The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-14 00:00:00

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MOH WATER AT LONDON BILIDOL DA —Morning. 6b nra......Afterisoon, 6h. Ø. (o•SOLlOlF—Molhhht. db. Wm..— ..Aillemaa, ih. 17iii. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. TUE JUDGES AND THE CONSTITUTION. WHEN a Conservative Government introduces democracy, it is not very wonderful to find her MAJESTY'S Judges improving upon republican insti tutions. Emulous of the recent instances which have drawn attention to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United States in deciding whether acts of Congress fall within the letter of the Constitution, the English bench has taken upon itself to lecture Parliament on the limit of its prerogatives. This is, indeed, a very material advance upon the Transatlantic system. The American Judges are content to wait till the laws come before them in the due course of practice, and do not presume to dictate to the Legislature beforehand what it may or may not enact. But the English Judges have, through the mouth of their Chief, informed the Government that a measure which a select committee of the Commons has recommended, and which the rceponsiblc Ministers of the Crown bare undertaken to introduce, would be c( utrary to the Constitution, an - 1 that its administration would bo repugnant to t h eir °Atha This is certainly the most curious example that has yet been aironled to the world of the limits of individual independence in a free country. It is hardly necessary to remark that it in truth derives no countenance from the principles which regulate the interpretation of the Constitution of the I United States by its Sepreme Court. That Consti tution is a compact, it is a treaty between States, ' which, but for it, were independent of each ' other, inal which in surrendering a part of their original powers to the central body, stipulated ' certain conditions. and created the Supreme Court • to judge of questions affecting the observance of these conditions. lint the Queen, Lords, • and Commons of England are nut the creation of contract betwe:m co-equal powers. They are the embodiment of English life, the depolitory of English p iwer, the expression of Englieli will. That the whelo nation should be lectured by the :edges as to how it ought to nuance its own Mla 1... and 100 told that if it adopts a certeiu system of internal administration rather than another it will compel these august persennges to vi 3 Oate their consciences and break the oaths which are taken to the nation itself, is certainly a most remarkable and imprecedented development of judicial autho rity. The T.. ., . recalls how the conscience of Centres: the Third was in like manner an obiltaide tri the granting of Catholic Emancipation. But GEOrt-E the Third had at least the plea that be was required to give nn active assent to s proposal which without that concurrence could not become law. The Judges would forbid the State from enacting a law which they have nothing to do with but to administer on the grolind that in their opinion it would be contrary ti the spirit of the Conatitir tiun. Carrying this doctrine to its legitimate conclusions would prohi:iit any constitutional im provement whatsoever. for the Judges are of no higher acceunt in the legislative departments of the State than any other class of men, and there can be no reform suggested in any quarter which will nut find some class of men ready to declare it =- constitutional, and au utisenee to their conscientious convictions. But the practical absurdity does not end here. It is so ridiculous to supp. AO that the Legislature cannot enable the House of Commons to delegate its judicial functions, in whole or in part, to out riders, that the government merely proposes, while accepting the remonstrances of the bench, to creates new bench which will be paid 2,600'. a year a beach° do the work without remonstrances. All that the constitional difficulty has led to has, therefore, been the imposing the work upon outsiders who are worth 2,000/. a year instead of upon outsiders who are worth 6,0001. It is certain that neither the dignity of the Commons is saved by the change, nor is the prospect of the successful ad ministration of the law improved. The inferior tribunal will merely he composed of iiikrier, and probably younger men—of men who are less re moved from the passions of politics. and who have more to hope for from the favour of party leaders. We will not, indeed, take upon ourselves to say that the experiment, tried, under the most favourable auspices, would have been succesafuL tt would have been an experiment. But we have already had full experience of the existing method, subject to all the amend ments of which it seems capable. The result is confessedly unsatisfactory, and there is no ground for hoping that the elements of costliness, collusion, and fraud which it encourages can be abated by any mere improvement. It would be reasonable to try a fundamental change of system, and to throw upon the judicial body which at present tries those who are charged with the crimes of accepting or giving bribes, the task of determining whether an election has been made void by the existence of such facts. If the addi tional labour thus imposed on the Judges had proved too great, Parliament would, as matter of course, have sanctioned the necessary addition to the judicial strength. But having de cided upon the principle of this experiment, we must agree with the obvious feeling of the majo rity of the House of Commons, that it must not be marred in practice by its execution being com mitted to any tribunals leas august and less known than those which are composed of members of the supreme courts of law. THE COMPOUND HOUSEHOLDER AN THE LANDLORD. Tax irrepressible compound householder is to be again brought before the House next week. Mr. Guam= Hotwianisos has, it appears, only scotched the