The Express. — London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

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Tau Etwanse, *UCH ADO ADOPT NOTHING. Nen C.Taag. —TIA/TO AND PEOENRPIN R. McOompida ; ldelsre4,MlE• raw WrailaJ ACC* RETURN NEON OANTOI.—Aad YT RUIIANDII GROTl—Omasaa PSI r umbra TI. Ilmtps. MUSIC MATH OSAIMS.—ICIII9 LULL N,. a SAMOSA. IS OF 111Mtil.P.—Ogss Imltgam S. AORILIT. Taw Imon•. TOO LATI TO MIND. No•r•Onwlet, WIMIImmI. • NUM Y. Ibenr-It/OTHEIL IN r TUX curulD 1110.-Onlimen HIGH WATER AT LONDON BEM& rava l aiieZrat. ...... "ma ' s ' it 10... LONDON. MONDAY, NAY 3. 11l the present position of the great India ques tion there is something very disheartening and diesoureging to all who have no other desire than to secure for our vast Eastern poseessions that form of government which is beet calculated to rivet the connexion between the two countries, and to pro mote the happiness of the salijoit people. India, at this moment, lies prostrate at the feet of party. If anyone of thaws imaginative artists who, on the walls of the Royal Academy or in the pages of Pure*, have been symbolising the recent aspects of the great Indian disaster, are in searc► of a new sub ject, let him place the paw of • huge animal on the breast of • gimping Hindoo, and he will fitly allego rise the present po-ition of our Indian Empire. The welfare of two hundred millions of human beings is dependent upon the issue of • series of faction tights. The question uppermost in the minds of those who have to decide it is simply ' , a question of • parliamentary migarity. Of the five hundred members who voted on Friday night it would be curious to ascertain the number who were actuated by nothing but a single-minded desire to confer good government on India. But it is of little time to revert to the past. It has been decided that in the present temper of Puha ment, and in the present state of Parliamentary knowledge, the "collective wisdom of the country" shall proceed to legislate, without delay, for our vast Anglo-Indian empire ; that a new Indian con stitution ia to be struck off at a heat from the great senatorial anvil. In other words Parliament is suddenly called upon to do what it done and never has thought of doing before ; and that, too, not under the auspices of a strong Govern ment, to whose instruction and guidance members feel that they may safely submit themselves, bat done that scarcely seems to have an opinion of its own on any subject, and which upon this particular 'abject of Indian government has shown a peculiar incapacity to grapple with the difficulties of the question—sot at a time when men's minds are fres from distracting influences of person and of piety, and able, therefore, to flx themselves ear nestly and intently upon the subject itself, but WWI they are continually distracted by thoughts of what a day or an hour may bring forth, and ever al the aleti to seize a fleeting opportunity of damag ing the enemy, or of making a good party move for themselves. We may say, without the least fear of contradiction, that the oldest member of the House of Commons cannot call to mind a period in the annals of our country at which the state of parties in the House has been so peculiarly unfavourable to legislation upon any momentous question demanding deliberate and impartial cond deration, and the unimpeded exercise of the highest powers of statesmanship, for its solution. And yet it is under these peculiarly unfavourable influences— when the parliamentary mind is tossed to and fro by gusts of party—when the position of Government is so unsteady that any shock of accident or caprice may bring it to the ground in an hour—when there is a general scramble for place, and the question of in or out is paramount in men's minds—that the most difficult and momentous work ever entrusted to Parliament is to be executed in hot haste, and under the influence of excited passions oscillating between delirious frenzy and tremulous timidity. The House of Commons has resolved that the time has arrived for the direct management of the affairs of our Indian Empire being eassimsd by the Ministers of the Crown. The first Resolu tion, embodying this proposition, has been uncon ditionally passed. The House has consented, in vulgar phraseology, to buy a " pig in a " poke." It has resolved to accept a substitate for the present system of "double government" without any knowledge of what that substitute is to be. In the ordinary affairs of life, met, when they are asked to barter one thing for another, satisfy themselves thoroughly regarding the value of the article which they are to receive in place of that which they are to give in exchange. They do not adopt the omits igtto tens pro mayseffsco principle as their rule of conduct. But the Howe of Commons has pledged itself to accept something in place of the existing Govern ment, without knowing, or caring to know, whether it will be something better, or something worm than what they have got. The utmost caution, there fore, will be necessary, in every subsequent stage of the proceeding, to ensure the acquisition of the beet pomade substitute for that which ham been so hastily abandoned. We have no hope that the substitute will be better than that for which it is substituted; but there are many degrees of badness, and what we have now to contend for is the best possible substi tute for the form of government which Parliament has resolved to relinquish. That if we desire to retain India as a dependency of the British Crown we must have a constitutional, not a despotic Govern ment, we have the strongest possible conviction. The great question, therefore, now is how to bemire this constitutional Government after the abolition of the East India Company, which hes stood for so many years between India and the whippers-in of the House of Commons. The Resolutions which the House is now about to consider are those which relate to the future govern ment of India by a Minister of the Crown, aided by, or in conjunction with, a Council. The real question to be solved is, whether that Council is to be a reality or a sham. The beet Council to inaugurate the new system would be the present Court el Directors. Ia this Court there are Ave deverimmet nominees the Crowe having, ender the old system, the right of nominating to tie part Tammy. Ia this Court there jo a sattiseoy both of knowledge THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 3, sad of independence. If it were recruited, from time to time, as vacancies occur, partly by nomina