ago, almost as we shoal depict them now. But the influence of the Gulf-Wee* does not atop even here. The climate it may be said been ray la diffused, more or lees, over the whole Now** comet, the Impede end produce of which singularly =MA with those of the corresponding latitudes in North Americo ! Greenland, and Siberia. Other canoes doubtless contribute to this effect ; but none, we apprehend, so largely* us ceasingly. The influence of the temperature of the Gar strewn upon animal life in the ocean te very curious. The whale so sedulously shone its warm waters, so almost It indicate their track by its absence, while yet abundantly found on each oide of it. The physical review are doubtless the same which prevent thin great marine pummel from ewe creasing the equator bons one hemisphere to the other—a fat now well ascertained. The various species of tieb, shirk are firm and of excellent flavour in the colder belt of sear the American coast, lore all their good qualities when t akes out of the Gulf-stream, running closely parallel to it. Oa the other hand, the more delicate marine productions, whs• thee animal or vegetable, which multiply and prosper by warmth, are redundant in the Gulf-stream, even after it bas quitted the temicril regions whew* He heat is derived. The food is thua matured for the whale field of the Aviree, whew thin huge denials of the seas flourishes in colder "raw, amidst the alnualanto so provided.—EdiribileyA Refire, sea number. THE EASTERN COVNTIEs ItAILWAY.—Much dies content (mints ermined daily passengers on the Woodford branch of this raileay, on account of the new regekdrd which compels the holdero of day tickets to elect between* , Fenchstre.h-street and the Bishopewite termini. "A Falai Forester' who professes to speak in their name ' warns WI. vidual shareholders : " let. That rattlers in the for forest resolving and preparing to decamp, and go elsewhere; *dr that others at newer stations are in °minors,. comeiuniestaa with omnibus proprietors; 3rd, that others who wad to elk , ant dew now will not-- not amply to spite the campasle • but to recoup themeelvea for the extra eixpcnose extorted Stratford ; 4th, that in the present state of feeling it would be stay for us to orgenioe a general scheme of self-ddeeres and mutually pledge ourselves to take third-elare ticksil till the obnoxious changes are repealed ; end th* they must either end sus eturiages of that risas, ere carry us in letter carriages, either way at a ire , rate, ad ieeieiteei ; fifthly, that excursionists will be T luctant e to expose themselves to the expense and trips by the line as now conducted; and, lastly ancreold' ray, that it is better to emoniniodate than diegua your of: rumen. If you err& into a baker's and ask for a ban, Ism ! be, instead, him you in the eye, you do not go there olt • and you deter your friends. So with railway corer** the public; the Eastern Counties Railway Cameanyeelerf us with vexatious and petty nets of tyranny end restrtodedi in return, we deprive them of every penny of our 01111 whteh we an by fair means keep from thew, and we celebrate for to our Mende and the public by the unpleasant *Wit of their eignitleant initi ale into Mu• h flattering phrases** , talreiseix cantankerous,' and ex t e n s ively cursed mane inerspany. bib,* ol Weed Posit 4stiva i /kis hut