The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-19 00:00:00

PARIS EXHIBITION, MIST CLASS SILVER MEDAL. Mt 1 GOLD CHAINS.-JOHN BEOODEN to nll tbe ettostion of the pit a: to the IORY oll ii - VOICE which be darns with Gold (2salria parchand at his taiumfactory : A a A. To worionaaship of w w czAttora chat; 541 aches Ices 2 10 0 To ( 15 ) cant gad. 2 on, at /12 11Ia 14. par non, Mot pine b 0 2 ---. L 71 6 16 ITI•oo this MUNN foam, awl TALI= al the gold are accurately dideed,aalliversalsettelbsperab ews: Jells Brogden 100 foes lib Tostotereika oh the workman ship onl, which la acaddhig tow latzlesei or thlPlS cdty of the letter e. Itsaufeetcey. l 4 Earissisafted, Orra&prim. REAKFAST.-EPPS'S COCOA. T RELOAR'S COCOA NUT FIBRE MATTING, UNBLZACHID. Ust of Prices tree by poi'. Warehouse. 67. LUDOATICI.L. Wit earPreOL ADVERTISEMENTS must be forwarded to .Messrs. J. M. Josnaox and Sows, 3, Castle street, Holborn, and 56, Hatton-garden, the specially appointed Agents. HAYMARIEHT. TIM Emma, THE 1310 K EN-REAZTED CLAW—DAVID 3 AMUCK. Morn Soars, Duckstono, Down de. ; and Ma Robertaon.—BOX •ND COL Mr. Backdons and Mr. Compton. —And FAMILY JARS. Mr. Compton. parscasers Mrs Emirs°, AZRAII NA POOIIR. Mr. sad Win D. Rou th:wait, Mr. Vining. Marra Dominick Murray, Neville, d Blare: Barnett d yrs. Adds.—Mee which MR OCTOROON. Mr. and Mrs. neuLicault, Mr. J. & Clarke Str. Vlnlog, dMin KM= InitAND. THIS EVIINISO, OLD SALT. Mr. Denary and Mho Nay Moore. ...After which THE CALIPH 07 BAODAD. Mean. Thorne and James ; Mesdames Ada Swanbarough. Johanna% Barlind, Holt, ac.—And COAL AHD OOK.S. HOLBORN. Tits EVT,MtO, THE FLYING 130:1D. Kam Atkins, Prins, Garden, Arthur, Westland, and Wannott Mesdames Henrade, Goodall, Lennox, and Bwndera—Cneelada with VALENTIN" ♦N t ORSON. Bale. Montero, Little Bowel* ete. BRITANNIA. Two ETzwnre, ALL BUT ONZ. Maas. Reyna:ls and Ctawf,ril Courtenay, and Coventy. —DON QUIXOTE. lin. S. [Ana Panceneknlsts Mean. Deane. Loofa.Newham and the Eamon Family Ndlla C. Mohan sod Was Row Nathan. HIGH WATIR AT LONDON BRID(11. Me DA) —llneutos. Ilk. nal......llldnight To-1103A0W—llornivi& O► —Afternoon, Oh. OR NOTICES of Emus, MARBIAGEB, and Duane, are received until 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Price, Se. 6d. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 19. THE TRADMUNIONISTS AND MR. GLADSTONE. MR. GLADSTONE'S interview with the Trades , Union advocates yesterday was at least interesting, if it cannot be called exciting. It elucidated also certain points or maxims on both aides which will I help to simplify future discussions, and when they have been a little further examined may show the way to a basis of agreement. There was an avoidance on both sides of extreme views, and a disposition to concede what was reasonable. The use of violence to enforce rules was of course disclaimed on the part of the men, and on the other hand Mr. GLADSTONE con ceded the right of strikes, and even acknowledged that in exceptional cases it might be justifiable to refuse to work along with men who did not conform to the system established by their fellows. Further he admitted that the unions, in so far as they are benefit societies, ought to have the power of protecting themselves against fraud ' on the part of their officers, though he reserved his judgment as to the question how far they deserved ' legal tecognition if in any case they were acting ' "in restraint of trade." Thus narrowed, the field of inquiry became limited to three main lies lions, the restriction of the number of apprentices, the enforcement of a minimum rate of wages, and the prohibition of piece-work and overtime. Mr. Porrea opened the discussion on all these ques tions in a general statement of the objects which the Unionists had in view, and each was subse quently illustrated by a member of a trade which especially adopted the restriction. For it is im portant to remark that not one of these principles is adopted by all the trades, and the strongest arguments advanced in support of each were derived from a comparison of the evil effects pro duced in some other trade by the failure to adopt it. On the first head, the limitation of the number of apprentices, Mr. Porree. insisted that the restric tion was necessary in order to secure skilled work men. Where apprenticeship is unlimited, ho argues that raw lads are brought in to do at a cheaper rate the work which properly ought to be done by journeymen, and that the public suffers as well as the workmen. The only gainers, he says, are the masters, who make enormous and unrighteous profits. This theory was supported by Mr. LAWRENCE, a tailor, in whose trade there is no restraint respecting the class of workmen or the rate of pay. He showed, what we all know, that in that branch of labour there are numbers who through the " sweating " and the " slop " systems are ground down to the starvation point of wages, many receiving only 43d. for 10 hours work, "while their employers were making "princelyfortunes and doing no good to the public." He drew the conclusion that the country would be no pourer if these poor persons were properly paid for their labour and the employers had leas profits. Answering Mr. GLADSTONE'S remark that the exclusion of female and juvenile labour would never du in the cotton manufacture of Lan cashire, he recalled the fact that the death rate of infants had been greatly diminished in Coventry during the period of distress, because the mothers were able to attend to the duties of their families. And to a charge brought by Mr. GL►DSroae against the porcelain painters of not allowing competition of female artists on equal terms he might fairly have retorted that they only followed the rule of the