The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-16 00:00:00

I „ is 5 No. 6,457.] lIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILA- ' J I , t tent % COMPANY.-INMAN LINE.— .trrylnc I i ode.' states Malls. Ike compass s tull.powered Steamers will be despatched as 2dcr FROM LIVERPOOL to IflW YORK: i'ITV 4IE WAsIIINOWN, Wednesday , April 17. rftt I.F I.IMF:RICK, Saturday, A 1 20. 01 I.F HI , . Wednesday, Ap 1 04. Aed gem Wednesday sad Saturday. Liana pewee by the mall Mesmer. 'Mhos every Wednesday. 5. ix e nd 01 guineas, according to the accommodation. ~,nag passage Includes a full supply of cooked provlsiook %meager. for Canada and the United States booked through on ory adviditanoois terms.— For further particulars apply to WILLIAM INMAY, to. Waterotrest, Liverpool; and to YIVIS „ i d may, gs. Ring Willitusegrast. Losdau. STEAM to NEW YORK—IINITED STATES ijo MAIL LINK—The magnificent steamers of the New York sad Havre gears :ship Company will teams Havre and Falmouth nth pa,, , eneers and mails moo a fortnight, se under. Then steamers ate ui.umalled for their passenger accommodation, and the escelleace .4 their cuisine. ----- ham Havre. i Troia Falmouth. IDUm Wedmaday, Zlll7l olh — iiday, - April 16 ou 1 t una star %% edneaday, 1 ;Thursday, May 2 OW Wedheaday, May 15 ;Thursday, May 16 Shausslppl Wednesday , May 2D Thursday, May 30 Through fame from London, £24 154. find-clam, and Ala second clan—fur bother wticulsre apply to JAMES A. WUTThN, more. verratErri, KANE, and Co., Paris; 0. C. and L W. 111)X and Co.. Falmouth: or H. STALE and Co., 145, Cheayelde. FRENCII GALLERY, 120, Pall-mall. The FOURTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES, thi t outrinutlons of Artists of the French and Flemish Schools, t. SOW OPEN. Admission Is. Catalogue 41(1. FREE TRADE WHARF.—The Commissioners of Mauro' and the Lords of the Treasury.—Preparing for publication, the Correspondence on the subject of Privileges, f le granted and how withheWL ntroirruts of GOODS who are 1.1400.1 to excessive charges on goods landed on captains earl' rill please apply to A. CLAY and Co., Upper rave', City. FREEHOLD LAND, WOOD-GREEN, facing the Alexandra-park—TWO PLOTS, adjoining, one a corner of •plendki land. on a fine and rapidly improving estate, near the Sean. and adjoinin g superior villas Yrontage of each rat Stu ,by ITS ft deep. Pea. only SOO guineas. First-rate title a nd Inc comeyance —Apply to Mr. WM. WILLIAMS, land w et. Ij. tfueenttreet, Cheapalde, WO GENTLEMEN, MERCHANTS, and 1 TRADERS —)lr. MARCH, 13, Itssinghall.street, opposite Vie Bankruptcy Court, effects arrangements between Debtors gal their , redltors without publicity. Immediate protection ohtaitied for Person and Property. Terms very moderate. Con sultation free. Highest references. T ITRE BOTTLE WINE COMPANY, Old Swan jLJ %Chart London-bridge. Imported In Litre and Hall Litre Bottle, containing 26 per cent. wore than ordinary bottles. Via ()Milian° Beaujolais Port and Sherry Bouillon and Picardie 12a. 6.1. i Litres, or bas. Od. Lena. Preach Brandy 2l3s. Od. 44a. Od. Price Lists of other Wines on application. N.B. AU the above sold in bond U required, and Dock War ants Issued on sines dozen cases. Depbta will be opened in every town In Great &HAW. Apply as above. ITINAHAN'S LL WHISKY. DUBLIN CZffiirriow IBS& ThU celebrated old IRISH MUSIC Y gained the DUBLIN TRUE *MAL —lt la pan, mild, mallow, delicious, and very wholesome. Sold in bottles, lb lid. each, at the r‘n houses in Laudon by the agents in the principal towns in 7Wand or whelseale at 8, Great Windmilleireet, Loudon, W. Observe the sed mil, pink label, and oat breasted Binahan's LL Whisky. Rue is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-14. 6d., 2s. , 1 b. 6d. pound are the prima at which PHILLIPS and Co., tea mrchants, 8, King Willism-street, (Sty, London, X.C., ins selling good end floe BLACK TKA. A price current pan free. Ma worth carriage free to any railway eta or market town In Me United Kingdom. AU goods carriage free to all parts of Loudon. Observe.—PHILLIPS sad Co. have so agents. Sugars 'resupplied at market prices. CtiPETS -800 pieces, at extraordinary low n t , .s.--taseet thew. Also see our reduced Turkey Carpet List tree per post. Illustrated price lists of furniture, bedsteads, bedding. upholstery, &c., gratis. £30,000 worth to select from. All goods warranted and delivered free throughout the kingdom. WAINE, 133 to LID, Newington-butte—Factories, /ran clearest. SHER and OLENNY, OUTFITTERS. l in ii ß nil mitablishment In London. nazi door to Sonoma loam, Shand. N.B. Unto of necessary outfit for emery puryow ad appointment to India, China, and the Ccbolos, wW be for mrdad on application. BOYS' ATTIRE. BOYS' and HYAM and Co. BOYS' at 66 and 67, OXFO] BOYS' NEW STYLE OVERCOAT/3. BOYS' NEW STYLE REEFERS. BOIIIr KNICKERBOCKER REIM BOYS' OSBORNE SUITS. BOYS' HARROW SUITS. BOYS' JACKETS foe ALL PURPOSES. BOYS' TROUSERS and VESTS. BOYS' HOSIERY and SHIRTS. BOYS' HATS, CAPS, &c., 4te. HYAM and Co.'s BOYS' SPRING CLOTHING, 66 and 67 Oxford-street London. EU First Establishment in the Kingdom for Juvenile Clothing lop' Sandringham Osmosis Sep' Prince Allred Reefers Deli Overcoats for Little Boys Ms. Od. to Ma. Od. Bop' Knickerbocker bulls Eon' Westminster and Osborne Salta lfe. Od. to Ma. Od. KW Eton. Harrow. and Rugby Snits IIM Od. to Ma Od. EOM' Jackets for School sad Home 9a. Od. to Ms. Od. HYAM and Co.'s PRICE LIST for GENTLE m KS, 88 and 67, Oxfordotreet, London. Nyana and Co.'s Spring Tweed Overcoats 21s. to 110 s. Ayala and Co.'s Spring Reefer caps SOL to Ns. Ayala and Co.'s Spring Overcoats re. to M. Byani and Co.'. Spring Suits . Ilyana and Co.'s Spring Jackets 'barn and Co.'s Spring Frock Coats Brain and Co.'s Spring rests Hymn sod Co.'s Spring Trousers HYAM and Co.'s SELECT DEPARTMENTS. No. I. OenOman's Clothing for hamediate wear. No. t. Dapoke or Order Department. No. S. Boys' end Youths' Diatinct Department No. 4. Hats, Cape, Hosiery, and Outfli Department lIYAM and Co.'s ONLY ESTABLISHMENTS. LONDON-16 and 67, OXPOILD-BTILERT. BIRMINGHAM-21, Si, and IS, NIV/-BTILLET. LEEDS--41, BRIOGIATE: mad DZWEIBURY—IVISTGATL rLADIES.—ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, an Onental botanical Preparation for Improving and Beset,- trine, the Coniplezion and Skin. The radiant bloom It Imparts 40 the cheek, and the softness and delicacy which It Induces of the hands and amts. its capability of soothing irritation and re aming all redness, tan, pimples, spots, freckles, diacolorations, and ether cutaneous visitations, render It indispensable to every toilet. It obviates all the effects of climate on the skin, whether with reference to cold and Ine6wn. or intense solar heat. Ake a. ed. and as. Id. per bottle—Sold at $O, Ilatton-garden, and by chemists and perfumers. Ask for " Rowlands' Kalydor,' and beware of spurious and pernicious articles under the name at" Kalydor.