The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-11 00:00:00

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Toe Howe of Commons has once more been asked to affirm by legislative vote the principle that all good citizens, whatever be their creed, should be equal in the eye of the law. It took near half a century to extort from Parliament the admission in favour of Protestant Dissenters and Roman Catho lics ; and the struggle to obtain the application of the same rule to the comparatively small section of the community who adhere to the ceremonial pre cepts of Moses has lasted about five and twenty years. It is of the very essence of our national being to be tolerant of tenacity in established error, and long-suffering towards political superstition. We hate to be hurried into even what is clearly right; and we are habitually patient with those whom we feel to be most thoroughly and stupidly in the wrong. Hence it is that upon that which is an obvious corollary from the great propo sition of relgious liberty worked out in 1828 and 1829, we have been content to go on year after year debating and arguing with a stiff-necked minority since 1833, when Perliarimmt was invited by the late Mr. ROBERT GRAVY to complete the emancipation of conscience by allowing the Jew to swear on his ad mission to the Legislature is the way most binding upon his conscience. Nearly every session since 1847 this wise and consistent course has been urged on Par liament by Lord Jonte Rosman. Last year he gene rously agreed to let Lord Nun:moo try what his powers of persuasion could do. Many persons thought, or pretended to think, that the intimate rela tions supposed to exist between his latitudinarian Lordship and the creme de la creme of aristocratic bigotry, would enable him to carry the oft-defeated measure. But the attempt ended in egregious and exemplary failure. The very coupling,links by which the heavy goods train of fanaticism was said to have been attached to a fast Premier snapped at the first tug. Lords Hatutower and SHAFTESBURY, when saked for their aid on the Pitomerov Jew Bill, left their free-thiaking friend in the larch ; and the measure having been lost last year in the Upper House, it has this year been left in charge of its ablest and truest champion. the Member for the City of London. That no pretence should avail to delay its progress this Session Lord JOHN obtained leave before Christ mas to bring in the Bill; and having fortunately obtained an early day for the second reading, the House of Commons was yesterday occupied with that essential stage of the measure, After the second reading of the new Bill had been cloyed yesterd►y, in • calm and statesman-late speech by Lord Jon iv Ressau, the discussion drifted altogether into what may be characterised as one of premature particularity and detail. Any one read ing the debate with the omission of the opening statement might fancy himself immersed in one of those wearisome altercations, now happily well nigh forgotten, that used perennially to ariai in our fathers' days upon the Catholic question. All the old topics that were wont to furnish the staple of Par liamentary debates in the ELDON era seem to have been ransacked by Mr. WALPOLE, Mr. NEWDZOATE, and Mr. Narita, for matter of special pleading against the present Bill. We bare long verbal criticism on the true meaning of the irrelevant phrases still retained in the Oath of Supremacy, which it is proposed to retain for the use of the majority of the Hoose. Lord bate avows himself opposed on principle to such retention ; but having tried in vain on a former occasion to induce Parliament to adopt one uniform oath for all its Members, be wisely resolves to deal only with the ac tual and practical grievance, reserving to himself the right at some future day of raising the question of complete assimilation of oaths. Whereupon the friends of the Church speciali gratiJ rend their orthodox hair, and protest that this is the very worst possible form in which the matter can be presented. They declare that denial of the Pores authority is morn to by them in a non natural sense; that they know and believe he has authority all the same, though they constitutionally swear he has not ; and that to an•Christianise the Legislature, as they call it, while retaining distinctions of oaths between Pro testants and Catholics, would render said distinctions ridiculous and intolerable. They all, therefore, inveigh loudly against the Bill. But they stand not alone. Opposite bigotries have met together, and NEWLIN.- OA'rE and Bow T ea have bagged each other. The com mon love of mischief is too strong to be resisted ; and Cardinal WISEMAN'S repsesent►tive, because he and his Catholic colleagues are we asked anything their consciences disapprove, coolly take into their keeping the six hundred and thirty eonedenees of the House, and pretend that they cannot think of allowing them to be led any more into temptation by swearing against the Poee's supremacy. We hardly know which of the parties to this new Holy Alliance of bigotry display. the most effrontery or jesuitism is its mode of opposition. To deny that the POPE for the time being, whether he be a 'mans 11. or a PAUL V., is the Vicar . of CHRIST on earth, is, according to Mr. BOWTER, as heinous a moral crime and u perilous to salvation as to de clare that our SAVIOUR was an impostor; and because Protestants do not think so, he insists upon think ing for them ; and refuses to vote the Removal of Jewish Disabilities because the Oath of Supremacy for those who do not object to it is not removed also. Another equally superfluous and, we think, inju dimities discussion arose out of some unguarded ex pressions let fall by Mr. ROEBUCK, and strangely misinterpreted by Mr. NEWDEOATZ. The honour able and learned Member for Sheffield rather went out of his way to philosophise upon what he supposes to be the grounds of the various religious beliefs prevalent amongst us. Men are born and bred sound Protestants or devoted Ca tholics as the case may be. Very few of them, pro bably not one in a million, has any intelligent con viction upon the subject, or if called on could give a logical reason for the faith that is in hint. And therefore, says Mr. ROEBUCK, we ought not to trouble ourselves about