The Express. — London, England, 1858-07-13 00:00:00

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SPORTING INTHLLIORNCIL A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS," eentaining the veinilta of the day's Ranee, ie pub lielied emery evening daring the Sporting Season, at six o'clock. WITILS? the oonvulsions of Southern Italy, and time constitutional Government of Piedmont, have given birth to a host of eminent men in the various walks of knowledge and of life, Spain, with the acme and semblance of a Constitution, shows, at least intellectually, all the decrepitude of an Absolutism. The cause and the tenth are, that the Representa tive principle in that country has been falsified, under the auspices of French Conservatism ; that the Qtats roles far more by the support of her Army than by the goodwill of her People ; that through its instrumentality she is to a certain de gree mistrial, of the elections ; that by the dearso• tion of municipal liberty and provinaisl psivi. leges, public life is almost exclusively confined to the capital—remote regions, and even chief towns, participating little in that movement and activity to which the struggle of parties gives birth. In this state of things it is the Court, not the public, which bestows character as well se place. And the chiefs of parties succeed each other in power, net because the public approves or calls for them, but limply because the (ark= finds it snit her interest or caprice to make a change. If a Minister thwarts 18.4861.1.4 she insteatly commences relations and intrigues with that Minister's rival, who of mane makes promisee and terms, and In good time seconds to office, not by virtue of Parlia mentary bat of Court success. It was lisr.saralo's desire to put an end to this state of things, so dangerous to the throne and the QCSIX'S title as well as unjust to the nation. O'Dontratt himself had taken up arms against it, and at first joined ENPARTRRO, and promised to second him in the great and difficult attempt of bringing beck true and constitutional government. The Qualm, however, had the astuteness to separate the two generals, to wean O'DoxNEtt. from the Duke of VICTORY, and to induce the former to betray his colleague. For this impolitic act of treachery the Quivs gave O'DONNLLL but • few more weeks' hold of power, and then dismissed him, to resume her wonted system of favouritism and Court Government. It is needless to observe how much the establish ment of Imperial Despotism in Franco has tended to strengthen the personal influence and power of the Spanish QUINN. The Spaniards, unfortunately accustomed to look to France as a model, have many of them begun to despair of truly constitu tional government. The French EMPEROR, it is @apposed, would be unscrupulous in putting down even the most just revolution ; and the Liberal party have abdicated its hopes and its activity. The Moderados have indeed continued the struggle for the maintenance of representative government ; but they are bad °Darden, and indeed are worn out as a party. Demurs was in this respect no bad repro asntative of them. O'Dortnett. is the chosen Minister of the French Court, and this is the least derrable part of the re cent change. It might have been thought that NtIIVAZZ, married to a connexion of the BCONA PARTE% would have been preferred at the Tuileries. But it is not so. NAIRTAEZ, ■midst a host of great defects, has the one virtosof being eminently national. As Minister of Spain, he would have set his own foot on his country's neck, but he would aid no foreign potentate in assuming such a position. O'Dowsztt is much more flexible. It may be re marked that the constant advice of French ambas sadors at Madrid of late years to the Spanish Government has been to re-constitute their naval power, repair their arsenals, rebuild their fleets, and in time resume their old place upon the ocean. Isrustrx rather neglected this advice, and seemed to think that Spain had more need of rail roads than of men-of-war. Still some efforts haw been made to get ap a Spanish naval force, which, Imbed, the state and neighbourhood of Cuba imperatively demand. The worst of a new Government in Madrid will be the despatch of a new and hungry commander to that island, where O'Dogsett himself set the notable example of making his fortune by the toleration of negro importation. Now that the French ENPEROI has taken this traffic under his protection, and has at the same time installed his recliner triads in power at Madrid, we may expect to see Frisch peculiarities of apolicy and lan guage adopted and employed South of the Pyrenees. We have Weed had already one or two samples. For there it in every continental country a squad of journalists prom, to barn incense before the French throne, whoever occupies it, and laud French sys tems, however preposterous and retrograde. Soak organs, however, are no more the voice of the Spanish people than M. }taxer is the echo of the French. We should do well to distinguish the voice of a people from the braying of u.e animals that are hammed to the car of Power. WITLX the Americans in London celebrated their Fourth of July, amidst much unbind exultation at the greatness and promise of their Republic, many of them must here seen the most recent newspapers from home, and among them the Peterabwrg Express of June 10th. That journal brought with it from Virginia a frox'al story. Virginia still ranks first among the States of the Union in the affection and admiration of the Southern citizens ; and in the North then is it strung tenderness for the old State which gave to the Commonwealth its early and most noble Presi dents. In wealth, in population, in promise and aspiration, Virginia has sunk, from the first place in the seal*, till, in lAA It was only the fifth State in point of wealth, and fourth in population; but THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1858. now there is something worse against her. It is in ' Virginia that we find a perversion of law to the I purposes