snake, and the time of Parliament is to be once more absorbed in the prows' of killing it. Mr. El AM! urott is to ask the Go vernment whether poor tenants are to be relieved from the intolerable annoyance to which they are now subjected ; or if the distress occasioned by the recent alteration in the law is to remain nnalleviated. One immediate result of amending the repro 'imitation of the people has been to put money into the pockets of the owners of the worst clan of house property ; and to still further grind down the miserably poor. Rents have been systematically raised in the low neighbourhoods of London, and the poorer the " let " the greater the injustice. Cases are numerous of rooms hitherto let at eighteen-pence a week now charged one shilling and ninepence ; and people who are themselves burdening the rates are indirectly called upon to pay what they have been accustomed to regard as the land lord's tax. Nor is this hardship confined to large cities. In the coal districts of England and Wales pitmen are being summoned as de faulters who have hitherto regarded tax-paying as their masters' privilege and who can not be made to comprehend why they should be called upon now. It cannot however, be too widely known that all landlords or others may pay rates for tenants, dependents, or the poor people on an estate, as the following extract from a recent circular of the Poor Law Board clearly shows : " As heretofore the payment of the Poor-rate " need not have been made by the person assessed " himself, but the payment by an authorised agent " acting for him would have been sufficient ; so, " notwithstanding the provisions of the Itepresen " tenon of the People Act, 1867, the rate may le " paid by any other person, on behalf of the per " son rated, if duly authorised by such last " mentioned person to make the payment." The foregoing shows that all the eloquent talk of last session as to personal payment of rates went for nothing, and that employers and landlords may be the constituted agents of those to whom they pay wages, or from whom they receive rent. There are many circumstances under which this task will be cheer fully and even usefully undertaken. But where the new burden presses most heavily is where it can be supported least, and the average landlord of poor house property makes the abolition of compounding a plea for raising the price of his rooms. YESTERDAY the Convocation of the University of Oxford made a grant of bouks of the value of 150/. to the University of tho Southern States of America. By the narrow majority of 63 to GO, a proposal to make a grant of 350/. in moneytowards restoring the buildings of the same university was rejected. The opposition seemed, we are told, to rod partly on financial objections and partly on financial grounds, partly on the fear that such a vote would be taken in America as an expression of sympathy with the South. We may assume, since the two motives are mentioned, that had the financial difficulty nat existed, the expression of sympathy would have taken the form of cash as well as of literature. No one who meals the antecedents of Oxford during the period of the contest will be surprised that the sentiment which was then so strongly marked should still exist. And, per haps, none who remember how deep into the dynasty of the C EOROIS' Oxford continued to be the Jacobite University will wonder at its faithfulness to a cause which, three years ago, its political advocates in this country abandoned as hopeless, and therefore as reprobate. Still, admirable as is constancy to defeat, and excellent as is the principle of inter-academical courtesies, it might be wished that the representatives of English edu cation would forbear to make conspicuous their sympathies with domestic rebellion, and their re grets for the misfortunes that fell upon the Alma Makr of the defenders of slavery. Arum the shower of statements and counter statements which fells each day into the columns of the Continental press respecting the situation of affairs in Bulgaria and Servia it is difficult to see one's way to the truth. It is positively announced by the " officious" journals of Paris that armed bands are collecting in and around Turkey, and that the chiefs are only awaiting the 'nut d'ordre from Russia. It gives an air of probability to this representation that France, England, and Austria are said to have addressed communications to the Governments of the Principalities and of Servia on the subject of these armaments. It only adds to the mystery that the government of Berlin is reported to have joined with the Western Powers and with Austria in making these communications, whilst from St. Petersburg it is positively denied that Prussia has taken any such step. A word from Count Bismarck would clear up this diversity of statement; but the Prussian minis - ter has retired, Wm Achilles to his camp. It is surmised that this retirement, or retreat, or resignation—for it has been called by these three names—is not unconnected with the state of affairs in the east of Europe, Count Bismarck being disposed to place Prussia on the side of the Western Powers, whilst the King and Court party incline towards an alliance with Russia. It is quite as probable that this is the cause of Count Bismarck's rustication as the announcement that he is in dudgeon at the conduct of the Conservative party. It was ex pected in Paris that the Constitntionnelwould come out with an article showing up the manceuvres and plots of Russia ; instead of that we find one in the Po t,i,.,which tells us, in all but official lan guage, that the train of powder which was to create a blaze along the line of the Danube from Belgrade to Constantinople was laid indeed, but that the match which was to explode it was thrown aside at the very moment it was to be made use of. Language like this I only makes the mystery the greater. It cannot be to the advantage of French commerce or of the the general