The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

!' 'ARMONIUMB—NKW MODEL.— swa sr Os- 111. lismi4krai. THE DAILY NEWS LONDON MORNING P1=4=1"goll 122 1.44 .1 d milims. Able wise fsmibl be lb 11n1=.= 1 :7 4 ILZION NNW/ In =JAMS amnimm e , i m b =b4%..73r f a ressa um. ?SI OSLYBAIL# " I re IMES ALL OMIIIIIVI ADvmssonorts , hb Maly balltAbAl.., lhogib=„ l L a r e lima di* =l ll e ma tbrarsillos. Nail ibisblr Man sum= ki OM flt 16 741 la •Alaillmilt= IN wig pm IA • sem sio IM. es tailb be mom slim= ma Mei • lb. par wens,. Orb* Oxpreool. a .m.'. taigia•lisosiimmi.• Lamm - mown PIM man b. M the Oase.lo. liiinlitio4lVlll. by Tye Vasa as the Imp et nallerin. SATMAILINT. Two Warn. MVOS ADO AHOUT VOTHINO. Nam New% ; Nis Any Mg,lst—aad TSB 'manse MTh ' Il l iTt a nOOD. Megis. Arm. Lesieres. soil o. Lativic Wm L. Loire& Ms Faroe Wdlol.—asamilm IT T. 1.111101411ra lu Warne. • MIDINIIIIPS iniagrs i="passoadoe.llAlLLlQUlX WHITS OLT. sr. fielrer awl Mr Fairy eidnallme• Ors ommos. mei hole: X 1.1 Aim^ YID Ihe•—Opla sk 1 get LTCIIOII. Tam Eysinrci. lIIIILPHIOOIL Idiom C. Mot: . Sri,. J. O. MR's. a 0.1.1 L. Teal; Mu C. DUlasjCier Gomm. mg. mod Us* Webb .— Lad LALLA 1100111. 11/. J. L. ; kin Marl Tomo. Mks Woolps.—Oesussase at T. SITIMMT. T.., [yawl's. WILLIAM TWLL. Mwors. Orwskt me Felten ld M. Sbarea—UP II TEM WOLIOI. It. H. WM/WM ; Kt= Jarkas—L.d t ins PIED Or FORTY' 7001WIILWL—Oun soma AAMputt HIGH WATU AT LOKDON BMW& s D..—Meer.. th. las .Allmaca. O. tn. assant—igare. Ph. 11. Ahem. 116 aim LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27. Tar tale of the capture of Canton reads tamely after the more stirring tales of the siege of Sebum topol, the capture of Delhi, and the leaguer of Lucknow. It is not that the skill and valour of the assailants is less, or that the mustering of their host for the fray is lees imposing. It is that the object accomplished ia 03 utterly disproportioned to the pre paratory array. The Chinese aredeticicat neither in personal strength nor in disregard of danger; but their weapons compared with ooze are as children's pop-guns; they are utterly destitute of any know ledge of war u an art ; and they appear even to be uninspired with military ardour. Our forces were ex posed to a sharp peppering while in the act of waling ; but as soon as they had fairly gained a footing on the crest of the wall all effectual resistance was at an end. An English street-mob on • newly Mao adamiaed road would have shown better fight against soldiers, to say nothing of Parisian Imestriere in barricaded streets. There is a sense of disappoint ment when we find the solemn overture of a night's shell and rocket practice ham been a prelude to no thing more than a sham fight, not much more imposing than might be got up within the walls of a minor theatre. The deaths of the brave and experienced officers who fell arc felt with double poignancy—as if they had lost their lir' by some accident in I firing a salute. The most ludicrous feature of the whole affair is the stolid indifference of the Cantonese population. Though the Chinese troops had been driven from the wall, and apparently from the eity ; though shells and rockets had rained upon them hoeseantly foe a live-long night ; though their roofs were pene trated in all directions, or their houses burnt ; though their governors had been taken prisoners and reinstalled as agents of the victors ; still after, and even during these events, the citizens never inter mitted their ordinary occupations. As intent upon their daily routine as the Romans and Carthagi nians in their work of reciprocal slaughter at Thrasymene, a revolution passed unnoticed in the one case, as "an earthquake rolled nuheededly "away " in the other. Nor is this seeming lack of the power of perceiving or being moved by anything out of their own world of domestic or industrial pursuits, characteristic of the citizens of Canton only. In the narratives of the affair at Fat ahem we read of husbandmen imperturbably tilling their fields while the balls were falling thick around them. The bulk of the population all over the great Delta on the extreme verge of which Canton is situated would appear to think that war and go- vernment are matters which no more affect their in terests directly than " the loves of the angels." They scarcely look up from their ledgers or furrows to see how the battle goes, or ask whether Yee or the Faa %tool are rulers. This, one should think, must go far to convince those who imagine that they can teach the Chinese the great moral duty of being sociable like other people by giving them a drubbing, how hopeless is the task they have taken in hand. It need not be denied that during the lapse of three centuries and a half Europeans have accomplished little or nothing in the way of insinuating themselves into the fami liar friendship of the Chinese. After three centu ries and a hall of intercourse, they still keep us at arm's length. The most patient submission to their ceremonial exclusiveness has not in the least thawed their icy reserve. All this is no doubt very pro voking. The French and English have at lest undertaken to thrash the Chinese into sociability, and' the Americans, Russians, and all other peoples of the European race, pat their champions on the hack and encourage them to go on. Well; we have drubbed them ; we have taken Canton, and can keep it as long as we please; and how much the nearer are we to the end we have in view ? JOHN CIIINAYAN re mains as insensible to oar bastinadoing as to oar bowing. He ignores the presence of a conquering force in the heart of Canton with the same quiet pertinacity with which he ignored the possum of a few unarmed traders in the suburbs. The Governor and General eondeseend to enter anew upon the discharge of their functions at the request of Lord ELGIN and Baron LE GROS, but they stickle, on the point of etiquette, at the interview, as much as ever they did ; and the citizens bay and sell, and eat and drink, and resort to the Yemen with their law or police cases, or to pay their taxes. or to make arrangements with the officers of the Customs, just as if the French and English soldiers and sailors were not there. Nobody puts himself in the least out of his way on account of the unaccus tomed guests. The shopkeepers with whom the Euro peans deal profit by the connexion, and the rest of the citizens are put to no inconvenience. The Man darins look on with the same placid sense of their immeasurable superiority to the