The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

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Brian; Mr. J. W. Llskard —And ALL BCC ONE. Mr. Reynolds, dc. HMO MATES AT LONDON BRUM& ThiA Dia —Morales, Oh X.:ln—Afternoon, lh. O. TollOO.RoW—hlornialt. lh. 111. Um. li(lTr.l of BiaTria, Menai/Are, sad DICAT/IP, are received uotU o'clock for laseeticso mane errata/a tries. 3 1 . ed. LONDON, SATURDAY. MARCH 7. JOHN BRIGHT. No public man has better reason than Mr. Deicer to complain of the manner in which he has been praised by injudicious friends and calum niated by malicious foes. The wonder is that be should have been so slightly affected alike by the mistaken flattery• and the undeserved censure. The misfortune is that the public has been misled. It is the belief of a large section of the community that Mr. BRIGHT is a modern Orr F*w►ss. A smaller section regard him in the light of a sa viour of society. By the one, it is supposed that , his object is to " Americanise our institutions." The other will have it that the adoption of his prin ciples would instantly bring about the contentment of this country and the peace of the world. Indeed, the Mr. limiter about whom people talk is a man bearing very little resemblance to the original. Were ho in reality what so many suppose him to be, he would never have been talked about. He is a puzzle to the hasty analyst of character, because the ordinary rubs do not apply in his case. Other men have shown equal ardour in the service of the people ; but they have had either a personal am bition to gratify, or a position to win. A great deal of English patriotism has had its origin in poverty. Very few of our tribunes of the people have declined • pension or a peer age. Hardly one among those who have been stigmatised as demagogues has refrained from attacking the Sovereign while advocating the rights of the people. Neither the partisan nor the oppo nent of Mr. BRIGHT can allege with truth that be has served his country in order to be ennobled and enriched, or that he failed in paying due honour to the Crown at the time when he strove to introduce sweeping changes in the Constitution. of we take an isolated speech, a detached sen tence, a single phrase, we might easily give an explanation of Mr. BRIGHT'S conduct and character. linch an explanation, however, would be one of these half-truths which are more mischievous than wilful falsehoods. It would leave the problem of Mr. BRIGHT'S career unsolved, because it would tome the circumstances which have determined and.moulded that career. With regard to most public men, it would be impertinent to inquire about the religious views they entertain ; besides, mach an investigation could yield no tangible recline, .insomuch as piety is as often dissociated from, as it is a condition of, statesmanship. Not so, however, in the case of Mr. Bemire His religion is the rule of his life, and his life is the reflex of his religion. When advocating the prac tical Sevellieg of artificial barriers between classes and striving/or the social improvement of the poor and lowly, le is but carrying into effect the doc trines of his sect. He has given public utterance to his " belief in the equality of all men in the sight "of Heaven, sad of the rights of all men before all " earthly governments," and he has stated that in these maxims ho was educated. They coortittne the principles of the Society of Friends of which he is a member, seed, however Utopian they may appear to men of the world, they .are and have been the exciting motives to action of men whose lives are patterns of excel lence and whose actions have been types of self - sacrifice. In these days it is more common to approve of speculative goodness than to practise it. Men sire ready to reverence a martyr for what be holds to be the truth, bat they are slow to imi tate his example. Compromise is thought to be as rational as conviction. Should a man disdain paltering with his conscience, and boldly face the logical consequences of his opinions he will be sneered at by one section of society and ridi culed by another. Through this ordeal Mr. BRIGHT luta passed. Fewer mistakes would have been made concern ing him, had be been a less natural orator. When he speaks, hie feelings find an outlet, and his judg ment is mute. He thinks more about urging the cause he has at heart than conciliating oppon en t * and converting waverers. Were he one of the I finished rhetoricians whose speeches are modelled on those of Dsmoortimens or Clew), he would command the attention of the majority to whom ' commonplaces are more welcome than zeal. Al it is, he gives vent to opinions couched in ' strong language, and the strength of the lan- gsage Is ersegasuel a gasp of the Opinio ns. This " the bilk error is iiillowerd by undieorhainstig • " ningof I who extras& a pluses or paragraph Alla* it 4 .iumeitted, embodying the dictates of human whiten,. If be indignantly contrast the respective raised of ' hem workman who toils for his bread,an4 the peer w "Mil I lives amid luxury, and demand for this Arum a "the share in the government of