The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-19 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1866. V 11 : V - 110 ;r~ti NI ir ;1 :i i / . ' ' i ai JUN BROGDIEN'S GOLD CHAINS by troy weight, at resaleable value, and the workmanship at wholesale manufacturers' prams. Theiolin She chains PA' =steed, and re-purehased at the price " iie - reVrie note, How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The Immo 'gibe geld, and charge for &sham. =Awn= Manufactory, le Henrterasatmet, corset -prom wedeln- rIPURTLK, TURTLE, TURTLE A. Clair Thick sad Lavalid TURTLN SOUPS a WIWI riady, AS ST. JANICTS-KALL. Rainurr-srarrr. PICCADILLY. WM. DONALD, Proprietor. LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ZOOM tee GleeSween.—ltemeseibcf, we wan Doe yes at "'TAW Mee W Theatres. Vie erpregiti. TO 0013/87011DINTIL advertisements litteeded tee . The Leedom been rZieTtreeta".... 1411:417;1"...49 11 Tw° ff.k=aLlT, Tine lvinrisa, TEM OVIOILLND 100 TY. Nom Back. done, Compton, Chippendale, and W. !Wren ; Ylr Snowdon Mum Wu Nally iloono.-911.PHZUS IN TEII HATIIARKIT. Mum D. Amber and Farm; Misses L. Keeley & Z. Weallw• raniceses. TIM ITS A ON&IT lIPTilt or BINSZLF.—ADir whit* THE OTILLITS OF LONDON. Yam. Flats& T. Mead, D. purrs& &or% sod VODos; Ws. R. Manioc. sad Woo & Barnett Dodson. LYCEUM. Tun itietrwa, THE ILLUSTRIOUS gramma. Mr. R. Indelicomb.—And THE MASTER Ol iwriNewoca maim licatter. Jordan, Volln. Lawry, Wlddloosab. MAW':Wk. Ems: atestliasel Taman, llsworthy, lawn. C. Lerlacq. Tele Rohnhe. THE CASTAiIiAY ; or, TEI ORPHAYS RIGHL-BORN BBARD.—Colesel Radars. the Drake{ Feet end the Bphins.— Rll 111se Erma Iserldge.—With TER CASUAL WARD. " that on any petition for dissolution of marriage under the said act of the 20th and 21st of Vit toria, chapter 85, and on any petition under The Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858,' the parties, or any of them, are entitled as of right to demand, and on inch demand the court shall direct the truth of all contested matters of fact shall be determined by the verdict of • jury." Nothing can be simpler than the bill, or fairer or more necessary than the proposed declaration. The point in question is one on which no legis lation ought ever to have been requisite, as the rights which it is now proposed to secure should never have been withheld. It is therefore with some surprise that we hear that the ball is to be opposed unless a pledge is given that it shall not apply to any pending ease. If this were a bill to confer any new and special privilege, such a claim might be reasonably preferred. But a claim to have questions of fact, of unspeakable importance to litigants, referred to a jury is so legitimate, that if there were one case pending, and no other likely to arise for the next ten years, it would be proper to pass it for that one. We trust that if the House of Commons shall see fit to pass this Bill—as we cannot doubt—it will do No without arbitrary exceptions, and in a form to make it of the utmost possible utility. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. cram DAY.) THS lIITOIII PnL. The news devotee another article this morning to as =poems of what appear to it the grave deficiencies of the government measure of reform. Having tint asked the working classes and their friends to wander what a repre sentation really meam, it proceeds to inquire whether a hal, which in a great majority of the cities and boroughs will not give a working man a particle more of his right and proper infitumee than he already possesses, which will simply give him the pleasure of feeling that he moves in an immense crowd in which he is as a drop in the ,ht/matio, or of finding himself in a 'elect company, where his vote will be worth money and nothing more, is such a representation as they can approve of. Running over a table of cities and boroughs, the Times stops at certain stays to point out the inequalities which the new bill would introdnee or increase. Those peculiarities, however, would be in • certain aeon defensible did they tend to the public good ; but if we suppose that in 50 or even 100 boroughs the majority of the constituency is handed over to • lower class, will that be found strong enough to stand its ground—to be depended on as the principal basis of the constitutional gram This is at all events a matter for the ' fullest and most se•rohisg inquiry, and the issue of that inquiry the Times, for its part, is most content to abide, whatever the result may be. The Daily Hems observes of the meeting at the Marquis of fielisbury's that Mr. Disraeli's numbers are more im portant than his mesons ; but without any wish to under , rate the strength at his disposal, it contends that an sum med from ,the division on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill to the probable division on • Parliamentary Reform Bill has the very slightest value. Party allegiance which is strong on the one subject is faint or non-existent on the other. The fidelity of renegades is proverbially Insecure ; and it should be remembered that almost ell the recruits whom Mr. Diana expects from the political cave of ladullaco, where Mr. Herman and Mr. Lowe are oollecting the discontented, have voted already on both sides of the reform question. These not only cambiae with the Orion in opposing the government measure, but unite in the grounds of their opposition, and it le instructive to see that they do not dare to move the rein)- , lion of the bill, as they would do were they certain that the silence of the country 'prang from indifference to reform. But if they reject the gevernment bill the permanent settlement which they profess to desire wlfl be more speedy end com plete than they have any idea of. The anomalies in the dirtritaMon of mate ass due to the precipitancy with which the Reform Act of 1832 wee carried. The question involves the most intricate niceties of detail, and those who redly desire a satisfactory redistribution will be contest to wait a session foe it. Meanwhile the practitioners of delay and obstruction may be warned last their tactics are pushed too far. The storm of 1831-2 followed a tran quillity sad indifference apparently as profound as that which exists at the present time. The Pat assumes that the conatre is opposed to the government measure, but will sot allow that it is conse quently favourable to Lord Derby'. resumption of power. That the result of the defeat of the government may bring the conservative party, with judicious modifications and additions, into office, and that if they adopt a prudent polity they may enjoy a long tenure of power, is not at all improbable ; bat this will not be eo much