The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-08 00:00:00

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Kaodsmas Elaworiliy and C. Limiterms„ — BureariA. Tass Emma, THE LAST APPELL..—Ette Yahoo Fanny. —CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. Mr. Jam es Andra-rm.—To con clude with THE DARK KM OF 'T HE BLACK MOUNTAIN& Was aers Oases, Mrs. K Isms, and Mader IL Madera. HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRIM& Tim DAT —Morning, 71t. 2Sm Afternoon, 71t. 66m To-lionsow—Horning, ah Stin Afternoon, 9b. LONDON, TUESDAY, MA Y S. Tax policy of conciliation which animated Ministers in framing their Franchise Bill, has evidently inspired their measure for the Redis tribution of Seats. They desire a settlement ; and are willing to meet opposition half-way, in order to disarm it. Good will spring from their adop tion of this course ; but not, if we may trust the indications of last evening, in the form in which they expected it. The Conservative party will be obliged to throw off the last shred of the disguise in which they have hitherto counterfeited to be Reformers ; and the country will know them for what they are. If they do not accept the complete scheme for which they have cla moured, it will be because they distrust any exrl tension of the popular element of the constitution, and dislike any correction of the anomalies of our electoral system. To be part of a Reform Bill no measure could be more conservative than that which Mr. GLAD STONE explained yesterday evening. Not a single constituency is disfranchised by it. Forty-nine seats are placed at the disposal of Parliament by the grouping of boroughs ; and of these the lion's share is assigned to the counties, which re ceive twenty-six new representatives. South Lancashire, divided into two constituencies, gains three additional members, and twerty three counties or divisions of counties, having a population of more than a hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, receive each a new member. A higher figure is taken to qualify town constituencies for a similar increase of lower. To four boroughs, with more than two hundred thousand inhabitants — namely, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds—a third representative is given. Salford, with a population of over a hundred thousand, receives a second member. Two new metropo litan boroughs, each with two members, are created by the division of the enormous constituency of the Tower Hamlets, with its population of I 647,000 ; and by the enfranchisement of Chelsea I and Kensington, which together have a popu lation of 133,000. Six unenfranchised bo- roughs having a popuLation of over 18,000 souls—namely, Burnley, Staleybridge, Gravesend, Hartlepool, Middlesborough, and Dewsbury— beoome parliamentary boroughs, each with a single member. The London University gains the re presentative lung promised it. Whatever might be thought of the policy of giving separate parlia mentary representation to learned corporations if it were new to the country, no one can maintain that, while the Universities of Oxford and Cam bridge retain their place among the constituencies, their younger rival can be justly excluded from a similar privilege. The seats thus disposed of amount to forty two in number. The remaining seven seats, though all the forty-nine are obtained by the re-arrangement of English constituencies, Minis ters hand over to Scotland, whose claims to an increased representation are beyond question, on the four-fold ground of population, property, in telligence, and an exercise singularly uncorrupt of the franchises already possessed by its electors. The counties of Aberdeen, Ayr, and Lanark, which now return one member each, arc in future to re turn two, though if Ayr and Lanark were on this side of the b. order, they would ho entitled to three members each, as having more than a hun dred and fifty thousand inhabitants. Glasgow receives a third member, a privilege to which it hasthe same claim as the four English boroughs which it resem bles in having over 200,000 inhabitants. The representation of Etlinburgh is increased in the same degree, though it falls short of this numerical standard, its literary and intellectual position, and its position as the Scotch capital, being justly taken into account. To Dundee, with more than 90,000 inhabitants, a second member is assigned. The Scotch Universities receive a representative, to which they have the same title as that which I has been long acknowledged in the case of the ' University of London. While the number of representatives of England and Wales is dimi nished, and that of Scotland is increased, by the Government scheme, Ireland, with her declining population and inferior wealth, may be content to find herself left as she is. Applying the stan dard adopted in England, the city of Dublin and the county of Cork are entitled to, and receive each a third member ; and the claim of the Queen's University to be placed on the same footing as that of London and those of Scotland, is allowed. These three seats are acquired by transfer from six smaller boroughs, which are united into three groups. The feature of the Bill which will attract mast interest, and provoke most criticism, is the partial disfranchisement, by grouping, of small English boroughs, which sets free the forty-nine seats, dis posed of in the manner we have narrated. To the new constituencies thus formed, having fewer than fifteen thousand inhabitints, only one member each is assigned. Those groups which have a population of more than fifteen thousand re ceive two members. Somewhat inconsistently, the six newly enfranchised boroughs already mentioned, having each more than eighteen thousand inhabitants, are allowed hut one member. The