The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

H EROULZB INSURANCE COMPANY PILL atttlMAßl24ll. ChM Mow Z.C. bulls§gum and mg &Alan J. MbrieD3B. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Lombard ia**. Landes. Ind el LlveepeeL WWI, tAr limed lasesaree Moe le tre weft& Preeetams over Ar OA* arroally. Life Brauer hfiberto Alie Imre woe continuing/ &tidal 14 latio r tn oresarr JOHN B. Joaffis . • GRISHAM LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, Assets rialleed Sr, OH &ma. Landon. KC. 1700,0011 lama Wows Mew ensured (WV) 6.55k000 Claim sad sansides paid op to 1.0 . . Bete .1 ine moderate. AMMON 'speedily eliDerted. lerto uW stiocood. Claims promptly settled. raemsuot OF TIM Socewt. Year, Preapestive Delano'. Donne divided. int 14.6 1160 WM to be obtained en appiloolioa to tie At e the °snotty : or to P. N COATIS, actuary sad aotrotary. NORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE FIRE and LICE INSURANCE COMPANY. alned 180 CRainaan (tondos 1) board 4, JOHN WHITE CATOE, Rm. Deputy Chairman CHAS. MORRISON. Capital £t.ooo,ooo. Anneal inanano Afoo,loo. Landen oMaaa-41, rusadnaed/e-stanet LC., and 8, Waterton plus, Pallanall. "abutOltase-11, Prhniatratreat. ; order, F. W. LANCR, Saandarr. GREAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCI 00C1ITY.—Istablabed HAL No 101, Claspslde, London, EC. MARLIN warm Isci.. chairman. nth Society madertakss policy nab of every description. Palates mods payable darias life or at death. Prospectuses oa Applicata* to - - - C. L. L•WBON, &lentos'', WESTERN INSURANCE COMPANY (Limited), for PLYIt, 7, Waterlooplaca. London. and 77, Elsg4lires% Manchester. fiebecribed capital. £400.000. Itaid.up ospltal. 010,000. Ca.mansit—JOAN TOMLINSON kIIBBERT, 11%, M.P. tor °idiom. allinlaal MAMMAL—ARTHUR 84.41.ATCHLTY, isq. The Weetera Company is the eely London non-tariff Ore Milos Ihei dem not traaesct lite Waimea in the Cancel Kingdom, and feeble therefore to offer special advantages to agent. of lite assarasse societies. Walled. tire supstioteadenti or dislike minarets toe on nemeemsted district.. liemaneratles by salary and ememisaloe, sod the entire Haze of the party engaged to be devoted to the beim& Application' to be made, with toll reterenosa as to lespectir Willy and capabilities, to the secretaries, CHABLIS HAMMING, London. WILLIAM HILIDGIN BOW, Manchester. NORWICH 'UNION FISH OFFICE. The fell benefit of the reditetlou et duty to le ed. pet MEL le giveu to insurers effecting policies Irlth th e Bp Yds re faction sod the BONUS BYBTY3I of the NO ° Mri VITION the oust of Insolence is rertnrod try s minimnrn gooming. 'Auras OP rksiuums &mum BY BONUS. A ann.! Pr— Reduced Prem. now payable. Is. el Po&v.l Sam Immed. i a. d. 211 6 6 IS 0 0 36 16 0 7 10 0 A 0. d. 110 19 2 86 0 0 10 16 8 4 6 • The Mei of premium are in no ease higher than those charged by Sheath& prbcipal offices giving no boons to their instuent. The duty paid to Government for the year linill was t 84,152 21a. ild. ; the amount insured ois farming stock was A1d,1101,272. liar proyecloses apply to the Society's aloes. 22. 11eet4stmet. 1Q; and tufty-Week Norwich. ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY (Limitad). If RI Pd *Ng". Nobel, Ow Milos. Avesta for lire Departzseut required. when the Company le wet repreeented. MAUL THIOBALD. lleatger. Deperlatwa LONDON and LANCASHIRE FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Sire Capital 81,000.006—Life Capital 1100.000. Eiendom-73 and 76, King Wi LC.. until oomptellim of New Mole, earner of Loadeuhalloastet Liverpool—grown'eballdinp, Exchange. With Home and Foreign Branches and Agencies. CEAtiuum-11. W. RUSSELL, Em., M.P. (Chairman of the National Diemant Ownpany). Fire : Mr. Ald. Daldn (Messrs. Dekin Bros.) : 1. H. Mackenzie, Beg., Greshaso-house, Old Broad-street. Hew and foreign fire insurance at moderate rates. 11.812cns unehallengable. residence and travelling.-See prospectus. 148-70;fidlure of life policies. Your•fitths, or 80 per cent , of profits divided. W. P. CLUIREI1:011, General Manager. THE LIVERPOOL and LONDON and GLOBE rlllll and LIFIII4BI7IIANCE COMPANY. Dolostroet, Liverpool : 20 anal 21, Potilizy ; 7, Coruldll. sod Charmgeireeo, London. PILOGIUMI OP Mk 00/LPANY /0101 1820. ilgivmsted Ihnds. 1134 MINK JOHN ATKINS, lasideat Secretary, Lantos. Me chins an payable la thirty days atter they are admitted. EMPIRE ASSURANCE CORPORATION afraltedL V. Ores/nun4freet, London, &C. We, Annuity, and Endowment Policies granted at moderate sates Prospectus forwarded on application. Active agents wanted. Apply to G. W. GIDLEY LAKE, General Manager. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, Oracechurchetreet, London. Established December, ISSS. lIIITUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL LIABILITY. MOB& lAYHURST LUCAS, Sq. MET INGEWI, Esq., M.P. ' Joseph Freeman, Lp Charles Oflpin, rag., 'ILE Charles Reed, Esq., P.B.A. Jonathan Thorp, Lg. Charles Whetbam, Esq. Drawn Caararraa—BOßl Agra Bradbury. Esq. Weary Whits Carib, Bp. Tamar Chambers, sp., Y.P. Jae" Fall Christy. Esq. Lary Coartable. BK. Jabal*Blum. Nag. Thomas Hodgkin. Gay, Esq., F.R.C.S. ficomonea—roptimas Davidson, Req. 001154701110 Ao2oel2—Chaties Anna. Esq., I.R.S. 5110152A1T—G110. Morris, but. Amount of profit of the five yams muting 10th iaMenteibar, INS, was Making Use total profit divided £1,227.258 5 Mai Division of Protta made up to the 20th November, 1867. DIIRADONI or 8AD170210115 nt P 1121217101. i PfEnd= 1 _ now Payablc I like el Policy. l Age. I Golaber —1836 1 411 March ..1840 48 Juntstry..lB3o, 38 peoesaberl3sB 63 Jaausa..lBsl l 36 Jazuary..lBs4 48 Premi Original um. I. d. Ca d. 43 11 3 0 7 10 I 1011 17 1,000 29 10 0 10 11 8 64 2,000 1216 0 0 64 6 8 49 3. 6 0:: l s lll : 9: 1: :711 The following are a few instances wherein the Premiums have become extinct, and Annuities for the next Eve gems panted in addition : Original tinin 1 Premium gamed. now eitioet. DOA of Policy. Age. A April 1 64 1,000 August 1 66 600 August 1 60 2,000 Nanb 164 61 600 A a. d. A 4 d. 51 0 0 8 3 8 29 3 4 9 1 a 1 11 65 3 6 75 6 it 19 2 1 17 4 Amount of clalmepald °roes annual Income NAM 4 4 Accumulated fund Me prospeetas and crery.totormatlou may be bad on 600- adism. (11t01102 MO/MIA, &tertmay. 