The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, - FRIDAY ' IBREAKFAST.-EPP B 8 COCOA. TBELOAR'S COCOA NUT FIBRE MATTING, WARRANTED UNBLRACHLD. LM of Prices tees by poet Warehouse. 8.. LUDGATE-RILL. (he earpreOgs. ADVERTISEMENTS must be forwarded to Messrs. J. M. JOHNSON and Soxs, 3, Castle street, Holborn, and 56, Hatton-garden, the specially appointed Agents. HAYMARKET. TEM EYMHNO, THE BEOKEN-11EMITID CUB.—DAVID HAMRICK. Mown Aothern, Buckstone, Rogers. Arc. ; and Was lobartaon.—BOX AND COX. Mr. Buckatono and Mr. Compton. —And FAMILY JAILS. Mr. Compton. PZINCIMErS. • TIMS EviaMM, ARILAM NA POGUL Mr. and Mr*. D. Boa daudt, Mr. Vining, Mean Dominick Murray, Neville. & Shore ; •M 1 Barnett et yrs. Addle.—After which TOE OCTOROON. Mr. sal 111 x► nuerleault, Mr. J. S. Clarks, Mr. Vining, & Miss Strauss. arum). Enigma. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Mlaa Kelly Moore, '....Atier which TRH CALIPH OF BAUDAD. Mews. Thorne solJansea . Mesdames Ada Swanborough, Johnstone, Harland, ,111•11, ate.—And COAL AND COKE. HOMED. TRW Syrian, TT= FLYING SCUD. Marra Atkins Pries, Orden. Arthur, Westland. and Wilmott Mesdames Remade, liesdall. Lennox, and esandera—Conclade uith VALLNIINZ ♦N I OIDUN. Montero, Little Roselle, B.e. BRITANNIA. TI Erzwitl, ALL 1117 ONM. Mears. neynalds and trawford Mesdames enartenay, and Devaney. DON QUIXOTE. Mrs. & Lana: Panuanualsts Messrs. Deane, Loma, Newham, and F.chams Family . iddlle C. Stephan and Ulm Mwe Nathan. HIGH WATT R AT LONDON BRIDGI. TION - DAi —liming, Ob. 51st.. ..Afternoon, lh air. TO-110a30w—Mornhig, 16 3901........ADdra0uA, 2.m. (10.. NOTICES of BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, are received until 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. Price, 3s. lA. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEB. 21. MR. DISRAELI'S PARLIAMENTARY LEADERSHIP. THE art of Parliamentary leadership is one of the moat essential qualifications of a modern statesman. To govern the assembly which governs the nation is an office which calls for varied and rare gifts. Possibly not one man can be 1 found in a generation who possesses them in a very I high degree. A man may be a master in debate and in administration, he may be a profound and foreseeing statesman, he may adorn a pene trating and comprehensive philosophy with the splendour of a gorgeous rhetoric, his character may 1 be free front stain ; and all these merits may be half neutralised by want of tact and discretion. On the other hand, a politician to whom even his friends do not impute very lofty motives, or a rigid regard to principle, who has never displayed any peat capacity for departmental business, who may be even a halting orator, or a slovenly debater, exercising no intellectual ascendancy of any sort or kind, may be an efficient Parliamentary leader. Lord GRENVILLE, whose knowledge and mastery of affairs were unsurpassed in his day, and whose oratory was impressive and failed in the leadership of the House of Lords. In , a touching letter to a political friend, lie confesses his incapacity for the imuutgentent of men, and his I regret that with the advance of ago his originally sieuder power of influencing them was becoming more scanty. A much greater man was spoken of by the country gentlemen of his day, as "that im " personation of fully, Mr. Be ri; r." On the other hand, Lord ALTHORT, whose only quali fications were unfailing good nature, transparent simplicity of character, and unmistakeable honesty at purpose. swayed the House of Commons with an ascendancy which genius does not always com mand. No one rule can he laid down for con duct in a post which men ao different as WALPOLE, the elder and the younger Perr, Sir SOCERT Pest, Lord A LTHORT, lord PAL NI ERAToN, and Mr. DISRAELI have filled with different degrees of success. As regards the tires three, they wore national rather than Parliamentary leaders ; they impersonated the all but unani mous will of the English people, in its relation w foreign enemies, or to a handful of domestic malcontents. Their pe.ition bears more analogy to that of CAVOUR and DDiMARCK in our own day than to that of their successors in Eng land. They had a virtual dictatorship ; and the tone of dictatorial authority aas not unnatural or irritating in their mouths because it corresponded with the fact. Where it failed, the royal influence, or the secret service fund, could be brought to bear upon mutineers. A House of Commons which can neither be bi,ight nor intimidated needs to be managed. The qualities needful for lianas big it nmy be well studied in the careers of Lord PALM All -ToN and Mr. DISRAELT, as contrasted with those of Lord Ressma. and Mr. GLAD froN E. We leave Sir HOBERT Pe:A omit of RC wont. It may be questioned whether he could base led the present parliament. It must be re membenml that, saving his few months' occupancy of office in MO, he was Prime Minister only for five years ; that he entered office commanding an overwhelming majority, that he left it, having accomplished indeed a great reform. principally through the aid of his opponents, but with his majority gone, his party broken up, and amid the execrations and vituperation of those who had been hi. followers. Sir Rosser Pmit's cold tern petament and somewhat pompous oratory would sot be very congenial, it may be conjectured, to the present Howse of Commons. Circumstances sande him a necessity to his party, and gave him the opportunity of bestowing inestimable benefits on his country. But his party first distrusted and afterwards detested him. Putting aside Sir Roaewr Pest then, whose case is unique, what, we may ask, has given to Lord PALMEISTON and Mr. DISRAELI a power of swaying the House of Commons which has been denied to the consistent principle and eminent services of Lord Rrsseu. and to the unsurpassed eloquence, knowledge, and adminis tr u capacity of Mr. GLADSTONE ? Wemay illustrate a part of the sub jeetbyreferenee to a clover apologue of Lord Lvrrox's. In one of his earlier books he tells us how the Virtues and Vices went each on • pleasure part•. The Vir tues spent a miserable day wrangling with each other, and parted with mutual dissatisfaction. The were a most estimable band, but they