The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-26 00:00:00

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MJM Snowdon. PRINCESS& TROI Raminne, A anon IN SPITZ OF NIISULLY.—Attor winch TILE STRRITS OF LONDON. Siam Plain& T. Mead, la Murray, Shorn sad VllUars: lira. B. Mandan. and Muss E, Barnett and U. &Arm ITINOM B UR S/HZ lll.-11Has Bram Het , rldna.—llaarAir H. Bandara...4ll2 SCOTTISH CHM. Mr. James Andaman and MIN 8. Mliaa.—With WHERE SHALL I HINE! HEM WATIZ AT LONDON...I=DM T 1 DAY ltaralai. 10b. 14m.—..A.Derasea. 1011. Mk TO-1601110W ••• Morals.. DD. Wm .... Atiamora. Ob. Qua. LONDON, MONDAY, MARLS 26. Tsui byegone resolutions prohibiting members of Parliament from voting upon questions affecting their personal interest should escape remembranoe is not surprising ; but that Parliament should dis regard enactments passed only last year, framed to regulate its own proceedings, is remarkable ; and is in many ways to be regretted. This forgetful. ness is shown by the many motions, of almost nightly recurrence, designed to throw out private bills upon their second reading. Last year this mode of opposition was an unfortunate, but not a self-stultifying transaction. The canvass by the agents in the lobby and the benches of the House of Commons, crammed not to promote the welfare of the nation, but the supremacy of one commer cial undertaking over another, was never a creditable sight ; nor was it ever satisfactory that railways should thus wage open warfare against each other in the House itself. Moat of the votes also given on such occasions were against the spirit, many against the letter of express resolutions in tended to restrain the prevalence of partial influ ences in Parliament. Decisions, however, of this nature, inspired by such motives, were last year to beiregretted only because of the misconstruc tion and the feelings of distrust that they inevitably occasioned. Now, of course, these proceedings are not the less inherently objectionable; and they are the more indefensible, because they nullify the operation of a statute passed last session, and be cause its provisions are an additional reason why Parliament should refuse to entertainthese motions. The Private Bill Costs Act is the statute referred to. It is set aside, and the remedies it offers are made fruitless by the rejection of these bills on their second reading. This Act enables committees to punish the vexatious promoters of an unjusti fiable measure by enforcing repayment at their hands of the expensestheir proceedingaentail upon others. But the persons they have thus injured are of course debarred from this advantage if they an I prevented from appearing before the committee. Nor is this an inappreciable loss, even when the bill stands for its second reading. Opposition must be organized when the attack begins. The committee room is certainly the culminating point of the parliamentary contest ; yet as soon as notice of the meditated invasion is received, solicitors and agents must be set to work and counsel retained. This is the injury, and it may be a very real one, which a hasty rejection of private bills may inflict upon the suitor. And, passing beyond his interests to that of the whole community, no better restraint could be obtained against the re pealed re-introduction into Parliament of ill advised measures th►n is provided by this Act. If the bill be indeed an unrighteous job, so glaringly obnoxious as to justify Parliament in putting summary arrest upon its progress, a com mittee is as open to conviction as the House itself, and is also now empowered, as we have stated, to charge upon the promoters the heavy bills of costa which the persons whom they have harramed have incurred. Undoubtedly the annual rejection of private bills has often been followed by their annual re-appearance before Parliament. Hitherto this has not been a very unsafe venture. If thrown oat on the second reading, even if thrown out by the committee, the cost it entailed on its opposers was far higher in proportion than the expenses risked by the promoters. The terrors thus created were not unmarketable. This specula tion must, however, cease to be profitable if the " Costa Act "is firmly applied. No purse could often supply the whole outlay, the expenses on both aides, of parliamentary litigation. Even the game of " heads we win, tails you lose," that has been so long played in the committee rooms by the great companies might by this means be effectually concluded. The protection, however, afforded by the Pri vate Bill Costs Act to the suitor is not, valuable as it is, so valuable as is the protection it might afford to both branches of the legislature. If its scope were properly understood, it would guard them from pronouncing decisions to which they are swayed by the personal, self-seeking bias of their colleagues; from making the proceedings of the House itself the battle-field of rival commercial speculations. Experience shows that neither sense of their high trust, nor respect for the rules of Parliament, will prevent members from advocating there by speech and vote, their own pecuniary interests. Yet it is impossible that the majority can willingly suffer such a misdirection of their power. ; nor can they willingly endure the mis conceptions that these actions must occasion. And this act undoubtedly supplies means of escape from the director-led (audition to which Parliament is tending; it furnishes an unanswerable argument wherewith to rebut these interested solicitations— namely, that sot only will a committee scrutinize the details of the olmoxionaßill far more dispassionately and critically than mold be accomplished by the House ; but if the scheme be as objectionable as it is described, its rejection will be accompanied with the severe penalty of repayment of all the costs it has occasioned. THE The T Yr. Gladstone' male et meet wil slope, is aka ;wet moat be cam of with due allowed to be Wooed in their bserloge all in order to settle sae portion of a reform of which by far the more important portion is to recta twinged. It is not too meth to say that the tut is impossible. With thorough impartiality