The Express. — London, England, 1868-04-24 00:00:00

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It means a diminishing surplus, if not an actual deficit, and a maintenance cf all existing charges, if not a positive increase of taxation. What is life without hope? What is a financial statement when no one expects even to be disappointed by it, when that powerful element of public curiosity, the Unforeseen, is absolutely want ing, and the Finance Minister's story, if he has any to tell, is as stale as the three volumes of a serial to the monthly magazine reader who has boon devouring it, thirty pages at a bite, for a year or more 1 We have had a great variety of Chan oellors of the Exchequer since the death of Sir ROBERT PEEL, of very various calibre. Sir ORARLSB WOOD, eminently "tolerable and not to be " endured ; " Mr. Duman', who began by being inventive and absurd, and ended by being safe, decorous, and dismal ; Sir GEORiM CORNEWALL LEWIS, who seemed to find in a financial statement the one occasion and excuse for being facetious and funny, the only one of life's amusements which was not to him insufferable ; and, to crown all, Mr. GLAD STONE, who, whatever honours may await him, will go go down to posterity as " the CHANCELLOR of " the EXCHEQUER;" who, even after Mr. DISRAELI had succeeded to the office, was constantly re ferred to in debate by the title he had made his own—who made every successive Budget night an epoch in financial history, who discoursed upon molasses and methylated spirits with all the zest and abundance of a professor who is interpreting a favourite poet, who to the solidity and keenness of the Lancashire genius lent a Roman dignity and an Attic grace, who expounded great financial principles and comprehensive fiscal systems, and dissected every Libre of the minutest detail of customs or excise duties with equal plastery and equal felicity. That was the golden age, so near to us and yet so far! A year of Mr. DIBRAELI in his new form, as a safe and sure-footed financial roadster, was needed to pre pare the country for the weighty qualities of the honest, painstaking, unexceptionable Mr. WARD Runt, who, whatever may be hie dreams in moments of exaltation—does not every comic actor pine for the buskin I—deserves to be congratulated, not only on his respectable performance of an un grateful task last evening, but (we beg respectfully to assure him for his comfort) on having filled the office he now holds in days when nothing to be called financial legislation was expected by the patient indifference of the public. The House wore an air of indulgent resignation last evening which was reflected by the incurious and inani mate aspect of people and things out of doors. _ As it is more beyond the bounds of probability that Mr. WARD Brie: will be known in the annals of Parliament an the Single-Budget Chancellor of the Exchequer than that he will sasially survive to repeat the does, we beg leave to felicitate • his Shemin:War opportuneness. in falling upon an Abyssinian Gf.euirrows, who sdministered f of the Idxcazqtrza the genarents _ the additional taxation to mast &it was not in fact the fault of __ _ Nen& as Of ttre years of Tory ballasts.. Dot ths Moral public seldom grasps amee than one great fact at a time, and the gre4fiet. of the present moment is the 600,0001. a - month for the Abyssinian expedition. This la quite enough in common estimation to account far the absence of originality in Mr. HUNT'S statement. At least it bas the merit of extreme simplicity, for Mr. Flynt is not the man to extract sunbeams from cucumbers. It is almost as simple as Mr. CANNING'S famous despatch to the British Minister at the Hague. A slight adaptation and abridgment of that celebrated quatrain would make • precise and perfect resume of Mr. Braces Budget: Twopence a pound ! Twopence a pound ; Nora f+opperosa Bum. at twopence a peas& It isn't more difficult than that ! It would be unjust, however, to refuse to Mr. Burr the credit of clearness and frankness in his exposition. His sentimental regret at the circumstances which compel him to renounce for the present any further reform of our financial system, may excite a not unkindly smile. lint be has resisted the dan gerous advice from influential quarters to disturb the trade of the country by increasing the indirect taxation to defray the cost of a foreign expedition, and thus to relapse into the bad old courses, and create a new precedent far more mischievous than that which Mr. Taunts Baaiwo denounces with all the emotion of an injured philanthropist. In suggesting the possibility of future transfers of assessed taxes to the Excise he shows at all events that he is not without " ideas." And in his replies to miscellaneous objections last night he evinced a readiness and a briskness of spirit which are better displayed in answering facts and