The Express. — London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

FURNITORIS cot DECORATION. JACK- AllN AM GAM' tld invite barflies 'Ma to furnish to bispect the various departments of their establishment to 'argent and m,a. complete of Its kind. and their manufactory In which, with the aid of steam power and mt.:Wain, all newts of e...onornidurt on► in the production of dra o -clasa furniture are employed. The ..how.roonte contain every requir e 'Ascrip- tion and style of fitrnitatr from that *depend to the went' of UMW who doge., to furnish at tht most economical rate consiFtent with t 154 taste and sound workmanship to that In which art industry id the highest clan' Ii employed. Every article is market: In plain arms at Lath prices.-2a, 33, 34. 33 47, and 38, Oztol.q.rea PHILLIPS and PEARCE. Artists in Glass and Chins to the trieen, respectfully sblicit an inspection n 1 their NOVE price, L acid BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. They are original. moderate in perfect in term, nurkusauship, ltnd manufacture. Mr. D. 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Y IN JUNE. pra - se which SPF:N...EIt bestows oft Ow first of that tinnier ninths will be fresh to-day in the moiling: of all who iknow tlie poet au/ lore the fri*_amou e.olly June arrayed Al; in green I.• • a lie a player weir. A in hi.. time he wrought I,a well as plssw,l, As plough ironA inote.right well :.ppeay. .111U.y-% Wl', indeed, has Buffered somewhat st the hands cr..the poets, or, perhaps, not so of the poet:. as of the ',domain of the ('aliridar. I tithe of roclviingite first ten or twelve days 41:44.,12ie last ten a• twelve days of May, and a good deaf of the prsiae bestowed upon that fa vinnaal.untath belonged probably to June. 'Me later voi:e, taking phrases bate their pre decessore-re:Ler than observatioak from nature, have sermilely echoed their epithets and eimu lated their enthusiasm, and hat• spoken of the May of the Gregorian calendar as, if it is ere from its first day to its last, the May of the Julian reckoning. The ease is one of mistaken identity. .1 tine, however, has not been without its proper singers. It is in SPEN , ER as in Cote in not:, the " leafy month," the month of shade as well as of sunshine, the month id 11:,lida3 a as well as of labour. The flowers of Spring have in great part vanished. The horse-chesnuts, ri ith their creamy cones, the lilacs and the laburnums above head, are gone or fast going. Winteswoierit's flower, the lesser celaudine, :aid its more stately congener, " the Ode!' king '• cups line'• of TENNYSON'S verse, departed iii the earlier year. Violets, CO% slips, mad prinn , se - s are no longer to be seen. But June is the mouth of the chief of English ,I.)wers —the month of roses, as well as of leaves. It is the month, too, of haymaking, the industry which seems both work and pliv‘. "In his time he wrought as well as played." It is a happy thing for holiday-makers when the chit f holiday fi r working-people falls, as it does now, in June, with its more settled and genial weather. ifs leafy shelters in woods and by hedgerows, its long and fragrant grasses, themselves a covert from the heat, " its pleasant secret of hay-making," with the cool sweep of the scythe through the grass and the sharp sound of the blade on the whetstone. The mysteries of the Moveable Feasts have. this year brought Whit-Monday into June, though only ou the tint day ; and June has felt it a point of honour apparently not to be taken by tirorise, but to treat its !Atfiequent and casual FiR guest witl a real sample of June weeAbse. Let us hir•.•= : , that the month will be tru9 to the promise cI its opening, and earn, by persistence in well , - doing, the mote, Qactlis al) incept°, which Sir STAF FORD Nossuours suggests for the Abyssinian army. Apart from these fanciful considirstions every one who feels how much more miserable is a day of spoiled enjoyment than a day of hard work, will rejoice that the poorer pleasure -.Akira ,f England are promised a dozen hours of brie weather for a holiday, older probably than Christianity, though it has assumed now a Christian guise, a holiday which their fors fathers kept in German and British fawns, which Awrittist, flower of kings, celebrated in Caerleon, and which has been held, with con stantly diminishing honours, ever since. The m; very-plays which were the delight of our Roman Catholic ancestry on this day have given 'way, in spite of LUTHEIt's approval, to the less. profane drama of the secular stage. The Morris-earners are gone. In their place, we have, in 'London at least, only the street " Christys" who do honour to the day by fame rather More ermacieritiously blackened, and new wardrobes. The Lord and Lady of Whitaun-ale have became a tradition. The Ipilgrians of Greenwich, more numerous than the Canterbury pilgrims, have ceased to make their 1 anne , al a:session to that sons sacer Greenwich ! hill, and to illustrate by charging down its ale the frteii.is desrenus A uerni, and by losing their footing, the difficulty revaeare grtularn when once a false step has been made. Thu South- Eastern Railway, by reduced chargesand the proffer of trains every few minutes, still invites pilgrims to the shrine of departed greatness at Greenwich ; the Old Kent-road is still open ; the river steamers ply. But Whit-Monday at Sydenham is more attractive than Whit-Monday at Green wich ; and the "Pekes of the People's pleasures," to quote the