The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-24 00:00:00

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Dominick Murray, Neville. & Shore Miss Barnett ct Sara Addle.—Atter which TELE OCTOROON. Mr. .and aim sowneadt, Mr J. 8. Clarke, Mr. Vining, It Wm Simms. MAIM. Mrs EMEND, OLD BALM Messrs. Emery, Rettord r 4 James; Miss \ell7 Hoorn—PARIS; OR, V IVR LEM PRIME. Messrs. Omen, Thorne, Robson. and Fenton ; Mesdsmea Swanborougb, liszlaad, Johnstone, non, oic.—ADd COAL AND COKS. HOLBORN. • TEMI/100, West l an d, I SCUD. Mews. Atkins, hie% Clarden, Arthur, and wumott • Madmen Remade, 'tioodall, Lennox, and Mandan—Conclude with YALYNTINE AN r ORSON. Xdlle. Montero, Little Rowels, the. BIETANNIA. TIES Nu m., ALL BUT ONE. Mn.ea Reynolds and [Crawford: Mesdames Courtenay, andCoveney.— DON QUIXOTE. Iltra S. Lane ; Pimtenalmlsts Mews. Deane, Loads, NOWIIIII3I, and the hams Family SWIM. C. Stephan and Etas Ron Nathan. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TUTS Dor —Morning, Mi. 50m—__Afiemoon, 313. 7m. To•nOilOW—Morning, 3n. lim—....niternoon, 3b. Min. T OTICES of BIRTHS, Maitanoss, and DEATHS, are received natlll2 o'cieck for Insertion lame evening. ilia', 36. Gd. LONDON, MONDAY, FEB. 24. THE NEW MEMBER FOR CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY. Ma. DERE3TORD Hewes sufficiently easy victory at Cambridge will surprise no ono who considers the characteristics of the constituency and of their dew member. His opponent was assuredly not wanting in the qualifications which are most apt to recommend a candidate to the choice of the groat body of electors, especially the outlying electors, of either University. Ho is a safe, moderate, sure-footed, steady-going, churchman and lawyer ; a third Wrangler, and First Class in the Tripos Examination, forty years ago, an obscurely eminent and laborious counsel ever since ; a man trained and fos tered from his youth up in all the most conventional respectabilitics and orthodoxies of , our domestic civiliration ; in all the de cencies and proprieties, not to say the pre judices, of the Conservative creed, without a flaw of eccentricity or originality in doctrine, opinion, thought., or principle ; sound as the soundest of all our great British institutions; esteemed by a host of friends and acquaintances ; worthy of the esteem of any number of . . strangers. It was not for any deficiency in the gifts and graces which are cultivated at the Univer sities, and which, united with good character and hard work, lead to fortune in the steeper paths of maturer age that this excellent gentleman was re- jected. Mr. CLEAMBY camo to the poll with by no means s weak committee at his back. What then was .the secret of Mr. BERM/Pt/RD HOPE'S success To say that Mr. Braasrosn HOPE was the richer candidate would be to say nothing in Ruch a case as this, or mther, to saysomethingridiculous or insult ing to such a constituency. Ye must look to other testa of eligibility and preference than those which may be applied without excessive indiscretion to certain boroughs and even to certain counties. Perhaps a simple explanation of Mr. Hors's achievement will be found in the fact that he is ins „peculiar sense a decidedly representative man. He is representative of we know not what political, economical, or religious school ; of wo know not what opinions, principles, or convictions. And it is precisely because in common, we dsreaay, with the great majority of his fellow-country men, his creed and doctrine on all the subjects which perplex men's minds, are "we " know not what," that he is, we take the 'liberty to assume, eminently a representative man in the country and the times in which we live. Is I not this an ago of uncertainty And caprice, of mobility and transition in all things spiritual and intellectual ? is it not an age of lights and ahadowa, of fine gradation' and delicate niceties of taste and feeling, and comprehensive sympathies ? Is it not the age of criticism rather than of creation, s of pietistic fancy rather than of faith, of !esthetic vulture rather than of productive art? It is only in Science that we touch the Positive in these days; in Science, which by the law of its being is but a succession of conjectures and discoveries. In all things else, in religion, art, philosophy— nay, even in social manners and tastes and fashions, we find much culture and criticism, much self-conscious, self-doubting affectation of earnestness and sincerity, a considerable in dependence of mind, or a playful revival of some ancient bigotries. Our prevailing eclec tism is but a thin disguise of an exhausted capacity for production. Our art is a curious confes sion in all its manifestations of this somewhat sinuous dilettantism, which rejoices in private theatricals at stone altars, and for want of genius in the artist, takes his portrait in the costume of an old master. Of such an age as this, critical, /esthetic, dilettante, curious, tolerant, and sym pathetic, but, above all, desperately anxious to appear in earnest, MT. BEILT.STORD Hera, we take it, is an admirable and almost unique representative. He is a scholar, perhaps, but certainly a patron of scholars ; a man of letters, 'ft may be, but certainly an employer of men of letters ; an architect, perhaps, but certainly a sometime President of the Institute of Archi tects ; a High Churchman and almost a Ritualist, . perhaps, but certainly a patron of high churchmen and ritualists ; but on the other hand a patron also of the young school of religious indifference, not to say of heterodoxy and free thinking. It is said that he has been returned for Cambridge University by the enthusiastic support of 'the High Church and ritualist clergy. No doubt ho has received, and well deserved to receive, the votes of the most