The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-12 00:00:00

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It is eminently characteristic of the deliberative system of government under which it is our happi pees to live, that when any new problem of difficulty is, for the first time, presented for consideration, the men whose opinions are best worth knowing are commonly the last to pronounce them. To the superficial and undisoerning such reserve may wear, indeed, the aspect of indecision or craft ; but to those who really understand in what the higher duties of constitutional statesmen consist, the observance of silence and circumspection before authoritative utterance is one of the most commendable and assuring indications of legislative capacity and wisdom. In point of fact nothing is more . thoroughly at variance with the true spirit of free discomion and representative rule than the reckless levity which impels men placed in responsible posi tions to talk aloud, without reflection, or to commit themselves to a line of public conduct in any matter of moment without close and careful computation of the probabilities that what they recommend will command adequate and reliable support. Nothing is so fatal to the reputation of popular institutions as the sin of instability and rashness. The Perlis mentary leader who, without conference or concert, commits himself to a course which he soon after discovers to be impracticable, not merely damages his own individual influence, but he inflicts a serious wound upon the system of which he forms a part. He shakes men', faith in what they colloquially call " the whole concern ;" and in the working of free institutions, unbelief is the death from which there is no resurrection. War, debt, famine, any evil may be borne and out-lived but this. Above all things it is necessary that a people should retain their confi dence in the earnestness, the caution, the delibera tion, and the care of their elect men—the men whom they have chosen to guide and rule, because they hope that in them may peculiarly and pre-eminently be found those priceless gifts of intellect, experience, and leisure. Looking at the actual position of the Indian question from this point of view, we cannot but note with satisfaction that up to the present hour the beet ' and ablest men in the House of Commons have nearly all of them been absolutely silent. While two encoessive Cabinets have bad the opportunity of laying on the table their respective Bills for the future government of our Oriental Possessions; while the masterly protest of the Company has been presented in due form, with ample elucidation ; and while the whole power of English Journalism has been devoted for weeks and mouths to the analysis and comparison of all the features of each plan—the statesmen whose opinions are intrinsically entitled to most individual weight have wisely remained mute. We pause not to analyse the elements of thought, tamper, and accident that in various degrees may have contributed to this result. We are content to note and to commend it. Amongst able men it may pale for a maxim that those who are the beet able to listen to good purpose are the most likely to lead with safety and moons. Never did Parliament stand more in need of wary and wise leadership. One after another, the suggestions made by those to whom it looked for guidance have proved worthless and unsuitable. The official wells are either gone dry, or they yield only a muddy, brackish, inadequate supply, wholly insufficient for the wants of the time. The eyes of men are turned instinctively, and not without anxiety, elsewhere ; and it is, we repeat, consolatory to remember that there still remains a vast preponderance of the experience and sagacity of the legislature nnpledged to the errors or prejudices of any who have hitherto spoken on the subject. It is clear that if amongst these, or any influential number of these, in dependent politicians there shall appear to prevail a substantial unity of sentiment as to the policy which ought to be puftucd, their counsel is sure to prevail. On the one side, we await with no little curiosity the elaborate summing-up of all the leading facts and arguments in the ease, by that unrivalled muter of caustic comparison and condensation—Sir JAMES Claawait. We can easily imagine the sort of hydraulic pressure to which he will submit the frail and flatulent pretensions of the schemes that have been put forward. We can readily anticipate the crush ofimpotent provisions and limping clauses under his weighty tread ; and the diversified expressions of dismay as one by one the inexorable executioner of bad Bills proceeds to balance the objections to leaving things a little longer as they are, or pass ing a crude and incomplete measure that can only he deemed provisional. What the right hon. bozo /let's judgment may be "upon the whole," we can not tell; hut in common with all who respect great mud varied administrative ability, the House and the country will certainly be glad to learn. Then there ls Mr. GLADSTONE, beyond compare the most plan all* and persuasive expositor of a complicated sub ject that the present Parliament contains. What is hie view? Or toward what results are his convictions and feelings respecting India gravitating P We can well conceive how mach of ebb and flow, of flax and reflux there must have been of late in a mind constituted as we believe Mr. Gunmen's to be—untiring in investigation, inexhaustible in the application of hypothetic tests, insatiable of supple mentary suggestions, and conscientiously undecided Pp to the last toll of the bell that calls on him to probonce , j u d g ment. We have so means of antici pating what the verdict of su:'h a juror may be ; but whatever it be, we grow impeient to have it. Nor can we affect indifference to the opinions of men like Mr. SIDNEY HUDIRT, Mr. CARDWILLI., and others who were trained in the school of Sir ROSIJIT PIEL : for the question is pre-eminently one in which, it ever, the value of his distinctive TER EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1858. system ought to be shown forth. It is essentially a question on which, were he now alive, everybody would listen with breathless solicitude to learn the decision to which he had come. On the other side of the Howe, apart from the late Ministers and their adherents, there will re-as- getable to-day the independent leaders of the Liberal Party. Differing widely from other sections of their Parliamentary colleagues in their sympathies, and