sad with no other view than to seenre ventilation, the rimer throws out the sug gestion that the till might be treated as pri vate bills are sometimes dealt with, wanly, after Mint eompleted at the end of July by the addi tion of the redistribution of seats, that it be suspended and resumed the next session at the same point. But the Times doe , not diorama that there is no real necessity for either attempting a reform of parliament within twelve days, or stretching it over two or more sessions—it is hard to say which is worse. It is the humble opinion of our smut unporary that the saltiest can wait a little, and that governmeut, without much further loss of credit, amid as a respite to next session. In another article the Times gives the substance of report just lamed by the Amalgamated Society of Car penters sod Joiners with the eiaw ol pointing oat to poli ticians the spirit of trades unions, what they can do in the way of organisation and oombinatioa, what they canton plate, what they accomplish, and on what principles they sot. _ _ Th. Daily News remarks that the boldner of the govern ment has justified itself. Waverer' hews been bcosght back to their standard, and the great eositltneeelle, so speeding to Mr. Gladstoaes appeal, will make their pur pose heard in unmistakeable tones before the second reading emus cm. The fruits of Kr. Gladstaaes address =Xi week to his eenstilwents sad the straightforward pokey of the government will doubtlessly be conspicuously apparent at the meeting of liberal members assembled by Earl Russell on the 10th of next month. The amendmests have dwindled to two, which are to be appropriately totem ' mended to the hones by Earl Grosvenor and Mr. Darby Griffith. It is significant that the represen tales of a great whig house should lead the op position, not seeing that if the groat families eel wish to rola this country they must do so by keeping abreast of its largest views and highest aims. The late speeches of the monk premineet representatives of the aristocratic principle almost force the conviction that politically speaking the English nobility are declining below the level of their office, and think and strive more for the advantage of their order than for that of the nation at large, of which they haws ceased to be in any special sews the representatives. To men like Lord Cranborne, a oat opinions example of this deterioration, the ideas •nd the language which spring from the acknowledgment of a common interest in • common country are sentimental and rhapsodical ; but if the English aris tocracy is to load the people, it must bring itself into biz moay with their mind and feeling, by aiding the growth of public liberties and the promotion of enual rights. Opp*. talon to reform, and especially opposition to it In the selfish and eoatamptuosis spirit which has been displayed by the tory party and its half-liberal anise on the liberal side of the house, is, Lord Grosvenor may feel nesured, the certain way to reduce his order to social and political hisignifioenes. The Post again dwells on the memory of Lord Palmer ston, to whom its readers are referred in every discussion of political importance. The deceased statesman, the Post says, weal the guide and guardian, counsellor and friend of the nation, and all wise statesmen will make him their model. He, it seems, would not have approved of the course which the ministry are panning. The bill will survive the re oses, and then be decently interred, and the only epitaph the Post says, suitable to be inscribed over its remains is one furnished by the verdict of a jury ea an Irish coroner's inquest :—" The child was found dead in a cabinet, having been born alive and never breathed, and it died immediately after Nude for want of proper oars and andstaaee at the time of its birth." The Post further complains of the soant respect and petulance with which Sr. Gladstone has treated the house. If the reform question is to be settled az a safe bans, it can only be done by a new administra thm. The Herald ridicule, the embarraimsmeat of those organs of opinion which appear to draw their information from the non-reforming section of the oabinet. Their anxiety to keep the present ministry in office is only equalled by their desire to get rid of the unlucky project on a hie& that ministry has professed to stake its existence. It is not every liberal who occupies so independent a position se Earl Grosvenor, and the unfortunate beings who reoognise the soundness of his amendment are puzzling their brains to find some plan by which the ministry could continue in office although the amendment were agreed to. It seems to the Herald impossible that any person in his senses can sup pose that a ministry which bad stooped to accept mush a negation of what they bad proclaimed the first necessity o the state, could continue to enjoy the confidence of the country, or to represent the nation In its dealings with, foreign powers. The Herald also centred. the cha racterieties ad the reform movements in France and England. In France people are not allowed to talk about reform, and imeseqnimtly think the more. Hero the ministers have talked more than anybody else about the subject, but it is becoming painfully appa rent how little they have thought. At Paris minister, ' I have to combat a desire, which is allowed no voice out side the chamber, for an amelioration of their practice in certain specific details ; at Westminster the cabinet seek to stimulate a demand, which finds no echo outside the walls of parliament. The Telegraph reviews the debate of Friday night in • Ulnae extremely friendly to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer and condemnatory of his opponents. The govern. meet, it says, cannot fight the battle alone. Unless the nation support them vigorously and manfully they will be overthrown by the hostility of avowed enemies or the treachery of false friends. Therefore, agitate. Petition, ought to come up from every lugs constituency in town and country, shoeing distinctly what the unrepresented classes think of the government measure for their enfran chisement, and every town in the kingdom