The Express. — London, England, 1868-04-01 00:00:00

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Last Aetna of LA VIVANDLFJUL TIIIB EVENING (first time), a new Comedietta, entitled MARY JONES. Characters by Mews. W. H. Stephens, C. Wyndham, Sanger. and Mies P. Markham. To be followed by H. J. hymns highly suesesful domestic Drama of DEARER THAN LIFE. Mews. J. L. Toole, C. Wham, DMus, Clayton, Seyton. L.popular Brongh Extravanuus ; Mesdames u and VIV ynd H. Hodson. Doncindlng with the Dy of LA ANDIRRE. Mesas. J. L To de, L. Brough, Sanger; Mesdames H. godson. P. Mark ham, P. Addison, Montgomery, F.verard, d e n Music by Mr. Wslierstein ; Scenery by Mews. Grieve and Johnson. nn Friday, Apvfl 3, BENKFIT of Mr. L _AFtlng-Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston ; Stage-Manager, Mr. ghe erprefsls. iLDVKRTISEIfEiTS must be forwarded to 3:mrn. J. H. Jona.on and 1oNs„ 1, Caattwitreet, Bolton, and (.6, Batton garden, the specially appointed Aganta. HAYMARKET. THIS rviremis. I•TRIGIITE. Hr. Kendal and Mies Karim—A BRNO OF ROMANCE. 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Pried, 3s. dd. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, 00WrAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 MR. _HARDY AND MR. BRIGHT IN DEBATE. ALTHOUGH the speech with which the HOME SECRETARY resumed the Irish Church debate last evening, in the presence of the Prince of \Yates and a host of civil and religious dignitaries from the sister isle, was in effect, as Mr. BRIGHT described it, " an answer " to that of the Foacius MINISTER, it was emphatically, as Mr. BRIGHT also characterised it, " a good speech." We should be sorry to be considered capable of doing justice to the oratory of Liberal members only. In commending when one can the eloquence of adversaries, there is a much livelier satisfaction than in extolling friends. Criticism becomes easier when it has proved its impartiality and is forcible in proportion as its fairness is beyond dispute. Mr. HARDY'S speech was "good" in many ways. It was vigorous, direct, explicit, and sincere. It was manly and robust in tone, courageous in spirit, frank and fearless in expression. Mr. HARDY is at present one of the ablest and most effective party speakers in the House. Endowed by nature with a resonant voice of a somewhat high register, but never shrill or thin, a voice at once mellow and vibrating, with a copious yet not redundant vocabulary, and with a comba tive rather than an aggressive temperament, with pleasant open looks, and a cheery impulsive manner, eminently respectable and 'tardily conven tional, Mr. HARDY brings with him to public life a large share of those physical and moral qualities for which the men of his county are often famous ; he brings the energetic temper and training of the North, and to all these natural and native advantages he unites the sober and safe refinements of the best education this country can afford, the moral training of a public school, and the more or less religious and intellectual culture of Oxford University. He is one of those country gentlemen of a latter day whose fathers were the founders of estates, and there is probably something of the charm of a novel sentiment in his warm attachment to the superstitions of the country party. If we sub stitute Lancashire for Yorkshire we find more re semblance than difference between the earlyhistory of Mr. HARDY and Mr. GLADSTONE, as there is always more resemblance than difference be tween the characteristics of a Yorkshireman and a man of Lancashire. The divergence and dispro portion between the two statesmen are neither in the accidents of birth and blood, nor in family rank and station, nor in the course of education. The one is not more patrician, nor more delicately nurtured and cultivated than the ..they. But the intellect of the one is of a very different order and range from that of the other. Mr. GLAD /TONE'S mind is to the mind of Mr. HARDY almost as music to written poetry ; it begins where the other ends. Mr. HARDY'S political ideas at this moment are at the point which the mind of Mr. Guam:one touched and traversed some thirty years ago. But Mr. GLADSTONE'S ideas have been In progress ever since ; and Mr. HARDY has sue ceeded—we were almost saying by slaw of Nature— to Mr. Otateiroivz as the chosen representative of the University of Oxford, that is, of the inert forage of that University. No two minds can be more dissimilar, though both are, in some sort, similarly equipped. The one is powerful and comprehensive, yet subtle and ardent in its search after the just and the true ; the other is genially stedfest to commonplace, radiant in all the respectabilities, fluent to a fault in demonstrating with all the fire of a dis coverer that two end two make four, in the heavens above and the earth beneath. W. HAZDY'S speech on Lord Srsratis l'H t E E. Amendment was a model of its Whether it was a model which the Prima, would recommend to his colleagues is a question which we will not presume to decide. If we could descend from so high an argument to look upon this debate as a mere party fight we might be tempted to compare hie putting up Mr! VAIIDY to answer Lord Srairzsv to the con duct of a General who, after