a country whereof he "fair, is as %natal a citizen as the latter, the cry is raised " the thut he tries to set class against class, when the " boroughs tenth is that he wishes to make each clam con- " payment Mated with its social condition by extend- " vision respecting the registers of divided won ing to both corresponding political rights. His " ties and ►oeoughs." failing consists in having too forcibly denounced the abuses which pained him. Many persons have been unable to credit that he did not want greater changes than those he advocated, or that he would rest before he had overturned the Constitution. With surprise, then, they witnessed his expression of satisfaction with such a measure as the new Reform Bill. They could not object to his refus ing to accept it as a settlement of the question until the rate-paying clauses and distribution of seats shall have been amended, for hardly a man of common sense denies the expediency of of such alteration. Having no longer any reason for denouncing Mr. Bazaar as an incendiary, these persons now taunt him with being a Con servative. In writing thus they betray the vexa tion of children who, after having been terrified by a ghost, are bitterly disappointed when, on re covering their senses, they discover that the source of alarm was merely the branches of a willow tree rustling in the breeze. A SMALL controversy is afloat in the papers with regard to the origination of Sir WALTIR Scores magnificent "Hymn for the Dead" in the Lay of the Lea Minstrel. Mr. GLADSTONZ having praised that hymn in high terms at a recent lecture, an attempt has been made to depre ciate its poetic worth, on the ground that it is simply a version of the old Latin hymn so well known as the Dies /re. An article in the Spectator of to-day justifies to our thinking the warm milogium of Mr. Oranerous, and shows that the fine imagery in the modern hymn is due to Sir Watries alone, and that be has drawn nothing of value from the old Latin poet. "No " poems," says the writer, "so equally fine of " their kind, could be cast in more different " styles or express more different moods of " poetry," and he proves his sissrtion by placing before the reader the "Hymn for the 1 1 " Dead," and an extremely literal translation of the Dies Da. Sir WALT= Soars then, great in so many walks of literature, has moo ceeded in what few poets have accomplished. We have many noble hymns in our language ; but these hymns are not the work of our great poets. Mu.- role never wrote a hymn in the modern accepta tion of the word, and his version of some of the Psalms is about, if not quite, as feeble as the version of Tars and BRADY. Pore produced one hymn remarkable for vapid thought and over-strained sentiment. TuomeoN, like COLERIDOS, wrote a grand piece in blank verse which he calls a hymn, but it may be more justly termed a sacred poem. Moons and BYRON tried to compose hymns, and failed ignominiously. WORDSWORTH and TENNYSON have not tried at all. Mrs. BROWNING in early life composed one at least not unworthy of her genius, but she withdrew it from publication, and it is unknown to readers of her works. The " Book of " Praise," which, with some grievous deficiencies, is perhaps the best hymn-book in the language, contains a few written by poets, but the most popularhymns inthe collection, and the hymns most worthy of being popular, are the productions of versifiers who are unknown in the world of poetry. The fact, we think, is incontestable, but the reason for the fact is not very obvious. Our greatest poets, SPZNCES, MILTON, WORDSWORTH, for example, are in the highest sense of the term religious poets. Yet they could not write hymns, while men of slight genius, but much fervour, like TOPLADY, WESLEY, and WATTS, have produced some that bid fair to last as long as the " Paradise " Lost" itself. There is no species of composition more affectionately received, or more likely to confer permanent popularity on the author than a good hymn, but this kind of immortality is seldom granted to our poets. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1868. personal realise. It Inge hr a &Mirk, intelligthia, Wed teatime poliey. Now that the Palmerston& and Derby@ I are pee, Mr. Disraeli he. the Ant demos of itmiraratiag it. Will he try! The Spectator digresses the Peers and their preition. What Peer is there left, it take—nnlms, indeed, it be Lord Shaftesbury—to whose any power to the orrantry leeks for geklance, or before whom a democratic House of Com- moos is likely to pays& en hoer? If the House is still to , be strong, and true liberals hate before ell things WM siency, it most reform itself, aad the dinettes of "Morn I has been perceived by some of the keenest mem within the order itself. Prozise are we believe, abandoned, though the resolutica thandosing; them was, we believe, I Inver formally voted ; but the house absolutely requires , men members, more esparties, and more beldame— that is, requires a limited but milekat Werth of life peers, the heeds of prefenions, esseupatioss, inderson, end intoner@ other then the church and the law. The addition of