Fan Kicei which they have always felt. The invaders may remain as long as they please, or they may go to-morrow—it is all one to the worthy Cantonese. As fee the offset of the capture of Canton on the rest of the Empire, the Court will quietly ignore it, and set one Chinese in a hundred thousand will ever hear of it. The Government at Pekin will not relinquish its rooted aversion to receive ambassadors from foreign powers as from equals, and to eater into alliances on a footing of equality, merely because a remote seaport has been seized by THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1858. a band of foreign soldiers. They will remain un moved till the danger presents itself nearer Pekin. This is a kind of opcositioa with which neither Frenchmen nor Englishmen have been accustomed to deal. Both nations are adepts at the art of beating down en enemy who shows fight, but how to deal with this passive resistance will puzzle them. Srmosnr, in his Tour in England—a work that dates from some forty years back—dwells upon the mystifi ed= and amusement he experienced at a scene which Presented itself when he first looked out of his bed room window, at Dover, on the morning after his landing. It was Sunday, and • constable wee en deavouring to prevail on a Quaker NS BIXONDE tells the story) to close his shop, which he had opened in utter disregard of the sanctity of the day. Tired of • seemingly endless controversy, the organ of authority at last proceeded to close the shop himself; but as fast as he could put up one shutter, the Quaker took down the one he bad put up before it. The constable at last went away in despair. The tactics of the Chinese promise to be attended with the same success as those of the Quaker. In short : We have taken Canton; what next? Ws will not insult the new PREMIER by asking whether he means to announce any new edition of the Conspiracy Bill, because, little confidence u we may have in his general capa city as a statesman, we have always given him credit for a conaiderable share of ordinary shrewd ness and sound English feeling; and he must abandon all claim to the possession of either, if, after what has happened, he were to palter for a moment with that hateful and humiliating measure. Neither shall we harbour the supposition that he means to repudiate the opinions which he and his friends so recently expressed regarding legislation for India during the present session. The beet thing he can do upon the subject is to throw Lord PAL• MERSTON'S Indian Patronage Appropriation Bill into the fire. He is anxious, of course, not to pro voke general engagements and defeats in the Com mons, when he is supported by little more than two-fifths of the entire House. But as he cannot be beaten upon the mere abandonment of Bills he has not himself brought in, it is plain that his course on the two important subjects in question is safe and easy. Mr. GLADSTONE and Sir JAMES GRAHAM still retain their seats below the gangway on the ministerial side of the House. We do not think we err in construing such a demonstration on their parts as intended to show that whatever be their leanings, or their votes on particular measures, they feel in the main less repugnance to the osten sible pre-eminence of Lord DERBY, than the attempted leadership of the Opposition by Lord PALMERSTON. Lord JOHN REMELT. has taken his seat below the gangway on the oppo- sition side ; and near him are noticeable most of those members of the liberal party whom public opinion has recently delighted to honour. If Lord DERBY and his colleagues seriously expect to be able to con , tinue for any time in power, their wisest course will be to earn the support of the distinguished men on both aides of the House by whose disinterested aid at a particular juncture they have been placed in power. Let them boldly promote Law Reform ; let them desist from opposing the Jew Bill ; let them frankly adopt the Church-rate Abolition Bill; let them give pledges to conduct the diplomacy of the country openly and above board ; let them grapple manfully and fearlessly with the goes tion of the elective franchise ; let them purify the dispensation of patronage at the Horse Guards and the Admiralty ; and they need trouble themselves but little about retaliatory motions by Lord P 1.11 MUSSON for the recovery of office. The country does not want to are them hustled out of office to-morrow or next day to gratify the mere personal resentment of a Mi nister who has shown himself ungrateful for and unworthy of its confidence. But on the other hand, people have a right to expect, if the ordinary rule of parliamentary government is for a time waived in their favour, and they are Llerated in the excep• tional position of Ministers of a minority, that they will requite such a concession by giving some solid proofs that they respect the wishes and comprehend the wants of the people. THE NEW GOVERNMENT. (nom • TOZAIT CIAZICITI). At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 26th day of February 1858, peseent the Queen's most excellent Ma jesty in Colman. Her Majesty In Council was this day yyaasd to declare the Moat Honourable James Bravado, William , Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of her Ma ju M te's on Houxtrable Privy Council, and his ladehip took Ws place at the board accordingly. This day the Most Noble Henry Chula, Duke of Beau fort ; the Right Honourable Henry John, Earl Talbot ; the Right Honourable Edward Henry Stanley (commout . ailed Load Stanley) ; the Right Honourable Sir Frederic T Kea.; the Right Honourable Jonathan Peel; the Biel; Honourable Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron-Estcourt ; sad the Right Honourable Charles Bowyer Adderley, were, by her Majesty's command, swo r n o f h er M a j es t y ' s Most Hon- I ourable Privy Council, and took their respective platen at the bond accordingly. Her Majesty in oounoil was this day pleased to delver the Great Seal to the Right Honouree* Sir Frederte Thelger, Knight, whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was, by her Majesty's command, admininend to him ; and ha took his place at the bard Her Majesty having been pleased to d a :l e rvelVeT custody' of the Privy Seal to the Right Honourable Charles Philip, Earl of Hardwkke, the oath of Keeper of the Privy Beal was this day administered to him ; and his lordship took his plebe et the board accordingly. Her YMajesty having been pleased to appoint the Right HanouraW James Howard, Earl