The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-23 00:00:00

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FLIRT. ftessrs. Reynold'', Cranford, and Ligwood Mrs. Lane .t Mesdames Edwin and Macarthy. Aftcr which THE WATERMAN. Mika Esther Jsmobs.—To con. elude with TILE LAST LINK OF LOVE. bliss S. Mlles. MOH WATICE AT LONDON BRIDOL Tort DAT —Horning, 31;.55te.: - .. - .7AFtWoom7. th. 13m. To-Itorrow—ltorntng. th. 30m Atterrocm, eh. 47m. LONDON, SATURDAY. MARCH 23. THLR6 is no provision in Mr. DISRAZLN Re form Bill more specious or more subtle than that which gives the franchise to householders who personally pay their rates. It merits careful ' examination, not only for what it gives, but for how it gives. Taken broadly, it is household suffrage, yet applied to the actual facts of the case it would, out of 700,000 householders, only admit 200,000. But this restriction is effected, not by the honest method of saying that none under a 6/. rating shall be admitted. but by throwing on every town and every vestry the responsibility and the power of admitting or rejecting the rest. Yet, again, not even to the vestries is an absolute discretion confided. The poor householder may, by a few shillings overturn their decision. Thus neither Parliament, nor the municipalities, nor even the parochial authorities, are really invested with authority to make any selection of the fittest to exercise the franchise. All that they are to do is to exercise the privilege of making the attainment of the franchise a little more costly to the poor than the rich, a little more troublesome to the working man than to the idle. This undoubtedly is the most remarkable way of saving the constitution that has yet been invented. It is perhaps not quite giving with one hand what is taken away with the other, but it is at least holding out a gift with one hand while the other slily picks a few shillings from the pocket. But in operation the system would be altogether noxious. We all know that money and trouble are, with all classes, the most powerfully deter rent influences from seeking to exercise the fran chise. It may be sad that so little a thing should be an obstacle to the attainment of so great a pri vilege; but as it has proved so even among the ten-pounders, Mr. Lows at least will not assert that it argues a low standard of patriotism or intelligence. It will then operate thus also among the class of compound householders, and all the more powerfully because it cannot fail to be attended with some peculiar inconveniences, and very probably with the open or covert hostility of the landlord. We must, therefore, assume that the honest average working man will not choose to seek this gate of admission to electoral rights. But the class of householders who see their way to make a profit out of the transaction will not allow a little outlay, or trouble, or bad feeling to prevent them from putting themselves in a posi tion to ask their price. All the honest elements of a constituency will thus be practically kept out, while all that is dishonest will be left in. This, again, is a strange mode of strengthening the party of purity. But there may often be an in termediate class between the respectable and the corrupt which will be acted upon dif ferently. Too unsolicitous respecting public affairs to be anxious for a vote, they will be ready to exercise a vote if urged, not by bribery, but by the desire to oblige a powerful patron. Election agents will put this class on the register by the hundred. Mr. DISRAELI seems to have been struck at a late period of incubation by this objection, and has sought to obviate it by sticking in a clause at the end of the Bill making it punishable "corruptly to pay the rates" for the benefit of any compound householder. But such a provision is ridiculously incapable of being worked. To give money "corruptly " to influence a vote can be understood, because it is given to induce a man to do wrong. But to put a man's name on the register of voters when he is by law entitled to be put on it is not to do wrong, but rather right. It is only helping him practically to obtain a privilege with which the law has already invested him in theory. It would be prepos terous to prevent a man's friend from aiding him in achieving an object so laudable and constitutional, and what a mares friend cannot be prohibited from doing, it is hopeless to think of preventing a po litical agent from doing. So that we may expect to see every borough contest decided henceforth by the votes of men who have been beat up by the agents on each side, and whn, having been placed on the register by such influence, will feel bound in honour and interest to vote as directed by the party which has thus made them its own. A strange remedy against local intimidation and the influence of local interest. It is next to be considered in what class of con stituency the restriction would have most effect. In the very small boroughs there is comparatively little recourse had to the Small Tenements Act. In these accordingly nearly every householder would be put on the register at once. In the large towns, however, the Act is commonly in operation, if not superseded by some local Act fix ing the limit of compounding at a much higher figure—lo/., 151., or in some cases, we believe, even 201. In these, consequently, all the class of artisans whom we are most desirous to see ad mitted—nay, invited—would be excluded, save at the penalty of a fine. This is precisely revers ing the process recommended, not without some reason, by certain of the " thoughtful Liberals." Their proposal was to make the franchise really household in the large towns, where education is diffused and public opinion active and healthy, but to restrict it in the small towns, where intelli gence is more sluggish, where local influence is more irresistible, and where