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Tine Erratmo, THE PRINCRin Mr THE PEARL ISLAND ; OR, THE THREE K1,41;00)14 OP PEAktL, GoLD, AND SILVER. Mt.. Jacobs.—Firet-rate Pantomimist& —And THE RETURN Or THE WANDERER. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TEM DAT —Morning, 10h. 3A Afternoon. 11h. 211 m. To-Monnow—Morning, Oh. Om Afternoon, Oh. Ira, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15. THE answer given yesterday evening by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to the questions of Mr. Ossortse and Lord ROBERT MONTAOU does not throw much additional light upon the intentions of the Government with respect to Reform, or upon its views of the relative respon sibility of Ministers and of the House of Com mons. Mr. DISRAELI vindicates the resolutions which he has drawn up as asserting principles to which he asks the assent of the House of Commons, and as the only mode of obtaining a fair hearing for the measure which is to be based upon them. In the absence of such prelimi nary engagement of Parliament, vicious amend ments might be proposed and carried, assailing some principle contained in the Bill. The appli cation of the resolutions is, he contends, a part of the responsible duty of the Government; and he deprecates the origination by the House of Commons of any opinion upon points of detail. This explanation is not very satisfactory. Hither to, Ministers have been content to base their policy upon principles, without stickling for details. The procedure which seemed to imply an excess of deference to the House of Commons now appears to have originated in a deeply-seated distrust of it. It is recommended as a desperate expedient for securing from an unwilling assembly a fair bearing for the Ministers of the Crown, and for guarding against factious attack. The CIIAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S want of confidence in the Chamber of which he virtually abdicates the leadership, is betrayed in the reserve with which he has treated it ; but it has not until now been explicitly stated, except in those political novels which it might be as unfair to quote against him as it would be to cite Mr. GLADSTONE'S Union speeches or his work on Church and State in rebuke of the mature convictions of the Liberal leader. Mr. DISRAELI Will not trust the House of Commons until he has its signature to his bond ; he has no confidence even in its willingness to give him a fair hearing until he has got its promise to do so. He admits that to pass the resolutions is not to pass a Reform Bill, which, after all, must, ho says, de pend upon its own merits, to which the resolutions afford no sort of clue. As the proof of the pud ding is in the eating, so the merit of the resolu tions is in the application ; and what the applica tion of them will be Mr. DISRAELI declines to say. If the House of Commons should pass resolutions which the Government does not approve, the Government " will reserve to itself the privilege of " free men," and decline to act upon them. Where, then, is the advantage of the procedure adopted by Ministers ? The resolutions may be good, and the Bill may be bad ; or the House may pass resolu tions adverse to the convictions of Ministers, who will then decline to give effect to them. The pro cedure of the Government is thus a source of con fusion and delay. If Parliament declines to sub scribe to the thirteen articles of political faith submitted to it by Mr. DISRAELI, or at any rate to the more essential of them, Ministers will avail themselves of the privileges of free men. If it assents to them, it may not assent to the Minis terial application of them. The Government, ac cording to Mr. DISRAELI, will not acquiesce in resolutions of which it does not approve, and it considers the application of those resolutions to be part of its responsible duty. But if it is responsible both for the principle and the applica tion, why should it sever them f Why not, in the first instance, submit the principles in their appli cation ? The business of the House of Commons is not to lay down general political doc trines, but to adopt specific provisions, of which it may be credited with discern ing, and excused from stating, the abstract grounds. The same measure may recommend itself to different minds for different reasons, but Mr. DISRAELI objects to members supporting his conclusions who do not accept his premises and avow themselves convinced by his arguments. . . In all this the nanowness of a doctrinaire is apparent, with very few traces of the wisdom of the practical statesman. The thirteen articles which Mr. DISRAELI propounds as embodying the orthodox and saving faith in politics are as imper tinent to political legislation as the French decla ration of the rights of man, and the precedent may become as inconvenient. As Mr. DISRAELI'S late explanations are inconsis tent with his original statement, and as they afford no grouru:. for the procedure by resolutions which he has adopted, we must take his speech on Mon day evening as disclosing the true motives of the Government. It is something that the freely expressed censure of the country should within so short a time have compelled the retreat i THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1867. of the Government, in theory at least, from an untenable position. The distinction on which Mr. DISRAELI then insisted between a Ministerial question and a Parliamentary question cannot be maintained. Every great question belongs to both the Executive and the Legislature. Ministers are indirectly the nominees of the Parliament ; they are members of one or other of the two Houses ; elected, in fact, though not in form, by a vote of the House of Commons, to lead its deliberations and to conduct its business. If they fail in this duty, they not only forfeit their personal title to confidence, but throw the entire mechanism of government out of gear. Except for the feeble and temporary restraint supplied by the House of Lords, the government of England, on this