of Malensibury ; the Right Honourable Edward Henry Stanley (commonly celled Lord Stankry)• the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole; end the Righ Right Honourable Jonathan Peel, to be four of her Majesty's rincipal Secretaries of State, they were this day, lty her Majesty's command, sworn four of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Beat Dinudi Claseellor and Under-Tremors, of he Majesty's Exchequer, the usual oath was this day ad =Watered to hire. HR Ma}any fn Council was this day pleased to declare nut Itiaht Haa. Archibald William, Earl of Eglintma Limn"• attat-Gamind and Osseral-Governor of that part of theUinted . _ Hind= celled Ireland. Her Majesty ht Conseil =a this day pleased to appoint the Right Hon. lose= Warner Henley to be President al the Committee of Council appantd for the *moldered= of all matters relating to Trade and Foreign Pleatettena. DEFENCE. elailptelsi of peetseday contains the Official report dal fist day's pesseings of the trial to cooneulas with Its slasept to meardosto the Emperor. The report Meads OW Mb/ closely prhill ohms,. Ths fleMewing is ham the edictal account of the mend talks d Oriel t " Pelssear--Item trap)milk I have only had one object, wad ass Magi isa the dsßvwena of my country, and un- MOM the Auetriana sad I have coustantly conspired aphiet=up to 1848. At that period I natural ly took part to the WIC We bail Om aware regarded the Fres& se beam and hisMIN sad whin they landed at home vs weleemsd thaw as allies bet they soca showed themselves War asteries ; we thee repotted the , and took many of than plums. Aim dam ar four days, redacting that Frans, was is meat drama of sedum, aid that - haps she had be hi away spinet her will, we t it our duty to eel with gensaalty, end we released the =Mid dries elf Vfte ie Prince " The riblike Mt la literti Nam, I ' It war quite a national fete. What did the Prime thin dot They suspended hostilities, but it We/ only le wait ranfavermata. The Preach then overwhelmed us with paha safety, he they were one hun dred to me- we could not resist, and the Elite of the Italian youth woo liarlawd. Preeilese—lt fs only out of roped to the defence that I have tcheated whet you have just said : the jury "I=_pee isminks. I , re:a Ram we emigrated to Piedmont. At lest, we bed a deep hatred against the French, but in time the brag wore off, and we considered them sa friends and brothers. la all our conspire d= we always rectimmandsd the Frenchmen to be spared. We only wanted to get rid of the Austrians. From Pied mont, I went fate Hianmey, where I was taken and on the plot j olbsiT h h ate unt but wr limbezedwetthinassoming taeafa fo an , d rea g rAing aee fa—rZi country. I ertlasseel ridiculous attempts made by llaselni, who sent fifteen it twenty men to Italy, where they lost their lives. I tried legal means. I went over England and in all the meetings which I addressed advocated the principle of non-intervention. Public opinion declared itself in favour of that principle, and numerous petitions were =drew= to the Queen. We bad the sympathy of the English in our favour, but the affair of India due on and the national question became paramount over that of Italy. After the fall of Rome, I felt convinced that Nsgolsoa would no longer mist us, and I said to my self : 'That man must be killed.' I had first thought of acting alone, but wins; the f impossibility of him, I took others to join with me. lat firat aPP = l rvZ not to speak of them, but when I was arrested I found that I was betrayed by those whom I con sidered u my brethren. I gave way to a feeling of vsngeance, but I will not commit an act of cowardice. I reject all the charges they have mad* against me; I pardon the; I offer my person as a mace to my country, and I confide in my judges. They will be able to judge el the exaggeration of the persons who !MVO accused um lei who are under the influence of iti whisk is a bad esumencer. I now come to what I have edit sa Alleop and Drew& I never confided to Allaop Oath was la metsmglealsn to kill the Emperor. I gave Mm is melds et thelessabs, but he thought they ware to be mad to Italy ; he knew ray history, and was devoted to the NM of that country. As to Bernard, I spoke to him of the Isembs, but did net tell him against whom they mere to be tad; le also thought they wars for Italy. I will not mud a elan will say nothing against the other primness. As be the I em very sorry that so many people wee wooded ; and my blood could repair this misfortune, I em gam ma* to give it for the people; here it is." Moo Rene, to lie address on behalf of Orsini., said— " I do art marshiest, mwe—l do not come mat to defend— but edgy to sapid& his heal aberration ; trusting to demoa abate to you that coq infiatunate client is not unworthy of NMI feeling of pity." With rev= to the do das of the abrupt on the 14th. li. J. Fame iii—" Yea, that is • crime, a crime of which Orsini will be emenstable before OM, much more than before the law of with because the law before it strikes him has to as to his intailens. The Procureur-Oeneral has not momelvely on this count. He has laid much rosy stress ea what he calls the variations of his language. I will try to remove that reproach. It does not much matter to as that he may have contradicted himself, or that he show. vacillatka el mind of which the solitude of his primon L the cams. It is not by such circumstances that we must judge an around man." M. Jules Fame examine this part of the question at some length. "Or ▪ entered on this dangerous path on which fanaticism urged him, bowed before the man he had intended to strike, end turning towards the nephew of the great Emperor, said to him, ' Prime you bout of having issued from the ranks of the people. Well, then, take courage, and extend your Mind to the people who are the brothers of the French people. Do not allow Ink/ to be trampled under foot by the children of the north. The worm of your own power is a revolutionary source; bear it always in mind, and you shall be invulnerable.' I have now done, and my last words will be like tholes of the Procureur-Oeneral—a prayer. Yon will do your duty without passion and without weakness, and God, who judges the great of the earth—God, who !mauves all Littman actions, and weighs the lives of men In the balance of which our intel ligence and our hearts cannot have any obdurate notion— God, who views the sufferings of this man—hts anguish, and the thoughts which have ever agitated