The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-15 00:00:00

• 'L i j r. BRAZILIAN FOUR-AND-A-HALF PER MT. LOANS of 1862, 1868, and 1860. The DMDIIND cm these bens, which will become due on 711.1 DAY, the lit June next, will be PAID by Mews- A Y. /ROTHSCHILD and SONS, en that day and on any succeeding Monclal. HildnindeY, and Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two. Printed forms to be applied for, and the coupons left at their office three days previously for examination. Hew-court, BL Swithia's-lane, Hay 16,1880. TE PRESENT CRISIS. To MANUFACTORIES, ;WAREHOUSEMEN , and AGINTIIMeows. ALLIANDIM and WILLIAM ALL/111, ot Si, Paul's Churchyard, bereby Intimate to the above pew rally, that they are plowed to BUY for PROMPT CABH CLASSES of 000 US connected with thedr trade—ALEXANDEIt and wn.mud Au.LN, aut maroon, an., ea awd 70. BC Paul's Churchyard. SPRING OVERCOATS, for the RACES and present Season, are kept ready for we, and other articiea of gentlemen's dress made to order at HAMILTON and 106, Strand, opposite Exeter Hall. 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Murray, Shore, and ; Mira H. Marston, and Mims Z. Barnett and Y. Rodgers. LI LIEIIIL rens avywnto. A DAY AFTER. THE WEDDING. Mews. borsman, Fitzpatrick. and Clifford; Mrs. Horsman, &c.—And HAMLET. Meant Yachter Emery, Addison, Wtddicomb, Vezin, Jordan, Fitzpatrick, dc. ; Madam.= Elsworthy and C. Leclercq. BRITANNIA. TIDs srernia, THE — CtiliitlitiES MAO:MITER. Messrs. Reynolds, Cranford, and }Arwood , Miss Clara St. Came, Mn. & lale. and Mrs. E. Yarnold.—The &Muse Family.—To conchae with THE HURON CHIEF. Mr. James Anderson.. MORMATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE, Tnm DAY Aturnfng, 2h. -- Alt;tnl;i7, 2h. 28nt. TO-YOBAOW—Morning, 2h. s!m Afternoon, 311. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 15. Those who are curious in such matters have just now an opportunity of observing the process by which a people may fritter away the immense moral influence they have acquired bythe displayof high qualities and the occupation of a great posi tion. For years past this country has been re garded by the Italians as their warm and faithful friend, and our good opinion and counsel have been highly esteemed throughout the Peninsula. But our correspondent at Florence, always calm and judicial, assures us that there is at the pre sent time considerable irritation in Italy against this country, owing to the tone of the English press when treating of the expected war. When we conic to inquire more particularly what is re ferred to, we find that, as commonly happens in like cases, strict justice has not been done to us. The Italians, overlooking the expressions of good will towards them which are the rule of our press, have been strongly affected by the exceptional language in which their attitude towards Venetia is condemned. That in their situation they should be more sensitive to the blame which they did not fear than to the sympathy which they thought was their due, is so natural that no one would think of complaining of it. But the reproach they address to us is a very severe one, and cannot be said to be alto gether unmerited. It is substantially that in the affected character of friends we arc giving them counsel calculated entirely on the basis of our own interests, to the disregard of the necessities of their position. Supposing that we had done so con sciously this would be to be guilty of what man kind have agreed to call baseness. The Italians are only saying what every people of Europe have said of us truly or untruly at ore time or another. They all allege that we are morally incapable of entering into and comprehending the situation of other nations, but persistently look at all foreign questions from our own point of view. This is the sum of the criticisms which our correspondent at Florence has collected and so forcibly reproduced. We are charged with not considering what conduct is natural and reasonable under the circumstances of any parti cular nation, but how the line of conduct which that nation is likely to pursue would suit our interests. Of course this disposition is the very essence of illiberality, and the imputation of it can never be anything but a painful reproach. It would be a mitigation of the charge if, suppos ing it to be well grounded, we could account for the fact by the imperfection of our knowledge. But our Italian correspondent, after quoting the remark of the Saturday Review that it is difficult to decide whether in the coming war Austria, or Prussia, or Italy will have the least claim to the sympathy of bystanders, observes that it has been read with amazement and indignation, for "it is " felt that the amount of ignorance which alone " could excuse such a statement is impossible ; " and that it can only proceed from a heart and " brain utterly dead to any nobler motive of " policy than the selfish desire of material pros " perity—for oneself, and not even that for " others." These reproaches are partly just and partly unjust. The censures complained of by Italy proceed, after all, from a very small portion of the English press. There is in all old societies a class of persons who systematically suppress all the generous emotions, cultivate a selfish cynicism as the truest wisdom, and are ever ready to fulminate their wrath against those who, in however sacred a cause, would disturb the tran quil current of the world's affairs. The Italians cannot be surprised that such person' exist in England, but they ought to know better than to take them as the representatives of English opi nion. We can assure our Italian friends that if they will take Venetia after a short and sharp war, they will have the satisfaction of finding those who now admonish therh as culprits not only swelling the chorus of the world's applause, but claiming for themselves such credit as may be due to san guine abettors of the exploit. As a nation, we certainly shall lose a considerable sum, at least in the first instance, by an Italian war. Already the depreciation of Italian securities of every kind is se verely felt here, where they have long been in favour as an