house rent is cheaper. But Mr. DISRAELI exactly reverses this plan. The consequence might be that such an amount of cor ruption would be developed in the minute rural towns unwisely retained among the constituencies that the country, confounding their case with the larger towns, would resist the passing of any mea sure for abrogating the invidious distinction which would oppress the artisan class in the latter. We may perhaps be told that the inequalities of incidence may be got rid of by making the Small Tenements Act uniform and imperative in all towns. But this would obviate only the most superficial of the objections to the idea. There would still remain the scandalous principle of making the poor man pay for a political right which it is not pretended he is not entitled to, and which the rich man gets for nothing. There would still flourish all the abuses fostered by openingthe franchise to the easy access of the corrup tible section, while deterring the more indepen dent. There would still remain the encouragement given to political agents to secure votes by the conferring of a favour, which the law could never hinder. In short, no ingenuity could devise a scheme better calculated to intensify all the evil influences which we hope that the fair extension of the franchise will tend to abate, and more certain to reduce to a minimum the advantages of the change. Yet this is offered by the Tories under the name of household suffrage ; and the name is undoubtedly correct. Household suffrage it is, for it enables every householder to vote if he chooses. There is all the more need that Liberals should so frame their course of opposition to the insidious gift as to make clear beyond possibility of misapprehension that what they object to is not household suffrage, but the condi tions which would turn the boon into a curse. t THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY E4EqING, MUCH 23, 1867. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH PRESS ON THE GERMAN TREATIES. The Paris journals continue to make comments on the German treaties. The Epoque Bays : It must be admitted that Count de Bismarck has very well chosen his time for giving us warning. Originally, the treaties were intended to remain eecret. The statesman who had concluded them doubtless thought it prudent to keep them in the shade till the day when he should want to use them. But the last discussions in the French parliament have enlightened his mind. With that precision of view which characterises him, he measured his own power and calculated his own audacity ; and he found that as the latter, great though it be, is inferior to the former, he could make, to his own au x. prise, a still bolder venture. And wh►t, in fact, did Count de Bisinarek see? An opposition losing itself in sterile recriminations about what ought to have been done, and naively declaring that there was no ground for alarm, as the Prussian work could not last ; a majority voting, on the assurance of the government, that all is going on well, that Germany is more divided than ever, and that France is now in a better situation than last year ; deputy, aspiring to be minister, assuring us that the unity of Germany, which detests us and has proved it, should be fraternally accepted. That is what Count de Bismarck saw ; and certainly nothing more was wanting to dissipate his last doubts. At present he can dare everything, and in fact he does so, till the day when- But let us not anticipate events ; we have quite enough sorrow in having foreseen and predicted them. The Liberty terminates a long article in these words : Success, always success ; great enterprises following great enterprises ; victories everywhere and always—such is, then, the inflexible law of governments similar to that of Count de Bismarck. The day they cape- Hem* a check they lose their prestige ; the day they lose their prestige they have no longer • basis ; for, not having right for a foundation, they have nothing to rest upon but credit. That is exactly why the Germany of M. de Bismarck is a grave danger to Europe. •Ife is compelled to seek success incessantly; and he must find it always. He is obliged to multiply great affairs that he may heap up successes, so u to hide his 18th Brumaire from the eyes of his people and the obser vation of history. In virtue of that law he has united the Confederation of the South to that of the North, and in virtue of that he will go on to the end of his work—he will go on imperturbably, inflexibly, without remission ; for his only condition of existence, his explanation if not his justification, is success at any price. The Temps of to-day says : The German empire is made. M. de Bismarck bound* us, without interruption, from Longwy to Bile• The ally of Italy, the protector of Belgium—the new master of Germany—is more powerful than was ever Charles V. ; for, though he is not master of Spain, he has the alliance of Russia—a power now formidable, but unknown in the lGth century, and he has no fear from Turkey, one of the allies of Francis I. This danger of France is likewise a peril for liberty. We have lately seen an amendment in favour of the maintenance of the political liberties of the constitution, rejected by the Berlin parliament. A great military and arbitrary mo narchy has been established in the centre of Europe. In order to conjure this two-fold peril, France is asked to double the number of her soldiers. We have been told that the power of a nation is to be measured by the amount of its armed force. But we must not forget that the danger is immediate, and that King William has already a larger population to recruit from than we, and that Prussia is ahead of us in military organisation, and in her armaments." The Temps concludes as follows : Our greatness, our independence, the independence of Europe, gravely menaced, have no