1e!). 1, 1816. £250,000 HAVE BEEN PAID AB COMPENSATION FOE ACCIDENTS OF ALL RINDS, By the RAILWAY PASBENGES/C ASSURANCE COMPANY. Invested Capital and Reserve Fund, FIFTY THOUSAND POUNDS. Annual Income, EIOHTY-FIVE THOUSAND POUNDS. An annual payment of RS to CS IA worts 41,000 In one of Beeth, or SA per week while laid up by Injury. For particalan appiy to the Load Agents at the Hannay Stations, and Moo, Corahill. and 10, lermtetreet. ILLIAM .1. VIAN, Secretary. THE CONTINENTAL OAS and WATER COMPANY' (Limited). MOB of DILBENTCRZS In amounts of £lO, £OO, MO, and MOO, to pay Te per cent. Issued at the rata of LBO cash foe LAO Dehentare, one half to be paid on allotment, and re minder In three months, having tnt-revt coupons attached, pay able In London half yearly at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum • portion of the Debentures to be redeemed annually at par by dirsvlnp on the Ist of January In each year, commencing 1367 file whole to be paid off during the period of the concession of het Loots (viz, 26 years). Ilse above price of Issue will give to the holders Interest at tbe rate of 7pm cent per annum, and a cash bonus of 26 pee mot on the redemption of the Debentures. These Debentures are amply secured on the freehold prowl, smd works of the Company, giving such an unnuestlonabie gar routes of value as will Juttify trustees availing themselves of file rate of interest offered, viz., the gas works at Port Louis, the myna] of the British colony of the Manritins (population, 1111,160), and the works at Arras (population, 35,000). And Itls --mated that the minimum income from Port Loch alone will beam& to redeem the Debentures a ith mterest, and to provide agar met to the shareholders. The warts at Arras have been In active sad profitable opera. Um Ise nasety three years, and public and private lighting was summoned at Port Loafs on the nth November lextber information will be *applied b the neerMary, to "boa' an Awning", for Debeet!wee el**l*.wittreesed. - Onteeokoroavinlit) Annuity MIN& Sum ten. Liao THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1866. .1111130 AT SIRVICEIL— • the sigma AA dm PM Mr the NAOMI Ltishost Ns Id bed me other dem. onedldeed to the milett Nerede I. lon Merest weeks°, der emelt The rtlfalital dw 411 ' 1 an,1174 bit the ode am tie Mho& =ties to deaths ter resent ye otereidoe the itteheale. The eemetrise et She ~..elks APTILIL be do rode tor OniISTANCJb Y toobio them to moot Ow oosilown heavy atiosods on the ladllution's 166 Wilma Illotioso. dootribettoes ere reedvol it Lenin sol Oman huhu" ; and by tbe teerseer_ 7, Lois, do.. at tho Yoe. 14 le. doloostred. L 4 Imam. MORTGAGBIL—Menarn GREEN and SON'S MOITGAGI LIST terms a spedal deportmeat tsr the ragidnitoa of ammata to Immolates* ea merftem aril Mee et seauzlties oa whack la naked. It ~fil Pest bantam to borrowers to traemdlatolr obtsisiag the aria they seek sad also to Trustees. wad Ospitansis tat prompt threataseat The ametatta es the ILI da asme mem vga sob Ve) em .011 ashamo as Merhaspear &pooh of deeds) at sad Oopyhold Lead. Home liogintim. ifffiffiClAS, Dead; Debentures, Pretenses Slam sad an marketable mew Miss.-011IN sad MC amhoasen mal ateis aro* In. Illobasre-Iteare, 81. Ylehasteaney, Oonddn. win be ready to-eaocroi " THE JOINT 8' DIRICTOIII (CHAIM RAI Pelee Ils., co the Ttl of l.Ersay. ,OOK COMPANIES' for MS." LEI t DOM) 'Utah* the Contract awl taut palayfuior banking I n o t i l l-74[---- Disooent nuance and Credit I Mining And Mboellaneous Companies ; With important Iniormatio nabeti reerm calatiag each Oompagy, tvesther with an Alph List ot Director*, le. Chino Darker sad boas, 11, Dtrebia-tama, LC. SWEET OPOPONAX, PIESSE and LIJBIN'S new perfume. °Tim I wave subtle` p 'kerchief, where unrivalled odours dwell, now the ssence spreading folds us like an eastern RAIL" Sold by all feehionable drugglide and perfumers. Price 21. NiW DOND.STILKIT, LONDON. FiI°RIMEL of IVY.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S ,SW COLOSIRVE for the bands and skin. For veinier use it will be found invaluable. Price Ita. Botrn-wrzarr. DINT'S OHICONOMETZAB, WATC H:MS CLOCIL arr DIINS, Wadi, Clock7aad ihreeosieter Maker by rAppointamitalase Melody Ike Qum, sad to the prin. COITill of ps. Y. DENT Mad Si, COCKSPIISSIZIRT, CHASING. CROSS, LONDON. JOHN BROGDIN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS mat LONDON t FRIZZ MlDALS.—Nanntscitorn 1L Hon rtetts-strest, CovensL London, W.C. This ssiabilahnonat Is dosed at 41, and as laWdays at 1 deka. • PAIT-DSVIE.—This Pure PALE BRANDY, laa. per ration, is very superior to recent importation; of Zugasso. reoomaseided by the Medial Profeedost and extensively sued la boepitaia In bottle*, are. per dos. ;orin a caw NIL, rail way mintage pad. —REMY ORBIT and Oa, Old Pandvare licsibertt LC., and 30, Regentetreet. S.W. APANORAMA of NEW TROURERINGS, in all the moue pletareeque ooloarlap, belittling weaken'," Weir. will be READY for INBl' ON on the lath of Anniversary of the Establishment at ALVILID WEBB MILE% a quarter of a eentary am. 73, BROOK-83=ff, BANOVER4IQUAIIti (only madras). LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOK toremdiemeet —lornember, we watt for yea at "IWANS„" attar the Comet-pram Pantomime, sad the Theatrea. WTRO POL I TAN HALL, Edgware-road. MACARTHY EVERY EVERINO la an entire change. La Petit Bleadin, the marvel of the age. VIM week of the Casio Divertissement entitled "National Ravels, or Maaarthy at Home," introducing dancing of it nations, with DOW and novel effects. Matto by 1. J. Poole. AIIROR.k or the Doom% et the Morning Star, still cmtinnos the admiration of the public. immense hit of the Istereopticon. Pint appear.nes of the peat Contortionist Willis, and Lottie Estelle. Mt. Reisman. and men Mortimer, Ned Hammond, and Annie Adams. - 31saspr, J. J. POOL& THE OXFORD.