The Express. — London, England, 1858-05-07 00:00:00

f the boa gender who had jest spins, and to lodine the Hare eilintili7 r 017•1111111118 the eantinse to goalie& Mr.WALPOLK sail that die guiles had Men Inn be ing the hone% but he me net swum that Im main had of late yen ben much disosend. Len rev the pislisalllNltt tithe mememee was urged as the Mood lade it frit te fans peat offa knee masers ol reams, end that n- Ben. of totem ought to be pet off till the nen semion. ge It lOW cams on. and the peestion to be reselthwad we WWII, the property qn.hlicatlii which wee calgrelly lereenead le the neon, of times Agee sad which was EWEN in the reign of the pereest Queen, by weeldng pound as wailrenal trite the subject 01 the sealificatiee, woe et Ire net addenda There we. two macaw whkh to hi rid mid the mount in favour of the prevent law. The lest weet that bbyy mituffing a men to have a certain theme es a tam dye sfigibrllry .0 .11 in that hare, yea reethed a puller sunny of Independence in inembere. The send means was that it would prevent epeculatiye ~.lime from mouse forward at the:dm of elections, and parted their ng gannets to manometry espouse. With _ nerd the ffrot memos, the securing the indapandenet ef ernbete, he doubted if that , ould be smeared by the are fan that a men posesesed 3001. or Md. a-year. (Her, beer.) It would certainly sot mete him en ied•pmidest aa to place Ida above env tampion= which was ealcunied to shed him indepradenos (Haar, bear.) Bet ere peel ter eon again.' the Fewt law was that dew rot each so inconstateery is making mrmbus tree re pet ei the country to have • property 4leedoe, NW umber Ben other parts some, that b• wee • OW* indelleneible—(beer, hear)—eed elder is INiella It ineethere ought to have a property genßgmnie. lie 111111 SIP ethers (Bear, hear.) Bet the other argoreet ageret dr law wee, that they did law that it wee ended—hear, bees)—that qualification. ewe gives to nemeteme to angle them to take their our ; and theme:in It 111 boteur the beer to =Wain that white Ina a grout them (" Hear, her," sad cheery) The other argument it &Your of the law was, that it prevented speoulative cesdklates froth petting but Sde medians, to mime at elections. There was no doubt r.cnothing to that argument ; but you might an against It that now ovary mediate wee obliged to contribute to the aipweea of dr dee hoe auditor and th e beetilege. If by overall= el law you prevented able tout, with, perhaps, Imre grehricsal motions which did not legally realm 3001. s per, hem octanes parliament, yon deprived the beer of a peat advantage. (dolar, hear.) For them meows he naught that the law oould not be maintained as it cooed—(" heir, hear," and cheer.) —and thinking that ovum meld begaieed by leaving coosiitorarlas to choose when they would to recreant them h.. had arrived at the tooth: in that the bill of the hos. member was much more allowable than any of the arguments lard sauna it could gainsay. (" Hear, hear," and cheers ) The bill wee than read a sewed time, and °Tamen* he committed oa Tueday nett. The Franchise of Prisons Bill, aa amended, wee othaidered. The bone. adjourned at twenty minutes past 11. THE TRENCH 4114884 DOE AT THE Alai' AND NAVY CLUB. Last evening the Duke of Melaka. was emigr ated by the members of the Army end limy Cub with • banquet, at whisk shout 120 °Moore were pessat. Major- Gems! Sir Fineries WILLIAMS 44 RAW, H.C.8., Gum pied the chair, haring upon his eight hind the geed el the evening, Marshal the Doke of Malawi; awl wen hie hit the Right Hos. eir John Polders% M.F. The company bided liajoaCke. Lord Robuby, MajeraGen. Inernmstre, *Mend Daniell, late Coldstream Overdo, Captein Has, J Dinimmemi, R.N., Captain Cristo* R.N., HeJas-es.. Htr Charlie Take, K.C.8., Colossi Chapnwm, C.B , Li, Bash-Oa. Forbes, LA., ilk J. Caemlehma. Beet, sad Camel 54, 3. Bergeree. Yew, 0.C.8. Alas the heath of her Ms** the Qum bed boo ilay pjlest CIIALISIAN ISM WI Ina MO in Mast Meld be bia to peup,w woad be reserved with that mamas= it tout wee The busith of the Swarm imd of ths French." (Lod obeem) U woe the of that so rreas who thmegbeet wry *dams obeggle hod shows himself ill be II nag MOM ally of Omit Braila (Applause.) It wee imprible be Ur task* mai of Englead se Trans at rermaaithmes the Impertanoe at the • aliases which, ee bag ea it Welled wield make the two Wises aMser.d lia plate of OW word—h. might ay the gerideriaris of the wield. (Ap pienoto The nromben ef that club had the hewer le enrol ihe Zmperor of Pram se use of their mead ameilostly mom Met hi Imperial Ns** twat Inc ra opportaitity of *swim by the Madam gad blepliellty with wadi Mtrowel ell die moraterm how nub be awe timed dal fat. (How, *a.) He as. ewe Hap mead with him is the stragsa perible espewidea d ear —their atherivere of the swat elteeller a ims to Gasalsea the Reports. Ho wee golds* Rae was ma ea in.. ear • saber la to Delilah Emmy who wool sot an masted Mews lib le WOMB Itme WM SO *leads that its lose sad set be eseempinied ebbe* barge of alictina Re mar who had him a Itsgbete so Mattel at ally, sad Amoy for the conesmmentes of rat • ha to Me peace of the world. be tam wee dread with great eathesirm, saki aria of " Vive lespreer." Hie Rzoolaay the Duke of ' , Gutzon retained Am* Ike the cemplimont pad to the Emperor Gad leper in • be twist sd mardiarlo words. The CILM KM N Salt Mixed .‘ n• heath of the Prince Cammet, the Prince of Wales, and the ran of the royal fatally," taking oonssion to remark that the shamus of the Delta of Cambridge from their meow owe Bon the fact of bie being engaged is pleading the nag dtho poor is Th. 1C 11 =It•N sow megmed the tort of the evening, "Tin bake of the illastriews Pilirwier, Marshal the Doke of Malakoff (Loud oherra) Ela ncelleary bed bra driareted by his sommitts to reprearat the From& sake is ate weary, and by hh neeptioa here be would be able to *prorate cm (allege estertrieed by all Gleam is this twentry towards his Imperial Majesty end the alliance be times the two autism. (Chem.) He should sot detain them by making • long speech, though much might be maid ia probe of their ilinwriona mot. (Hear, hear) He might wry Wee to Africa, ears their pi triad wan his lit hovels; awl he might tab them ben that pace to So Dams, whore hie amnia, (Wee bed lam achieve& teems) The atm of the mplinre of llama impel emithed him (the ebeihmes) wide la err mad 4 • moor barite la Ade. Oa reeelvag