from some of them no lees widely in their principlee,it is yet quite possible that on a subject hie that of the permanent government of India, ardent friends of Reform, and its warm opponents—stanch sup. porta, of the National Right of Asylum, and Aces who would annex the English Home- Office to that of France—advocates of entire Religious Equality, and foes to Liberty of Teaching ' and of Thought—may for once agree cordially and usefully in a legislative policy for India to be initiated if not perfected this Session. We are pre pared for a vehement out-pouring of accusation against the Company's management in times past from Mr. Baum ; but we can afford to hear his speech in attainder with equanimity if he will give us the benefit of his acute and discriminating intelli gence on matters that belong rather to the present and the future. Mr. HOHNIAN, Mr. Musa& Grasps, and various others more or less coospienotur in debate, have likewise to be heard. Above all, men of all parties and predilections attentively await the verdict of Lord 'mut RussELL—the man whose name would recur oftenest in an historic index to great and awful measures passed during our time. It would be idle to say that co such a question any individual can hold the balance of opinion in his hand; but it may in sober truth be said that after all that has taken place of late, if any man can rescue Parliament from the per plexity caused by its precipitancy in dealing with this subject, and guide the national footsteps in a secure and honourable path, where there will be no fear of having to retrace them, that individual is the noble Member for the City of London. FRANCE. (71011 001 OWN PARIS, SATURDLY How the Bourse is to be made to rise is the great question of the day. The cry for help from the Emperor is loud, piercing, and persistent on the part of the many interests which, born of false confidence in a thoroughly vicious system, have flourished for years beyond all reasonable expectation. The Journal des Chemins de Fer, which as the property of the capitalist to whom the Bank of France refused to lend a sum of ten (or as some say fifteen) millions of francs on the security of rents greatly exceeding in value the amount of the loan required, has a very angry article against the Bank, from which, on account of the sensation it has produced at the Bourse, I subjoin some extracts : The Bank directors vary frankly dated the motives of their refusal "We will not," they are said to have replied, " encourage speculation on the Bo w es; and our answer will be the same to all bankiag establishments without exception." The conduct of the Bank in this alreamstenoe generally excited astonishment. It was kit that when the state e! Weiner required encouragement, • fault had been committed ! in withholding seahetanoe to the effects roadewith the view of raising public credit end of restoring activity to business. Some persona were reminded of a dmiler cirownstance which occurred two years ago, when • banking =tin en aztenielve operation for the rise, oed refusal from the Bank. But a vast exists between the two peri ods. At that time the loans On polio securities amounted to 86 millions, while the loans at the present moment scarcely erased 34 million,. It mast Blowier be considered that the ap e tai of the Bank then amounted to only 91 millions, instead of 200 millions, se at premat. It Is true that the loan then required was raised, end served to keep up the prim of neuritis ; only it wes not obtained in • direct manner from the Bank, but by miens of the agency of several stockbrokers. We have m oaned this pereedmt, because it Ludlama the present end pact te•deedr of the Beak, end proves that the adseinirer tivs traditions of days guns by have not only beim in, but have been aggravated. We admit that er l conduct of the Bank was pendent in maintaining • certain stringency in days of doubt ; but when the bullion reserve increaser to emcees, when commercial bills ere not abundant, and when the capital of the Bank hes ban doubled, It is difficult to conceive the hostility and suspicion entertained for (operations on the Bourse. Does this line of con duct evince a complete understanding between the Interests of the Bank and dime of commerce f We say the interests of the Bank, because, in definitive, it le smeary to facilitate hominess with shares which have been allowed to rise to E 3 161 4 L We also say the Interests of commerce, because the is the thermometer of public confidence; and con fidence alone—that is, the rise—an give new life to com merce and industry, and resters to an activity—long absent --the various elements et public wealth. We infinitely regret to observe • continuation of these malevolent dispoin does breads the " Bonne" and its operations. . . How can the Bank hope to dispose of railway bonds in the event of a deans in the prim of Rents? It Is meerted that the bonds disposed of by the Bank of late, when prime rum kept up, amount to 170,000, representing a arOtal of about forty-five millions. - What pauses them restrictive measures to be partisalerly regretted is the fact that the public, which does not sufficiently distinguish the private business of the Bank from the general impala given by the government et the Emperor, is too apt to confound the measures of the Bank with government measures. This error, which is widely diffused, is of a most serious character. But the conduct of the bank in the last settlement is the beet proof of its independence • for that incident occurred at the very moment when the Im perial government, on the con- Wiry, manifested a firm decision to sdopt measures favourable to the development of public credit and of financial matters. Our preceding observations am therefore exclusively ad deemed to the Bank. The moment is critical ; lt would be easy to give an impulsion either for good or for evil. Is it threaded to wait patiently for the " natural revival of affairs" without making any effort P Are the mere and absolute wants of current canon= don to be relied on to develop the industrial and commercial activity of France P In that case, Ood alone knows what will become of us, end whether, when at some foam time we become alive to the necessity of shaking otr oar lethargy, It may not be too late. Of coarse the reasoning of this article, represent ing the feelings of a disappointed interest, must be received with reserve. Many people think the arti cle a snare, which should put buyers on their guard. Those who preach for a rise, they say, may justly be' suspected of haring