The Express. — London, England, 1862-04-25 00:00:00

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TIM DAT —lferviim 111 Ms— ... Afisissos. E► GAL Tv-Aosiow—Mondow illL UAL Altsessoss. Z. Ma. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 25. Me. °unison' rarely speaks without saying a good deal that is well worth hearing, and his speeches in Lancaahire this week having been un usually numerous, he has within the last few days touched at some length upon several of the more prominent social and political questions of the day. Of course in these speeches there is much that is _ _ admirable in thought and feeling, as well as most forcible and eloquent in expression. In his address on distributing the prizes to the Associated Me chanics' Institutes, for example, the passages on self-education and the moral discipline of life are as noble in feeling and purpose and am profoundly true as anything that ever fell even from the right hon. gentleman's lips. But we must, nevertheless, confess to a feeling of disappointment in reading over these various addresses, especially that deli vered yesterday morning, which from the occasion as well as from the gravity of the subjects discussed is by far the most important. It is unsatisfactory to find that in proportion to the real difficulties and momentous bearings of the question discussed, the right hon. gentleman's treatment of it tends to become vague, undecided, and superficial. If Mr. °LAWTON/ were a com mon-place statesman, or occupied only an ordinary position, there might be nothing to complain of in this. Ile might be allowed, without criticism or comment, to dismiss the most important and the most debated political questions of the age with a few decent commonplaces, no matter how false or shallow they might be. But the Clix.trcem.oa of the Excantwan is, as the address presented to him yesterday truly states, " one of the foremost " statesmen of the age," and to maintain this position Ise must show himself capable not only of carrying boldly oat a policy &beady adopted, but of applying the primed*. of higher statesmanship to the exigencies of new conflicts, and of arriving at something like a sound, comprehensive, and independent judgment on the complex bearings of great questions still in debate.' He must learn to look below the surface, and en• demand the deeper grounds and more remote eon- IllefFieDC4ll of the new problems that appeal to the reason and conscience of public men, and are thus pre eminently fitted to test both their principles end their capacity. In a word, if Mr. GLADOTOXII would retain his poeitioo, or rise to yet greater power and influence, he must on all serious ques tions think and speak for himself, instead of loosely repeating, from mere rhetorical habit, the false and shallow commonplaces of those in whose company he may happen to be. It is in this respect that the right honourable gentleman's speech in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce yesterday is so deficient. On those familiar topics about which all are agreed, and which, therefore, require no discussion, the right honourable gentleman's statements are full, lumi nous, and in the highest degree satisfactory. His review of our recent commercial legislation and the benefits of free trade leaves nothing to be desired, except that it may not be too often repeated, or permitted to exclude the full discussion of more urgent questions. Economy in the public expendi ture is me of those questions ; but the right bon. gentleman's references to it, though most pertinent and seasonable, were, it must be confessed, less satisfactory. We have been often told before, and the country hardly needs the assurance, that the public expenditure is in the most unhealthy condition—that it has been forced to an unnaturally high level, which cannot for any length of time be safely maintained. It would be more satisfactory to be assured that Mr. GI-seeress is resolved to carry out his convictions on this head, and attempt what lie justly describes as the easy task of reducing to practice the economy he preaches. But it is in dealing with the great question of the time—the struggle in America, that Mr. GLAIMSTONZ . :4 Man chester speech is so conspicuously shallow, weak, and mischievous. This, too, is precisely one of those profound and complicated political positions where the deliberate judgment of an eminent public man might be of essential survive in correcting the errors of vulgar and sectional opinion. Mr. GLAD er,er. not only threw away a noble opportunity , of doing a public service of this kind, but actually converted it into an occasion of evil. Instead of attempting to take any just or comprehensive view of the American struggle, he repeated in its worst form the superficial and injurious judgment, the weak and ignorant advice of those who, taking what is miscalled an English point of view, disinterestedly urge the Americans to separate because they wish them divided. We do not charge the right hon. gentleman with deliberately intending to express all that his words °covey. Under the sympathetic impulse of the moment he evidently did not pause to weigh carefully his words. But if an English statesman refers to the question at all, he is bound to do so under the full weight of the responsibility attaching to his position. His words are certain to affect powerfully the feelings of the American people towards this country, though they may have no influence whatever on their course of action in their own. And the well-intended but weak and foolish language of public saws here has already done enormous mischief. It has not only destroyed the influence of English opinion in the United States, but roused a feel ing of indignation against this