The Express. — London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

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Tun SvzsrpoTHE MARRIED BACHEWZ.—IN THZ WRONG 1101.—D/R TRIT9CHUIT Ok_A GOOD CART WA • Pile/..—Jaid WAITLNO Till WM/WWII/JD. HOLBOILW. MS EVENING, it 7, Ltilierra — thva urrnsits. Mr. Bea. more and Mies C. Saunders—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. lferlZo, Belmore, Blake, Vollalre, de. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, 0. ;Sunders, Bessie Foote, 'Ude., Lennox, Raymond, Re. BRITANYLL TIM IMMO THE OLDCHEERY TEEL Mni Loac—The Wondrous Brewers Vlotorsall ; Shake Perks Mr. N. eta I.S2Lgind 014 Dural ; Paul Deana. THE BEIDE Or m.uuATE. DION WAITER AT LONDON BIUDOL TAW DAT —lllarolag, lb fat Afternoon. lb. Wm TO-Yonolf—lfoolog, lb. tiko Afkranni. Its. fn. LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. Tss supposed imminence of the Eastern ques tion is setting a great many wits to work to dis cover, if not a complete solution, some scheme or expedient which shall break the force of the ap prehended shock. As a rule, it is only when measures of this class are ascribed to Govern- menu that they deserve attention, for it is only in their powerful hands that they can become operative for good or evil. Some of the plans put forward from time to time as having the sanction of this or that Government, reveal by the incon- gruity of their component elements their authors masa of the magnitude of the work to be per formed, and perhaps also their slender faith in its accomplishment. Only the other day an im portant European journal sketched the outline of a portentous project which was to be brought into operation in Egypt. The Bashaw of that country was to become a constitutional ruler, with a native Parliament, divided into ministerialists and opposition, putting troublesome questions to the Grand Vizier, and voting an annual budget. It was easy to see what an important part might be played in the future by a State so favourably situated as Egypt for exorcising an influence in the Levant if it could only be regenerated upon European prin ciples. But before there has been time to carry this notable plan into effect we are told, upon the same high authority, of another scheme, if pos sible still more marvellous. For the last few months negotiations have been going on between the Court of Rome and the "Patriarch of the " Greeks," with no less an aim than that of bring ing the Greek Church into the Latin Communion. The negotiation is properly described as extraor dinary, and it is added that the utmost secrecy has been observed throughout its several stages ; a fact which may account for a certain vagueness and incompleteness discernible in the statement be fore us. It seems that a " basis " has been found, and mutually adopted, the transaction having been greatly facilitated by the good offices of an im portant European Power, which we are left to sup pose is France. The journalists to whom the world is indebted for this interesting intelligence add that " it is not difficult to perceive the bear " ing of such an event, if it should be realised, for " the Christians of the East, recognising the Pors " as their Pontiff, would be released from every " tie on the side of St. Petersburg. Russia " would lose all power over them, and the West " would thus find itself secured against the Rua " sian ambition which has Constantinople for its " object." It is difficult to know whether the Pors or the PATRIARCH of Constantinople—who, we suppose, is intended by the designation " Patriarch of the " Greeks "—ought to feel most flattered by the importance ascribed to them In this scheme. If the POPE is able to settle the Eastern question, or even divest it of danger, by a mere ecclesiastical compact requiring neither armies nor fleets for its execution, he may in the very crisis of his temporal dominion boast a degree of political power such as Kings and Emperors might envy. We must, however, have a little more information respecting this plan before pronouncing finally upon its merits. There are one or two preliminary difficulties in the way of the arrange ment thus described, besides certain facts which make it exceedingly doubtful whether, if it were carried out, it would have the consequences which seem to be expected of it. There are, first of all, the claims and character of the Greek Church. It is very well at Rome to disparage that Church, and refer to it as the Photian schism," but at Constan tinople they say that the Greek Church is the ' Mother, not the Daughter of Rome, and re- , mind us that the only Councils which can pro perly be styled (ecumenical were Eastern Coun cils. The Greek Church his too little of the active missionary spirit to care to reclaim the West, but far too much historical pride, as well as far too distinct a religious development, to be in clined to submit to that of Rome. " If," observes Dean STANLEY, " the voice of authority is confi " dent at Rome, it is hardly less confident at Con " stantinople. Beyond the Themes there are " unbroken successions of bishops, long calendars " of holy men, unknown in the West, who can re " turn anathema for anathema, as well as blessing " for blessing; who can afford to regard even " Atroesrufa and JEROME, not as canonised saints, " only as pious Christians of blessed memory.' " In the eyes of an orthodox Greek the Pope is " not the representative of a faith pure and un " defiled, but (I quote their own words) as the " first Protestant,' the founder of German ra- " tionaliem.' The Esaarnlll "in their solemn docuißents supremacy as the chief heresy of Mies dip, destined to be cut down r i. , " van t ipp away." Further, one of the parties Orange compact is utterly and notoriously without power to fulfil the conditions which he is reported to be ready to assume. The - of Constan ifinople is the chief of four P of the Zastern Church, who rule 'together' over a little more than nine millions of souls. Formerly his