secret combinations by which they will profit by the folly of those who believe in them. A scheme to give an impulse to the Bourn seldom or never succeeds, mikes it is kept secret. Another financial journal, the Credit .ftblic, takes a very gloomy view of things : The superabundance at money only proves the =of credit; aid this paralysis oan 'alone explain the of a depredation of ail wrintrities with a low rate of interest. The most conflicting rumours continue to circulate uto what the Emperor is likely to do. At his last interview with the railway directors, M. Dumon, formerly minister of public works under Louis Philippe, was the spokesman, and set forth the grievances of the company at very great length. The Emperor listened patiently, and merely replied that the questions raised were too important for him to examine them personally, and that he would con sult has council of ministers. The Bourse opened with some degree of firmness, but became heavy at the close. The rents for account fell 10c., closing at 69.58. For cuh there was • rise of 10c., the last price being 69.50. Mobilier fell 12.50. The Eastern Railway fell 7.50 ; the other lines were a trifle higher. Count de Persigny has arrived in Paris from London, and M. de Bourqueuey is expected to-day from Vienna. A tits, which will long be remembered in Paris, was given last night by M. and Madame Gudin, at their palatial residence, the Hotel Beaujon, in the Faubourg St. Honore. It was for the benefit of the institution of " Notre Dame des Arts," of which the celebrated painter is president, and the object of which is to provide an asylum and grataitons educa tion for the orphan children of literary and learned men, artists, actors, and functionaries. 12,000 f. was realised for the benefit of the charity. The enter tainments consisted of • charming concert, in which Mesdames Alboni, Oriel, Nantier-D idite, Mdlle. Saint Urbain, Signor Mario, and other distinguished mem bers of the Italian and French operatic companies, took part ; and a new play written for the occasion by M. Alx. Dumas, called L' Hontssur at Satistait. 'I he piece, acted by the Gymnase company in M. (indices studio, fitted op as a theatre for the occa sion, was eminently successful, and produced frantic peals of laughter. After the play, the performers and a large number of M. and Madame Gudin's per sonal friends sat down to a rocharche supper, which was enlivened by the exuberant flow of spirits of M. Alex. Dumas, and several speeches. Madame Gudin is an Englishwoman, and a great number of English ladies were among the company. Paris has been much more gay since Easter than it was before. A great many bath, parties, and concerts,. both public and pri vate, have been given this week. Private theatricals are much in vogue. Gal_iptaai notices a very brilliant ',tallish musicals at Herz's, by M. Biletta, a young composer, whose productions have already won for him a clue redly high position in the musical world. Mozart, Rossini, and the ttineftciairo himself, who belongs to the school of these two great mutely, supplied the vocal portion of the programme, the chief features of which were three of M. Biletta's compositions, La Dense d'Amors ; a notturno. Ch'io tam of poses; and a charming aria, Quest' i ['aura she supra, from his opera La Rosa di Firenze. An English pantomime company is spoken of as coming to Paris, under the direction of Mr. Flex more. The theatre at which they are to appear is not mentioned. A review took place this afternoon in the court yard of the Tuileries, and on the Place du Carrousel, by the Emperor. The following regiments, recently arrived in Paris, were present :-10th and 17th Battalions of Foot Chummy ; Ist, 52nd, 74th, 82nd, 84th, 85th, 91st, 98th, and 100th Regiments of Infantry of the Line. General Uhrich had the com mend. The Empress appeared on the balcony with several ladies of the court. The weather was very =favourable, the rain coming down very heavily while the E:rarer, followed by his staff, was passing along the ranks. Another medical celebrity has disappeared. M. Chomel, one of Louis Philippe's physicans, and a professor at the Hotel Dies, is justdead after a long f The London mail came in late to-day. Letters were not delivered until four o'clock, and owing to the cumbrous machinery of the stupid censorship the evening papers will be withheld from the public till to-morrow. Marshal Pelham is not expected to arrive in Lemke orrilir than Thursday ant. Mr. Staahope Freeman is appointed Vie►Ooeaoi at ehataataa. ITALY. THE NEAPOLITAN PRISONS. MOM 001 OWX 0011111PONDINT.) NAPLES, Aran 6. I am not surprised at men becoming nervous and depressed by along imprisonment in this country, the tender mercies of which are indeed cruel. Still less surprised am I after hearing the following tales from some of those who were captured with the Cagliari: " In the court below oar widow," said they, " was • bench, and scarcely a morning in which one or two persons were not broag out and laid thereon, and received a number of lashes. Of course we saw them, and heard their cries. They were brought out in their drawers, acd were in such a state afterwards that they could not walk back. I remember that one morning a person was lashed who was reported to be a gentleman having the degree of doctor." During a portion of the time when the prisoners were confined in the Vicaria, a young man was imprisoned in the next room to that of my informant. He appeared to be in a very suffering state, and told them the following tale :—He had been arrested on a charge of baying robbed his former muter, and in order to elicit a confession from him, the officials had recourse to the following means : They bound his arms behind him, and after every unsatisfactory answer, they gave the rope another extra straw until his sufferings were most excruciating. When they could extort nothing from him, they bound him to silence by a promise of liberty. Suffering, however, is commu nicative, and, es pallid and weak he paced up and down daily, he told the other prisoners what he had endured. After some time he appeared to recover his strength, and vanished from among them. Pro bably he was restored to his former position. We have heard a good deal of torture in the Neapolitan prisons, and much has been written and asserted in contradiction, bat the case which I have given here sounds true, as it is certainly well attested. One case well authenticated disposes us to believe in much else that we hear of what is narrated on not exactly the same authority. The