The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-27 00:00:00

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TIM DAY —Morning, oh. 1 ten Alteri,...n, r,2 'l2m. ib3t,K&uw—Mordng, 5-10 a Atternoou. 70. lam. LOA - DON, IVEDNESDAY, MARCH 27. THE House of Commons has been asked today to read a second time Mr. Tomo:Ns' Bill to pi...vide better Dwellings for a rtisans and Labourers. This measure was brought in last session, but the discussion which followed its introduction showed that a work of preparation remained to be dine in the mind of the members of the Legislature, and it was referred to a Select Committee of the House of Commons. The Bill in its pre aunt form is very much what that Committee made it, Mr.Toastaxa having wisely accepted the suggestions offered to him ; it thus reappears with an authority which did not attach to it a year ago. The preamble declares in general terms that it is expedient to make provision for taking down or improving dwellings occupied by working men and their families which are unfit for human habitation, and for the building and maintenance of improved dwellings for such persona in their stead. In face of the reve lations made during the recent epidemics, and after all we know of the conse quences of permitting the crowding of men, women, and children in houses which, through various causes, have come to be no better than fever dens, it would be impossible to deny the necessity on which the Bill is founded. This con sideration precludes all misconception of the cha racter of the Bill, the title of which might be utulerst....l as implying a measure of clam legis lation. Cholera and typhus are terrible levellers : BAmc.•F never preached the dogma of equality so energetically as they do when they stalk abroad. The Bill is to apply to the metropolis, including the City of London, and to all English boroughs and places under the jurisdiction of local boards constituted tinder the Public Health Act of IS-18, or the Local Government Act of 1858, as well as to towns and boroughs in Scotland and Ireland. The powers of the Act may be set in motion by the officer of health reporting that any premises are unfit for human habitation, or in a state dangerous or prejudicial to health ; or four or more householders may represent in handwriting that disease exists in a locality, and it will then be the duty of the officer of health to inspect it and make a report, copies of which are in either case to be furnished to the clerk of the local authority and the clerk of the peace. The former of these officials is to lay the report before the board or council, and transmit a copy to the owner of the premises, giving him notice that it will be taken into consideration by the grand jury at the quarter sessions. The report is to be brought under the notice of this body by the clerk of the peace, and the grand jury are to make a presentment according to the requirements of the case. Upon receipt of a copy of the presentment the local authority will cause a survey of the premises to be made, and have prepared a plan and specification of the works requiring to be executed. The owner is to be noti fied of this plan, and is to send in within fourteen days any objections he may have to make to its execution, after the expiry of which term he will have a further space of ten clays within which to come to an agreement with the local authority. But if no agreement can be curve to the case will be carried before two justices of the peace in petty sessions, who may make an order. The owner may, however, appeal against such order to the next quarter sessions on giving due no tice, and the court may vary the eider, awarding costs to either party in its discretion. Within three months of the receipt of the order the owner must declare in writing that he undertakes the work, or that he requires the local au thority to purchase the premises in question. Where the owner fails to execute the works properly the local authority may come in, carry them to completion, and charge him with the ex pense, or if he should fail to require the local au thority to purchase, they are to tender a valuation of the premises to be taken down, and if their va luation be not accepted, the amount is to be as nosed by a jury. The purposes for which the local authorities are to be authorised to hold property where it may be necessary to do so are, in the first place, to provide the labouring classes within their jurisdiction with new dwellings, and, in the second place, the opening out of closed or partially closed alleys or courts inhabited by the lower classes by pulling down obstructive buildings. and opening the dwellings to the light and air so as to make them healthful. To guard against the local authorities becoming permanent landlords, it is stipulated that if, at the end of seven years, the land or buildings acquired be not disposed of by sale or exchange, or a lease for ninety-nine years, they shall escheat t. the Crown. To enable the local authorities to dis charge their duties, the Public Works Loan Com missioners are to be authorised to make loans, with the sanction of the Coi 1111 l isaioners of the Treasury—the loan to b; secured by mortgage of the premises acquired, and be discharged by the sale of the same. Such are the leading prn•isions of the Bill. It would be idle to suppose that none of them will provoke opposition, or only such criticism as might lead to their amendment. Besides the large class which timidly resists all change, there are first