alliteration of the advertisements, the one place for a holiday," with its hospitable entreaty to " come early," and its con siderate arrangement for " children at half -1 " price " is in possession of the field. " Little All Right " and the Japanese tumblers, the Messrs. PAYNE and the amusing monkeys, the African hairless horse and the banks of rhododendrons in full bloom, possess attractions to which Greenwich Fair in all its glory might have succumbed, and with which Greenwich in its decline vainly competes. But Whit-Monday in London is a mere working day when compared with Whit-Monday in the towns of Northern England. Harmless Sunday school teachers and less innocent Sunday school children, then imitate the customs of the fierce Scythian hordes, and mi• grate in waggons to remote parts of the country, accompanying their progress with wild cries, and hideous music, and flaming banners which but for the scriptural names and benevolent maxims in scribed upon them might strike terror into every heart. The towns, as has been said, are in posses /6m of the children ; and it is creditable to them that they do not use their power to retaliate upon the local authorities—say the mayor of each borough—the tyranny of King HEROD, and reverse the massacre of the innocmts by an assault on the grown-up population. The courage with which the teachers of these thousand and tens of thousands of emancipated children venture unarmed in their midst doe{ honour to human nature. Except a lost child or two on every expedition of this sort, we never heard of any harm coming of them. A visit of some six or seven hun dred or a thousand persons is scarcely favourable, perhaps, to that "inward eye which is the bliss of " solitude," or to that quiet contemplation of t lie beauties of nature which refreshes the habitual dwellers in cities. But at any rate the thing is not much worse than Mr. COOK', popular excursion parties, or joint stock societies for foreign travel. The children and their guides obtain health and amusement ; they get the year's dulness divided by a day upon which they can look back, and a day to which they can look forward with interest. Even this scanty relief is not to be despised in lives monoto nous and laborious from infancy. In furnishing it Whit-Monday, or, as it properly is, White-Mon day, deserves its name. It is crehi autto.(lo. ItONsINI AND I'ERDI. Ir the maladroit letter of the Italian Minister of Public Instruction, in sending to ROSsINI the order of " the Crown of Italy," could be con sidered a fair representation of Italian sentiment and opinion, and not merely of Signor BROci.io's &Miners, it would deserve to be recorded as ono more instance of theproverbialezperienceof prophets in their own country. For Rossini, although an Italian born and bred, and Italian to the core of his gemlike' and character, is a prophet that has lived fur sonny years out of his country, surrounded by the admiration of strangers, and removed beyond and above the neglect of his fellow-countrymen by absence and by age, by. his charming and cynical indiffereiv,e to fame, his lung retreat, and, perhape we might add, by the silence of his Muse. Since Italy became a kingdom and a nation Mossier ;URA been (wanted among her chief glories; but as a eamiposer Cossini can scarcely be said to exist for the present generatizni of Italians. His operas are seldom performed in the ordinary c.mrse, and are lis.`eneal to with something of the reverence for the cellebeated praluctions of a past time, rather than the eager pleasure witk which the works of a contempeary composer are hailed. 131 fact the Rossinian epoch of Italian opera is i past and gone in Italy. It was an epoch► of care less frivolity and voluptuous indifference. It finds no echo in the heart of a revolutionary age and a resurgent nation. Of such an age and such a people the trite representative composer is VERDI. The qualities or the defects of his musical genius and inspiration are those which belong to a tumultuous period of revolutionary wars and movements, and to the throes of a national regeneration. That is the source and secret of the violent libndli , and the startling choral effects in unison in which Venni delights, and which, as the critics say, " carry away the " house." It is the music of a moment of storm and stress in the life of a nation. Not that it has no other and more lasting merits, for how otherwise could the operas of VERDI be the moat popular, the most widely appreciated and enjoyed in the whole repertory of all the opera houses of Europe ? lie has high dramatic power, passion, and emotion; he is always vocal (though he kills voices), and he has a vein of melody which many a composer, with all the learning and science of the schools, must envy. In his latest operas he seems to have either worked out his original vein, or to be falling a prey to the dangerous ambition of changing his style, and perhaps of Germanizing it, and pick ing up the mantle of MEYERSZER, if not of dividing the mantle of WAONER. Perhaps this is only a passing phase. MEYERBERR'S first manner was TB* EXP I ES4 MONDAY ir" Italia, and hi, last vr.sipther /illsncl4ban O min. Roeais even +II he IDA for the 'Griot 'Opera -ti ' M ini ag gi tt wrote dramatic recitatiles and 'lolanda of vocal declamation, did nal there fore aba , adon his Italian grace. Signor Visor, it is trr.o, is a good patriot, and a mount politician as we'd as a brilliant composer, and he is now a mos',; Conservative politioan, that is, of course, in the;ltilian acceptation of the term. As a com poser his greatest worlcs belong to his revolutionary Says, but his admirers will hope that his later Con servatism may appear in his music also, and pre serve him from laboured and eccentric innovations with which bia native genius has no natural affinity. 