highly cultivated and refined section of the Anglican clergy. But we fancy there might be discovered by a discerning eye on the list of his committee some laymen, and even some . clergymen, whose sympathy with Ritualism is, .to say the least, imperfect, and whose respect for the " Pager-book " is limited to something lees than a bowing acquaintance. Nor can the votes of either of these classes of his supporters be fairly fermigmfrto a gentleman of liberal tastes and (fancies, of senidevind varied circle of acquaintance, eamqeirsiivellsympathiem, whp!se means and opportunities have qualified him to be a middle-class, and we might add a quasi-mediss- Tel, MICZNAII in our religious and political world. Tim promoters of industrial training establish- mend for destitute boys are asking the Admiralty to give some help to one of the most interesting educational experiments of the day, and have met with but a lukewarm reception. There are in London and our large provincial towns a large population of outcast boys, who are willing to work, but who have been thrown helpless upon the streets from childhood, compelled to beg, or steal, or starve. Early in 1860 the Earl of Surxrdsuar obtained from the Admiralty the grant of a disused Government vessel, the Chichester, and after fitting her up by voluntary subscriptions, !sent a hundred London street boys on board to be taught seamanship and the common duties of humanity under an experienced and able hand. The result was marvellous. A few months after their admission these lads, many of them thieves and the sons of thieves, were, to quote their captain's words, "as well disciplined and with as "keen a sense of personal honour as any set of boys " from Eton, Harrow, or any public school in the " kingdom." Afters few trifling escapades, break ing into the meat-locker, running away from the cricket-ground, and perpetrating falsehoods, the little community settled down into a well-ordered family, which might challenge comparison with establishments of far higher pretensions. Further, the: )3 , have become expert seamen, and are readily received into the merchant service, though in some cases refused by the Admiralty for the Pedantic reason that a certificate of birth is necessary before they can be accepted by a Queen's ship. The example of the Chichester has been followed elsewhere ; and the town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne has asked for and obtained the hull of the Diana, a frigate which it is said has been idle in the Mersey for the last five-and-twenty years. But the masts, spars, sails, and rigging are wanted, and the Ad miralty are petitioned to supply these out of the old stores at present sold to dealers. In the case of the Chichester these fittings cost 2,6061. out of the money subscribed for the education of the boys ; and the Government are asked to make the Diana a useful instead of a costly gift. The Admi ralty not only refuses absolutely, but " fears" that the movement may continuo to spread, as it already has to Sunderland and Hull, and protests it cannot bear the expense of assisting. What ever the official reasons for this course, the direct effect is to throw cold water upon useful benevo lence, and to check a valuable supply of trained seamen to the Royal Navy. TH$ DA' smart CHARM. Tho Daily News says that shareholders at largo of railway companies have not been convinced, even after all that has transpired, that it has become necessary to in crease tho capabilities of their Una oat of capital. The question seems to be treated by them very meek es a matter of personal experience. There are some com panies as there are some individuals, who cannot gevees themselves by ordinary rules, and so they must pus a self-restraining resolution as a man Oakes a vow. Some times even this cannot restrain them, and they must then be restrained by a chancery injunction, us man is I proceedings in lunacy. The shareholder' of a well managed company might not nnameonahly ask to have the net profit of the. line distributed among them as feat as it Is earned, leaving their suc cessors to practise the same vigilance as that which has hitherto guarded their interests. Of course they run a risk in so doing, because the money with which improve ' manta are made may be expended so unprofitably as to reduce their dividend ; but they prefer doing so to fore going profits and letting them accumulate for the advan tage of others. The fact L, if the dividends of • [ great lino were to be withheld for one year for the [ purpose of augmenting its capabilities, the 'harm would inevitably fall in the market, and as the railway shareholding public is composed, as a rale, of annuitants rather than great capitalists, railway directors are not permitted to ignore this fact. If, however, capital as counts are to remain open, it is of vital importance that only that expenditure should be charged to them which rerlly increases the permament value, that is, the perma nent earning power of the line. ' • •/ ' ft Court. OSBORNE, Vs 22. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Athele and M 1 Macgregor. Primo Leopold drove out in the morning and afternoon. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, arrived at Osborne. The Queen went out with the Prince of Wake and Princess Louise. Fn. 23. ANT member of the legislature who has a taste for curious information might elicit tome interest ing facts by moving for an aggregate return of the expenses incurred in exercising ornamental objects about the royal parks. Some fifteen years ago the Marble-arch was transported from Buckingham Palace to its present site, at a cost to the country of 11,0001. About ten years afterwards, Mr. COWPER induced parliament to consent to a scheme for pumping the water from one end of she Serpentine through a pipe to the other end, and then pouring it back again into the lake, and this wonderful method of giving to a stagnant pond the excitement of a natural stream, cost, including some asphalt. gardens which the , Chief Commissioners of Works thought tasteful,' about 60,0001., and, we need not add, was found on completion to be utterly useless. Still later, many hundreds of men were employed during two winters in carrying earth from pits to the tops of mounds in that part of Hyde-park which is from 12 to 2 o'clock the) chosen resort of the classes of society characterised by our accurate neigh bours as " the world" and " the half world." Just now his successor has been transplanting an alcove which for the last hundred and fifty years formed the architectural termination of the avenue in front of Kensington Palace to a spot in the neighbourhood of Mr. Cowraa's plaster fountains and coal tar gardens, where it has been re-erected in a corner, with no rela tion to anything in particular. This amuse ment must have certainly coat a hundred pounds or two, and it would be interesting to know with what public advantage. The baihling will afford shelter to the nursemaids of Bayswater during a shower, as it did hitherto to the nurse maids of Kennington, but one scarcely sees a sufficient reason for thus favouring the ono locality above the other. Itlhad an architectural fitness in the place where it stood, which it wants in its new position. We may hope Lord JOHN MANNERS will inform us of the reason for the removal when he next moves the esti mates for the keeping up of Kensington-gardens. He may at the same time satisfy the curiosity of the neighbourhood, by telling them why the brick wall which flanks the Gardens on I the side of the Palace-gardens-road has been for the last six months pulled down and a wooden hoarding subatituted resem bling that which he has so long maintained at the other end of the Park as a memorial of Mr. BEALEB'd triumph over Mr. WALPOLE. Tho victory may have been a great one, but a single monument to it might have sufficed. At all events the capri cious waste of the public money according to the uncontrolled fancies of successive Commissioners of Works is a matter not unworthy the notice of Par liament. THE EXPRESS, ' MONDAY EVENING, 'FEBRUARY 24, AWL Ma Prises of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel. left Osborne. The Queen drove out, accompAnieci by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Duchess of Athol'. Colonel de Ea , was equerry in waiting. Dr. Jenner kissed hands on being created a baronet. Colonel and Lady Emily Cavendish and Captain Boyes, RN., had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Queen and Princess Louise, accompanied by the Duchess of Athole and Colonel de Res, attended Divine Serviee at the parish church, Whippingham. The Rev. G. Prather° officiated. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, returned to Marlborough-house on Saturday after noon from visiting the Queen at Osborne. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Countess of Morton. The Prince and Princess or Wales, with Countess of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel in waiting, at tended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Communion service was read by the Rev, the Sub dean, the Rev. A. Sitwell, and the Rev. Dr. Vaughan. Anthem, " 0 be joyful" (sung by Masters Coward and Wood. and Meuteuns Barnby, Corn ming% and Winn) H. Smart. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, Psalm zevii., v. i. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Duko of Marl borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governor.Genend of Canada. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold has pre sented to Dr. W. C. Hoffmeister, M.D., who was in con. stant attendance upon him during his late illness, a hand some gold ring, as a token of the appreciation in which the youthful prince held his services. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has arrived it Frogmen Lodge on a visit to their Royal Highnosaeo the Prinoe and Princess Christian. Her Royal Highness Princess Mary and his Highness the Prince of Teck ware on a viait during last week to their Serene Highnesses Prince and Princess Ed ward of Saxe•Weimar at Molecombe, Sussex. The Countess Waldegrsve and tho Right Hon. Chishester Portman°, MP., were honoured by the cam pony of their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Chartres at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Carlton-gardens. There were also present, hie Excellency the United States Minister and Mrs. Adams, the Earl and Countess Grey, Viscount and Visoountees Cranborne, the Right Hou. W. E. and Mrs. °Metope, she Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., the Right lion. Hy. Brand, M.P., and Mrs. Brand, &a. _ . _ The Right Ron. the Speaker gave his first parlia- mentary fall dress dinner last Saturday evening, to the following noblemen and gentlemen :—TLe Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Mayo, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord John Manners, Lord Robert Montagu, Lord Stanley, Lord Royston, Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, Right Hoe. Gathorne Hardy, Right Hon. Henry Corry, Hon. Colonel Lindsay, Hon. Gerard Noel, Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, Right Hon. J. R. Mowbray, Right Hon. Stephen Cave, Right Hon. Colonel Wilson Patten, Sir James Ferguson, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir John Hay, the Attorney• General, the Attorney-General for Ireland, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-Genera, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Whitmore, Admiral Seymour, Mr. Du