other refuge than the prompt and sincere return of our country to the principles of the French revolution. THE DUC D'AUMALE AND THE FRENCH ARMY. A pamphlet, published by Mr. Jeffs, of Bur lington Arcade, has just appeared, from the pen of the Duc d'Aumale, entitled " Les Institu_ tiona do la France." The opinion of the duke is that the military institutions of France ani not so defective as some persons would represent, but that they require to have their sincerity, their unity, and their effectiveness restored to them. If a change is to be made in them it should be by their vigorous development in a national sense, and by placing them under the aegis of liberty. " Liberty," he says, " doubles the power of military institutions ; it regulates and moderates their use ; it has nothing to fear from them as long as the people do not abdicate their rights ; its guarantee is in the force of opinion, and not in the weakness of the military force." (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT.' BERLIN, MARCH Et In to-day's sitting of the North German Parlia ment Art. sof the draft of the Federal constitu tion, with the addition proposed by Herr Twesten, wan adopted by a large majority. The amendment of Herr Zachariae was rejected. PRUSSIA. BERLIN. MARCH V. The Berlin papers of this morning confirm the statement that the King, at his reception of the diplomatic body yesterday, particularly dis tinguished M. Benedetti, the French Ambassador, and gave him the most positive assurances of the maintenance of peace. Berlin was splendidly illuminated last night in honour of the King's birthday. The most brilliant display was made at the hotel of the English Embassy. The illumination at the Austrian Em bassy also attracted great attention ; it consisted of the following words, in illuminated letters, taken from a popular German song, " Heil dir im Siegeskranx" (Hail to thee, laurel crowned victor). A royal decree has been published to-day, creating a new artillery regiment (the 12th), which will be exclusively destined for besieging operations. KOSSUTH AND HUNGARY. FLUME, MARCH ZL Herr Kossuth has published a statement deny ing that ho approves of the course of events in Hungary, and expresses his opinion that Hungary has committed political suicide as a state and a nation by her arrangement with Austria. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 22. The French ambassador in this capital energeti cally advocates the improvement of the position of the Turkish subjects without distinction of their religious belief. 4 **Los!' • OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Daily News, Rerald, T,legraph, and 'far have further remarks upon the Reform Bill. The Ikratd says the government would resign rather than be forced to carry through parliament a measure so denuded of safe guards as to assume the form of a household suffrage biU. Mr. Childers' speech on the navy estimates, Mr. Stuart Mill's proposition for female suffrage, the reward to be given to the Irish constabulary, and the embarrass ments of railway companies, constitute the subjects discussed in the Tines. The police are highly extolled for their bravery and fidelity, and the propriety of putting their barracks in a better state of defence is urged. Mr. Childers' evidence is estimated highly on account of the fact that he is an Admiralty man. His proposal the Times takes to be, when simply stated, that our naval forces are too diffused, and that by a safe and easy rate of contribution from our distant stations we can make up nearer home, and ready for universal use, the finest fleet actually on the sea. With the champions of woman's rights the Times joins issue on all their main positions, and goes so far as to expound as a social law, deeper than any political laws, the fact that human society is built upon the political and intellectual superiority of men to women. The Poet regards the prospect of affairs on the Continent as serious. If it be asked, will France acquiesce in the change which Prussia is effecting? Prussia will reply that she must acquiesce ; and ti , is will explain the publication of the treaties with the southern powers. I■ the logic of accomplished facts so conclusive as to carry conviction to the minds of Napoleon 111. and his advisers? The events of the present year will supply the answer to this quell tion. For the present it must be admitted that the chances seem in favour of the realisation of Prussia's wildest hopes. The claims of Mr. Robert Young to his pension, which were the subject of parliamentary discussion last night, are referred to by the Daily litres and Star. The sham benevolence which led the memorialists to recommend this person, who has devoted his very ordinary gifts of metrical composition to the promotion of the worst religious and political passions is, mays the Daily Nese*, real jobbery, and deserves the severest reprobation. Mr. Disraeli's speech last night, and Lord Derby's promised action will do something, we trust, to put an end to it in future. But so long as we have confiding premiers, per- sons ready to abuse their confidence will not be wanting. If these gentlemen bad read Mr. Young's works before signing the petition in his favour, they must have known that they were recommending an improper person ; in recommending him without hm:ng read his works, they must have known that they were doing an improper act. The Daily News has also an article on the King of Italy's speech on the opening of the new parliament which it describes as having the negative merit of brevity and the positive merit of a large and frank ►ppreciation of the position of the kingdom. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The resolve of the Opposition to read the govern ment Reform Bill a second time without a division, is em phatically endorsed by the Exastintr. The principle of household suffrage willthua receive the unanimous sanction of the House of Commons. In rectifying errors of detail why not qualify the suffrage by the payment of a St. rent, which, if accompanied by a 10/. lodger franchise, would secure to 19 out of every2o men likely tomakea good use of it a voice in the representation ? The present bill thus mo dified would virtually settle the controversy about the franchise during our day ; and to throw away the chance it affords of arriving at so desirable a result would be a blunder not to be forgiven. As for minor matters, the Examiner cannot help saying that we think their impor tance has been considerably exaggerated. With regard to the distribution scheme the Examiner more than suspects that by the time the other clauses are disposed of Mr. Disraeli will be ready to strike out those relative to seats, with a view to their reintroduction next year. Of all the reform bills ever proposed, this one of the Derby government seems to the Saturday &rime the worst. It contains the worst principles ; it is the moat slovenly framed ; it is the most chaotic and ill considered; but nevertheless it may be easily mended. It is evident that a suffrage based on the personal payment of rates and on the exclusive liability of the landlord below a certain figure, throughout all boroughs, would meet the present views of a very large portion of the house. The new franchises are fair subjects of debate, and the Dirty government, who proviascl a lodger fran chise in their bill of 1659, can easily put one in this. As they have no reputation to lose in this matter of reform, there is no reason why the ministry should not allow their bill to be quietly moulded into sense. As soon as Mr. Gladstone has explained the position of himself and his potty, the more quickly he lets the bill get into committee the better ; and in order to get into committee, and to make the committee answer the practical object of ire proving and passing the bill, he must make things out wardly as pleasant to the ministry as possible. If he goes treading, as he has recently done, on the worms of the Treasury bench they will turn, and then be will have to take office; and, with the greatest difficulty, and after a bitter tight, he will get a Reform Bill in no respect better than that which he may get with perfect ease and comfort this session, if he bridles his tongue and conceals his contempt fur his opponents, and pockets his indigna tion at the worst portions of their proposal. The bill seems to the Sixdotor so bad that it can only be doctored in committee by a complete transformation. By limiting the reduction of the franchise in boroughs where there is no local or parliamentary compound act in force, by extending it where there is, by expunging at least two, if not three, of the fancy franchises, by cutting away the irritating and inefficient dual vote, by extending the redistribution scheme so far AS to take one seat from each double-membered bo rough with a population under 10,000 or 12,000—it might indeed be rendered tolerable; but so might most bad things, by exchanging them for good. The govern ment have already changed their form of procedure once, and the subatance of their proposal twice. If we make them again alter the whole substance in every detail except the county franchise, it will be a humiliation which even they, long suffering as they are, could not accept. It would be far better to throw it out and begin de novo than enter on that process, for which even old women rarely have sufficient time and patience, of tearing the material before us into rags, and then patching it together into a political counterpane that would after all be more quaint and grotesque than either seemly or enduring. Eke Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 22. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian and Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage -and-four. Prince Christian arrived at the Castle last evening from the Continent, attended by Major-General Francis Sey mour, C. 8., who had been sent by her Majesty to attend the funeral of the Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein Angtistenburg at Prinkenan. Sir James Clark arrived at Windsor Castle yesterday. Her Majesty drove out this morning, accompanied by Prince's Christian. The Queen and Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Prince Henry of Prussia left Windsor Castle this afternoon, at 23 minutes past 3 p.m., for London. Her Majesty travelled by special train on the Great Western Railway to Paddington, and drove from thence, accompanied by Princess Louise, to Marlborough-house. escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hunan, and visited the King and Queen of Denmark and the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her Majesty afterwards drove to Buckingham Palace. In attendance were the Countess of Caledou, Major- General Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel Hon. A. Hanlinge. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Buckingham Palace this afternoon from Greenwich-park. A deputation, introduced by Mr. Bright, M.P., and con sisting of Mr. J. S. Wright (chairman of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce), Mr. W. C. Aitkin, Mr. J. Atkins, Mr. W. H. M. Blew., Mr. Jas. Cortland, Mr. Thos. Griffiths, Mr. J. S. Manton, and Mr. A. Ryland, repre senting the Birmingham trade ; and Dr. Lloyd, Mr. W. Robinson, and Mr. Jas. Walker, representing the glass trade of the Midland districts, had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole at the Home-office yes terday, respecting the Factory Acts Extension and Hours of Labour Regulation BilL A deputation from the township of Great Bolton, in troduce.' by Mr. Thomas Barnes, ALP., and Colonel Cray, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Hopwood, Mr. Best, Mr. Croasley, Mr. Lord, Mr. Ormrod, Mr. Scowcroft, and Mr. Cooper, had en interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. THE LEVEE. The following were among the presentations yesterday to the Prince of Wales : Mr. W. W. Cairns, on being appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Malacca, by the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Rear-Admiral Henry Chads, on promotion, by the Right Hon. H. L. Corp, M.P. Lord Cremorne, by the Earl of Dartrey. Mr. Garth, M.P., on his apputntmeut to her Majesty's counsel, by the Lord Chancellor . Thomas Gray, Assistant-Secretary Board of Trade, by Lord Stanley. Mr. Edward Greene, M.P., by Major Windsor Parker, M.P. Lord Ilyde, by his father, the Earl of Clarendon. Captain W. G. Luard, 8.