country. This Is certainly nut to be wondered at. In the crisis of a tremendous struggle for social, industrial, and political freedom—a struggle for nalisoal east once, since it is for all that maksa adIP exist-, cave of any value—the people of So North ' have been coolly told by English statemi4l. " There is really DC4124 to fight I " and if there were, fish • would be • *edema " You had much better semis at oneeln a " peaceable way." This is ' undoubtedly the weakest, wont, and most insulting form of inter ference that could possibly be Imagined. What abouki ce have thought if sack advice bad been tendered to us by • neighbouring Power during the Indian mutiny, for example or on the cooesicon el any political di ff iculty with Ireland f The ad vice might be offered in the most friendly spirit, and from the best motives of friendship and humanity. But we should of course have re jected it with indignation, es little better than mockery and insult. Mr. Chancrous says the North asked our sympathy, and that sympathy means taking a side, and that we could not do this for fear of offending the slave oligarchy of the South. But, in fact, the North have never asked anything at mu hands but to be let alone. They did, no doubt, expect we should sympathise with their determination to prevent the forcible establishment of a slave civilization, a government and polity where slavery was to be the " head " stone of the corner." But they could least of all have expected that species of interference which consists in weal and miaohievonsattempta to break this righteous resolve and diseourege the attempt to carry it out. Mr. GIADOTONZ repeats once more the prediction that the North cannot conquer the South. We have heard In various quarters a number of predictions of the same sort ever since the war began. They have all been falsified by its progress. What can be the good of repeating them t They simply exasperate popular feeling in America spinet ourselves. Experience has proved that this is the only and inevitable result. Whether the North can conquer the South or not, it is able to prevent the establishment of a social state incompatible with its own industrial civilization. And it is bound by the most sacred obligations to do this at any cost. Were the free American people selfishly to shrink from the inevitable struggle, or could they be tempted by any love of gain or ewe to abandon it before the end was 'soured, they would, in the just and shrilling words of Mr. J. S. Mri r, "be exposed to the pity and disdain of ' " posterity." We can only express profound regret that any statesman in this country should be capable of offering them any such weak and unworthy counreL THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY K de take place to-morrow or on Sunday. The Italian princes, Prince Humbert and his brothers, are about to visit Constantinople, from whence they will proceed to the Camp at Chalons an a visit to the Emperor Napoleon, and from thence to London, to see the Exhibition. A letter from Turin, of the 21st, says : Dams lipoid!, the °Spits/my MOLT of Naples, being found guilty of esdearonring to persuade the sehoolmis tremes of the Nimeoli sot to teas the oath of allegience required by law, hes hew sentesoed to three monad im prisonment at Cestellamare, and a hie of 1,600 franca. A letter from 040 (a province of Umbria) to the Diritto, states that on the 16th the judicial authorities mica, in the palace of Noissiguor Waal, at copies of seditious letters, which had been elandertinsly printed for distal , trades mesa the peasantry. Other espies of the muse letter he,. beet found in St. Pekes Douvest. " It bald at R01:11P," says the Monde, " that the King and Queen of Naples and the royal family are, on an express invitation, about to pass a week with his Holiness at Porto d'Anzio. The Pontifi cal &WOO are to sot as penis to the Pope, and will have charge of the service of the palace. They have just left Marino on their way to Porto d'Anxio for that purpose." 1 P-• • NNW is ptyali n . • fo Victor Emmanuel! —* Z", A despatch from Toulon sun that the ch parture of the Frenchfleet for Naples will to ao. saint AND ODA Pins IXTRAOT of oAtLysir FIZZ PIIII lawak =A Cams Ose. IA sal LIT= assiris. ma" a& aurvnanay. sk LIT= MM.,. ANDO!, liagemtai. W. Cienenl daribaldi has renounced his intention of proceeding to the south of Italy. "As long as Victor Emmanuel is at Naples," said ha lately to one of hie friends at Brescia, "it is better that I remain on the banks of the kineio." A letter from Rome, of the 19th, says : The number of foreigner who arrived here to be present at the ceransoldes of Holy Week is estimated at 45,000. The Pope amompfigrol the whole of the formidable task imposed ea him by cut= and tradition. Oa the Tharsday evening only he abstained from appearing at the Tinibree service in order to husband him strength. Next week he will, it is mid, take a few daye repose at Porto d'Anzio. No political incident of impedance has occurred here lately, with the exception that the day Wine yesterday it became known that Mr. Odo Rumen. the non-official charge d'affaires of England, had obtained an audience of the ex-Bing of Ripka, bat no one is able to give any explanation of the promelliog. PALISTINK. THZ TOUR OF TELE PRINCIC OF WALL& A oorrespondent of the Levant Herald et Jeru salem writes : Or the 29th ult., early in the afternoon, the royal yacht Osborn with the Prince of Wales on board, and attended by her Maleety's ship Daria, the corvettes Firebrand, Peli can, and Gannet having pneeded them, came to anchor off Jaffe, and the bream of the Holy rand mice name in ha iry fanned oar glorious lasclecd. The lions or upon puke, which Omar Os Lim bore Imes, 670 years ago, had re lented ; and not