Cane, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Sclater-Booth, Mr. Hunt, Mr. Dod son, Mr. Hart Dyke, Colonel Hogg, Rev. Dr. Merivale (chaplain), Mr. Alfred Denison (private secretary.) The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson have arrived at 55, Grosvenor-place, for the season. Viscount Castleroase, M.P., has taken one of the new mansions in Grosvenor-gardens for a term of years. Lady Emma Talbot is expected to arrive at the Earl of Derby's residence, in St. James's-square, on the 10th proximo, from Cannes, for her confinement. The children will remain at Cannestill May. _ . A marriage is arranged between Colonel Bart telot, M.P., and Mars Boldero, only child of Mr. Boldero, of South Lodge, Horsham. The marriage is to take place (Hey in April. FOREIGN NEWS. ( THIS DAY.) CIVIL SERVICE GRANTS. An official statement was published this morn ing of the sums required to be voted in order to make good excesses on certain grants for civil envices,for the year ended 31st March, 1867. The total sum amounts to 79,8291.25. 7d. Amongst these items we find that there was an mem on the item " printing and stationery," of 16,831 k 2s. Bd., ' which is attributed in a peat measure to the large ex penditure for parliamentary printing in 1866-7. On ac count of Irish law charges there is an exam of 9,2831. 10s. 4d., accounted for by the proceedings for the repres sion of the Fenian agitation. For the maintenance of prisoners, the actual expenditure exceeded the estimate to the amount of 17,774/. 135., and is ocessioned partly by the growth of the system of reformatory and In. due trial schools, and partly by the increased cost of main- taming pnsoners in county geols. For " special missions" the sum required in excess of the esti• mates is 10,224/. 17a. 5d., and is chiefly due to the ez• penes of Mr. Baseam's mission to Abyssinia, and of investing the Kings of Belgium, Portugal, and Denmark, and the Grand Duke of Hesse, with the Order of the Garter. The sum of 16,9421. 17s. 7d. is required on account of the relief of distressed British seamen. Woodsley Howie, the seat of Mr. Fairbairn, Mayor of Leeds, had m nines, escape from demintetlen by fire on Saturday. The fire originated about eight o'oloek in the morning, and was quickly observed, but conskler. able damage was done to the boom, and it i feared that 1100141 of Mr. Fairbeines valuable oil peintiop have been injured. 01,INTAL PALMS. HALIP-A-CEOWW DA:.— SATURDAY. VIOL 22.—Ad roissiona on pamost. 1.0114 _ditto ti ••••t Mak*. kVA ; total 'Woo. CUL PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND GENERAL GRANT. The New York papers of the 12th publish the correspondence between President Johnson and General Grant relative to the recognition of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War, and already referred to in the telegrams. The following letter from the general is the last of the series: Headquarters Army of the United Slates, Washingtar, D.C., Feb.ll, 1868. ANDREW JOHNSON, PRIDUDENT OP THE Sir,-1 have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 10th instant., accompanied by the statements of Ave cabinet ministers of their recollec tion of what occurred in cabinet meeting on the 14th of January. Without admitting anything contained in these statements where they differ from anything hereto fore stated by me, I propose to notice only that portion of your communication wherein I am charged with in. subordination. I think it will be plain to the reader of my letter of the 30th of January that I did not propose to disobey any legal order of the presi dent distinctly given, but only gave an interpretation of what would be regarded as satisfactory evidence of the President's sanction to orders communicated by the Secretary of War. I will any here that your letter of the 10th instant contain the first intimation I have bad that you did not accept that interpretation. Now for reasons for giving that interpretation: It was clear to me before my letter of January 30 was written that I, the person having more public business to transact with the Secretary of War than any other of the President's subordinates, was the only one who had been instructed to disregard the authority of Mr. Stanton, where his authority was derived as agent of the President. On the 27th of January I received a letter from the Secretary of War [copy herewith] di recting me to furnish an escort to the public treasure from the Rio Grande to New Orleans, &c., at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury to him. I also send two other inclosnres, showing the recognition of Mr. Stanton as Secretary of War by both the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster- General, in all of which cases the Secretary of War had to call upon me to make the orders requested, or give the information desired, and where his authority to do so is derived, in my view, as agent of the President. With an order so clearly ambiguous as that of the President's here referred to, it was my duty to inform the President of my interpretation of it and to abide by that interpretation until I received other orders. Disclaiming any intention now, or heretofore, of disobeying any legal order of the President, distinctly communicated, I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, 11. B. GRANT, General. That the President regards General Grant with angry feelings, will be seen by the following extract from Mr. Jeohnson's letter of the 12th : You here admit that horn the beginning of what you term the whole history of your connection with Mr. Stan. ton's 'suspension, you intended to circumvent the Presidenk It wee to carry out that intent that you accepted the ap pointment ; this was in your mind at the time of your ac ceptance. It was not then, in obedience to the order of your superior, as had