The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-09 00:00:00

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION. The ANNUAL USUAL WANTING of this Institution will be held at the London Tavern. Bl p ep o s on TUESDAY neat, the 12th hat, at 2 o'clock . The t Hon. Earl nacY. r.c.. in the Chair. BIC JAWIN. LWOW. le, John-Wreak Adolph& March 7. - 25 OLD BOND-STREET We Call and I 9 Startles Bank).—.f. W. BINBON. Watch and Clink Maker to B.LIT. Me Prime of Stales. tasting roomieltaillillt the above mapitioest Premier, invites as Inapaallaft 410- ARTISTIC WORKA 000idalfteht=a= ,and BRONZES from the ateliers of Italy, hen" and Ragland. Watches of era? construction, Diamond sad Ana Gold Rending, Silver sad Ilectro-Plate. riIIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. A. Mar Thick. sad Invalid TURTLE SOOTS alma n ready, as err. JAANS-NALL, UGLIFY-er_ ,ILKAT PIOOADILLY. WY DONALD, ?former. LONDON moat have a SUPPER and MUSIC ROOM for Goollomen. -Romozobor, we wait tar yea at "rags." dee tie TMoisos. IlLt PrefiS. 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MISLPPILEHINSION of duty and perversion of fact were unpleasantly prominent at the meeting of metropolitan guardians held yesterday at St. James's-hall. From the tone of some of the prin cipal speeches, an uninformed listener might have easily inferred that anarchy set in with the House less Poor Act, and that prior to the occurrence of that national calamity London was a Utopia where unrelieved destitution was unknown, and where the virtuous pauper was made cordially welcome at the workhouse gate. Quotations were offered to show how steadily the Poor-law Board had coun selled guardians firmly to resist laxity of relief ; to avoid confusing the profligate with the deserving poor ; and to be heed less of any outcry having a tendency to stimulate imposture. It was made matter of formal complaint that the obnoxious Act under consideration ran counter to• all these wise and statesmanlike precautions ; and those present were called upon to discuss in no captious or hostile spirit, but as citizens anxious for the common good, the grave questions relating to our casual poor. After this lofty exordium, it was rather startling to be told by the next speaker that those present would probably never have been assembled bad not Mr. FARNALL, as chairman of a preceding meeting, presumed to limit discussion to the objects for which the meeting was called. Had parochial grievances been substituted for the diet of casuals as a topic for conversation at the disor derly gathering a few weeks since at St. Martin's ball, the conclave of yesterday would have been un necessary. That Mr. Fse.w.u.i, should have dared to invite the guardians to meet him In his capacity of Metropolitan Inspector and not as locum tereens for Mr. ViLuxiis, was petulantly objected to, and one wandering speech terminated in the truism that discrimination and supervision were germane to the proper dealing with vagrants. The statistics as to the number of "sneaks," thieves, pick pockets, and prostitutes in London, given from the chair, were altogether beside the question, and by their ability to satisfy the public demand for discrimination and supervision in the management of their casual poor the aggressive speakers of yesterday must be content to stand or fall. The gist of the arguments put forth by the speakers affecting to represent the London guar dians, appeared to be, that the Holmium Poor Act had increased vagrancy, and that guardians felt incompetent to carry out its provisions without injury to the community. It was, demonstrated to the complete satisfaction of several experienced gentlemen that the present wielders of parochial authority were incapsble of dealing with the desti tute wanderers thrust upon them ; and it is not for us to gainsay conclusions so convincingly ex pressed. It is only when the remedy for existing evils is spoken of that thinking people will be likely to differ from these " citizens meeting for " the common good." The precautions so tri umphantly referred to as having been given by the Poor-law Board have been in the hands of parish guardians to adopt or neglect; but as a member of the board of St. James's remarked pertinently enough, these counsels must be read by the light of common sense. " Discrimination," for example, does not mean keeping a board with the inscription " these casual wards are full" permanently fastened over the door of a workhouse in which no casual wards are provided ; and "classification" cannot properly be defined as finding house-room for a tenth of the number of starving people who apply, and leaving the rest to spend the night in the streets. This was the genial reading given to these phrases before the simplicity of the Bounden Poor Act roused public opinion into declaring that guardians must do their duty ; and now that on, streets are cleared of the shivering figures formerly found there, it is sought to prove, per contra, that crime is fostered and parochial benevolence im posed upon. When men are found to declare in the face of such narratives 114 we have recently given to the public—such narratives as we repeat to-day— that the pariah treatment of destitute wanderers would be humane and kind but for the measure they denounce, it is perhaps idle to treat their other statements seriously. But as it was en deavoured yesterday to throw unworthy asper sions upon a valuable public officer, it may not be out of place to refer to the manner in which Mr. H. B. FARNALL has discharged a very delicate and onerous duty with credit to himself and advantage to the State. If It be remembered that there are forty-one workhouses in the district over which he has sole charge, and that the inspection of these esta blishments forma but a portion of his functions, the impossibility of contending against persistent obstructiveness, or of personally ascertaining that all promises of amendment are kept, will be clearly seen. The governing bodies with which his duties have brought him in mutest proclaim their failure, but instead of confessing incompetence look eagerly for a scapegoat—the lack of large dis trict wards ea fostering homes for vagrancy ; the want of police-organization ; the Houseless Poor Act, or the Poor-law Inspector theory, establish ment, or person, it matters little which, oo long - TRE ILA P. as the sacred principle they profs*#o represent left untouched. Of late manyliirreenstanees hire oonduced to the belief that our metropolitan parochial bodies must be more effectually consti tuted. Some of the admissions of yesterday are an important testimony in this direction, for limy go to prove, not that vagrancy has been stimulated by the Hounslow Poor Act, but that the neglect of guardians in not appointing officers capable of the discrimination and classifica tion they profess to crave, and in not enforcing the labour and other testa laid down as necessary by the Poor-law Board, has impeded the useful ness of a measure which, but for the soundness of the principle it embodies, would have succumbed long ago to the difficulties with which its working has been wilfully beset. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THL3 DAY.) Washable wiamonating b abeoluir miss, eeepl MA • dabl...6llllivate himself to the N a goo d of eessery, wM places b beton thrash rtuatital men whose lama are recorded in history." • The Timm reviews the state of public feeling of the time towards the Reform Bills which were brought forward in 1862, 1884,1889, and 1860 to perfect the bill of 1832. Of these lard Rummell'. bill in 1882 was the crudest and most worthless that we have seen in oar day. That of the Aberdeen ministry in 1834 wee vehemently discussed even in the midst of the Crimean war, and was at last reluctantly abandoned ; end the hope and dread diminishing with every succeeding bill, the House of Commons at last came to the conclusion that it perfectly represented the country, and that both the parlis meat and the cation were indifferent to all projects of reform. The indifference of the people gives statesmen, however, a fortunate opportunity ; and if the government were united and in earnest about a bill, which should make the distribution of power within the House of Commons correspond with the distribution of power outride its walls—which it is impossible to do by a mare process of enfranchisement—they would compel the support of mariners, who are now uncertain, if they have not already passed into hostility. The Times proceeds to quote the return as to election petitions, which we gave in yesterday's Rxpreu, to show that the saran. chisemeet of 81. householders would, so far as it goes, add to the register in the small coestituencies jest the classes which coustitute the freemen of the older boroughs, and liare made their corruption notorious in the land. The Post insists that the country does not want reform at all, and that the government are bewildering themselves in the endeavour to invent a want for it. HIS TOPIC& The Timm hes • very amusing amount of the coattail; of two numbers of the Irish People, which is now pub lished without fear et seizure at New York. We used to be told in our nurseries that • bad officer, heading his men to a charge, celled out, "Go on;" • good °Meier, "Coen on." The language of the Irish People is, perhaps una voidably, "Go on." Everybody is uraed to throw himself into Ireland, and no doubt some do, but the great majority commute, sad pay what may be called ship money. Most are content with rather visionary projects, instead of things they might at least try. Mr. Esguire's natio, last night of a question to the go vernment respecting a bill for the amendment of the tenant law in 'reined, recalls the attention of ministers, the Star remarks, to the fact that something else must be done for Ireland besides the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act. The news which we receive each day from Dublin is now limited to • list of arrests. Each evening appears to close upon its fresh batch of captures, until one wonders whether the Irish government is not &axioms to give a practical denial to Edmund Burke's de claration that a whole people cannot be put into a gaol. The Star then sketches the Lend Bill, which the deputa tion of Irish members who waited the other day on the °bawdier of the Exchequer propose to bring in. The fundamental principle of the measure is that where a lees of 31 years is given there should be no claim for im provement, but that if the landlord after • short holding chooses to get rid of the tenant, he should be liable to pay oompensation for the unexhansted value of genuine im provements. The Post hopes the new director of the National Gallery will make the national collection something better than a museum dant:sleet art only. What is necessary for the history of art, but fails t 3 please any but antiquarian artists, should be kept in some separate collection, The eerie' of paintings to be exhibited to the general public should be only of theft-d'auore. A chronological anange meet may be useful, but this points to study rather then an exhibition of national tremens. Large ecclesiastical platens of everlasting Virgins and Holy Families, and very ugly mints and martyrs, should not fill whole rooms. At present the gallery is sadly deficient in pictures which show modern tendencies. We have many names of greet sculptors, but we have no national collection of specimens of these masters—we have no gallery of sculpture. The Herald warmly supporta Mr. Hibbert's bill pro viding for the execution of murderers within the prison walla. The royal commissioners, in addition to the prin ciple of private executions, include in their recommenda tions& classed subjects very distinct from that which forms the basis of Mr. Hibbert's bill, and there is no apparent TOSIOII why the latter should be set aside to make way for the government scheme. Parliament as well as the country L evidently prepared to do away with public executions, and a measure for this purpose need not wait an hour. THE MEETING OP THE CONSERVATIVES YESTERDAY. (From the Times.) We have reason to believe that at the meeting of the conservative party held yesterday, at the house of the Marquis of Salisbury io Arlington-street, it was resolved that no opposition should be offered to the introduction of the Reform Bill on Monday next, but that during the interval between its introduction and the seoond reading, which it was understood would be fixed'for after Easter, the party would 4:madder what course should be pursued, and Lord Derby would take another opportunity