a mingle men like Mr. Maine—we name him because be is sway, and it is not invkßous would instantly inewasio the power of any debate is the Lords upon his subject, jurisprodeene ; and the addition of, ay, twenty-dye strong men, familiar in the highest degree not only with the rethink of legislation, but the ides& which cause legislation, would restore to the house its true end very elevated funnier so the revising senate of the empire, the the house in which politicians ma speak without the fear of man before their eyes. What porti aof our polio', our legislation, or our administra tion is it which the Howe of Peen revises now? - - with Adesizal Xempei and Cambia Stanhope of the Ocean cm beard, sad the whole petty, including Oaptaia Breaker sad nearly all the deem of the Sylvia, went up to the Legation. The day following (Bth) it set in • heavy gale, lad they were unable to cross the bar. Oa the 'resins of the 9th the Admiral determined to try the bar, towing the Sylvia's steam cutter oat. They were obliged to separate the two boat. as there was • tremendous sea retuning and they were both nearly ewansped. The admiral's best, deeply lades, with Copt. Stanhope, Ossantander Brasher, Lieut. Bullock, Kr. Mitford of the legation end some oilcan of the 9th just succeeded in esteem bold of the Laplese, French man-oi -1 war, where for five hours they hold oa asters, up to their middles in water and exploding to go down every minute. The sea was so heavy and the wind so furious that, though hanging on astern of the ship, no ens could be got eat of the boat. At lost, in • lull, they made a ; dash for the Sylvia. The officer eonimanding her had in tho meanwhile been obliged to get the ship under weigh and steam further out, a. she was too close to the shore. Provideatially they succeeded in reaching the ropes veered astern for them from the Sylvia; the lifeboat was then lowered and with great risk of life the whole party was got on board, nearly paralysed with cold and banger. The admiral showed the greatest pluck the whole time. Next morning the ether boat was soon inside the bar. Oa Saturday the 11th American Admiral Bell determined to MINI the bar, and started with his flag lieutenant, sad • boat's crew of eleven. The boat was upset on the bar, sad the admiral, his Sag lieutenant, and eight men were drowned. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S VISIT TO BERLIN. The visit of Prince Napoleon to Berlin continues to be the chief topic of political speculation in Paris. The incognito with which the illustrious traveller was to make the tour of the courts of Germany has already been lost. The • Prince has been waited on by the Prince Royal of Prussia, by the Princes Albert and Adalbert, the Duke Augustus of Wurtomberg, and Count von Bismarck, and has been conveyed in the gala court carriages to the royal palace. Whatever may be the object of Prince Napoleon's mission—and that he has a mission is now generally admitted—he must be content to execute it under the glare of the public eye, and beneath the nearer and keener vision of diplomacy. The object of his visit to Berlin can scarcely be to assure the Prussian government of the friendly dispositions of France, for the Emperor Napoleon himself has repeatedly given expresaion to the " brotherly" feeling which animates him and which is known to exist between great potentates, and it would be an in sult to his sincerity to . conjecture that his cousin was sent to confirm the assurance already given by the Emperor. If, as is generally assumed, the Prince has gone to try his hand at weaning Primal* from the entente cordiale with Russia, the probability is that his success will ter minate with the gala part of the mission. Silllattadlleed by 11r.ltama1Q.r at the begin- NM 1,0 , Ip as. ' ia g rials " ... "" " int 4" _ it ... .• ;i ' NEWS ,of lastsesaicn, twenty-one way aubse4oenaly law' p b v . .„„ k . lb " digiumula ti " wilt" i ... Maar +WA was i T_ - .7' i I : DAY.) dad, Ili ' ...., • ' n tsper • Nay, , ' '' ward be ales . that Oh 18 'lli tr. asalsi • way of the I A r .ists ' • 1 • a Mr t ' Pawls, will wen 4110 BY _ _D3.O • (NW OF AN AMERICA/ it of 1 ;The • a . =j a i game Ili r ii , d rown . i ? AratutAL ~ i ELEVEN MEN. w I •VS .nt .82, W° 6l4 • dimes dome. sad •. 1 " 11111119110 W OF ADMIRAL KEPPE] ... r, tamely, d m , ,1 , the title i 4e h me s , pnevaiiing z . What that la dose, ' will AND A BOAT'S CREW. disfranchisement of Reigate and latree other Ow poiaarratioa at meg Maaaarviag =My law cabinet i - - The - sheethei Beeeeekt ei the 23rd January ha d a amfamd aim*, fa paallemsaat mil? Mt. Boa. • _ °ugh' ; clams 38, the penalty for corrupt ark would like, smaller militias ; hat the aoaatry does I the f°ll°win E : malt of. rates ; China. 