his spirit—the ardent passions which have ever tilled his heart—and will , perhaps, render to this intelligent and noble soul a pardon whic h, In their weakness, men will not be able to extend to him. " M. Jules Fevre then resumed his seat. The imprardon peu dared by these Let words wee so great, that several minutes elapsed before the Court was collected enough to call oa Y. Nugent Bt. Laurens, Pierre counsel. We ( Galignon i) regret to learn that Marshal Beers* though he has recovered all his metal betake, moat= for the preetent paralysed in one aids, sail be. caner ttiettly wed of constant medical attendance. The committee ordered by the Emperor of the Preach to prepare for publication the Comespondenos of Na poleon the Yirst is about to Moue the Bret volume of Its la bours. The Emperor hinmelf ha. revised the prom This Bret volume is said to contain a great number of hitherto un known documents. The French government has decided that all pass ports for France shall be finally field by a French consular (Acid. At Dover and Folkestone the French consuls are, we believe, both Englishmen, and hence arms considerable inconvsniesos to persons who reach the Gnat from the in terior, and who rely upon finding a French consul at either of than porta.7Press. Gaao . ral Sicandor Hushmut Bahadoor, brother of the KM( of Owls, died on Tuesday bat, at ten :minutes after ten o'clock p.m, after a short but severe illness. On Thursday the Rev. John Dufton was instituted to the vioarage of Bred&ld St. Andrew, in Suffolk, on the presentation of the Queen. Naw REFORM ASSOCIATION FOR LITERPOOL.— The splay and officialism of the ea-dialed Reform Association of Liverpoolhaveinduced the mom prominent resident liberals to take Nap to form an active and energetic, political sego dation, wbioh shall take up and discuss political subjects with earnestness and sinosritT, and so promote the spread of liberal principles with doe vigour. A preliminary misting will beleld on Monday next. _ _ EQUALISATION OF THE POOR-EATZS.—THE CITT OP LONDON Umow.—Lest night a meeting of the parishes comprised in the City of London DID OD was held at Johason's Assembly-roams, Sermon-lane, Dutton'-commons, for the purpose of obtaining an moslisation of the poor-nibs and a uniformity of assessment throughout the metropolitan district, when a deputation from the Metropolitan Association attended. Alderman Sidney, M.P. ma to have presided, in his absence Mr. Fowler took the chair, there being present several infinentisl gentlemen connected with the TWINY perishes. Herniations similar to those adopted at other meetings in verities parts of the metropolis upon the is staled wen agreed to. It was slated that the rates in 1832 in the pariah of St. George, Hanover•square, were Is. Bd. in the posed, when in the same y ear they were 2a. Bd. in the pound in the perish of St. Anne, in the City of London union, and that in 1862 the rates in the former parish were 65., an in the latter 6e. in the pound. Petitions were adopted b both homes of parliament. THE LIVERPOOL LABOURERS' DWELLINGS DOM r•Ny.—ADOODit b the annual report of this company, established with view of supplying dwellings of an ire. L.Tdose kw artbans, the receipts from rent and interest ylier were 4131. 10s. 2d., out of which a dividend of 3* per cent. was declared. The manners of the dividend is so combed for hem the toot that the buildings were only ready for ommatise blow lost. and from the badness of trade. LUNAR Ecttran.—This evening (Saturday) the moon will be partially eclipsed, the whole phenomenon being risible In London. The fret contact with the earth's dark shadow will take pima at 9h. Iftm., Greenwich tiros; the last contact at Ilh. 17m. About the middle of the eclipse, at 10b. 14m., one-third of the diameter of the moon will be immersed in the shadow, the obscured portion being silents on the 'anthem or lower part of the disc. The next eclipse of the moon visible in England will take place on the morn bg of February 7, 1880. WAR-onus, FEn. 24.—The Queen has been Mim3y pleased to make and ordain a special s t a t u t e o f th e Haeourable Outer of the Bath, for the appointment of FiltaOtilth Jenkins and Captain John Willi am Y oung , b ladiaa Navy, to be Extra Members of the Military of the Third Clare, or Companions of the Moat Honourable Order of the Bath.—Oerefte. Fes. Queen has bean Frtdarned to appoint Luaus Charles Otway, Nag., o 7 be be, Xelosty's Minton Plentseatiary to the Mdabia Newblio ; Jobe &rile Lumley, , to be flame tag ip her Winer 111 Landon , at c blattrid ; ontagwicala =DY 111 ;11 16 . i t:b il e a barar4a Connal asa t Riga ; Mind leviap-awilt, Nag., to be bee Ma'am?' Comsat at ; Cltito Rea. Sawed Alfred John Haith RN A !d ei st Coment•Omeral for the hoariest Coasts of the Baa; Calomel Joint Unto's Arabia Shamosta, to be bar bima Oattmd-gateral of Illamw • Kr. Jacob Warta ros.al at i y=r Ibe Prue liaLmatio City dilemma ; and Kr. ma Conant at Caps Town, for Um Fria ilasmatio Harabargb.-0000. INDIA. (PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) CALCUTTA. lAN. 23. _ _ Two missionaries lately returned to Dacca from visiting towns and villages in Eastern Bengal in dif ferent directions. It is the first tour they have made since the commencement of the mutinies. They say that the _people were quite glad to see them back among them again, and were most re spectful in gener al . Some of the Mymensing Ma homedans were, however, an exception to this good report ; they openly declared that it was " the Company's order that there was to be no preaching.