new doctrine, would fall into the hands of a single legislative chamber. The cha racteristic features of the monarchy would dis appear. If Ministers devolve upon the House of Commons the responsibility which has hitherto been held to attach to them, the bare vote of, perhaps, a scanty majority in the Lower Chamber may decide the most vital issues. At present the possible refusal of Ministers to ac cept such a vote, the chalice of their resignation or of a dissolution involving an appeal to the country, and the alternative of the accession to office of responsible statesmen who will assume strict responsibility for legislation, are essential checksupon precipitate and ill-considered measures. Thu course adopted by the present Government with respect to the reform of the representation sensibly diminishes this indispensable safeguard. Mr. DISRAELI yesterday evening qualified his dis claimer of Ministerial responsibility. He will not go more than certain lengths in opposition to his convictions. But he still accepts only a limited liability ; and leaves it undefined where, in his view, the responsibility of the House ends and that of the Government begins. The true doc trine that both are responsible for the whole of their joint action dues not seem to have occurred to him. In reply to Mr. OSBORNE'S question, what are the new franchises which the Govern ment intends to propose, and what is the re-adjustment of the old franchise ? the CHANCELLOR of the Exim EQII ER replies that " minute points of that character" are for dis cussion in C *ttee, and that if they are to be debated upon the resolutions, " I must say I " frankly confess that the expectation of her " MAJESTY'S Ministers of soon introducing the Bill " will be very much disappointed." Yet " minute " points of this character " are the very essence of Reform ; and the fact that after a baker's dozen of resolutions has been debated and carried, not a single step will have been made towards their settlement, is decisive against the procedure which Mr. DIsRAELI has adopted. No one can either approve or condemn an unspecified extension and reduction of the suffrage. Everything depends on the mode and degree ; and about these Mr. DISRAELI declines to say a word. If his Resolu tions be passed as a whole, their adoption will either mean nothing, or will amount to a declara tion by the House of Commons that it declines to sanction any reduction of the franchise which is not checked and neutralized by lateral exten sions, by plurality of votes, by the facili ties for coercion afforded by tho use of polling papers, and by a redistribution of seats and a readjustment of the boundaries of parliamentary boroughs, so contrived, possibly, as to deprive the concession of all value ; and unfairly to weight in the interests of a dominant class, the political balance which the Government affects to redress. The specific franchises, and the specific system of grouping and readjustment, which the Govern ment may propose, alone deserve atten tion. "We do not suppose," said Mr. DISRAELI, last night, " that, in passing these reso " Miens, we pass a Reform Bill. The Reform " Bill must depend upon its own merits." Why, then, make resolutions which settle nothing preli minary to a Reform Bill, which must depend not upon them, but on itself? The only purpose they can serve is that of delay and evasion. They are an experiment upon the insincerity of Parlia ment and the patience of the country—an attempt to ascertain how little needs to be conceded, and by what means that little may be neutralised in effect. GREAT pains have been taken of late years to give practical importance to the proceedings of Con vocation, and it may be affirmed that whatever measure of success has attended the effort is due to the publication of the debates of the two Houses. On Wednesday the Upper House of the Southern Province held a meeting, said on good authority to have been the largest which has assembled for many years, fourteen of the one and-twenty bishops having been present. The subject was the most important that has engaged, or could engage, the attention of the prelates —the ritual observances which are gradually changing the aspect and character of the Church of England worship, and turning Lord SHATTER ' BURT'S " bulwark of Protestantism " into the most powerful engine in this country for undoing the work of the Reformation. This tune, how ever, their lordships sat with closed doors, although the reporters presented themselves as usual to per form their duty. The Bishops adopted a resolu tion which in itself looks very sensible—" that no " alterations from long-sanctioned and usual ritual " ought to be made in our churches, until the " sanction of the bishop of the diocese has been " obtained thereto." But if any one inquires what reasons bishops, differing so notoriously in their opinions and practice, severally give for con curring in it, ho will get no answer. The resolu tion was moved by the Bishop of OXFORD, but the public will not readily believe in the zeal of that prelate—the original of S. G. o.'s well known photograph, who is in the habit of publicly appearing with a pastoral staff, and giving his blessing with two extended fingers—to put down histrionic performances in our churches. The Bishops may frame wise resolutions, but if they want them to carry weight and prevail against the great ecclesiastical evil of the day, they must be open in their dealings, speak out boldly, and, above all, they must set a good example. RAILWAY BILLEI.