had forgotten to take Good Temper with thins. The Vices on the other hand spent a delightful day, pleased and pleasing, because they had had the fore thought to take as one of their crew the reconciling companion whom the Virtues had omitted. Lord PALMERSTON was, and Mr. is, capable of being very rude. The fornwr was often less than civil to Mr. Gosovr, and the latter has more than once taken pains to be offensive to Mr. Mut,. But both have always bseen careful to have the prevalent feeling of the house on their side, with respect to the subjects and the men whom they affronted. Lord Businsm.'s scornful haute7k icY curtness have seldom' respected these ctaill'...one of safe lan**; aid Mr. GLeveroitz's meet ,earneet re bukes and expostulations have geudfall y, such to his moral credit, been directed against revs. lent evils cherished by tie house, whici has, therefore, sat uneasy under the chastise ment. Mr. Disuazu's habit of pandering to the perverse bias of the moment is not for a moment to be imitated ; but the harshness of conflict with wrong may, without un- I worthy complianoes, be tempered by a suavity and self-restraint which though difficult are not impels ' Bible to strong conviction and feeling, and are valuable aids to them. Another thing which Mr. DISRAELI habitually remembers is that the House of Commons is for no small number of its mem bers quite as much a place of amusement as a place of business ; they come there for entertainment, and Mr. Mamma furnishes them with what they come for. He can answer a fool according to his folly. He does not think it necessary to go into long explanations for the pur pose of supplying Mr. WEIALLIEY or Mr. DARBY Gairmu with all the information which they desire, or of setting those worthy gentlemen right when they happen to go astray. He can distinguish between what they want to know and what the House wants to know. He is always, indeed, thinking as much of the House as of his subject, and never suffers his own interest in a particular question to carry him beyond the limits at which the interest of the majority of his hearers stops short. He has the sense of proportion, and knows when to have done. These are not the highest qualities. Their intrinsic value is very small, but they have the greatest instrumental worth. Their posses sion may mask the shortcomings of a pre tender to statesmanship. Their absence may make really statesmanlike qualities unavailing. If the House of Commons is to be more than a disorderly and divided public meeting it must be brought to unity of mind and purpose by skilful leadership. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT- RACE. We are to have the University boat-race after all. Oxford has not held the plea advanced by Cam bridge for a withdrawal of its challenge sufficient ; and has said so plainly in a letter, some parts of which seem not to have met the approval of the Cambridge Club. To this appeal to their pluck the Cambridge men have responded promptly, and, by a majority of 29 to 6, it has been resolved that the request made to Oxford for the withdrawal of its challenge, be itself with drawn. We are glad of this, not merely because the race has risen to the importance of an aquatic Derby-day, but for the higher reason that we should 'not like to see men who have come year after year to a famous contest with increasing lees of prestige, but without loss of courage, falter now. There may be a point at which the stoutest heart will knock under to adversity, and own itself beaten beyond hope. But, apologise for it as we may, such a state is ono of demoralisation. No true man takes it into his calculation as a possible close of his efforts. It is always on the cards that he will win. He does not understand such a thing as a struggle to be given up in despair. We felt dissatisfied when the Cambridge men made Mr. Goacos's death their excuse for not rowing this year. A valid ex cuse it was not, for the University had no lack of men able to take his place worthily. By the world it would be regarded as a pretext to corer faint-heartedness. Probably the Oxford Club saw it in this light, and felt that for the common honour of both Universities it should be withdrawn. It did not reckon in vain when it relied on the chivalry of its old antagonist, and made this request. Never had worsted adversary less cause for quitting the field. Cambridge has been beaten, not dishonoured. If she has not carried off the prize, she has won the respect of all who love courage, and who respect it perhaps more when it fails without reproach than when it succeeds. Besides, nothing has been so characteristic of the University boat• race as the run of luck which has bestowed a ' succession of victories now on this side, now on that. More than twenty years ago Oxford turned the tide of fortune in a race in which success might well seem hopeless. It may be Cambridge's turn this year, and the mere non impossibility of a victory which will be so splendid a triumph whenever it comes, should be sufficient to outweigh the dejection of even a larger list of defeats than she has yet sustained. THE picket firing which precedes the great elec tion engagement continues to be to the disadvan tage of Ministers. The isolated appeals to con stituencies rendered necessary by accidents of life or political change, since the passing of the Reform Bill, have shown none of that unbounded gratitude to the putative authors of the measure, nor of that simple faith in their future policy, which we were assured would be dis played ; but rather a dogged adherence to Reform principles as interpreted and defended by those with whom Reform is traditionally asso ciated. Mr. Las's promises at }kitten that lie would go into the " goose trade" on Dart moor ; lay the telegraph from Penryn to Helton ; present 500 volumes "of great variety " as a nucleus for a free library ; make a railway on the Mont Conic principle, and supply the town with gas at a cheap rate,—failed indeed to disturb the SOLICITOR-GENERAL in his return; but the election of Mr. Gso. Missy for Stoke upon-Trent is a clear loss to the Government. To Parliament it is a gain, for Mr. HILLY brings with him a reputation, net only for large-minded philanthropy, but