figures with confident assurance by counter-facto and counter-figures than in floundering metaphors— such as " turning our backs upon King THEODORE " and his army—l meant, of course, after defeat " —which recall the most celebrated feats of Cairrix- MAW! in that perilous department of official rhetoric. The charge with which he met Mr. GLannrowe's assertion that the added income tax was due to the augmented general expenditure of the Government was almost a formal challenge. It might be well for the Liberal leaders on the eve of a general election to take it up. Mr. Burr insists that the increase of 2,840,0001. in the Estimates within the past two years has been necessitated by the " un wise parsimony" of the Liberal Government in pro viding for the defences of the country, and by the denuded condition to which they had reduced the army and navy. Yet we have been paying some thing like 28,000,0001. a year.for the maintenance of the forces, besides the cost of the Patmearrow " fixed forts " and other follies. This is really a question, which must be met, if not in the House on the hustings, and the sooner it is met the better. The country has a right to demand economy and efficiency ; if it obtains neither the one nor the other it must know the reason why. It will not be satisfied with Mr. Hymn's imputing to Site weather the annual surplus of Mr. GLanirronz's budgets, or to King THEODORE his own deficit. Perhaps it will not be far wrong in laying more than half the blame on that general inattention to the Estimates on which we commented the other day. If the new Parliament is to be no better than the old in this respect the British taxpayer will save very little (whatever he may gain) by the change. reign of ..,.me tenor. The called "Kodarsdoes," his moderation consisted of a brutal abuse of power. He shot down, he hung, he transpdrted hundreds of .men whose worst crime was that they wee in his way. The whole tenor of his policy was repression and terrorism. Such shadows of political freedom as were left to Spain he wiped out, and it was not until the Constitution wa's destroyed, and the press readered abjectly subservient to his will, that he attempted administrative improve- ments and national reforms. While his heel was on the nation he was content to encourage pub& instruction and financial improvements, and his foreign policy became conciliatory and discreet. Btu he imported into political rule the savagery of the camp, and was, perhaps in consequence, jpref erred to his great rival, O'Doiranu., by both the Spanish Queens. That he should have also been more popular with the nation at large is • strong testimony to his manners and address. But his principal achievements are written in blood, and happily for the world, there are few modern statesmen to whom so much misery, wretchedness, and cruelty can be ascribed as to NARVASZ, Duke of Valencia. His successor, Grazim BRAVO, is DOS an outer. intriguer, and that is perhaps the beat that can be said of his career. THE income-tax collected from the general public under Schedule D next October will be at the rate of sixpence in the pound ; or, in other words, the ordinary taxpayer will feel no difference between the sum he is paying this present April and the impost proposed last night by the CHANCELLOR of the Exonsurrea. The course condemned by Mr. I Warn HUNT of making the whole of an extra income tax payable in a single half of the year, was necessarily pursued with respect to the " Abyssinian penny," which thus became a virtual twopenoe, and raised the income tax being collected now from fourpence to sixpence in the pound. The twopence Mr. Hurt propeses to add is to date from the sth of this month until the sth of April, 1869 ; and its collec tion will commence next October, and extend over the period between then and the June—or, in in cases of arrears, the October following. This rule applies to the great body of payers of the income tax, but fund-holders, officials, and others feel the effect of an alteration at once, and are mulct or relieved the first time they received their income after the rate has been increased or reduced. But the broad effect is that the 1,450,000/., which is gained in round numbers by the addition of a penny in the income-tax, becomes 2,900,000/. by the addition of twopence ; and that one moiety of this-I,Boo,ooo&.—becomes payable in the current financial year, and the other moiety-1,100,000/.