sway extended 4Wer all the countries of the Greek Empire, but with the decay of i Thrills% power and the rise of new States of Greek nationality in the East, it has been greatly restricted. In 1833 the, Regency of Greece declared " the Orthodox "Oriental Church of Renee" independent of every foreign authority. The Metropolitan of Carlowita, in Austria, with his eleven bishops, governs his Church as an independent patriarchate. The Churches of Cyprus, Montenegro, and the Danubian Principalities have followed the same example. The Church which acknowledges the direct jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Con stantinople is rent asunder by political divisions. Two sections, the great &lave- Man party on the one hand, and that of the Greek velates and the Hellenic nationalists on the other, perpetually contend for mastery. But neither of than has any leanings towards Rome. The Sat is an instrument in the hands of Rum* the constant enemy of Rome ; the second is ardently attached to the Greek Church, because it ••• recog m ss in it the representative of the unity of the Greek race, and the means by which the flame of Greek nation ality wee kept alive through a long night of servitude. As for the Patriarch of Con stantinople, between the Turkish Government and the Synod his situation is most precarious, and he seldom reigns more than a very few years before he is compelled to resign. The Synod, consisting of eight bishops, is far more powerful than he is, and frequently deposes him. The objections, then, that lie against the credibility of this last new story of Eastern politic are found in the sen timent of superiority over the Church of Rome which the orthodox Greek communion has always cherished, in the intensely national character of the Greek race, and in the utter powerlessness of the Patriarch of Constantinople, both as a subject of the SULTAN and as a member of the Greek Synod, to render the services required of him by transferring his flock to a foreign shepherd. BROWN and POISON'S OORN FLOUR for CHILDILIWB Dirr To obtain extra prodt by the sale other trade IP* amslises ceend instead of BROWN and POLSON'S. "John Brown," "John Poison," is *Bed bt the .sbs ou oath piast. . L 24a P *a11I!, A r y T a nd ak and TU)D B y. tr L AzDriArs..Auarsom soolgeols. Irtrix PARTICULARS in Übe T 0 t r , it i rAPPIN BROTElRS.—Xatablishell A. D. 1810. of BILVIRPLATB far the COLONIES, gad COPIRRY sad • SILvMt PLOP fat MAPPIN BROTEKRS, 140NDOlt-BRIDGE. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) TIM COMMIVATIVE POLICY. The Doily News speaks of Mr. Du Cane as one of the most agreeable of the minor conservative orators of the Hones of Gammons, but to his wpm& to his constituent. the other day not a few exceptions must be taken. Accord ing to him the oonservative party lass been really in power for seven years, and if this be so the fall of an honest liberal administration is explained without the need of the hackneyed charges preferred by Adullamites and tories. Instead of reproach, Lord Rus sell and his colleagues must deserve honour for having re . fused to govern the country on principles other than those which they really entertain. Mr. Du Cane's speech, like that of Lord Malmesbury, points to the probability of a reform bill like that of 1859, the object of which was, by different expedients, to preserve and increase the already excessive and injurious predombuinoe of a single class in the legislature—the landlords. Mr. Disraeli has de. nonnced in no measured terms " the coarse and common expedient of what is called lowering the franchise in towns ;" and last year candidly said that his own opinion was opposed to any reduction of the borough franchise— stating that the indefinite concession which he had prof- feted In 1859 would have made no real difference—in other words, that it would have been illusory. Mr. Du Cane is justified in asking for a trial for the ministry of which he is a member ; but in the face of the foregoing facts he can scarcely complain if it is gravely distrusted and vigilantly watched. Like other famous strongholds, observes the Post, Castle Hediagham has been ceded to the requirements of pro green and the exigencies of the epoch. The banner of reform now floats over its ramparts, and the principle of compromise is articulate within its walls. The garrison, too, is reconciled to this change. At the annual inspec tion last week it stepped out with remarkable elasticity. Mr. Du Cane could not have experienced a more cordial reception if he bad declared war against innovation, and called upon the Hinckford Club to resist its invasion to the last. Indeed, it would almost appear that the Essex conservatives are impatient reformers. If through the instrumentality of the government a measure of reform can be passed which, without touching the balance of political power, shall extend the franchise and improve and purify the representation, it will deserve well of the country ; and the Post agrees with Mr. Du Cane that, should ministers be able to see their way to thin end, it would be wise to avail themselves of the opportunity. The Herald congratulates the conservatives of Essex in being able to drink with enthusiasm the toast of " Her Majesty's Ministers." The Heroid goes on to assert that the government will not bring in a reform bill unless they have some good assurance that it will pets, though it acknowledges that it is not easy to see bow such an assurance could be obtained. The whole question depends upon the public temper, the state of the country and of other countries four months hence, and upon several other factors of which we are all at this time absolutely ignorant. The Star promises its support to Mr. Disraeli if he will bring in a reform bill fairly embodying the just and honest claims of the people, but it is clear from Mr. Du Cane's words that such a measure as Mr. Disraeli's government would bring in would have no such character at all. Mr. Du Cane informs us that the bill he would