owing to their merit an to the weakness of the government. The Port, however, must do the justice to the cosservatives in this re spect, to my that theirs is an opposition forced upon them by the ministers of the crown. The Herald continues to take the defeat of the measure for granted, and almost speaks of its rejection and the cause in the past tease. It pities the reformers not only for the character of their bill, but for the formidable fact that the majority in the Commons, upon which they bad reckoned, is wanting. In one paragraph the Herald says we are on the first step of 'glissade, and that the opposition has determined to cheek the movement ; end a little farther on It contends that if the radical sections were honest or conaistent they would oppose the bill on the ground that it does so little. The Telegraph devotes two leaders to the subject. It allows the ingenuity of the tactics of the conservatives in basing the opposition on the ground that the bill is incomplete, and appreciates the wisdom with which they have appointed the Times definitely the tery organ ; but aesurellr, with the whole people behind them, the government will never be arrested now by a patched-up and spasmodic majority on the second reading, cc in committee. They could go to the country, and not a single " Palmerstonian" would "live to tell she tale.• As the Telegraph reads the returns, the balance of parties would be affected by the bill in a much less degree than has been commonly surmised. Out of the 334 borough seats in England and Wales, there are about 25 now held by the tory party, in which the Reform Bill would create a majority of artisan voters ; but it is clear that local causes would in some of them continue to operate after the extension of the franchise, and would probably leave the politicel ascend ancy in the same hands as at present. Never before did the Star feel so frilly the correctness of Mr. Disraeli's famous saying wheal he predicted that con servative government in England mast become "an or ganised hypocrisy." This present pities of conservative policy exactly fits the description. This is indeed a pities of organised bat very transparent hypocrisy. Men who are opposed to reform as reform—men who have always devoted themselves to the mutilation or the that:ruction of every reforming measure proposed from a liberal hench— men who, when they took the business of reform into their own hands for a season, only did so that they might pre vent others from carrying It on In earnest and to mesas— these men now combine to oppose a Reform Bill because it does not do sufficient jostles to the greet question in the name of which it I. offered to the country ! Truly sash hypocrisy is glass—the Iran shines through it THN DEBATE ON INZLAND. The Times directs special attention to the late speech of Lord Derain upon Irish distress as presenting as fall and as just a picture of the present state and future prospects of Ireland as a contemporary can be expected to exhibit. His lordship skowed that the Irish church, however inde fensible in principle, has nothing to do with the present discontent of the country ; and even with regard to tenant right the views of the Fenian, who simply want to get the land for tLemsolvm, are totally different from those of the advocates of taunt right The Tillieea is equally indisposed with Lord Drifferin to believe that emigration is the result of bad government and bad legislation. The disaffection in Ireland springs first from traditional hostility impede:od in the first instance by ill treatment ea the part of Mislaid, and in the second place from the readiness of the Irish action to lend itself to the movements Impressed upon i► by foreign countries. Thus in 1798 the Espublicon Inure wee the motive power ; in 1848 the evil sprees from the eseteglee of her example, and now the movement springs, not from any intestine cause, bat from the disbandment of the great annlee which have for four years desolated the Soothers States of America, and in sash of which Irishmen, secerding to their wont, shed their blood so freely. These adventarers, lading no beam employment for their sermds, from the men love of pluder threw themselves an the *ores of their native lima. Bat, like the throes of a receding earthquake, each effort grows pereeptdbly weaker. The Star characterless Lord Duff iris's rossete speedo, consisting of genial excuses for letting thing. alone, as irritatingly inaccurate. Ireland cannot be let alone if we are to respect ourselves. The Lords may lit placidly sad listlessly through a long debate, cheering nothing except declarations of the right divine of Irish landlords is govern wrong ; but Fenianiam is a warning which cannot without guilt be disregarded. The timidity and torpor of successive ;;Almbristratlons alone keep us on the threshold of ques tioas which in all honour and patriotism we are bound to settle. One of oar statesmen has lately confessed with mortification how sadly the har den of ofiioial labour ties the hands and enchains the mind; but he also declared his profound acmes of the need of wise and comprehensive legislation for Ireland. We may well trope that to him, if not to Lord Dufferin, Fanianism has taught ita lemons, and that the amelioration of Ireland is one of the first problems to which, as an iudependent statesman, ho will devote himself. The Times points out as a remarkable fact that everyone acknowledged the value of Lord Enstace Cecil's observe tines upon the condition of the two military colleges, Woolwich and Sandhurst Unfortunately the argument was unavoidably confined to generalities, end we cannot estimate by any practical test the reality of any par tioular annoyance alleged to prevail. Yet Lord Hart ington admitted a good deal when he said net only that " disturbances • had certainly arisen among the cadets, and been followed by inquiries, but that theme junkies had again been followed by redrew. Would it not have been better to revise the system before the young gentlemen had broken the college windows by way of calling attention to their grievances? After the admissions frankly made by Lord Harlington we may trust that Woolwich and Sandhurst, like other institutions, may be brought into accord with the spirit of the age. The fact which reaches us by the het Australian nail, that the electors of Victoria have returned a large majority for ministers, though knowing the attitude u nlined by theColonial-offico towards the government of Vic toria, is referred to by the Daily News as lending unexpected force to considerations which it ventured to submit lest week on the recall of Sir Charles Darling. What was before a domestic