The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-06 00:00:00

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Tim great system of ecclesiastical franchisee, which a Committee of the Reichsrath at Vienna for enactmeut, will be hailed throughout the empire for very different, and even for opposite reasons. In the eyes of many, one of its greatest merits will be that it deposes the Church of Rome in Austria from a privileged position which is in itself invidious, and which has been abused for purposes of persecution. It is im portant to see clearly how and to what extent the Bill does this. For it differs essentially from those numerous acts of the civil power with which the student of mediaeval and modern history is familiar, and the object of which was to establish an independent and national system of legisla tion in ecclesiastical affairs. This, indeed, follows almost inevitably, from the fact that the idea of a National Church is expressly abandoned. Accord ingly the Concordat of 1855, so far as it was a recognition of the independence of the Roman Catholic Church in Austria of the civil power, is scarcely touched. There is no struggling of the civil power for a share in the government of the Church, no trace of that jealousy which Kings and Emperors in England, France, Spain and Germany have felt it their duty to cultivate because a particular reli gion was the religion of the State. Constitutions of CLARENDON, Statutes of Priemunire, Pragmatic Sanctions, are all left far behind. To the Roman Catholic Church, as to every other, the fullest liberty is granted. The reduction of its power must, therefore, be sought in other directions : it consists very much in the limitation of its action to those who may voluntarily subject themselves to its rule. There can be no more BORCYNEEI perse cutions; for as soon as a person, whether priest at layman, signifies his withdrawal from any ROW munion, he is protected by law from the exercise of its authority. By the Concordat the whole course of instruction in public and private schools intended for Roman Catholics was consigned to the care of the Bishops ; and, thus, the entire system of education was rendered strictly ecclesiastical. The Bill limits the share of ecclesiastics in education to the department of religious instruction, and even over this the State reserves a right of super vision. The Concordat bound the Empraoa not to suffer the faith and institutions of the Church to be slighted either in words or writing ; in deed, it was declared that the Prelates of the Catholic Church might, propria (9,lCt"ritate, forbid whatever publications displeased them, and before the instrument had been signed six months an Austrian Archbishop had no tified to the printers and booksellers of his diocese that if they did not observe the sacred rules of the Index he should call upon tl.e civil government to suspend them from the exercise of their trade. The new Bill, whoa leaving the ministers of religion free either to recommend or denounce published works, abolishes every kind of ecclesiastical censorship. Without tra:ing further the bounds which are set to the direct intervention of the Church in matters not inure &Medi religious, we may say generally that the State, by adopting this Bill, would on the one hand assert in the fullest manner its own power and right to give society rules for all the princpsl con ditions of civil life, and to protect its members from molestation for their religious belief, but leave all religious communities free to enlighten the public conscience. It would decline, however, to interfere with the internal admir , stration of voluntary associations, under the pretence of safe guarding the social freedom of those to whom it gives now and henceforth the means of protecting themselves. In the eyes of another and very large class the principle of the equality of religious societies be fore the law will be a favourite feature. Among these there may be some who will mistake such a condition for what in this case it cer tainly is not--an assertion of the equal title of religious doctrines to reeeption. A State which, like France, subsidises all religious alike, pays the Rabbi for denying the divinity of Csinisr, and the Bishop fur denouncing Him as a blasphemer, is justly chargeable with propagating this anarchical and atheistic error; but the equality o: religions in a State which confines itself to protecting the members of all alike signifies no more than—but signifies grandly—the respect which eve' man owes to the conscience of his neighbours, and rests on its most profound basis when it is referred to the responsibility of the individual to his MAKER for the use of his reason. e share the satisfaction of both the classes of persona just descnbed. Our fullest sympathies, however, are reserved for another class—those who wish well to the new Bill am a system of com mon liberties. A much smaller class, we fear ; for bow slowly do we all learn that our own freedom Us not secure unless our neighbour is free also. Individual liberty may be considered a permanent conquest of modern society. But it is not enough. Liberty of association for reli gious purposes is its indispensable complement. We see this in the struggles which now rend some of the greatest nations of Europe. A sixret, and in the face of history, we must say a just suspi cion of governments underlies the desperate tena city with which devout Catholics cling to the temporal power of the Pore. The knowledge that the State cannot be trusted to respect the independence of Christian societies makes Catho licA, and even some Protestants, as we see in the case of M. GulLeT, feel the need of some power on which the ministers and members of that Church may fall back for support. Governments are naturally afraid of great forces that may easily escape them, and will try to silence by corrup tion, or gain over byibribes, or destroy by oppres sion, the leaders of those religious societies which are