The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-24 00:00:00

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T 879 DAT rh. 37111. To-■ORROW--Yarning. th. Sim —.Afternoon, 3A. lOss. - - NOTlrvsnf 1312111 q, NARRIAOR9. end DRATR.. •re received WA 12 o'clock for insertion same evening. erica. is. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAIWING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, le PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24. A WORD TO THE CONSTITUENCIES. Ores of the most uncomfortable animals in this nether world is a man suddenly brought face to face with the logical consequence of the opinions he has always professed to hold and the principles he has always pretended to maintain, and compelled, by the force of circumstances, to act upon them as if he had not been a solemn quack or a hollow canter all his life long. To be called upon at a moment's notice to be honest, sincere, truthful, loyal, and in earnest, is a melancholy trial for a man who feels that he never had a serious conviction, or consulted any interest but his own, all these years, when he went about confessing his party faith and protesting his personal fidelity. There is reason to fear that some members of the Liberal party in the present House of Com mons are at present in this distressing predicament. They positively hate being forced out of that indolent hypocrisy which has become a second nature. To gird up their loins and put on the armour of faith, to fight for some cause in open parliament which they have cherished as an empty " cry " for the hustings, is an into lerable necessity to some good easy men who have long reached the dressing-gown and slippery stage of public life, and who resent a call to action as an injury and an affront. It would be an error to suppose that Mr. GLA DPITOrt EN appeal to a concerted onward movement on the Irish church question had conciliated all the sympathies of the PAtvrß- Arosr.►re majority, and rallied all the restless or the hesitating spirits of the party. To intriguers who have tasted the delight of desertion and the rapturous vanity of betrayal, there is something of the grindstone in Mr. Otarwrose's appeal. They don't want great questions to be agitated on the eve of a general election. They don't want to disturb a Government from which they can get more perhaps for their services in opposition than they could by restoring their proper chiefs to power. There was once a political faction in France who were called Les Imporitrett. The successors of that vain sect are sitting now on more than one bench to the left of the SPEAREI:•B chair. They are so troubled with a sense of their own importance, and so well pleased with its recognition by the Minister to whom they owe no allegiance, that they cannot bear to be reduced again to the rank of faithful followers, or, still worse, of "independent" sup porters. As independent seceders from their own party, they can almost flatter them selves that they have souls above Shibboleths, and political consciences above the customary temptations of adherents ; that an irritable self love is a single-minded zeal for the public good, and that a resentful jealousy is self-abne gation. Add to these heroic schemers the few who perhaps honestly conceive that they are finishing the liberal education of the Conservative party, and of their own leader as well as of the leader of the Government, and some who with better reason are afraid of restoring the old Whig, " families " to Down ing -street, for another long lease of ineffi ciency and inaction, and it becomes intelligible bow the party who sit behind Mr. Gt.aosvons require a little stimulating pressure from their con stituents at this conjuncture. Between this and Monday next there will be ample time for trimmers to invent all sorts of pretexts for evasion. It remains for the electors of the old and the new constituencies to remind " mori " bund" members of the future state of electoral rewards and punishments into which they are about to enter, and for which they seem to think neither a lively faith nor good works to be the most fitting preparation. Without naming names, which would be super fluous, for it is the obscure and not the illustrious that need to be reminded of their honour and their duty in these cases—we leave to the care of their constituents representatives who pretend to deprecate a debate and division on the Irish Church, on the singular ground that dying men should not presume to make a will. We trust the Liberal electors will remind these modest and pious politicians that it is precisely to enable them to make their will that these Resolutions are proposed, and that political intestacy is political suicide. It would argue a very crab-like progress of the Party it a motion which would have been one of the stock pieces of the session thirty years ago should be regarded as preci pitate or excessive by the last Liberal majority of theten-pounder Parliament in 1868. Nor can the too virtuous Liberal pretend that by voting as one man for Mr. GLADB7ONe9 resolution the Opposi tion will be throwing public business into con. IRE fusion and interrupting the progress of beieScifOr legislative measures. The PAW= has oat ground from under their feet by his eandistatate meat last evening. He does not threaten a dissolution this year. Nothing so pall have been accounted possible, except by maa to whom the next dissolution means a bourne from which there can be no return. What ever may be the fate et the Resolutions next week the present Parliament will be al lowed to die a natural, or, at any rate, not a violent death. There will be six months at least for meditation and repentance for Conservatives and Liberals alike. But six months will certainly not suffice for the rehabilitation of . a Liberal member whose name was not found in the division liaton this great occasion. Unless he can justify it by irresistible motives of expediency he will be invited to carry his disinterestedness into the retirement which so very nice and scrupulous a patriotism deserves. I TORYIBM AT CANTERBURY. 