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THE Right Honourable CHARLES PELHAM VIL- Mita, who presides to-night at the annual dinner of the Cobden Club, dm* so with an appropriate ness which is logically complete. He is the par liamentary originator of the great measure with which the names of COBDEN and BRIGHT will be ever avaociated. Years before the Anti-Corn- Law League was formed, before either of the great freetraders were members of the House, before there was agitation out of doors, or the faintest chance of success in Parliament, Mr. VIL LIERS struck his bold note of defiance, and moved for the total and immediate repeal of the corn laws. This was in March, 1838. He had sat for Wol verhanipten three years, and by this course—if indeed it were not a freak of eccentricity to pass by and be forgotten—ho was thought to have alienated permanently all that rising politi cians hold dear. That the promising member of • noble and influential family, the young speaker whose ability and readiness had already won upon the house, the man whose future claims to office might be considered assured, should voluntarily jeopardise his hopes of gratified ambi tion, and trifle with his chances of becoming a power in the State, was spoken of in aristocratic circles as lamentable. The man who ran a tilt against the land was jeered at as a new QUIXOTE fighting windmills again. Such was the condition of public feeling then that the Prime Minister, Lord MELBOURNE, volunteered his opinion iu the House of Lords that " he had heard of many mad " things in his life, but, before GOD, the idea of " repealing the corn laws was the maddest he ever " heard of." The people of to-day cannot realise the mingled horror, pity, and aversion in tired by the advocacy of free trade. But the Teich in which Mr. VILLILItS originally brought the subject before the Rouse was as bold and mtspoken as any of those which subsequently wrought a social revolution under the auspices of the League. Admitting that no excitement was then felt on the subject, he yet maintained that " of all " the wrongs the =reformed Parliament had in " fiicted—of all the errors and injustioes of that " body, the unrighteous laws which raised the " prioe, while they limited the amount, of human " subsistence, were the most shameful and inju " noes." His motion for a committee with a view to immediate repeal, which was seconded by Sir WILLIAM MOLE/WORTH, and opposed among others by Mr. DISRARLI, who gratefully thanked the House for listening to his brief and modest speech, was defeated by a majority of 203 in a House of 395. Among the minority voting with Mr. VILLIERS were Lord GEORGE BENTINCX, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Sir GEORGE GREY, Lord Moßnrrit, the Hon. ARTHUR RINNAIRD, and Serjoant WILDE. Still the landed interests and those afterwards fami liarly known as the monopolists, wore so strong that all hopes of carrying the measure were laughed at as futile. But from this moment the subject was seen to grow. Mr. VILLIERS'S annual motions became a stock parliamentary subject, and to many people a stock parliamentary bore, like Mr. BERKELEY'S on the Ballot, Mr. BILOTHERTON'S on lute hours, or Mr. Hums's on financial re form. He was regarded as the mischief-maker of the House. In the winter of 1838-9 a great banquet was given at Manchester to all the mem bers who had voted for Mr. VILLLERs's motion the year before. The Lancashire Free-trade party heard their guests speak, and the next day chose Mr. VILLIERS to take the lead in Parliament on their behalf. A few years later, when the League was in full activity, and on the night when the now member, RICHARD COBDEN, uttered his dignified rebuke to the parliamentary ribalds who jested at his story of the sufferings caused by the obnoxious impost, be turned with marked emphasis to Mr. VILLIERS and complained, with out-stretched hand and in dignant gesture, " that when the hon. member " for Wolverhampton, for whose distinguished " services I, in common with millions of my coma " trymen, feel deeply grateful, two years and a " half ago proposed that those who were agitat " ing this question should be heard at the " bar of the House, the House scouted " and rejected his suit, and while denying him a " hearing misrepresented his motives." But the pro posals once laughed at as visionary wore gaining enormous strength, both in and out of the House. Colonel PEYRONNET THOMPSON'S " Catechism of Free Trade " converted millions of puzzled thinkers into eager partisans ; and Mr. BRIGHT was sent to join Mr. VILLIERS and Mr. COBDEN in Parliament during the summer of 1843. Now, it was that the League started its newspaper, and commenced its monster meetings in London, and Mr. VILLIERS presided over the second of these at Covent Garden. In his "Life of Lord George Bentinek," Mr. DISRAELI writes of the repeal of the Corn Laws being "under circumstances of " infinite difficulty, first and solely upheld " by the terse eloquence and vivid perception " of CHARLES VILLIERS;" and refers in the same volume to the latter's ability in forming rapid and sound opinions. The praise is appreciative and just. The quality running through Mr. VILLIERS' oratory is epigram tinged with cynicism, combined with an enviable faculty not merely of putting his opponents in the wrong, but of putting their wrong in the most ludicrously damaging light. To take a phrase, a definition, or a principle used or professed by the upholders of the Corn Laws, and after endorsing and ap proving it up to a certain point, to suddenly turn, and, by giving it his own application, convert it into a smashing weapon of offence, was with him a favourite oratorical device. The battle once won, the subject gradually became less prominent, and, though we find Mr. VILLIERS moving the Address at the request of Lord Join RUSSELL in 1849, after being returned fur South Lancashire, it was not until ten years later that he had a seat in the Cabinet. Mr. Cocnvi had, after due reflection and consultation with his friends, refused the proffered honour. Mr. MILLER GIBSON was already in the Ministry when Mr. VILLIERS accepted the Presidentship of the Poor-law Board. Public opinion on Poor-law has changed as utterly since then as it has since 1838 on the duties on corn. The department was hated, and its interference steadily opposed. Its very existence was regarded as temporary, and " Thank God! you won't be here to bother "us another year" was a favourite parochial method of meeting reproof. The Public Works' Bill was originated and carried by Mr. VIL LIERS; and, under Mr. PaitaraLL, who was created special commissioner for carrying out its provisions, it effectually grappled with the Lancashire distress. The abominable law of settlement and removal was amended by Mr. ViLurata's Union Chargeability Bill; and the Metropolis relieved of a crying scandal and injustice by his Homeless Poor Act. The Sick Poor Association had his expressed ap proval, and the subordinate he trusted most is said to be at this moment expiating in exile the extra-official humanity of his chief. It was at the first public meeting of this association at Walls's Booms that Sir J. KAY firirrna woßru—no mesa authority—declared that more useful measures had been brought in and passed during Mr. ViLuxaa' tenure of office than at any previous time. But the election for the important county of Lancashire, unsought and unexpected, and while he was pledged to his own constituents at Wolver hampton, was perhaps the greatest public com pliment paid to the Com-law reformer. After his election for both places the SPEAKER had to ask Mr. Viumata whether he appeared in the House as representative of the borough or the county, and he replied chivalrously, for the former. Wolverhampton had placed un bounded confidence in him before he was known, and in his hour of triumph he felt bound to his old love. The pecuniary testimonial it was proposed to make him he felt it his duty to decline; and at this moment the recogni tion he points to with the greatest gratitude and pride is the spontaneous confidence shown him by the constituency Mr. GLADSTONE represents. Mr. Vux.rmus excels as an antagonist. He hits straight and ho hits hard, and if any thing so unlikely wore to happen as that free trade policy, or poor law reform, or Liberal principles, wore assailed at the Cobden Club to night, those present would hear a better speech than if merely conventional compliments were ex changed. THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK AND THE LORD MAYOR. TIIR Loan MAYOR had a lesson last night in proper feeling and good manners, from the Arch bi,hop of YORK. In proposing the toast of the House of Lords his Civic lordship " had no hesi •• tation in expressing his belief that on Thursday " next the House of Lords, by a largo majority, " would niect the Bill for the Disestablishruent of " the Irish Church; " and added that " no one " could for a moment suppose that the bill could " meet with any other reception from that " quarter." Mr. Alderman ALL= appears to be gifted with an enviable oonfidence in his own pre science and infallibility. He has taken his side in polities, and henceforth the prosperity of the country and the fate of the Constitution depend upon his views being carried out. The oon siderations to which ordinary men yield, the opportuneness, the propriety, and the fitness we all seek for the enforcement of our opinions—cannot be said to restrain him. Ho ie Loan MAYOR, and it seems to him a per fectly natural proceeding that in dispensing the hospitality of the City in his official capacity, ho should insist on foisting his private political senti ments upon his guests. The Archbishop of YORK replied in a widely different strain ; and his speech may be