the lea honoured by the nations of the edge mid beams with them were ameociated the Irish hop, and berme by their side— " The ruddy lion ramp'd in gold." Even the petty castle fired such a salute as Bing Richard sera heard, and this was answered by the great guns of the British ships of war. The weather was fine, but the Prince of Wales did not land. It may be said, however, that the Baron Renfrew did come ahem ; at least while, the public attention was diverted in one direetke by Ohm in bright uniforma,there were fear retinae' in plain dodos walking together about the town, bytes and Meg oranges. They had picked up a prom who could umiak same Eighth, and on parting with him they gave him a gold sovereign. One of these four was • youth of fair oomplerica, and the dismissed g aide ran about proclaiming that the Prince bad been ashore. The waiting crowds were sorely disappointed, am the boat bearing his royal highness neared the yacht. Nest day being Bundy, the Prince and party stayed on board for Divine service, but in the afternoon disembarked, and mosecled towards Jamaica. The landing place, as is well knows, is a disgrace to the Turkish government, and it is to be hoped that after this visit of the lint Prime of the lint naval power in the world, something like shame may tomb the Porte, and that that shame may induce 'amendment. The Puna of Jerusalem had sent down a respectab free of regular cavalry and infantry, with two bim bashis, besides a troop at Bashi-basoulor. The English consul (Hr. Finn) was waiting at Runlab, but on hearing that the Prince was to travel through Lydd to Beth-boron he with his train crossed over to Lydd, and remained in the church of St. George, that is to lay, among the beautiful rains of that edifice, built by Richard • and there they met, the Prince heirepperent and the de legated authority of England, under the auspices (so to speak) of the patron saint, St. George. All the Christians of the town were 'rambled within the dilapidated walls, and the native clergy (Greek orthodox) upon a pile of stones half way down the nave, bad brought out a book of the Gospels bound ha covers of richly-embossed silver, also a small silver creme et antique manufacture, and a thnrible with incense, all apes • cloth of gold tissue. On the approach of his royal highness, the clergy chanted a benediction. The Minton soldiers drank the lemonade offered them (Ramaauk having ended the day before), and after • short stay, the Prince and party went forwards, having enchanted every body with his amiable and affable manners. Over the plain of Sharon, spreading wide and ,verdant with new-springing corn, and embellished with varlet and pink wild flowers, went the gay party, the cavalry with scarlet pennons flut tering on their lances. The encampment was found ready pitched at the Beth-boron. Pickets were placed, and night settled down upon the scene. _ _ _ Next morning, tolerably early, the camp was in move ment, and the mountainous meant began to the upper Beth. honer, rough enough. It would seem that in this country the worst portion of roads are those which are broken re. mains of the best roads of antiquity. At this latter village the party ascended to the roof of the highest house, to en joy the wonderfully extensive view beneath, comprising Jaffa and its shipping, Bandar with its conspicuous white tower, Lydd with its large plantations of olive, Held-Nubs when Cuour de Lion remained with his army after the groat battle of Amnion, guarding the passe@ to Jerusalem, and Yalo (the Ajalon of Scripture), to which the Israelites under Joshua drove the army of the confederate Canaanitee-411 spread like a map before on.. Thence over rough roads again to Gibson, the military, with uniforms and peenens, winding brightly between rocks and cultivated fruit gardens, and ancient tenses work of huge masonry. Ware quit* reaching Gibers, a few white tents were found pitched under a plateau, sad servants in Turkish semlthiform and white cotton-gloves offering rest and lemonade. These, however were de clined. Next to the summit of Neby Samwd, and the ' Prince stood on the highest stone of that lofty minaret while parts of the Holy City of Jerusalem were pointed out, with the Mount of Olives and the intervening landscape, backed by the long pile of the Moab mountains. Well might the medieval pilgrims call this place Mountjoye, "because it giveth joy to men's hearts " to pis from thence the first view of Jerusalem ; and well might Richard, when duped by Philip Augustus, and having his army diminished by sickness, cover his face, under the Mee that it was for his unworthiness be was disabled from marching to rescue the Holy City. At Shaatat, by the road side, stood some companies of in fantry, and in the open sunshine stood Sonya, the civil ;eche, in black, with handsome Turkish decorations of sil ver ; and the military pacha in his uniform. By the side of these were the principal English residents of Jerusalem, clergy sod medical, all waiting to welcome his royal high ness. The piety proceeded, and soon reached the eminence whence the gut great view of the city bunts upon the view forward@ en the Demme= rued, towards the Damascus gate. Before arriving at which, however, amend deputation wen sew by the mad side from the' various cheese of Jerusalem inhabitants. That, some Jews chanting ROMP' from a Imp paper; Ve iM Abywhiew (them are under English protection ben) ; *Oa the ediadia, headed by the eadi sad mufti ; next male NM Jews ; after these the boys of the English Diorama School ; then creme ecatfealie at beaky, posted at leiervale, with single Nada& bails{ up the bee et esatiomedea ; nut fell Ws the Men the omineeea end the dike peiastial hdarlay sawn. - At the l'etteeerae iste the polka with