it be aimed a also abe HA spas which Oit• sad lliGarevieff, who bed se doubt reartved the elm Wings orionmerel le alma it by • fogg ed nib* es the pert of • Comma battery. Hoverer, they Minas toek them by sarpries wasest, Ned hod a distant salute a the creel ablemmeees la which their Won nimbi pmt had tam or premlatat • part. (Her, bier.) He would set deters this leaser, but merely ask there to job *et la *Minas la • kola toga, Levi life, me wl& end flame homers te Marshal the Du* of Ilidatra." Debi Manauerr was relayed with medial imd illiiinksigEssevviiii lead for seam! mbeles. spa ling la rietealt—lt with • feeliug of beedierty pleir we Om I Sad myself aftelog moo( you. It gives me deep to as WpmGordlel suety to elm me • waleume Am • sealer, Zinn MINI you laver me; SS SW bradar, ay Madam are and at I have alma, had tho opportesity ot apikdag them, it b not uneasy es *ea of the. ear here. But whet I oak tee WI pun ie, lama I het • pride b Wag myself yieht is the Edda any compeakies b Ged 'hat I renal te aemery mar vale* standar , * oar ent lags, the let,heillee of your V" Worts r well se Gen, under the shadow et vadat we one nosy weed the wee of tbe world Let tie is future knew how to taints* est pass, so productive d cialimithem and so fertile, so sesrrey is, as and for yea—Wt pace so indinauwittili• kr the of MIL I bops that peace will he durable, lie It wee ammeted by users. Hood—by bleed shed aide by Gide Is remerteg • Ylbful ally, bet blood shod with equal sad mama swam& It is lbw as, edam sad =remember this. It is ter as it without , an intltholsolle toast of kat* ered we who hem joined our kerek e ff orts swelter he the of all bare the lithe to say to two great peoples, r Let us haw bow to imitate the tee theta and the twe anal% sad lei our animas's be mingled together is is. sommos Rea kg." I beg to propose The imperiamble mks el our Ira mid armies." HV Excellenc7's appeal was received with several distinct meads of rberenft. The gallant CO1•111111AN ant proposed " Oar absent Con rad. In the Navy and Array,"coopling therewith the names of Sir Jobe Pakiantos (Fi rm Lord of the Admiralty) sad llsior-Ovonal Si, Charles Yorke, K C.B. Mir JOHN PAIIINOTON Saki be could boot bean the hellere of the British nevi by referees to this ands hank nen with wbkb the British mares pined their totaltrea of the army to dustup the dangers and glories of oil ewe, whether I. the treorhes of the Crimea Of I. the whey folds of Indic Whew there was no dot* died ow Need Brigade hod pose forth hoar Men slaps sad he/ attest the donor. of their comrades ashore. (Hear, hem) noit Blestrious rest, who hod now axes swag dose as a me aloe of tiptoe, and who, he trusted, la that iekeke would romp time further rewards he is well marited—bad wh eeled ail this se s Mend—as an Gad gnat he eight sever ess them in any other upset (Chews.) TM! had lewd his excellency rawer a hope Oat the uollea of his eamatry with Great Brings sight prove stored. Th e nte. Ilia Bad Lwow Imif_tarph la Backed to knew thea dee madateste of the Allellok people len art to be derived free the deep recesses sad dark elZ e i d f the meirepolie, air hoe the .scares of kagosite la by some site ought to have held a wiser toms ( ) He wet know that this wart part of dr pries pied is, freedom. The reel spirit of Betdeed was to be bead la the feelin• which dkisted web seethes se the_ trume• It was to be teed le every welleregoieted Wham/ Tor the sake at Barked—lbr the she of Priam—for the salts of tivelsedea zed the I prevens At the world— this *shim amid he se It Weil the bete seta- Wzithet loopy Inks whir& OM lOU daidllng ewe powerfal sod PesOba gaol .11:11ensil lie Camden Tom hardy returned Nav drake for the away. n the Crimea sad the o c r. Ck• next ipsve " Arnie ea es Team ging . fimd, who had fought flOriter of soemhaff therewith thsisenes Goisrel Mr WA - sod Captain Drummond, Z.N. who raspastkely sekeewisiged the toast, sod the mmory et inerveras 'be expresso. TO CORILISTONDINTL arietlemina Mrled ter "Tr Itarere,* Lamas Dwain paper, abe at the Oese, 10, asevarle4trael. by Two Meg as the 'Wilmer. RATIIIIIKWE .2179111•11111. rwurre NIGHT. Kr. Dobler ; ASD 14191111 PINK Kr.Ounifta ; Mtn ramwritt..—Junts IILOIK CLITOII.-41al JOHN MOM M. Ormsam.—Onarsarre PRIMOU lb amass !11171110 HATe _LlAit. Hr. O. Rua—AM august. IB =LIAM OF AULBAUF.—O t t at & Tim Prairm. 17 . 1.AT1 TO lUD. Yessr.Oein Wi .11646 14= L tt. W -AM 011AiOnr111111. Ur. inns Norl6 -Clemons MON WATIE AT LONDON BRIDGE. 0. Dot Y - M . no ...... Atarersi. 0 .& 0. Um Anomos. 101 n0..0. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 7. EVERYONE basheard of theanswer said to have been given by Ton SnanmaN to the parental exhortation to " take a wife." " Whose wife shall I take, sir ?" replied, with more logical than moral propriety, the witty son to the witty father. If he bad asked, " What " wife shall take, sir ?" the morality would have been as sound as the logic of the question. Practically, doubtless, there are exceptions to all rules, and there are fools and rogues in the world. But reasonable and honest men, eager neither to take insane leaps in the dark nor to bolster up their fallen fortunes, do not commit themselves to abstract proposi tions of wife-taking, but having made up their minds regarding what they are to take in exchange for the independence of celibacy, proceed from particulars to generals, and take a wife because they take the wife. Only the fools and rogues of whom we have spoken: reverse the posses, and carry what rhetoricians call the hysteron prote►ow into the affairs of practical life. But with all daemon to the House of Commons, the majority of whom we by no means assert to be composed of those two great classes, we cannot help reminding them that in the great matter of Indian legislation they are committing themselves to a course which is politically as immoral as it is illo gical ; for they are pledging themselves to substitute one form of government for another, without the least notion of what the substitute is to be. Already they have pledged themselves to tie abstract proposition of taking • wife, in the shape of Indian Government directly by the Crown, without passing to inquire what that Government is to be. They don't know what it is to be. It may be something better, or it may be something worse, than the state of things which they have determined to abandon. It all " depends upon