—payable in the financial year following. But the point interesting to the payers of income-tax, the trades, professions, and occupiers is, that the rate they have paid or are paying this month is the one they will be called on to pay for many months to come ; and that the present demand of the collector is a sample of the demands to come from him during the same time. Tae death which places another bishopric at the disposal of the Government reminds us of a stormy quart d'heure in modern Church history. It must be said, however, of Dr. HAMPDZN that, if in 1836 he deserved the vote of censure which was passed upon hini in the Oxford University Convo cation, and the frantic opposition to his consecration which was raised on his appointment to the See of Hereford, he did his utmost in the calmer days of his episcopal prosperity to establish a character as an orthodox churchman. Dr. NewmaN himself, who was one of the first to impugn the soundness of his opinions, must have been satisfied by the hostages given by the bishop in the later contro versies of the day. The letter of Lord Resszee, informing a certain dignitary that he had received the letter " intimating your intention to violate the " law," and the scenes of excitement at the period of the election, had been almost forgotten in the interval of unbroken silence which the incriminated prelate preserved towards the world, until the COLZNBO disputes produced his sudden apparition as the champion, in their full entirety, of the views which were challenged by the Bishop of NATAL. The probability is that the deceased bishop was never, according to present ideas, really heterodox, and that the misapprehension arose rather from uncertainties of language than from any sensible departure from the creeds of the Church. • puNd 110 IT% rostra lir Majesty's rely, chapter al l fir pesialkos War kaj.st y duties ea profit' =WL Protessioss, tuts*, sad Aims, the I wiss ead dales (that is to say) :—Yor every twenty Mei. of the annual Talus or amount el all each preperty, pelts, sad pine (except them charresble nadir ineedule (B) of the said set!, the rate or duty of sixpence. And for and in roped of the owsepation of leads, Mae nads, hereditament., sad iteriteges shareable wider sehmiale (5) of the said sot, for every twenty @MUMp of the mead value tisseeet, la fraglead, the rate or duty of threepence, and in Beetland sad Ireland reepeetively, the rawer daty d teepee. farthing. Sabjest to the pint mime eentsimed is seediest 3 of the Act With Victoria, chapter 22, for the exemption of persons whose whole in• ears from every source is sutler 1001. a you, and relief of these whom lama. is ender XIX a year. " RIONIQVIR " 2. That, towards making good the supply panted to h." Majesty, ths sommimiceses at bar Majesty's Treasury be authorised to raise any sum of money not ismosding one liana pounds atseling by an nano of exchmarr Ueda "3. Thai the principal of all exchequer bone which may be so issued shall be paid off at par ►t any period not eximadlag twelve months from the ame of such bonds. "4. That the interest of such exchequer bonds shall be payable half-yearly, and shall be charged upon and issued out of the ooasolidated fund of the United Kingdom, or the growing produce thereof." Efts Court. The Queen walked and drove in the grounds yeatezday afteniooa aoompaaied by Priam. Christian, ew and h Majesty d rove oat this morning with her royal highwaa. 08BORNE,_ Aran. 23. The other members of the royal family also went out. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were mint to the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of ahica, and to the Governor.G•aeral of Canada. THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND. (THIS DAY.) (FRON 002 OWN COI DUBLIN, FRIDAY. The Prince of Wales visited the College of Physicians to-day, sad afterwards attended the flower show of the Royal Horticultural Society at the Rotunda. He was loudly cheered by crowds assembled at the different points. The royal party leave Dublin at 6 o'clock this evening for Kingstown, when the Prince will entertain the Lord-Lieutenant and a distinguished party on board the royal yacht. The fleet will be illuminated. The weather is fine. Yesterday afternoon the Lord-Lieutenant and the Marchioness of Aberoorn, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and the members of their suites left Dublin Castle for Bray, en route, to Powers court. The Prince was attired in a black frock coat, grey trousers, and black hat. He also wore the ribbon and star of the Order of St. Patrick. The Princess wore • dress of blue tabinet, with flounces of rich Irish lace, and white lace bonnet. The viceregal and royal party were accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar Prince Teck, the Duke of Manchester, &c. The special train consisted of the royal saloon carriage, and one first and one third-class carriage. The train was drawn by a powerful locomotive, which bad the Union Jack flying from it. n enormous crowd had assembled at the station to witness the departure of the distinguished party, and the train left the station amid deafening shouts of applause. The route selected was admirably devised to give their royal highnesses an opportunity of witnesaing the beau ties of Dublin Bay and the coast scenery. At Bray the railway station was neatly deco rated, and the inhabitants of the town erected triumphal arches. At Znniakerry, also, the resi dents erected triumphal arches, and similar festive decorations were to be seen along the avenue to Powersoonrt-house, along which the dis tinguished party were preceded by a cavalcade formed by the tenantry of the noble proprietor. An address was presented at Bray to the Prince of Wales by the Earl of Meath, chairman of the Town Commissioners. Tke Lord Lieutenant and Marchioness of Aber corn and the Prince and Princess of Wales pro ceeded to Powersoourt in Visoount Powersco urt's equipages. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorft and the Oenntesa Therese Berne- Weir arrived at the Prussian embassy, on Carlton-house forme, on Wednesday afternoon, from spending a few dap at Brighten. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson entertained the following select oompany at dinner on Wednesday evening, at their reddence in Grosvenor-place : His Exosllsracy the Permian Ambassador and the Counters Bernstorff and the Countess Therese Haunted!. the Earl and Countess Grey, Viscount and Visconstem Halifax, Lord William Hay, M.P., the Right Hon. the Speaker and lady Charlotte Denison, the Hight Hon. W. K. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Otto Trevelysa, M.P., Kr. W. Harman, Mr. Venahles, he. Viscount Milton, M.P., sad Viscountess Milton arrived in town on Wedniedey tram pawing the Nester ream in Paris. His lordship bee taken • ruidenee in Groavenor-etzeet tor • terms[ years. Lord and Lady Egerton el Tattoo entertained the following party at Maser lad erasing at their resi dence in St. Jaincesaquare :.-1111a Eamß•icy the Swedish Minister and Barmen Heeheshild. the Earl and Countess of Illinghana, the Osialres Itisehope, Lord and Lady Sande. and Hon. Mir Mills., the Bight. Hem Sir Hairy Storks, G.C.8., the Bight Rea. Sir Almarader Coekburn (the Lord Chief Justice of Ragland), Rea Ralph Dation, M.P., sad Mrs. Duties, Six James and Lady Hogg and Rim Hogg, Ma. Fard, Mr. Leigliboa, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Millais, be. Later in the arming k ladyship had • small and early party. Sir Henry and Lady Cotterell received Ms Ranßray t h e Panora Ambassador sad tra Orator Barrlost sad the 00110iNII Therm Busitorlf, the Earl and Counter Maven, Imam Counter Waldsgravo and the Right Bea. Cleldessior Yortrous, 1f..P., Lord Cour tray, ILP., Lord Edward Mara, ILP., sad lady Clin ton, tles Ban. lady figrawar and Kir &moor, Count P. litradadd, 0.8., Xt. William Pool, ka., at dinar last erring, at their redder, in Balgravareuro. Mr. Psreshfield intends to move in eonunitlee on Banday Trading Bill Br following mans,:—" theft in ate sot ratained Audi operate to meal or atm way el the provisions of an an pared in ileo twsalgrbili year of the nip of Erg Clarks Br Brood, intituisd 'An Asa for fro briar Observer, of the lard's Day; eesanseats sand Banday,' wart In at far as by this inworod ganaltir are ispord for oarlain violations of that ash" It is the intentiott ef Sir Bounden Abair to move ea the 10th of sat swath "That Ude home regrets VW a eels foe a pest of nosey, be Indemnity the bee preset el Vieleets for the lea widish be esolehtel by his meek. AMA bon boss nommessori by a woomose of tioe gevereet I. the legisierrve mem* of that eelesy, *ilk the sesetles sad approval i . fre 11.4•Ses 11 0 11" mat" • J . 3%5-Sllll JO& A Ariege -leasbeggieppointsd to take place on the 16th May. ♦ report has been published, dated 16th Apra, from the Consuls of Ragland, France, Greer., Prussia, and Runts, residing at Jassy, confirming apilaullissiionting the persecution and expulsion of the Jews from Roumania. SPAIN. MADRID, Aran 23, Hymnal's. The Queen has accepted the resignation of the ministry. Senor Gonzalez Bravo has been charged with the formation of a new cabinet. The funeral of Marshal Narraez will take place OD Sunday. Tranquillity prevails in the Peninsula. DENMARK_ COPENHAGEN, Aram Et. The Landsthing, by 380 votes against 13, has decided that the Municipality Bill shall be read a third time. It was explained that the object of this was to facilitate in the interval between the second and third reading an understanding being come to between the Government and the Rigaraad on the question. It is, however, unlikely that such an understanding will be arrived at. el : EXpREft s FRIDAY ' I . t l, l \ I APRIL 24 ) I. Mos , . •1. 4 , 1 - - - .. , f,l", . • - illi BUDGET. [., s !. A a :' e , . . friends • • • . Ir r lir i • I .4 T . . . ' . 