—The Board of Trade report that the number of bills deposited for this session which relate to railways in the United Kingdom is 156. Sixteen of these authorise new lines by new companies, and 52 by existing companies. The total length of new lines is 364 miles; and there are in addition 51 miles of deviation lines, and 40 miles of tramways for streets. Only 10 bills relating to railways within the Metropolitan Railway District have been lodged at the Board of Trade. The following schemes are mentioned as appearing to have been laid out with a view of affording new and additional means of transit between parts of that district :—The Crystal Palace and East London High Level Junction Railway Rill ; the North London Railway Rill, for widen ing the city branch of that railway. To these may be added the Metropolitan Tramways Bill, for tramways to be laid in several of the principal approaches to the city and other parts of London, and to be used with animal power. OUR CONTEMPORARIER. (THIS DAY.) Cm Evart. OSBORNE, las. 14. The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Louise, and attended by the Duchess of Rozburglie, the Hon. Harriet Phipps, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, drove yesterday by Blackgang Chine and Nitou to the Underclitf, where her Majesty took luncheon at the Orchard (the residence of Lady Willoughby Gordon). From thence the royal party proceeded to Ventnor, and returned by Arreton to Osborne shortly before six o'clock. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning amour ponied by Princess Christian. Prince - 0w Louise and Princess Beatrice also went out. Viscount Halifax, General the Hon. Alexander and Mrs. Gonlon, had the honour fuf dining with the Queen and Royal family yesterday. Lord Halifax left today for London. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the council of his royal highness, held at the office of the Duchy of Cornwall, Buckingham.gate, St. James's-park. There were present the Lord Portman, Lord Warden of the Stannaries ; Sir William John Alexander, Attorney- General ; Lieutenant-General Kingly, Comptroller of the Household of his royal highness ; Mr. Herbert Fisher, Keeper of the Privy Seal, and the Earl of Leicester. Mr. Bateman, the secretary, attended as Clerk of the Council. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Honour. able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall on the subject of the Cattlo Plague. The Lords present were the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole and the Right Hon. H. Waddington. A deputation consisting of Mr. Delay and Mr. Pariah (churchwardens of Erith), the Rev. J. H. Berrien (incum bent of lkslvedere), Captain Mackillop, R.N., Dr. Hatton, Mr. De Castro, and Mr.Plentish, had an interview with the Earl of Belmore at the Home-office yesterday, upon the subject of the storage of gunpowder in Erith Marshes. Mr. Galt and a deputation from the North American provinces had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in Downing-street yesterday. Mr. Hodgson and Mr. Rokeby Price, the chairman and deputy chairman of the Committee of the Debenture holders, with Mr. 0. C. Pell, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., at the office of the Board of Trade yesterday, upon the subject of the London, Chatham, and lii Dover Railway Company. A deputation from the Waterford sod New Rosa Her. hour Commissioners, introduced by Mr. Blake, M.P., and consisting of the Marquis of Waterford, the Earl of Shrews bury, the Earl of Huntingdon, Hon. Captain Talbot, R.N., Hon. Dudley Fortescue, M.P., Hon. L. Agar Ellis, M.P., Sir H. W. Barron, Bart., M.P., the Right Hon. James Anthony Lawson, M.P., Mr. S. R. Graves, ALP., Mr. De la Peer, M.P., Mr. Bagwell, M.P., Mr. Malcomson, Mr. Jonathan S. Richardson, Mr. Joseph J. Richardson, Mr. Piers. Cox, Mr. Ambrose, Mr. Delahunty, Mr. Edward Carr, Mr. Michin, Mr. Stephens, Mr. Goode, C.E., and Mr. Farrell, secretary of the Waterford Harbour Commis sioners,had an interview with the Right Hon .Bir S. Northoote at the office of the Board of Trade yesterday, with a view to induce government' s ,* undertake the deepening of a channel through the Bar shoals of Waterford Harbour. The same deputation had also an interview with Mr. Ward Hunt, M.P., at the Treasury, Whitehall, on the same subject. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present—Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. Kindersley, Sir J. Colvile, and Sir Laurence Peel. The Duke of Buckingham, Lord President of the Coun cil, left Chandos House yesterday for Paris. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—WC learn by a telegram that the Prince of Wales and Prince Teck were present at the Windsor Steeplechases this afternoon. The company was large, and the weather fine. The Prince will sleep at the Castle to-night in apartments appropri ated to bia royal highness in the York Tower, and on each day of the races will dine with the officers of the Royal Horse Guards, at their mess at the Spittal barracks. This meeting is expected to be an unusually brilliant one, not only from the circumstance of the Prince of Wales being present, but from the number of entries to the various liberal stakes. The line of country will be as nearly as possible over the same ground and leaps as last year, and should the weather continue favourable the course will be in excellent condition for the running. The Prince of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince Leiningen, accompanied by the Duke of St. Albans, the Earl of Leicester, the Hon. C. Carrington, Major Teesdale, and the Hon. E. Yorke, honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presence last evening. _ _ Their Royal flighnemea the Duchene of Cam bridge, Prince and Princess Tack and suite honoured the performances at the New Adelphi Theatre last evening. The Prince Royal of Prussia gave a grand soiree in honour of the Count de Plandre, on the 11th, when th, Lay of the Belt, by Schiller, was represented in a aeries of tabled six•rira eta. The Archbishop of Dublin has left Maurigy's Hotel for The Palace, Dublin. The Duke of Buckingham, Lord President of the Council, left Chandoe House yesterday for Paris. The Earl and Countess Granville have issued in vitations for a dinner party to-morrow evening. _ - . . The Countess of Derby will give the first of a series of four evening parties to-morrow at the noble Pre mier's residence in St. Jameeb-square. The death is announced of General John Raw lins Coryton, senior officer of the Royal