The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-18 00:00:00

r y ~►~t t i i CONSIGNIMT of PLANTS and BULBS from HOLLAND. I MR. J. C. STEVENS will SELL by AUCTION, at his Great Roam, Ithg-sif.eare, 00 . 1. " 14 TO-MORROW (Wednesday), Feb. 19, at MU- lf conaignment of PLANTS from Holland, standard. dwarf, weeping, and climbing rose, : dwarf„ standard. and pyramid fruit tram ; specimen eatiagatef end Peen hales. conifers, and a variety of hardy trees and current trees, raspberry canes, a large quantity of choice for aping planting, rustic sesta, steels, rues, baskets, ac.—On view to morrow, and catalogues had. BREAKFAST.-EPPB'I3 COCOA. gike •xpreoo. ADVERTISEM:E/iTS for the ILTPRESS received. after 12 o'clock cannot be inserted on the nine day. HAYMARKET. Tim Ma THE 8R0K124-11EARTED ELM—DAVID GARRICK. Ye a h Bother& BuCkeeooo, Mien, de. ; and Mho Robertson.—LEND Me JIVE SHILLING& Mr. &mimics.. — .And FAMILY JAM. Mr. Compton. nuscasrs Tart Svismen , AMMAR NA JPOOIII. Hr. and Vre. D. Boa cicault, Mr. Thrills, Mears. Dominick Murray, Neville. &Shore ; MLA Harnett & urn Addle.—After which THS ocrozooN. Mr. and Mn boneltaalt, Mr. J. B. Clarke, Mr. Vining, t Mims Mauna. TEu Evanno, OLD BALI. )I.r STIAND. . Lars and Wan Nally Moon. —After which TON CALIPH OF BAODAD. Mama Thom and James Alaadainas Ada Bwanbouroogh. Johnitcos, Harland, Holt, ac.—And COAL AND COBH HOLBORN. Tills Zvanro, THZ FLYING SCUD. Menne. Atkins, Pries, Garden, Arthur. Westland, sad Wilmott ; Mesdames Henrade t,oodell. Lennox, and astinders—Conclude with VALF.NTINZ ♦N ) ORSON. ALUM. Montero, Little Howells, de. sierrannA. THIS twoWiwi, ALL BUT ONE. Maui Reynolds and Craw* rd , Mesdames Courtenay, and Coveney. - DON QUIXOTE. lln. S. Lane Pantomimist' Masan. DMA Louis, Newham, and the Echasse Family : C. Min h = and Win Rose Esthan. 111011 WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Mil aar —Yorabts. 1011. fti....—Afternoan, 10b. 41a. 114110azoir—ltaraibi. Ilh. 23n.. —Midnight. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 18. THE VACANT PREMIERSHIP. THE sympathy of his countrymen, and of numbers in Europe and America who are not his countrymen, attends Lord DERBY in his painful illness. We will not rival the haste of some of our contemporaries and pro nounce over him the final word Virit. It is premature to assume that even his public career is at an end. The time for reviewing it has not yet come, still less for passing judgment on the literary achievements, and on the social and personal qualities which have added further lustre to a brilliant, if nut very substantial, political reputation. It is, indeed, scarcely possible that Lord DERBY should continue to hold for even a few days longer the office of Primo Minister. The anxieties and labour attending that post have reinforced the attacks of disease. A narrow but unselfish and even chivalrous devotion to his party has cost both him and it dear. The old courage of the STARLETS was shown as con spicuously in the pluck with which Lord DERBY sacrificed leisure and retirement and ease for the sake of keeping his followers united and in office as in the valour which his ancestors dis played at Flodden, at Bosworth, or at Worcester. We will yet hope that care and rest will enable the Conservative leader to give his colleagues on critical occasions the advantage of his counsels as a member of the Cabinet free from the restraints of office, and his aid in the discussions and the management of the House of Lords. The position which, in our own time, the Marquis of LANS DOWNE and the Duke of WELLINGTON, and to go further back, the first Lord Caarnata, held in the Ministries with which they were connected, is still, we trust, open to Lord DERBY. Differing as we do altogether from the principles and policy of the noble earl, and though we find much that is indefensible in his recent public conduct, we I should deplore his total withdrawal from political life as involving a loss of dignity and lustre from English parliamentary statesmanship. But while hoping that this event may yet be some years distant, we cannot shut our eyes to the mural and physical impossibility of Lord DERBY'S longer tenure of the premiership. The question in every body's month is not, Will he resign ? but, Who is to be his summer f Tho ranks of his present colleagues and of his party offer only two names to choose between. They are those of Lord STANLEY and Mr. Dismatt. The time for the titular primacy of a third rate peer has long since passed by. It might suit the days of the Marquis of Itoemaanam, the Duke of PORTLAND, or Lord Livearoot, but it does not suit our age. To canvass the claims and merits of Lord MALMESBURY, the Duke of RientroND, or the Duke of BUCKINOHAM for Lord DERBY'S place is simply to cast unprovoked and undeserved ridicule on respectable noblemen, and upon the office itself of Prime Minister. If the govern ment is really to have a head, if it is to be something more than the indepen- dent administration of separate departments, with a council of equals upon public affairs, its nominal chief must be its real chief. The only members of the present Cabinet and of the Tory party who have the personal qualities and the political stand ing for this office are, as we have said, the present CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER and the present Ssearrase for FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Each has advantages which the other dues not possess. Lord STANLEY'S hereditary and social position are considerations which in England cannot be, or, at any rate, are not likely to be, lightly set aside. On the other hand, Mr. DIsRAISLI'S CLIMB upon his party are unrivalled. He lira done everything for it. Whatever sacrifices of political character he may have