mishit, if parti ble, to have its reform meeting between the present time and the 12th of April. The Star thinks so considerable a champ in the situation has been produced by the aanoneeement of Friday right that it is doubtful whether Berl Grosvenor's motion will ever reach the dignity of • division. The government has now a splendid chance of introducing a redistribution mea sure, which will settle the question for the present gene ration. THE LATE WENS KAM MOUE. The Poet describes the ex-Queen of the French as a lady without ambition, and one possessing the simple desire of fuldl/ing the duties of s wife to her husband in whatever position it might please him to sesame. She could be, and this she most of all preferred, the quiet, unostentatious mother, solely engremed with family cares, or she could be a Queen. If she has ever repined at what some might deem a cruel fate, those repining never escaped her bosom. At Olaremost there wss no mock court ; still less did its in- mates indulge in intrigue. The princes of the house of Orleans may permit themselves to hope that their exile Men France will not be perpetual, but it must be admitted that they do net give expression to those hopes, still km do they skive fee their reelhation. Bat if they have thus won far themeless the regard of the people with whom they have taken up their residence, this result must mainly be ascribed to the education which they received from the deemed Queen. The Herold observes that the ex-Queen has enjoyed but a 1 1 few weeks the hospitality of the Queen of Ragland and of the English people. She had consented on Slag Leopold's death to meek ft Claremont on condition that she sieve ehoold be at the expense of keeping it up. Before perils. runt has had the opportunity of considering the matter the ex•Qaeea has died, and Clarement, therefore, will at owe be av►ilable for ber Majesty or some members of her family. It wee a matter of ordinary oonrtesy—we might say, me imperative obligation—to place it at the disposal of the venerable lady who had resided there so long as the tenant of King Leopold ; the offer of it to thy members of her family would be susceptible of a disagreeable inter pretation. The Tdnyraph thinks that even the opponents of the Orleans cause must be glad to remember that the outward circumstances of her last years were singularly free from discomfort. The last time she appeared in public was at her grandson's marriage ; and those who were present are not likely to forget that worn, colourless face, that look of usutterable sadness. that air of command. surviving the decrepitude of age, which characterised the lady whose demise we reoori to-day. and ancembled in the Bow Below. The QOM, aftetnpanied by Princess Helene sad Prin. one Loan, entered the White Drawing-roan shoal, Alta 12 o'clock. The derdatton—oossisting of the Archbishop of Gutter bury (attended by hie chaplain, the Bev. Henry R. Lloyd), the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of My, Dr. Twies (Vieer. General), Mr. F. H. Dyke (Bights.), and Mr. F. Knyvett (tnparitorGeneral) from the Upper House and the Prole. outer, the Dien of Westminster, Aroirclesece Hale, Arch. deacon Clarke, Owen Hawkins, Canon Harvey, and the Bev. Ashton Oxendon from the Lower House—wee intro. &reed by the Lord Chamberlain and presented the address to her Majesty. Her Malady received the sddreu, and returned = gracious =ewer. The Archbiabcp of Oanterbury, the Bishop of Oxford. and the Prolocutor were severally presented to her Majesty by Sir George Grey, and had the bon= of kissing her Ma• jeety'sterol The deputation then retired. Prioress Beanies, attended by Lady Caroline Barriagton and Colonel Moppets, honoured the performance at the Lyeeum Theatre with her proems last evening. The Prince and Prinoess of Wales ,dined with the Queen and the Royal Family. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prioress Helena, Princess Louise, Prisons Beatrice, and the Princess Hohenlohs Laegerthourg, left the Palace at 10 minutes before 1 for Windsor Castle, and was assorted to Paddington by a detachment of the 14th Humors. Prince Leopold, attended by Sr John Cowell, met her Majesty at the railway static., and accompanied her to Windsor. The Queen has appointed Lieutenant Walter George Stirling, of the Royal Horse Artillery, to be Governor to Prince Leopold, in the place of Sir John Cowell, who ha been appointed Master of her Majesty's Household. The Queen inspected yesterday, at Baron Marochetti'm studio, his model for the Metre al the Prince Consort, for the anima memorial in Hyde-park ; and also one of the bronze lions, derived and met by Sir Edwin Ladner, for the Nelson Monument, in Trafalgsrequare. Lady Waterperk has enomeded the llarchionese of Ely ss Lady in Waiting to the Qum. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 25. The Queen, smompanied by the Prisoess Helens. Princess. Louise, Prime= Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbrarg, arrived at the Castle yesterday, at a quarter before two o'cloek, attended by Lady Waterpark, Lady in Waiting, the Hoe. Mr. Bruce, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hoe. Mary Lueelles, and the Equerries in Waiting. The intelligues of the unexpected dealt of the venerable and highly-esteemed Qum Marie Ainslie, who expired at Claremont yesterday, wee received by the Queen and the Royal Family, with whom she was connected by so many ties of relatlouship as well se of the sincerest friendship, with deep regret. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Helena and Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. hire. Brace, Major-Guend F. H. Seymour, and Colonel H. Pormonhy, Equerries in Waiting, drove to Claremont this afterooou, and paid a visit el condolence to the afflicted family of the late Qum'. The Queen, Princess Helena, Prince Louise, Ninon' Beatrice, and Princess Hohealohe of Luneburg, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended d service this morning in the private chapeL His Grace the Arch. bishop of York preached the sermon. The Archbishop of York, Leib , Susan Melville, and Lieut. W. J. Stirling, Royal Horse Artillery, arrived at the Castle yestarday. The Prime of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, hunted with his harriers neer Winds): c n Sator. day. The Prince's of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hos. Mrs. F. Stonor. The Prints, ant Princess of Wales, with the Hon. Mrs. F. Stonor, sod Lientenant-Colonel Keppel in waiting, attended divine service at the Chapel Royal St. James's, yesterday. The communion service was reed by the Rev. the Bab. dean, and the Rev. Thomas Hebnore. Anthem, " Who Is this r Arnold ; sung by Megan. R. Barnby, Carter, end Lawler. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, from St. Luke, chap. 23, v. 43. . . At the councillheld by her Majesty the Queen at Bucking ham Palace on Saturday, an order was passed extending the prohibition of the movement of cattle by railway. Another order was also passed (to take effect on and WAN Wednesday next) to prohibit the importation of cattle and sheep from liollind. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour ablePrivy Council met in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, at 1 o'clock on Saturday to consider certain matten relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present were—the Lord President, the Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley the Right Hon. T. Miser Gibson, the Right Hoe. H. A: Brace, and the Right Hoe. G. J. Goechen. Mr. Baring wee also present. Mr. Helps (the Clerk of the Council) and Mr. Harrison (the Deputy Clerk) were in attendance Colonel Harness and Mr. Thring also attended. A Cabinet Connell was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent ware—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatehes were received on Satur3ay it the CoJovial office from the Governors of the Care of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. At the court held by the Queen at Buoiriagham Palace, oa Friday last, Viscount Castleman wee presented, as appointment ma lord-lieutenant of Kerry, by Viscount Sydney. Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. Eliot Yorke, left the Obaring-erees lerminos on Saturday even ing for Dover. on his way to visit the Doke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg Goths at Coburg. His royal bighead's is not expected to prolong his viait to Germany beyond a month. Duke Philip of Wartemberg and Marie Thdrese Duchess of Wurtembexg arrived at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday from Paris, and received the Tint of their august relative', the Count de Paris sad the Duke do Chartres. Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right Hon. Cbioherter Porteous,. LP., rewired at diluter on Saturday evening the Prussian Ambassador and the Conn teas Berostorif, the Italian Minister, the Spanish Minister and the Marchioness de Molina, the Duke sad Duchess of Argyll, the Earl and Countess Dudley, Lord. Dufferia, Lord sad Lady Edward Clinton. Lady Moksworth, Lady Same Vane Tempest, the Right Hon. Sir Hamilton wad Lady Seymour, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Ex chequer and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. Leyard, M.P., Mr. Wit limn Harcourt, M. dm Robe*. he. Later in the evening her ladyship gars her first asnemb'y this season, which was munerottaly and fashionably attended. The Solicitor-General and Lady Collier reeeived at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence In gatcs.ph:os, the Attorney-General and Lady Inure Palmer, Mr. and the Hoe. Mrs. Graneille Vernon Har. court, Hoe, Mrs. Norton, Han. Ashley ant Mn. Pon- Booby, Mr. sad Mee araminghant, Lord Healey, w.p., the Marquis Fortnnalo. the Right Hoe. 0. P. Mien. M.P„ sad Mr. G. Maw Lefevre, M.P. Her Indyaltip and family hive town early is the week fat Grimetwee, fee the men% ,AGF;SCE. tlir;l7l3BLL longer possible ; the pa's- Gaidat• Oriaysstkat , paralysed, sad diplosessy this oonti•asd tiseartainty. armies smoillimed, d tee- Wawa, pot he • state of *es sad esetersk Are wo thirty years or &soden el sirloin joareals In Afoot so. BIMII, in spits of preparatians so waist's* that two peat Powers sat•po•laa, hemp so will on account of • paltry ambition or an exaggended ease of honour, toreprontiw the rearal pease of Europe. Before adopting extreme mama, Andra and Paula may sub mit their Materna to the diadem of the federal diet. mr, if this diet ispow but a rare name, they may with ad lerstege have mane to the Eames& nevem that is now sitting in Paris. Unlcatunstely 'history affords but few examples of preventive =grams : that description of diplomatic oonneibi generally sparks only after the riff ista ratio mum, the cannon, has spoken. The New Free Press says : We learn from a well-informed aurae that Herr Von Bismarck recently declared to the Austrian Ambassador and to the repressniatives of the Western Powers in Berlin that Its would abide by the Convention of Clatein, but at the same time he intimated that he proceeded on the supposi tion that Amp& would swept the Pravda& interpretation of that treaty. As the question at bone is the interpre tation of the treaty, the latter suppallion destroys the importance of the former declaration. The Publicist of Berlin says : Austria, with her arrogant Hama with her intractable Cracks, her soldonol &dare nationalities, is simply Austria ; the will new be • German power. But this is exactly what Prussia I. If Pram& at the end of • desielve war bad to seek for her centre of gravity elm where thee at Harlin, it would be at Presided., end once there the flagstones of Vienna would not burn the salsa of the Prussian Oreneddes If Austria were u wise as she is blind she would perosive that Prod• has We time fortunately gone too far to reads ; that she must, if needs be, stake her whole existence in conquering that which Andra will not cede willingly. Prism* notwithstanding her internal em barrassments, is in • better position than she wee lb years ago, Austria In • far wens patios. If people ►t Vienna persist in keeping their eyes chat, if they cease to be modest and just towards Prima, good ! Let fate and force► then to deckle whether Hada or Etnlpberg is to be the costae of gravity. To