Marines. He died on T'neaday last, aged 77. Lord Rims, M.P., left town on Wednesday evening by the mail train for Dublin. - Lord M. Win. Graham, brother of the Duke of Montrose, was married yesterday, at St. Michael's Church, Chester-square, to the Hon. lire. Daahwood, eldest daughter of the late Lord Bateman and .lster of the pre sent peer, and widow of Captain George Dashwood, brother of Sir Henry Daahwood, Bart., of Kirlington Purl, Ozfordahin). The noble bridegroom was attended by Captain the Hon. Wm. Herbert as " best man." Lord Bateman conducted his sister to the altar. The ceremony was performed by the Hon. and Rev. Arthur Hanbury, brother of the bride, prebendary of Hereford, and rector of Sbobdon. The select committee on the Traffic Regulation Metropolis Bill, to be proposed by the Earl of Behnore, consists of the Earl of Mahnesbury, the Duke of Marl- borough, the Earl of Tankerville, the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of Luean, the Earl of Delmore, Earl de Grey, Earl Granville, the Earl of Kimberley, Lord Methuen, Lord Stinky of Alderley, Lord Houghton, and Viscount Boyne. Lord Naas has deferred until Monday his bills to promote the improvement of land by occupying tenants in Ireland, &c. Mr. Baxter proposes to ask the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, on Monday, whether soy despatch relative to the reduction of the ecclesiastical establishment in Jamaica has been forwarded to the Governor of Jamaica ; and if so, whether he is willing to lay the same before parliament ; and whether be will lay before parliament the circular relative to such reduction addressed to the clergy by the Bishop of Kingston. Mr. Thomas Hughes, on Tuesday, will bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to selling and hawking goods on Sundays. _ On Monday Mr. M‘Lagan will ask the President of the Board of Trade whether it is the intention of the government to introduce any measure for carrying out the recommendations of the select committee on trade in animals. It is the intention of Sir Roundell Palmer to call attention, on Friday next, to the unsatisfactory state of the different appellate jurisdictions in this country, as exercised in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Exchequer Chamber, and the Court of Appeal in Chancery, and to other defects in our judicial system, by which the administration of justice in the superior courts of law b now impeded. On going into committee of supply on army eati m►tes Mr. Otway will move, " That this house, reserv ing for future consideration when requisite the question of the exigencies of a state of war, is of opinion that it is unnecessary that the punishment of flogging should be awarded during the time of peace to soldiers of the army or corps of Royal Marines serving on shore." Lord Stanley, it is stated, has appointed Mr. Charles Lever, the well-known author, who has for some years filled the appointment of consul at Spezzis, as consul at Trieste. A circular has been issued by Mr. Brand sum moning the liberal party to meet at Mr. Gladstones on Thariday next. THE SPEECH OP THE ESIPEROR NAPOLION. The Times observes that the Emperor Napoleon hail yesterday a most difficult speech to deliver. It was • anfession of mishaps in hi, foreign policy ; a profession of intended reforms in his home policy. He now makes a candid acknowledgment that be has more than once been ,liaappointed in his expectations, and, like other crowned heads, attributes the blame of his failure to supernatural agency. Repeating the imperial version of the German and Italian wars and the Mexican episode, and coming to the second part of the speech, which is only a corollary to the first, the Times attributes the Emperor's decision to grant political liberty to his cousciousnem that the responsibility is too great for him, and that, henceforth, the blame of failure must not rest on him alone. He is now ready to give up as much as the French are able and willing to ask for. His confidence in himself is evidently shaken, and there is hardly anything he would not grant for the sake of free, warm, hearty support. There is hardly a measure connected with either home or foreign policy about which the Emperor has not lately given symptom. of uncertainty and vacillation—witness the abandonment of his original scheme for the re-organisation of the army. It is to be re gretted, however that he still connects huge armies with progress, and does not see that the first condition of Euro penn advancement lies in an opposite course. The Daily News regards the speech as another illustra tion of the Emperor's power of scene-painting—a gift ob servable in him in his early and adventurous days, and which has served him well since he rose to that supreme and solitary height of power in Europe, to which it is difficult even for the eyes of men below to follow him, and from which men below look no bigger than insects. The men tion in the speech, the Daily News proceeds to observe in examining the various paragraphs, of the temporal power and of possible dangers threatening it from demagogic conspiracies, and of the probability that " Europe" would not permit the accomplishment of an event which would cause perturbation in the catholic world, is singularly, and perhaps unfortunately, wanting in a meet desirable ambi. guity. But it will scarcely persuade the Romans that the temporal power is to be eternal, or that the French will go back to Rome if they demand the secularisation of the government and the Code Napoleon, or even to share their temporal fortunes with their Italian brethren, leaving the Holy Father to administer their spiritual interests. On the relations of the Emperor with foreign powers in gene - rail, the imperial speech is most reassuring ; but it is a subject for wonder that a man so far in advance of his brother sovereigns in ideas should for a moment and a positing purpose appear to sanction the fallacy that an enormous army is the most certain means of preventing war. The only allusion in the speech