* In Furreedpore, some of the peo ple wanted the missionary to write his name on the books and tracts he gave, just as the native bankers ask people to write their names on the back of a bank-note, in order that if they got into trouble with the magistrate for having these books, they might be able to prove whence they procured them. Bengalee ryots are no politicians: they care little whether it is the Queen, or the Company, or the Bing of Delhi that is the ru ler of the country. Aa for the xemin dare to the eastward of Calcutta, they have grown up under our rale, and have never known any other ; they know that if we were smashed they would be smashed also—in fact, that they would be the very first persons attacked and squeezed. There are some of the old Mahomedan families still in Mymensing, but they are represented almost entirely by old women or worn-out debauchees. As for the ese, they poison themselves with opium ; and so long as they can be sure of a /apply of that drag, there is little probability of their turning against us. The feeling prevalent in Eastern Bengal is it will be seen, entirely different from that which Las been universal in the westward. This may be ac counted for in many ways, but two reasons appear most prominent: the one is the difference of race • the other, the sudden annexation and the sube e ! quent znal-administration of Onde. There can be no doubt that the insurrection hes been an Onde in- surrection—that it wu conceived by Oude noble men, and carried into execution by Oude Sepoys. These men are the very opposite of Bengalee ryota. Strong in body, proud in the compactness of their organisation, they believed themselves able to obtain by a sadden insurrection the mastery of India. But the question still remains, how did they imbibe the idea? The annexation would not seem at • first glance to be the real cause, and yet, if we dive beneath the surface, and examine the system of administration adopted by us subse quently to the annexation, we shall see sufficient to induce the belief that the " landed interest" of Oude did not revolt without some kind of reason. I must, in giving you a slight sketch of our system, premise that the first thing to be done after annex ing a territory is to make a settlement of the estates, and of the country generally. In making a settle ment, the first thing is to fix the boundary, then to measure the lands, then to classify them according to their goodness or badness, then to fix the demand per acre: the aggregate makes what is called the " jumma" of the village—that is, its full assessment. Too heavy an assessment rains the country, whilst too light a one injures the interests of the state, whose finances in this country arc not elastic but fixed. Now the Oude settlement made the people disaffected, not on account of over-amesment, but because it was moskunjust, not on the village proprie tary body, but on the " Talookdars " or feudal barons. These latter had held Magee as their own for twenty, thirty, forty, even seventy yews, and yet in our settlement of the country the proprietary right was in two-thirds of the cases taken from them, and bestowed upon men who called themselves the real and ancient proprietors (putteedars), but whom the barons called tenants at will. In this way great injustice was done, and in every division but one, in which the government officer was conscientious enough to oppose the views of government, the barons were shamefully despoiled and ill-treated : in favour of whom ? Why, of the very class from which the Sepoys are enlisted, whose gratitude we failed to gain, whose pride and arrogance we caused to in crease, whilst we embittered against us that great class of feudal barons who, under a different mode of would have been our mainstay against the &spivs. In fact, the Government be haved with respect to the settlement of Oude just as the parliament of England would behave, if they were to pass an act by which the monasteries and abbeys of England were to be restored to their ancient owners—the monks ! Would not the house of Russell feel itself injured and aggrieved at such a decision ? Another anomaly also existed —one, too, which shut out from the aggrieved party every hope of justice, except th►t which might be obtained by an appeal to arms. It will scarcely be believed, that the official who regulated the settlement presided also at the court before which settlement cases were tried. And yet it was so. The only remedy for the aggrieved party was the Civil Court, where the offi cer who tried and settled the case as magistrate would re-try it as judge. I will instance the case of the greatest proprietor and the most powerful landowner in Onde, the notorious Mann Sing. It is a fact that by the settlement introduced by the British authorities after the annexation of Onde, Mann Sing had more than two-thirds of his vil lages taken from him, which he and his father had held for from twenty-five to forty years, on the plea that the conveyances held by him had been forcibly taken from the putteedars. Had he not cause for wishing the overthrow of • power by which he bad been disgraced and despoiled? And yet when the revolt broke out Maun Sing for a tune stood aloof. But when no promises were made on our side to restore his jaghires until after he had compromised himself, and on the other mast tempting offers were made him, it is not to be won dered at that he took the bird in the hand, and accepted the sovereignty of Oude for the time being. It was not for want of warning on the part of several of the best civil officers of govern ment that the power and influence of Mann Sing were lost to us in the crisis of the fate of India. It was only when the government heard that he was going that larger offers were made him, and it was then too late. The case of Mann Sing is the ease of others ; the heart of the most influential class in Oude was embittered against us, whilst the Sepoy class, in whose favour we legis lated, saw in that concession but another symptom of weakness on our part. It is, perhaps, too late now to demand justice for these men; they have cast in their lot against us, and they must take the eon sequences. It should be borne in mind, however, that Oade, unjustly annexed, and then unjustly and impoliticly governed, has been our great weak ness throughout this struggle. The Maharajah of Guatior has arrived at Agra, and has been well received ; is one of those who saved India—thanks to LoarMllenborough's policy. Of the memorable defence of Lucknow (says the Literary °meta) there will be no lack of =then* historical records. The despatches of the pliant oommander of the garrison and of the chief engineer have already made lotown the main events of the siege. A journal kept by Capella Anderson, MA., is annoemeed for publication by Mears. Thacker and Spink ; another journal, by a staff officer, is in the hands of Messrs. Smith and Bider; a third journal is from the pen of a medical officer; end a fourth, by a civilian, Mr. L. B. Rees, is preparing for publication by Mama. Longman and Co. It is not improbable that the example of Lady Sale in as:rutin the dehisce' of Jellaistad will be followed also by some of the heroic leas of Lucknow. The Paris Moniteur announces that the Senate adopted on Thu/relay, by a majority of 135 to 1, the new Penal Law on Public Safety. The single dissentient le said to be Ganael iffsessehoa. He