important enough to act on the mind of the nation. In the end all these means THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1862. emd we sea a great Potentate who one day rejoiced to hew from Episcopal lips that he was the " sleet of Goo," soon after sitoniahed to find on equal authority that it is uncer tain whether he more resembles HEIOD or PoNrios PILATE. The temporal power of the Pori troubles all Governments which have relations with Catho lics, whether the latter form the majority or the minority ; in Franco it makes • Senate turbulent aad reactionary ; in Ireland it enables an O'R sm.:: to indict a signal defeat on the Govern ment. It must fall ; but it must not fall without some satisfaction being given to the feeling which now gathers around it : the Roman Catholic Church must see its liberties permanently assured, and this can only be by the general prevalence of the liberty of Churches, the free dom of all guaranteeing the freedom of each. We may be nearer than we think to the realisa tion of this liberty. As M. Pm:swiss has re marked, the old notion of a Christian State—that of a State imposing and maintaining one form of Christianity—is disappearing ; and its direct oppo site—the Christian notion of • State—that idea of the State which makes it the protector of the rights of each, is being propagated, and is taking root from one end of Europe to the other. fbt Court. OSBORNE. Maim 5. Th. Queen, accompanied by the Crown Prin cess et Prowls. drove oat yesterday. Colonel the Had A. Hood Mended so heessbaek. A deputsiass vespecting the hop duty repeal Wee inter view with the Clesseellor of the Exchequer pedants, at Lie official reddens in Dowaingetreet. The Right Hen. Sir George Grey left tondos., yesterday, forOshorne, label Wight. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council tat «der day. Lead Chelmsford pee judgment on an appeal from Osaalla, "Boswell v. Kilborn and another, " that the judg ment of the Court of Queen's Bench, d alas of the lisqpreme Omit, should be set aside and • new trial granted. Lord Chelmsford gave judgment on an ap peal from New South Wales, " Humphrey v. Howland and another," that their lordships would mornmend to her Majesty that the judgment appealed espatest should be reversed, and • new trial (rested. The Mutes of the Rolls gave judgment on an appeal frees the High Court of Admiralty, " Thompsos and others v. Wil liam and others, the Moulin and the "John and Men." respecting • oollision in the German Ocean. Their kedeffige would advise her Majesty that the Aueurin was solely to blazes, and that the judgment of the court below should be reversed. The Lords present were Lord Chelmsford, Lord Kiegodown, the Master of the Rolla, and Sir J. Coleridge. Despatch« wen sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the 'Connors of the Caps of Good Hope, Rata sod St. 11111111111. PORTSMOUTH, MAace 5. Her Majesty, with their Rope] Highnesses the Crowe Primer al Prussia, the Pruner Alice, and the other Royal children, will aces over from Osborne tomorrow in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and land at Clarence Yard, ea their return to Windsor. lAATEI3T INTICLLIGENOE. PRUSSIA. THE MILITARY PREPARATIONS. We reed in the Publiciste of Berlin, of the 3rd : No sae ma doubt that extraordinary military prepezadeas have bees in programs at Berlin for some time. We do wok refer merely to the telegraph line between the *see sad the barracks, nor to the transformation of the foundry into barracks to which • company of the garrison of Spandau has been transferred, although such proceed ings almost irresistibly imply that there was erste desks of protecting the person and dwelling of the Lin— we allude to circumstances of • greyer kind. We have already stated that the practice has been reennald at the barracks of having • cartridge case always ready. This is not necessary for rifle practice, as the nes-oommiesioned ofhser on duty is charged to eirraye um the key of the case wider • penalty of six weeks' meet. Again, for some days the 'Ain'', waggons have been fall ; and to get them out more readily, 111111=110 have been takes which appear to tend to facilitate the nee d artillery upon uneven ground. Marshal Wrangel, eons mender in the Marches, bas inspected the waggess thus fillsd. We learn also that in several barracks • secret order is kept by a nos-commissioned officer on duty, to be gime to the . commander to be opened, either upon renipt d • telegraphic order or when • danger edits in the streets. The people to-day are set the people of fourteen years back ; they have bad grave and mad experience ; the political con mimes and the idea of law are sufficiently developed to make them aware that by • violent rising against an mg& Wad military power they must succumb, and can never acquire • lasting right. Even in presence of • map Grata, which, however, is not to be feared in Prussia, there would be no revolutionary move ment. The people would recover their rights, but it would be by peaceful means, by eoest•soy and well considered mete Why, then, them msamerse, which so seriously disturb the public mind? The Cologne Gazette asks for frack and loyal ex planations from the government. "We do not see," it says, "any reason for our government to fear an ifineute. The immediate dissolution of the Parliament, unjust as it would be, would not °one sion it. The deputies would return quietly home ; the new elections would take place in the beet order, and the same men would return to Berlin, with, perhaps, the exception that the radical party would be strengthened." (.eau's nualu FRANCS. 