1 An enthusiastic baronet of ultramontane opinions when enlightening the House of Commons on one occasion upon the superior unity of the church of which he is a memberto that of the English estab lishment, naively added that this was due to the fact that any one departing from the traditions and formulas was extruded. The Conservative party adopts when it can the same method of preserving its golden age. There is liberty, perhaps, in the direction of absolutism ; in a certain sense even a Roman Catholic is not checked in believing too much ; but a Tory must be strong in rank, in con nections, or in experience, to advance in the oppo site line, and be tolerated. An hon. member on the Conservative benches once complained to the House that he was annoyed by the " hear, hears" with which a gentleman near frequently signified his assent to opinions uttered by speakers opposite. This was his torment. So we are not much surprised by the attempt which is being male to stop Mr. Burtax-Jonit- STONE'S parliamentary career. His offence is, that he thinks for himself on great ques tions of public policy ; and his youth it but an aggravation of hie offence. His first speech in the House of Commons was a frank expres sion of sympathy with the cause of Italian freedom, and this was treason to the ancient Toryism. Other signs of independence have escaped him at various times, though his vote has, on the whole, beenfaith fullywith his party ; but in his remark the other day that he would follow any leader who should deal in a satisfactory manner with the Irish question his treachery culminates. He cannot over-pass it. Accordingly, a section of his constituents at Canter bury have been stimulated to call upon him to resign his seat. " We returned him," says a correspondent of the local Conservative organ " to represent the Conservative party in this city ; he has deserted us to enlist under the banner of the renegade Gltansroxa. Out with him, and let us find a man who has more regard for Altar and Throne, for Hearth and Home than he has." It does not seem unpatriotic at first sight to promise sup port to any leader who can render such signal service as the restoration of Ireland to content ment ; and the eloquent writer of the sentence wo have quoted knows very well that Mr. BUTLER- Joetorroxz is quite as loyal to " Altar and Throne" as any Conservative in Canter bury. However, so strong was the com plaint that Mr. JOHNSTONI last week felt compelled to place his seat unreservedly in the hands of the Conservative committee of his borough. We are glad to hear that the gentlemen in question have not availed 1 1 themselves of this generous boldness but have declined to accept the resignation. On the Liberal benches there are free lances enough, and their opponents can surely afford to give young men of Mr. Bunta-Joingsroats's calibre a wider circle for their operations. WHEN the schools seek to co-operate with the preu as guardians of public morality against the stage, the inference is not complimentary to the latter. The Berlin schoolmasters have just peti tioned the journalists of their city to aid them in raising the moral tone of the community in which they work, and pass special animadversions on the scandalous pieces now produced in the second-class theatres. The good old German notions on public improprieties are being outraged by the perform ance of full-flavoured Parisian operettas, and, worse still, by local productions which surpass them in abomination. The instructors of youth complain that their best efforts are neutralised, while virtue is scoffed at, and immo rality exalted upon the stage, and earnestly call upon the newspapers to extirpate what has become an intolerable nuisance, and a metropolitan disgrace. Without admitting the necessity of a similar protest in London, it may be asked whether our own dramatic critics are sufficiently severe upon pieces of doubtful tendency, and whether the hints and allusions of the modern stage do not verge more closely upon indecency than would have been tolerated twenty years ago. Much of the humour of one of the most successful of our modern come dies turned upon a wife's allusions to her hus band's second establishment at St. John's-wood ; • prosperous courtesan is the heroine of the drams imported from the Continent, concerning which all London is talking at this time ; while the burlesques and " leg-pieces "of our second class theatres appear tobe successful in proportionto the absence of verbal humour, and the coarseness, not to say indecency, of the gestures and dances introduced. It has been the pride of supporters of the English drama to rank the Pulpit and the Stage together as teachers of morality ; but we question whether any earnest spiritual guides could prescribe • course of London theatres, as at present managed, as • supplement to their own efforts. THE Saturday Review is noted for the rigid con demnation it passes on a slip or mistake on the part of an author or public man. Literal accuracy is everything. Unfortunately the writers are not themselves exempt from the failings of humbler men. A curious illustra tion of their shortcomings is to be found in the current number. In an article on " Mission Life," reference is made to the search expedition after Dr. Livrworroxr. An extract is quoted