2 of his •• • _,• , "' • i t the resolutions to ! •• o \ 1 • ' Milian alguatition• 70 1 .,• . • "1' ' ' ' i. 110 1 •• - I ' b 7 Ezebequer es t • N.,. ; W DAY.) 1 etred to tlla ballicz • , . — . " iIIOOYI Tas. . . cruel compassion of a sad • • • • beet the i - . " L That, tewarde raising she supply granted to •• , mum% maszaza.) rsibsimmosairstion- whis--lis- similifino"._ ___ ~ - , ..._,,- -- -- - akiiitri ihere-aall a, ars* soUssist,miti D ana The election for tr aL departmen r t R o l t . th A t i : RlL Arie ft. g mast the anticipated de- power he - at — firmi ce =t D" e sa azi ale . te 7eigi psvese rlimmeirg e o amprordeir m i 00 ,14.464 4)14 ail ed , a sam Agell, nasoviss lol, fe c l ult of Xing TEZODOM so ministries, Nanvsas and .._— , - - . ta..* as. reins of esprees• teem. Th e beat of lie axis- !fe .... desertbed e sherge,9,4 is the net paired is t i a , 6.i... ..e.4 ~...1.. ..i..... .. e 1... 161.411. SS.. AN ORANGE MARTYR. MR. JOHNSTON, the late inmate of Downpatrick jail, either violated the law and deserved his sen tence, or was innocent and should have been set free immediately. As it is, he has been treated like one who had acted meritoriously, but who a harsh law required should pass through the form of a temporary detention. To speak of his brief resi dence at Downpatrick as imprisonment would be a euphemism quite out or our reach. He has re ceived little more than apologies at the bands of the authorities, who have expressed themselves as much hurt in their feelings by his haughty refusal to find securities, and go in peace. At last, indeed, the doors are opened to him without any solicitation on his part, and he is pushed forth with Hying colours. His friends declare that this early release is simply a cunning device to deprive him of an intended ova tion from tke Orangemen. The Belfast papers Of yesterday contain, we observe, the following in structive advertisements : JOHNSTON of Ballyldlbeg Will Meet his Friends at Down Jail, On Monday, 27th April, At Ten o'clock. "so EII'HILENDIR!" Ballykilbeg House, April 22, 1868. GRAND GALA DAY In Downpatrick. In honour of Motor's Gallant Chief. The friends of William Johnston, Hag., Ballykilbeg house, beg to state they are determined to carry oot the programme hitherto announced, and to hold Ilanday, the 27th instant, as a general gala day, notwithstanding hie un expected and significant release, which be was reluctantly compelled to accept at the bands of a vacillating govern ment. (Signed on behalf of the Downpatrick Working Men's Protestant Defence Association) Hz.vraY SMYTH, Chairman. KR—A Grad Display of Fireworks will take pia°e in the Evening in honour of the day. _ - The foregoing reads like a Fenian programme, but it is not in the Fenian name. Several persona have been imprisoned before noiv for breaking the Party Processions Act, but until an Orange leader was taken we have heard nothing either of mild imprisonments, or " grand gala " days on their being set free. NARVABZ. Tear Marshal Naavuz, Duke of Valencia, should die peaceably, at a tolerably advanced age, and in the plenitude of power and honours, seems but an inconsequent ending to his stormy, unscru pulous career. The world's rewards are strangely won and strangely worn, but to those who remem ber the deeds of the blood-stained man new gone to his doom, there is a terrible irony in his Wield ing the destinies of a fanatically Christian nation to the last, and in his poring away completely master of the situation, as if FAPAILTE2O and Pant were not, and • greater that either, O'Doatsrua, had never been. It is difficult to write of NAlL vazz and his conduct with the moderation dos to the deo& Other military dictators band been THE GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY AND ITS DIFFICULTIES. The report of the directors of the Great Eastern Railway Company has just been published. This doen meet gives the result of the inquiry, which, says the Daily News, the Marquis of Salisbury found so intricate, into the financial position of the company, and it also explains the policy of the board. The general obligations of the company amount to 1,463,3821., of which 434,5931. are owing to bankers, 664,42 U. to preference shareholders as arrears, and 364,3681. to emstrectors and other credi tors. Bet besides these there are obligations incurred specially in respect of the metropolitan extensions, arising chiefly out of purchases of land, agreed to three yews ago, and the ancoure of this. mance be Mated with complete certainty. Awarding to the beet estimate the directors as make, if the works are oompleted, 3,277,0001. will be required ; if they an abandoned, as musk as 713,0001. must be sacrificed is reealea, east of convey anee, and the like. With the mama of the Coast of Chancery the directors will be able to discharge the debt of 364,3631. on outstanding accounts at the close of the half -year oat of cash actually in hand. The bankers have agreed to wept debenture stook to the amount of their debt ; and the preference shareholders will probably consent to receive satisfaction in the same way. The payment of the preference dividends for the precept year in mak will depend on the ability