0 1 'G, JU DAY.) Our oontemporaries this morning have but few gabfests in Manson; The li•ri+, Monsehig the Usiver sity 'Feats. 11 ads the whole argument to be that a change demanded as breed public grounds on behalf of the whole nation, sad not ouiy net sWslsd kat soluiHr Melted by, the m ast eminent of the very eam whose privileges It weal t supersede, will assuredly /be accomplished with little delay, and prove to be for the benefit of all.. Mr. Fell's railway train, if permanently oreemeaful. will reader the great tunnels and other works on the Alpine reads, the Times says, at obsolete and varerfiuous as the ecru -duets of the old Romans appeared when people become familiar with the fist rudiments of hydraulic saisnes. Another article is the Times is devoted to the religious riots in Lancashire. If such emergencies, it says, should occur mere frequently, ee must retrace our stem, end recognise the revival of eieorder by arming our *mutable, and re-organising our police; but the contra /4ot, after all our assumptions, would be very mortifying to the national pride. In the unanimous acceptance of General Grant as the candidate of the whole Republican party in America, the Daily Nem sees • proof of its restored harmony and • guar►ntee of its success. He will probably be elected by a vote in which all the states will slur: for the first time since Mr. Linooles first election, and will be the first Re ' publican President who will preside over an undivided Union. The unusual beauty of this year's May, the ga thering at the levee on Saturday, and some exaggerated expressions by Archdeacon Wordsworth and Archdeacon Ady on the subject of the Irish church, are among the other topics treated of by our contemporary. The Herald taxes Mr. Gladstone with impeding the pro ' greas of useful legislation. In the matter of the new law courts the Herald con- demns the Strand site, and urges that we had better begin again, putting up with any for which may arise from the re-sale of the ground which we have just bought so dearly, rather than go on with an undertaking which will probably cost twine as much as we had calculated upon, and be a failure after all. In the East Worcestershire election the Post sees in 'traction which both parties may turn to good account ; its moral covers the whole field of the controversy upon which they are entering. The contest has been a sort of exercise-ground for the liberals, and it has given the Con servatives an opportunity of proving their policy and of testing their tactics. Mr. Lyttleton's friends have every reason to he satisfied. The Star wee in the enema which are constantly being enacted in connection with compound householders a pain ful illustration of all that Mr. Gladstone said last year on the subject. If compounding had its evils, as it an doubttdly had, it would not have been difficult to remove them by the reform of the rating law, bat no each reform was thought of or cared about. Referring to the unexpected practical support which Mr. Mill's advocacy of woman saffiage has met with in Salford, the Star derives satisfaction from the thought that when the champions of exclusion have to reject voters whose names are legally upon the electoral lists, for • presumed disqualification of sex, and to do this through lengthened legal proceedings, a full and open discussion of the right asserted must ensue. COPYRIGHT FOR "ALIENS." ONE branch of the 11w of copyright has just re ceived lucid ex potation from Lord Chancellor Ca ass. Miss CUMMINS, an American authoress, now deceased, went by arrangement to Montreal, Lower Canada, for a few days in 1864, while her book, " Haunted Hearts," was being published by Messrs. SAMPSON Low and Co., in London. The point raised was whether a work published under such circumstances was entitled to the protection of the English copyright law; whether "an alien " publishing in London during his or her tern " porary sojourn in a British possession," is in the same position as a native-born subject of the Crown, and this has been settled in the affirmative by the LORD CHANCELLOR, with the concurrence of Lords WESTBURY, CaaNwoErN, and CHELMS FORD. The decision is eminently satisfactory. The intention of the Copyright Act is, it is now stated on authority, to obtain a benefit for the people of this country by the publication to them of works of learning, of utility, or of amusement. This, as Lord CAIRNS was careful to state, " may or may not be a benefit to the " author, but it is a benefit given, not for the " sake of the author of the work, but for the sake " of those to whom the work is communicated." The literary class may be congratulated upon their interests being so far identical with those of the public, that a wise and liberal interpretation of the law is held to imply protection under the circumstances described. But until brain-crea tions are considered property as much as beeves or lands, there will be constant irritability and dis satisfaction among those possessing them. There is something especially irritating in the improper appropriation of works upon which men have expended their highest culture