use, however, which I wish to make of the statements made above is to ask what must have been the influence of such sights and narratives on the minds of men who, like Park and Watt, had never heard of barbarity associated with a modern prison ? Is it to be wondered at that they became nervous, and that, conscious of their innocence, their minds revolted against confinement in a locality where such excesses were practised? These and many other facts which your " Correspondent" is in all honesty bound to make public are disgraceful and unpalatable truths, but they are given with no other object than that of leading to necessary reforms, and if the Neapolitan government were well and wisely bent on reformation, it would rejoice at the exposure of the excesses of its officials. A minister of police cannot be supposed to be acquainted with all that is going on within the precincts of a prison, but at all events the abuses may be diminished byurag tng • the system of the police. For some years, indeed, judging from the undeniable exactions and cruelties of that body, the kingdom seems to have been farmed out to the police, on condition of their preserving tranquillity. Peace at any price, and by whatever means, seems to have been the principle adopted; an opinion which is amply confirmed by numerous facts apparently well authenticated. Park is still here, expecting, not a grazia, but a permit from his Majesty to leave the country for the benefit of his health. As nothing can be granted, nothing will be asked in the form of a grade. It is amusing and instructive to hear the opinions of Neapolitans on this sub ject. They certainly are not to the honour of our government, for it is difficult to explain the ignorance of certain incidents under which Lord Palmerston's government laboured, or the dilatory exertions which they made in behalf of the engineers. It seems as if for the sake of a false tranquillity this government had been permitted to do just as it liked. In ortain sense Ferdinand 11. may be looked upon as the first sovereign in Europe ; he has defied France and England ; he has i lle gally cap tured and imprisoned the subjects of the latter power; he liberates them at the last moment, as if he was doing a kingly act, because, "poor fellows, they are ill!" And as to the withdrawal of the ministers, by his acts he says, "Do just what you like; I have taken up my posi tion—it is a very comfortable one, much more so than before, for I am no longer wearied by remonstrances and demands from Messieurs lea ministres." I think that I thus cor rectly represent the feeling of the Neapolitans and the position of his Majesty, and whether it be honourable to England let the world guess. I have now only to express a hope that whatever is done will not be done through the medium of a protracted correspondence. If we permit this our objects will be lost, and you may be assured that it will be the policy of this government to defer the matter and defeat us. Easter has been celebrated by the liberation of 26 criminals, condemned for common offences by the various provincial grand criminal courts, and of eight political prisoners who have never been tried at all. Of these the three whose names I know at present are Francesco Russo, Salvatore de Simone, and Fran cesoo del Chiara. De Simone, with his brother, was arrested on a charge of having sold the spirits of wine in which the body of Milano was taken out of Naples. The brother still remains in prison, and for uttering a complaint that, though the c harge against him was the same as that against his bro ther he was still confined, he was locked up. These men were arrested on the Bth of January, 1867; had never been brought to trial ; and poesibl will hear of the mercy of " Oar Lord the King" towards the political offenders in the prison of Santa Maria Apparente. There remain be hind many others in the same position, whom it is not convenient to bring to trial. In the middle of January there were to this prison 100 persons. Whilst speaking of Santa Maria Apparent. I may state that there are in it subterranean or lower chambers called " Criminali," in which those who lie under strongest suspicion are confined. Up to a certain time these unfortunate persons were denied the privileges and consolations of religion ; but on a complaint being made to the cardinal, permission was procured for their being present at mass behind some iron bars. I have omitted to state much that I have heard at various times regarding cruelties iitsctised in this prison. Thus, in February last I was informed by persons who had considerable op portunities of knowing the truth, that cold and hot water was alternately thrown upon the victims; that cries were heard in the night-time; and that what is commonly called the " Commission. dei Ammaszati " went two nights successively to hold an inquest in the prison. I give what I heard without guaranteeing it, but it cornea from those who may be well informed ; it derives confirmation from what is asserted to have occurred else where, and agrees well with the fact that even political suspects are treated with less mercy in this country than common crimi nals. lam told that this prison was once under the jurisdistion of the Jesuits, and that they re nounced it. If this be so, why was it? Were they denied that liberty of action which they enjoyed in the Hospital Prison of San Francisco? I have been led into details irrelevant to my subject, which was the display of royal merry at this blessed season of Easter. f repeat that eight political prisoners, who have been fifteen months in confinement without trial, have been restored to liberty, and so have 26 common criminals also, who had been condemned by the courts, some to 14 years in irons. PRUSSIA. The Prince and the Princess Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Weimar on the 7th, and were re ceived at the railway station by the Grand Duke, accompanied by the ministers of Prussia and Ragland. A letter from Berlin, of the Bth, sari " Prussia has generously removed the diffioultses which had arisen between the riverain States of the Rhine re lative to the construction of t fixed bridge at Cologne, by consenting to have the bridge fifty three feet above the average level of the river, to take on herself the payment of the indesmtties to the bargemen, and not to levy any toll." RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A letter from Berlin gives the following details of the circular despatch sent by the Cabinet of Bt. Petersburg relative to the