of oppression which exceed' in cruelty ally- I thing that Naples, or Spielburg, or Siberia can shoW., It is not from hearsay that we give this stagy. it is not from a version by enemies or by statures, nor through any medium of political opposition, er State jealousy, or sectional hatred, that we derive sad present the facts. The Petersburg Espress, the buil paper from which we take the statement, is la full sympathy with the perpetrators of the op pression. We take the persecutors' own account of the transaction ; and at present we have no other. Comments in abundance will no doubt arrive from many States which will desire to repudiate all impo - tation of sympathy with such a transaction; bu:, at this moment we have only the primary statement, supplied as local news from the spot. Oa Monday, June 7, a steam-tug started dews the river from Petersburg, which is Z", miles meth of Richmond, the capital, and nearl7 100 =Bee above Norfolk, the chief commercial port of Virginia. In the evening, the steam-tag reappeared, towing the schooner Keziah, Captain WILLIAM B. BAYLIS, el Brandywine, Delaware. The Keziah was laden with 1,200 bushels of wheat, and her destination was Newport, Delaware. Suspicion having arisen on the Sunday that five misting slaves were on board the Yezish, measures were taken by the owners of the nevem, and by the police, to have the schooner stopped at Norfolk, if she could not be overhauled in the river. She was boarded within 30 miles of Petersburg ; a negro woman, the accusers tell us, was found drained in men's clothes and hidden away under the cabin floor. On further search, the four missing men were found stowed among the wheat sacks in the hold. The negroes, the captain, and the mate were all secured and brought back, and "the gratifying intelligence" that they were coming, and would enter the town at 6 p.m., was forwarded to the authorities. The wharves were thronged with impassioned citizens, crying out for " tar and feathers, hanging, " docking, lashing, burning, and every conceivable " method of retributive justice recognised in the " code of the celebrated Judge Lviscn." The pri soners were saved with extreme difficulty, and espe cially the mate, who, according to the men of Petersburg themselves, was found to be apparently ignorant of the whole transaction. He was more than ones wrenched from the grasp of the police, and " lunges made for his throat," blows inflicted upon him, and eo on. But all reached the gaol without serious injury. We have only the testi mony of the slavisholders interested in the cams. They aver that the negroes were tempted away by the captain, BAYLIS. One, however, it came out afterwards, wanted to join his wife (who had before escaped) in New York ; another was on his way to Canada, where souse refugee friends had obtained a situation for:hins as waiter at an hotel in Toronto. A third had secretly amassed by " pig-raising" 600 dollars in the course of seven-and-twenty years' industry at over hours. Of the other man's ease no particulars are given. The woman was said to be charged nothing for her passage, " having " agreed with the captain that she would live with " him on his arrival at home" (Delaware being still a slave State); " but in what capacity," says the re porter, "we were unable to learn." This is, on the face of it, an improbable story ; and the oases of three out of the four men seem scarcely compatible with the charge against BAYLIS that he put it into the heads of these people to abscond, for the mks of the 50 dollars or less which each was to have paid for the passage. The supposition that any man would, for inch a sum of money, brave the laws of the slave States, in the face of much recent ex perience of their severity, would be inconceivable, if the facts of the previous intention of three of the negroos to escape, and of their correspondence with friends at a distance, had not come out to corro borate the improbability. BAYLIS'S own declaration is that he was taken in by a man in the town, name unknown, who applied to him for a passage to the Jerseys for the five, and that he had no idea that they wee slaves. He was " innocent of any evil " Intent." He had not made speed, having run aground on the Saturday evening, and again on Sunday, and taken things easy, making a fair start only on Monday morning. Large sums of money were found on board, Without any appearance of inquiry as to whom the money belonged, it was " confiscated to the State," together with the vessel, valued at 800 dollars. The examination of the captain and mate did not take place on the 9th, "in consequence of the great ex " citement in the public mind." The mate had not been tried when the report was published. On the 10th BAYLIS was tried in the Circuit Court, before Judge Num, found guilty, and sentenced—to forty years in the penitentiary'—tight years for each negro. Forty years in the penitentiary ! In the States which have abolished capital punishment the ex treme term of imprisonment for wilful murder is twelve yean; and here are forty years for giving a peonage to a party of fugitive slaves ! There have been eases enough of imprisonment of coasting captains for the same offence, within a few years, to show that life will not sustain such a sentence as awaits any man whose vessel is used as a harbours,* for fugitives, whether they come with or without his knowledge. One after another has been carried out to his grave, after a longer or shorter pining. What else eau BAYLIS, or his wretched wife, and his chil dren thus strangely orphaned, expect in his can? Forty years ! Yet we ars disposed to think that nobody else be heves the sentence will be executed, if, contrary to expectation, the man should live under such a weight of penalty. Besides the instinct of mama sense that such laws cannot go on to be executed for forty years in a republic which is only eighty years old at this hour, there are more definite reasons for hope that the victim may be released ere very long. It is under slave-holders' law