made, his followers cannot reproach him with them, fur what he has done they have done, too. The difference between the leader and the rank and file is that they are intellectually lower, not that they are morally higher. Lord STANLEY is the more solid and prudent, Mr. DISRAELI the more daring and brilliant statesman. The former is the better administrator, the latter , the more dexterous party-leader. Between these balanced claims, one consideration ought to turn the scale. If Lord STANLEY is to be Prime Minister, he must go to the Lords ; for it would be simply indecent, to say nothing of its being highly imprudent, and indeed absolutely impossible, to deprive Mr. Dm- RkELI of the leadership in the Commons. For such leadership Lord STANLEY, with all his great capacity and industry, does not indeed possess the peculiar mental, scarcely even the physical qualifications. Intellectual nimbleness and ver satility, ready and articulate speech, the power of discriminating between grave matters and trifles, do not characterise him in a very eminent degree. Mr. DISRAELI has these gifts in unusual measure. He is, therefore, the inevit able leader in the Commons. Now, the leader in the Commons should be the Prime Minister. He has to decide a score of times in the session the course which the Government will take on the data presented to him by the attitude or senti ment of the House of Commons. He must often do so without the opportunity of taking counaelwith his Vinci* colleagues. The man on whom this THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY responsibility and initiative fall should have authority in the Cabinet, that power . of d • in the last appeal, that almost co-esdisote ant* city in their own depertmenp with the departments without which there mat be a di empire, or dualism in the Government. The Prise Minister only can have this authority. The prece dency which is assigned to the First Lord of the Treasury, and which is as little recognised by thelaw as the Cabinet itself, has come into existence in obedience to a real necessity. To sopa mt.!. Se office Of First Minister from the leatkirlip of the House of Commons is to diVittii ate Premier ship—that is to say, to destroy it ; for there cannot be two first. The rule that the Prime Minister shall be in the Lower House ought, we think, to become an unwritten but unvarying principle of English constitutional government. If it be accepted, its adoption marks out Mr. DIREA2LI as Lord DERBY'S successor. The personal objections to him are many ; but considerations of public convenience outweigh them. • . • • ,• • r • °Mass. • eAyt4 • MILL 'he New notices at conaidellaible M. Mire pamphlet on the subject of " Nagliad aad In ked." Ilk kn. member tea Weakalankri ft K m hew wreie with more judicial eabnassa s w av ity, and knanisity than in this paper. Mr. ILIP, mar& the pre. mat SS the most formidable maaineirstien el Irish dime teat which our rulers have been sailed to 'mounter ; Ind if there is 'anything sadder than the ealamite itself, it is the nrmistakeable sincerity sad good faith with which numbers of Englishmen meshes themselves 'papal* of comprehending it. Mr. Mill holds that the Irish are no longer reduced to what they can get, and no accommoda tion is henceforth possible that dose not give the Irish peasant all that he meld gain by revolu tion—or all that a successful Hoche could give him — permanent possession of the land, subject to Axed burthens. Such a change may be revolutionary, but revolutionary measures are the thing now frepleei. Ib is not necessary that the revolution should be ebbed, still less that it should be unjust. It may and wilt to se eped existing interests which have the essodea of law. An *Moines or • qualined separation al the two countries would, in Mr. Mill's oplaion, be • die honour for one and a serious misfortune for both ; and he sees nothing which Ireland could pin by • mew ration which might not be obtained by union except the doubtful pin of being governed solely by Irishmen. Mr. Mill proposes the appointment of • commission, with com pulsory powers to examine every farm in Ireland that is let to the Utast, and to commute the present veriable far • fixed rent. There must be ascertained in eash ease what annual payment would be an equivalent to the landlord for the rent he now receives, provided that rent be not excessive, and for the present value of whatever prospect there may be of an increase from any other source than the peasant's own exertions. This annual sum should be seemed to the landlord nada: the guarantee of the State. He should have the option of receiving it from the national Treasury by being inscribed as the owner of Console sufficient to yield that amount. Every farm not farmed by the pro- prietor would then become the permanent holding of the meant, who would pay either to the landlord or the State the fixed rent that had been decided on. The Daily New commends the pamphlet to the thoughtful consideration of its readers. COUNT BISMARCK. THE people of this country and of many other countries have, for some time put, been accus tomed to hear that the Count Vox Bnimszcx is a very clever man. A good many of them, the majority perhaps, have taken this upon trust. " What everybody says must be true." And " results" prove the Prussian Minister to be "a paying concern." Those how ever, who are acquainted with the world and its eccentric ways—for though the physical world goes like clock work, the moral world is subject to aberrations—are well aware that success is not always the result of wisdom aforethought. " There "is nothing succeeds like success." We all know the meaning of that. It means that mankind are a flock of sheep, who are driven whither the vigorous and adventurous driver