for an enlightened and fearless Liberalism, greatly needed in the discussions which await us. We do not propose to claim Mr. HOPI'S advance upon his opponent at Cambridge as a subject for particular congratulation, but so far as it goes it is a ministerial disappointment. IF we except the very improbable story that the Roumanian Chambers are going to proclaim Prince CHARLES an independent Sovereign, on Sunday, the 23rd inst., the anniversary of the expulsion of Prince Couza—the only " dark spot" visible on the foreign horizon at present is that which appears over the residence of the ex-King of Hanover at Hietzing. At the moment when Prussia seemed to be satisfied with the explanations rendered on the subject of the passports given to the Hanoverian officers, I King Grown took advantage of the celebra tion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his marriage to inform his former subjects that he hoped to rule over them once more as their Prince. Hence a renewal of irritation between Prussia and Austria. Marriages have often proved the cause of bloody wars, but these were times of barbarism and ignorance. It would not be possible for a modern Helen to kindle a tan years' war. We cannot imagine that the celebration of the 20th anniversary of a marriages= leash° any ma thing mobs thillit aau *riths ma of pdfill* 4 good sand* • 'a prate r, is Count iaIKLICICB maxim. t hope , ilorafore, that Ihe Prussian Minis will'hot stop the supplies, and that the ex-Kuch may be allowed to give vent to vain desires over his Tatty without disturbing the peace of the world. • Sift Court. OSBORNE, FM 19. The Queen drove out, accompanied by the Duchess of Athol. and Mies Macgregor. The Duke of Richmond, MG., arrived at Osborne, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. Fan. 20. The Queen drove out, aocompanied by Prince Leopold, and her ➢fajesty afterwards walked with Priaosse Louisa. The Duke of Richmond left Osborne. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Sutherland, and attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Koppel, was present yesterday at some experiments mad* by Mr. James Faris, in the application of Dick's patent portable self-acting firs engine called l'Estincteur. The Princess of Wales drove out, attended by the Countess of Morton. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, St. Helena, and Malta. Despatches were soot to the Governor-General of Canada. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian and suite honoured the performances at the Theatre Royal Adelphi last evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Christian let t Windsor at 10 o'clock this morning for Vaux hall, en route, it was understood, for Woolwich. His Excellency the Swedish minister and Baroness Hochschild had a dinner party yesterday e►ening at the Swedish Legation in Great Cumberland•street. A select company assembled after dinner. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and the Mimeo Maxwell have arrived at Rome from Nice. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers are expected home at the end of next month from Rome. Lord and Lady Houghton are not expected in town until after Euter. They us at present staying at Menton. The Earl and Counteas of Granville, on leaving Critohill, where they have bean staying on a visit to Mr. Henry G. Sturt, M.P., and Lady Augusta Start, proceeded to Badminton, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS. THE GOVERNMENT BILL. The government bill for amending the laws relating to election petitions, and providing more effectually for the prevention of corrupt practices at parliamentary elections, was issued this morning. The bill, which (out side of 66 clauses, provides that a court, to be called the Court of Elections, shall be established, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the act, and shall con sist of three election judges, who shall be appointed by letters patent. This court shall, for all the purpoets of of the act, have the powers of one of the superior courts of law at Westminster ; and it shall hold its sittings at a place provided by the commissioners of the Treasury, and at such times as may be appointed by the Lord Chancellor. The persona entitled to present petitions are, as according to the present law, voters ; persons claim ing to have had • right to be returned; and persons alleging themselves to have been candidates. Security for the payment of all expenses that may be become payable by the petitioner to witnesses, or to the member whose return is complained of, must bo made at the time of the presentation of the petition, or within three days afterwards. Each petition is to be tried by one of the judges, without a jury, and it shall, when practica ble, be tried in the order in which it stands on the list At the conclusion of the trial the judge shall determine whether the member whose return is complained of is duly elected; or if not, whether any and what other per son has been duly returned, or whether the election is void; and his determination, certified to the Speaker, shall be final. The judge shall also report whether any corrupt practice has or has not been proved to have been com mitted with the knowledge and consent of the candidate ; and report also the names of all persons proved to have been guilty of these practices ; and whether they have ex tensively prevailed ►t the election to which the petition relates. The House of Commons shall carry oat the re port, which shall be equivalent to the report of an election committee, and may be dealt with in the same meaner. Thin act also provides that the Court of Elections shall have jurisdiction over appeals from revising banisters. The court may also, from time to time, revoke and alter general rules and orders (referred to in the sot as the " rules of the court ") for the effectual execution of the act. The judge will have power to summon any per son as a witness, and to allow any reasonable expenses that may be incurred. Petitions may be with drawn and *then substituted, bat not without leave of the court upon special application ; but all costs incidental to the presentation of the petition, and to the proceedings consequent thereon (with the