The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-26 00:00:00

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IN 11/Ailing, perhaps, is the sure and delicate tact of constitutional statesmanship more conspicu ously manifest or wanting than in the framing of a "gracious answer" from the Crown to an address of the House of Commons praying fur the discre tionary exercise of the prerogative, whether for the appointment or revocation of magistrates, the redress of a grieviuice, or the removal of a scandal against which the Howse has recorded its protest. Without the least inclination to be unduly punc tilious or pedantic about the precise syntax of these solemn forms, we may take the liberty to demand in them the severest simplicity and sincerity. This is a subject on which it is better not to insist. Enough to glance at it and pass on. Anyone who has examined the niceties of the mechanism of our Con stitution will at once understand how care ful the moat experienced workmen should be in setting it in movement. It cannot be said that the present Government has been happy in the ordinance of these ceremo nious relations between the two Estates. In the Speech from the Throne at the opening of the Session, there was put into the mouth of her MAJP.STY a passage concerning the representation of the people, of a somewhat singular and cer tainly unusual design. Six times has a Reform Bill been announced from the Throne and recom mended to the attention of successive Parliaments, but never before in the tone of admonition and of scarcely disguised reproof, which was remarked in the composition of Lord Diaav's Cabinet, de livered with such appropriate elocution and em phasis by the LORD CHANCELLOR last month. " I trust," her MAJESTY was advised to say to her faithful Commons, " that your deliberations, cm " hi a virit of mailtratian aml mutual fur " &limner," .kc. The novel and striking cha racter of this appeal did not pass unobserved, and the leader of the Liberal party, who was a Cabinet Minister but yesterday, and will be again to morrow, marked it with a momentary and not admiring criticism, as though it were the breach of a custom more honoured in the obser vance. With our present Conservative Cabinet, however, what seemed an exception open to regret, appears to have become a deliberate departure from the old ways. Yesterday evening Mr. WALPOLE stood at the bar of the House of Commons with that habitual dignity of mien which was surely not intended to perform the leading business in a State burlCsone, and delivered a " gracious answer " to the address unanimously agreed to on Tues day last, in pursuance of the amendment of Mr. BENTINCR to Mr. P. A. TAYLOR'S motion. The member for Leicester had been content to move a humble address to her MAJESTY praying for the removal of Mr. Caurtenwatte from the commission of the peace for Dover, to which he had recently been appointed by the LORD CHAN CELLOR, on the ground that the appointment of a person who had been reported by a parliamentary comtnittee guilty of bribery at an election was poisoning the fountain of justice. In order to rescue one notorious offender under the cloud of a general accusation, Mr. Bewristee proposed an amendment to the effect that the address to the Crown, instead of being directed against any par ticular case, should apply to all magistrates who had been found guilty of or privy to corrupt prac tices at a parliamentary election. This stratagem was only partially successful; the motion, indeed, was technically negatived by a majority of twenty; but the amendment, in spite of a protest at the last minute from the CHARCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER against "a resit- , " lotion of so extensive a character," was put' and carried rem. (wt. In the course of the debate the SECRETARY for INDIA distinguished himself as the leader of the new Tory chivalry, exclaiming that to strike at poor Mr. CHURCH WARD, Mr. TAYLOR and his puritan followers must pass over his body, and declare him, Sir STAY- Foßn, attainted also by the committee which had sat upon and condemned Mr. CHURCH WARD. Earlier in the evening the Crus t:Eu.oa of the EXCHEQUER, who had an nounced, on the part of the Government, a aepaple Bill for the prevention of bribery and corruption at elections (having last year joined with all lig colleagues in supporting Sir R. lOwarrtsv's attack upon Mr. GLADSTONE'S Re form Bill, because it did not contain clauses dealing with bribery and corruption), might have been !Seen and heard gaily and jauntily, /110/1! rsfo,f;,o, replying to a question from a private member of his own party as to the identity of certain members of Parliament and magistrates with persons of the same name who had been charged with bribery and corruption, and treating the accusation and the possible truth of it as a good joke. Even the amiable but sedate Mr. WALPOLE—in connection with whom we should be sorry to recall the qualifying epithet applied by one French statesman to ano ther who bore a reputation for austerity—has been, we will not say jesting and playing, but fencing with questions concerning the appoint ment of Mr. CIIVECHWARD to the commission of the peace. And now we find hint—yes, it is actually Mr. WALPOLE, who, by a cruel irony of fate, is destined thus early to expiate at the bar of the House his comparatively venial attempts at levity and scoffing by appearing in person, and reading the following gracious answer from her MAJESTY to the address so vainly deprecated by Mr. DISRAELI, so sternly supported by Mr. (i LAD STONE on Tuesday last, and carried by a majority of the House, surprised into virtue in its own despite : I have received your address praying that I will give directions for the removal of all persons in the commis sion of the peace of any county, city, or borough who have been found, either by committees of the House of Commons or by royal commissions, guilty of or approving or assenting to corrupt practices at parliamentary elec tions. Concurring with you in the propriety of discoun tenancing all such corrupt practices, I will take into my serious