learned professions, of law, medicine, and divinity. Mr. LEICESTER, a glass-blower, and Mr. Lewis, a brush-maker, in whose trades the rule limiting the number of apprentices is strictly enforced, next showed its favourable ope ration. It preserves a surplus of skilled labour, but this surplus is not allowed to beat down the market, for it is maintained in idleness out of the funds of the unions, that is to say out of the wages of those who have work. The public will Learn with surprise the extent to which this is carried out. The glassblowers number but 1,000, sad in four years they spent 4413001. in paying their unemployed members. The brushmakers only count 1,400 members, and in six months, between March and September last, they spent no leas than 1,7841. upon their surplus un employed hands. it is obvious that this develop ment of the principle is closely interlaced with the next branch of the subject which was discussed, the question of the establishment of a minimum rate of wages. Such a rule can only be enforced when the workmen are able to prohibit com petition among themselves, and consequently to regulate the sapply of labour. Thus there - - - is no such system among the tailoring trade, • • • such as are actually members ;I'2- .d we have recently seen how ,1 1- •••••,n, lo the power the masters 40: - - Itit; snavasi.t.is4 F pomeased of skilled, but at from the body of defend the maintenance when it is in their - great majority 0. capacity and capable al m a rveled by Mr. GLanatfilizirlfh a.._ de n yi ng to men who rally were superior . portunity of benefitting themselves by doing better or more work for higher wages, they reply that the rule only establishes a minimum, and makes no difficulty in the way of any special advance being given to a particular workman. They thought, also, that the recognition of • minimum had a tendency to prevent speculative competition among masters by affording a permanent beds foe their calculations. Finally, on the question of piece-work there was a general disclaimer of its being objected to in trades which permitted its being fairly applied, and the only objections to it were that in certain trades it afforded oppor tunities for ",camping," and allowed inferior men and inferior work to supplant or cut down the higher elms. What will strike the reader of this discussion perhaps most forcibly is the want of general agree ment among the trades themselves whenever they come to the question of details applicable to each particular employment. The object of all it the same, it is to obtain the best wages for the shortest hours of work. But there seems a great diversity in the methods resorted to to attain the end, and even in each trade local societies sometimes adopt principles which are repudiated by the central bodies. Thus Mr. WNAMARA, a plasterer, entirely disclaimed a rule which was cited by Mr. OLsnevown from the code of a country union to the effect that none but plasterers should be allowed to do whitewashing. Again, while piece work is fully recognised in some trades there was a general agreement that in every case a superior workman ought in some sort of way to be allowed the means of rising above the level of his fellows. Such discussions, resulting in such admis sions, cannot but be profitable most of all to the in dividuals interested in supporting Trades Unions. Brought into a position where they must clearly state, in presence of an audience that is not un friendly, but fairly critical, the notions that have been brooding in their minds in the crude form of sentiments and wishes rather than principles, they will come to see the practical objections to them, and the practical methods by which their desires can be more legitimately carried into effect. Mr. Perrrea half acknow ledged this when in his concluding remarks he urged that the root of improvement in the work man's position lay in the advancement of juvenile education and in the removal of surplus labour by emigration. That is a nearer approach to sound political economy than trades' unionists have ever yet made, and Mr. GLADSTONE has rendered an in finite service to the members of these bodies in helping them to see, rather than in attempting to teach them, these great truths. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY feet ready to commence, up rose Arc deacon I Gan= to propose a rider, by which the compromise just effected would, as Dean AL/ORD subsequently contended, be undone. Archdeacon Diewnsow strenuously supported, in the character of seconder, this ingenious movement, though Arch daimons SKEW! and Kimmins, both of whom approved of the Synod, protested. Dr. BlM summit himself, the bland and judicious Pro locutor, supported, as chairman, Archdea con DINISON and his too hasty friends. When reminded of the unfairness of the proceeding, the Prolocutor so far lost his customary equanimity as to stigmatise as " contumacious" those who had left the House before all the business of the day was over—but for this expression he afterwards apologised, saying that he had only used it in a " convocational " sense." Happily for the peace of all concerned, the attempt was at last abandoned, and the com promise allowed to stand. It roust be confessed that any dignity which may have been wanting to the sittings of the Pan-Anglican Synod has not been at present supplied by Convocation. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Daily News says it is scarcely possible that she pluck of even the Stanley. can enable Lord Derby to continue to hold the premiership, and asks who, after him, will have authority to control the rebellious spirits amongst his party both in and out of the ministry. Whether, in the event of Lord Derby's retirement, any one could now control them, our contemporary does not venture to affirm ; but if anyone can, it is Lord Stanley, end therefore it is likely that the reconstitution of the cabinet will involve his promotion to a seat in the Roue of Lords. But then the question arises as to whether his lordship should go to the upper house as First Lord of the 'Treasury, or still as Foreign Secretary ; and this involves the further question, whether Mr. Disraeli or Lord Stanley shall be the head of the government as well as the leader of the party. The majority in the tory ranks would soon be able to decide between the son of an aristocratic house, and the parvenu politician who has made his way only by his brains ; but then tory wishes will go for very little. Mr. Disraeli is master, and may have what he chooses, bat if Lord Stanley's premiership should be insisted on by the squires, it is far from improbable that Mr. Disraeli would gracef ally yield rather than break up the government. Our contemporary, however, urges that there are many reasons which make it always desirable that the leader of the government should be in the House of Commons, and Lord Stanley must follow the cranspk of his father, who virtually insocambed to Mr. Disraeli, if he hopes to main tain the same success, for Mr. Disraeli must be the real leader of the government The Standard says it is with • feeling akin to remorse, that conservatives are forced to believe that Lord Derby's health has given way under labours which be undertook for their sake, not for his own. The rest of the remarks of tie Standard are exclusively in stamp of Lord Derby's public services and private character, without reference to the political position which his retirement will render vacant The Herald thinks it premature to sum up Lord Derby's claims upon the gratitude of the country. That duty may be moot becomingly discharged when the services of the conservative statesmen are completed. In the meantime it is sure that it echoes the hopes aid wishes of the public) generally, in trusting that Lord Derby may be long spared to lead the conservative party, and to direct the national Vag. PANIMLITS ON IRELAND. The Times, in criticising in a friendly tone Lord BIUMIIII'S pamphlet on Ireland, says it is especially distinguished from Mr. Mill's production on the same 'object by the pecu liarity that it is the production, not of a doctrinaire, but of a practical 'Warman. His lordship argues that in Ireland, owing to the excessive demand for lend and the want of independence among farmers, tenants need • special pro tection, and he therefore adopts and defends the principle common to the bills of Mr. Fortemue and Lord Mayo, but he protests by anticipation against the sweeping interfe rence with the rights of property contemplated by Mr. Mill The passage in which he describes the inevitable effect of creating in Ireland • vast number of small proper es.— of which, moreover, experience shows that • tarp proper , tlon would pass into the hands of needy Dublin specula- tors—exhibits • thorough insight into the fell•ies of tenant-right. The most serious objection to his moons mendation of a triple endowment in the church question is that the endowment would be practically independent of parliamentary control ; but it would not be impassible to modify this arrangement. The Timer is disposed to agree with Lord Russell meanwhile that the plan would be accepted by the general body of Homan catholic& Returning to Mr. Mill's pamphlet, the Daily News re marks that among the fine reflections which it will awaken in a reader who is neither • landlord nor a democratic socialist, but • moderately prejudiced Englishman, will be one of regret that the most eminent of cur seenomists should see no remedy for the state of Ireland but one which is of all others most unlikely to be adopted. The chief present benefit to be ex pected from the pamphlet is the diffusion of truthful views concerning the radical and national character of Irish discontent, of which Fenianism la the latest manifestation. It will be very meek if the plan gets • fair and candid consideration ; and it certainly abates from the revolutionary character of its recommendations that they involve little more than the adoption for Ireland of what is more or less the practice in nearly every country of Europe. The Telegraph forbears any decisive comment on Mr. Mill's views, only migrating that the revolution would cause mush individual suffering in the period of transition, and that Irish catholic,' would oppose the appropriation of the church funds to secular ednoation shoos* as much as they oppose the present appropriation. Mut, apart from minor points, the whole publication is a noble plea for justice, uttered by our greatest thinker, on one of the most difficult questions of the day. The Stor wee a remarkable difference in tone between Mr. Mill's declaration of policy and Earl linseell'a. The former is eager to expunge the shame which our oppreesion of Ireland has stamped upon the English name. The latter is desirous to aecomplish`the same end, but he has to be forced to action ; he is terrified at the obstacles which bust his path, and he meets every difficulty with a make shift scheme. Mr. Mill's views promulgated at the present crisis cannot fail to give politicians much matter for thought. Some may think them rash, but all mutt admit that they are courageously and clearly stated, and ably reasoned out. PIIIVATI BILL Dimming the motions submitted by Mr. Dodson to the House of Commons yesterday, and which here already appeased in the Express, the Tim thinks the quartoa will anon be whether it is desirable that parliament shosid mem lb "antral over