favour would be "a safer measure than the bill of the late government." We cannot but remember that the want of safety about the bill of the late government, for which the tories con demned it, was the fact that it proposed to admit some few thousand working men to the franchise. No reform bill worth having can come from among the Cranbornes, and Malmesburys, and Hardys. Any reform scheme they sanction will be a sham ; any measure Mr. Disraeli may prepare without their approval will be an abortion. When the Telegraph sees a conservative leader leaning over the table of the House bitterly denouncing a mea sure, it always feels that he i simply attacking by antici pation some enactment of the future, to be proposed, perhaps, by himself. That is the destiny of his party, and Mr. Disraeli is not likely to avoid what could not be evaded even by the genius of Peel. The Daily News and the Post treat also of Lord Derby's Irish policy. His lordship, says the former, is aware that if some way be not discovered of securing support from Roman catholics the months of his continuance in office may probably be counted on the fingers of one hand, and he is seeking a middle course which may conciliate Roman catholic support without losing protestant votes. Trans lated into this plain language, his notion of an Irish policy resolves itself into this:—He hopes to win the Roman catholics by • prospect of subsidies for Ireland, and places for Irishmen, and to retain the protestant' by keeping on foot that substantial misgovernment which is dear either to their pocket or their pride. It remains to be seen whether the Irish liberals are pre. pared, in consideration of what the tories are likely to do for Ireland in the way of hard money, to leave to the landlords the task of apportioning the legitimate rights of the tenantry, and to the Orange societies the work of de termining the future status of the established church. In the Tipperary election the new policy was put before the people with all the advantages that the government could possibly have desired, but the Daily News rejoiees to see that that county has definitively rejected the alluring bait. THR ARCHBISHOP OP CANTRRBORT A DIMWIT& The fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury hes just takes the trouble to go as far as Inverness to lay the first stone of an episcopal cathedral, leads the Timm to say that his grace, the very pinnacle of establishment in the most established church in the world, has appeared in the capacity of • dimenter. The established church in which the presbyterian church holds public authority in Sootland, and in offering • alight to the established church of the sister ldngdom he is disparaging his own title to public recognition. fie has no more right to inter fere with the establiehai shush of Scotland than with the province of the Archbishop of York or the Archbishop of • Dublin, or than the Pope has to interfere with the &mew . of ;the Archbishop of Ossiterbury„ Tits 101%0 of the speeches at the inaugural banquet doornei *ern the error. The archbishop absolutely repudiated fellowship with the church of the Scottish nation, which the Times, on the contrary, maintains is the true reprr *dative of the English establishment, and receives pr.- steely the same recognition. The climax, however, was reached by the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles. Archbishop Laud gained an commvishle notoriety for dmilsrly injn: dicious prooeedinp, but we should hardly have thought that anyone would have had the audacity to quote the precedent. The Bishop of Argyll, however, rejoiced at the presence of one who was the representative, among others, of " k-Becket, who contended for the principle, of _ _ eeolasiaetioal fnedom ; and of Load, who saw in mon soft," sad, we may add, in episoopmy, " a divine right.'' After this ebullition, nothing further, the 2Nriat think*, can be needed to condemn the course taken by the arch ' bishop. MB TOPICS. By the result of the plebiscite, which in this case was an idle farce, Victor Emmanuel, the Time says, is now Dogs of Venice, by all the titles acknowledged in ancient or modern times. Poor Venice coma last. to the gathering of her Italian sisterhood. She who was the inn to emerge from the flood of northern invasion in the dark ages, and the last raft of her freedom in days of national hiunilia- Eon and enslavement—she, too, at last, has seen her re demption. The Herald says that the spirit and fairness with which the Mexican Emperor maintains his throne, prove at least that he is worthy to govern, and it is too soon as yet to pronounce his attempt a failure. Time is in favour of the Mexican Emperor, together with the irreooncileable hatreds of the factions opposed to,bnt not banded together against him. The undertaking at any rate will never be despised by history ; while those who refute the Emperor Napoleon the credit of a generous idea, conceived in the common interest of mankind, will simply deny him the joint)e due to all disinterested motives. _ _ The Timer is inclined to believe that President Johnson will no longer oppose the declared will of the North. He has spoken violently and menacingly, and his phrase, a re►olutionary body," applied to Congress, may well excite alarm among the members, and induce them to take measures of self-defence. On the other hand, Mr. Sumner and others of the opposite party, among whom General Butler is conspicuous, have inveighed against Mr. Johnson in a style seldom applied to the chief of a State. It mu st be remembered, however, that these speeches were made before the electicos, and with the avowed purpose of stir ring up party energy to the utmost. They all have the cha racter of hustings' harangues, and must be estimated as The Tdegraph denounces an extraordinary sentence of the Bolton magistrates in one of the grossest cases ever reported. A ruffian who the other day waylaid a young lady in a lonely lane, and in his vile, though unsuccessful attempts injured