quoted as an example of what can be ac complished by a Churchman, a scholar, and a polished man of the world, when suddenly com pelled to skate upon the ice. Ho has no notion that a grave constitutional point can bo disposed of in the summary and undignified manner pre sumptuously shadowed forth by the LORD MAYOR. He anticipates " a prolonged and groat debate." "My Loan MAYOR, you have assumed " that, on Thursday next, we shall di " vide on a most important question. I think "we shall not so divide." Above all does the ARCIIBISHOr shrink from jumping flippantly at a conclusion as to the result of the debate. What ever his host may deem in accordance with tlus canons of good taste, his more dignified guist declares that " as to the conclusion at " which we may arrive after such considers " tion it does not become me to speak." Dr. Tuomsott was happier still in the avowal that he has no fear of the effects of either dis establishment or disendowment. " The Church " of which I am an unworthy member," he said finely, " does not stand upon a foundation laid by " the State ; • • • and can only be really diem " tablishod and disendowed bybecoming spiritually " dead." If the clergy approach the question in this spirit they need have little fear of either their religious authority or temporal influence being diminished. The Anenntsuor ended by expressing his deep conviction " that the House of " Lords will not approach this groat subject with " a foregone conclusion, without hearing " what can be said on both sides," but, will, on the contrary, give it " the calm and dispassionate " consideration" its importance demands. In other words and with all politeness, he condemned the LORD MAYOR'S unseemly speech as hot-headed and unwise, while striking such a lofty and high spirited note as his clerical brethren would do well to follow. M. LF.SSEPS will be one of the guests at the great dinner to be given to Mr. CYRUS FIELD next week ; and we may hope he will have an opportu nity of telling the assembled company his latest views respecting the Suez Canal. The popular opinion of that enterprise has undergone consider able modifications since Lord PALMERSTON used to make it a frequent theme for jocu larity in the House of Commons. The decidedly adverse opinions given by the late ROBERT STEnizzesos and by engineers of eminence since, are met by statements from eye-witnesses who, though without professional knowledge, are quite capable of deposing to plain facts. The letter from Mr. Dmeiva. LAItoE in this morning's Times is full of statistics to prove that the canal will pay when opened, and stems to pass by as already settled the comple tion of the canal and its practicability for com mercial uses. Captain luoLuFizi.n in the same day'spaper, describes a visit to the canal in January, 1867, in company with Lord CLARENCE PAGET, when they steamed up it for upwards of forty miles, and when the whole party "had but one " opinion of the future," i.e., " that if capital " could be obtained for this vast enterprise it was a " certain success." The Duko of ST. ALBANS wrote, it will be remembered, to the same effect a short time ago. On the other hand, mem bers of the English Institute of Civil Engineers have visited the canal works quite recently, and do not hesitate to avow their conviction that the scheme can never be made to answer. 11 , Sir ROBERT Nirrnt loft Alexandria on Mon day last, according to the Egyptian telegram, he may be expected to arrive in England about the 6th proximo. If ho was at Malta on Monday as stated in a Paris telegram, ho may be expected to arrive about the 2nd proximo. If Sir ROBERT reaches England by way of Frame, he may be expected to arrive in England on the Ist proximo or on Saturday next. We trust that we shall now see a " day named " for the proposal in Parliament of a vote of thanks to the distinguished General and to the forces lately under his com mand. OUR OONTEMPORARIB3. (THIS DAY.) TIM NOM OP LORDS AND TEI ntrur 471113111011. The most remarkable among the consequences of the debates upon the Irish establishment this session, observes the nom, have been the extraordinary oonstitu tional theorise which have been brought to light. Lord Redesdale seriously asked the House of Lords last night to consider what would be the consequence if the personal opinion of her Majesty were opposed to any dealing with the Irish establishment. What are the safeguards of our liberties if the views of our legislators on the working of the constitution are thus vague and uncertain? It MOM incredible that we should have to re mind Lord Redesdale that the Sovereign "can do no wrong," simply because the Sovereign can do nothing except by and with the advice and consent of the ministers of the Crown. Her Majesty has consistently observed the letter and spirit of the constitution, and it is impertinent to apprehend any disposition on her part to