The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-12 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams, and the Latest City, Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLII4HZD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 12. PULPITS %. PEWS. Dr. Csrae, one of her MAJESTY'S chaplains, and the most eloquent preacher in Scotland, has an article in the current number of Good Words, on " The Declining Influence of the Pulpit iu Modern Times." This title is in itself an aelmow lodgment of what few laymen doubt, that the power once wielded by the pulpit has of late years sensibly diminished. Indeed, Dr. CAIRD manfully confesses what he is bound to regard as an evil, mid accounts fur it on reasonable grounds. In stead of preaching at his readers for not liking dull sermons, he remarks that the lack of clerical influence is duo in large measure to superficial culture on the part of the clergy, but still more to the unconscionable demands made upon a clergyman who is expected to be a man of affairs as well as a man of thought. Dr. Canto does not stand alone among the clergy in his readiness to compass the unattractiveness of the pulpit and in his wish to devise a remedy. At a clerical meeting held last year in Nice it was , resolved to obtain the opinions of a number of laymen on the subject, and these opinions have since been published. It will be remembered also that at a Church Con gress held some time ago at York, working men were requested to state their objections to the services and especially to the preaching of the Church, and did state them with considerable freedom. The subject, therefore, on its secular side, at least, is fairly brought within the range of the journalist. To hear sermons once a week is supposed to be the duty, and is assuredly the lot of a vast proportion of what are called the respect able classes. Preaching in England is identical with worship, and penance is not, therefore, necessarily confined to the Roman Catholic Church. A long sermon after a long service may produce resignation in some mina, and patience, as we all know, is a Christian virtue, but it is a virtue that should not be too sorely tried. The truth is that our church autho rities are too exacting on the one hand, and the laity on the other. They demand from us more than we can give, and we require from the clergy far more than they can be ream , mably expected to bestow. No man of devotional feeling, or even of cultivated tub, .fri fail to appreciate the simple but sublime liturgy i f the Church of England ; but why are wo doomed, Sunday after Sunday, to listen to needless repetitious and is it for our benefit that two or three services are so ruthlessly jumbled into one! But this is not all. The inevitable sermon 'follows with the certainty of fate, and there is no alternative but to hearken to it or to sleep under it. Now we believe that the strongest objection that can be urged against the sermon is that it is thus periodical and perfunctory. Why should there not be freedom on the one side to listen and freedom on the other side to preach or to be silent ? A clergyman, who has a great lesson to deliver on the most serious of all subjects will always be heard with interest by earnest men. There is no fear that anyone who can preach, and has the heart to preach, will fail to obtain an audience. The pulpit is as powerful as it ever was, when the speaker who occupies it is alive to the importance of his work and possesses the requisite eloquence and culture. But is it probable or possible that the hard-worked priest who has been engaged all the week in the wearisome routine of his parish duties shall be able to preach two original sermons upon the Sunday which shall stimulate the thought and arouse the interest of his hearers" Why should we expect such an effort from him, or why should he undertake what, with a few rare exceptions, is utterly beyond his power! Everybody knows the miserable shifts to which some clergymen resort to escape from a burden that is too heavy for them, and bow they read as their own what has been purchased for five shillings, to the debasement of of their consciences and to the discredit of their calling. It would be surely better for them and better for their hearers if they followed the custom of Sir ROGER DE COVERLET'S chaplain, and reed with due acknowledgment the sermons of eminent divines. No one need grumble, nor would any one grow weary who listened in this way to Bosimrsos or M LVI LLE, to CHALMERS or Do/me. To our thinking, then, it would be well if pastoral duties did not necessarily include preaching, and if the clergyman whose ability gives him greater influence in the pulpit than in the parish were free to follow his special vocation. We should then have good sermons as well as effective pariah work. At present it happens but too frequently that we obtain neither. If Convocation, instead of wasting the little strength it has in useless discussions, would revise the services of the church, and give greater vitality and elasticity to the pulpit, it would deserve the .l"1 P THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY thanks of all dames of the coin It c be well that clergymen who are a Inc of speaking effectively in the shot placed there to their own discomfort and distress of their hearers a hundred times year. PARLIAMENTARY LIFE IN FRANCE. ENCILISIDISN are inclined to mums that parlia mentary forms and usages all the world