peace that statements of this kind should be made day after day by journals which are known to receive their inspiration from official 1 quarters. The delusion, if it be one, must soon come to an end. Meanwhile the reports from the East I leave little doubt as to the fact that preparations are going on, and even the names of the chiefs who are to take part in the insurrection are given. It , is not, to say the least, courteous to Russia that she should be called in a semi-official journal of Paris "the eternal enemy of Turkey," and be accused of undermining the strength of that enemy by encouraging domestic insurrection as a preparation to attacking her more undisguisedly in I front, unless something which the world at large does not know is kept in the background. ID THE Pato' OF A DISPZNAATION. —A letter from Remo, in the Comae ddle Merck, states that the Nun to be paid for the diepeneetiet !eked from the Pope on the occasion of the marriap of Prince Humbert with his engin the Princes. biartuarits, will be COWL IRELAND IN THE lIISE OF IBIMONq, Lord Mane °lineal Wends, o Friday Wits to move the following resolutions in the limn of One moos :—" That, in the opinion of this heirs, the cow tinned exists's'', of the disaffection and discontent which prevails in Ireland is not only an injury to Ireland hut • source of embarrassment and uneasiness to the United Kingdom, and that it is essential to the interests of the whole kingdom that the Causes of those disaffection' and discontent should be removed : That, In the opinion of this bouts, this result cannot be attained unless the government of Ireland is carried on and the laws and insti tutions of the country are framed in acoordance with the wants and wishes of the Irish people themselves , that the educational and ecclesiastical arrangements at present maintained in Ireland ain not in accordance with the feel ings and wishes of the people ; that the system of land tenure, which has grown up under the existing land laws, is not suited to the wants and circumstances of the country, and that it has failed in giving to the general mass of the agricultural proprietors security of their tenure and 1131111MICO that they will enjoy the traits of their industry or the means of living in com fort and independence in their native land. That while the grievances arising from this state of things continue the causes of Irish discontent and disaffection must re main. That, while this house is sensible that the effectual redress of these grievances may involve extensive changes in the laws, the institutions, and the social system of Ire land, this house is of opinion that it is essential to the contentment of Ireland, and the honour and welfare of the whole United Kingdom that these changes should be made." On Friday, the 6th March, Sir Colman Olisghlen will call attention to the absence of a permanent royal resi dence in Ireland, and move an address to her Majesty, " humbly representing to her Majesty that it would con duce to the advantage of the crown and the good govern. ment of Ireland, and tend to allay jealousy and discontent in that country, if her Majesty had • permanent residence in Ireland, and that this house, feeling deeply its import ance, will cordially co-operate with her Majesty in any steps she may be graciously pleased to take to carry out so desirable an object." On Tuesday Mr. Pim will introduce a bill to amend the law relating to the tenure and improvement of land in Ireland. !ARY MISCELLA.Mi. The Government Bill for amending the laws re lating to election petitions, and providing more effectually for the prevention of corrupt pr.,ctiees at parliamentary elections stands fora second reading on the 27th. The Church-rates Commutation Bill will be brought forward on the llth of next month. Mr. Maguire, next Monday, w:11 asY the Vice•Presi,lext of the Board of Trade the:intentions of the government with respect to the danger caused to naval and mercantile interests by the existence of Dannt's Rock. The compound householder comes before parliament next week, Mr. Hamilton intending to ask the government whe ther it is prepared to introduce any measure which will relieve the occupiers of small rated houses in many bo roughs from the diatreu caused by the abolition of the composition of rates. A topic which has been much discussed in the press of late will be revived in the lower house next Monday by the following question of Mr. Miley Potter—To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any objection to give a return of the names of the persons for whom the clerks in the Foreign-office now act as agents, or have so acted at any time during the last five years ; of the emoluments which such clerks have individually received for such agency during the last five years, and the amount received by them from each person ; and, whether there is any truth in the statement which has appeared in the public press that the agencies in the Foreign•office are to be abolished. _ Mr. Head= intends on Monday to move ,for a select committee to consider whether any alteration can be made in the arrangements of the house, so as to enable a greater number of members to hear and take part in the Proceeding' Amongst the other business set down for Monday is Mr. Hughes' bill for the Regulation of Sunday Trading in the Metropolis ; a question from Mr. O'Beirne as to whether the Chief Secretary for Ireland intends to introduce • tenant•right measure this session ; and a motion for a select committee on the subject of tho military reserve funds, by Lord Hotham. On Tuesday next Mr. Dodson will call the attention of tho House of Commons to its private bill legislation, and will move resolutions thereon. . . . . . ..-..