and best thoughts. Lord MAC AULAY once wrote to the newspapers that a publisher announcing an unauthorised edition of his speeches was " emulous of the fume of CURLL ;" Mr. CARLYLE was never more caustic than when as " a writer or maker of books" he penned the letter claiming protection for the work of his hands ; and Mr. CHARLES DICKENS recently gave the grievance a practical form by explaining that with an American copyright law ho would in the place of " moderate savings " be now in the possession of a very large fortune. Why should there not be a universal copyright law The wisest heads of all countries are interested in securing it ; and it would be for the common benefit if we had such a " federation of the world." WE publish in another column the Report of the Royal Commission upon the Neutrality Laws. The recommendations of the Commis sioners may be summarily stated. They ad vise that the Foreign Enlistment Act be amended by prohibiting the preparation or fitting out in her MAJESTY'S dominions of any military or naval expedition against the territories of a foreign state with whom her MAJESTY may be at peace, and that the violation of this prohibition shall be a mis demeanour. The Szcatirraitv of STATE 13 to be em powered to issue a warrant to the Commiui mere of Customs for the seizure of any such ship as he may suspect of being built or equipped against a friendly power, and to detain it until it shall be condemned or released by process of law, or un til the owner shall prove that it was not intended, or shall give security that it shall not be employed, for the purpose imputed. Indemnity, in case of wrongful detention, is to be secured him. The Commissioners recom mend further that hiring men under false representations for hostile service against a friendly power shall be a misdemeanour ; that prizes captured by vessels equipped in England shall, if brought within the jurisdiction of this realm, be restored to the owner or his agent ; and that vessels of was built in England, in violation of the neutrality laws, shall not be admitted into any port of her MAJESTY'S dominions. If the spirit of these recommendations had inspired the conduct of her MAJ I:STY'S Government some years ago, we should have been spared the Alabama claims. They concede all that the United States de manded. There can be little doubt that the English Legislature will give proof of fair and friendly feeling by adopting them. In recom mending these changes the Commissioners practi cally admit that during the American struggle Lord RUSSELL acted in harmony with the law as it then was. Nothing more can be required of any nation than that it should change its policy as soon as events and calm deliberation have shown that such a change is desirable. This England is ready to do. !Arrests fnin the Abyssinian expedition to the Bth of May have cme ti hand this morning. The rearguard hail retraversed more than a third of the distance which lies between Magdala and our ships. The army was moving, in two brigades, two days apart. The pioneers were in front as an advanced guard, said the elephants, which give trouble when many other animals are on the road, marched in separate column and kept be tween the two main bodies. The sky was daily clouded, and rain fell in large quantities. but without serif nney impeding the march. About a dozen Ilindun'ani followers, chiefly muleteers, had been waylaid and killed by the inhabitants, and some twenty r 'eaves had been shot by our men. The latter were chiefly Abyssinians, as the ;alias, the most murderous of robbers, displayed superior caution. The troops, who were in good health, were receiving not mly full rations, but luxuries, such as sugar s and vegetables, at an in creased rate. The commissariat, having made pro vision for a more prolonged campaign, were obliged not only to issue items usual.:T reserved for Euro peans to the Hindustani followers, but to have behind or destroy large quantities of the heavier articles. We End it mentioned Mat amongst the baggage on its way, are 90 mule foods of books, collected by Tarootnts from .the numerous churches which he ransacked. The news of the winner of the Derby ~.te always telegraphed to India, where there are beta arnouAtiDg to thousands of pounds depending on it. The basket makers of Plymouth are on strike. DECEPTIVE BALANCE r,HEETS. The Daily NMI says the system of preparing deceptive balance.sheets, which has been practised with nearly in variable success for at least twenty-live years, has re ceived, if not its death blow, at least a very rude shock, from the decree recently delivered by a French court, com pelling the directors of the Credit Efobilier (Paris) to make good the loos incurred by the shareholders in subscribing for • recent issue of new capital, on the faith of accounts judicially pronounced to be utterly deceptive, and at • time when the company was practically insolvent. Eire Court. BALMORAL, MAI 28. The Queen went out in the morning, accom ponied by Princess Louise, and ber Majesty drove in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Duellers of Athole. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Elphin. stone, left the Castle. MAY 29. The Queen walked in the morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and her Majesty drove out in the after noon, attended by the Duchess of Athole and Miss Mac gregor. The Duke of Marlborough arrived at the Castle. and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. Dr. Augustus Petermann, of Gotha. a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, had the honour of being pre. aerated to the Queen. The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Prince of Denmark, with the Countess of Macclesfield, Major Teesdale, and Captain Lund, in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's yesterday. The communion service was read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Rev. Thomas Helmore. Anthem, " Come, Holy Ghost," Atwood. Sung by Masters Coward and Wo ul, bLesira. Francis, Cummings, and Winn. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr Jelf, from Romans, ch. 8, v. I. CABINET CouNcyL.—A Cabinet Council is ap pointed to be bold on Thursday next, at the First Li r 1 a the Treasury's official residence in D.Arning-street. RETURN OF THE QUEEN FROM S 'OTLAND.—Her Majesty is expected to return from Scotland alont she 13th or 17th of this month. His Royal Highness the Prine 3 of Weler, sa Colonel of the 10th (Prince of Wales' Own Royal) Hus sars, dined with the officers of and those formerly le. longing to that distinguished tezitrent at their anneal regimental dinner at Willies Rams, King•str;et, St. James* on Saturday last. Lord Stanley, - M.P., left town on Saturday for Knowsley for a few days. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mn. Gladstone left town on Saturday on a visit to the Countess Cowper, at Panahanger, Herts. His Excellency the French Ambassador has blued invitations for a ball at the French Embassy at Albert-gate on the 10th inst. The bake and Duchess of Buckingham have left Chandoe-hoagie, accompanied by their family, for Wotton, for the Whitann holidays. The Duchess of Marlborough will have evening parties on Saturday, the 20th and 27th inst. The Earl and Countess of Derby have left their residence in St. James's-square for Knowsley, where they intend to pass the Whiantn holidays. The Earl and Countess Grey have gone on a visit to Fiances Countess Waldegrave and the Bight Hon. Chi chester Forteacue, M.P., at Strawberry-hill, during the Whitman holidays. The Earl of Shrewsbury, we (Pvit) are informed, is seriously ill in Scotland, aid his life is despaired of. Viscount Inv:sire, M.P., in consequecca of a telegram re ceived on Saturday evening, announcing the dangerous illness of his father, left town by the mail train for Scot land. The Randalstown Protestant Defence Associa tion, of which Lord O'Neill is the president, is to hold an open air demonstration a Wednesday next in fikaoe's Castle park. The Hon. Edward O'Neill, M.P., is to take the 'lain The railway reratiag to Randalsto on intioxls to mast thidenteaseationists Warning cheap tickets from all its stations. Mr. M'Carty Downing, a libtowl, is mentioned in easassios with the representation of the county of Cork, sad Is Weriord an attempt is to be. mods to " MAIO the representation altogether from the otwasyratives." Tits Isles Plies PRISONER.. —By order of the Lord-Llenteasat, Mr. Sullln•, of 04 Nati IN, will be re imiso from farther imprboatoent. It b aaJeretood tied oa a allow:be of • writ of error la the ease of Mr. Pigott, of the Maltase, be will also be rammed. The trial of Ex-Governor Eyre is expected to ewes on in the Court of Queen's Bench tomorrow, when Ns. 'asides Shaba= will deliver the 'barge to the °end Airy. P 1866. TAM NITIT*LITY LAWS. BACOIDISI= IO O N F THE ROYAL ` l4 rais morning a blue-book was issued for the intormation of parliament ? giving the report of Ike Neutrality Laws Commissioners, together with an appendix containing reports irom foreign states, and other documents. The report is as follows : We, your Majesty's coatmissioners, appointed " to in quire into u d so snider the character, working, and effect of the laws of this realm available for the enforcement of centrality duiln; the existence of hostilities between other states with when your Majesty is at poem, and to inquire and remit whether a• y and what changes ought to be made in such laws for the purpose of giving to them in wearied efficiency and bringing them into full conformity with your M. jedj's interostional obligations," have now to state to your Majesty that we have held 24 meetings, sad having inquired into awl coosidered the subject so refe-red to us, have agreed to the following report : Th statute tow available for them enforcement of nen trait, dud, g the existence of hostilities between states with whom your Majesty is at peace is the 59 Geo. 111., mo. 69, commonly called the "Foreign Enlistment Act." The title of that act is "An Act to i reveat the enlisting or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to serve in foreign service, and the titling out or equipping in his Majesty's dominions vessel. for warlike purposes without his Majesty's license." And the preamble runs thus: "Whereas the enlistment or engagement of his Majesty's subjects to serve in war in foreign service without his Majesty's license, and fitting out and equipping and arming of vessels by his Majesty's subjects without his Majesty's license for waille operations in or against the do- minions or territories of any foreign prince, state, po tentate, or persons exercising or assuming to exercise the powers e f government in or over any foreign country, colony, province, or part of any province, or against the ship., goods, or merchandise of any foreign prince, steel potentate, or persons as aforesaid, or other subjects. may be prejudicial to and tend