The Express. — London, England, 1862-03-13 00:00:00

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Altersoss. ob. ISaa. To-imano• —Monis Aflanow. I. BM. LONDON, TRURNDAY, MARCII 13. Tat Marriages of Affinity Bill, designed to re move the k c al impediment to marriage with • deceased wife's sister, was spin before the Hoses of Commons yesterday, when Mr. Mosoavois Moms moved its committal. After speecbsein its favoorby Mr. BALL, NY W. JOLLITY; and Mr. Gazosios ; and others against it, by Mr. Harr, Mr. Laws, sud Mr. Messina., the motion was rejected by a majority of 32 in a House of 264. The Bill, therefore, is lost for the present Session. This result makes one more appeal to that virtue of patience in which reformers in all ages are abun dantly exercised. A year's labours are lost, and soother year's work he+ to be done. It is a task which foe many incidental yet Important reasons we should gladly have been spared ; but the in terests involved are many and very precious. .Justice has to be done to thousands of innocent children of virtuous parents cruelly stigmatised by an arbitrary law. The honour of pure families wantonly assailed must be vindicated. And if these motives were not strong enough, others would be found in the arrogant pretensions which have been set up to subject the consciences of Chris tian men to the judgments of mcdizeval canonista, or the private interpretations of divines. The sentiment of civil and religious liberty must die out in England before a course so tyrannical as that of the defenders of the present law can be pursued without uniting men in resolute opposi tion. That course has been characterised by a meanness and unscrupulousness never found in dealing with questions simply political, and is to be traced directly to the infusion of the ecclesias tical spirit. The opponents of Mr. Muoira's Bill appear to have thought it decent to attempt to cover its supporters with moral opprobrium. Although the free churches of the land have re peatedly petitioned for the repeal of the existing prohibition ; and although ode-and twenty bishops and two archbishops of the Established Church have declared that, in their opinion, there is no scriptural prohibition of these marriages, they have sought to attain their end, the petty end of imposing their own opinion as the rule of the lives of others, by alarming the consciences, and wounding the honourable susceptibilities of women. The manly spirit of the country will know bow to deal with such dastardly attempts. One of the first consequences of these tactics will be that every man-child born of these marriages will inherit the duty of avenging the honour of his parents by requiring a repeal of the law which has wantonly placed it in question. A resolution of a meeting of Scotch Presby terians against Mr. Mt L,N GM'S Bill has been appealed to by a contemporary as an argument for its rejection. It seems that both the established and free Kirks hold that marriage with a deceased wife's sister is condemned in Leviticus. Dr. t'errou.o has expressed a hope that "the " Presbyterian f'hurches would have the firm " nem to exercise discipline in spite of this ap " prehendint law," though he admitted that this course would he attended by " circumstances of " extreme difficulty and delicacy." We hope that not only the Presbyterian Churches, but all the churches in this realm, will severally have the courage to nunetain their authority in matters of relignsii, irrespective of civil laws which intrude into the domain of conscience. But let the Presbyterians be content with spi ritual freedom and independence, and not seek furce their convictions by legal disabilities on bodies of Christians whom divines con strue Leviticus otherwise than they. Is it not • mean and shameful thing that Dr. Cssiittsm and his colleagues, members of • free and self-govern ing religious body, should petition Parliament to forbid members of the Church of England and English Dissenters to contract marriages which the Bishop of Limnos, and Dr. HOUK, and Joan WICILIT, and Mr. 8,-rasv him declared not to be contrary to Scripture, bet expedient and favour. able to morality I Goo save every Christian State from having its laws dictated by its CANDLUIMIFJ4 ! sue word of well-merited acknowledgment. Mr, M..N. ei,.e Marie.. deserves the thanks of all fnerels of liberal legislation. He has conducted this cause in Parliament with equal skill and courage. It is not through his fault that the Bill has nut been carried. The measure is, however, only undergoing the ordinary trials and vicissitudes of all returns% and we trust he may reap the honours of its assured ultimate triumph. The Duke of Somerset will hold levees at the Admiralty foe the reception of of icets of the Reyal Navy os the followtiot TI steles', at 2 o'clock :—March 27, Aura .1 and 10, Mae $, 11, and «. einem wishing to attend AI, requested to w.sert their LAMM, stating their met and seniority, either mrsonally Of through their agent', is a book left wdh the b. 41 porter for that purpose. Her Atwjr.ty the I ?items lIFL4 s{racioit%ly trans mitted so adthtioctal enottnbution of 501. io aid ul the foals of th. Royal NatiormlLifebost lostitutioo. The Pn.v.et mei Fellow,' of Eton College have elected the Eight Rev. Jam.. Chapman, 1).1)., late Lord Bastiop of ('olumbo, to the fellowship mothred meant by the a pp d atmeet of the Rey. Edward Ralston to the mai mastership of the school. M re, ott Ti THE LATE Ma. ROBERT EITIEPHIN.. wgi. C. E. A beautiful memorial in the ferns Of a " bents" hen been let into the nays of Westminster Abbey, midway between the western earn.", and the choir screen, to the memory of the above distiognished engineer, who, it will be remembered, me interred near the spot in the latter parte( The memorial, which weighs 2;tons 2 cwt., is hoolered awl interlined with Corwin!' partite and braes, ow the bitter of which the decreed V represented in a stand ing position with his arms folded mess Ide bass& The foll.eing nth' inscriptions mad the true :—" Seared to the memory of Y r. Rohert Btepheeera, M.P.. D.C.L, Prescient of llos lodination alf Civil Eepiesess, who Aid via 12. le" Ted r 4; years. CITY or LOlllOOll COLLIDE, LEADINHALE-1111112T. —This eventsg, Mr. John Lubbock, R.S., be., will daiter a teeters on the " Pre historic Races of Mai it Northern rind I 'entral F.aripe." Mr. Marnisrluke B. a son will take the chair at 8 p.m. The Hater term will molester° ou !loader, the Wet aslant. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1862. PARUMMTABY DIVISION.--MAsem 12. IiAINIAOZII OF AFFINITY BILL Oeder fer arable. read ; makes are sod question pro. re* "rat Mr. Speaker do sow leave the chair s"— Ameadment to leave or from the word 'Mar to the of the ratio°, is order to add the weeds, " this leem will, upon thts day six mouths, re nt.. how ire the sad committee,"—(Mr. Iluot)—in steal treed :—Qeselios put, " That the words p to be loft ewe laud part of the f l osetsuo." Th. divided ; eyes, 116 ; sore, 11K. . . . . A I' ).:.1. A.Ltlr. H. E. Forster, t'. Monson. W. J. Atleause. B. J. l..rster, W. E klorrison, W. Agar. Ellis, L (I, I',,rtestne. F. D. North, F. Balky, C. Gal•sy, Vise. Oriole. ii. Ball. K Gard. K. S. PaJustre, K. Baring, Sir V. T. Gasket!, J. M. Paget. C. lianas. I 0,14, u. T. 31. Patasenton,Vlset. Bass. It.. T. Gilpin, C. Pasant, Sir J. Barley. T. tiolismitl„ Sir P. H. Peary. H. Hesontont, S. A. Cower, F. L. Peel, Sir R. Berkeley, C. P. Greene, J. Pet, str S. 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Henniker, Lord Ficister•Dooth, G. Henske, W. U. Scott, Lard IL Hobos-aide Vlact. Scott, itr W. Hopero, d, J. T. Selwyn, C. J. Hubbard. J. G. Shirley, I. P. Hussheraton, P. 8. Smith, Abel Jertnyn, Karl Smith, L 0. Johnson, J. S. ismollat, P. B. Johnstooe. J. J. Sonia, J. Kckewich, S. T. Stuart, IL.CoI. W. King. J. K. Sullivan, lL Kinnard, L F. Thynna, lard H. K natchbull, W. P. Toreros, IL Knox, Major S. Traits* C. H. Leigh. Major C. Trollops. Mil. Leslie, W. Turner, C. Lindsay, Gen. Vandeleur, CoL LosiOlall, 11... Tenser, S Loran*, LAM Sir W. Versos, H. F. todL 0. Walcott, Admiral actslai P. i, T. Walker, J. IL but Walter, J. Malcohn. J. W. Wollaston, J. W. ll iali load J. Wilby, W. L 31irk. Wensyes, J. H. I. Mittord, W. T. Whitmore, 11. Mama W. Willoughby, Mr H. MorAgernery Mr G. Wood, W. Mardatinb Sir rC. Wyndham, P. Wynn, CuL , i. ogint rii i. Yorke, LT. litlndy. More. D. TELLEAL North, Colonel Bunt, G. W. Northcote,glrB. H. Luta, F. GIOIvY, 84 J. i:ane," 11;r7 lii W. bum oisles, A. Winks, T. laa, IC D. Dunlop, A . 11. Yre, C. 0. Duttoo, I. I. List. Sir J. IL lola wait, Maw Egerton, tar P. IL lyperloa. L C. =trar. lillpaa, I. lirrorraitiT. L Swim, L raw, Col lanpisr, Ur IL Farm J. Arepares, Er J. EU Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Maim 12. The Queen, accompanied by the Crown Princess of Prussia (Primate Hord). walked sad drove In the Howe Park thu merino!. Prince Alfred and the Princes. Alice arrived at Bucking ham Palace yesterday morning, attended by Lady Caroline Herrington , and Major Cowell. Prince Alfred paid visite in the afternoon to the Duke of Cambridge, at hie residence in Piccadilly, and to the Duchess of Cambridge, at her red. dance in St. James's Palace. The Princess Alice and Prince Alfred left Buckierham Palace about six o'clock on their return to Windsor autle. _ _ _ meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Om. mission for the Exhibition of 1851 wee held yesterday at the Privy Council-ofece. There were present—Dal Gran. rills (chairman), Lord Overstep., Sir A. Spearman, Bert., Sir C. W. Bilks, Bart., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Myr Bowing, C.B. (secridary). A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most How. Prissy Council held a mestiog yesterday in the Council Chamber for the consideration of a petition in the matter cl the Ordiseocs of the Scottish Universities Oomadesiosees with reference to St. Andrew's University, from William Foster White, the Treasurer, and one of the Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London—the President tad Governors of the hospital founded at the sole coats and charges of Thomas Guy, Esq.—Richard Beggallay, the Treasurer of the Royal Hospital at Bt. Thomas, ie South wark, faandal by King Edward VI., in the year 1553, for and on behalf of the Governors cif the same hospital ; the President, Vice•Praident, Treasurer, and Governors of the Middlesex Hospital. The Leda prompt were the Lord President, the Lord IChancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Right Him. Spen cer Walpole, and the Right Hoe. Robert Lowe, Mr. A. Helps, the clerk of the Privy Council, was present. The Attorney Getteral, the Sdicitor Ccuseral, and the Lotd Advocate of ricotlaud were iu atteodusoe upon their lordships. Sir Hugh Cairns was heard in support of the petitioners. The question at hone io this case in with respect to the expediesey and justice of an Ordinance issued by the ti.xstialt Univei cities Cominiminners, whereby facilities for obtaining Medical Degrees at the University of lit. Andrews aro gives to the medical students of University College and Kiug College. in London, to the prejudice of the medics students at the other Loudon hospitals. The petitioner submitted that her Majesty should withhold her approba tam Inns the ordinance, because HI calculated to raise a sew and artificial and unsound distinction between the exist* medical schools of London, and unduly to elevate the schools ►ttached ti University College ►wl King's Collage, at the expense of other schools of equal merit, of greater farm, of older standing, and of more stable too'. datioo. The Karl and Countess of Yarborough have left Portia-equare for Brock'ashy, Lincolnshire. The Earl awl Countess V.,110 !tut', family have arrived at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Frames Countess Wahlegravo has arrived in tears bean visiting the Duke and Duchene &Amide, at their small I. Worwicluhire. Vineount Peveosey, M.P., has arrived in town frees Brighton. Lord and Lady Wharucliffe arrived at their resi dual's is Cursou-street yesterday, from Torquay, for the some. --- Loral George and Lady