one another's belief ; and Parliament ought not to retain any words of reli gious character in the oaths of its members. We agree in the conclusion, but not in the premises; and we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that one who has proved himself so staunch a friend to legislative toleration, should treat so intole rantly and superciliously the deliberate and carefully formed convictions of the great body of learned and pious men his country contains. We cannot see the use of drawing a bow at a venture in the midst of an earnest and believing people. Assertions of the kind we are alluding to are obviously incapable of anything like proof; and they can serve no other possible purpose that we can see, than that of dis quieting and unsettling minds of every class and calibre, and leaving them without guidance or con solation. We are sure that this is a purpose Mr. ROEBUCK would repudiate ; but we are not the less bound to uplift our voice in friendly remonstrance against that which seems to as to have so mis chievous a tendency. Taaotca all the limey mid turmoil of materi al life—amid the coallased din of Indian mutinies and Praetorian menaces, with a " powerful ally " to pro- 1 pittate, and an Eastern empire to re-organise--the " still sad music of humanity " can still make itself heard—still show itself " of amplest power to chasten " and subdue." In our crowded columns of yester day space was found for the Report of a meeting the object of which at once strikes home to that com mon chord of sympathy whose vibrations make the " whole world kin." The " Hospital for Sick '‘ Children " is the only institution in this great London whose function is to " relieve the " destitution, to help the helplessness, to mitigate " the sufferings, and, where possible, to save the " lives " of those wretched offspring of the poor who too often know nothing of childhood except the disease it engenders and the early death it inflicts. London is a grim stepmother to children in general— to the children of the poor a devouring dragon. Out of every 1,000 deaths taking place annually in the metropolis, 400 are those of children under four years old ; of these victims statistical science shows, what common sense would have conjectured, that the vast zasjority belong to the class whose children CHARLES LAMB has characterised with terrible truthfulness as " not brought up, but dragged up." The neglect and disease which destroy these misera ble little sufferers are preventible neglect, and, to a great extent, preventible disease. It is to rescue the wan and wasted creatures from this wide devas tation that this Hospital for Sick Children was insti tuted. Since 1852, when it was first opened, 47,100 outpatients and 1,860 in-patients have been admitted, all of whom were under 12 years of age, and MOM than 28,000 of the whole number under five. The poor themselves take a warm interest in the institution. They contribute to it no less a sum than 501. an nually, the whole of which is subscribed in pence. The members of the most humane of all professions are zealous in contributing their gratuitous aid, and are rewarded not only by that consciousnese of doing good which is so often the sole fee of the benevolent practitioner, but also by that valuable secession of professional skill in dealing with the maladies of children, which can in no other way be so well acquired as by the opportunity of attending such a vast variety of cases of infantile disease. Mr. CARLTLE somewhere tells us of the neglected in mates of a Liverpool cellar asserting a community of nature with their washed and prosperous fellow creators; by generating a pestilence which smote down with impartial mortality the wealthy and the poor. The benevo'ence that has founded and sustained the Hospital for Sick Children reverses the picture. The wealth that cares for the children of the poor is requited by the increased skill with which the me dical attendants of this excellent charity are enabled to minister to the children of the rich. The festival in aid of the funds of this admirable institution was a complete success; most people will agree with the gentleman to whom we are indebted for the genial report which appeared in our columns of yesterday, that no better Chairman could possibly have been selected than the great and kindly humourist, whose wide haman-heartedness has in n•••!...ng been more signally shown than in his love and knowledge of children. Mr. DICHINS presided with his usual felicity, and the joint amount of subscriptions and collections was 3,0001. Let those parents who, hay ing wealth, know its uses and feel its duties, lose no time in contributing to increase the funds of this " Hospital for Sick Children." Lord Palmerston hu appointed his relative, the Hos. Evelyn Aahl, second Mn of Lord Shaftesbury, to be MD Of his Private Ssmsteries. gIi6fARLES LESLIE FALKINER, Part.—We (Reigkten Casette) announce, with mach re pel, the death of this gentleman. who has resided sio many years mon me, end was so much respected by ell who bed the Mew of his acquaintance Hie family had resided for of time at noose, Marine Parade, but Ist atertV Charles had resided in Lower Rock Gardens, where be Med an Sunday evening. in the 70th year of his age. Sir Merle@ MS the second eon of the second baronet by the of Merits Leslie, Reg , M.D.. grand-daughter of the cry Rev. Dean Lathe. Succeeded his brother in 1860. Entered the navy in 1803; was promoted to the rank of Commeratler in 1813 fee his conduct at the capture of the Aimless ship, Chesapeake, by the Shannon, off Boston. Me brother. Samuel Edmund, who has resided f or some years with hie family at Worthing, and who married the daughter of J. Bouwsns, Esq., of Connaught-place, London, succeed, to the baronetcy. HEATH OP MR. HORSLEY PALMER.—The death of this gentleman, whose name for fifty years has best the most eminent and honourable in connexion with Brit 2t commerce, is announced yesterday. Mr. Palmer wee 'tested • director of the Bank of England in 1811. filled the post of governor for three successive years (1830 to 1832), and at the date of his retirement last Apnl was savor member of the court. leis withdrawal from the motive %Wales of his firm was notified at tho opening of the present year. ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S WORRIEO MEN'S LITERARY brarmrra.—The alma meths al this institution waa held last of the same in the Ony'leinn-road, when the slab was by the Moth Sea. Lord Calthorpe. There the a anthem allathease of members and others. The hon. soxrerary, Mr. Camas; read the report et the council, from whic h it appeared that this bed been the meth year of she d. bathtus, the thiseher el =mien Cgr ui ready thereter and sewed bepeethetheet bathe ben made. Tie rale ef atheerfple• herrthcbela adal Midget, it had Ird tithed le le ed.Tlmploperea sad ararlalimsta — a - ag ataialed. The mad dm avast We astaaa as Ile Go pro mos et As aim* ea., sad ..aided by doling that &mat dam was sdll a small dullelsoey la the /ark the ail= at the lasafaatiaa wee Improvtag, sad team ` m om . prommis Win to be expeelsi. Etc Court. The Duchess of Kent visited the Quack yesterday, at Buckingham Pince. The Prinos Consort, with the Prince of Waite and the Duke of Saxe Coburg, attended by Colonel F. B. Seymour, paid Ants in the forenoon to the British Institution and the National Gallery. The Queen's dinner party in the evening included the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, the toucher and Nino' Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Saxe Coburg, mud the Duke of Cambridge, Prises Victor ci Hohealohe, the Dueller of Sutherland. Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Lady Caro line Berriturt oa, the Duke of Argyll, Major-General the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, the Hon. Mrs. Biddta/ph, Sir GeorFe Cooper, Colonel F. Seymour, C. 8., the Equerry in Waiting to the Duchess of Cambridge, Baron de Treakow, M. Samwer, the Equerry in Waiting to the Duke of Cambridge, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the 2nd Life Guards attended, and played during dinner the following pieces : Wedding March Mendelesohn. Overton, " Amps" Orestaeleollee, "La hive" Maellot" L the inn* Dr. Mark and his jamb sem forty-five be sattaker, W i le lononr of performing helve ter Idajeety in the The i t=se,l l 4 . elliegten has sacossisd the Countess of Desert as the Lady-In-waiting to the Qum. Lord Byron and the Has. K. Bathyal. West have suc ceeded Lord de Tebley and MP. Storks .ss the Lord and Groom in waiting to her 1= The following was the '• mines answer to the addresa from the general bask at Prdeelent Diermatlag Ministers of the three dosmisittiom eatNlsg In med sear the Cider' of London and Weinineter, grew*. to hr laijesty on Tateday • I thank yon very sincerely for yore osogrinialitms as this happy ooresion, and for your asearesess of attachment to my person and threse. gridi r ag rodll snow with you in the confident hope that INSldele he. loved daughter with the illustrious Ms* The se yrea Be trayed' the affection she has bestowed ipea ou t God's blowing, conduce not only to their m esd happinses, bet to the beet interesi tea her nertr l Z har Th a rC. Dr. 00an tr rite, the Rev. J. Houghton, en d the Rev. Thos. Jam as aft hade, afterwards had the honour of loafs; heeds. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were— Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Al ley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of ArgylL Despatches were received yesterday *A the Golonlel-ottloe from the Governors at the North Antrim PlOl4llOllll sad bas the Governor of Heligaisad. The sing of Prussia received the Prince and Prin cess Frederick = Monday at Bellevue, without ceremony. At dinner the Prince of Pius& proposed a tout to the alli ance with England. The nonaben of the hilsistive cham ber!' hats presented their mope= to the /Jowly-married couple. The Baron von Jeamond left the Brnswick Hotel, St. Janos's, Mat night, for Berlin. The Reie. the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, with the heads of houses, forming the deputation to the Queen on Tuesday bet, left Long's Hotel yesterday for the univeraity. . _ _ The Rev. Charles Townley and Mn. Townley hays arrived at Edwards' Hotel from Abingdon. Among the departures from the some letabliahment are Mr. end Kra F. Packs, and Sir Robert Throokmorton. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNispAy, Pis. 10. (Concluded from yesterday's Esp►ea.) LADY HAVELOCK AND SIR H:-HAVILOCK'S ANNUITIES BILL,] This bill pared through committee. ECCLESIASTICAL RESIDENCES (IRELAND). Mr. NAPIER obtained leave topri in a bill for the amendment of the law relating to eco4ebatiod residences in Ireland. CHURCHES, dc. (IRELAND). Mr. NAPIER obtained leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the law relating to the erection and endow ment et churches, chapels, and perpetual machos in Ireland. The house cuss at ten minutes after 4. Mr. A. &mum', Cambridge, hem paired with M4or L. D. Goznox, Banffshire ; Major L. D. GOldle tor, and Mr. A. Stesest against. government, until the 21M Met., in oonsecesses of the death of a reistive. r THE Tzar 07 THE HEY comsrnuor BILL. The following is a copy of the New Conspiracy Bill as proposed by Lard Pekeerstou In the House of Com mons on Monday night : " 1. Any person, who shall, within the United Kingdom d Greet Britain and Ireland, or the Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Kan, conspire with any other person or persoss, being either within or without the mid United Kingdom and mid Waldo, to commit murder either within or without the dominions of her Ma jesty, shall be guilty of felony ; and upon being convicted shall be liable to be sentenced to penal servitude for life, or for any term not lees than five years, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three year.. " 2. That any pima within the said United Kingdom, or said Wands of Jose'. Goatees', Alderney, Sark, end Man, who shall persuade, instigate, or solicit any other person, being either within or without the said United Kingdom or the said Islands, to commit murder, either within or without her Majesty's dominions, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable upon conviction to be sen tenced to penal servitude for life, or for any term not lees than five years, or to imprisonment with or without herd labour for any term not exoeeding three "tars. "3. Any person charged with felony under the pro visions of this act may be apprehended or punished, or otherwise