that he suffers; and the slaveholders are (as the world should ever remember) only 350,000 in a population of 27 mil lions. They are even no more than three-tenths of the white population of their own States. No sane man can believe that so insignificant a mino rity will sustain laws and punishments like this, when once the majority, not only of the na tion but of their immediate neighbours, shall have become sensible of the disgrace in the eyes of the world of such unparalleled inhumanity. Nobody supposes that the crisis can be deferred forty years; and whenever it happens, the prises doors will be thrown open to such victims of the slave system as Captain BAYLIS. We call him simply a victim, for, by his own account, he is no martyr. He is the victim of laws for the protection of an untenable kind of property—of laws which inflict upon him more than three times the punishment for giving a passage in his venal to fugitive slaves that he would Dave incurred in a neighbouring State for the foulest of murders. Wherever Americans resemble, on the 4th of July, or any other day, it must rarely be felt as a national disgrace and misfortune that any of their group of republics should be is this age resorting to severities of punishment for a conventional *Sues for which the meet retrograde State in Europe would be despised and reprobated. Surely the rut republican majority will separate themselves from the humiliation. eft Court. OSBORNE, JOLT 12. Yesterday morning, her Majesty, the Prince Consort, Prince Alhed , Priam' Alike, and Princess Helena, attended by dm tailks end gentlemen in waiting, were pre sent at Divine terries at Whiptinnam Chureh. no Kn. 0. Ptelltero *termed the service. Td Priam Consort, attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley do Ike, armed neer to Gosport this morning, to ass the Ir.eke and buildings constructing there. • tleoatattea from Aberdeen had en interview with the Earl of Derby, yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street, the Universities (Boothutd) Bill The deputation of Colonel By_ken,_ll. ,P. Lord John Hay, M.P., Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P General Arbuthnot, M.P., Lord Haddo, M.P., Mr. Gn at Ds LP. Major Gorden Doff, M.P., Mr. Detail* LP., Lord n d, M.P., the Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Dr. Obnalie, gal l u . N. Farquhar, and Mr. Angus, town clerk. lord John Manners and Mr. Thwaites, Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, trannoted Dulness with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Dowabaretrest. .. _ A iipataiitia *ma the parishes of Darkkag and Great Mord, Baas., tataistias of ths lies. and Rev. H. W. Bartle, Vicar of Great Ilford ; Mr. Jolla Davis sad Mr. Jetta 8. Thoespeoa, from liked; Dr. Men/ay Mr. John P. PilaSOCk sad Kr. Christi= Moats' Scatter, from Barking ; with Mr. Grimm, Veiny Clerk, introduced by Mr. T. W. Brareaton, M.P., bad an interview with Lord John IL users, First Commissionar of Public Works, yestaiday, at the Office of Works, Whitehall-place. The Turkish ambassador transited balsam yesterday at the-officei fro=es were received yesterday at the Colontal-office overnora of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Taammuata, the North American Provinces, Van couver'. Island, and New Zealand. His Excellency the Hanoverian Minister has left the residence of the legation in Orcevenor-plece, for Carlsbad. Maria Marchionese of Aileebtuy has taken a resi dent.* , re Hertford-street, Hertel'', for a term dram The Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Moly ass; and the Earl of Sefton, have left town for Croxteth Hall, where they intend to receive company during the pre sent week. The Counter of Craven and the Ladies Elizabeth and Evelyn Craven Lett town yesterday, on a visit to the Counties of Belton at Crrsteth Hall. The noble earl leaves town today, on a visit to his mother the Dowager Coasters of Craven, at Hampstead Marshall. The Earl of lialteith returned to Montague Hours yesterday, Gam a males is his yacht off the Isle of Wight. Lord John float has left the Clarendon Hotel for Kirkt*uk, Kelso, N.B. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mn. Herbert left town yesterday for a tour in Getaway for stew menthe. The General Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Friday next. The churchwardens of St. Barnabas intimate that they have been informed—though the Mittel annowscement hes not yet been promulgated—that the Archbishop of Canter bury has ccafirmed the decision of the Bishop of London se to the revocation of the licence of the Rev. Alfred Poole. It is said that all proceedings in the action brought by Mr. Hughes eg•iast Lady Diaorben bare been stayed, In erase to give bar ledyship La opportunity of sp pfyteg to the Court of Queen's Batch la November neat for • new trial. 'ISITEST INTELLIGENCE. THE MASSACRE AT JEDDAH. The Daggs of this day observes on the late mas sacre at Jeddah :—" It is impossible to avoid con necting these deplorable events with the attempted smassination of the English consul at Belgrade, and there can been dembt that the simultaneous agitation of most of the Christian provinces of Turkey has inspired Mumnlmans with an increased hatred of Christians. This furious sentiment makes them forget that the European Powers will not see their people massacred with impunity, but that such acts will bring down a severe chastisement. The repression of these out rages would be easy and immediate if they occurred in a country completely barbarous, and oat of the pale of European law. Bat how is it to be done in the face of Turkey, an allied power, which holds its rank in Europe, which sits In our congress, which shows as much irritation as ourselves at them crimes, which claims the exclusive right of punishing them, and which undertakes to do so ? We an evidently but yield to these promisee, and hold the Porte it self responsible for the safety, on its own territory, of the lives of our countrymen. And yet how can we disguise the