to the effect that " the expedition is an unwarrant " able risking of valuable life, and a waste of " money ; in facts useless adventure, that must fail "to accomplish the object for which it is pro. " jected." These reasons are stated to be fraught " with practical common sense." Nevertheless, the expedition has proved successful; everyone who took part in it returned home about two months ago, and we have had the satisfaction of learning that whatever be Dr. LIVINGSTONE'S future fate, he war not murdered as was reported. Saturday Re viewers should peruse the daily newspapers with a little more diligence. While the Times trusts that the -House of.Oont new will declare with no hesitating 'aloe that the Irish astablithmeat, as an establishment, will awe to mist, it Unite to see it remit to the legislature appointed to surrosed it the option at confirming its opinion, and of pointing eat the way of carrying it into effect. The criticisms on ILr. Gladstone's motion are practically valueless and it would be much better if th e cavillers were to imitate the aoudad, of Mr. Disraeli, who Lasted the leader of the opposition with frankness and dignity. Suck was the Q from all seethes of his followers that Mr. Gladstone had no choice but to put himself at the heed of the movement or to abdicate all claim to lead. There was nothing before him but to test the temper of the Houma of Oommons upon the next great Lace of legislation. The three resolutions of last, night are the remit of his deliberation, and Mr. Disraeli has vir tually appropriated next week to their discussion. On Monday the warfare will begin, and on Friday night, the eve of the Hester holydays, it will close. The three resolutions, says the Daily yews, bang to gether. No true liberal can refuse to vote for the first of them ; and practically it carries the second and the third with it. The last two are indeed the necessary translation into practice of the abstract principle affirmed in the first The necessity of positively affirming the principles of ecclesiastical policy by which Ireland is henceforth to be ruled brooks no delay. The condition of the country does not admit of the indefinite postponement of vital questions. The present parliament has drake towards the present which it cannot evade. When a ministry ,isin a Minority, and is without a policy, the House of Commons is practically the government, and is bound to act so as to meet the exigencies of the moment. The in ference from Mr. Disraeli's language is that he will pro visionally acquiesce in Mr. Gladstone's resolutions, should they be carried against him, and reserve his appeal for the general election and the new parliament. The Morning Post rather puts the case which is to be decided than gives any definite opinions of its own. The Herald MOMS the liberal party of threatening the landlords of Ireland with eviction, and the church with rapine. Mischievous and useless as all abstract re solutions are before the House of Commons, it would be difficult to conceive anything better calculated to rekindle the flames of disaffection in Ireland than the barren motion to which Mr. Gladstone kw called upon the house to commit itself. The Telegraph sees in Mr. Gladstone's resolutions the policy of liberals as regards the Irish church. There stands the programme of their intentions, and, follow ing his leader, every real liberal member must insist upon the aoceptanoe or the triumph of the resolutions. The satisfaction of Ireland, not the expulsion of the ministry, is the object to be achieved, and it is immaterial whether the end be attained by the submission or by the defeat of Mr. Disraeli. It seems not unlikely to the Star that Mr. Disraeli may coolly decline to accept the resolutions of the house u • sentence of banishment from offloe. He may say of the the Irish church question, as be said of reform, that it is not • question for the wanting of ministers. He may my that, as nothing can be done of • practical diame ter this year in the matter of the Irish church, he is prepared to go on with the basiness of the session, bring the parliament to • close, and then remit the whole ques tion for settlement to • new House of Commons. TESTS. The Daily News bolds that if Mr. Coleridge 's bill for the repeal of university tests is thrown out now, it will be an additional argument for the extreme section of its pro. motes to use hereafter against the moderate section. It is ne use, they will say, to temporise with the denomina tional spirit ; it mart be exterminated, not conciliated. And when this reasoning at last prevails, and from being— as regards the colleges—an enabling statute, the bill becomes a prohibitory one, the real authors of the change will be those who successfully resisted it in its earlier stage. The does not deny that some difficulties may arise in the working of the proposed alteration, but is disposed to trust somewhat to the growth of the scientific temper which will not suffer a man to wander from his own proper subject, and somewhat to the honesty which will prevent him using the position and emoluments which the university has conferred upon him for one purpose for the furtherance of a wholly different one. CASTLI, morning, attended by Visseentein 4111111 m Primer Lewis and Primers Beatrice alio went oat The Duke end Deehera d'Anniale visited the Queen to day, and remaiaed to luncheon. Prince Arthur, attended by Lieutenant Picard, has left the Castle for Greenwieh-perk. The Lord Chancellor has oleo left the Castle. His Exoellene, and Madame van de Weyer, the Dean of Windsor 'ad the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley. and the Bev. W. K Brookfield, had the honour of dining with the Quell