dealt with in all respects., in any comity or place within the United Kingdom in which he may be found, in the same manner aa if the felony with which he I. charged had been committed in such county or place. "4. In any proceeding under this act in which the murder shall be alleged to have been intended to be com mitted in any foreign country or countries, murder shalt be construed to mean the killing of any person, whether a subject of her Majesty or not, under such circumstances as would, if the person were mu killed in the United King dom, make such Ming murder by the laws of the said United Kingricse." drIZITALUX COMPLIMENT! TO LORD PAL- MARSTON. We find the following in a leading article in the /film Oguila of the 6th : " The press of all countries has been unanimous In oon damning the emigrant VISIIMiDII who, under the shadow of the English laws, lay their snares against all the govern ments of the Continent. The security of British hospitality granted to theme emulators of Nona Sahib is a scandekrus violation of natural equity, public morality, sad the law of nations. Had not history indelibly regis tered Mr. Canning's threat, when he tomparsd the British Islands to the 01VMM of Mohair, when the winds were kept chained which, if let loose, would overthrow the world, British protection might be justified by the title of generous pity. But the words ce that minister oast at least a doubt on the spirit of • legisla tion which extends the right of asylum to assassins. The presentation of a bill the object of which is to watch end repress ferocious instincts, la an sot of reparation which bottoms Viscount Palmerston and the distinguished orators of the Upper Chamber who maintain the expaikecy of the severities of the new law." Boom NORTHAXPTONSHIII ELELTION.—The hemination b dud for Monde e, the 16th last, and the demi= Isr tr tellembei ThaMe7. tM 11th. As the day d bade oppremitee r appeing poetise me staking every emerdes to seam the etemdemse et dole thuds et the poll. The liberal andidate, Lord Esaley, hest tilt rooms it the Vitamin Hotel, Ramos for the teeleehg ar hi s term., whet gene toes ell puts of the United Lineg io : the madas d the dudes, PreferolorY to their by Imla ihr *dr rengsselve polling placer. PA1A421.,--ONE SHILLING DAY.—WID- imiiAT,iis: it —Molokai cs payirat, 624 ; AN* b 7 mom *Ws, IN ; 144 Wt. auLDIARs AND THEIR At yesterday's meeting of the Centrtl Ass...mut ton for the Condition of the Wives and Families of Boldime gee The Dukeof CA 31BRIDO It said As presiding on the present interesting. occasion, it becomes my duty shortly to open the meeting by explaining the circnmstanoes under which the association now contemplated has been formed, and gene rally to refer to the paper placed before you, and which no doubt will be referred to more parti cularly by the various gentlemen who sit around me, and who will have to present resolutions to your notice at a later period of the day. lam the more anxious to offer to you mine observations, for though I appear here certainly in quite an unofficial and private capacity, still as I have the honour of filling • high post at this moment very much eon named with this subject, it is right and proper that I should state my own individual views se to the propriety of such an association as is now contemplated. It f ln ita sta known that this is not the first attempt of this sort which has been made—that during the Crimean war • central asso ciation was formed for the relief of the orphans and widows of the sailors and soldiers serving at the seat of war, and who were obliged to leave their families behind them. The good derived from that association is not to be told. The advantages derived from it were such that I believe • vast deal of misery wait, if not altogether pre vented, greatly alleviated. (heat, hear.) I believe that it was successful, and that its operations were most ably conducted by many of the gentlemen who sit around me, and by none more assisted than by the maw tary, who site by my side, Major Powys. (Cheers.) The moms which attended the operations of that essociation has emboldened its promoters to come before you on a similar though a somewhat different occasion. It might have been thought that an association of this kind having been once before formed, it was unnecessary to begin with another, or rather that that association might ham been extended ins tead of forming a new one. Bat the circumstances under which that association was formed were peculiar. It was formed for the purpose of alleviating the sufferings occasioned by the Crimean war. Therefore it was not in the power of the pro moters of this association to extend the former one. They - were 'empanel to ftem a new one for the object which ere are met to Mums. It might also be thought by many that the fact of levieg saoh an association at all was objediona bison the gum/ that it would mama(' improvident mar- Mgr %Maw. 111 thought it would have that e ff ect, that certainly would be a reason which would deter me from ap rheon the pram* occasion as president of this meeting. im's) This my be a painful subject to allude to, m thei= d have personally gained in the army, Is hii is else by the opinion of many distin guished rallitasy men who sit round me, I most say that • is.. umfteemmie thing could not happen for the service than to enconmere the marriage of soldiers in her Majesty's army. (Hoer, hear.) And for this reason, that the soldier, taken individully wee a man well to do in his clue of life, but with a well and family he was a struggling man, and placed in a very unfortunate position • and I em sure, whether they are military men er civilia ns who think upon the em4e..t, all must come to the conclusion that it would be • letne for the soldier himself to encourage merrit.r r sissy. (Hear, hear.) But this association it not heed le eessureps aschge in the army, bat to meet • Mil at • iiimist when it is most necessary that it Nisei be ereb—ladeis period of war, clue above all se Ore it is =est aloe sod dueled that the wives M dearth of ~lien, who me hit ie a most melancholy ffiseehoslel be awed kw by erp•btia and the country. .) Clenleilly therein nothing more painful than 17;4 when regimate are emberked for foreign service, the matey of the families whom ther er, lea ve