concerting with the chief of his staff an elaborately cautious sad skilful strategical movement to turn his enemy's flank, should allow the most headstrong and uninstructed of his divisional commanders to turn a feint into a charge and a reconnaissance into a forlorn hope. Mr. HARDY resembles some famous English soldiers in his sublime indifference to the whole art of war. To " blaze away" and make a soldier's battle of it is his conception of a parliamentary campaign. This is all very well with a British army in the field, but with a parliamentary party demoralised and heart sick, in the face of an opposition united for the first time under an advancing banner, and demand ing only a fair field and no quarter, the sound of the gallant HARDY'S voice cheering on the Orange Brigade and the old Tory infantry to the rescue of Protestant ascendancy, may well cause some shadows of dismay to flit across the inscrutable features of the wariest Chief. It is not easy to imagine anything more distasteful to Mr. Duman' than the sustained emotion with which Mr. HARDY is wont to vindicate the integrity of his faith. A truly liberal Tory Ministry must be a moat delicate monster to manage at the beat of times, with its " forward voice" and its " backward voice," and especially when it is the backward, not the for ward, voice that raises the loudest echoing cheers on the Ministerial benches. The PREMIER, unlike the jester in the Tempest, may well breathe into the ear of his FOP.EICIN SECRETARY the wish that there were at least two others on the isle "brained like " us." All the distance between Oxford and South Lancashire separates the politics of the HOER SECRETARY and Mr. GLADSTONE. Mr. HARDY, who, with all his heartiness of nature, has learnt a little sharp practice in the course of his ministerial experience, read last evening an ex tract from a private letter addressed by Mr. GLADSTONE to a member of the Uni versity during the last electoral contest, in which he spoke of the Irish Church as a " remote " question. This was in 1865, and in 1868 the Irish Church is the question of the day. Mr. HARDY saw a chance at hand to deliver what he evidently believed to be a most destructive blow at Mr. Grantrrozz's political conscience. Yet what does it amount to ? It amounts to this : that Mr. GLADSTONE was neither a Prophet nor a Providence id,1865; that he could neither calculate nor control the force of circumstances and events. Great principles are projectiles of which neither the initial velocity, nor the trajectory, nor the im pact are so calculable as the experiments of Shoe buryness. Against the private letter of 1865 Mr. Gz.uerroNE might cite his repeated refusals, during thirty years of public life, to commit himself to the maintenance of the Irish Church Establishment. But what is all this idle wordy recrimination worth beyond the walls of the House of Conunons? What do the people of the three kingdoms care about what Mr. GLADSTONE wrote to a pri vate friend three, or thirty years ago What does Mr. Gr. arorrouz say, what is ho prepared to do, here and now—that is the only question worth a moment's notice. No doubt the true statesman looks before and after. But what sort of statesman can we call the man who should refuse in 1868 to deal with a question of immi nent concern to the common peace and welfare, because in a letter to a private friend three years before he had considered it "remote I" These empty taunts are available enough for in stalitaneous effect in what is called a " slashing " party speech in the House ;" but they sink, like stones into the sea, into public contempt when a whole nation is calling for justice. The HOME SECRETARY, religiously shutting his eyes to history and to facts, regards the tempo ralities of the Established Church in Ireland as in vested with a more than mortal sacredness—as holy ground. Yet without losing his breath in his solemn appeal to heavenly sanctions and attributes, he rouses the apprehensions of every secular land owner in the United Kingdom by insisting that the • Irish Church is before and above all a layman's question—a question of the rights of property. This engaging fallacy is familiar to all students of the political literature of the Court of Rome. The defenders of the Temporal Power, from the POPE downwarbs, confuse the temporal and the spiritual interests so inextricably that a question of so much territory and revenue be comes exalted to a question of the Kingdom of Heaven. Mr. HARDY, however, treats the Irish Church as M. TETHER treats the temporal power of the POPE, as above all a great political in terest, and he is very properly rewarded with the acclamations of the champions of Pro testant sacendency. For the rest, he deserves all the honour that is due to the abandonment of all caution, or reticence, or reserve. He is prepared to act upon the recommendations of the Royal Corn ' mission in amending the internal economy of the Irish Church Establishment. Against disestablish ment and diaendowment he seta his face like a flint. If Lord STANLEY'S Amendment is carried, he will oppose the Resolutions, and he would rather have met them by a direct negative. If the Resolutions are carried, and the new Parliament shall decide