3s, temporary pro- sot weatand ail sottave it. ft li aka sad wary of ! _ , Tbd .., Mtivla zailaad nr_ kola . no oa 7th Januar THE FRENCH PRIESTHOOD AND THE PAPAL ENCYCLICAL. Ix the Tablet of to-day there is a full account of • conference of French priests, presided over by the Archbishop of Paws, at which was discussed and determined how • confessor should deal with anyone refusing to conform to the famous Encyclical. The Encyclical and the Syllabus of 1864 were wholesale condemnations of what the Pore styles modern heresies, and other men call progress. For example, the liberty of the press was designated • curse, and the intervention of the State in religious concerns a crime. All good catholic were called upon to renounce the dangerous errors pointed out by the Poen under the twofold penalty of excommunication in this and damnation in the next world. Indeed, the attempt was calculated, if not designed, to turn back the current of modern thought, and to spread over the Christian portion of Europe all the super istitious bigotry, intolerance, and ignorance which characterised the middle ages, and to revive, with all its attendant horrors, the supremacy of a haughty priesthood. The question at issue was how far good Catholics, and especially the en lightened Catholics of France, would lend them selves to so monstrous a project. This would now appear to have been decided in the affirmative. After • long discussion the French clergy have decided that the Pore must prevail, and that to those who oppose him absolution must be denied. There were not want ing some clergymen who drew fine distinctions, in order to escape the consequences of insisting upon the acceptance by penitents of the extreme views of the Head of the Church. But they were over ruled,and the Aecueisnor was able to congratulate them on being able to go forth and strive iu concert, in order to uphold the laws of the church. The decisions are so important that we append them in an unabridged form : " lat. The Confessor has the right to require " his penitent to submit to the decisions of the " Church, even though they contradict his owu " opinions. " 2nd. Therefore, he has the right to require " him to condemn the absolute and unlimited " liberty of the press and of religion. " 3rd. As to the general rule to follow in the " repression of evil, it is certain that whenever he " can repress it without grave inconvenience, he " must repress it. The good of religion and the " good of society make that his duty. The " example to follow is that of Sr. Lowe against " blasphemy, and the conduct of certain modern " governments which forbid Sunday labour. If " he cannot oppose evil without grave inconve " nience, let him tolerate it, but let him never " favour it. " 4th. As to the limits to be assigned in pnic " tics to this repression, and to this tolerance, " that is a question which depends on a concourse " of circumstances which do not belong to theo " logy ; and the confessor must loavo it to the " choice of his penitent." MR. DISRAELI'S LETTER. Two of tho most distinguished chiefs of the Liberal party have been repeatedly taunted by their opponents for writing superfluous letters and giving incomprehensible explanations. No one has made more political capital out of these alleged defects than the present PREMIER. He could do this the more successfully, because he had care fully guarded himself against the retort of being too ready to display candour and defend his sincerity. Now, however, that he has risen to the highest post in the State, he makes it evident that after all he i s not exempt from what he had denounced as contemptible weakness. The letter which he has addressed to our morn ing contemporaries is, perhaps, the strangest document ever penned by him. Professing to give an accurate account of his words, it leaves the readers in greater confusion than before. What has Mr. Mansura really done ou the subject of reform 1 He onys in his letter that the Tory party " had been educated for seven " yeses on the subject." This means that events had influenced them, and that they had UllOOll - grown wiser. But, then, no credit is due either to Mr. DISRAELI personally or to his colleagues for this result. Indeed, if they had any share in the process it was as strenuous opposers to the change. Reform was always denounced by them as alike dangerous and unne century. All attempts at reform on the part et Liberals were vilified and defeated. The results of the seven years' education buret out in an hour. By one sentence in his letter Mr. Disarm has laid himself open to the charge of " finality," a charge against which another statesman has had to struggle through many years. He eays the first of his conditions was " that the reassure should be complete." He takes credit for the act of last session, on the ground that it is a final settlement of the question. Thus the contest lies between a party which accepts that act as in some respects provisional, and a party which will Island it as a complete measure. We may add, as a curious fact unmentioned by Mr. DISRAELI, that most of the changes necessitated, according to him, by the education his party ) underwent, were dictated by their op- 1 ponents. Mr. HONZISHAM COX, who has just published a work entitled, " A History of the Reform Bills of 1866 and 1867," supplies the following in proof :—" Of the forty-three clauses of OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The discussion raised last night