-.. _ Mr. Seely, following up his inquiries into naval admi• nistmtion, will, on Tuesday, move for a select committee to report upon Admiralty monies and accounts. On Thursday Mr. MacEvoy will introduce his meuure for the repeal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act. On the 28th, Mr. Mulkey will move fora select coin. mittee to inquire into the working of the Charitable Trusts Acts, and Lord Enstaco Cecil for • royal commis- lion to inquire into the state of military education, more especially ►t Woolwich and Sandhurst. Mr. fiamtielson. who has interested himself so much on ' the subject of technical education, will, on the 3rd proximo, move for " • select committee to inquire into the provisions for giving instruction in theoretical and applied science to the industrial classes." The Alabama claims and the failure of the negotiations with the United States Government will be brought before the house on the 6th of March by Mr. Shaw Lefevre. On the 10th March Mr. Trevelyan moves a series of re solutions respecting the discontinuance of the purchase and sale of military commissions. Mr. Bruce's Education Bill stands for the 10th of next month. On the navy estimates Mr. Banbury Tracey will move that a select committee be appointed to inquire into the present state of the Royal Naval Reserve, and whether any immures should be adopted to increase its efficiency. Eftt Court. OSBORNE, FEB. 12. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Princess Christian and Prince's Henrietta of Schleswlg•Holstein. Lord Alfred Paget attended as Equerry in Waiting. Baron Magnus (late Prussian Envoy at the Court of the unfortunate Emperor Maximilian) had an audience of the Queen, having been presented by Count Bernstorff. Count Bernstorff, Lord Stanley, and Baron Magnus had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday evening. The Queen has received good accounts of the health of the Crown Princess and the infant prince. Prince Leopold went out this morning in a garden chair, and is progressing very satiaraetorily. Lieutenant-Colonol Cavendish has arrived es Equerry in Waiting. Feb. 13. The Queen drove ont, sooompssied by Princess Louie.. Baron Magnus had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday evening. The Prinoe of Wales rode out yesterday forenoon, at tended by Lieutenant• Colonel Koppel. In the afternoon his hoyal highness went to the House of Lords. The Princess of Weir drove out, attended by the Counter of Morton. In the evening their royal higneases went to the Hey. market Theatre. . Mess.E. and E. Emanuel, of Burlington-garden% had the honour of submitting for the inspection of the Prince of Wales the candelabrum manufactured by them for presentation to General Nelson from the Logic'afire Assembly of am-k& Despatchee were neared yesterday at the Colade. deco from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were mat to the Governer-General of Canada. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by the Osnatese of Keeton and Colonel Koppel, honoured the Haymarket Theatre WWII their presence last evening to witness the performance al the new onnedy, l Wife Weil Woo. Ms °sown Pnmc or Menem The ic eman received from Berlin of her Royal Hlgbaus the Crown Priam of Pravda are very good. Her royal Winer and the bleat Flare to whore she gave birth en Monday lest ere both doing well. Dr. Grum reisaisa la ettundiase for a few days.—Pines. 1111 ,~VEI~I~ ~'+ , rP :BRITA TOliitON N erms DAY.) FS. THE FRENCH PRESS BILL The debates upon the French Press Bill con tinuo to occupy the attention of the Paris journals and to give rise to pointed allusions and personali ties in the Chamber. On Wednesday the following article wan under discussion : A condemnation for crime committed by means of the press entails absolutely the suppression of the journal who.o Oran! has been condemned. In the cue of a es petition of the offence within two years of the first con demnation for offences of the pries other than those com mitted against private individuals, the tribunals can, in re pressing a new misdemeanour of the same nature, pronounce the suspension of the journal or periodical for a period of not less than fifteen days nor more then two months. A suspension of from two to six months may be prononneaxi for a third condemnation, within a similar interval ; also under a first judgment or decree of condemnation, if the latter be incurred for instigating to any of the crimes men tioned in articles 86, 87, and 91 of the Penal Code, or for the offence provided against by Art 9 of the law of the 17th alay, 1819. During the entire duration of the sus pension tile caution money will remain deposited in the Treasury, and will not be susceptible of any other desti nation. M. Gueroult, in moving an amendment, drew a distinction between cases of crime and press ocencea. Be said : A crime is easily defined and known ; a press offence is to be discovered only in an arbitrary way, it is but the strong expression of an opinion which is not that of the government ; it consists of words, and lies usually in these perfidious parts of speech, adjectives and adverbs. (Laughter.) A substantive which would pass unincri mutated becomes an offence if an adjective be joined to it. A suspension of two months is equivalent to death to a journal. I have known a case in which, out of 34,000 sub. scrils.rs, only 17,000 remained after that interval. One of from two to six months is still more severe. DI. Latour du Moulin, who supported the amendment, produced a great effect by quoting the following words which were addressed by Napoleon let to Benjamin Constant : " Public discussions, free elections, responsible ministers, the liberty of tke press—all those things I wish to see ; the freedom of the press, above all ; to stifle it is absurd. I am thoroughly convinced on this last point—" U. E. l'EttErAN—Rather late in the day ! U. LATOUR no MOULIN—" I am the man of the people; if the people desire liberty, I am bound to give it them. I have acknowledged the popular sovereignty ; I n.nst necessarily leud au ear to its wishes, even to its caprices. . . . I foresee a di-lcult struggle, a long war. To sustain it, the nation mast support mo ; but in return, it will, I think, require liberty. I ask for nothing better than to be enlightened. I ant growing old. A man at forty-five is not what he was at thirty. The repose of • constitutional king would suit me very well, and my son still better." Gentlemen (said the speaker), I can hardly suppose that the intelligence or sincerity of Newburg L will be questioned by the Ministers of Napoleon 111. (Applause on many benches.) M. YLtrume to supporting the government clause, made personal allusion to U. Latour du Moulin, who was director-general of the press in 1852. 