investment. But, on the other hand, it is to be acknowledged that everybody who lent money to Italy must have known well that the country was politically in a transition state, and that with out possession of Venetia the kingdom could not be considered finally constituted. In fact, a glance at the price at which Italian securities have been issued shows that this consideration was pre sent to the mind both of the borrower and the lender. Europe is now expiating in the apprehensions of a threatened war the sanction which she has so long given to a TH4, EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1E166.! crying wrong. Our capitalist& and merchants' have been too much in the habit et underrating national sentiment, and looking, supesellionalyupan questions which grow out of Al bat in limes like these they may usefully learn that only jest and natural political arrangements can afford a secure basis for the operations of international trade and finance. ' OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) place it in an isdated —i' pedge most ekkatenetive to derelogenedlof Ni prosperitred mod fatal la its weight Ines councils apA intercoure of the veld. The Stow believe@ that er 'overdose ass perfectly ettefied with, the iedeur cl the isommekettioos now bide received from France. The Emperor Napoleon is, under stood to be perfectly candid and cordial in the awnrances of his anxiety that peace should he preserved and his wil lingnessto co-operate in anyressonable measures of negotia• tion which promise to conduce to such an end. Nor is there believed to be the slightest reason to suspect the imperial government of any anxiety to take advantage of the pre sent crisis for the acquisition of new territory, or any other selfish purpose. The Post treats to-day of the evening dress of ladies. Apropos of a letter from its correspondert " Corydon," from which we made an extract in yesterday's Express. Agreeing as to the evil effects resulting from the loose ness of style both in point of dress and manner which is beginning to characterise our modern metropolitan society, the Pod is at a loss to say what is to be done. To protest as an individual is to obtain the reputation of • prude, and it requires a singular independence and a fiery beauty to ward off the charge of we know not what that is insuf ferable to the feminine mind from one who determines to attire herself according to her idea of fitness. Our sole hope is that a time will arrive when the younger ladies will not submit to the dictation of the " faster" belles, and these will fail to appear in all the sumptuous negligence of many-coloured intoxicated autumn. What " Corydon" beholds now has been witnessed in all coun tries, in all times, by a foregoing line of sad and sighing men in the doorway. Not Paris is to blame for the con ' duct of London, but feminine nature. Paris is merely ex . perimentaL London imitates her too abjectly, without the same lively power of recovery, but with greater inno . cense of design ; and that for the present must be our comfort and " Corydon's." LATEST DITELLIGENCE THE EUROPEAN CRISIS. ~ The uews brought •by the latest Conthesatal journals Wiest*, a lull in the politisal atmo sphere. Whilst all are prepared, or preparing for war, all seem to shrink from the tremendous re sponsibility of being the first to commence it. Amid the rumours of proposals for a European Congress, and of negotiations for the cession of Venetia, the information arrives that the Italian army is massed along the Po ; that the Austrian army of the North is concentrated in the district of Chrudim, in Bohemia, its four first divisions occupying the towns of Pardubitz, Hohenmanth, Leutomischel, and Landskrom, and that Prussia in addition to her regular army has issued orders for the mobilisation of the first ban of the Landwehr, and has her military staffs and stores completely organised for a campaign. The middle states of Germany are placing their armies on a war footing. Even Turkey, Belgium, Denmark, and Switzerland, though outside the immediate circle of impending hostilities, are increasing their forces. Such being the position of affairs, the populations in the countries more im mediately interested are becoming uneasy under the tension in which they are kept, and would look for a solution ono way or another as a relief. This is more especially the case in Italy, where public opinion is described as being "is a state of feverish impatience and ill-disposed to endure the delays of German formalism." The journals of the two great powers on the German aide of the con troversy continue to write with great bitterness on the subject of dispute. The Neue Freie Preset of Vienna, for example, thus speaks of Prussia : This same Prussia, the satellite of Russia during the Eastern war, which during the war in Italy exchanged fisticuffs with the enemies of Austria—this legitimist Prussia, which takes its crown from off God's altar — which. with a view of subjugating Germany and tranform- Mg Austria into a secondary Sclavo-Magyar state—makes a league with Italy which would lay German territory and German honour at the mercy of the foreigner—this same Prussia presents herself before the Federal Diet and expresses astonishment that Austria and Baxony should think themselves menaced by her policy. Does this Prussia which has twice declared that she would overrun Saxony with her troops expect to be believed when heaping lie upon lie, she affirms before Germany and Europe that the security of Berlin is compromised by the policy and mili tary preparations of Herr von Beust ! Nay, more, Herr von Bismarck, whose intrigues have entangled King William in an alliance with Victor Emmanuel—this avowed pro moter of a traitorous and felonious policy towards Ger many, who has made rapine, pillage, and violence his pro gramme, has the audacity, in the face of the Federal Diet, to identify his policy with the rights of the German nation, and to accuse the other governments of Germany with refusing to pay due consideration to the moat modest demands of that same Germany. There is no means of wheedling this enemy. Every concession would only augment his covetousness