over should conform to those of the " mother of Parliaments." The pretension is a little arrogant, perhaps, yet not without excuse. A visit to the Corps Ligis latif of France during a great debate cures our na tional conceit for ever. To pass from the Palace of Westminster to the Palais Bourbon is more startling than even the first surprise of hearing little dirty boys talk fluent French at Calais. There, in that august representation of the legis lative wisdom of the Second Empire, we find a President who is emphatically and par excellence a Speaker, for he is scarcely ever silent. Be is incessantly interjecting a word of censure, or caution, or rebuke, or grave admonition, or sar castic and sententious apothegm ; snapping np an unconsidered epithet or • too poignant epigram which bas escaped the lips of a liberal member, arresting inconvenient allusions, or repressing with the aid of a clamorous majority the wit and logic of the Opposition. An intelligent foreigner observing this restless zeal of the President of the Chamber, asks himself whether it is • pedagogue presiding over a pupil room, or a chairman of a bubble company bullying a few recalcitrant shareholders, or simply an agent who takes his orders at the Tuileries and acknowledges no other duty than to make things as pleasant as pi:alibis for his master. Then there are the members on both sides and in all parts of the Chamber inter rupting each other's speeches at every turn with explosions of impatience and • running fire of cross-questions and crooked answers. A few days since there appeared in the Tri bune • fashionable member of the ma jority—an ultra imperialist and a cham pion of all reactionary and repressive measures— who began to assail the Liberal Opposition with the grossest abuse and the most violent gestures of hatred and contempt. The Liberal Opposition sat still and calmly but anxiously attentive to the raging orator, neither rising to protest nor ap pealing to the PRESIDENT for protection. Nor was it until this devoted Imperialist had fairly exhausted his fury that he was persuaded by his friends to come down from the Tribune. The forbearance of the Opposition has since been explained. They had received information that their assailant had literally gone mad of reaction ary rams, and was to be conveyed from the Chamber to a private lunatic asylum. What is more surprising isthattheMiniater of State,to whom he had paid a visit on the day before, dressed as a Turk, should have allowed this lunatic imperialist to remain at large, and to disgrace that devoted party in the Chamber upon whose unanimity in all emergencies rests the safety of the Second Empire, and of that society which the Second Empire has created after its own image. Coattail% L . imp se lh. examp o extripie me, but w ea:3z t• * active kW. Our tem . •r deflating its wish to gill • • honouts, to' our sißatit vetesils, b ••• • • 'Oat old men should not be •-• . perform duties which can only be • •• • by their younger brethren proceeds :—" Sir . Williasal " Bowles; wits heads the list of our active admirals, l " is 88 tsars of age, Sir George R. Sartorius is " 78, Sir Fairfax Moresby is 82, Sir Houston l " Stewart is 77, Sir Provo Wallis is 78, Sir W. " J. H. Johnstone is 70, Sir W. F. Martin is 67, "Sir H. I) Chads is 80, Sir H. J. Leeks 77, Sir " C. H. Fremantle is 88, Sir M. Seymour is 66, "H. Eden is 71, the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey is " 63, Sir R. L. Baynes is 72, John A. Dtattse is " 63, Charles B. D. Bethune is 66, Sir Charles " Talbot is 67, Sir Thomas Pailey is 64, Lord E. " Russell is 63, and H. J. Codrington is 60. Of " the above it is no less strange than true that " two of the youngest have never served at all " since their promotion to flag rank ; not from " any fault of theirs or disinclination on their " part, but simply from a flaw in our Admiralty administration." If these figures are correct they are as damaging to our Admiralty system as any of those brought forward by Mr. SIKLY, and we may ask of what use is our vast expenditure on guns and ships and men, if in time of need Nature herself is to play traitor in our camp, and to fight the battle of our enemies t Madame DI STAIL insisted on the diffi culty of growing old gracefully, and our Admiralty rules convert difficult into impossible. Lxv-rsas from Washington and New York re ceived this morning mention as a fact which is characteristic of American political life, that the impeachment of President JOHNSON has had the effect of lulling instead of increasing excite ment. "In spite of the bitterness," writes our correspondent on the 29th ult., " which has " marked the political contests of the last four " years, and, in particular, the disputes " between the PRESIDENT and the Con " grass, the minute the PRESIDENT was int " peached every body seemed to be suddenly " sobered. There is, perhaps, no other country in " the world in which such a termination to such a " struggle would not have raised the popular " excitement to a higher pitch than ever. Here " it has actually had the effect of putting an end "to all excitement. Those who were loudest and " fiercest in their denunciation of the PALSIDENT " in Congress a week ago are now not only cool " but proud of being so, and are making a great " parade of it. Everybody seems anxious to tt show the world how well the country can stand " an impeachment even of its highest officer. The " Democrats say that all they ask is a fair " and impartial trial, and the Repnb " limns say that this there must be. " The Republican success in the New Hampshire elections, of which we receive intelligence by the Atlantic Cable, is a promise of moral support on the part of the country to the politicians who have been most active iu the impeachment. Con siderable importance bad been attached to the elections in this State, as it was known they would turn upon the issue of the PILIMIDINT'S trial. They were also taken to indicate the pro bable character of the congressional elections which follow later in the year. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) HA RD TIME $. DISTRICS, is not confined to the East-end. It is also to be found in a degree at the West-end. While the poor inhabitants of Bethnal-green and Stepney are throwing themselves upon the charity of the benevolent, some of the hitherto prosperous denizens of the regions of fashion are putting down their carriages and reducing their establishments. The hardship of the East is want of bread, the hardship of the West, the necessity to ride in hack cabs instead of easy-going, luxuriously appointed, private carriages. We have the authority of the revenue returns for the distressing fact. The duties on horse*, and "four wheels," and armorial bearings are falling short of the usual amount. This would seem to imply " hard times." Yet, if we look at the revenue returns as a whole, we find that our export and import trade is as brisk as ever it was, and that there is a full demand for the comforts and necessaries of life. This is not a time of scarcity. There is an abundance of food, and prices are as moderate as they have been at any time for several years past. Moreover, the banks are "bunting" with money. What, then, is the cause of the prevailing distress ? We cast about in vain for a rational answer. We can only come to another inquiry. Does the cry of the East-end--does the putting down of establish ments at the West-end—really signify " hard " times?" When a man has been living at the rate of a thousand a year, and is obliged to reduce his ex penditure to five hundred, he is apt to complain that the times are bad ; but it may be that he was never justified in living up to the larger sum, and that the modest five hundred truly represent his earnings and the amount he is entitled to spend. This guage would seem to apply to both the classes who are now complaining. For many years past, ever since the railway mania in fact, the enterprise of the country has been going at high pressure. Commeroe has been forced into the region of gambling. Money has been put in circulation by an infinite variety of schemes and projects. Speculators got rich—working-men obtained high wages and full employment. May it not be suggested that both parties immediately began to live at a higher rate than was justifiable I When the butchers were assailed on the score of exorbitant prices, they pleaded that the working man would have his prime rump steak as well as his betters ; and any attentive observer of middle-class society must have observed that, of late years, beer at the dinner-table has been giving place to wine. If enterprise is dead, as some say, it may be a question if it has not died • natural death. Railway enterprise has been exhausted. Limited liability has reached the end of its tether. The public is no longer to be dazzled by schemes for the establishment of financial companies and the erection of huge hotels. We have made haste to complete every useful work, and we have lavished capital on many other works which have proved utterly useless. Capital finds itself in the position of ALEXANDER--eighing for new worlds of enterprise to conquer. Whether these new worlds will be found in some new sphere beyond the limits of our past operations remains to be seen ; but in the meantime it is difficult to I resist the conviction that we are suffering in the present because we have been reckless in the past. And as to the future, it is reasonable to expect ; i that when enterprise flows in quieter channels, society will be less subject to those fluctuations of fortune which are so trying to the national con ; stitution. A warrsa in the A rat y and Nary Gazette moralise' s upon the aged men holding high places in our Royal Navy in a manner which is far more philosophic than consolatory to the nation at large. It appears that in case of war our fleet would have to be led into action, and it is hoped to victory, by men who might have been interesting to the late Sir POLICY FOR IRRLLND. THZ 001 of churchmen in the pariah might objects for which the rate was prep sod, bat if they refused to pay it they woad axelade themeless from any right to be heard on a similar subject for the future, or to vote on the management of the church services. eas anythhig be coward at once wore unjust and more pernicious! All each precautions are perfectly musseesesey. Let us simply provide that no more mite shall be instituted-4a other words, that litigation and ceeimtuent enamelling shall seem ; sad let everything elm be left as it stands. The Daily News has no fear that eny straggle will arias is the United States out of the trial of Mr. Joheson. Presidential usurpation will go the way which all warps tion goes in the dram of freemen of t►e thalish ram. The American Senate will not lack the courage to dismiss Kr. Johnson to obscurity, the American people will net be wanting in the