tion, partly by election (the constituency being ex tended and improved), the proportion of the elsoted to the nominated members being in the same ratio as at present, we should have—unless divested by the forms of office of all real power—a strong intermedi►te body between India and Imperial Government. But if in subservience to popular pre judices, really existing or assumed to exist, it be con sidered inexpedient to retain the present members of the Court of Directors bodily, we have no hesita tion in saying that the proposal of the present Go vernment gives far better promise of a good Council than any other scheme now before Parliament. The Government proposal is that the Council shall con sist of not less than twelve or more than eighteen members, and that they shall be partly nominated and partly elected. Neither Lord JOHN RUSSELL nor Lord PALMERSTON admits the elective principle at all. But a Council consisting wholly of Crown nominee* can be nothing better than a name. The original proposal of Government to appoint a Council consisting of nine nominated and nine elected mem bees recognised a sound constitutional principle ; the scheme was rendered contemptible by the de tails with which it was encumbered. We trust, however, that Government will, though aban doning the details, cling to the principle which they have declared their desire to inaugurate ; and insist that at least one half of the members of the new Council shall be appointed by an independent constituency. It is to the consideration of this question of whole or partial nomination .by the Crown that the attention of Parliament will pro bably be this evening directed. The impor tance of the question it is impossible to exaggerate. Its importanoe is not limited to the effect that the decision will have upon the foture prosperity of our Indian Empire. It has an English side as well as an Indian side. A Council, consisting wholly of Crown nominees, would immensely increase the power of the Government of the day and disturb the balance of the constitution. It is impossible to shut one's eyes to this truth. Well aware of this, Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposed that the Crown nominees should be appointed during good conduct; but there were such manifest objections, on other grounds, to this arrangement, that the proposal appears to have been abandoned. There is, indeed, no possible means of getting over the constitutional difficulty except at the risk of the working efficiency of the Council. This brings the whole question into the narrowest compute ; and we earnestly exhort the great body now addrering itself to the solution of the question to reflect upon the gravity and solemnity of the occasion, and to consider that the interests of India and the integrity of our own constitution may alike be jeopardised by rash legislation. Ma. DIRRARLfS INDIAN RssourzioNs.—A weekly organ of the late ministry is mistaken in its asser tion that the second of these resolutions has been adopted by the committee. It has sot even been put from the chair. Row the mistake in the printing of the votes, which misled the journal in cineation, oocurred, nobody knows ; but that it is a mistake is certain. The discussion on Resolution No. 2 will commence this evening. LATEST INTELLIGENCE --..- I r THE BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. We We been rammed by the Ponta=lar and Oriental Company with the following despatch re ceived by them from Marseilles this (Monday) morning : " The steam-ship Valetta, with the Bombay and Australian mails, arrived at Marseilles at 10 am. yesterday. " The mails left for London at noon." believe that they were of .ome importance, and that *tar labours would not be without influence upon the e nt of the public purse. Out of their great an to have it said that they had done something, ey were careful not to propose any eonsiderable amendments which they knew well enough would certainly be rejected, but with scru pulous care they hit upon a few minor blots, flatter ing themselves that, in return f r their moderation, some of their criticisms would be admitted, if only for form's sake, and by way of paying a compliment to the repreeentatives of the people, who in theory are the sovereign arbiters of the budget. Their amend ments were all duly rejected by the council of state. When the public diectowion came on, one of the members who had set his been upon effecting some small reduction, reiterated the standing complaint, that by the rules which bound the house he was now precluded from exercising hies constitutional right to control the budget in any other way than by voting against it altogether, and that was an extreme course which his patriotism and devotion to the Emperor shrank from teking. In answer to this jeremiad, M. Viutry, one of the councillors of state appointed to speak in the name of the govern mint, gravely said that the honourable member's complaint amounted to a protest against the consti tution, and therefore he could not enter into it in any way whatever. He, however, condescended to add. that the budget could not be very faulty, because honourable members, after the great pains they had taken, had only been able to suggest reductions to the amount of about two millions. Upon this the aggrieved member said, with much bitterness, that if members had acted upon their own opinions they would have proposed very large reductions, but that their respect for the initiative of the government had induced them to restrict their demands, in the hope that some defer ence would be paid to their wishes. M. Baroche, the other councillor of state, then jumped up, and said pleasantly that the government could not be held responsible for the failure of amendments which had never been made. Thus the Corps Ltgislatif found itself on the horns of a dilemma, similar to that which perplexes greedy children. " Those who ask shan't have anything, and those who don't ask don't want anything." Although the Patrie said yesterday that the government was resolved not to yield an inch in re gardto the 180 millions bills, I am informed to-day that in order to humour the Corps Ligielatif it has consented to strike off 10 millions. This reduction, considering that the enormous expenditure in Parisian improvements is to be spread over ten years, will not have any great influence upon the present financial situation. The French government, in carrying on its cru sade against refugees, has provoked serious dis turbanoes at Alexandria, an account of which, written evidently