—The MARKET GIRLS, by Offenbach 11 T r ento ra , and Gm Belllllar Centenary Can tata. by Ileyerbaer, will be performed by the whole of She Company. The Nungarlane will also Introduce tb. r j atlel tle liatertalonsent THIS EVENING. ?Ayala boas, 10a. : Mille and balcony, Is. area, ed. CIRYSTAL PALACE—Open THIS EVENING}. Iv lirfillantly ILLUMINATILD for Promenade mall 7 o'clock. OPENING of PARLIAMENT THIS DAY. V Visit the CRYSTAL PALACZ In the afternoon.—lthardo, the new wonder. at half-past five only. Palace brilliantly 11hunt sated until seven o'clock. One Shilling. Ample facilities by rall from Victoria, both by high level and Brighton railways : tea or more trains between half-past 1 and half-part 4—see Time Rills also from Charing-moas to London brldo, thence by Crystal Palace trains. " The best shilfing's worth in the world."—Tintet. Dee. M. CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS EVICNING ONLY.—The COURT of the ALHAMBRA will be LIGHTED UP THIS EVENING from a quarter to fl until 7 o'clock. No odes charge. Rvery one should me the beautiful decorations of this splendid Court thus displayed. CRYSTAL PALACE. —NTIIARDO.—To suit the convenience of a large number of afternoon visitors to the Palace, Signor Ethardo will make a late Spirsl Ascent (ad-psat Ave) Shillin THIS AFTERNOON (Tuesday). and WEDNES DAY. One g. " Ether& 11 the wonder of the day." " An Intense sensation." "Watched with breathless Interest." " Most extraordinary performance ever sees." " An elegant. daring, and novel feat." —Vide Critique. /Utz erirreoo. TO CO! MoeCam= Intoetkg Lane= Iva&lag a: Y• b• at tpt• Omo•, Hativerbodresk by Tv* f&nsatn: Tim Warts% B&OftilOt SAM. lissom tiothera, Buck slam sad Corptou 11fases Nal, Moore, Snowdon. &c.— DILTEZUS IN TSB HATMARKIT. Kann Fovea &D. Fisher ; %mu Sada, [toward & WrIghL—FISH OUT OF WATS& PRINCESS'S. MB STURM, QUIET IA lOW/MS.—Attar wldeb IT IS SEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Moors. Mils, G. MOTE* f. Mod. D. Mum, b. Ca/boon. 1 Vlllion. 1. G. Glom G. Mor. eig, and R. Wawa" ; Mbar L. Moore sad K. Rodgon. LYCIUM. Tat! Immo, THE 1155.eritiOUS STRANGER. Mr. H. Widdloomb.—Tal HAAT= OF RAVINSWOOD. Messrs. rootttat, Jeedo2. w orthy , , Wlddicomb, Fitspatrisk Evans ; liGsedarms Tesoro, I WOO% C. I.4clorcq• BRITANNIA. T® Emma, OLD DADDY LONOLSOB AND SIR SWINT and Madame Bi•itseabach.--Johnsy Day, the Champlea Walker. —Several Bardeen of the Crew of the Landon, with neg. the Coxswain, will appear.- Olroar.—BlLTZll VOLD. ZUGHWANIE, AT LONDON -NUDGE. Dimi DAY - Month& sb. Ws.. ... Afbassar.. ft. 17a. to-unaoir -. Montag, 63 SM. - ..Ailarboas. O. 5655. LONDON. TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 6. IT may reasonably be expected that the party of retrenchment, if not of reform, will have a serious accession to its numbers in the new Parliament, if we are to judge from the grand demonstration of the Malt Tax Repealer, in Free masons' Hall yesterday. More than thirty Con servative members of Parliament were on the plat form, and the hall, we are informed, was " almost " two-thirds full" We do not gather from the report of the proceedings that any striking novelty in the way of doctrine or illustration was intro duced on this occasion by the speakers. Some thing, of course, was to be made of the cattle plague, which had not come into force at the meet ing this time last year. Mr. READ, the member for East Norfolk and representative of the tenant farmer interest, ventured an opinion that free trade had been the cause of introducing the cattle plague ; • solution of a most perplexing problem, which has at least the merit of not interfering with the quarrels of veterinary science, while it pru dently avoids that purely sectarian interpretation of the calamity which would describe the plague as a judgment on free traders, or rather on the country for adopting free trade, since the free traders as a body only suffer as consumers. Mr. RILID, no doubt, means that if we had not im ported foreign cattle we should have no disease among our domestic beasts, an inference not en tirely supported by the fact that the disease has often appeared in countries where cattle were not imported. By analogy Mr. READ would be dis posed to argue that free travelling brought the cholera to these shores. Free trade, however, the hon. member admits, has benefited "all but the " farmers," and it is as thoroughgoing free-traders that the eminent agriculturists who met in Free masons' Hall demand the repeal of • duty which they variously describe as equal to 70 and to 100 per cent. upon the brewer at home, and to 140 per sent wpm tie drinker who buys his beer at lie bee. Indeed, they roundly affirm that lie burden of the duty direct and indirect upon the barley grower, the brewer, and the soosninar is at least 60,0001. per annum. This, it will be observed, is a very different figure from the moderate 30 per cent. of bet session, which Mr. Muaria Gilson was fain to reduce to 12} per cent. It in but fair to the representa lives of the various associations organized for the repeal of the duty to acknowledge that they op pose it every year upon broader and broader pounds. It is no longer a farmer's or a mere barley grower's question ;itis a labourer's—a poor man's impost ; not only a fiscal, but a social wrong. It is an injury to the barley growers; though the quantity of barley grown in this country has somehow not diminished since the agitation began. It is a poor man's question, because the agricultural labourer (in receipt of 10s. a week wages) cannot at the present cost of malt brew at home, while the brewer's agent at the public-house sells him adulterated stuff which only makes him thirstier, or he iaactually reduced to drink tea, which, as one of the speakers observed yesterday, is "one " of the most detrimental foreign drugs that arrive " in this country," and, according to one doctor, "produces manses." Sir F. KIMLY, the great statistician of the malt duty, contends that beer might now be sold at 2d. a quart, seeing that it was sold in the time of Jaime I. at Id. a quart. This startling calculation is quite independent of any dif ference in the relative values of money in the course