by Mr: Lefcvre is the chief subject treated by our morning con temporaries. The Times thinks it probable that it would be found in arbitratios that damage had been occaaioned by our slothfulness, but that we were mot called upon to be alert to repress an act not condemned by the law of tuitions ; and this conclusion it would regret. The law is indefensible and absolutely unsuited to the conditions of modern life, and it would be some compensation for the mischief the Ala bama occasioned if the rules of neutrality is war could be authoritively reviewed and amended. Lest eight's debate will convince American statesmen that if Mr. Seward will meet Lord Stanley in the spirit he displayed there will be no difficulty in removing all causes of misunderstanding between us. The Doily Nene sees in the debate • wonderfully im proved state of feeling in the British parliament, but bag no disposition to @Deer at the remarkable conversioss which have recently taken place. Much of this change is due to the fact that the people of the north have not only approved themselves better than they were thought; they have be come better than they were. Lord Stanley said, in plain terms, that under the reference as proposed by England, the Americana were/likely to scene extent to make out their case. Why then, es Kr. Mill urged, submit to an arbitrator a van on which there is no dispute of principle, especially ' whea artificial, though minute, difficulties encumber that Dourest The question of how much is owing is one which might, as Mr. Mill suggests, be settled by a mixed commie nos without calling in • third power. The Herold echoes the epoch of Lard st•algy, and sou tenda that last night's debate ought to remove the lut difficulty in the way of an mic•ble arrangement. The Sta► remarks that the ehteswt at the oleos of Lord Stanley's epee& will give the liveliest satisfaction in both hemispheres. The case of the negotiation@ is net yet desperate. It turns out, after all, t►at no one know. why the arbitration proposal of our Foreign Secretary was re jected by Mr. Seward, and that • peat many of the learned speculation's and reanimate of " Histericus" were even mon thoroughly beside the mark than was suspected at the time of their publication. Mr. Seward has made another communication, and there is good hope that the question will be settled one way or another with out delay. The Aioneisp A drertiaer has a story of a audition against the Disraeli administration. The statement is that a small motion of the conservative party, some of whom are personally opposed to the new Premier. helm some to an usderstaading- to cm-verses with Mr. Gladstone and the Maul; whenever a feasible opportunity ocean, in Ile efforts whisk Kr. Gladstone and Ms friends MONO to smoke to divines the new minielay. Lord Cram horse le to lie the guide and philosopher of this manes of malcontent esneermairse. The mention are fall of baps that the Mak quaaliaa win , before a fortnight has passed, famish theta with the lommid-forapportunity of diedeating the neer ministry. Should mach ha the ease, Mr. Disraeli is propelled to resort to an immediate dimelation of penhament. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The fietetrday Review, disclaiming the method of dealing with Ireland, or,, the post mam of English had lords, both liberal and sonservades, bold that any change in the land tenure of Ireland would be • source o f grant danger, serial and political ; to Deland, sad therefore time among them who desire se gratify the wishes of the Irish at all esel only see one direction in which practically this can be dens without doing any patent and immediate berm to Zealand. They can demolish the Irish church. This smiles el politicises is now roper seated by Lord Rassell, and it certainly must be owned, by the friends of Ike Netabilehment, that it aonstitntee • eery peculiar some. of peril at present There ma be so doubt that them is a kris and powerful section of English 'elitists= who Me b to please the Melt, bat who ma think el no ether way of pining them without defog some son of bane to tbeenesives sad their friends, ex cept by made( • lime end immediate attack on the obnroh. inHa tie lassiair dim that Ow lineal patty are net Jet milted spa say plan d satiety it differs vary musk trace Mr. Bamako ia ifs abeaskal aaalyab of °peaks& Raiorglift Ow iambs of e raw. tl irWt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Yawn & The Queen, socempanied by Prince= Louise and Prince Leopold, drove out yeetenk afternoon. Colonel the Hon. D. de Boa was in attendance upon norseback. Princes, Beatrice also drove out. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Lodes, left the Castle this morning ►t half-past 11 o'clock foe Landon. Her Majesty travelled by special train on the Great Western Railway to Paddington. Prince and Princess Christian met her Majesty at the railway station in Windsor, and accompanied the Queen to London. Her Majesty drove from Paddington to Buckingham Palace, (snorted by a detachment of the 3rd Hamra Viscountess Clifden, Lady Susan Melville, Colonel the Hoes. D. de Ros, Colonel do Plat, and Colonel G. Gordon, were in attendance. Prince Arthur arrived at Buckingham Palace this morn ing from Greenwich-park, attended by Major Elphin- Moue. Lord Stanley (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) arrived at the Palace and had an audience of the Queen. The Marquis d'Azeglio, Italian Minister, arrived at the Palace and was introduced by Lord Stanley, to present his letters of recall. The Bavarian Kintner, Count liccopesch, the Chiffon Minister, Don A. Blest Gana, and the Minister for Hayti, General Saloman, also arrived at the Palace, and being introduced by Lord Stanley, presented their credentials. Sir Andrew Buchanan, her Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg, had an audience of the Queen on his return to his poet. Lord Begot and Colonel the Hon. C. Lindsay, the Lord and Groom in Waiting, were in attendance. The Queen, eceompanied by Princess Louise and at tended by Vicountess Clifden and the equerries in wait ing on horseback, left Buckingham name at a quarter before 5 o'clock, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough House. After which her Majesty drove to Paddington station, escorted by • detachment of the 3rd Hussars, and returned to Windsor Castle. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinsione, re turned to Greenwich-park they the court. CABINET Couscit..—A Cabinet Council is ap pointed to be held this afternoon at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing street. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday afternoon. attended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey. In the evening the Prince and Primer of Wales went to the new Queen's Theatre. The Marquis of Exeter (the captain of the Corps of Gentlemen at Arms), Lord Wrottealey, Count Gleichen, and the Hon. Spencer Ponsonlrl, dined with the Hon. Corp. of Gentlemen at Arms at the mess of the corps in At. James's Palace. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OTFICR, MARCH 6.-- Nodes ia hereby gives, that her Majesty's birthday will . . . _ be kept on Saturday, the 23rd of May gunnies JOURNAL IN WILNH.—in conaer miasma of representations made to her Majesty as to the large number of her Welsh subjects that still retain and speak the language of their fathers, her Majesty has been pleased to direct that the " Journal " shall be translated into the ancient language of the Cymry. Sir Thomas Bidduip h , by command of her Ma jesty, . ._ _ has requested th e Rev. J. Jones, rectos of Lian dissib, near New Quay, Cardiganshire, an eminent _ _ Welsh scholar, to widaiiake the work. This gracious sot of her Msjesty has given great satisfaction to the Welsh-speaking population of the Principality, than whom there are no more loyal subjects within the vast realms of the British empire. A rumour is afloat that her Majesty will visit Cambridge this Cemnissesaent, for the purpose of in augandiag the MMus of the late Prince Consort, subscribed for by the members of the sate. Till Mum or Dazar's Hgai,rx.—From inquiries made at Haewahry-hall yesterday, we are in a position to immune, that the Earl of Derby is now rapidly approwsh lag eoomilesonice. Shortly after the arida which nose- Misted his retirement from active political life, the re , 'every of his lordehip, though steady and decided, wee very slow. Daring the last few days, however, the signs of improvement have been mere merked, sad his family earl friend. sow conlidently eatisipiite that the noble ex premier will soon be able to remove to the metropolis. The number of medical sLudeipe in Cambridge University appears to be spa the Morons. The Massed facilities lately given by the authoeilies have KS been without 'WWI, 'foe le the of osadidiim, for the ap proaching " Utilise • lime ari tea who qualify Yor the examinatioa es intended eanclidates for a medical aspen. The preassit staff of pretenses sod maisleate amnesia the YVON of mug adage* men: _ . A grand ions abaw ia to be bad at Obi cord, f. Bargidarpark, by pennimin dianiala Faskr, an *a 1U et July area. and be Wagon M all. Itagtand. . i , THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. The special oom3spondent of the Times with the Abyssinian expedition telegraphs, under date Adabaga (1), February 22 : " The head-quarters are here to-day with 1,000 men, about 50 miles from Antalo, and are likely to remain for several days, awaiting the advance of more troops, and supplies, which are delayed by the deficiency of the Transport Corps. "The British forces have occupied Antalo with 1,000 men. " It is doubtful whether Kaaaai can leave Adowa to meet Sir Robert Napier. " The captives were in good health up to the 30th of January. " King Theodore has not yet entered Magdala." (The above despatch wee forwarded from Alex andria, March 4, 11 a.m., by the new route, rid Norderney, Hanover.] (izoin's min Am.) NORTH SCHLESWIG. HADERSLILBEN, ILutoi 7. Herr Hjort Lorenzen, the editor of the /faders /co Avis, has been sentenced to two menthe im prisonment upon the charge of publishing articles offensive to the crown. He has given notice of appeal against the