to act upon them, he will not sacrifice his convictions as a Minister of the Crown : if he ever sacrifices them to the peace of Ireland he will release himself from the responsi bilities of office, and renounce at once his opinions and his place to preserve his honour and fulfil his duty as an independent member. Meanwhile, happen what may, the present Government will neither dissolve nor resign, but, with true Christian humility, will continue to offer the other cheek to the smiter. Passing over the intermediate events of last evening with a word of compliment to the singu larly promising maiden oratory of Captain Warm, and the diverting performance of the Irish ATTORNRY-GENZRAL, we need only say of Mr. BRIGHT'S great speech that it was in his very best manner, in that later manner which makes its difficult to recall the popular tribune and the formidable agitator of a former yet not a distant time. Evidently for the member for Birmingham, the storm and stress period of his political life is over past. He has emerged into a sunnier and serener air of confidence and conciliation. In all his present utterances there is not a note of bitterness or defiance, of anger or reproach, but instead of the vehemence and indignation of other days, there is the calmness of cons ions strength, the subduing sense of victories achieved, and all the clemency of the conqueror. His reflec tions and his counsels last evening were those of a large and foreseeing statesmanship, without a shade of partisanship or personality. His observations on the peculiarly anti-national ultramontane spirit which the denial of religious equality to the 1 Catholic priesthood and population ham engendered IAY iu Ireland tention. of the Lows already debate is not likely to lariguish for lack of , fuel to-morrow. But we believe it will be found that Mr. BRIGHT has left to the coming .epeekere only the opportunity of making a personal display of epigrams and sallies of wit for the intellectual re creation of the salons and the dinner tables of the West. A STRANGE STORY. A waraza in the current number of the Atlantic Monthly professes to give the " true history of the Earl of CARDIGAN'S duel with Captain Haavav Trcirarr and its sequel." The latter is sufficiently curious, and narrates with great particularity the result! of personal intimacy and observation, the life of Captain and Mrs. Tockarr after the famous state trial, and the acquittal of the EARL. They were a strange couple. The Carrara, old enough to be " twice the father of "his beautiful wife," "tall as a grenadier, and with a " moustache white and fierce as that of one of "NAPOLEON'S Old Guard ;" the lady ever, until his death, "dressed in solemnest black, her face " entirely hidden by a veil of the closest and " thickest texture." After a course of specu lative enterprise in newspapers, the husband died deeply in debt, his last words being a touch ing, though, according to the Atlantic writer, a rather theatrical confession of faith :—" I " never doubted you, Mattoanrr ; I honoured myself " in the love and faith 1 gave you always." Within a week of this his widow laid aside her mourning garments for ever, and, driven by necessity, went upon the stage. " Her Napoleonic energy " asto nished her husband's friends. Besieged by credi tors, and refused an engagement at theatres, she said calmly, "If managers will not engage me, I " will turn manager and engage others." We " who knew her in the days of the old CAP " Tam knew none so reticent or shy as she ; "none about whom was so closely wrapped the " mantle of retiring, modest womanhood ; none so " timid of herself, so weak or dependent." But the dainty lady "who had sent two gentlemen of " England to crack away at each other with pistols, " and had brought one of them to the bar of the " House of Lords to be tried for his noble life," had been a strolling player in her youth, and had picked up odd shillings in barns. In September, 1855, she opened a theatre in Baltimore, and the history of her management is simply "one of disaster and fraud." The anecdotes told show her to have combined the attri butes Of JEREMY DIDDLER, BAMPFYLDE MOORE CAREW, and BECKY SHARPE. The cajolery and wiles of this extraordinary woman ' read like an extract from " Wilson's Wonder " ful Characters." She lied and defrauded with matchless impudence, and "her shrewd wit, " dazzling shoulders, and youthful beauty (1)" are " described as charming like a devil' more " than fourteen years after the great scandal " which first gave her notoriety. Sho became " essentially a bad woman. Good wives made " ugly speeches about her ; people grew shy of her "theatre," and though "the fond old Carrara " had helped her sail along clear waters for a while, " when he was gone she drifted away into the dark " seas because she loved them best." MAaosairr TocxErr then sank into low depths of want and sorrow. The days of lovers, friends, and luxuries were over, and in a noisome room of a filthy tenement in a poor street she lived by her skill or inspiration as a spiritual medium. Bat the end was not yet. Years later she took " a long flight with her friend to the surlier " owl regions of Colorado," where she died ; her biographer asking, "Was MARQARET