of the lest two hundred and fifty years, and refers more particularly to the rela tive prime of barley at the two dates. Although it is evidently as a social reform that these agri cultural friends of the labourer and working man demand the abolition of the duty, they regret the conscientious apprehension of some clergymen lest cheaper beer should stimulate the national vice of drunkenness. To this they reply that the cheaper beer would be more wholesome and less intoxi cating. If Mr. GLLIMITONeB figures of last Session are correct, we should be inclined to dismiss the fears of those worthy clergymen as unnecessary, not so much because the labourer's beer, released from the duty, would be less intoxicating, but be cause it would not be sensibly cheaper to those who cannot afford to drink it at the present rate, and because those who can afford to drink it would scarcely swallow more at any pries than they do now. Perhaps it is, after all, as a fiscal duty (though the principle of fiscal duties is the very corner stone of liberal finance) that the Malt Tax was moat powerfully assailed yesterday. Colonel Barrrixor warned the meeting that "nothing but "an irresistible pressure " could obtain the removal of a duty that yields so large a revenue. With a widoar which was not very palatable to his bearers he even offered Mr. GLAWCONE a tax upon beer, if the CrtexcasLos of the EXCHIQUKB was afraid of cheap beer interfering with the consump tion of spirits. Nor was the gallant Colonel alone in this generous offer. But the spirit duties, he I should have remembered, are taxed according to a principle which is not applicable to malt liquors, if, as it was yesterday insisted, and as no one would deny, malt liquors are indeed the poor man's necessary drink. The principle by which spirit duties are levied is not that of as small a duty as possible over as large an area as possible, bat that of as large a duty as possible (without defeating it self) over as limited an area as possible. In other words, the fiscal question is, in reference to spirits, determined partly by moral and social considera tions which the malt duty repealers apply, in an opposite sense, to beer. On the whole, having no especial love for a duty on malt, and as sincere a desire as any gentleman expressed on the platform yesterday for the extension of the benefits of free trade to all classes, we should prefer to follow Mr. ADDIBLEY'S standard, and to attack this grievance from the side of retrenchment. Mr. ADDMILIY declares that six millons of taxa:lon upon an article of consumption are a great inequality and injustice. But he considers that retrenchment is one of Mr. Guarrorta's financial principles, and, therefore, to those who pretend that if six millions of taxation were taken off something else must be pat on, he would reply that there is another way of making up the deficiency which would be occasioned by the repeal besides proposing some new tax. And that way is--retrench went. This is something like a policy, and we congratulate the liberal party in the new House on the accession of the whole force of the malt tax repealer§ to their rinks under the good old banner of "retrenchment." Is there no political grievance analogous to the malt tax duty which will bring these agitators round to Reform ? The Conservative programme would then be complete, without any need of a neutral ministry. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. The most important ceremonies of a peaceful and wall-governed county are apt, the Times observes, to be- come dull by repetition, but it is far otherwise to-day. About 200 members of the Home et Commons are new to their work ; the work itself is new ; the Queen is new, from her great gild and her long seclusion, and there is aovelty even in the Ampler taste which to-day, and probably henoeforth, Wee the royal procession. Here is a novelty, most welcome to all beholders, in the royal pair who will sit next to the these, suggestin g alternate memories and forecasting& The Home of Corn. mons hes to give its confidence to a new meatier, and accept for itself • new leader. The unusual crowd of novices has been carefully scrutinised, and the result is said to show that the new parliament is characterised by greet indepen. deuce of feeling, great wealth, and en minuet desire to do its duty. The fact that the reformed legislature, maintained by frequent appeels to the people, has risen ia chamber in the course of the 34 years gape 1832, supplies an argument that we ought to have another reform because the first has suc ceeded, and because the experience of • whole generation establishes the absolute safety sad eventual wisdom of fresh and fresh extensions of the constituency and amis• sioes of the popular element. With the mighty task that looms before us, and that impends like a prophetic doom over the House of Commons, we cannot but trem ble for the ordinary work to be done, and whisk is said to exceed that of any former parliament. Will it be pcssible to satisfy that portion of the public which has bills to pass, °clears to be amended, while another portion wishes to recommence legislation on some entirely new basis, and with • total change of deliberative agency! However, there are matters that cannot be pat a. There is a good deal to be done at once, and in a few weeks we may begin in understand better than we can now the position in err ioh we are left by the conflict of political pledges and altual amenities. The Poet sees in the Speaker at the House of Commons a dignitary whose firmness, temper, amistracy of judgment, and discretion will MOM for him the respect and the support of the assembly which he guides, though some might possibly wish he was a shade firmer. A lugs number of those who compose the new house are unused to parliamentary usages, and we as only hope that their modesty will induce them to refrain front any active part until such time as they shall have made themselves familiar with the tone and manners of the assembly into which they bays entered. Towards these gentlemen the . attitude .of the