the above article the New Pro Press repllei The victories of Dilppsl and" Alms seem to have so anted the heeds of certain peruse is Panda that they believe themselves invincible. This PRIM* whom • happy destiny has preserved from all the storms which have agitated most of the great States of Europe, who owes be prosperity to a fifty 'yam' peace, who has always had the knack of cooking her soup on the fire which burned her neighbour's home ; this Prussia. all whose military =pelisses for the last fifty yews has mos sided in a campaign with the Grand Duchy of Bade., an affair at liserunds, and a cannonade at Duppel, In all of which she Diet fewer men than Austria in the single battle of Oversee, nevertheless anumes the air of h►ving con quered net only Denmark bet Austria. This Prussia, whom fate has hitherto preserved, must have become very presumptions indeed if she does not strain from a war In which, al the Publicist truly aye, her whole existence -411 be a stake. CONCENTRATION OF RIJIMILAN TROOPS. A oommunioation to the Cede from the banks of the Dniester says that 60 battalions of infantry, 26 squadrons of cavalry, and 98 pieoes of artillery, are en echelon, and within three days' march of the Austrian frontier. Moreover, 23 battalionsof infantry,2o squadrons of cavalry, and 140 cannon are concentrated near the railway station of Balta. These troops could enter Moldavia in three days by TeropoL The district officers have received in structions to be prepared with the means of trans port for the troops, in case of their entering the Danubian Principalities. LOSS OF A STEAMER WITH ALL THE PASSENGERS AND EIGHTEEN Off THE CREW. PLYMOUTH. Stnnms.. The liner Spirit of the Ocean, Captain Cary, belonging to the Nova Scotia and New Brunswick line of steam and sailing packets, from London, on Monday last, for Halifax, was wrecked at 6.40 p.m., on Friday, at a wild spot on the coast of Devon. Out of 20 passengers and a crew of 22 the only survivors are the mate and three seamen. The Spirit of the Ocean was drifting, with split sails, trying to take shelter at Dartmouth. lOn passing Pear-tree Rock she became unmanage- I able, drifted upon a rock between Start Point and and Pear-tree, and went to pieces almost imme diately. ♦ terrific gale was blowing at the time from the southward. (suirns's IMIGRAJOS.) THE HUNGARIAN DIET. PPETH, Nix= 25. The sittings of the Lower House of the Hunga rian Diet have been adjourned to the 10th, and those of the Upper House to the 16th, of April next. The latter on resuming its sittings will dis cuss the second address to the King adopted in the Chamber of Deputies. Ti t s IVRERS, ~ ONDAY ..... N t ( ... 6 ,... VE 1 t ' MARCH 26, 186F. 41 0: - .... '.- I b ffr— -- .1 . a ; DUE CONTEMPO illt . rt. . • , *NEST siTELL t .... . ;Pc ~. to .. I, , use . I_- • .. , * * ' . .. b. [ t I._' ..-.....-e..! (THH3 DAY.) A. „illy KT ' '. K P ALACE , Ka2cri ~4. , . . i 6 , -- .. '- +— • 4 - sail ..... • The Qtfailli . '. . . cal to dad at half 1 -," . , - 0 - 139 5 y t1l rl * A.• . - society is laniiiP ' --" as - precut-Bari : • i Parl Granville, and the Bight Hee. o Mats of ' ays : , ® 00911111111NOIT POLICY =MUM 111201/4 ponds principally on its own capital and • , ►T • only si r Gone Grey. ~iitr +M+ quo is evidently ao lom Times amuses as certain the rejection of ! wom b ia n y on &p o dia repayable at short sot" and thus 1 Earl Granville sad Earl Resell had at/diocese .1 the Aging Audio' maw by the G oisbuaka latest proposition respecting the 11 . 6 " 1 : 1 l it can effect operations entirely beyond the proper scope el ' , Q ueen . no t b e p ro l onge d. Cheeetl.oll is pan dA. Franchise all, sod the es b e e q s e nt sancramor 'an ordinary baaideg-houes. Pa this reviser the functions ri Yr. Francis Grant, President of the Royal Academy of is alarmed sod fatigued by this ith regard to the mi.distributioa of maim It Ina th aw t wo d aise s of monehuy institutions ars readily dadwid. Arts, was tetlealteed to her Majesty, at ea endless% by We hoar sothiag hut of orige superfluous to say that the latter mould not be sa d ee e of the chief um of a financial society Is &ma- Sir George Grey, and received the honour of knighthood. mote on the leeeth, of Imbue red this session. The time .or the franchise bill The grand error of the financial companies has been the I L e d id e th eee an d w aw a giassoots wen the L,,,,d .4 dd . , of opuses of slam= i s quite lasaffieleat. Twelve nights are all that can payment of dividends which It was easy to perosive could Groom in Waiting. them am the eve of another this used for a discussion in which every variety of opt• only h ave been o btained by imeretinate risks, or enormous I Mr. Helps was Clerk of the Council. ma be allawadta lairdifY itself, all Mode of Prai•diao bennaes paid for services of a more than questionable elta- 1 The Q ueen a nemia s held a c an t a t w hi c h her m a j es ty ve-_- "V" ye r_ l c w v-e_ ? Tll. -_,. langillge __,__ ___ . 4 , • listened to with indaltiaass. mast' araaadauario peter . It is reasonable to hope that directors will benefit ' r eceived se a dd ress from th e t wo Hewn of ° mem o = of we . ''''`'' faug r eim in ' ead ii ' opit. ' of the °r pm ' it imairamilla, and indflilindent lwePtenit ruoind by arperionte, and make good eredit, and dividends likely the purism e l c ae t et b a r l . announced, we mama believe Il us candour, an enormous mass of load particulars t e h e tee j e t a t ee d, th e i r sled* aims, not ephemera The deputation aborted with the presentation of the which, notwithstanding *lir a ito be addi:etd In their blaring' o n • great rthrt r. effects. *blab aright rather than &Wiwi the real investor. address arrived at the raiao• ate quarter before 12 o'clock, mu, -• • i st , rer e, t i , „ we , , • • • - -- - YINAIIKILLL SOCII AND BAIR& The weekly article of the Daily News upon trade and finance mainly treats of the (Wendel societies which have formed the subject of the more serious rumour. during the last few days. The objections raised *salmi them were offered not very "may years ago easiest the joint stock banks. No doubt there is danger in secret financing, each as is