by a partial pen, I subjoin. It is most unlikely that the " murders and robberies" complained of should have been committed by " Tus cans, Romans, and other Italians." The letter which makes these charges says : There are in this city a oonsiderable number of foreigners, or rather refugees, wit are very turbulent and excessively annoying to the peaceful and In dustrious inhabitants. Scenes of riot and disturbance, as well as of robbery and pillage, are of frequent occurrence. Some murders have also been re , candy committed. The European consuls were at {earth oompsfird to turn their attention to a state of thinip which was miry day becoming more and more serious. They ma mma whit tbe authorities of the city, and measures were talosa le pat 1111 sad to the nuisance. The publication of the repronelve mom= agreed on caused a very violent irritation mom the rehism, most of them TlllOllllll, Romans, and prom onademnsd by default from other parts of Italy. As they particularly attributed the mamma to the influence or France and of the French consul•general, they assembled in the streets, uttered cries of " Down with the Emperor I Down with the French consul !" and gave way to sots M the greatest violence. The Paoha, Governor of Altaandria, went to them, but instead of using severe language he Impulsed. In addressing them he made nee of the term, " my friends," and even went so far as to promise that the objectionable measures should be withdrawn. Em boldened by this weakness, these exciters to disorder made themselves completely masters of the city, and eventually endeavoured to pillage the arsenal, but that outrage was happily prevented. The Viceroy was informed of what was Rome on by an excreta sent to him by M. Sabattier, the French ocesui-general, and his highness returned in all baste to Altasudria. The pasha was immediately distaiseed. The meet amergeuti mammas were then adopted, sad the rioters were overmans, although order is not yet quite re-established when the steamer Is leavlsg. etit Court. Saturday was the birthday of Prince Arthur. The bind et the Ist Life Guards attended eerie on the Geoden-terreee, and performed as • amnesia the tatowing pieces : 7 .... ... . -- Cbaral and Reveille Cantata, .. May-der . Madrffea. Medley March Waidel. "sahebs.= WeddeL The Duchies of Kant pa{d a Ask of congratulation to the Qtletet, at Buckingham Pale= The Prince of Waifs =rived from the White Ledge in Richmond Park, attended by Viscount Valletort, Mr. Gibbs, end the Rev. C. Terms. The fria oio - doneort Praeliad on Saturday at • meeting of tbe Royal Comodnionane for the Rabibitioa of 1851, held at the Paire of Westminster. The Prince C,,esort embed et the Pekoe at 11 o'clock, stands& by Colonel Pcournby. The other Co"'—..,mssio ream were the Marquis of Ba ll •bury, the Rut at Derby, Lord Goirstime, Lord John Rueell, Lord John Meaner; the Itisit Hos. B. Disraeli. M.P., the Right Has. Sir G. C. lama, Bert, M.P., the Right Has. J. W. Henley, M.P., the Bight Hon. C. B. Adderiey, M.P., the Bight Hon. Henry Labouchere. M.P., the Right Hatt. W. Glad some, M.P., 8w Alexander Bpeermen, Bart, Sir Wißiaza Cnbitt,_Sir Charles I.yeU, Bir R. Murchison, Mr. Coulson, QC„ r. C. W. Mike, Hr. T. F. °Them, and Kr. Gott. Kr. Edger &wring, Secretary to the Royal Commission, no. in ettendance. The meeting broke u shortly before two o'clock. Tie -- I'7lnoseete Altos and Hair 'had the Tower of Loudon, fie Queen, accompanied by Prince Alfred and Prince Arthur, took a drive in an open carriage and four in the agenemes, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald and the in Waiting. b. Prince Consort rode oe horseback Wended by his and Prince Cowen, accompanied by Priam Arthur and the Princes@ Louisa, honoured the performance at the Olytmec Theatre with their in the eening. The Royal mete coesimed of Lady Macdonald , Hon. Our Rae Camedlth, Viscount Strati:take, Major-General the Hen. Charles Om and Lieutenaot•C u lon e l P onson b y, Niece Alfred , a nd the Princesses Alice and }Wall% attorlid by Lady Caroline Barrington, Stir Frederic Stoeln, sod Liedimest Cowell, ILE., went to the Princess's Theatre. The Prince al Wake returned to the White Lodge, in Itieluseed-perk. Yesterday the Queue end Prism Contest Prince Alfred, the Primmer Altos end Melees, the Doehate of Ken; the Lake end Gestieenea of the Court, sod the domestle boom bad soleadul divine oink* In the Chapel of the Palace. The Bey. Dr. Genliontu preseload the 1111111012. Mater-Osseral the Hoe. Orris' Choy mad Lieut.-Colonel Poneoeby hum relieved Wood the Hoc A. N. Hood and Ceps& du Plat to their dudes es Itnerries In Weltbsg to the Guise and the Prises Cowart. _ _ The Duthie; of Kent, att;del by Lady Fanny Howard sod Weed Sispbeed. bosomed the performance at he r M=ll TINIAN OS Saturday erode( with her peeeeee. Alfred Tiered the Dealers of Kent on Saturday, at Clareece-Ilease, St. Jame's. A Cabinet Council wu held on Saturday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing -street. The Ministers present were:—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwi e k e , the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmeshary, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Earl el Rilenborough, the Right Rom J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. A deportation from the City of London, Weld London, end &Si London Cams, had an Interview with Yr. eseretery Walpole on Saturday, at the Hoine-offios, the IwMatderection of a Pauper Lunatic Asylust ri rre City of Lmdoor. Present—Meeers. James Harvey, W.14:1„ . R. Potter, John Bothell, Jai. Butcher, Joshu a Butt. and Benj. Bennett, from the West London Union ; Mews. John Finlay, Jae. Pam, Ju. Smith, and John Bowing, clerk, from the City of London Unica ; Mmes. Cuthbert, W. Morioka, T. Rhoads, and A. J. Beylia, 4l = from the East London Colon. Mr. 1. Lewin Rim/do. M.P., and Mr. Aldermen Cope land, M.P., had an interview wilt Mr. Secretary Walpole an the subject of the mining operations at Healey, la the borough of Sto►e-ipm-Treat, Despetrkee .era remyyd on Saturday at the Colonial omen from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Heinta. Deenetehee were sent on Saturday from the Cotonial-odtoe to the Governors of the West India Wends. The Quetta, the Prime Cocoon, and the royal haft Iwo Irma Oa r.l7th er Mb tor Oaken% sad mob 1111 der the fa& Her Ileirete lamp her birth day la denewie reibewrat. ewremded b tha umbers et her bray mad the imaellele ateseleate el the west. The Fable pilaw the M sad mete teldraties of the birthday le le take ea b we Nef.