heretofore been supposed, that you assumed the duties of the office. You knew it was the President's purpose to prevent Mr. Stanton from resuming the office of Secretary of War, and you intended to defeat that purpose. You accepted the office, not in the interest of the President, but of Mr. Stanton. If this purpose, so entertained by you, had been confined to yourself ; if, when accepting the office, you had done so with a mental reservation to frustrate the President, it would have been • tacit deception. In the ethics of some persons such • crime is allow able, but you cannot stand even upon that ques tionable ground. The history of your connec tion with this transaction, as written by yourself, places you in • different predicament, and shows that you not only concealed your design from the President, but induced him to suppose that you would carry out his pur pose to keep Mr. Stanton out of office by retaining it yourself after an attempted restoration by the Senate, so sate require Mr. Stanton to establish his right by judicial decision. THE EX-KING OF HANOVER AND HIS INCOME. The emotion produced by the Hietzing dinner has not entirely subsided. A despatch from Berlin announces that the Prussian Cabinet will deliberate on the questiod -whether the rent-charge allowed to the ex-King of Hanover ought not to be sequestrated, with every probability that such a measure will be adopted, unless he makes an apology for the speech he delivered at Hietzing or promises that he will not' commit himself again in a similar way. The New Free Press of Vienna says that the Prussian cabinet is at liberty, if it so pleases, to sequestrate the revenue of the ex-King and not give him one thaler ; but it hopes that the Prussian government will leave Austria at peace, and not make the Emperor's government responsible in any way for the joys or woe of the exiled Hanoverian family. 011177K6'11 TELZGIAII.I TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fn. n The Imperial Ottoman Bank has published the usual monthly statement of the government ac count, according to which the receipts and pay ments from the 13th July last to the 12th inst. for the foreign loans and general debt of Turkey leave a balance in hand of 135,000 fires in cash and 136,000 lires in bills receivable. The Levant Herald publishes a report that the Minister of Finance has concluded a loan of 120,0001. with two London financial firms. The terms are stated to be about 18 per cent. per an num, redeemable in four years, and guaranteed by the Adrianople tithe revenue. The Emperor Napoleon and the Empress on Friday night were present at the °plea Comique to hear Auber's new opera of Un Jour de Bonheur. This opera continues to be very much eulogised by the Parisian paces. A Naples journal, dated Feb. 16, says : " Vesuvius continues in about the same state as it has been for the last fortnight—one day the eruption appears on the decline, and the next the smoke and lava issue more abundantly than ever. It has bedded the viewing,— the learned, perhaps, it would be more reepsetful to say— for es ordain as they have prognosticated the speedy ter mination of the phenomenon, or the end of a phase, within 24 hours there has been an entire change ; and that tell tale the aismognph informs them that the shocks and heaving, have become more frequent. On Thursday the smoke rose up in large columns, and in the evening the lava stream' were more vivid. The number of tourists who daily dock to the mountain is still very great, and the guides are reaping a famous harvest." Squadrons of almost all the navies of the several nations have for some time past been mainly in the Mediterranean. After the American and the English, the Aludriart squadron, from the Levant, has just left the Greek waters, and east anchor in the bay of Saint Andre, which forms the southern portion of the roadstead of Trieste. Yesterday, Quinquagesima Sunday, a pastoral letter to the clergy and laity of the diocese of Westain• ens, boned by Archbishop Manning, was read in the Boman catholic places of worship in the metropolis. The Ant part of the pastoral contains an appeal on behalf of the two orpheasips of North Hyde and of Norwood, and a elatment showing that certain boards of guardians have Awed the removal of Homan catholic children to the whoa supported by their richer 00-religionnie, but, ea the ether head, it is stated that " mere than 1,000 Nihon. &Mean in London are at this time being brought up in the religion of the Mora of Begleat.• At Twinworth, near Blandford, in Donstalre, a farmer has a dock of South Dews ewes, sight of whisk have=eed three lambs each. sad au ewe bee geottisol. int THE CONDITION OP IRELAAD. Mr. Golderin Smith addresses the Daily News at considerable length on the subjeet of Irish affairs. With respect to the Irish church, he contends that it "must go." He thinks that there will be no difficulty in disposing of its revenues, for the endowment of religious opinions is, at least for all liberal', a thing of the past. As to the land question, tenant right, to put it plainly, is illusion or confiscation. It is true that in a case of extremity confiscation may be justifiable and. neoesaary, but then the extremity mast be proved ; 'and for the sake of morality, and to limit en exceptional measure to the need, confiscation should be called confiscation, not tenant right. The hisiery of Irish lead is a history of confiscation, and this, together with the circumstance that proprietorship in common wee the law of the Irish, ea it has been of all clans, explains and excuses the want of respect shown by the Irish far p i evarty in land, and the agrarian aims to which the Is powentry are prone. But when all is done in the ray of land legislation the hots cannot be overlooked that the