“ _ _WSCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, A sever Whir rowdy, prepared without any mercurial ...smut, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious Ind liver complaints, indigeetion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dint mow of the eyes, tta Foe habitual costiveness, as a family lenient medicine, and as • Flyleaf of the blood, they we truly B :cadent ; mild in their operatiea and grateful to the stomach, oar create appetite, promote digestion, and Mreogthan the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, chemist, g, King Ffillianactreet, Chming-crosa, and by most druWida, In bores. la. ltd. and three times the quantity In one, 2s. tiff Be sure to sok fw Dr. Scott's bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are in a ire green package, with " Wil li am Lambert" engraved ow Ike mus STARTLING REVELATIONS; or, Where , hall We Seek Justice A Lesson in Law, and Appeal to the Mimic of Lords In the matter of the Accidental Death and Marine Inwuance Corporation. By the Author of " Everybody's lituinesk" Dvdiaited to Foreign and F.nalish Investors, leghlators, and in twerybolly. - The Dimertatine. W : mandato, 54 ed. r. Orovee, rost...dhce. IN, Strand. sad all booksollera FAINLESS SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY. mn4oet published, price Sd , or poet tree four stamps, AL ABOLITION of PAIN in DENTISTRY. 1 - 4 Mews GA BRI El, the old eitsbliahed DENTISTS, 64, LUDGATE-BILL, CITY, t L oa d ° , SS, HARLEY-NTREET J _IV_„_. I 111. DUKE-MLR= LIVERPOOL. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (BRUTZIeI TZLZGRLIM) FRANCE. PROSECUTION OF THE " AVENIR NATIONAL." PARIS, APRIL 15. The Arenir National is to be prosecuted for having promulgated false news in having asserted that military preparations were being made at Lyons, and that certain warlike steps had been taken by the War Department. In to-day's sitting of the Legislative Body the whole bill relating to imprisonment for debt was adopted by 112 to 97 votes. The bill conferring a pension on M. de Lamar tine was passed by 148 to 24 votes. SENTENCE ON ADMIRAL PERSANO. FLORENCE, Aram 15. The sentence of the High Court of Justice on Admiral Persano pronounces him guilty of dis obedience, incapacity, and negligence, and con demns him to retire from the service, to be de graded from the rank of Admiral, and to pay the costs of the trial. • THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. BERLIN, Aram 15, Swim°. The New Pnissian ( ("roes) Gazette of this evening publishes a telegram from Luxemburg, announcing that numerous addresses to the King of Holland, petitioning for the maintenance of Luxemburg's in dependence, are in circulation in the Grand Duchy, and are receiving thousands of signatures. THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. BERLIN, Aram 15. In to-day's sitting of the North Gorman Parlia ment Count Bismarck announced that the federal government would accept most of the amendments to the draught of the constitution if the house would give way on the questions of the remunera tion of the deputies and the army arrangements. In the course of the debate which ensued Count Bismarck said, "If the opposition prevents me from completing the work which has been begun I shall request the King to relieve me of my post." The parliament subsequently agreed to the first fifty-nine articles of the draught constitution, rejecting all the new amendments brought in, sad striking out by MI against 80 votes the article referring to the payment of the deputies, thus re scinding As former resolution in favour of such payment. A complete understanding between the government and the parliament is now considered certain. RUSSIA. T. PETERSBURG, APRIL 15. The students of Finland have asked for permis sion to hold a meeting with the view of bringing their grievances to the knowledge of the Chan cellor of the University, Czarewitch, and the Czar. The Vice-Chancellor of the University has refused to give the required permission. Religious ceremonies will be held in ail the churches of this city to-morrow, to celebrate the anniversary of the Emperor's escape from the at tempt made upon his life last year. BOMBAY, Aram 12, 6.15, rat. . . 71b. shirting., sr. 14a. ; 811 b. ditto, 6r. 14a. 40's mule twist, 13a. Cotton quiet : Dhollerah, 245 r. Shipments of the week, 48,7110 bales. Ex change on London, 2s. Four per Cent. Govern ment securities, 854 ; Five per Cent. ditto, 1041; Five-and-a-Half per Cent ditto, 108. Freights to Liverpool, 60s. The latest London date is Bth instant. CALCUTTA, Aran. 11. B}lb. shirting', Br. 2a. ; 40's mule twist, Ba. Exchange on London, 2s. Four per Cent. Govern ment securities, 871 ; Five per Cent. ditto, 106; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 109. Freights to England 36e. AMERICA. (NT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NSW YORK, Aram 15, 6 P.M. The Supreme Court has refused to allow Mis sissippi to apply for an injunction to restrain Pre sident Johnson from executing the Reconstruction Act, but has allowed Georgia to file an application to restrain Mr. Stanton and Generals Grant and Pope. The North German Lloyd's steamship Deutsch land arrived out on Saturday. Closing prices :--Gold, 134 g. Sterling exchange on London,lo9. 6-20 United States Bonds, 1093 ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 55i. Cotton : Middling Up land, 27}. Petroleum, refined, 26. (Emma's TELEGRAM.) The Inman steamship City of Paris, from New York on the 6th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 5 p.m. yesterday (15th April), with 3,600/. in specie, and 77 pas sengers. After landing the mails and passengers, she pro ceeded at 5.20 p.m. for Liverpool. (Per the City of Paris, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, APRIL 6, Mower°. John Sharkey and Mr. Robert J. Walker have peti tioned the Supreme Court at Washington, on behalf of the State of Mississippi, to grant an injunction to restrain the execution of the act of reconstruction, which the peti- tion and the accompanying argument aver to be uncon stitutional, null and void, inasmuch as it violates the pledge of the national government to protect the rights of the State in the Union, violates the constitutional right of each State to regulate the suffrage within its