—Ctr erf The tam Queen of Portugal eentwill arrive in this armairy ea Ili l aszt, owl will be the wet of alewy at Palm The Prim be e wiD ehers impeded by bar ag ead welter, sad MI weerted ea the part et the W ef Poe* his The antra of this eireader a(iDa by of teem reader the Caw* W peat lalorat le an haw omit derby bw s . It G laderaleell SW wand dhow parolee will he ghee ly brpWO, der re pewee perevadtr peweallep Wailes el the asart.H Owl loarnaL NAPLES. The Paris papers of yesterday have advioes from Naples of the 27th ult., stating that Mr. Lyons has remitted to the Neapolitan government a note in which the English ministry demand an indemnity for Watt and Park, the engineers of the Cagliari, who were so long kept in prison. It is stated, but with leas certainty, that the sum demanded is 4,0004 The King appears inclined to treat. The Neapolitan Court of Appeal will this week deliver judgment on the question whether the Cagliari is a good prize. TUSCANY. The grand ducal government has, in accordance with the decision of the Tuscan judicial authorities, with drawn the prosecution against the " Italian's Civil Library," a periodical work of liberal political ten dencies, which had been set on foot by the Marquis Casisno Ridolfi and other reformers of the moderate and constitutional school DENMARK AND THE GERMAN DUCHIES. BERLIN, SATURDAY ERRING. The Zeit publishes a correspondence from Frank fort which announces that the Federal Commission charged to examine the Holstein question has de cided against the proposition of Denmark. The commission is of opinion that it is necessary to know the profit de loi which Denmark means to submit to the Legislature, as well as the been of future negotiations, before it enters on the examina tion of these propositions. Hanover has given a special vote, with a long exposition of reasons for that course. The following message has arrived by telegraph : HAMBURG, APRIL 30.—The French, English, and Russian representatives have, by a common accord, celled on the Diet to take into serious consideration the Danish propositions, so as to terminate the ex isting difference amicably. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. lOM OM OWN PARIB, SUNDAY Evelyne°. The Prone, assuming a little more freedom than any journal ventured to take previous to the last elections for Paris, urges the 12,000 electors of the sth circumscription who abstained on the 25th and 26th of April, to take part in the decisive contest which will commence on Sunday next between M. Eck and M. Picard. This circumscription comprises the quarters of the Faubourg St. Martin, the Temple, St. Martin•des-Champs, and the first and second sections of Belleville. This election promisee to be very interesting. If it should prove that the govern ment polled all their men but time, and that the falling off in the votes given to the opposition can didates was attributable solely to unfair pruning of the electoral lists, and abstentions grounded upon the belief that abstention was the most politic weapon of opposition, it will be manifest that the triumphant remarks of the French government press, on the "improved state of feeling in Paris," which some English journals accept without chal lenge, have no foundation in fact. The Weser Gazette affirras that France proposes that the divans of the two Danubian Principalities should sit together alternately at Bucharest and Jassy. Austria and England do not, it is said, ap prove of this plan, which, in their opinion, would be calculated to excite continual demonstrations in favour of the union. The same journal says that there is a different* of opinion between the powers regarding the denomination of "The United Pro vinces of Moldavia and Wallachia" which France has suggested. The only point upon which the powers are supposed to be already agreed is the ; creation in each of the Principalities of a Hospoder for life, named by the Porte. The Central Commission of the Rhine Navigation will meet at Mayence in a few days to settle the conditions upon which the permanent bridge across the river is to be constructed, pursuant to the con vention between Prussia and the Riverian Bates. Baron Hubner is about to leave Paris for Vienna, in order to confer with Count Boot. He will return to Paris before May 12 to be present at the opening of the conferences. Baron Hubner was at Lady Cowley's reception last evening. General Espinasse gave his first grand ball last night at the ministry of the Interior. Lady Cow ley's reception was in consequence not quite so much thronged u it would otherwise have been. While the rumours of General Espinasee's dismissal were rife, it was repeatedly said that be had only obtained a respite over May-day, in order to enable him to give this official ball. I have no knowledge, not even so much as a suspicion, touching the found ation for this conjecture. Bo far as I can judge from political gossip, General Espinuee is at this moment firmer in the saddle than he was. The Queen of Spain, who, as it was announced some time since, proposes to make a marine excur sion this month, is expected to visit the French coast. The Bpaniah corvette Llliiil Fernando and two steam avises are arming at Carthage's& and preparing to receive her Majesty. The Chamber des Mises en Accusation of the Imperial Court of Dijon homed a decree on the 30th ult., on the requisition of the Procurenr-General, sending before the tribunal of Correctional Police of Chalon-sur-Saone, thirty-flye individuals charged with having taken part in the outbreak of the 6th of March. The principal offence, named in the decree are affiliation to • secret society—public provocation, not followed by effect, to an armed airemblage—seditious cries—publication of fate news—carrying and distributing prohibited arms— detention of warlike storee—rebellion—and public provocation to soldiers to turn them from their duty. The affair will shortly come on for triaL The twelfth drawing for the reimbursement of the loan of fifty millions contracted by the city of Paris in 1832, took place on Saturday, at the Hotel de Ville, when the first drawn number, 12,638, gained the premium of 30,000 fr. ; 38,802, 20,000 fr.; 21,362, 16,0001 k.; and 46,211, 10,000 fr., Bco. PARIS, SLIM/DAT ITICIIDIO. The Corps LEgislatif, alter a great deal of desul tory talk to no purpose whatever, voted the budget yesterday, by a majority of 238 against S. An summing incident occurred in the course of the de bate, which illustrates the working of the imperial constitution. It was given