behind them ;of elm, if not all, certainly a proportion do not hew whore to lay their heeds. Hear, hear.) It is to MO wed em eniorgeney that this association has bees ingral ; sal it is, I am happy to say, Weeded est ally to meet this bet to be tads a pethenent baited= in e country. (Hesr, beer.) The epee view spin. is not to encourage sloth med idleness, le be selbeflismiliel to Walt that they had nothingto do, the Ilny seed not take care of them selves, that they need ad leek to their thaduct, or to the mode in which they might pia as here livelihood ; but its abject will be to ememmige the berd-warking, end to aid these who were Ins milks to gain a livelihood for them selves in finding mgdeptusit. (Hear, hear.) It will be • eljeot of the ersiskiea also to send the children at Wises le naked saw* _• to one of the moat unkno wns hems asseeted with the departure of troops on hems sinks the that their children had not the advantage slabs afitheysthools—a great disadvantage indeed. The ma series* is est the children are thrown either upce another prini,eho sends theca to school at considerable exionsetoher, sr re, the sot able to go to school at all. To meal so germs • etheity, it is proposed that this association should snit the wee of in obtaining entrance into the lease sad other schools. By this edocation they will be pled Is ma • position that they will in after life be able to pis is beset livelihood for themselves. Ido not know that I aid thy my name on the present ocouion, further than tore that, es flea es I am able to lege of the objects of this assededion, as far se I em able to judge of the ben4M likely to be derived from it, I am persuaded that any Guidance which can be afforded to it will not injure the service with which I have the honour to be connected, but will, on the contrary, alleviate the painful feelings of many brave and gallant men who are fighting the battles of their country . , end nobly they are fighting those battles, se you all know. (Chum.) It will be a great satisfaction to those brave men to know that the public and the country are not blind to their interests and welfare, but that, on the eostrery, they are ready and willing to render their families every assistance, and to acknowledge the services which they • reetheng to their country. (Hear.) It might be said by some that it is the previa*e of the government to under take this duty, and that they should not leave it to th e Lielmity of the ;Mk. (Hem.) But Ide net OM t s eroold be desirable to leave this duty to be ledielithe by the government. (Hear, hear.) I think if it win hit to the government it would have the affect of rimores, which, te es I observed befora, reil i tr e g a m ost s nfortons oirtherimace for the army. (Hen) I think, therefore, we duped eseseles ourselves in this good work as individukse thst we should not look to the government as the um= of dkpless ing this charity in the ordinary °ours* et tede4 endielik thej.are homed It provide in their geethessed seseely. Mr T. WILLIAMS Ousel the ethos mea who . W 7 . wives eel diadem way Madill to hoe their country, and left their Mies set deka bird In met terrible distress, s sere of they required the lm should be deal. itherdingly a meeting was Wilar 41 1 :11 wich, end theme islet proceeds of benevolent, were col lame end diepethe be that mass of softens. The eseillent feeling thus whaled at Woolwich moos weed In seer places ; and st a meting at Charlton, whit& wee presibd over by Lord Shaftesbury, it was resolved that ea should be made to the public, and that a astral should be formed ; and when he remembered the ail uit were, which he first beheld at Weidelft‘ led Aps looked around Mtn, be mast say that ass seller he UR proud and gratified. (Cheers.) It had been said that the formation of such • society as that would incrust the number of marriages in the army. It wee his dna caried= that it would produce no such effect. The proceedings of that day would be made known far and wide, and he was sure that many young persons who contem what was in many cues • mod inconsiderate act would re flect that, if they married, the woman would become an ob ject of charity. He really thought that the result of Mier tion would be, not an increase, but actually a decrease, el matrimony in the army. He mike on this point as a di ther. While the soldier remained single be was placed above his original sphere in life, but the moment be married the acme changed. Six per cent. of the troops were allowed to vsairty. Of course ahem would marry ; but then, what was their position ? In the cm of the six per cent. who I were allowed to marry, the women were assisted in this manner. Every soldier had stopped from his pay one Penny • day he weak*, end that being divided smog the sin per eat of warm, assisted theta in their deem* No- Puy ; _Theses the wawa who were married without en sue be seating but the py sad the rations of dm sear Is dope upon. Let the. Oaliddir for a moment the Min dew soldier being divided between three or four pewees. Every military man In that room knew that it wee impanels kw the soldier to do his duty properly when he had to Am his pittance with • wife end three or four children. hear.) He had seen soldiers so situated who positively email not get through their work ; and every officer who bed me mended • regiment on a long and dult marsh Weida SOF tify that the first men who fell out ma the married Men who was placed in that unfortunate position. He wee so Weer abed by such • state of things that he was unable to do his duty. They had not come there, however, to consider any dogma or to set forth any principles. The facta ware patent and stared them in the face. Ha knew that in many places where local committees bad been formed— for example, at Plymouth and Dover—the local funds some exhausted , and It was now necessary, therefore, to maim an appeal to the country. In the mum of former wsrs the elm and children of our soldiers had for the meet part Oallnl paniad their husbands ; in this instance they ell remeimi behind, and he trusted that the appeal made on their behalf to the philanthmpy end Christian charity of the country would not be made in vain. (Cheere.) CRYSTAL PaLaca.