private bill legislation •t all. The:witree of events tends to take it •way. It is not long dna. • separate private bill was aetteesary to naturalise every alien ; now it Is done by • department No lairds(' could be disoolved with. oat a private bill ; now it is done by • court of law. No powers of sale or of leasing could be given 60 the life tenants or of settled estates an by • private bill ; now they are oonferred by the Herari of Ohimary. A esenray maid nee be lance parried, and it. mambas could not safety the privilep limited liability, except by • private bill or royal charter ; • general enactment now emblem any seven persons to form themdsts into ea metal= with reprisal seromica and limited Lability. Mvaicipel meporstioas and looal beards exercise oompulaary powers, under the supervision of the HomicoMoe, which could be obtained but lately only by spp(•l epeet. b r i ng i ng i n dikosibl even molaiiitiain. • y et keel enelcient purpfuef manakin'. that 4 1 '!•• 1 of non-tmioniita, the unionia6l4 . would *bog • sintenanoe of a um of filigm, was entigh ; titer : heir power, IpY thlimament tlllli lam Timely been .. may n ?- y, of men are at equal physical and none but a few of tip More capable ot mpg skill ; and when members were left. This was \ln opportunity Gaanatilm inipolley of not to be loin. Accordingly, when the mover in who may were superior the op- of the " dilapidation*" question was an hie TO MILLIONAIRES AND OTHERS. We published yesterday the statement for 1867 of the trustees of Mr. PEABODY'S gift to the poor of London. The results of his "princely munifi cence," as the Qvxmi aptly termed it, are extremely gratifying. The first giftof 100,0001. has been fully employed, and we are told that the sanitary condition of the houses built is excellent, that the deaths in them are much below the average and due to ordinary causes ; that good order, health, and general contentment prevail among the tenants, that the children are clean and happy, and that through this gift a beneficial influence is being exerted over the future of the working classes by the signal improvement introduced into their dwellings and domestic habits. Next year Mr. PEABODY'S second gift of 100,0001. will be applied to the same purpose in Westminster, and it is to be hoped with an equally satisfactory effect. But princely as is the gift of this golden-hearted merchant, vast as the sum is which he has given away, we will not uy in charity, but in brotherly kindness, it is after all but a drop of sweet com fort in a whole sea of bitter misery. The report tells us that the total population in all the build ings erected by Mr. PEABODY is 1,583. The second gift will probably double the number. This is a great thing for one man to do—to make three thousand poor people comfortable ! But the con templation of the good thus effected forces into view the vast amount of work which yet remains for philanthropy to accomplish. What are three thousand among a population of nearly four millions of people, the great majority of them poor and badly housed f We do not ask this question as depreciating the results of Mr. PEA BODY'S efforts, for he has done more for the de serving poor than any single individual ever did, more than perhaps any other man has it in his power to do. We ask the question simply to add another. Is Mr. PEABODY'S example to go for nothing f Mr. DUDLEY Baxrra tells us that there are a good many millionaires amongst us. A few of them are men of Mr. Pas uony's own class, merchants, living in a quiet sort of way, with no obligation to keep up state like princes (who cannot afford to be princely in the PEABODY sense), dukes, and other grand folks. Will none of these come forward and do only one-tenth of what Mr.l PEABODY has done t Philanthropy in this world wide sense has only just sprung into existence. The benevolence which might replenish the earth with its gifts has as yet created only two beings—Mr. GEORGE PEABODY and Mies ANGELIWA Courrs. la the race to end there t We can readily believe that so serious a matter as the giving up of a hundred thousand pounds, or even a quarter of that sum, requires time for consideration ; but we think it a fitting time (when Mr. PEABODY'S first report is just I issued, and Miss Cobra is adding another to her • many acts of benevolence by presenting a park to , the people of Highgate), to address to all mil lionaires, or others who have more money than ) they want, a gentle reminder. THE relations of Convocation to the almost for gotten Pan-Anglican Synod came into discussion at a meeting of the Lower House yesterday, in a characteristic, if not very edifying, way. For some hours the House had been engaged in debating • motion of Canon WOODFORD having reference to the episcopal pastoral, which, so far as the public were enabled to judge, was almost the sole resu lt o f the synod. De= wasp and some others objected to any proceeding by which the House might semm to express approval of the Synod. Ultimately,, in order to secure unanimity, a compromise was proposed, the effect of which, if adopted, would, it was said, be the avoid ancce of any formal sanction to the Westminster conclave. This was accepted by the opposition ; and thereupon the motion as asmoded, which simply requested that the House might be famished by the Primate with a copy of the pastoral to be read by the Prolocutor,. Ira! peeped . vnanitnoinily , tb'AItLIAIMITARY MISCELLANEA. Mr. Baxter has gives Noise el e question to the neeretwry of the Treasury Imesernew„ vb., if it is true that the government hew already given anise to the govern ment et the lJnited Makes to terminate the postal treaty between the two cometorim whin has only been in open tin a few