consideration how that object may best be accomplished. (" Hear, hear," and much laughter.) The loyal British public will find in this extraordinary document the Tory idea of a Royal response to the prayer of the faithful Commons for the proper punishment of magistrates found guilty of corrupt practices at elections, as a warning and an example to the rest of her 31s.)Esrv's subjects. We beg our readers to note with what reserve and delicacy our Con servative Ministers commit the gracious wisdom of the Crown to something very like a sublimated fraiis of Mr. WALPOLE'S painful levity and Mr. DISRAELI'S more sententious mockery. Her MA- J F-STY'S gracious answer was received by the House with much laughter. It is only the CrisNcEmAm of the EXCH EQCER'S last joke about briberydescending upon the House from the Fountain of Honour ! Her MAJESTY'S Ministers wink at bribery ; so they make their Sovereign wink a little harder. If this is your conservative respect fur the monarch and for Parliament, we "the mere mob," who, of course, need not be so fastidious asCabinet Ministers, can only wonder what horrors "the democracy " (personified by compound householders in rural boroughs) are expected by timid Tories to per petrate when theycome into power. It is often said, and justly said, thatit is dangerous for monarchies to treat ceremony in too philosophical a spirit, and to forget that there are institutions from which if you take away the ceremony, you leave nothing but the cost. If it be dangerous in abso lute monarchies to trifle with ceremony, it is at least imprudent and indecorous in constitutional monarchies to unveil the personality of the Sovereign, and to expose it to " much laughter." The present Government has not only inverted the natural and constitutional order, and, not con tent with advising the Crown, used the Crown as an adviser in its own behalf ; it has brought down the Sovereign to the House to be received with "much laughter." Not only trodidit dis retatiumibui ; but Plum rhlibumhint atque hilureih hoc add' zit! OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE BLOOM RIADING OW THE PHNOM BILL.-LAST MOUTH DEBATE. Describing Mr. Gladstone's speech as charac terised by • spirit of moderation with which no one could quarrel, the Tiara proceeds to urge that reform has reached • stage at which it becomes essential to inquire whether there can be any advantage in proceeding further without more complete information from the minis try. Mr. Hardy's speech 'lmply conveys the impression that the administration has adopted the policy of " no sur render." Inthematterof compound householders, however, Mr. Gladstone's argument that they would have to pay a fine in order to become voters, appears fallacious in presence of Mr. Hardy's assurance that the government had always intended that the compound householder paying his rates should be empowered to recover them from his landlord. The 40th clause of the bill, to which Mr. Hardy referred, certainly would not effect this inten tion, but after Mr. Hardy's statement we may wait for a new clause embodying it. We should thus arrive at • household suffrage in all boroughs where the Small Tene ments Act had not been put in force, and in the rest a of. rating franchise with a vote to every householder below this limit who chose to take the trouble to make • claim. As far as a settlement of the borough franchise can be considered apart from other considerations, the Tines cannot deem this wholly unacceptable. Without a lodger franchise, which was last night left almost untouched, the prospect of • settlement is hopeless. Let us have no more higgling about points like this and the dual vote. Nothing more degrading to the character of the bowie as • deliberative assembly can be conceived than that it should enter into committee not knowing its own mind, sad so leaving the issue to be the sport of chance. The refund of the government to offer explanations is likely to prove, in the opinion of the Daily Nears, their anal mistake—the last of their long aeries of blunders. Mr. Disraeli spoke with an affection of hauteur, and Mr. Hardy abandoned the arena of argu ment for defiance. Like all weak persons, ministers are obstinate at the wrong time and in wrong drawn. stances. After yielding when they should have been resolute, they are resolute when they should give way, from mete dread of the imputation of, indecision and sub- servience. The new strategy does not promise to be very successful. Mr. Roebuck who eulogised the bill and abused Mr. Gladstone, was Kr. Roebuck the convert from reform, and not Kr. Rasher& the reformer ; and two new recruits were gathered into the tory cave. The sudden obstinacy of ministers has added another to the serious embarrassments of the situation. It perplexes the oppo sition ; and throws doubt on the course which those who dislike the bill, but wish for a speedy reform, ought to take. A little momentary triumph of this sort is pre cisely in Mr. Disraeli's way ; and he seems ready to sacri fice to it the interests of the country and the character of the government, of his party, and of parliament itself. The Pod says the ministry have not yet made up their minds what their bill shall be, nor can we expect to learn what it is until we have Mr. Disraeli's speech at the coo. elusion of the debate. They are at present simply fishing for information. Every consideration points to the nears. sity of preventing the Speaker from leaving the chair in order to go into committee upon the measure, and the arguments by which that court* is supported are such sa will probably command a majority composed of members from both sides of the house. The Herald regards the debate as very satisfactory, as promising that a considerable portion of the liberal party will honestly help the government to carry the measure. Excepting as to the dual voting, a larger redistribution, and a larger extension of the county franchise, the Stundard trusts the government will refuse Mr. Gladstone's demands. A direct lodger qualification would open the road to manhood suffrage. If by conceding the points