11. au lioutnt—The bon. member was not of the num ber either of the signitaries or the voters of an amend ment. . . . (Interruption.) U. MATHIEU-4 do not make a display of my liberalism. M. LATOUR DU MOULIN—I do not discuss your liberalism. I believe I have given proof of more than you. (Noisy reclamation.) The Paisiorarr—l beg you to avoid these personalities which only disturb the discussion. (Rear, hear.) M. LATOUR DO MOULIN—It was not I who first entered on this ground. I was attacked and I defend myself. The amendment was loot, and the clause carried. PRUSSIA. Berlin despatches of yesterday's date announce that Count Bismarck intends to leave in a few days. He proposes to go on a shooting excursion at Schmalkaden, and will afterwards proceed to Hanover. The Customs Parliament will probably open at the end of the month. The 11 - orth German Gazette contrasts the assertions of the Austrian government (in the Red Book) re specting the friendly feelings of that power towards Germany with the fact that tho cabinet of Vienna supports the schemes of King George of Hanover ; the semi-official organ specially relies upon the circumstance that the Hanoverian legionaries were provided with Austrian passports on entering France. " Such facts are enough," says the Gazette, "to render difficult the re-estab ment of a good understanding between Austria and North Germany.". _ _ . According to the Inclipendance there is no dif ference of opinion between King William and Count Bismarck, but there is between the Prime Minister and the moat retrograde section of the conservative party. The result will be, according to the Indipendance, that Count Eulenburg will go out of the ministry, and a more liberal one be in troduced. (urrza's TrizartAms.) THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. ANNESLEY BAY, FIB. 2. The Egyptian troops are pushing forward with• out the concurrence of the British authorities. It is reported that King Theodorus is at Mag dale, and that all the captives are with him. Menelek has been defeated, and has retired to Ankobar. Sir Robert Napier is about to advance from Senafd to Antalo. The rumour that an engage ment had taken place there is unconfirmed. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Fn. 14. The Austrian Government has replied to the complaints of Prussia relative to the granting of Austrian passports to the members of the Hanoverian Legion. Austria promises that an investigation shall take place on the subject to ascertain whether any irregularities have occurred, and announces the adoption of strict preventive measures in future. SPAIN. MADRID, Pm 13, En3INO. A commission will shortly be appointed under the presidency of a General of Brigade to proceed to Abyssinia. It is reported that Senor Cabana y Montemayor will resign his post as Under-Secretary of State for the Finances. In to-day's sitting of the Senate the bill relative to public functionaries was discussed. At the end of the sitting a royal decree was read appointing Senor Severo Catalina, at present the director of Public Instruction, Minister of Marine. THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fts.„l2. The 10414 Herald states that an imperial order was despatched to the Grand Vizier yesterday, re calling him from Crete. According to intelligence received here cholera lies reappeared in Persia, and is especially virulent in the province of Mazanderan. The Egyptian Prince Muetapha Fasil has just been made a Freemason. The weather in movers and wet. „ INDIA. nomBAY. IPra. The Ti... of Indio states authoritatively that e. _ ~ .. 233 veascls arommployed It► the Indian seas and for tie Abyssinian espadition, and that the monthly I freight, exclusive of coal, is 392,000 i. AMERICA. =As= rirsas.srw.) NEW YORK, FEB. 13. The steamers leaving to-day for Europe take out 375,000 dols. in specie. Tho Allan Company's steamer St. Andrew and the Inman steamship City of Limerick arrived out to-day. - • Closing Prices. —Gold, 14(4 ; Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1111 ; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 10.40 Bonds, 105. Illinois, 1391; Erie, 74. Cotton ; Middling Upland, 201. Petroleum, atandard white, 25. Flour, extra State, 10 dole. 40c.; corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 32c. THE East OF DERBY.—We regret to state that although Lord Derby is comparatively free from the gout, his malady has entailed so much weakness as to totally preclude his moving for some days to come. DIPLOMATIC MOVEMENTS.