circumstances." They hare resolved upon an anti-climax. Instead of working upwards, they are working downwards. Having decreed that it is expedient that the transfer of the Government of the East India Company to the Crown should now take place, the House is called upon to vote " that for this purpose it is expedient to " provide that Her MULTI, by one of her prin .. cipal Secretaries of State, shall have and perform " all the powers and duties, relating to the Govern . meat and Revenue of India, which are or may be " now exercised or performed by the East India " Company." This is the proposition, which is again to be considered, this evening, by the House of Corn- Mena India, represented by the proxy of Parlia ment, is called upon to take to wife • principal Secretary of State. Surely, it is not unreuon able to ask what Secretary of State—that is to say, a Secretary of State with what qualifications and ander what conditions ; a Secre tary of Suite " pure and simple," or a Secretary of State associated with a body of constitutional ad visers and colleagues. To the abstract proposition of governing India by a Secretary of State moat thinking men will probably demur. But, having voted for the abolition of the East India Company, they have nothing to do but to substitute some de scription of direct Government by the Crown. Their obvious course, therefore, is to decide at once under what conditions the powers now exercised and the duties now performed by the East India Company may safely be transferred to a member of tee Imperial Government. They must look first into the details. It was BURKE, we think, who cautioned the House to look after the minors, and not to be bullied by the " swaggering majors." The Indian Resolutions, as they now stand, are so framed as to gull the House, by planing these " swag " gering majors" in the front rank, and thus com mitting members, before they are aware of it, to the minors, upon which everything depends. Sensible of the importance of defining at the out set the precise character of the Imperial agency which is to be substituted for the present system of "Double Government," Mr. EDWARD ELLICE has given notice of an amendment which, if carried, will pledge the House, not to the future government of India being placed in the hands of a Secretary of State (the conditions to be afterwards determined), but to the future government of India by a " Peen " dent in Council." An attempt may be made to stave off the discussion of this important question by asserting that the amendment properly belongs to • later clause of the Resolutions. But as the natural order of the Resolutions has been re versed, the objection is wholly untenable. The Homo is not bound to fall into the trap which Government has laid for it. But it is bound to con sider the conditions under which it will suffer the future government of India to merge into govern ment by a Secretary of State. Upon these condi tions the good or bad government of India—the stability or the instability of ourempire in theEast— absolutely depends. Now, it is not proposed either by the present, or by the late Government, or by Lard Jonx Rusext.t, who, like Chaos, empire tits, A.l, by ash lsm, men mange the affray— —it is not proposed, we may, by any one of these authorities, that there shall be a Secretary of State to govern India without a nominal Council ; but the question of Council or no Council is not a whit more important than that of real Council or sham Council. If it be proposed only to establish a nominal Council, we may es well save to the country the twelve or eighteen thousand a year that it will cost, and throw down the mem Now, a Secretary of State and a Council may be, as regards the latter, the merest fiction; but a Seeretary of State, or President, in Council must be a solid reality. No one questions the proved expediency of the system, which has worked so 1 • THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EYENtNG, MAY T, 1858. well in India. The Governor-General, or the Governor, administers the affairs of the Presidency, "in CoanciL" When he leaves his Council, as be has constitutional power to do, he generally goes wrong. To cite the greeted crime and the greatest blunder in modern Indian history,—the war in Afghanistan was made by a Governor-General EXPRESS ?ROM PARIS. (711011 ova OWN 00111.1ASPONDINT.) PARIS, TIIII/DILT EVINTIIO. The following is the text of the bill on the illegal assumption of titles, u adopted by the committee of the Legislative Body and the Council of State: absent from his Council, and would never have been made by • Governor-General in Council. Now, ii it be advisable that an Indian Governor who has nothing to think about but Indian govern ment should be restrained by a Council, d fortiori it is expedient that an English Minister, who is cer tain to be swayed by a number of other considera tions than those connected with the good govern ment of India, ought to be held in restraint by men who are not agitated by the gusts of party strife, and who, in their eagerness to hold fast to power and to place, are not compelled to truckle to the dictatorship of a parliamentary majority. If a fixed, consistent policy be desirable, India must, in practice, be mainly governed by the potential voice of an unparliamentary Council. permanently identifying itself with that policy. An Indian Minister, with • sham Council, will be simply the slave, not merely of a parliamentary majority, but often of any given section of the House of Commons, which, in the present divided state of parties, can at any time make a parliamentary majority. A party of outsiders, with peculiar views or peculiar inte rests, will at any time be able so to intimidate the Minister, by threatening to unite with the natural Opposition, as to force him, in obedience to the wishes of his oolleagues, to yield to their dic tation, however detrimental each concession may be to the real interest of the Indian Empire. The defeat of a despotic Secretary of State will be a mi nisterial defeat The defeat of a President in Council would not be a ministerial defeat. The Crown Minister would not be so wholly and exclusively identified with the measure as to compel either his or his colleagues' resignation upon an adverse vote. Moreover there would, in such • case, be far lees like lihood of an adverse vote. Members would, without hesitation, repudiate the decisions