out some weeks epithet the deputies were working unusually hard at the budget, in their committee rooms ; and ne doubt soon *Mom did mooed In bringing thonselres to ITALY. THE TWO SICILIES. (raos OUR OWN CONAROPONDIKT4 NAPLES, Aram 27. For some time past I have abstained from saying anything of the prisoners of Montesarohio ; not that their case excited less sympathy than before, but that all allusion to it seemed to be as use.sis as striking against a wall. At Easter, as I mentioned, some criminals were released, and a few political suspects, who had never been brought to trial. But no miracle, in this miracle-loving country, either opened or will open the prison doors of Poerio and his companions. A pamphlet, called " Carlo Poerio and the Neapolitan Police," published by Hatchard, has found its way into Naples. It has increased the interest felt in his favour, and it will not be out of time or place to give the following most recent de tails regarding him. Easter was celebrated in Montesarchio by affixing two new sets of iron bars. Soon after Poerio was attacked by a fever, which for some days placed his life in peril, and the only wonder is, that a consti tution originally frail has for now nine years been able to resist the continued sufferings to which he has been subjected. He is now gradually getting better, though still weak. From informatioa which cannot be doubted I that, weak and ill as he was, Baron Carlo Poerio, formerly one of the minis ters of his Majesty of the Two Sicilia, still con tinued to wear the heavy chain which is rivetted round his foot, and that his sufferings were in no slight degree aggravated by this fact, as every change from side to side involved the turning of his chain. lam not stating the cause of an ordinary criminal, but of one whose life has been dedicated to his country, and whose defence is unanswerably pleaded in his own words in the pamphlet to which I have referred. Let every Eogliahman who is sceptical of statements regarding the government of Naples read that pamphlet. Still, in the face of undeniable facts, there are numbers who, with all the perseverance and all the intelli gence of a magpie, continue to repeat that the Nea politans are not prepared for anything better. This is, in het, one of the most cunning devices for sup pressing the triumph of freedom. They shut out the light, and cry how dark it is; they punish or imprison men who would b e an honour to any country, and then say there are none to guide you in a new path ; nay more, by a system of moral torture, o f whi ch the world has scarcely ever heard: the like, they almost de-humanise human beings, and then ask free and happy countries like England to save them from their fury. By:altering her laws to effect such an object England would be making herself au ac complice iu the crimes of despots. UN 11 ED STATES. The United States mail steamer North Star (Van derbilt line) arrived at Southampton on Saturday, on her way to Bremen. She left New York on the 17th ult., and has experienced bad weather. She hu brought over about 200 passengers, and amongst her cargo was specie to the value of 74,000 dollars for England. Advice. from California were to the 24th March. There had been no particular movement in financial or commercial &Marc. Money was easy, and the supply of dust from the mines continued to flow in in sufficient quantities to meet all demands. The New York steamer brought 1.325,912 dollars, which is an increase on the amount brought by the arrival of the corresponding date last year of nearly 100,000 dollars. News had been received from Salt Lake City to the 6th of February. About four hundred Mormons had been met on their journey from Salt Lake City to California. Their residuary brethren were pre paring to attack the United State. forms and inter cept their supplies. The latter were in good health. Messrs. Majors and Russell, the contractors to tran sport the army supplies to Salt Lake, have decided on making Nebraaka city the starting point, and ana organising an immense train to Utah. The caravan will be one of the most imposing and extensive that 180% 243:s:ern world has ever witnessed. It will be d of two thousand waggons, each hauling fifteen hundred pounds of freight ; sixteen thousand bead of cattle, two acres of ox yokes to hitch them up with, and two thousand ox drivers. The funeral of Col. Denton, who was buried at St. Louis on the 16th alt., was accompanied with every mark of popular and official respect. The proceseion included all the military companies of the city, the 7th ategiment of United States infantry, the judges and magistrates, the associations, and a miscella neous crowd of great magnitude. The news from Mexico by the Tennessee, which left Vera Cruz on the 7th of April, represents the church or conservative party, headed by President Toloaga, as for the time auocessful. General Osollo, the leading commander of the Zoloaga movement, had captured Guadalajara, the seat of the Juarez government, arrested and banished the Juarez ca binet, and commenced his advance on the city of Mexico. This will probably put an end to the pre sent revolution, by the temporary triumph of that faction called indiscriminately the church party, the conservative party, and the reactionists, the main elemants of which are the clergy, the remnant of the old Spanish aristocracy, the banking interest, and adherents of Santa Anna. REFORM MOVEMENT AT LIVERPOOL.—The Liver pool (Amineis reports that the liberal party in Lirn•-strest ward have been making a move in the right direction, by meeting, discussing, sad miming &string of melanoma, under the president r of Mr. J. Ft.. .Jeffery which we will here insert 1. That the non- of about six sevenths of the male adult population of the United Kingdom, taken in conjunction with the general applica tion of taxation, and the great advance of education, de mands a wide and speedy extension of the electoral body. 2. That ouch an extension should embrace all adult members of colleges, householders in boroughs rated to the poor at 6!, sod in connate at 101. per ennum. Other persons in counties and boroughs paying sesessed taxes or income tax to the amount of 40s. a year, and in counties to oopyholders and holders under less. of seven or more years at 51. per annum. 3. That for the further protection of the elector in the conscientious disport of his vote, a legal provision should be made (either absolute or permissive) for voting by ballot. 