necessary to the operations of a financial society, bat where therein integrity. capacity, and experience of manage ment, such an undertaking may be made a great source of profit to its proprietors, and of decided public utility. They can afford encouragement to legitimate joint stook enter prise and prevent a well matured project from being brought to • standstill by causes quite separate from it, intrinsic merits. We do not mean the more floating of • valuable project, but nese the essistasee such projects are enabled to grant when seeded dating their progrees to perfect de . veopment. It is by this coarse that the Credit Mobilier of Franos, the parent of all financial societies, has attained its influential position. hey company brought forward by that I society wee understood to Tientsin affiliated to it, and to I have s legitimate claim for assistance whenever required by _ . . Me pressure of avers* circumstances. The wisdom of this policy has tees proved over and over spin, and can hardly fail to be as fully appreciated if practised la &gland as in France. Recently, a dirpodtios bag bees shown by same banking ertabliabmenta to amuse the fundiess d a inandel emdely. It is evident, however, fiat they ere *us proceeding beyond dank preeisea. A bask seed seesemally seam its mega by emberldng dad Roper panty epecu'ative oparetiosk L Pee sk PORTUGAL. LISBON, 114 sen 25. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, the de bate on the budget was commenced. A new law on the press has been passed. The government is taking sanitary precautions against the cholera. (gzirmes imam) THE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS. LETTER FROM DR. BEIM. NIKULLII, IRAS KASSOWAH, F. 17. Mr. RIIIIWO, on his arrival at Matawwa, wrote to the Emperor, who sent an escort to conduct him to Debis Tabir, where, or at Borate—not Den gelber—or Lake Teana, he is to await the Em peror's return from his campaign in Godjaw. TLe Emperor has written to the German artizane in his employ at Gaffat, ordering them to receive Mr. Relearn and treat him well. Lettere down to December 27 from Consul Cameron and Mr. Karen', at Magdala, have reached Maesowah through Mr. Remain, but none have oome from the captive At that time all the prisoners were suffering from influenza. The Monde, as was to be expected (says Gang nom), drawly disapproves el the movecaset just cow nuanced for effecting $ better translation of the Bible. The writer seems, above all, annoyed at the reception given to the Grand Rabbi Astute," says oar contemporary, " was one of those the most applauded in an andiatos of which the immeese sesierity were catholic' ; furthermore, satholic priests thanked the Rabbi far his kindly see. demenaloa, by smiles, sod braves, and by shaking his hand. We are, however, now about to enter on the Busies-week of our Saviour. This is • strange moment to go and seek officially and pompously the ideas of those who have ratified by eighteen centuries el error the mime of their forefathers." There was an immense run of fish last week in the tidal portion of the river Boris, greater than any known for 16 yeses. There are 88 boat-net fuhernms, and la ens day from SOL to 100 f. worth of edema were brought en the beaks hem shoat half the beats *as. Tall OXFORD AND CAMBIUDGI BOAT BACK. The Times regards it as likely that the want of unity and university spirit at Cambridge, chiefly due to the ascendancy of Trinity and St. John's, may contribute to neutralise the advantage is the selection °tithe Cambridge eight which she might otherwise derive from her greater numbers. At all event., this alone of the many oonjeottusl explanations that have been offerel seems at all plausible. The inferiority of the Cam is the lamest of excuses, for a mere canal, if broad enough for the sweep of oars on both aides of a boat, would afford as good a training course for a race on dead water as the noblest of rivers. The Post regrets that the betting on the present race has been greater than that on any former occasion. One would no more attribute, the Star says, the vice of gambling to the encouragement of the Oxford and Cam bridge boats than he would blame the clergyman of a church for preaching to a congregation amid which sits a man who is at the moment picking his neighbour's pocket. A betting man would bet though all the races in Eng ' land, whether of boats or hones, were abolished to-morrow morning. The yearly training of the crews seems to the Star one of the beet institutions in the two universities, and it thinks it would be well if these who are not amongst the eight would geoerilly adopt the more useful and applicable portions et the system which ban qualified the crews. VICTOR HUGO ON LIBRRTY. -...--. La Liberty of yesterday contains a letter from Vidor Hugo, addressed telt. Dtivernois. In it the veteran writer says :—" Liberty has become the deep thirst of men's souls. Liberty is of all parties, being the vital mode of thought. Liberty is to the mind what light is to the eye. Therefore from the first day men have yearned for it. Like you I wish for liberty, bet at this moment lam an exile. I have written, the day when liberty shall return I will re turn.' lam waiting liberty with great personal patience and great 'Rational impatience. France, without liberty, is still only the goddess, not the soul. Every two or three thousand years' progress require' a push. Human guishment overtakes it, gni a quid direnum is required. In the brief history of man the r erection of Europe on Asia, se swig by Homer, was the first impulse, Christianity was the second, end the Preach revolution the third. All re volutions have a two-fold character, by which they are recognised—that lof a formation beneath an elimination. Revolutions do not whimper. They are explosions of latent oalorie—uothieg more. They externalise the eternal and internal set whose manifestation has become a necesaity ; they setfree this ant ; and people believe It to be new because they see it, whereas before they only felt it. The hidden right becomes public right ; it passes from the con fused to the definite; it was brooding, it borate forth ; it was sentiment, it