quarrel will become, if it has not already become, &dispute between the colony and the mother country, and this is illustrated by • quotation from a speech of one of the ministers to his constituents. The Daily News cannot but think that with a little judicious temperament matters might have been kept from arriving at this extre mity. Some allowance might have been made in Downing street for the jealousy which men of Eaglishblood naturally feel for the right, of that branch of the legislature which re- presents the whole people to grant and appropriate supplies, and provide the ways and means for the services of the year. The Daily New hopes, however, that it will be understood in the oolouy that Mr. Cardwell, though he has not taken a sufficiently broad view of the circumstance, has not in terfered on behalf of free trade, but simply been governed in hie course by a desire to preserve for the colony the great advantage of a settled mode of constitutional prow. dere. The Herald censures the government for refusing to appoint a day of special prayer and humiliation on amount of the cattle plague, and considers that the Bishop of Loa• don, in suddenly substituting a day of an earlier &Rotor that originally hied for the metropolitan diocese, lest it should clash with a court festivity, has taken a step, which, at the best, is most grievously &advised. Our contemporary cannot believe that this change can have been actuated by, or even known to, the high personage most imme diately concerned. The sincere and humble piety of her most gracious Majesty is too well known to stand in need of comment or defence. We are convinced that had the difficulty been properly laid before her the Queen would as once have taken the course so evidently dictated alike by her private feelings and her public position, and set in this, u in all other matters, the example of piety and devotion. The special correspondent in Jamaica of the Tek graph writes a distinct apology for the flogging of women, and mays he should like to know how they " could have been punished in any manner short of death, unless it were by the lash or the stick." He says that some ingresses have told him they preferred flogging to being imprisoned. He quotes the evidence of officers, who nay women actually entreated to be flogged, and, thee, emboldened by his researches, pro arab to expatiate without reserve on she instruments of torture which were used. "Beyond doubt," he says, "the one used at Bath under the direction of Mr. Kirk land has wire plaited in the end and is terribly severe," and It was used on women. But "Mr. Kirkland is," says he, " cannot but believe, a kind and humane man." Mr. Kirk land is " a calm and even-tempered gentleman.* The Rev. Dr. Reginald Kingston, coadjutor bishop in Jamaica, writes to the Times from the oolooy to semen his 000 tempt for the folly and ignorance of oertain parties in England, and indignation at their preci pitate and most unjust condemnation of a man "not leas distinguished for the humanity than for the energy of his character." The unanimity in his diocese is such, that " it is not presumptuous for any of the resident' in this island to profess that for himself per sonally he cases but little whether the British public pass • favourable or an unfavourable judgment on our late governor and our late legislature." The mischief already done by the language of the parties in England referred to, and by the apparent unction which it has received from the appointment of the royal commindon, and the suspension of the governor, "I deliberately declare," says his reverence, "to be great, and indeed irreparable. It will not be obliterated until this generation has passed away, should Jemaioa so long continue to be in the posses sion of the British crown. The people believe that they have the sympathy and support of the Queen, government, and people of England." After an interval of two or three years Mr. Charles Dickens is again going to give a series of readings. These, thirty in number, will be given in London, the pro vinoes, and in Sootland. The first reeling will take place In Liverpool on the sth of April ; the first in London will be given at the St. James's Hall on Tuesday, April 10. At the meeting of the members of the Royal In stitnti , n on Friday evening a lecture was delivered by Mr. %lour Stewart " On the Evidence of the Existence of an Etherial Medium Pervading Space." The staff of the Ordnance Survey of the king dom consists of 45 clerks, 43 computers, 64 surveyors, 130 draftsman, 53 examiners of plans, 30 eontourves, 25 hill sketchers and draftsmen, 44 lit'aographic tracers and prin ter., 20 colourists, 67 engravers, 13 printers and stamper., 17 mechanics, 47 messengers, 370 Royal Engineers, and 350 labourers. The next month is to witness the departure of the bilth sad 71st French Regiments of the line from Rome and the arrival of the French Pontifical legion of 1,200 men, commanded by the retired Colonel d'Argy. The Count d'Argy belongs by marriage to the Pores family, and has been lately living in retirement in a chateau near Mont Briaon. His wife is the Countess Mathilde de Dames, of the elder branch of that illustrious house, whine arms bear the proud device, " Fortis d fide/is." The Roman catholic world is being canvassed for rabeoriptions towarls the expense of erecting a sumptuous cathedral in the centre of London as the most fitting monu ment to the memory of the late Cardinal Wiseman. The Revs. Messrs. Denny in Amnia, Patterson in Austria, Boedinghans in Prussia, Boone and Eyre in Belgium, Dalton in Spain, and other prelates and priests are collecting the off eriap of the faithful for this purpose. The task of re ceiving tho contributions of France and Italy has been allotted to the Bev. Dr. (or, in the language of Rome, Monsignor) L. Clifford, who has inaugurated his mission in the Eternal City. The first name insoribed on his book is that of Pins IX., who. besides the amount contributed to the fund, wrote on the page : Theo ad down Domini II /miter sidlfleata. Nape dealderatur downs =WW ll* isdlikanda. Then come the names of Cardinal Antonelli, Monsignors Talbot, Howard, Neve, Slaw and other British ecclesias tics; members of the sacred college, bishops, abbots, and similar dignitaries figure on the list, which also records sendar bosefsetors of high and low rank. The artiste appliad to by Dr. Clifford have responded by gifts in kind. Overbook, Ifinardi, Podesti, Flats, Bait; and Hoffm►n bays give, pictures Jaoometti, Bensoni, Gailstti, Mad, sad others contr bats marbies—the offal-big of Signor I Bassani being a portrait of Giardina' Mama& Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Kamm 