of meeting his supporters. (From the Mo►ning Herald.) A great gathering of the members of the Hones of Commons took place yesterday afternoon, between 2 and 3 o'clock, at the readmits of the Marquis of Saliabury. It wee under's( od that the immediate object of the meet lag we. to &ands upon the coons to be adopted by the opposition in reference to the Parliamentary Oaths Bill. Lora Derby, after a few preliminary ob servations, picot...led at ones to disown the question raised by Sir George Grey's bill. He explained that in opposing Mr. Monsell's bill of lest year he had acted on the principle that it was • bill introduced by a private member, and appeared part of • great system of attack on the church. It was not • real remedy for the in equalities of the oaths; it provided a new Roman catholic oath ; but did not provide " uniformity." Lord Derby pointed out that Roman catholic were now placed in an invidious position in comparison with other persons bedooging to different denominations who were much more hostile to the church, in that they were speoially called upon to make • declaration as to not using their position to overthrow the established church. The bases on which a new oath should be framed were, in his lordship's opinion, the avoiding of any words that would offend the consciences of any clays or denomina tion ; the neerssity of binding the legislature to maintan the constitutional monarchy ; the abandonment of mere obsolete parts of theoath, such as the farts relating to the Stuarts, to the murder of an excommunicated Sovereign, end the repudiation of all mental reservation. He thought, however, a deals, ation or oath of allegiance oolyinaufficient, and that persons ooght to bind themselves to maintain— ', the Protestant auxeision ; 2. the supremacy of the Sove reign. On the who'e, he recommended an assent to the mooed reading of the bill, with a view to its amendment oommittee, and sketched out a paragraph upon which he thought Protestants and Romeo catholic might agree, and which they might carry in unison. The Times correspondent at Rome, writing on the 3d, says :—" I cannot say that Lent ia a very peniten tial swot here, for we do everything bat dance. There is the hunt twice a week, and dinner, daily, and gigantic re ceptions nightly, and concerts and tableaux eivonts. Those of Mr. Fitzgerald on Monday, and of Mr. Cholmeley last night, filled everyone with admiration. At the latter entertainment nothing could exceed the beauty with which were represented the Apotheosis of St. Agues, Margherita and ifephiatophelea, the Apparition of the Guardian Angel of St. Cecilia to Valerian, St. Elisabeth of Hungary, the Studio of Raphael, the Execu tion of Lady Jane Grey, Dante and Bestrioa„ Story of Malys:ad, Beatrice Cenci, Othello sad Deedemona. end St. Catherine transported by the Angels. So that you may perceive that a Rumen Lent is very tolerable, and many, I believe, would desire it to last for ever. Perhaps I have not said eaoagh of Liest's Stisfonia of Dante, which has undoubtedly driven a portion of the musical world mad. There was an amiable draggle between the Abbe and Sgambati when the latter wished to crown his muter, bat the matter was compromised by an embrace and a kiss." A Geneva watch has long been a household word. Beitancoo, however, promises to rival the city of Calvin at the world's fair. In 1855 no less then 91,595 gold and 204,418 silver watches were manufactured in this centre of French protutant . em. Among this immense number several hundred have bees sold at high prime in °megrim* of the delicate beauty of their workmanship. TS! 001111/PATIVIII AND TSB PA OATHS BILL. Observing that the government measure is of a more statesmanlike bind than Mr. Noosell's bill, bs which Roman catholic would have been sworn is • different order of persons from the !co nduit majority, the Times 000gratulates Mr. Disraeli on refraining lest night from mires his remarkable and original defends of the oath se it stands—that it was usterawy is the infinite of Pepine themselves to conciliate the prejudices of Protestants by imposing on the mid Papists something restrictive sad odious. He Ins con. bated himself this year with proposing certain &mia smata which are rather suitor/ than objectionable. As to on. of them, If the oppouitioo of the comervativie aces be disarmed by making members promise to uphold the gremet racesselen to that/mom, there is so reason why the government should *sot. The other change, introducing the mixed phrase of theQusen's supremacy, ham no practical importance, while it may introduce some difficulties. Would it not be better, in • form of with which b to be taken by men of all creeds, to keep slier of such an ex pression altogether ? The limitation of its signifiosime made by Yr. Dimon produces a propoeitim which is un venally accepted. What is the use, then, of calling upon all members to swear to it! In one wens it carries us back to the fiercest theological controversy, in another it is • mere commonplace. An important principle, the Daily News says, is recog nised for the first time in this bill. namely, that members of parliament sit in the Howe of 0061M001, not v the adherents of this or that church or sect, but as Englishmen, anbjecta of the Qones, and representatives of the people. The acceptance of the project of • uniform oath by the coeser►ativee shows that the national sentiment is now fairly on • level with the spirit of recent legislation. Mr. Dis raeli's recommendations as to the terms of the newoath were supported in a speech which was se weak in point of rhetoric as in point of argument The oath of allegianoe to the reigning sovereign includes in itself all that Mr. Disraeli degree to add. The second part of his amendment is not less superfluous—the supremacy of the sovereign is an identical proposition, for what is sovereignty but supre macy? Indeed there is harm in appearing to limit the loops of allegiance' by implying that loyalty to the reigning mo narch can exist apart from loyalty to the established order of which she is the representative and symbol. Though the ohmage in the opinion of the conservative leaders is matter for praise, not blame, it is foolish to deny, es Mr. Disraeli did, th►t each a change has taken place. Mr. Ilewdegate was there to mark the apontacy