—}iii Excellency the Austrian Ambassador returned a few days ago from visiting Lis daughter and her husband, Princtss and Prince Borgliese, at Rome, in older to resume Lis duties as ambassador to the court of St. James's. His Excellency the Italian Minister, the Marquis &Aught', has also re. turned home, after passing several months at Nice. It is not yet definitively decided also succeeds his excellency as . . . . . Italian minister at the British court. It is understood that the Marquis d'Azeglio will relinquish his diplomatic post early in the ensuing mouth. During yesterday and the preceding day some of our leading politicians have returned to town foe the parliamentary session. The Right Hon. W. E. Glad atone and family returned yesterday from Ilawarder. Castle, Fain shire ; the Earl and Countess Russell and Viscount and Viscountess Amberley came to town yester day from Richmond ; the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, and the Right Hon. Chichester Rideau', M.P., arrived in town on Wednesday ; the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, M.P., arrived in town yesterday from Drayton Manor; and the Right Hon. Edward Horsiness conies to town to-day. The Duke of Leinster has left town for West Park, Wilts, one visa to Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald. Tho Duchess of Marlborough will have recep tions on Saturday, the 22nd, and on the first Saturday in &larch, at the family residence in St. James's-square. - The coming of age of the Marquia of Worcester, in May, will be celebrated with extraordinary festivities at Badminton. The Hon. Auberon Herbert, brother of Lord Car narvon, is announced as chairman of a meeting at Myddel ton-hall, Islington, on Monday night, to hear an addressor the Irish church by Mr. Mason Jonea. Earl Fortescue has threatened to withdraw his support from the Devon County Volunteer Association if the extravagance of holding field days is not discontinued. During eight years the association has spent 2,0001. in ride prize meetings, and LOOM in brigade field days. SION CoLLEoz.—The fortnightly meeting of this institution was held last night, when the Dean of Westminster read a paper on "The connection of Church and State." Mr. Edward Miall, the Bishop of London, the Rev. James Martineau, the Hon. Auberon Herbert, and others, successively addressed the meeting. A few days since two young greyhounds, while chasing a hare at Kimmeridge, in the Isle of Purbeck, fell over a cliff several hundred feet in height and were killed. The hospital which tho Alarchioness of Ailesbury recently established at Savernake, near Marlborough, in Wiltshire, has turned out a complete success. The ancient church at Puddlehinton, in Dorset shire, has been restored, at a cost of 1,0001., and was opened for divine worship by the Bishop of Salisbury on Wednesday. Archdeacon Denison, referring to the recent con ference on education, says he believes that his scheme " includes every point, and previa°s for every difficulty," and, although he has very small expectation that it will be publicly adopted now, he thinks that sooner or later it will find aooeptance with the legialature. The printing-office of the Abb4 Migne, • • .• • Chaussie do Maine, Paris, famous for it. production of religious works, was on Tuesday night completely de stroyed by firs. The dwelling-house attached, containing a valuable literary and artistic collection, was saved. Four hundred workmen arc by this disaster thrown out of employment. The lose, estimated at 160,0001., is covered by insurance. One fireman had his right arm broken, but no other injury to person is reported. Efforts are being made st this moment in ?nutria to organise a monster petition against the compe tition made by prisoners to private industry. The associa tion of ilsnovorian artisans has determined on suggesting a remedy, namely, that prisoners should be paid for their work at the current rates in the locality, that the sums so earned should be applied in part to cover the cost of their maintenance, and that the surplus should be given to them on their liberation• _ _ _ ME. GLADSTONE.—Az regards Mr. Gladstone's sincerity in politics, we think that no man on any side entertains • doubt of it. The very changes which he has made are the proof of his sincerity. As he has continued to study the great matter of the governing of a country, he has gone round what we may perhaps call a quarter of the circle, advancing.—or retrograding, if there be any who choose to say so,—from liberal conservatism, to comerva tive liberalism. Year by year. and almost mouth by month, his countrymen have watched these changes as they have been made ; and there has been not even an enemy who has ventured to think that aught but the con victions of a studious and just mind have produced them. We can all admire, after • fashion, the steadfast consis tency of the politician who in early youth assumes a aide which then is probably dictated to him by circumstances, who adheres always to the 'political ideas which were then instilled into him, and who dies by them. But such a one has not often the opportunity of giving proof of much earnest thought on the matter. His sincerity is not passed through the fire, am is that of the man who by slow degrees, with the eyes of his countrymen upon him, teaches himself those political lemons which he finds it necomery that he should learn in the service of hie country. Of Mr. Glad stone's truth to his party and to his country we do not think that any liberal, or any conservative, member of the Sons of Commons, will have a doubt. And then se to his honesty! A politician may be true to his party, true after a fashion to his country.—and yet not be honest. Examples very conspicuous might be given of such lack of honesty joined to patriotism and to party zeal ; but it would be invidious and unnecessary here to name such a one. They who do evil in politics that good may oome of it, who mislead by false answers, who are crafty when skill only is required, who show a half and call it • whole, who descend to the intrigues of politics, and win their way by bamboozling friends, rather than by conquering fose.— men we call dishonest politicians. And we feel sure that, from year to year, as the mind of the country becomes clear in the matter, such guile will become leas and ever leas efficient for its intended purposes. We do not ever remember to have beard accusation of such dishonesty made against Kr. Gladstone. It will, we think, be ad mitted on all sides, that he has never descended to the wiliness of politica. It is hard, indeed, fora minister to escape altogether the taint of snob fault ; and it has come partly wimps from the nature of the ministerial position which be has held, that he has been able to exempt him self from even suspicion on such • charge. As regards efficiency in statesmanship and general capacity for public business, the liberal party may boast that in Mr. Glad. stone it will have • leader as to whom there need be no doubt. That be is • real financier, the various budgets which he has produced for the country, and the recognised soundness of his views as to revenue, bear ample testimony. Now that AL Fould has been lost to France, Europe pro bably has not his equal.