exception of such costa as are otherwise provided for) shall be defrayed by the par ties to the petition in such a manner as the court may direct. When it is found that bribery has been committed with the knowledge and consent of a candi date, the election in to be declared void, and the candidate rendered ineligible to sit in the House of Commons for seven years to come. The election is also to be void if a candidate personally employs any person as an agent whom he knows to have been guilty of corrupt practices. It is also provided th►t any person who is not a candidate, but who has been found guilty of billowy, shall not be eligible to sit in Par liament for seven years, and, whether candidate or not, he shall, during the same period of sena years, neither have a vote nor hold any municipal or judicial office, nor be appointed or sot as a justice of the peace. The bill, if passed, will come into operation at the next dissolution of parliament, but will not apply to Scotland or Ireland. It is endorsed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. G►thorne Hardy, and Sir Stafford Northcote. METROPOLITAN AND CITY POLICE STATISTIC.% Returns were issued this morning, for the infor mation of Parliameot, by Superintendent Kittle, of the Metropolitan, and Colonel Fraser, of the City Police, re lative to the numerical strength of those bodies, and the number and =Um) of the atomic' committed against them. The strength of the metropolitan force in the year 1867, was 6,999, exclasi►e of the detachments employed in her Majesty's dockyarda. The number of persona ar rested for assaults on the police or for ab et:tiding them in the execution of their duty, was 2,246 ; the number of policemen sneaked, 2,229 ; of men temporarily disabled, 191; of killed or permanently disabled, 4 ; of persons fined for assaults on the police, 1,236 ; of persons imprisoned for assaults, 795 ; of polioe granted pensions during the year in consequence of in juries recei►ed in the execution of their duty, prior to the commencement of the year, 20. Of the four men killed or permanently disabled, one was suddenly attacked in Bloomsbury, stabbed in the right temple and shot in the right knee ; another was se►erely kicked and beaten shout the body when apprehending a man for larceny; to third was knocked down and braised about the body and legs, and had two of his teeth kicked out by a drunken nun whom be found lying in the street and assisted to walk ; and the fourth wee shot at, and his left hand shattered, by a man who was in the company of another, and whom the officer suspected to be an improper character. The number at the City police in 1867 was 688 ; of per. sans arrested for swank and obstruction, 206 ; of eau stables arminited, 190 ; of constables temporarily disabled by arimults, 3 ; ot parlous lined for assaults on the polio., 66 ; sad et persons imprisoned for amanita, 100. Thor returns wore 1110•11111 for by Mr. Michael Bum The general committee of elections have selected the follewhis mix toombozo to servo se &sinus d sheiks osounittoto tar the prom. wagon :—Moossi. H. Aditr, W. Bete, Mahal Davao:cabs, Sir P. Gm Igortwa, T. W. Nram. 'ad Z. Bowes. ;NG, IFEBRUAR' EIGNi NElfg. (THIS DIV AMRRICA. (3? MANTIC TILIGIAIIi, nizotum Ni. merest Aciarcr.) NEW YORK, FEL 20. Closing prices :--Gold, 1401. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 1111; ditto, 1885, 1091 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1051. Illinois 1381; Brie, 721. Cotton : Middling Upland, 241. Petroleum, standard white, 251. Flour, extra state, 10.40. Corn, old mixed, 1.28. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nog ook onir PARIS, THURSDAY EVINING.. The Pntrie contains the following paragraph, which clashes to a certain extent with the ex tremely peaceable tenour of the news which has prevailed for the last few days : We give under all reserve a piece of nun which comes to us from Ibraila. It is said that Russian troops are concentrated at /Congas, Roppeck, Tabaka, Viatolka, Tuitions, and Semliki, villages near tho Beraarabian and Moldavian frontier. These movements of troops, the motive for which is unknown, have the great inconve nience of giving an apparent confirmation to the stories told by the committees who seek to stir up the epithetic populations of Bulgaria, by souring them that u soon as they rise Russian troops will come to help them. We think the Russian government would be extremely wise in avoiding everything which may afford an cause for such falsehood. It should not be forgotten that the Patrie affirmed the other day in a stately article that a gunpowder train had been laid between the Danube and Constantinople, but that the vigilant Western Powers had broken it up. Does the Patrie now mean to say that a new train is laid Some of the students who mado a row at the Caen the other night during the performance of Alexander Dumas Kean, formed a procession after the play and marched down the Rues de l'Ancienne Coniddie and Dauphine to the Pont Neuf, where they were stopped by a body of server's de rifle. Four young men, out of several others arrested, are to be prosecuted for " resistance to authority." M. Creppo, whose arrest at Lille I mentioned, has been released on bail. Ho is to be tried for the offence of introducing prohibited books into France. There was found upon him coming from Belgium a single copy of M. Maurice Joly's " Entretiens de Machiavel et Montesquieu." At the Bourse the rise of yesterday was fully maintained in the Rente. Italian rose 25c. ; Mobilier, Gfr. 25c. ; and Credit Fonder, 21r. 51./c. THE LATE GALE. MOELFRE, ANGLESEY FEB. 19. The Rev. W. Williams report that the London Sunday School and Charles Sears lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution went off this morning in reply to a signal of distress and brought ashore the crew of three men of the schooner March, of Liverpool, which was bound from Moetyn to Holyhead with • cargo of coals. The lifeboat also took off the crew of three men of the schooner Richard, of Bangor, bound with slates from Bangor to Glasgow, which was exhibiting a signal of dis tress. It was blowing • heavy gale from north-east at the time. APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON, Fril. 