and hi:. arrogance. Prussia wishes for war. Very good. Then she shall have it, and we have but one desire on the subject. It is this, that if the cannon once roars and the fortune of war should favour Austria and her German allies, the sword shall not be sheathed till it shall be put for ever out of the power of Prussia to trouble any more the peace of Germany by her criminal ambition and her traitorous alliances with the stranger. The Coblent: Gazette says All merchandise traffic will be suspended from the 17th to the 25th May along the entire length of the Rhenish Railway, in order that it may be reserved for the exclusive use of the transport of troops and war material. A quantity of cranes are to be placed at the Coblentz station to expedite the loading of the trucks with artillery. Soldiers belonging to the reserve of the regi ments of the Guards are leaving Coblentz every day for (arenta's Trucauxs.) AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MAY 15. The note by which Prussia summons Hanover to explain her warlike preparations threatens that kingdom with military occupation, and demands that the Hanoverian government shall observe the strictest neutrality. In ministerial circles the expediency is being canvassed of immediately proclaiming the con stitution of Germany of 1849 as voted by the Ger man parliament. It is asserted that Prussia has verbally replied in a confidential manner to the Austrian note of the 26th April, declaring her readiness to enter into negotiations with Austria, with a view to the cession of Holstein to Prussia on the basis of the Gastein convention. The King of Prussia's reply to the autograph letter of the Czar has been forwarded to St. Peters burg. The correspondence which has taken place between the two sovereigns is believed to have been connected with the creation of a Duchy of Warsaw ; and it is declared that the Czar has not interfered in favour of peace. Herr von Benningsen: President of the National Verein, is said to have been presented yesterday by Count Bismarck to the King. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. FLORENCE, MAT 15. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies a debate tool• place on the clause in the ministerial financial bill relative to the imposition of a tax of 8 per cent, on Italian Rentes. Signori Torregiani and Ricasoli and others opposed the clause, and proposed its suppression, believing that it would be prejudicial to the public credit. Signori Decessare, Linaldi, and in.77aro, spoke in favour of the clause, and Signor Ricciardi pro posed that the tax should be reduced to four per cent. The debate will be continued to-day. FRANCE AND ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 15. The rumours of a prolongation of the stay of the French troops in Rome beyond the date fixed by the September convention are without any foun dation. The Nazione of to-day states under reserve that a note of the French government has arrived here proposing the assembly of a congress. France is said to have declared that she makes this proposal with the view of preventing war without, how ever, pretending to impose the mode of settlement of the pending question. The Italian government is stated to have declared, in reply to this note, that, while Italy did not decline the proposal, she would require the basis of the preliminary negotiations to be the cession of Venetia. France, it is added, has undertaken to communicate the views of the Italian government to the other powers. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Mon out owl PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The Corps Legisiatif, after a long adjournment, is to poet on Thursday for the discussion of the bill on the councils general. The Patrie reports that M. Jules Fevre will then call upon the govern ment to redeem its promise made when the opposi tion consented not to speak of Mexico during the debate on the address that another op portunity should be found for going fully into the subject. I hardly think, however, that the government, or indeed the majority of the in dependent members of the Chamber,will think this opportunity furnished by a bill having no con nexity whatever with foreign affairs. It is pro bable that the debate on Mexico, which must be very serious when it comes, will be reserved for the budget, and so the government will get another month's respite. A journal of the Maine-et-Loire, called the Union de rOuest, has received a warning for an article dated May 11, which is accused of "distorting and calumniating the intentions of government which it represents as provoking to war, whereas in fact it is at this very moment redoubling its efforts to assure the peace of Europe." The Courrier du Dimanehe has also received a warning (the second) for an article by M. Prevost I Paradol of last Sunday, which " distorts the nature of our political institutions by representing that they are not based upon liberty, and calum niates the intentions of the Emperor's government by falsely accusing it of seeking in a European war the means of internal compression." I expected that the Courrier du Dimanche would get this warning, and I must say so strong was M. Paradors article it ne Ca pas volt. These warnings do not calm the public suspicion that mischief is brewing. The Bourse was agitated to-day, and closed with a decided fall. Bente, after much oscillation, fell 30c. for cash and 35c. for account, closing at 64fr. and 63fr. 85c. Italian fell lir. 45c. ; and Mobi her, 15fr. TEI GOVRILNKILIa ESFORY BILL. The Times paraphrases Mr. Disraeli's speech last evening, finding • great deal of truth in his premises, and much force in many of his arguments, but adds that though he was so strong in his criticism, he was powerless as to practical suggestions. If the Opposition be wise, the Trees thinks, they will offer all possible assistance in disposing of the question. Some debate and division may reasonably be expected on the particular figure of the county and perhaps of the borough qualification ; the borough leaseholders must certainly be withdrawn, leaving the borough free holders in the possession of their