TUCK Err " guilty out there in India? Were Mrs. RAWDON " CRAWLEY and Lord STPYNE guilty 7" and adding, with sweeping though tardy charity, " as " he gave to BECKY, let us give to MARUARET, the "benefit of the doubt." little parish church of Wymering. Here the Vicar has it all his own way, the objectors having with drawn and set up a tabernacle of their own. Mr. MACKOROCRIB'S display, we are informed, is tame when compared with the adjuncts of the Rev. Guinea Nueza's service, with its processions, banners, processional crosses, and incense bearers ; its priest with the berretta, and cope, and chasuble ; and its handsome reredos and altar, decorated with choice flowers and brazen cross, and lit up with the blaze of five dozen tapers. In addition to the early " low " and noonday " high " celebrations, Mr. Rooms has notified his intention to provide for the expected crowd of worshippers by erecting an " altar" in the rectory grounds; and, to heighten the novelty, volunteers who are choristers are urged to take their surplices as well u their uniforms with them ! ORE of the weekly religious papers has recently been adorning its pages with portraits of " clistin " guiahed Christians," such as the Archbishop of CANTIIIBUR; the Duke of kanvi.z, and the Rev. Mr. SPUBOZON. Among the portraits promised is that of the SULTAN. Our contemporary's Chris tianity evidently takes a wide range. Tin Brussels Indipendenee of yesterday says : " We have been called on by M. Loris Gains, " civil engineer, and requested to publish the fol " lowing note : ' The report put in circulation that " ' M. DOIILTON bad left Belgium is entirely un " ' founded. M. DoiThroi, after having informed " ' the magistrate that he was at his disposal, pre. " ' seated himself yesterday in his chamber, and " ' after having given an explanation on the " ' matter which has created so much noise, was " ' left in entire liberty.' " NESS, WEDNESDAY . 7 t uf f APRIL 1, ii I \ d appear to us to deserve particular at- Will he • • ;' • paraphernalia of 1. As Mr. Roaarcat is in poeseseion let lights,' ''. together wit e:llo s House for Thursday evening, and Mr. further ; attraction el /" Sarum use." ‘ Nr i at and Mr. Biases. Ono= have tears who 'admire , achievements `> competed for the .Brraisms's eye, She Alban's will be enehalited by the ceremonial at the d PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. Mr. Mill to-morrow, will ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether it is his intention to propose any measure, either separatelyor se a provision,lin the Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, for the prevention of bribery at municipal elections. To-morrow Mr. Fawoett will ask the Secretary of State for India, whether be has received an estimate of the ex. pease incurred in India for the Abyssinian expedition, he having stated in the House of Commons on the 18th of February that be had telegraphed to Bombay for this es timate ; and whether he will state its contents, and lay it upon the table. In committee of supply, on civil service estimates, Mr. Hadfield intends to move that the sum of 10,0001. for non conforming clergy be omitted. On the 23th Mr. Greens will call the attention of the house to colliery accidents, and to move an address for a royal commission. Mr. Labouchere intends to move, on the 28th, that, in the opinion of this house, all sums required to defray the expenses of the diplomatic service ought to be annually voted by parliament, and that estimates of all such sums ought to be submitted in a form that will admit of their effectual supervision and control by this house. Mr. Fawoett has given notice of the following motion for the`2Bth :—" That in the opinion of this house catholios, presbyterians, and other inhabitants of Ireland, will not be placed in a position of equality, in reference to university education, with members of the established church, until all religious disabilities are removed from the fellowships, scholarships, and other honours and emoluments of Trinity College, Dublin. That this hone., in order to give more complete effect to the foregoing resolution, is of opinion that an executive commission should be appointed, whose duty it should be so to re arrange the existing revenues of Trinity College, Dublin, that it may be enabled satisfactorily to fulfil the functions of a national institution." Mr. Pcroy Wyndham, after Easter, will move that in the opinion of this hones, it would be advantageous and convenient to substitute a systom of weekly in lieu of daily payments to those non•commisaioned officers and soldiers of the army whose previous conduct might warrant the extension of this indulgence. GOSSIP PROM THE OWL. We understand that Mr. R. J. Harvey, 11. P. for Thetford, is about to be raised to the dignity of a baronet. A marri ige is arranged between Mr. William Forbes, of Callender, and Edith, third daughter of the Rev. Lord Charles and Lady Harriet Hervey ; and between Miss Harvey, daughter of Mr. Harvey, M.P., for Thetford, and Mr. Lacon, son of Sir Edmund Lawn, Bart., We understand that the committee which, under the chairmanship of Mr. Du Cane, M.P., was appointed to inquire into the present management of Greenwich Hospital, has