to endanger the peace and eel fare of this kingdom : and whereas the laws in force are not sufficiently effectual for preventing the same." • This, then, being the statute directly aysible in this country fur the enforcement of neutrality, our duty has been to inquire and report whether it is susceptible of any and what amendments, and we are of opinion that it might be made more efficient by the enactment of provisions founded upon the following resolutions : I. That it is expedient to amend the Foreign I nlistu ent Act by adding to its provisions a prohibition against the preparing or fitting out in any part of her Msjesty's &mi nions of any naval or military expedition to proceed from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign state w.th whom her Majesty shall not then be at war. If. That the first paragraph of section 7of the Foreign Enlistment Act should be amended to the following effect :—lf any person shall within the limits of her Majesty'. dominions. fit out, arm, despatch, or cause to be despatched, any ship with intent or knowledge that the same shall or will be employed in the military or hat al service of any foreign power in any war then being waged by such power against the subjects or property of any foreign belligerent power w ith whom her Majesty shall not then be at war : (b.) Or shall within her Majesty's dominions build or equip any slip with the intent that the same shall, after being fitted out and armed either within or beyond her Majesty's dominions, be employed as aforesaid : (r) Or shall commence or attempt to do, or shall aid in doing, any of the ..c•s aforesaid, every person a.) offending shall be deemed gui;ty of a misdemeanor. 111. That in order to enable the executive government more effecta.lly to mina n and prevent attempted offences against sec'. 7 of the Foreign Enlistment Act, additional preabions to the following effect should be inserted in the statute : (a) That if a Some' ary of State shall be satis fied that there i.e a reasonable and probable cause for be lieving that a obi? which is within the limit, of her Ma jesty's dominions ha, been or is being built, equipped, fitted out, or armed contrary to the enactment, and is about to be taken beyond the limits, rr that the ship is about to he despatched contrary to the enactment, such Secretary of State shall have power to issue a warrant stating that there is such a treasonable and probable cause for believing as above aforesaid, and upon such warrant the commissioners of customs or any other person or per sons named in the warrant shall have power to arrest and search such ship, and to detain the same until it shall be either condemned or released by process of law, or in warner hereinafter mentioned. (t) Tlat the power here inbefore given to a Secretary of State may, in parts of her Majesty's dominions beyond the seas, be exercised by the governor or other person having chief authority. (,) That power be given to the owner of the ship or his agent to apply to the Court of Admiralty of the place where the ship is detained, or, if there be no such court there, to the nearest Court of Admiralty for its release. (d) That the court shall put the matter of such detention in course of trial between the applicant and the crown, with usual Admiralty appeal to the Privy Council. (r) That if the owner shall establish to the satisfaction of , the court that the ship was not and is not being built, ' equipped, fitted out, or armed ,'or intended to be despatched, contrary to the enactment, the ship shall be released and restored. (f) That if the owner shall fail to establish to the satisfaction of the court that the ship was not, and is not being, built, equipped, fitted out, or armed. or intended to be despatched, contrary to the enactment, that the ship shall be detained till released by order of the Secretary of State, nevertheless the court may, if it shall think fit, order its release, provided the owner shall give security to the satisfaction of the court that the Chip sha'l not be employed contrary to the enactment, and provided that no proceedings are pending for i's con demnation. Ig) 'Mat if the court shall be of opinion that there was not re aonable and 1 r-bable cause foe the detention, and it no such calve sba'l arise ,r in the course cf tie proceedings, the c-urt shit 1 rye pow er to declare that the owner ought to be indemnified by the payment of c, em's and damages, which in that ease shall be payable out of any monies legslly applicable by the com. missioneis of the Treasury for that purpose. (h ) That any warrant of the Secretary of State shall be laid before parliament. li) That the proceedings herein provided shall not effect the power of the crown to proceed if it thinks fit to condemnation of the ship. (k) That the following exceptions be made from this resolution : 1. Any foreign commissioned ship. 2. Any foreign non commissioned ship despatched from this country after having come within it under stress of weather or in the course of a peaceful voyage, and upon which ship no fitting out or equipping of a warlike character shall have taken place in this country. IV. That it is expedient to make the act of hiring, en gaging, or procuring any person within her Majesty's do minions to go on board any ship, or to embark from any part of her Majesty's dominions by means of false repro sentations as to the service in which such persons are in tended to be employed, with intent on the part of