Christian subjects of the Porte. According to this letter, Russia demands that the question of the rayabs should be brought before a European conference. The present dis turbances in the Herzegovine and in Bosnia, says the letter, entirely arise from the Porte not having executed provisions of the Heti- Humayoun, but u the completion of that ordi nance constitutes an obligation based on the treaty of Paris, it is the right, and even the duty, of the powers who signed the treaty of Paris to exact that the position of the Christians in Turkey should be really settled, and without any restriction, according to the prescriptions of the Hatti-Humayoun. The cabinet of St. Petersburg deduce against an isolated intervention of Austria in this question, and remarks that, in consideration of the analogy of religion, an intervention of Russia would be better justified. Russia, however, does not express a wish to interfere, all her efforts being directed to bringing the question before a European conference, which, according to the treaty of Paris, has a right to decide it. The despatch enlarges on the complaints of the revile, and promises a series of special proofs, which will be furnished to the Russian agents accredited in Turkey. Eft actin. WINDSOR., Aran. 10. The Queen and Prince Consort walked in the Hoseo-pirk this morning. The Priam of Wales hit Windsor Castle this morning for Milford Haven, where his Royal Highness is to embark on board the Osborne for Cork. The Prince, who is attended by Caphoin the Hon. Dudley de Ras, Mr. Gibbs, and Mr. Minter, R.N., will make a tour of about tan days in the neighbourhood of Killarney Lakes. The Prince's of Seisms the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale, the Earl and Counter of Hardwicke and Lady Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl of Sandwich, and the Right Hon. B. Disraeli arrived at the Castle to-day, and dined with her Majesty in the evening. The dinner party also included the Duchess ci Kent, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, Lady Fanny Howard, Miss Victoria Stuart Wortley, Colonel the Hon, Biz Charles B. Phipps, Sir George Couper, and Lieut.-Gene ral eir William Codrington. The band of the 2nd Life Guards played during dinner the hawk* : Orsad /larch Arthur Owen. Seisotion, " Roes of Camille . " Wales, " Sornsebrecher" Selma= " Dame Blanche" Polka OungL Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed is the in ring-roes : Overture, " U RM Eddins" Beethoven. Belsotion, " Preetosa" Weber. Mem et Marche, " L'Enfant Pritliges " Auber. SUNDAY. The Queen and Prince Cowart, Princess Alice, Prisms lidena, the Led ice andOentienten tithe Coart,and the domestic hoorhoid attended divine service this rearninth in the ;d -rab, chapel. The Rev. Kr. Terrer officiated. The bake and Duchies (Awns]e and the Princess of Salerno wan to the Catholic Chapel at Clears. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were:—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, the Earl of Ellenborough, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. Mr. Field, from the Caps of Gad Hopey had sa haerview with Lord Stanley on flafteday, at the -alike. Mr. 0. Ramie .Lo had ea istervisw with kis kedship. wen received as flaherday at **Colonial-02os fat Likroventor of Naha sad ihe Lord High Commie dew of the Lake birth& Despatches were sent on Satur day frost the Colonial-sea is the 10mm:we of the Atte keha Catania. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary will keve Cambridge Cottage, Rim, to-morrow, for the duchess's residence in the Ambeassior's Court, St. Jamemie Palace, for the imam. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland and Lord Ronald Lamson GOWST wired in town on Saturday from Clines, star Maidenhead. The Duke and Duohma of Argyll and hazily, who have been staying at Cliftica during the hoodays, also returned to town on Saturday. The Countess of Jersey and Lady 61ementina Va li*" have arrived ea a sift to the Bart and Boynton of Mount gdiretuubs. at Orals art to Devout:dm from Oakley Perk, Oloneestershire, where they have brim Moyle. on • Matt to the Earl Bathurst. The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere will return to Bridgewator Home to-morrow from Barwood, whore they hare hem passim the holidays. The Earl and Countess of Cork come to town to morrow from Harden House, Boasweet. The Earl and Countess of Guildford are expected in town in a law dem from Waldeeshire Park, new Dam The Counteee de Soltikoff has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, St. James's, from the Continent. The Dowager Lady Dixie has taken ha departure from the use establishment. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are expected in town to-day boot Iltoadludo, Haab. Viscount Falmouth has arrived at the Clarendon from Idaraworth Cast* war Idaidataata Lard and Lady Raglan will leave town to-day hr Haao►ir. lAdy Rolle is shortly expected in town from the Cowimat. Ling.-Col. Ogilvy, 2nd Life Guards. and Lady Raniatta Ogilvy, have left Rutland Oak /or Windsor. The marriage between the Hon. Reginald Capel, woad Goo of the Earl of Eons, sod lila nooks:ley, atom to Lord Roltaby, will take place ot the 2lkod lootaot. Sir John and Lady Lister Kaye and family have arrived to Portland-plans far the season, horn their seat, Denby Cheap, Yorkshire. Mrs. *Alpine's first hall will take place on the 21st hat., In liston-aquare. The Christening of the infant daughter of the Prince and Princess Fre torten Charlie of Petunia took plan with much pomp Is the Palace of Potsdam three days back. The royal infant received the name of Anne Victoria Charlotte Augusta Adelaide, and man; her wanes an the Qom of England and the Prince Carat. A marriage took piece on Saturday at the British g ia b iam Patin and at the Mktkidia, the bride tad bride ✓oost le which are haws In cortoJa that.. both la London add F. Mies 8e yd, &ashler of Molar Rai" Wary liseyd, tram united to Mr. Petro, wee le* in charge of the British Embassy at Naples shoe the death of Sir Wm. Temple, and who I. now &Misled is the watoely at Paris. ♦ low circle of the kir& of as beide and bridernmot met at the embiry to wider the esemesy. The toidorsolit mote Moo Hope Johnston, the Mime Isagewd, wok Oodles, Ml. DA the Combos Valor% Mdflo. do Rim, • dmorktor of the Speak Ambassador, sad Mks Parma The Nov. J. H. Swale mid theAbM do Gummy eMolatod ; Lord ad Lady Cowley auesded, Wear with a base number of the frohlosable werM sow is Pork. Mr. Tome, attacked to the British Elabesty, Pena, wee Mr. Peinfe