chooses to drive them. But it implies that the shepherd is an old hand at his work—that he has got the sheep to believe in him and fear him. This is not the case of BISMARCK. He is, it may be said, entirely a green hand. Half-a-dozen years ago Europe had scarcely heard of him. He owes nothing to his prestige, his years, or his experience. He has leapt at once, armed at all points with wisdom, from the head of Murmtvs. Does anyone ask for a proof of this other than is to be found in mere results f Let him read the words of BISMARCK addressed to the Prussian Parliament on the sub ject of compensation to dethroned Kings. They are words of rare wisdom, worthy, we will not say of the author of Ecclesiastes—for that might be regarded as an irreverent comparison— but of that apocryphal imitator who wrote Eccle siasticus. These are the words of wisdom :—" An " ex-sovereign who accepted an indemnity larger " than his former income, had by that very act " abdicated his throne. He had sold his rights, " and there was consequently an end of them, " though he might not admit it in so many " words. But even if c,3ntinuing the part of pre " tender, a wealthy pretender was less den " gerous than a poor one. It was, moreover, " the will of the KING of PRUSSIA that the " Sovereigns whom, out of regard for the national " interests, he had been unfortunately compelled "to depose, should be left in the unrestricted " enjoyment of their former revenues ; and the " Cabinet, knowing that some foreign courts, " jealous of Prussian success, would be conciliated "by this generosity, could not but concur in the " royal decree." So much worldly wisdom has rarely been ex pressed in so few words. The policy of BISMARCE is exactly the opposite of that which recommended itself to the fierce ambition of NAPOLEON I. He thought it the best plan to put all his vanquished enemies under his feet, to humble them in the dust, to trample upon them, nay, to spit upon them. He added insult to injury, and so, in the end, arrayed all Europe against him. But BISMARCK is a wiser man in his generation. He knows the sting that poverty gives to the exile of a King. He takes that sting out. He unmakes Kings only to make them more comfortable. He takes care that their friends shall have no interest to intrigue for their restoration. He makes the endorsement of a cheque a double instrument,--a receipt for all claims, and, at the same time, an act of abdication. And while loading dethroned monarchs with wealth, in ex change for barren honours, he regrets that he is compelled by the national interests to be so un kind. Truly the Count Vox BISMARCK is a won derful man. AN action decided yesterday gives a suggestive insight into the manners and customs of a portion of the theatrical world. The celebrated Mies Mamma on accepting an engagement at Astley's required a private carriage to convey her to and from the theatre, and for her general use. Mr. E. T. SMITH, who, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE declares, "understands the art of catering for " the public as well as any man," intro duced her to a coachbuilding firm, and a brougham and harness were ordered of a de cidedly startling character. In delicate allusion to the fair lady's performance as Mazeppa, a rampant bores was chosen for the crest, and was placed rather lavishly upon and about the carriage. Bells on the horses and silver mountings on the harness, oval windows, and glittering lamps, made it still more remarkable,and Miss MENCEN'S equip age became an important appanage to her publicity. Months afterward, a dispute arose concerning the sum charged for it ; the coachbuilders business went into the hands of trade assignees, one of whom is Mr. Seven himself—end Mies Mims was sued for a balance of 35/. left standing on its original cost of 351/. Is. 6d. It was put for ward in defence that the whole affair was in reality a theatrical advertisement, and that it was ordered in the hope that " when the beautiful " brougham, with its more beautiful °mu- I pant, drove along the streets, gentle " men would rush and take a private " box at Astley's." The jury did not think this commercial aspiration should absolve Miss MENICEN from the responsibility of paying for her fantastic luxury, and a verdict was given in favour of the people suing. The moral is that heroines of the equestrian drama should regard their professional and their private lives as things apart ; and should leave personal advertising in the hand, of the agents and employers whose bug nem it is. Lest night Mr. George Grove, the hon. secretary to the Palestine Exploration Peed, delivered • lecture on the " Espleration of Jerusalem and the Holy Land; before • crowded ow:Bence, at the Institute of British Architects, Conduitatreet, Regent-street. While Madame St4Sfitni - was three night. back performing in the Orleans Theatre, in the Caprice, she in cautiously approached too near the foot-lights, and the train of her drem caught fire. M. Laurent succeeded, with the assistant* of a fireman, in wrapping her in a carpet, and thus extinguished the flames. The lady escaped with • slight burn on the left fa* sad another on the *tit exen. THE UHL OP DIRBT. The Tines beats of Lord Derby's political career as closed, and eaters into an elaborate review of his public) services and his political life. It describes him as having been a great party leader and • successful administrator. The energy which distinguished him would have made itself felt had he been born a poor man. After leaving the whip be gradually drew nearer to staunch coosernative principles, and no one will cupect•that he was • leader In lest year's secession from the party doctrines. Ha was, on the contrary, one of the "educated," and in common with his party profited