Speaker can not be too firm, if be detects any tendency to overstep the reasonable limits of liberty of debate. A yet poster inflosami is mareised over the posealesedast of the members by the leader of the home. Oa two er three re markable eociadons. when Maass had memeitaled the Assam of Lord Palosentoo, the greatest reprematative assembly in the world vomited a sane worthy et a bear garden. The demised statesman poneseed extraerdi nary toot, sod it is warmly disparagiag to Mr. Gladdens to say that he as. mover hope to rival Lord Palmerston is as act which the latter made entirely his own ; bat Mr. Olaristosis ie not se egotistic es to be blind to his own defects, and will probably display la hie new °ipso* a prodeace sod discretion which, ft must be confessed, he did not oft= manifest wises holding the position of lientemat to his late illustrious chief. As regards the house itself, ft is composted ors the whole of what, to know a slang ezpreseirm may be termed s redden of atm, isootainiag several members who see oon siderehly above the average standard of intellectual capacity. Ws do not know, however, that the corresponding gain to the public is proportionately great. There is a consider able different* for example, between snob men as Mr. John Stuart Mill end Mr. Ooz, Out we are by no means sure that the nadisceraing common sense of Um one would not prove in the House of Commons almost, if not entirely, as serviceable as the logical and highly-trained Mod of the other. Mr. Cox, though so ezirense reformer, would never have thought of giving the franchise to his wile or housemaid, and, without exactly being able to tell why, would have lees there was something impractical in the fanciful theories by which Mr. Hare sad his followers seek to moue the representatioa of minorities. It I remarked by the Star that the ceremony to be per formed ie Westminster Palma to-day awairmes a perms/ sad a profound interest is emery heart which is British or soknowleges British sympathies. The opening of a semi= of parliament has perhaps never before—not eves when our Queen, then a young girl, ap peared for the first time to address her Lords mad o=moms—brought with it so strong an appeal to the feeling of the nation. To-day, for the Met time afterra seclusion of more than four years, her Majesty ad dresses her people from the throne—to-day for the first time since her youth she goes through the ceremonial un supported by the loved presence which so lone brightened and strengthened her life. She has Pl.ll her head from the prostration of grief, but the sorrow still abides in her heart, and it needs all the love that family can give, all the sympathy a peop'e as demonstrate, to cheer her through me ordeal which mutt reopen to same extent the old and deep wound. The " sorrow's crown of sorrow," the " remembering happier th'ege," is a diadem oar Queen must wear to-day. Borne, as it will be, meekly and nobly, it adorns mere graciously than the material crown of regal ceremonial. It solemnises and sanctifies the occasion, and will make it cam of abiding presence in the memory of the cation. • FRI IMISIONAIION OF KR OSAMU WOOD. The Tines meninx' that Sir Charlie Wood, fearing lest from impaired health he should be asequal to the discharge in the House of Commons of the menu and responsible duties devolving epos the fleoretary of State far India, retires tram that office, though not from public life. For all the work of his office Sir Charles Wood was serer more competent—what he fears, or rather what Ws physicians fear for him, is the heat sad excitement of psi- Bement. The Tines then esonterstre the services which the right boo. gent/omen has reederedAnring the 40 years he has est in parliament, discharging is Dominion the offices of the Secretaryship of the Treasury, Secretary to the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Exchequer, President of the Board of Control, First Lord of the Admiralty, end Secre tary for India. Than is, in the opinion of the Times, so public man of theday who has received leis jostles from He contemporaries. Endowed with extraordinary quickness of apprehensioa, a retentive memory, a clear heed, a leered intellect, and a mind adapted for the trans action of business, Sir Charles Wood was in many rtspec's the very model of an able, efficient, sod hardworking minister. He is • sated political economist. and possesses, from his long and varied experience, a knowledge of basi nss in all its breaches equal to that of any statemen of the day. Ia the cabinet it is well known that hie expe rience, readiness, and good senor were of the utmost envies ; and whatever department In bar presidol over has always become conscious that it was in the bends of an able, hones:, and indefatigable administrator. One defect in his character was, that endowed with a keen ernes of the ludicrous and the incongruous, he has often said things which out far more deeply than was istended, but the more prominent deficiency was his want of oratorical power, which rendered him unequal to the encounter of much inferior men. In the heeds of Mr. Gladstone, his financial propositions when Chancellor of the Exchequer, would have passed by stela mation, but from mere want of oratorical power Sir Charles Wood was compelled, over and over again, to take them back and remodel them, often vs ry much for the worse. So we have seen him only last year defeated on a motion with regard to the Inane army, on which most unpreju diced persons who only read the debate considered that he was quite in the right. The time, however, has now come when we may hope that the public, remembering that it is not by speech but by action that great results are attained, will do justice to their rid and faithful servant. The pest which he has filled is perhaps the weirbtiest Last that an English antennas can be charged with, and the best proof of the solid merits of his administration w"1 be found when we come to look for one who shall fill his place. The Times knows no one in the ranks of the present government who can present himself with say coofideocs