4. That the requirement of a property qualification for members in one part of the kingdom, snit its non-require menti in another, is invidious, demoralising, altogether un necessary, and ought to be abolished forthwith. 6. That a general oath of allegiance be substituted for the present test. 6. That the expenditure of the country be mutually sub mitted to the House of Commons by a committee, to be styled the Fittanos Committee, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer being Ito chairmaa and organ. 7. That represents don be based upon a more equal apportionment of members to population and the value of rateable property. 8. That the employment of music on the days of nomination and• election, as well as the providing of sa vehicle for the use of an elector lx , fore he has recorded his vote on the day of election, be declared illegal, and pnnithable by indictment. 9. That our fellow-reformers in the other wards of the bo rough are hereby earnestly invited to meet, in like manner, and declare their sentiments on the matters which have been subiniued to this meeting." THE INSURANCE ON THE JAMES BAINEB.—We (Liverpool .Aliiou) believe it is rather premature to say that all doubts with teepee to the petition of liability is set at rest, although there is reason to - believe that this will be the came. One of the Liverpool underwriters has acknowledged his liability, the amount for which the owners insured with him being 7,0001., and similar acknowledgments have been received from one or two individual underwriters in London The Huskisson Dock will be run dry in a few days, when the extent of damage sustained by the shin will be amertsineel. THE 13nanta Clounii..—A letter from Tripoli, in I Barbary, states how the death of th e Sheikh Ovum', W4y mentioned, was received there. It says :--" This event Is here as a very important victory for the Turks, and regarded here on minim' the intelligence, illuminated their houses and had rejoicings. The bead of the sheikh has been brought here in triumph. He was betrayed by some of his followers in the environs of Oltsciamet ; be was almost alone, but he would not Ay, in order not to abandon his wife and children. When attacked by the Turk, he defended himself with great energy • he was, however, wounded, cap tured, and almost immeduitely dempitated. His family were taken prisoners. The Arabs are in ormeternation at his loss. It is said that the Sheikh Memour and the relatives of Goma Ottid el Magerul have sworn to avenge his death. He was 70 years of age, and was descended from the old Arab Princes Machmondi." THE PERSIAN Counr.—Letters from Teheran of the 6th March, state that the Shah had just lost one of him sons, to whom be was tench attached. The young ' was carried off in a few days by the smallpox. He bed been named grand master of the artillery at the period of tbs . /Per given on the °cession of the proclamation of the Prince Royal of Persia. The Shah, who was much afflicted at thin loss, had gone on a hunting excursion in the Upper Eibours in order to divert his mind. Sinister rumours ware in circu lation during his sheenos, which lasted ten days. It was sald that the Shah had been dangerously wounded, end the inhabitants of the capital became greatly agitated in conse quence. The cause of the rumour turned out to be that at a tiger-hunt one of the great officers of the boueshold was wounded by the animal, and would have perished had sot his royal master rushed to his sasistanee, and after a desperate struggle killed the tiger. When the Shah returned to Teheran ell uneasiness subsided. THE BISHOPRIC OP CALCUTTA.—Her Majesty's government have not socalad to the request contained in the memorial of the archbishops, bishops, and laymen comprising the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parte, for a subdivision of the diocese of Calcutta, which became vacant some time since by the death of the Right Rev. Dr. Daniel Wilson. The object of the memorial to the government wee to obtain the erection of a see at Area for the earth-west provinces, and one at Lahore fur tii . •::4stib. The government not having acceded to the the Rev. Dr. Cotton, late Head Master of Mar boron Collage, will be consecrated en Thursday, the 13th instant (Ascension Day) to the see of Calcutta, exactly as ft stood during the incumbency of the late bishop. The canning will be perfumed in Westminster Abbey. Fell choral tervioe will be performed. and the sermon will be preached by the Rev. Dr. C. J. Vaughan, Head Muter of Harrow School. The new bishop ell! be presented by the Bishops of London and !Salisbury. FIRE AT THE XING AND QUEEN IRONWORKS.-- Yesterday morning a fire happened in the premises of ?dews. Howard, Ravenhill, sad Co., termed the King and Queen Ironworks, situate at Rotherbithe. The pro perty comprised various structures, such as engineering bowies, planing and drilling shops, smithies, _pattern shops, Sc. The discovery wee made by a police ME= of the NJ division, who saw fire and smoke issuing from the premises. The firemen upon reaohing the place found the flames into the air high above the surrounding buildings, 1 1l wee at first apprehended that the destructive element would have taken a clean sweep round the engineering departments, but fortunately a row of ditches ran round the outer side of the factories, from which the firemen set their engines to work, and thus were enabled to cut elf the further extension of the fire, which, however, could not be entirely extin guished until the smiths' shops and pattern loft* were about four fifths destroyed. The disaster will not prevent the business being carried on, as the other buildings have ear Mined no damage except by water. The origin of the are Is unknown. The firm, it is believed, wee bleared in the Union • Fire-odlos. _ HAMPSTEAD HAILWAT.