3EWII PROPOSALS OF THE EMPEROR IN EFERENCE TO THE PENSION AFFAIR. PAPA MA c% 6. The Moniteur of this morning says :—" The Es penance newspaper, published at Nantes, has re ceived a second warning, on account of a letter from its Paris correspondent, spreading reports injurious to the government, and subversive of the respect due to the chief of the state. "The Council of State has commenced its deli berations on the bill which was announced yester day to the Corps Legislatif in the letter of the Emperor. " According to this bill an annual Rente, the amount of which is not yet fixed, would be inscribed in the great book of the state to reward by pensions or dotations distinguished acts on the part of generals, officers, and soldiers, as well as to re compense exceptional services rendered by them in times of war. Imperial decrees would constitute these pensions or dotations, and would fix the con ditions of their enjoyment or reversibility, should the latter take place." THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. The Moniker of to-day contains a letter from Vera Crux, dated January 31:—" The Mexican commis sioner had ascertained that the powers would not allow themselves to be diverted from their purpose of offering to Mexico the means to emerge from the anarchy which has prevailed for the last 50 years. The commanders of the allied forces bad agreed not to modify in any shape their former resolutions. As soon as the troops are ready they will com mence to advance. News from the city of Mexico demonstrates the impossibility of the maintenance for any length of time of the actual state of things. The wishes for the success of the intervention, and the desire to see the troops of the allies arrive, are almost universaL The people hope fur the establishment of a power which, from its nature and form, would respoud to the ancient traditions and the nationality of the Mexicans." CADIZ. MAIM 5. Advises have been received here from Vera Crux to the Bth February, stating that the preparations for occupying Orosabo, Cordova, and Jalapa are progressing• _ . . The Mexicans were &Toted to offer resistance Senor Rubsleaba had returned to Havannah. The candidateehip of the Archduke MAximili to the throue of Mexico was ill received. SPAIN. MADRID, MAica 6. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant are expected here. GARIBALDI AND THE PROVEDIMEN' SOCIETY. TURIN. litace 6. The Italia of to-day says :—" It is asserted that Garibaldi has gone to Genoa to preside at the general reunion of the Provedimento Committals." CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. )N, ]Liam 6. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Indus, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has ,arrived here with 98 paasengera, and a cargo oonaistiog of 1,192 packages. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAII,S. The following telegram Lee been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsulas and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : MARSEILLES, MARCH 5. The 'feet* with the above mails, arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 a.m. The Grand Duchess Au;lista of Mecklenburg- Schwerin died on Sunday, at Schwerin, aged 3). The Prince Imperial gave a matinee dansante to a number of his young friends on Tuesday, at the Tuileries. The fits oommenced at two o'clock and terminated at am. The Italie of Turin states that General Garibaldi, on arriving at Genoa, went, in company with many of hie personal friends, and followed by a great number of country people in the neighbourhood, to visit the monumental stone erected on the spot called the Qwuto, in commemo- ration of his departure for Sicily on the sth of May, 1964). It is erected on the rock whence he directed the embarkation of his thousand volunteers. . The Campanile, a clerical organ of Turin, states that Mgr. Franzoni, tbo exiled archbishop of that capital, is on the point of death, and that the Vicar-General of Turin has ordered public prayers to be offered up in all the churches for his recovery, besides a friths° (a three days' service) in the cathedral. The Levant Herald of the 2Gth ult. says : " Yesterday the aultio went out duck-shooting to his rug favourite ground at the farm of the Capitan Pram, bar Hatehuk.Chakmedje. The Capitan Paella bar erected a handsome kiosk at the spot for his Majesty, on the banter of the lake, sad theses he fires away at leisure at the abundant gam* within reach." According to the latest ad vices from Toronto, Mr. Alexander Msodonald, one of the oldest Chancery biz thine in that city, had committed suicide. ETURN OF THE COURT TO WINDSOR. This day (Thursday) her Majesty the Queen will aware to Windsor Conk from °Morse. Her Majesty will towel by the South Western lino of railway, and is expected to arrive at Windsor at six o'clock in the evening, and part of the royal family are expected to arrive at two o'clock. The Queen's arrival will be observed as being strictly private t►ere will to no guard of honour, no ringing of bells, and indeed so demonstrations of rejoicing as is customary on the antra a the court, and we need not add that the good ease of the inhabitants will prevent their wishing to ob trade thesessiree on this occasion at or near the station, frees whisk her Majesty will proceed in one of the royal earths= to the Ithesepark, sod pass through the Slopes to the Castle It is expected the court will remain at the Oaetle about three weeks era mouth. The Dowager Viaeountess Ashbrook has left the Burlington Hotel, far Ooolherst, near Horsham. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey left London yesterday, for °shortie, Isle of Wight. Sir Philip and Lady Grey-Egerton and Me► Egerton hays arrived at their house in Albemarle-street. We regret to hear of the death, yesterday, at 6, Greevenor-meseent, is her 70th year, of the widow of Edward Stanley, D.D., Bishop of Norwich, and the mother of the Rev. Arthur Peorhyn Stanley. A case was tried at the Cork Assizes, on Tuee day, I. w►ie Lady Loser Morgan, wife of Captain Mar ines, and daughter of the Earl of Mount Cuban, prose cuted her father-ia-law, Mr. Edward Morgan, J.P., sad sows* c 4 hie servaate for as result. The defendant demanded posserioe of a carrier, the property of the lady's husband, which As refund to give him, and he proceeded to take it by fors. The plaintiff eodeavoured to prevent him, and, as abs deposed, was thrown down, struck, some of her hair taro out, her aeckabain broken, and her drew' torn by the defendants. The jury, leaving the box, returned • verdict acquittiag all the defendants. • " Sir Jambe Kay Shuttleworth is preparing for publication a work to be called "Poor Periods of Publics Education, as reviewed in 1812, 1839, 1846, and 1862." The state of Manchester before the first adios of the geweramost in the direction of public education by the Trinenry grant of 1/03 will supply the materials for the lint pried, and the succeeding ones will describe the several slaws which have been male in the mode of administer hg the grant by the Committee of Council, including a review of the training college system. The tendency Of the publication at the pesseut time will, of course, be polemical The Rev. Julian Young, who was recently pro hibited by the Bishop of Eaetet from preaching for reading a play of Shakepere's in public, is the son of the late Mr. Young, the celebrated 'Terrine. The secretary to the Zoological Society of London consannicates the result of experiments made on three different etenelons en the temperature of the body of the pythoness as wagered with that of the male, which le in the nibs sompartment in the reptile.bouse, and is subject to =no* the wan external circumstances. The results, giving en they do a diffennios varying from 6 deg. 8 min. to 10 deg. (el Fahrenheit's wale) in temperature in 'favour of the incubating ferns* prove conclusively (Mr. Selmer thinks) the truth of N. Yaleocienue's views, es founded on the similar caw which occurred in the Jardia do Fluster of Paris in 1841, end show that hi the case of thin cold-blooded vertebrate the heat of the female's body is abnormally increeard during the proms of iocubation. "One of the eggs, which was opened on the 15th day of incubation, contained a living embryo python shoot 5 inches in len/04 width," writes Mr. Sclater, " is now before me." At the meeting of the Society of Arts last even ing, Mr. rhombi Barley, M.P., in the chair, the paper read wee. " On the Progress of British Commerce during the last Ten Years." by Mr. Thomas &Harm. The author said what ever may be the extent and character of our progress as to the quality of our artistic and manufactured products, in no PTOTIOOM decade in the conimercisl history of Great Britain has our trade shown a proportionate increase anything like equal to the augmentation between 1850 and 1860. Mr. 1131imes'a paper was illustrated by tables showing in CODai &table detail the dainties ei our exports and imports daring the last ten years. A diectusica rowed in which Thomas Barley, Eq., M.P., Dr. Moroni Meshing, Itissrs. P. L. fismisouds, W.Nereniarch, Ogilvie, H. Adam* and J. Dillon Me per& ROYAL Osoafternicet Societe.—Kesday, the 10th lab., at &30 pm., at Burliegtmaborreik palms Nbe read :-1. Travels in Cambodia, by Y. R. Keedest. Tour to Karetnni, through the Shan &MINI 10 Theo, ley Edward O'Riley, Eeq. 3. The North-West Oral Of HOMO), by Spenser St. John, Req., late Onsenl (hound tor Borneo. ETON CoLLit; C.—The election of • Fellow of this College takes place oo Tuesday nest, the vacancy being oe- L renamed by the appointment of the Rev. E. pastors, the late Fellow, so the Head noistenhip. We understand there are five caodidates in the field —The Right Rev. Or. Chap ' man, late Bishop of Colombo, formerly a d . master at Eton, anal tutor to the Earl Granville, tLe sew President of the Council • the Rev. William Eliot, ow of the present assistaot mas ters of Eton ; the Rev. J. 0. Yeomen, another assistant master ; the Rev. Harry Dooms, vice' of Richmond, Surrey', late assistant IMAM at Eton ; sod the Rev. W. 13. Marriet, also a late 'slimiest I master at Etoc. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (on ma owir onaarizonarr.) THE CORPS LEGISIATIF.—LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR. PARllt, WIDNISDAY The following is the official report of the pro ceedings of the Corps Legislatif (at a special Bitting) this afternoon : The PRZSIDWIT (Count de Morny)—Gentlemen, I had the honour yesterday to receive a letter from the Emperor, sad I at once convoked you in order not to lose an instant of time before communicating to the chamber sad the country &document which is of a nature to strengthen the bonds which unite the Corps LegisLtd to the sovereign. (Prolonged movement.) The Pazsinin raid the following letter amid profound elms : " Palace of the Tuileriea, March 4, 1862. " My dear President,— I sincerely deplore the misunder standing which seems to prevail between the Carps Legir Ltd and myself. The spirit of our institutions and my well-known sentiments for the chamber ought to have kept as from it. __... __. " In fact conflicts are now almost impossible; laws are discussed on their own merits, and not with a view to the maintenance or overthrow of a ministry. (" Very good True.") " When the government has unrmervedly upraised its Intentions, the resolutions of the Corps Legidatif are the more free that, under ordinary circumstances, a disagree ment in no way troubles the course of public affairs. (Renewed approbation.) "According to this undeniable principle, the refusal of the chamber to accept the Dotation Bill would have boss pain ful to me, no doubt, but would in no way whatever have influenced my sentiments and conduck I can understand, nevertheless, after the explanations given by you, that an incident, trivial at tint, has become, in consequence of sur rounding circumstances, sufficiently grave to place the majority in a dilemma. (Movement.) On this account (cc qui afait)a great many deputies, as you tell me, would prefer a law embracing amorally military services of as exceptional kind. Adopting this idea, I have &lambed to present a new hill, which, while submitting to the cham ber the appreciation of a general principle, will, within just limits, assure rewards worthy of the greatness of the coun try to all distinguished