limits, substitutes military right for civil law, suspends the Habeas Corpus in time of peace, and sanctions arrest and punishment without due process of law or trial by jury. The petition even that Mississippi cannot, under the constitution, withdraw or be expelled from the Union, consequently the acts of secession and re construction are alike null and void, and citizens of Mississippi cannot forfeit their political rights by seces sion, except in cases where they may have been individually tried by jury. The petitioners claim the subject to be within the jurisdiction of the . _ Supreme Court, and state that if the Reconstruction Act is thereby pronounced constitutional, Mississippi will yield implicit obedience to it■ provisions. The court will Lear the application for the privilege to claim the injunc tion on Friday next. General Schofield has issued an order for the registra tion of voters in Virginia. All registrars are to be ap pointed on the recommendation of a board of army officers, and must be army officers or loyal citizens of high standing. General Pope has issued orders announcing that the civil officers in his district are to remain in office until the ex piration of their terms of office, provided they administer justice impartially, and do not impede reconstruction. No elections are to be held until the registration is completed ; all official vacancies are meantime to be filled by appoint ments made by the commanding officers. The entire volunteer force in Canada has been placed under martial law. The maseacre at Fort Buford is discredited. t LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1867. MEXICO. Advice* from Mexico state that 3,000 Republicans, wider Trabuco, had pronounced for Ortega. The liberals had abandoned Tampico. The Republicans in the State of Tamanlipu had refused to join the foroes of Juarez. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. (Peon OEN SPECIAL Beyond all doubt the most useful publication which has yet appeared under the auspices of the Imperial Cornimmioners is the report on the Tenth Group which has just been issued. In this analy tical examination of the institutions which have been created in various countries, with the righteous object of improving the moral and phy sical condition of the wage dames, we have the beginning of an international movement that can not but have an excellent effect upon the relations of the civilized peoples of the world. To France belongs the honour of having led the way. She has been the first to bid the social doctors and real philanthropists of various lands to club their expe rience together ; and, while men are everywhere seeking to apply new forces, and every fresh scien tific discovery to the promotion of the art of war, to extract from the labours of men of every race in the sweet art of alms, some guiding rules, some beacons of truth to be applied hereafter. The Commissioners' analytical report is neces sarily an imperfect document. The account given, for instance, of the English institutions intended to promote the moral and phyaical well-being of the working classes is meagre in the extreme. Great Britain is dismissed in nine pages, and even Sal taire (models of which are in the Exhibition) is omitted. There is here, however, I repeat, the beginning of a moat impo rtant work. France has an over-large share of space. The report on her economical, educational, and philanthropical insti tutions is given at too great length. There is L wearisome repetition. There are detailed descrip tions of many firma who follow one unbroken plan for the well-being of their wage-earners. There ' are, happily, in these times hundreds of firms that provide libraries, promote co-operation for the cheap supply of food, erect model houses or lodgings, keep up a sick fund, and encourage men to save, and to avoid intemperance. A critical and ' analytical amount of such firms would be more useful than a series of separate prospectuses. The matter is valuable, however ; and it remains for the serious reader to digest it. The French authorities, in submitting their re , port, offer a few explanatory preliminary remarks : —The Universal Exhibition of 1867 will not oon ! fine its operations merely to assembling together the products and producers of the world. It will have this distinctive character—that it will show forth all aorta of institutions which tend to amelio , rate the physical and moral condition of the work ing classes. This is the object of the Tenth Group, the creation of which was received from the first with a favour and cordiality for which its relations Ito the wants of the working class fully account. The first nine groups contain the more attractive' products. Ins classification, the method of which is beyond all praise, they will show, in every variety, the perfection of labour and the genius of invention. The sentiment of artistic beauty, the charm of curiosity awakened and satisfied, will at tract the attention of the visitor at every step. The Tenth Group will produce a more severe and more lasting effect. In this department the per fection of the objects exhibited will be only a secondary consideration. The condition of produc tion will be studied more than the finish of the products, and objects the exhibition of which will promote a useful end will be preferred to samples of perfect skill in workmanship. The Tenth Group is connected with all the nine others, and, with regard to this, may be said to explain the economic laws of the Exhibition of 1867. This week in the Exhibition has been on the whole a cheering one. We have had some fine spring weather and we have seen the art and art manufacture galleries thronged with fashionable company. A welcome blaze of hyacinths from Ger i many gladdens the parterres of the south-west sections of the park. The Emperor has paid two or three visits, and has made two or three pur chases in the British section, notably at Mr. Brog den's stall of artistic jewellery. The King of the Belgians, the Prince of Orange, the Princess Mathilde, and the brothercl n t Taicoon, with his guard, have been the illustrious visitors for tbe week. Almost every day brings news of some fresh contours, or meeting. We are to have everything of all nations by July. Quiet tournaments and noisy competition fanfares have been announced. No one will be astonished that French Free masons wished to hold an international festival also in honour of fraternal unity. This great brother hood, which has lasted for centuries, and which is gradually discarding symbolical forms in favour of plain facts, could not remain inactive while all Paris was alive with the bustle and stir which will last for several months. The Grand Orient of France has taken an initia tive in this case which does honour to it. It will celebrate the summer solstice by a festival and a banquet, which will take place on the 15th of next June. At this meeting the presidents or delegates of all the lodges will be assembled, and doubtless the Universal Exhibition will attract a great num ber of Freemasons from every quarter of the globe. The Grand Orient, in this exceptional circum stance, thought it a good opportunity to unite the links which bind the scattered members of the masonic brotherhood ; and the Orient invites the Freemasons of the grand lodges and lodges to join in the characteristic festival which will be held on the 15th of June. NIGHT FHTHEI AT VIIIIIAILLIS.