The Express. — London, England, 1858-08-03 00:00:00

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SPORTING DITELLIGHNCE. A SPECIAL EDITION of the "EXPRESS," containing the results of the day's Rues, is pub lished every evening during the Sporting Suwon, et six o'clock. THE Session of Parliament which cloud yester day will be regarded hereafter as remarkable in several respects, and worthy of remembranoe--and not altogether discreditable remembrance—though it has not fulfilled some reasonable hopes, and has inflicted a good deal of mortification and shams. Many legislators, and other politicians, have proba bly suffered as keenly under the rage of political passion within the last six months u during any equal period of their preceding political lives, and there are no substantial and splendid results at all proportioned to such intensity of feeling: but some useful discipline has been administered, some mound lesson■ have been learned; the wrong has been shamed, and the right has oome uppermost, in a way and to a degree that will not be forgotten ; and these are things worth having, even if all reforms had been postponed, and no good laws substituted for bad— which, however, is far from being the case. There has been some good legislation, and a certain pro miae of more, amidst a good deal that is fearfully dubious in its quality. When the year opened, Lord PALMERSTON'S Cabinet had sufficient reason for their constant high spirits. The late Autumn Session had relieved them from their responsibility in regard to the Bank Charter; and there was reason to believe that the country would recover without relapse from the depression which followed the commercial panic. The Premier was in high feather; and the first act of the year was his appointment of Lord CLANRICARDE to be Lord Privy Seal. He would take no warning from the indignation provoked by this act, which followed on other abuses of patronage ; and public oen sure, and remonstrance from his own so-called party, seemed merely to intoxicate him with insolence. In the midst of his mood of defiance the attack on the life of the Emperor of the FRENCH occurred; and the explosion of Oestei's grenade: :lettered the British Cabinet, though it left unscathed the French throne. The buoyant Premier, indeed, did not see, or would not admit, that time. were changing with him, but he had in fact nothing to spare in the way of popularity when he met Parliament on the 4th of February. His manners had not propitiated his fol lowers during the Autumn Session; there were vow ing doubts about the efficacy of the Reform measure he had promised ; matters were not going very well in India, and it was believed that Lords PAI, MERSTON and PANMORE were mainly answerable for their not having taken a more favourable tura ; the Premier's famous Chinese enterprise, though just then illustrated by the capture of YETI, was dragging on, without anyone knowing what was aimed at, and what should be done next; our countrymen PARE and WATT were on trial at Naples, when every English citizen believed that • very ordinary amount of spirit on Lord CLARENDON'S part would have secured their release; and there were disquietude. in other dine- Lone which were lowering the prestige of Ministers very sensibly. As soon as the Session opened the wont qsaluise of the PALMERSTON Cabinet became diselond In • way which doomed it at once. The Minister took advantage of the popular ignorance— extending into Parliament—to engross the Govern ment of India, at the worst time and in mischievous haste, for the same purposes to which he had per verted the China question a year before ; and, u a set-off against this boldness, he and has Foreign Minister crouched before the insolence of the French Government, then in a state of insane panic. Lord CLARENDON'S passport arrangements and Lad PALMERSTON'S Conspiracy Bill strained the popu larity of the Ministry to the stout, and yet the Premier's manners became more insufferable to his supporters with every trial he inflicted on their faith and patience. Os the Bth of February he introduced his Coo apirsey Bill, under the disguise of an amendment of OW Common Law. It was at once received by the country, not as a law amendment, hut as a political concession ; and this decided its fate and that of the Ministry which could pro pose such a measure at the moment when French military offioers clamoured to be led to invade us, and the French Minister dictatorially invited our Government to alter our laws for the convenience of France. The House of Commoos was the Faunae's own personal following, he sup posed. Never did any House so belong to any modern English Minister ; and he tried the experiment of doing what he would with his own on behalf of the Runtime, whom he had been the first to wel come as he emerged from the sea of blood on the steps of the throne. But there was never yet a modern House of Commons which would submit ple of England to foreign die the lates and the people tation ; and on the second reading of the Bill being moved by Lord PALMERSTON, Mr. T. MILNER Gls- EON'S amendment, expressing • constant willingness to improve our laws, but regretting that before pro posing to do so in this instance Ministers had net officially answered Count WALEWSKI's despatch of the 20th of January, was carried by a majority of nineteen is • full House. The vehemence of the cheers which followed the announcement of this vote, and the visible discomfiture of Lord l'aurza- STOPt, marked the significance of the event. Rightly regarding it as, in effect, • rots of waat ofoonfidenes,. the Ministers resigned the next day. And here closed the first brief Act of the Session. The other incidents which marked it were Lord PALMERSTON'S introduction of his India Bill ; the presentment of a petition from the Ent India