present anomalous privi leges ; and • more satisfactory settlement of the question of boundaries must be devised than the simple plan ad vanced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It cannot, however, be pretended that these points offer in soluble difficulties; it would be possible in a single afternoon, much more in • fortnight, to arrive at a prac tical, if not complete solution of every one of them ; and, as Mr. Disraeli declares that there is no difficulty in legis lating for want of time, there is some reason to believe that the session of 1866 may see the termination of an agitation which has existed with varying fortunes for fif- L teen years. The three points in the government scheme of redistri bution—the small boroughs, the grouping of represented towns, and the introduction of the urban element into county constituencies—which Mr. Disraeli made the ob jects of his attack, are, the Daily Hews says, vital to it. The scarcely disguised aim of his policy is the preservation of the authority of the territorial aristocracy in the electoral body, and all that otherwise appears inconsistent in his criticisms and suggestions becomes intelligible and harmonious when viewed in the light of his guiding motive. In his arguments he erred in supposing that small boroughs are necessary to enable members of the liberal and learned professors to obtain election, and Mr. Cardwell showed conclusively that every one of the in stances quoted by Mr. Disraeli refuted his general pro position. In the question of grouping he failed to per ceive that the very neutralisation of personal and local influences will give special knowledge or eminence freer course and larger opportunities ; and, experience of Scotland and Wales shows that grouping is fatal to bribery, which, to be successfully managed, must be conducted from • single centre The exclusion on which Mr. Disraeli insists of all urban interests from the county constituencies is clearly dictated by the ulterior design already alluded to—the design to maintain the exorbitant powers of the landed interest. It is well that the English people should know whet the conservative idea of reform is. After Mr. Disraeli's speech there is no room for doubt on this subject ; and after Mr. Cardwell's reply to it, as unpretending as it was convincing, there is just as little room for questioning its extreme impolicy. According to the Post, the imperfect and unsatisfactory nature of the measures which the government have sub. mated for the consideration of the legislature is due to the mistaken assumption that it was before all things indis pensable that a reform bill of some kind, no matter what, should be carried daring the present year. Accordingly, ministers, in the view of the Post, would do well to be satisfied with having elicited from the House of Commons an assent to the general principles of their measures, and to occupy the interval between the present and the next parliamentary session in preparing some comprehensive bill. The Herald says that Mr. Disraeli never delivered a speech of more signal power or of greater value. That it abounded in wit, that it was adorned by the highest elo quence, we need not say. That is a matter of course. Mr. Disraeli spoke, and Mr. Disraeli never speaks upon& worthy subject that he does not afford the House of Commons and the country one of the rarest and noblest enjoyments that any man of intellect and intelligence GM desire. But the speech which Mr. Disraeli delivered last night was a great deal more than a mere oratorical exercitation. It was a development of reform principles to which even the government benches could not deny a warm approbation, and it was a crushing condemnation of the method of pro cedure adopted in the government bills. It is beyond all question, the Herald says, that the government must take back their bill or go out. If Mr. Disraeli had ever been a humorous person, the Telegraph would suspect him of poking fun at the English people in his proposals, but his address may be taken to show the nature of the attacks which will be made in committee. The government bills, the opposition may be told, will go steadily forward ; the government are resolved to carry them, or to fall with them; they will give up nothing of real moment in committee ; and before long their scheme, and no other, will be made law. Government, the Star says, have now resolved to unite the two bills ; and there is to be no prorogation until the fate of the measure is decided. We may expect some conflict in reference to the franchise, in which, if truo to their principles, the liberals will win ; but the tones will do well to close with the offer which the redistribution scheme makes them with as little show of dissatisfaction as they may think appropriate and becoming. If they refuse it they will never have such a chance again. THE LATE MONET CRISIS. The panic, the Times remarks, may be said to have passed sway as suddenly as it arose. Commerce has had its crises before, but it must be confessed that none has ever come upon us so sharply and so suddenly as that from which we are now escaping. While disposed to make every proper allowance for the conduct of the London bankers, the Times severely reprehends those whose culpable abuse of the facilities of credit led to the frightful reaction of last week, and who so far forgot the first duties and their position as to leave themselves unable to meet the most ordinary de minds of their creditors. If private and joint-stock banks keep cash balances amounting to little more than 5 per cent. of their liabilities, they have no right to expect that they can escape the consequences of their recklessness and improvidence by resorting to the Bank of England with bills to be re-discounted. In any case, if they do rely upon I such assistance, they ought to be prepared to pay the famine prices consequent upon such a general competition for what is after all a limited supply. The Times believes what the government did was inevitable under the circum stances, and proceeds to contend thattließank Charter Act keeps in reserve an amount of credit which is capableonan emergency of being