actions, whether achieved by a marshal or a private soldier. (Vivacious movement of ad hesion.) "The Corps Legislatif, which has always given me such a loyal support, which has aided me to found the empire sad those institutions which are meant to &arrive us, will see with pleasure, I trust, that I hasten to adopt means to maatablish mutual oonlidenoe, and to efface the traces of a disagreement always regrettable batmen powers issuing from the Jame origin, and working cosweisationaly for the mine object. "Receive, my dear Prosidast, the ansuranos of my sincere frismiehip. " Minims." The reading of this letter was followed by loud &colonia -1 time and repeated cries of " Viva rEmpereur." The PIVIIDENT (deeply moved)--Gentlemen, this spon taneous and unanimous manifestation is the best answer that I can tele to the Emperor. (Cries from all pate of the house, "Yea, yes. Vivo VErapereur I") The Pasauxurr—Now, gentlemen, 1 adjourn the hones, and to-morrow, the debate oa the address will begin. On M. de Moray leaving the chair, a (rent number of deputies pressed monad him, and expressed their esntl• meats of lively satisfaction. (Signed) The Secretary Redaatear 40 Chat, DIM DI LACIAZDIL It is impossible to form a judgment on the merits of the above letter (which will throw the government journals into rapturous convulsions to-morrow) without knowing what is the new measure which the Emperor proposes to sub stitute for the one abandoned. The broad fact which floats above a sea of words is that the Em peror has withdrawn a money bill which he solemnly protested only a few days ago, by his letter to Count Palikao, published in the Moniker, that he would not withdraw. So far there is a tolumph for the principles of constitutional govern ment, and if we are to understand the plaudits of the deputies as applicable to that triumph all is welL But if these plaudits mean that the deputies accept blindfold the new bill which will be laid be fore them, I think they run the risk of a very ignoble fall into a trap. The Emperor's letter is very far from clear ; but he meets no one of the objections made by the report of the committee. He does not say that the principle of a majorat or perpetually entailed pension was the difficulty. All that can be gathered is that Count de Morny, in the course of conversation, has told him that cer tain members—nobody knows how many—would prefer a bill for rewarding the army in a more general form. According to rumour, the Emperor means coolly to ask for a vote for a large sum of money to be allotted in rewards to distinguished military men at his good pleasure. Some say he will take two millions of francs to begin with, and at once make a present of one million to Count Palikao. The latter would be a manifest gainer by such an arrange meut, since a capital of a million is ob viously a much better thing than an annuity of 50,000 fr. But according to the letter he contemplates still more general and per petual powers to dispose of public money. It will be a quaint thing indeed if this com promise turns out to be nothing more than the Emperor saying to the Corps Legislatif, " Since you have objected to pension a particular general, whom I have designated to you, let me in future have the right to pension any soldier I please, without applying to you at all, and so let's have no more row about it." The following amendments to the address of the Corps Legislatif will be moved by the five inde peudent members, MM. Jules Fevre, Emile 011ivier, Picard, Darimon, and Dr. Heaton : To paragraph 1. Public coofideuos can only be metered by • sincere return to the regime of liberty. The press should mass to be a monopoly subject to an occult censure which falsifies the manifestations of public opinion. The jury, that only competent jurisdiction in political matters, should take cognisunce of press offences and try them in public. Elections should be made by the electors and not by the prefects ; public meetings should be made lawful, and every candidate should bare equal protection for his elec toral liberty, and equal facilities for appealing to the public. Municipal power should emanate from the commune, and not from the government, to the end that the public in terests may no longer be suborlinate to political exigencies. Individual liberty should be guaranteed by a aeries of measures, the first of which should be the repeal of the law of public safety. Such are the main conditions of • political system In harmony with the principles of 1789 ; such are the reforms imperatively called fur by the moral interests of the coun try ; such are the reforms necessary to its dignity and the development of its activity and wealth ; and these reforms cannot be delayed without placing Prance in • condition of inferiority es competed with other nations. To par 4: After baling exhaturted all means of permission with the Pops, the government should at length Momm as equivocal course which is fatal to every interest, frankly de clare its policy, and no longer oppose an obstacle to the legitimate wishes of the Italian people. The occupation of Rome, so burdensome to oar finances, can no longer con tinue. To par. 5 : France ought not to Interfere in the civil war which now ravages the republic of the United States of America ; but she declares openly that her sympathies are with the North ern states, which are the defenders of law ►nd humanity. She trusts that their vietary will bring about the abolition of slavery, and thabaxampie may once more teach the les son that no crisis, however grave, can be fatal to • nation which doss not separate liberty from democracy. TO par. 6 : We darn with regret the commandment of an expe dition to Mexico. The object of it appears WU interference I. the internal affairs of a nation. We strongly recommend the government to confine itself to seeking reparation for our own grievances. To pan. 7,8, and 9: The public is justly uneasy about the amount of our floating debt, and the revelations made touching