reason of this anomaly is to be sought pro bably in those considerations of policy to which, as Mr. GLADSTONE intimated, the framers of the Bill have been obliged to subordinate strict justice. The best that can be said of this part of the Government scheme is that it is an improve ment upon existing arrangements ; and perhaps nearly as great an improvement as there is any reason to suppose that Parliament would accept. One thing we do not understand—that is, why Mr. GLADSTONE should group together only bo- roughs already represented, leadiiir* &die: cent tow= of greater en ; ;w • have not hitherto been wrong of past exclusion is a poet plea making that exclusion perpetual. If edditio Members were required for boroughs newly ad mitted on this principle, the course which he has taken would be explicable. But the method of grouping avoids thiii difficulty. Taking, for example, the Cornish group of boroughs, why should Penzance with over ten thousand inhabitants, not be admittedl into association with Bodmin, Liakeard, and Launceston, each of which contains a far smaller population / In Essex, Maldon and Harwich are grouped, and Stratford, which has a population equal to both of these places taken together, is left out. The Wiltshire borough of Westbury is associated with the com paratively distant city of Wells, in Somersetshire ; the town of Trowbridge, which:is close to West bury, and has a population nearly equal to that of Westbury and Wells taken together, is left out. In Yorkshire, Ripon, Knareaborough, and Think are un' ted into one group ; Richmond and Northallerton into another ; while the three towns of Doncaster, Barnsley, and Keighley, each of which has a population double that of the largest of the other five, are left without representation. If we turn to the eight boroughs, having a popu lation of less than eight thousand each, whose geographical position Mr. GiAnwrouz stated to be such as to defy grouping, and which therefore keep each its separate representative, the same caprice is apparent. Bridgnorth, for example, might natu rally have been grouped with Ludlow and Leo minster, and Stafford with Lichfield, without going beyond the distances which the Government in other cases has allowed itself. In England and Wales there are more than thirty towns with popu lations varying between eight and eighteen thousand inhabitants, which the Ministerial scheme still leaves unrepresented, while it preserves their mem bers, or a share in their members, to Arundel and Caine. The Government appears to have deprived itself of one of the chief advantages of the group ing plan—that of bringing into the system of borough representation, without violence, all the considerable unenfranchised towns. This is an error of detail which ought to be, and we trust will be, corrected in Committee. It is the less explicable, because in the Irish Bill the principle of enlarging small borough constituencies by the addition to them of unrepresented towns has been adopted. A minuter examination than we have as yet been able to bestow will probably diaciose many o;:her questionable arrangements and desirable amendments. But after all deductions are made, the measure, even in its present shape, effects substantial improvements ; and will receive the support of all Reformers who do not make the best the fatal opponent of the good, and the formidable ally of what is evil. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE RETHSTRTBUTION OR ALAI'S BILLS. The Times warmly approves of the bill introduced last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, desci:b pig it as being so simple in its conception, so practical in its details, and so just in its principles, that one can but ask with wonder why it was not introduced before, and why such false strategy should have been adopted as to have delayed the scheme until it is doubtful whether the measure can be passed before parliament is prorogued. It would, however, have been an obvious improvement if , other small towns not now represented at all had been , added to the groups which are formed by the bill, and the number of small boroughs dealt with might perhaps have I been increased with advantage ; but the scheme is fair and moderate, and in disposing of the seats obtained fur distribution by the first part of the scheme the claims of the counties and of the great centres of industry have been impartially considered. As to the disposal of the question by parliament, the Times hopes that the Redistribution Bill will pass the second reading without any very prolonged discussion, and then that the house will go into committee on both bills at the same time and fuse them together. Whether it will be possible to pass the composite measure thus formed this session, must depend very much on the good sense of individual members and the sagacity of the leaders on both sides, but especially of the opposition. The latter have now the opportunity of laying at rest the spirit of reform, and that under the most favourable conditions, if they will only resist the temptation of snatch ing a temporary triumph over their opponents. The Irish and Scotch Reform Bills also appear to the Times, on the whole, as reasonable and moderate as can be expected. Flaws may, perhaps, be discovered in both on closer examination, and the vigilance of the opposition will, no doubt, be fully roused during the present week. But if they show political good sense they will not repel measures which bear so plainly the stamp of moderation and compromise. . . The Doll!, News, premising that the measure even in its present shape effects substantial improvements, compli ments General Peel for having last night onoe more blown into the air, by his courageous opposition to all reform, all that elaborate and