17. The Queen drove in the grounds this morning, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. Prince Alfred went to Landon, attended by Lieutenant Haig. lady Augusta Staah)y, who arrived at the (hustle yester day, Lady Fanny Howard, and Lady Cooper, had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. The Judge Advocate-General had an indium of the Queen. Mecca 18. Her Majesty drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, accompanied by Princess Beatrice. Prtnoe Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at the Osstle from London. — Their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Primus Her mann of Hobanlohe, with their children Prince Ernest and Princes Elise, arrived at the Outlet on a visit to her Majesty. To-clay is the anniversary of the birthday of Princess Louisa. The Queen, Prince Alfred, Prince Leopold, Princes Beatrice, and Princess Hermann of Bohanlobe, with the ladies and gentian= in waiting, attended Divine serving this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. T. J. Rowed], Chaplain In Ordinary to the Queen, preached the memo. The Prince of Wales, aeoompanied by Print). Alfred and Prince flohanlohe, sod attended by LieutenantAolaisel Koppel and Lieutenant Haig, went to Hithrall on Bahr. day, and was present at the launch of the iron.olad ship of war Northumberland. - - - - . The Winnow. of Wales took e carriage drive, attended by the How. Mn. F. Biome. In the evening their Hord Highnesses went to the Hay market Theatre. The Prin o o and Princess of Walla, with the Hon. F. Stoner and Lientenant-Oolonel Kleppel in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The communion aervioe was read by the Rev. John An. twins, the Rev. Thomas Helmore, and the Rev. J. R. Wood. Anthem: "The Eyes of the Lord."—Nares. Sung by Misters Carmichael and Dyson, Messrs. B. Bernby, Cummings, and Lawler. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Worces ter, from Genesis, chap. 1. v. 27. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the EL of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goachen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Preeent—Lord Chelmsford, Sir E. V. Williams. Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Lauren°. Peel. Despatches were received, on Saturday, at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Gansu. Despatches were seat to the Governors of the North American Provinces and Bermuda. Meassry's Lzyza.--(Tras DAY.)--Hie Royal Highness the Prince of Wales held the mooed levee of the season to-day at Bt. James's-pesos, on behalf of her Majesty the Queen. It was as well attended as the first, there being a large number of presentations, the names, &wordier to custom, having been previously left at the Lord Chamber`a;n's.ofilos. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wee, accompanied by Palace Te:k, and attended by Hon. Mrs. Stowe and Colonel Koppel, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence on Saturday even ing, to witness the performance of The Overland Route and Box and Cox. The Prince and Princess Hohenlobe Langenburg, with the infant prince and penmen, have left Brown's Hotel for Windsor Castle. The Countess of Derby held her second reception on Saturday night, at the family residence in St. James's square. The reception was preceded bye dinner party, when the following were the guests :—Visecont sad Via counter Oranborne. Lard and Lady Colville, Lard and Lady Chelmsford and Hoe. Him Theriger, Lard de Lisle, Lord George Gordon Lennox, Colonel the Hon. P. W. and Lady Emma Talbot, Hon. Frederick and Lady Constance Stanley, Sir Charles ROMA Mr. and Mrs. Bantle Cochrane sad Miss Cochrane, and Mr. William Peel. The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli had a par liamentary dinner on Saturday night at his residence, at Grosvenor/ate. The following members of the House of Commons were present:—The Right Hon. Lord John Manners, Lord H. Gordon Lennox, Lord Naas, the Hon. Hugh Anneeley, the Hon. Henry Cole, the Hon. Algernon Egerton, the Hon. Charles Teeing., the Right Hon. J. B. Mowbray, Colonel Hamlyo Pane, Major Walker, Mr. Bag. nail, Mr. Dick, Mr. Du Cane, Mr. Goldney, Mr. Goodson, Mr. Simonds, and Mr. Westropp. The Hon. Mrs. Homilly, wife of the eldest eon of Lord Romilly Master of the Roth),s died on filetamisy morning. The lamented hAy was confined within the last three weeks, and till shortly before her death was con. sidseed to be doing well. She was daughter of Sir Gas pard le Merchant. HEALTH OF THE SPEAKER.—The health of the speaker, we regret to say, does not improve. From in quiries made this morning it appears that the right hon. gentleman bad a quiet day yesterday, and passed a good night, but that it cannot be said that he is better than he was on Saturday. He is very weak, and has been recom mended a visit to the se►-side. He will go either to Brighton or Hastings. Ile is attended daily by Sir William Ferguson, his medical attendant. ROYAL BOTANIC Socarcr.—Another exhibition of spring flowers took place on Saturday in the prdeoa of this society. Although we are yet early in the meson, the specimens displayed were by no means few in number as deficient in variety. Hyacinths, tulips, and the narcissus occupied the first place in the programme, and were well re presented. Then came the delicate and gracefal cyclamen, certainly among the most charming of spring flower,, and a collection of rooms so rich In has, and so perfect in form, that they seemed like an anticipation of the on-coming summer. There were, too, a few fine rhododendrons, which were regarded with general admiration. In the eon. servatory, where an excellent selection of music was played by the band of the2ndLifeGuards, the plants were rich with blossoms, and the air redolent of perfume. Although rain had fallen in the morning, and the sky was hung with masses of heavy clouds through which, foe several hours lo the afternoon, the sun only fitfully appeared, the number of visitor, present was considerable. Other spring flower shows are announced by the society for Saturday, April 7, and Saturday, April 21 ; sod two Mondays in June are to be set apart for American plants. On a requisition signed by forty-seven of their number, a meeting of Irish members will be held in the Tea room of the House of Commons this afternoon, for the pur pose of considering the question of a reform in the manage. meat of railways in Ireland, and the expediency of appoint. ing &deputation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, end of calling ot the government to take some action under the power* given to them by the General Railway Act of 1844. The