—A French corre spondent writes :—" The town of Versailles is pre paring great Mee to honour art and industry. The beau tiful night/Ike, which have excited such interest in for. trier years, will be held several times during the Universal Paris Exhibition, in order that every visitor to Paris may have the opportunity of admiring them. The happy ides of her Majesty the Empress of the French, to collect in a special museum the furniture and ob jects which belonged to the unfortunate Queen Marie Antoinette, is to be put into execution in the Palace of Trianon, situated in the park of Versailles, and the museum will be thrown open to the public. The Western Railway Compan ha s organised numerous trains between Paris and V " SOUTH AUSTRALIAN WHEAT FOR ENGLAND.— We read in the South Australian Register, of Feb. 26: " The shipment of South Australian wheat to England has gone on rapidly during the month. All the resources of the railway have not been sufficient to convey the produce to the port, so fast has it been sent in by the northern farmers. All the stations have been glutted with wheat, and the railway authorities have not conveyed it either quickly enough or cheaply enough to meet the fair wants of the agriculturists. These inconveniences are being reme.lied now, but shipments to England must soon cease for the present year. Five or six vessels have already sailed ; seven others are now loading with wheat for Eng land; and ten more are on their way from the neighbouring colonies in order to take home similar cargoes from Port Adelaide. The total quantity of breadstaffs exported from the be ginning of the year to the 16th instant was 12,729 tons.' ACCLIMATIZATION OF THE SALMON IN TASMANIA. —News hail been received from Tasmania of the return of the first Tasmanian hatched salmon (from the ova im- Ltfrem England) to the river Plenty, in the neigh hedood of the breeding ponds. There seems to be no doubt of the fact. A very important and interesting ex periment in acclimatization, therefore, has been crowned with suocesa—Melbourne Age, Feb. 25. MANCHESTER, SHEIPIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—The total expenses of this company's railways and canals, including rents, tolls, duty, kc., from Jan. let to April 7th, 1867, amounted to 141,709/., as against 136,846/. for the corresponding period of 1866. The pro portion of the South Junction reoeipts accruing to this company from Jan. Ist to April 7th amounted to 9,4361., as against 10,5251. for the corresponding period of 1866, and the expenses to 5,457/. as against 6,2122. PATENT Orrice MCSEI73I, SOUTH KENNINGTON.— Number of visitors for the week ending April 13, 1,448; total number since the opening of the Museum, free daily (May 12, 1838), 1,128,066. t r THE CRETAN INSURRECTION. (nom °oft seam'. col RODAXINO, SOUTH COAST OF CRETE, MARCH 30. I shall be able to send you but a few lines by this occasion, and will speak of the spirit which I find to animate the insurgents. They will never sub mit to the Sultan, and, now that wanner weather has set in, they can retreat, if necessary, to the higher mountains, and defy all assailants. But it does not seem likely that they will be thus driven back. Every attempt of the Turks to advance beyond the open country of the northern shore has been repulsed with loss, and the skirmish of yester day was an example of what happens when the Turks move forward. There came a strong detach ment from Rethymo, and it approached the Chris tian forces with such swiftness as to surprise and kill a few Christians in an outlying village. Then the mountaineers flew to arms, the Turks were checked by a constantly augmenting body of determined marksmen, and when a retreat began the Christians followed up their foes with a galling fire. Some wounded men have just been brought here from the front. Poor fellows ! It is a hard case to fight without surgeons, yet they beer twir -1 sufferings firmly, and seem very grateful for any small attention which unpractised hands can render. If we had only a dozen of our young English sur geons, whose patients have yet to be found, they might do good service. No one can fail to be struck by the grim coolness of these people, young and old. From the white-bearded chiefs to the merest boys with guns upon their shoulders, there is no flurry at the thought of a skirmish. It is the natural condition of life in Crete, just now, to be fighting, and the mountaineers lounge away to meet the Turks as though they were going on a pic nic. You might search through her Majesty's house hold brigade, and not find more strapping, well-built men than are many of these Cretans. I was in troduced this morning to a party of Sphakiotes, any one of whom might have served as a model for Roderick Dhu himself, though theycarried long brass-barrelled rifles in place of the Highlanders' broadsword. Since running the blockade I have seen men enough of this same stamp to make it doubtful whether the Sultan could conquer back this island in a year, even if Europe would let him try. Do not waste your sympathy on old world heroes, but give it to the heroes of to-day. They are not responsible for railways and tele graphs, and however unromantic our age may be, they deserve to find that Western chivalry is not quite dead. If for nothing but to save the wo men and children, you should watch Crete closely. Think of a balance of shame and honour, as well as of a balance of power. -- ENGLAND'S POSITION IN EUROPE. Thy Artnir National says : The English, who ate perhaps at this moment the only people of calm judgment mall Europe, &retaking tbetaselve• if the possession of Luxemburg would compensate for the misfortunes which must inevitably result from • war between France and Germany. There is no need to say wh►t is their answer. The