Company, of singular interest and value, as a recapitulation of their m aim and claims; the introduction of Lord J. Ws- SILL'. Bill for the alteration of the Pullainentary ICISODI LI 1 1111 and the a degret things v postpon , which, I has beet 1 mime of dubious W her Cabinet spirits. II from tt Charter country I { depreeaii The Pee the year to be Lc from the nee foll m ow m e l d t sure, and I the midi I 1 1 .. life of t the *apt I British I throne. ' would iss but he h popular i! Febrnar; lowers d ing doub he had p 1 in ledii n ERATO: , for their the Pry I I just thec dragging was ai next ; a on trial believed Lord Ct. release ; Lone wt . very see 1 Worst (II diselon. Minister extendit went of hate, fo verted tl est•off , Minister Governs CLAW Pat.sas laxity of Premier' PI 1 1 supports faith am I, I Os Us 4 'piracy ) our Cora country, a politic and thl 1 ' pose a Frough invade I invited 4 coareen I poised. 1 English doing i the Ent I come as steps of modern the lee I tatios ; moved t ewes at . • to impn 1 . posing otficialli the 20t1 , nineteen cheers ).1 rote, as I STOW, 111 1 : 1 reflirdil I the Idi closed tl 1 1 incident I introdo . I petition interest vices at exu.'s , 1 , . I! • THE EXPRESS . TUESDAY EITENING, AUGUST 3, 1858. Oaths which excluded the Jews ;the vote of thanks for services in India; and, we may add, the re appearance of Mr. BRIGUT in the House as Mem ber for Birmingham. It was evident that the late Ministers, and espe cially the Premier himself, relied en en immediate return %Glace, from the supposed impossibility of any one alas forming &Cabinet. They over-estimated the force of the crisis, however, as much as their own prestige. The testimony against foreign inter ference being once delivered in the name of the Nation, the excitement went down ; the popu lar liberties were safe, and there was no hurry. The QUEEN sent for Lord DERBT, who undertook the task of forming • Government, requesting an adjournment from Monday to Friday for the pur pose. On Monday, March let, Lord DERBY made hie speech, which professed to be a declaration of his intended policy. Oar readers do not need to be reminded how disappointing it was, how little it told, and how unsatisfactory was that little. There was to be another India Bill, instead of a postponement of legislation to a better time : we were not rid of the Alien Bill; Count WALEWRXI'S insolent de spatch was to be answered, but we had still no security that we were not to legislate under the direction of the French Government. Lord PAL mEastos from the first assumed the position, sat in the seat, and put on the airs of Leader of Opposition, stimulated by the faction of his followers, but greatly to the discontent of Liberal members, who regarded him as he now appeared to the world oat of doors. It was not long before the complaints of Lord DERBY for having no policy began to relax in vehe mence on the Liberal side. Humiliating mi i. such a fact in the history of constitutional go vernment, it soon became a question whe ther it was not, at the moment, the least of the besetting evils of the situation. From week to week the factious character of the opposition of the PALMERSTON clique became so evident; the utter disintegration of parties became so undeniable ; the efforts to organise a new I.iberal party were so fruitless, and so increasingly hopeless, that men began to ask whether it might not be best to use great forbearance towards an Administration brought into office against all expectation, and without notice ; to obtain from them what good mea ger's they would grant ; to support them wherever their grounds were unobjectionable; to use the in terval thus obtained to provide against the return of & PALMERSTON and CLARENDON Ministry, and to prepare a future field of action for a Liberal party yet to be re-created. In short, the time really asersed to be one for " measures not men"—rare as sash times are. The acquiescence of Members and their constituents in this course became more decided, when it was found that, on the one hand, there was no more a Conservative Party, with a policy to urge. than a Liberal one; and that, on the other, Lord Ptimaneron's Cabinet had actually been unpre pared with a Reform Bill, though the promise of that measure had been the bait with which the Minister had fished for support among the Liberals of England while playing his re-actionary game among the despots of Europe. When the Houses met on the 12th of March, after another adjournment, every Member's mind was full of the new document of instruction which had just arrived from France—the pamphlet of M. GULL RONIERR on Alliance. The effect of this pre sentment of the French argument was just opposite to that which was intended ; for the whole delinea tion of the EMPEROR'S achievements and policy went to show that it wee nobody but himself who had peopled neighbouring countries with discontented refugees. It was, therefore, his own police, and not his neighbours' laws and Executive, that was bound to protect his person against the consequences of his own acts. This conviction, and a daily growing uneasiness and dissatisfaction about the state of our two countrymen in the Neapolitan prison, began to arouse visibly the spirit which has made the Parliaments of England venerable in the eyes of the world. There was no chance for the Conspiracy Bill, nor for the administration which had gone out upon it. Count Waxman's menacing despatch to the Series Authorities on the refugee ques tion, published at the same time that the French Go- vernment wasret resting from itsaggressive position is reglad to England, prevented the latter change from gain for more than it was worth, and rather en hawed the patriotic spirit, in Parliament and out of deers. Mr. DISILLZLI'd assurance that Count WA =WWII', DOW deslarations were