fact that with the beet will in the world, Turkey, which has already more busi ness on its hands than she can sustain, is not in a condition to keep up an effective police in every part of its empire ? It is much more engaged in defending itself against its Christian subjects than in protecting foreigners. All its strength scarcely suffices to assure its own existence, and very little remains for securing respect to foreigners who live under its laws. If this is the case at even the gates of Constantinople, for much stronger reasons is the Ottoman government stricken with powerlessness in the distant parts of its empire, and especially in Arabia, which nominally recognises its sovereignty. It is very necessary, however, that means be found to obtain of Turkey, for the foreigners who inhabit it, the relative security which they enjoy in Mo rocco, in the Regency of Tunis, and many other ginger places." THIi . CAMhTTA, CHINA, AND MAURITIUS MAILS. We have been favoured by the Peninsular and Oriental Company with the following despatch, received by them from Marseilles this (Tuesday) morning : " The steam ship Vectis, with the Calcutta, China, and Mauritius mails, arrived at Marseilles at 8 this morning. " The mails leave for London at 10 a.m. " The ship will be in quarantine until Thursday. THE UNITED STATES. (By ILICTILIC TZLZOZAPIL) (MOE OUR OWN CORIUMSPONDIXT.) SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. The Vanderbilt hu arrived; she left New York on the 3rd inst. The Indian Empire arrived at Halifax on the lot inst. from Galway. A large fire had done mach damage at Buffalo. The New York markets were dulL THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. We (Times) have received the following despateh from oar own reporter, who he been so unfortunate se to so company the cable in its amiss on boded the Agamemnon : " QUIJANSTOWN, :III.! 12, .. The Agamemnon arrived ham this morning at 12.30, twist; left the rendezvous to the owes of the Atliabo on the fkil "let. " Oa the voyage out with the other remelted the squmdro a sweceselon tremeadons south-westerly gales was moon tared, which scattered all the ships for some days. During this dna the very heavy and unequal load on baud the Asthmatics made her condition one of danger. At one time, lodesd, Om storm wu so N:olent that the chances were strongly favor- of her going to the bottom with all on board. " The worst storm was dozing the 30th end 21st of Jane, when the Agamemnon rolled m heavily end dangerously as in her then Sim to lead to serious fear, tbst the masts would go overboard, or that she would capsize completely sad founder. In these heavy knobs@ the coals which was stowed in the main and lower decks broke away, end seriously injured several of the crew. The skaLic instru ments wen all injored. The main coal ti the bottom of the hold shifted. The deck beats got adrift. The iron screw guard was wrenched in two, and the waste steam pipe be tween the bailers broken, all by the heavy rolling. Take, after every effort had ken made to ease the ship, which was much hampered by the upper clt k coil of 238 tons forws , d, it was bound mosessay to run before the wind, so that it was only on the 26th of June that the randesvous was made, and the other vessels of the squadron sightcd. " The fine splice was made on the 28th, and 11114 !wok= an hour afterwards on board the Masers, alt three miles had hem paid out from each vessel. The second splice was also wads ma the 26*, sad broke at 4 a.m. on the morning of Thursday, the 27th, prase apprestiy at the bottom of the ass, tiler some mike had km made Com each ship. The third and last spikes parted at 10.30 p.m, on the algid of the 29th, about eta fathom below the stern of the Aga memnon, after 146 miles had been paid out of that vessel. "The came of the list frustum is sot keoa.a, as the strain of the w;ne was °sty 2,2001 b. " After this the Agamemnon returned to the readeavoas, and cruised for do days, during which she met with sal• dent bed weather to prove that the removal of the upper deck coil had almost restored her to her trim, end certainly rendered her buoyant one sea. Urfortunatsly the Niagara did not return to the rendezvous, so that the only line weather which the expedition had was totally lost, end the Agentemnon had to proceed to Quassia". ii There an .till 2600 miles of wire at board the two ships. It is intended to SS up with coil and trash porisious and etr-t roe. dual attempt an Saturday next." STAMFORD ELECTION'. STANFORD, JOLT 12. Mr. Inglis's elevation from the office of Lord Advocate to the &wish bane having orcearaed a vacancy is the naresattatien of eteadoed, Bir Wired Hwy Nathaile, Hart, ie to be Wein' to the dieters of this bona& The hem. breast, The Is • Dint esaservathe, mad reereuntad Daisy la the lalt pedimeat, la Its Whew, Lewd to-day, Wheel Metal wady Worked to the what lestinatione wheat lona the eponatererlt et ear eta alsatioeid system • and says be bellow le be Ina What met bat a s be W smaa et bl sadi eer;r e g ing tmet et hatwatka, We by frees thee to them to adept Wee lealitedene ref rieciety, sod to do mew wails to alai that warm gives rid. Ile di la k.heald be the eldest st the be wilt mod &est the sews et i n; owl sad soil welt= of the /we iaesaa4 Wig are set to weal= by eassesW iateehewas Wit Weft d faide peados. sad atH-veamos whidthemesetialeaW en eismeat of the .tea=l Weeder. H. i *WI ellateed to the Ghana d eyed, sad will a=shes It bile duty to Wet ell attempts to Waage epee her eft hi le=ier low of sales, or esnapt the ra g y e et hie He is ea adverse he • palsy that au say shoeld ai rt i t ed ell Wee tasty to repel b e e sierate lee beet:Wl aot taper herself to it by In the dearth able ef ether whoa; sad believing that the it.,. of the are is secordeoce with Wee eiatbetals, Cril t =l * , tf eiected to the Howe of Osismons, to give Wee hi Way Minot. The has. Wawa v2l address the electors to-aiwrow windae. sad it eadeeted that the election will take plan ea &dards 7 aszt. Xr. Inglis has