Emperor and Empreas were present on Saturday at the first representation of M. Emile An gler's new play La Contagion, at the °dim. The Princes, Mathilde, the Princes, Antoine Bonaparte, Chevalier Nigel', Sainte Beare, Maas. Send, MM. Beaker, Foul& Behio, Jules Pane, Cremieux, ice., were also present. When the Emperor made his appearance in the theatre cries of " Vire Le Luxembourg," " Ls Pipiniere," were uttered amidst the applause of the sadism.. Outside the theatre some four or five thousand students were assembled, who raised the same cry in favour of their favourite pleasure ground. The Empress, in a red wade, graciously saluted the crowd from her earth" and the students who had been waiting an entire hour and seresing themselves with singing the soup of Mlle. Theresa quietly disposed. Thunders of applausegreetedney senteace that could be applied to the polities of the day and the liberal expectatioas el the country, whilst the satirical hit, at knaves high and low, equivocal heroes, aid intrivurs of *ray class were oweired with ansnimou tame. LATEI3T INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. SERIOUS ASPECT OF AFFAIRS. The Journal of Frankfort, in its correspondence from Vienna of the 14th of March, states that military arrangements of the greatest importance, and portending an impending rupture between the two great German Powers, hays been adopted by Austria. In a few days, the writer says, you may expect to hear of the movement of a large Austrian force towards the Prussian frontier. From another source the same journal adds, that an order for the concentration of 100,000 troops on the frontiers of Silesia has already been despatched from Vienna. The Borsenhalk correspondent says that though he does not believe in a collision between the two powers as inevitable, he has it on undoubted autho rity that the relations between them gave rise to the most serious anxiety. The tension be tween Austria and Prussia has reached its most extreme point. It will be impossible to con ceal much longer the secret which has led to the military arrangements which have been adopted by Austria, a portion of which has already been put in execution. The Debate of Vienna says that the British cabinet seut a despatch to Berlin pointing out in very strong terms the grave responsibility which would test upon Prussia if that power should pro voke a war in Europe. The Augsburg Gaze* publishes a despatch from London dated the 16th announcing the same fact. The Nord Deutsche Gazette, on the other hand denies that any such despatch has been received in Berlin. The situation (says the hulependance Beige) has arrived at an extreme degree of tension, and although the alarming news which comes from Ger many is not to be absolutely trusted, we cannot dissemble that the chances of a war between the two great German powers, which the ministerial journal of Berlin recently declared to be absurd and im possible, seem to be greatly increased. The Calorie Gazette of the 15th says :—" The situation is serious, and the tension between Austria and Prussia is rather increasing than diminishing. The policy of Herr von Bismarck is more acceptable in high quarters than heretofore. General Manteuffel has deserted the section of the friends of Austria, and the military circles around the King incline to the side of the President of the Council. The ordinance relative to the plots of the Auguatenburg party is a grave symptom, as it may possibly give rise to a state of war. The diplomatists are busy in every court in Europe." "It is manifest," says the &Me, " that both parties in Germany are making preparations to mset imminent eventualities. It is announced from Vienna that the Austrian government has, in a despatch to the European cabinets, thrown upon the Prussian government the responsibility of the war, should a war be produced by its policy of absorption." The Paris Presse mentions a report that M. Werter, the Prussian Minister at Vienna, has ac tually in. his possession an ultimatum which at the proper moment he will suddenly launch against Austria, and that negotiations have been going on between Prussia and Italy with a view of taking common action against Austria. (urrisn'a ULM ROML ROME, MARCH 18, Evronto. Baron Meyendorff, the Russian Charg6 d'Affaires, has left /tome. The Dowager Queen of Saxony arrived here this morning. il l ri , • • • I THE EIPRES , , J OHN BROODIER'S GOLD CHAINS by troy " that on any petition for dissolution of marriage ecoNding to their w 1 weld", at renlinalnd "lad , and the Innnin"" 11) " under the said act of the 20th and 21st of Vie- aveld ' ari s " din s .t wholesale manntectareM prises. Theitd_n the chant OA- . tons chapter 85, and on any petition under from the ewe love =steed, aid raparchased et the price i ' "Hens the note, *ores et th en' ne How much your chain welsh' to the utmost cant, ' The Legitimacy Declaration Act, 1858,' the nee di ng eirt h eu „k, The Immo of the geld, end charge for aide . parties, or any of them, are entitled as of right Th e s tar c h a rut, $ , eaesza. Manutactory,l6, Henrietta-street, Coveatierdei. tandem to demand, and on inch demand the court shall conatting of genie TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. direotthetruth of all contested matters of fact irritatingly intoonn Clew Thick sad Lentil TIIRTLIt sours lil/1171 ready, be determined by the verdict of a jury." are to respect our i at sr. JAHICPS-HALL. REGENT-rattl e r. PIOCADII,LY. Nothing can be simpler than the bill, or fairer listialllY through 1 WK. DONALD. Proprietor. or more necessary than the proposed declaration. awls/Wee. of the rot be but Feels LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC The point in question is one on which no legia- r ot b e di m , yar d e , NOON for Osatlemen.—Ramentbse, we wan tor yes et / : l 'TAW atter lie thwares. lation ought ever to have been requisite, as a d m kat ra tions i ii 14 4' Wit elortliti. the rights which it is now proposed to secure tioes which in • should never have been withheld. It is bound to settle . therefore with same surprise that we hear that the confeand . wita , 0 .---- TO OOMETONDINTS. bill ill tel be opposed unless a pledge is given that des ho ot ° also fli°lll deols lab r: it shall not apply to any pending Mi. If this aavareartnien beasael the . The Lassos Inabig sad compreheusive e. nest as as tea one% ie. by Ty, were a bill to confer any new and special privilege, hope that to hi m, 1 1 ' wads. as she day di pabiestios. such a claim might be reasonably preferred. But taught its lemons, . a nlaires tr. hay. nndiakirtris of fact of nnsoeskable one of the first HIGH SWAT= AT IMMON4ItIDOZ. -..