Addles Manners come to town to-morrow from visiting the Duke of Rutland, ►t Bel. voir Castle, Leicestershire. The Speaker gave his fifth full-dress dinner last evening to the following members of the lower house : The Earl of Elective, tar Hon. Dudley Fortescue, the Hoe. G. Windsor Clive, the Hos. W. Careediab, Sir Graham Montgomery, Sir Frederic Smith, Lieutenant-Colossi Stuart, Major Hamilton, Mr. Barnes, Mr. Benyos, Mr. Maks, Mr. J. W. Buller, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. George Cobstt, Mr. De Pre, Mr. W. Evans, Mr. Cram Ewing, Mr. H. W. Petty, Mr. N. W. Duff, Mr. lievpte, Mr. Gore Lasetca, Mr. Lyan. Mr. W. Lee, Mr. W. Leslie, Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mr. Charles Wynne, Mr. W. Miller, Mr. T. Mills, Mr. Kitchell, Mr. Milford, Mr. Marrundoke Wyvill, Mr. Alder man !Many, Mr. Mnekinnon, sea., Mr. Warner, Mr. Alfred Dialese, and Mr. Henry Drury. The following were ea wroidably prevented from being present :—Lord Andover, Mr. L Aatrobua, the Hos. General Arbuthnott, Mr. Dm:, Captain dolliffe, Mr. C. P. Leslie, Mr. M'Cormeck, Mr. Reeds 2, and Mr. G. Phillips. Mr. Jones, of Pantglas., 3LP., and Mrs. Jones eatertaiaed yesterday at dinar., at their residence in Eaton square. the Earl and Counter of Leven, the Counties of Ddmose sad Lady Flamm Carry, Viscount Eversley and Hoe. Miss Shaw Lefevre, Lard Campbell, Sir James and Lady Edith Penniman, Right Hoe. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Hon. Sir James Scarlett. Mr. and Mrs. Erskine Wemyss, and Mr. Kennedy Erskine. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom ocra ows PARIS, WZDIRSDAY EVENING. M. Lambert (a Frenchman by birth) has been received by the Emperor in his character of envoy from the King of Madagascar, and has now gone to London. It is said that the Emperor has not made him any formal or positive answer to his demand for a French protectorate of Madagascar. There is much talk in court circles of an extra ordinary scene which occurred three or four nights ago at a brilliant acids given by the Princess Mathilde, at which the Emperor and Empress, the corps diplomatiquc, and several distinguished foreigners, including two aides-de-camp of the Em peror of Russia, were present. In the course of the evening the Emperor, Count Walewski, Count de Morny, and Count de Per signy formed a separate group of four, and were engaged in earnest conversation. At length some of the party talked so loud that there was a general whisper of "hush !" throughout the salons, and Count Walewski was distinctly heard to reproach Count de Persigny for having arrested a great many people without having taken the Emperor's pleasure on the subject. Count de Persigny replied, with much animation, that he had only fulfilled his duty conscientiously, that the matter was urgent, that he did not think it necessary to fatigue the Emperor with details of arrests which were necessary, and that moreover he took upon himself the full responsibility for everything that had been done, and that in this affair, as in every other, he was actuated by the sole consideration of his devotedness to the dynasty. While this dispute was going on the Emperor, as his custom is, looked on with inscrutable countenance, and said nothing. The rumours of a ministerial modification prevalent at the Bourse a day or two since, are probably traceable to the scene above described. The public continue to be as ignorant as ever as to the cause or pretext for the wholesale arrests which have been made. K Ganesco is still in custody, and, moreover, au secret. • K Jules Fevre, as batonnier of the Order of Advocates, has instructed several counsel to be ready to defend the political prisoners, and to hasten on their examination, so as to spare them unnecessary imprisonment as much as possible. The Bourse has been decidedly bad. The Rents fell 20c. for cash and 40c. for account, closing at the lowest prices of the day, 69fr. 1350. and 69fr. 60c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 50c. The Italian Loan was particularly heavy, and fell 60c. Railway% with the exception of a fall of Bfr. 75c. in Southern, re main with little alteration. There are Mill rumours of a ministerial crisis, and a tart phrase of M. Jules Favre's, that M. Fould's conversion was a success d'estime, meaning that it was a well-intentional failure, is much talked of. IL Lavalette, the new French Ambassador at Rome, has obtained from the Pope the release of a Corsican monk, who has lain three years in the Corneto prison for no more heinous offence than writing a pamphlet against the forced celibacy of priests. The Poles in Paris lately conceived the idea of making a national demonstration in front of the Russian embassy in the Faubourg St. Honord. The government, getting wind of the project, had 'as many as fifty Poles arrested, and sent in their names to Count Paul de Kisseletr, together with all the information which the police had obtained about them. Most of these prisoners were speedily released, with a caution to be more circumspect in future ; but I believe three or four still remain in custody. Baron James Rothschild has gone to Frankfort, to be present at the wedding of his fourth son Solomon, who marries a granddaughter of Meyer Angeline Rothschild. This is the seventh or eighth marriage between near ootwins in the great Israelitish PORTUGAL LISBON, Males 7. (Per steamer Tagus via ileuthaniatee.) The Minister of Marine has ordered the corvette Estephania to proceed to Africa, and protect the Portuguese colonies. The state of Angolo has rendered this measure highly necessary. On the 16th inst. the body of the late Infante John will be removed from the Church of the Jeronymites to the royal mausoleum of San Vincent in solemn funeral procession. The King has removed from Caxias to the Palace of Pedrongas. The new Minister of Finance, Seal:or Lobo d'Avila, is disposed in many respects to follow the policy of his predecessor. The lines of a new vessel of war have been laid down at the Royal Arsenal. The articles destined to be sent from Portugal to the Great