—St. Paul's Alags:ise for Febinag A Worm lialriSitez. —lt should be powerful in its substantives, choice and discreet in its adjectives, :lo d e s % comet in its verbs : not a word that could be nee ass which the meet fastidious would venture to an : in order lucid, in sequence logical in method Pe ; and yet with a pleasant and inviting intri cacy a bkit. 4kies . as you advance in the matinee : the hingness, efOmut, not Taint, not obsolete, not cosmos. mad sot new : its several clauses justly propor tioned and oarotelly balanced, so that it moves like a well disciplined army organised for conquest : the rhythm not that of mule. bat el a higher and more fantastic =io disation's', ileititng to no rule, incapable of being taught: the asholanos and the form alike disclosing a happy union of the asil ed the author to the subject of his thought, having, thundote, individuality without personal pm do : aid withal, there must be a sense of felicity about it, it to be the product of a happy moment, so that yen 144 it will not happen again to that man who whew 411114110011 or to hay other of the eons of Ow, M..alktibe like Inds( so , littribo.ban ounonlobaly.—Moonillon'a liegazias for =lO. •IN OF anima. —Thrashes have cout mos= baiktins in the asighlrasrhood 9t Yeovil is lkswilridn HIPPOPEAGY AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Mr. A. S. Biclmell is an enthusiast in the cause of hippophagy, and yesterday afternoon he appeared ea the platform of the lector...ball of the Crystal Pala to advocate the consumption of horse•flah as an article of food senongsa the people of England. The novelty of lecture upon such a subject as this drew together a large and highly respectable audience, amongst those present being a fair proposal.* of ladies, who evinced the livelea interest in all that was said and subsequently done. For upwards of an hour did Mr. Bicknell speak upon he theme, and we give the following ss a brief raven of he statement. He tells us that as long ago as the fifth ma. tort' before Christ these was no objection to eating h oe , flesh. Heredotne, speaking of the Persian* of his d ay, says when a man was rich he baked • whole hone or donkey, while if he was poor he used an ox or a s h eep. Virgil and Horace both allude to hippophegy, an d the latter speaks of the Spaniards who drank hones• flood and milk mixed. During the Augustan age numhers of &tithe's refer to the consumption of this kind of foal. In the eighth century, between 731 and 741, Popo Gregory the Third wrote a remarkable letter open the auLje r r. s t. Boldface was engaged in converting the Germans to Chris. tisnity, and he told the head of his church that the ge a r obstacle with which he had to contend was the fact that the people sacrificed horses to idols, principally from _ . . . love of the meat of the animal. Pope Gregory, upon kart. log this fact, said that the continuance of such "a filthy-. practice ought not to bo allowed. The Germans of that day, however, would not give it up, and it was not until some years later that the practice began to die out. la the year SOO the Archbishop of York referred to the v. , . tom of the English eating horse-flesh, and said he did not think it respectable, though be did not forbid it. Sees three or four hundred years after this there was no teats of the practice left in dallied Europe. In France matters went so far that they actually executed a 1 :4 because he ate part of a horse on a Saturday in Lent. Tsa hundred years later, however, the practice of bippoyh nz again sprung up in France, and it received the sanction 4 so many learned men in the country that at last, in the government consented to legalise the sale of b erm . . . . _ desb. The practice had been introduced into Deutenk is 1807, and then followed most of the German State, la 1847 a horselesh dinner was announced to take place is Vienna, bet the people assembled and determined to pre. vent anything of the kind occurring. They smash,l tLa windows of the hotel, and took possession of the ee:iog apparatus. In the following year, however, a dint.r Ira allowed to take place, and the practice of eatin; Lase d ash now largely prevailed throughout Austria. The countries of Europe, such as Switzerland, Ikl z,ium, Norway, &c., had followed the exatir e 'e which bad been set them, until, as Mr. Lick. nell contends, England is now the only country in Europe of any importance which declines to aihr alio practice. Why such a strong prejudice should e•ist the consumption of horse-flesh he is at • loss to know. There is no material difference between it and Dr. Liebig has given his opinion that horse-tlesh i. aloes. lively nutritious. One great objection to its C0111 , 1131p. tion in England appeared to be the fear that tle• props would get old and diseased animals. To prevent this Mr, Bicknell advocates the same kind of inspection w years is in France. In that country the government in-peter, who is a veterinary surgeon, must certify that tLe hoes ) is sound before it is allowed to be killed. In fact, vision to Paris would do well, according to Mr. Ihehni 11, to choose horse-flesh rather than beef, because they are muck more certain of getting the former good than they are the latter, the inspection in the case of liorse•iloh aeic; so much more complete and !stringent than in the Me of beef. Then it was said that horse-tlesh was bard, nasty, and unwholesome, but many of those rho advanced this objection had never tasted it. The I:rl'.i.h were the worst cooks in