applied to support the reputation of those who are unjustly suspected. The act alleviates a panic and is not the cause of it. A reservoir of water is formed to supply the inhabitants of a town, in which soon after a fire breaks out. The water is intended to be drunk, and it would be better that the fire should exhaust itself than that the inhabitants of the town should the of thirst ; but if there be more than enough of water in the reservoir to satisfy their daily needs, the surplus may properly be de voted to the unlooked-for contingency. The fire is put out ; but the existence of the reservoir is not the cause of the fire—it is the secret of its extinction. The Post says we ought not to rest satisfied with a mere escape, and it may be well to consider whether the dangerous proportions of the one kind of circulation to the other—of the comparatively inconvertible to the abso lutely convertible—cannot be rectified ; and whether or not a beneficial effect in this direction might not be pro duced by a permanent enlargement of the powers of the Bank of England. 1118CELLANEOUti TOPICS. As we are in an entirely neutral position, the Times presumes that Admiral Denman did right in abstaining from the employment of force to prevent the cowardly attack by Spain upon Valparaiso. What the Spanish go- vernment has done is not so much a violation of the law of nations as of the common instincts of humanity. Bat, though our property may have been sacrificed without any means of redress, we do not doubt:that the proceeding which we have described will be fertile in consequences of a nature most injurious to Spain and her government. Such acts tend to place • nation beyond the courtesies and con siderations of civilised life. They impress upon it • brand of inferiority which no empty declamation about historic nobility and dignity can ever remove, and they Vie Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT 14. The Queen went to London this morning, accompanied by the Princess Helena. Her Majesty travelled by special train to Paddington, and was escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars to Buckingham Palace. In attendance were Lady Churchill, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. Lady Augusta Loftus had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Duke de Nemours and Princess Margaret visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Bury had an audience of the Queen, and resigned his office as Treasurer of her Majesty's Household• Lord Otho Fitzgerald had an audience of tho Queen, and kissed bands on receiving the office of Treasurer of her Majesty's Household. The Queen presented to Mr. Samuel Popplestone the Albert Medal for his meritorious service in saving life from a wreck off the Start Point ore the lird March. This is the first occasion on which her Majesty has conferred this honourable distinction. Mr. Popplestone was introduced to her Majesty by the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. The Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty were in attendance. Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace at half-past five o'clock for Windsor Castle. Messieurs Dickinson and Tilt were honoured with a sitting from the Queen on Saturday for a drawing (from photograph). The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the Council of his Royal Highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham-gate, St. James's park. There were present the Lord Portman, Lord Warden of the Stannaries ; Sir Wm. John Alexander, Attorney-Gene ral;Major-Gen. Sir T. Myddelton Biddulph, Receiver General ; Lieutenant-General Knollys, Comptroller of the Household of his Royal Highness ; Herbert William Fisher, Esq., Keeper of the Privy Seal ; and the Earl of Leicester. Sir Thos. Myddelton Biddulph took the oath, on his appointment as a member of the council of his Royal Highness. Mr. Bateman, the Secretary, attended as Clerk of the CounciL The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords in the afternoon. Prince Alfred, by her Majesty's desire, honoured Mr. S. F. Ansell by a visit to Bernard-street, to inspect his plans for indicating the presence of fire-damp and choke damp in coal and iron mines. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, New Zealand, Tasmania, South Australia, Victoria, and Malta. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL AND HOME. —Prince Alfred has graciously consented to take the chair at a special public dinner in aid of the funds of this charity, on the Bth of June. The Prince of Wales honoured Lord Harris with his company to dinner last evening at his lordship's residence in South-street, Grosvenor-square. A select party was invited to meet his royal highness. Prince A'fred honoured the Earl and Countess of Hardwicke with his presence at dinner last evening, at the family residence in Portman-square. The following had the honour of meeting his royal highness:—The Marquis of Normanby and Lady Laura Phipps, Viscountess Royston, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, the Hon. Mies Harrington, the Hon. Chas. Barrington, Mr. Vivian, Mr. H. Mackenzie, and Hon. Eliot Yorke, in waiting on Prince Alfred. Later in the evening the noble countess had a small and early reception. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer and Mrs. Gladstone received a select party at dinner last evening, at the family mansion on Carlton-terrace. After dinner .Mrs. Gladstone had a small reception. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., and Lady Emily Peel received the Earl and Countess of Bess borough, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl Annesley, Viscount Falmouth, Viscount Canterbury, Sir Henry and Lady Sophia des Vieux, Baron Meyer de Rothschild, Mr. G. Craven, Colonel Daniels, Colonel Higgins, Mr. Payne, Mr. Savile, and Mr. Wellesley, at dinner yesterday in White hall-gardens. Miss Burdett Coutts's banquet and evening con cert, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam. bridge and the Princess Mary of Cambridge, is fixed for Friday, Jane 1. Miss Burdett Coutts'a second concert will take place on Wednesday, June 13. Mrs. W. E. Gladstone has kindly placed her house, on Friday evening next, at the disposal of the council of the Convalescent Home in connexion with the Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, for a concert in aid of the funds of the above institution. The performers will be amateurs, under the leadership of the Hon. Sey mour Egerton. Amongst the lady patronesses are the Duchess of Newcastle, the Countess of Fitzwilliam, Lady Constance Grosvenor, Lady Louisa Pennant, Baroness Ferdinand de Rothschild, the Lady Mayoress, &c. The president of the council is the Chancellor of the Exche quer. The annual ball in aid of the funds of the York shire Society's Charity took place last night at Willis's rooms. There was a fancy quadrille, the ladies and gen tlemen being in Spanish costume, the former wearing dresses of blue and red satin. Dancing was kept up till a late hour to the music of Coote's band ; and in every respect the ball was a success. The seventh anniversary of the National Con servative Registration Association was held yesterday, under the presidency of the Karl of Shrewsbury and Talbot. The report mentioned the services the society had rendered to the party at the last election in several coun ties, and the general result of its operations as satisfactory. The society, however, appears to have been much cramped for want of funds ; and besides an appeal to all earnest oonservativsa for support, it was suggested by the chairman that each of the members of the three conservative clubs should be asked to subscribe • guinea additional in aid of this organisation. The Rev. Henry Edmund Miles, M.A., has been, on his corn petition es patron, instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory of Huntley, in the county of Gloucester, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Daniel Capper. HEALTH OF THE BISHOP OF LONDON.—The Bishop of London, who is still at Hastings, has so far progrsused towards recovery that he hopes to be able to return to Fulham Palace on Saturday next, with a view to holding a general ordination on Tnnity Sunday. ROME. ROME, MAT 14. A conflict has taken place between brigands and French troops at Castro, in which four soldiers and one captain were killed. The brigands were put to flight. - SPAIN. BARCELONA, MAY 14. There is a great run on the banks of this city for the exchange of notes and withdrawal of deposits. Some suspensions have already taken place and others are expected to follow. PROD A BLS WEDNESDAY. ON NORTHERS THURSDAY. Varying winds, mode- COASTS. L to S. and S.W., mo. rate to fresh. dcrate to strong. E. to S. and S.W., inn- wzrzinui. A.E. to S.W., fresh to dcrate to strong, strong. with rain in places. N.E. to S.E., and in BODTIIIII3. E.S.E. to 8.8. W., fresh plaucs to S.W., fresh or strong. to strong. Chiefly N.W. to N.Y., UMW. but varying. mode rate to strong, hue North. Varying. fresh to strong. Western—lreland. Wales, and adja cencies. Southern—English Channel and Bay of Biscay. Eastern—Eastward England and North Sea. THE SUPPLY OF COAL.—After Whitsuntide, Mr. Vivian will move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to issue a royal commission to investigate the probable quantity of coal contained in the coal-fields of Great Bri tain, and to report on the quantity of such coal which may be reasonably expected to be available for use. Whe ther it is probable that coal exists at workable depths under the Permian, New Red Sandstone, and other super incumbent strata, and whether they would recom mend that bore holes should be sunk in any and what localities. To ascertain and report on the quantity of coal at present consumed in the various branches of manufacture, for steam navigation, and for domestic purposes, as well as the quantity exported, and how far and to what extent such consumption and export may be expected to increase. How far the increase of population must necessarily accord with the increased consumption of coal, and the relations which one is likely to bear to the other. And whether there is reason to believe that coal is wasted either by bad working or by carelessness or neglect of proper appliances for its econo mical consumption, and whether they would recommend legislation with a view to avoid such waste. Lord Houghton this evening will ask the First Lord of the Admiralty what were the instructions given to Rear-Admiral Denman with regard to the blockade of the Chilian ports. . Mr. Watlan, on Friday, will call attention to the termination of the Reciprocity Treaty, and move, " That this house regrets that her Majesty's government have failed to obtain, through timely negotiation, the renewal of the Reciprocity Treaty, and will regard with satisfaction any measures which may tend to perpetuate and extend commercial and friendly relations between her Majesty's North American provinces and the United States." The Echo de la Dordogne, in speaking of the operations of the council of revision of that department, mentions that the Perigord conscripts appeared to be ani mated by the most warlike sentiments, as amongst the inscriptions with which they decorated their flags were : " A bas les Traitis de 1815 " and " Rendez-vons des En fants de la Dordogne ear lee bords du Rhin I " The Prussian Moniteur publishes the fol lowing letter from Count Bismarck : " Berlin, May 10.—After having been preserved on the 7th of this mouth, by the grace of God, from a grave danger, numerous congratulations and affecting proofs of sympathy and good-will have been addressed to me from Berlin itself, by personal visits, and from all parts of the country by telegrams and letters. I had hoped to be able to express my gratitude directly to each individual, but I have been convinced, to my deep regret, that the urgency of my official duties will not allow me to do so. I have therefore the honour to express, by this public declaration, my sincere and heartfelt gratitude to all those who have cheered me by proofs of their sympathy, and to whom I have not yet been able to reply personally." _ The responsible editors of the ,4 venir National, the Opinion Nationale, the Temps, and the Conatituttonnel, who, as already stated, were summoned before the Corm tioil Tribunal for publishing a report of the sitting of the Legislative Body on the 3rd May, not in conformity with that given officially, have each been condemned to pay a fine of I,ooofr. • SOUTH ICZNSTIKITON MusEuN.