skilful machination of dilatory pre texts which was so derogatory to the honour and character of parliament. Mr. Gladstone's temper and manner last evening were pacific and forbearing to a fault, but the scene that followed his statement proves convincingly that what the opposition really mean is that no Reform Bill or Bills shall be made law during this session, but that for the purpose of upsetting the government and taking their places one Reform Bill is as good or as bad as another, and two bills probably better than one. This white squall of faction is at least wholesome. It clears the air. This return to the good old fashion of a party fisht simplifies the situation ; and unless more prudent counsels should prevail in the opposition camp during the next few days, " advanced" reformers will be deep in debt to the advanced tones, who, being politely re quested to move on, have wisely resolved to stand still— and be ran over. The Pod is sure that Lord Palmerston, had he intro duced a reform bill, would have done so with a greater dignity, and have produced a more carefully-constructed measure than that which has been brought forward by the present government. What is of more importuice to the people than any reform is that we should possess a stronger government—one more united in their policy and still more in their convictions. The Herald allows that the disfranchising clauses arc as mild u could be expected from a liberal ministry, acting under the influence of Mr. Bright. To transfer seven seats, however, to Scotland is offensive to English feeling, and will be more unpopular even in the house than in the country. In agreeing to let the Redistribution Bill be read a second time before attempting to carry tLo Fran chise Bill a step further Lord Grosvenor is made completely victorious. The only difference is, that to reach this point the ministry has been virtually beaten, the liberal party broken up, • bitter quarrel excited by words of reckless abuse and groundless insult, and Mr. Gladstone's utter un fitness to lead the Rouse of Commons placed beyond all manner of doubt. Look which way they will, the Tdegraph says, there is no cover now for the supporters of Lord Grosvenor'a amendment. Amendments are exhausted, the great principle of franchise extension is affirmed, and their last hope—their cherished refuge—the trust of fiuding the second part of the government scheme too sub versive—has vanished. The government has been so far successful, because apart from the intrinsic merit of its policy, it has exercised the simple charm of sincerity. The ministers are thoroughly in earnest about passing p just and progressive Reform Bill ; not a revolutionary bill, but a real bill ; and their earnestness has brought them out into their present admirable position in a parliament, at the best, but sulkily honest. By a plan so reasonable and practical as the present they complete the strength of their position; for the country will cordially accept the whole bill, and it will act accept any more shilly-shally amendments. EXPRESS, TUES unlit totabir , ,• the .... 4of 49 new siats.c26heemhel be di m , (*unit* amid hardlulditar fail r e,. cation preva il ed, to excite very grave cusp' ;lir baby very determined opposition from the ral party. Not only are constituencies grouped which ought to have been annihilated, but groups receive two members which ought without hesitation to have been pensioned of with one. Such gingerly measures is these would not have sufficed bad not compromise been carried to the verge of weskiesa. directly , 4 tiand I , pa t, tween Prussia and Saxony with regard to the arms- I meat of the latter state. The Debate praises Herr von Bet*, the Saxon Minister, for the ability which he has displayed in defending the position of Saxony, and for entrenching himself on legal and constitutional grounds by referring the dispute to the Federal Diet. In the opinion of the hide pendance the question of peace or war will arise upon its decision, which will probably be given before the end of the present week. Meanwhile the preparations for war continue on all sides, and the armed forces are gradually approach- ing one another. Accounts from Stuttgardt state that the measures for placing the army of Wurtemburg on a war foot ing are advancing rapidly. The forces consist of 18,500 infantry and 4,800 cavalry, besides artillery and engineers. The contingents assemble at Lud wigsburg, in the circle of the Neckar, at nine miles from the capital, and which town is the great military station of the kingdom. The levy of troops is taking place regularly, and all the young men respond readily to the call. A despatch from Coblentz of the 7tll says : " The general commanding the Bth Prussian corps d'armee announces that the mobilisation of that force has just been ordered by the government. The men absent on leave are to present them selves immediately to the proper authorities in the Rhenish provinces." A communication from Dresden of the 3rd gives the following intelligence: The carps of troops which the Prussian government has just ordered to be formed at Wittenberg will consist at first of 50,000 men. It is to be commanded by Prince Frederick Charles, who has already appointed his staff, and apartments are being prepared for him in the old electoral palace. Wittenberg forms part of the province of Saxony, and of the district of Meraeburg. It is a forti fied town of the first class, where the Pr assian army has all its depots of artillery and the greater part of its military stores. The above-named province was de tached by the Treaty of 1814 from the kingdom of Saxony, and given to Prussia. By this possession the latter touches on the kingdom of Saxony on the north-east, which is directly threatened by the concen