30. Daring a gale from the north, and in a very beery see, yesterday, a messenger arrived here from Clovelly and stated that two vessels were riding off that place, and were rapidly driving ashore--one of them dying a signal of dis tress. The services of the Hope lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution were requested, and the beet accord ingly at once proceeded off, but before she had time to retch them the gale considerably subsided, the sea went down, and the crews of the two vessels were landed by a shore boat. Nothing could be more satisfactory than the behaviour of the lifeboat, which was the admiration of all who saw her. The master and crew of one of the vessels afterwards expressed their sincere thanks for the very prompt and gallant endeavours of the lifeboat crew, to save them when in their great peril, as they felt that no common boat could have rescued them had not the weather moderated. PADSTOW, Tnunaiti. The Rev. Richard Tyacke reports that the lifeboat Albert Itlward, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institu tion was launched yesterday during a severe gale from the N.N.W. and heavy sea, and proceeded to the entrance of the harbour, in order to be ready for any emergency that might arise. Fortunately, the assistance of the boat of mercy was not wanted on the occasion. The severity of the gale had then somewhat subsided, and the sea, though still very rough, was much less so than earlier in the day. Towards evening five other vessels rsn for the harbour, and entered it safely, and without requiring any help. The r e was then vety much moderated, and the tide near its NEWQUAY, CARDIGANSHIRE, FEE. 19. Mr. James Barry, the chief officer of coast guard at this station, reports that the lifeboat Forester was launched this evening to the assistance of • vessel which was oh. served during • heavy gale of wind about eight or nine miles off in a dismantled state. Before the arrival of the lifeboat the ship's mew had, however, succeeded in beach ing her in safety. She proved to be the schooner Cathe rine, of Newquay, from Liverpool. bound to Plymouth with • cargo of coals. HAYLE, Fen. 24 , . About 'o'clock yesterday,durbig • heavy gals from the north (reports W. H. Holmes, Esq., collector of customs), • French schooner was observed in distress running for tbe bar off this place. Signals were immediately hoisted, and in five minutes the Isis lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was launched with • full crew, and proceeded to the bar spits, ready to render assistance if necessary. The vessel, however, got safely into St. Ives harbour, whereupon the lifeboat returned to her station. At the last ball at the Hotel de Ville there were no law than 6,000 persons present. A French writer says that the audacity of some of the toilettes of the ladies was never more conspicuous. Some of the robes of the more Weald& seemed to hang upon their wearers only " par nue miracle d'►dreae." The programme of the flies at the Tuikwles is thus announced :—On the 2.lth the diner de fanidk; the sth of March, dinner to the deputies and re• oeption ; the 9th, official dinner and concert ;12th, dinner to the deputies and reception ; the 17th, official dinner and concert ; 19tb, dinner to the deputies and reception : the 23rd, official dinner and concert ; and on the 26th, official dinner and reception. _ _ The Paris correspondent of the Post says :—" The Grand Opera his been crowded every Saturday night sines carnival commenced with the usual mob of abop.boys, woman at doubtful and half-doubtful 111.110Cildi0C11, a small sprinkling of the masked and dominoed ladies of the proud sends, end a very considerable contribution on the pert of foreign countries, especially America. In Rome the carnival has been generally dying out. In Venice they are trying to revive the greet Christian festival, and in Florence the government comes forward and patronises ' making and mumming.' Bat there is no city like Paris for the bal starqui. The French as a nation are always thinking bow they can dtguiser themselves ; they have a soul for dance, and legs and arms which spouts neonsly throw themselves into comic attitudes at the In stigation of lively made. The women poses. the utmost °owns in obeying themselves to the world in demi toilettes. The French are the only people who can per form a carnival from their own natural instincts, and Paris is the only city in the world when a people's tat stag* eon be seen to perfection." It is stated that the Mont Cenis Summit Railway is expected to be opened for mob: *oft se the Ist of May next. . . . . . . . With regard to the demand for wheat for the Continent, it appears that within the last 14 days at lesst 50,000 qre. have been taken from Queenstown and Falmouth for French sad other near foreign win, and that about 90,000 or 30,000 qm. additional, now an their passage hither from California, have been limiest for similar destlaatisos. _ _ _ Maim Nag tb tie lad "Woes from San Fraacimoo *ebb! Om el tuba* ` ow ed Ameba this par. - bea ea ezieesallaery bps to ib 'Filtrates la Oolifetait. Mot east el Abe yip 111 Udit ye. it tr efistaal, be limited ealy by lie amble el basis talet obtained for mowing sad berreelias /blhadre.amt current that the number of acres sown this yes/ win• M. one million, which at an smogs yield would give alit than 3,500.000 qm. ; .. .'