—Visitor, during the week ending May 12, 1866.—0 n Monday, Tuesday, an Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 10,320. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (admission 6d.) from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m., 1,816. National Portrait Exhibition, by payment, 3,584. Total, 15,720. Average of corre sponding week in former years:lo,939. Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,007,845. OUTBREAK OF THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND. DITBLIII MONDAY NIORT. The Northern Whig of this d;y announces, on the authority of a magistrate residing in the dis trict, that the cattle plague has broken out in the county of Down, about 5 miles from Lisburn. Eight head of cattle have died, four have been killed by order of Mr. Ferguson, the government veterinary surgeon, and five others were ordered to be killed. A cordon has been drawn round the infected district. -(THIS DAY.) 5, 8 LIL WEATHER REPORT. TCVIDAT. MAT F.' Extrema See, RT. W. Ito ..--'-----., W. IH.II to 12 F. D. 9. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Ardrosmi 30.37,47 8.5.1. 3 2 S.S.E. b— 1 2 Greencmtle 30.33 40 8.8. E. 3 2 N. e I Valentia 30.22'53 8.8. E. 1 2 B.W. 01 0.04 2 "ape Clear—l —l - - Liverpool 30.37,47 E. 2 3 K Holyhead Penzance.. 130.30 61 SE. 4 3 W. Mc 0.331 3 Brest .. '30.24 1 2. 8. 8 . K. 4 5 W. N. W. fro 0.04 4 Lorhnt '30.20 52i N. N. 3 4 W. re 0.:2 2 Itoehefort 30.1664 N.M. 4 4 N.W. re 0.08 2 Plymouth _ 1 30.29 52 , E.S.E. 2 4 S.E. rb 0.11 1 Weymouth _ 1 30.34 49i E. N.E. 3 1 W.N.W. roc 3 Portsmouth '3O. 33 49 N.E. S 3 8. c 2 London - Yarmouth Scarborough. 10.32 401 N. 2 3 N. N. K e 0.02 2 Shields 30.33 n N.W. 3 2 N.W. c— 1 2 Helder - —I - LAW INTELLIGENCE. CTSIB DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, After Term Mud Prins sittings at Guildhall.—Met egs Justice Mellor and Common Juries.) This was the last day of the sittings. Of the four mu m In the day's list two were struck out. In the third gm consult was entered ; and the fourth case, ale ell In ith o e o rm a wh y Etio tri are n e t de zp......72 ... o . - „ f small or allejacetZtglempirtisdaa COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.) rx 111 D. W. IMMIX — APPLICATION POI ULU* The ha ma nlr i zu t, Donald Wyatt Frazer, was downy% se l a t e of in Hall, Oxford, then of Brighton, u kee el Aides Co llege, Birkenhead, then of Wish., Cheshire, then of Bt. Peter's College, so em bir s then of Brighton, then of Haveraham, in the Bucks, gentleman, now a prisoner for debt. The ti r 2/ tion wag on his own petition on the 10th %fl ea% The debts amount to 2,5001., of which 2,1091. i s dee to*, Eli Elphiok, horse-dealer, of Rose•hill-terraoe BAA L .. The bankrupt attributes his failure to his liabifity ne s bills of 1,0501. each, given for the purchase ofy ams, one of which bills wee due, and the petticoat ey unable to pay it. There are two detainers ag e i a % the bankrupt, one at the suit of Mr. El hick, 4 1 4 % al the snit of Mr. Morgan, of Brighton, for 521. Mr. linklater opposed on behalf of the detainiss ea t tors. Here was a young man owing nearly 3,0001_ ta i t a a creditors wanted to know something more about Mid. % On that ground he asked that the release should le i% granted till after the choice of assignees. Mr. Manna, who supported the applicat ion, stated flag there were several very valuable horses in the pe am s of the detaining creditor, and the bankrupt's eervioe es necessary to secure their being made availabl e fat Ai creditors generally. His Honour observed that nothing could be f e y towards realising the property until after the eleek% si 4ees. r! Linklater said that horses were very aped % things to and be it cowasulddoso to ad probable that van his chest ‘, dimp 4 of kee th i e , ifm His Honour suggested that some arrangement beugh for the disposa l e of the property. Meantime the ssei la tion for must stand over till after the dam s d motivates. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOLTSE. conarrAL OP ♦ CITY MERCHANT FOR nun. Mr. Henry Newbury, who lately carried on bonnie • s merchant in Pudding-lane, in the City, wu this tan* brought before the Lord Mayor, for final cstieliss, upon the charge of unlawfully misappropriating s hqr quantity of boots, valued at 730/., which had beessstmisil to him for safe custody as a bailee. Mr. Humphreys attended on behalf of the premed% and Mr. G. Lewis for the defendant. It will be remembered that the boots in gar:W(4,l4Si were originally intended for the use of the Coafeinsis army, had been purchased by Mr. Austin, a banislir, a speculation, and during the time required for big a purchaser they were placed in the charge dth defendant to be warehoused, the property being &fives* to the order of the prosecutor only. When an ROM S. was about to be made for the delivery of the boots, it ms proved that the defendant's warehouse was closed mils was found to be occupying other offices at Beaty House, Bishopagate-etreet. The defendant this idol that ho had sold the boots at le. 3d. per pair, sad Is intimated that he had done so under the sulk* of Captain Warwick, who had acted so the hpal of Mr. Austin in the original purchase. The delmissi afterwards absconded, and was not discovered until A* a month ago, when Monger and Webb,two of the Qtydeim Lives, went to a house at Hackney, where they fosad dl defendant concealed in a cupboard. The defendant, in answer to the formal anti* 113 that he was entirely innocent, and ho was then cosithitsl for trial, bail being, however, taken for his appowsma himself in 500/. and two sureties in 2543 t. each. MARLBORO 1; GH -STREET. PERIOUSLY WOCNDINO A HUSBAND AN!) 11171.. William Hill, of 4, Hanover-place, Oxford-street,tnlor, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with violently wadi* Matthew Dwyer and Ellen Dwyer with a poker sad Morel Matthew b, Daer, whose left hand was badly Moil right arm