Exhibition are now ready, and will be soon forwarded to Loudon by a direct steamer. The English barque Aid, of Bristol, bound from Liverpool to Jamaica, put in here on the sth, to land the captain and th►rteen of the crew of the British barque William Dailey, which foundered at sea on the 28th February, in lat. 39 deg. N., long. 17 deg. W. She was on her way from Moulmein to Cork with a cargo of timber. Her captain re ports that on the 20th ult. she encountered a ter rific gale and heavy seas, which carried away every thing and caused the ship to make water so that the crew were constantly employed at the pumps until they were rescued on the 28th. Her Majesty's steamship Investigator, bound for the coast of Africa, is still lying in the harbour, haviug been detained from proceeding on her voyage through stress of weather. The storms of wind and rain have somewhat abated. COMMERCIAL INT'ELLIGENCE. Exchange on London for this packet is quoted at 53k ; ou Paris, 532 ; Amsterdam, 42.50 ; Ham burg, 47.75 ; Genoa, 530. Mites Three per Cent., 48f ; Coupons, 481 ; Deferred, 43 ; Lisbon Bank, 555 milreia ; Oporto Mercantile Bank, 252 ; Oporto Commercial Bank, 252 niilreis. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, 31).acn 12. I His death, of course, was instantaneous. , AT LIVIMPOOL.—A new playground for the yinblie, fli";, PILOOREM4 OF Nero Z EALAND. —The first daily ' the Earl of Sefton, and tied with a gymnasium 1 1 newspaper, called the Otayu Daily News, has been started Melly, a gentleman s well known as the origiortor of Pa m is New Zealand, at Dunedin, in that colony, where a year drinking fountain', and for his philanthropic views. or two ago a couple of vessels in the harbour were regarded opened at the south end of Liverpool ou Tuesday. with interest ; between thirty and forty sea going vessels augural proceedings in connexion with the ground excitec '/. are now seen riding at anchor there. The number of pas. good deal of interest ; the Mayor, Mr. It. Hutchison. Pro''' seniors which arrived at that port during the month of and meet of the leading and influential gentlemen of Med* " Argus," of the Past, who is staying at Rome, I October last was upwards of 8,000. The customs revenue triot attended. Mr. Melly, in the course of an aid^ 'i writes on the did :—"The Pope, I have reason to believe, I has greatly increased at the port. Four 'hundred Cotawold said, " All playgrounds are only experiments for the tir: ( l when he does retire from here, has selected Malta for and Leiaester sheep had been imported into Otago from being, and on the experiment now being made in 1. • !//11‘, 1 Ms retreat, which, for facility of access, and various b O y bego the w inaf to poordwethhaeifilbeongr of Commerce . as recommended depends the "access of th e playgrounds all over beet ! Remember, therefstra t that the eyes of Epeeist ini!.°l other reasons, would bean appropriate one. And his steam yacht, which lies at eivita Vecchia, would easily place Tim T (Soul • ?pen you. and Engia will expect you to carry out thai , r' .. ! mother respects the English haivicorking, booed.. t , 7, smr) . I - MAMmumtoinEM4BAsiN:LIIN memorial m C o O rial M Migß au l d ON proted of him beyond the reach of his enemies in a few hours. But . owners an d own i er . of wiping' an d other property oft the paned has invariably done." In acknowledging a vote o f toa' wew for the state of public affairs, hie Holiness, I hear, is 1 Surrey ride of the Thames has been presented to the can- 1 of which ' littedllA"showed rpool AtTeletie Club , lia': some efeoref the protium most desirous of undertaking a pilgrimage to Jerusalem ; ' miseionen, setting forth that, between Lambeth Palace and . _ ___ ~_?..„ „ _, ,_._ __ _____, _ _,_,„_, out. m a and, as far as his heal th is concerned, there is nothing to Sou th wark-bridge, there are 8 0 wharves , in separate occupa- Ipp T'llitelwirsilnrode:ao4777byF.eZZieeet,,,, ,o 1 a Mr of extensive trades, besides tae- e'aluee‘ Mop him. To the English gentry who were presented to tr u ,C es. rn iag g e eer a n . o d buildings rising directly from the I velop ter quoted the words of Rousseau:— 'lf you wish toile . bin the other day, Pius IX. was pecu l i arly kind, assuring ' waterside, with drawing docks and free landing places, and ! mind of • pupil, develop the power wh ic h that iii , i , T1 . 1 : ,‘,4, 0 then of the interest he took in them, and expressing an for all of which the free use of the river shore is essential. ' rnmogil exercise soa Lie h tl e ; ,wd m eti ah t e s l 4 m e e " tu j e. t. serriest hope that their journey through this transitory While expressing their ts uizill m in i gl v e: tr t v i i e ff e e , r i toy opposi arising tion 'am . ' 1 Tim OU 3 IWARD BOMBAY MULL SOUTH surroN amid, in which they were but pawn/en. might be a thw p u blic imp isgsl7l, raver, the weee t ehdiete conaj a at that huRCH 12.—The ptmisx and Oriental c, Hopie y's itear , anseeth one. Among those that were admitted to the their entire trades would he seriously damaged if any nat.. ship Ind in Weeks, sailed hence to.day wail 7 - 1 honour of his levee was a well-known raring man, and rial impediment should be created in the river traffic by mauls for the Mediterranean, Elliot, Ad^o, Bombay , j 0" who, as a protestant, could draw no other augury from the interruption of the landing and loading of goods. They Lipper Bengal. She teak out eight first and '2*,! 34.2.7, ,, 5 ,,.. the above benediction of his Holiness save `that he wished consider that any of the plans for " embanked roadway 1 lemeeklle re i an freight, 1,135 boxes specie, °an "; • ro d the that have been laid before the public would materially lm- of winch amount 6, . isinvereigna for Menne nos . . him • good year f and, as be had lost on the last threeGoodin g of river for Bombay ; consisting of bar silver, :46 , ./'' . :,' pede such traffic. mid that the p resent mg the . remainder .jac Derbiea, it is Deedless to a dd th a t he cor di a lly echoed the periodically may be prevented by causing the banks of the , bar gold, 20,0001. ; sovereigns, ri,lsof. ; and jewcilc* , Pastiff 's desire." river to be rained and the wharf walls to be altered. i The Indus also took out • general cargo. The Peninsular andbriel;i.Wfbonpsiiiiisteitin ahip Delta, INptain Field, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived this evening. She brings 51 parme san, two package* specie value 545 1. 