the true date of our finances. The came of the successive deficits is that it has always been impossible for the Corp Legit latif to check the extraordinary and supplemental expenses. A modification of the financial machinery will be an insufficient remedy, unless at the same time we enter on the path of a progremive and permanent reduction of the public expenditure. It is to be regretted that the govern ment prefers the imposition of new taxes, the weight of which will fall principally upon the working classes. To par. 10 : Paris and Lyons are yet waiting for their elective mu. Mama councils. It cannot be denied that the rise in haw rant, the distress of very many families, and the peat difll• oultias of the commercial, industrial, and monetary aims, are mainly attributable to the rashness and want of foro sight of an administration not sanctioned by election. The event at the Corps Legielatif did not produce a rise at the Bourse. The Rente fell 100. for ac count, closing at 69fr. 90c. Railways, however, were from 2fr. 50c. to bfr. higher, and Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. A letter from Toulon states that M. Horace Vernet, on his return from Algiers, where he had been slightly indisposed, was taken dangerously ill at the Hotel de la Croix d'Or, and was unable to proceed to Paris. According to the last ac counts, the illustrious painter had passed a very bad night. ITALY. GREAT DEMONSTRATION IN THE FORII/L (nor ova owa oomaroposam) _ __ ROME, TumuspAY, FM. 27. I have just witnessed a scene of intense interest. From the Capitol to the Arch of Titus, and from thence to the Coliseum, and past the Arch of Con stantine, there was one mass of human beings, occu pying every available standing-place. The men were perfectly calm and quiet. There were no tricolours of badges of any kind, nor cries of " Vine I" or " biortes !" Their presence there alone was amply sufficient, and they had no intention of giving excuse for their tyrants to separate them. Goyon had mercifully insisted that only French troops and a very few Roman gendarmes should guard the Forum on that particular day ; and so everything was as peaceful as if in a great Engliah exhibition. The carriages of all classes, some belonging to the higher nobility, formed a double continuous file, often stopped and jammed four deep from the Campidoglio to the Coliseum ; but the most perfect quiet and good humour prevailed. The class of people composing the vast multitude was very re, marksble. Not for a moment could it have been called a "mob." The members of that respectable fraternity were all in the Corso. Here, in the Forum, were men, all of them decently dressed, most of them as became well-to-do bourgeois, profes sional men, and artisans in Sunday attire. About one fourth or fifth were ladies in carriages or respect able women walking with their husbands or fathers. Never did I understand before, in all my visits to Italy, what a splendid race physically are these Italians. There were the makings of some six or seven of the finest volunteer regiments in Europe in the crowd which filled the Forum to-day, and their countenances, illuminated by hope and cou rage, assumed an expression very different from the usual dogged looks of a modern Roman. When the sun went down at last behind the Capitol, and the last golden gleam ceased to play through the rents in the Coliseum, the vast crowd dispersed m calmly as it had assembled. The people walled up to the Campidoglio, and there forming a large column, passed in regular step, with military accu racy of time, past the station of French soldiers, past the statue of Marcus Aurelius, and down the meg nifimnt steps to the Piazza of Ara Cash, below which they slowly separated without disturbance of any kind. Perhaps the day may not be far distant when they may meet again in that ancient Forum — but not so silently—to hear a proclamation from the Capitol, whose response will shake the pillars of the old temples around, and make the arches of the Coliseum echo " Viva the King of Italy I" FRIDAY SUMP& A new turn of affairs. The liberals agreed to' walk to-day in the Corso, there being no carnival held there on Friday. At the appointed hour thousands began to assemble, but the govern ment had actually resolved on the out rageous step of closing the entire Corso from end to end throughout the whole after noon. Troops were stationed in vast numbers at each end and all down the street at every opening, and there was an entire stop to all traffic either on foot or in carriages. To make a person unac quainted with Rome imagine the nature of such an act of despotism, I will my that the Corso is to Rome what the line of Piccadilly, the Strand, and Fleet-street, from Hyde-park-corner to St. Paul's, is to London. Even in the adjacent places vast bodies of troops were stationed ; 500 or 600 stand of arms 'in the Piazza di Spigna, and the mole in the Piazza del Popolo. The people are beginning to be very angry. The French soldiers are utterly disgusted with their tasks. Who knows what may be in store for us this next week ? WEATHER IitZPOItT.-(THIS DAY.) Tama" MAD= 6, I Lx. S. .O. L Z. ausami ak.a a &W. Or 0.114 2 Law KW VI W. r 1 Baawlcc 5 5 W Si Z. b 1 AltolosE4l 40 30 0.0. W. It 0.02 20021121111 WIT ST WI &Z. o Ga.w44 20.16 46 44 ILL r 1 170n.24. —WM 40 20 W. e AOALIIO 4011•11. I W *l9 42 41 W. lr 0.14 810 1L01.411 54 n R. is Lemma,. 70.74 46 46 &LW. 1r 0.09 V erisistowv lOW 61 60 WOW. r 4 Yuutooril *4B 44 di W. 0 6 r 4 Losoor WW 62 10 &W. 6 6e 111.69 - Dor= *3l as 47 S. W. sr tut s POSTIMOVTIII 21.46 14 di W. 11 0 Br 11.14 i PI.IIIOIRE 2024 10 44 W.S.W. 6 9 &IV 6 v.lmre OAS 60 Id MAW. I 0 6 0.10 MOAT. N. Britato.-6.W. to N.W. N.Y.. fruit or strong. - 1111.1 MAY. and M. to N. mad lA, tesit. rain IretsZli.W. to N.W. N. strong to troth, . . , and W.B.W. to N.N.W., tee& 101110 —ganextabove—atrong &W. to N.W., moderate to to moderate. fresh. . Coast —B. to W. and N.W., B.W. to N.W. and N., mode trash, some rain rate to trash. Ingland.