sentence. OUR PARIS LETTER. SINGULAR ACTION FOR LIBEL. (nom 0171 OWN comarorwarr.) PARIS. FRIDAY Evernis. K Bagier, manager of the Italian Opera, figured yesterday as plaintiff in an action for libel against M. bendier, the editor of the Prance Musicale. M. Nicole!, counsel for M. Bagier, said his client had to complain of a series of hos tile articles which went beyond the bounds of fair criticism, and were of a nature to discredit him in public estima tion. According to M. Escuclier, nothing was good at the Italian theatre—the company, the costumes, the scenery, were all detestable. In the number of the defendant's paper of Oct. 13 he ran down M. Bagier's prima donna, the celebrated Mdlle. Patti, saying that her talent was ridiculously over-rated and that she was totally unfit for great parts. He regretted the absence this season of Praachini, the " king of tenon," of Graziani, Delle Sedie and Zucchini, and of Mesdames Battu, Penco, Vitali, and Borghi Mateo. Why were they not here? he asked. Wily, because Mille. Patti's enormous salary ab sorbed all the resources of the establishment. Agiin on Oct. 20 there was an ill-natured notice of Mdlle. Patti's performance of the part of Traviata, vesting sneeringly of the little tulle of her voice and compering them to the mechanical effects of • mwriml anuff-box. On November 10 he said fsh while the reosipta of the OPara, °Pere A Paris letter in the Examiner says :—" As for Theatre . . sneak, it is becoming me et the necessities of life. sot I C en° Y"q ue were Im p rovin g' n o Paris but an over F lamm people are dividing theme of the Italian Theatre, even on nights Imo amass of opinion ; entamiesie at °nick and °retry, whim IA Patti sang, had fallen off fully one of quatueze, of the ancient lassie at Thedelosp's eonserteo hall' since the does of the Exhibition. On end of the eh' et the Atme•Pbede Lobster the November 24, he wrote that if any doubts had femme quadrille of the CFA Ore.& There are fenatios of , before existed as to t h e d eca d ence an d prna i. Yowl, of lesetsi, sad either, of 'Ay I Ohlqufts ' and the mate death of the Italian Opera, the die ' Chanson de Fertente,' and woe of the harrowing b a wl . mam a b y ppm wi n r p m . graceful way is which I Puritani had been saps based He bet-sassed mealier farm et musts is for , brought out mad put an end to them. He tie seetest the ewe 'Mai /IMMO/ weed about ; we all I thought it high time that the Corps Logi:data here heard sang • hundred times the rime steurnfal okay & c old step the annual subvention of 100,00010, of mom perfect meters whit hoed sad SfraithiwaY &le& grahted to this thesis* if it were not to be better Villamer4 has already attashed this sett of literature is resaaged. After this action was cosinumosa, the admirable earklt etere of white Its pablidied the ether day : and on December 22, M. Factulier agpavated They beet : his libels by citing from the Musical Gass& el H MO IMO Sian ; Allan an article, very probably furnished to that as lair yr Ws we yes es sal Me 'daft ried the We mid jotunal by himself, pret e ndi ng t o explain the *my mew tow could read, write, sad adedlis itto wow ow was" why no new Italian Verse war* now aelViid ei r ; brought out in Paris. This antis& mid that Y. wield bat set they wee Batter .had brought the theatre to the lowest state to no& what a amens he swap Gad wires Anise of degrwiation, that with the eastelitiou of his Dim he would reader to society in Dldlle. Patti, all his arNsiss wwe elwedeebie, his V. ~ 2331111114 -..-I T. ..- it D. B. T. W. Ito ~,---....—... W. A I 12 1. .......—. - —..-.. 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Reirt:4Cooi29.olf 13 &S.W. I I 8.8. W. b It•reinmerr ...mesa sad .Needy 99 Aim st ids level 771 lbareissiir cerrodod sad Wood MO II dog. it los leveL r *Nag) (stoosig), Wino &section r "k oc d Imicouriltain isstl4 nom. 71ormonetes expand i kn og ih—hilakdi ts—ban iriii""gaibia ; 1.-1/gbtning lages: "wlibbi" ; 148 17 ""1" — ; m1sit c.— y ekeda dna dwibg lagt ) deliCb ' 0 (doll): —nobs ; a.--onovr; )I.—thandor. dals-& 11 , in" at nag Lmeltsd), dosing last *bourn Btn disturbsnon LEM ARK& The Increase In the barometrical premiere taking Plan day afternoon hes not continued, except on our raid coast: readings are lower In the west and southwest of Ibe" islands than they were yesterday, but the differenors be tween presume are less than those editing ieseer a i merning. Temperature la the south-east of Englund and II mind francs has dlminieked, whilst It continUoi low in the north of EloodagL The prevailing north-ullbreY N erzaiCerdav worn iron on the Irish coast and is the Manuel end have tacked Sowards west and path; wet they are light to eamierds. Calm with leg is venom' to:mufti's/woe. Nome rule km &Wan Mlle wan and souttee o4 where fog and odd are prweillai. The Figaro-Pet:gramme has the subjoined frightful misfortune ham just befallen Madame Cailotte Patti in the comet of her tour in the moth—kw husband IL Soola, has gone mad. The Ullmann coacerts at Mee melee have in ceemsymmee been temporarily 'Wen" It amen that the Miser of IL hook died in a luttatie