conclusively satis factory was received with distrust—and not the less because his tone in regard to the Cagliari business was far below what the occasion required. When the news of Mr. ERSKINE'S mistake arrived, and it was found that the Sardinian Government had been led to expect a kind and degree of support which oar Ministers had not proposed to render, the en tanglement appeared serious. The only way out of it was that which the new Ministers adopted— taking high national ground in regard to Naples, sad insisting on the justice which had been so grossly violated towards the men, whatever might be the uncertainties of the law in regard to the vesseL Warr returned home at the end of March ; PA= was liberated on the Bth of April ; compen sation was awarded to them, and the Cagliari was esasigned to the British officials on the spot, for restoration to Sardinia—all in a trios, as soon as the new Ministers had an opportunity of fastening on • declaration of Lord PALNenorores, that his Cabinet were about to re-consider the whole question when they went out of office. By the vigour which achieved in the count of days what Lord CLAREN DON had allowed to linger for eight months the sew Administration gained a popularity which in- spirted an idea, in their own minds and other, people's, that they might possibly remain in office, and even without immediately ds•olving Lord PALNIERETO!' . ; own HORN of Commons. The as qaittal of Dr. BERNARD, and the relinquishment of the prosecutions on account of publications treating of tyntnnicide, completed the reversal of the un. English policy of the PALMERNYOLCLARENDON Cabinet, and left the field clear for deliberation on domestic matters; though the sabetitut ion of a military representative of France in lieu of Count PERSIGNYI the appointment of General PAPINASSE u Minister of th e Interior at Paris, repeated outbreaks of martial wrath against England, and unequalled rapidity in the military walleye' arrangements and oonoentra linden the other side the Channel, kept attention alive to Cootinental interests, however heavily the @abject of India was weighing upon us. With the progress of the Session, the views and temper of Parliament on India questions somewhat improved. At first, the folly, the levity, the ignorance, the selfishness, the factiousness were something intolerable and almost incredible. The early debates of the Session will be a great blot is our ohronialse—bet little redeemed by the more modest, grave, and disinterested temper which be gan to grow up when the scope of the question be same dimly disclosed by Lords ELLENEOROOON and STANLEY having taken the place of Mr. VERNON Smtrtt. The faction-fights set op by Lord PAL MERITON, in the true Donnybrook spirit, and panned while there was any hope of success, though our Indies Empire was waiting for redemption, are, mad Over will be, too painfully remembered to heel' to be enlarged upon. The only return for time wasted, character and reputation lowered, the indignation of all , good men at home I and in India, and the exultation of the enemies of constitutional government abroad, has been the rapid decline of the influence of the late Cabinet, and the extinction of Lord llALitiatirroN as a Minister. The clearance of the ground for new combinations is an advantage; and, if it be made the most of, we may learn in time to regard it as some set-off against the disgrace of our wares in respect to India. On the 26th of March, the DERBY India Bill (No. 2) was introduced by Mr. DISRAELI, before the adjournment of the Easter holidays ; and when business was resumed, on the 12th of April, Lord J. RUSSELL was prepared with the Resolutions which he proposed as the best ground of procedure. The eagerness with which the mover of the Bill sus pended it, in order to take advantage of the new method, and the support which it implied; the abandonment of the Resolutions again when • third i Bill was ready, and the narrow scope of that Bill, after all, seem to most minds to prove the wisdom of the remonstrance, urged in vain a few weeks before, against legislating at a time of crisis without light, without guidance, and without any adequate conception of the magnitude of the interests involved. The East India Company, which beet understood India, is abolished, while all the great Indian subjects have still to be studied and settled. The form of government at home is all that is arranged by the great measure of the Session ; and there are probably few men, of any party, who believe that the arrangement will work. The real business of governing India has yet to be, not only done, but provided for. The new Bill passed the Lords, in great haste, on Friday last, after receiving some damage, which the Commons were in too great • hurry for their breaking-up to repair. Such is the account of our way of governing India which will in a few weeks be talked over there by native gen tlemen in colleges, offices, and country-houses, when l the British prestige, as a ruling power, has stood higher than it is ever likely to do again, unless the mind and heart of England can speedily raise itself I " to the height of this groat argument." The two great interludes of the course of India legislation were Lord Ettannonotron's resignation• l giving place to Lord STANLEY as Indian Minister, and the party move, led by Mr. CARDWELL, which was adventured in consequence. The general regret, at the loos of Lord ELLENBOROUGH at such a time was probably stronger than the perplexity of the crisis would allow to appear: but the ability of the' New Ministry to stand after such a secession, much improved their chances. At present Lord STANLEY seems to be all that can be expected of a successor of his years and experience; and the new measure will have fair play in his hands. At the moment of difficulty, when