as a worthy BIM minor. Sir Charles Wood'e character sod h'a leftism*, are more deeply impressed on the destiny of India thee those of say of his predecessors, and the new era which he hes founded in the East will entitle him, probably, to • more durable place in history than will be allotted to many men of mere brilliant but len solid a quireinents. The Herald says that Mr. Lanni is "talked of " for the vacant effie r. Till 1U.2 TAX. The Herald thinks the demonstration yesterday at the Freemasons' Tavern must convince Mr. Gladstone sod the rest of her Majesty's ministers that th's question, teo long is abeysnos, must not be trifled with any longer. Unless the forthcoming budget shall Include some proposition for the reduction, at least, of this most obnoxious import, a strong array of members of the Bones of Commons may be combined against it. The representatives of the agricultural constituencies were, many of them, returned to parliament on the distinct understanding that they would insist on the abolition of this tax, or on its reduction with a view to such abolition. Those who were not so pledged cannot be ignorant of the strong feeling ot those who returned them. Their oppo. nests on the Liberal side, if true to their principles, can only defend the tax apologetically, and as a matter of pre sent expediency rather than of principle. It is the bound. n duty of any Chanosikr of the Exchequer to place malt now in the foremost place among articles on which the duty is to be partially, if not wholly, remitted. A pro posal which seems reasonable, though received with dis favour by some prompt at the meeting, was made yesterday by Mr. Seater-Booth. It is not new, though it has seldom been put so prominently forward by an oppose= d the malt tax. If money must be raised, why not tax beer directly instead of indirectly? A tax of one halfpenny or a penny on a quart of ben., leaving malt free from duty, would lead toe cheapening and a large increase in the con sumption of the popular beverage, while it would yield an annul sum to the revenue almost if not quits aa great as that produced by the malt tax. Such • tax would go far to meet en objection to the excne duty on malt, which is put prominently forward by the advocates for its repeat The Star argue., that se a tax to be repealed on grotto& of public policy and justice, that on malt stands several removes from the foremost rank, and, so long as the money it lollop In cannot be done without, the tax will =questionably have to be levied. At the lame time, if the fanners go in boldly and perseveringly for a reduction of first three millions, and thee • sowed three =liken in our national expendititm, the remission of the rash tax will be only an inetalmeat of the benefits they will derive from the national gratitude. But while they con tinue to vote the whistle they must con'imie to pay for it. The Advertiser is informed that Mr. John Bright had a private interview with Earl Russell yester day, at the request of the noble lard. The Atzato, with the next West India mail, is expected to arrive on Monday next. She will brieg news from Jemmies up to the 25th ult., at which period Sir Mowry Storks will heve been at JIMPI3II nearly three weeks, and the government commisioiters, Mesas. annoy sad Man* seedy a week. OPENING PARLIAMENT BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN• (THIS DAY.) THE SPEECH FitOM THE THRONE. The presume of her Majesty ; the peculiar inte root attechieg to a new parliameat ; the imported topics expected in the Royal Spank; and, we may add, the de. solar undoes. and beauty et the weather, gave to.day's proceedings a deptinomea adaehereeter of popularity which were brecenleg rare Moat parliameetary annals. Although it bad bees aassaaced that her Majesty would epee the Lest eselloa of bar emetic parliameal with a emeammiel dices of its tseditised pandiarides, yet the bmelbel that the Qom would herself participate was =MAW to lniag from every part of Leedom crowds ot persons of all 4:111110011 and both sexes, anxious to testify their erapethede loyalty, sad to obtain, if Fusible, a glimpse of the feelers§ al acre who is se mach beloved. The departure of the Queen from Wiliam teak place at half-past 10 o'clock this morniag, hoe Majesty being 110ocrapanied by their Royal Hirt►stone Princesses Hakes and Louise, and Prima Christian of Brilthiew:g.Holetein, attended by Colonel the Hoaonrahle D.* Ran the Deana of Athol!, sod the Hociostrabie Flora Macdonald. Her Majesty and the Prisoemos drove from the Castle to ' the Great Western terminus, where, by the direetioa of Mr. J. Orierson, the peers! manager, s special teal. had been provided in readiness for the trip to tows. The feet of her Majesty being about again to enter upoa a state duty attracted • large 'umber of the ieh.NMls to the 'Melo% sad the carpeted spun upon the platform was sunoueded by s bevy el the fair sem. The usourniag in which bar Majority was attired for the late King of the Belgians was relieved by the royal pelisse being trimmed by a deep border of miniver; while the Prince's and Prince Christian wore mourning. The royal party left the station at 10.35 a.m., aced the loyal ealutatioa of the crowd, sad arrived at Paddingtort at 11.10, after a splendid foamy of abash 35 MIRIAM. As the Queen was about to step into the royal equipage • perfect ovation ensued, and the vaulted iron roof of the immense station rang again es the mass of spectators re. pestedly and enthusiastically gave vest to their satidaelioa in British cheers. In a few momants the royal cortege swept from the statism, the Queen's carriage being mooned by • guard of honour emporia of a aqua iron of Carbineers, on its way to Bookinghem Palace. Her Majesty, after the state ceremonial, will retora to Windsor Casale this afternome, and proceed to Osborne to morrow. As early as 10 o'clock Immense crowds were weeding their way in the direction of Wastalarder, and many had already stationed themselves near the several apprised's' to the home. That a medial wigwam was intended was manifest in every part by the preparations