sae= at Milan ; the ems bed formerly been • tenor, and was a widower when be netwried Mlle. Catlett' Patti." Tim BISHOP or Wtroszerni. —A bulletin issued =V•jr,ifetesterigam% imaka stesedset ettps , win idskt. isebelesißltbsibs his Urdabi Maw &Neely way hew are et his R oomy ; The following ansonneemmt hew been Brae to the inhabi tants of Farnham by Use &Adelman el Surrey, rector_ end eximelea op eireelseed by mew of pealers:—" env Wropweni matinees to be in &are the spa .1 n j 8. orreeres, Resta% ' arm 6, lerri:lacirt amber of proem attended the marines yulieday. singers sang out of tune, his orehears was iespossibk, his chorus singers old Worn. out hacks, his costumes dirty, and hi s scenery horrible. Thereupon M. Eacudier cured himself by saying that his mild criticisms were rose water compared to the vitriol of Milan. M. Nioolet concluded by asking for 10,000 fr. damages. M. Nogent Saint-Laurens, for the defendant, argued that his client's strictures were perfectly justifiable. H. Bagier had one star, Male. Patti, whose salary, 140 i. a night, made it j a y, possible for him to pay such a compee r as the public had a right to expect. IND, Patti had a young and pure voice, with m in ; marvellous qualities, bdt she was not capable of depicting great dramatic passions, and there could be no doubt that the interests of the theatre, viewed as a school of high art, were sacrificed to the sole oh. ject of maintaining her engagement. That the Italian Theatre had not been prosperous under M. Ni c e, management was admitted by himself when he h a d interest enough bring under the consideration ed the Corp. Legislatif an application for the renewal of a subvention which had been with. drawn. He then urged as an argument a statement which ho would now have adjudged libellous, namely, that he had lost s great part of his private fortune in his endeavon al to keep up the theatre. He entirely repudiated the insinuations that the article in the Milan paper was written or inspired by his cheat. The Imperial Advocate Chevrier was of opi n i on that the articles charged as libellous contained no. thing beyond the allowable limits of criticism of public establishment. The only other suggeeti os ho would make was that possibly the court mi g ht think the quotation from the Milan Gazette, after the action commenced, was so far improper as to justify the condemnation of the defendant in some part of the oasts. Judgment was postponed for a week. The remains of Martin, his son, and daughter, were privately disinterred from their provisional resting place in the Montmartre Cemetery at 6 o'clock yesterday monting, and sent off by rad to the frontier town of Saint Jean La Maurienne, there to await the arrival 0 ( the Venetian Committee, which is coming to France to convey them to Venice, where they will be interred with great pomp and ceremony on March 22. The first magistrate of Venice, two Presidents of the National Assemblies of 1848 and 1849, and two former ministers of the Venetian republic, composed the committee which proposed to come to Paris to witness the exhumation. But the French government re. solved not to allow them to fulfil iheir mission. Chevalier Nigro was informed at this determination, and he, accompanied by a secretary of legation, attended at Montmartre yes. terilay to identify the coffins. " What fears, - ex claims the b?de, " can possibly possess the French government when it thinks it necessary to play such an ignoble part to prevent the people of Faris from sympathising with one of the purest and most noble memories associated with that united halt i which cost so much French blood and treasure The i'ays, laying nothing more of the necessity of a " last application " to Dr. Piogey, the guardian of the La Varenne minors, which was construed by many as a symptom of hanging back at the last moment, announces positively that at 4 o'clock to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, it will publish documents establishing the truth of its charges against several leading Paris journals of having been corrupted by money bribes and decorations offered them by foreign powers. It only now remains to wait twenty-four hours longer for fits great revelations of the Cassagnacs. At the Bourse little business was done. No change of importance took place in the Bente, which was last quoted with a fall of sc. for cash, and a rise of 21c. for account, at 69fr. 45e. and 69fr. 420. Italian left off at yesterday's quotations. Mobilier rose 7fr. 50c. ; and Credit Foncier, 12fr. 50c. It is now quite understood that the presentation of M. Magnea budget is only put off for three or four days because he wants first to know decidedly what the government means to do for the holders of Mexican bonds. In all probability the loan bill will be brought before the Corps Legislatif on Monday next, will be hurried up to the Senate as "urgent," and promulgated by March 20. It is also likely, contrary to what was thought a few days ago, that the subscription will be opened and closed before the end of this month. WIATHIIt RISPORT.-(THIS DAY.) 8811:111:118, 7, 8 £.L r a.