—With a view to reduce the capital Si this mammy, it appose the directors are now pre pared to receive applications for the surrender of shame eaumge for tickets of admission. For each original share arrendered • ticket will be given authorising 60 ad missions to the building end ground, on all ordinary (is.) days. The ticket is not to remain in force longer than three pen from its date. For each preferonce share surrendered, two similar tickets of admission. It is Intended to charge a fee of 2s. 6d. on each share surrendered. to cover registration sad capons of issue of tickets. The directors have ponied a resolution authorising amain by them ticketa to the palace and ground& on Sunday altersoca. CONRECRATION.—The new church of Saint Cress, linutsford, in the county of Cheeks, erected at the aide expense of the lets Peter Lep, Bag., of Nor hall, Boothe hall, on ha lekaging to him, we otaweerwed by the Bishop of Master en Tseadav, the 17th inst. A commodi ous knee and prides were provided by Mr. Legit, sad re= duly eenveyed to the Moitimisetioal Commie- BLOWN Ow the use of the Incumbent of the church for the time bag. Jan Neologies Leib, Eq., the nephew and Dslrat k+. in wb. the patronage it vested by the death of his awl% k shoot to farther endow the *web with earn of 3,0001., 10 be invested Its the Malik et Übe utdoisr. The chunk rateine silting* far 432 Si Welt 101 will be let for the beat of the minister, end the remeisier are either eppeprigall for the use of the tenants of the Nor- Vary Beethiedwilleate, or entirely free. EXPRESS FROM PARIti. (mom out *Aux PARIS, WEDNESDAY BYINING. I believe it to be certain that Marshal Valliant, the Minister at War, has resigned. The cause of his resignation I understand to be this :—When the Emperor signified his pleasure that the country should be divided into five great military districts, each to be commanded by a Marshal of France, Marshal Valliant either did not, or would not, sup pose that the new arrangement was to exempt the generals of division from corresponding directly with him as Minister of War. He accordingly gave orders which have not been approved of. The im perial intention is that every general of division in each of the five districts shall be immediately re sponsible to the marshal commanding alone. Hence a difference, which having been decided in favour of the marshals, the Minister at War resigns. lam in formed that his successor is General Niel, the engineer who greatly distinguished himself before Sebastopol. lam happy to be able to say (and I hope the gentlemen of the French censorship—who have lately been seizing the Daily News and Express every day—will deign to take note of this testimony as evidence that I do not blindly and systematically find fault with whatever the French government does) that an officer of higher character or capacity than General Niel does not exist in the French army. _ . It is, I think, finally settled that Count Walewaki is to resign the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and go to London as ambassador, Count de Persigny re turning to Paris, in order to take his seat in the new Privy Council. In this case the new Minister for Foreign Affairs will be M. Dronyn de Lhuys, who has lately dined three times with the Emperor. He, as is well known, is one of the most honourable and independent men that the Emperor ever had in his service. M. de Rayneval has just died in Paris. It will, therefore, be necessary to appoint a new ambaamador to St. Petersburg. The Bourse opened with some degree of firmness, owing to the large majority in favour of the pre sentation of Lord Palmerston's bill for increasing the punishment of the crime of conspiring to commit murder in a foreign country. The alight upward movement was, however, shortlived. The Route, after touching 89fr. 60c. for account, closed at 89fr. 60c., with a rise of only fic. ; and for cash the price was the same as yesterday. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. In railways there was scarcely any change, and there wu very little business doing. A provincial government journal, complaining of exaggerated reports about recent political arrests at Lille, says that the real number of these arrests was only eight, that the persons arrested met together clandestinely for Masonic and " perhaps " political purposes, and that four of them have already been set at liberty. A journal called the Anti 1.. has been suppressed in Martinique, by a formal decree signed by the Governor, General Count de Fitte de Soucy. A despatch from Africa, of February 7, states that the celebrated chief Gouma, who had fled from Tunis to take refuge on French territory, has been interne at Algiers by the French government. I am sasured that the Bey of Tunis sake for his expulsion. Madame de Clermont-Tounerre, the lady who set fire to her crinoline the other day in the Rue du Bac, died after three days' suffering. M. Chilly, the celebrated actor, has been ap pointed director of the Theatre of the Ambigu Comicial", in the place of the late M. Desnoyers. SPAIN. MADRID, FEL 9. The railway from Madrid to Alicante is opened for public circulation. The secretary of the civil governor is dismissed. SWEDEN. The two Swedish chambers of the nobles and clergy have thrown out the second bill on religious liberty. The two chambers of burgesses and peuants have refused to grant funds for the fortica tion of Stockholm. BELGIUM. (11.011 017/1 OWN 0011 BRUSBIII.I3, Pis. 9. The Court of Maims at Brabant was engaged to day with the trial of the Drapeau, the journal accused of offensive and libellous attacks on the Emperor upon the occasion of the criminal attempt perpetrated on the 14th of January. As the writer of the article did not at first come forward, although all the world knew perfectly well that it was M. Louis Labarre, the person held responsible and prosecuted was M. Brismbe, the printer. He had for his counsel M. Ladrie, a gentleman who practises at the bar of Brussels. The Court, consisting of Messrs. &spat, the Pre sident, and Delonge and Mockel, the judges, was opened at 9 o'clock. The throng was very great, and the number was swelled by not a few private agents of the French police. No actual trial took place, for the Belgian law explicitly lays down that in cams affecting the public press, when the author is known, the printer shall not be prosecuted. It is not the same as