and the royal family yesterday. Lord Bridport baa succeeded Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe as equerry In waiting. The Prineess of Wales drove out yeeMrday, attended by be Marchioness of Carmarthen. In the evening the Prime of Wales wee preeent at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Satiety at Burlington. boom His Royal Highness was attended by Lord Alfred Harvey, Captain Elite, and Mr. Holzman. A deputation from the British Association bad an in. **Mew with the Right Hon. B. Disraeli in Downing-stmet yesterday. The deputation consisted of Dr. Hooker, Pro- fessor Huxley, Mr. Bentham, Mr. Bub, Mr. T. L. Sauter, Mr. W. Spettinroode, Mr. F. Gallon, Mr. T. Archer Hint, and Mr. George Griffith. A deputation hose the corporation of Birmingham, eon aiming of Mr. Thomas Avery (mayor), Alderman Sadler, Councillor Edwards, Mr. Marsh, and the Town Clerk, bad en interview yesterday with the Bight Hon. B. Diraeli in Downing-street, on the subject of a proposed syskm of national and compulsory education. The deputation was introduced by Mr. George Dixon, M.P. A deputation, consistiog of Colonel Akroyd, M.P., Mr. J. W. Pease, M.P., Mr. C. J. Monk, M.P., Mr. J. Hole, and Mr. Richard Hartley, with Sir Thomas Fremantle and Mr. Stephenson, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yesterday, to urge the desirability of entering into a reciprocal treaty of com merce with Portugal, by which the duties on Portuguese wines may be reduced, and British goods be allowed to enter Portugal at the same tariffs as the French. Mr. Robertson, M.P., and the Hon. B. F. Primrose, Secretary to the Board of Fisheries, Scotland, had an in kwriew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Down. Jag-street yesterday, on the subject of an improvement of Buenmoath Harbour. on the east aorta Berwickshire. Cum= Conwcii..—A cabinet council is ap pointed to be held to-day at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales hare signified their intention of honouring with their presence Mts. Disraeli 's assembly to-morrow, at the new Foeeign•offiee. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured Viscount and Viscountess Barrington with his company at dinner last evening at their residence in Cavendish-square. There were also present to meet his royal highness—The Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Earl of Abingdon and Lady Evelyn Bertie, Viscount Lamella, Viscount and Viscountess Royston, Mr. Victor Van de Weyer, Mr. Oswald, and Colonel Ross. James Macdonald, in waiting on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Sramiza'a Lsvzn.—The Speaker will hold his second and last levee to-morrow evening, at ten o'clock— full dress. Lord George Gordon Lennox, M.P., has (says the Surrey Standard) been elected as a director of the London and Brighton Railway, and has taken his seat at the board. Mr. Candlish on Friday will move that an humble address be presented to her Majesty, repreerating that, in the opinion of this house, measurer ought to be taken for the early abolition of compulsory pilotage, with doe regard to existing interests, and for requiring pilotage authorities to examine and license all competent persons applying to them for the purpose of qualifying to act as pilota. Alderman Salomons will oak the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education on Thursday, if he is aware of the intention of the Metropolitan Board of Works to open new sewer outfalls into Deptfordareek, in opposition to the remonstraneal of the °Meer of health of the district, who considers the proposed works dan prous to the health of the neighbourhood; and if such outfall la not a contravention of the spirit of the Main Drainage Act. Captain Mackinnon intends to move, on the navy estimates, "That it is inexpedient to appropriate say more money to the building of duplicate ships untried, and if considered essential to increase the strength of the ironclad fleet a trial should be m►de of the less costly ex. periment of converting one of the best screw line•of•battle ships into a see-going turret ship." Lord Elcho, on the army estimates, will move, "That an bumble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to appoint a royal commission to inquire into and report upon our mili tary organisation, in so far se it relates to the establish ment of a sufficient and economical army of reserve, and the means it offers of speedy and efficient expansion to meet the requirements of war, more especially for home defence ; and to consider, keeping these objects in view, whether it may be necessary or desirable to enforce the ballot for the militia ; and, if so, In what way this may be done, so as to effect the desired end, and at the same time press most lightly upon the people." This morning was published a return of the pariahs, of England and Wales, stating the oounties in which they are situated, their area and population, the pose estim►ted rental, the rate per pound to the relief of the poor, the percentage of population per sore and the percentage of gross estimated rental per person, and the accommodation and the average attendance of schools aided by parliamentary grants. The return is arranged in (aunties proper, to correspond with the returns annually presented to parliament by the committee of council on education. THE IRISH RBFORK BILL. —The bill to amend the representation of the people in Ireland was issued this women. It is divided into three puts, and containa 31 clauses. The bill is endorsed by the Earl of Mayo, Mr. Disraeli, and the Attorney-General for Ireland. THE TICHBORPIK CAss.