Times does not think that the possession of Luxemburg is es ential to either of the powers who seem to wish to dispute it with arms in their hands.. Frame, misesom et Laregalrargonsuld appear to it however • menace to Belgium, and, up to • certain point, to England, though this does not in the least mean that she thinks of departing from her neutrality. We give the opinion of the English for what it is worth ; the discredit into which that opinion has for some time fallen is well known ; the great politicians have come to take no more account of it than of that of • third, or even fourth rate power, if there are any. " It is not surprising," say they, " th►t • power which systematically stands aloof from all the greet European questions should not under stand the importance of the Luxemburg question ; in that isolation England will end by losing the little prestige she has left—Finis Britannic." To which the English might reply—" If to systematically stand aloof from all the great European questions is to give rise to none, evidently your reproach is well founded ; if to be one of the richest, the most intelligent, and, shove all, one of the freest nations in the world, is not sufficient to give pres tige, we certainly have none; however, we do very well without any. Happy the nations whose governments have no need of prestige. To attain the vague object which you trick out with that name, England would need an army of four or five hundred thous►nd men without counting her navy ; after that, no more budgets with • surplus, or even in equilibrium, but an increase of burdens which the government could not impose upon the nation without producing one of those questions of which you speak, and which are only European in this sense, that they threaten the great interesta of civilization in Europe. We are without prestige, if you will ; but we are rich, free, happy, and, if attacked, it would soon be seen that we have some troops and vessels left capable of defending, although without prestige, our native land and our domestic hearths. As for you, fight and ruin your selves, since you call that prestige." The great politicians will shrug their shoulders. We consider this British reasoning not without sound sense. HEAVY GALES AND SHIPPING DISASTEILS IN THE ATLANTlC.—According to the reports of vessels which have arrived at New York the weather on the Atlantic has been most severe and disastrous. The Proteus, on the 22nd of March, was sailing on the northern verge of the Gulf stream when she encountered a boat containing apparently a solitary man. Whilst the ship was standing in the direction of the boat, with the view of picking up the cast away, a heavy sea broke over the frail craft,toesed the man out, and also washed overboard two dead bodies which were lying in the bottom of the boat. The poor sailor perished. It is feared he was the only survivor from a cotton laden vessel which had been wrecked and gone to pieces, for on the same day the Preterit passed a large quantity of float ing cotton, which had apparently not been long in the water. The pilot boat C. H. Marshall reports having boarded, about 20 miles to the eastward of Montawk, the ship Carotin Magnus, bound for San Francisco. The vessel had lost some of her spars, had her bulwarks stove, her decks swept, and was otherwise disabled. Mr. Ashley, the third officer, brother to the captain, was washed overboard. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION FOR CORK, LIMERICK, AND TIPPERARY.—The commission has been issued for the trial of the offenders in these respective counties. The judges who are to preside are Chief Justice Monahan, Judge Keogh, and Judge George. On Saturday afternoon a woman was arrested at Cork for Fenianism. She is the wife of a printer named John Buckley, who has been absent since the rising. The documents found with her, it is said, deeply involve her in the movement. Edward ' Kelly, taken at Kaclooney.srood in the fatal affray with 'the military flying column, lodged, after his arrival from America, with the Buckley. at Sundays-well, near Cork. THE ESCAPE Or KIRWAN.—CASE OF CONSTABLE KELLY.—The circumstances leading to the transmission of Constable Patrick Kelly from Richmond Bridewell to Kilmainham gaol are as follows :—A head-constable of police brought • witness to the bridewell with a view of identifying a prisoner charged with attempting to seduce soldiers from their allegiance. The gover nor gave orders that all the untried prisoners should be paraded together, and the witness was called upon to point out the man he gave information about. He was unable to do so, but instead said that Kelly hail attended Fenian meetings along with him. He was interrogated as to whether he did not know that Kelly was a police constable but he persistently denied that he knew anything about him. t'pon the information given by the witness, Kelly has been remanded on a charge of complicity in the Fenian oonspintcy. This is the first charge brought against • member of either the metropolitan or constabulary police—Dublin Erenaig Mail. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIEZ SQUARE, CRT.—The aggregate number of patients relieved during the week ending April 13 was—Medical, 801 ; sur gical, 642 ; total, 1,510 ; of whisk 886 wen sty ewe. - - A 111411111111.1.1111 '-.\ RECEI‘ r s'auda [TWOPENCE inUOIC• NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY. Last night Mr. Martin gave Elijah u the first of his two Pamion.week performances—the Marine being promised for Thursday next. Mendelmohn's great oratorio is now so familiar to our public and has been so frequently criticised in detail, that there is little left to be said on its repetition ; especially when, as last night, there is no point of novelty connected with the perfor mance, which, however, deserves to be recorded as a very good one in most of its essentials ; first among which must be mentioned the admirable singing of Mr. Bentley. This gentleman has long been especially identified with thin oratorio, in which Mendelsaohn has assigned so much important music to the solo baritone that the effect of the whole work depends Imply on the efficiency of the singer to whom these portions are assigned. Mr. Bentley's powerful delivery of the decla matory recitatives, the elevated pathos with which he invests the aire—" Lord God of Abraham," and " It is enough, 0 Lord ;" the energy which he throws into the dra natio air, " Is not his word ;" and the dignity of style and vocal finish of his entire performance are so well known as to require no fresh critical recognition. It was in Elijah