-8.8.W. to N.W., W.B.W. to N.N.W., fresh to fresh or strong to moderate, moderate. rank In places. KIPL&NATION. 11.—Baroroctor corrected end reduced to 92 level ; each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about _ al an Inch diminution; and snob 10 deg., above Pt deg., causing nosey three.hundredtbs inarease. X.—lammed tbermcatetee In shade. Y.—Molatened bulb (tor evaporation and dew point). D.--Direetion cd wind (true—two points left of low natio). I.—toted (I to la—satimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). I. _— b, blue sky: e. clouds (detacbed): f, fog ; h. Mil 1, ifghtolog nt, misty (hazy) ; 0, overcast (dull) r, rain :a, SCOW 1, thunder. 8., rant-fall, or anon, or hall, since last report, in Inches and decimals. B.—ileadlaturbauos (Ito 9). Z.—Calm. dog at mean MELANCHOLY DEATHS Dv DROWNINO.—The lives of two young women have been lost under most distressing circumstances at Garthmill, Mostgomeryshire. Mrs. Swift, of the Cottage, sent her servant•girl upon a morass, and, becoming alarmed at her not returning, search was made, when her hat was found floating on the canal, which she bad to pass on her way. The canal wee instantly dra and the body found. The grief of the girl's miativea very great, 'Mrs. Melling*, of she Nag's Head, kindly sent her stepdaughter to be company for bee for the night, and won afterwards called at the house herself. Not seeing her stepdaughter, who she ascertained had been there, she in. quired, and (mid she had been sent on the seine errand In assaying which the servant had lost her life. Another slam was raised, and early the nest morning the canal was when bog lifeless body was found not far from the a Z where the other had been disoovered. It is supposed that in the darkness of the night both the poor girls mistook the camel for the road and stepped into it. PROPOSED MONUMENT TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT IR DUBLIN. The Lord bbiyor of Dublin has received the following : " Osborne, March 8, 1862. "My Lord,—l have had the honour of receiving your lordship's letter of the 28th February, and having taken the Queen's pleasure upon it, I am commanded to say that her Majesty cannot but be deeply touched by the assurance it contains of loyal attachment to herself, and of sympathy with her in her sorrow, as well by the gratifying desire expressed to have a separate national monument erected to the Prince's memory In Dublin. It 111 no slight comfort to the Queen, in her Affliction, to receive this proof of the affection and respect entertained for the Priooe by her Irish people, and of their apprecia. tion of his excellence ; and though she does not know that any spacial enaction from her is necessary to enable them to give effect to their wish, she must assure them of her heartfelt concurrence in it, and of her best wishes for its sorrowful aocompliahment.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your most obedient servant, "C. Gurr. "The Right Bon. the Lord Mayor of Dublin." HE LATE PRINCE CONSORT. —A movement is being made in Suffolk to promote a memorial to the late lamented Prince Consort by the establishment of • middle class college designed to complete the education of the eons of farmers, tradesmen, kr.. by a practical and scientific training. The Earl of Stradbroke, lord-lieutenant, has given his hearty support to the movement, and has con vened a county meeting to develop it as soon as possible. THE Ammar Mattosiar.-I'he sub-committee of the memorial fund met yesterday, at the Mansion-house, the Lord Mayor in the chair, and it was reported, that the total amount received in aid of the fund was • little over 38,0001.. and also that, in accordance with • resolution =at the last meeting, • further sum of 12,0001. had meted in Indian securities. THE ALBERT MEMORIAL IN LIVERPOOL.—The Liverpool Town Connell bare received • remonstrant* from the HOUOISOWDOW Aasoeistion relative to the appropriation of 5,0001. from the borough fond for • local memorial in the shape of an equestrian statue to the late PrinoeVoneort. The association contend that any surplus in the borough fund should be spent upon town improvement (strictly so called), and that statues he., should be erected from pri rate subscription. The council, at their sitting yesterday, decided not to alter their intention, believing that the rate payers generally would approve the appropriation of the 5,000(. The communication was referred to the special committee on the memorial. A numerous and influential meeting was held at Plymouth ea Tuesday, to consider the best mode of erect ing • =model to the late Prince Consort in that town. The proposal of the Plymouth Institution to erect a new muse= in connection with the Athenaeum, and to dsdi este the same to the memory of the late Prince, was heartily approved, as affording au opportunity for an appro- priate expremion of the public feeling. A committee was appointed to carry out the measures necessary • to mom pluh the desired sod. THE NORTH RIDING ELECTION. The election campaign in the North Riding has fairly opened. Yesterday Mr. F. Milbank and Mr. Merritt met the electors at Northallerton, where they commenced their election tour. Mr. Milbank had a very euthusiastic and encouraging reception. Hedechuid his intention, if elected, to give his support to Lord Palmerston, with the general po licy of whose government his own views accorded. One objection raised to Mr. Milbank, which bad been urged with some pertinacity by his tory opponent, Mr. Merritt, was • want of identity with the landed interest. The dart which it was thus intended to throw into the eyes of the constituer cy--agriculture being predominant in the Riding— ' Mr. Milbank wiped away b the conclusive fact, that his own brood acres exceed by ho those owned by Mr. Merritt, and aptly deduced from the same fact, the inference that if the eke of his stake in agriculture went to establish his identity with that interest, Mr. Morritt's claims were but second to his own. Mr. Moira, in his ad dress, did not disguise his wprehenaions that his own emcees would be jeardis by the introduction of Captain Worley as • candidate, and he strongly deprecated the split it would cause in the tory rants. Mr. Milbank also sddressed • large meeting of the eonstitueney, held lan night in the Festival Concert. room, York. His reception was again most cordial. In both his addremes he has shown that he is in earner in his candidature, and that he is determined to poll the Riding to the last voter. In hie York address he stated that the smelt of the canvass, so far as it had proceeded, both in the towns and the agricultural districts, was most satisfactory, and that he had received the promises of some hundreds of votes that bad 110•11 r before been given to a liberal candidate.