boot ma, sad M. bride was glom away by Lord Must Bens. TURKEY. A letter from Bagdad gives the following account of the combat which a telegraphic despatch stated Omer Pacha had recently been engaged in on his way to that city: It was at Der, on the Euphrates, that the conflict took place. When Omer Pacha arrived near the town with his troops, he called on the inhabitants to supply him with a me min quantity of provisions, which he promised to pay for. But the inhabitants (it is not stated for what reason) not only did not comply, but even did not return any answer. A second time they were called on to give the neomeary supply, but by way of reply they fired on the memengere. Omer Pacha then caused some home soldiers to advance, in order to prove that he meant to have his demand complied with; but they were met by a greater number of Arabs on horses and camels, and the Arabs sasumed a hostile attitude. On that Omer Pacha ordered a discharge of fire-arms • the people of the town turned out, and a regular combat ensited. It ended by 400 of the people beime killed, and by 60 being taken pri soners. These prisoners have since been incorporated in Omer Pitches troops. The affair has created a great sensa tion, and Omer Pacha is accused of having acted as no true kinseulman should have done. The Osservatoso Dalmato has the following from Masks: -- on the disembarkation of the 4,000 Turkish troops at KU a boat was upset and seven men drowned. The troops are oommanded by Hadri Parka, and are accompanied by 1,000 homes to carry ammunition and stores. They have taken the road to the mountains, and the steamers which conveyed them have returned to Constantinople. Everything is tran quil on the frontiers of Montenegro and the Herzegovina, and no new conflicts are expected. But it is said that a combat has taken place between Spices and Podgortszs, towards Albania, and that the Turks were routed with some loss. The Turkish garrisons in those parts have received rein forcements, and 3,000 men have been disembarked at An tivarL _ _ _ A letter from Vienna, of the 6th, says: Prince Denbo has announced to Baron Man n& that ha has taken measures for preventing his subjects from corn- witting seta of hostility in the Turkish territory. It is said that he m►de this declaration because he was recently told that his principality would be occupied by Austrian troops in tha event of such acts being continued. THE VICTIMS or THE Aux LErELLErIER PLOT. —The Koalas,. of Saturday publishes. bill which has bean presented to the Corps Legialatif for granting pensions to certain persons who were msimed or otherwise injured by the explosion of Orsini's grandee, or who hare been deprived of their neareet relatives by death from the wounds thus in dicted. The names and circumstances of each person ere stated in a schedule annexed. It is stated that 160 persona were moo or less wounded, of whom nine have died. Five of these were men who have lest widows and orphens; four were unmarried men. There are also thirteen persona who have been permanently crippled or disabled for life. It is proposed to give each widow a pension of 1,000 frame yearly nor life, and to the parents sr children of the deceased a por tion of 600 francs each. The persons °rippled receive a pen non of 600 francs, except one man, whose injuries being especially serious, receives a compeestion of 1,000 francs • year. DEATH OP JOHN FREDERICK FOSTER., ESQ.—The sudden and unexpected death of John Frederick Foster, Esq., for twenty years past chairman of the Salford Quar ter Sessions, was announced ta Manchester on Saturday. On Friday Mr. Foster was apparently in geed health, and during the day ha conversed with a friend relative to the business of the sessions, to commence this day. In theeven tog he attended a meeting of the Monet= M issionary Society, at Charley Church, Alderley, Cheshire, i nt na g own residence, and his love of musk led him to volunteer his services on the organ at the opening of the proceedings. For that purpose he took his seat at the instrument and com menced a voluntary, but was observed to fall on one ride, and it was found that he had been seized with apoplexy. Hie Mends removed him to his own residence with all possible haste, and two medical gentlemen followed him home from the church, but he expired within an hour and a half from the attack. Mr. Fader commenced practice in Manchester as a conveyancing barrister, succeeding Mr. J. Norris first ea stipendiary magistrate at the New Bailey, and afterweads (in March, 1838) as chairman of queer sessions. He died in his 63rd year. His father wee a Moravian bishopp, and ha received hie education from that excellent body of C hridismS for whom he retained an unshaken attachment to the last. Throughout his professional and official osier he was highly moped by all dames of the community. MUTH Or SIR DAVID WEDDERBIIIIN, BAIT. —We regret to announce the death of Sir David Wadder burn, Bert , who for some yeses sat In the House of Com mons as the representative of the Scotch borough of St. Andrews. The deceased baronet was Postmaster General of Scotland from 1823 to 1831. In 1104 a baronetcy of Scotland was conferred upon J. Wedderburn, of Blackmer, and this desceaded in due course to the fifth possessor of the title, who having been taken at the battle of Culloden, was un tainted and executed. Hie eon, however, continued to assume the We, and was father of the dece ased baronet, who in 1803 received • baronetcy of the United Kingdom. The late barmen le succeeded in his title and estates by his half brother John, who was &miserly accouatant-general at Bombay. MERE LITERARY " EDUCATION."