of •Crown Minister who has never travelled further than Frankfort or Berne ; and yet pause, before they would condemn the deliberate decisions of twelve or eighteen expe rienced gentlemen who have passed the greater part of their lives in the East, and who can have no ex traneous inducements to lead them astray from their duty of governing India for the benefit of the people. The weight of such authority, the value of such independence, will be acknowledged, and there will be far less chance of the fulfilment of Lord MrrcAtre's prediction of " the loss of India in the " House of Commons." Art. 269 - of the Penal Code Is modified ea follows . Any person who shall publicly wear • costume, uniform, or decoration to which he has no right, shall be punished by imprisonment of from six months to two years. Any one who without right, and with the view of attributing to himself an honorary distinction, shall publicly assume • title, or shall change, alter, or modify the name aseigned to him in the public registers, shall be fined from 600 fr. to 10,000 fr. The tribunal shall order mention of the judgment to be made in the margin of the deeds or registers In which the title shall have been unduly taken or the name have been altered. In all the cases provided fir by the present article the tribunal can order, at the exposes of the con demned, the insertion of either the whole or part of the judgment in such journals se it may designate. The bill, as above amended, has been so changed in committee as to have lost its original character. Instead of being a measure for the general overhaul ing of all titles, it is so worded that occasions for its operation will probably be very rare. It seems to be taken for granted that if a plebeian chooses to have himself announced as a marquis in a drawing room, to call himself a marquis on his visiting card, to sign himself " Marquis" in letters to his friends and tradesmen, and to put a coronet upon his car riage, he will not, by doing any or all of these things, be guilty of "publicly" assuminga false title within the meaning of the bill. These, however, were the very things which the believers in the possibility of reviving French nobility intended to prevent. Very few persons will have occasion to put forward their pretensions "publicly" in any other way ez oept on the occasion of their marriage, or the &via ' ration of birth of a child. It would, no doubt, be awkward for a man known in society as a marquis, count, or baron, to be forced to announce himself as plain Jacques Bonhomme at his mairie ; but this consideration will certainly not be sufficiently cogent to induce the existing holders of fame titles to lay them down. It is a curious fact, as showing how strong the tide of public opinion still sets in France against any legalised recognition of " nobility " that the committee should have found itself constrained to strike out that very word from the bill. The reasons for this alteration are thus explained by the Ina political same, the creation of a nobility and respect for the existing nobility are not incompatible with .cur oonstituti.nal principles. The bill has not for inevitable consequence the reconstitution of right of primogeniture; it only offers the advantage of protecting the social distinc tions for which our society, in spite of its demo:ratio spirit, eutertains • lively passion. Titles of nobility may therefore prove • powerful motive of patriotic exertions, a beooming reward for valuable services, • means of attaching to the throne and dynasty men of devotion end influ ence (I), and finally a privilege if entrusted to the hands of the sovereign. Them coesiderations having led the committee to adopt the principle of the bill, the suppression of the word "nobility" and its replacement by "honorary distinction" was voted, in order that no equivocation should exist on the point "that nobility can no longer be considered in France in any other light than an honorary distinction void of all privilege, and that ft must not recall the idea of any difference of race or caste." The Connell of State (adds the reporter) did not oppose this modification; moreover, the president of the council declared on this occasion that government enter !mined no hidden thought, that the bill was inspired by an idea of morality, and that no notion was entertained of modi fying our laws of inheritance, It was suggested to the committee that the bill might become a dangerous and arbitrary weapon in the hands of the public prosecutor; but the single minded members of the committee express them selves as being without the least fear on this head, because the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Justice has declared that a ministerial circular would regulate every detail concerning the execu tion of the law, and lay down the impartial fortuity of its application. In the sitting of the Corps Legislatif M. Jules Fevre took the oath and his seat. The order of the day was the discussion on the two bills (from which the commercial world is taught to expect great things) relating, the first to negotiations con cerning goods deposited in general warehouses; and the second, to sales by auction of goods wholesale. The Touloanais says that the object of Prince Napoleon in proceeding to Algiers in the capacity of lieutenant of the Emperor will be to impart in creased activity to agriculture, to give an impetus to railway works, and to direct towards Algeria the tide of emigration which has been for some years running towards America, Rio Janeiro, and Texas. The Bourse has been animated to-day. The oscil lations in the Credit Mobilier tempt speculators to operate. This security, which closed yesterday at 770 fr., rose at one time to 800 fr. and left off at 786 fr , with a rise of 16fr. The Rente rose 10c. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 89fr. 66e. and 89fr. 8.5 e. Business in railways was less active than in the Rente and Mobilier, but they were very firm. Eastern rose 7fr. 60e., and the other lines about 2fr. 80c. M. Perret, the defeated rival of M. Jules Pane at the last Paris elections, is likely to be consoled with a seat in the Senate. TURKEY. The Ottoman government has just transmitted to its diplomatic representatives at foreign courts a note on the results of Ethem l'scha's mission to Servia. The note states that the commissioner has succeeded in conciliating the feelings both of the Prince and the people of Servia. Accounts from Belgrade state that most important reforms have been introdnoed into the administration of Berrie under the auspices of the Porte. The torture of amused persons is abolished, and no chains or cruel ties are permitted to be inflicted on those condemned. The power of the Senate has been greatly increased, and the Prince is reduced to the position of a res ponsible ruler. The troubles in the Herzegowina ' are, it is understood, under the same agency, likely to end for the present in an extension of the power of the Sultan in that district. TRIESTE, MAY 6. Constantinople letters of April 29, state that Ferukh Khan will remain three months in that city. The Greek chambers have voted a credit of 1,200,000 drachmu to increase the navy. Turkey ' and Greece would, it is said, accept the arbitration of the powers in the differenoe relating to consular jurisdiction. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. A circular from the Austrian cabinet has been forwarded to its various legations, laying down the course intended to be pursued on the Italian gime tion. The principal point urged is that Sardinia is not to be allowed to speak in the name of entire Italy i and it is believed that the smaller Italian wart' have been urged to express themselves in the same way. Accounts from Rome mention that the state of the Pope's health is causing anxiety, and that his medi cal attendants had been compelled to resort to active depletory remedies. He is about to take another tour, and intends to journey toward. the Neapolitan, frontier. Cbc court. ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF PORTUGAL. Ihe Queen of Portugal arrived at Buckingham Palace, yesterday afternoon, upon a visit to the Queen. The Queen of Portugal on landing at Dover was received by the Berl of Sheffield, Lord in Waiting and Idajor.Gen•- ral Wylde, Groom in Waiting to the Prince Consort. Her Majesty, accompanied by her father, the Prince of Hoban. ao&rt, and her brother , Prince Leopold, and attended by her suite, travelled to London by a special train tee the South Eastern Railway. A guard of honour of the Grenadier Guards, with the band of the regiment, received the Queen at the Bricklayers' Anne statics with the usual honours, and her Majesty was met at the station by the Prince Cower, attended by the Marquis of Abercorn and Lieut.-Colonel Pothonby. Several of the Queen's carriages conveyed the whole of the Royal party trout the railway sta# escorted by a detach. meet of Royal Horse Guards, to thigham Palace, where her Majesty arrived at 20 minutes pest 60'r:dock. A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards mounted within the quadrangle of the Palace, with the band of the regiment. The Queen received the Quin of Portugal at the entrance of the Palace. Her hisjesti ti me=aled by the Prince of Weiss, Prince Arthur end the Primness Alice, Helena, and Loulis. The Dui= of Kant was also presenß The Quer was attended by the Bari of Mabeasbury, =eery of State for Foreign MIMI; Mistrees of the Robes, the Lady and the Maids of at in weiting, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chug/Mak, the Water of the Hoses, the Lord, Groom, and Ryser, Is Z= a tts Master of the Ceremonite , and the Muter of the The Portuguese Minister sad the Comers de Lavradlo, who received the Queen of Portugal at Dow, Mowed her Majesty to Buckingham Palace, with the escrelory sad the At toile. of the Leman's]. The Queen of Portugal, the Prince of Hohenzonera, sad Prince Leop..ld, wen conducted to one of the lower drawing rooms, when the ladies, the great officers of state, end the gentleman of the court, were pressated to the Queen of Por tugal ; and the ladies sad 'madmen la the suite of the Queen of Portagel sad the Moose( Hohenzollern were pre @noted to the Qum sad Prithe Cowart. The suited e Qneeit d isartagai and the Prince of Hohenzollern compliers the Dachas of Terceira, Donna Maria de Souza Coethilso, Field-Marshal the Duke of Ter tetra, the Marquis of Ficalho, the Marquis of Souza Holstein, Baron Stillfried, Baron Moorhen, Major Van Alvenaleben, and Lieutenant Count Finkanaleht. After the presentations the Qom ceedeeted her =suit visitor to her rooms._ _ The Portuguese Illisktir eed Comer de Lavradie left Buckingham PaKil. Ledy Keedonald, Lady Ice Watley; the Berl of flbelled, Lord tnWelting ; sad Major-General Ide,Grooto in Weida( to the Prince Consort, trill be a upon the Queen of Portugal during her stay In Ude ems The Prince of Wales arrived it Baekingem Pekoe yester day afternooe, attended by Vincent Valletart, It= end the Rev. C. Terser, green the White Lodge, Park. Prince Leopold and the Primmer AR* Reline and Beatrice took carriage &tom Her Majesty's dinner party beheld lie Qum af Porta the Duchess of Kan, the Prince of Roltansollern, Prime pold of Hohaeseliere, the Duchess el Manceselar, the Duchess of Teraina, Deana Maria de Boum Contralto, Lady Macdonald, Lady Fanny Howard, the Duke at Beaufort, the Portuguese Illnk*er a nd the Denotese Lavradio, the Fronton Minister and Cantina Bracer/, she Martials of stater, the Marquis of Aberrant, Earl DAIMON; the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Maltoestatry, Field-Menhal the Duke of Ter mite, the Marquis or Fiesta°, the Mainteka of Sawa Rd stein, the Earl of Bbelfteld, Maier-Oared Wyde, Baron Brillfried, Major You Alvenalebes, and Lieratenant Count Fiekextstatn. - The bend of the First Life Guards attended end played during dinner: Muria, " Ccenbesteme" P. Wadded. Overture, " Bey Ms" Meettelleoha Walser, " thimidereeee" Elate. Fentais "La Pan de awe /War. Uesviw6er Teas, " dr Me= Nag.. Char der N am Opsr, " D l 4. narke Wehaet. The Ques rhea beat easteunts perfamed a the etrawhig roar s he hillreotaa ampealleas : Overture, "Bemuse Bealeas. S.). ties, " Cell ha tatter Triumphal Noah Beeatawa. it 01321111300. .. Joss/It Feekeltass THE LATE Stft M. Donsw, ml. Baal.