presented its report to the Board of Admiralty. The report is said to be adverse to the idea of entirely closing the hospital, but to reoommend a considerable reduction of the present establishment, combined with a relaxation of the existing terms with respect to admission of men discharged per manently invalided from the port hospitals. It will be soon presented to parliament. —The report of the Irish Railway Commissioners is on the eve of completion, and will be in the bands of the government on Friday next. The peers who constitute the Boolleslasticid Titles Act Com mittee of Great Britain and Ireland have placed the conduct of their proceedings in the handsel Earl Stanhope, and an inquiry will forthwith be commenced into the operation of all existing laws on the subject. Dr. Lashing toe, Sir Robert Phillimore, and Mr. Hope-Scott will be called as witnesses.—The bill to authorise the removal of the Natural History Collection of the British Museum from Bloomsbury to South Kensington, has been approved by the trustees, and the scheme may be said to be complete, with the exception of some minor details of ►dministration which still require adjust- meat.—Bills are in mutes of preparation to extend the time by two months for registering voters in Ireland and Scotland during the ensiling antumn.—Contrary to almost invariable parliamentary precedent, Mr. John Abel Smith has not been nominated chairman of the select com mittee on his own bill for the suppression of Sunday traffic in stimulating drinks. The members met yesterday and the post fell on Sir James Fergusson, Under-Secre tary for the Home Department.—Mr. Wilson-Patten, Chancellor of tie Duchy of 'Ancestor, will to-night give Mr. Adams, the retiring minister of the United States, a dinner, at which will be present all the members for Lan cashire, u well as a few members who, though not re presenting, are connected with the great interests of that county. REFORMERS' CROTCIIETS. 1r is always difficult to deal with a man who is the victim of a crotchet. He will not distinguish friends from enemies; and is apt to fall foul of those who are inclined to act with him if they atop short by any degrees of the length which ho is dis posed to go. Some days since, as our readers are aware, a conference was held at Exeter Hall to dis cuss the question, whether smoking was injurious. The chairman, the Rev. EDWARD WRITE, did his best to promote fair play on both sides,and said,truly enough, that nothing did more harm to a cause than extravagant and untenable assertions. Mr. WHITE has since addressed a letter to the Express in reply to a leader in our columns, which almost induces us to question whether he read the article, glace if he had done so he would have seen that we were as much opposed to excessive smoking as he affirms himself to be. This by the way. Mr. Wit= we may allow did a kindly and a bold act in taking the chair at such a conference, and we reciprocate his good feelings towards " the only man in Eng land who seems to set himself in earnest to re " duce our conaumption of narcotics within narrower " bounds." Unfortunately, this solitary reformer, Mr. THOMAS REYNOLDS, the Secretary of the Anti- Tobacco Society, does not appreciate Mr. Wlirras sympathy, and is wrath with him for his lukewarm ness in the cause. What right, he says, has Mr. WHITE to place opium at the head and tobacco at the tail in his category of narcotics 1 To which we answer—the right that every man possesses of judging for himself. But Mr. REYNOLDS is evi dently annoyed beyond measure that the chair man of such a meeting as that held at Exeter Hall, should condemn exoeaaive smok ing instead of opposing smoking altogether. Can anything be more unreasonable ? The Chairman pledged himself to nothing except to see fair play on both aides. Why then should he be required to show himself conspicuously one sided ? Mr. REYNOLDS asserts that no one success fully defended the practice of smoking at this Exeter Hall conference. Of course no one did or could defend it so as to satisfy a gentleman who, for 15 years, has asserted that " he who smokes " pipes or cigars violates the laws of his nature." There is an intemperance which is not produced by narcotics or by citron drink, but which, never thelesa, does no slight evil in the world. We have seen it before now in total abstainers, and we fear that the secretary of the Blitiah Anti-Tobacco Society is not wholly free from the defect. A crams competition is being carried on in Portsmouth and its neighbourhood for the honour of entertaining the Volunteers who are to assemble there for the Easter Monday Review. Not only are there to be balls, ballad oonoerts, and amateur Ethiopians, but the Ritualists of ttier Church hare also issued a programme, and agittitotoe that the services at their churches METROroLrrxii illPiovfimENTs.