of the directors to deal speedily with the metropolitan obligations, by transferring them to a separate undertaking ; but the directors will In no cam recommend the issue of debenture stook of the Great Eastern in payment of the preference dividends of the present year. The directors also propose, in view of the total liabilities of the company, to miss the whole of the debenture stock authorised by the act of parliament last session; and they take the precaution to point out that if say ol the bodies whose consent is seeessary to the issue el this stock withheld their massed, the effect will be that so means for paying the creditors will be provided ; and as long as that is the case, the company mut remain in chancery. An American paper states that the French mail Meatuses the Ville de Paris and thePardese,essew-stessese, are two of the fleetest stamen on the AtlAntio. AU Chutard's paddlewheel steamers are I. be soiseeseded The paddle-wheel Cowerdem AA% ARA* AnweJ rice, sad Iflesars, have bees sold. The Asia was the' tievesth of tbe Mess poilitiembeel el* WM fa OteteriC between 1840 and 1800. Only lbw peddlwwlitwl steam* fleotia is to be rektised i lie Coma lest. THE CAPE MAIL. The Union Company's steamship Briton, Captain Kerr, with the above mail has arrived here. She brings 67 passengers, 2,7001. in specie, 1,662 packages of cargo, and 40 bags of mails. The Celt, with the outward mail, arrived at Table Bay on the 19th March. From the Equator 38 N. lat., the Briton experienced heavy gales. A head sea was in the Bay, with heavy south-westerly winds and thick rain. On the 16th ult., off Cape Infanta, she spoke the English ship Algiers, with coolies for the West Indies; on the 31st the Dutch barque Pekin, for Amsterdam ; on the 11th inst. the English barque Memento, for Madras ; on 17th inst. the French barque dean Baptiste, bound South ; the English barque Dolphin, for Rio ; the ship Welford, steering south ; and the ship Daphne, for Melbourne ; on the 22nd instant she sig nalled the steamer City of Limerick, which had hove to in a heavy south westerly gale with a damaged rudder. The Briton offered assistance which was declined. The Briton left Cape Town on the 20th March. The Governor had issued a proclamation de claring the Basutos British subjects and the oountry inhabited by them British territory. It was stated that the burghers had captured one of Moeheah's strongholds, inflicting great suffering upon the Basuto,. Governor Woodhouse started for Free State on the 19th. He was to travel without a retinue, and will be met at Orange River by the Cape Corps and the mounted police. The colonists have petitioned her Majesty pray ing for consideration in the event of any alteration in the duties on wines. The municipality of Turin presented to the Princess Margaret on her marriage • magnificent and costly casket in solid gold, and which Is also a beautiful object of art, in the Italian style of the 16th century. It is thickly encrusted with Oriental lapis-Isruli and precious stones. On the lid are the arms of the city of Turin, under which are engraved the words—" Be fortunate and dear to the country !" On the reverse in raised enamel is in. scribed—" Your native city, the 22nd of April, 1868, a day of public rejoicing." The weight of gold of the finer quality used in this splendid gift is something extraordi nary, even in these princely presents. The Monileur says that it weighs 14 kilogrammes (over 311 b.), and the rubies, pearls, and other gems number 2,246. The gift of the ladies of Turin consists of a fan in gold, set with dia. monde. DEATH or VIZ BISHOP or El EREFORD.—WO regret to announce that the Bishop of Hereford died last evening at eight o'clock. The immediate cause of death is stated to have been concussion of the brain, occasioned by • severe fall from a chair in his own dining-room, which the right rev. prelate sustained last Saturday afternoon. Dr. Cahill, of Albert terrace, Albert. gate, and Dr. Quin, of Harley-street, the bishop's medical advisers, were called in immediately after the accident. They were unremitting in the Weak', but their services proved unavailing. The Right Rev. Dr. Henn Dickson Hampden, descendant of the celebrated John Hampden, was born in Balsam in 1793, entered Oriel College, Oxford. in 1810, and took his degree of B.A. in 1813, as • Double First. In December, 1817, he was appointed to the see of Hereford, when considerable opposition was made to his consecration by the high church party. The see of Here• ford, of the annual value of 4,2001., includes Hereford shire and parts of four adjacent counties, and the patron. age consists of about 30 livings. POOR Rarra AND PAUPERISNL—This certain returns were published relating to pauperism and its maintenance in England and Wiles. The statement is THE RECEPTION OF JULES FAVRE. not one on which the English people can