dime jaimsd tha peeceeeloa, sad the whole land dump tax er a urt. 08BORNE, Aram 24. The Queen and Prinoesa Alice drove out yea today. Ilia Hos. Harriett Phipps and Lord Alfred P. wen in attswasace. The Duke al Selaavest arrived at 011bsese, and bat had ■ anthem of bee Majaater. Despatches were receivc d yesterday et the Odlesdel-efice frees the Governors of One& awl Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governer d Our& end to the Lord Elia Oweiniaelower al the leeks Weeds. The departure of Crown Prince Frederick William of Prowls to London, to attend the opening arm stony of the latonadmal Ealellittme. is thus announced to the ootintry is an afeid pimp* in the Stern Zeitetne —"ln coneequence of the expressed desire of her Majesty Queen Victoria, his Majesty the Ling, we learn, has been pleased to depute his Royal Highness the Crown Priam to attend the opening of the Inter nalised Exhibition in London. This resolve, we are orn tabs, will be greeted with feelings of high ontideition la England, as well as in Ruda, and Germany at Imp. The mere essaitesi the difilcultim obstzuctiag the progress of the latarmatioral Rshibitkin, in eonsequenee of the des* of its illustrious originator, the more clearable it appeared to the British commissioners to prepare the Fe mme% at the opening solemnity, of a royal vast who is we deftly related to the English dynedy. At the rise time. German art and industry could not receive a more brilliant and else*" representative than will be given in the pre• seem ei his royal highness." His Exoslieracithe Ambassador of France, wbo boa bon aeollead to Coventry Hoses For some days psi by iodispcsitke, is now Milk baiter. Count de Morny has arrived at Coventry House, from Paris, cm a Mat to tie Osumi awl Coaster ol 1 , 10- Malt. His Excellency the Spaniels Minister has taken • maim s»m P«tlead•pLme fit a tam The Marquis de Ilealett* and the Marquis de Planta have left resins's Hoag for Paris. The Earl of Tankerville arrived in town on Wed nesday from visiting Lady Olivia Sparrow at Brampton Park. Her ladyship comes to town to.inorrow. The Earl and Countess of Devon have been en tertaining at Posit/Am Omits, daring the last week, the following circle :—Lord sad Lady Clifford of Chudieigh ; L my Egerton of Tattoo and Hoe. Miss Egerton ; Hon. Mr. and Alm Fortescue sad Miss Fortescus, Viscount Andover, Lord Coortew. Mr. Henry Milbeaks, Mr. Scott of An orlon. and Sir John and Lady Damn. The Countess Craven and the Ladies Craven arrived at Ashdown* Park, Birks, yesterday, front visiting the Earl and Calcites, of Clarendon at the Howe, Watford. Frances Countess of Albemarle and Colonel the Hon. Peregrine Cast wind at their residence, in South Audleystreet, last evening, from a tour of visits. Viscount and Viscountess Folkestone have left town on a viii to the Lai and Countess of Clarendon, at the Grove, Lear Watford. Lard Broughton will come to town to-morrow, from Tedworth Howe, Wilts, for the season. Lady Emily Kingecote was safely delivered of a daughter, yesterday, at her residents in Charlasstreet, Berkeleysquare. Lady Louisa Agnew was safely delivered of a eon, yesterday, at the Earl of Gaiseborough's residence in Lieutenant-Colonel Cuddy has returned to town from visiting hie brotber-in•iaw, John Claudine Bamford, req., main to the Marquis of Waterford. Dr. Walker, surgeon on board of H.M.S. Fox, 'a! the Welintocir expedition, delivered an internale( lecture et Dublin oe Wednesday evening, on " The Lest Search for Sir John Franklin." Tim Secretary of State for War, Sir G. C. Lewis, Inspected the army clothing establishment at Pimlioo on Monday last He was cooducted aver the establishment by the several officers in charge of the respective departmsals The fund for a memorial to the late Earl of Yarborough, which was initiated at Brigg, already wants to upwards of 6001. With a few esespeiens, tie midribs. Bien are chiefly by the tomalley of the dessmed eoblemsa. ' The annual dinner of the St. George's Rae Volunteer, task place on Wednesday eight, Lieutenest- Celina the Hoe. C. Undany in the chair. Oolong Y•Yvdo was present, sad spoke in high terms el the appearance of the Volunteers at Brighton, and the may interesting military problems that their rapid march from London to Brighton bad solved. He added that *be ban. off in the Volunteer ranks, of which so much lad been said, was quite inappreciable. Lord Baselagh was also I present, and spoke in favour of keeping the Volunteer Seem apart from the Horse Guards. The Times obeervee that the great error in the racial outline of the programme of the Exhibition primer inn la that it limits the hours for the arrival et Ashen from 12 to heliport 1 &dock. This rule is tingly Med owa. There will probably be not leas thee from 21,000 be 30,000 spectators in the building on Mara* ail* sal Ode wham canoot possibly set down treat Whir earelagra awl • t►roosh the turnetass in the speedo! this. Ness, eurteioly, can be sdinitted after ►ell•past 1, bat, ail the siommissioaers want to meta& a Imp yropiellee d t►e visitors w►om from the an We of lisksis t►eg bay are exestag, t►ey mast open the balbileg to the pablie at 11, brated el 12, APRIL 25, rode The sad —S b tita, tbtJi the sasating was akepide any clot/sae, it Wag the 1 eg at lb. large teretiplie tree, of the city wall, a men sallltary upon the Maiden fired a sank from two brass field. sad this, when concluded, was taken up by s eimdat Lam the angle by the Jaffa pas. The sailitement was ashram, dsgisled ea every face, bat AM was then no vulgar thronging dr lording. And thus, iesild the uttered weloomas unit Ye SIOVIMINae of Uthisesikg amid, did ths ink Prime d WON do veer kid OE et wd all eater Jerusalem. The following is an extdet from a prink letter :—" The Prince wee at Hebroa while we were there. He and his suite obtained permiesion to visit the Ode of Macpelsh, Abraham's burial place. They are the Mt Ohndians who have been allowed to eater it since the crusades, nearly 700 years ago. Dr. Similey says everything is kept in the most beautiful order, and nothing could be more satisfactory than the date in which the tombs are pre served. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Sarah, Rebecca, sad Lash are buried them Two el the sheiks were in alined to give annoyance and show theieunimosity at Chris tians Wag allowed to eater the cave. The Governor of Bohm, however, had them turned out, or rather be w ooded them out himself, sad the remainder weft very complimentary to the Priam, saying that they were glad to have the opportunity of showing any civility in their power to am of the Primes of England, to whom their government was so much indebted for kind Aide, that they looked on it sea groat compliment to themselves that the heir to the throe, of England had tidied one of their holy places, ho. So that altogether it was very satisfactory. The Prinoe had a regular little army accompanying him, sad the Pacba of Jeremiad was present in person at Helms to receive and escort him. The Prince dined Hebron last Monday, the 7th el Atscil." Omn's vszaawn.) MEXICO. CADIZ. Asia SC The French steamer Aamodis has arrived here with news from Vets Oros to the let inst. No important chomp had taken plats in the posi tion of affairs. FRANCE. PARIS, Aram 25. of to-day publishes an article __ _ signed by its secretary, K Beoffao., asserting that the oonsolidation of the public debt of France will shortly be effected by the presentation of • bill to the Chambers proposing that from October next there should be but one kind of public security, bearing 3 per cent. interest, and providing the means for effecting the conversion of the remain ing Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rentes. The Court of Caseation hair decided that a mar riage contracted with • convict in ignorance of his real character cannot be annulled. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room on ow PAWS. Taman Ennio. The Queen of Holland is expected in Paris at eight this evening. The Emperor will go to the Northern Railway station to meet her, but there will be no official reception till to-morrow. The Queen is accompanied by Count de Randwyck, Grand Master of the Palace, Hardenbrock, First Chamberlain, K de Weckherlin, Secretary of Commands, and Madame Oudermanler and Baroness Pabst, ladies of honour. Apartments have been prepared for her Majesty at the Tuileries in the Pavilion Marsan. To-morrow there will be a grand court dinner, in oompliment to her. The King of Holland and the Prince of Orange are not expected till May 8. The rumour of a marriage between the prinoe and the Princess Anna Murat is revived. In spite of reports that the projected visit to Paris of Prince Humbert of Italy would not take place for fear of a cold reception by the Empress, it con tinues to be talked of as a probable event. The month of May, during the whole of which the Queen of Holland proposes to remain in France, will be paused by the court partly at Fontainebleau and partly at St. Cloud. Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris from a hurried visit to Geneva. M. de Morny's visit to London is explained being occasioned solely by the illness of the ambas sador, Count de Flahault. I hear that be stated positively to an English gentleman on board the steamer that the Emperor would not be able to visit the London Exhibition. The walls of Paris are now placarded with gigantic bills, announcing all sorts of pleasure trains to London fur the great event of next month. The South Eastern Railway Company will run express trains on and after May 1, from Paris to London in ei hours ! While the telegraph says that K de Lavalette is expected at Rome on Saturday, that valuable government organ and public instructor the Pays contains the following " Latest News," which I send textually on the thane of your being able to make something of it : The rumeer is accredited for some days past that the Marquis de Lvalette will not return to Rome. We are unable to say what foundation there may be for this on dit. At present it would be difficult to cite any acts or facts of • nature to give it a character, we will not say of authen ticity, but even of probability. Our private information authorises us, however, to believe that co decision on this subject bee yet been come to. This paragraph is a model of mystification. If the Pays' private information be correct that it is yet undecided whether M. de Lavalette goes back to Rome or not, it is clearly not improbable that he may stay hero. But observe how carefully the Pays' language draws a distinction between the probability reeulting from "acts and facts" gene rally known, and that which may be inferred from its own mysterious oommunications. Several provincial journals state that 50,000 furloughs for six months are about to be granted to the army. It is announced that K Ernest Renan, who, it will be remembered, was suspended after his opening lecture in the Hebrew chair of the College of France, will resume his duties, and lecture every Thursday on the Semitic languages, and on Saturdays on the book of Job. The beautiful Pni Catalan in the Bois de Boulogne, which, in consequence of the failure of the speculators who sunk so much money, in it has been a desert for the last two years, was opened for Musard concerts a day or two since, which will perhaps go on through the season alternating with those in the Champs Elysies. The Bourse was heavy, but with no marked fea ture. The quotations of Bente and other leading securities remain with scarcely the variation of a fraction from yesterday. The Chinas Mires fell nearly 40fr., in consequence of sales to realise profits ; the last price was 1251 r. The Court of Caseation—the three chambers Bitting together in the last resort—has been occu pied this week in hearing arguments in the grease:se of " Berthou, calling herself Herbin, v. Berthoo," which, as some of your readers may remember, raises the question whether a marriage with a dis charged convict can be set aside on the ground that the fact of his conviction was unknown to the other conjunct. But for a decision against the marriage by the civil chamber of the Court of Caseation, I should have thought that to propound such • pro position was to refute it. When I noticed this case 18 ORPHAN WORKING SCHOOL.