pounded his opposition on the eassesUtutioesl °hamster of the law, and I. stated to hove sopoosood We regret that a measure which he ors- Wowed fold &could tap brought forward. . . Ws (Loader) have Weird with deep and einem* regret that there is no probabnity el Mr. Cobden's saceptlng a art In parliament for a land thee to now Domenic afilletionn o erne upon another, conspire to prevent Inn fres Wag ear satire pert In publio brims. Is the =Win Maas of the Mural party in the house, r oontased and In. cabana fa Ile prinelpla and Its psnonal tehowlage, the prunes pd authority of Mr. ;Bright's tradlliessl eaopeer weeM be hit le ea mart et a policy, and a piedge of tn depshiemee sod whew* I ON MX ISAAC 11111278 Oda. (THIS IM Y.) The committee re4seembled this morning, cad et the proddeney of 8k J. Graham. An application was made from Mn. Parr, through dig Edward Codrington, praying that she might ►ave an oppor• tunny of removing the aspersions which hid been throw& upon her character. The Chairman said the committees would hear her towards the dose of the inquiry. Mr. Vernon Smith, - M.P., late President of the Bard of Control, was then called. He said that during his teame ef aloe he had several conferences with Mr. Butt relating to the claims of Ali Moored. In August, 1868, Mr. Batt told him in the House of Commons that he intended to bring for. ward the subject, and in 1867 Mr. Batt moved for p•pm. The general substance of the oonfarenoss was that Mr. Butt took a very strong view of the albite of the Ameer, and urged that the government about take • favourable view of them. Sir Fitzroy Bally put a adios on the books oonatantly through the seal= of 1867 relating to All Moored. He did not recollect that Mr. Butt ever spoke of a oompromiss, but hs urged that the lands of which the Ameer had been deprived should be restored to him. Mr. Butt said he thought t would be unwise to allow the matter to be brought before park a and to proclaim to the public that there was diaaffeodan amongst the native primes of India. A draft lettat on the subject of the Arceer's claims was sent from the Bad India Company to the government, sad under his direction, as President of the Board of Control, it was in some way altered. When he came into office the question of the Amen had been settled. He believed the Ameer had been guilty of the offence charged upon him—that of a i M is the treaty—but he thought the punishment which been inflicted upon him by the Court of Directors wu excessive, and that the Amer having behaved well for seven or eight years, there would be same mitigation of punish. meat. It was certainly one of the inducements held out to Ali Moored, that if he would go out to India the authorities there would be ready to listen to him. He (the witness) had interviews with the Ameer on the subject. The Ameer never expressed any opinion to him In regard to the character of Coffey. At • subsequent date Mr. Coffey wrote to him to vin dicate his character, but he mangy acknowledged his letter, and savored him that he had nothing to do with the matter._ _ _ 167Doury11; bad always considered that the matte was prinoipally in the bands of Sir Fitzroy Kelly. It IFIN Tultdby All Moored himself that he should go ont to oldy, in order that he might do all he could for Nu En government the critical state of that country. y the Chairmen—He believed he was the first Preddid of the Board of Control who endorsed a mitigation the punishment inflicted upon the Ameer. He intro:Mod the Queen of Dude to the Queen, contrary to the vesissa if the Court of Directors, as he wished to show is much respect as possible to the native princes of India. He con sidered that when he went to the Board of Control he went there to enemies his own judgment. Did the committee wish to review his decisions f Sir J. Graham—Certainly not. Altar a few sceneral questions from Mr. Bonvoie. Mr. Bright, Mr. Serpent Kinglets, and other nsienban of Os oommittee, which elicited no facts of importance, Sir J. Graham thanked Mr. Vernon Smith for his attendance. end the right hon. gentleman retired. The oomzeittee then proceeded with the examination cd other witness.. HOPE GRANTS PROMOTION. (Pros lest night's avails). HOZAE•GUARDS, 8.W., FEN. 26. The Queen has been graciously pleated to. com • mead that Colonel /SAM Hope Grant, 1E.C.8., of the 9111 Lancers, be promoted to the rank of major•general in the army, in cossequiries of his animal seniors in command of the Cavalry Divialon at the siege of Delhi ; and in that of s division at the relief of Lucknow, under General Sit Colin Campbell, 0.C.8. ; also in the subsequent operations at Cswnpore, when the rebel army sustained a total defeat.— By order of his Royal Hirtbnem the General Commanding- G. A. WarzawA, Adjutent-GenereL The Counter FllllllOOll %Megrims and Mr. Hu wart, M.P., entertained at dinner on Thursday evening. at their riddance In Carlton-gardens, hie Eros Unary the Mn hairdo, of Frame and the Combine de ParsMEP, his Exaelhaey the flardlalen Minister, Coont Briudimberg, the Marquis sad Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl Gres vale, the End and Comm' of Shelburne, the Zed end Comatose of Bessbevongh, lb. CUs of Shaftesbury, Variant and Viloooildell Pabiewskin, the Right Has. Sidney Hahn seed Mrs. fierbert, and the Hon. Frederic& Iyag. Idea easing the eatatese ustertained at Amer the Marcie sad Marobiceses of Clemluirde, Made Mar- Women of Magary, the Yet sad Cemeres flay, Mr Malan and Lady Peny, Sir David Dimino, Mr. Mamba Fortuna, and Mr. Hayward. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CONVICTION AND SENTENCE OF THE ACCUSED. oz simian AND lIIDNALINI rimsensri.) (sari ors OWN 001111PONDIORT.) PAIIIB, Fauxty Emma, 8.46 r.m. Judgment has just been pared upon the accused. Orsini, Pieri, and Audio are found guilty and sentenced to capital punishment as parricides. Gomez is found guilty, but under circumstances of extenuation, and sentenced to penal servitude for life. The accused said nothing. FRANCE. t (11011 OVZ OIM 00111SPONDZIM) PAWS, TIVIIDAILT ETIZINO. The Court of Assizes was se full se it well could be without inconvenience... Lord Cowley, Marshal Me ' M. , gnarl, General Fleury, M. Dosin, and fit. Georges (of the imperial printing-offioe , were among the com as the bench behind the judges. The members of Council of the Order were the only advocates NAN those engaged in the cause) who were ad adtted without tickets. At twenty minutes past 10 the four prisoners, guarded, as usual, by gendarmes, took their seats in the dock in the following order: 1, Gomez ; 2, de Radio ; 3, Orsini ; 4, Pieri. Gomez appears about 30 years old. He has a mild expres sion of countenance, rather fresh colour, long light brown hair, and no beard. He was welt dreni in black, with black kid gloves, and appeared very sem He does not look at all like a servant, but his appearance is leas diatingui than that of the ethic three, who have evidently been brought up as gentlemen. De Rudio has a large head with a rower jaw strongly developed, and - a very deter mined expression of countenance, yellowish com plexion, thick black hair, with mustachios and im perial of the same colour. He is a strong made man, with large high shoulders. He was dressed in black; age 23. He appeared very calm. Orsini, the princird prisoner, is a man of middle height (40 years old), with hair tinning grey and very much off his forehead, and large and very black whiskers. He has an aq *tuline nose, piercing black eyes, a small well-chiselled month, ve teeth, and a pale complexion. He was we ll, with a black frock coat and black kid gloves. He 'peaks French fluently, but with a strong Italian accent. On coming into court he looked round with a certain degree of curiosity, but without betraying the least emotion. Pieri is 50 years old. He has short bristly black hair, and wears an entire beard, which is rather grey. He has large feature*, and a countenance expressive of great determination. Like the other prisoners he was dressed in black. It was remarked that both he and Omni held their heads erect, with a haughty, undaunted air. A few seconds after the introduction of the pri soners President Delengle and the other judges took their seats on the bench. After the us u al ques tions to the prisoners touching their names, ages, and professions, the long acte d'aecusation was read, and occupied the court till past 12 o'clock. The sitting was then suspended a short time. On the judges returning into court, Gomez was interrogated by President Delangle. His answers may be summed up to this effect:—That ho was not responsible for the act with which he was charged • he had only obeyed orders without knowing the Object of them. (Orsini was observed to smile during these expla nations.) De Radio said he war sent to Paris by Bernard ; that when he arrived there, but not before, the pro ject of the assassination was confided to him by Orsini ; that he agreed to come into it, becapse, had he refused, he feared that he should have been treated as a spy, and perhaps assassinated. Orsini said that when he found that Napoleon had it in his power to do so much for Italy, and had used it against her, the idea came into his head to act the part of Brutus, and that it was a right thing to kill the man who had killed the liberties of his country. He repeatedly said that he would not say a word against his fellow-prisoners, and that he regretted anything which, in a moment of anger, might have fallen from him against them. He an swered with apparent candour all that concerned himself, but did in fact refuse to answer every question touching his confederates. He showed great firmness throughout. He took credit to himself for the part he had played in the Roman Republic. He said that liberty ought to be based upon courage and constancy, and not upon easeasination. Whether Italy was to be republican or not, he said that she must, first, and above all Wage,. be independent. Pieri answered loosely, and often wandered from the questions. He denied everything, and said that he only came to Paris to see his son. The shell found upon him had, he said, been, given him by , Orsini to take care of, he not knowing what it was. He had a rendezvous with Orsini on January 14, at a Cafe Chantant, and it was on his way there that, attracted by a crowd near the Opera, he went quite by accident into the Rue Lepelletier, where a policeman arrested him before the explosion. The above information I have from an eye-witness. The official and censured report will not appear till to-morrow. Four barristers were arrested yesterday. Ido not know whether as suspects or crpectants. M. Landrin and another member of the council of the order have remonstrated with the Prefect of Police. The Bourse has been heavy, without any striking feature. The Rents fell sc. for cash, and 15c. for account, closing at 69.50 and 69.45. Mobilier fell 10f. Railways were from 2.50 to tif. and 10f. lower. PARIS, Fars ►Y Ennings. Although the official report of yesterday's pro-1 endings at the Assize Court states that the exami nation of witnesses we. terminated yesterday, two were examined at the opening of the court to-day. The girl Hartmann, who had been Pieri's servant at Brussels, stated that he told her he was going to Paris for an affair which might cost him his head, if it did not succeed ; and he accompanied the statement by a significant gesture. Taylor was afterwards called, sad he deposed that he received an order for six shells from a Mr. Smith, an ironfounder. He did not know what they were wanted for. His idea was that they were intended to be used in war. He made six, of which three were larger than the others. He gave them to Allsop. Mazzoni, an Italian, called at the request of l'ieri, said that he was Minister of the Interior in Tuscany in 1848 and 1849, and that he never heard of the facts reproached against Pieri, when he was a captain of Benaglieri. M. Chair d'Est Ange, the Procureur-General, then made his speech for the prosecution. It was of course extremely eloquent, but, for reasons already explained, I am unable to give any report of it. He warmly argued that extemating circum stances could not be admitted in the awe of any or either of the prisoners. His speech was finished at half-past twelve. The counsel for the defense did not propose to be long, and the trial will, I believe, certainly conclude this evening. Prince Adam Czartoriski and his son were amongst the company on the bench this morning. M. Dusautoy, the Emperor's tailor, who lives at the corner of the Rue Lepelletisr, is one of the jury. The Bourse was again heavy. The Rents fell 26c. for cash and 10c. for account, closing at 26c. and 69fr. 35c. Mobilier fell 10fr. The Lyons Railway fell 10fr. and the other lines front 2fr. 50s. to bfr. Aemmate from Cacetantisople of the 10th ea aseme lir death of Aimed Pia* asuaniiiisf sift OW rima Mary. _ __________,......l PABEIONB 708 NABOB. (From L. Ibi ie.) For