of conservative leaders from tory principles, and does so as convincingly as the boat, left high and dry on the shorn, proves the retreat of the tide. The Post thinks we may now assume that when the bill coma; to be discussed in the House of Lords, Lord Derby will acquiesce in the removal of the muzzle on the efficacy of which he lest year so strenuously relied. Mr. Disraeli's objections were unsubstantial, but the go- vernment have declared their readiness to introduce the words, " heirs and summon) as by law established," if the house deem the addition necessary ; and as to the second, have postponed the discussion on its merits until the bill is considered in committee. The Herald regards the position aasumed by the con servative party is the Hones of Commons yesterday even ing as one eminently dignified and constitutional. The opposition has not veered round from its opinion. Lut year the bill was proposed by a private member, now it is in charge of • cabinet minister, and the system of uniformity of parliamentary oaths Mr. Disraeli ppoeed. Lord Derby advised yesterday that the parts of the bill to which no oonstitutional objection. exist should be accepted and the others expunged, and this will be done It will be too much, after the generous tolerance int night of a measure in which so mach is objectionable and most be mantled, if Sir George Grey does not, when in committee, at own announce that the formula prepared in draft for hint by Mr. Disraeli has been oircumsnatially accepted. The Televropl4 speaks of Mr. Disraeli as having exhibited his characteristic hypercriticism, but treat, his objections aa merely matters of detail which will in nowise interfere with the adoption into our legislation of the principle of the bill. The Star treats Mr. Dianeli's suggestion as perfectly puerile, and says that in comparison with such trivialities the obsolete prejudices which the house tolerates from Mr. Newdegate, and laughs at in Mr. Whalley, are worthy of serious cousideratioa. The government will do well to adhere to the oath they have framed, which will answer every purpose that au oath ought to serve, and which is only carped at io order to cover the retreat of the Varies from an untenable position. JOHNSON. The Timm thinks the late speech of President Johnson would not have been unworthy of Washington, the great founder of the American republic, whose teak, after the recognition of American independence, was not altogether unlike that of President Joboson sines the subjugation of the South. It appears certain that he retains the con fides*, of the country, and that if in the hat resort be should throw himself upon it, he will be ably to rally around him all those dormant forces of moderation which, ▪ Thucydides obeerres, determine the event of most revo lutions. We are sometimes inclined to contrast the tame ness of party struggles at home with the colonel proportions of American politics, and are half-tempted to envy a state of things which gives scope for the highest public virtue. Few princes born In the purple would be capable of facing a great emergency with courage and dignity equal to that of !dr. Johnson. There is a stamp of reality and proud self.coufidenoe in this appeal to the sovereign people which obliterates the effect of some indiscreet expressions, and makes us fed that Mr. Johnson is equal to guiding the destinies of a great nation through a perilous crisis. Bat then we should remember that it is only civil war and the dire exigencies which arise out of it which can develops qualities of this type ; and that that nation is sorely not the happiest in which such powers have the =pleat room for their exhibition. Neither the address of Mr. Bancroft nor that of Hr. Johnson appears to the Daily News of a kind to gladden the hearts of true patriots, or inspire distant observers with respect. Mr. Johoson's speech was full of the old Misnames spirit, with this imports , t difference, that in stead of being directed against the Soutbe-n 'Es-Unionists, it was pointed at men but for whose public spirit and con stancy under disappointment Led misfortune he would not now to President of the United Mateo. He had been per. sonally assailed, however, with extreme bitterness, and it is not surprising that he should have spoken with words of wrath. The President's plan of reconstruct/0a con templates the whole soother. population, while the radicals care only for the negroes. The President, nevertheless, has repeatedly declared that for the preaedt the negro shall be protected at theSoath by special legislative measures, and he is ready to assent to a hill extending the powers and opera tions 11 of the existing Freedmen's Bureau for two years. Mr. Baucroft'm address was of a wholly different thaseeter, fix it was the result of study and pre prelim. The insults offered in it to this country, elaborated with the knowledge that the repre mutative of England would be present, were gra. kites. and impertinent. The British ambassador was there became the littleness of the living could not diminish the greatness of the dead. BM Mr. Seward must take care that oar minister shall not again ba made the victim of eonMenee In American hospitality. One accident of this kind is too maey, The Advertiser is astonished at the spectacle which Ha Johnson bar given to the world, developing ell of a sadden " a degree of judgment, melt-command, stations:whip, and BVENINO, MARC LATEST -INTELLIGENCE. 9, 'THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA'S REEORIPT. The Cologne Gazette describes as follows the way In which the im?erial rescript was received in the Hungarian chambers. " The impression produced in the Lower Cham ber by the reading of the rescript was decidedly bad. The extreme Left murmured at several passages, and it was only by the test of the remainder' of the Chamber that the discontent of the deputise was not more openly expressed. Several members, however, manifested their discontent by turning their backs on the reader of the document. In the Upper Chamber, the rescript was listened to in the most profound silence. Some of the clergy alone uttered veak cries of Eljen Desk en deavoured to direct the attention of the deputies to the satisfactory portions of this rescript ; but from a Magyar point of view this was a difficult task." (asurza's Taitowns.) THE CROATIAN DIET. AGRAIL, MAIM R. The propcsal of the committee of the Croatian Diet to mend deputies to the Hungarian Diet, in oonformity with the wish of the Emperor, has been agreed to. The members thus appointed to represent Croatia will be provided with instructions relative to the course to be pursued by them at the Hungarian Diet. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAIM 8. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday alter neon, aocompanied by Princess Louise. and drove out this morning in a carriage and four, attended by the Duchess of Rozburghe, and the Hon. Florenoe Seymour. The Princess Helena else took a carriage drive. The Right Hoe. Sir George Grey arrived at the Death' yesterday, and had the honour of dieing with the Queen and the Royal family. The Queen will hold a Council at Windier Castle on Monday next, the 12th inst., at one o'clock. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Alfred, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Kennel and Lieut. Haig, hunted with his harriers near Slough yesterday morning. In the afternoon the Pringle of Wales went to the House of Loads. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hon. Mrs. F. Steam A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the private residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Chesham-place. The ministers pre sent were—Earl Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argqll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartington, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were rem dyed yesterday at the Colooiatuffice from the Governors of Canada, Newfoundland, Malta, and Natal Deepttohes were lent to the Governors of the Falkland Islands and Canada. ERE QUEEN'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) -..-- ARRIVAL OF HER MAJESTY IN TEE METROPOLIS. This morning, shortly before 11 o'clock, her Majesty, with the Princessee Helena, Louise, and Beatrice, attended by the Duchess of Ho:borers, Major-General Seymour, the Hon. Mr. West, the Hon. Mies Cathcart, Colonel Ponsonby, &0., left Windsor Cottle, in a couple of close carriages, for the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway, where a special train of four carriages, including two saloons, had been prenatal for the convei mac* of the royal passengers to London. Her Majesty holds a court this afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Queen will not return t•tlay after the ceremony, bat will remain at Buckingham Palace for the night, and proceed back to Windsor to morrow. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, accompanied by Lord Claud Hamilton, Colonel Byng, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, Lieutenant Haig, and other gentlemen, honoured the Royal Strand Theatre with thoir presence last evening. The Duke of Somerset's levee was =avoidably postponed until to-day. - Lady Cowley has issued invitations for three re captions, which are to take place at the &Web Embassy tomorrow, and on the 17th and 24th of March. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will move on Monday next " that orders of the day be postponed until after the notice of motion with raspect to paragraphs in the Qoesa's speech." _ _ Mr. Corry intends to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty on Monday, whether, considering that, in conse quence of the difficulty of obtaining an adequate supply of efficient recruits for the Royal Marines, it has been found seaway to reduce the standard height twice during the last two years, whereby it has been reduced from 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 5 inches, and considering also that the number of marines born* in December lest was 738 men short of the establishment, the Admiralty will refer the existing system of recruiting for the corps to the royal com mission about to be appointed. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, on " an early day," will move " that upon any future remiasion of Indirect taxation this houu will take into consideration the duty upon malt, with a view to its immediate reduction sad early raped." On Thursday next Mr. Henry Seymour will imk the President of the Board of Tsai* if he intends to intro duos a measure to alter the Companies Act, 1862, so as to make companies, by special resolution of their shareholders, to diminish the nominal value and increase the number of their shares, so as to retain intact the original amount cf the capital of the company. On Tuesday, Mr. Locke King will bring forward a bill for the better Nettling the Real Estates of Intestates. On going into committee of supply next Friday Kr. Blake will call the attention of the Attorney• General for Ireland to the severe restrictions to which the prisoners arrested under the auspeasion of the Habeas Corpus Act arc subjected to in the gaol at Waterford, and inquire whether specific directions were given by government as to the treatment of these prisoners; and, if so, whether he has any objection to state the nature of such directions ; to which of the prison authorities they were transmitted ; and through whet medium. The five members who joined Mr. Newdegate and Colonel Williams last night is the division against the Parliamentary Oaths Amendment Bill were Mr. W. W. Beach. Mr. R. Brooks, Mr. N. Kendall. Mr. Lefroy, and Mr. Whalley, all members of the conservative party save the last-named gentleman. Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Walpole, sad Sir Stafford Northoote voted with the majority ; but the names of other leading conservatives, snob as Mr. Hanley, Lord John Massaro, Sir John Pakingtoo, Mr. Whiteside, arc., do not appear in the list of the majority, which is made up almost exclusively of liberals. It appears from the list of the pairs in the church rate diviaion that Sir Boundsll Palmer, the Attorney- General, is the only member of the gavernment who did not support Mr. Hardt:aftle's bill, either by vote or by pairing. - Committees will be chosen nett week to try the election petitions for Groat Yarmouth, Nottingham, Sand wich, Bridgnortb, Totem, and Boston. The Rev. J. S. Brewer, Profeanor of Modern History and English Literature in King's College, London, ►as been appointed Examiner in Bagßah History. In the Italian Chamber the other day a letter was read from the Fiscal of Turin, asking the President's authorisation to proceed against Deputy Bottero, on ac count of the duel in which his antagonist, Signor Botta, was very seriously wounded. The demand was referred to the Bureaux. In ooneeqcones of high words that passed the other day is the Chamber, a duel with Welds has taken place, within a short distance of Florence, between Boogie sad Vecturslll. No harm was does. 4.6 VW • . 're FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. - The following members voted hat night for Mr. I'. A. Taylor'. =Mon for omitting the clause in the Lois Mutiny Bill, which gives the power to inflict oor porn! punishment :—Mtiesra Ayrion, Bagnall, Baleen, A. Bess, Candlish, Oaors, Ewing, Fawcett, C. Forster, Harris, Hurst, L. King, Laboachere, Lseman, Monk. Morley, Neste. Reardon, H. B. Sheridan, and Shorriff, H. Hoare, and Sir Colman O'Loghlen. In the division against the branding clans% Mr. Taylor lost the support of Mr. lingual. Mr. A. Base Mr. Oars, and Sir Henry Hoare, and gained that of Sir T. F. Barton, Mr. A. Kinnaird, and Viscount Whom The majority for the flogging olsase was se follows : Mesas. T. D. Arland, O. B. Addether, T. G. Baring, and H. Bernath, Colonel Barttelot, Mr. G. O. Beetinok, Earl of Bwocknook, Sir B. Bridges, Lord C. Broom, Messrs. H. A. Bruce, and H. Brass, Sir A. Haller, Sir E. Buller, Messrs. E. Cardwell and 0, Carnegie, Lord F. Cavendish, Mr. H. C. Mildew, Lord I. Clinton, Captain G. Olive. Sir G. Oolthurst, Mena. H. L. Corry, and B. W. Crawford, Captain V. Daw moo, Major Alexander George Dickson, Lord Bioko, Viscount Enfield, Vice-Admiral John E. Erskine. Messrs. J. Eamon& and T. W. Evans, Sir Jansen Formate, Messrs. J. W. Fit:Patriot, W. 0. Foster, T. M. Gibson, W. E. Gladstone, and W. Gladstone, Sir G. Gray, Messrs. C. D. GAMY and Haakey, Marquis of Hartingbna. Lord J. Hay, Captain A. Hayter, Mr. P. Z. Herbs* Lieut.-Colonel Hogg, Mr. G. W. Hunt, Colonel Klegeoote, Messrs. A. F. Kioniard, fi Koatchbull-Hugesesn, A. Law men, and W. H. Lsatham. Visoonnt lfiltas, Mesun.G. Moffatt, W. Monsen, R. J. More. J. B. Mowbray, and B. Neville Grenville, Col. North, Mr. IL W. O'Reilly, Lord C. Paget, Gen. Peel, Lord Pelham, Mr. J. G. Rebow, Sir M. Ridley, Maws. G. ficlateraooth, C. J. Selwyn, J. R. Berme, J. Stansfeld, E. Sullivan, F. Sartme, O. H. Trots ris, G. Waldagrave.Lesile, and H. O. Wise.—Tellers, Mesas. Brand and Adam. PRINCESS METPERNIOE'S PETE. " All Paris," says La Iribert4, of to-day, " will bespeaking of the r idotto which was given last night by the Princess de Metternich. This fête partook of the semi serious, half-mad character of a day in mid-lent. The gravity consisted in the circumeance that all the men were in black, its fooling in the fact that the woman were masked anf disguised in dominos of all forma and colours. An excellent orchestra, playing the gayest and most seducing airs in a room where promenading and intrigue replaced the dances of carnival time ; a buffet groaning under the weight of sweetmeata—a kind of fasting frolic, which involved the slaughter of neither sheep nor heifers—such was the coup presented bythe cosmopolite and eclectic saloon of the Princess de Metter- 1 1 nioh—a saloon over which presides each Thurs day a lady distinguished amongst all for the vivacity and freedom of her wit, for the meet seductive charms, and a grace of manner that recall the fine beauties of the last century." Madame de Pour taws wore a charming puce and rose domino ; the Primes, (heparin and Duchess of ()Glenna wore roes-coloured do minos ; Mdme. de Peraigoy a black one. Four Dominos had mills on their heads, and attracted a great deal of attention ; another wore a flowerpot on her head ; another had her shoulders covered with ivy, and one had a white oat. The fête broke up in the morning. M. PREVOST-PARADOL'S RECEPTION AT THE FRENCH ACADEMY. Most of the Paris journals are filled with the addresses of M. Prevost-Paradol and IL Gaisot, delivered yesterday in the Academia Francais° on the ovation of the reception of the latter, who is elected to imposed M. Ampilre, as seademi• ciao. Amongst those present were the Countess de Sal randy, M. and Mme. Bigelow, lime. Thiers, Mme, A. de Rothschild, MM. Berry.; Mahon, Sainte- Berme, Nisard, de Sacy, the Duke de Moralism, the Duke and Prince de Broglie, Count de Montalembert, ko. La Liberty characterises the speech of the new acade micism as being "fall of strength, grace, sad elevation of tone." It contains scarcely any covert political al lusions, but he thanked the Academy for having, by electing him, given a fresh proof of their sympathy with the [reel= of the press. Referring to AL Ampere's work on Roman History, M. Prevost Paradol said, "M. Ampere keeps aloof from those systems which are at present the fashion retarding an important epoch of Roman history— systems which are less original than is supposed, for our judicious Montaigne, in speaking of the historian, Dion Cassius, says, sHe has such a sickly notion of Roman history, that he dares to uphold the cause of Julius Caesar against Pompey, and that of Antony against Cicero.' IL Ampere, gentlemen (continued the orator), had too elevated a soul, and too jut a mini to entertain sickly notions about Roman history." Cuizot, In hie speech is reply, also abstained from any political allusions. The Minotaur is nearly three months ahead of the Agicoourt in her outfit, end it , is, therefore, thought not nilikely that she may dully be seleMed as the nag ship of the preiest Senetary of the Admiralty on his as snrairgthe command of her Majesty's ships in the Mediter ranean. A numerous party of convicts arrived at Chatham yesterday from Pvntonville, for employment on the works at St. vary's Island for the enlargeotevt of the dockyard. Another large party of Convicts will also arrive at Chat. ham from London to-day. The oonvicts, to the number of 'bolt 1,000, employed at Chatham are engaged in making the excavations and constinctiog the walls and foundations of the large basins and docks now in o /um of formation. Lieut.