—The solicitors for Sir H. C. Tichbome and his guardians say the question of the snoosseion is not yet ripe for • trial by jury. "We are es anxious as the claimant or his solicitor can be that the question should be tried at the earliest possible moment. We abstain from noticing the parade of witnesses who are stated to have come forward on the claimant's behalf, it being in our judgment the height of impropriety to attempt to prejudge the case by such means. We will oily state that notwithstanding the affidavits which have been made in support of the claimant's ease, his identity with the late Roger Cherie' Tichborne will, at the proper time, not only be plainly disproved, but we shall prove who the claimant really is." Mr. Guildford Onalow, M.P., writes of the seene at the funeral :—" By the invitation of the claimant to the title sad estates, whom I firmly believe to be the real baronet, I made a point of attending, and a more quiet, attentive, and orderly amembly I never witnessed. I observed Mr. Alfred Seymour, immediately after the *Ain was removed, aiterapt to ossupy the plate of chief mourner; and, although Sir Roger Tichborne was so overwhelmed with pied, and in tsars, and could with difficulty rise from his seat, he quietly and not offensively pushed Mr. Seymour aside, end placed himself in that position which his deemed mother would have wished he should occupy. Mr. Semen. end his friends then left in a body, to reappear in the villaffil church. I avow this is the plain unvarnished fast of what did take piece on Thursday last at Tichboennpark. As to anyone being ' summarily extruded ' beyond that I have mentioned, I utterly deny." The Revue Nationale publishes an article by M. Leroy Beaulieu, containing a frightful number ef sionleties taken from official documents. One gives the Men of the slumber of men killed in action in the were of whisk during the last fourteen pan the respective eonstries enpged have been so proud:—Crimes, 784,901; Italy 46,000 ; lieldeswig-Holstein, 3,500 ; Northern America, 281,000 ; South America, 519,000 ; War of 1866, 46,000 ; Distant expeditions, 66,000.—t0tal number of ones killed, 1,743,491. SOUTH KINILINOTOX Mt7Ell7ll.—ratlee the week ending Mar ede 21 On Tmlaffinr. awl ( , hen IA s.wi. tin m., WWI ; Weiseri. mod wridgis ial hen 30 a.m. 011. pa, OW ; 114 st epra=WS* in =Mk li lthe memo, 7,260.458. • -. 68 - r • NEWS. 'craw DAY.) OUR PARIS LETTER. Glom ova owl CORIESPOIDIXT) PAltta, Bi %MAT EVEVINC. The Temps says : _ _ We know nothing more amusing than the obstinacy with which the Nortiktir continues to ignore Prince Napf e trip to Germany, and the semi• o ffi c i a l journals to en s that he had any political mission . There were Medi u phenomena at the time of the visit to Salchows. Wa s f t not strenuously affirmed that the Emperor only went Cum to pay compliments of condolence to the Emperor of Anatrie on the death of the Emperor m u ,. milieu! Nobody believed that at the time, and e0(,7. body knows now that if the Salibourg interview clue to nothing it was not the fault of the two sovereigns, 1 ,4 did their beet to make something of it. Prince Nap o l i has, beyond all doubt, made • political excursioo. Th e sufficient proof is his having gone to Germany at all unde r existing circumstanoes. Prince Napoleon's presence 48 Berlin meant, in the (yes of all well-informed pokio. clans, a political move in French foreign poik. y. In this point of view alone the st e p— aman ,.., its root s not samared—was a mistake, INeca4 the public could not fail to attribute a diploinetic mime* to him, and to infer difficulties from the want of a ffeelsro result. It is impossible not to see in hie journey a fresh proof of the uncertainty of our foreign policy. The Frem• government is evidently ill at ease, after she great E lm peas changes which were effected witu it. eaopp,,,, y. It feels a vague necessity for some sort of action, if Des to take revenge, at least to raise its kYstige by co s* . thing sensational. It does not well know what to do, but burns to do something. If war with Prussia it too heavy a task it would not be sorry fur an oppo e t 4 , nity to try its hand on Russia. If the means of employ. ing our armaments cannot be found • general disarms. meat might perhaps answer as well. The gre st object is to stir up the stagnant waters of public indifference us produce by some means or other a strong euirext in favour of power. We have unfortunately failed in all our attempts hitherto, and we greatly fear Girt Prince Napo. leon's recent effort has only resulted hi a new ckeck to our influence in Europe. The Minister of Marine is manufactt,ring some formidable fire-ships on a new model, every one of which projectiles will cost 5001. The Charinni has a very apropos song, the antithot:cal burthei of which is, Pax Domini sit vobisems, and Si via palm° pars bellum. It is decided that the Prince Imperial will re. ceive the communion for the first time—i.e., go through the great stage of French viath, male and female—fa premiire communion, in the first week after Raster. The Abbe Deguerry, cure of the Madeleine, to whom his religious inetnietion has been confided, will see him through this ceremony. The Moniteur recounts a deplorable accident on the return home from the Vincennra races. vis count de Turenne, who was driving three friends in a one-horse carriage, let go his rein for a me. ment to put on his gloves, and his hone took the opportunity of running away, dashed against a cart, and upset the vehicle. The noble driver fell upon his head, was picked up insensi;do, and taken to a hospital, where he yet remains itt a most pre carious state. White regretting the accident to Viscount de Turenne, I cannot but hope that he is not the model of a French whip. A man who driving home confiding friends from races drops his reins on account of his gloves commits flat manslaughter. Three young men have been arrested at Rennes for issuing "anarchical " placards about the Mobile National Guard. At the Bourse large sales by the public produced a fall in the Rente of 15c., which closed for cash at 69fr. sc. For account the last quotation sae 69fr. 20c., being a rise from Saturday of 2k. Italian rose 20c., and Mobilier 2fr. 500. ; Credit Fonder fell Mr. MUTH= REPORT.