named they are able to carry the measure—well and good. If the bill inuAt f.ll , let the mini.try fall with it. The one thing that cannot, and must not, ►nd will not be, is that they should remain in office to carry out the policy of others, the slAves and tools of the right hon. gentleman the member for South Lancashire. If Mr. Hardy's speech is taken to mean that the go vernment stand by all the provisions of the bill, the Tele imsph submits that all true liberals must oppose it directly on the next stage. The Stir has never believed that the " checks" in the bill would be yielded; and, in the cont:ction that they and the measure would go together, has opposed the various fruitless respites which have 'Well granted. The ministry are played out at last. The notices by Earl Grosvenor and Sir K Loring are further taken by the Stir to mean that the cave of Adullani is to be let. A principle which the great hulk of the liberals, and even the advanced ones, would be content to accept, is pro bably foreshadowed by the amendments which propose a 51. rating suffrage and a liberal lodger franchise. So far as the notices of but night indicate that the faction of the Cave are anxious honestly to undo the unfortunate work of their bands, these amendments are welcome. THE! EXPRES% THE LAMINA:IDE CASE. Lamimncle, the man on whose behalf we have been in. terceding, has formally declined our intercession, and re nounced beforehand all the advantages which it might procure for him. He had applied to the British Ambas sador fur his intervention, and he has now written to beg that his application may be considered null and void. lie has also addressed a formal declaration to the French minister of justice avowing his resolution to reject any benefit which might result from our inter vention on his behalf, and to refuse his liberty even if it were offered to him. He is determined, he says, to abide by the sentence of the law, partly to expiate in pious repentance the crime which he now confesses, and partly to spare his family the scandal which would attend a prolonged agitation of the ease. This information was conveyed from Mr. Fans to Lorsl Stanley at the beginning of the present month, and one day last week Lord Stanley instructed Lord Cowley to let the proceedings drop. He added the natural reservation that the British government were not, in thus acting, to be regarded as admitting the unsoundness of their claims, but as " the person on whose behalf the controversy was commenced had urgently entreated that it should be aban ' cloned," it was abandoned accordingly. So ends, no doubt, says the Tinuo, a troublesome question, but no principle has been establis'ied, nor any source of future controversy removed. the etturt. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 25. The Queen and Princess Louise rode un ponies this morning in the Home Park. Prince and Princess Christian went out walking. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, has left the castle for Greenwich-park. The Iliahop of Oxford and Sir Stafford Northcote have also left the misfit.. The Prince of Wales rode on horseback, yesterday, attended by Lieut.• Colonel Keppel. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Cornell-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and the Duke of Richmond. Mr. Harrison and Dr. A. Williams attended the committee. Mr. Greene, M.P., and Mr. Ablett had an interview with the Duke of Marlborough, at the Privy Council office yesterday, on the subject of a Museum of Trade Patterns. A deputation from Chambers of Commerce, consisting of Mr. E. C. Egerton, M.P., Mr. G. C. Le,h, 31.1'., the Hon. Wilbraham F.gerton, M.P., Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. Cos, M.P., Mr. Eaton, M.P., Sir Philip E3m ton, M.P., Mr. Colvile, M.P., Mr. Evans, M.P., Sir E. Buller, M.P., the President and Secretary of the Macclesfield Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Nicholson (Derby Chamber of Commerce), the Mayor and Town Clerk of Congleton, Mr. R. Durant, Jun. (London), Mr. Surr (London), Mr. S. Pearson (Mac clesfield), Mr. D. Bradwell (Congleton), Mr. Carr (Leek), Mr. Johnson (Leek), Mr. Kennerley (Congleton), Mr. C. J. Bill (Coventry), and Mr. Rotherham, Jun. (Coventry), had an interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the Office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, yesterday, in relation to matters affecting the silk trade. The Belgian Minister and Madame VandoWeyer left London yesterday morning for the Continent. Daring his excellency's 'trainee M. Bartholeyns de Feeselaert will act as charge d'affaires for Belgium. The Earl of Lonsdale iss gone to spend s few weeks at Folkestone. Lord Houghton, Vice-President of the Paris Exhibition, has snired in Paris at No. 28, Avenue des Champs-Elyakes. Our readers will share with us the regret with which we (Adrertiscr) learn that Mr. Robert Culling Han. bury, M.P. for Middlesex, hu been confined to his bed for the past fortnight with • severe attack of rheumatic fever. It is to be feared that some weeks will elapse before the hon. gentleman will be able to resume the dia. charge of his parliamentary duties. The Herald speaks of Mr. J. S. Mill u "actuated solely by • vanity of distinguishing himself from the herd of men of 101150 by eccentricity of thought" ! -- Tug KING or DENMARK.