that Mr. Leigh Wilson made so favourable an impression on his first appearance two or three seasons since, and his performance last night exhibited an int prevenient in style as compared with thee r A siss. Thou en ethigethelWir Nine ferilipteethge *Ma the mart importentinfing the ' "If with all your hearts," which Mr. Wilson gave with much smoothness and expression. He has yet, however, to esquire that declamatory style and significant phrasing which alone can give due effect to recitative. Miss Lucy Franklein is establishing her position as a valuable ora torio singer. Her voice is sympathetic in quality and true in intonation, and she sings with earnest feeling. The principal contralto airs, " Woe unto them," and " 0 rest in the Lord," were given by Miss Franklein with much refinement and pathos. The principal soprano was Madame Champion, and the subordinate solo parts were assigned to Manes A. Smyth, A. Sheridan, Messrs. R. Mason and R. Wilkinson. Mr. Martin's chorus is in good training, efficient in execution, bright in tone, and generally well in tune. The orchestra, too--so essential a feature in Mendelssohn's elaborately in strumented work—was last night reinforced by many of the principal performers of the Royal Italian Opera band. REFORM MEETINO IN TRAFALGAR -SQUARE.—The Reform League held • meeting in Trafalgar-square last evening, Mr. Joseph GeodeHa occupying the chair. The attendance was unusually large, and the proceedings throughout were of the most orderly character. The chair man mid that unions Mr. Disraeli stripped his bill of the obnoxious clauses and inserted a lodger clause, the Reform League would no looser waste their time in promoting de moustrations and procemions and displaying badges and scarves. If the working dames did not get their rights they would refuse to pay the taxes, in the imposition of which they had no voice and the government might look for such demonstrations as had never been seen or dreamed of. Mr. Lucraft proposed the following reeolution, which was the only one submitted to the meeting :—" That in the opinion of this meeting the attempt of the government to continue the exclusion of the working classes from • fair representation in the House of Common by clogging their bill for the representation of the people with the personal payment of rates, a long term of residence, and the omis sion of the lodger clause, deserves our severest condemna tion, and we hereby declare that the above conditions, and also the proposition for a St. line, must be resisted by all reformers." Mr. Connolly, in seconding the resolution, expressed his admiration of Mr. Disraeli'. talent in the art of Dec , in which, he said he was not equalled by the "Wizard of the North eotscitlurtaadims th_!,,_olevoluoso., of e Lxilequer in send': oar.. Bright, Lord Craaborne, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Hoes- Man into the same lobby, he (Mr. Connolly) denied his capacity to hoodwink the working classes, who saw clear, through his transparent dodges. Mr. Mantle sup ported the resolution, and impugned the sincerity of the majority of the members of parliament, asserting that in voting on one aide or the other they were solely influenced by • desire to retain their seats. He feared the proceed ings of the Reform League had been too constitutional, and he was not sure that if, instead of going to Downing , stied with • white flag, they had gone with a black one, they would not have extorted justice from the teen of the British parliament. The resolution was then put and carried with acclamation, and the proceedings terminated. THE ENFRANCHISEMENT or WOMEN.—The mem bers for Liverpool, in acknowledging the reception of pe titions for presentation to the House of Commons, express themselves as follow, on the above question. Mr. T. B. Holdall says :—" Madam,—l am this morning only in re ceipt of your favour of the 31st March. Before its receipt I had fully considered the subject to which it refers, and, without committing myself to the entire principle laid down in the petition, which you ate good enough to enclose, I am quite of opinion that the enfranchisement of women, with the necessary qualification, ought to take plaoe.— I have the honour to be, madam, yours most obediently, THOMAS B. HoeutraLL. Of coulee Ido not include married women, who may be supposed to be under the influence of their hasbands.—Mrs. Butler." Mr. S. R. Graves says : "Dear Madam,—ln reply to your esteemed favour of the 31st March, it would be contrary to the rules of the house to support a petition on its presentation. The principle involved in the petition is • very important as well as a very interesting one, and I can assure you that if brought before the house in any practical form, I will give it toy most anxious and best consideration.--Believe me. dear madam, yew' faithfully, S. R. Onsvan.—Min Butler." SIR GEO. BOWYER AND HIS CONSTITUENTR.—A correspondent of the Dublin Express rya.—" The • libe ral' constituency are furious on account of Sir George Bowyer', vote on the Reform Bill. A public meeting is to be held for the puepoas of passing a resolution calling on him to resign. It is very generally believed that his seat will be contested by Mr. P. Gollon, of Cookstown-house, Ardee, in the conservative interest." THE LIBRARIANSHIP OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —lt is reported that this post, vacant by the death of Mr. Vardon, will be given by the Spmker, who holds the nomination, to his brother, Mr. Alfred Denison, who he. for some time been his secretary. The salary is 1,0001. a year, with a residence in the Pekoe. TRADES UNIONS. —The act to facilitate the in quiry as to trades unions, as to the alleged outrage at Shedield, and the complicity of trades unions, has been Jost issued. The inquiry is to take place at Sheffield or its immediate neighbourhood, and to be confined within a period of ten years as to the misconduct, without the written enaction of the Secretary of State. REMOVAL OF RZLIOIOUS DISABILITI FS. —An act has just been printed to open the professorships of anatomy and chirurgery, chemistry, and botany. in the Dublin University, irrespective of religious creed. The profeasonhips are open to persons of all nations, and anydifficulty on account of religion in removed. ROMAN CATHOLICS AND THE PRoTESTANT CLEROY. —A correspondent of the Dublin Express writes:—" The glebe lands of Killeevan, in the county Monaghan, were • few days ago the scene of • pleasing mark of !expect towards the Rev. John Flanagan, rector of the parish. A number of his neighbours met ou the fields intended for cultivation on Tuesday, and in a short time ploughed them, and left them ready for introducing the seed. In this work of goodwill towards Mr. Flanagan his Roman catholic neighbours were fully as zealous as his protestant parishioners. Indeed they are so on all such °tensions." DISCOVERY OP A NEW COAL-FIELD IN CHESHIRE. —The River Dee Company on Saturday morning last re ceived information to the effect that a seam of coal ten feet thick had been struck upon their property in the vicinity of queen's Ferry. Some time since a firm, which had entered into preliminaries for the purchase of the estate, forfeited • sum of money equal to ten per cent. of the purchase. It is said that the company will he benefited to the amount of one-half of its present value by this unexpected discovery. THAMES ANOLINO.