—A bill has been brought into parliament. and was published this morning, the object of which is to further continue and appropriate the London coal and wine duties. This bill provides that the net proceeds clam duty of fourpence, part of the duty of twelvepenoe on nal, calm, and cinders, to be continued by this act shall, except when otherwise appro priated by act of parliament, be applied by the corporation of the City of London, first of all in the completion of the Holborn Valley Im provement and other works connected therewith; and, secondly, in aid of such public improvements in or ad jacent to the city of London, as parliament may hereafter emotion. This bill extends the time during which these duties are to be collected until July, 1889. CONFIRMATION Bt THE BISHOP OF LONDON. The Bishop of London held a confirmation yesterday morn ing at St. James's, Piccadilly, in the of the Rov. Prebendery Kemp*, rector ; the Rev. R H. /Mak, rector of Bt. Clement Dimes ; the Rev. Prebendary Humpltri, 8.D., vicar of lit.Martin's-in-the•Fielde • the Rev. F. hags, M.A. of Clare-market Mission; the Rev. F. Pigott, the Mew. H. Waoe, sad other clergy. His lordship. Addressed Mho who wen p resented to him, and then ad tribe im posi tion of hands. The bishop has IBM be hold a oonfirmation atilt. George's, •••••••, en Wednceday, the 6th of May. • • won Bine Dteseans, GILT , • . , W.—Ole hundred r • ty-six patients Mieved at this dispensary • • the week ending pe i —Ate N a :Aso .14117 - 411 aut.. Iva., •. ,e . 115.33* MAI irk 64 BUCKINGHAM BALACE, MAsai 31. e Queen, scoosipanisel by Princess Louise, ont•this morning and visibed the skulk th• late Bark Merooketti, ;here her Majesty wee impaired by Red aisidiego. A. H. urea, isq., - U.P., na V. 7. Newton, Baq. Her Ilajarty afterwards drove to the Kensington Museum, and was resolved by the Doke of Marlborough and Lard Robert Montage. Her Majesty imposed the gnu =Totals lest by the Em. power of Austria ; the wooden Runic doors, from Norway, lent by the King of Sweden ; and also the gold objects from Petrone, lent by the Ronmanian government. Lady Churchill and the Equerries-lie Waiting were in attendsnoe. In the afternoon, her Majesty, accompanied by Primmer Christian, and attended by Lady Churchill, drove out in a carriage and four. The Equerrieekt-Waiting ware in attendance upon horseback. Prince and Princess Christian drove out this morning. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Duckworth, visited the Zoological Gardeer. Princess Beatrice wont to the British Museum Prince aad Primes, Christian, Princess Lonise, and Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Churchill, Ma G. Gordon, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, Lieutenant-Colonel G. Gordon, and lieutenant Pickard, wars present last evening at the Philharmonic Concert, in Hanoveraqvare. Princess Hesitates, attended by Lady Caroline Barring ton, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, and Colonel Du Plat, honoured the performance at the Adelphi Theatre with her presence last evening. The Duchess of Cambridge visited the Queen this af ter- I noon at Buckingham Palace. The Earl of Tankerville arrived at the Palace at three o'clock, and had an audience of her Majesty, to present an address. Lady Charlotte Looker and Lady Augusta Stanley had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family last evening. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen. The Prince of Wales was present at the debate in the House of Commons. In the evening the Prince and Primates of Wake were present at a dance given by M. and Madame Van de Weyer, at their residence in Arlington-street. The Hon. Charles Tupper, C. 8., delegate from Canada, had an interview with the Duke of Buckingham and Cbandoe at the Colonial-office on Monday. HER MAJESTY'S DRAWING-ROOM. (THIS DAY.) Her Majesty the Queen held the second drawing room of the season to-day, at Buckingham Palace, and it was largely attended. Indeed, for several hours before the time appointed for the admission of persons having the entree, and those to be presented, Constitution-hill, Birdcage•walk, and the road from Marlborough-gate to the forecourt of the Palace were lined with carriages, the ladies in full dress being content to sit there hour after hour in order to secure an early place on the doors being thrown open fur their reception. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Prince and Prin cess of Wales, Prince and Princess Christian, Prince's Locales, Prince Arthur, the Duke of Cambridge, and the Prince and Princess of Teck. In attendance upon her Majesty were the Duchess of Wellington, Mistress of the Robes ; Viscountess Clifden, Lady of the Bedchamber in Waiting; the Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon, Woman of the Bedchamber in Waiting ; the Hon. Horatia Stopford and the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maids of Honour in Waiting ; and the members of the royal household. The diplomatic circle was attended by the chief ambas sadors and minister', and the general circle by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malinesbury, and other members of her Majesty's govern ment. The presentations to her Majesty were very numerous. VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO IRELAND. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales will be attended on her visit to Ireland, says the Owl, by the Marchioness of Carmarthen and the Hon. Mrs. Stonor. It is nearly certain that the sojourn in Ireland will be of some days' longer duration than was contem plated when the Prince of Wales first intimated his in tention of going over to be installed as one of the Knights of St. Patrick. The Duke of Cambridge and the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot will arrive in Ireland at the same time with the Prince and Princess of Wales, on a visit to the Earl of Mayo. Lord Shrewsbury, as Earl of Waterford, is Premier Earl of Ireland, and is also Grand Seneschal of that kingdom—, dignity the func tions of which have not been exercised since the Re formation, all the Talbot. of Shrewsbury having been Roman Catholics until the present earl succeeded. By virtue of his office he takes precedence, it ie said, of all Irish dignitaries whatsoever, except the Lord Lieutenant himself. The noble earl sill officiate in all state cere monies accordingly. Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge held a levee yesterday afternoon at the Horse Guards. Upwards of ninety officers attended. _ . The Prince of Wales, Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of London, and Chief Justice Whiteside and Mr. Justice Keogh, were among the distinguished strangers who occupied the Peers gallery in the House of Com mons during the debate last evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wake honoured the Duchess of Inverness by their pre sence at disuse on Monday evening at her residence at Kensington Pekoe. There were present to meet their Royal litglinemse his Excellency the Portuguese Minister, Earl of Shrewsbury and Ladies Talbot, Viscount and Vie counted@ Boynton, Viscount Hinohinbrooli, Lord Methuen, Prince Ourroaoow, Hon. Edward Dutton, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Boren, and Sir Edwin Landseer ; and the Marehionses of Carmarthen and Captain Grey in attend muse on Use Prince and Priming of Wales. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Prince and Princess Christian, and his Serene Highness Prince Teck honoured Madame Van de Weyer by their company at a ball last evening at her re sidence in Arlingtonwereet, Piceedilly, on which occasion a very distinguished company were invited. The Duke and Duchess of Cleveland entertained a select party at dinner last evening at their reeisienoe in St. Janus's-square. The Earl and Countess of Dartrey received the Mal of St. Germane, Viscount Crichton, Hon. Mime Was Him. Frederick and Lady Adelaide Caciepie, Mr. Brig, Mr. Edward atimiley, Mr. sad Miss Harbert, Ica, at dinner last evening at their residence in Curzon. street, Mayfair. Lady Cornelia Churchill, the eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, is about to be married to Sir Ivor Brittle Guest, Bart., of Deviate, Gk. morgenshire. The committee for erecting the new wing about to be added to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moordelds, bas, in reply to a memorial upon the wildest, reesived a prompt sabeaription from the Queen of 1001. Tss Panic. OF Wasis's View.—The Northers Whig says:—" We have bean informed that an official letter wee yesterday resolved, intimating that his = I I Highness the Prince of Wales cannot come north d his spreetaidai visit to Ireland, and, oonsegasetly, wi not be fa Ykifas.." _ _ _ Lotto dOeuerws BUTZ; M.P., on CHURCH- Mara Allot:rms.—Lord Anemias Hersey, M.P., Ms written a letter explanatory of his nowt voles en this question, in which be says :—" Ansions as I am to me tlpt question of church-rates set at rest, and the eentantient and bitter feeling to whieb it has given rbe extinguished, I am _ to sopped the memory intreduesd by Mr. Hu prepared bbard, Which, as yea are doubtless aware. with Mr. Gladsbona's bill, f ecv by • difftrent assongement. I be poodbis is await the Moils of the hemeraTE housework el the latter, as the principle of both appeared bisetiod. Mr. Gladetemen bill, however, has passed tirongli committee without receiving such alterations as I am and I therefore feel myself at away to, oppose 7is further Mr. Hubbard's bill, it should' be borne in mind, the house, and stands, I be lieve, for wand reading on se salty day, and I am sot without hope that the present arson may bring &best the termination of this Inervesed queeiten." Ownraz PALacrs. 'lleraulra DAL -- Tomas, %Luca 31.—Aathdoes on payment, 1,00.; ditto by mason tarots, 1,470 ; total visitors, %St FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE POPE. The Patric says that alarming news of the Pope's health reached Paris yesterday evening ; it only " hopes " that subsequent intelligence may calm the anxiety felt on the subject. The Temps says :—" The alarming news which has been circulating for two or three days respecting the Pope's health has been confirmed by intelli gence which we have received directly from Rome, and which we have every reason to rely on. The Holy Father is suffering from an intestinal com plaint which has assumed a disquieting character." THE DIARSEILLAIEE IN FRANCE. On Thursday last the play of Ch.artes VI: was performed in the theatre of Grenoble. When the actors came to the famous strophes " Guerra cur tyrans !" the entire pit joined in with the artiste, and the passage was repeated. On leaving the theatre the people sang the Marseillaise through the streets. In Marseilles some 800 women em ployed in a cigar manufactory complained that the tobacco