weeks ; and, if me, what are the romans for adopeng ee muses ] a nun On an early day the nine hon. member will move, " that in the opinion of this bowie no postal subsi dies in the form of a axed pap:seat, sad an dependent on the number of Mites sad aempaptim carried, should be granted where ordinary Male supports several lines of pameager steamers, ea is the owe \Kean this country sad the United Basso of Amelia." To-morrow the Some Secretary introduces a bill to provide for carrying oat of capital panishinsat within prisons. On Friday Mr. Remington Mills will ask the Under Secretary of State for the Co/cedes if he intends, on an early day, to introduce a bill to relieve the Consoli dated Fund from the charge of 20,3001. for the ticelsolas tied establishments in the West Indies. Viscount Enfield intends on Friday to ask the So:rotary of State for the Home Department what per manent addition hail been made to the numbers of the Metropolitan Polio* Force, and whether there is Any in tention to make any further alteration in the numbers, pay, duties, or organisation of the said force. _ The O'Conoi Don next Tuesday will ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the government have as yet decided what same they will pursue with regard to the question of University Education in Ireland, and whether he ma state when he will be prepared to make known their views on the subject,. On Friday week Mr. B. Cochrane will call the attention of the home to the charter of 1694 of Greenwich Hospital, which enacts, amongst other purposes, that it is tar the enstentation and maintenance of widows, and the education of the &Bann, of seamen happening to be slain or disabled In the ass service ; and to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty why girls equally with boys are not entitled to the privileges of the hospital. On the 3rd of next month Mr. Bonverie will move for a committee to inquire into the management and constitution of Queen Anne's Bounty Board, and to consider the expediency of transferring its duties to the Ecclesiastical Commission for England. Mr. William Edward Forster proposes, on the 13th pros., to cell attention of the house to the present state of the law affecting the allegiance of British subjects who hare emigrated to foreign countries. Mr. Bruce's Education Bill is deferred till Tues day, March 17. Mr. Bearden intend., on the 17th of next month, to bring forward a bill for the amendment of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland, and for the es tablishment of a ',swats registration in Ireland. Lord Hotham, M.P. for the East Riding, was yesterday alackd Chairman of the Committee on Stand- ins Orders, in the room of Colonel Wilson Patten, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. !ARV DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 18. HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRELAND) ACT CONTINUANCE BILL. (In the committee.) New slime (no warrant to be in twos for more than three months)-(Mr. BasweLl)—brought sip, and read the Ant time :—Motion Made, and ques tion put, " That the °Lose be now read a second time :" —The ow: mattes divided : Ayes 18, noes 31. AYES. Alien, W. 8. Hashes, T. Candlish, J. Megan% J. F. War , W. Care, T. O'Conor Don, The , 0. H. Cekridge, J. D. Putman, JL Winter H. 8. Cowen, 7.. z. R. rim. T. mune craeurd 01.oehlen, air C. Garin, Illajor Bearden, D. J. Bagwell. J. NOEL adderley, C. B. HardO. Parker, Major Bentinek, G. C. Hay, Mr J. C. Bead, C. 8. Bridges, 81r B. Howes, IL Robertaon, P. lr. Butler-Johnstone,H. Huddlerton, J. W. Behtar-Booth, O. Cave, 8. Hunt, O. W. Seymour, O. H. Corry, H. L Xarshke, Sir J. B. Walpole, 8. H. Dickson, Major Lindsay, Col C. Who, H. C. Dimodale B. Mlagan, P. Dbonell, B. Manners, Lord J. TELLIIS. Ferguson°, Biz J. Mayo, Bart of Saylor, Col. Greene, E. Montgomery, 81r G. Whltmoro, H. Hamilton, Id. Claud Mowbray, I. B. the Court. OSBORNE, Fza. 17. The Queen drove out, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Henrietta of Sables wig-Holstein. Bir Thomas and Lady Biddulpli and Captain G. Bowyear, &N., bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Yin Macgregor has arrived at Osborne co a visit to her Majesty. FEB. 18. The Quests went out this morning, aocompanied by Prinoess Mestrios. Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Christian Victor, accompanied by Princess Henrietta of Schleswig- Ho/stein, and attended by lady Susan Melville and Um taisist-Oolonal G. Gordon, left Osborne for Frogmen. The Prime of Wake, attended by Lient.•CoL Kennel, hunted with her Majesty's staghonnds yesterday. The Prioress of Wales drove out, attended by the Countess of Morton. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duke of Cambridge at Gloucester Howie. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour. able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council Office, Whitehall, on matters relating to the public health. The lords present were, the Lord Resident, the Duke of Buck ingham and Chandos, Lord Hobart Montagu, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of Gibraltar, the Australian Calorie, Ceylon, and Hong Bong. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Malta. TRH Passers 0, WALLS WITH HER MAJWITY'I3 STAO-HOUNDll.