the Ministry were perplexed and embarrassed, their watchful enemy, selfish and nn• scrupulous, was upon them. On the text of the Oude Proclamation, and the difference between Lords PANNING and ELLENBOROUGH, resolutions of censure were grounded, which were simultaneously brought forward in both Houses, by Lord &urns- BURY and Mr. CARDWELL. The immediate triumph of the DERBY Ministry in the Lords, and the pro tracted debate in the Commons, extending from the 14th of May to the 21st, and ending in Mr. CARD waLL's withdrawing his motion, are memor able features of the Session in the eyes of party men. So also was the unworthy turmoil raised by a giddy and boastful speech of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER at Slough, for which he and all his colleagues were called to account in both Houses, with even • keener eagerness than if the orator had delivered his random assertions in the form of a Ministerial Manifesto. Precious time was wasted, for everybody knew before the value of Mr. DIS RAELI'S self and party glorifications ; and the Ministry to which he belonged did not go out in consequence of a speech on which they had not held a Council. Every attempt to dislodge them failed. Every attempt to organise a Liberal Opposition has thus far failed. We have now (or we are told so) a trace with France as to irritating conflicts of diplo macy. We are on present good terms with the United States. We have the prospect of • fine harvest, and the prosperity and social tranquillity which attend upon that prime blessing ; so that there is before us an interval of some months, during which the genuine Reformers in and out of Parliament may prepare for a campaign less discre ditable to Liberal principles and professions than the last. Jut at present, the state of the Thames appears to all memories and imaginations the most pressing of Parliamentary topics—at least since the great Vote-of. Censure debate. It will probably have a certain greatness of its own in history—not from the magnitude of the nuisance (which will be forgotten when once it Is disposed of), but from the arrange ment which connate it to the heads of the citizens to be dealt with—thus loosening the grasp of the centralisation which the sanitary reformers had im posed upon us as the drawback to their great ser vices. The Legislature has provided the money, sad awarded the power ; and it leaves the decision about the work, and the doing it, to the Municipal Council and Executive under Mr. To...wstrEs. We all look to the Metropolitan Bond, not only to purify the Thames, but to justify the consignment of such a work to municipal management. Oar liberties may depend on the issue more extensively than might be supposed by many who simply voted against a stink, in fear of cholera. As for the rest, the Jews have at last obtained schnittance to the great National Council, where we have need of all the wisdom that any class or order of men can bring. We might have done better for India this Session if, as Mr. Fox and General THOMPSON suggested, some enlightened re presentative of the QUEEN'S 180,000,000 of subjects there had taken his oath, in his own way, at the table where Baron Rorztaant n has now been sworn. The form and temper of the concession, on the part of the Lords, were not reasonable or creditable ; but the thing ia done, though in a way which may have to be mended. We have no Reform Bill yet; but we are promised one. The constituencies most take are that it is a good one, and that it revokes the new permission to bribe in the form of conveyance to the poll —ass enactment which is the blackest disgrace of the Ses sion, and which ought to be fatal to the House of Commove which passed it. The abolition of the pee. petty qualification of members is a compensating gain. We have not got rid of Church-Rates yet; but we are as sure of that riddance now as we were of the admission of the Jews after Lord DERBY'S speech of surrender on the let of June. The strength of the objectors to Church-Rates in the House nudist the country is evidently sufficient to shame all owe. promise, and obtain a total repeal ; and there seems to be every disposition to put it forth. About ear finances there is seldom so little to be said in the review of a Session. Some reductions of taxed= have taken place as decreed last year ; there is *OM postponement of payment of debts. Some slight and partial additions have been made to oar taxation ; and Parliament is pledged to the abolition of the paper duty as soon as it can ►e done. The new CHANCELLOR of as EXCHEQUER under-estimated his outgoings in April; but in July he finds that he and all the world under-estimated the rate of reco very of the country from the commercial disasters of last Autumn ; so that the increase overbalances the deficiency. After strong and bitter conflicts with aristocratic selfishness and prejudice, the principle and practice of testing candidates for the civil and military services by competitive examination may be regarded as established. Ireland is to have reformatory schools on the English footing; and there are abundant materials now pro vided for the reform of endowed schools there, by which the middle classes may have means of education not inferior to those enjoyed by the classes above and below them. The Corpo ration of London still awaits the reform it eo keenly dreads. There is as yet no equalisation of metropo litan poor-rates, nor any advance in Statute Law reform, nor any scheme for the collection of agricul• turd statistics, nor the expected reform in the work ing of the Medical Profession. But, on the other hand, the Commission of Inquiry on the Weedon affairs promises to carry reform of army administra tion further than Weedon, as does the inquiry about Netley Hospital further than the shores of South ampton Water. We