-{THIS DAY.) TIMIDLY, MAWR - 9.4, A.N. VimMk • ▪ --ou PO:- • t VIA , (surf. at 4 4 k. . Y. WII7DSOR CASTI • —...—. 1 The Queen drove out this mornin THE ♦BTASIFIAA ?MIA. The Times points out that the Talents plateau is imme diately to the north of Magdala, and King Theodore's selection of It indicates an intention to make that city his stronghold, and to bid defiance there to the invaders. Aocording to the latest telegram, he has 13 guns at flag dale ; he was storing the place with provisions, and he had 10,000 disciplined men. Should no change come over his resolve, we may hope to hear of some decisive encounter within another month. It is impossible not to see that if King Theodore persist in his design be will not only be defeated by our army, but will find that his rival., who have been enriched and armed during their intercourse with Europeans, have heroine more than a match for him. The Noah! is disposed to think that the issue of the encounter will not vitally affect the prisoners. Theodore has known for months put what we were deter- mined upon, and he has been able to put the captives out of the way at any time. That be has not done so may be considered a sign that he has not "burnt his bridges be hind him," The Telegraph remarks that the latest 'deices effectually destroy the notion that the object of the expedition could have been obtained by a small force. It is now manifest that the " armed embassy of a thousand men" could have made no progress at all. Every mile of its march would hays bees a peril. The next examination for admiaaion to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, will begin on Monday, June ; that for the admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, on Wednesd►y, July I ; and that for admisaion to the Staff Oellep, on Thursday, July 23. It is understood that Captain the Hon. John Viriaa, M.P., and Colonel Lowder, C. 8., Deputy Adju tant-General of MIAMI, will be added to the royal Qom mission appointed to inquire into the law and practice of courts-martial. At • meeting of the committee of the Metro politaa Working Man's Conservative Association, held at the allow, 11, Parliamant-strset, Westminster, last even ing, Mr. F. Bruton (warehouseman), in the chair, petitions to the Bonne of Commons were adopted, condemnatory of the principle of Mr. Oladstorm's resolutions on the Irish Church, and of Mr. Coleridge's Oxford and Cambridge Tests Abolition Bill. The Established Church (Ireland) Commission eat yesterday at their Maces, 4, Westminster-chambers, Viotorisetreet. The commissioners present were :—Tbe Bart of Meath (chairman), Earl Stanhope, Visional de Void, Sir J. Nr , E. , Bart. Colonel R. A. Bliatto Adair, Mr. J. T. Ball, C., LL.D., Mr. B. P. S • , .Mr. Howes, M.P. e secretary, Mr. J. Ferias, n, LLD., was also in attendance. NATIONAL EDUCATION.— Yesterday afternoon a &patellas from the tins of Birmingham waited upon the Right Hon. R. Diaaeli, at his ollicial redden, Downintslamt, and presented a memorial on the subject, of national educatica. The deputation, which was intro dosed by Mr. Dixon. ILI'., consisted of the Mayor (Mr. Thomas A ), Mclennan Sadler, Councillor Edwards, and Mr. , the town clerk. After a few words, the mayor read e memorial, which recommended the introduction into parliament of • nom maim memo of national education, based on local and mums ment in union, with state aid, and incla oom proviaions directed against parents who l i e= themselves of the means of education so afforded. He further illustrated the importance of • eompulsory mea sure by a comparative statement of the number s attend ing sahools with those not receiving any instruction in th e te a . of Rhatmgham Alderman Sadler mentioned that the Factory Act had recently been extended to the trades in Birmingham, and manufacturers bad found it mom convenient to cliaoharge the children in their employ than submit to the regulations Imposed by the mt. children were now wandering about the ease* sad the I corporation was utterly unable to provide them with edam, I Ilan. Mr. Diem& expeeined in sad terms Ms *wan at_lnt#ltg tbs deliujst warm liS end mid to. day the Lord meow of the uounn maul* betrodbase a government maim en the sabjent of ohmailom Ha notioed=tbe maw at the memerbil that ameba' b y y Ihe mowed= el /11== bed deo tc „ T7,... takia gelt e ving frem thankod the 1 b: 1 trig for his onetriesy l'imari-cames Ml7l/11111, Sorra Harinrosox.