in France. Now, Brume declared in court who the author of the incriminated article was, and M. Louis Laberre declared that he accepted the responsibility. After this, of course, the whole affair came to a standstill, and must be suspended until the Chamber of Prose cution shall prefer an indictment against M. La barre. The case will come on at the next holding of the assizes, and it is thought that tke court will order this fresh sitting in about a fortnight's time. The following is the text of the indictment in the affair of the Drapeau: The to the Court of &marls Fees forth that the court has sent for trial bore the Court of Assizes at Brabant the psesa named Jae Francois Deere Brame*, 36 yews old, Warr of • jawed, born at Ghent, and tabled at Bruiser, mowed of tir misdemeanor provided against by the first trials of dr law of Dec. 20, 1832. la consequent* the undersigned Procureur General has drawn up the present indictment, wherein he declares that the following facts and details result from the several docu ments composing the suit :—On the evening of Jan. 14,1838, Paris was affected with Indescribable emotion, in which the whole of Europe soon shared. His Majesty Nspolscu 111 had been the object of a cowardly and odious attempt, which might have exposed Francs to all the chances of an unknown future, and the other states to the fatal reaction of agitation and disorder. Our country was one of the drat to rejoice at the blessing of Providence, which did not permit this appal ling crime to be attended with more disesteem °228 All the organs of the press, without distinctiens7A7 L , echoed the national sentiment, and *sad in cm of esim. sure and indignation. Two journals aloes—the r l sew and the Ortweik—bad the sad privilege of castles neat wpm this garral manifestation of the pablis sspekihm. Tie but of these journals, awned Ie the Mei et dtheeersey and socialiim, in the numbsr dist Lriblamably alder the attempt in the des Liar thetethe ea ankle in which the cysts Were of the =6.llwith the warmness of the expleskon tmatte imperfectly, the author glee so far as topesdis ihs sossiwatton of his Majesty the Emperor ire Pawl' is a eepemit necessity. His libel, couched in dr mad elbuive fare towards the sovereign, is thee raided " erring, se M. Bonaparte was going to the egos, elm prethetike were thrown at hie carriage. Several CIMO weeded. He Werth only had hie hat struck. c reeineth owed well this piece et news all the epithets they an arsokle. fte. Without their eight he derignale elleEdn, ibt i ; P = Cr ei ,z a tvithest eisping Is the stmeteit7 el tisk ke Mak Aim* le *orb tist ke IC, we know of no attempt more terrible, more ex t , ra bi o the one which was committed ntocesefully the night of Deoember 2, 1861, against the liberty and Ids of the French people. hr Y e z ) it la a htfid thing to think that at the present day • • in order to get back its liberty stolen from it by ahighway robbery, sho uld be reduced to the last mode, that of essessinating • man. But what i s mere frightful than to have seen a people morally and materially assmainated for the advantage of this same man? Before ourselves the curare of the murderers, let to be ia• form who is the greatest murderer, and who is the most worthy of our curses. Until then we can only see in attempts similar to that of Thursday evening that which is called the return of things hare below, with • warning to the elect of Providence to have always present to his mind this unman of Scripture, 'He who makes use of the sword than perish by the sword.' " The impression of the Drapeaw containing this infamous article issued from the printing-office of the mewed Jean Francois Desire Briemee, who was condemned once before, on the 17th of June, 1856, by the Court of Amino a BTS boat, to imprisonment for one year and a fine of 1,000 fines for • libel on her Imperial and Royal Highness the Duchess of Brabant. An official 'earth woe made in vain on the premises of the journal in order to discover the manuscript of the incriminated article, and he refused to name the writer of It. In o:lllsequeme of this reserve, as the printer alone is subjected to the action of justice, it is from him, so long as the author shall not be judicially known as each, that we shall demand the reparation of one of the most serious offences that can be committed against our international re lation. In consequence Jean Francois Disire Briamie is accused of having rendered himself guilty of an offence against the person of his Majesty the Emperor of the French by an article printed in the third impression of the journal Le Dropeau, bearing the date of January 17, 1858, the aforesaid article having been sold or distributed at Brussels or elsewhere, commencing with the words, "As M. Bonaparte was going to the Opera," and with then, "He who makes use of the sword shall ending perish by the sword." Whereupon the Court of Arius at Brabant will have to decree. Done in the Council Chamber of the Court of Appeal at Brussels, this 28th day of January, 1858. For the Attorney-General, (Signed) HYNDERICIL, Solicitor-General. Before the proceedings commenced, M. Baguet, the president, sent for the reporters of the press at Brussels to come into him private room, and there recommended them, as the condition of their being allowed to enter the hall of trial, to observe the strictest prudence in the notes they took. On this occasion the same magistrate said he would not allow anneal to speak at all if they ventured to allude to the events of 1861 and 1862 by way of finding in them a justification of the libel. Should the jury bring iu a verdict of guilty, the probability is that the sentence of the court will be a year's imprisonment. The case of the Crocodile conies on to-morrow. It will be judged in default, for the editor, M. Victor Honour., does not mean to appear and defend himself. The day after tomorrow the came of the Prolitaire, a journal edited by a journeyman tailor of the name of Coulon will be called om . . The Chamber of Representatives has been en these two days with a rather important en gaged on a plan for reforming the electoral law. The following is the question now being discussed. In the electoral system of Belgium the elections for the Chamber of Representatives take place at the chief place of