cougnstulste themselves. Coincident with the increase of taxation (Peon ova own coaanrommarr.) for the imperial purposes of the state there is PARIS, THURSDAY Munro. also a considerable increase of pauperism, which mast be M. Jules Favre'e reception at the Academy provided for by local taxation. These returns are tot attracted as great an audience as ever was seen on complete ; hut, unfortunately, so far as they go, they bear such an occasion. More it were impossible to say, the wan distra tim in o rlan ih d e :1 8m W en ales tati - " an o rl f , u plu a p r e rthe because every spot within the arena of the insti- rnvery crease does not a p pear to be ete d f or by the trite on which a human being could possibly be and ord i nary rate o f i ncrease in the population. Comparing' remain, sitting or standing, was occupied. The for butane°, the second week in February last with the ladies, in epic and span new morning toilettes and oorresponding week of the previous year, we find that the those fashionable bonnets which look like a mere blooms. in the metropolis Was nolwa th an 8* P it roes t e o r Ce n t patch of white, blue, green, or any other colour, In the Nnrthi in Wsatern division The lowest on the top of the head, who, to secure a good per ee rate o e t t bun% York to wasin the North-Midland place, had done the queue—that is, stood in division, where it was on l y 20 p ar cu t , but the averse a long file from an early hour—were fa- of the increase is England and Wales was 54. Comparing voured by weather. The heavy April showers the first week of February, 1868, with the corresponding ., which fell early in the morning were not repeated week of the previous year the mese increase after 10 o'clock, and these showers had relieved These returns do not, however, include lanista for 'o th las e rty the temperature from the intense exceptional heat 6ay un l i has ut ragraa al t a s alas , f orm rtaso@ only port i on of the of yesterday. entire pauperimn of the country, the Lau returns (tad. IL Jules Fevre took his seat in the Academy as in January, 1866 ,) showing the numbe r in the two claws the suocemor of M. Cousin, the great translator of to be only 30 per tent. Plato, the successful philosophical writer, the LT INIATID SLAVIN.—From a return published nun 7 . justly eminent University professor, the peer of this morning we Bad that the number of France, of Louis Philippe, and the Senator of and liberated sines Afriosss 1843 W 202,43, of troducd in w t llt umberhnee. t Indis 108,10/ Louis Napoleon. According to the traditions of Colonieswere 414pfrom the East Indies Dur i ng the awe the Academy, the invariable duty of the new period the unther introduced to the Mauritius was member is to pronounce a euloginm upon 340,070, of which number 03,076 animated from the lift his predecessor ; but the euloguim need Indies. • return is also given of the number who bor e not be slavish, and is generally tempered returned to their own countries, and as far as cool by criticism. M. Julie Fevre admirably ascertained of the amount of earnings matted 0 . 4 , their behalf ; but this return is ea and with the most perfect dignity and indepeu- C aa vern i = t : a rr e t rg n in n of little value for the purpose of dance fulfilled his teak. In the career of M. Witt idnatare derived by the lutis t sad heed . Oman he found much more to praise than to raaa TION 0 abealastrsa r BRISTOL .—'li e writ ordered blame, but he did not shrink from exposing his RIPISSWITA •—Th Wednesday for for Bristol in the House of Commons on weak points. the seat rendered vacant by the retirement of Sir thMorton, M. Jules Fevre was fortunate in being able to in- tele x tllullee accepted the Welfaidah b i? e t h l t sh s i r ' r ig of tenet his audience from the very beginning by ( vir n77 . . o w o r. ), who has axed i. e : eday ber e f o r the telling them that 40 years ago he, when an obscure neadastion. The polling will take place OR ti . lolol l crs ey student, was an enthusiastic listener of the lectures day. Thi_f_rtuals a Komoro—T. w n ee' of M. Cousin. It was to him, now approaching the w i ee i rme h7eL, h ew ta il s " say pe n, sa d • close °attest &dine of life , a most astonishing and de li ghtful ntaz , expected. Demi ow Imam —Yeeterdar Ear l Sig to find imself officially entitled to set forth lama 13 a owed haw so the R ot Hem the praises of a great thinker, whom in his youth, at cbt e h ei t e , p ee b seue , 11LP ., ea the Age al Iralshd, in an immeasurable distance, he bad reverentially Nee, leekkfterviewe at With = l 47: ge t Twe mesa has ben mush admired. emote. Me sutra se at tie seen tnikis that this is t th a s t This is the substance of his exordium. It would rrym . time fee laghleßes.lefilte Irish church ; t and eadeerment, be impoelliblekto give in time for the dailyegaping near=tll:ll7rdostitairraom Arta am=^ sad 6 b e p h. of