—W. bare to announce thodseth of Sir MEOW Pat, of Newland Park, user Wake fi eld, end sulks seer Bedak, Yorkshire, an event which ea be fifth ult.. is at Torquay, the 40th year of Way. hypos& The dlessawd baronet nee D tbj e =bet eldest „ suet the lets Sir Cholas a J. Annetrose, Naq., sod g=llphter liti 4ist dil = Lord Biopsy. and yam born in le Re wee br mese rare Captain in the Royal Artillery. He mogitill a la WA Lana Jul'a, daughter of the late Colossi Crowderott the Royal Artithtry sad 'awarded to the Ma, at Ids ilftbree death, In July last, He is secceesed In the tide by his eta, Charles Edward, now sixth baronet, who, as we psalm trout Hardwicke's 6AiUiay Barrister, I. an infant scarcely four years old. REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—Leit night ma open air meeting, which was attended by upwards of 1,000 of We suppoisee of Mr. To mato& M.P was hold in the pleasure. grounds attached to the Lord NeOcio Tavern, Tra falgar-road, Greenwich, the object being, an stated in the haadbills, to enrol members for the Townsend Lassos. Mr. W. Wails, of Ragent'e-lark, pOlomis recently returned from Austmlia, occupied the ehth, and announced his Won- Ma to stead by Mr. Tamed with his puree if he band that the onstitaseey would ca-operele la the mote slam. Mr. lbotlessell, lb. Mead, soll ether ebotros mddrowd the mating, and load cry wee Maud kr Mr. Towumod. A frost the weellag thew proceeded to the residswes : 1 1% a ttwasead, who shortly afterwards arrived, sad was received la a mast sathadestio airmeer. He addrateed the sesetiag We hoarat some Lag* sad the proesedbp dendasted at a The New SCOTCH JuDos—We believe that Mr. Paw hag been virtually epcliled to the seat ea the brook vacant by ths death of • sad that Lind Seam becrwass the Dew fumbler, 2ftseteetee. .~ .., MODENA. The Duke of Madam has issued a decree, forbid ding all parents or guardians to send their children or wards to foreign schools or universities without a previous permission obtained from the Minister of the Interior. The youths who may have been clan destinely sent to each foreign establishments, are to be precluded from entering the University of Modena or filling any public office in that state; moreover, their parents, guardians, or relations, who have sent them thither, shall be fined to the amount of from SOOfr. to 2,000 fr., be dismissed, if public officers, from their functions, and lose the titles and dis tinctions which they may possess. The ifessaggers of Modena, of the 30th ult., an nounces the condemnation of twelve individuals by the court-martial of Carrara to various terms of hard labour or imprisonment, for belonging to a secret revolutionary society, or having arms in their possession. UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. The steamer City of Washington, from New York on the 24th of April, arrived last night. She brings the United States mails and 221 passengers, bat no specie. The steamer Canada arrived • hence at Halifax on the 23rd. The report of the Kansas Conference Committee was presented in both Houses of Congress. It makes the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompton constitution depend on the acceptance of a land ordinance which is to be submitted to a popular vote, and in the event of the rejection of the proposition provision is made for the formation of a new constitution. The republican members of the committee dissented from the report. The papers and correspondence between Lord Napier and the Secretary of State, called for by the Senate, relating to the slave trade, are now before the Senate, and were waiting to be printed. The whole matter is voluminous- General Cass, in opening, says rather tartly to Lord Napier, that while he concurs in the opinion of his lordship, that the efforts of the British government have now increased for the extinction of this traffic, still he must be permitted to say, its hope of the hearty co-operation of the naval forces of the United States might safely have been entertained, without appealing to the example of Great Britain. General Cass says the United States have not been less anxious than Great Britain for the exter mination of this commerce. The system of joint blockade has been pursued for some years, and the benefit it has produced bears no rea sonable proportion, he regrets to say, to the expenditure of life and treasure it has cost. That this failure need not discourage the anxious hopes of Christendom. That there is another method of proceeding, without the dangers and difficulties, and inefficiency which beset a blockade, and which is sure to succeed if adopted and persevered in—and that is, to close the slave marts of the world, or rather of the Island of Cuba, which is now almost the only region where the slave dealer can find a market. Speaking of the United States, he says the introduction of a slave into the country is a fact which he be lieves the present generation has not witnessed, and attributes it to a wand state of public opinion. He argues that the Convention arrangements which exist between Great Britain and France and Spain, for their mutual co-operation in the suppression of the slave trade, do not seem to have produced the de sired result, and that upon the course of the Spanish government far more depends than upon the most rigorous blockade of tbe African coaat. He recommend s the extension of free coloured establishments along the coast of Africa as efficient in suppressing the slave trade. He discusses with much force, and with the slightest piece of ridicule, the new scheme of forced labour called apprenticeship, or of involuntary emigrants, by the French government, and recognised by the British. In conclusion, he then says, "I am instructed by the President to inform your lordship that while he is determined to execute the treaty of 1842 with fidelity and efficiency, he is not prepared under existing circumstances to enter tain any new stipulations on the subject of the African slave trade." A joint resolution was introduced authorising the President to take measures to obtain from Paraguay reparation for tiring into the steamer Waterwitch. The proposition is tantamount to authorising a de claration of war against Paraguay. The instructions given to the United States Com missioner in China state that he was authorised to cooperate with the allies so far as was necessary to secure the extension of commerce and the protection of the United States citizens in China. The red republicans of New York celebrated the memory of Orsini and Pierri by a torchlight proces sion and public meeting in the Park. About 2,500 participated in the celebration, and some 15,000 witnessed the spectacle on the line of march. Several violent speeches were made by the orators in the Park. The British reaidents in New York had celebrated St. George's day, as usual, with a banquet, at which Lord