—Yeslerdsy morning his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Oolong Keppl, Woad Kinpards, the Prince's Mester at the Horse, and aososi prided by Lord Wylie, the Master of the Royal Buck hounds, left Saddiagton by spode! train on the Great Western Railway, at 10.10 a.m., in order to hunt with ber Majesty's Staghounds, the fluters being at Ivor Heath, near Slough. At the latter junction the Prince arrived at *lvrea o'clock, and mounting his hunter, " Paddy," rods with his mute to the meet. There there was a large field, among whom was Colonel Riohardson-Gardner and the principal followers of the royal heat, all anxious for the mining sport, the famous door littelsy, which pve such a maguitoent run List somou, having been erpresaly sent over for the day's chase. The deer having been turned out from the cart, the pack was laid on after the usual amount of law, sad the sham commented. Him royal highness rode splendidly and well up to the hounds, leaving not a few laggards behind. The line of country taken by the deer was by Dukes Wood, Hedgerley Green, Sandy Bottom, Stone Dian. and Penn Bottom. At this point the prince was still pursuing the chase. Amassment' were made at Slough for the rotors of his royal highness to /mobs by the 4.10 p.m. train, but when it reached Slough the prince bad not returned in time to meet it. Tan Plantes or Wilat's Cotatom 0111101314 Fn. 16.—His Royal Highs's= the Pribee of Wake Ri.s been Omani to direct letters patent to be pared sada, the isel a the Duchy of Cornwall appointing Edward Coedit, of Saint Austell, EN., sheriff of this county of Cornwall. DOWNING-BMW; Pait. 15.—Th• Queen has been gtZ till=t for J the eo lo .y of liong KKa t, Re t o WirrnutALL, Fns . b eim erledn otropresent p the Bev. Waite= of Blisrborsos. In the sad dims. of bum, void by the rod on of the . Zaward lloroton.—Oszette. CIUTex. PALica. Oxs annum DAL.-- TUZIDAY 18.—Ailininicou Ca poynnint, ; dialeiry isons ; tee *ISM MIL + \i G, FEBRIJAR . to. ~. . v , tom , have been per in little , i , a .3 . v ,- T 1 •4,. ... .3., . . the • eaprefpriellen &ell jr • ' el en • "Mailing which rocluirikih• - ln I parliament by a pirate bill, will be remittal by meat to soma permeasat external tribunal. A al • i h; I • ' 0 • .1 Z k. PARATIONS IN FRANCE. Accosting to the correspondent of the Ltd& 'military prevention' are befog urged forward with extraordinary activity in Francs. The National Guezd m o bil e is b e i ng formed with wonderful haste. " This," it adds, '"s not the only indication of the anxiety of the government to be prepared for any contingency. The provisioning of the arsenals and the army clothing stores is vigorously going am. The deficiencies which were left behind by the &dad nistrationof Marshal Randon will soon be supplied. No doubt the object is to secure peace by prepar ing war. But if the old Roman adage be correct it did not seem to have the same force before Badowa as after that battle. If our arsenals and magazines were then unfurnished it was because they were emptied principally to carry on tho war in Mexico without being obliged to impose fresh burdens on the taxpayers. The security was so complete that a few months before the war in Germany Marshal Randon received orders to do away with even the cadres of the battalions and squadrons which were dissolved from motives of economy. The present war department has repaired all this, and is taking such vigorous and active steps that people begin to think they are not prompted by something that may happen in the remote future." (ham's nammums.) AUSTRIA. SPEECH OF THE KING OF HANOVER. VIENNA, Fn. 19. The Vienna papers publish an account of the dinner given by the King of Hanover yesterday in celebration of the 25th anniversary of his mar riage. They state that in the toast his Majesty proposed he returned thanks to those who had come from a distance to be present at this family meeting, held to show the intimate connection of the house of Guelph and the Hanoverian people. He entertained the con viction that he should return to Hanover as a free King. His ancestors had been compelled to leave the country, but found upon their I return a larger Guelphic kingdom. Providence justified him in the belief that he too would go back to the country as a free and independent sovereign. His Majesty con cluded with drinking prosperity to Hanover, and a speedy reunion in the land of the Guelphs. The dinner was attended exclusively by Hano verian'. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fre. 18. The Porte is preparing for early publication a Grey Book, which will contain about fifty official despatches concerning Crete, the brigandage on the Hellenic frontiers, and the privileges granted to Christians in Turkey. An address to the Sultan, signed by 1,500 Cretans, has been received here, in which the sig. nitaries ask permission for their families to return to the island. Tho Grand Vizier is expected back from Crete this week. His house at Stamboul, with the whole of the furniture and a most valuable library, was destroyed by firs yesterday. The Levant Herald states that Admiral Lord Clarence Paget is expected shortly to pay a flying visit to Constantinople in H.M.S. Psyche. AMERICA. (IT ATLANTIC TILRGRAZH, THROUGH ma. isurza'a AGENCY.) NEW YORK, Yrs. 18. The Inman steamer City of Washington and the Allan Company's sterner Peruvian arrived out to-day. Closing Prices. —Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 11111 ; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 10.40 Bonds, 105 i. Illinois, 139 ; Erie, 761. Cotton : Middling Upland, 23}. Petroleum, standard white, 25. Flour, extra State, 10 dole. 40c. ; corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 32c. M=AT'S= BATORT.-(THIS DAY.) WIIIIIBDAY. FIBZUAIT 18, 8 LW. 'V. i lizleeme. bee, B. T. W. 1 1 1 3:7-7..... W. IL 1:o llaira . WSW B.W. I B.W cob 0.12 1 Alim&ea - ..118.8k N.N.W. 3.8. W. co 033 2 LINN 119.84r 51 N. 8. re 0.01 - Anteasi.; . _ sit.aw, E. B.W. re 0.21 1 61mileas151 120.91 r N. W.&W. 0.29 - Ve193419 lllo.lir • N. 1 N.N.W. rb 1.23 I Cgs* Clear 30.015 :, 1 N. 1 W.N.W. roe 0.29 4 &Wile II Pt 80.00 r NM. 1 B.W. co 0.60 4 - 29.010 .1 ... N.N.W. 8.