—The new MIDIS for literary competitions as tests for many offices sad frac tions is not yet long enough in operation to have had any marked effect on our English youth, but while we appexiste it as a check to mere family patronage, we fear it may tend to multiply a very undesirable class—. young men of good education," with no special bias for an calling, and no special acquirements for any profession. There are, doubt less, few of our readers who do not know in their circle of friends some young man who is a subject of /serpentl anxiety to his friends, because he has received a good general education, and is fit for any employment. There is no lack of such young men in this country ; the columns of the Moses testily daily to their destitution, and their readiness to accept say employment not menial, and for the smalket re manerstice. If, instead of learning Win, Greek, mathe matics, and history, these young men had been trained to a mastery risme craft, they might become the real creators of the espnierfty of England—they might become builders, road-maker., firmer,, architects, engineer'. Bat we have them filling Landon garreu—" with blinded eyeele i L pts erb over =ignoble books," Instead of taking stout and strong hands to countries where rich fruits reward tail. And with this surplusage of clerk", linguists, scholars, men who can correspond in three languages and write Latin verses to admiration, we have our statesmen, in their high wisdom, devising rewards for the multiplication of the class. It la right to give civil service poets only to men literary enough to do the work, but why give the poets as rewards for a Mo ney education far beyond the work P It is like offering premiums for the influx of weavers into Spitalfields, or encouraging an increase of needlewomen in London.—Tde Leader. THE AFFAIR OF TRINITY COLLEGE AND THE PoLtuu—The whole transaction is so intenwly Irish that we are sensible of the difficulty of peeing any judgment upon It. It lea question of emotion from drat to last. The students and others under the influence of feeling pelt the police; Colonel Browne under the tnduenoe of feeling lets the police loose upon them ; under the influence of feeling the pollee break the heads of two or three of them ; unisons' Dublin is immediately under the Mamma of feeling; under the influence of feeling the iewpdry Is instituted; Colossi Browne as a witness . asprmass hid -- deep • falls of regret ; the anneal cirose instantly under the inflossee ~_and a gentlemen eras that be osn't ask mother qualm ; eindents are at cam brosgbt under Ur inikasses of Mk* ,.. , and we doubt sot, like a set of hearty good-towed eiati lads, freely forgive tbdr We antegadet, and re es to ask him to dinner. How is a mater-el-feet to pass any judgment upon the delay of 'meow' eo dim similar from those among whom We own Bee is mend f Their ways ere not our we r; if they ere ell gadded, why should we express diamtidaetisa t It s .Is. User that Coked Browse is considered to have dam " the bmirteme thing," sad mast probably, if the " Wings" of the colle gians are consoled, there will be as and of the was.— neg. -. FATAL ACCIDENT IN CONJIIIIALL.—On Thu last Major Croker, Royal Misers Artillery. woe, 'd= ooaellinao, drowned in s llekpand ea the Prides= estate, sear et.lllaysey, wide be menial tiir Cabman Rualsist. It &Awned Rut Ike peed was tray gown with week to clear wgteh s det•bottemed pant being* to • sailing poke kidskin obtabred. By aims mots unknown tits boat was upset, and botk Ito oconyards 11101111111 Wangled in the weed and vaketenataly &yowl. TRIAL OF SIMON BERNARD, ENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-THIS DAY. This morning having been appointed for the trial of this important eauae, the greatest anxiety appeared to be evinced by the public to hear the proceedings, and the court was crowded soon after nine o'clock. Shortly after ten, the Lord Chief JUBtiUN the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Justice Erie, and Mr. Justice Crowder took their rate on the bench. The judges were accompanied by the Lord Mayor, the Reoorder, the Sheriffs (Alderman Law rence and Alderman Allen), Aldermen Sir C. Marshall, Sir F. G. Moon. Salomon., Phillips, and Gabriel. The prisoner, Sim e Bsreard, was then placed at the bar. He is a very gentlemanly-looking man. Mr. Clerk then reed the indictment, which charged th e prisoner with being accessory before the feat to the murder of Nicholas Baytie, upon land out of her Mejesty's do minions, to wit, in the empire of France, at Parts, the said murder being alleged to have been actually committed by Orsini, Gomez, end De Rudio. Hs was also charged as principal with the mime of wilful murder. The Attorney-General, Mr. Macaday, Q.C., Mr. Webby, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Clerk appeared for the crown. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C. (specially retained), Mr. Simon, Mr. Hawidna, Mr. Sleigh, and Mr. Brewer, appeared for the priKeer. When the prisoner was called upon to plead, he said be was informed by his counsel that the court had no jurisdic tion to try him, and be therefore respectfully declined to plead. Ths Chief Justice said that aooocding to the law of Eng. land, if • prisoner declined to plead, it became the duty of the omit to order a plea of not guilty to be entered ; and the whole of the judges having consulted together, the court directed that a plea of not guilty should be entered. The prisoner was then asked whether he wished to be tried by an English or a foreign jury. The prisoner said be should trust his case with entire m ild/nos to a jury of Englishmen: and the jury were then celled and sworn, and the trial wen proceeded with. The Attorney. General then proceeded to open the case for the crown. The prisoner was indicted under an act of par- Himont for the crime of wilful murder, by having been an accemeory before the fact. He was a native of a town in lb. loath of France, and in early life practised as a surgeon in the • • French navy. From circumstances into which it we. not necessary now to go, the prisoner became proscribed, and then sought shelter in this country. If he had continued to obey the law, he would have been entitled to all the protection it could afford him ; but it was the duty of those who had charge of this prosecution to show that he had not only for feited that right, but had been guilty of a crime which the ends of justice demanded should be severely punished. Os the evening of the 14th of January last an attack me made upon the carriage of the Emperor of the Ffillek• While his Majesty was about to alight at the Opera in Perin a number of grenades were thrown at his equipage, and the explosion of these mimiles carried destruction around. It would be proved that they were purchased at Bir =lngham by a pennon of the name of Allmon, who had Bed his country, and afterwards placed in the pos. session of the prisoner, who had them forwarded to Brassie, where they were handed to car Felice Orsini. By thst per son they were carried to Paris, and distributed to the perms who, on the evening of the 14th of January, 11 ang them; at the equipage of the Emperor of the French. The learned gentleman then went into the details of the alleged conspiracy to murder. The conspirators were AB eopp, Orsini, Gomez, the prisoner, sad de Audio, the latter of whom was, he said, hired by the prisoner to go over to Park and participate In the attempt to assassinate the Emperor al the French. On the 16th of October in the last year Allioyet applied to a Mr. Taylor, of Birmingham, to manufacture at& band-grenades, of which he gave a very minute descriptim, but which the prosecution were informed were anthems either in English or foreign warfare. In fact, it was an invention of some of the conspirators, who, between the 1Q.