—His Majesty the King of Denmark having expressed a desire to witness the gene. ral working of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade, it was faith. mated to the chief officer (Captain Shaw) on Saturday last that his Majesty would visit the head station in Watling. street in the course of the evening. Captain Shaw then conducted his Majesty and the Piince o: Wales to South wark Bride, where it was determined they should wit ness a turning out of the force. The intention was kept from the men, who in a few minut e s rece i ve d " a call." All the engines were at once turned out, horsed, and started for the supposed fire, and accompanied by some 30 or more firemen, and their alacrity took the King quite by surprise. The men were duly timed, and the whole arrangements of their turning out occupied less than three minutes. His Majesty, with the Prince and Cap tain Shaw, then proceeded on • manual engine and in. spaded several of the leading stations in different parts of the metropolis, where the zeal and promptness of the men were similarly tested, after which the royal partyreturned to the City, end saw several steam tire-engines at work on the river off Queenhithe. This concluded the inspection. his Majesty stated that his visit to Watlingatreet was to acquire all the practical information he could obtain about engines, Ice., in order to place his brigades on a similar footing of efficiency with the London Brigade. ANYLI3I FOR IDIOTS. —The anniversary dinner of this charity was held last evening at the London Ta vern, the Lord Mayor in the chair. The Earl swoo dA sy l um, at 14x1hill, was opened in 18541, and has received some 1,200 cases, the majority young imbeciles who could not otherwise have been properly provided for. It must be a source of great encouragement to the supporters of this and kindred institutions to know that many of these hap. less beings, under the gentle but firm di sci pli ne t o w hi c h they have een subjected, have been vouchsafed sufficient intelligence to warrant their discharge. The study of the mental vacancy under which the poor patients suffer Ims been carried to such en extent that literally the halt have been made to walk, the dumb to speak, and the blank mind to open for the receipt of intellectual impressions and generous instincts. The managers of the charity point to the history of their asylum as • proof that idiotcy is not " • cureless woe." The debt which formerly existed has been removed and the board are now anxious to raise a special fund of .10,0001., to accommodate SOO patients in stead of the 400 which the establishment at present has room for. The asylum is not only full, but there a-e 700 applications for admission. The board therefore make en earnest appeal to the public to subscribe libera towards the enlargement of the building. The Lord Mayor and subsequent speakers last evening eloquently advocated the claims of the institution. A large number of ladies were present at the dinner. Songs and glees were sung between the speeches. Subscriptions were announced to the entrust of 5,000/. The guests numbered nearly 200, and the entertainment was more than usually elegant* mm. Quegsrr Micsotwou CLUB. —T e monthly meeting was held at University College on the glad inst.; Mr. Ernest Hart, president, in the chair. A paper was read by Mr. C. A. Watkins oa " Yeast and other Fer ments." The matter was treated broadly, and the author explained the similarity of the chemical operations of all ferments, whether they he living organisms, as yeast, or substances derived from organic sources, as albumen, casein, diastase, f‘c., and urged the necessity of considering these operations together rather than separating them into those which are the result. of organic growth and those which appear to be simply chemi.al actions. In describing the viscous, lactic, and butyric acid fermentations, and also the ordinary conversion of alcohol into vinegar, he called attention to the universal appearance of the minute bacteria and vibriones which accompany these changes, and invited microscopists to the study of these low forms of life, that sonic light may be thrown on the relation they evidently bear to the various phases of decay of organic products generally. Ten members were elected, and the ! proceedings terminated with a comma:nem TUESDAY EV,ENING. O )EARCH 24ii• 1867. ' • I+ i , NOTICES OF MOTIONS. THE REFORM BILL. In the House of Commons last night, Lord Echo, on behalf of Earl Grosvenor, gave notice that in committee upon the Representation of the People Bill the noble earl would move amendments limiting the vertical extension of the franchise in boroughs to owners and tenants occupying dwelling.houses within the borough of the rateable valuable of 5/. and upwards, and fixing the personal payment of rates at the same point. Sir E. Dering gave notice that in committee upon cl tuse 4 of the Representation of the People Bill he should move that the qualification of voters in counties should be the occupation of premises of the rateable value of 12/. and upwards instead of 15/. Mr. Roebuck—ln committee upon the same bill to move to omit provisoes 3 and 4, page 2, lines 8 to 15, and insert the following :—" Has six months before the last day of July of any year claimed to be rated and hu been fated for all rates and taxes due, and to he paid on such date in respect of such dwelling house, and has paid such rates as shall have become due previous to the elec• tion at which he claims to vote. 4. Is on the last day of July in any year, and has been during the whole of the preceding year an inhabitant lodger in any apartment in the borough of the yearly value of 10/. and upwards." Mr. P. Scrope gave notice that. in committee upon the same bill, he should move—" That it is expedient by amendment of the Small Tenements Act or otherwise to provide that occupiers of houses under pounds annual value be wholly exempted from the payment of rates, and that those householders in parliamentary boroughs who occupy houses above that value shall alone be entitled to be registered as voters under the bill, and that such per sons shall be so entitled, whether they are rated in per son or otherwise." Captain Hayter, on going into committee, will move " That all parliamentary borough= having a less popula tion than 10,000 persons, ►ccording to the census of 1861, and from which the second seat be taken, shall be in creased by adding either from the immediately surround ing district, or from one or more neighbouring boroughs or towns, a sufficient number of inhabitants to give to every such parliamentary borough a population of not less than 10,000 persons." Mr. Henry B. Sheridan, at the same stage, will move, " That, inasmuch as it is highly desirable that the bests and qualification for borough voting should be, as nearly as possible, of a fixed and permanent character, it