depart from it. It is for tho Queen's ministers to devise the legislation appropriate to any successive conjunction of affairs. It is for the Queen's ministers to recommend them for the royal approval; and the suggestion that the Queen would hesitate to adopt the advice of her ministers when sup ported by parliament is disloyal to the Crown and consti tution of these realms, whether it comes from poor or peasant. The Daily !sews confesses to considerable curiosity con cerning Madame Rachel's fascinating pursuits. It would be interesting to know, for example, how long she has played the benefactress to the plain and old, what led her to engage in this single-handed combat with Time, and what her pursuits were before she was inspired to beautify the world. Assuming the statements put forth on her behalf to be true, the process of plucking Mrs. Borrodaile must have lacked the element of sport. She never held a conversation with Lord Banelagh, yet believed he was burning to marry her, and there is nothing in the evi dence to show that she has survived that delusion yet. It was for the express purpose of solemnly repudiating all knowledge either of Mrs. Borrodaile's money or herself that Lord Ranelagh appears to have c►lled upon Mr. Cridland, her solicitor. During the interview, and while his lordship's indignant asseverations were at their height, Mrs. Borrodaile herself made a chance call to inquire how her cause was going on, and was promptlyoonfronted with the nobleman whose conduct she has im pugned. If Lord Ranelagh saw that his presence in Madame Rachel's shop had strengthened de lusions which had boon disastrous in their effect, the question probably occurred to him, as it has occurred to most readers of the case, why was he there at all Y We acquit his lordship of all suspicion of trafficking with Madame Rachel in cosmetics, or of being made beau tiful for ever. But it is not so easy to absolve him of indiscretion in placing himself in a position to be used as a decoy-duck to a silly and credulous woman. The an noyance inflicted upon a respectable woman and an honourable man are the least satisfactory portions of the past exposure and the coming trial. The Daily Telegraph for the present expresses no opinion as to the relative credibility of the purchaser or the vendor of the beautifying drugs. Nor can much sympathy be felt for either party. The public, indeed, wish to know the nature of the business by which silly women are made beautiful for ever. The Central Criminal Court will throw light on the true character of Madame Rachel's trade and pursuits; and for her appearance at the Old Bailey the public has to thank the firmness of Marlborough-street Police-court. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) THE SERVIAN CONSPIRACY. The Servian conspiracy seems to have originated with a society called " Serbalca Omladina," or " Young Servia." It is composed of young men— principally students—and is spread over the whole country. It has many members in foreign countries. It is a speciality of the association that it never bolds meetings except in the vacation time, that is to say, between July and September. Servia has no university of its own, but the Servian youth are sent for the most part at the expense of the state to foreign universities in France, Austria, Germany, and Switzorland. These young Servians form committees in each univer sity under different names. Those who study in Vienna, for example, have a committee called Zero, or Aurora. Their objects are partly recreative, scientific, and literary. They publish every year an alnianack containing original patriotic tales and scientific articles on subjects which were the objects of study in the various com mitted. The Omladina is the name of the as sociation formed by the entire body of students, when they return to Mervin for the vacation. It is a kind of student congress which meets in Bel grade with the consent, and under the surveillance, of the authorities. The different committees give an account of the labours of the past year, and agree as to the work of the next year ; and the resolutions adopted are adhered to with scrupulous exactness. The last mooting of the Omladina was presided over by M. Gruic, an ex-Servian minister, and was dissolved by the government on account of the tumultuous nature of the proceedings. These young men are animated with what they deem grand Servian ideas ; and they wore not very favourable to Prince Michael, whose sole merit in their eyes was that he freed the country of Turkish garrisons. According to the Italian Correspondence it is not Prince Alexander Karageorgevitch, but his son Peter, who has been at the bead of the conspiracy. It is stated in a letter addressed from Seinlin to the North East Correspondence, that Mazaillo, a captain of engineers, and the immediate author of the attack on Prince Michael's life, was