\., C. 8., by the First Lord of the Admiralty. ii;lghop of Limerick, on his appointment, by tho Earl of Kimberley. e a-- * mple of Lorne, by the Duke of Argyll. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor .4 Dublin, un his appointment as deputy-lieutenant for the city of Dublin, by the Secretary of State for War. The Bishop of Meath, by the Lord Archbishop of Armagh. Major-General George Napier, C,8., on promotion and return from Canada, by the Duke of l'aml,rldge. Mr. de la Poet, M.P., by the Earl of Dartrey. Earl of Rosalyn, by Earl of Bradford. Sir James Emerson Tennant, on his being made a baronet, by the Earl of Derby. sir Charles Henry Tempest, on being made a baronet, by Earl Bassett The Hon. George Villiers, by his father, the Earl of ( larendon. captain John J. Wilson, R.E on appointment as Professor of Fortification, Royal Military College, Woolwich, by Colonel the Hon. H. Face Keane. THE QUEEN'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Her Majesty the Queen held a court to-day at Buckingham Palace, which wee attended by the full num ber permitted at these receptions. It is announced that the next court will be held to Thursday nest, the 28th instant. CABINET COVNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet Council this afternoon at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing -street. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, their Royal Highnesses Prince Leopold and Prince Arthur, and suite, honoured the Olympic Theatre with their presence List evening. Viscountess Holmeadale had her first reception this season at her residence in Grosvenor-square, last evening. Previous to the assembly Viscount and Vis countess Holmesdale entertained his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Alice Hill, the Earl of Morley, Viscount Hinchin broke, Lord Delamere, Lord Eliot, Lady Molesworth, Lady Constance Amherst, Mr. Augustus Lumley, &c., at dinner. The death of Admiral Sir Phipps Hornby, G.C.B. (Rear• Admiral of the United Kingdom), took place on Tuesday last, at Little Green, Sums, in his 82nd year. RESIGNATION OF THE IRISH LORD CHANCELLOR. —Saunckrs' New! of yesterday states, upon "the best authority," that Lord Chancellor Blackburne has resigned. THE RECTORSHIP OP ABERDEEn UNIVERSITY.— ARRRDEEN, Fatmtr.—The installation of Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., am Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen, took place to-day in the Music-hall. Mr. Grant Duff was ac companied to the platform by Principal Campbell, the professors of the university, Sheriff Thomson, and the ma gistrate* and the members of the town council. The audience, including the students, numbered about 2,000, Mr. Duff spoke for an hour and a half. The address was well received, and at the close three hearty cheers were, on the call of the Principal, given in honour of the new rector. " There is a kind of humour not uncommon here," writes the New York correspondent of the Spectator, " which prepares a trap into which a victim is suddenly precipitated. It is merely a variety of what you and we, in slang, both call ' a sell' One of our stump speakers some years ago, at a meeing where it was a great point to con ciliate the Irish vote, was led by his love of a good thing to peril his party and himself. He had been handling the Native American party very roughly (in earnest) and then went on. ' Who dig all our canals ? Irishmen. (Ap plause.) Who built our railroads? Irishmen. (Great applause.) Who build all our gaols' Irishmen. (Tumul tuous applause.) Wbofin all our gaols! Irishmen.' The descent into the trap was so sudden that the speaker escaped by precipitate flight before the rush at the staging." THE RIOTS AT ROUBAIX. PARIS, MARCH 23. M. de Lavalette, Minister of the Interior, has issued a circular to the prefects, dated 21st inst., with reference to the late workmen's riots at Rou baix, in which he says, "The government is firmly resolved to maintain the public peace and respect for individual liberty." PORTUGAL LISBON, MARCH V. Meetings against the proposed new taxes con tinue to be held in Lisbon, Oporto, and various provincial town*. The King and Queen will leave for Paris about the sth April. The late heavy rains have caused the Tagus to overflow its banks. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 22, EVEVIAG. A royal decree has been issued respecting the measures to be taken to restore public order in the event of a riot. Under this decree suspected in dividuals may be arrested and conveyed wherever the government may think fit. Foreigners enter ing Spain must be provided with a document certi fying their identity, otherwise they will be arrested. THE BRAZILS. PARIS, MARCH 73. Advices received here from Monte Video to the 14th February state that the American minister has declared that the belligerent Power who rejects the mediation of the United States in the pending difference between Brazil, her allies, and Paraguay, will be constrained to accept peace. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PEON 00/ OWN 001ULLSPONDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. The Libcrei mentions two rumours iisha;ing circulated at the Bourse. First, that Prussia had consented to the cession of Luxembourg to France ; and second, that an understanding had been come to between France and England to protect Holland against any attempt to annex Luxembourg to Prussia. I should feel it difficult to say which of these stories is the most unlikely. From all I hear of the disposition of M.deßismarck, he would put the whole army of Germany in motion rather than let Franco have Luxembourg ; and it would be quite contrary to the non-intervention policy of England to propound any cams belli on the Luxem bourg question. General Fleury did not leave Paris yesterday for Berlin. The Patric is authorised to contradict the news that he has a mission to Vienna. But it would seem to be absolutely necessary that the Emperor's Grand Ecuyer should be sent some where ; for the Temps says he is going " with a numerous suite " to Perth, to represent Napoleon 111. at the coronation of the Emperor of Austria as King of Hungary. The bureaux of the Corps Legislatif met to-day to elect a committee to report upon the organisa tiou of the army bill. It was rumoured in the Salle des Pan Perdus that they intended to exclude all officers from the committee. This shows how strong the feeling is against the measure. A mem ber of the majority—M. du lliral—has just dis tributed to his colleagues a lithographed pamphlet, entitled " A Counter Project in the Army and Mobile National Guard." The Bourse to-day was the counterpart of that of yesterday, and the fall was very nearly regained. The Frnute, taking notice of the various alarming rumours which were current, denounces them in a lump as false. Rente rose 40c. for cash and 274 c. for account, closing at 69fr. and 68fr. 871 c. ; Mobilier rose llfr. 23c. ; Credit Foncier, ifr. 30c. ; Comptoir d'Eaoompte, sfr. ; and Italian, 10c. The railways, however, so far from recovering from yesterday's shock, fell 2fr. or 3fr. more. CAPSIZING OF A BOAT AND LOSS OF LIFE NEAR SOUTHWARK-BRIDGE. Mr. W. J. Payne, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Schoolroom, Seething.lane, City, last evening, relative to the upsetting of a sailing boat on the Thames, by which four persons were immerged, and a man named Francis Norris, aged 20 years, was drowned. Daniel Cobb said that on Sunday, the 10th of last month, he and three other young men went on an excur sion up the Thames to Putney in a sailing-boat, 12 feet long and 24 inches deep. She haul a meat 14 feet long, which allowed a topmast to be hoisted Hi feet in ex treme height, and there was also a bowsprit sail. They got safely to their destination , and they got half-a.pint of g in and a little beer. On the return voyage witness went to sleep, and he must have slept about an hour and a half. He was awoke by the cold of the water. He found himself in the river between South wark-bridge and Cannon-street railway bridge. The boat was keel up and his companions were, like himself, strug gling in the water. He swam to thepiles under the rail way bridge and saved himself. The deceased did not know how to swim and be was drowned. The other men saved themselves by swimming. . . . It appeared that the boat was capsized through the de ceased, who knew nothing of boating, being asked by one of the party ? who was a sailor, to hold the mainsail rope for him, while he enjoyed a smoke. The deceased, when directed to let go the sail and " spill the wind," when a gust came, got nervous, and grasped the rope more firmly than ever, and of course the boat was capsized instantly. His body was only found last Wednesday. The jury returned a verdict of " Accilental death." SHOCKING MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT NORWICH. (From the Norfolk Nm.) A murder of a moat revolting character was com mitted this (Friday) morning in Fountain-yard, St. Bene dict's. Two old people—John and Elizabeth Winter (man and wife) the former 71 and the latter 73 years of age — have been living together in a single room at the top of the yard, their means of subsistence being parish relief, and some little assistance from their son, • man named Hardesty, in the employ of Mr. James Hardy, grocer, St. Stephen a. The woman being paralysed was un able to do any active work, and for some time past her granddaughter, a girl about 14 years of age, who lived with her father on Grapes's-hill, lied been in the habit of assisting in her house work. Tide morning between 8 and 9 o'clock, she went to the room for the same pur pose, and found that the old man had got up an d dressed himself, and lighted the fire. Her grandmother was lying in bed, but they all had breakfast together, and at the time nothing was noticed to occasion any alarm. The repast, however, had not been concluded very long before the old man turned her out of the room, and locked the door, giving no explanation for this singular proceeding. The girl immediately ran home, and told her elder sister of what had occurred, and the latter (Laura Hardesty) at once proceeded to the Fountain-yard. Find ing that the door was locked, she looked through the win dow, and saw her grandfather in the act of leaning on the bed and cutting the old lady's throat with a razor. Fright. ened at the horrible act which she had witnessed, the girl ran out of the yard and told her mother of what had occurred. In the meantime • neighbour looked through the window, and saw the old man lying on the bed by the side of his dying or dead wife, with his own throat cut. It seems that he had only that moment committed the rash act upon himself, for he was laying down the razor at the time the neighbour looked in at the window. The door being still fastened, Mr. Minus, butcher, broke it open by forcing out the staple, and raw the murderer and his victim lying together on the bed, which