the person so hiring, engaging, or procuring as aforesaid, that the persons so hired, engaged, or procured as aforesaid shall be employed in any land or sea service prohibited by section 2 of the Foreign En listment Aot, a misdemeanor, punishable like other mis demeanors under the same section. V. That the forms of pleading in informations and in. distments under the Foreign Enlistment Aet should be simplified. VI. That if, during the continuance of any war in which her Majesty shall be neutral, any prize not being entitled to recognition as a commissiceed ship of war shall be brought within the jurisdiction of the crown by any person acting on behalf of or under the authority of any belligerent government, which prize shall have been cap tured by any vessel fitted out during the same war for the service of such government, whether as a public or a pri vate vessel of war, in violation of the law. for the proteo- Con of the neutrality of this realm, or if any such prize shall be brought within the jurisdiction as aforesaid by any subject of the crown, or of snob belligerent govern ment, having come into possession of such prize with notice of the unlawful fitting out of the capturing vessel, such prize should upon due proof is the Admiralty amnia at the suit of the original owner of such prise or his agent, or of any person autheriaod in that behalf by the govern. ment of the state to which snob owner belongs, be te.., stored. VII. That in time of war no vessel employed in the military or naval service of any belligerent which shall halm bastxbailt, equipped, fitted out, armed, or clempateliqd soatrary to the enactment, should be admitted into any port of her Majesty's dominions. In making the fore sok'g recioramodations we have sot felt ourselves bound to consider whether we ware ors/midis( what could actually be recisired by international Jaw, but we am of opinion that if those reeommendolisus shmild be adopted, tips II ,~ music' al law of this realm available for the enforcement of neutrality w.ll derive the t seed efficiency, and will, an far tse we can see, have been brought into full conformity with your Majesty's internia'ional eb ligation's. We have though, it better to prePent our r .rommut i a in the form of general resolutions la, lag dvs a the riaciples on which legisla. tion should be framed rather than to attempt to draw up i *tail the pees, form of the statute. We have sub. joined, in en Appendix to this report, certain papers re. toting to t• e lass of foreign countries on this subject, which have bona communicated to us by your bill*tf a &Cretan' of State for Foreign Affairs, together with a short hhtorioal memorandum prepared by Mr. Abbots for our inf rmatit a, and some other document' illaatr•a. tire of 'he subj ,ct. All which we submit to your Majesty's gracious consideration. CR tNWORTH. HOUGHTON, CAIRNS. W. Eat r, c • W. W. BMI.IIEI L, R. J. l'uttumoge, 1; , P T. Tw•laa, W. Vi.RNON HAR. COI . RT, T. B W. If. Gat:Gota, W. FORSTTR. Dr. Lu , hington did not sign the report, having, from indivotition, teen unable to attend the meeting. atter June. Mr. Vern( n Harcourt signed the document, tat gives reasons for dissent in; from certain portions of it, In the rosin tart of the committee's recorctutnda. awe' he entirely amen. a, especially that which pr o . poses to increase the efficit ncy of the power tteic:•ed by the executive gov ernmen t i n restraining awa i tot ( ' violations of neutrality Th ose port i ons of the ;‘.port with respect to the policy of which he entei tin., ion. siderablo doubt are contained in reso l u ti ons 11..ini 111, which extend the p un iti ve power o f t h e law ai..l !i.• T.., vtutive authority o f th e execut i ve to the t ~ of ships, apart from th e ques ti on o f their ..1. a,.. (or despatch from the realm. ilia apprehensior. ~;‘;,,nsuch an exttrision of the law s h ou ld unutc. s•a ! le, and therefore unwisely, interfere with the shi t I ~I.lng trade of the count ry,and inpiii on tily affix' a i teat :::..• (41 of national resource and publi c economy . If :.II hia:.ime with a certain intent i s t o b e const i tuted a cro,:e a 1., h is part of the duty of the government to rept. , e , . •hta there is not a keel laid, a holt driven. or plank s. v i . i a any yard in the country which may not at every :r.•:. :! be exposing the nation to a responsibility titbi .•.• a. known. THE 1101:_VDARY co3l3lismf,s This morning was published the repcdt ti.e Select Committee on the Boundaries of I:croc.. , ', the minutes cf proceedings appended. was appointed cn the lgth ult., anal wag Comp, g. following gentlemen, vit. , Mr. Walpolp, - u •- ling-Maxwell, Mr. Whitbread, Mr. Auxin 1:3ur,....d •Ir. Kirkman Hodgson. The inquiry relate It? borough?, and t: ohe 7of the conimittt e as to e amino the recommer , ltet.- • the . 00tindary comnii?si ni in, and to report wh.,l , . rations should to made therein. In the pm, .t, of this duty they seem to have experienced much Me ..y in laying down any general rules for their guid lac , . The general inferetce wh'oll the commit , ioners drew fro n. the directions that were issued to them was that they should determine whet , er the s Aing Imundmies einbraeed the whole of the population which ought to be included within the limits of a b rough. This rule appeals to the select cc nimittee to have been a Mat inference but they have had to consider how far the rule might he applied to each particular bortugh. Much additional information la? in many cases, been communicated to the committe , , and this information, and the enlarged scope of them lowers has led them to corclusions differing in sour ..