post-ofdee box anything like a hall mar* of a I s t egiaisim adweeseed by . Gladelas• ie be be preferred. Business at Cape Town in all branches was very dull, the season was fine, and provisions abundant and cheap, which considerably mitigated the dis tress which would otherwise prevail. It was stated that gold-fields of great richness do exist between the Zambesi and the Transvaal in the Mekonos country. These fields are described as only sixty miles in length and twenty in breadth. From specimens which have been obtained from the quartz it was considered that the yield of gold will exceed the Australian and Californian averages. Port Elizabeth papers say that the native stronghold Kilme was taken by the Free State Burghers on the 22nd ultimo, capturing 1,500 horses, 8,000 sheep and goats, and 11,000 head of cattle, with the loss of only three men. The Basutoe went off in the direction of Basigo, Moahesh's stronghold. The colonial parliament was expected to meet on the 28th May. Trade at Port Elizabeth was no better and was generally dull. There was little demand for winter goods, and money was abundant. First clam mer cantile bills on London, 90 days, were selling at 2 per cent. The Bank drawing rates on London, 90 days, discount. The produce market was dull, and the prices of wool and skins were lower than for many years. IN, Aran. 24. speech which one of the greatest living orators in francs has taken several months to compose. I can only mention a few leading pinta which strike me, and translate textually a few passage s . Before devoting himself to the bar M. Jules Favre, like Lord Mansfield, had a penchant for letters : Teuiseds sat , qua me eacique panda. Talus Immo, .latorque ViZU2II velitw perma. He believed, and he still believes, in the ideal_ in the free exercise of reason " before which ever did and always will tremble those who insolently pretend to confiscate wisdom for their own personal benefit, and to substitute by force their own views for the opinions of their contempu rules." He hoped that although the best part of his life bad been passed at the bar he had not altogether abandoned the domain of letters, and referred with pride to his two eminent col. leagues—MM. Berryer and Dufaure, who were members of the Academy, as instances of the com patibility of the legal profession with academic distinction. He then, as was essential for him to do, traced the career of M. Cousin. He was born in Paris on Nov. 28, 1792. His father, a small jeweller, was not able to do much for him, bat gave him a good education, which, his natural genius aiding, enabled him to carry off the great prize of the Lye* Charlemagne in 1810. This success brought his name under the notice of M. de Montalivet, the Minister of the Interior, who at once offered him the place of auditor in the Council of State. But M. Cousin did not like the empire, and, being one of those who deny the maxim that " a good place is always good to take," declined the honour offered him. At the Bourse Rente closed almost without change. Italian rose 20c., and Mobilier 31r. The market generally was extremely quiet. ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR. HOME, THS SPIRITUALIST. It transpired this morning at Vice-Chancellor Giffard's court that a deliberate attempt was made taasseasinate Mr. Home on his return to his lodgings in Jermyn-street last night. Whilst passing through Duke-street a person made a stab with a dagger at his left aide, and Mr. Home. raising his arm, received the stab a little below his elbow. thereby saving his life. He is now in tic hands of his medical attendant. FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION OF GAS ON BOARD A SHIP. On Wednesday night, a violent explosion of gas occurred on board the schooner Concordia, Captain Sobering, of Stralsund, Prussia, which is lying in the Victoria Dock, HartlepooL This vessel had just concluded taking in a cargo of dangerona gas coal, and the captain had strict injunctions from the shippers to keep the hatches open to allow the gas that generated to escape. It appears the main hatch had been fastened down and the vessel was moved into the centre of thedock. The forehatch was open, and when the trimmers left the ship, the captain, mate, and two seamen, went below to trim the loose cargo in the forebatch. Being dark, one of the men got a candle, and a match was struck when an immediate explosion took place, and a volume of flame rent up the decks and illuminated the docks, accompanied with a tremendous report. The master and the other three men were thrown down by the force of the explosion, and almost buried with the debrii and coaldust, and the injuries of two of the men are such ' that it is possible that they will not survive. The AM itself is in a sad state ; the decks are torn up, and per. tions of them blown away altogether. • OUR PARIS LETTER. I r