-(THIS DAT.) This day a general court of governors was held at the London Tavern for general purposes, and for the election of thirty children, twenty boys, and ten girls; Mr. Coolies in the chair. _ . . The report dated that during the pint year only one death occurred. The children were making satidactory Mrainin education—moral and intelleetud. The ragretted that the state of the funds would not allow them to recommend a larger number of children to receive the benefits of the institution. The building, or, cambia of accommodating 400 children, had on the 14, 4 January hat only 280, viz., 185 boys and 95 gab. o the let at January, 1861, the number to the eel we 168 ; admitted during the year, 63, via t—by 6D; byireeenti*n, 2; by purchase, 1. Left d uri ng ta k year 44 died 1, total 47—making an hawse of 16 eadza in 1861. Thu auditors' report showed a delleisucy of 1,009/. 17e. 3d. upon the general account, hides the beavilleerg 4 for extras, amounting to 1,6841. 15s. 4d. ; leaving a of 2,5121.1 a. ld. After paying every charge, these ranked a surplus from the building account of 3184 121. 10d., wbid bad been tranderred to the gene& account. An appal k the publio, and slim to the corporation of Loudon and the EticiCity companies, resulted in the receipt of 6701., see P gotmment remitted 1901. 10e. on amount of fire it mance paymenta. The report was received. In regy to Mr. Hamm, Mr. dour., the secretary, edited that, although /It Beating had given a liberal sum for the enlargement of the pl 4 Mmend, the committee could not get an adjoining pier of for that pmpoes. V 0.010( thanb were pained on the several officers of the charity, and the vies.presidinte end committee for th ensuing year were ; appointed. A vote of thanks to the chairmen terobested the proceedings. GREAT' INDIAN PENINSULAR RAILWAY. mug DAY.) This day the 25th half-yearly general meeting of proprietors in this undertaking was held at the Londe" Tavern ; Mr. G. Farr" presiding. The report, which has already appeared In our column, was takes as read. The 011AMIAN believed the report and account' wand nal require ma* explanation. The latest account' from Bombay were very satisfactory. Improvement& were it progress towards the completion of wurks and is mutate arrangements for the extension of roads, improved modes at conveyance and rendering bulky goods more portable; all of v• • most tend to the advantage of the ociutstni by de. vela •mg its trade. Until the completion or the at lines, which had bees the peat obstacle for several years peat, they maid not hope that the traffic upon any part cf the railway would be properly developed. That ob. steels, he hoped, would be entirely removed, and then the traffic would largely increase, while their working expenditure would materially decrease. Every biounthly communication from India tended to cot. Time the directors of the vast improvemeats gong at In that usantry, which must conduce to the beside if the raftwaye. The financial position of the company was highly satethately to the goversment, gad mast be so to the share. holders. That appeared to be no leek of mosey, and the board barred it was well sad properly e xpend ed. After exproming regret at the death of Mr. Langdoe, the secretary at - Bombay, he moved the adoption of the repeat Mr. Mimi, ILP., seconded the motion. Mr. W. J. LAMSDIN considered that It was most mat. ti factory to find that out of a receipt of 112,115/., the beg Lr °di after deducting the outlay on the °haat" wu only 'lr. AMOa dhectur) stated that that subject had been folly diseased at previous meetings, and arplanatiou afforded. They necesearily ;chard through rites, bat u the line was broken in various parts, and the teat had to be unshipped gad conveyed over the inter. easing spurns, the contractor who provided the means of transit between the various completed sections received 39,000/. for that service, and this au, therefore, so much taken from the company, besides which they had to bear • good deal of moos, every year for damage to goods occasioned by the break in the railway communication. Nome shareholders reminded Mr. Ayrton that the 39,0001. wee dednoted,frogn the gross traffics in the account, lea= still a receipt of 112,00 W., yielding • profit of 51,00.. TitourroN inquired how it was that the through rite was Axed so hew. Mr. Aram, replied that it had been arranged with the government, as an experimentarAste, until the whole mu. way was completed. The working expenues would then be considerably reduced, while there would be no reduction is the rate. In re* to Me. Harriman, The ftenutew said he expected the railway , to be aim. *Wd by the end of 1864, and that the Blurs Giant wolf be completed next year, and the Thaul Ghent about a yea fterwards. The report was then adopted unanimously. The directors retiring by rotation were reelected, and Mr. NionoL, ILP., one of them, returned thanks. SUPPOSED WIEDER 07 A YOUNG WOMAN LI THE REGENTS CANAL. INQIIMIT.