by the lessons which a more versatile in structor communicated. It is ea a brilliant speaker, a power which may not make a man a great statesman, but which makes him a great parliamentary leader—that be will be chiefly remembered. His literary acquirements and his love of horses contributed in their way to increase his popularity among the mass of Englishmen. Taking the some view of the seriousness of the Premier's illness, the Post speculates upon the manner in which the leadership of the conservative party will be supplied. His son may take his place,but can scarcelyustuue his mantle, or his brilliant lieutenant may be summoned to that post to which his unparalleled talent and unequalled audacity not unfairly lay claim. But the country party, who have used the ability and followed the le►d of their unscrupu lous leader, may revolt at having to acknowledge him as absolute chief. THE SCOTCH &EPDXY BILL. The Times urges that there will be no justification for a party fight over the above bill. Certain defects in it must be amended in committee, but the great majority of its clauses can exalts no conflict of opinion. If the force of criticism be frittered away in declarations on the magical perfection of 658, and the impossibility of advanc ing so far se 665, because a reformed parliament may slip into 666, the government will succeed in having the con duct of the bill much as they wish. The Team deprecates such an event. It desires to see defects in the bill amended, its errors abated, and therefore urges on all opponents the necessity of weighing the comparative value of their objections before committing themselves to them. Praising the Lord Advocate for the businesslike and un- pretending character of his speech, and briefly describing the provisions of his bill, the Daily News observes that it is the redistribution part of it which is open to objection. The increase in the numbers of the House of Com mons is by no means a matter of indifference, and to create them out of bare nothingness is indirectly to protect an abuse of our existing system. The village and small pocket boroughs of England receive a kind of guarantee of impunity, and our contemporary is glad to find Mr. Baxter and other Scotch members de clining the treacherous gift. The mode in which the go vernment proposes to distribute the additional seats which it intends to crests is not likely to oonciliate oppo sition. It is labour wasted to devise, debate, and vote on such a scheme. Sound policy requires that is should be discarded and the great question of the redistribution of seats throughout the United Kingdom be referred to the new constituencies and the new House of Commons. The Herald taus the Sarah liberals with being solely influenced by party considerations. Never wu as oppoei tion more obstinate, vexatious, and pertinacious on points of petty detaiL Of ourse, if this is to be the poßey of the opposition, the present session must be • barren one. The power of dissolution, which is the ordinary oonstitutional ' • . . restraint on such an opposition, is wanting to the govern ment, and Mr. Gladstons's power of hinderanos is, there fore, almost unlimited. zAar. irsuLL's pArraur. The Standard regards Earl anneell's letter on !rebind am a very seasonable one. The measure be propounds for the improvement of the condition of the Isiah tenants is quite unexceptionable, and him proposal to have a triple endow ment in the chu rch question will encounter more vigorous opposition on his own side than on the other. Admitting the necessity for removing the inequality among lee churches in Ireland, it is certainly preferable to divide the endowments among the three churches than to take sway the property from all. The pamphlet disappoints the Star. These tenant•right suggestions are not sufficient to meet the cue, and the English radical party, u well as the English and Scotch liberals, are almost to a man opposed to the principle of state endowments provision. Under these dalmatians the Star simply went. to know who are the persons Farl Rowell expecte to carry it. It would cost far more trouble to carry Berl Rosell's measure than one of simple, abso lute dim/idol/meat ; while the latter would be • step in the right, the former in the wrong direction. The Tdegraph remarks, as to the endowment question, that every plan must wait until we settle the preliminarT question —we we to have any Irish endowments! Wise men are agreed in this, that we musk have in Ireland complete eeckeiastioal equality ; either all the churches must be di/endowed or all endowed. The endowment of all I. a compromise not likely perhaps to excite popular enthwiam, but it is a plan that a sagacious conservative statemien should delight to propose ; while " the dieen doweent of all " would enlist those " fiery voluntaries " I who, though a minority in numbers, have intense, if narrow, enthuaiasm and great persistency in agitation. One ting is clear : if the oompromiae is not speedily puma, the more thorough and more revolutionary men awe is sore to be accomplished, especially in these days when key ministers go at their measures " with • rash." DIATH OT 1318 NORTON JOSEPH NNATCHRULL. Sir Norton Jk Snetohbull Bart., died on the 9th inst. at his n house, of direase of the heart, from which he had long suffered. He was the eldest son of the Eight Hon. Sr Edward Knatelibull, the ninth b uoy s, aad was barn at Provender. in Kent, on the 10th of July, 1808. He was educated at Winchester and Christ Chun, Oxford, minted in 1831 the eldest daughter of Ur. J. W. Buell, of Bees Rau, Staffordshire, and in 1849 suaneded his father. He was • aped scholar and excellent 51'and distherged inert efficiently all th e rett r eciaalry patients& Although unanooerfal is two oceiteete in 1883 and 1885 for the representation of Nob Kali, he eoutmendod great influence as a local politithia, and rendered important 'seethes to the Ooneerrative w au . 