- --- ----__ MN Dl! -. Montag. 3h. 1/Ba. —.Affirm" Ilk 57m. Tagonow -- limbs& 41. 18a..... Mann" 0. las. LONDON. MONDAY. MARCH 19. THE collapse of the Joint Stock Discount Com pany, and the consequent weakening of public confidence in all classes of joint-stock under takings—a distrust which has been indiscriminately and in the majority of cases unjustly applied— has thus far contributed to lower the price for money rather than to raise it. It is curious to observe the different results which the withdrawal of credit at times produces. In great periods of distress,with a commercial panic at its height, such as occurred in 1847 or 1857, or during the leas con spicuous but more prolonged and therefore equally severe occasions of general suffering which prevailed in 1864 and 1865, the difficulty was to obtain discount at all. It was only on the very highest terms that capitalists could be induced to lend their funds, and then but unwillingly. First clam houses of undoubted solvency had to pay 8 and 9 per cent., or even more, for the most necessary _ _ _ _ accommodation. What the second class firms had to give may therefore be conjectured. The prac tical result was that credit was so reluctantly and meagrely afforded, as to be nearly denied altogether. This was the result of distrust in its most extended sense. At present the same feeling prevails, but more limited as to its objects, and the consequence is precisely oppo site. Money is held back, except for investment in the best bills, and as the latter are compare tively scarce, the holders command the market, and can discount on lower and lower terms. On the other hand, any operations that are within the fair bounds of enterprise, but extend beyond the moat ordinary routine of business, are as much dis couraged as in the dsysof greatest pressure. Now, although this may appear so far a satisfactory feature, it is certain that if the commerce of the nation had been continually carried on according to the same principle, it would never have reached its present magnitude. New markets would have been neglected, new branches of trade left unde veloped, and a listless stagnation instead of an active progress have become the rule. Hence dia trust in its minor effects is almost as hurtful in the end as when it produces the wide-spread calamities of a panic. For a time, however, it renders money cheap, capital becomes abnormally abundant, since the field in which it is employed is more and more contracted. There seems no ques tion that the evidences of joint-stock mismanage ment have, by increasing the existing distrust, directly tended to this result, and their action may yet be looked for for some time to come. - The announcement that the London Financial Association have made a call of 51. a share, and the certainty that the Joint Stook. Discount Company will require at least as much, have thus far affected the money market in no appreciable degree. Yet these operations will involve the temporary absorp tion of a considerable amount of capital. In the former case the total will be 200,0001. and in the latter 400,0001., or perhaps 600,0001. In one respect, however, it will probably amount to a mere transference from one set of holders to another—the calls being evidently made to meet immediate liabi litiee--leaving the aggregate supply of capital in the market ultimately the same. Still, for the time, the demand for discount would be propor tionably augmented, owing to the usual equal although temporary displacement of money caused by transactions of this description. The fact that they are so little regarded proves that the supply of unemployed capital is more abun dant than could have been supposed from the maintenance of the recent high rates of discount. Similarly no material effect has been produced by the introduction of proposals for raising sum,— not, however, very considerable—for colonial loan; telegraph purposes, and foreign land and building companies. It is clear that if the public desire to take these investments, they have ample means in hand for doing so. It remains to be seen whether any further reduction in the rate of discount will encourage foreign governments to try once more to place a fresh batch of their securi ties in this market. Since there is no evil that does not bring with it some good, so the present state of distrust will effectually mar the success of any schemes of this sort. Nevertheless, the announcement of a foreign loan, even when its failure is certain, invariably affects the terms for discount. The introduction of some new companies, especially in the present state of the publics temper, would have a similar influence. For the moment, however, any material extension of joint-stock en terprise appears very improbable. It is, therefore, almost certain that any demands we may experience for either of these classes of investments will prove comparati►ely insignificant, and affect the money market as little as the requirements that already exist. A Brix. to explain the act of the 20th and 21st Victoria, chapter 85, and the Legitimacy Declara tion Act, 1858, stands fur the second reading this evening. It is very short. The preamble recites that doubts have been entertained whether on peti tions for dissolution of marriage under the act of the 20th and 21st Victoria, chapter 85, or on petitions under " The Legitimacy Declaration Aot, 1858," the parties, or any of them, may insist on the truth of contested matters of fact being deter mined by the verdict of a jury, and it is expedient to remove such doubts ; and by a single subsequent clause it is declared A CHILD GIVR INTO CUSTODY BY A CLIB- 7iIYMAN FOE STEELING 4 PENNY. --*-- During the whole of the ppresent week much excitement has been oared in Baddltch and the neigh bourhood owing to a child being detained in custody at the lock-up since Monday leart,chargsd with stealing a pommy piece. It appears the child, whose name is Emily Jane Ballard, is a scholar in the Inkberrow Sudsy School, and it was alleged that on Sunday last, while in the Inkberrow Church, she stole • penny out of the pocket of a fellow scholar. The Vicar, the Rev. G. R. Gray, who is chairman of the ben& of iiikakes for this petty sop lions). division, being informed of the petty theft, after making some inquiries into the case, instructed the village policeman to take the girl to the lock-up, which was done on Monday last. Substantial bail, we believe, wee offered, but the Rev. Mr. Gray refaced to swept it. The sym pathy for the child, wile is about 10 years old, was so great that a subscription was set on foot in the town, and in a short time the fee requisite to employ • solicitor was raised, and