Napier was a guest and one of the principal speakers. The &enema News says : " An arrival at that port reports, on the night of the 16th, on the eastern edge of the Gulf of Mexico that they heard and saw fired in rapid succession 60 shots, apparently from 32- pounders, between two ships. Some are of opinion that it was the Spanish fleet exercising; bat the news said it had more likely been an encounter with a slaver or suspected filibuster." We have advice from Vera Cruz to the 11th inst. They represents affairs in Mexico as much the same as previously reported, nothing of importance having occurred in the position of the opposing parties. The New York money market had grown still easier, and the demand was light. Sterling ex change was quiet and unaltered. The stock market was steady, and closed firm at the following quotations :—Rrie, 261 ; New York Central shares, 89 ; ditto Sixes, 971 ; ditto Se vens, 1021 ; Illinois Central shares, 92 ; ditto Sevens, 88; Panama shares, 1071; ditto bonds, 100. Ashes active and firm. Coffee buoyant. Cotton had been active at an advance of 1 to 9, but closed quiet at 1210. for middling uplands. Flour and wheat steady, but with downward tendency. Corn de clined 12c., with moderate demand. Hardware somewhat improved. Iron : Scotch pig selling at 26 dole. to 26 dole. Spirits of turpentine very dull. Pork had advanced 60c. to 60c., but closed quiet. Beef firmer. Rice firm. Sugar in better demand, at late rates. Tobacco quiet, but firm. Freights without material change. Latest despatch from New Orleans of the 23rd says :-B►les of cotton to-day were 8,000 bales, at 111 d. for middling. Canada came after business hour. Sales of the week 62,000; receipts for the week 22,000 bales ; stock in port, 340,000 bales. Freights, cotton to Liverpool seven-sixteenths of • penny. Sterling exchange, 107 to I. (➢T DELON= (►mOQ ma OWN LIVERPOOL, Paramr. The steamer Indian, which started from Port land on the 24th of April, was off Helybood .at 10.30 this morning, but her news liviliapilel pated by the City of Washington. CONFISCATION OF OUDE. The following is the proclamation issued by Lo r d Canning, upon the fell of Lac'mow, to which ieference wee nude in both houses laet night : PROCLAMATUri. " The army Gib"' Rxixdiency the Commander-in-Chief is in possession of Lucknow, and the city lies at the mercy of the British government, whose authority it has for We s months rebelliously defied and resisted. " This resistance, begun by a mutinous soldiery, h y , found support from the inhabitants of the city and of the province' of Oude at large. Many who owed their proo f .. city to the British government, as well ea those who believed themselves aggrieved by it, have joined in this bad canes, sad have ringed themAelves with the enemies of the state. " They have been guilty of a great crime, and have sub jected themselves to a just retribution. The capital of their country is now once more in the heads of the British troops. "From this day it will be held by a force which nothing can withstand, and the authority of the government will b e carried into every corner of the province. "The time, than, has come at which the rig ht the bon. Governor-General of India deems it right to me known the mode In which the British government will deal with the talookdsrs, chiefs, and landholders of Oude and their fol lower!. _ _ . first oare of the Governor-General will be to reward those who have been steadfast in their allegiance at a time when the authority of the government was partially over borne, and who have proved this by the support and assist ance which they have given to British officers. Therefore the Right Hon. the Governor-General hereby declares that 44- brigliejjis Singh, Rajah of Bulrampore ; Koolwunt Singh, Rajah of Pudnaha ; " Rao Etude° Bukeh Singh, of Kutiaree ; Kaaberperstutud, Talooldar of finwaindee ; 4 . Zuhr Singh, Zemindar of Oopaul Kheir ; and Chunderlull, Zottlindar of Moraon (Baiowarsh) are henceforward the sole hereditary proprietors of the lands which they held when Oude came under British rule, sub ject only to such moderate aseesonent as may be imposed upon them, and that those loyal men will be further re warded in such manner and to each extent as, upon consider ation of their merits and their position, the Governor- Ge neral shall determine. " A proportionate mieurure of reward and honoursooord ing to their deserts will be conferred upon others in whose favour like claims may be established to the satisfaction of the government. " The Governor-General further proclaims to the people of Oude that, with the above-mentioned exceptions, the pro prietary right in the soil of the province is confiscated to the British government, which will dispose of that right in such meaner ss it may seem fitting. " To those talookdars, chiefs, and landholders, with their followers, who shall make immediate submission to the Chief Commissioners of Oude, surrendering their arms and obeying his orders, the Right Hon. the Governor-General promises that their lives and honour shall be safe, provided that their bands are unstained with English blood murder dusk shed. ex :23 d t es regards any farther indulgence which may be to them, end the condition in which they may . here after be placed , they must throw themselves upon the leant* sad mercy of the British government. "To those among them who shall promptly come forward end give to the Chief Commissioner their support in the re storstion of peace and order this indulgence will be hirn and the Governor-General will be ready to view liberally the claims which they may thus enquire to a restitution of their former rights. " As participenon in the murder of Englishmen and Eng lish women will exclude those who are guilty of It from all mercy, so will those who have protected English lives be spe cially entitled to consideration and leniency. " By order of the Right lion. the Governor-General of India. "OF.. EDIIONSTONIL. —•-•-- - - Secrebtry to the Government of lodic " Allahabad, March 14." LIMERICK ELECTION COMMITTEE 07118 DA F). The select committee appointed to try the merits of the petition complaining of an undue election for the city of Limerick, met for the first time this morning in Rome No. 2; Mr. Dunlop in the chair. The other members of the committee were Mr. Cowan, Mr. Sterling, Mr. Child, WI Mr. Gurney. The petition wee presented by . Yr. Thomas Cochrane, of Siogland, in the county of Limerick, miller, and Mr. Edward Hartigan, of Barrington-street, Limerick, attorney-at-law. The petitioners alleged that Mr. Geo.Gsvin, the sitting mem, ber, was by himself and his siesta guilty of bribery and in timidation at the last election for the city of Limerkk, which took place on the 15th of February lest, and they therefore prayed that the maid election might be deduced wholly null and void. The defeated candidate was Mr. John Ball. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. G. 8. Venable., and Mr. Sullivan, of the Irish hex, appeared for the petitioners ; and Mr. Slade, Q.C., and Mr. Phinn, Q.C., for the sitting member. Mr. James , Q.C., opened the came. He said the borough electors of Limerick numbered about 1.900, consisting of 81. householders, 601. freeh o lders, and old 40s. freeholders who were registered before 1849. The constituency was partly rural and partly municipal; but none of the voten were open to such imputations as had been brought home to the freemen of Galway. On the eleva tion of Mr. &Odra O'Brien to the bench, a vacancy occurred ia the representation of the borough, and two oan didair entered the field, namely, Mr. John Ball, formerly a member of the bode, and lJnder-Becretary to the Colonies; and Major Glans, a gentleman resident in the neigh bourhood. At the clan of the poll 782 bad boa reghtered for Major Gavin, and 733 for Mr. Ball, and the former gentleman was of course retard& The intimidation alleged against the sitting member and kb agents was promoted by mute engaged by the agent. of dr noosseful candidate to prevent elector voting for Mr. Bag, After the election in 1b62, a series of outrages were oar mined by the Young Ireland party upon those element who had voted against their candidate, and at dr last election in February the same system el threatening wee resorted to, spreading terror and slam wholesale ancaget the electors. The consequence was, that many electors were prevented recording their votes in favour of Mr, Bell. Bo excited did the town appear, that it had to be guarded by 1,600 troops and 490 armed constabulary. Me. 81adw Q C.—More than double the number of the ford with which General Havelock relieved Lucknow. Mr. fames said no doubt that was so. The force ma needed to keep down the rota of the mobs whom the violin harangues of Mr. O'Donnell, the election agent of the sating member. had provoked into the use of open force against Mr. Ball's party. The town and district of Limerick suffered severely by the Tippsear7 Bank, and Mr. O'Donnell prejudiced the minds of the electors against Mr. Ball, b 7 ntlintinining that his name was " John Sol kW Ball" and that he had been " the primeri ammeter of the Tipperary swindle," and that " Sella was the dupe of this Ball" So far, however, kin there being any truth in these assertions, which were nab in the pretence of Major Gavin. Mr. Ball was never sem an speaking terms with either of the Mullein, while so k from bBM Atst mmum erer rfditswOothnosthrnes. Tipperary Bank, fr tsi a :: k wrlt =g the minds of the electors, Mr. 013comill In an ungentlemanly spirit o f Mr. Ball, by thiserateg him m " • fellow who commenced life ma brinier bardiels and who afterwards got himself made a poor-law ame window, to obstruct the holy office of the Roman cede* chaplains In the Irish workhouses." The couscous:we cA this calumny and intimidation was the rejection of Mr. whom supporters were afraid to poll for him, or he have had • hundred majority. Not mutant with drill( Mr. Bell, the agents resorted to a = gat! bribery that was never before prectind in • system that corrupted the publican and derail the voter. They distributed orders on the ribbons of Limerick to the extent of 1,0001. te 1.2001., and whit numbers of voters were made drank with whiskey that towed like water during the election, may M the orders were circulated in the town as kik as bank notes. These facts would be proved by incontestable evidence. Mr. Ball himself would deny the truth of the impteations made against hint, and it would he shown that the bribery and treating were conducted under the Immediate superintendence of Mr. O'Donnell, Mr. Doyle, Mr. Wealthy, and Mr. Howard, who acted as the agent' and attorneys of the sitting _member. Witnesses were them called to substantiate the first part of the ease. ROYAL UEOGRAPHICAL ISocrerr.—At the evening - lobe had aa Monday next at Burlington-home. Mr selok I. Mutahieon In the their. the following parr la be read . 1. Notes on hie Journey In North- West Aar testis. by Mr. James 8. Wilson • communicated by Bir de I. Murcideas. 2. einend Historical View cd thl &Mee Human Society In Mahon Central Africk bl Phil. De. H. Berth. •••••• ST. MARTLE-IE-THE-FIELDS:SUBBTTTOTE rat Calm= Rwrus.—The perish of Bt. Martin-hrtlinntli has bent Owed in a somewhat novel position in conseqesilit of • monition laud by the nrchdeecon of Middleeel= upon the abarchwerdens to repair the church. An hes been oonsulted, and he hes pointed out what ripen' be necessery in order to comply with Archdesoon monition, the estimates toe which amount to 2,5081. pew rent, sic barely eufficissit to meet the current espnat of the church, and leave no surplus available ter ear ordinary repairs. The churchwardens =prom their linguae to ask for • church rate, • measure which ins net been resorted to in St. Martins parish for thirty re% and they have comsequatly, in conjunction with the NM Pr_ bender, liumphry, the vicar, iesued an edema ie poishioners, making s:i a ffsl to the voluntary libertlWo the paristdeemes, "to the hinds which ate maw tinned in ceder to mar mono • Men whirl me of the earns of this punk and teed the sonnet churches be this metropolis." ÜBE OP THE ANEMOMETER AT LITERPOOL.--Nr' Flutings ths metronome at the Liverpool Otimervamy , r kid Worm the Mersey book Board • series of llama showing the direction mid velocity ml tat Tied 89 _,— tir gums, by the anemometer at the Obarvatory. The tow eztesd over a pond of six ran sad alittmilel ollm r th , r l cis MN Maw that the Usenet stones expetismood at ban tains plea dodos the amp dam TIM DAILY NEWS: : LONDON MORNING r i ima=r i % im Ma Lally en d Sladdsda• d an wog Muir la *a idea sad *l= d Ile moil wome-4a de wing d lb us raw* andla de *obi maddlle odd andadel learmalk• domeard dad*, diem aid imaled gem •as MOILIIIIN NNW. 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