tration of troops in question. Should war ensue, the Prussian army would only have to cross the frontier to march on Dresden. If the conflict be postponed, this army will remain concentrated at Wittenberg until the de finitive arrangement of pending difficulties. The Prue. elan engineers have already commenced the works of appropriation ; they have taken possession of the suburb of Neu-Wittenberg, to prepare lodgings and magazines for the troops, and they are also con structing a the-de-pont on the left bank of the Elbe, which river flows through the town and gives it great strategical importance. The King of Saxony watches all these events with great coolness and resolution ; he has no thought of leaving his kingdom to seek refuge abroad, as certain Ger man journals have stated. On the contrary, he has an nounced his intention of placing himself at the head of his army with his brother Frederick Augustus, Prince-Royal. The New Free Press of Vienna, after referring to the strategic advantage which the possession of Dresden and the defiles of Saxony gave to Napoleon in 1813, says: If Austria would avoid a long struggle for the possession of the passes which lead to the plains of Prussia, if she would not lose the advantage of catching her enemy in his own country, and on unfavourable ground, she ought above all things to ►fford a solid point d'appui to the Saxon army at the first approach of danger in order to secure Dresden, and the defiles which command the main road and the valley of the Elbe. The undertaking is more diplomatic than strategic in its nature, because the point is to arrive in time on the spot, and at the same time to avoid the appearance of an aggression." The Austrian Gazette says that Prussia is pur chasing horses on a large scale in Russia and the Danubian Principalities, and that her agents are afforded every facility by the Russian authorities, while every impediment is thrown in the way of the agents of Austria. A letter from Berlin, of May 4, to the Frankfurt Journal, says : The " sword and blood " policy bits completely tri umphed in the Council of War, which was held here yes terday. The entire Prussian army, with the excep tion of the divisions in the Rhenish province and Westphalia, is placed on a war footing. The Brandenburg corps will, it is said, be marched into Silesia and Saxony. The young Guards who made their first essay in the Danish war will, with • portion of the troops in Pomerania, remain in Berlin as • reserve force. It would be quite an error to suppose that the policy of Von Bismarck is now opposed by the court. If that policy has hitherto met with. obstacles from various influences that will not be the case from to-mor row. The King has entirely approved of the plans pro posed by his minister in yesterday's council. The correspondent of the Debats in Rome says that all parties there are in favour of war—the cle rical, because they hope to regain what they have lost—the liberal party because they expect freedom, and because they think they cannot be worse off than they are at present. The Gazette dim Midi of Marseilles says that 500 Italians, forming part of the reserve force on leave, left Marseilles during the course of last week to join their respective regiments. It adds that the French soldiers on leave have also received orders to join their corps. The Moniteer says :—" Despatches and tele grams arriving from Germany and Italy announce movements of troops which seem to have for their object the concentration of corps d'armee upon various points. The _4renir National says that Russia is arming on a vast scale, and will have a formidable army ready in a few days . The same journal has the following from Berlin : On Friday, the 4th of May, • telegram in cypher was received from Baron Werther, the Prussian Minister at Vienna, announcing that Austria refused to comply with the demand for disarmament made in the last Prue/flan note. A ministerial council was immediately convened over which the King presided, the Prince Royal being also present. Herr von Bismarck proposed that an order should be issued for the immediate mobilimtion of the four new corps d'armi":e—in other words to complete the Kriegsbereitarhaft !(the) readiness for war). The King said that before taking so serious a step which might lead to a declaration of war, it was desirable to wait 36 hours for the official delivery of the Austrian reply. Von Bis marck offered some objections, but the King's view naturally prevailed. It was • short respite, adds the Artnir, and the time allowed lapsed on last Sunday. The Turin Gazette of tho sth says : The first corps d'armde, laving its headquarters at Lodi, will be commanded by General Durando ; the second, having it headquarters at Cremona, will be under the orders of General Cucchiari ; the third, having its headquarters at Placentia, will be commanded by CI •neral Rocca; and the fourth, having it head quarters at Bologna, will • be under Cialdini• These four corps will be composed of 16 active division under the orders of Lieutenant-Generals Bixio, Brismone, Ca torus, Casanova, Cerale, Ghisbren , Cosenx, Cugia, Govine, Medici, Mezzacapo, Misname PianeM, Prince Humbert, Ricotti, and Sirtori. General Senna: will com mand a division of reserve cavalry. Admiral Persano will have the command of the fleet, Vice-Admirals Amio, Albini, and Vacc• acting under him. THE LATE ATTEMPT ON THE CZAR'S LIFE. The St. Petersburg journals say that the investi gation into the attempt on the Csar's life has shown that it was not the act of a wild and einee enthusiast, but the result of F oonapiraey, DAY 9 G MAY 8, 3. 1 . T. TELLIGEN ade r est ' t • • t ING W.R. directly Diet will be To- . 