the world, and if they did cot -n. Smetana how to cook horse-flesh, of course the wean saf. fered. Mr. Bicknell quoted a number of stitistics to show how largely the poorer classes might be served by taking to eat horse. flesh. He does not expect to make many con. recta amongst the rich or mercantile clauses, end lie lairs to see horse-flesh eaten in England principally by Ms poorer classes, who are at present unable to get mitt. cient animal food. At the conclusion of his address Mr. Bicknell invited his audience, numbering a co r e l! of hundred, to adjourn to an adjoining room and there test for themselves the value of horse-flesh. Ile stated aniebt considerable laughter that the horse which had bees cooked by his own cha j was twenty-three years obi, had been driven about in a brougham, and was perfectly sound up to the time of being killed. A very large lumber of ladies and gentlemen accepted the invitation of Mr. Bicknell, and that they had ample opportunity to judz.: of the practical value of hens-flesh as an article of COIIFUI..I , tion will at once be seen from the following, which vas the bill of fare :—Julienno soup, pistachio sausagm root fillet, stewed roll, roast sirloin, and brained round. ILiving expressed an opinion on the merits and demerits of bona , flesh on the occasion of Mr. Biektiill'A dinner at rho f_,:.;• ham Hotel last week, it is needless to re-open th d part of the subject. In justice to ldr. Bicknell and his o-iise we are bound to say that many of the 1 elb 3 :01,1 men present partook freely of the dishes, roil a • . (ley appeared to entertain an opinion by no means in.f.a.m.r. able to the adoption of hippophagy in this country. The medical officers of the Birmingham Cenral Dispensary have resigned in a body because the con. a of that institution have refused to grant en honorarium at a recognition of their services. Pelves LEOPOLD. —Prince Leopold bar contirenxl during the week to make tepid progron to convsles The tendency to accidental baovorrhage, front which the prince has now suffered severely on more than one oecaten, ma one of those anomalous conditions which sometia rs unaccountably affect persons otherwise perfectly .ound. in coustitutioe, as it is the good fortune of alt our r.r.d princes to be. But this condition will undoubtedly. ;lid throughout life, require Prince Leopold to abstain iron violent exertion of any kind, or from indulging in the more active departmenta of professional anivity selected l.y h i Doke of Edinburgh and Prince Artbur.—BritiA f,.Led Journal. ROYAL SOCIETY.—Lint night, at the ordinary weekly meeting of the Royal Society, (teen' $ 'int, F.R.S., presided ; and among the gentlemen preseir Professor W. Allen Miller, F.R.S., and Sir Charki Wheatstone. Dr. Sherry, F.R.S., secretary, read the minutes of the last meeting, which included a notice of a paper by Professor G. B. Airy, F.R.S., the Astionomer Royal, on " Earth Currents." Currents of electricity an always running to and fro in the earth, sometimes enter. big the telegraphic wires. and sending streams of the tricity through the lines, of sufficient strength to ore power the working batteries to stop tekgraphic nos for the papers, and to send unrlutlable measles on tteir own account. Such electoral storms are • source of 6 ot loss to telegraph companies while they last. A few Min of wire were, therefore, erected from Greenwich °Siena. tory, to measure and observe these currents' which ue made to move a galvanometer to and fro ere they miter the earth. The galvanometer is mounted in a darkens! mom, and its needle reflects a ray of light as it m orn upon a sheet of photographic paper, whereby variation in the current are continuously recorded. Praeger Airy's paper, read before the Royal Society, Pcinle'l oat that some connection exists between the movements of the earth currents and the declinatioe magnetometer, for both are affected at nearly the SIDA time. Professor Stokes, F.R.S., of Cambridge lan' city, next read a list of candidates for edininion to tie Royal Society, after which he read two prs, one by Sir Frederick Pollock, on " The Mysteries of t u be Numben.", mathematical memoir inexplicable without the aid of diagrams and algebraical formulae. The other pare by Dr. Hoffman, F.R.S., on some chemical properties of oil of mustard-seed. Several papers on the to p w . ing the flight of projectiles will be read at future meetibiP of the Royal Society. SHOCKING ATROCITY. —A dreadful Willie IS re. fromthe village of Shangton, about six mileitlista t FrO l tr d Market Harborougb, in Leicestershire. DrPreel that from various indications, a servant girl in the bow hold of Mr. Pratt, who resides at the lodge, at was suspected of having given birth to a child. 01: consequently questioned on the subject She did not dial that she had been delivered of a child, but refaied ta MI bow she had disposed of the body. A search waa at once instituted, but failed to discover the child, s na mustily the mother confessed that she bed throws body to the pigs, by whom it had been devoured. affair has created a profound sensation of horror threela' out the neighbourhood. —Nottingham Journai. WHIM ON THC Soma COAST.—IRVINE, Ft 11.—While the wind wee blowing drone from weli,7 northwest yesterday afternoon (states D. On I, Sol•Na steam tug was towing a barque shoat a m il eto a d s ttoa the river mouth, when It was seen that the steamy 911 unable to get the vessel's bead to the wind t and aim prof. gently took the ground and come broadside 4)ll_imo, ,T e : beach, thew brealdm over bor. The Pringle N boat of the National Lifeboat Lirtitation was pro_ ,f 43 launched to the aseistanee of those onboard -411 d the master, his Irlf*, and part of the mew. The PM $ ' afterwards returned in the lifebast to his vowel whP reminder of the crew sad their effects were also froir s. ashore in safety. Tbe _was the Kate Alrls, io ,j John's, N. 8., bound from Dablth, to TM% Ma S ar! oI Igesigeg IMSI ~it