have not got the County Fran chise lowered ; but then we have got rid of the pro perty qualification of members. Under the provision for revising the whole subject of diplomatic salaries, we have the means of obtaining a reform of our Consular system, and even of patting an end to the evils of diplomatic seoreey by rectifying the respon sibility of our diplomatic representatives from the highest to the lower•. In the same way, the pro mised improvement in the pay of Medical Officers of the Army is significant of the reform of the whole of that department, under the new Inspector- General who has succeeded Sir AnnnEw SMITH. The Irish estates which may obtain a parliamentary title need no longer be encumbered ; and this sanctions the hope that English estates, encumbered or free, may ere long be transferred no less easily and conveniently. Next year, the fate of the Hudson's Bay Company will have to be de cided; and meantime there must be a trial of the powers obtained by the new Colonial Secretary for the Government of New Caledonia,—henoeforth to be called British Columbia. We are on good terms with the United States for the hoar, because of the wise and prompt surrender, by Lord MALMEBI9OIIX, of the always disputable and now condemned claim of the Right of Visit; but it will be one of the duties of Parliament to watch, during the recess, and in quire at the end of it, as to the agreement we are about to make with the Washington Government for the prevention of the Slave-trade being carried on under the American flag. The Coolie Migration Bill is among those with drawn ; and this makes it necessary that the trans port of all labourers, of any nation, to any colony, British or other, should be vigilantly observed, with a view to any action that may be needful when Parliament meets again. Thus much is done, or remaining to be done. The prime duty of the recess is, however, to obtain a due expression for the Liberal opinion and sentiment of this country. Each wheel of the engine may be of importance in its place ; but the first requisite is the fire in the furnace, and the next is the boiler. The fire burns strongly, we believe. We want a trusty boiler, which will not collapse whenever we attempt to get on. The present Ministry has served our turn at an awkward curve or two; and it may carry us along the level of the recess fairly enough. Bat we must have something that we can better rely on before we can make a vigorous fresh departure. So we must exert ourselves now to obtain a Parliament which shall not be Palmerstonian, nor any thing but true British. We have got through a cri tical Session better than might have been expected ; but we must have a more effective and creditable one next time—whether the whole or only a part is transacted by the existing House of Com mons. We must take for granted that there will be a dissolution, and prepare for it. We still have to provide for the settlement and government of India ; for coming to terms with China ; for probable diffi culties, and perhaps war, in the Levant; for the final disputes and troubles in regard to the slave trade which always attend the extinction of a vicious institution : for all these, and any other foreign questions, such as are always arising during the Recess. But before and above all these, because the means of settling them all, presses the domestic Reform question, the postponement of which will not be much longer endured. We did not believe we should have a Reform Bill this year—deliberately and repeatedly as it was promised by the late Government. The only way is to obtain it for our selves. Now that their Members are going to play, let the constituencies go to work. gbe Court. 08BORNS, Arguer 2. Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Prinoms Alias, and Primate Helena attended Divine &Mos at Osborne, yesterday morning. The Service was perforrosd by the Very Rev. the Dealt of Christchurch. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were : Tbe Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbary, the Earl of Ilardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malasesbury, Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Sir John Pakington, Lord Stanley, and Lord John Manners. Mr. Victor Moulton had ea fatirreiss with Biz B. &direr Lytton, at the Colonial-aka, 'mayday. Devonian wen rind yesterday at the Cdonial-offics from the Governess Mae W. India Islands, Ceylon, fiong Hoeg, aad Malta. wire seat from the Colonial dike yesterday I. Me of lie Marmitiss. This morning Was celebrated, st St. Georges, ilaiwww-agoare, Oa atarriaga of Lowl Wonky, M.P., 'lama an at Ur Zit.' of Yarborough, with lady NUM' Nara sister of Bat Lidatral. The church was crowded with sambas of WOW of high real. His Excellency the Duke of Malakoff left town te-day to join Lord Lyons at Portsmouth, and accompany the gallant admiral to Cherbourg. . The Doke of Bedford as por ing the summer at liimdsisiatt Cottage, his grace's seat near Tavistock. The sale duke is la the *avant of excelleat health. The Earl of Derby joined the Countess and Lady Emma Stanley at Oster* Park, war Brantford, from town last evening. The noble primate, intends to remain aboat a 001iik at Wady, sad the. so to Knowsiey Park for a few meek& • 11a star of 3ovey sad Lady Clmentias Pinks an expected to leave Berkeley-pars to-day Ice Ganeary toe a taw weeks. LeiDuiferiee beautiful new screw steam-yacht wee bibs' at Ste does ot beat week. The noble lord, so ecompotted by** Right How. Sir Jonas Graham, M P. Wet Graham, end a Nelms% party, let the Southampton Water title lees Map for Cherbourg. - - The Hon. A.Stourtoa took his departure from Cox's Hotel yesterday for America, on a shooting excursion. Sir David Baird, aide-de-camp to his Excellency Sir Colin Campbell, has arrived in town from India. Sir ' David