which, in the opinion of the Post, is calculated to occasion uneasiness is that which the Empeior makes to the reorganisation of the army. It must, however, be admitted that the action of other States justifies him in asking the French nation to increase its military strength. . . . . - The Telegraph speaks of the speech in the favourable tune with which it always adopt+ towards the imperial policy. It thinks it perfectly clear that the Emperor is resolutely bent on peace. THE PHOCEEDINGH Or THE FENIAMS. The Times tells the journals which have failed to see anything very serious in the proceedings at Cheater that they will find an excellent commentary in the intelligence from Ireland. Whatever may have been the purpose of the men who assembled from various points at Chester on Monday, it is difficult, our contemporary thinks, to believe that their proceedings had not some connexion with the outbreak of which we receive the news from the south. west of Ireland. The Times trusts the government will not relax its vigilance. What has been done in this ex• treme district of Ireland may possibly be attempted else where. Prompt measures will disconcert the schemes of the conspirators, who can only reckon on the negligence and false security of the Queen's government. To set against his most extraordinary story from Ches• ter—of a conspiracy and invasion which has not been at tended with any breach of the peace, or occasioned a single arrest—Mr. Walpole has now, says the Daily News, news of a real Fenian rising in Kerry, a much more likely scene for such an adventure than a horsier English town. Mr. Warner was mistaken last night in supposing the Daily Noes to have suggested that Fenianism wads only s pecuniary speculation of its leaden. It has always regarded Irish Fenianism as a very real and exceedingly serious fact, and written of it accordingly. At the same time, the genuine. ness of the hostility which the poor deluded people who find the money, and are ready to expose their lives for the movement, feel to England, is quite consistent with any amount of imposture and charlatanry on the part of its leaders. The Pod assumes that there can be no doubt now the Fenian chiefs in Liverpool meditated the seizure of Chester Castle and its contents, and chat the events which have now taken place in Ireland are merely the sequel of a preconcerted plan. Once more England will have to confess to the world that Ireland can only be ruled with an iron hand. The Herald suggests that an example be made of these malefactors by condemning them to the extreme sentence. All those who were concerned in an outbreak which bee led to the shedding of blood may be tried for murder. WES TOPICS. The Times deduces from the extensive correspondence in the Tornado case the conclusion that our countrymen have been subjected to great oppression with the approval of the Spanish government, and that friendly remora• 'trances from our government have been met in a spirit of gross discourtesy, if not defiance. That we have a right to demand an indemnity for the fonner, and an apology fur the latter, is an inevitable consequence, and that it is a duty to insist upon that right will probably be the verdict of the nation. The Daily News remarks that it follows from Mr. Dis raeli's views of the duties of government expressed last night in stating the intention of the government to defend Colonel Nelson and Lieutenant Brand that if he had been in power a year ago, no royal oommission would have been appointed to inquire into the acts of naval and military officers, at the risk of bringing them into question. Ac cording to Mr. Disraeli's statement of the doctrine of mar tied law, it was impossible for Lieutenant Brand and CoL Nelson to commit a crime, even if they did, as the Royal Commissioners say, hang men unnecessarily and without evidence, for there was no law at the time in the island. The Post and the Star condemn in strong terms the extraordinary treatment by Mr. Seward of Mr. Motley, the late American minister at Vienna, who is described by the Post as one of the best representatives America has ever sent to Europe. Summarising the proceedings in parliament last night concerning the alteration in our import duties on sugar, the Times observes that the principle of taxing raw sugars in proportion to the refined sugars they will yield has been established, as Mr. Gladstone said, " after an investigation carried on with all the resources which science and national funds could supply, and has received so high a sanction that it may be doubted whether it will ever again be assailed." This is, perhaps, too sanguine a view, especially as Mr. Crawford declared himself yesterday still uncon vinced ; but we may hope that the importer of refined sugar has for a season gone to rest. The Herald accuses Lord Robert Montagu of offensive conduct towards the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and re• presents him as saying in effect to Mr. Disraeli, " Are you playing a farce or not! Do you wish to settle this ques tion, and consequently intend to bring in a bill which will conciliate the support of a majority in parliament ? Or are you merely trying to gain time, intending, after all the palaver over the resolution■, to bring in a bill which, not regarding the wishes and opinions of the house, will inevitably be rejected r The Star contends that the great straggle ought to come at once, instead of being postponed. If the liberal party do not challenge the course proposed by government before the 25th, upon them rather than upon the conservatives will rest the loss of another year, and the confusion worse confounded of the question in which, more than in any other, is bound up the future political felicity of English men. The first meeting of the Neutrality Law Com. missioners was held on Wednesday, the 13th, in one of the committee rooms of the House of Lords. Present— Lord Cranworth (chairman), Lord Houghton, Sir Hugh Cairns, Dr. Lushington, Sir W. Erle, Baron Bramwell, Sir R. J. Phillimore, Sir Roundell Palmer, Dr. Twin, Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., and Mr. Foster, M.P. Mr. Abbott and Mr. Onalow, the Secretary, were also in attendance. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. tuna% ramsws. ) THE BRAZILS. ARRIVAL OF THE HAVANE. (By Telegraph from Lisbon.) RIO DE JANEIRO, JAN. 30. Exchange on London, 23 to 23ff ; on Paris, 397 to 400. Coffee, 6.300 to 6.500. Shipments of coffee since the departure of the last mail, 83,000 bags, of which 40,562 are for the North of Europe, and the Channel ; 14,142 for the Mediterranean, and 22,296 for various ports. Sales, 20,000 bags. Stock, 30,000 bags. Freight, 365. to 375. BAHIA, JAN. 29. Exchange on London, 24 to 23i. Sugar, whites, 2.900 to 3.000 reis ; browns, 2.100 to 2.300 refs. Cotton, 13.500 to 14.500 refs. PERNAMBUCO, FEB. 1. Exchange on London, 241 to 24. Sugar, whites, 4.200 rein ; browns, 2.050 to 2.150 eels. Cotton, 15.000 to 15.400 rein. The Measageries Imperiales steamer Guienne was at Dakar (Gctree) on the 4th February, and the Rhone at Peniambuco on the 28th January. BUENOS AYRES, JAN. 14. Exchange on London, 601 ; dollars, 25. Wool, 50 to 90 ; tallow, 141; lumber, 34 to 37 ; sugar, IN. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES FOR CIi7L SERVICES. A supplementary estimate in the civil services, issued this morning, states that the sum required to be voted before the end of March for the purchase of the Macao collection of eons and antiquities for the British Museum is 41,7211. The sum actually paid for them to Count Stanilaa de Blame was 48,000 f. ; but 2,279/. has been received from a sale of certain coins which were not required. It appears that 101,300/. is required to be voted in the year ending next March to enable her Majesty's govern ment to make good to the Chinese government the esti mated value of certain ships which belonged to the late Anglo-Chinese flotilla. This estimate is for the difference between the sum promised to the Chime governuient on account of this property and the sum realised by the vale of the ships. One of the vessels is still unsold, and any sum which may hereafter be received from the sale will be paid into the exchequer. The sum of 165,305/. is wanted in addition to the sums voted last session for the year ending 31st March next, to be divided as follows :—Royal palaces, 212/. ; public buildings, 905/. ; royal parks, &c., 11,507./. ; Houses of Parliament, 600/. ; Holyhead and Portpatrick H a i h o ur, &c.,7,1811.; Burlington House designs, 1,375/. ; Wellington Monument, 2,600 f. ; Franklin Monument, 8171.; roads, South Kensington, 1,286 f. ; Universal Exhibition at Paris, 50,000/. ; special minions, &c., 12,471 ff. ; telegraph v an , panics subaidies, 792/. ; miscellaneous expenses, ti.;,i;;.g. ; experiments in drawback on sugar, 9,181/. The public buildings vote is for the National Gallery enlarge. went designs. The royal parks item, 3,372/., is for the fencing of Hyde-park and for the ploplaed widening of Park-lane ; and 7,000/. is for the purchase at the Kew Botanic Gardens, of the late Sir Wm. Hooker's Herbarium, books, portraits, &c. 600/. additional is to be given to Mr. Cope, R.A. for the frescoes completed by him in the peers' corridor. The model of the Wellington moment, it is stated, has now been so far completed that the execution of the monument itself may properly b e commenced. The item of special missions relates to the expenses incurred on behalf of the Abyssinian captives. The expense to the country caused by the cattle plague between June and January last, was 64,312/., and 47,0261. had already been voted. Between last August and No. vember, 23,000/. was paid as compensation for cattle slaughtered by order of the inspectors. THE GOVERNMENT INQUIRY INTO TRADES' umoWs. The following is a copy of the bill brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Secretary Walpole, Lord John Manners, and Sir Stafford Northcote for facilitating in certain cases the proceedings of the commissioners ap pointed to make inquiry respecting trada unions and o ther associations of employers or workmen : " Whereas a commission has been issued by her Ma. jesty to inquire into and report on the organisation and rules of trades' unions and other associations, whether of workmen or employers, and to inquire into and report an the effect produced by such trades' unions and alsocia• time on the workmen and employers respectively, and on the relations between workmen and employers, and on t he trade and industry of the country, with power to in. vestigate any recent acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to have been promoted, encouraged, or connived 4 by such trades' unions or other associations, and also to suggest any improvements to be made in the law with respect to the matters aforesaid, as with respect to the relations between the workmen and their employers fortis mutual benefit of both parties. And whereas a case at outrage within the scope of the said conni4iou at inquiry has been committed at Sheffield, and repro• aentations have been made on behalf of the workmen as well as employers of labour in that city stating that it would be for the advantage and to the satisfaction of both workmen and employer, that a searching inquiry on oath should be made into the circumstances of such outrage and the alleged complicity of the trades' unions therein: and whereas the powers for the effectual conducting of such inquiry cannot be conferred without the authority of parliament : Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, iu this present par liament assembled, and by the authority of the An", as follows : " 1. This act may be cited for all purposes as ' The Trades' Union Commission Act, 1867.' " 2. The commissioners or such one or more of them as they may with the concurrence of the chairman for that purpose appoint may, in pursuance of this act, inquire into any acts of intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to have been promoted, encouraged, or connived at by trades' unions or associations, whether