Mr. W. E. Simmons, of this, plias, was retained for the defence. The case was to be heard at the petty swims held on Friday, and long before the court wee opened a crowd of persons had assembled for aclmissioo to hear the case, so great was the interest manifested. The magistrates on the beech were the Rev. G. R. Gray (chairman), and Messrs. W. Tabberer and J. Smith. When the ore was called on, Police-constable William Hall, stationed at Inkberrow, said, in reply to the chair man, that when he apprehen ded the child he did not charge her with stealing a penny, but told the police ser geant at Redditch when he brought the child to the lock. up. and said the penny was the property of Jane Gough of Inkberrow. The chairman said he hoped the ore would be publicly reported, and he rderstood it had caused a great sensation in the town ; but he thought that when the publics heard the feet of the ease they would not be so sur prised. About a fortnight ago, the chairman continued, this child, who was reported to be only nine, but was in reality eleven years old, and who bad been in his school some time, role • penknife. Mr. Simmons here inter rupted Mr. Gray, and said he appeared on behalf of the child, and he mart protest against such remarks beteg made. The feet of taking ewer a knife from the school, and shortly afterwards returning it did not, he appre hended, amount to stealing. The Chairman said he was not going into the ease, be only wished to justify the course he had taken in referees to it. Mr. Simmons said the chairman had smarted in public that the child stole the knife • and the circumstance respe cting that article had b een as en satisfactorily explained, he could not allow the chairman's remark to paw by unnoticed. Mr. Gray said he never intended to go on with the ore. All that he wanted was to make the child know that she mild not steal • knife with impunity. The offence was the more serious as it was committed in the House of God. The child bad put her hand into another chlid's pocket, and he thought it was his duty to punish her. He had no intention whatever to go on with the case and he merely mot her to the lock-up to slightly punish her. He himself oonsidered that • child of her age was quite as able to know right from wrong as a child much older, and especially in the House of God, where the offence was doubly wrong. He desired Mrs. Davis (a woman who strode to the children in church while the mienes is presiding at the organ) to attend and explain the are ' but from some cause or other she had not dose so. (At the commencement of the hearing, Mrs. Davis was loudly riled several times, but did not answer.] H. intended to tithe no further notice of the case, and he hoped and trusted it would prove a lesson to the child if a child eleven years old would steal • peony, she Would not hesitate to steal • much larger sum. The case would be dismissed, and the little prisoner discharged. The child then left the dock. Mr. Simmons objected to the can being settled is that way. The ease bad oast slurs upon the child's character, and his instructions were to go frilly into the case and have the matter cleared up. He (Mr. &inures) would oonseut to either have the came adjourned for a short time then, or until that day week (Friday next), to give Mrs. Davis an opportaciq of attend ing. [ An attempt at applause was here rude, but was speedi y vaporised by the police.] The Chairman &mai. cooed in the case being gone into, and the child was treght back and placed in the dock again for a short time. Mr. Simmons applied to have the child rebored on bail, which was granted. The Chairman inquired who would be bound for her appearance, in response to which inquiry half-a-donee voters replied in the affirmative. Mr. George Perry, of Heedless Crow, was brad for the purpose in • fif penalty. The magistrates' clerk reminded Mr. Shure. that the oar had been dismissed by the bona, and it was at his request that the ease was goisg to praised. Mr. Simmons said he was aware of the far. At the riming of the court Mrs. Davis had not rusted, and the frame hearing of the ease was consequently adjourned till Friday next, at lleskietc.—Biruthighass Daily Post. or Wiar W( unia=a4;l7.; insect einotine of West Wororsiowshke on Wei sneusonei Is the upper brow It is nediseslosi that than win be atlas to the *stk. el Mt. Dowdeswell (egeer The election is hid tar astexday next. LAW INTIELLIG (THIS DAY.) EQUITY COUR, 6.obmaesßor Sir R. T, (More . -• um v....TR1 GRAND TRITE RADA The plaudis in this ease fled a bill loss and searatery of the onapsay pamphlet eentaiaiat the 'peek ot ed the sentpaey at 0136 of the shareh t which /Ir. °soybean alleged there ir mate affecting him. The directors pal e xplanations d the atakmeate in r' their answer the plaintiff look Ueda.% to the Wll wee Mr. s ire s t lis i Baring, X.P., Yr. Hea te 7:llaston pm Glyn, M.P., Mr. , M.P. Mr. Mayhew* appeared porton tioes • sad Mr. Malice Sall sad Mr. parted the WIWI& Oat el 22 exceptioaa four were allowed sad leave was gives to amend the bill. COURT OF BANICRI (Beton Mr. Co''— miesic DI RIB THODAT. The bankrupt was a farmer, of Williagball, shire. Debts about 1,900 L lii. Doyle, on behalf of the bankrupt, failure had beim brouOt about by that of had lost the whole of hie cattle by the dis Mr. Aldridge, for the offieial assignee, dud= of some inortgap deeds, r cakes& _ (Before Hr. Commissioner DI IN EMOUNG.—QUENTION auama INOTION. The bankrupt was assidant ovasser rates of the parish of Alford, Stirrer, - his bankruptcy he bad in his hands Mr. R. Griffiths now applied to 156th motion of the act of 1861, to meet of the money to the overseers Mr. Doris opposed the application. Hie Honour held that the clause above to such parochial rates so might be # in respect of his own premises, and cation. IN EX ICENDALL. The hutment was described as a h and agent, of King Edward-street, City. which 1,547/. are due to unsecured credit Mr. Brough appared for the emigneee. • claim for 2001. had been made against Ii Moore, accountant, for aerobia§ rendered the amount was disputed and re master. About a month before the bookkeeper had appropriated to himself in reduction of his claim for oi e was rine without the bankrupt's knowledge made against him on that account. His Honour observed that all the " tracted within twelve months before th case was not brought within the 159th would be granted. IN BA J. L. CLC. The bankrupt was a timber merchant of Panoras-lanc Agsiwl debts of 6, - is due to unsecured creditor, the upwards of 20,0001., the property consist* Petroleum Company of Hanover (Limited), a patent for dissolving ledia.rubber. Kr. Kearsey, for the amipece, a