toned a (~,well When is the abates. MICIPTIONB AT CATTLI SHOWIL-1b attempt of Mr. Isere Para, el Beakbeed, aims Pariak, to treseplkee et the es Apiedrest &Whisks is paella. &waft a ball w*a Yee bras, aidathenehe eharri the as, eireemso er iessis. is set yet Sadly aessed et. la iti . ‘stde • iWeie of the Arran' sr the Ayrshire Areekeler, dr reentery et dr sameletka 2rir eleirelat el the son behee the roestsier-leed, that the earealthe right decide whether at set that ahead be whirr prearks. we vaierread tar the ateva meat taw a mime dew et the ears% sal thst they have testreder the preeereler•lseel te Wry Kr. Para te trier. Whirler the area et the Idol arty be, re here thst eterupdbie ere wry serve se • womb. to ealildreti le be waist with whet they ass ob:er Yr mad bereasable mesas. The ether course rose mat err le he vary sera err tr s prim/pis et rterlty does set kerb •911 wit et M, the hret tryiesent masepomeas may here ems 4,81.—e pr aellartime. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (►ROM OTIS PARIS, MONDAY BYLMIYG. Prince Napoleon arrived at Limoges yesterday afternoon. He was received in state at the railway station by M. de Coetlogon, the Prefect of the Cor reze, about a dozen prefects from the central depart ments, and a whole army of functionaries. The Mayor of Limoges explained to him the special characteristics of the industrial exhibition of the central departments of France, which he had come to visit. The prince, after a short reply, which contained nothing of a political character, mounted on horseback, and made his public entry into the town. He wore the uniform of a general of divi sion with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. Among his followers were M. Rouher, in bin minis terial costume, and MM. de la Guerronniere end Leplay, in the uniforms of councillors of state. Im mediately after his suite rode a body of thirty sunburnt and stalwart men in black coats and white trowsers, with tricolored bracelets round their arms. These werq the butchers of Limoges, who it appears claim a privilege as having been [gritted to them by Henry IV. to furnish a guard of honour on the occasion of a royal visit. This right was exercised in 1841, when the Duke and Duchess of Orleans came to see the old city' of Augustontum, the capital of the Letnos:ces. The tradition is that the butchers of Limoges lent Henry IV. money on one of the many occasions when he was in want of it, but the fact is disputed by chroniclers. It is worthy of note that the butchers' trade has always been free in Limoges, and the place has a reputa tion for good meat. An immense crowd, estimated at 60,000, lined the streets es Prince Napoleon passed along, and it is reported that there were cries of " Viva le never du grand homme r His imperial highness lodges at the Prefecture, in apartments once occu pied by Turgot. The distribution of medals, and the official banquet at which it is expected that the prince will allude to political questions in the order of the day, will take place to-morrow (Tuesday). The exhibition comprises products from the depart ments of the Allier, Charente, Charente Inferieure, Cher, Correse, Crease, Benz Sevres, Dordogne, Gironde, Indre, Pay de Dome, and Vienne. Marshal Randon has brought from Algeria various Roman antiquities, which he has presented to Prince Napoleon to ornament his house, built in the Roman style, in the Avenue Montaigne. The next sitting of the Paris Conference (the 10th) will be held on Thursday. A great many sailor are now passing through Paris, going by reline,' from Marseilles on their way to Cherbourg, where they are ordered to recruit the naval force which the Emperor is to show to Queen Victoria next month. The Bourse was steady, but with very little btuil nese doing. The Rente rose 60. for cash and 100. far account, closing at 68fr. 36c. and 68fr. 46c. The market was affected by two successive telegrams from London, bringing Consols lower. Mobilier fell Ur. 76e. The Northern Railway fell sfr. and Orleans 2fr. 50c., but the other principal lines were from 1 fr. 25c. to 2fr. 50c. higher. It was reported that the delegates of the Lyons and Dauphine lines had made mutual concessions, and it is hoped that the contemplated fusion may yet be arranged. M. Dubois, the author of a work against the use of tobacco, predicts the most disastrous conse quences to the French nation from the practioe of smoking, which has made fearful progress of late rare, and is fast becoming universal. Replying in the Patric to M. de Premaray, a critic, who had reviewed his book in a jocose tone, be says, very seriously : Yon tell me that half the Academy takes snuff and the ether half smokes, and that smoking Is universal in the army. I great yea that, and more—for I will add that all the his of Prance either smoke' or muffs with more or lase ardour. But what lees that prove? Why, that the serails of the settee is karate the coolly was abyss, betides amyl la spited the numbge le he haul Jelly in imp newspaper, men end Imam Demi* Ica pdeseileg themellees with an ensalation wldelk iimmeals at inedesek It me le on In this way Frames wEll Sad YEA gem liessynartere of a °eatery hones without men capable d swing fa the army or tilling the fields, and ties wawa A ie shwa all ugly, sickly, and week. Why, already then are 80 ugly wows, or warty so, out el rosy 100, 10 pemahle, 6 good look's& and thee Is net men that cue realypetty woman In 1,000. As to ear men they are already dialed sad ugly monk but they • In time approximate ohnoly to Cretins as Ourang-ontengs. This is what we are miabg to I car masking seriously. I masons est mg mem, weenie, and child, will contract the behold mailing. " Iu an ettraordieary cabinet mama held in pre mos ad the Qum," says the /epee et Markt, "the note by whit It the Itpusith edaish7 demed explanations from tbe Emilia cabinet, Madge to the olinadve language em ployed by Lead Maissesbeity townie eptia, was road. That fhb nets thee pewee so the dipity and sway which be. ewe s miles of sash