has orate hoots on sick Isere for the recovery of his health. Awonget the arrivals at the Oatlande Park Hotel ere the Berl of Cladagen, Lady Byron, Cienersi and Mrs. Lightfoot, sad the Hos. A. D. Willoughby. Lest year the =Ski wee not prorogued till the Rath of August; ia 1866 it eat till the 29th of July; sad is ' 18.i.5 the 14th of August. EXPRESS FROM PA Rib. (xxox ova owx ooxxxoroxoxxr.) PARIS, MONDAY ETZNI3O. The Emperor presided at a ministerial council held at St. Cloud this day. At this council the Emperor gave final directions for the conduct of public affairs during the seventeen days that he ex pects to be absent from Paris. It is also said that he confirmed his uncle Prince Jerome in the presi dency of the council, with exceptional powers as his alter ego. It cannot, however, be anticipated that any occasion will arise for the exercise of these powers, because his imperial highness left Paris this morning for Frascati's, at Havre. It is said that the Western Company have received 43,000 letters asking for free passes on the railway to go to Cherbourg, and that they have actually ad mitted the claims of 10,000 of the applicants. By the side of this statement it would be carious to see a return of the number of people who go to Cher bourg from Paris from mere curiosity and at their own expense. I suspect the numbers would be very few indeed. "The ministers of Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Baden, and Sardinia," says the Union, " have joined in freighting a steamer at Havre to attend the fBtes at Cherbourg; the Ruskin Minister, M. de Kisteleff, is to go alone. M. de Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Minister, has not recovered sufficiently from his indisposition to be able to attend, and M. de Hubner, the Austrian Ambassador, though invited, has not yet received the instructions of his court as to whether he is to go or not." The Nord of Brussels, however, asserts very positively that Lord Cowley is the only member of the Corps Diplomatique who has received an invitation, and it suggests that the others who may choose to go on thir own account will be in a false position, because no place will be reserved for them. The very last programme published states that the 6th of August is devoted to the reception of the Queen on board the Bretagne, and that subsequent order, will provide for other arrangements if necessary. It would appear from this that the question of the Queen's landing is still undecided. Among the persons who have received official in vitations to the fetes are the living members of the family of the engineer who in 1781 devised the sys tem of cones which was adopted for the construc tion of the breakwater. The Gazette de Prance endeavours to take the wind out of the sails of the impetial progress to Cherbourg by publishing from old records a long account of Louis the Sixteenth's visit to that port in 1788. It complains of the ingratitude manifested towards that monarch, "the most thoroughly French of ►ll our kings," by the concerted oblivion of the fact that he was the first to commence the execution of Vauban's plan, and suggests that Louis the Sixteenth's statue ought to be placed upon the centre of the breakwater. The news that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe is going to Constantinople to take a formal leave of the Sultan drives some French journals, who are jealous of English influence in Turkey, nearly out of their mind. "I hey assume that his mere presence will undo all that M. de Thonvenel has accomplished with infinite pains and astuteness, since he was freed from the European diplomatist, who of all others has the credit of knowing how to impress his individual will upon the march of Eastern affairs. The Univers, always prone to extremes, publishes—not in the form of a joke, but as a serious announcement—that Lord Stratford de Radcliffe is about to return to Cm stantioople in the character of privy councillor to the Sultan. M. Bare, a qutestor of the National Assembly in 18M, whose name is celebrated for his resistance to the policy which foreshadowed the coup d'etat, has been permitted by the Emperor to return to France, and his inasribed his name on the list of practising barristers. The Algerian papers publish a letter sent by Prince Napoleon to the Chamber of Commerce of Algiers, in answer to an address of congratulation on his appointment. The Prince, confirming the rumours which have been current on the subject, expresses a hope that he may shortly be enabled to pay a visit to the colony. The settlement of the Bente went off well, and the Bourse is firmer. The Rent* closed at 68fr. 25c., both for cash and account, with a rise of sc. and 100.; Mobilier rose Bfr. 75c.; the Orleans Railway rose 7fr. 50c.; Eastern, 10fr.; Southern, Bfr. 73c., and the other principal lines about 3fr. PIEDMONT. Count de CANON' returned to Turin on the 31et ult. According to letter from Turin, the recent con ference between the Emperor of the French and Count de Cavour at Plombieree was on the general situation of the affairs of Italy, and terminated by a strong recommendation from his Majesty to the Minister to adopt a moderate and circumspect policy both towards Austria and Naples. This is, how ever, only one of several stories relating to the in terview, and cannot be accepted u reliable. Count Cavoor, on his return from Plombidru, passed by Lugano, where he paid a visit to the leader of the Left, M. Broserio, who was not a little astonished to see him. The Prime Minister stayed to dinner, and met at table MM. Torelli and Farini. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. (BY ELICTIIC TELIONAPIII) C7lOll OVZ OWN coassucerviirr.) SOUTHAMPTON, TITZSDAY. The Alhambra has arrived with the Peninsular mail. She left Lisbon au the 29th ult. Amongst her cargo is specie worth 6.0001. Amongst her pas sengers is Sir Morton Peto. He has arranged with the Portuguese government for continuing the rail way from Lisbon to Oporto. The grape vintage looks well, and wines, it is expected, will be 23 per cent. cheaper. Exchange on London is rising. The Grand Duchess Helena of Russia has just pissed arra& Mechlin on her way to Ostend. The snits of the princess is numerous. Mr. Pierce, ex-President of the United States, at presses at Marseilles, is about to visit Bvitaarlaad. _ _ _ The Assembly of the States of the Duchy of Noma has just voted, almost unanimously, a motion for the mappresstos of gambling-ham. If the goverment should act on this resolution, the hoportsat gaming tables of Wiesbaden and Ems will hays to be dosed. When the Pens, winch hes just arrived home with the India sell, leg Ale:sear* the Paola of Egypt wee pushing off troops to ewes, to wangle/we of a rummer that a Musanlinan attack on that town was expected. It had been suited theta Best of boats had been sew in the Bed Seagoing in the dictation of Bees, and that a *big of cassele had been witnessed travelling in a parallel dkeedon on land. The Candle, however, which brought the Indian tall do*B tits Red Sea, bad seen thing of the beets wed some "append that they only contained coral ilaf/IM/S. 011111411 It Is that the rumour bad alarmed the Signal's, geverment. LETTISH FOR Arr30103.--.The Liverpool sad Philedelpies atom-ship CoNoWo mew steamer Ciq Weeklairka will rail ea IFowlip Ik. New Tack Ida the aufle. The otter-baz s kW P.A4ifas wfa ekes at 11.30 s.m. with s late teeth Mahon, eiril tam Lttis! Mop box it 1.30, or Immediately helm 1.,..l reeler kr *kr stooroer. THE ROYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG. The members of the Hotuie of Commons who purpose visiting Cherbourg in the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, will dine on board that steamer at eight o'clock tonight. The chief sawn is capacious enough to dine 120 first-class passengers at one time. Her Majesty's steamer Vivid will leave Southampton for Cherbourg, with a portion of the Queen's household, at 1 p.m. to-morrow. Her Majesty will leave Cowes for Cherbourg at mid-day to-morrow, or if the weather l• unfavourable at 3 p.m. Cowes last night looked brilliant, with Its immense fleet d yachts lighted up just in the offing. Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight, is filling with visitors to see the starting of the Royal Yacht Squadron for Cherbourg on Friday next. The whole squadron numbers about 100 yachts. Several of the yachts belonging to the Royal Yacht Squadron have left Southampton Water for Cherbourg. The fit;leette starts from Southampton for Cherbourg with the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company and their friends on Thursday morning. The Bemires, another Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer, is also getting ready for Cherbourg. The Argyle, steamer, which rune between Southampton and a port la France, is rapidly String up to start for Cherbourg from Southampton. It is expected also that the Duke of Cornwall, steamer, will start from Southampton for Cherbourg. Yesterday a telegram was rewired in Southampton stating that the Etna would start from that port for Cherbourg with the directors of Canard's Mail Packet Company and their friends. These steamers, with the Courier and Havre, will make eight to leave Southampton to attend the Cherbourg flier. The yachts Amazon, belonging to Sir John Welch; the Titania, belonging to Mr. Robert Stephenson. M.P., and the May Fly were to leave Southampton for Cherbourg, in order to secure a good berth, and it is expected they will cross the Channel under easy sail in ten hours. The distance from Southampton to Cherbourg is about eighty miles, but, owing to the tide in the British Channel, the steamers will be obliged to go out of theft coarse, and will have to run at least ninety miles. The Pere, it is expected, will make the voyage in eight hours, It is expected there will be nearly 400 sail anchored in Cher bourg roadstead, including men-of-war, merchant steamers, sad yachts. The sight in the roadstead will be a most imposing one. EXCURSIONISTS FROM LIVERPOOL TO CIIER. SOU RO.—Yesterday (Monday) the steamer Independence, usually plying between Liverpool and Dundalk, left Liver pool for Weymouth, en route for Cherbourg. The Indepen dence took 134 paiesugers from Liverpool, and the charterer, aspect the number will be 100 at Weymouth. The Inde pendence sailed in the face of a stiff breeze from the south and a falling barometer ; so that many of the excursionists will not find the commencement of their trip a yory pleaattr able one. They aspect to return to Liverpool on Wednesday week, the expanses of the trip, including provisions, being five guineas. MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY BY HER LOVER, NEAR RIPLEY. (From the Leak Mercury of this day.) The quiet and secluded village of Parley, near Ripley, on the line of the Leeds Northern Railway, wee yesterday the scene of manual excitement, in consequence of the discovery of the murder, by her lover, of a young person named Mary Jane &sire, under circumatanove of great barbarity and cruelty. The deceased, who was about twenty-two years of age, was the daughter of Mr. Thomas Beaky a respectable farmer, reeding at Barley, and her murderer, James Atkinson, is the son of Mr. Thomas Atkinsee, flax 'planer, a gentleman of some local positioe, and possessing considerable property. The parents of both reside within a short distance of each other, and the deceased and the murderer bad been companions from childhood, the affection of children extending itself to that of love as they grew to manhood and womanhood, and each learning is look upon the other as a future partner through