edf•respect and the eegadty to adonis the verdict, and in a few weeks our minister at Washing ton will be received by President Wade. The Post observes that there is now the dame in Abys sinia, although a vary remote one, of either Xenelek or Cabman oceupying the attendee of Theodore, and per haps delaying his advance into Maeda until oar force OCIGNI up. At any rate, these two chiefs are nearly ow -1 Min to be " in at the death." Lord Mayo, the Times says, seemed to suggest the endowment of all forms of belief in Ireland, but to propose such • scheme is to prove that the proposer is incapable of governing Ireland by the light of the present day. Such a suggestion is an impossible dream. The cart, and the opposition of the Roman catholic prelates show the impracticability of the project. The government scheme for dealing with the Irish university question is • de vice of the same pattern. It is, perhaps, leis objectionable than that of the late government, because it 1 he freedom of the Queen's University and its colleges unim paired ; but it is even more repugnant to the whole cur rent of modern Ideas and of modern legisla►ion. The Tina then refers to a letter which it publishes from an Irish Roman catholic graduate in Dublin University, in which it is urged that the proposal to create and endow • catholic university whish will be practically under the supreme control of the priesthood is odious to • large section of the Roman catholic laymen of Ireland. The members of the clue who are sufficiently wealthy to give their children the &dunked' of a university education do not desire to see • catholic university established. Their eyes' are turned to Trinity College. The nation would rather that parliament should leave the Irish church and Irish education alone than stultify itself by such an inadequate and unwise policy. Indeed, its prime duty is to remit each questions to the new parllement, which bu been formally acknowledged as more worthy to determine the government of the empire. In a second article the Times treats of Lord Mayo's proposed legisla tion with regard to the land, and oomes to the conclusion that even this little instalment may have to wait, with other proposed measures, for the report of the Landlord and Tenant Commiamiso. If Theodore, says the Teiegraph, should move out to re sist our 'dramas, Sir Robert Napier would probably be thankful ; should ha abut himself up in Magda* a few days would me us marten of the impregnable mobs, and in that case our troops might return to Senate before the rains ; but, should Theodore retreat upon Begemeder, carrying the prisoners with him, we should then be only on the threshold of a protracted and tedious petty war. The Daily News regards it as • discredit and a danger that at • period like the present • man of the intellectual calibre of the present Chief Secretary should be the re sponsible minister of Ireland. ma design appears to have been to prove that Ireland needed nothing, but the symptoms in which he finds comfort are really the most dangerous of aIL The offer to endow • Boman cathidio university is mad• as a means of securing ascendancy and emoluments in Trinity College to the protestant@ of the English church. The Daily News hopes that liberals in parliament and out of it, protestant and catholic alike, will refuse to be thrown I on a false scent. They must insist on the complete banish ment of sectarian monopoly from that venerable and wealthy seat of learning, and on its conversion into • truly national institution. It is not by setting privilege against privilege, nor by balancing protestant against catholic exclusiveness, that religious strifes can be abated in Ireland. Lane and comprehensive measures of equality me INICSIOUT. COMPULSORY CHURCH BATES ABOLITION BILL. HOUSE OF COILMONS.—HARce 11. ComenLsOlti Celoscia Ham ABOLITION BILL.—{Kr. Gladssone)—Coneddeved in oommittee. Chinas 1— Motion made and question put, " That the clause stand part of the hill." The minunittee divided ; ayes, 167 ; wee, 30. ATI& Acland, T. D. Ooldney, O. Morgan, Major Ic . w 4, 81 1. A. Ooldsmid, Mr P. H. Morrison, W. Cloachen, G. J. Murphy, N. D. Authority, Vim& Oreenall, 0. Niehohon, W. Anson, Major Grove. T. P. Delay, Si, J. Anstruther. Mr R. Hadfield. G. Onelow, 0, Ayrtoci, A. 8. Hamilton, Ld. Chad Padmore, R. Milne% L Harris, J. D. Paget, T. T. Barclay. A_ C. Harter, J. Pease, J. W. Barnett, H. Hay, lord W. Peel, Sir R. UM, A. H. Hayti", A. D. Platt, J. Baxter, W. I. Beadle" T. E. Pollard-Urquhart,W Batley, r. Haatitoore. Mr W. Potter, B. Beach, Sir M. Henley, Lord Powell, P. 8. Eliddulph, CM. Harbert, H. A. Prior, It 0. Bowen, J. B. Hervey, Lard A. Price, W. P. Brand, H. Hilbert, J. T. Ptigh, D. Brett, Sir W. B. Milelyard, T. B. Reed, C. & Bright, Jacob Hocipoe, K. D. lebow, J. 0. Bright J. 112L1A. - ek. =Zol l. .;:r.i. Briscoe, J. I. Miller, Sir A. Hollaisd I. Eases% A. Buller, slr K. Hood. air A. laseell. H. Butler, C. S. Howard, C. W. Bt. Aubyn, J. Buxton, C. Hubbard, J. 0. Samuelson, B. Buxton. Sil T. logham, IL Saunderson, K. Candlish, 3. Jambe, Alr 1. &later-Booth, G. Carnegie. C. Kavanagh, A. Severna, J. E. Cartwrieht Col. liesnlay, Capt. Sheridan, R. B. Cavendish.Lordl.o. Zelusetch. &T. Smith, J. A. Cavendish, Lord G. Kennedy, T. Maine, J. B. Chambers, T. Xinglake, A. W. Spells, A. A. Clement, W. J. Kimdsks, J. A. Msepoole, W. Colthurat, Sir G. Kahbull . Heger Stanateld, J. Cohen., C. B. mo, & Stuart, Col. Cowen, J. Lenses, W. Mart, Lient-Col. Cowper, H. P. Ulnae, J. A. kysan, /L J. Cox, W. T. loathani, W. H. Taylor, P. A. =, R. Mr P. Drama O. M. , Leyte, h. ‘ 4 l o=t . .T. W. Davey, E. Locke, J. Trevelyan, 0. 