becomes evidence. This sublime simplicity is peculiar to the acts of the sovereignty of progress. ' The twolast shocks of pr egress brought into light and seta. blishedlthe two great acts of men, for Christianity disen gaged equality and the French revolution disengaged liberty. Where these two acts are not, there no life is. To be all free and all broth-re is to live ; they are the movements of the lungs of civilisation. Equality and liberty are the inspi ration and respiration of the human race. This being so, is it not gaud to hear people talk of " memory libertiss" sad " necessary liberties ?" Liberty ban this in common with God, that it excludes • plural. It therefore exclaims, sum qui sum—l am that I am. Raise high, thee, your flag ; your watch cry Liberty is the very word of caviliest'oe. It is the sublime Fiat Luz of men ; it is the preound a• d mysterious invocation which seMbring out the oon.tell•tion. The star is behind the horison—it listen,. Courage 1 Perim the recluse if, ex cited by your eloquent aid grave language, and your power ful rallying cry, he has for the moment broken silence. He bailees to return to it, but before doing so grasps your hand." The Earl de Grey left town on Saturday evening for Studley /loyal, his seat be Yorkshire, to join the Countess and Lord Ooderiob, who had left town previously to per the Easter recess. The French Ambassador entertained the Prus sian Ambassador sad the Conotms Be•natorf and Countess Therese Bernatorif, the Italian Minister, Baron and Baroness Fardisaod de Rothsotuld, Barom de Baud*, &a, at dinner yesterday arena`, at the French &Amply, at Albertiate. _ _ The Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi entertained at dinner, last evening, at Chandos House, the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Musurus and ffiadUes Musurus, the Bosnian Ambassador and Baroness Brannon, the Netherlands Minister, the Bavarian Minister, the Hansa Towns Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires and Baroness de Biome, Priem Oettengen, Count de Oreourt, Viscount Asaph, Count Kalnoky, and Baron Hubner. Bath House, Piccadilly, bee just passed into the hands of the present Lord Ashburton. The house end it. splendid collection of works of art were bequeathed as a fees gift to the title by W. Bingham, Lard Ashburton, whose private property they were. A oontemporary etatee that the Home Secretary hie resolved to avail himself of the services of Sir Walter Crofton is carrying out a more efficient inspection of oar criminal prisons. The Advertiser is glad to learn that the Oaths Amendeneat Bill, whisk was carded In the °maroons by the mull majority of fourteen in • large house, is to be opposed is the Lords. The opposition, it is supposed, will Meths Inns al Lord Derby proposing, u an amendmeet N the sewed read*, the amendment proposed by Mr. lAleseL is the Orauseons. LAW INTELLMENO& (THIS DAL) COURT 07 BAN KRUPT(7Y. (Wore lli. Cormairicser Gailbern). - - --- IMESOMIIOII /02 WM 22121112. II 112 I.- ). The bankrupt, a mersbaum of o ohammehlest, was at. dated a few weeks ego, at s time w►ow he was at of nnt~• Kevin retuned h• wee waded fee t►e is.' =. end 'see sew= up in saetedy to casks ap. los far Lave to Yr. Reed supported the apittimaci L Kr. Lewis, for the eadisere, left the matter in th e heads of the amt. His liceour, sass hearing ths feels, greeted ibe beak. nit leers to essreeder, whisk wee dons, sad ts. toe will sow proceed is the °Massy way. nu; POLICE COURTS. CIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. ATM!? TO sir Ma TO TIM "DIM TUMOR • Jffettere Poole, of 8, Olgerioteestrese, = p p, described on the Marge obese at a t th e bar by James Haan, • &Iselin eflei lies Cfity Polka before Aldan= Medi sad Mr Rob er t Carden, charged on suspkdoe with wilfully and settieg lire to the premises of the Daily paper-offices, gaud* is Peterboaugh the Minn/ of Hz- N. Levy, tad other., hie amain Mr. G. Iwwes, JUG• of Nal-eitee, Prrutsubsd ead Stemmas,suPetral _for tt• Phew. Mr. Lewis said that he etelastsa to Preactie the Mawr fs/ wilfully setting fire te the jpreeehee of the Deur ibb; graph oflioe, sad although he iambi not be able to %ai m my me who saw him aseeally set Ike is the papa, tea shield be able to show, as dearly m poseible eked el du *that he was the person who committed the sell* he was charged. On fiseurday afternoon, about hes minutes past 4, the place was on he, m ei there maid be no doubt that it bed eat me fire wilfully. The primer eau a , keeper, and his duty was to stay in a lodge geg a stairs. He had no business in that room when the was. Ties roses wee what was termed the papa esaa sad there was at the time about 700 ram et piper. TIM ass who had the charge of that err! gamed Breed, and hs left about 4 o'dock or. hoer* At that thee then was se fire. Abet • martereed 4 the prisoner sew mother ma salad Hamiltoe,aedadai kb II Bread had We, god was answered thee Wed. lime was no fire at that time, and the fire was men hien past 4, About that time a man named Kemp sad moll% went into the medelae-room to pet sear hh • tools, and while there they heard a 'mai% g feet overhead and some ores running downstate", ari da the prisoner. Kemp 'eked bim what he did there, sad h said, What the —is that to your and went es. hp mediately after they saw the paper - room la dame. Ihb wastbe third fire that had takes pleas in the cake des the prisoner had been there. Frederick Field Whitebret—l am manger of %eh* Telegraph, and Joseph Mils is the registered prepaid% That paper has a very extessive mom of mamba ea he ski's of the court. They are insured is the Glebe, de Liverpool sad leamehire, cad the Loathe sal limp% Ties wham has hoes timemeper there hashed He keeps the time book, which I prance. Thetas Mil man is the paper ream is not barked far &bin h is his duty to tab maws' into all the paper depeaseele when necessary. I bard about the he at II VII* end wait to it directly. The paper room is on the where damp and dry paper are kept for thr a pmet i / sepplylog the maalaineroom beneath. There ere teens staircases, one at leek aide of the paper-room lariat legs 'flooring of the machine-room