her so much that when help tame ohs was bleeding much about the head, great quantities of her hair having been torn out by the roots, has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment. In explanation of this leniency, we are informed that wit nesses were produced who testified "to the good moral character of the prisoner." Good moral character (exclaims the TefegropA) of a man proved guilty of such an atrocious offence ! For the future our thieves bad better produce in evidence that they have learned the church catechism, and our murderers should bring witnesses to show that hitherto they have been weak to a fault in their horror of blood shed ! The trial of this man is a signal failure of justice, a disgrace to the perception of the Bolton bench ; and when the scoundrel comes out of prison he will be a walk- in g proof that in England it is safer coolly to outrage the highest moral laws than to commit a theft under the pangs of hunger. Elie Court. BALMORAL, Oar. 20. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe went so the Lynn of Quoich. Princess Louise rode in the morning, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Prince Arthur left the Castle for the Ranger's Lodge, Greenwich, attended by Major Elphinstose. The Duke and Duchess of Aumale, attended by Mdlle. Clincharap, dined with the Queen and the royal family. The Duke of Buckingham has arrived at the Castle, and is minister In attendance upon her Majesty. The Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Thyra, Prince Waldemar, Prince Albert Victor, and Prince George, with the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, left Marlborough-house yesterday, for Sand ringham. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Mauritius, the Australian Colonies, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Malta, Gibraltar, and the North American Provinces. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at_ tended by the principal members of his household, will leave England on the 4th of the ensuing month for St. Petersburg, to be present at the nuptials of the Csarewitch of Russia and the Princess Dogmas.. His Excellency the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto are expected to return to the Bavarian Legation early in the ensuing week from Brighton. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. and the Misses Gladstone have left Bologna for home. The Count de Paris, with the countess, and the Duke and Duchess de Chartres, have arrived at Venice. The photograph of " Lord Layard " appears in the shop windows at Venice. General Klapka, the commander of the late Hungaro-Pressian Legion, has repaired to Paris. On his way thither he had au interview with some other Hunga rian exiles, who met him at Cologne. King Leopold's banquet continues to be the theme of conversation at Brussels. It is not a little re markable that from the commencement of the feast to the close no guest had to ask for anything. There were no fewer than 230 servants in attendance, and every want of any of the company was anticipated by them with an intelligent readiness. The number of plates used on the occasion was 20,000 ; there were 15,000 wine glasses and 2,000 dishes on the table, and yet everything was served with as little confusion as if the party was a small one in a gentleman's house. The King of the Belgians is said to be nervous about his English ; but he had no occasion to be so. On Saturday he spoke his English speech admirably. There was no undue emphasis, and but a slight foreign pronunciation. His French speeches are spoken with much fluency. On the Bth the Queen of the Sandwich Islands took her departure from San Francisco for Hawaii. The Sultan has presented the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul with a piece of land, called Tchaukourßodon, ii Top-Kane, for the purpose of erecting thereon an orphan asylum. The conduct of these re- Sigieusea during the prevalence of the cholera in 1863 has procured them this imperial favour. The Roman catholic Plenary Council, met on the 7th at Baltimore, the proceedings being opened by a grand service in the large cathedral of that city. Over 40,000 people in and around the cathedral took part in the open ing services. Two hundred and eighty-three ecclesiastics, among them seven archbishop., twenty-eight bishops, and three mitred abbots, are in attendance at the council. The council was formally opened by Archbishop Spalding, the primate of the United States, who presided, and ad , dressed the assembled clergy in Latin. The proceedings, 1 which were in secret, continued all the week. St. Patrick's Roman catholic cathedral in lsiew York has been destroyed by fire, the loss being estimated at 200,000 dots. In St. Petersburg tipsy people are lodged for the night at the police stations, and in the morning obliged to do penance as scavengers. INTELLII PRUSSIA. of Herr Twesten, one of the most the Progresist party in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, a prosecution, com menced nine days after the proclamation of the amnesty, for is speech delivered by him before the war on the subject of the elections, has produced in Prussia a very *herd impression. The Cologne Gazette asks whether the present ministers with the exception of Count ton Bismarck and General von Roon, should not, in consequence of their ante oedents, retire from office in order to make room for new men who would aid the PreAident of the Council in carrying out the ruy al programme union between , the nation and the crown. The Weiler Gazette remarks that if Couut Bismarck was mutter of his own actions he would long ago have separated from his present colleagues. It is the general opinion in Berlin that a partial modification of the Cabinet is inevitable and that the replacement of Count Von Lippe, the present Minister of Justice, will be the first pledge of reconciliation which the crown will offer to the desires of the nation. A letter from Rome in the Debats says : la