is ex pedient that the franchise in boroughs shall be given to the occupier of any house or tenement which shall be sub ject to the payment of poor's rate, whether such poor's rate shall have been actually paid or not or compounded for or not, and which (ur any other similar house in the same borough) shall hive been in the occupation of the voter for a period of (including his successive tenancies) at least 24 calendar months immediately preceding the 20th of July in each year." In committee Mr. Hardcastle will move, clause 40, line 17, leave out " LAWS, custom., and ;" clause 40, at end, add " Provided always, that no person who shall here after be elected, made, or admitted a burgess or freeman shall be entitled to vote in any election for any city or borough, any provision of any act of parliament to tho contrary notwithstanding." FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. THE PROPOSED NEW CLAUSE IN THE MUTINY BILL. The following is a copy of the new clause which Sir John Pakington proposes to insert in the Mutiny Bill, instead of Clause 22 :—" Every soldier shall upon en listment be placed in the first class of the army, and no soldier in such elan shall, in time of peace, be sentenced to the corporal punishment of flogging ; every soldier in the first class shall, for the commission of certain offences, to be specified from time to time in the articles of war, be degraded to the second class of the army, and army soldier in the second class shall be liable to be sentenced by court-martial to corporal punishment not exceeding fifty lashes for the following offences, viz., mutiny, aggra vated insubordination, or disgraceful conduct of an in decent kind ; every soldier, when Bening with a military force in the field or on bo ard ship, shall be liable to a like punishment by court martial for any of the offences be fore enumerated, or for desertion, drunkenness on duty or on the line of march, misbehaviour, or neglect of duty." The restrictions proposed by Sir J. Pakington may, the Times thinks, be accepted as a substantial improve ment. "The offences for which flogging will be retained are such as must be punished with severity particularly in distant and outlying stations. For mutiny, and even for ' aggravated insubordination,' the French military law not only denounces the punishment of death, but not unfrequently executes it ; and if care be taken that capri cious officers shall not be allowed to call anything they please 'aggravated insubordination' there need belittle fear that any substantial wrong will be done by retaining cor poral punishment is terrtwein over the most lawless characters. Strict regulations should also determine the offences which are to degrade a man into the second class and render him liable to flogging. If the Mutiny Act is henceforth to contain a section relating to this subject, it should be as explicit as possible. The discrimination ought not to rest on the unassisted judgment of a com manding officer, nor to be allowed to very in every regi ment; but whatever may be the statutes or regulations on the subject, a great deal must rest with the officers themselves. The returns show that courts-martial are not apt to resort to corporal punishment ; and at home, at least, where other punishments may be inflicted, we be lieve that corporal punishment might be abolished. It is for the credit of the officers as well as for that of the men that it should be so." Mr. B. Hope, on Friday, will ask the Vioe-Pre sideat of the Committee of Council on Education whether he is prepared to bring in a bill during the present session to place Art Unions under the department of Science and Art, as recommended in the report of the select committee of last session, of which he was chairman. On Friday, Mr. Lawson brings forward a bill to provide for the winding up of railway compinke fa Ire. land in certain caaea. On going into committee of supply Colonel Greville-Nugent intends to call attention to the conditions of superannuation as affecting the men of the Irish eon. stabulary, and to move, " That in the opinion of this house it is desirable that every constable should be entitled to a pension after 25 years' service." It is Serjeant Barry's intention to bring under the notice of the house the loss of life which took photo at Dungarvan during the late W►terford county election, and to move the following resolution :—" That whereas it appears by the verdicts of coroners' juries, that two per sons were killed by a soldier or soldiers of the 12th Lancets at Dungarvan during the late election for the county of Waterton', under circumstances whichled in the one case to a finding of manslaughter, and in the other of wilful murder, it is not, in the opinion of the house, eatialactot I that the conduct of the military on the occasion has not been made the subject of further inquiry before any tri. banal, either military or civil." Next Tuesday Mr. Dent will call the attention of the house to the sixth report of the Children's Employment Cormuiarion, and move " That, in the opinion of this house, the employment of women sad children in agriculture should be regulated, as far es may be by the principles of the Factory Actg." Mr. E. Potter intends, on the motion for going into committee on Hours of Labour Regulation Bill, to move that the bill referred to a select committee. In committee of the whole house Mr. Adderley will move a resolution authorising her Majesty to guaran tee a loan of 3,000,0001., to be raised by the Canadian go vernment for the Intro-colonial Railway. THE GOVERNMENT REFORM BlLL.