was saturated with blood. The deceased's throat was cut on the left side, the wound being about four inches in length and of considerable depth, and severing the wind pipe. The murderer had inflicted • wound upon his own throat, eaten, ling almost from ear to ear, and penetrating the jugular vein, and from the jagged character of the cut, the razor appears to have hail a backward and forward move ment. The house was promptly entered by the police, and police-constable Wollard found on the window shelf a razor covered with blood. A quantity of cord was tied round the handle so as to enable the murderer to hold it with a firm grasp, and the blade was also tied so as to pre vent it from shutting. Mr. Bailey, surgeon, who was the first medical gentleman in the house after the discovery of the occurrence, dressed the old man's wound, and remained in attendance upon him until 11 o'clock, when he was con veyed on a stretcher to the hospital. He was able to speak to three in attendance, but the injury is of so frightful a character that it is feared there is little chance of his recovery. From information which we were enabled to collect amongst the neighbours, it seems that the old people were in tolerably comfortable circumstances as regards food and clothing. The room in which they lived was furnished with two or three old chairs, a table, and other trifling articles, and in the centre of the floor was the bed, pro vided with plenty of clothing. The deceased, as already stated, was helpless, arid the peculiar conduct of the man of late points to the presumption that his mind bad become deranged. One neighbour stated that he had " got it into his head " that he and his wife would be taken to the workhouse, to which he hail a great objection, and others state that during the last week or so, he had behaved more roughly than usual towards his wife. There seems no reason to doubt, from the con dition in which the razor was found, with the cord round the handle and the blade secured, that he had premedi tated the murder. Hannah Goulder, who was the first neighbour attracted to the house after the occurrence, says that she saw the old man as he was taking the razor from his own throat, and on asking, " What have you done?" he replied with violent language. " tfa We heard at the hospital, some time after the man s adnus sits, that he was is a very precarious state. THE COMPOUND RATIN& QUESTION. This morning were issued returns showing the number of parliamentary boroughs in England and Wales, where the Small Tenements Rating Act (13 and 14 Viet c. 99), the 59 G eo . 3, c . 12, or any l oca l ad for rating th e owners instead of the occupiers, is in force in all or any of the parishes, distinguishing those boroughs in which the Small Tenements Rating Act is wholly Irma those in which it is partly in force, and din tinguishing, in like manner, those boroughs in which there is a local rating Act ; also the number of malt occupations within the limits of value prescribed by those Acta respectively (showing separately the number at and over a gross estimated rental of 101.) ; and the number of male occupations not within such limits, and the total number of male occupations within each borough. The gross number of male occupations in England aid Wales within the limit of value prescribed by the Small Tenements Rating Act is 139,377; the number of male occii. pations not within the limit of value prescribed by the at is, under 101. gross estimated rental, 25,064 ; at dal above 101. gross estimated rental, 71,126 ; and the total numb e r of male occupations in boroughs, 235,567. The number of boroughs in this class is 57. In Ashton-under-Lyne, it may be remarked, the number of occupations coming under the operation of the act is 3,534 out of a total of 5,0‘.1 in Blackburn the proportion is 7,718 in 10,589 ; C o . lisle, 3,571 in 4,924 ; Coventry, 4,567 in 7,739 ; Derby, 4,217 in 7,869 ; Dudley, 6,315 in 7,936 ; Gat es . head, 5,571 in 7,210 ; Misoclesfold, 4,885 in 6,341; New. sidle-upon-Tyne, 9,082 in 21,217 ; Portsmouth, 6,398 i n 15,231; Preston, 8,217 in 1.2,319 ; Reading, 2,099 in 5,010 ; Sunderland, 9,138 in 15,492 ; Whitehaven, 3,144 in 4,152; Wigan, 5,276 in 6,61 x; Worcester, 2,7:4 in 5,888. As regards parliamentary boroughs, 99 in number, in which the act is in force, but not throughout all the parishes comprised therein (including those boroughs in which there are also local rating acts in operation in certain of the parishes) the total number of male ones. pations under 101. gross estimated rental within the limits of value prescribed is 249,472; while the number of male occupations, exclusive of those under the first bead, at a gross estimated rental is-under 10/., 106,407 ; at and above 101., 296,807 ; making the total number of male occupations in the boroughs thus situated, 652,806. In this class the proportion within the limits is -for Aylesbury, 3,514 in 5,260 ; Bolton, 8,271 is 12,213; Bradford, 13,094 in 22,796 ; Bristol, 5,891 in 22,183 ; Chester, 3,182 in 5,074 ; Halifax, 4,789 in 7,603 ; Ipswich, 4,456 in 7,240 ; Kingdom-upon-Hull, 19,026 in 19,209; Leeds, 25,613 in 44,315; Leicester, 9,057 in 14,17; Liverpool, 4,107 in 65,683; Manchester, 33,013 in 63,781; Nottingham, 6,222 in 15,622 ; Salford, 9,618 in 18,276 ; Scarborough, 1,868 in 4,210; Tynemouth, 3,733 in 5,881 ; Wenlock, 2,303 in 3,586; Yarmouth, :t,741 in 6,660 ; Beaumaris, 1,574 in 2,135; Carmarthen, 1,817 in 3,023 ; Carnarvon, 2,384 in 4,109; Flint, 2,358 in 3,402 ; Swan. sea, 4,774 in 10,701. With respect to the parliamentary boroughs in which local acts for rating the owners instead of the occupiers are in force in all or any of the parishes (exclusive of the boroughs included in tables 1 and 2, in which the Small Tenements Rating Aot has been adopted in one or mom of the parishes) it appears that the number of male oat. pations under 101. gross estimated rental within the limits of value of the local rating acts is 87,744 ; the number of male occupations not included in this bead at a gross estimate' rental of under 101. is 10,638; st and above 101., 230,602; making the total number of male occupations in be. roughs, 328,984. In Birmingham the proportion of =ups. Mons within the limits of value is 36,177 in 57,623; Brighton, 2,551 in 11,194 ; Kidderminster, 2.343 in 3,lgri; Lambeth, 4,224 in 42,767; Maidstone, 1,319 in 4,417; Norwich, 13,662 in 19,721; Southwark, 4,487 in 22,284; Tower Hamlets, 14,718 in 90,781 ; Walsall, 1,021 in 7,841 There are 29 boroughs in which the Small Tenements Rating Act has not been adopted, and there are no local rating acts in force. In these the total number of male occupations at a gross estimated rental under 101. is 103,741, at and above 10/. 