~P INITIALt ZQUITY COURT. Ware Vise-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood.) 41 UM V. GR—POLISH BONDS. The following extraordinary ciroumstanose IMO din. closed by the pleadings and evidence in this edit : In June, 064 the plaintiff, Mr. Barnet Lawrence Phillips, of New Bend-etrese, was introduced by Paul Testa, a merchant, of London, to Prince finborminaky, a Polish nobleman, who was deafens of disposing of some of the securities whisk are well-known in commercial Gleam as "Gages Polonaises," or Polish bonds, being instruments which pass from hand to hand by delivery only. Plaintiff understood that they had been duly created, and were valid and legal instruments ; that they had been acquired by the Polish belligerents during the war in Poland in 1863; but that the Russian government claimed them, and might attempt to seize them. In December, 1864, plaintiff, being at Berlin, mentioned the subject to the defendant, Engine Doglike ' whole a Belgian accost, resi ding at Liege, and he said he thought the bonds could be negotiated at Amsterdam. Plaintiff said that the question of the liability of the bonds to seizure was fatly discussed between hiuiself and Dognee, The price plaintiff stipulated for was one-third of the price on the Stook Exchange at Amsterdam, and plaintiff said Dognee well knew that the depreciated value was owing to the risk of seizure. On the 9th of December plaintiff wrote to him offering the bonds at 33 per cent. On the nth Dognee wrote, demanding • promise of sale during a period of from one to two months, by which there would be held at his disposal all the bonds to the amount of a nominal value of 50,000/. lie also asked to have a certain amount of the bond, remitted to him. In the same letter occurred this passage--" Is the 33 per cent, of which you speak on the nominal value, or on the quotation of price of bonds of the same kind, but on which there does not rest the stain of the origin of these r Plaintiff applied to Tests, but he declined to send the bonds itbroad. Several letters passed and on the 15th February the plaintiff wrote as follows :—" I have laid your last letter to me before the agent of the Polish Bonds Committee, who has undertaken to give me a reply in the course of to-morrow. I am sure, however, the parties will not allow the bond/ to go out of their possession excepting against payment. I ripest, the con ed of the Russian government here has attached • quan tity of these bonds in the City of London. The bonds about which we are negotiating are deposited with • mem ber of parliament at the West-end, in whose bands they =mot be attached." Tee follow ing pluaage occurred in one of the plaintiffs letters of the Bth of March, %` I have told you that there are some of the bonds which have been stolen, deposited, and which are on the market, but no one has the bonds which lam offering to you." Dognee, in expla nation of this, said that when the plaintiff and he met on a second occasion in Berlin, in January, 1865, plaintiff told him that a large number of bonds similar to those be wished Downie to sell had been stolen from the government, and that that accounted for the low price at which sonic were being sold in Holland. _ _ Finally, in March, 1365, Dognee came to London, and was introduced by the plaintiff to Testa, and an agree ment was come to, whereby bonds for the nominal value of 25,000 silver rouble were to be banded by Testa to the plaintiff, to be delivered by him to Damns to be negotiated. Plaintiff was to give Testa his ac ceptince which (as pLiintiff said) was not to be negotiated by Testa, as • security ; acd Dognee was to deposit an acceptance of a London banker with a third party, the defendant Green, also by way of security. On the 2nd of May a letter, signed by the plaintiff and Dog tee' was addressed and handed to Mr. Green, containing the terms of an agreement whereby it was understood that the plaintiff kept at the disposal of Dove. Polish bonds of the nominal value of 2,000,000 silver roubles at ths price of one-third the ordinary Amsterdam quota tion, which varied at the rate of GO per cent ; the plaintiff to allow Dognee • commission of 1 1.6 per cent. on all sales effected. To facilitate the negotiation plaintiff was to deliver that day to Dugan bonds for the nominal value of 25,000 roubles, in guarantee of which Dognes was to deposit a bill of exchange for 1)001., accepted by the Euro pean flank, and duly endorsed. It was, however, understood that Bogner, mu allowed to retire the draft in returning within a fortnight the bonds in question. If, on the other hand, after the fortnight, they were kept by lhognee, the draft was to be remitted to the plaintiff in settlement of the prim of sale. On the seine day plaintiff gave Testa his acceptance for GOOF., and the draft, also fee 1)00/., was deposited with Green. Tho bonds were not handed over the mime day, and on the following day, the 3rd of May, Doguke wrote to the plaintiff, complaining that the agreement had not been fulfilled, and threatening lega l proceedings, the result of which would be, as he said, to destroy the value of the property pro ud. I by your friends, or at least to reduce it very much. I hew perfectly where the titles are, and all the details of the affair." On the 4th of May he wrote • similar letter to Testa, threatening proceedings. On the sth of May, Downs, who was then at Calais, received the bonds for 25,000 roubles from Testa, and sent a receipt to the plain tiff. At the expiration of the fortnight, the plaintiff was served with • notice, dated the 17th of May. on behalf of Hogue., saying that he renounced keeping the bonds, and intended to claim the deposit, and that he would immediately return them, if be were not prevented from so doing through a seizure wade of the bonds at Berlin. Testa having negotiated tbs plaintiff's acceptance, and Green having been served with notice not to givo up the draft, the plaintiff bled this bill on the oth of June, Isos, alleging that the seizure of the bonds was • collusive proceeding, concocted by Tests and Dognee with a view of defrauding him, and praying that Testa might be decreed to deliver up the acceptance, or Milem nify the plaintiff, and that Green might be ordered to hand over the security. The 1)001. had aims been paid into court. Testa denied then was any understanding that plain. tiff's acceptance should not be negotiated. Dognne said that as son as he received the bonds be sent them to his Dutch brokers, who forwarded them to Berlin. where they were seized by the polite authorities on the ground that they were part of • number of bonds which had been stolen in 1863 from the Imperial Russian Trea sury at Warsaw ; and in support of this Mr. Becker, of Berlin, deposed that on the 14th of May he under took to sail 22 Polish bonds for 35,500 roubles for Van Hall, of Amsterdam, that he sold seven to the amount of 14,250 roubles ; and that on the morning of the 9th Messrs. Krause,his bankers, informed him that the bonds he had delive red to them for sale had been recognised