for the accom modation of the lovers of sight-seeing. In Parliament-street most of the balconies in front of the booms were dressed with crimson and green cloth, the seats providcil for the visitors being covered wits the former. A el) 1014111 pllery was erected outside the Chapel Royal, and not a yard was lost in the Privy-gardens where& view of the proesssion meld be obtrined. In the New Palace-yard the crowd was images., the seolosure there adjoining the cab-rank bsieg literally tilled with Monde and subetautiel galleries of every description. In several places flap were hoisted. The assemblele in the park was perhaps greater than on any fanner occasion, the scene from the Horse Guard. to Bookioghsm Palace pre untie% one mass of human bsiegs. In anticipation of the *Trivet of her Majesty the railings outside the Palace were besieged with spectators ; end when at half-put 11 a ay was heard of " The geese is costing," a pneral shout was heard from the multitude. The procession 1 1 soon after entered the gate, and the cheering thee renewed with even more vigour, continued till the royal cortege had passed inside. The proceesioe, which was very simple, wrs headed by one of her Majesty's outriders, fol lowed by the Queen in a private carriage, drawn by two hones ; then came two more private carrhges containing members of the Royal family, and a brougham ; the whole being at:comp:led by an escort of the Boys Blues. The scene along the whole limo of route wee very animated. The event was not lost sight of by the vendors of the vicious articles offered for sale o swab 00011a0112 and a view of " Her Majesty's Slate Procession" seemed to Is greatly in demand. When the time arrived for the procession to leave Bruskingbein Palace the anxiety of the people became Witham ; and daring its progress throegh the Perk there was a universal display ofiloyal affection towards her Majesty. At the House of Lords the doors were opened at 12 o'clock, when, although this was needy two hears before the expected arrival of the Queen, there was an immediate rush oa the part of the ladies to secure their seats. The attend soft of peeresses and their daughters was very numerous, while the Strangers' Gallery, allotted to the isms sex, was also closely packed. The front beaches round the House of Lord' were re served for the peers, the upper bench oa the left of the throne being the dukes' bench. Peareeees who bap given due notice were shown to their places on the bench re served for peeresses only. The benches behind the pommies on the left of the throne were reserved for peen'claughtees, Sootoh and Irish peers, sot being peers of parlianseat, and the eldest sous of peers, ocentied the peers' eldest 6one' box below the bar. The space below the; bar was kept deer for the me inters of the House of Ocinenons. The admission was by the peers' entrance. In previous years the galleries which line the corridors and pewees' along which her Majesty passes to the Robing room, have bees crowded with ladies ; but to-day no strangers were allowed to have the conic to the approaches. Looking down on the house from the gallery the ladies messed to monopolies the benches, and even then much diplomacy and ingenuity was required to procure for each a seat. The accredited representatives of forks Powers, who occupied the seats behind the front episcopal bench, were present in unusual force. The peers in their ermine-burred world robes ; the judges and bishops, with their richer ermine-hooded gowns ; the fore'gn ministers in their brilliant uniforms ; and the fairest of England's daughters, clad in all the variety and Tishman of female attire, contributed to form a spectacle which those who witnessed it are sot likely to forget. The interest excited by her Majesty's reappearance be came alined painful in its intensity as the moment of her arrival approached. Emotions which the reader will in. stlnetively appreciate filled every breast, and softened the hum which on previous occasions hes always prevailed ; and it may easily be surmised that the reading of the speech by the Lord Chancellor would but in very few eases divert the thoughts of the assembly from the august lady who was the centre of so many stirring end affectionate associations. As arranged, the Queen, attended by the Muter of the Horse (the Marquis of Ailesbnry), the Mistress of the Robes (the Dualism of Wellington) end the lady in writing the day, alighted at the peers' entrance to the beau and not at the grand entrance at the Victoria Tower. The Lord Chamberlain (Via:coat Sydney) and the Lord Steward (the Earl of Bwaborangh) received her Majesty; the Usher of the Bleak Rod (Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford) and the Deputy Usher (Colonel Clifford), and other wooded her to the room adjacent to the south end of the house, whose the throne is situate. On her Msjestjr's snivel t►e fact was aneousood by a salute from Use gnus ha St. James-mirk ; awl os the royal cortige leasing the home soothe/ mho will be fired. The Royal Speech was ni follows : MS Loans •ND Garrrtmeme, It is with great satisfaction that I have recourse to your assistance and advice. I have recently declared my consent to a marriage between my daughter Princess Helena and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein Sonderbourg- Auguatenburg. I trust this union may be pros perous and happy. The death of my beloved uncle, the King of the Belgians, has affected me with profound grief. I feel great confidence, however, that the wisdom which be evinced during his reign will animate his successor, and preserve for Belgium her inde pendence and prosperity. My relations with foreign Powers are friendly aad satisfactog, the and I ass 110 mum to fa n ill distmhams of pearal pass. The esaMlag ths fissis of Frame sad Si g h 4 is the ports of the respray* ***stria has tlid o to cement the amity of the two vatic% am prove to the world their friendly comet promotion of peace. I have observed with eadstactiou that bola, States, after terminating amossefully straggle in which they were so long 5a e .7 44 , wisely