{(4) from those of the commissioners. With iespect to the four new boroughs, th. son. mittee, in the case o! Darlington, recommend the assimilation of e parliamentary au 1 rnu.i :pal boundaries; that the recommendations of th. coin. missioners with regard to Chelsea should be carried out, except so far as the same relates to a part of the of Chiswick. which they think should not be inc:tul, din the new borough ; that the borough of Middlesborough 51.0,1,1 include the whole of the municipal boundary, with such other additions as are named. The committee contain the recommendation of the commissioners as to st..lcv. Midge. With respect to the old boroughs, the committte concur with the commissioners as to Helton, cl ..•••er, Greenwich, Newport (Monmouth), Northampton, 11, and Windsor. In the case of l'reston they tecolom.ril th.it it should include the present borough, togctlie• with The Holm, lying to the east of the present of the River Itibble. In the cases of Ne wpm t Isle of Wight), s..lisbuty, and Wilton, theco: .:. . concur in the general observations of the stoner, at the commencement of their Sep , , but they recommend cert.,in ...Iterations. They ,1•,• certain alterations with respect to the burou4ii• toiliarn, Gloucester, Hastings, and Oldham. The committee are of opinion that it will Ir visable to make any change in the boundaries of th- fol lowing boroughs, viz. : Bit kenhead , Bine Gateshead, Lambeth, Liverpool, Marylebone, 11 • Nottingham, Portsmouth, Reading, South s' mouth, Warwick, avail Wigan. The committee .leem it tight to advert to • ...co sp!cially cornets' with towns which :t. themselves,like Nottingham and Bristol. boroughs the commissioners remarked that islet. 1r •dai• tional districts might be included within them. ti.. •• holder in the parts added would, in the ono , of any provision simil,,r to that cos.' the slat section of the Reform Sot of •• still vote for the county, notwitl,tan.ii..,..: the freeholders within the existing path area vote for the borough only." This aueteal) - ives urged as an additional reason in the coins of Net and Bristol, why the ex sting boundaries of <leo-. 1 , .. uella should not be altered ; but if they be altered the so:. .;:es reemm end that tb s anomaly should he .4 dt •L LY spez.fic THE LEVEE. LA T v l e l e e o fo n ll s o a w t in ur g day we : re among the presel,t.t.or. ..: e , ir Ntlehael Hidte Beach on uppointowtt iJ . - • werethry to the Poor-law Board. ty Ri7ht lion f• 1 , -.- • 1.;a1 of Cattiperdowu, by Hon. Alfred Chat teriM. by big hither, Lord LI. !.•• cjooel hunt,* lhotbzuy, C 8.. ou .t•• V. 9*ctor of Itesetve Force., by the Coder so olut -I frr ford klt4harilinue,b; the E rl of r lion. Thomas Wentworth Fitrwillinui, lo II 0 , The A'iee Chancellor Sir George .Slarkliant ' in.:nt. haro.illor. . _ I he earl of Harrington, by Lord Southainot. , tt Mr. Walter Scott Setoiclitirr, nn appoint , ' Sccri•tary to the ttovernnicitt of Indio. by tb ' S. ccetary of State for littlia. Rev. John Milne, N.A., baplain to the biro • tont.neneral. Captlin Str Leopold M't iintoek. , A.l) t • '• to' the First Lord of the ithoit atty. Vito:mint l'etteriltatti.hy the Earl of Ilarrtic:t 0. 17.iptatit Bedford lint, it N., by the First bold • A thitiralty. - . . . The Earl of Ewer, I.y the Earl of Eldon. The Earl of Rosebery, by the Linke of (level:old. i t , file Lord Justice Selwyn, ou appoiutnient, by the " o Hie% Rear-Admiral sir Adolphus Slade, on hi , Turkey, by the Wight li. n. Henry Cony. yla steplien Temple. 9 , her Ilaiisity's the rowdy Palatine lanedAter, ou ollor 01 the Duchy of Larica , der ,ntrt Mr. William Stuart Walker. en his appointiurut • o' the Board of supervision iu seuthuid, by the n. titerne Hardy. lir. 11lehael IA Mr. monies Baring, Al the Lord Justice \', .od, ou appointment, h) lb. r• ' lll ' llor. c, ester Cathedral,.Hrkl' tie br.y Mr. i tu m et t to a ca Colonel Younglitishand, C .t., on appoint -: .ht , 1. :idea of Royal Chuipowdi r Factory, by Lieutencut R heard Lugaril. THE NATIONAL DEIIT.-7 he total cost for iptcrest and management of the national debt WAS. II! 28,627,1034 In 1868, year ending March ;gat, de " .6 wax 21074750 i. AUSTRIA AND THE Holm Sea.—The !Ind( r S:cre' terry of State in the Ministry for Foreign Alfuir, lloot Meysenbug, left Vienna on the 26th ult. for licwir. on so extraordinary mission in connexion with the Cont-alit and the laws relative ',with:mot the different to reli sch iousdools, enominations civil marri.tges sa i , .. toned nr . d th e by the Emperor. It IS reported that s 4 la test of the Holy See relative to the sanction of the btu s "'s.'Coned above haw already arrived at Vienna, and is in the hands of the Nuncio. who will formally lodge it *lib& Austrian government as soon as the said laws liar, beta publiahed In the official gszette, which woo the On at last Tuesday. Such • proceeding would but add another. to the series of protests which the 0011 See from time to time Mooched against scomplis tee facts. In the seventeenth century it protested against tLe f a cts. Westphalia ; it pretested in 1813 against the Culotte of Vienna, and againet the treaties signed by all 1-7,trr. yet them treatise remained in force, and it did net b in Me their fanning fee a long period the ' basin of tht itttn'e" titan] law of Europe.— Pert.