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, at 10 o'clock, an acrciet4 inquest upon the body of Margaret MI Jabal% C 23, who was found in the water of the anal, last Tuesday week, under circumstances which to, given rise to ea im that she had bees munissal, was reamed by Yr. H. Rallies Walthew, the bpi coroner for East Middlesex, at the New Globe Yam, Mile-end-road. William Warren, a gardener, residing in the vicinity ei the canal, said that about 2 o'clock on the morning of lei Tuesday week he heard a shout or loud exclam. lowed by a piarciag OCIMICIL The dogs in the hood began to bark furiously, e and he went out to no MI was the matter, but in th e darkness h eould akar& mthiag~ Thu body of deceased was formd in the water he hours dtswer. _ 7.7 Halliday, 9, Cleveland-street, Mikend•reed—les *two/ the deceased, who was a bugle trimmer,residleg elk her parents. I last saw her alive on the Mosidepeneig previous to her death, and she was then quits *seeking happy. She had been keeping company with a yang named Charles Wm. We*, who mid he was an "' but whose address he always kept concealed. 1 always_ her that I thought he was a married man—he bids* funny ways. (Laughter.) About three weeks ago ahe mitt* if she found out that be was married and had deceived ler she would revenge herself. I last saw them together is tig shop on the Saturday night previous to her death. By the Cornier—She sometimes said she would boogie self but she said it in a joke,and I never supposed she net to deetroy herself. She was a very correct moral girl. Web and she were in the habit of walking out together. ale certainly had no idea of suicide on the May smg4 Sham the intro* was adjourned we have found out W address, end that be has • wife and child. Mrs. Petit:nee Halliday said that deceased went out os lY Monday evening about 8 o'clock. and upon within egg her to make a small purchase she answered that she 18il not be in time as it was. Witness **snood that she le going to meet Webb. The coroner's officer here put in the two followisi eslr which had been found in deceased's room, they bun go date, but the second was marked Monday "My dear Friend,—l =2 sorry I dad sot see you elm last night, but I suppose the wet night prevented yore awning. Meet me tonight at the same spot at 7 0 door. Demme, there's a good mentos% as I want particularly see you. If you fail to come I shall go and fetch you. Di not forget the book.—Yours very fairly, " The sewed ran as follows : " My dear Friend,—Meet me this evening at 8 o'clock bf the church. Don't forget to bring that book.—Yours ref Axes continued-1 do not know the handwriting d those notes, but deceased had in her *book d Webb's. Webb had brought a compare on of his to muds sister of deceased, but he was found to be a married Olt and was turned out of the house. Deceased had b are some furniture in anticipation of her montage with We Cherie. Webb, 53, St. Anne's-road, Stepney, was theses . amined,and said that he knew the deceased for the last Dias months. Did not consider he was courting her, but ted to go out with her. Relied not regularly promised to min, her, for he had been married 12 months to another. The foreman—What, within three months of your me riage you begirt to court this poor girl, representing yoareelf u a bachelor ? By the Coroner—He bed seduced her. He did not write the two notes produced. He did not meet her on the Sow day night. Re would swear that he wee not out of his as Ihome that night. The last time he met her was ea Sla Saturday previous, and he then informed her that be war married man. The man whom be bad brought to court ba sister was also married. (Sensation.) Mrs. Webb deposed that her husband returned honse dl 6 o'clock on the night in question, and remained within Dr. J. R. Freeman said that he had made a poet marten examination of the deceased, but he °cold not undertake say that death had been caused by drowning, though be could not detect any other cause. Deceased bid bees CIICSOIie 9 weeks. Some farther evidence was taken, but it failed to awe say additimal light upon the matter. ; The coroner then summed up, and remarked volt the enspicious circumstance. with which the cue was sar rounded. ; The jury returned the following verdict, " That decets ed was found deed in the Regent's Canal, but bow she came hl her death or how she came into the said canal there ovidspace to elbow." , t ventured article r of some mob& ago, I _ to express a confident opinion that the r of the French code which iniakes a mistake . the identity of a person a ground of nullity of marriage, could not possibly be applicable to the cane of a want of knowledge sf the antecedents and qualities of a person. That a women who meant to marry Peter and has been entrapped into marrying Paul should be relieved from the contract is obvious justice ; but if a 'woman is to be heard to say that she would not have married Peter had she known that he had been a bankrupt, or a spendthrift, or a gambler, or a duellist, or a nod, or a drunkard, or a convict, there is an end of all certainty in the marriage con tract. Henry VIII. got a special act of parliament to ensure himself against being deceived a second time as to the antecedents of a wife on the particular point in which he fancied he had been taken in by Ann of Cleves, but such nice and dangerous in ' quiry was never sanctioned by general jurispru dence either in England or France. The case now awaiting the final decision of the Court of Cas eation is no doubt one of great hardship, and one calculated to enlist every sympathy on the side of the lady. Hadlle. Zod Harbin, a young girl of spot less character, belonging to a good family of the middle class, married in 1857, with the full consent of her relations, the defendant