counts. The consideration for the end the dates of some were sot glvc. Mr. Griffiths, for creditors, coneurro.. Mr. Begley appeared for the bankrupt. An adjournment was ordered. IN Ili W. IL EMIL The bankrupt was a boot manufacturer This was the sitting for exarainolo. appeared that the case was about' 'Ed en adjournment was ordered. MIDDLESEX EC (THIS Di' The March adjourned general sessions the ocruaty of Middlesex commenced • Sedans-hoagie, Olorkenwell-grem. The offences charged in the minder brothels, larceny from the perms, &bench a child under two years of age. whereby genii ; nessalts, embezzlements by e cuts.by false pretences, breaking and entering dmile and indecent &marmite. DAZING ACT OP HOUBILBIZAKING. John Hurley, 21. labourer, was indicted far bressi entering the dwelling-house of Thomas WUlisse and stealing therein a coat, sad other sedan kk w osnk The prosecutor stated that he reside! st No. 10,1 place, and or the night of the 26th of IF ,as 0 return home at about 10 o'clock, be focsd i the house, and missed several eribles el *maw, • wearing apparel. Minaie Spencer, lady's maid to Mrs. Saver, eho piss apartments in Mr. Hamilton's house, aid its wee stairs between 9 sad 10 o'clock, end aw two mall lady's bedroom on the second floor. Thus was a hitt i the room. As soon se the moo saw her they rubel eel I the room and went op stairs. eke was about fdle* thorn when one of the moo pushed her beck, sod ssill would break her neck if she did notget oat of tie ou He then blew the candle out and made his weeps, bete called out for assistance. John MUM, groom to Lady Macpberme, oih eight of the 26th of February be was pone& do tot I the house No. 10, Wilton-place, sod saw two ma ash over the wall. He afterwards went to the Ostitabsee and identified the prisoner as one of the men he it alit over the wall. Snt Brooker, 28 B, proved Mites the Flews ho custody No. 7, Union-court, Westminster, sad he tel him that it was for a robbery at No. 10, Wilteallsos. A policeman lasted that the primmer led got Ws n unoccupied boom, and Made his way over the mob el th adjoiniog houses, and got an entrance by the sibs whim While the primmer wee m a cell with two presses beam heard to detail the robbery, and how it had lone sissig Scone of the stolen property was toned commie' is Si unoccupied house. It was stated that the entrance to the bones had Issel effected in a most extraordinary MIDST by peso* col shorn iron revolving railing. The jury liu found the whoa Joseph Hieg,Nrardce at Coldbath-fields, proved real previous convictions against the primmer, ow of tiro fa three years' penal servitude and that hone sow es a Licht of leave. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be kept is Pal servitude for nom years. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MERSIN WELL. A DOO-FIOBTER CONVICTED. Richard rough-looking -looking Wilson, • ugh-looking fellow, deesilel 1 labourer, wee charged with causing two dogs to flihitt ill Kibg' llr. W 147ea1-raal . Lowe, of the Society for the Pretest. ° I °realty to Animals, pomaded. The evidence proved that the prisoner was is a byslieee,,_ in the ICiag's-cromroad, causing two dogs to ft4htvi., of the dogs was much larger than the other; ad assailer one wanted to leave off, the wiener took igo and forced it to fight. The primmer was r easeastratele% and seized to desist from his endetvoure to make dish/ fight, bat he would not do so, and Micmac me et um. would not fight, the prisoner kicked it. As the MOO would persist in making the dogs fight, • ce ll seat for and the prisoner was given tats eastefl_. in g the prisoner found that he was to be take s to mg station he began to whimper and cry, and asked le gives, se he did not intend to hurt the dogs. The prisoner, in defence, said that he was e to separate the dogs instead of trying to make them 10 Afte he said be was sorry for what he had elos• mss said that the primmer was s fellow, and ordered him to pay • fine of 10a. or : 4 to be imprisoned for seven days. The prisoner was looked up in default. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE lIHIOCLAR CHARGE OF °STAMM ROUT DT 110 PILITZECHS. Chat. Agrdon alias Thompsett Clifton, ha. the it nun Merged with obtaining the sum of 101., by faker, teem, from Mr. Marigold Yorke, of No. 45, Ulan place, St. James's-stnest, a gentleman Wig Admiralty, was again brought before Mr. TM/ o "- L Shillingford, 4 a O l • The evidence taken on the last oocau• bumf over. Sergeant Aolanan, of the 12th Lasers, 'AM the Pn e l was • dewier from that regiment, haring 1863. Hs then had the name of Feliz Aldo:dam aire•"" Sergeant Shillineord said no such same as known at Messrs. ; and the prisoues nettC lll ~ a ih s l) Millbaak Priem at th e present time for an bery, and the prisoner had been three or four tiros we , to see her. Thepriseserentered intoalengthmed s t e tvient,ad he t, in • bombastic* and affected mapper. to th e "ffeet woe born • gentleman, sad that his " dem molitte..:l expreadon be madenseof about a dozen times —wax s e ll: iniefertnne, (a Millbaak ; that be hid hem in the 121 In =and that he bed led • bad life. If the MOM ottlY forgive him this time be would lea II::: life and become a better man. Ho coneidered ow" 11. wham winos his delicacy of feeling proves timing, were more to blame than be war. Tyrwhitt mid the charge of reetbr oo l by false prologues was proved egal _Eh $O l and should commit hint for three months ee labour. ash.° As the pelican was lasting the dock he s thousand thanks. Hausa bleu you. 312/OET ---- bi WAT OP :1 V a to note* tia• m from Ming a . r. Watizio ea b robotism:Arens* 1:1 win ammo pat in an sane the pamphlet, Amesi on Blake, kr, Lad Kr. Point to argos Ir. Waterton* owed mad 18 11. 1 RUPTOY. I ew Honoyd.) o • 1 Va 7 ughan, • 1 kropt, hat of Ilia arena ; he disease . ' Pee, r equirial %I I, an adjourns* 1 t Corinna.) too ONDICI Ilti wormer eal eau* t sr, sad at the timid 1 a. 841 . of the mar. 1 to the mod s le* of make the perhb. "' ea erne* sm above cited wheal* be doe from sky. ad disadassd Slog I atelitoesi mesa,* risme. He stains ph* Os tothe ants by n mama trim referred to the taki be More the been* ;insult three lad a m foe Wary ; W.* knowledp no ebeip the debts had hem so pre the Mars; heMel 159th sates, Gs ern ITPOLL wheat sad oil Edon f 6,390/., of witingld he meets ere relawie consfedaa of Mai* (Limited), ands Wan 'e Lked foe eddilkod • Is debts Wel Id dll4 maned in Go Golbie. ankropt. 30111 E declare ett i _allabh macs mad 1 k to be folua - sent SESSIONS. AY.) session, of the pale wed this monies st o. minder cogent of I:, 1, abantkeinq Ind GRI whereby its Ws ma en by mama* oatial l a and entimln• dm&