Than is • door h lie leper room leading to another denertmeet. Afar the to had been pad out I west into the paper wereiteme rd chewed that the lire had takes piece at the fatted em ser at the right bend side of the rocms, I observed teethe had beim in the middle of the room, end as tie. head aids. I found in those places papa Mai The fire wee under control in shoat 20 shaft On Monday, the 12th of March, the primer pre so a written report of a ire en the 10th of Ihreb.i read]. On the Monday I bad looms oonrenctios arWi prisoner about the fire, and in consequence I Beet into pohos. I visited the cellar named in the me% which was in • part of the preemie id were unoccupied. The fire bad raged Is to. distinct pieces. In my judgment they NW not have arises from use Arc The prisoner had tbe but a labourer had seems to that plea that day. Bs fr formed me that them had been a Ire before I cam Ulm Win - Took no notice of it. By Alderman Mschi—A good &meter was had wr him. I have had no rase to find fault with him. By Mr. Statemosee—There are 900 mu rapierd a lit establishment. There ma no drilla/Ms them. There have bele anonymous kite teeeiv wl eTt the proprietor. Dal 1 newer saw them Or I heard es Mined • threat. Edward Breed—l live at 14, Waterwheel, Bloekhiare I am engaged in the paper warehoues at the Deily To graph. I have been there for ran. IWt the warokes at 4 o'clock. L hit there • lad maid Hamills All was rfe then. I pared the timeaespeeelodge, bat a not see the timekeeper. The priemey's duty ins to me to the room with a message when he had use to brig tome. Henry Hamilton, 5, Brooklyn-terrace, New Peekra- 1 have bre employed in the paper warehouse &et mouths. I saw Brand, the lut wittier ken et i o'clock on Saturday. Before I left, the prisoner ems to me In the warehouse, and said to me, "Am they al miser and he said, "Is Mr. Brand gone?' sad 1 * " Yes." He said all that before I answered km I went dawastaini with the prisoner, end this me a quarter past 4. All was safe there tho—se light, no firs, end no smell d burning. TY prisoner went Into the lodge, when he welt d••• Mein. I call my name out se I pass the lodge, asdttb duty to enter it in the book. Brand's same is steel at 4 o'clock, but mine is not. By Mr. Stammers—l did not see the primmer put ia the 4 to the name. After other evidence Alderman Meehi remodel ihe prisoner till Tuesday weak. MEWED/ WELL. A STEM PRIAOIIIII MIAMI= WITH CAMINO al 01187110C11011. William Henry Edwards, a tarpaulin maker, wasalfi ld before Mr. Barker with causing obstractioa in Pekbleta" street, Islington, by lecturing and preaching co tempers* principles, and thus causing a crowd to assemble. Yesterday the police found the defendut stands‘ chair staging, and when asked to go away be &diem then began speaking on temperance sett, he sa and ee cowed • large mob of persona to amen ins Oil asked to go away, and said be should not se Of go police wanted him to go they must remove him. Orieg le the great complaints that had been made of the oho* the defendant was taken into custody. The defendant said he was determieed to try the AM° speak in the public street, as be considered that the ei a drunkenness was so much on the lucre" sod thai . 611 whore were filled through dri nk, that be was doing * l 4 by holding open-air meetings on that subject. lie did 1 00 MON an obstraotioe, as he asked his hearers to hid a ewe side. An inhabitant said the defendant was a very grot same. He was there all day of a Sunday, awl the NM he road* was very great. Inspeotor Wiseman said that an obstraetios was maid by the bystander,' arguing the matter, and it was mhos the fluay before that a light took plea betweee the IR & rituals. The defendant had been there every Bo* about two months. The defendant said he would not go there viPbi d h ill lIPTOI%. Mr. Barker said the defendant wu liable to artt, He would discharge him this time, but ke brought here agile for such an offence he would be hes* The defendant thanked his worship and left the welt with his Wanda. -- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. 8T Ana Lees, ara A th ull er goodloo G BY A ki li ng wzgralkil young Zama ' 004 9 2 years of age, described as • shirt maker, of No. , 11111 , street, Manchester-square, was charged before Ir. Tr, Whitt with matting and wounding a youngstow Edward Wavle, (stated to be her swestbearth w ith shift with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. John Walter Taylor, a lad, living in Partlandverti Soho, rid—On Saturday night, shortly before 10r/clerk was in the New Royalty Theatre, whoa I stir the whom I knew. She mad " Walter, lend me s knif rei 4r 4 I did so. On leaving the theatre I asked ber to gift 311 the knife back, and she mid that she would do so pressetk She was *tending in the next doorway to the theatre, sa' I went into the theatre 'gain. She had not given lee do back ague. Geo e rge,Knight, of No. 16, Silver-street, • lad, rid—lrav the prisooer outside the New Royalty Theatre is fiatird# Wight, and Glavin in the theatre. Glavin bad been Pht hag the part of a soldier in one of the piece& I &twenty w the prisoner in the theatre. I saw the primmer WI ma when the performasem were over, and saw her Add Glavin in the breast. I afterwards saw Glaris is pull a knife—the one produced—from • wooed his beast, and the wound then bled. The priseeerren before we could tern round. I wait with Glans to die shop of Mr. Pepper, chemist, at the corner of Omen, skeet, end he afterwards wenti to his h orns , where a" him. After Glavin palled the knife out of heroo le put the knife Into hie pocket. Glavin has is bees aterbccrooF . HerOtal. Yr. Tyrwhitt—Did the prisoner say eapthint thus! Witmer—No, dr. Jolla VaaeLae, at No. 3. Chnrablaratle. .b.. 4, mid—ll was .t home on Saturday **hi. witm, same la. No said he had base injured, ante die knit' produced to Ilia father. He tbee want hank room, mid au my what was the matter_ If." him, be replied, " I ara miring dabbed aad dose foe LIII afterwards taken to the Obariscarem Harpist) en weat to am him twies priarday. I teak So am d •' I his 1 zhai ifrd 66 1 10 Fro mac hays mall soot so do .1.1 I*t il l mii vs g Ina