climate of the island, except in the east, and when the bills arrest the march of the Atlantic clouds, is adverse to the growth of oorn, and that this being the come, there is at present • surplus !population. Mr. Goldwin Smith, however, dos not feel called upon to 'pronounce upon thee; relate in selling attention to the growth of a raised *lt amen the Irish people, and of a nadend unto gni= to Beghod, seek as are likely, if remedial 11111•1101111 ase net elegted. seen to interpose an insemoeuntehie rats& to the Lira of the two countries. So keg es the uplift of nstiornality, and of national antipathy peep aisle is Ireland, our legislation for that washy, harass well meant or even wise in itself, will fail of the embed effect. As to Fenianina there can be me doubt that it is of American origin, that it is a match mesa by the smiled and excdted Ireland in America to the mese of inanimate disaffection in the Ireland et home ; but when the match is extinguished the disaffection will still smoulder on. ready to bard into gore as soon as we are involved in a foreign war. The skew point in our politica, says Mr. Smith, is that, beide' the orangemen (whose sentiments, be ferry me rather siddesthelie than Wray eniesiii) the ewer rases gramehy are 'grata tr swedelies. Thee erne mesy tralligent and lowly pirate Irth. to. is wiserdemi feel* he pia sellesaft is ralised with shames ravishes of the seeseeity of as Umbra. end their agora is that Ss remedy is to be hand in paw which wadi brag Imperial instituting, the moneray and the padismra, bra to the spas sad to the heals of the Web grab, rend shill Arad et the sew time beraw era beheld s Wee ram* of selkovens• sera In =ram sot rastkiliy beside/ A deputation from the Board of atuadiaae at the Wertiagtan Mika, easehdag at Xt. Certottss (eh.6omea)oKr. SEM (wiewhaireken), Kr. Isoldily. sad Mr. Geliteagelerh),Oted ea haterriew with the led at ',rig.. a the Pooraw bid. WUWon. on' Ariet 1 TH CAMBRIDGE UMIVEESITY ELECTION. Observing that out of WOO voters who compose the Cambridge University constituency, at least 4,50,1 are conservatives, and that only now, for the first time, their organisation has failed, the Times attributes the victory of Mr. Rope to the culla slum of his chnrchmanship. Influenced partly by ecclesiastical polities, the great body of voters took, this time, a way of their own—a way all the easier from the fact that they were not called upon to be liberals, but only "moderate and independent" conservatives. Impressed with a sense of Mr. Beresford Hope's claims as an earnest and zealous churchman of affinent means and estimable character, they yielded to the attraction, and the enor mous mass of conservatism crumbled unexpectedly away. The Telegraph sees in the result of the contest fresh evidence of the declining power of the evangelical party amongst the clerical graduates. A score of years ego the mero suspicion of Tractarian proclivities would have been sufficient to ruin any chances that a candidate for Cam bridge might possess. All the support of the liberals and of the true-blue University tones would have availed nothing, if the old Low Church feeling had been what it used to be in the days when Simeon's influence was still the ruling force at Cambridge.: IRISII 11E901=1038. The Post does not expect to see the House of Commons Mullen itself with Lord Arthur Clinton's amendment. Abstract assurances of opinion by no means constitute a proper method of intervening between landlord and tenant. In the case of Ireland, procedure by abstract resolution is at this juncture especially objectionable. Of decla mation and orations, whether in the bowling style of Mr. Train, or the more decent and moderate, but equally unpractical, addresses of Mr. Maguire, we have had more than enough ; and the Post thinks the house may dis miss Mr. Maguire's motion with an intimation that they think the proper occasion for the discussion of the con dition of Ireland will be the presentation of some definite and distinct measures ; and the house, if it thinks fit to add that measures of that character ought to be propounded at the earliest possible moment by the government, will probably be supported generally by the opinion as well as by the feeling of the country. 715 TOPICS. The Daily New oonten4s that any inequality of repre sentation iu Scotland or in England should be redressed by taking members from one part, and giving them to the other. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has pro ceeded on the system of giving any extension demanded to the great constihteneice which in any view are against him, but of fighting tooth and nail to save the small boroughs, In each of which ho has a possible supporter. Possibly, his ingenuity may procure him a majority at the next election. That majority will be only too happy to serve his purposes and their own by carrying still further into practice the method by which he hopes this session to neutralise Scottish opposition to his favoured constituen cies. It is of immense importance, then, that the system should at once be met, exposed, and defeated. Hoping that Lord Derby will not feel obliged to retie the Standard today again argues elaborately that it would be the height of =wisdom to adopt an arbitrary rule by which it would be decreed that in future the first minister in the government must necessarily be a member of the House of Common.. There are direct advantages, it con- tends, in the exemption of the premier from the heavy fatigues and absorbing duties of the Commons leader. Conceive, says our contemporary, the absurdity of a rule which, if Mr. Disraeli were lost to us, would call on the Queen to form a conservative government of which neither Lord Stanley nor Lord Cranborne could be the chief. For whom would her Majesty