— Neatbsr at Wilkes ill Ms sakk llareh 111. Total numb* able* fl eZaing of the teserlaay (12th May, 1868), 1.1164 THE DEBATE IN THE AUSTRIAN REICHBRATH. The discussion on the Civil Marriages Bill in the Upper House of the Austrian Reichwath seems to have created an interest amongst the Viennese as powerful as might be expected only amongst a popu lation long aocustomedtoparliamentary government. The assembly was crowded with members, and the tri bunes with listeners, many of whom were ladies. The members of the Hungarian deputation, whose duties required them to return to the Diet in Perth, remained in Vienna to hear the debate, as to the result of which there were various opinions. Ques tious that are soon to be discussed in the House of Commons, were treated with a largeness of view quite satonishing—the separation of church and state, the rights of civil society, the concordat, and the relations between Rome and Austria. M. HASNIM, the Minister of Worship, said—The govern ment does not believe that philosophy has taken the place of religion in the minds of the people. The state does not wish to lose the moral force of religion. But I believe that the church requires to be tempered anew, in order that it may fulfil its mission. In those Mates where religious liberty exists we see none al that great external religious pomp which exists in intolerant States. Bet on this very account more real religion prevails in them. An enlightened church would never have placed Gunther in the Index because he endeavoured to defend catholicity ►y the help of rationalism ; it would have elevated him into one of in first champions. If a church enters on such a souse it will continue to be a power ; if otherwise, I fear it will approach its fall. In say ease the government will oppose to the tempest raised by its adversaries the moderation and good conscience of an assured oonviction. (Great applause.) Count VON awl's said—lf you violate the concordat, which is a treaty, foreigners will exclaim, " Do not trust Austria, she always deceives." I hope no minister will dare to oppose to the son possumss of the Holy Father the brutal persevere of physical force. (Laughter.) I have no anxiety about the church—it always triumphs; but I am distressed on account of civil society. I am dis , tressed on account of the state which y o u are urging to destruction. The gove rnmen t is raising against I it the holiest and the strongest feelings, whether in the palsoe or the cabin, in every homestead where a catholic family is assembled—wherever a embolic mother watches by the cradle of her child. I think I hear the Pope cry to Austria, " Aad you, too, my child." Austria cannot, and ought not, to follow the fatal path of Joeephism (Joseph the Second, the liberal Emperor of Austria.) I protest against what is propored, in the name of liberty—(laughter)—and in the name of morality. (Bravos from the right and centre 1 benches.) Cardinal Scuwaszircrinc said that 1,8.33 years ago Christ was executed under a law of the Emperor. We are now goingto do the same thing in the name of the state. The law is not the point of departure for marriages, but re• ligiun. Happiness may exist in the case of mixed marriages, but there is ►lways something incon venient in such unions. (Much laughter.) Civil marriage is an evil, it is a blow struck at Christian marriage. Coast ANTONT VON AVERBPERG reminded the hones that the Emperor on his aeoesaion promised that there should be civil and religious equality for all in the eye of the law. The treaty with Rome fell is the face of such a declaration The general discussion closed on the 20th, and on the 21 there was a kind of parliamentary duel— the Conservatives being championed by Count Leo von Thun and the advocates of the Govern ment bill by Herr von Schmerling. The appear &nee of Count von Thun, in the chamber (to which he had sent a letter of resignation some days previously), was much remarked, and as he consented to resume his place at the request of the Emperor, it was apprehended that the Imperial influence would be cast on the side of the ultra montane opposition. But .this was not the case. The Emperor was only anxious that on so important an occasion the opposition should be represented by its principal members. When Count von Thun, after an able speech, sat down, he was embraced by Cardinal Prince von Schwartzenberg, and the count, in return, kissed the cardinal's hand. V. , Wiwi* • W. 11 1, 5,-----•I W. 2 110 isor. a I . _ l L Nairn IL 114 N.W. — l ii . W. 'on 1 0 09 , 1 Aberdeen . N. 6 W. 1•1: 14.103 talth - An:roman Oreeneastle .o4r N.N.E. • 7 N.W coo elf - 14a1entla Caps User .06 45 8.11. B ,N.W. C ' 0.11 ..2 Rochets PS 42 Y. i 6 N.W. oc 0.36 .. 0, 1 liverpooi dolybeed OW{ N.N.E. . 8 W.N. , :. ,Co eel - Memo; - es% . 96160 N.W. 6 N.W. Ifro i 4 4 Loti-ni.. Zechelori e o.wow W. ,61 N.W. in 1 4 Plymouth 30.02 t 43 N. 7IN. I el, I— 1 Weymouth 130.02 r 41 N.N.Z. 6 N.W. cb ' 3 ,119910909191 19. N. 8 i N .W. oc 3 London , E N. 7 W. obc 0.04 - Tarawa 6earborengb N.N.W. 6 N.N. b 4 Sblelas CC N.W. , 2 . N.W. c —, 4 Vetter in/71 N.W. • - c 5 Brussels— 2385 W.N.W. • - s —' - Ports 20.91 N.N.W. ' - —c! - Strasbourg I , N.W. - C - Lyons - ' sI - 11earesCon /48.62 s 28, W.N.W. I ,3 : N.W. lo I 3 THE PRESS PLAGUE IN CROATIA. A cardinal of the church of Rome and an Aulic Councillor—George Von Hanlick, Archbishop of Agram—has issued a pastoral to the faithful of his diocese, in which he speaks in the following terms of the press and its members : When we see that those who devote themselves to the prat-for the most part men without piety or oon soignee are endeavouring to ruin or to ridicule the sacred truths of the Christian faith, and the very principles of sound reason and to bring unjust accusations even against distinguished public authorities, we are *ended in saying that the liberty of the press has become one of the greatest evils of human society ; or, to speak more precisely, a veritable public peat. How can we hope to see the sad progress of general depravity and the spirit of resistance to legal authority arrested, when this herd of irreligious and conscienceless men, who are up to all the mincenvres of deriving therefrom personal lucre, are allowed with impunity to scatter everyday over the monarchy copies of their broad sheets by thousands? lio great, unfortunately, is the publication of these sheets, and our large towns especially are so inundated with them,that there may be found, in every street and spot, even in the hands of cabbies