repairing the ravages o f civil wa s . m il abolition of slavery is an meat calling b al k ilk cordial sympathise and oongratulations of th country, which has always been foremost in M ow * its abhor:mos of an institution rspagmattossal feeling of justice and humanity. I have at the same time the satiefeetion to W ant you that the, exertions and perseverance cg naval squadron have redacted the slave trade 01 4, West Oust el Africa within very narrow limik A correspondence has taken plies bow ie , government and that of the United Slat s respect to injuries inflicted on American ax ioms by cruisers under the Confederate fl ag , o g h it this correspondence will be laid bef ore yea. The renewal of diplomatic relations with lag has given me much satisfaction, and I ada tm wi with pleasure that the good offices of my ellyth Bing of Portugal have contributed eleeriel a g n , this happy result. I have to regret the interruption of pas s h tweeu Spain and Chili. The good Aims government, in conjunction with those of tie hi peror of the French, have been accepted by m and it is my earnest hope that the cams of i ll , agreement may be removed in a manner ha w able and satisfactory to both countries. The negotiations which have been long pat i o Japan, and which have been conducted with gnaw lity by my Minister in that country, in co:ljssel* with the' representatives of my alike in Jam, her been brought to a conclusion which merits e l entire approbation. The existing treaties hue ha ratified by the Mikado ; it bee been stipulated shi the tariff shall be revised in a manner km* to commerce, and that the indemnity du marls terms of the Convention of October, 188 t, sh h punctually discharged. I have concluded a treaty of commerce with% Emperor of Austria, which I trust will opal to it empire the blessings of extended commerce, ea productive of important benefits to both menthe, The deplorable events which have mums& it the island of Jamaica have induced me to provilet once for an impartial inquiry, and for Wit maintenanee of authority during that isq* by appointing a distinguished military cis as governor and commander of the forme. I boa given him the assistance) of two able and leery commissioners, who will aid him in male into the origin, nature, and circumstances di recent outbreak, and the measures adopted he ti course of its suppression. The legislature of Jeanie has proposed that the present political constitute of the island should be replaced by a new fee of government. A bill upon this subject vi be submitted to your consideration. Papers on these occurrences will be laid befonyea Papers on the present state of New Zealand vi, be laid before you. I have given directions for the return to th country of the greater portion of my regular fees employed in that colony. I watch with interest the proceedings which AN still in progress in British North Amid/aide view to a closer union among the province, oil continue to attach great importance to that objest 1 have observed with great concern the extent prevalent*, during the last few months, of aviralth distemper among cattle in Great Britain sad hi with deep regret, and with sincere sympathy forth sufferers, that I have learnt the severe lasses witie it has caused in many counties and districts. hi satisfactory to know that Ireland ands considerable part of Scotland are as yet free from this calamity, and I trust that by the precautions suggested by experience, and by the Divine Blessing on the see which are now being employed, its farther oxtails may now be arrested. The orders which have been made by the Lodi of my Privy Council by virtue of the pour vested in them by law, with a view to prevail tie spreading of this disease, will be laid before yee, and your attention will be called to the impeding of an amendment of the law relating to a esbjet , so deeply affecting the interests of my people. Cleirrimazit or vas Roues or Coirsoss, I have directed that the estimates of the *maim year shall be laid before you. They have been pie• pared with a due regard to economy, and are at ths same time consistent with the maintensaos d efficiency in the public service. The condition of trade is satisfactory. My LORDS AND GLITTUDINN, A conspiracy, adverse alike to authority, le party, and religion, and disapproved and we damned alike by all who are interested is We maintenance, without distinction of creed or class, has unhappily appeared in Ireland. Ti constitutional power of the ordinary tribunals be been exerted for its repression, and the antheral of the law has been firmly and impartial) tin dicated. A bill will be submitted to you founded on dm report of the royal commission, on the subject si capital punishment, which I have directed to bt laid before you. Bills will be laid before you for amending ad consolidating the laws relating to bankruptcy, tag for other improvements in the law. Measures will also be submitted to you for a tending the system of public audit to branches d receipts and expenditure, which it has not hitherto reached, and for amending the provisions d * law with respect to certain classes of legal polio & Your attention 11111 be called to the subject oi* oaths taken by members of parliament, with a lir' to avoid unnecessary declarations, and to remove invidious distinctions between members of differs t religious communities in matters of legislation. I have directed that information should be Fr cured in reference to the rights of voting in the election of members to serve in Parliament for counties, cities, and boroughs. When that information is complete, the attention of parliament will be called to the result thus ob tained, with a view to such improvements in the laws which regulate the rights of voting in the election of members of the House of Commons se may tend to strengthen our free institution', ad conduce to the public welfare. In these and in all other deliberations, I ferrellill pray that the blessing of Almighty Ged may elud e your counsels to the promotion of the happinem my people. 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