3hin if in i: earl sae, =ls Ragenefa sasseeds to the Mi• To-morrow Kr. ]reliant beings forward a bill M shelf& the saaaity tax or sahislusi awasy,l* the pariah of Glaceiraft within Fitzhugh, sad to make po etise is mord to the Mimed a/ the Wahine to the perish sad shy. _ _ _ Mr. Otway, on Thnredsy, will ask the Secretary of State for War whether Sir Mary Starks has been ap pointed to an Sloe under the Bestiary of State for War ; and, if so, whether he will date the nature of that oaks and the salary atirsbed to it. On Friday Mr. Darby Griffith proposes to ask the Secretary of Slate for Foreign Affairs whether any advance bee been made by the Spanish government towards the settlement of the keg standing claims of the owners of the Queen Victoria; and, if not, whether he sees any prospect of Justin Ming dose in that respect without stronger pressure being put on the Spanish govern meat in regard to it than has hitherto been employed. On Friday Mr. Otwsy will ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Afthin whether any communication has been made on the part of her Majesty's government to the Viesroy al Egypt relating to the Invades of Abyssinia by the troops of his highness ; sad, whether he will lay upon the table of the hone copies of any communications which have pared cm this subject between her Majesty's govern ment and oar onsul-general in Egypt. On the motion for going into committee on the Public Schools Sill, Mr. Neese intends to move that the measure be referred to a select committee ; and in com mittee, when that stage is reached, Viscount En field proposes to add after clause 5 the following:— " The governing body of Harrow School shall, before the first day of Jemmy, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, or such further time se may be determined by her Majesty ia council as hereinafter mentioned, make a statute or statutes, in the manner in which statutes are herein required to be made, under the provisions of which the inhabitants of Harrow shall be enabled to have their boys (over and above any boys they may have enjoying the benefits of the foundation under any scheme or regulations for the time being in force) educated at Harrow School while resident in their own houses on pay ment of such a reasonable sum for tuition, and subject to such reasonable regulations as the governing body shall in that behalf determine, and no alteration of any each statute, nor anything done in pursuance of the powers conferred by this act, shall operate to deprive the inhabitants of Harrow of such privilege." Colonel Sykes intends to move the following clause :—" That instruc tion in one or more branches of physical science be given in each public school" On the 3rd proximo Mr. Wyld brings in a bill to eirtablish county financial boar& for the enslaving of county rates and for the administration of county ripen. (More in England end Wales. The government measure to amend the represen tation of the people in Ireland stands fixed for the Bth of next month. _ THE PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. This morning was issued with the parliamentary papers an account of the pose public income and expendi. tyre of the United Kingdom for the year ended the 31st December, 1967, sad of the balances in the Exchequer at the close of the year. The total revenue was 68,663,6151. 4e. 11d. The 41108811 of total expenditure over income was 1,265,5401. 12a., making together, 69,929,0551.165. 11d. The total ordinary expenditure was 69,499,0661. 16e. 11d. The expenses of fortifications provided for by money raised per the 28th and 29th Vic.. c. 61, amounted to 430,0001. The balances in the Exchequer at the oommeneement of the year amounted to 6,361,9371. 31. 3d. ; at the close of the year they were 4,363,0301. Bs. 10d. ,:, _ t FEBRuAir \ii AA. .i.... , . ~ .., . . .T v . Y MSC . 4 A i • 1 TO- .. . 1 i t". ' will ask the :71 ' buy 44 •be ' le Wag la • till . ; lion Grad sew^ sal whether be labia& 10,sigth power he ae. pawner et •ppotirdag additional RAILWAY ARD TRAM BILLS OP 1868. The Board of Trade has presented to the House of Commons a report upon the railway and tramway bills of the present seadon. From this document we learn that the number of bills deposited which relate to railways and tramways in the United Kingdom, amounts to 112. Of these 31 propose to authorise the conatrudion of new railways, and five the construction of street tramways. The total length of sew lines is 80 miles, there being also 90 miles of tramways for streets, and 39 miles of de. elation lines. The total share of loan capital proposed by the railway bills amount' to 12.232,5331., and by the tramway bills to 1,475,6001. Eighteen bills propose the abandonment of lines or portions of lines authorised by the acts of previous sessions, the aggregate length of these lines being 277 miles. The Board of Trade has also under consi deration other applications for power to abandon rail ways sad portions of railways previously authoriii' ad, and 63 bills apply for extension of time. The bills relating to railways within the metropolitan railway district are 13 in number. Two of these proposed to Incorporate the Eastern Metropolitan Underground Railway Bill and the Islington Railway Bill. The former proposed to authorise the consimistion of • railway from the Great Eastern Rail way at Bow to the extension of the Metropolitan Rail way at High street, Aldpile. The latter proposed to authorise the constritetion of • railway on a gouge of 2 feet 6 inches from the green at Islington to Little Moorfirdds, but both Kamm(' have since been withdrawn. The remaining metropolitan railway bills are for powers to oonstinot some short and unimpor tant brandies in connection with already authoeised rail ways; for the acquisition of additional land for the enlargement of existing stations ; or for the extension of time for already authorised works. There is no railway bill this 'sedan having for its object the making of a new the ream:.. flu Court. 