a department, called arrondissement ; the elections for t2te provincial souncil at the chief place of what is called the canton, and the communal elections at the chief place of the commune. The clerical party want to change this system, by establishing as a general rule that all the voting is to be in the commune. Now this system would place the electors under the control of the cure. It has accordingly been opposed most strenuously by the liberal or Lett party, and has not a chance of being adopted. Even M. Malou has opposed it. But out of this debate another kind of reform, little anticipated, will arise. The party of the Right has laid great stress upon the fact that voting at the chief place of the arrondissement occasions great expense to the electors, thereby indirectly promoting electoral corruption. It was therefore proposed by Messrs. Dedecker, Bavart, and Lelievre, to pay from the treasury the travelling expenses of the electors. A project of law will be introduced with this object in view. In our political circles there is much tally about a projected expedition against Morocco. The con quest of this empire by France is said to have been resolved upon, in consequence of the seizure of the Island of Perim, at the Lnionth of the Persian Galt; by the English. POST-OPTICE DEPARTMENT (PACKET SERTICE.)—. Thia morning were presented the estimated for the Poet aloe Department (Picket Berri* for the yews 1848-59. separate from the navy edimates, bat prepared by the navel department. The total chine amounts to 988,4881. The last sots was 986,0641. FACTORY CIIILDREN.—From a parliamentary re turn issued this morning it appears that the number of fac tory children In the counties of York and Lancaster between the spa of eight and thirteen attending school under inspection is in the former county 9,641; in the latter, 11,295. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—A parliament ary return issued this morning shows that no advances were made in the year 1867 out of the Consolidated Fend to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Works. The repay. meats last year mounted to 147,1 . 371. 184. 9d., reducing the value due to the Consolidated Fluid to 283,7901. Is. 66. THE NATAL ESTIMATES FOR TIM YEAR 1868- 1859.—This morning wee tented an estimate of the sums required to meet the expanses which may be incurred in the naval department in the year 1858-1869. The grand total required for the year amounts to 9,140,1271. The last vote amounted to 8,207,6261., so that there Is an biome, Mb year of 932,6011. The items of increase are as follows :—Wager to seamen and mariners, 182,1841.; victuals for ditto, 186,1691. ; admiralty-ofece, 6,2221. Her Majesty's estab lishments abroad, 1,8684 ; wages to artificers at home, 1(2,6311.; wages to artificers abroad, 1,2881. ; naval stores, 69,2921.; new weeks, 118,2031.; medicines and medical stone, 10,0001. ; the total increase for the effective service is 864,7361. In bur items of the effective service there is • decrease, via.:—Coast Guard, 19,8581. ; scientific branch, 2,4781. ; her Majesty's establishments at home, 6901. ; mis cellaneous, 6,2621. ; making a total decrease of 27,8761. All the items in the noneffective service exhibit en bartnees viz.:—Half-pay, 2,6461.; military pensions and allowances, 1,8981.; and civil pensions and allowances, 12,7991. TM present estimates include an item for the service of other departments of the government, via.:—Army end Ordnance Department (oonveyence of troops), 495.600 L—an increase as compared with the corresponding vote last year of 288,6001. The Beverley election petition committee will be chosen on the 26th. RED PETTICOATS.—Since the days of good Queen Anne, when Will Honeycombs used so devote an occa sional essay in the Spectator to the petticoat, that deli cats subject has been held in too groat memos to be made the topic of newspaper discussion. Whether it has been owing to relleament of feeling or a lack of gal lantry that the petticoat has been held in secred rearm we will not pretend to decide; but suddenly k has been dragged ruthlessly before the public gaze agate, and, we wish we could add, with u much gallantry and easy grace as were dieplayed by jovial Dick Steele when be handled the subject. Our countrywoman, the lady of Sir Gore Onaeley, at Washington, hem been the cause of this disturb ance. She has startled the politicians at our national capital, and "fluttered the Voltz:thus" of the pave generally, by displaying a crimson petticoat as she walked the streets, of course not intentionally, but by that graceful and fascinating lifting of the robe which vain Frenchmen have imagined no lady can ever do properly anywhere out of Pans. The little bit of red displayed in this manner bee had the effect upon the mescaline publie which that fiery colour Is supposed I t : t raduce tic so tt gasbag of an excited ball. The red coat bee the carton theme of conversation, an Broadway, ere long, will probably have a fiery streak tanning along the pave- ment as though a procession of oudinals were going pest in full sacerdotal costume. Well, we met yield to the dominant feehion, whether it be • red petticoat or a green umbrella, but we should say that a softer and milder tint would be more becoming for summer, let the case be as it may in winter. We have an indistinct recollection of having epee enjoyed a transient glimpse of an em broidered petticoat of snowy whiteness, which we caught an involuntary eight of as a stately lady displayed it one day as she lifted her brocaded robe in step ping across Broadway to prevent the hem of her dress from coming in vaned with the muddy cerement. We have not the boldness to oppose our humble opinion to a newly introduced fashion, but we will Tenure timidly to intimate that the snowy purity of dimity or muslin is mash more likely to make alastiog Impression on the mescaline heart than the most brilliant scarlet that ever bung about • lhodnine ankle. But it is said that Queen Victoria wore the led petticoat when sbe was last at her pathos et Balmoral In the Highlands. Of course that settles this matter, and sis have Dot another word to Pi on the If tbe Queen wore the encomia Juliet's &Wend. w hat reason could he desired as an apology for our ladies wearing It to &law P—Nee York MI MI.