10s., and the following cugo, vla., 1,100 bags wheat, 30 bone' dates, 101 boxes oranges. ?2 casks wine, 18 cases shawls, 180 packages sun dries, and f4B bales raw *ilk, value 80,000 t. sterling. THE LAST SITTING OF THE CHAMBER OF DEPTJTIES. The sitting of the Prussian Chamber of Deputies commenced on Tuesday at 10 o'clock. All the minis ters, with the exception of the Minister President and MM. Auerswald and Bethmann-Hollweg, were present, and the Minister of Commerce, M. Von der Heydt, addressed the assembly as follows : The chamber has been informed, through the letter which I addressed to the President on the 7th, that the ministry were deliberating a few days ago on questions of high im portance. These deliberations were the result of the reso lution voted by the chamber at its last sitting. The minis * believed it to be their duty to consider seriously girt attitude these circumstances imposed upon them. After the Minister of Finance had promised, in the nest conciliatory manner, the fulfilment in 1863 of the theaand of a specialised budget. and required on the part of Yr chamber the same disposition, the latter, nevertheless, adapted the Hagen proposition. In whatsoever minuet the eight of the chamber and the material bearing of that vote may be regarded, the resolution characterises most dir tioctly the attitude which the chamber means to take with respect to the government, and, after a deep and conscien tious examinatioo, the ministry was convinced that it does not possess in the chamber the confidence and support which are indispensable to watch successfully over the interests of the country. This conviction imposed upon them the duty of laying their resignation before the King. That step took place on the Bth. His Majesty did not deign to defer to this desire, and by a decree of the 9th be refused to accept the offer of our resignation. The following is the text of the degree :—" Oa the report of the Ministry of State if/yesterday's date, I desire to make known to them that, considering the confidence I have in them, and the consideration in which they are held by the right-minded portion of the nation, I cannot yield to their wishes. For these reasons 1 await the proposal of other measures, In order that they may be able to continue their functions for the good of the state." The ministry could do no other wise than obey the august will of the sovereign, and they consequently examined what measures should be taken in order that they may continue their administration for the good of the state. The ministry were penetrated with the conviction that the sincere and trustful co. operation of the repronabibm of the orbs with the government could elm taped to the iodereor of the monarchy. with dr IA oroolonner their responsibility, and atter nitrated dew, the ministry think themselves authabed to admit that the events of the sitting of the 6th have demonstrated the want of this essential condition, and that they might counsel his Majesty to make nee of the prerogative which Article 51 of the constitution confers upon the crown. I have, therefore, the honour to notify to the assembly the following decree :—" We, William, by the grace of God, ka, in virtue of Artieleasl and 77 of the fundamental law, and on the report of our Ministry of State, order as follows: 1. The Chamber of Deputies is dissolved. 2. The Chamber of Peers is prorogued. 3. Our Ministry of State is charged with the execution of the present decree.—Berlin, March 11." This decree was countersigned by all the ministers with one exception. The President, 51. Grabow, thanked the chamber for the kind support which had been given to him in the exercise of his duties, and terminated the sitting with a cry of "Long live the King!" which waa three times repeated by the chamber. THE ROMAN QUESTION. The Paris Pease says that one of its correspon dents, in a position to be well informed, gives, very confidently, the following important news : " You may be quite certain that between this and the end of the month the Roman question will have made a step of a nearly decisive character, and will even, perhaps, be completely settled. It was in order to render a solution possible that the change of ministry took place ; K Ricasoli having, by the publication of his famous Capitolato,' taken a course which it was impossible to approve of, it became necessary to form a government free from all engagements, not, indeed, as to essentials, but as to points of form." The Presse repeats this news under all reserve, observing that, "in regard to Rome, Italians are too apt to mistake their hopes for realities." K Nigh had an interview the day before yes terday wit -b !. Th9nvenel, it has been that since the accession of the Rattazzi ministry the conferences of the Italian Ambassador with the French Minister fur Foreign Affairs have become more frequent. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the Bth are for the most part filled with accounts from Vera Cruz, but which contain nothing more than what we have already received from other sources. General Miramon has arrived at Madrid on his return from Vera Cruz. He was not, as hay been said, a prisoner to the English. He was simply invited to leave Mexico, from the fear that his presence might furnish to those who have taken an active part in the agita tions of the republic an occasion fur exciting fresh difficulties. (NruTza's rumors.) MADRID, M &RC II 12. The government has determined upon assuming • firm attitude in regard to the question of the Melilla frontier. It has also decided not to receive Mr. Roos, the Commissioner of the Confederate States of America. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 13. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teuton* Captain Taube, from New York on the 22nd ult., has arrived. She brings 60 passengers, 293836 dole, in specie for England, 78,840 dole. for France, and 1,800 dole. for Hamburg. On the 25th and 26th February eho encountered a hurri. cane, and was compelled to hove to for thirty-six hours. She lost yards, sails, boats, &c. Deapatchee were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governor of Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, and Labuan. . . The Muniteur de I 'irrrit , e states that Count de Yanks." has presented the Empress with a splendid neck lace "discovered in u trunk in the Summer Palace near Pekin." The writer adds an edifying proof of the general's piety. Having formed the resolve to present this splendid spoil to her Majesty, M. de Palikao took it to the Bishop of Pekin, who sanctified it with his blessing ! The transac tion is described at full length in the third column of the fourth page of the Moadeur de l'Arnee of Tuesday. "The Emperor," says the Constitutionnet, "has just adopted for the whole of the army a new model of the eagle, in gilt aluminium, which was recently proposed to his Majesty by a tradesman of Paris. The eagles sur mounting the flap and standards actually in use will be replaced by other,' of this new model, and the old ones, in consideration of the reminiscences attached to them, will be deposited at the Museum of Artillery." Some of the French bishops seem resolved to plowed to Rome for the canonisation of the martyrs of Japan. in obedience to the letters of convocation, and in spite of the prohibition of their own government. Thai the Bishop of Moulins (M. de Deux-Bruit) has, it is believed, already set out. The Archbishop of Tours and the Bishop of Angers, who returned from Rome only a short time ago, are preparing to return ; and the Bishop of Perpignan has announced hie intention to comply with the SUMMOM of the Pepe. A translation of Charles Dickens's last work, "Orme Expectations" ("Les Oreedes Empianoss"), is now appearing from day to day in the Paris journal 14 Tempo. We (Galignani) hear with sincere regret that Meyerbeer is seriously indisposed at Berlin. The Italie states that Baron Ricaaoli left Turin on the 9th for Switaerland. lON IN GREECE. THE INSI (From a Bappleineut to the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Foreign-OMo, March IL The Right Hon. the Earl Russell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has re- oeired from the Greek Charge d'Affsine at this court an official communication dated the 9th of March instant, stating that, in coneequence of the insurrection which had broken out at Nauplia, the King's government had placed in a state of strict blockade some of the comets of the Gulf of Argolis, specified in a notification from the (Greek) Department of the Marine, dated the 14th (26th) February, in the present year. Printed copies of such notification in the French lan guage (of which a translation is herewith appended), were transmitted by the Greek Charge d'Affaires to Earl Russell with the above communication accompanied by a request that the noti fi cation might be m ade known to her Majesty's subjects. (Translation.) . DEPARTMENT OF TRZ Minim Notification relative to a Blockade of a part of the Gulf of Argolis. It is notified by these presents that, on and from 13th (25th) of this present month of February, all the coasts of the Gulf of Argolis from the roadstead of Astros, not in cluded, to the Bay of Vourlia, included, have been placed in a state of strict blockade by a sufficient force of the royal navy. It is further notified that all measures, authorised by the law of nations, and the several treaties between his Majesty the King of Greens and the different friendly Powers, will be adopted and carried into execution, in regard to all ships which shall attempt to violate the said blockade. Athena, the lath (26th) February, 1862. The Minister of Marine, D. Boruzza. wzATaxa REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) Taus=AT. liAacs U. 8 LK. 41. - 2. 21.. D. r. la. L 2. IS. ----- -- II ..Alai. . .... 3037 40 st N.W. a l 9 64 0.17 $ ASISSIMM ••• 40.23 43 30 N. 6i6 Jr 0.10 4 WTI 9016 42 39 L 3, 8 r 1 118311103 39.31 40 46 N.N.L 1I 9 Ilr OM 6 ARDnoenall 30.96 47 46 K 4I 1 Er 0.17 3 PoSTßuill.. 80.22 47 66 LL 2I 9 o 3 GALWAY 90.19 63 41 N.N.L 3 7 a 1 9E11184. 99.14 44 42 N. 6 7 o 4 MILDIOLAND WU 43 42 W. 9. 1 11., 2 9 et 1 lavoaraw 90.1047 46 N.H. I I 11 1,101 ————- - - 61111/ ".. 1 9111 . 1 , 90.19 44 43 N.L. 6 le &LI 6 YA5390211 ISM 46 66 N.Y. 6 41 1 Looms 14.44 69 44 N. 12 9 44 0.06 - Dovior. roasumex P01n.444 19.96 44 41 N.N.Z. 11 11 11.49 11 11.41142712 P91mA403 PROSABLL FRIDAY. SATURDAY. N. Beltals.—N.W. to N.L and N.K.W. to L, moderate. fine. N. BrLda—N.W. to N.L and N.N.W. I. fresh, to goodorsia Irolsod.7N.N.W., to 11.N.L, N.W. to N.E., fresh, Very. — fresh, showery. Central.—N. to L, moderate, N.W. to on LN.E., moderate to fine. light, e. L Coast. —N. to IL LL, huh N .. L , to LS.E., moderate to to light, floe. light. & England —LN.L to &E., Ell.E.toS.S.W.,moderate,flue. fresh to moderate, Ins. EXPLANATION. B.—Barometer enirected and reduced to $2 level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about onehundreato of an inch diminution ; and each 10 deg., above El deg., calming nearly three -bruidredtha Increase. r..—ltzpohod t he in shads. M.—Moist/Dad bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two points left of man nano). I.—Fora (1 to 11--estintated). C.—Cloud (1 to 11). _L — Initials ;b, blue sky : dead, (detached) ;1, fog ; bon ;I. lightning : moiety (hogy): 0, *mesa (doll) : rein mow thunder. 1., rain-fall, or snow, or hall, duce last report, in Inches and decimal& /I.