01030R1111. Pss. 17. The Queen went out, accompanied by Princess Louise. The Prinoe and Princess of Wales, attended by the Hon. Mn.W. Grey and Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, visited St. Hospital yesterday forenoon. The Prince of *ales went to the House of Lords in the afternoon. The Princess of Wales drove ant, attended by the Countess of Norton. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. aloe from the °overarms of the West India Islands and the Settlements on the Wed Omit of Africa. Despatches; were sent to the Governar.Gesseral of Canada. Lord and lady Chasham entertained the follow ing company daring tie letter part al last week, at Lati mer, near Chirahem, Boob:—The Earl Browniow and lady Harlan Alford, the Earl Cowper, the Bishop of Oxford, the Hon. Henry Cowper, X.P., the Hon. Misses Grosvenor, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Lady Charlotte Denims°, Hies Cromptn, Sio. The Right Hon. Henry Brand, M.P., and Hon. Kra. and Mime Brand, have arrived in town from Glynde, Lewes, Sauer. We have to announce the death of Lady Oran worth, which took place ma Saturday at the family rid dance in Upper Brook-street, Groevenorequare. The de eased lady, who was in her 61st year, wee the yoveyei daughter of the late Mr. Thomas William Our, of Fur Haespdead, Middheex. The death of lady Henry Spencer Churchill, "Moira Kr. W. Whatley, Q. 0., took Awe ea Fridarlaat at her house la RA-street, Groevenor-tquare. Sike WM the eldest daughter of the Bev. Edward Na,.., D.D., and Lady Charlotte Speoser, sad after the death of her first husband, the Rev. Lard Henry Spencer Clanaaal, la May, 1828, married is Algal 1834, Kr. Wheals,. The King of the Belgians has jest sant a hand some geld watch t Y. de Block, Burgamastee of Zile, on the oecethe of his leted birthday. The following isearip. lion Is engraved on the awe :—" Gives by the Kiss le Gaillatime de Rook, the 14th of Feb., 1088." This igentheatan still poesseme an his favaltes ;he I. honsiery resident of the keel sheath* NNW ; he walks oat illy ; alese, and sometimes attends the side meetings. Bake litth Yaks Mar Ceps Boob&eft _ . : -: •• T -1;"°-71:701 Posa•r1 &Mau — 7 adder Paris Birstimarg LYoull 10.711 110.861 19161 26.961 20.1101 1 &061 r 10.071 Itf b a NEWS. „ (TSB DAY.) Kw mu:no TILIKINAPH, THIIOI7OII YR. &GMT.) DDITURBANCES IN JAPAN. DESTRUCTION OF HIOGO AND OF TWO PALACES AT JEDDO. NEW TORK Fn. 17. Intelligence received bare from Japan, via San Francisco, dated the 27th ult., announces that the Daimios have revolted, and made the Mikado pri soner. The Shogoon had fled to Duca, where he was organising a force to attack the Daimios. The town of Hiogo and two palaces at Jeddo bad been burned. The foreign ministers refused to interfere. OUR PARIS LETTER. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT TO ENTER THE TUILERIES. (nom °us OWN 001111IPONDWAL) PARD3, MONDAT EVENING. On Saturday, at about 1 o'clock, a well dressed man, under 30 years of age, of most gentlemanly appearance, walked under the arch in the Place du Carrousel, in the two niches of which there are sentries on horseback, as at the Horse Guards, climbed over the railings of the closed gates with extraordinary dexterity and celerity, and ran across the spacious court-yard towards the private entrance to the Tuileries, on the left hand aide, towards the Seine. The cavalry sentinels sitting solemnly on their horses, and never expecting to be called upon for actual duty, did not know what he was doing. He was perceived from two guardhouses and pursued, but having agreat start he got into the Tuileries first. There he took the Cent Garde on duty by surprise, and dashed past him, saying he had come on l urgent business. He got as far as the ante room of the Emperor's study before he was arrested. Then he said, " I must speak to the ladies." He was lodged in a lock-up chamber at the corner of the palace, near the gateat the corner of the gardens surmounted by two lions. A magistrate was sent for to interrogate him, but he had not been in confinement more than a few minutes befor he dashed himself against a window looking out upon the river, and fell through upon the quay. When taken up he was found to have a broken wrist and his forehead badly lacerated. The Emperor's house-surgeon, Dr. Pietra Santa, examined him, and after seeing in what a serious state he was, ordered him to be taken to the Charitd Hospital, where he now is. The man is a German—whether a madman or an assassin is yet a question. The Courrier Francais, whose principal editor, M. Vermorel, is now in prison, and has several prosecutions banging over him, has under gone a change of proprietorship, but not of policy. Before surrendering himself to a cell in St. Pelagic', M. Verm9rel called a meeting of shareholders and exhibited a balance sheet with a deficit of 76,000 fr. They refused to furnish any more money to such a losing concern as an opposition journal is likely to be under the regime of enormous fines established by the new " liberal " law. But M. Vermorel has found a man of property in the department. of the INievre, a M. Pellot, who has wiped off the 76,000 fr. l and undertaken to keep the journal afloat while its young and courageous editor is in prison. M. Vermorel has made conditions ensuring him a lead ing position on the staff when his personal liberty is restored to him. M. Dusantoy, the