—On Saturday in the Sheriffs' Court, before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchall, a case was tried for the assessment of damage*. The plaintiff, were the trades' of the St. Pancras Almabonees, and the de fendants the Hampstead and London North-Western Junc tion Railway Company. The plaintiff., in the first pies, claimed 10,0001. for cempenastion for loss sustained by the defendants' line of railway passing over a portion of the pro perty at present occupied by the almahousesat Kentish-town. They lost their snit in the Vioe-Chancellor's Court, but upon an appeal to the Loris Justices the Vios-Chmeadior's ded lion was rescinded. The plaintiffs' claim was granted. The cow was now brought into the Sheriffs' Court to finally settle the amount of damages, the defendants urging that the claim of 10.0001. was too exorbitant. Mr. Lloyd, with Mr. Architiald, appeered for the plaintiff*, and Mr. Mellor. Q.C., with Mr. Webby, for the defendants. There were • large number of arthitects, builders, and others in 'Madame ready to examined as to the amount of loss sustained by the plaintiffs; but, after the jury had been in °urines to view the premises, at Kentish-town Mr. Lloyd, on the part plaintiffs, th plaintiffs, said that these 'maid be no maiden to take up the time of the jury and the court any further, ea en amicable agreement had been come to by which the defendants give 6,0001. compensation, and guarantee a sum of agreed to eves damages. Mr. Mellor said that his clients would, as it wee "WM, give way, geeing that mach injury would arias by their work s to the almshouses ; and, at the same time, not wishing to have further litigation, as it was a charitable in titration concerned. A verdict for 6,0001. was than entered. The company had, when the matter was before Chancery, offered 2,6001. as n spoliation. - SERIOUS COLLISION ON TEI TYNE.— A Teem 1311N1.-81MILDS, SATO/DAT NIORT.—A vary straw al bide OCCOMNI at high water rate evauleg. A osneldenthle numbs, et vowels war towing out of tba Tyne at the Site that prepanktions were being rode to launch the Vimes, a large iron sheanwldp, hir Mwers. View, Chappell, sad M., fmot Yr. T. D. Itarahaffe building yard, Boat, BMW. When all wee ready an ensign wee hoisted upon the new weed to warn pilots bringing vends dawn tits Mar is hemp wit tithe way, bat at the sotesat the weemitip new the ways a large barque, the RosendelA boissibui sl e = Shields, was bans towed down. sad did net wait. The te net was that the Pima NM bate 1yr,111.1 awed villhallar ! earrird away her samara! IA Oa Salo of ems se tar awns in her quarter. Tba beam bimodality Wawa £ ugh water, and was got as to tie saddle essaad, seta di, mat Shs we lying in a vvg deagstaaa padAlsa wren are de- apateh ass sent off. A Watarraiso lit into the way of the has "sad as ale vas Wag sad oat, asospol eras// km Wag II ;;;3 soak. Ilse Ilma dasastegyars la Imp luny= The whole et Mame de beim pasrously pad sto sitsu llapc. al ige rr e argt - Osall of the pa Jut Mk of a beautiful dawn sad doe to 8441114.—Csure Ponta. TIM MURDER AT IPSWICH. In the Express of lut Saturday was an account of the dreadful 'Sur which occurred the day before on the Mount, St. Mary Elms, Ipswich, where Mrs. Studd. the wife of a master baker, was murdered in her own room, during the absence of her husband. A young man, named Cherriest on , who wee mentioned u the suspected murderer, has rises been taken into custody . . . The borough coroner' held an inquest on Friday evening at which ths following evidence was given : Henry Rolfe &udd, the husband of the unfortunate wo man, said—l carry on business as a baker in St. Mary-at. Elms in this town. My bake-office does sot adjoin the house; it is about 300 yard" from it. My cottage contain' one room on the ground-Boor, a backhouse in the rear, sad two upstair room.. My family consisted of my late wig' (the deceased), who was 47 years old, and seven children, the youngest of whom is named Charles, whose age is years Four of my youngest children lived at home ; the eldest me named Emily ; she is 14 years old ; then there is Eleanor, whole 12 years old, and Henry, of the age of IL These were the general inmates of my . house. The bake-office, which i s detached !rum the hour os situated in the Corriere' Arms lane, at the back of the St. Edmund's Head beershop. I end my wife eometimes had word', but we did not live on particulariy bed teems. She was assisting me in my bake-office yesterday for about an hour. lam generally engaged all day in my bake-house. Sometimes I bake three times a day, some. the.. twice, but always ones a-day. For the past three weeks I have taken all my meals at the bake-office; that has been the case since I removed from the house which ad joined my bake-office. I have occasionally left home ag learly as three o'clock, to work for another person. I have I generally gone to toy bake-office between five and seven o'clock of a morning, leaving there at between five and ten at night. During yesterday nothing transpired between myself and wife to induce me to sleep at the bake offioe. Nothing unpleasant occurred between us. If I have not gone home from the office my wife has not been in the, habit of asking me questions as to my reasons for not doing so. About twenty minutes before eux o'clock this morning my wife (the deceased) came down to the office for kindling as usual. I looked at my watch when she came. She did not speak, neither did I. She saw me. She took the firing, and went away. I did not go to sleep any more. A few minutes after the damaged had left my daughter Eleanor came running into the bake-office, saying, • Father, dear father, come home directly, for m oth er has fallen down and I dying." I immediately went home. I there saw the deceased lying on the floor of the lower room, my daughter Emily supporting her and bathing her temples. Blood was flowing from her head and she appeared to be dying. I spoke to the deceased, but she seemed perfectly insensible.. I , then s ai d, "Good God, child, lour mother dui not do this r I then ran . out far Mrs. , a neighbour, and begged her to come in. I next ran for Mr. Mille, the sturgeon than to my wife's ester (Mrs. Last), the place where 1 dr ank tea leg night. Mrs. Last returned with me. On my return the deceased appeared to be nearly dead. Shortly before seven o'clock she expired. Coroner—Have you any reason to suspect any one person as being the perpetrator of the act Whitener-1 sun very well satisfied in my own mind as to the person. I mean Ebeeezer Cherrington, who used to work for me, but he has not done PO for the last three yew. . Emily Stead' ,14 years of sae—l am an outdoor 'pyres lice to a milliner, and reside at the house of my father. My father and mother slept in one bedroom ; myself, sister, and two brothers occupied another room. My parents have lived on pretty good terms. Three weeks ago we re moved to the cottage where we are now living, up to which time my father always slept at home, and, excepting five nights during the put three weeks, he has slept at home. I know Ebenezer Cherrington (the steused). About three years ago he used to live nt the same house with us, and assist father in his business. I think he lived with as for about • year. I have not seen him at our house since then until about six weeks age. At that time we lived in • cot tage