-Colonel Byrne, of the Federal servioe, returned Irishman, was arrested yesterday at Dublin. Three hundred and twenty greenback dollars and twenty dollars in gold were found with him. The total number of persons arrested under the suspewsiou of the Habeas °arms Act up to Tuesday eight s 176, of whom 42 are Irish Americium Four have bees discharged. Biographies, historical essays, tales, and poetry make up the balk of the /risk Pooplt now that it is published at New York. Quoting from one volunteer the opening Now, all you young Pentane that is joined in the hand, Who will strike but one blow for our dear Fatherland 1 the editor observes. "Do you call that poetry' We throw dozens of such trash daily into the waste basket, and hope we will be troubled with no more of it." To "Ire. land, the pride of my birth," he answers. " Your poetry does not suit as ;" to the "Young Martyr Chief," "We are flooded with such rhymes—for Heaven's sake send us poetry or let the Muses alone." The " Harp" is told, "We are sick of weeping, whining poetry. Let ns feel we are men, and hurl defiance, not tears at England. ° " A paraphrase of Who fears to cloak of '9B is not an improvement on the original. ' Brother J. S.' has the right inspiration, but his muse has not strength of pinion and can waddle better than fly. Evergreen is not up to the mark. The Fenian Prayer' is rejected—the best prayer you could offer is the music of the rifle. Ye Sons of Old Erin' is not up to the street ballads." Another is told, " You have the spirit of poetry in you. Prime down." Like answers, some tarter still, are given to a score or two other would-be contributors. The conscription is not growing more popular among the French pc:wants. The Journal de Soissons pub lishes the following letter from a father to his son, who wu about to draw :—" I write to yon on the subject of your drawing, and I send you the receipt which your god father gave me for you. Tnis is what you must do with con fidence and devotion, and this is what you must say during your novena ' Lord, who wonldst not permit Tay garment to be divided, but that lots should be cart for it, do me the favour whoa I go to draw on Thursday, the let of March, that I may have a high number. Lord, grant my prayer 1 Lora, grant my prsyer I Lord, grant my prayer, if it please Thee.' Yoe will perform • novena, reciting three Peter goatees to the istention of the five wounds of our Lord Josue Ohrist. That is what you must do without fall. We enjoy good health, and we wish you the same. I pray you not to show this to anybody. 1 count on your exactness." The orthography of the above is so bad es to make it difficult to read. The indtpendance states as a fact that M. &milks Meier has bosoms the political editor of Ls "we. The French Minister of Public Instruction has commissioned 2d. Leaormand, who is to be swamps/dad by a chemist, a gealogist. sod a botan;st, to ievestigate the geological character of the n•w isle which has suddenly sprung up in the Archipelago. ♦ frigate has bees plied at the disposal of thms eastente daring the period of thelr investigations. LAW INTELLIGEN (THIS DAY.) EQUITY °OUST. is-Ohartosiler air E. T. (Before WABON V. 111T1.......4./TAN M017120t LIM Mr. Belay, on behalf ci Mr. Peter Rigby for en injuaction to restrain the defedame ing seder their Botha of the 17th of Feb, ••••• • reecial or say jury to be summoned of se e e eh&W the amount ci the purchase peeee tl ee to 'be paid for shriek property plaintiff. The property, which h situated -*—^ north.weirt side of Vietorla-etreet, adj e t emi B : tv a t al l,ks o„ growl, came into the poneerlon of Mr. We nt .„ the result of various suits and in mose tte ; of the eon-payment to him by the Westminster inipme e . meat o e saheteners, within a certain this, of a lam um of mosey wide& be had advanced. The injanctim ti preyed on thew grounds, Bret, that a ocanact a:6W% refer the matter to arbitration ; secondly, that ths num. were not at liberty, trader the 68th motion of th e °l enses Act, to brim their preempt until m e b u n _ tiff bad determined whether he would h eee 'Ti; question decided by arbitration ; cad thirdly, flit the company had combined three or f or sons (two persons with whom cootrects for the port i ons o f t h e property had been entered lets h ozi t plaiatiff end the Crestsainster haprovemsat dams) in the one not* which wee ea ahose of the given to the company by their act_ of lathy.; wee a le • mortgage upon the lead W 6 by Ilse reem tic of the late Sir Wm. Brown, of Liremerel, yer e - T o : m as hi e gum of massy to be paid cif in lift 1% ow ponsisioa of the prepay ew er Catave alt in e e i r ios sseation ci the Lab Anew o. ik t liar dot. ' el Kr. Beale. also supported the motion ; and it ms sp. posed by Mr. Glare sad lir. eed. Upon the saggeeldon of the ViorChimeallor it was ve l e that the motion should stead over tiff the hese* d motion for decree, the compeay undmiakiag to isl e anion aria their adios without hare of the omit COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVOROP, (Before the Judge Ordinary.) LATIUM V. LANHAM AND BOZWOOD.—BISCIAL JNIY. Dr. tics and Mr. Warwick for the politician; IX Deane, 0., and Dr. &rainy for the reepead es t ; Queen's VOWS and Dr. Tristram for the cousecadnk The petitioner wu the maoaging clerk of an Mks* He married the respondent, who was at that tine a dun maker, in February, 1849. They lived ia mina pet d Londoo, and the petitioner charged his wife with hunk and unquiet habits. Thew bad at last led to a segand al: and the adultery wu alleged to have taken plus whit respondent was living apart from her hashed nun rd. lowaace which he had made her. The repo °dente denied the charge lad plaided tid the petitiowor had °Demised at the adultery, it any i n t been oornemitted, had been sanatory to it, had ham guilty of conduct conducing to it, mad had hirassif y R guilty of • similar offence. ghe case was proceeding when we welt to peen] COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Oansgasioner Ho)royd.) air as O. CORM. The bankrupt was a bookseller, stationer, prime, ui news agent, of Northampton. This was the Whist he examination and discharge, but no accounts had buss fl and it was stated that the bankrupt had absconded. Oa the application of Yr. Phelps, for the wipes, ty bankrupt was ordered to be proclaimed. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) APPLICATIOW NOB ILILIASZ BY AN 11.1.111311CA3 COB.. The bankrupt is this awe wan George Nicholas baba seed se George Nathaniel Sanders. who was thee descrue : —Formerly of Kestucky, then of New York, thee lodge / at the Trafalgar Hotel, obaring-croes, thee of Brakais4 kenos, then of Weymouth-street, Portland-ph:4 then of Denbigh-skeet, Pimlico ; than of Peril, thee to veiling through England and Ireland, than of Canada, the of Langham-pleos Hotel, and late of Grates-ply Fitzroy-square, now a prisoner for debt ; contractor et the Confederate government of &menet for the Wig and running of iron-plated postal vessels." !tappets dd the bankrupt at one time held the position of mond h country far the United States of America. This was an application tor release from embody. Tie bankrupt, in examination before the registrar shed that his execution creditor was Mr. T. F. km to whom he owed 2842. He was also in custody rat the snit of Mr. James Moro, kr 5451., sad lbws. W. EL Lindsay and Co., agents, of Austinfriars, creditors for 2,3021. His amount in the aggregate to 10,3231. Thepried* es Mors are—Mr. A. Ifookin, Windsor, Canada, 3,000 L; 1 W. A. Townebend,Montreal,Chneds, 3,0004; Meeralloir Brothers, Bishopegrate-skeet, 2501.; and Mows. Limey and Co.. 2,3021. The bankrupt attributes his failure to " diseppointoat I. the execution of his contract with the Confederate Sista of America for the building and running of froirplshi postal vessels." There was no opposition ; but it appearing that thee was an informality in the notices, the application stool over till the 23rd inst. lH EN MAL HERBY NICHOLLS. This was another application foe release. The blakrut is described as a bill broker, of Kensington-crescent, and I Devereux.court, Strand. Mr. Chidley supported the application. which was posed on the pound of insufficient description. The bankrupt, in answer to queetions, stated that is several years he bad been in partnership with /b. Ohs& Field, the detective officer ; the partnership coati:lld ff to July last, but there were no partnership debts. His Honour granted the release. • r. . b .unNAT .4,10 r ; isZ ta w f gr. aw e d Zdebrjoirleskst 411 ase Zs. o---. b eft. 7 . ° b 7 MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (TIQB DAY.) SECOND COURT. (Before Mr. Parka.) POLICINNN AND VIM DANGNI/L-BNIANING A OONINANgi Isaac Maurl4 20, labourer, sod Cherie, &huge 90. boot tamer, were placed the'doek, indicted for doling six table-cloths and other articles, the property of Wawa Bereaford, and the said Charles Roberts for smash* Joseph Shaw, • police-constable, in the execotios cif HI duty whereby his leg wes broken. Misers. Cooper and Brook prosecuted (instructed by ths Treasury) the prisoners were undefended. Impala Defter, S division, watched the case on behalf of the police authorities of Sootlend.urd. By the evidecoe it will be seen that this wsa a mugs aut unprovoked assault. Joseph Shaw, 78 Y, who appeared in court upon endehlk and ehoteJeg was covered with surgical bandages. edd- -0,1 Holiday evening, the sth instant, at a quarter put 7, be saw prisoners in Suffolk-street, Old St. Pancremedi acooompaoied by another, each carrying a boas of clothes. A quantity 'of wet limo was *Asa front the back garden of the prosecutor.' bows. He took hold of Roberta, and asked has what he bad go t there, and he mid, " 01111 what I picked up. " Witness said he should take him te the station and be satisfied that it was true. The pit. Roberts then turned round and threw his arms aresedhio, and • sonftle ensued, and they both fell. He three both hie legs round his, and they fell again. and witansh li coming in contact with the kerb, Iris " broken. Witness struggled to his feet and Wit seized the prisoner, and they got ammo the rola to the other side of the pavemest. where the y fell ones more. The prisoner then commenced Ora* winless on the face, but the latter having hold of bin W the collar his arm was in the way and the blows fed e a his chest and arm. Wittier, calletelondly for help Mese persons passing, but they took no notice and wastes, ad be was compelled to let the prisoner go. After a ebb several constables came up and witness was takes is tho hospital, where he remained about three weeks. its pa. • rarer Roberts then got sway, and he gave the Wells ae had takes from him to • mac. James Harrison, 12, Ashley-attest, iog's-oral, per grocer, sail he saw the coestable struggling with the p d suer Roberts, sad received from the constable a basdbw wet linen. He did not moist the constable, bemuse below the bundle. (Sensation.) If be bad put that down woe one might have rue away with it. Mr. Payne condemned this withers fof not wisher its constable. He thought he should disallow him ba re' puma. Sergeant Older, ld Y, said he apprehended the prii Meakell, and told him that he was charged with Its& linen and assaulting a constable. He said he did not welt the constable ; he had been to the station once Whetts the linen, and was not identified. When placed in a nett! shoatel out " Charlie, they've got me in." The other amber answered, " What for 7" and he said " For that W . (linen)." Roberts asked him where he had " planted" W. and he said "Through the arch near Ben Cunt's" Several witnesses were examined, who proved that prisoner Haskell bad been dealing with some at the HO and that the property beloosed to the prosecutor. , Dr. Laapmore, of University Hospital, proved tion injuries the constable bad received were of a NOW nature. The jury immediately found the prisoner. Gary. William N'Hath, 36 Y, said be WWI proems at w Middlesex Sessions io November, 1863, when theo Roberta was tried and convicted of felony. He a certificate of the conviction. Other convietions forfeN having been proved against the prisoners, Mr. Payne said It was a bad offence snd sentineled primate Masksll to be imprisoned sod kept to herd lele o for two years, and addressing the other prisoner said he had not ores stolen this pt0mef .. ... 1 • made it worse by the brutal violence he the covetable who was only doing his duty, and ye' Aimed with the offence be had the imptiduce that he had not strength ecru& to break hi Is& ~ wished that he bad. The sentence ea him tram that Is? kept in penal servitude for seven time. It was • greaM grace to the neighbourhood that inch an effete" shottaf e committed in the Wed highway and no one should sew the constable. • of 1 abi We brk ;;11 adc Poo Ole Let. be en SDI zei