and old clotheswomen, these journals filled with the most pernicious instigation. . _ What will his Eminence say of the vote just passed by the Upper House of the Austrian parlia ment I (urns's nasown.) FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH 24. Various imperial decrees have been pnbliahed to-day. One promulgates the convention of the 28th Jannary, 1868, concerning the issue of Post 'office orders between France and Luxembourg. Another approves the declaration of the 26th February, 1868, by France and Bavaria, relative to the arrest of criminals ; and a third exempts cargoes of grain and flour from internal navigation dues. PORTUGAL _ _ LISBON, MARCH 24. Further returns show that the government can didates have been returned by overwhelming ma jorities throughout Portugal. All the ministers have been elected. The weather is very dry and the Caws are suffer ing for want of rain. A letter from Rome of the lath says :—" Cardi nal Bonaparte has now taken up his reddence at the family pekes as the Pimmt di Venetia' , and commenced the midi= existeme of a Roman cardinal, whisk mama alaselloatka is the more important for his harm easier, as it opal= him for election to the Papal WOOS, whams, had be bean mated an entirely French cardinal, would have been excluded from such a candidature. It is, of comae, premsture to speculate en the poseible result of the next conclave, whenever it may take pleat, bat it is undeniable that the Imperor Napoleon's amain Lucien is sow one of the heirs presumptive is the Perla Means, and perhaps his Ilajesire anxiety to pressen the imisposul meweignty of the Pepe is not entirely mow nested with ibis oentisamey„" !NDU, OirrigA ' aro AueriumAir (U im ) fAna. —OIII A I2 A4 Ha s= Xi —The Pan left at WPM istelep. She may be espettld •as Ileellimmeen abet* 4lmt. 25 instant.- • • >» Barometer corrected and redtwed to 112 deg. at sea level. The letteri r (rising;, t (falling), a (steady), indlocte directke at the mercury within last 14 hours, Thermometer expoul In shade. Krireme force, with ita direction daring last ft hems. Z.—cotm. Weather: b.—blue sky: c.— cloud. detached, . f.— fog : h.—hall m.—misty (Lars, o.—everail (dull); r. —rain ; 11.-600 W t.—thunder. Eitio fall, tour or ball 'melted), during last 24 hours. Sea dlaturbuce. Bammsirical pressure has increase REMARK& d rapidly on our north not east comae dnce last evening: but at southern atattona readings are lower than they were yesterday. Prounires are compare• lively high, and are more uniform than they have lees for the previous two days. Temperature °ter these Islands is generally low, but on the west coast of Yranort there has been an increaae since yestert:AY. High north.weiterly winds prevailed yesterday to the English and Irish Channels, Increasing to a gate in *es In Ireland the wind this morning is light from the south Jet: In England moderate winds from the north are preva'ent. it. or Is reported from northern stations, and from Bruise's and Pent Had showers fell In London yesterday afterzoon. Mitt Lao fallen in the north and west. Answer. or THE Romair.—Pmrsotrrn, 3fas. 24.—The Union Company's Cape mail steamer Roman has just arrived in Plymouth Sound with the homeward Caps mails. A STEAM Max.—The advent of a "steam WWI" in New York has added another to the novelties io that sensational city. The " steam man "is • new locomotive for common roads, invented at Newark, New Jersey, and is intended to walk or run about as • man would and draw carriages after it. The particular " steam man" who is now astonishing New York is a person of commanding presence, 7ft. 9in. high, weighing 5001 b., men' swing 200 inches round the waist, and decidedly stout in general appearance. His legs are male up of iron cranks, screw., springs, and other in tricate machinery, and have • motion simi lar to the human extremities ; his stomach is a furnace, has chest • boiler, and the 'molts passes up through his heal and towering bat. He bears a good-humoured come r mane., with a handsome moustache, while in his mouth is Axed • steam-whistle, and • gauge and safety - valve ornw meat the back of his head. He is the figure-bead, as it were, of • phaeton, capable of accommodating four POrsOns.beir with • teak to carry wa t e r and ..V box for The driving machinery is at bin but. and within easy grasp of the persons on the phaeton, who can start, stop, curve, k o fast or go slow at their pleasure. The inventor claims that 20 pounds ve steam will set him in motion, and 20 mats' worth of coals work him • day. He also claims that he can scoomplah a mile in two minutes on a level Gonne, and can step rive all obstructions not higher than a foot. His engine e four-horse power and the man takes thirty inches in at sash stride. This " steam - however, has no t yet el • üblic, he is hibited himself in ;p promised a ram down Broadway when the is fit, and meanwhile his owner offers to manufastare steam men at short notice for 300 doh. • picas. Whether they prove of any practice' good or not, the one at New York is niquertionably great curiosity.—Tinsea. We learn from Om Weeders Morning Noes that on Saturday morning, at four o'clock, • call/doe oonuved between the Dove, of Alarm and an American barque galled the Arlington, about 40 miles N.N.W. of the LOW ships. The Dove, shish was bawd for Cork, went down instantly, and three oat of Ave hands were lost. Ve rna Van sad bey saved theassekvat on • pieta .f th e %eta the barque got bar boat out, whit* new. way took saw lbw Ths other men were not see after the chip gosh- The *Ames., outward baud. fof, te a {, afterwards pee the gnosis and boy ea leec! a Salves ereihsrel heal, Mid& kola them at that Po" about midday. -I !! I +ti.