—Leeds Mercury. LONGFORD ELECTION. MOB VIOLENCE AND INTIMIDATION. The polling for Longford commenced on Tuesday, and scenes of violence and intimidation, such as have me often east disgrace upon Irish elections, were presented at the principal 'smilax places in the county. The returns from the several booths showed a gross majority of 300 few O'Reilly upon the first day's poll. Colonel White's votes' were in many instances kidnapped and prevented from voting by violent mobs. The Daily Express says " The amounts received from several parts of the county concur in stating that various act, of intimidation and mob violence have been resorted to for the purpose of deterring Colonel White's supporters from coming to the poll. It is understood that several electors have been, to use an elec tioneering phrase, ' kidnapped.' At Carrickglass a scene of violence occurred, and it is stated that several electors have been beaten and attacked with stones. The Rev. Mr. (kegs, a protestant clergyman, has been seriously injured, and his sou was also a sufferer from the violence of Mrs mob. Great excitement prevails in consequence of thee* events. Several electors were stopped and prevented from corning to the poll by the rabble, armed with sticks. The violent conduct of the mob was not confined to the persons of voters, as the houses of several who were known to be favourable to Colonel White have been attacked, and considerable damage done. The services of the military had to be called into requisition in the town of Longford. The exact returns have not yet arrived from the country districts, but Colonel W hite's agents estimate that he has a majority of about 170 in Balljmabon, which, however, is counterbalanced by a majority for Major O'Reilly in Lougford, so that a greet deal depends on Onward, where great excitement prevails, and which is one of the most disturbed portions of the county." The same journalpublishes the following from a corm sprdent at ' This town is crowded to excess with country people, as it is market day. Colonel White's agents were attacked on entering the town, pulled off the cars, and severely beaten in the presence of the priest. The military were called out, and at last succeeded is rescuing the gentlemen from their dangerous position, and them to their lodging, which is now strongly g uarded with military and police." CLOSE OF THE POLL. XL WHISK 13o11ymabon 493 Onward l4B Longford r 251 Total I WO& (Imam Ballyolaboa 892 Gnilad .... 576 Longford 556 Total 1 468 Majority for Major O'Reilly, 576 RTYRIBINTATION OT KA= ISOMER/MT.—A move ment is on foot in the Fasten Division of the county of Somerset to secure the election of Sir Arthur Hdlsm Elton, Bart., of Clevedon Court, at the next general elec tion, Sir William Miles, Bart, one of the present mem bers, baring announced that it is not his intention to offer himself for re-election. In an address which is io circula tion amongst the electors, Sir A. H. Elton says :—"N7 political °poleax are known to you; they are liberal, bat not democratic. lem therefore prepared to give my coo ecieutious support to the present government, which reds on a wide basis, and is the safest and most efficient that can be formed." Sir F. W. Slade, Bart., Q.C., is spoken of as • conservative candidate, in connexion with Lieut.- Colonel W. F. Knatchbull, who now represents the eastern division in conjunction with Sir W. Miles. THE PRIEST AND THE Plo.—At the Town-hall, Newton Abbot, on Wednesday, before the county meitil trate, the officiating d to at the Abbotaleigh Supper! , Agar by name, was with cruelty pigs belonging William Hobart, woodcutter to the Hon. Mrs. Hare, of AbbotakerswelL Mr. Francis appeared for the defeodant. The facts of therein were these:—On Monday, the 10th ult., three pigs belonging to the complainant strayed on to some private ground in front of tie nunnery at Abbots. leigh. In the evening the complainant went in search of his pigs and met two of them some distance apart , .. o ° the road leading to the nunnery ; cue was blewha4 profusely, having had its ears tore, tad been wounded on one of its bind legs. The third he afterwards found in • field in an almost helpless con diti o n, scarcely able to walk. Both the earsof this pig were torn to pieced, 1 fors leg, shoulder, and bind leg severely lacerated, and blood flowing from the wounds so freely that the road was stained with it the whole of the way from the field to his home. The next day Hobart saw Thomas TrioP, the gardener at the nunnery, who informed him that the Injury to the pigs had been occasioned by a bun-tenser belonging to the nunnery, in driving them off tbs " grounds," and Mr. Agar, who bad let loom the dog, hd mid. was very sorry for what had happened. la the evening, at the direction of the defendant, Tripp c alled on the complainant sod offered 30• for the pig, but Hobart then declined/to part with fifer that sum. A young wow" named Mary Coleman, stated that she saw the dog barking at and biting the pigs for filly an hour, sod during the whole of this tires - the disfeadast was present, looking on. Defendant was ordered to lay • Ilse of 6d.. with 11. id tests.— Western Ossetia Herold. I