life. Unfor. innately, the father of Atkinson and the mother of the deceased did not approve of the match, and about a year ago, after more, perhaps, than the natal creases in love, the connexion was broken off, the deceased accepting the ad dresses of a ypong man named Gill. The new love, how ever, did not prove permanent, and after a few monthi, Miss Setae broke off the courtship with Gill and permitted the renewal of that with her old lover. The attentions of the latter were continued as before their Interruption twelve months previously, but on Tues day last, on the occasion of a gala at Bewerley Park, Atkin. son saw Miss Semite In conversation with Gill, and this circumstance appears to have excited a strong feeling of jealousy, and a day or two after he met one of Mies Scalia's brothers, to whom he complained of her conduct. Whether his passion at that time suggested the fearful crime he afterwards perpetrated is uncertain, but nothing occurred to excite any suspicion, and the two met each other se usual. On Sunday night they attended Herewith chapel in company, and on returning they were seen to go up Stump-lane, apparently on very good terms. This was about nine o'clock. Shortly afterwards Atkinson - returned home, and went to bed. The absence of the de ceased created no uneasiness at home, as she bad been in the habit of staying with her uncle, Mr. Downes, fanner. At daybreak next morning, Atkinson's brother who sIM in the same room, noticed blood upon the shirt of the former, and asked how it had come there, when be wee horrified by being told by his brother that he had mur dered Mary Jane Suite the previous night. The father was immediately called up, and the family roused. In the meantime, however, a man known by the name of Potter Dick, whilst going along Stump-lane, about Ave o'clock, found tie deceased laid is the ditch, with her throat cut and quits dead. He gave an alarm, and Mr. Hinton, surgeon, and Policeman Clifford, were eoon?ir r C spot, but their services were of no avail. The d when found, was laid on her back, and she preset:Rect a l: 4 in fearful spectacle. Her head was nearly severed from the body, her dress and face were saturated with clotted blood, her eyes protruded from the sockets with the most ghastly expression, indicating the violence of her dying convulsions, and the ground was covered with evidences of the fearful struggle that had taken place. The parasol of the deceased wu broken to pieces, and her prayer-book was found by her side. The body was removed to the New Inn, and Atkinson being the last person sett in her company he was taken into custody, when he ad. mined the murder, stating that he had cut her throat with • knife, which he had secreted in Mr. Myers' wall, and de claring that it was his mother and her father who bad caused it by opposing their marriage. The knife (an ordi nary clasp-knife) was afterwards found as stated, the prisoner taking the polioe-offioer to the wall, and pointing out whore he bad placed it. At the spot where the murdered body was found is a small embankment or are, consisting of the mud taken from the adjoining ditch, and it is supposed that Atkinson bad thrown his victim upon it, sad then rat her throat. Al we have previously stated. the ground shows that a violent struggle ensued, the deceased, though only a weakly perste, being with difficulty overpowered. The 'triuner was in the first Instance removed to Palming Bridge, cit and afterwards to Ripon, where he was taken beam Oxley, BK., charged wiih the wilful murder eft Mary Jane Scoffs, He is a good-looking young man, arid appeared to be out. powered by his feelings. Previous to the charge being made be gave utterance to several matters connected with this melancholy aff.ir, amongst which, " I have been very happy ever ince I left Pataly Bridge. I have committed a great crime, but I am quite content. I as go freely to the gallows. I can forgive the vilest of the vile. I ars guilty. I left her about Wf-peet nine o'clock last night." The prisoner was remolded until eleven o'clock on Wei feeday next, at Knareshro'. On leaving the dock the prisoner, turning round, said "Gentlemen, I hope to meet you all t o heaven." The hiqueet on the body will be opened to-day, before Mrs Brown, the coroner for the district. Inspector Wetherell. one of the Weal Riding detectives, stationed at Wskafield went over to D.rley last night, to get up the ease, end it is probable that the inquiry this sacra log will only be of a formal character, there not having been sufficient time as yet to look after the necessary evidence. We regret to learn that Mr. Stevenson, a Com reisskessr of the Paden and Dertty-Rangar of Hyde-park, died soddeady yesierday. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—About nine o'clock on Saturday evening as accident of a very pia/el demur mooned on the Penicnik-road, near Bardialioneu as thEt pen that two tidies, sisters of Mr. Meemewa. Princee-street, were returningboine to Li = ponies, and had reached a portion of the P the village of Bardlehouse, Mown as %MON 0 0 5. they wend en onsitsas fall et aunt the balite la Mathan. Is i t a Zferre l gire s endives :t i t o = d ebe bow le sea doe ell the reel. taus SW eigleaery until it care up. The odd* h 4 bit' to the spot, wing the pony it On et tirleBr, taking fright either et the nabs el the each er et Ile elegise sad merriment of the easoneleakta morel Wonsan with its rider, and getting entoel beetetzt the tram and wheel homes of the omnibus, wee hies the ground, end dragged for a short Mame t he by el of the vehicle. The unfortunate tide' wee at the suss time thrown violently to the ground, and • be have fallen upon her head. and to have been in all p killed oe the spot. The deceased lady wu about thirty...a years of age. 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