Emperor's tailor, after having lost 10,000/. in the:Toque, does not care to risk any more money in the adventure, and has sold the paper. There is a capital caricature by H. D. in the Charirari, called the "Saving Bank." Every one of the European powers whose official journals daily say that peace is quite assured are repre sented as busily heaping up immense piles of cannon balls. The changeintheregulationa of hackney carriages, which I noticed a few days ago, is only for the present optional with the cab owners. I have not yet seen a single carriage fitted up with the kilome tric apparatus. It is a complicated machine, and there is one clause in the Prefect of Police's proclamation which I am afraid will not conduce to its good working. Whenever, says the ordonnance, the machine is out of order the driver may charge by the old tariff. Alfons d The public must not yet be too sanguine about cheaper rides than here tofore. The Bourse was extremely firm. The operators for the rise look upon the political thermometer as " set fair," and are assured that the loan will not get in the way of the settlement for the end of this month. Rente rose 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 69fr. bc. and 69fr. Italian rose 35c., closing at 44fr. 15c. Credit Foncier rose 12fr. 50c. Mobilier left off without change. WEATHER RSPORT.-(THD3 DAY.) TOIIIIDIT, FZIIII - ART is, 8 A.X. lea, W.B.W. B &W. &W. &W. B.W. B.W. W.B.W. LB.& &&W. &BW. W.E. &I. aw. W.1. - W. &W. LW. W.B.W. w.& W. &W. &W. Beresester ocerealed end reduced to 112 deg. at sea lava The lettere r frisbat, mseuseyerlleds t (steady), indicate Minoltas of missal lis last 14 hours. Thersianieter exposed Is shade. Nampa hires with direction dining last hi hours Z.—nehn wiener: /.—Mr diy ; clouds (detached) ; t tag : ; a—misty {hazy): o.—overamt (MR ; r.—rein: a—maw; L—thunder. Baia-ten, moor er het melted), dudes list IA bows Sea disturbance. The clump In the bwonnekker pressure since yesterday after noon brim "notable. We domes then toning plow only on our wilb wag bee Iffismiei Waif to work al mi nd les Wm greats* la We wet of Win/ Borne of =silistokle en Ow north awl awl aorta 211* read the weft et llootkall an more Wu 01 Inch kon Wan Wow lftanen Ttaaparalsre k the earth of Irelsad NW, and ease& aiskiwei Seeebentenb by 111 &ea. Wlkle hate einikined need Wan We last 1i bean, awl on roe Weft tram Ile kW. At the enkenee at the en Ike vat anti of Prone the Wad varkM the eenliwa end 111111111 R porticos of de w and k Trance rani kg owl mkt are inewillos. r A joint stook oompany for the erection of working nsen'a dw•Uiap has jut been handed in Brumes under the patronage of the Belgian Immobility& The Sing hie Was • hunched ahem, of 500 fr. mob, and Omni de rendre fifty. The Omen" Industrisl Company, the Bank d Balglu , and the Naiad Oecepay of Idemiee- Imes have moth taken • hunched, and the Immebilike has sulbeedei he fee hawked. The wad is AUBER'S NEW OPERA. The new opera of M. Anber, Le Premier Jou,. de BOfthel&T, which wax produced on Saturd e night at the Opera C om i que , P ar i s, must be pr;e nounoed a complete success so far as au ootas may be measured by the Pleasurable ex. eitement of the audience. The scenes laid in India. The French and Stew, armies are face to face in Pondicherry. Gaston, brave soldier is at once the re c ipi ent of Fortune', ' favours, and the object of he r cruel caprices He inherits the large fortun e of an m o l e ; but is thereby involved in disputes with avaricious oollaterals who were once his friends. R e wins battles but loses money at play ; he loves his wife, but is hated of her; and so on throughout the course of his life. He formerly met in Lond on a young girl, and, quick as lightning, bega n to m om her. He knows not who she is, nor does h e care, he only knows that he is desp erately in love, and is capable of doing anything f ee his beloved. All at once shots are heard. Se eks marauders have been fired on. They see brought before Gaston. He is astounded on re. copal • the object of his adoration escorted by a lanky person who turns out t o be Sir John Littlepool, the cousin of Helen. He has got her name at lest, but what could possibly bring her to this distant region, and so near to the French camp t Were they simply botanizing or actin g as spies f It is matter of doubt which Gaston settles by retainin, Sir John as a spy and Helen as a hostag e ' IHe declares his love to the beautiful Helen but in vain ; she has promised her cousin. In despair Gaston sets her at liberty. Further r,ll Gaston is made prisoner by the English, and astonished at finding his adored Helen in the Governor's residence, and furthermore his niece and inheritrix. Once more he declares his love, and meets a fresh repulse. In this position of the parties the Governor re. ceives a letter at a ball which he had given, in. forming him that Sir John was to be shot as a spy by the French. Orders are issued to retaliate upon Gaston, and both executions are to take ! Awe at the same time. The words " poor Gaston " which escape from Helen reveal to the French officer that his fate is not indifferent to her whom he so much loves. Indeed she avows het affection to her servant Djelma, who prompts her to make an effort to save him. At this moment the door opens, and Sir John stands before them, excited and out of hrtlr. Ho has been liberated on parole in order to effect an exchange of prisoners. If unsuccessful he was to return to the camp to meet his doom. Gaston, as may be conjectured, does not care to save his life, because he loves ; Sir John, on the other hand, loves his life becalm he does not lore his cousin as a loves should. He therefore resigns his claim to Helen, on the condition that Gaston will consent to the exchange