—The river is daily getting into good order for trout fishing. A tine trout of filb. was taken at Chertsey, on Saturday last, by one of the mern hers of the Thames Angling Preservation Society ; another member tried the H•lliford waters a few days wince, but only got one touch, which entirely cleared his bait. In the previous week be was more successful, having taken two trout of 211 h., in splendid condition. at hloulsey, which he believes were of the Thames breed. This same gentleman, two seasons since, captured nine large trout out of the preserved waters. J. Keen, of Chertsey, has taken • trout of 2...1b., and one of the same weight was taken by a gentleman at Sunbury. Tom Davis, of Moulsey, has been very fbrtunate with his patrons, having caught four trout in one week, the largest being iout 411 b. The lovers of fish culture will be glad to learn that the young fry at Hampton are in a healthy state, and a considerable number have been turned into the rearing ponds at Sun- HWest Surrey Times. EALTH RESTORED BY Du BARRY'S FOOD TO THE STOMACH, nerves, lungs, and UM', count dyspepsia iindagea. lion„ constipation, chants.; acidity, headache, neuralgia, hys teria, palpitation, sleeplesomos, debility, wastatai, rough, asthma, levers, consumption, low spirits, aoooo annual cures which had resisted all medicines, including that of his Holiness the Pope.—This, at 15. 11d. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 12113., Sic. ; 241 b.. 405. —ll. Barry and Co., 77, Reeentatreet, London ; also at Fortnum and !lawn's. and at 61, Oraceeharehstrret Cheapalde ; and 150, Oxford greet ; and all grocers and thenuats.--LAdver; liseaset.] “. [STAMPKD, ld. THE WORKING MEN'S DEPUTATIONS TO Int. DISRAELI. (From the Derbyshire Advertiser of April 12.) " The working man has at length spoken ! Wearied of being so long and so often impereoeated by impudent pre tenders he has fina ll y come forward in hie own character, and declared, in a manner that cannot be mistaken, his real sentiments and his political wishes ! " Such is the ponderous way in which the Standard commences an ar ticle on the deputation which waited upon Mr. Disraeli on Monday last. At this deputation, says the Standard, Derby was " worthily represented by a goodly array of conservative artisans . " These artisans of Derby, and from other places, " shouted so lustily when Mr. Dia- melt entered the room where they were assembled, that they proved themselves genuine working men. " So says the Standard, and his words are se striking that we copy them. " The greeting with which they received the Chancellor of the Exchequer; oa his entry proved to him that he was at length. brought face to face with the real working man. . . . Their honest unsophisticated natures were not ; to be awed or frightened into repressing the impulse at j their hearts by any chilling or superstitious reverence for the spot. They gave vent to their feelings in loud and lusty cheers, which must have startled many an old and staid government official at his desk, as the peels of their enthusiastic approbation broke through that portion of the building where they were assembled, ran along the corridors, were heard loudly the startled wayfarers without, snd invaded the quiet of Whitehall. (! !) Here was the real, true, unmistakable English artisan in downright earnest; the homely 'Clod bless 'em' bursting irons his lips with straightforwardsimplicdty, when the names of his true leaders fell from one of the members of pouts ment who bad introduced the depststion. ' Let not tie sonde Is via,' MililieeiMlLDiMeii, INA tho spontaneous and unanimous response' It shall not be' de monstrated who were his hearers. These were no sham working men, no reformers in buckram, no professional agitators, no cunning secretaries, wire pullers, hoe genus man,. . . . The real artisan is too indus trious, thorough, and concentrated a man to be able to devote much time to organised political rowdyism ; nor, even had he the time at his disposal, is the thing to his taste. The man, no matter what his station, who sweats and saves is the natural enemy of the man who 14ponds, or starves. . . . We owe Messrs. B antle more thee we imagined. Their pretensions have aroused the dormant voice of the genuine British work man (!) Anybody who was in Downing-street on Monday afternoon could have told at a glance that this deputation at least was not from Bouverie-street. Between the real and the concocted article, between the sturdy but respect ful braes founders from Birmingham and the blasphemous penny-a-liner from Adelphi-terree, there is as much dif ference as between the theatrical horse and a real winner of the Derby. It was high time that the miserable coun terfeit should be exposed . Thus far the Standard, and the article from which we quote continues the resin throughout. Seeing Derby enumerated among the towns from which the deputation came, we were naturally anxious to learn who were the positive Simon Purer—" the real, true, unmistakable artisans in downright earnest," whom our borough sent up to prove their 'honest, unsophis ticated natures," which could feel no • chilling or superstitions reverence" for Downing-street, by such "loud and lusty cheers" as startled " old and staid officials," do., dm, do. We sought to discover the names of these who "were no sham working men (!), no re formers in buckram" (!) do., do., he. il We wished to in form the public who were these " genuine British work men" of Derby, so that the less favoured citizens of the borough might respect them at their worth. We panted for the publication of the Derby Mercury, trusting that their names would appear in double capitals. We thought, now surely we shall find them, when we read the following de ecription of the effectof their visit :—"Nodoubt thispower " ful