45,927, making together 149,668. In Bury the proportion under 101. 4,916 in a total of 6,507 ; Exeter, 3,021 in 5,789 ; Hudders field, 4,406 in 6,508; Newcastle-under-Lyme, 1,826 Is 2,435 ; Oldham, 11,844 in 15,186 ; Rochdale, 5,542 in 7,400 ; Sheffield, 4,334 in 38,494 ; Stockport, 7,257 in 8,952; Stoke-upon-Trent, 15,171 in 18,5:0; Whitby, 1,528 is 2,380 ; York, 4,884 in 8,463. There are 21 boroughs in which, under the provisions of local rating acts, owners are moaned instead of the occu. piers in respect of occupations, at a gross estimated rental of and above 10/. In this case the proportion is in Birmingham, 4,113 in 19,062 ; Bristol, 2,564 in 13,962 ; Finsbury, 7,24 in 39,668 ; Lambeth, 20,350 la 38,543 ; Manchester, 6,986 in 27,906 ; Marylebone, 3,483 in 33,514 ; Plymouth, 2,066 in 3,629 ; Southwark, 9,389 in 17,649 ; Tower Hamlets, 29,177 in 73,137 ; Westminster, 2,966 in 19,166. The total under this head is 94,111 in 333,358. The general summary of the returns is as follows :—ln the 57 boroughs in which the Small Tenements Rating A c t is in force throughout all the parishes comprised therein, the number of male occupations within the limits of value prescribed is 13'9,377; in the 119 boroughs in which the Small Tenements Rating Act is in force, but not throughout all the parishes, including those boroughs in which there are also local rating acts in operation in certainof the parishes, the number of male occupations within the prescribed value is 249,472 ; in the 15 boroughs in which the pre- visions of the Small Tenements Rating Act have not been adopted, and there are local rating acts in force, the number of male occupations within the pre scribed value is 87,744 ; while in the 21 boroughs in which, under the provision. of local ratiag acts, owners are assessed instead of the occupiers, in respect of a gross estimated rental of and above 101. the number is 94,111. The total in the first three classes thus enumerated is 476,593. The male occupations, exclusive of those above re ferred to, are, under 10/., 245,910 ; at awl above PA, 530,411. It is stated in a note that these two totah represent, as far as can be ascertained from the electoral returns of 1866, the male occupations for whi,h the aces piers are personally assessed. The total number of male occupations under, and at slid above 101. gross estimated rental is 722,303, at awl above 101., 644,52'2. The total number of male occupations it England anti Wales is 1,367,023. Another return gives the number of male depositors it savings bank' (distinguishing those in boroughs and counties), whose deposits were on the 30th Norm her, 1865, above 301., and above row. Tie total number of males in England and Wales having that day 301. in savings banks was, in b0r0ugh5,129,853: counties, 41,987 ; the total number baying above 301. in boroughs, 70,851; in counties, 24,740. The officers of the Prussian Guards, with the assistance of the royal princes, have arr a nged a quadrat on horseback, which is to be footed, or rather hoofed et Saturday evening at the Berlin Tattersall's. . . The Times correspondent at Calcutta, writing ' 1 the 7.3n1 ult., says :—" Rice Is being poured into tle province of Orissa till there is no 1.0111 to non' it. At the relief centres have hitherto attracted only thee in the last stage of misery, and have led to much name rality, there is to be house to house relief. Seed g rit too, will be advanced to the people when the •iiaing tint oomes round, and till then 511,000 men ail! find &lb employment on the East India Irrigation ConipanYi works. The company spends 10,00 W. a month, awl government advances 20,00 W. more. Mr. Molony. pre , of the most energetic magistrates in Ilempl, bin Ixin appointed special Famine Commissioner, and hs master is to be, not the Board of Revenue, which hal so shamefully failed hitherto, but the Emetic( Committee of two officials, Messrs. flohhouse ant Sehalch, and three non-officials, Mr. Scott Moncrieff. Captain Fenwick, and Baloo Diguntber Miter. The lanain Commission have nearly completed the examination a the witnesses. The government of India has r.hulted Cecil Ileadon for delaying, for four or five year, to preear' for giving a permanent settlement to Ones:.. ana, taw' that cannot now be given, has continued the existoi settlement, which is light, for 20 years. This is sot enough, I fear, to give the people confidence, amd certailll will not suffice to remedy or prevent future calamities." CoLoMtat APPOINTMENT. —Mr, William ll'tb barsle, late chief officer of the Siamese Crown, "'WI belonging to the King of Sims and for some time mote; o f th e moo d yacht of Rajah SI James Brooke. station , ' at &mink. has recently been spr o t o t o 4 at N on , o c hat li hi cons t a ble of Labuan, the capital of the colony acme taw since ceded to England by the rajah. Th e new o ffi c er h.O the co o w f h u e l r e pol ice force of üb t b.w s smptow.—Rantioshirt Advertiser. bdin iaand :iin l i t a . u. i l . o . f ... the of :tootle