by their cumbers as part of • lot which had bean stolen, and the police authorities had seized them. Both defendants denied all oollusion, and claimed the right, one to use plaintiff's aoceptanoe, the other to have HUI money in court. Mr. Drum, Q.C., and Mr. Locock Webb were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Jason Smith for the defendant Green ; Mr. C. X. Rowell for Testa; and Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. F. Waller for DOWI6O. In cross-examination in court, Hogan admitted he was told the bonds were liable to seizure, but said he believed them to be perfectly valid, and explained the phrase " stain of origin" as meaning simply the fact of their being Polish securities. It further appeared (in the view of the nail) that Dognee throughout was the agent of Mr. Van Hall, a banker, through another Mr. Van Ilall, the broker above mentioned, sad that since the above transactions Mr. Van Hall had been in treaty for the whole amount of shares, including those that had been alleged to have been stolen. The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment this morning. Alluding to the fact that them bonds had been always claimed by the Russian government, but that the agents of that country had had to abandon those which they bad seized in this country, his Honour said that the result was that the greatest caution became necessary in dealing with them. Van Hall was in feet the person substantially interested in the whole contest, and Dognee was his agent, and that Dognes was thoroughly aware of the liability of the bonds to seizure was clear, not only from the price, which was the grand test, but from the correspondence. Throughout there was great pressure on the part of Dopes, or rather of Van Jun but ultimately the transaction of the sth of May was carried out. The real substance of that agree ment was an option to purchase--a delivery of the articles for the purpose of Dognee's being able to effect a sale for those for whom he was acting—and an option of declining to purchase, but in that event an tto return the bonds. The consequence was the onus was entirely thrown upon Dope* to state why he did not return the bonds. Thom this point treating Van Hall, and not Dognia, as the interested, what account was given of the • of these docu ments I They were sent to Holland and thence to Berlin, where • person named Becker stated that they were seized whilst in the hands of Krauss, his bankers. Beyond that, there was actually no evidence, except the receipt of the Petunia's polies. But as to what were the grounds of this seizure, whether that the bonds were stolen or not, or whether the Harlin police seized them as agents of the Rumba government or not, the court was wholly maintained. Mere then two years bad teempleed sine, them Insmatices had taken place, the ealy mos who iambi solids them, the hanker Krause, had not ham produerd. amid whoa his Resent found that these get, with requiring the greatest caution in darding with Asa, bad been tabu aa near as possible to the audaa treader, and had beta seized with i so Bleb emphmstica as to the afreemoimema of their dia appetiser, ha Gould not but held Ven lia/1 liable to the eaturequestat et the shares not bowleg bees refereed. The doom, thruelore, *mild be that Mr. bees would take his oasts out of the SOK. and the midst would be paid to the plaintiff. Davie meet pay the mole el the mit, ex cept to far as they_ were emelianed by maids( Tells a Wt. The Plaintiff to pq Teak& me* and to be en. titled to have Green's costs over apart Dalai& COURT OF QUEENS BENCH. SEOOND COURT. Jaw Tarn 2.1121 Plias Withal at GaildltalL—(Bofors Indies Biaddbara sad Osman Juries.) 20MM S VOLTAM Ilds was as Whoa kr Wm/ TM dishadsal pleaded not Mr gin . * Ifspasar. Q. 0.. mad lir. Gibber vere mama fat tlis tar; Mr. 15rjesa0 Bellsadas sad Mr. Olers amend tat the dalleadeat. LA I (GENCE.-(THIS DAY./ 'T girths 0 11iatif George , et ths intend Beallise he take' , in twnrad well kno ines coo = end astenderat r the proprietor of the °nudism, and the nation was benueht 'lodisation of the plaintiff's character and net purpose of obtaining damages. An si x d o i i alined, and the gilaintiff's counsel, in g said he wu th en ready to accept an openin ayolog; the defendant. The libel complained of spew e d article headed" The End of the Year," and p u t a , i the Nerd Guardian on Saturday, Deo. 28 last. ring to the distress then prevalent, the writer at.te one, for instance, with • heart to feel for other can read of the disbar@ at the East end of London feelings of deep repel and commiseration 1 starving poor ; and not only for the poor, but fo r Not only for the now starving wives and clac k:: shipwrig hts, shipwrights, whom ILT. Potter and other trade tyrants would not let work at 6s. Bd. per day, ' have been idle ever since ; but for the shipbuilde r selves, whose ,toot-in-trade deteriorates daily trot use, who have lost profitable Jobe, whom henna to elsewhere, in whose yards the me and the hull silent, and who have to pay Manua rates for th of those who were not allowed to earn 3'e,. per their dockyards." The plaintiff was celled. He denied that he he way directly or indirectly interested himself in o any part in anything connected with the ships!, the rut end of London. He denied that he wu a of the men in reference to trades unions : he frt advised them, and he only supported trades uniou as they were lawful and right. Evidence was given to show that the distnss Eut-end among the shipwrights did not acme fr strike, but the depression of trade. Mr. Serjeant Benguela, made a humorous sneer jury, in which he urged that the article was criticism of • public matter notorious to the world. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. ?MATHER REPORT. -(THIS DA! FRIDAY, FILBSCART 21, 8 A IL & z. w. 1 211.57 r 230.57 r W.B W. W.N.W. 51.74 r 44 W.S.W. ,9.74 r 42 W. 29.90 r 49 W. 20.97 r 50 W.B.W. 12i.972 W.B W. 1 18 47240 W. 19 stir 50i W.N.W. 30.07082 W. .30.081 50; B.W. '10.241'48 B. '10.02148 1 N. . 1 10.0160 1 W. . 29.07248: W.N.W 28911'48, W. 10.831 48 W.B W. 110.77 f 441 W. 120 751 42 N.W. 29 37 141! 4.8 E. 2985 41, B.W. 30.18 431 B.BW. 120.14 11 W.SW. 1 2843 1 N.E. I:. 1 Bane& O D ~.......