—Least night the Reform League held another meeting in Trafalgar ' square, to expose and denounce the defects and short comings in the gofeniment measure. The weather was again unfavourable, but the rain and wet stones seem to have had little effect in damping the political ardour of the unenfranchised for at eight o'clock, the hour fixed for opening the proceemlinga, a great crowd had collected on the spot, whose ranks were considerably reinforced as the night wore on. Mr. Edmund Reales, the chairman of the league, presided, and the speakers delivered their speeches from the base of the column, the immediate neighbour. hood of which was lighted up with flaming naphtha iturners arranged upon wooden frames. On the motion of Mr. Davie., seconded by Mr. Bannister, a resolution was carried by acclamation condemning the bill, and affirming the principles of the league ; and after thanking Mr. Beaks for presiding, popular reform leaders in parliament, the meeting, which orderly throughout, broke up. • ,••• • TAATEST INTELLIGENCE. (RTITTIVS TELEGRAMS.) _ _ THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, In to-day's sitting of the North German parlia ment Article 6 of the Constitution was agreed to unanimously. This article places under control of the Bund all customs and commercial legislation, monetary and banking regulations, the railway, navigation, postal, and telegraph departments of the different states of the confederation. All amendments to this article were rejected in consequence of a declaration of Count Bismarck explaining the division of the vote of the Federal Council. The 7th Article was agreed to by a large majority. Art. 7 refers to the right of declaring war, mak ing peace, concluding treaties and alliances, and appointing ambassadors. War is to be invariably declared upon invasion ; in other cases the consent of the sovereigns of at least two-thirds of the population is requisite. The amendment of Herr Laaker to this article was agreed to. The amendment of Herr Krutz was rejected. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ittami 26. The official Vienna Gazette of to-day contradicts the statement of some newspapers, that General Fleury had been appointed French ambassador to the Austrian court in place of the Duke de Gram mont, or that he has been entrusted with the mission of representing the Emperor of the French at Pesth during the coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary. The same journal publishes an article refuting the objections of the conservative journals to the convocation of the Reichsrath, in which it says:—" The basis of the Austrian consti tution has been already laid down by the October diploma and the February patent. A revision of the constitution is only re quired to bring it in harmony with the constitu tional rights of Hungary. The government stands firm on the ground of the constitution, and conser vative interests are not endangered by the con vocation of the Reicharath." INDL% AND CELNA MAILS. MARSEILLE.% Ktacn 25. The Nyanza arrived at 8 p.m. The mails leave for London at 10 p.m. OUTWARD ama,CHINA, AND AUSTRA- LIAN MAILS. GIBRALTAR, MARCH 25. The Chins, from Southampton on the 20th inst., arrived to-day at 5 p.m., and leaves at 8 p.m. for Alexandria. All well. Has experienced heavy weather. AMERICA. (IT ATLANTIC TELKORAPH.) NEW YORK, MARCH 25, 6 r.m.• The House of Representatives has n.rt yet agreed with the Senate upon the period and conditions of adjournment. The Senate has passed a bill allowing American citizens to sell war vessels to belligerents at peace with the United States. Violent gales have been prevalent along the coast, and several shipping disasters have occurred. The Inman steamer City of Washington and the North German Lloyd's steamer New York arrived out to-day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, 11Aftos 25, G P.M. Closing 'prices 134. Sterling exchange on London, 1081. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 109 ; Illinois, 115 ; Erie, 58. Cotton: Middling Upland, 31i. • Arrived in London at 10.23 a.m., Much 20. MEXICO. NEW YORK, MARcli 25, Evmeto. Advices received here from Mexico announce that the Emperor Maximilian had returned to Queretaro. The liberals were preparing to besiege QuiraEL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (moat ova owa coaanarososay.) PARIS. MONDAY EVENING. The Prose says there is again a rumour of a pil grimage to Rome to be undertaken by the Empress in company with the Prince Imperial, whose con valescence alone is waited for to fix the day of de parture. The accompanying statement, that the Empress and the Prince are expected back to Paris by May 1, seems to me sufficient, independently of other considerations, to negative the whole story. It is unlikely that the five physicians but yesterday in attendance on the Prince would allow him to undertake a journey to Rome so early as next month. It is doubted whether he can be permitted a trip to the Bois de Boulogne before next week. In all probability this paragraph has been inserted by the same court party which persisted that the Empress was going to Rome last December, although the Emperor bad never the least intention to sanction the excursion. Prince Humbert is expected in Paris every hour. The report that he was to be lodged at the Tuileries is contradicted. So many princes are coming for the Exhibition that the Emperor could not find room for all of them—more especially as a wing of the palace launder repair. The Italian heir apparent will, I believe, take up his quarters in that immense caravansary, the resort alike of crowned heads and shoddy and petroleum parvenus, the Grand HoteL The Marquis de Lavalette has sent a circular to the prefects, asking for reports as to the impres sion on public opinion produced by the debate on M. Thiers' interpellations. The Minister of the I Interior already knew from spontaneous telegrams from the prefects while the debate was going on that it had produced an immense sensation. But he now wishes to have fuller particulars. Reports of this kind very seldom contain much valuable information, because the prefects almost invariably send, instead of the truth, such statements as they think the government will be glad to hear. The new theatre Rossini, at Pansy, will be opened on March 25. The most conspicuous object in the park of the Universal Exhibition is a colossal equestrian statue in gilt bronze of the King of Prussia. William 1., the conqueror of Sadows, is repre sented in grand military tenue with cuirass and helmet, and sword in hand. The Prussian flag, with a large black eagle, waves over the King s head, exactly in front of the Ecole Militaire. The statue is, in my opinion, a finer one as a work o f art than any existing in Paris ; the sculptor is M. Gladembeck of Berlin. " The Imperial Society of Antiquaries of France," says the Prunes, "at the last sitting, received official notice that the statues of Fonteerault are not to be given up to England. Queen Victoria, it appears, has written to the Emperor to say, that, in presenoe of the emotion caused among the French public and manifested in the organs of the press, she renounced accepting the present offered to her. Her Majesty only expressed a desire that those precious relics, actually buried in a dark recess of a low and damp chapel in the prison of Fontevranit, should henceforward be preserved in a more suitable manner." ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL vIeIETY. DR. LIVINGSTONE'S LAST JOURNEY. The ordinary evening meeting of the soviet}' last night, over which Sir lt. kluitosisom presided, had he. parted to it a melancholy interest, by the reading of the despatches and correspondence which it is feared must dispel the last vestige of hope that the same melancholy fate which prematurely closed the career of so many of his predecessors in the work of African exploration, has not befallen Dr. Livingstone. In opening the proceedings the Tneatrizer read an rehires', to the following effect:—" Gentlemen,— W nen I addressed you by letter at the last meeting. I ventures' to offer revers] reasons for disbelieving the testimony of the Johanna men, who were the haggis., carriers of Dr. Livingstone, concerning the death of the great traveller. Since that time my incredulity was strengthened by a letter from Mr. E. D. Young, who served in the Zambesi expedition, and who, having had twelve Johanna men long under hie commaial, described them as a faithless and untrustworthy people, by a letter from Mr. William (]swell, • well-known South African tra. yeller, and a former companion of Livingstone, and by e letter from Mr. Henry Angelo, an experienced traveller in Eastern Africa. The despatches which reached us con mining the detailed evidence of those men, which had been sifted by Dr. Kirk, the friend and former companion of Livingstone, and also by the political resident at Zan zibar, led these authorities to adopt the conclusion that Dr. Livingstone was no more. With these documents in hand, I could not for a time venture to form a different opinion. Forty.eight hours, however, only had elapsed when another despatch arrived. slated Jan. 26, being a month later than the former ; and in it Dr. Seward, the po litical resident, having in the mean time visited the port of Quiloa, or Keelwa, to obtain information from Arab trailers with the interior, revived our hope that nay illustrious friend might still be alive. When all these document, shall have been read to you, and that you have examined the sketch-map on which Livingstoue's route has been marked, as prepared by Dr. Kirk, I hope its the discussion which will ensue that the following data may be considered :—First, if the tale be true, that the spat in. dictated by the Johanna men as that where Livingstone fell: is but little more than a day's march from the frontier of a friendly country in which the eapedition had been well received. Such being the case, might nut some one or more of the five negroes who escaped have readily found their way back into that same friendly tract' and, if so, why should not one or more of them have as easily reached the eoast as all the nine Johanna men? Secondly, and on the other hand, if the story of the Johanna men 100 a fabrication, as the Arabs who trade with the Lake Nyassa seem to think—if, in short, Livingstone forced his way through the limited tract occupied by the ?davit. savages (the Johanna men eying from the danger{ —may he not have pushed on to Lucenda, the capital of Cazembef May ho not even, for aught we know, be now on the great in tenor lake of Tanganyika, the main object of his expedi tion? Under such circumstances no news of him could be received for many mouths, except accidentally through some Arab trader coming from the vast interior. In the mean time, whilst cherishing these rays of hope, I have to con. gratnlate you on the very important addition nettle to our geographical knowledge, by this last exploit Livingston_ fining as it does the northern end of his own Lake Nyassa. Lastly, if no one of his negro followers should return, within reasonable time, to verify Sr contradict the tile of the Johanna men, and no intelligence reaches us from other sources, why then it will become the earned ' endeavour of the Royal Geographical Society—and,l should hope, of her Majesty's government—to send out an rape. alition, which can easily traverse the same friendly countries that Livingstone passed over, and ascertain the truth concerning the end of the undaunted Christian pioneer, who was not merely our geographical envoy, bat who was also gazetted by our sovereign as her Majesty's consul to all the native chiefs in the interior of Southern Africa. Should the truth be that the Lamentable radar trophe has occurred, then, as geographers mourning for the grievous loss we have sustained, let us dwell upon the stirring words recently addressed to isle in a letter by Sir Samuel Raker, ' that the hard soil of Africa is a more fitting couch for the last gasp of a true African explorer than the downy pillow of civilised home.'" The correspondence read cousisted of the despatch from Dr. Seward to Lord Stanlay, dated 111th December, an. nouncing the details of the assassination of Dr. Living. stone by the Zulus as they hail reached him ; a second despatch dated Zird December, free° the same to the same, giving an account of Dr. Livingstone 's route, and the geographical results, and reasons for believing in the truth of the story of the murder ; a letter from Dr. Kirk to Dr. Seward, dated 20th December, on the same pointß, and describing all that is yet known of the particulars of the fatal journey ; a letter from Dr. Kirk to Sir R. Mar. chime, dated 19th December, containing similar