ed from the wrist to the iliciektert being badly woun d ed, said—The prisoner is the landlord!! the house. I live in No. 4, Ilanover-place. Mat o'clock last night, while in company of my wife, I kamisl at the street door, wanting to he admitted. The primer wife said I was a nuisance. I said I should not be if M would give me a latch key, and I then asked is see the prisoner so that I might ask him for a key, whit the prisoner came into the passage, and said "Too hi better go upstairs, or I'll use the poker, the tame& have done to others." I said You had better lot, e perhaps you will get more than you barpia for.' •fhe prisoner then gave me three blows es thi back with a poker. My brother-in-law seised tb poker from the prisoner, and the prisoner the ran into the parlour and took up the fire shovel, sad ce my left hand with it, and afterwards gave me three sores cuts on the right arm with it. My wife was also initial I was taken to the hospital, as also was my wife, odds prisoner was taken into custody, I have four ehildres eel plenty of work to do, but can't do it, owing to the Wilde I have received. Prisoner—Did you not knock yourarm throughtlm ewe Prosecutor—No. Prisoner—l did not have a shovel. Prosecutor—You did. You took it out of the Imam Ellen Dwyer, wife of the last witness, here stepped i 44 the witness-box (her right arm bandaged and bah"' juredl—l saw the prisoner with a poker in his hand ifinl to strike my husband, and in trying to pull myhaiblaml away the prisoner gave me several blows on the right's; but I cannot say whether it was done with s poker Off shovel. I afterwards went to the hospital, and the lithe said he was afraid I should lose my arm. There are Ares wounds and a large piece of the flesh cut out. After some further evidence in corroboration, constable Redford, 342 A, said—After taking the port into custody and the injured persona to the I went back, and in the prisoner's room I found h ati and poker with blood on them. Certificates were handed to the magistrate fres Se Middlesex Hospital, describing the injuries the prttO had received. The prisoner was committed for trial. SOUTHWARK. /ALM CHEW EA. Soon after Mr. Woolrych had taken his mat ea III• bench, Mr. S. Myers, the watchmaker and jeweller, !d• joining the railway bridge, Newington-causeway, IBM to him for his advice under the following circumstances: Mr. Myers said that on Saturday night lad a •6 8 ' dressed man entered his establishment and asked is ks shown some silver watches. One of his assistants **said to him, and he ultimately selected one of the Ishii it Gt. tis. He then said to the assistant that he had notlil% but a cheque, and asked him if they took such thiap a payment. The assistant replied that they did mem times, and requested to look at the cheque, wbea gentleman handed him a cheque on the Western Beak London, for 12/., drawn by Walter Harris in faros! Ann Bennett, dated April 29, Isl 6. altered frog 1 01 0 Applicant was oommuncated with, and having Nome 11 cion about the draft as well as the person who pram *I he told him that as he was a stranger to him he ecaldWa be offended if the watch was retained untilafter tbeckat was presented—that is to say, Monday morning, who.'" could have it with the difference in the amotud. The party seemed very much annoyed, and wished to bars cheque back, but he declined to restore it, telling bial would have the watch and chain ou Monday. He tbm the shop. On Monday marning applicant proceeded to* Western Bank of London, and on presen ting the ebegat was told that no such person as Walter Harris kept (I_, any time kept an account at that bank. Applic ant reW' home. In the 4:01110 of the evening he was surprieed_ ceiving a letter from the party signed Walter khan.... requesting him to send the watch and change to the Wl* Horse, Loughborough.road, Brixton, as he was tumble* come to town. Of course he did no such thing, " satisfied that the party was a swindler. He , ths** attended before his worship to ask his advice, sad 51 4 ., particularly that publicity to his application sheen,: made by the press with a view of putting a stop is attempts at swindling other tradesmen. Mr. Woolrych told him it was evidently an MAIO, swindle him, and a warrant might be obtained far "" man's apprehension. yi Mr. Myers thanked his worship for his ettent** . left the court for the purpose of consulting his saki* the subject. WANDSWORTH. THZ C.ASZ OF zuostma A CHILD Q HANDSWOITH. 0011 MON. of having no home, r""rd was' broughtbe Years fore w M h* r. I vAg n6sm d fo examination on the charge of unlawfully abandonmi. exposing a ehild, being under the age of two ra f t whereby the life of such child was endangered. The case had stood over for some time for the one* tion of the depositions. Richanl Davis, coachman, at Burntwood 1 10 1 Wandsworth-common, stated that on Saturday night , " 21st ult., he was walking along a path near some cal:: in a field about a quarter of a mile from the rails's , at Wandsworth-common, when he heard the eryirf child. He looked into the field, and saw • 621E 11 0 1 upon a piece of flannel among some cabbages• took the child to the poliee-station. tedlh 4 In answer to questions, the witness further eta „ there was no person in sight when he found the Chia &A time of 'Wait was Emma Bee m id that on rimier ID° okild in hor 1 yaws,' lirdl! ' • ' 0 - O -• Lionel pro 1oft ) sad ths sail would 1 • h a down = @hoofs el ci ‘ book Val* co ti hat ue bans. m 1.144664 ' ' Sum Pas = r e " i t h e oh o ll n i r l i : asi f i Sr. Ineu ifnak 1 ism b ett rough r44.2erieL__ It appear e net at ft *bin corn WO out o bed with he a a lauudr working a f queuee of covered Cu articles be' bar, as the house, easelou we' father, holi politan rail bia advice, that the him from t The cow prisoner ha Police-omit entor not a made, he f been allow value, ma belonging taken her had, on at in the Ol destitutim and he, pi lodging II sem daily twining a leaner sad pans and In *nog isid he di d the pen be sent to Mr. Tr to a refon liPech however, tutions, a dozen d the articl her plea c priaonme much sev _ The pr then rein FATAL UND. 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