gluiest estetednits as ours, is re quited by the pandtous ssd unjust suture of the accusation and by dee itlarity at the Spiebb mem" PETITION OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY TO TEE HOUSE OF LORDS. At a general court of the Hest India Company held yesterday, it wu ordered—That the draft of the proposed petition to the House of Lords against bill No. 3, for the better government of India, be printed for the use of the proprietors. We hays this morning received a copy, and subjoin it un abridged: THE PROPOSED PETITION OF THE EAST INDIA. COMPANY TO TIM 1101! MONODRAMA Tll LOllll SPIRITUAL ♦ND TIIITOZAL 01 Tal UNITE/ 5150005 O► OZZAT 11ITAIN AND MILANI) IN ►ARLIVIINT ASSIXILID, Humbly 'Wroth, _ 1. That at the commencement of the present awl= of parliament, your petitioners did address you right honour able house, praying that you would not "give your sanction to any change in the constitution of the Indian goys =ant, without inn previous inqaity into the present system," an inquiry extending into "every branch of Indian administra tion ;" and that your petitioners did at the same time " challenge the moat searching investigation into the matiny of the Bengal army,and the causes, whether remote or im mediate, which produced that mut , ny." 2. That nevertheless, without any such inquiry or inves tigation whatsoever having taken place, a biU has been in troduced into your right honourable house, and read a first time, entirely abrogating that constitution of government for India which has existed from the first—viz., the govern ment of this company, at whose expense, and by whose exertions, British authority was originally established in 3. That your petitioners closet but regard such a mea sure aa having, in public estintation, a penal character, and its adoption se ealeulatisd to lead to the general inference that they have abused their trust, and have been deservedly cashiered for misconduct. Your petitioners submit to your • right honourable house that they cannot, without dishonour, acquiesce in their own condemnation, without having oitained a trial, or so much as the production of a single charge against them. In 1853, it was decided by parlia ment, after an inquiry the most minute and labotiort, that the government of India by your petitioners should con tinue "until parliament should otherwise provide," it Is now declared by the preamble of the bill before your right honourable house, to be " expedient" to make such other provision for the government of India, without reason given, or cause assigned, or any inquiry whatsoever. 4. That, in the opinion of your petitioners, the dram atriums of the rebellion in India do make inquiry by parlia ment necessary, and such inquiry ought to be tato the con duct of individuals, as the chief mesas whereby mimoonduct, if proved, can in future be prevented. Your petitioners submit to your right honourable house, that it Is at least possible that one result of such an inquiry might be to implicate functions/lei of the Indian government who are not servants of this company, but whom it is sow Fro- I posed to relieve from that practical although limited control to which they have hitherto been subjected by the existence of this company. Your petitioners submit to your right honourable hones, that in passing the proposed measure, without full previous inquiry, you do incur the danger of Increasing that power of the servants of the crown, which, as exerted in the again of India, may have already been too great, and required to be diminished. 6. That your petitioners cannot but ooneider the rejection of their prayer for inquiry as not only en act of injustice towards themselves, but an act of injustice towards the people of India, and a most lamentable precedent for the future conduct of the legislature under great national calami ties. In their fanner petition, your petitioners did respect fully claim each an inquity, "because when, for the first time in this century, the thoughts of every public man in the country were fixed on India, an inquiry would be more thorough, and its remits would carry much more instruction to the mind of parliament and the country than at rny pee r:ding period." Your petitioners apprehend that the rejec tion of this their prayer is a neglect of a precious optertenity which may never recur. The bill, now ruder r waideration by your tight honor-able house, center j to e'i fo.aaer pre cedent, contains no mention whatever of the people of India. 6. That your petitioners did represent to your tight honourable house, in their former petition, that "they cou'd not well conceive a worse form of government for India than a minister with a council, whom he Merl be at liberty to consult or not st his pleasure. ' " a m inciple which the pro posed form of gevetament adopts to a very serious extent, It being one of the main providons of the bill for the better government of India," that the President of the Council shall be at liberty to receive secret communications from left, and send out secret orders, whenever in his judgment each seamy may be required, without submitting the same to the members of the council. It is the belief of your petitioners that inquiry by your right honourable house into the operation end results of the power of went &titian, which has been exercised by the President of the Board of Control, since the institution of that board, through the medium of the secret oftnittes of the directors of this company, would make it int le for your right honourable house to place in the of a Secretary of State still greater powers fur mischief than heretofore, by passing an enactment, the effect of which is 'nothing lees than to give the sanction of parliament to the dangerous practice of transacting the pub lic business by means of private letters. 