shot on the 19th in the fortress of Belgrade. (THROUGH REUTER'S AGENCY.) PRUSSIA. HANOVER, Just 24. King William left here at 7 o'clock this morn ing en route for Hildesheini. His Majesty was in excellent health, and nothing of an unpleasant character has happened during his stay in this city. KIEL, Just 23, EvrAmo. The government has ordered the preparations for the convocation of the Selibswig-Holstein Diet to be made as rapidly as possible. The Russian war frigate Dmitri Dreskoy from here to-day. RUSSIA.. ST. PETERSBURG, Jove 21. By decision of the government, the Moscow and St. Petersburg line of railway has been ceded to the Great Russian Railway Company. It is reported that Prince Wolkorisky, at present Russian Envoy at Madrid, is intended to be trans ferred to Vienna. ITALY. FLORENCE, Juss 23, Eviyimo. A convention for farming the manufacture of tobacco in Italy was signed to day. The con tracting houses are MM. Stern, of Paris, London, and Frankfort ; de Haber, of Paris Schnapper, of Paris ; and Joubert, of Paris. An Italian Credit Mobilier Company has been formed, with a capital of 50 millions, with power to increase. The company will advance the govern ment 180 millions in gold, payable in six months instalments, for which the company will issue bonds. PORTUGAL. LISBON, JUNE 23, Evnmro. The American war steamer Canondaigua has ar rived here to-day from the Mediterranean. She will leave for Southampton in a few days. OUR PARIS LETTER. SERIOUS TRIAL (MX 0911 OWN 001PONDINT.) PARIS, Tummy Emma. The Assize Court of Paris was occupied yester day and to-day with a serious abortion case, in which the principal defendant is M. Regniard, the manager of the well-known Bedford Hotel, in the Rue do l'Arcade, much frequented by English visitors. He is a handsome young man of 29. The person charged as his accomplice and agent is a midwife named Hely. The case made by the ade d'accusation is that Regniard, a man of respect able family, who had received a good education and had been a partner with a stockbroker, had for a mistress before he took the Bedford Hotel a girl named Marie Bose Chacon. He at first allowed her 600 fr. a month, but afterwards when the Stock Exchange business turned out badly, lees. It was in December, 1866, that his mother bought the Bedford Hotel in order to put him into it. He then took a lodging for his mistress at No. 4, Rue Pasquier, close by. The prosecution avers that, finding her enceinte, he introduced her to the woman Hely for the purpose of procuring abor tion ; that an operation performed by the woman Hely occasioned her death ; and that she declared the truth to another lover named Bernard, who laid the information. The medical evidence seems to leave no doubt that the girl did moot with her death from an operation of the kind charged in the indictment. Regniard denies that ho know anything about it. The trial will probably not conclude till late to-day. When the court ad journed yesterday, the presiding judge, M. Rohault de Fleury, exhorted the jury to remember their oath not to communicate with anyone on the subject of the trial until it was over, and to let him know in case any attempt should be made to tamper with them. In France a jury is not locked up during an adjournment as in England. Every man on leaving the box goes freely to his own home. At the Gafete Theatre yesterday evening a young man who was drunk, making a disturbance, stabbed a municipal guard who told him he must leave the house. The wound, inflicted by a pocket knife, was serious enough to require the care of the surgeon to the theatre, who, as usual in France, was in waiting. The debate on the budget is to begin on Monday. M. Thiers has invited several friends, non-parliamentary as well as parliamentary, to his house to-morrow to hoar an outline of the great speech which he proposes to deliver. Among these privileged persons are MM. Berryes, Odillon Barrot, de Fallon, Vitet, Martin, Duvergier do Hauranne, General Chan gander, Father °retry, and the Duke do Broglie. Again the Bourse was extremely lino , Rent 20c. for cash, and 2;e. for seeount ; 7leir 70e.. and 70fr. 75e. Italian rose 70e.., 54fr. ¶4oc. ; there was no change in M.,), l i i „,. ° at i scarcely any in Credit Funcier, or d'Escornpte. TsB ILECTRIC TELEGRAPHS BILL. The Select Oommfttee on the Electric Tele graphs BM haa been nominated, as follows :—The Chan cellor of the Exehequer, Mr. Goschen, Sir Frederick Hey gate, Mr Leeman, Mr. Charles Turner, Mr. Norwood, and five members to be added by the Commxttes of Selection. . . The " instruction " to - the committee is to Squire : 1. Whether it is desirable that the tranaminion of mes sages for the public should become a legal monopoly in the Post-office. 2. Whether it should be left to the discretion of the Postmaster-General to make special agreements for the transmission of mes sages or news at reduced rates. 