given them was too dry. The complaints not being attended to, they struck work and paraded the city singing the MarsciUaise. They were soon joined by men who took part in the procession. The authorities did not inter fere and the feminine emeuk passed over without any serious incident. The Journal de Toulouse reports that on Sunday last the prin cipal points of the city were occupied by the mili tary up to 5 o'clock in the evening. A demon stration was expected. The Marbetticti.ye has been sung in other parts of France also. (lama's TELLORANB.) THE STRIKES IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Aram 1. . _ Advises received from Charleroi state that apparent tranquillity prevailed yesterday through out the districts on strike, but that un derhand agitation continues. Labour has now been stopped at places where the men wsre still at work the previous day. Money is stated to have been distributed to the agitators. It was refused by the working men at Gouffre, but accepted by those at Baulet. The indictment against the captured rioters is being prepared. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MAR:At 31, EVENING. In to-day's sitting of the Rig sdag the Finanoe Minister stated that the prospect of direct tele graphic communication with Russia being carried into effect were more favourable than at any pre vious time. The Danish government would grant the required conmssion as far as regarded Den mark, and application for a similar concesaion had been made to the Russian government. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 1. It is reported that as soon as the discussion on the budget has terminated the Railway Companies Bill will be presented to the Cortes. The same army organisation has been adopted for the island of Cuba as for Spain. TURKEY. C'ONSANTINOPLE, MARCH .il. An imperial finnan for the Adrianople Railway concession will be given to the Vandercsel Com pany this week. The contractors are to commence the works fortwith from Stamboul to Tcheckmedji, a distance of 13 miles, in lieu of depositing caution money. AMERICA. The Inman royal mail steamer City of London, from New York on the 21st, arrived at Queens. town, at 4.30 a.m. to-day (April 1), with 1,0001. in specie on board. She landed mails and pabsengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.20. AU well. NEW YORK, MARCH O. The Senate has passed the bill sent up from the House of Representatives abolishing the revenue tax on domestic manufactures, with an amendment imposing a tax of two dollars upon every 1,000 dollars' worth of articles manufactured above 10,000. The house has passed a bill providing that in case of the death or disability of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Senior Amociate Justice shall act as his substitute until a regular appoint. ment can be made. The House of Representatives has resolved to attend in a body at the Senate during the impeachment trial. General Hancock has arrived at Washington. _ . It is reported that General Halleck will be assigned to the command of the Fifth . 3lilitary District. The California Assembly has rejected the consti tutional amendment changing the national basis of the suffrage. The elections in several Pennsylvania town. show Democratic gains. OUR PARIS LETrER. (TROY OUR OWN 001tREBIONDINT.) PARIS. THOWIDAY Ev EinNa. The Monittur habitually reproduces the acade mical speeches, but it has not given those of Father °retry and M. Vilet—the president—who, according to tradition, replied to the neophyte. The opposition character of both parties is said to have given great offence. As many as three pages of Father Gratry's oration were cut out by aca demicians, who thought them too strong. Among the suppressed phrases was one which struck me as singularly truthful—" The lie of peace." The Patrie, which took the initiative of insinuat ing that a dissolution was at hand, now says that the latest deliberations of government were of a character to " extinguish all rumours of such an eventuality." The Patric also gives a positive contradiction to the rumour that M. Duruy, the relatively liberal Minister of Public Instruction, was about to be dismissed. In pursuance of a silly, but time-honoured practice, the Pattie saddles "foreign journals" with the initiative of the report which it is instructed to gainsay. As a matter of fact it is right to mention that the Paris papers }save long been talking of M. de Panel' as a pro bable successor of M. Durny, and have been lamenting over the triumph of clericalism which such a change would infer. 'Captain Georgette Dubuisson, the commandant of Prime Napoleon's yatcht, the Jerome Napoleon, now at anchor off Calais, yesterday received orders to sail for Marseilles. It is pertinently inferred that the Prince is going in his yacht to Italy, to attend the marriage of Prince Humbert. The settlement at the Bourse was once inure entirely against the speculators for the fall, and when the ,40,ise des primes was over at the very highest prices of the last month, the rise persisted. Rents closed at 69fr. 40c. for cash and 69fr. 42ic. for account, with a rise of 150. mind 120. Italian rose 70c., dosing at 49fr. 40c. ; Credit Fonder rose Mr. 50e. ; and Mobilier, Ur. 75e. . -I I