7. That the capital stock and debts of this company mount in the aggregate to 113,000 000!. sterling, a liability from which It I. proposed by parliament to relieve your petitioners, and which parliament does not propose to take upon itself, but on the contrary, by the insertion tithe word " Mem" after Indian revenuea," in clause 42 of the afore said can, to agemaly disclaim. Your boa respectfully to regresent to your right boa. = such ea easeassat moot bat tend to miokel the MOM pimple on a nadir ef the mei vital importance, feremadi ft mar petillefts enamel ma how the national weft era be kept sopmele tam thearedit of the geveremswt, ewe by coallaaleg empauy in its foams aftiels lsO hategess. 8. TIM in the year 1773, when toe elhenseed i Sif your petitioners were aria Mendel, and powers eel which they had hitherto szerthed were eiherwhe fertile et the umbers of year lordships' hefts AI sweluet dfsrafass miss thee wee et shit doe salmi ipsw, " that the bawdier had elf flatted by I. the what@ of the senew:=lss every Idea of honour...l6Bft spirit, end thWesuleses, hes every teak of people:" soweverewes white, be the bid of your poti lisasse, she seesweed swbhb is the using to that of 1'773) sesiwe more lamlbest th.a ever, f. regard o them esisiarethas idi er e ee n 4 It:A Inquiry whisk yew Whims tpmelyl a x= e r i soorabl: e ou te il isiftle Ma Memo madmen fthemak gra' your right lwasweable hers ask to safer *shill tor the.. bettor sovetateent et Itds wow before you to bass s i ts, • sod year petitioners do farther pray your right he hewn to allow this mammy to be heard by OMNI *phut then dd bill, and in the company's rights esti ptivikses. And your peddraire will ever pray. The Musa: de ileance contains some remarks cat ladieastes, of which the foible 'mg is a specimen : " Altar the double exhibition of England's impotency la the Other sad la India, the prettnaion of oar aslglboare to retasin sovereign masters of the commercial destinies of na then sad Is pavan Frazee born axpaading, is amply ridiculous." The Oautta Militant of Turin mentions a rumour to the effect that the Neapolitan gorernmant has, throsgh the intervention of the British ambassador, offreed Maws. Rubettino sad Co., of 00101, an Indemnity of 100,0006.. far the detention of the Cagliari and her crew, and that the said company has refund the am as being bneaeisst. =PLOSION AT d raarolur FACTORY a TSB WISTMINSTIS-ROAD. About half-past 8 yesterday evening an alarming espleeMit took pimp at the firework manufactory belonging to Madame Colon, in the Westminster-road, opposite Paursionthwark. The first intimation of danger Ira given a boy nuhirl i C of the back kitchen, exclaiming, " Oh, • red fire is ht I" Re was followed by another, who was severely burnt ore he could make his way out. Soon afterwards the fire spread to the other parts of the building, igniting the fireworks, and causing an explosion which blew the windows out and the roof off, shook the adjoining houses violently, and threw down, burnt, otherwise injured many persona in the immediate o hood. Some ruckus fell into the firework factory of Mr. Gibson, opposite, and mused an explosion there which did most serious damage to the building, and added to the shuns and oonfazion. Yn. Gibson was severely burnt, and the Lambeth turnout, who was engaged drawing a main for the engines which had arrived in thimaantime, was caught by the flames, so that his hat and clothes were burnt and himself dangerously injured. The windows in St. Paul's Church was broken, as were some marble stands in the marble works of Mr. Kifford, in the Asylum-road, a few houses distant. The noise of the explosions was heard to a great distance, and it was soon found that several other holing in the immediate neighbourhood had received damage, and that a great many parson' had been more or lam burnt. Many of these were at once attended by Mr. Donahoe and other surgeons close by, and the worst cum were taken to Guy's Hospital. In lees than half an hour after the outbreak not fewer than sixty sufferers had bean removed to Dr. Donahoe's gu 4remenp t is the third or fourth time that Madams Coton's premises have been destroyed by a similar casualty, and her predecessor, Madame Rangier, lost her life in the same way, by an explosion of fireworks. The official report describes the damage done to property as follows Madame Colon, firework maker, No. 4, Elite beth-place, and Charles-street; house and contents all de stroyed. No. 2, Charles-street, William Shipwright, mathe matical instrument maker ; bark premises destroyed by Are sad explosion ; insurance not known. No. 1, Charles-street, Mr. A. Taylor, cabinet maker; a home of three rooms, severely damaged by fire and explosion. No. ; plies, Sarah Milton, tobaoconist ; front scorched, and back windows burned out. Ditto, Mr. Henry Gibson ; shop and =with contents, burned out, and rest of bowie by fire. Noe. 2 and 3, unoccupied ; top Boors and roofs nearly destroyed, and rest of houses severely demigod. No. 1, Asylum-place, Mr. Charles Herring coach builder ; front and back windows destroyed by explosion . No. 2, In the same place, Mr. H. Scott, lath render ; windows blown out. Noe 4 and 5, let out in tenements ; sham damage, St. Pears Church ; foundations shaken by the expiation.' LATEST PARTICULARS. Throughout the morning thousands of persons have visited the ruins. The following is the official list of the suf ferers at GUT'S HOSPITAL. Ellen B. Blaney, aged 4 years, burps on back; Caroline Bridges, aged 11 years, burnt arms sad hoe; David Bray, aged 12 years, burnt arms and face ; • George slew, aged 26 years, burn on thigh; Mra. Franc es B. Colon, aged 40, bmat face, neck, sad arms. ST. THOKaII HOSPITAL, Christian Dashwood, aged 6 years, broken collar bone; John Bennett, aged 13 years, burnt wens and Los ; James Brooks, aged 13, severe contusion of face; Richard Sampan, aged 18 years, burnt very much ; Richard Corner, aged 69 puny Injured by the explosion, being knocked down sad run over ; George Delaney, aged 9 piers, burnt thigh. ; Edward Hart, aged 18 years, burnt face and arms ; John Murray, aged 40 yams, severely burnt; Emma Delaney, aged 14 years, much burnt; T. Gibson, aged 48 years, severely burnt ; Emily Clark, aged 18 yeses, severely burnt; J. Criunpton, aged 4 years, much burnt ; J. Cooper, burnt eyes. From inquiries made at the hospital we are happy to may they are progressing moat favourably. We understand Mr. Payne, the coroner, intends to open an Investigation as to the cause of the calamity. The following is an o®ci►l list of persona taken to St. Thomas's Hospital .