entioipation of the great events which are in prepara tion, a kind of truce exists between the government and its subjects. The latter are crushed by misfortune ; they suffer from the dearness of provisions, from the scarcity of cash and the absence of strangers. But they are persuaded that this is a transitory state of thing's. The government is aware of its unpopularity and its weakness and knows that the old machine will soon cease to work. Every one is persuaded that a sweeping political change must soon be effected. The Romans expect it with hope and confidence, the poorer clergy without much apprehension—the prelates and cardinals with terror. The liberals are doing nothing to bring it about because they know it must come of itself—the clericals are doing nothing to prevent it— because they know it is not in their power to do so. There is not a particle of jealousy in the satisfaction with which the Romans view the liberation of their brethren of Venice. It is their turn to-day, they observe ;it will be ours to-morrow, for the unity of Italy will only really be accomplished when the possession of Rome shall have crowned the edifice. a . INV k 'a • 4 , 77 . -, atilr.s. SIU VAIL C I II NS 9 di. al • . presb , ands Ps one imall the ' eg o r 7: l . What MI difference, in principle, be establishing a i , I dissenting cathedral in Scotland and a tabernacle 21 an " iin London ? The archbishop holds his dignity and 'Lathe- eminentThe prosecution of members of to this :say in this country by precisely the seine rig ht as that by ... .— ,_ r.—...;..- PI. a ...),.:.. . a OCTO: THE PROPOSED cONSIIIUTION FOR EGYPT. The IndApendance contains the following remarks on this subject : If we may believe the information of one of our Paris correspondents, the resolution of the viceroy of Egypt to introduce into that country representative institutions like those of France has aroused the fears and suspicions of England. This project having been encouraged by the French government, the cabinet of London believes it can peroeive therein the first step to a French protectorate of Egypt when a crisis takes place in the East, and accord ingly the agents of England in Constantinople and Alex andria have set themselves to work to prevent Its execution. They have already manacled in making the Sultan regret the tacit assent which he gave to the projects of the vice roy, and one of the first effects of their action is to restore to credit Mustapha Pacha, the brother of Ismael, who was deprived of his right to the succession of Egypt by the in troduction of the principle of direct inheritance, and un ceremoniously dismissed from the court of the Padishah a few months ago. The Independanee does not attach much im portance to this news, but thinks that if the people of Egypt are ripe for the introduction of the con stitutional system, the reform will be effected in spite of the opposition of England, and will prove a benefit to the whole of Europe. MEXICO. The Indipendance Beige thinks it probable that the Austrian steam vessel of war which has been ordered to proceed without delay from Trieste to Vera-Cruz will convey the Emperor Maximilian to Europe. (anTsit's TILEGIUMB.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Ocr. 23. The New Free Pews of to-day says :—" Baron von Bengt will in all probability be very shortly appointed Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Count Nati Appizione, the new Italian Plenipo tentiary, has arrived here. General Menabrea is preparing to leave. HUNGARY. PESTH, OCT. 23. It is stated on reliable authority that the Hun garian Diet will be opened on the 15th proximo. The obsequies of the late primate of Hungary will be celebrated to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, oc7r. 23. Royal decrees have been issued ;eic;riniiig the organisation and functions of the municipalities and provincial administrations, and distiolving the provincial deputations on the ground that the municipalities have become the executive power of the revolutionists. Fresh elections for the provincial deputations are ordered to take place on the 25th of November. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND (EXTRA) BOMBAY MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, Oor. 22. The Tanjore and Ceylon sailed at 6 a.m. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 28th inst., and the latter at Southampton about the 4th of November. BOMBAY (HEAVY) MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Ocr. 22. The Pera leaves at 8 a.m. to-day. All well. She may be expected at Southampton early on the 27th inst. WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAT.) T CESDAT, OCTO 23, S L.ll, B. ILI W. 1 1;. 0 1 11Ireme. W. R. 'le i % 12' H. D. 19. 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In the north of S 15 degt wit At Port oath mad coast It is about 10 degrees lower south-west On the 4th of next month the Rev. Mr. Lynch, President of the Irish College in Paris, will be commuted Roman Catholic Bishop of Glasgow. It is intended to convey the body of Manin, which now lies in the tomb of Ary Schaffer, to Venice, on the 22nd of May, the annivetwary of the decimation of Venetian independence. The duty of conveying his re mains to Venice will be discharged by General Moe end M. Anatole de la Forge, the author of a history of the last republic of Venice. ; 186 W. E. Ad M.P., OR THE PROSE OP MR. EYRIE boielst evening, Mr. Forster, M.P. for Bradford, addressed a meeting of his constituents on the present position of the reform question. He said he should re gret if the glory and privilege of puling • reform bill were reserved for Mr. Disraeli instead of Mr. Gladstone, bet he thought be ought not to refuse a treakkill to OI government on the subject. He believed •M possible f ir a conservative government to bring forward an honest rat form bill, if Mr. Disraeli could do with respect to referral what Sir B. Peel did with regard to the men laws ; sad, is his judgment there meld be °dome