3. What securities should be taken for insuring the secrecy of menages transmitted through the Post-office. 4. What arrangements should be made for the working of submarine cables to foreign countries; and, 5. To hear such telegraph and railway companies and proprietors as shall by petition, on or before the 26th instant, have prayed to be heard by them selves, their counsel or agents against such of the matters referred to the committee u affect their particular interests." PUBLIC THANKSGIVING. The following is a form of prayer to bo mod at morning and evening service in all churches and chapels in England and Wales on Sunday, the 28th instant, as a thanksgiving for the preservation of the life of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, and for the success and safety of the Abyssinian expedition: " • 10 - EY 01 PRA YER AN; 10 TO ALXIOHTT 00D. " Almighty God, our Creator and Preserver, in whose band are the issues of life and death, we give Thee humble and hearty thanks for Thy late mercy vouchsafed to her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and to her people, in the preservation of the life of his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh from the murderous intent of the assassin. Continue, we beseech Thee, Thy watchful care over him ; lot the light of Thy countenance shine upon him ; give bim Thy grace and heavenly benediction, that paming the life which Thou bast graciously spared in Thy faith, fear, and love, he may finally attain everlasting joy, through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. "0 Lorcl6od of Hosts, who makest wars to cease in all the world, we humbly offer Thee our devout thanksgiving that it bath pleased Thee to go forth with our army in the Abyssinian war, to guide and guard our forces through manifold perils in a strange land, to scatter their enemies us chaff before the wind, and by Thy marvellous Previ dence to give deliverance to the captives. Thine, 0 Lord, is the counsel and the victory; to Thee be the glory and the praise. Impress us, we beseech Thee, as • people, with a deep sense of these and all fly mercies; and grant that, ever Ara trusting in Thy protection, we may serve Thee in all god liness and honesty, to the glory of Thy holy Name, ugh Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." RITE GETIERILL ELECTION. The Telegraph cautions the liberal party at the general election against such division of electoral forces as will give aid and comfort to the enemy. An attempt on the part of any association, or any prominent individuals, to divide the liberals of any town, is so inexcusable, that it can be accounted for only through grate personal vanity, or, in some cases, through the corrupting influence of Tory gold. The man who, calling himself a liberal, divides the party, and thus helps a tory to come in, must either be the dupe of his own egregious personal pretensions or simply an unavowed agent of the Carlton Club. It is very easy for the rival candidates to ascertain, by preliminary can vass, or, if needful, by preliminary poll, who commands the larger amount of party support , and let the successful man—whether he be county aristocrat, known politician, local merchant, radical orator, or working man—be nomi nated as the candidate of the party, and supported without reluctance or reserve. THE CITY MEETING. The Herald and the Standard seem greatly pleased with the proceedings at the City meeting, and adjure the liberals to lay the moral of the catastrophe to heart. The Herald sap there is no doubt whatever that " the voice of the people" was emphatically against Mr. Gladstone and hie allies. "What right," we quote the Herald, "has the Adelphi gang to dictate to the citizens of London, or claim the use of the Guildhall for the ventilation of their radical balderdash i" Cite Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Am 23. The Queen, Prince Leopold, and Princess Bea trice left Buckingham Palace this morning at a quarter past ten o'clock, attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe and the Equerries in Waiting. Her Majesty drove to the station of the Great Western Railway at Paddington, escorted by a detachment of the 17th Lancers, and pro °ceded by special train to Windsor. Her Majesty arrived at the Castle shortly after eleven o'clock. Major-General Ormsby left the Castle yesterday. The Dowager Duchess of Athole and lam Macgregor have left the Castle. The Hon. Lucy Ken has arrived at the Castle as Maid of Honour in Waiting. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elphin done, left Buckingham Palace this morning for Chatham. Prince and Princess Louis of RIMS attended by Baron von Babenau and Major von Hesse, dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales, at Marlborough-house, last evening. Prince and Princes Christian, Princes Louis, and Prince Arthur, attended by Lady Barn Melville, Baroness Glancy, and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell and Lieut.