of prisoners. Such is the plot of the new opera, which has been rendered into verse by MM. Dennery and Cormon. After the curtain fell the whole audience rose as a single man. and called for the author. M. Capon', who represented the hero of the piece, came forward and said : "M. Auber has left the theatre." In point of fact he took a turn on the boulevard in order to avoid a complimentary scene of bravos, bow. ing and scraping, which he detests. M. Cs. poul never sang better. He ex hibited ex. quisite taste and inexpressible tenderness. Mile. Marie Rose, as Djelma, charmed the audience with an Indian aria—one of the most brilliant gems the score. Its effect was indescribable. Madame Gabel represented Helen, and Sante-F0) Sirdohn and opera—th e wonderful w b ill u on te e l e ch rf th:e l ru ir i s d tthe quot a t to orchestra,t ction o ss ea. the old r a the n of 87. THE TRADE UNIONS CONFERENCE WITR MB, GLADSTONE.--(THIS DAY.) The conference between Mr. Gladstone and the trades unionists opened this afternoon at the right hon. gentleman', house, Carlton-terrace. The deputation coo skied of Mr. George Potter (joiner), the chairman of the delegates, Mr. Dunning (bookbinder), Mr. Brawl. burst (mason), Mr. Lawrence (tailor), Mr. McNamara (plasterer). Mr. Leicester (glass- maker), Mr. Squire (painter), Mr. Lewis (broahmaker), Mr. Cohn (cigar maker), and Mr. Hartwell, secretary. These delegates, however, represented numerous other trades both of Load* and the provinces. Mr. Grown Powell briefly explained the objects of the deputation, the main purpose being to confer with the right hon. gentleman upon the remarks he made in his speech at Oldham on the ISth December, and which remarks they believed to have been based upon incorrect conclusion'. The points already published ware then enumerated, Mr. Potter's object being to show that in the large majority of trades there was no limitation of the number of apprentices ; that although a minimum rate of wages was maintained by the majority of trades, the largest majority in every trade were average workmen ; that trades unions as a rule did not object to piece work ; and that to charge the wakes with restraining trade was to beg the question. After Mr. Potter's speech it was arranged the other members of the deputation should briefly address themselves to mdt questions as required further elaboration. The conference was proceeding when we went prem. CONVOCATION OF THE PROVINCE o , ' ANTERBURY.-(THIS DAY.) This morning both houses of the Convocation of the Province of Canterbury assembled at Weetminetor, for the despatch of business. There vas a huge attendance. THIC UPPER MOUS& The Archbishop of CANTIIRRUZY presided at the ea*. which was held in the board-room of Queen Aole's Bounty ofßoo. Prayers were read by the Bishop of hills. bury, after which their lordships proceeded to minder the details of several matters in committee. The 11 ,01, 9 of Oxford was absent, being engaged in celebrating the marriage of Earl Beauchamp with Lady Mary Stanhope. TEE LOWER HOWIE. • -- The Archdeacon of BUCKINGHAM (Dr. Bickevateth) pre. sided at the sitting which was held in the Jeruaelem• chamber. Amongst the earliest arrivals were Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster ; Dr. Alford, Dean of Canter. bury ; Mr. Chancellor Massingberd, Archdeacon H. Mackenzie, Archdeacon Emery, Archdeacon Sandford, the Dean of Hereford, Lord Alwyne Cowpox:, the Rev, the Warden of All Soule College, Oxford ; the Rev. Dr. Williams, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford: Arclideseon Fume, Canon Hawkins, Sir George Prow*. the Dean of Gloucester, Canon Kenuaway, Archdeacon Wordsworth, Sir Henry Thompson, Lord Saye and Sele, the Rev. Prebendary Gibbs, the Rev. Probenden Kempe, the Rev. Prebendary Randolph, the Sec. Mr. Seymour, Archdeacon Hutable, Archdeacon Ffoulkes. Dean album, the Dean of Lincoln, Arclide.o 4 Dolman, Archdeacon Freeman, Archdeacon Jacob, the Rev. G. H. Sumner, the Rev. Canon Harvey, SH . G• Ouseley, Bart, the Rev. Dr. Fraser, the Rev. Cam Reminds, Archdeacon Mildmay, Archdeacon Grant, Dr. Selwyn, Archdeacon Allen, the Rev. G. H. Fagan, ea Prayers were read by the Dean of Canterbury, and the names of the members called over by Mr. Cobb, the m• teary. Immediately afterwards the members proceeded to hand in their notion of motion, gravamina, and Peat time. The following petition was presented by the Engli sh Church Union :—" We, the undersigned, earnestly !war your right reverend (or venerable) house to take imuedode steps . for the formal recognition by the convocation of this province of both the deposition and exoommunication of Dr. Coleus°, and they pray you also to give all unct ion and encouragement which is in your power to the cacti umeeeration of a bishop to take charge of the of church of Natal, which hu now been for four years as' Sock deprived of its chief shepherd." Mr. Justice Ghee was • little better yesterday , but is still indisposed. In consequence of the illness of Mr. Justice gee, Mr. Rowell Gurney, the Recorder of Loudon, will accompany Yr. Justice Smith on the Midland Circuit. A writer in the Hants Advertiser states that the shoals of grey mullet which are now found in the Sooth ampton Docks were never noticed there previous to the ereefien of the wager manufactory in the docks. From these premises a stream of warm fluid empties Reel( ioto fits docks, sad in this stream pay mullet delight to leel!• When (raptured they are in a fuddled condition, and their flavour is inferior to that of mullet caught in the sea• I‘ is • serious tact that no other kind of fish besides 'bullet is attracted to the docks by the refuse of the sugar sasswiasSeep w.ii.W. W. W.N.W. I.W. N.N.W. N.W. W. aN. WA . K. /L.N.L LW. W. LW. W. &KW. LW. W.N.W.