0. Bout, J D. Lowe, R. Verney, 84 H. Dickson. Major Lost, A. Vernon, IL F. Dixon, O. M•lapn, P. Vivian, Cape Dlllwyn, 1.. L. Mlaren, D. Watiegrave - Ladle, Dunlop, A. C. Maid, M. H. G. Edwards, Sir H. Marshall, W. Watrond. J. W. Enneld,ylscoant Martin, C. W. Waring. C. Evans, T. W. Idartto. P. W. Watidn, It W. Pawed. H. Maxwell, W. H. Western, Sir T. Tildes, J. Melly, 0. Wlnnington, Sir T. Flom J. Milbank F. A. Wyndham, P. Porter, C. Mitchell, A. Young, 0. lorater, W. E. Monorail!, J. Itortercue, D. P. Monk C. J. rnszete. °melee, Serjeant Montag, W. Hardcastle, J. A. Olbeon, T. M. Montgoewry, 81r 0. Olyu, Mr. Gladstone, W. E. More, IL J. ___ _ . . HOW. =kW. Gwyn, H. Hr B. Hardy, G. Smith, A. R. 0 * Corinna, F. S. Hardy J. ttyt r, Col. Dlinadale, P. Horihll, T. B. Treeby, J. W. Dyke, W. H. Kendall, N. Turner, C. Dyott, Col Kama, W. Vance, J Pine, Col. J. Langton, W. 0. Wise, II C. Fades. J. Parker, Major Yorke, J R OM, Unut.-Col. Ridley Sir H. W. rtu..kal. (keen% K. R&M ,tier C. Henley, J. W. Grey, T. de isoonrnaia, J. H. Newdegate, C. N. The above division, which turned upon the abolition of compulsory church rates, shows that unanimity is wanting I on this subject, at all everts, in the ministerial ranks. In the minority the government is represented by the Home Secretary and by Colossi Taylor; while in the majority are the SolidterOmeral, Mr. &dater Booth , and Sir G. Montgo- mery. Oxford University is 'Melt divided, Sir W. Heath eotevoling for thealauseabeliehing the oompideoryrate. The 167 who composed the majority included 33 conservatives, viz.:—H. Barnett, Sir M. Beech, J. Bowen, Sir W. B. Brett, Col. Cartwright, W. T. Con, Major Dickson, W. T. Floyer, G. Goldwey, G. Greenaß, Lord Claud Hamilton, J. Hartley, Sir W. Heetheses, Iced A. Hervey, T. Hildyard, Col. Hogg, P.. Holford, Sir A. Hood, J. G. Hubbard, A. Kavanagh, S. Kekewich, P. M'Lagan, Sir G. Mont gomery, Major Morgan, D. Pugh, C. S. Read, G. W. Repton, P. Robertson, G. Bolster-Booth, J. B. Severna, Colonel Start, J. Walrond, P. Wyndham. PROPOSED GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION OF RAILWAY AND OTHER JOINT STOCK The PostObaracteriees the ministerial policy u imply no policy at 6U. The Prime Minider is prepared to eat ss he may be hereafter advised, and the greater the deky in obtaining the advise the better. There an now be no question that Mr. Dien& means to play with the Irish people with no nobler object than that of remaining in saes toe another year. . If the ministerik scheme is not approved by the oppo nent. of the ministry, the Herald waste to know what alternative policy boa been adopted by the liberal pert/' What bee the opposieka leader himself to propose? He bee meek choice of plans in his own camp ; but be will hardly West one purely for strateptieal purposes. In the opinion of the Star the speech of Lord Mayo literally gave up the game. It acknowledged that the present government dare not and cannot deal with the Irish question. It is for the liberal party now to accept the challenge. Let them boldly sad decisively declare that they have the courage and the heart to do what the present peewee= at °Mee dare not even attempt, sad let Wee be joined—the seems the better. According to the Higfrepli while the liberal party may eagerly accept the ydseiple el " equality " set forth by Lord Mayo, and pole medium to hear hi plea or equivalent endowment, is mad la the interest. el Irish reform add that the British taxpayer will be exoessively relustaat to pay towards the religiose enplane of say Irish led If the regime dean= is sot Balkiest, it should be supplesmatel from Irish, sot free hapseial, foals. It the IReuses Whelk &era is to he widowed, me additiosal burden must he laid en the British taxpayer —now little better than as overiedesdbystinian male. Int Crum WINDSOR OASITLII, ILLson 11. The Queen, aocioinpanied by Princeu Beatrice, dune to Medan yesterday efteurnoon, attended by Via. °nudes (Wen, and visited the Dowager Duchese of Sutherland. The Eqnsaries-ia-Weltiag versus attenclinoe upon horse back. Her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning, and drove, accompanied by Princess Christian. Princess Beatriee rode in the Ham-park. Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel du Plat, went to London last evening, and dined with the Prince and Princess of Wales at Mar!. borvagh-honee. Her royal highness drove from Buckingham Palace this morning to Kensington, and honoured Mr. J. Bell with a visit to his studio, where her royal highness inspected the group of statuary representing America, intended for the national memorial of the Prince Consort in Hyde- PAL Her royal highness afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel du Plat were in attendance. Prism and Princess Christian dined with the Queen yesterday. Major•Ueneral Sir T. M. and the Roe. Lady Biddulph, Kies Bowater, and Dr. Robertson had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen. THE DR.4WING-ROOM. ARRIVAL OF THB QUERN IN LONDON. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian sod Prince's Louie*, left Windsor by the Great Weaken Railway this neornlmg at 11.35, and promoded to Buckingham Palace, where, awarding to annennomnent, her Majesty will hold a drawing-room this afternoon. PARIB, Kasen it The Motiiieur of to-day says :—" The special councils of revision appointed for the forriation of the regimental lists of the National Garde Mobile commenced their operations on the 9th instant throughout France. Most satisfactory report, have been received respecting this tirst application of the law of the Ist February, 1868. The oper a . tions have been everywhere conducted with ads and regularity. In all quarters the you. ; men have come eagerly forward, animated by an excellent spirit. Only a very small number have pleaded causes for exemptior.. The country confides in the solicitude of the Emperor to provide for and watch over its in terests. It frankly admits the benefits of the las in like manner as it resolutely accepts its oblige. tions. One single deplorable exception has talc; i place at Toulouse, where some tumultuous dem.r. strationa occurred in the evening of the lOth inst.. : but were soon terminated by the energetic attitude assumed by the authorities. The presence is these gatherings of well known agitators and strangers to the operation of revision suz! ciently attests that the operations were made a pretext for disturbance. The necess ati measures have been taken to prevent, and if necvs• nary, suppress any further attempts at agitation.• FOR,E.IGN NEW& Before 11 o'clock • large number of persons lad as- sembled in the St. James's park, and by 12 the crowd considerably increased in front of the eastern entrance to the Palace and along the entire length of Birdcage walk. The latter promenade was rendered more than usually animated, owing to the extraordinary number of equestrians and fashionably-dressed ladies there assaabled awaiting the arrival of her Majesty. At • quarter past 12 a passage was e ff ected for the entrance of the royal I cortege at the Palace gate in Birdcage-walk, l and precisely at twenty-live minutes past 12 a' general buzz indicated the near approach of the royal party. A general rush was made in the direction of Bird oage-walk, and until the procession had entered the Palos, the cheering and waving of hats was spontaneous. Her Majesty, who was attired in deep mounting and wore • widow's cap, was most gracious in her acknowledgments. The procession was very simple, there being no escort, excepting • policeman in front, followed by three out riders, and two in the rear. Both menages were open, and her Majesty, who oeoupied a seat in the first, appeared in excellent health and spirits. The weather, considering the early season, was fully up to the average of a Queen's day;" and judging from the number of fashionable s?ec tators and the distinguished persons expected, the present drawing-room will doubtless prove a brilliant inauguration of the season. The Princess Mary Adelaide and Prince of Teck honoured the Earl and Countess of Bradford with their presence at dinner last evening at the family 111111140/1 in Belgtsve-square. The following company had assembled to meet their royal highnesses :—TO, Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Royston, M.P., and Viscountess Royston, Viscountess 'nacelles, Lady Londecibmough, Lady Katherine Coke, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P.. the Hon. Francis Bridgeman, Mr. Christopher Sykes, M.P., Mr. Henry Gerard Stud, ?LP., no. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his fourth par liamentary fun-dress dinner last evening to the tethering noblemen and gentlemen :—Lord Ronald Gower, Viscount Baniag_ton, Viscount Newport, Hen. C. Carnegie, Captain the Hat G. Windsor Clive, Admiral the Hon. A. Dun combs, Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Sir William Heatheete, Sir Arthur Buller Colonel Brownlow Knox, Colonel Sykes, Colonel Ford, Major Cumming Bruce, Mr. Newde gate, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Ingham, Mr. Clay, Mr. Benyon, Mr. Blake, Mr. Davey, Mr. Cobbodd, Mr. Fierce, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. Horoby, Mr. W. R. Ormsby Gore, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. Holland, Mr. Hibbart, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Oorranoe, Mr. Wingfield Malcolm, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Greene, Mr. ' Paget, Mr. Walsh, Mr. Remington Mills ; Rey. Dr. Midvale, Chaplain ; and Mr. Alfred Denison, Private Secretary. The right hen gentleman will hold his levees on Wednesday, March 18, and on Wednesday, March 25, at ten o'clock p.m. Full dream. The Right Hon Sir John Pak ington, Bart., M.P. and Lady Pakington entertained the following company at dinner lest evening, et their residence in Oroerenor•pLae: The Right Hon. Stephen Cave, ILP., sad Mn. Cave, the Right Hon. Sir Thome@ F. Fremantle, Bart , and Lady Fremantle, Sir John Hay, Bart., M.P., Viee-Adadral Si r Sidney and lady Dames, Mr. George Selater-Booth. M.P., Mr. Henry Whitmore, ht.P., and Mrs. Whitmore, Mr. Pakington, Miss Arbu thnot, Mr. and Mrs. P. Benson, Mr. Hamilton, So. The Right Hon. Chthonic" Hardy, M.P., and Kra Hardy received the following select company at dinner, at their residence in Grosvenor-crescent, last evening. The Archbishop of York and Mrs. Thomson, Lord Hothain, M.P., the Right Hon. Henry T. Lowry Corry, M.P., and Mir Carry, Colonel the Right Hon. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Edward C. Egerton, M.P., and lady Mary Egerton and Mir Egerton, Mr. and Mrs. Lieutenant-General Count Baranoff has replaced in the post of Governor-General of the Western provinces by Adjutant-General Potar..4 Ataman of the Cosaaoks of the Don. Steiturt Hard), Mrs. Leveson Gower, Mr. Ridley, Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, Ice. Lady Herbert is still in Rome, residing in the Via di Bt. Isidore. Lord Houghton has arrived. Last evening Mr. Warren de la Rue, the Presi dent el the Cheadeal Society, gave a reception at Willis's rooms, King-street, St. James's, to a large number of ladies and gentlemen. The objects exposed to view were varied and instructive, and there were many conspicuous novelties, including enema useful inventions. The ad- vaneemadebyvaienceindisamarias deriving aid from (THIS DAY.) (num% mamma.) FRANCE. THE NEW MILITARY LAW. DEMONSTRATION AT TOULOUSE. chemistry was amply diansostrated. The death is announced of Sir Richard Digby Nam, Bert., of Degnam-park, in his 75th year. According to the Western Morning News Viscount Anilawley, who sow site fee Nottingham, will in all proba bility be brought forward by the liberals of South Devon at the general election. It will be remembered that his father represented that constituency thirty-five years ego. The Bedford interest I. considerable in that division. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Ilium 11, Errcm.,, On Tuesday, 31st inst., Mr. Shaw Lefevre will bring forward a bill to amend the law with respect to the property of married mom Captain Vivian, on Friday, will ask the Chan seller of the ilsahequer whether the estimate of the pro- bable expenditure on aceonnt of the Abyssinian ex- pedition, promoted to the home in November last, is likely to be exceeded ; and if so, whether he is prepared to say to what extent and what ere the circumstances which PORTUGAL. LISBON. Matt H The health of Queen Maria Pia is fietter,;uTit is said that her Majesty will proceed to about three weeks on a visit to her father, K... Victor Emmanuel. OUR PARIS LETTER. TRIAL OF A BAND OF BRITI,H PICKPOCKETS. (nom OUR OWN COBRZSPONDKNT.) PARIS, WIDZiF4DAT EVCCIN:. A band of truly British pickpockets was tries yesterday in Paris. Thirteen persons, seven me: and six women, were placed at the bar. Ter French legal journals describe them all as thieved but I cannot do so, because the court saw fit t. acquit five of them. The names of the thirt..et prisoners, according to French spelling—allay in the case of foreign names to be take with reserve—were Emma Jonston, Maria Champaon, Henry Molloy, Emily Mole John Murray, Thomas More, Andrew smitt William Jones, alias Daniel, Helen Pope, Mu Sweny, William Argent, Julia Argent, Alfa Carter, and Maria Wilkinson. The feu prisoners, though young, were none of them looking, but their manners and appearance we good enough to enable them to pursue t! peculiar calling which they were charged we carrying on without exciting suspicion. It w evidence that the woman Jonston was arrested ; the Place de la Bastille at the moment when i. was endeavouring to swallow a piece of paper. 'snatched out of her mouth by the polioe—whi• . ' contained the addreases of herself and her a. complioes. Mrs. Molloy had concealed sum: stolen money in such a way that nobody to an authorised female searcher could venture t look for it. All the prisoners denied any Lnow• ledge of each other, but they were not able to gi•e any clear explanations of the reason why they were in Paris. Thomas More said he was a Frain and had come here to get out of the way of tl.! English police. Mrs. Pope, the ugliest of batch, said in her defence that she lasi come to Paris, not to pick pockets, but to beowa a member of the demi-monde ; and this appears be true. Several of the prisoners did not atreto,t to deny their guilt. The tribunal acquitted tk women Pope, Sweny, and Argent, and the owl Argent and Carter. The rest were found , ;tuir.. and sentenced to periods of imprisonment variu.; from six months to two years. They all sp.le French very imperfectly. French thieves ynte admit the superiority of the English in the peen. liar art of picking pockets; but they think then not so adroit as themselves in eluding the sean:hin; eye of the policeman. I The slandered journals held a meeting ye s terday in the Siicle office, at which it was resolved leave no atone unturned to obtain the minix permission from the Corps Legialatif to proseco Viscount de Kerveguen. An indictment sill h preferred against him immediately. MM. Solari Emile 011ivier, and E. Arago are retained as couust for the prosecution. M. Peyrat, the editor of the Arenir Not;one left St. Pelagie to-day, after suffering there b month's imprisonment. M. Vermorel, of Cotarrier Francais, will come out next week, be only soon to go in again. The press cells ii tb prison are never long vacant. There is capita , company in St. Pelagie. At least a dozen Jana ' bits are at this moment under sentence of imps sonment. _ --- M. Duruy has augmented the pension of Madan! Jamnin, the poet's widow, from'Boofr. to I,Boeft Yesterday the marriage of M. Armand lhjeos• a lieutenant in the Bth Chasseurs, with lidlle Marie de lesseps was celebrated with great porn! andoeremony at the Chapelof the Senate. The bride groom's witnesses were Count de Flamarens, tor, and Baron Rigau, colonel of the Bth Chasseurs those of the bride Baron Hausmann and Barn Jules de Lamps. President Troplong, the Gran Referendary F. Barrot, and very many senate and official personages attended. The evening papers state, without giving Madan, that some agitation has occurred Toulouse in consequence of the levy of the