of workmen or employer, and as to the causes of such sets and the complicity thenin of such trades' unions or associations, subject to the fol• lowing restrictions :—(l.) That no inquiry in exercise of the powers of this act shall be held elsewhere than at Sheffield without the sanction of one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State. (2) That no inquiry is exercise of the powers of this act shall be made into any case of intimidation, outrage, or wrong which has occurred more than five years before the passing of this act. " :3. The commissioners or such one or more of them as they may appoint shall for the purposes of an inquiry under this act have all such powers, rights, and privileges es arts vested in any of her Majesty's superior courts, or is any judge thereof, on the occasion of any action or suit fa respect of the following matters :—The enforcing the attendance of witnesses and examining thew on oath, affirmation, or otherwise, as they or he may think lit; (2.) The compelling the production of docunients. 13. i The punishing perilous, guilty of contempt. Awl a surenione under the hand or Minds of one or inure of the Leos tnisioners may be substituted for laud such be equivalent to any form of process capable of being issued at law in any action or suit for enforcing the attenalanceof 'AMMOs or compelling the production of documents. " 4. The commissioners. or any two of them. may from time to tin e, by order under their hands, r..ier the conduct of the whole or any part of an inquiry in exercise of the powers of this act to any one or MO, pereans named is such order (and hettafter referred to as a specnal exeminer or examiners), and may direct the mode in a hell such quirt' is to be conducted, anal in which the moth thereat is to be reported to the commissioners ; and any parson to whom such inquiry or part thereof may he referred shall have iu the matters referred to him all the None relation to the enforcing the attendance anal examination of witnesses, anal of compelling the production of done melds (including the power to sign any such 1•111111/1011 , se aforesaid), and of punishing defat Its lay wittleves aid Per' sons guilty of contempt, as are lay this act given to the said commissioners or say one or more of them ; but no order of reference under this act shall be valid males+ the concurrence of the cheirnuw of the commis.ion therein be testified by his signature thereto. "e. Any person examined as a witness hefore any cone missioner or special examiner under this act, who in the opinion of such commissioner or examiner wakcs.l full and true disclosure touching all the mantes in revel of which he is examined, shall mccive a certificate under the hand of inch commissioner or examiner. stating that the witness has upon his exutninatien mole a fell and true disclosure as aforesaid ; that if any civil or criminal proceeding be at any time thereafter instituted against such witness in respect of may mutter touching which he has been so examined, the tribunal befere which such proceeding is instituted shall, on the pentane. and proof of the certificate, stay the proceeding. ant may in its discretion award to such witness :my cos ts be may have been put to by the institution of the reading : Provided, firstly, that this section shall toe eat. 1. I ts in demnify from criminal proceedings the 3C.11.al lereetrator of any act of outrage or other crime ; eeenallY• that no person shall be compelled in pal...armee of this act to answer any questions tenaling te a minus's himself as the actual perpetrator of any :act of outr a ge other crime. Thirdly, that no evidence taken coder this act shall be admissible against any person in acv end or criminal proceeding whatever. "G. Every person who, upon exionimitien amen call or affirmation before any commissioner or special e xeaainer tinder rhea act, wilfully gives false re. iciace, shall b° liable to the penalties of perjury. " 7. The reasonable expenses incurred by any Per.a in appearing to give evidence beton, any commissioner Or special examiner under this act, aceoralang taa e a,,. to he ha ma n y d b: f allowed th eidteicosmuinc commissioner approved by the Commissioners of her Treasury, rsu ner u o b r y it such person by the said mo a the Treasury, end shall be deemed to be exi. last- int 1 . 11 the commissioners for the purp oses of tioii e on...edam. " S. The co siioners anal the special a vainiiii" shall have such and the like protection anal pi it deg, e caw' of any action brought agent them for :ray act dame ~r the be omitted to be done in the execution of 'leer dairy : as is now by law given by any act or acts nos an herea fter to be in force to justices acting in execution of their office. "9. No action shall be brought against any commie. loner or special examiner under this act. or aey other person whomsoever, for anything dame in the a xee t. e. tion of his duty under this act, online eel . e rion brought within six calendar months next after the doing of such thing." A dinner about to be given to Mr. Brand, at which Mr. Gladstone will preside, by the stdtsenhers to the testimonial announoed at the close of hist se.sion, the sub acriptions to which amount to upwards of THE FENIAN MOVEMENT IN IRELAND. A despatch in Saunders' News Letter states that between eight and nine hundred insurgents, partially armed, were moving on Killarney, but on hearing that troops wore marching against them they turned back eight miles from the town, and proceeded through the Gap of Dunlo in the direc tion of Kenmare. Troops were despatched to take possession of a bridge, where they were expected to pass, and otherwise to intercept them. Portions of the 48th and 14th Regiments went from the Curragh to the south last night, and the remainder to-day. On Tuesday, three men, one called Captain Moriarty, were arrested in Killarney. Captain Herbert, M.P., went down to Killarney to-day by special train. Twelve arrests were made this morning of per sons coming from Liverpool. Otheraccountssay that the