& & Crcr 63 3 29.701 , N. 1 8.8. W. ro 0.80 - rewasce 19.93r N. 8.8.W. re ass 7 Irma 29.961 N.N.W. 1 B.W tr 0.04 0 Labia - WV . W. 8. o 0.08 4 lectsetori 20.001 8. I B.E. of -. 2 PlTmatth 10.74t N.N.W. 8. or 0.10 8 Weymouth- 38.681 ~.; W.N.W. 1 &W. o 0.01 6 /tansweaNt. 10681 r " W.&W. B.W. Co 0.11 4 fades 29.681 8.8. W. B.W. reo 0.02 - Yoneoutla 119.740 ILAN W. o - 1 4 Ilialasevil 39.061 2 8.8. W. B.W. dr 0.16 2 Philiss 19.741 II N.E. B.W. r 0.371 4 il lusietwa 29.78 18 8. - - r - 6 Haider Brimele 29.90 1 78. Pawls - - - - - - 88 bows -al &W. 3 - - ;-- 1 &Yew 30.20 11 N. 2I - - t - Br mete. 00/11110iMi and rehired to a dem at sea lin& The lotion r (Mon), I (Ming), • (steady), indiade direction of rootionot the within hours. Thermometer exposed In shade, Irk: leas tore.. with Redirection dating last to haus. 2.--calm. Weather: a.—aloe shy: —clouds (detached): L W( h.—hall: m.—. 211 67 (M 7) o.—overcall (dull): r.—rain: a--treow ; t.—thunder. Itain-bil, mow or hall ;melted), during hag Xi hours. Ilea disturbeace. REMARKS : The harometriesldepreasion noticed yesterday afternoon as In za.progrees In the sonth-weet of Ireland has extended to Greet . At Liverpool the reading Is less by 048 Inch; and In the south of England, the present area of low presentee, the diminution bee been nearly seven-tenths. The In pres sure at Valenti& sod adjacent places have bean ex grist during the last 24 bouts, amounting to (Jett-tenths of an Inch yet this morn*, the reading' in the west dicier little from those of yesterday morning. Al the southern Agitates the thermometer is higher but In ilootland and Ireland a diminu tion In temperature Is shown. The gale which commenced yesterday afternoon In the west Of Ireland continued during the night with tin:reseed violence. In ges Milt Channel, and et the entrance of ths English Channel, a northerly gale is now re ported, and on the east wag Its direction is from north-east. Pala has fallen everywhere dace yesterday ; of large amount to the west of Ireland. A high sea is reported is prevailing at the entrance of the English Channel. Weather is very unsettled. Warnings leaned yesterday afternoon. Ll7l/10AT SZRYXCZ.—(BY TILLIORAPH.)—ST. IVES, CORNWALL, WEDNWIDAT MORNING.—Mr. 0. ()rou te% banker, reports that the St. Ives lifeboat of thsWaal Lifeboat Inalitutkm, Ibis morn fiisyeared the mew of five persona of the of Chepstow, wrecked off this place. A gig had previously gone off to the mama, but had capsized sad drowned one of her crew. The lifeboat picked up another of the men. She shipped some tremendous see., which washed overboard the oolawain and two of the crew, who were some minutes in the water, but who were fortu nately soon got into the lifeboat again. - - Tan Lira/rem ()Amon's or Com=as AND MS BANKRUPTCY Lawm—Yr. A. T. fignarey (the recently =bed solicitor to Use Kersey Doak Board) ban been secretary to the committee appointed at the general 'meeting of the chamber held on the 29th Mt e l consider the subject of the bankruptcy laws and of other laws bendier upon ecenniereisi credit and morality. STATINTICAL BOCIBNY.—Last •ht Mr. Archi bald Hamilton reed before the afaWltoal society, Mr. Gladstone, H.P., being in the chair, a On the emm memo between the coloured or Ethiopia mom of Africa, end the civilised world, and the means by which that scan mares, hitherto confined to the coast, may be attended to the interior." A paper wee also read bry Major-Oesseal Balfour, C. B. "On the Comparaelve Medea of Snell and French Budgets." N NEWS.' OTTR PARIS DER . DAY.) (nom on on consoonirr.) , Tuss Iva It has often b een state d RTS , and it is otT quite n% he that when M. Thiers makes • great speech he puns the g."satar put of the night in the Mundell office to revise the proof sheets of the repoit, which he corrects with th e grea t est care. His Wit is to take several cups of chocolate to keep up hi e strength for prolonged work, which, at his age, very severe. M. Berryer, an older man and greater orator, leaves the short-hand write and the Moniteur " readers " to make up his speeches as best they can. After his great effort of bia s , last on the question of the composition of the courts to try press offences, the principal short. hand writer asked whether he would not lik e t o revise the proofs. " I read over a speech that have spoken !" said M. Berryer, " that would be like taking soup after coffee." M. Jules Vivr e , like M. Berryer, does not care to revise his spe e d o ,. M. Emile 011ivier, on the other hand, is gnite anxious about them uM. Thiers. M. Rouher h is his corrected, but leaves the work to his private secretary. Fifteen opposition deputies have presented a amendment to the bill calling out 100,000 men fq the annual contingent, to reduce the numbe r to 80,000. If all is true that the government josr• nals and the Havas telegrams say every day about the pacific intentions of France and ita friendly relations with all foreign powers, the amendme n t ought to be carried. Unfortunately we know th a t it has not the remotest chance of a favourable eon. aideration. M. Mille Nod, editor of the Globe ; M. Juke Vallds, a writer on the paper ; and M. Serre, th e printer, are summoned before the correctioad police (President Delescaux) on Friday next to answer a charge of having "insulted agents of public authority on account of acts performed is the exercise of their functions." If the new " liberal " law were in operation, the Globe might be fined upwards of 3,0011. for this one article. M. Greppo, a representative of the people in the Constituent Assembly of 1848, who has, I believe, been for some years quietly carrying on the bald ness of s wine merchant in Paris, was arrested the other day