Berthon, who, at the age of 17, had been sentenced to 15 years in the galleys as an accomplice in a murder. Like Victor Hugo's hero in the " Idiserables," Berthon had acquired a respectable position in a village where nobody suspected that he had worn the con vict's chains. It does not appear that the spouses lived otherwise than happily together during the three or four years that elapsed before the dreadful disclosure was mule to the wife. She then at once left her husband, and instituted the present suit. These details, however, which I allude to merely to show the circumstances under which the question now, for the first time, arises, and because expe rience shows that judges, being men, , will often lose their heads in presence of those "hard cases," which notoriously make "bad law," have clearly nothing to do with the short point in dispute, which is simply whether a marriage is void because one of the parties wee ignorant that the other had been a convict. That is not a question of sentiment but of dry law. The Tribunal of First Instance and the Imperial Court of Paris pronounced in favour of the mar riage. But the civil chamber of the Court of Cessation being of a different ,opinion quashed their judgment, and sent the cause to be tried de teas before the Imperial Court of Orleans. That court also affirmed the marriage, and now the entire Court of Cessation, in solemn conven tion, with K Troplong presiding, is to say, once for all, what the law is. hi Dupin, Procureur- General, is strongly in favour of the validity of the marriage, and ridiculed the idea of the plain tirs counsel that there could be any question about the identity of the individual John Thomas on the ground that his civil person was mutilated by his condemnation, and that the law knew of any such thing as a " Civil Abelard." The weight of K Dupin's authority is, however, shaken pro Unto, by the fact that the judgment of the civil chamber, now under revision, was pro atounced after a speech from him on the former ecamion. The strongest argument in favour of thepiaintiff is that the code holds a condemnation Ice felony during marriage to be a cause of divorce I vincula. But the answer is that in that case the wife is deprived of• her husband's society and sup port ; and, at all events, the legislature has not thought fit to make a previous conviction a cause of nullity of marriage. The court is in deliberation to-day, and up to this hour has not pronounced judgment. Renter's telegram (published in the Daily News and other London journals) stated erroneously that Count Simeon's appeal to the court of Douai was "rejected." It was sought to render him civilly responsible for the consequences of the misde meanour imputed to Minh. But by the acquittal of the latter the accessory charge against Count Simeon necessarily fell to the ground, and his ap peal was, therefore, not rejected, but allowed. DEATH or s DATIGHTZE or M. KOMMTII. —A letter from Turin of the Shad rya :—" Kossuth has jest lost his second daughter, Ouglielrina, eighteen years old. lie took her to Neroi, sear Genoa, on the borders of the Mediterranean, hoping that the mildness of the climate would arrest the progress of the chest malady to which she has succumbed. The genial climate and the tender care of which she was the object could only delay her death by a few months." ----- It is announced that on the Ist of May, with the opening of the London Exhibition, the South Bittern Railway Company will accelerate their service between Paris and London tsd Boulogne and Folkestone, to nine and a half hours, and vice versa. The through journey is to be accomplished by special tidal trains, in oast's:ion with two of the fastest steamers in the Channel, the Victoria and Eugenie, making the purge between Boulogne and Folke stone in 95 minutes. Moreover, a cheap third-etaas ticket, for 2bfr., available by the night train only, will probably be an additional inducement to travellers of sleadwr BMW who may wish to avoid the long sea passage • and return tickets will be issued for one mouth, at reduce d fares. The French government is seriously txxxspind with a 'shame for replanting the mountains In Pram" the diminution of timber trees creating considerable alarm. The Commissioners of Woods and Forest. have announced to the commercial authorities that they will supply all persons with seeds sad plants who will undsrtake to replant the mountain sides. A letter from Cherbourg says that the Minister of Marine has resolved to submit the iroo-cased frigates lately launched to a decisive trial to test their eeawertki. ness. The Columns, which has arrived from Lorient at Cherbourg, is selected for the experiment. She is tote sent acmes the Atlentio. A question which has gins rise to • serious controversy among seamen as to the possibility of a completely iron-card venal accomplishing the voyage will thus be solved. A letter from Glogau, in Prussia, states that, in orsamenee el an inquiry instituted on the occesion of the escape of Ligniololli Solar and Pataki, the commander of the hearer, Yajerdlenerel Hinchfeld, has been placed on the retired list. " It will be remarked," ear the independence Beige, refrains to the verdict of acquittal on N. Aerie, " that the judgment orders that all the documents seized shall be returned without expense. The chest which contains them is of colossal size, and weighs more thea 600110. What is also colossal in the affair is the expenses of the trial ; the verification aloes has con 22,000 fr., and the mere copying of the doctorate, which Mile required for his defence, 7,000 fr. Although the jodlehd express are borne by the state, the trial has cost the accused more than 200,000 fr. 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