% of October and the 24tb, caused Mr. Taylor to manufacture six of these instruments of different sires. They were delivered by Mr. Taylor is Alleopp, paid for, and so the transaction with the maratis• tame closed. One of them found in Paris was now in count, and the nature of the =Miele with which It was chafed would be fully explained to the jury. It would also hellion in evidence that the prisoner purchased similar material' sta chemist's in London, and the grenades must have coon the the prismer's possession somewhere about the end of Novm bar. At this time both the prisoner and Orsini folioed the profession in London of teachers of laagnsgm end dining the last few months of Orsini's residence in 11l country they were on the most intimate terms, and in err stint communication with each other. About the beginning of December Orsini determined to proceed to Paris biwoyel Brussels, sad obtained a passport for that purpose, Id instead of proceediag with that document, he toads an of an old passport granted by Lord Palmerston to Allaopp. arrived in Brussels early in December, leaving the prima in London, and on the 3rd the prisoner produced the ger nodes to a person who kept the CAM Soiree it Tichbourne-street, representing them to be an invention connected with the manufacture of gas. This person the prisoner induced to take over eve halves of the grenade h Brussels, and • few days afterwards the prisoner went over to Brussels himself, and he and Orsini were sem together at the Cafe Suisse there by the proprietor of the London ca. These three persons remained together fur some dap in the Belgian capital, during which time the grenades wen over and over again seen in their pained= by many par ties. Eventually Orsini departed for Par* going by the name of Alhopp, and carrying with him, in the charge its person hired to take care of his hone, a carpet bag. missiles were passed by the French Custom-ham otßoers, and the 13th of December Oraiai reached Paris with them. In the meanwhile tY prisoner retained to London. On the 2nd of loony be sent • couple of revolvers from London to Paris, widened to a person in the Rue St. Denim, and these having ten found on two of the conspirators, would be proved to hen been previously sold to one Pieni, in London. Moot the time or before the revolvers wero sent to PM the prisoner forwarded • letter to M. OM , * his friend, in the Rue St. Denis, bitiodleig Orsini to him as an English gentleman, named noel Allsoyp, and observing that this English godson spoke Pnach like • native. Subsequently he wrote sods letter to H. Ontrequin, introducing • Mr. Hedge, sad iP questing to know If he could dispose of some rich and em firearms. At a later day the revolvers wore forwirdok lof Outrequin was requested to sell them to Orsini, ethane Whom, without being too inquisitive as to price, bet 1046 that to be afterwards nettled between thee:mins 11 0 way the weapons got into Orsini's possession,about thole of January. On the 7th of that month Pied rod Brussels, sad promoting himself at the Cele Sulam doosid and moire& on the production of a letter wens' if the prisoner on. of the grenades which had bon lit lo kind, and on the Bth, the following day, th solid at en hotel in the Rue Montmartre, Paris, whin bi lived for two or three days with on Otol. On the 26th of November Orsini obtained exchange for gold twenty-five notes from di Bank if England for 4601., and on the 2nd or led of hog SOULS of the notes' were exchanged by the prime st lisos J. Bpollesana, while • third of the notes wu found ups paean of Piaui when he was arrested. On the 2nd lemoi the primer celled upon one Rudlo at his lodini° i' Leaden. Radio was at the time in • starring OM *d was premded by the pleener to love London for NS and them pat himself la communication with Orsini, Olt or Plank, at the hotel is the Rae Montmartre. Be Pow' ender • false passport obtained In the name d Min, and posed himself off to the 1 " 11 2. police es a Portugal's. Here there were fon elr fi g in Paris and one in London ening together, and ca tits of January that attempt took place which they WI ir al lave known could not be made without risk* IIVIS of many innocent preens besides that d 11 1 : elevated personage whom they wished to IA was so wronged, that if the grenades failed, mod be had to revelries, and foiling then, to • Siam — l4 _ past six o'clock on the mating of the 14th of Int Orsini, Gomm, Rollo, end Pilot, quitted the toklige Orsini, and nothing wee heard of then Oil the latter was arrested near the Opera low with erns of the and • lorded "u open his. A qua rte r ed an hour afterwards 1 " Rower wired at the entrance of the Opera who 11 l grieisies woe thrown by Orsini, Homes, sad R•doi ••• the reorder perpetrated which was now the sadis t indictment spinet the prisoner. The learned ,diho tM gave • rapid outline of the incidents attending sod the whelp's* wrest of Orsini, Domes, and Re.. ' herein 11(011 SO, be said he had now eranplend a_ li t simnel Wary of the whole cam. Every cos d would be cereplOsly proved, and it woad be hr WO- r Lei men the es here& ehoul Thi enter made dove. for th. heard la the for o Must on dal Jana sad In atterw Croi i n n ot pn Bodio from ti know it Pori who have hi Joan Bodkin ovenini ry r° hie s i fell lab an hoe the wot Cron or five knew e Bmil randeni Baytle evemini left bre Proles the left Cros °rola, Clan proved Croi Opera going. when t at his I wads M. I amain Ministe Januar - lite. ded the could CI hitieteg .; - 00 - tta -7 The, witness when o The I Ia Jan chows, azamini choice o baltlek Mr. I on beha the ban: Mr. I witted further The FF and bob pained Thom Wi g:. PL Hichl the pris plaice kirn it bad b.; day, e] my mm am prat and tale Priso you 2B I Prue iiiol Whlte6 gai o'clock saw the found one Phil hint to I on Nish tiro! hi `ti; -, haV-crli Hew brandy Jobs the Pa: brandy. The eel fhel flak ktad. The I prison f Defeo stanoes Mr. I fondant assiertan no haw that he as iDj vas off. to ootai I was p and aa 'fhat kughl Tee I &teem other. him, el the von • ,dth• the bey The One del - • " 7b . iire your er The' Com - 1 almost A y, charg e before AUon, The hp In I to opa l tea( was a