at Lille, where he is now in prison on a charge of having brought into France prohibited books from Belgium. The students of the Quartier Latin made a row at the Od6on yesterday, on the occasion of the re• production of Kean, • piece brought out at the Varitftefs in 1836. Between the acts they cried con. tinually " Ruy Bias !" and " Vivo Victor Hugo!" and they " underlined " every phrase in the tent which could possibly be construed as marina upon the politics of the day. For instance, nLa Kean is made to say :—" In England there is tiival tine for great and small," the students exclaimed, " Not in France." I have not heard of any arrests. M. Auber was summoned to the Tuileries after mass on Sunday to receive the congratulations of the Emperor and Empress on the success i his new opera. It is recounted that when the Emperor reminded the Maestro that the title of his new work was Le Premier Jour de Boldseetr, Auber re. plied, " Yes, sire, yesterday was the first day of happiness, but this is the second." I cannot think this jets de mots a fortunate one. M. Auber would be very sorry if the most favourable critics ‘,l his latest work said it was his first success. I sue. pact the ill-timed exchange of compliments to be the invention of court journalists. FASHIONABLE AND POLITICAL ANNOUNCE. .VENTS. The OirT, which reappears to-day, has the lowing announcementa : Owing to the necessity for preventing unnecessary crowding at the forthcoming drawing-roonis to be 12,14 by her Majeety, orders have been given that only the lady and maid of honour in waiting are to attend the Queen. — Her Majesty is about to confer upon Dr. Jeener the dignity of a baronetcy.—We hear that it is not unlikely that a certain section of advanced liberals will invite Mr. Adams to a farewell dinner before his final departure to America next April. Mr. Bowra has received permission from the Pekin so. vernment to return to Nepaul withthe Nepaulese Embassy. We need hardly point out the importance of this journey to the came of geographical science. A marriage is arranged between Mr. Edward MarcielJ, of county Kildare, Ireland, and Mies Magruder, sister to Lady Abinger, and niece of Major-General Mi gruder, late of the C.S.A. ; also, between Captain C. Laprimandaye, A.D.C. to Lord Napier, and Miss Blanche Le Merchant, daughter of Lents tent-General Sir Gaspard La Merchant, late Governor et Madras; also between Mr. Julian Goldsmid, M.P. foe Monitor), and Virginia, elder daughter of the late Mr. A. Phillipson, banker, of Florence—and between Mr. Francis William Lowther, Flag Lieutenant to Admiral Sir liablvin Walker, Commander-in-Chief at Sheerness, And Miss Louise Beatrice de Foublanque, daughter of Mr. Ueorge Barrington de Fonblanene. _ Yesterday the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Saha , land were enabled, during the Sr. at the Clinting-crow Railway Station, to make experiments with the portable machine called the " Extincteur," which the Prince him. self worked, under the direction of Captain Shaw, the chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade.—We are enabled to state that, pending the report of the oommiatiou appointed to inquire into the best plan for facilitat ing the business of the courts of common law and equity (of which Lord Justice Cairns is chairman), no further steps will be 'skin towards appointing architects for the New Palace of Jas• time.—lt Is understood that the Irish Reform Bill will propose to reduce the borough franchise to 4f. rating ; ta divide the county of Cork and give each division or riding two members ;to the Queen's University a member ; sad to the City of Dublin an additional member. The font members are to be obtained by the disfranchisement, or gronping,of Portarlington,Mallow,endothersmall boroughs. —Last year a conference of deputies from certain nations met at Paris to consider the monetary system of various countries with a viow to their assimilation. A royal commission, with Lord Halifax at its heal, will shortly be appointed to examine the report of the gentleman who attended the conference on the part of Great Britain. — The Admiralty have ordered 300 old 8-inch guns of 63 cwt. to be immediately converted into Gi-pounder Palliser ritled guns for the use of the navy.—We understand that the civil ►ppointment accepted at Constantinople by Captain the Hon. A. Hobart, R.N., is inspector of naval school'.We hear that an active system of rattening is going on at the Foreign-office, the Diplomatic Service being celled upon to declare that they are in favour of agencies. THE RZPRFARICTATION OF LAMBETH.—Anoth er candidate is in the tell for the representation ei Lambeth at the next general election. An address has been aimed from Mr. William BleArthur, abs dates from Gwyder-houses, Brixton, and offers him self in the liberal interest. Carman Hanta.—A deputation appointed _by some bodies of dissenters had an interview with lir. Gm& stone yesterday, at his house, upon the Compulsory Church Rates Abolition Bill nssoared and brought in by Mr. Gladstone, air George rey, and Sir Roundel' FM ' mer. The names of the gentlemen antrohited " re gr ' William Edwards, Mr. Edward 111,11, Mr. Charles Seedy Mr. J. Williams, and Mr. Shipboard. ADMIRALTY, Fee. 18.—ArPOINTMEWM. —Stib. lientensat Wm. B. Bend), to the Beacom Middripre, Frederick Maitland, to the Achilles. Samos to the BeisteL Amostent-Bargeon Samuel Mellon, addl. Ronal, to the Wellesley. Amistant-Paymaster Seamed R. Lek, additional, to the Mercy. Feb. 17 : Liewsiant Robert H. Harris, to the Britannia. Chief Itlincem Win. H. Bundle, to the Indus, for orrice in the Primer, Royal ; Edwin Bonitos, to the Lion ; Thomas F. Hall, to the Fianard, for service in the Wolverene.