-.... 11/ *I D. 3 g.+ 10 ' 3.W. r , 11 . 3.5. W. ;. 7 BW. ,„ 9 1) ; iW. 8 8 615 SE 9 Ssw r , 2 a, SW, S W, 3 6 S 5.1%, ..1. 4 6 $s W. Y 6 Y.W.. utc 2 6 c 8 89.5.¢. Leta Oteeneaatle ealantla Cape Clear Reche's u::' a liWs;ac — i - :: I Lorksi: Rochefort tiymonth ; Waymoutb , London Yarmouth learboroseb, _tle!da Heider ... 1 n,wvL. '''''''' Lyous Barometer corrected and reduced to t dot: at. t letters r (ridding), f (falllng , , a ataoly usot a•• dr maim of the mercury within last 14 hour.. TI., us shade. IS:trews toroe, with its direcUon .144,c 6.; Z.--calm. Weather: b.- blue sky: c - loath foe: ; —bah tn hag ; no ty , - (dull); r —rain ; e.—eitow ; t.—thunder. It.ts ..1, hall ;melted), during last 24 hours. wa thaw REMARKS. The diminution of pressure r..p00 4,1 A. - . 1, rI, continued al all stations with the es, ..; w.. land and irelsosh where pressure has t • v • ••. since f p.m. Readings lu the We,l of . ~r 4 than they were yesterday niornlng. The t ...r. been greatest on our east woad. and I h.. •••rs• i• •••• between Navin and Lyons is nearly 9 10th...; ...• exerptkm nt Mcollancy the temperature uvrr U. and o f southern FlitiollB theLlehlVe. xi ii .1 considerable. The gale of the alters,.l ..1) to increase 1A14174.44111 the west and ornib In the lingllsh and Irish Channel, . it ws. the east oust of Scotland. This roomier: lb, with a prevailing westerly dirediun, swept d ' there k a gale from meth-east Drer our id : : 1., generally, and In greatest amount uu the Ind. .• 11 either is dowdy. The following is the interpretation wl, George Melly, the new member for Stoke-up gives to his return. Addressing the crowd miter of the poll yesterday, be maid :•—" That elect triumph of liberal opinion. They bad not wait, now electors to declare the policy of Stoke. TI his address, throughout his many speeches, be ha them to a policy. That policy he would in tl advocate. (Hear, hear.) They were iu fatou Gladstone at the head of alTairs—(applatire a —of the compulsory education of their (applause and 'No')—of the abolition of the ei church of Ireland—l' No' and applause) of Lion of the system of purchase in the army h. --and vote by ballot—(hear, hear, an.l • N., closing of public houses during the whole of (` No')—except for one or two hours ; of ex th. sores of education and improvement to the who' the population. (Hear, hear.) These were the which be pledged them by his address, and to w had pledged him by the state of the poll." (.11.1 the Lords of the Treasur}• have Jai following increase to the salaries of the eler: Majesty's Prisons' Department : k. the present maximum salary of the tin.t realised in six years from Ist April next by ,on ten by others. The present maximum of the se, (men of old standing equal with the end) Im creased by W., to be realised by man► three or hence. The third class has been abolished an mated with the second, thereby increasiug th. maximum by 401., their rate of inammtt i• doubled, the second and first remaiaing the sam are only about twelve clerks out of the whole at will derive any immediate benefit from the n o April next, and then it will not exceed it CAW. Mr. Train delivered his first Iceture in last night to rather a thin audience. The on) ;, room that wen filled was that to which almr cheap. His language was cautious, but humor so bite at England were loudly cheered. Some pm expressed dissent were ejected. As a specuLtioi tare was • failure. SHORT Senvicnt.— The vicar of St. I.; Gresham-street, hes given gone° that he inteu no less than eight short services for bushier tc, Wednesday . (the 26th), believing that it is only dreary services that keep many from attending that day. Here is the rev. gentleman's prof, 7.30, Holy Communion; 9, Litany and Co serves; 10, Horning Prayer and Commies vice ILIS, Holy Communion and sermon X. Cowie ; 1.15, Litany, and sermon by the A of Armagh ; 3, Litany, and sermon by Inv. Brown, LLD., head master of the Charted Evensong, and sermon by Rev. Mackenzie W.do 8, Evensong, and sermon by Rev. R. R. Bris All the sermons will be short, and it is expected of the services will be longer than one hour.— D, WILLS AND BEQUHSTS.--The will of t Hon. Samuel Hood, Baron Heliport, of Cricket Thomas, near Chard, Somenietshi re , and of street, London, was proved in her Majesty'a Cow bate on the 3rd inst., and the p erso nalty Rya Y. 20,000 k, the executors appointed being the Charlotte lliss7, Baroness Heliport, his relict , a General the Eight HOD. Alexander Nelson Ms Heliport, his wily surviving son, who is executor, The will is dated July 13, lOnl testator died January 6 last, aged 79. The deces Dimond son of Henry, second Viscount Hood, oeeded his granduncle, the celebrated Admira l Bridport, and married, in 1810, Charlotte I surviving child of William, first Earl Mahon tater bequeaths to his relict, in addition to all video, an immediate legacy of 1,0001, his leer dance in Wimpole-street, with the fixtures, and other effects, both in his town end country with certain portions of the wine, also his ea horses. The rest of his effects he leaves t the present baron. His five daughters, ship states, are provided for order of their maternal grandfather, William, son, and by marriage eettletnents. Joseph Snakee, Esq., of Benwell, Bertha was proved in the registry at Neweastk-u and ::wimalt7 w under sworn - 250,000k, the and ,being John Straker Era., teriator l John Ooppin, Esq. The will is 'dated June 30, 1 codicil, June 28,1887 ; and the testator die d following. The will of William limes of Berkh Huts, was proved en the 2nd ult., is the Loo under 3,0004 pereonal% ow ; will is doted ie 1888, in which the f beeped earth nate the Chance for the Exobselu,_,_ Britain, for the nee of th e nation, ell miaow whatsoever and wheresoever, both real and Pt e . , havingpaid all my lawful debts and the followus ban erne bequests et 100 L, KC, and 401. took all free of ditty, the executor to resdvefon con fee his trouble. Should the Cheasellar of the I refuse to rapt the new, it deal seven te ibi the Bev. Thimme awn, bailspeedeat asiebier, I by bin as doll appear to be meet la udad of the se mowed by bi biL7 ll . Jam liameek, eked pee= fe bee Meje247. Z2=11.1.1". Omis wee proved seise Lewis ARM I! 4 i I I i 1 1 !