Mobil Motional Guard. The Bourse was firm with little hairless doinf amocat for the same. !Rents closed with scarcely & shade of different , On Friday, the 20th, Mr. Percy Wyndham will! It soli sok the Befratabry the Treasury if he lo &true of the ' "In yesterd a y. Italian roge 26c. me unmask d the rens* appointed master at Labe= that a treaty was on foot w ith groat of workhouse, sod move for =pin of the endesse tesee oess for the purchase, by the house of Rota by Yr. Fantall at the inquiry held et 81.14r7 s Netnagne, I from the Italian government, of a considerable fa' ia the spring 04 1866: and of the oorrequadettos between tion o f church property , ag ainst which the Gun the Newington hoard sad the Pear-law Bond, which led had made advances. the removal of O. OM= hem the allot he then held. On the motion for going into committee on Re- e cutiet meetsitatimi el the People (fisonaod) Bill, in the event a Advice& from Hanover state that rat „pets Kr. %Mak footmen= sot labs awned, Sir Raised of the mint dedolon of the Preonut iovor'`"`"" Raisin= will more, as as samadeamt to the Spatial ' tag the property of the ex•Liai George, " 415 -- use learn. the .heir, " That it Is an szpodieat to horeese Ides= epos Ur deers of the Ohne= al Wage.la l the poem= suabor of the mules= of this Muse." I sad also ea those of the Royal Pekoe in the MA"- Oorraaincrit or Nottooltrommter•—(Tsta DAY.)! The Chamber of the Duchy of bf &Misr' .7, BT TPLZOILAPIL—Noawica, aanferewas d adapted • nemenre ornfordag political and civil rat assooaforsoins has Men bald today Nerwint, posing area 'elm • provides, however, is maint6in6i ta 01; molooludisal queeticaa Te.aight Kr. Maus Jaw 'paha &Shea et nixed Jewish sad Christian marriases ca• the huh elnaelt. be aisatell la the Wee falai. 'I . NG, MARCH 8i : 10 ---• • _ . • • • TOM OS. statement with the knowledge 11111 i the DOW ressidaiag in 0 . .' •I is f a l s e su2 l ktieralar. In the awe of cosmic- Ohnieir Abele ' 11111,whiels provide ...1 p .• an • • so* the penalty is to be fine or im- person a • vote or against as who t' '. t ; • Signwary conviction the penalty is not haes pall . Wootton to the • v . , to • 1l I,ltovision is also made to enable bot4et t. , . Prom shall Immt 110 'll • 409 e documents kept by any registrar, or, as to ' vllaposel et fonds rokold inch . tid to °Wig of them on the payment of small tail uessentest fir TOblatary esatribatiesa," , , g g oo„ Tows 011•Irrill that in this eye •• large • • of churchmen in the polish might agate the Witt* Irsweirovir i.,iis ii * i ~i_ COMPANIES' ACCOUNT& This morning was published the draft of a bill brought in by Sir William Hutt and Mr. Bill., for the better regulation and the supervision by the Board of Trade of the accounts of railway and other joint stook com panies. By this bill it is proposed that rail waysociounts and balanse4heets shall be made oat half-yearly, and that limited companies' balanoe-sheets shall be made out yearly, the Board of Trade having the power to ear', from time to time, the form in which such accounts are made out. These accounts and balance-sheets are to be deposited with the Board of Trade and Registrar of Joint Stock Companies; and no dividends are to be declared until the accounts are so deposited. The most important clause in the bill is the 12th, which provides that the Board of Trade may appoint one or more competent inspectors to examine into the slain of any railway company under this act, and to report thereon in such manner as the board may direct, upon the application of the chairman and deputy-el:airman, or of any two of the directors and their secretary, or upon the application of not less than San holders of ordinary cr preference *bares whose holdings in the agyegate shill 'amount to not less than one-twentieth part of the capital of the company ; or upon the application of not WS than tea holden of debentures or debenture stock, the nominal amount of which shall in the aggregate be not km than ens-tenth of the loan capitol of the company. The application for in spection is, however, to be supported by sash , evidence as the Board of Trade may require for the purpose of showing that the applicants have good roma for requiring such an iaverdisation to be made, and that they are not actuated by =Moss motives. It will be part of the duty of the inspector to =UAW all boobs and papers in the custody of the odious or agents of a railway company ; and he will be =powered to exemiae the latter upon oath. A penalty, not sxeesdlng Si., may be levied upon any °Maw or spat refusing to proem boobs sad documents, as to answer the questions that may be pet to him. The opinion of these examiners shall be reported to the Board of Trade, and all expenaes incidental to the examination are to be defrayed by the persons upon whew application the inspectors are appointed, rushes the Board of Trade should see fit to direct the same to be paid out of the amide of the railway company. la ease of legal praised* . rapids of the inepostere are to be Minimal* sa miaow of the opinion at the inepsidows fa Malice to any matter contained in the report ; but no amount, beano*. sheet, report, or statement ands this set shell be admix the as midair's a favour of • mammy of the truth d say matter therein sided. The bill also provides for the Wadies of maids§ on easepeales failing to re. ester ; and ea dilutor* or *Some idgniag any meth* ~. , ~~ .. k ~ 7-~~l* w ~...~-~ • • ~: ~~: i.•• ....,~ : • 77