—llordlatotbanoo (I to 9). L--Cale. at mein ni A Paris letter in the independance says :—" M. Thouvenel received yesterday and the day before several members of the Diplomatic Corp. He entered into ex planations as to the late political incidents which have led to numerous airman and to a judicial proceeding. The Minister of Foreign Affairs endeavoured to show that these events have no gravity, and that all that is being does is to make war upon incorrigible revolutionists and secret socie ties, which are always exciting agitation against all govern ments. Instructions conceived in the same MOO have been addressed by M. Thouvenel to all the French agents abroad." The firm of Messrs. John Foster and Son, spin sere and manufacturers, ere about to erect, at their own ex pense, an appropriate and beautiful memorial of the late Prince Consort. It is to be erected in the village of Queens• head, near to their extensive works. The author of " Friends in Council " has in the pros an essay entitled "Organisation in Daily Life." Mr. Potter on Friday will ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to the practical increase of duties ou imports into the United States consequent upon such duties being pay►ble only specie, the premium on such specie being likely to be ester sire owing to the gradually increasing depreciation of Am.- rican paper currency. In committee ou the Revised Code of Minutes of Education, Mr. Paget will move the following resolutions : —" 1. That all chiklreu who shall be compelled by law to attend school as a condition of their permission to labour, shall he eligible to receive a capitation grant as long as such attendance at school shall be compulsory. 2. That, since it is of greater importance to the poor to read well than either to write or cipher, the capitation grant shall be divided into four parts, either one or two of which may, at the discretion of the inspector, be given in respect of read ing, one of writing, and one of arithmetic." The court-martial on Captain Robertson was resumed on Tuesday. The principal witness was the adju• tent, Herron, who was called by the prosecutor to rebut some of the statements of the witnesses for the defence. He admitted with great frankness that he had taken an active part in the preparation of the " round robin," but denied that Colonel Bentinck encouraged or even knew of its preparation, much less that he had instructed witness to procure signatures. Some of the officers who time appeared for Captain Robertson, he said, were as forward in the affair as himself. The reason for signing the document the witness stated to be the open profligacy of Captain Robertson. - The estimated value of the property of the late Mr. Duncan Dunbar is about 1,600,000/., devised princi pally to four leptees—namely, his sisters and nieces. The term of eight years is prescribed to realise the estate. Specific bequests of comparatively small amount are made to a few personal friends, including 10,0001. to his execu tors, Messrs. Brown and Genatty, and 3,0001. to the children of Mr. W. 0. Young ; together with about 5,0001. to dependents and for charitable purposes. The Board of Superintendence have published some statistics concerning the Belfast gaol. Out of 1,790 committed in the year, 627 could not read. The Roman catholics, only about one-third of the population of the town and county, furnished moro than half the prisoners, the numbers being :—Members of the established church, 588 ; presbyterians, 298 ; Roman catholics, 904. The net profit from work done in the prison was 1,1091. Yesterday a workman engaged high up on the eastern dome scaffold at the Exhibition building missed his footing, sad fall a height of 140 feet to the grounl. striking with fearful violence against a beam in his dement. MR. BRIGHT, M.P., ON THE LSCOME T4A, Mr. Bright, M.P., ban written the followi ng t ,„ the chairman of a recent anti-income tar meeting Kt Bit. miogham : _ _ " 4,_thoover-atreet, London, March 11, 1662. " Dear Sir,-1 have received your letter and a copy of tip: resolution on the subject of the income tax, and tLabk yo u for them. I am not surprised at the hostility which you describe as existing in the minds of many penes sia minimax against this tax ; in truth, I em only surprised at the patience, I think I may say the culpable patience, with which it has been so long endured. At the same tin I regret to say that I cannot see the wisdom of the count you recommend with a view to procure the repeal or alters. tion of the tax, and it does not appear to me to offer any prospect of sitccose. I cannot, therefore, pledge iii)s•lf act as you wish, that is, to undertake ' to divide the Loa, against the present income tax laws on every possible Mon.' . . . . " The evil of which you complain is not to be got rid.: through the direct action of parliament, and the come you recommend to my colleague and to myself would, I fear, only subject you to disappointment, and us to cule. The House of Commons, and I may say poliamest as a whole, including both houses, finds no special gri m anon in heavy expenditure and heavy taxation, and the inequalities of which you justly complain, tell in fov ea , of the rich, and especially in favour of the owners of wh at is called real property. It is not from parliament, the ir . fore, in the first instance that you are to look for redress. " The income tax was imposed in the year 1842 to enable Sir Robert Peel to begin the reform of the tariff. The tariff has been to • great extent reformed ; and, although the Customs duties produce more now than they did ie 1842, the income tax remains with a heavier pressure aad a wider field. The cause is on the surface. Psrlismea immenitia now to an annual expenditure about twenty M ho= in excess of that of 1842, and the income tax rani one-half of the increased taxation required by this 41- c:timed expenditure. If I complain to government or to parliament that this expenditure is unnecessary, nod as taxation burdensome, government end parliament tell n that the nation is not of my opinion, and that the people do not blame the one, or suffer sensibly under the other. " I believe a very heavy taxation can rarely, perhaps never, be levied with much regard 4o justice. In this countm where the rich only govern, equality and fairness in taxation are impossible. The rich may spend the public revenues with • careless prodipay, bat they will fight with • desperate unity of purpose to place the burden on the whole