send ? The liberals would feel the same difficulty, though in another form. They have two or three able commoners who may develop into possible successors to Mr. Gladstone. But it is very likely that no one of these would be so pre-eminent as to oblige the others to serve under him ; and then would be felt one of the peculiar advantages of the present power of selecting a Premier from the Upper House, namely, the willingness of able men to yield to superior rank where they refuse to acknowledge superior ability, and to accept as their chief one who is not and cannot be their daily rival. The Star must say that, if there is to be a tory party at all, it is perfectly ridiculous to think of its having any man but Mr. Disraeli to succeed Lord Derby as its =know leged leader. Only in a country of hereditary legislate= could even Lord Stanley be thought of as leader by a prey whom Mr. Disraeli is still willing to lead. The Daily Revs points out the helplessness which sew vocation has manifested ever since the revival of its masa in our own times, and which has never been more marled than it has hien in the present session. All that the Low= House did was to ask and ob'sln leave to have the address of the Lambeth conference read to them ; and in the Upper House the debates were nothing but prolonged and various admissions of failure. The Tinto gives some scandalous details which have been elicited by a Board of Trade inquiry respecting the conduct of Deal salvors towards those whose property they bare insisted to save. The result of the inquiry, so far as it affects two American ships, has just been published by order of the House of Common'. About a year ago the committees of maritime insurers at Paris and Havre signed a memorial in which they represent that salvage as practised along our coasts, borders closely on piracy, that French mariners dread the sharklike propensities of English boatmen almost as much as the rocks and the made, and that English pilots are wont to make ruinous claims for having 'haply performed a professional duty. Mr. Montagu Bare, who conducted the Inquiry, indicates as the proper remedy the eetablishment of some local tribunal, which would seams in a rammer) , bat impartial manner the re muneratica equitably due to both parties. The Devizes Advertiser 'Wes that $ oonaiderable amber of MIR am about to be discharged from the hem works et Westbury, in Wiltshire, cad that one of the flu , oases is about to be slaved. According to the Bow& AusfraZion Register Mr. Underdone, of Adandde, els azpoeber of Australian birds Ito Karam hes new be sank 36,000 pain of shell parrots, 1,000 palm of seshadoe peewees, 7,000 pain of Debra finches, besides 'the eesialloce, niesples, and Port Lincoln lames —allegetbse X 1 100,000 Mr& 9,000 birds an marked ea Bea The 70,000 shell parrots ere this yeses (1867) birds. Some Fenian hist week visited Freshwater, in the fele of Wight, sad lave attempted to adadabier the salsa oath. Defeemation wee givea to she pass, emit time deleedives 111111 pissed ca the teeth of the ifekkOZ. A few daps dace the telegraph wires that onannelate with Os mein bad teen the We of Wight ewe eng , nee fee lama the thighbowited of Frethwatir e . OUR PARIS LETTER. IDIOM ODZ Owl PARIS, SturDay EVEMIG. • An Edinburgh playeician, with the curioisly; appropriate name of Allahorn, has jest been badly cast in an action against the Compagnie Immo. bilibre as proprietors of the Grand Hotel du Louvre. In July, 1866, Dr. althorn was staying at this hotel, when a letter came addressed to hire which he alleges summlned him to London on business of very great importance. The letter, owing to some mistake on the part of the servants of the hotel, was put in a wrong box and not duly delivered. A few days later, Dr. Althorn re. oeived • telegram referring to the letter, and expressing astonishment that h e had not kept the appointment in London. Then only, in consequence of inquiries, the letter ICU found. Dr. Althorn's correspondent had by that time left London for Venice, and thither the doctor pro ceeded to find him. Unfortunately he got to Italy just about the time of the battles of Lissa and Cus. tozza, and he was arrested and detained in custody for some time on suspicion of being an Austrian spy. He brought his action to recover 7,500 fr, da. mages from the proprietors of the hotel for the fee . judice caused to him for tho non-delivery of the letter. In computing his claim he charged for his travellin g expenses to Venice, 60fr. a dayfor his forced sojourn. in Paris, and 5,000 fr. for the loss of practice as a physician during his absence from Edinburgh, The court held it not proven that he had suffered damage on any one of these heads, and did not think it made out that . thera was any neee.dty for 1 his going to Venice. Accordingly the ductois action was dismissed with costs. The police made a descent the night before l a m on the abandoned quarries of La Villette, and arrested ten vagrants, just as they were feuting on a monster harlequin, or stew, composed of fragments of victuals of all kinds ; each had brought his quota of fah, poultry, meat, vegetables, etc., all of which had been cooked to , ,, , ether in an immense earthen pot, around which they were all squatting down. They appeared to feel keenly the aggravation of their misfortune in being inter. rupted just at the commencement of their repast, and the more so that a request for the police to wait a little until they bad finished could not he acceded to. During the two preceding nights :U . other individuals, without homes or any avowable means of existence, were also removed to ',h am from the same haunt. A man committed suicide the evening be!ore last by throwing himself into the Seine from the l'on: de la Concorde. Ho had left on the let pave ment a small parcel containing a blouse. cap, and neckkerchief, with a note bearin,: thm words :—" My name is N—, I lire in the Rue de Grenelle St. Germain." The smee day a seam stress named Marie V—, aged IS. jumi,ed into the river from the Quai de l'Ecole : she n as, how ever, rescued by some watermen. X dliappi.int rnent in love was the motive fur this a:toupt. un her life. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES The following letter from Consul Cameron hat been received by one of his friends: " Magilala, Abyssinia, Dee. " Dear see by the papers that you wore ime of the first to urge the liberation of myself and my f, prisoner. by force of arms. It is impossible for me not to thank you. No one could have deprecated war with This country more than myself up to a certain point. Las I after I heard, years ago, that the King hod receiseil too letters from Itassaru and not answered them, I new co hope, except from troops; and, with the exception of the tow days when, thanks to the King's extraordinary city. ltammo's mission seemed a success, my opinios has been the same ever since. At any rate, we are in for it now, and there is not much use in writing—facts oil prove themselves. My own belief is that if our poops press on without delay to tho high country, there will be little or no lees from local diseases ; as to tight:cs, there will be none. Once hemmed in—and we have tr o ops enough to elect this—the King must take hi• ohmic of being shelled or slashed to death with his horde of mgt. muffins, or surrendering at discretion. I Aiwa), iapiKise that there will be no promises made or parleym:: ou our account. This would be the height of fully ; t I..et I think so. The first thing is to know what .• . he will assume. One way or other be ought to be thrashed in a very short time. Even if he 1118Ilagt i to slip through our fingers the result will be the S3I:IY. His own people will kill him sooner or later. We don't know what may happen to us in the meantime ; but it is an inexpressible relief to know, ielmteier tors things may take, this misery must soon come to an ti..L Anything better than lingering on in this way— to die at last of heartbreak or starvation, or both. Theodore, the king, has been threatening to kill ono of the Europeans... If one were killed, the rest would i4ll follow. Remember me kindly to Sir linuy RAW. liaison ; I see he has acted in the right spirit. see, I still hope to thank my friends some day in person. The mail I. closing, so I must finish.—Believe me ever most gratefully and sincerely yours, "C. DvNesx l'amEto " I fear my handwriting, at least, is like the I:i-hop of Granada's sermon in 'Gil Dias,' which savoured of teby. The fact is I have been very ill, but am trying to rail), only to give our red jackets a chance of saving me.- WIATHER IMPOST.-(THLS DAY.) .14081588, FZBRCAIY 24, 8 LY. air. W. 'it, i'llr" . s i w. IL n n 1 : I 0. ------ - a , -----.—l Maim 29.410 W.N.W. 7 1 S.W. i, 017 1 Let* 19.731. W. 26 1 N.W. 0.. '- 11 Lel* - &Aromas_ 10.961 W. 37 I W. :rot' 07 7 Greassaatle. - a Cape Clair W 0.353 1 W.N.W. 4 W . S.W. I I o_ '• Roches Pt 110.411 W. 4 1 W.N.W. • , 3 184449.341 - 7 410484441 30.14 2149 W.N.W. iS 1 W.N.W. i 0 , - - renames - 3 greet ..-- 30.471 N.W. 4 N. I c' [Meat 30.47r • W. 1 N.N.W. i 4 1:1 I - - 2 Sochdoe 30.660 N.& - ICE ml : -.4 Plymootb - Weymouth_ 30.34 648 W.N.W. N.R. ion I-. ~; torWaso4o. 10.301 W. N. a ,091 . Louden - Yarmouth _ 30.tht 45 W.S.W. N.W. 0 i - 4 60110cl'Oug 6 29.941 1 48 W. W. 0001 3 4610100 22.63rE N. W, N.W. cb 1- 4 W. - - -- ! 5 &web._ low I se 8.8. W. Paris - Lyon' ourg - 2 39 N.W. 1 - - c- 1 30.47 87 N. HearraCon M.SOr 13 N. 4 N. 01 1 4 ..- -----------7-- - •- - ----.----------- _ Th; corrected and redwood to St deg. at sea /..._.„„„" 1- 4 letters r (rising), I (falling), a (steady), Indicate sin'ss—___a— tuotionot themercuryerttidn ladle hews. Thermometer exPssss In shade. Extreme force, with Redirection during Lot !4 boars. Z.—calm. weather: b.—bite sty; c.— clouds detxh_tt a i . fog; ; l.—lightning: Mop ; o (dull); r.--rain: avow; t.—thunder. Rath hill, sow or ball ;melted), during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance. REMARKS. A very rapid decresae in barometrical pressure occurred so* rally between satnnlay and Sunday morning. and ditto alh pregame el J atlll higher this moning this on Saturds t ooti , d t, at nag been a fresh diminution since yesterday &mng four-tenths of en bleb In Scotland The proonres .r! stations considerably exceed those in the north; the Tie'rove 5, Rochefort Is nearly aloe-tenths higher than at Nairn. * tuns have become more mantra, and are now high in wore leisads, whilst on the west coast and interior of France th,y lamer. The north-west .s* Irish reported on Saturday anem ia cramed Ln force in the Irish Channel and at the entrance id tlis g Channel; con i. a ti ll n l n e.istin ed yesterday etot,el.s ih 4 5 ; wrevalenee of westerly wind at other stations, bat of med,rs force. Mist la prevalent in uth-west, saiFweather hats,' rally cloudy. Warnings lasned. the so The significant statement is made with regal' to the depression of the American shipping interests, Olt on the 29th of January there was not single vessel of an y description in the port of Ne w York loading for s British port. Boons of foreign vessels were ep f°2 According to the last accounts from San Flrsa deco the production of gold in California bat by a Mt, is keened,likely to keened, not only by the temptation for an inneseed cut vodka of wheat throughout the state, 01 01 to lea sterling per month, that bar been imps Chinesis miners, sad is stated to have " driven thermal heat tbe planes, sad to have led to • decrease in OW ato ilatkat at gold as well es to the pablie revenue." .:. . . Pill - r-