conservative useesrare than • comprehensive reform bill. He defied the tory ministry to retain power unless they brought in as stem prehendve • reform measure as could be introduced by Lord Hamel or Mr. Gladstone. He appealed to all ceoecemOves to consider the futility of the objections made Nedra& 4 large satensiou of the mirage, and especially pan* to the danger of rendering trades unions more powerful by uniting them in resistance to political injustice. Mr. Roemer KILL put • series of questions to Mr- Forster with (reference to the Jamaica outrages. In re plying, Mr. FOIST= said—l and very glad that my friend Mr. Kell has asked these questions. I should have spoken upon the Jamaica question but for two reasons--first, that I like to do one thing at a time, and as I had a good deal to say about reform, I ventured to confine my first speech to that, and secondly, because I was perfectly sure I should be asked a question about this matter. (Hear, hear.) I em voy glad of the opportunity of saying why, although merely a subordinate member of the government, and not chiefly responsible for what was done, yet that I did agree with the government, and with Mr. Cardwell, the Chief Secretary of State for the Colonies, in these two things—first, is the recall with censure of Governor Eyre,' and secondly, in the refusal to institute a government . prosecution. Mr. Cardwell's action in both these respects' has been very strongly impugned. I suppose to you I need not defend his first action—the resell with censure. I imagined that it would be more necessary for me to say to you why I agreed with him that it was not our business to institute • prosecution. I do not suppose that anyone more laments—more disapproves—more blames—l can hardly use a mffiedeatly strong word—more utterly con demns—the conduct in Jamaica. I was likely to do so from my previous feelings with regard to the negro, and I was also likely to do so from being brought into full knowledge and information of what had happened. But when there came the question as to whether Governor Eyre should be prosecuted, my reason for believing that it was not tpa business of the government to institute a prosecution woe this—that I do not think there is any ground for supposing that he acted from • had motive. (Hear, and cheers.) If there are those who think that he did, they are perfectly justified in hastening on the prosecution ; bat that is not my opinion after having carefully oonaidered the in formation which was brought before me. (Cheers.) But Governor Eyre made s most deplorable mistake--• mistake which I described in the House of Commons as allowing • massacre to be committed—a mistake such as I think very few governors ever did make—the mistake of allow ing 200 or 300 of the Queen's subjects to be killed without necessity, and many of them without justice. And it is difficult for us to imagine how he oval& have made the mistake were it not that we see this other fact—that there was scarcely • white man in Jamaica who would not have made it. Therefore we feel that it could not be the personal feeling of Governor Eyre so much as that miserable feeling of race, which seems to carry men beyond the possibility of judging what is right. (Hear, hear.) But now came the question—Was he to be prosecuted for making this mis take? Well, the reason that Ido not think that he ought to have been was this, that we—l mean her Majesty's government—had put him in a position in which even, wo may say, he was forced to use his discretion. (Hear, hear.) Now, I want you all to take that into amount — and I never looked into • question with more pain, with a greater feeling of responsibility, and at first with greater doubt—that was what convinced me at last that it was not our business to institute a prosecution, because the government of England had put him into a position in which he was, as it were, forced to nee hie discretion, and therefore, although we might recall him—censure him—blamo him—eupplant him—f• real punishment, for such recall is ruin)—for this misuse of his discretion, we had no right to criminally pro *acute him. (Cheers.) Now I shall tell yon how it was that he was in that position. It was chiefly because the government and the parliament of England had allowed laws to remain on the statute books of Jamaica which do not exist, I am happy to say, in England, nor scarcely in any other part of the Queen's dominions. If he had been in the position that the governor of most other colonies is, or that a man having authority either in England or Ireland would be, his declaration of martial law would have been entirely his own act, and it would have been a question whether he ought not to have been made personally responsible for the iniquities that were committed under that martial law, because he need not have declared it. But with the existence of that law upon the statute books of Jamaica, and with the past history of Jamaica, there is not One governor out of a hundred who would not have felt it 'a duty which he scarcely could avoid to declare martial law; and martial law once declared, it is impossible to secure that jostles shall be ob. served. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the proceed to a close. RITUALISTS AND THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. —" S. G. 0." writes to the Times:—" The day may not be just yet, but, in my opinion, it cannot be far distant, when, by some rash overt act, some of the leaders of this movement will betray its real aim. I strongly suspect, if the truth were known, that aim is no secret to certain members of the bench. There will then, I trust, be a de parture out of our pale of the greater part of a body of men who must, in all honesty, feel that they are unfitted to remain in it. We shall probably have an anglo-catholic church independent of the state. It will, doubtless, have many adherents, for novelty is attractive ; to it, I have no doubt, certain colonial churches will affiliate themselves. It will have no real difficulty as to a head ; there are those who say with con fidence—one or more bishops will join. Ambitious of great spiritual power, utterly opposed to earthly &nth*. rity, aiming at the sort of union which would make the priest of all lands powerful over all people ; starting on its new independent life, with the prestige of a kind of; persecution ; such a church, independent of Tope and King, has a fair field for trying the question— whether, in a day in which men think more for themselves than they ever did, are as jealous of ecclesiastical as of political dogmas—in a day when even Romanism is shaken to its centre, and Bomish die* cipline has had to yield to royal mandate, England will view with anything but compentionate contempt the at tempt to build up a permanent ecclesiastical system out of material which disfigured the church from which it was taken, and has no one bond of union than that of a coin :* mon, all-pervading belief in its own self-sufficiency." The -° Rev. James Skinner, vicar of Newland, Great Malvern, writing to the Times in defence of St. Alban's, concludes his letter with saying that " if the day should ever come in which ' the authorities' shall interfere to ' stop' our full liberty to teach the above-named statements as vital truth, there are more than three-fourths of us who would be compelled to give up the church of England as no por tion of the church of Christ at all." There is much talk in Paris society of a pam phlet by the Duo d'Aumale on the state of Europe since the battle of Sadowa. Mr. GLADSTONE, M.P.—Mr. Gladstone, son of the distinguished statesman, and member for Chester, arrived in Belfast on Friday last, and spent that and the greater part of the following day in making a tour of the town, and seeing as much of it as possible during his short visit. He left on Saturday evening for Derry.—Northers Whig. THE IMMIGRANT HOP-PIC/MRS.—We are glad to find that the project originating with the Rev. J. Y. Stratton, the respected incumbent of Ditton, for ame liorating the condition of the myriads of poor creatures who make their way into the large hop-growing districts for em ployment in the picking, has been very warmly taken up. The memorial on the subject has been most readily signed by owners and occupiers of hop lands and others interested in the social and moral welfare of the county. We hope to see a large attendance at the meeting on Thursday next, especially of the hop-growers, es it is their hea r ty co operation which is particularly desired, and which indeed , is absolutely essential to suedes . D oubtless there are difficulties in the way of carrying out the proposal, but we believe that these difficulties have been well considered and that earnest and united fiction is alone needed to sur mount thus. We trust the result of this movement will show that the charge of apathy and neglect brought against West Kent, in regard to the condition of its immigrant hop-pickers, is not well-founded.—South Eastern Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) -+- VICE CHANCELLOR STUARTS CHABIBras (Before Mr. Hall, Chief Chet) SIM =MID /MIS COMMONS 9. InIAY.--PIOUSIDap 0111110111 Y IT 2117. VUQcaa oevionntor. This wig a eat by the Americas grearnment 604 dsfesidaset, a merchant, oa the p r oud that lw had moat far the Confederates, and had received I wo rgsseente. The bill wee for an account and rearm, g money. An application was made on the part of the dew." far time to file his answer, net the pound that he lad b ig abroad. far sane months, and the papers were befoo counsel. On the part of the United States, II was alleged the ample time bad been given. The intarcipition had bi g filed some months ago. The Chief Clerk aaked for an affidavit of facts. An affidavit was put in sad read. The Chief Clark inquired what time was needed t answer. Counsel would now be in town. A period at three weeks wee required, but the eide clerk granted fourteen days, and made an order that is answer be Bled in that time. Order accordingly. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Oommiasioner Window.) Tau= DIBTOB 111711110/48 DISNIBRZD 1011 A summons had been taken out for a der 74 agaimit four members of a firm, broth's% eb a under theYirm of " A. B. and Sons" and ths lama , had been taken out to the name of the Aria. Mr. Bagley (instructed b 7 Meows. Sole, Tuners, al Hardwick) took the objection that the toilunana specify the woes of the several partners, and sheiisa the examination of one at the partners that the Nest the individuals compodng the firm ware oappliad 10 plaintiff on application. After hearing Mr. Reed on behalf of the plaintiff, His Honour held the omission fatal, and dismissed t summons; with eosin. IN NO n NICON. The henkrapt, • cigar dasher, of ir Pimlico, applied for has order el disaharp. Dan, held ea Pi sec ed urity, 4351. gtails appear or the elleial wolves. m e , Reed - opposed f for Mr. B. Uprose, at Old Pi street, City, from whom the bankrupt bad plushy cigars to the amount of 321. in February Lek elm s e for the smount,anti when sued ou it he west to : tre‘ The bankrupt, examined, stated that he had b e one ease et cigars as ciga r in his business from Mr. Lippman& Being sued at the time by a l pee named Heath, he deposited those cigars with Y security. Before beooming a cigar dealer he had bee builder, and of late he had been superintending balldi for his 'brother. For the last nine months ha bad dont trade whatever. His brother, Mr. Fredk. Bane, ws secured creditor for 3501., for work done and masse p on account two years ago. When he wee a bapdet raised several thousand pounds on mortgage. B e d m payment in 1054, and all the houses had been sold. had wince travelled for a cigar dealer. Mr. Reed asked for additional accounts showing the pod of the money received b the bankrupt, las 11 had beams of the cigars al from the oppolag &tor. His Honour directed an adjournment for the aces asked for. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) (Before the Recorder.) TIM SPICIAL JUST 213.1111416, Mr. Ribton made an application for the the trial of the prisoner Mayhew, who stags= having carried on a regular . system of perjury Si ss parties to escape from serving on special and other le in the superior courts, to the next session. Ths tion was founded on affidavits which represented ilist defendant was in such a state of health as to be an unable to take his trial at present. Mr. Gifford, Q.C., said that if the affidavits genuine, he felt that he could not oppose the wfim The court was aware of the nature of the case, sad sill the prosecutors desired wait to be satisfied that anal were made by persons who were in exiatenee. Inquiries should be made, and, if it should be rests that the affidavits were made by respectable yams should not object to the trial being postponed. The application accordingly stood over for the aim inquiries to be instituted. ALLZOND ILL-Traurrirurr OT A LUNATIC. Henry Burton and Edward Morgan, two welidie powerful men, surrendered to take their trial fa demeanour, upon an indictment which alleged that I being employed as warders at the Surrey Couty Le Asylum, did unlawfully tumult and beat George rtio of the inmates of the asylum. Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Straight conducted the pressed Mr. itibton and Mr. Foulkes were counsel for Ih fondants. This was a prosecution instituted by the &steles@ visiting justices of the Surrey ()aunty Lunen' Asyk• the facts have been frequently before the public It stated by the learned counsel for the pronounce is opening that • great difficulty would be thrown 's tb of establishing the charge by the fact that the prime was alleged to have been assaulted, was not in ask a of mind as to admit of his being called as a et and the ease would mainly rest upon the testing those workmen who happened at the time to is played in doing some work at the asylum. The mg the part of the prosecution, was that, on the Nth d Umber, there had been an altercation betwera tb Tite and another patient, and the former beam violent, and it was admitted that when the defilade tattered to preserve order, Tite seized a chat attempted to strike them. It was then allege one of the defendants seized him and threw down end struck him, and after this br forced into a cell, where the other defender' represented to have also beaten him until he shriek mercy. On the following day the patient was eland the medical officers, and marks of violence well ob upon different parts of his person, and particolui: the chest, where the prisoner Bur ton was reported t knelt upon him. By the rules of the establish' appeared . that the warders were required to raga case of violence or coercion that they found new employ towards • patient immediately to the I officer, and it was alleged . that no report of vi taken place between the prisoners and the was T made by them, and that the attention of the r officer was only directed to the matter by a rem* was made to him by the patient of the violence s treatment to which he had been subjected. The evidence of the persons referred to bore statement of the learned counsel for the Mu and there did not seem to be the learnt deal the man Tite had behaved la • .sat violet net, and it also appeared that at the time he 1 chair in his hand he made use of vary violent h and threatened that he would kill the Slit came nes: him. It also appeared that the mom complaint was made by the patient the authoring tided en inquiry, and the prisoners were embed explanation and they at once admitted that t 1 made use of some violence to the patient, bat did no more than was actually n to nett from doing mischief either to the warders or sass person. The asterism that was set up for the defendants may be imagined from the above statement, ths time the transaction took place Tite was in a heat that he seized a chair and threatened that he murder the warders or anyone else who so him, and that no more violence was made use of t absolutely necessary to restrain him. It also that on the morning in question the patient had, means or other, contrived to secrete a knits was urged that but for this discovery 1 of one or other of the warders would probability have been sacrificed, and that, all the circumstances, it would be a most thing to convict men of respectability and g meter such as the defendants undoubtedly were, urinal offence, upon such evidence as had been ad the present cies - . The jury found the prisoners guilty of assault commended them to mercy on the ground that lieved they had received a great deal of proves' had been subjected to a good deal of violence be assaulted the patient. The defen dan ts were sentenced to two mon labour. (Before the Common Serjeant.) POST-OTBICE ROBBERIES. George Hillier, aged 32, a letter-carrier, plead' to two indictments for stealing letters, the proper Majesty's Postmaster-GeneraL Mr. Metcalfe, who appeared for the prosecutio that after the prisoner had been taken into caeca than 160 letters were found in his possession, and been ascertained that be had received the sue several post.oMee orderswhich some of them had c and by forging the receipts bad obtained the mos The Common Serjeant remarked that this ves timely load case, and sentenced the prisoner to penal servitude for the term of seven years. Alfred Kemp, 18, also a letter-carrier, pleaded an indictment charging him with stealing a I letter containing a gold ring, the property et her Postmaster-OeurraL Mr. Metcalfe again appeared for the FoveaeMr. Mr. F. R. Lewis, on behalf of the prisoner, urgl Ligation his youth, that this was, unlike the lad, case of stealing, and further the hitherto good the prisoner bad maintained. Several respectable witaesees, inc l u di ng lir ministers, were called, and gave the prisoner 03 possible character. The Common Serjeant sentenced the Ow kept to hard labour in the House of Correetio yews. THE ALLEGED EIIaTZZLEMENTS TR THE AMOCIIT C The tie' of Willem Chard Haddon, dialled ' k