people, with little regard t o the means of those who are to beer it. In the limited Eng. dons there are seven millions of men who pay taxes, and of these about six minions are never consulted as to the amount which shall be spent, or the mode in which a shall be raised. Of the one million who ace apparently consulted, it may be said that political power it so unequally apportioned among them, that less than one fourth of them nominally elect a majority of the mambas of the House of Commons, by which seventy millions of taxes are annually collected from seven millions of men, and which determines the mode in which this vast sum shill be raised, and how it shall be expended. " I have now had an experienoe of nearly twenty years, in the House of Commons, and during that time I have given such assistance as I could to every attempt to keep down expenditure, and to make taxation more equal and more just. The expenditure it now twenty melons more than it was when 1 entail parliament. Since 1853-4, when Lord Palmerstoe ml Lord John Russell led the nation into war with Ramis, the public exchequer has been open to the rapacity of the military services, and they have revelled, withal check, in the wealth which industry has created. Thu old statesmen, steeped in the traditions of the last guns tion, conceive the grandeur of • country to consist in the vastness of its taxation, and the extent of its military ps. pamtions, and they have succeeded in so exciting the fen and imposing upon the understanding of the midill" classes of the people, as to induce them to tolerate a cow stantly-growing extravagance in the executive must, and a burden of taxation, which in a time or pea would have driven their forefathers into revolt. "The English middle clam believes itself to be rem* meted, while its representation is mainly a fraud. The great mass of the people are purposely excluded from all representation. Force is no longer used as the Mgr:meet of tyranny amongst us ; but fraud, and delusion, and alarm, and panic are found in our day more profitable than force. I write to you, who, in respect to the subject of our correspondence, are • representative of the middle class; and I say that until that great class, in may things so intelligent, so moral, and, when it Mil to any great duty, so powerful—shall examine public affairs for itself, sod shall shake itself free hem the impositions which are so impudently practised upon it, I see no hope of any sensible diminution d the burden of Mutton, or of any more just apporti on meat of that taxation from which it as impossible to escape. If the middle class prefer an alliance with the aristocratic and ruling party, to the cordial 00-opeestion sal help of the great nation now excluded from the franchin, and from all political power, they must be content with profligate government expenditure, and s taxation burden- some from its amount, and insulting from its inequality sad injustice. " I hope I need not tell you how glad I shall be to witnes an expression of public opinion in favour of economy. The old watchwords of the liberal party were ' Peace, Retrench ment, and Reform.' Of late years, under the leadership of statesmen who care for none of these things, the party has become enfeebled, debauched, and humiliated, and has trampled in the dust the only principles on which it had say pretence to become a party. " I cannot give you any hope of diminished or more equal taxation from the House of Commons. I should only add another to the many delusions practised on the people if I were to tell them, after nearly twenty years' experience, that anything can be done there, in your direction, except under • pressure which cannot lie resisted, and which as only coma from without. I shall rejoice if that p tsasme be created, and it will give me infinite satisfaction to mat it and to obey it.—l am, with great respect, yours sincerely, " Joni" BMW. " To John B. Manton, Esq., Regent Works, Birmingham." BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM. A large number of the eubsoribers and friends cf the well-known Orphan Asylum at Clapluinsiee, ns the most useful of the numerous charities of the Isms den of which our metropolis boast; assembled bat moist, or celebrate the anniversary of its foundation, in the Ind festive manner, at the London Tavern. Earl 'anima occupied the chair ; and a feature of the musks was tie presence of ladies, an innovation which has now been tins times repeated during tho present anion, and with so sin MOONS. that it is likely ere long to beoon.e the rengund and established rule, instead of the innovating exospata Accepting the statement of the directors as published is their last report, the British Orphan Asylum at the pens% time supplies all the wants, mental and phi - ohmic d 1 . 24 orphan children, at a oat for the year 1861 of sometime under 4,0001., including newly 1,0001. in the shap b ezf in e:i inordinacy expenses, 8001. of which arose from the out of an epidemic at the institution, and the oonsequel necessity for extra medical aid, and the removal of a cow sidereblis number of the children to the South Coast. A subscription of 1,3001. to the general fund and 7001. to the building fund 'sidemen the effectiveness of the aohic seas speech. From a parliamentary paper just issued it app that the extent of land under hop cultivation last yea mu 47,941 acres, being an increase of 1,700 acme on the at ceding year. The amount of hop duty for tbe last tn . oc years was as follows :-1859, 593,341 Y. ; 1860, AM. , . 1861, 149,7001. A parliamentary return shows that the quantity of bullion purchased during 1861, ins—Gold, 11.790,9 A ; silver, 411,1011. Bullion sold—Gold, 693,102/. Wu! , 1.824,9281. The mom of payments of British gold . 0 ° dung the same petiod was, 7,139,088/. ; excess of receg lL 437,40 q. ; received from the Mint, 8,185,810 1 . The Mayor of Liverpool (Mr. It. Hutchison) entertained at a banquet in the Town-hall on Toothy err log about 120gentlernen, principally members of the venal learned societala of the town. Awontes Nsw PUBLIC PLAYGROUND OrtNED I