—John Bennett, burnt in the arm sod facie; J. Brooks, severe contusion of leg; B. Simpson, burnt in the face and arms ; B. Hart, ditto ; B. Corner, fracture; G. Delayney, burnt in the thigh, Eros, and arms; John Murray, severe compound fracture of the leg, and burnt in the back end thighs; Booms Delayney, burnt in the back and arms; G. Gibson, severely burnt in the back and thigh; Emily Clark, burnt in the arm; Crampton, burnt in the arms and back ; Cooper, burnt in the eye. The following persons received injuries, but were able to go home:—C. Dsahwood, aged 4 years, 66, Duke-street, Westminster-road, fracture; Charles Cherwood, aged 23, 1, Oresuwood•placs, Westmimter-road, burnt; Lydia Crampka, aged 39, 13, Tower-street, burnt in the back; Curies Coble, 22, Melina-pleco, burnt in the head. IRE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TEE BOUTII EACTERN RAILWAY.-THE VERDICT. Yesterday the adjourned inquest on this accident was held at Chilbam. Mr. Macdonald, of Chilham, civil engineer, who herd examined the line immediately after the sodden; and before the rolling stock bad been removed, was of opinion that the saddest was caused by excessive speed, that the outer ran was not sufficiently high for the curve when the ambient took dition. place, and that the sleepers were not in a sound cote _ _ _ Captain Tyler, government inspector of railways, stated that at the curve in question the chairs were fastened to the sleepers by wooden treenail" ; in such awe be thought thirty miles an hour would be excessive speed. He thought the accident occurred from the mink axle of the engine breaking, end a greater strain being thus put on the treenails than lbw could beer. He thought the accident would probably not have happened if spikes had been used instead of treenail'. After some witnesses bad been called to prove the rate at which the train wee going just before the accident occurred, a point on which they differed considerably, Mr. Seymour Clark, manager of the Great Northam Railway, gave it ea his opinion that hem 40 to 50 miles en hour would not be too great speed round the Chilham curve; that the Wielding was lay good, and that Pecans were more effective fastening for the chairs than iron spikes. Mr. Edward Watkic, of 9, Nicholas-street, Maoche (manager of the Sheffield and Lincolosbire Railway), that wooden treensils were stiletituted on that line for 'Skutt, in the belief t►at they were aster and more enduring. Hai* Inspected the South Eastern line in the locality of the a &n{ be found that the treenail' were so strong, that in a majority of instances they had broken the cast , iron chairs before yieldief o He had examined the curve, end believed it would be Ea is travel on it at any rate not exceeding 60 miles en het'. Much severer curves were worked on the Great Weetela sal other hues at a higher rote of • without accident. Mr. Samuel Hughes., of Perk-street, Westminster, a eivff engineer, believed the Chilham curve was calculated fir ■ speed of 26 miles en hoar. This witness wished to show the rate the train was going by a reference to the statesseat" previous withers', but the coroner refused to receive if. After some farther evidence the jut y retained a verdict el " Accidental death," with a strong recommendation that so train should pass the carve beeween the whistle-bored out the Chilli= station at a rate exceeding 25 miles an hoe•, and that the reed should be carefully attended and kept in good running order and repair, sweatily the curve. A medal will be struck at the French Mint caw ntemorative of the visit of the QUM of England to Clew boor'. . _ _ 2,608 strangers have visited Spa since the cos• menonnent of the bathing reason. Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte has addressed an angry letter to General de lisiechmen, aide de-amp lo the King of Wortemberg, relative to some statements s fog King Joseph, the Prince's father, which war in the isserty-published memoirs of Count Mkt, editml by the general, the count's son-in-law. Miot, the prime eons a " robber and • butcher ;" a " liar or a dastard;' end the Mier easoludes in the following terms .—" As to yob sormsienr, sham you have not feared to pick oat of the ma • the pad the pamphleteer Miot, you rill not forget, I an.f . elude, that you carry a sword." A Bt. Petersburg letter, of July 5, lays:—" Frail end harrowing deteils have just hems published of *iv lesrailties engird by the Russian army during the war fit: Ike Crimea. It apposes that in the affair of the Teem*, Okay on August 18, 1655, there were 6,048 windily mese whom were 246 officers and 7 generale. At Feff! Nicholas, where the lint hospital for the wesumled was alp Kind, is seamy is 200 amputations were piebretel ai d single day, and or surgeon had often 600 patients to to. Mast ol the ma who evecus.tad the iiimpiceollol ball OW died on the march homewards. Them ro am = proving how deketive the Ruesten mititart is, have mode a great sensation in St. Petersham." Ma. Hon's MOTION ON THE SLATS Tatiatowl Ths following are the members who voted bet MAI 11191 .... Mr. Hutt's motion " That It is expedient to the practice of authorising her Majesty's idle 90 Obit march mesh mkt forsigi flags, with a slew of tog the Media to slaves :"—Messrs. R. Akroyd.T. Abet.' J. Biggs, 0. Bowyer; Col. Clifford ; Messrs. G. CIA w• Co., F. Crossley, R. Daglish, C. Gilpin, I. Greer; Col. l'. ()rewind ; Wain. R. Kr , W. 8. Lindsay, A. Iffecsraff f Lad C. Paget; Messrs. H. Pear, J. Pilkiegtell. G. Bit ley, J. A. Roebuck, J. Beapistom ; Sir J. Trelawsy ; and , Mr. J. White. Tellers—Mr. RIM and Mr. Patrick Okla. 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