- Colonel Elphinetone, honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, with their presence Let evening. The Prinoess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by Viscountess Walden. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Prince of Denmark, attended by Viscountess Walden, Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, and Captain Lund, dined with the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland at Staf f ord.bonse. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. A deputation from the Committee of the City of London Orphan School, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Bed ford, Mr. W. C. Fowler, and others; and a deputation from the inhabitants of Stockwell, consisting of Mr. W. Millman, Mr. B. Swete, and others, had severally an inter. view with the Del of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, on Monday. The Earl Forteecue received at dinner yesterday evening, at his house in Lowndes-square, the Earl and Countess of Albemarle, Lady Rolle, Lady Catherine Allen, Hon. James F. Stuart Wortley, Hon. Mr. Brodrick, Sir William F. Williams, Mr. lon Hamilton, M.P., Capt. Seymour, Mr. St. Aubyn, and a select party. The marriage of the Earl of March with Miss Amy Ricardo, daughter of Mr. Percy Ricardo, will take place in the autumn. Count Andrew Bernstorff left Prussia HOW* last night for Berlin. Lord and Lady O'Neill entertained at dinner, at their residence in Be!grave-square, last night, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Cairns, the Marchioness of Huntly, the Earl and Countess of Bandon and Lady Emily Bernard, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Mr. and Lady Louisa Forteecue and Miss Forteecue, Lady Laura Grattan, Colonel Probyn, Major Benham, and Mr. Torres; M.P. In the evening her ladyship received a select assembly. His Excellency the Danish Minister, General de %low, is mitering from an attack of the liver, and has been coaxed to bed for several days. SIR ROBERT NA Plat (11T TTI.ROD.A.PTI.) SHREWSBURY, WY.ONII.4DAY MonNinn Sir tobert Napier will visit Tre tr Webdipool, the residence of his father-in-I tw, Scott, shortly after his arrival in Engftivl. A meeting of the inhabitants of w yesterday afternoon, at which it war v. .I gallant general a public ; and appointed to make the ni , ce,Nary :sr , (114 JIG E BY 1,()R1) .1( ; .1% ,) EXTRABR I)I NARY W.I. KVI. At the Marlborough-stri...t morning, Loui,a Gould, rotti 1114. Knox with a.-aillting . „ sidrs at No. 7, Ni w Itui t. Lord Itatoilagh Said-- 1.:14 eight 1 %ca. Piccadilly whcn this woman acco , ti• I M.% me t 4 l give her some; mous y. Sli•• a milliner, and that aim had two II,•6. if 1 would like to go and N 1 ..• (11. away and she followed Too, and tee for money, and on my telling r knoekcil my hat off anil my cigar out .4 iny L, rtawil why I charged her W3.+ hecan,e Ifl „ . next time she met me she might km... 111.+ woman is well known at the police—, Mr. Knox—Does your lonb.hip know th. . Lord ltauelagh—l have known hcr 3.4 , years. The prisoner—We Lave been on the I,•••t I can assure your worship. I good friend to you, Lord Itan , l.e:h, c have been short of money. Although yo 1 1: lon', you know you are por. I rr t y !t night in Piccadilly, and told you that y•4l ,r,' ,t Mina I'M some awful , you promi.4l 11 I: you before, you told me that you Icid with your rifle corps, and you then give you had about you, half-a-crown. I liay.• • and been to your house repeatedly, and I , a ~ you speak to TOP in thi , way you O. Police-countable Harding, 2240—At a 9 , ,.rt. t night I was in Piccadilly, and Lord It:m.ll2h .Ll. I I I - • the prisoner and complained that she Lel A k.l is off ;mil his cigar out of his mouth, and th it ,!, annoyed him all along Piccadilly, • . give her any money. I did not s,•o the Let I caw his lordship's bat lying in the -t. dirty. Mr. Knox— Pri-onor, why did pat kirk I i r lagli's kit off pristmcr—l wa: annoyed. I admit Lord Itanclagh—They ray at the ' , tat ion that known. Mr. Knox—ls she known ? Ilanis (the gaoler)--fihe hoot' bor.. t harp,' with drunksiiness and Ironl rly vichict, nothing else. Mr. Anon (to the prisoner)—Whatcrer cause of complaint against Lord ltanelagl. nay y really have any at all, you hay. right t • ,• • I presume, Lord Itanehigh, that all you requa- II it t be molested in future iv Lord lianel.•tgh—That k iny the prisoner—Why do you not p t y 0„. 7, ; owe I It IN not much, tin 4 you know that pm nm it t i,•. Mr. Knox - I shall order the prisoner to tint L t il t keep the peace towards Lord Ranelagh all t h e subjects. Lord Lytt(dt(in presented a 1,0 it ion to the 11. m.. of Lords last night from clergymen of the Engli,6 clior, h. praying the house to concur in removing the iiijii.ti...