adjoining the bake-office. When I came to dinner L found the accused there. He was in the keeping-room with my mother (the deminedl, and I think my two brother were present. The accused wee sitting before the Ore. I did not speak to him nor he to me. He remained in the house, and I believe slept there for three days. He dined at the same table with my mother (the deceased), two brothers, and myself. He slept in the keeping-room down stairs. I think father came home that night end slept with mother as usual. My fattier saw Cherrington in the house. My father came home between 9 and 10 at night and directly went upstairs to bed, he following my mother there. heard no words psis between them. I was then upstairs. I la not aware that any misunderetanding took place between father and mether. My father left the house between 6 and 7on the following morning to go to the hake office. The ac cord was In the house when I left my work and went home to meals. The next night my father came home and slept as before, the amused sleeping below. The accused remained the ant day following. My father saw him there, but they did not speak to each other. On the third day when I owns home to dinner the accused was there, as usual. On that night my father did not come home, but my mother slept upstairs and the waned in the keeping-room below. When I came downstairs in the morning I bind the accused there, but on my return to dinner he was gone. I did not see him again until about • fortnight since, when I found ham with my brother ea the occasion of my going home to dinner. He stopped ell night, sleeping as before on the floor in the keeping-room. ear cannot say whether or not father came home on that night, and I do not remember whether the accused stayed move than that night. I think I did not see him again until this week. He dined there on Mon day last. I believe he slept in the lower room that night, and on Tuesday and Wednesday as well. lie • took his meals with us, but my father's meals weft sent to him at the bake-Aloe. I have beard my father tell mother he would not have Cherrington (the accused) there. Mother replied that she did not wish him to be there. Yesterday, at dinner time, the accused came. Mother said to him, " You Try walk out again, tor I will not have diou here." He said he 'would be there, and eat down at the nner table. Mother then said to him, "You shall not have anything hare." We lad finished dinner when he came I then got up and went away, leaving the accused sitting alone at the table. When I returned for ten at 6 o'clock the accused was not there. Mother then said, " I would not let • him (Cherrington) have any dinner, neither will I have him here." She seemed positive, but did not tell me the MOOS why. I believe she wished him not to be there. Sbe did not appear afraid of him. Lest night, at about twenty minutes to 11, as my mother (the deceased) was at supper, the so curd came in. He went up to the fireplace and attempted to seize the poker, but my mother got up and prevented his . doing so. He appeared to be rather the wore for liquor. Mother put on her shawl, maybe the would go for • policeman. The accused mother out. She returned about 12 o'clock. Oet her return we looked the door and went up stairs, and soft after the accused buret open the back door, come up stake,: and went into mother's room. I was there with Me, Neither of us was undressed. She said to him she worts not have him there, and that if he did not Isar err eteaMl . send tor • policeman. He placed his back against the bed room door, laying be would not leave. He held up a large Week and said ho would break her heed if she attempted to go down. (A large stick was here produced. It was said to belong to the husband of the murdered woman, and it was also stated that it was in the room when the seamed entered it.) Ile ewore, saying, "I'll murder you before the morn ing. Yon shall not go oat of this room alive." He rented to be in • passion. We remained till about half-past five this morning--my mother (the deceased) with myself standing by the side of the bed, the accused standing with his back against the doer. All this time be was swear ing and threatening both of us. Mother kept telling him she would not have him there. Neither of us lay down all that night. At half-past five the accused 001110‘ Ys he& roma door sad went downstairs. Mother (the deer d) went down POOO after, and went to the bake-olike he sem kindling. I could bear the aoorsed walking about the keeping-room downstairs. In a short time mother and when at the fireplace, as if preparing for a bar I her scream and groan. I then ran downstairs. The was not then there. My mother was lying open Sl= with a cut on her head, and blood lowing from the I spoke to her, but alit appeared to be quite laseroible. She • did not era. I raw she bad been wounded at the Midi sad left side of her head. A poker (produced) was sisellhig by the aide of the door. On examinitg it I fouled it bent. I am quite sum that Charrington (the accused) Me dieted the blows. Mr. W. P. Mills, surgeon, described the wounds, and aid they had canned the woman's death. The accused (Cherrington), who was brought into the room In costedy, appeared to be raring from exhaustion. Poties-cortable Ballenthorps rid—l apprehended the roused at his mother's house at Walton. I found him in bed upstairs. He had his trouser and waistcoat on. I was in uniform. I rid to him ' " Yon must raider yourself in my custody." I did not tell him on what charge. The armed thee said to me. "Is she dead r I replied, " I don't knew." I then took him into custody, end on oar way to Welton Angel he said, " I suppose it is all up with me now." I then handed him over to the custody of Super inteedent Mason. The jury returned • verdict of " Wilful murder " aphid the accused, who was then committed to take his trial at the next arra. MURDER AND INCENDIARISM IN The 'Slap of Stoke Abbot, near Berminster, in Dorsi* ebbe, was on Friday at mom the dam if a horrible sm. oh •pom girl was alone in a man eattyp sear the Ali Morlt 4 supposed that in the aftenkeem lbs bouts was by a yo uth Sally, who. •Oet lawally Wain Mr. Mr. sat bur almost from me ill OM Altro mods- W U tadrilammat girl the rosisfatet at tie bar an Om bulb was tasaval shoe alas w s a i r i s posse ntstad to its amp al dr aid Oa . , Mao r ery seilpriy by of So Digit Wm. Ed e la u t i rti. at Tie ales al Ili rill . li s Ittg a w fat at do who at be . Witt Biwa arm asseadad at Daces/at a 010. 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