7 -•• ' _fit' s Pillier ,'"and dilli r decide upon' C. difference which has arisen TRW WINDING WAIL Of all the parties who are involved in the existing com plications on the continent, Austria, the Times remarks, is the only one who has no designs of aggression. Sheer conquest and nothing less forms the motive of Prussia, and of taly it can only be said that the sentiment of na tionality overpowers every other, and that for the sake of acquiring Venetia Italians are prepared to league with any enemy of Austria on any terms and in any cause. To sum up the demerits of the case, we must add that, though a fourth power could probably prevent the conflict by a word, that word is not spoken. If war now ensues, and its history should be written, it will appear as unjust, as unnecessary, and as wanton as any war of past times. The hopes of peace, observes the Daily News, are fast declining, for the hearts of both Prussia and Italy are set upon objects which, in the present temper of Europe, and especially of their antagonist, can be obtained only by war. Did Prussia once possess the Duchies, Austria would be reduced as a German power to the condition of a minor state, and in opposing herself to the dangers with which violence and treachery threaten her, Austria would imams the sympathy of all in Europe whose good wishes are worth having, and with the certainty of success, but for the false position she occupies in Italy. Venetia belongs, by every moral title, to Italy, and its possession is a vital necessity to the new kingdom. Austria's position, therefore, is dan gerous only so far as it is unjust. In these circum stances diplomatic or philanthropic persuasions to pesos seem but a waste of words, and a Congress of Paris but a stirring up of strife, unless they take the form of representations to the Cabinet of Vienna to enter into negotiations for the cession of Venetia to Italy. The only way of escape from the present fatal complica tion would be for Austria to utterly destroy the web which Prussian cunning is weaving about her by ceding Venetia on terms and conditions which the kingdom of Italy could accept. This measure would give them friends where they have now enemies ; it would close a wound at which the strength of the empire is oozing out ; it would enable them to concentrate their whole military force upon those who, unlike the Italians, seek their destruc tion ; it would give the empire a position of command in Europe such as it could not otherwise occupy. The Herald presumes from the speech of the Emperor Napoleon to the Mayor of Auxerre, in which the treaties of 1815 were denounced, that he wishes for war. As the chief effect upon France of the treaties of 1815 was the taking away of that extension to the Rhine which she had conquered under Louis XIV. and the first Napoleon, we may not unreasonably infer that Napoleon 111. persists in regarding the Rhine as the natural frontier of France. This certainly is the sense in which the speech will be generally understood. This speech of the Emperor, in the opinion of the Herald, does something more than diminish the chances of peace, it absolutely annihilates them. The Star hopes we shall keep out of congresses and amicable interventions. A congress which does not mean to enforce its decrees would in such a crisis be a dull blunder ; a congress which intended to enforce them would be a monstrous crime. Above all, let us at the present moment have no private arrangements with the French government. Let us remember what our diplomacy did for Poland and for Denmark ; and let us not forget that the internecine war now apparently imminent between Austria and Prussia began in a cordial alliance. THE CASE OF CHARLOTTE WINSOR. Though, remarks the Times, judicial discretion is capa ble ocabuse, if a jury may be discharged because a judge, without stating reasons, thinks it desirable, yet some authority must be empowered to release juries, and this ought to be vested absolutely in the judge ; and no reason able person can doubt that for the public interest the effect of such a discharge should be to render the prosecution abortive and to leave the parties in state quo ante. Though the woman Winsor, whose crimes would entitle her to rank in history with Locusta, or with Tophania, but that her victims are infants of humble parentage, still, after all that has passed, the Times will not be surprised to hear that her Majesty has been advised to commute the capital sentence upon Charlotte Winsor. When once a prisoner has been respited—still more, when execution has been deferred for a whole year, a considera tion which it is not easy to analyse, intervenes to make the infliction of the death penalty an act of doubtful policy. The Post states that it is still possible to carry an appeal to the House of Lords against the decision of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and in that event another respite would be granted. A judicial decision in which all the judges in Westminster Hall concur must be assumed to be unassailable ; but the Post cannot avoid remarking that it is opposed to a decision pronounced a few years since by the majority of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland. With the utmost desire to show respect towards the bench, the Telegraph cannot but think that some blame attaches to the judges for the delay which has taken place in settling this case. The infliction of capital punish ment in the present instance would be, despite the fearful character of the woman's crime, a confession of deplorable weakness, tardiness, and indifference to human suffering. We may reasonably doubt whether the populace of Exeter would be edified by the hanging of a person who was tried for her crime fourteen months ago. Twice already the scaffold has been raised for her, and twice her grave ha s been dug in the precincts of the prison at Exeter. Should the sentence of the law now be executed, the spectators of her death would be much more impressed by the uncer tainty of the law, and the bungling way in which th e lawyers have done their work, than by the righteousness of the decision. Eire Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Helena, and attended by Lady Churchill. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Helena, walked and drove in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also went out walking. The Queen will hold a Council at Windsor Castle to morrow (Wednesday) at 1 o'clock. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Alfred visited the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg.Strelitz at Gloucester-house yesterday. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred, rode out on horseback in the afternoon. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Council chamber, Whitehall, to consider matters relating to the cholera. The Lords present were :—The Lord President. the Lord Privy' Seal, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas Fre mantis, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. The Committee was attended by the Attorney-General, Mr. Simon, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison, A deputation, introduced I.y kir. Bright, M.P., Mr. Bailey, M.P., Mr. E. Jame', M.P., Mr. C. N. Newdegate, M.P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Platt, M.P., and Mr. Graves, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Wright (Vice-Presi dent of the Birmingham Chamber), Mr. Edmund Sturge (of Birmingham), and others, accompanied by Mr. T. B. Sintaon, Parliamentary Agent, had an interview with the Right. Hon. Edward Cardwell at the Colonial office yester day, on the subject of the acceleration of the West India MAIL A deputation, consisting of Sir Colman O'Loghlen, hart., M.P., the O'Donoghue, M.P., Colonel French, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P.. Mr. Dillon, M.P., Captain Stacpoole, M.P., Mr. Chas. Moore, M.P., Mr. Kennedy, M.P., Mr. P. Burrowes Sharkey, Mr. Edward Hudson, and Mr. John McEvoy, had an interview with Mr. Childers, at the Treasury, yesterday, on the subject of the opening of St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, as a public park. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governor of Malta. The Prince and Princess of Wales, Major Teesdale, and suite, honoured the performances at the Adelphi Theatre last evening. dude, roue accomplices belonging to iomme irg ' t dames tly many arrests have . P 20 students have made. In S seized, 00 Poles, ip four high official ; and initeacow gthilaisatiltave been lodged in gaol. (azurzz's rusaaags.) AUSTRIA AND ITALY. VIENNA, MLY 8. The semi-official Oerterreiaiache Zeitung of to-day says :—" A peaceful solution of the pending diffi culties has not yet become impossible. The com munications brought by Count Mulinen from Paris may perhaps offer such guarantees for the sin cerity of Italy that the Austrian army on the southern frontier would be replaced on a normal peace footing. Intelligence continues to be received of arma ments and military movements in Prussia, Italy, and the middle German States. In consequence of the proposition made by Saxony at the Federal Diet, Bavaria is said to have addressed a note to Prussia, requesting in formation respecting the latter's threatening atti tude towards Saxony. Prussia replied that she would not enter Saxon territory so long as Saxony was not occupied by Austrian troops. The heads of the offices for the collection of the public revenue have received instructions to ex change, on demand, notes of the government cur rency for bank notes, by which means any differ ence in the value of the two currencies will be avoided. The decree on the forced currency will be extended to Venetia. _ . ..„, .., Some Italian workmen are suspected of having set fire to the Austrian frigate Novara. _ FLORENCE, MAT 8. In the Chamber of Deputies the general discus sion of the government financial bills has closed. The bills ou public safety will be discussed to morrow. Prince Napoleon has left Florence. The hereditary Duke of Saxe Weimar, who ar_ rived here yesterday, will be received to-morrow by the King. - PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAT 8. The Berlin papers announce that a great de_ monstration will take place this evening in front of Count Von Bismarck's hotel to congratulate him on his escape from the attempt on his life. The perpetrator of the attempt against the life of Count von Bismarck is named Blind, but it is understood that he is not the son of Karl Blind, the political refugee in London. Blind, while unobserved in prison, stabbed him self in the throat nine times with a pocket-knife having several blades. The physicians declared the wounds not dan gerous, as no important artery had been severed, and he was put in a strait waistcoat, but died this morning. BOHEMIA. PRAGUE, liar 8. Rifle corps of Volunteers are being formed in Bohemia. It is proposed to constitute a legion of Volunteers, composed exclusively of students. THE HUNGARIAN DIET. PESTH, MAT 8. The deputation despatched to Vienna to present the address of the Hungarian diet to the Emperor made their report yesterday, which was coldly received by the house. _ . Yesterday the statue of the national poet Voros marty was unveiled. The diet was represented at the ceremony by a deputation. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. (Via Crookhaven) The Inman steamship City of Boston arrived at Queenstown this (Tuesday) morning. She brings 24,880 dole. in specie, and 343 passengers. After landing 39 passengers, and 11 mails, she proceeded for Liverpool at 7.15 a.m. NEW YORK, APRIL 28, Moaxixo. Spain is semi-officially reported to have requested the mediation, and agreed to submit to the arbi tration of the United States in the complication with Chili. Mr. Bigelow, the American ambassador in Paris, informs Mr. Seward that ho suggested to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, during a recent interview, that bloodshed in Mexico might for the present be averted if the Juarista could be assured that the French would withdraw. M. Drouyn de Lhuys replied that such an arrangement was very desirable, as the atrocities which were being perpetrated were dreadful, but that France had no means of communication with Juarez on the subject. Mr. Bigelow suggested that this could be effected by negotiation with Senor Romero through the United States, and M. Drouyn de Lhuys thereupon promised to lay the proposition before the Em peror Napoleon. In the Senate Mr. Wilson has offered an amend ment to the Constitution, prohibiting the payment of the rebel debt or of claims for emancipated slaves, and basing the representation upon the po pulation, excluding from that basis all males denied the franchise. Mr. Wilson further proposes that any State ratifying this amendment shall be ad mitted to full representation at Washington. Mr. Sumner has offered a petition from citizens of Kentucky praying for the expulsion of Senator Gerrit Davis for treasonable utterances. According to the Nets York Herald and Times, it has been ascertained that the petitioners are negroes. It is said that the House Judiciary Committee have summoned a great number of witnesses to prove the complicity of Mr. Jefferson Davis in the assassination plot ; but though the cross-examina tion is limited, nothing has yet been produced to substantiate the charge. President Johnson has granted Mrs. Jefferson Davis permission to visit her husband. The President has ordered the confiscation of property in Florida to be discontinued. The Governor of Georgia has requested General Thomas to send troops toFannin county to suppre's a disturbance which has broken out there, and which is beyond the control of the local *litho rities. The recent report that a new 5 per cent. loan was about to be issued is denied. Numerous meetings are being held throughout the country to endorse the policy of President Johnson. The newspaper correspondents from Mexico corroborate the report that the republicans have captured Chihuahua. The cholera on board the vessels in quarantine at New York is assuming a milder form, and is abating ; 88 cases were reported yesterday, being a reduction of nine since Thursday. The Arago has arrived out. Three hundred Fenian left Eastport on Thurs . day for Portland. The cause assigned for their departure is their failure to obtain the arms seized by the Federal authorities a Eastport. Grace, the reputed organiser of the Reat pc ,W7 pedition, declares the failure to be due to " becility of O'Mahony. He advises the Ft furnish no more funds to O'Dfahony, but to Roberta. The popular rebectiptions to o'l(4am', Bonds have entirely ceased since •t 43,. fiasco. It is reported that the Roberts' faction ‘, make a desperate effort to secure the suppy i t disaffected O'Mahony Fenians by in k m , military demonstration against some point Canadian frontier. Unreliable reports are in circulation Fenians are gathering at Ogdensburg, Lawrence. The Fenian' who fired at the guard Stephen's bridge have been released, the authorities refacing to prosecute. A party of the Fenian from BastpoTt, way from Portland to Boston, mutinied their officers. The ringleaders were put and the boat proceeded The Fenian prisoners at Cornwall inCanads,, yesterday remanded for eight days. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Arsn.BB, ' Money abundant Gold, 129 f. Exams" London, 139 ; on Paris, 4.05. Stocks ••• New York Centrals, 93i ; Illinois, 121; 5-20 United States Bonds, 106. Cotton Middling Upland, a* Flour and Corn steady. Provisions firm and aotn dull. Sugar and Molasses firm and active leum steady : crude, 25 ; refined, receipts of cotton at New York for days amount to 11,000 bales ; stock 18) quotation nominal. NEW ORLEANS, Cotton very dull ; low middling, 30, sales, 5,000 ; exports, 18,000 ; receipts, stock, 153,000 bales. 4 C atku to El s i mk. i ns* tt to n o wt i aria' ' • lli n .. . c4ll . v . 4 Ebel " ill " i ' • • t the elsl 4l. on w i ll „ 3 , 1, .1 BO of t • pptizil : the 0 1 %$: . 7 his house pint a t di s play of - S Oa . end 71$• $ ion th at t h . The r • ric on tot sa s s in ere m 5 1. 111 2 f a. : liard c a et ' =7 ‘. • 7.—w il lithi ' s idering h • " b a d esome the Mutt • • tr*lt ' a ll ihe Use du. ; nied Wa . s l s ?flt 6,lte easwers on &awe,. . _ a dvents ..., Cansda mit • the Teem promos / 1 miming ICE, • • buildings by a n • .. S, Mou nt EWA" CO $ el mks may: 1 ; **N., , In this im verYil ir whic h ca ': .• Whea t ( PM ives et Olin. granted active. p ii* owned • , 4 4 Da &Pin ' • e the Let in - Bir ioi i. 181,000 bin! grim . iS, Ales A. i .. 9 SO. Ton! 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The d and Lady Weir had i Kra Storm id pone . e hon e s y C m g o b un e ass: t iker B .B. ad m i e, said t ' dinner het el* " vitud • I' .., tbassadov aed 1k . v iola Minister and Ile Lizzi • sof Marlborough . Th. he Earl CadeVe , wife 1, Lord Cowing, attao pstus Loftus, kt blow n the e yeing do ail kick .. I most atuemedr pti . . viola it the Count dr havi . is day to retina to ,to . • pieta her al . I i kept Marchionees de : as de Negro, di. • p s ,di , 7d Paris from bii .