• the Irish establishment. The Deani of Ca11(121'1111"y ail Bristol and the Archdeacon of Coventry are at th head of the sioatures, and associated with them are the Master of St. John's Professor Jowett, of Os fora, Profe•sors Maurits: :is Kingsley, of Canthrage, Pridessors Plumptre i Cheetliam, of Kings College, Loudon, and V, • Ilead Masters of Winchester, Harrow, Bitgby, if Oh v. bury, Clifton, and the City of London schools, a aiderable number of London incumbents, many i , IL x• and tutors of the two ritiversitieq, and other All these concur in the declaration that the MOM. t. cl • of the Established Church in Ireland as the tot, church of the country is an injustice which legiton 4t.17 offends the majority of the Irish people, and th.v , • cortlingly pray the Iluuse of Lords to adopt ,Il‘ h 111 sures as may appear best suited to remote the offence. The second reading of the Establi.h.4l ri m ,, (Ireland) Bill in the Ilmise of Lords will he m iv. Earl Granville. The impression that Lord Cl rii I would move the second reading is probably due to tip 'that his lordship gave the notice of the second but he did Bo not on hie own account, but on bolidi vi Lord Granville. The Compulsory Chnreh Ratrc Abolition BM etanda for committee in the novae of Lordi on Friday next. On the 3rd proximo, the Earl of Carnarvon in tends to move for copies of a certain despatch of thn 10th January from the Secretary of State for the GAonie.i, rela tive to the consecration of a colonial bishop in South Africa, and of a despatch of March 31 ou the same sub ject The Marquis of Townshend has presented a bill before the House of Lords to amend the Metropolis Loral Management Acts. The bill, which is confined to ono clause, simply propenes that every vestry or district heard shall provide and maintain sufficient and proper steam or horse rollers for the purpose of levelling every street in which broken granite or flint has been laid for the making or repairing of the carriage-way. A requisition is in course of signature at Southampton to invite Mr. Alderman Perkins, of that town, to become a candidate at the nest general election for the representation of Southampton in parliament. Alderman Perkins is a native of Southampton, is an advanced liberal in politics, and has been three times mayor of his native town. At Hanover the King of Prussia, replying to the municipal authorities who have been prenntid to him, said :—" I do not disapprove the sentine lit, invited by previous relations; but that which does honour t, the heart and to the paternal house ought to rest there, other wise you will go against me and my government, and yen will compel me to act accordingly. Have confidence in me and I am convinced that we shall go onward to better state of things." A NEApoLrrAN PRIEST.—The Assi2e Court of Naples has just concluded a singular trial. A yours; widow, 29 years of ago, named Maddalena 31.kuri, entered the service of the Rev. Benedetto Cnte. The connection resulted in the birth of two chil dren. A rival having appeared in the field, Mad dalena asked the priest to adhere to his promise be marrying her. Conte refused. She then left his house taking with her 600 ducats. Conte accused her of theft, but he probably would have abandoned the prosecution if she had not sternly refused to place her second child, a daughter, in the Foundling Hospital. During the trial some letters were read which show a singular mixture. On January 13, 1868, Signor Conte wrote to Luigi, the mastered the prison in Gaeta, where Maddalena was confined :—" It B not suitable either for her or for me, who am a pries/, that she should keep the child as she proposes. In ac cordance with my sentiments of religion and honour add of tranquillity both for her and me, she must obey my well; hers is contrary to the laws of the church. She erpnes us to the contempt of the dregs of the people." On the let of March Conte wrote to his former mistress that ho would not continue to live with her. "Everyone," ho writes, " looks out for himself, my good sister. Since my bad luck would have it so, let the will of Hire, who arranges everything for our good, be done. Pray to the Lord for me, as I, on my side, pray for you." After the reading of theme letters the jury brought in a verdict of acquittal for Maddalena. A deputation of volunteer medical officers will. it is understood, shortly wait on the Secretary of State for War, upon the recommendation of his Royal Ifi Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief, regarding ghness thi the wee= unsatisfactory medical arrangements throughout the whole force. I ! 1 VA. mit Lit 1 .it , • W (lr,• Fill At la witt thre her gent bri 1.111.1 .1;. , Mil 7 lid Ivi . I MIA .1. II fa X were rel I ••Tlrr gt 1,1.111 l•p0, I 1 haell , • 11110 11,11 r of 1,10 t r•oill of .lfeuv the n 1 y , 1, _.. t . .l b et 1 ,. cau 1 01 reo ~, u14., Aft...r ,tlud ~tiH.lic , e in II„• aet I he 1 khitt tit of kited k curt leei "l e (