demonstration affected Mr. Diaraelimuch, and nerved " him to sustain his poaition with a wonderful power, ands° "doubt it affected in a contrary direction the waviness " in the opposition eanip." Men who contributed to so memorable a remit deserved to be named, known, admired ! We learn from the Mercury that the deputa tion consisted of "delegates from the working men's sow elation." The only one of the deputation front Derby whose name appears in the Mercury is Mr. William Cox. Why was be singled out What sins had the others coup muted that they should not share in the honour—in the admiration—in the gratitude of their fellow townsmen—. of their fellow countrymen—of future senerstisua of Mal:ache!. Who were these others! We resolved to know, and to make up to them for the cruel partiality of the local tory organ. We will trumpet them forth till the echoes have caught up their names as the genuine British workmen of Derby. Our readers will thank us, for here follows the list : Mr. John Flewker (solicitor) ; Mr. Gesooyne (son et • borough magistrate, and silk manufacturer) ; Mr. James Barrington (master plumber) ; and -Mr. NVilliam Omar (manager at /darn Browett's silk mill). Two othame of the same type of " real, true, unmistakeable artist In downright earnest," were appointed, but could not sc. company the deputation. What? A solicitor and member of the Town Conned— the son of a magistrate and silk manufacturer—a master plumber, and the manager of a mill, " the real working men," of " honest and unsophisticated natures," who felt "no chilling or superstitious reverence" far Downing-street, ' the real true, unmistakable," de., " the genuine British workman r' Fancy Mr. Fles• ker ' startling staid officials with lusty cheers r Fancy " the homely God bless 'em' bursting from his Bps with straightforward simplicity (!) when, fic. Mr. Flewker and Mr. Cascoyne, no sham working men, no re formers in buckram, no pro fessional agitators, no cunning secretaries, wire-pullers ' log-rollers, hoc genus opine." We do not wonder that the Derby Mercury only publishes the name of Mr. William Cox. It was desirable to get "as near to nature as possible for sixpence, " and the of a silk mill was the nearest approac h they could We are not surprised at our contemporary's reticence. To have told the whole truth would have turned the entire affair into too flagrant and palpable a farce. We know not what might have been the case with deputations from other towns, but if Derby furnishes a fair sample, the whole business was a hoax on Mr. Disraeli and on the pub lic, alike discreditable to all concerned in palming it off as a deputation of gamine working men. THE ENGINE DRIVLBSANDTHEIR GRIEVANCES. —At • large meeting of engine drivers and firemen held in the Metropolitan Music-hall on Sunday night, the follow ing resolutions were pared : —" That the vacillating and oppressive conduct of the directors and officials of the North Eastern Railway Company justifies the engine drivers and firemen in refusing any longer to submit to it. That this meeting sympathises with the men on the North Eastern in their present struggle, and pledges itself to give them every moral and material aid during the con test. That a deputation be appointed to wait upon the President of the Board of Trade, to represent the gnevance under which the North Eastern men are suffering, and desire legislative arbitration between them and their directors."— Owing to the existing strike of engineulen and others on the North Eastern Railway a number of platelayers and others in the employ of the company have been put on in the places of the men on strike. On Friday night about half-past right o'clock, a platelayer named Robert Bennett, aged 24 years, residing at Hartlepool, was acting as guard to a coal train which had been brought from Castle Eden by an engineman connected with the Hartlepool Malleable Iron Company. When the train arrived at Hartlepool, fourteen of the waggons bad to be shunted into the yard of the ironworks. Bennett was riding on the buffer of the foremost waggon, and the waggons were shunted several yards, when Bennett fell off, and five or six waggons pared over him. The waggons were thrown off the lbw, and poor Bennett was most frightfully mutilated. Another accident occurred on the same line on Saturday morning, at Kelloe Bank. A man connected with a coal train got entangled with the chain for lowering the waggons, and had his leg broken.— The large staff of engine-drivers and firemen employed on the Great Northern Railway having, with the men of the North Eastern and other important lines to the north, memorialised their director for a reduction of the hours of labour, an increase of wager, and a general redress of grievances formerly complained of, the directors, through Mr. Stirling, the locomotive superintendent of the line, have acted most liberally toward', them, and, like the Midland and the London and Brighton Companies, have granted the men's alai= in such a manner as to leave no cause of complaint. ARTIrul A L DAY Lin Hr. —A magnesium hand-lamp has been made on Mr. Larkin's principle, in which the magnesium is not supplied to the light in wire or ribbon form, but in the form of a granular powder, either alone or mixed with sand. It is supplied by a tap through a tube to the flame of a spirit-lamp, which ignites it ; and the in stant that the magnesium smoke is formed it passes off through afunnel orchimney, which meets Hat the spot where it is formed. The magnesium powder, though considerably cheaper, we arc told, in use than the wire or ribbon, is still rather costly, being Ca. an ounce ; but, manufactured on a large scale the price would be much leas ; and we would suggest that experiments should be tried with lime, a mixture of which with the magnesium powder might perhaps economise the expenditure, by yieldiog a light equal to the magnesium light with half the quantity of the metal. The light given by Larkin's lamp is splendid, and in its power of displaying colours closely resembles day light. —Builder. OirirrAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT.•- MORDAT, APRIL 15.—Admissions on payment, 716; ditto by season tickets, 950: total visitors. 1,666. SOUTH KENSINGTON binazon.—Visitors during the week ending April 13:—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 7,959 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admis sion 6d.), from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m.. 1,792; total, 9,711. Average of corresponding week in former years, 11,369. Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,636,002.