informs , tion ; a despatch a month later, (roan Dr. Seward, slated 20th January, Irk;7, to Lard St Inky, throwing doubt upon many of the statements of the Johanna men, and holding out a faint Lope that the story of the murder might ho • fabrication concocted to cover the cowardice of the narrators iu abandoning their leader; and a letter of abort the same date from Dr. Kirk to Dr. Seward, in a great measure dispelling that hope, and recommending an expedi tion to the locali.y to search for further information. The substance of this CORISSI , OIIdOIIce has already been pub lished._ . _ . The Pawn:mire, having thanked Lord Stanley, on the part of the meeting, for comniuniviting the despatches, said he still clung to the hope that his illustrious friend wan alive. He would not believe in his death until the story was confirmed by more reliable evidence than that of the Johanna men. In conclusion. he invited discussion upon the comparative state of our knowledge of the goo• graphy of South Africa at the titiie of the earlier ex plorers, Speke and Burton, and now that Dr. Livingsione had made the great discovery of the northern cud of Lake Hyena. The discussion as suggested by the President was carried on by Sir Samuel Baker, who expressed his certain conviction, as one who knew the African races well, that they would see Livingstone 's face no more—by Mr. Crawford, who expre,sed concurrence with Sir S. Baker—by Mr. Waller, a gentleman who was in the Zarubesi expedition with Dr. Livingstone, who denied the report that that eminent traveller had been in collision with the slave traders, but feared there was no ground for hope after Dr. Kirk's Lot letter ; he added that the great danger of African exploration was the slave trade—by Captain Sherard Osborne, deprecating any positive opinion upon the present defective e.iilence, and adding that twice before Livingstone was supposed to have perished ; and that in IS4$ Franklin was reported dead, and circumstantial details of his death reported without the slightest foundation—and by Mr. Baines, an- other of Livingstone's former companions, who did not abandon all hope. The President, in elo:dlig the proceed ings, repeated his hope that the go% ermia.ut would send out an expedition to ascertain for certain whether Living. stone was alive or dead. DEATH or DR. J. WOODFALL, F.R.C.P.—A gloom was east over the town of Maidstone on Friday morning last by intelligence of the sudden decease of this estimable gentleman. Dr. Woodfall has been failing in health for some nine or ten months past, although the fact was only known to his more immediate friends. On Thursday last he was engaged in his professional duties till evening, as usual. He retired to rest at about 12 o'clock, but not being able to sleep be got up, thinking to read for a little while. Almost immediately, however, he became seriously ill, and in the course of about an hour he expired, still seated in his chair. Mr. Sankey, surgeon, was called, but I before he could arrive at the house life was extinct, death having arisen from disease of the lieut. The late Dr. Woodfall was admitted as a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 18'4, and for year* was asisiatant physician lat the Westminster Hospital. In 18.7.3 he succeeded to the practice of the late Dr. Sibbahl, at Maidstone, and was at that time elected Leone of the physicians to the \Vest Kent General Hospital, which office lie continued to hold till his death. The deceased geatleman, during his resi dence in Maidatone, had become endeared to all who knew him. not only from his amiable and genial disposition, but also from his earnest and constant endeavours to help the suffering and the distressed. In his capacity as senior ; physician to the West Kent Hospital he out only most un sparingly devoted his great skill to the relief of the patients, but he always had a kind and sympathetic word for each ; and by none, beyond the circle of his own irrrne diate connections, will his death he more sincerely re gretted, than by those thus brought under his care. Ilut it wee not alone in connexion with this hospital that his anxiety for the good of others was manifested. For years he had 'sacrificed much of his valuable time in giving gratuitous advice at his residence to those not in a pceition to pay for his professional services ; and no appeal for any benevolent or charitable purpose was ever addressed to him in vain. As a magistrate, to which position he was appointed in 11442, he ever showed film and unflinching in tegrity ; as a physician, his talents anal sem th gaited for him the highest estimation of his fellow medical practi tioners ; and in all the relations of life be woe held in most affectionate regard. The late Dr. Woolfall was in his 58th year ; it is a singular circunistance that but a few weeks since his lamented brother, Colonel shed in a similarly sudden manner. —South rn tit. LONGEVITY IN THE ISLE uF WIGHT.- In .aIT obituary is recorded the death of another old inhabitant of the wash of Chide, Mrs. Harriett Kemp, who hail entered her 90th year. Deceased has left behind a faithful female servant, aged 90, who has been in the family nearly half a century. Recently in the same parish Mrs. IS l .sslivl dial at the ripe age of 92. Those of the agricultural labouring class who, when last labour, enter the 'Mon attain omen average over 80 years. In Newport during this bitter weather may be seen a man who has reached the age of 95 going briskly about on his few daily errand.. and bending but little beneath the weight of years. Another mall of nearly the same age, but on crutches nnal looking polrfl stricken may be seen on Satunlaj a cheerfully listatening homeward with his county newspaper mehr his arm. A sprightly dame in her 99th year recently travelled in an open chaise from the east end of the island to visit bet yen, a Newport tradesman, and at the end of the journey said she was ' not a bit cold."—/fuss/r _ —.- CRYSTAL PALACE. ORS MULLING CAIN-. MoNDAY, MARCH 25.—Admimions on p‘yamut, 717 ; by sewn Luz:kat., 648. 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