ball dresses, very light materials are most in favour, such as gauze, tulle, and tarlatans. Sanaa, moire antique, sad velvet are mere suitable for concerts, dinner% or walking dress. Tulle drones are now frequently cm. broddered in gold and silver, and trimmed with a ball fringe of steel, gilt, or white ink, which has a very pretty effect oat double or triple skirts. In full dress, sleeves are worn very short. If the dress of gauze or tulle, they are bonillonnfes ; if of velvet, or say other thick material, they are made in two parts : as, a bouillon of tulle, with a jockey over it, to match the dress. Sometimes the bertha is of lace, and falls over the sleeve, entirely covering it. With drapery bodies, no bertha is worn. Visiting dresses are made of bright colours, even in velvet, which is becoming a very fashionable material for morning dress. A new and charming colour In this article is the gria•modee. We have men a dram of this colour made with a double skirt, the upper one trimmed with a plaiting o taffeta'. Notwithstanding the continual changes in ;fashion, the plaiting d la vieille is always en vogue in some part or other of the toilette. If it is no longer worn on the robs, we And it on the bonnet; then again we And it on the dries, the sleeves, the &btu", the mantokaa of all kinds, and just now we and it everywhere. It is used to trim the skirts. The sleeve the most dla mode for velvet or silk deuce with high or square bodies is the pagoda—alee of naiad memory—with its plaiting 1 la vieille on the revers, with another plaiting forming • second revers. The body with the same trimming, forming • round pelerine. The burnous Is still worn, and also long basquines of silk, and velvet shawls trimmed with lace and jet ; but the greatest novelty is • large plain velvet mantle, very long be. hind, and terminating in front, in two points, with tassels. The hood is very narrow and long, and ornamented with three graduated tassels. Drawn are made very long behind, almost forming • train ; and short enough in front to show the feet. The bodies of many dresses are made without bisque% having rounded paints both before and behind. Ems these are separate from the skirt. Very little trimming is used on the sleeves of walking dresses. They are man very wide—sometimes out up on the under side—and are freguezt e ly lined with white Wk. ta are worn closer at the sides and Ism behind than they were at the beginning of the esreeM although there is not much novelty yet in =creiers r b misterld, we have selected some good modals for our One of pink velvet, plaited from the front to the mo wn, which Is made of ruchings of narrow blonde. The covered with wide blonde reaching beyond the edge, and trimmed at the aides with bunches of pink and white mars bouts. The curtain trimmed with • velvet fold, edged with blonde. Blonde cap, with three bunches of rosebuds placed et the left side. -- A capote of terry velvet and white taffetas in squares, co. reed with blonde and crape, with others (transparentic white and Neck blonde. From the edge • black lace io over the cap. Sloping rrown of whits crape, covered with three smell barbs. of black lace, from under which, on the left ride, le teen a large bunch of grass velvet narcissus. A bowl.t of white royal velvet was trimmed with a fold of plaid velvet round the front and curtain. Round the =Wit was twisted a plaid cord, ending in two long tassels. Blonde cop, with bandeau of plaid telvet i endl i n i. g in tame* placed= the opposite side to those on the mm A very simple bonnet for a young lady was of whit* "t arranged in wide plaits from the back the front. The to only trimming to this bonnet ins a wide plaiting, i Is viaille, of rich white satin, carried across the middle of the bonnet and round the curtain. A small bow of white blonder on the top of the curtain and in the cep. Amongst the most ch.rmlng wreaths, was one of mar Mho ; another of geraniums and gold wheat-ears ; and s third of white grape mixed with diamond stars. Nor must we forget to mention one formed with bunches of white lilac mixed with rock coral. Feathers are also worn for evening coiffures; but flowers, or Trollies of gold, coral, or pearls, are more in Weer. SALE OF ENGLISH PICTURES AND WATER Ocmoutte.—Yeseseday Hesse's. Foster sold at the Gallup, 64, Pall-mall, a oollection of water-colour drawings, seeders English t.ea, end other works of art, some of oossider• able Wrest. them were several votter-coleue L ndscapes by David such as ths "Montag, Haw to Mffirks" sad the "Baton Home, Rainy Weather" vbk teethed guineas and 12 guineas res pectively ; the draw. tag of War," by Derby, after Landecer, 31 guineas; "Hai. dos Hall," David Cux, 48 guineas; "Flemings from t Sea, 'b7 J. WWY. H. Turner, 60 guineas; "Amiens C by David Rebate, 37 gupiess; 'A View in G " Zen , / Stanfield, 36 sec The Approaching Storm," by Goodall, 37 plasm; "The Great Fin et the House at Leads,' by 41 guineas; " Courtship In Itrit , tazy„. 170 guineas; "Lake of Como," sad Lake t4rli r ivae " brdarbiyr4D34 gdaam . Coo, 99 ;It; Sane ‘ t ' a Ci tZ Hill," by LinneU, 185 guineu ; " Fallow Dew," by Anoka, 77 pines' " SabWh Morning," by A. Johnson, 64 • " Meeting of Weltingtoa and Blather at Waterloo,. F i rerk:lff, 120 pupate ; and " Nelson at the Battle of Ole Vincent," by Barksr,llo guineas BALI OF RAM PORCELAIN. Yesterday Mr. Phillips sold at 73, New Bond-street, a valuable coast:kw of tae odd Y oriental poreelain, bronzes, carved ivory mad sess oak eminget which were also a magnilloent vase of gra m jade, carved with korai, horses, and tress, which sold he 641. • a bowl of the same ateiseiel sold for 431.; • s jag ' sad cover of the some, NI. ; s bowl cd o u Cttl apt*, 211. • a very large and Sae tem of elite jade, 611.; erinnl other remsrhsbls weglatest of F done ..aerial sad werboaaildp. PICTURES AT !RR POURDLING ItOSTFIALr•The mama d the " Wader of the Innocents," 11 11 0 114 bl Raphael, bee bees waseoved from the National Gamy le the Feemilief u ßs:tal. Haring him begesethed to that Is. Whalen Prints Ream It wee hat Is do imam of the Nallemel MO, on the mispeendic Roa m " . to be Mama wham wagered. The albs 1.012 apprapeleted • room the wateplimialllf ether wade at ert beleetplag le the Imeallilb , =the Raphael areas newel to than teeplikeel B S ii Rarsahle, eadelkor peleine:ef ashaslos well lin some wedge in aweilie seelltrierek. This gallery, Agree WI by Is peapembd, be in future acceietble le •ine ollaftaelha oceeditkoa,—littra.