• def r o l; lord nt going fared • Woo Trocsolero, 01 lb. ° _ • ke bridge of Joh i : ftl o'• l. [ deed. Thecae& then s i m ultaneously h long dace of more tin coin 9, and wagger wo e ve , 7 away the WI then tow • , their bead tlis ho' Imperial Dot ' en t on, consistied ei ' wit Ave made a P 4 do y superior to 4 atop .! ac companied S • se . his in, and by 00 4 his e dockyard d la in h hey saw. dro . Dublin, wag TV SOT. WU Carron ' arose eig the with the w ishes i a were all tar e tl i °d )e n a 7 t n therespooe i"eold liiihil le. : 1'..1'. *fore the obvie Gv • T ru n for it thi ' tk:P.. statuette of log rns to-cbly is 0 0 sad and µalo, eercing upon itee wi it. 4 RETVEN. --TM parliounent relative shed this more' for l e tails will be feo g the case of the boroode l • eturn one oltll $ 1 ' e net number of 111, ! acfii J of s tatistics are Sib . u , be gr ouped sn a 1 P an a • plies 1:: ;lined n: 'eittoe: ekes ni e w t ir o, pcec that , petty : f eh t: h the a I*rswa al oe . br eihiohl lob irch ls sew t4lhptbbes sect ,700.::11: cr°l3 A: $71 :: : l' . : a, end that a 01 1 *". ' ato obey the 001 0 /0 . ive. In the Yaw .-1.1. wine mei* . • TNT METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT BOARD OF TRADE. Upon the death of the late Admiral , correspondence took place between the Bard and the Royal Society with respect to the 0 . went, and the result was the appointment of k consisting of time gentlemen, Mr. F. Gates, senting the Royal Society, Staff Commander representing the Admiralty, and Mr. T. acting for the Board of Trade, to whom tions were referred ; and this morning their , issued in a blue book of 37 pages. The cosnetlise numerous recommendations regarding the w , ' cussions of observations now in progress. ' of their report they state that the which the department acts in foretelling have not been reduced into any clear or systematic and that the daily forecasts ought to be disconti' storm warnings have, however, been in a suocassful, and are highly prized as indicating coming gales, but as regards the indication of of those gales they have not been sufficientll of use. Above all, the committee think steps taken for establishing a full, constant, system of observing changes of weather i Isles ; and that the system of telegraphing from distant stations should be continued. contains numerous suggestions interesting men. The Duke and Duchess of Bead( yesterday for Badminton, where they will tinguished circle of friends during the Lath race meeting. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, and Lady Emily Peel entertained at dinner at their residence in Whitehall-gardens—' Canmont de la Force, the Marchioness of El Countess Russell, the Earl Cowper, Cot Lord and lady Stanley of Alderley, Lord sr house, Lord Dunkellin, Hon. Francis and Mrs. Mr. Courtenay. His Excellency the Prussian Anil the Countess Bernstorff entertained at dims. ing at Prussia House, the Russian AMINLYSidOf Baroness Brunnow, the Hanoverian Minister Baroness Biome, the Duke and Duchess the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the the Countess of Wilton, Lord and L vly Hf and Baroness Ferdinand de Rothschild, Lor Baron lee, Baron Beck Frus, Lady Augustus ►nd Lady Susan Milbank, &c. Later in the countess had an assembly, which was rust and fashionably attended. Advices from Venice state that Chambord was to leave that city this Frobsdorff with his family. The Empress of the French complL year on Saturday. The death is announced of the Marchi( Camerazza, daughter of the Marchioness drinking a glass of iced water. The Abb4 Liszt has returned to P' excursion to Amsterdam. The most curious work at present in Parise the levelling the hill of the Tr right bank of the Seine, opposite the 1 One-fourth of the work is already coniplet is mined, and four mines are tired siou means of en electric battery. A surfs two acres is raised by each explosion, ready on a temporary railway to carry thus loosened. A Chinese mission, having at ti Mandarin Director• General of the Inq have arrived at Marscillu. The mission, persons, are coming to Paris. They have sensation at Marseilles, as they are very . Chinese hitherto seen there. They are ham attache of the British Embassy at Pekin, the French Embassy. They visited the Ciotat, and were much pleased at all the?, The church of St. Bride's, DM opened on Sunday, when the Rev. 31r. Ca that he had resolved to comply fully wit the congregation. The innovations quiahed, and the service WAS conducted which seemed to give much satisfaction. more intoning, and the worshippers repeat as they had been accustomed to do bete Not so in Grange Gorman Church. One of the pieces of plate to be ni ensuing Stockbridge r►ces is to be a st Palmerston on horseback. Among the parliamentary return: containing a list of all places in England inhabitants of which are exempt from men . ; by any prescription, charter, grant, or w•ii THE REDISTRIBUTION OF SEAT' return printed for the information of pat to the redistribution of seats was published It consists of seven pages. The chief det in our parliamentary report. In the case with two members which are to return future, the population is given, and the ne' and other electors, and the same kind of plied as to the boroughs proposed to be boroughs which are to have additional nit pulation is given, too, of the boroughs wl franchised. THE WHIPPING OF JUVENILE THE POLICZ.—This morning a correspond ei in which Major Penrhyn, chairman of tt division of Richmond, complains to Sir George sergeant of the metropolitan police declined to _ sentenced by the bench to twelve stroke+ of a ble birch M . for stealing wood, without imprisonment, the consta stating that it was contrary to the order of the Connie' sinner of Police. Sir George Grey replies that hi bb e wb4ping may be inflicted out of prison, and that politan police constable cannot refuse ve. to obey the ordatel which the justices are empowered to gi In the OWet time the Richmond bench should provide WNW IW * place where punishments may be indicted. ti L fii) o