telegraph wires between Killarney and Cahirciveen were cut on Tuesday night, also those between Killarney and Mallow. By two o'clock yesterday a force of 1,000 men, including cavalry and artillery, sup plied from the Curragh and other places, under Sir A. Horsford, were concentrated on the Mallow Junction Station. The children of Lord Castlerusse have been removed to England. Respectable families in Kerry are flying from their homes to places of safety. The Railway Hotel at Killarney is occupied by military. Two hundred men are to occupy passes in the Toomies Mountain. A despatch from Killarney says :—" A well armed force of Fenian', supposed to be commanded by a Colonel O'Connor, are located in the moun tains near Killorglin. They stopped the mail car, but allowed it to proceed after some delay. There are not sufficient police to pursue them. A body of marines guard the bank at Cahirciveen. The wounded policeman still lingers, with no hopes of recovery. All the Fenians are concentrating about the Killarney mountains." The following communication from Ireland, of later date than that upon which Lord Derby "poke last night, has been received at the office of the Electric and International Telegraph Company : " 5 P.M.—lreland quiet, except in Kerry, where troops pursue the armed body. Telegraphic com munication with Valentia and America restored." HOLYHEAD, THUREID!T Evromo. Great excitement prevail; here. Numbers are reported as walking from Bangor and Chester. Lord Strathnairn, Commander-in-Chief of Ire land, crosses to night. Superintendent Owen has advised the Volunteers to be in readiness. The mail boat is defended. Some suspected leaders have arrived. PLYMOUTH, THFINDAY Evemmo. The Lords of the Admiralty have sent instruc tions to Port-Admiral Sir William F. Martin to have the following vessels prepared for sea imme diately, viz., the screw steam corvette Racoon, 22, Captain Richard Purvis ; the corvette Charyb dis, 17 ; the sloop Vestal, 4 ; the gunboat Pigeon, tender to the Caledonia ; and the gunboat 'Red wing, tender to the Cambridge. Some of these ships may leave to-morrow. It is supposed they will go to the coast of Ireland. Several detach ments of Royal Marines are under orders for em barcation. The Empress Eugenie, two days back, acoom panied by a holy of the Palace, left the Tuileries on foot and ascended the Grand Avenue of the Champs Elyakes, returning afterward to the Place de la Concorde. At that moment the Emperor, also on foot, came out of the Palace by the door of the terrace near the river to join the Em press. Their Majesties then walked together towards the 7th arrondissement, crossing the Pont de la Concorde. On the 21st of January a commemorative service was performed in the Creek church at St. Petersburg. in honour of " the Christians fallen in Crete." In the ser mon preached on this occasion by the Greek Archimandrite the insurrection was termed a religous war, and those fallen in it martyrs. Several high dignitaries, among them General Ignatief, the father of the Russian minister at Constantinople, attended the ceremony. The 3foacew committee for the Ethnographic Exhibition to be held in the ancient capital of Russia this autumn is actively engaged in collecting specimens of n►tional dresses, implements, and curiosities, not only from all parts of Russia, but also from neighbouring countries. The exhibition is to comprise all the various tribes of Sclavonic descent, and, from a political point of view, will be no less Austrian and Turkish than Russian. Even the Prussian Sclavonians will not be forgotten, nor the few forlorn \lndians, the last remnant of the once numerous aboriginals of Brandenburg and Saxony. The Debuts exposes the systematic confiscation of English, Belgian, and German papers, which has been carried on uninterruptedly in Frame for the last 15 years. The Aug.bury liaxtte and the Saturday Active have been the chief sufferers. The hulipeadoner Beige has been excluded fur whole months at a time. The Journal de (;cadre, which is daily distributed at Lyons, is not suffered to reach its Paris subscribers on an average more than once a week. Puna is repestedly deemed too str ng for Franco, and nine of every ten numbers are oonfiscated, and even the harmless Must rated London Were was kept back for 24 hours a fortnight ago, on account of a engraving of the night fete of the Skating Club. A Spanish paper, written in French, La Bidaseoa, having been seised for several months running, on account of its political summary, lately replaced the offending article by a woodcut, represeuting the good ship Rideau*, "in quarantine before Bayonne." The American papers, when they are not seised, are generally detained for 24 hours. A rather droll incident occurred on Tuesday at the Tribunal Civil, Paris. When the judges took their places the Procuniteur Imperial was, in the usual form, called upon to move. The proeurateur rose and announced, before the regular business commenced, that there was • certain number of functionaries, just named by the go vernment, who were in attendance to take the customary oaths before entering upon their duties, and he prayed the court to allow them to be sworn. The presiding judge gave his assent, when some eight or ten /tickers (letter- carriers) stepped forward. They were bid to raise their right hands, and the oath was read by the prefer, or clerk of the court. When the first words were recited, " You solemnly swear to respect the secret of letters that pass through your hand'," Lc., the prefer, who bad present to hie memory the Postmaster-General's circular ordering his subordinates to open letters, could not repress a smile, and in a few seconds the procurator, judges, counsel, audience, the /setters themselves, and even the servants of the court, caught the infection, and buret into laughter. The oath wu then got through with as much gravity as possible. I I lion con 111111 coil not Rat yerl mot emu elut the min We. tion pea that rate mor aski amr Ille,l Cop tion spri *leo Staff ver elm thr die Ind din