the theorists, who will main tain that, inasmuch as houses are bought and sold, and held as investments, they should be rs.girded its no other light than that of property. With these pens sus thss house is a more sacred thing than the num for whom it was built, and whom it stifles and stunts, with his offspring. These ob jectors will find leis speculative but equally stout allies in the worshippers of the absoluteness of private ..wnership, persons who will willingly admit that I.l , lN:iv has its duties as well as its rights, but who eons:der that the first iluty of every estate is towards its !proprietor. It will be sufficient to reply to 0...0 objectors that the absolute owner- I ship of %%bids they dream has no existiwee in EvOish law or En:_tlialt prActiee. Every foo, of land in this col:. ry is held subject to pfildie claims. It is fort Legislature to designate the interests on le•half of which those claims shall lie asserted ; and a full and adequate homage is paid in this Act to the principle of private property when the alt•entative of es oms•sesation is offered to owssers who object to fulfil requirements made in the name of the "ty. The principle of this Bill is unassailable. if its details can be still further improved after the consideration it has re ceived from a Select Couuisittere, SO much the better ; but it may be hoped that nothing will prevent its enactment this session. TIIK intimation published by order of the Directors of the Brighton Railway that the usual train service of that line cannot be maintained in its regularity, on account of a strike among the engine-drivers and firemen, brings the effects of the power of combination home to a class of the public who have hitherto only known of strikes by report. It appears that on Monday last the men had an interview with the directors, at which all the questions which had arisen out of the allot ment and distribution of labour were satisfactorily adjusted. The negotiathms, nevertheless, broke down upon a point which is incessantly causing trouble wherever men am employed in large numbers in a skilled service, and which involves principles which may be evaded for a time, but upon which no compromise is posaible. The men want their advancement from a lower to a higher rating in the Company's service, with corresponding increase in pay, to take place without reference to their ability, or, as they put it, apart from the option of the locomotive superintendent. The men say that the direc tors' system encourages persecution. This is a most unbusimais-like objection, and has about it an air of unreality. It is apparently aimed at the recognition of superior skill and merit as titles to superior position. No employer, however, can entirely relinquish the principle of selection, the application of which is tolerably sure to be made in such a way as to reconcile the inte rests of both the employers and the employed. Promotion by merit is the life and soul of good service. We trust the difference between the Directors and the men may soon be arranged. It goes no further than a disagreement as to the terms of service, and the disposition of both parties, so far as at present appears, is good. It is satis factory to knew that the traffic on the main line suffered no interruption yesterday of a nature to cause serious inconvenience to the public, although subjected to considerable uncertainty ; on the branch lines, however, it was greatly disor ganised. Ora expectation that the Sale of Land by Auc tion Bill would change its character as soon as it came in contact with the practical good sense of the House of Commons has been realised. The Bill has been thoroughly reconstructed on the principles for which we contended ; and, if passed, will remove difficulties instead of creating them, and assist those whom in its original form it was calculated to ensnare. Mr. SELWYN, who has charge of the Bill in the House of Commons, has consented to all the amendments proposed by the auctioneers, who, from opponents, have become supporters of the measure. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1867. ' hours of work the directors were in the wrong, and it can hardly understand the reluctance with which they eon ceded the terms required. The work as now defined is quite as Much as could be exacted from a man with justice to himself and safety to the travelling public. As regards the rate of pay, the Times thinks the case less clear. Cer tainly it may be thought that ten hours of good engine driving, with all its strain on mind and body, would not be oserpaid with is. td.„ but then the men had better have said so plainly,suid asked for a Bailee( wages rising from this point, in.tead of demanding that all distinctions of ability and experience shall be abolished at once. There must surely be gradations of skill and merit in this as in all other callings, and the men have done unwisely in leaving their employers with the advantage of so evident a proposition. It was open to them to say that 7s. la was none too much for the youngest engine -driver qualified to drive a train, and that for drivers of greater experience it was too little. They has e not quite ventured upon this straightforward demand, and their case is all the weaker for it. As they have put it, they must either hull that all engine -drivers are eqtr.l, "hick the public will nev, r believe, or they must intend to get the inequility recognised again by. and-bye. thouch denied for the time, which would be neither aii ingenious nor a popular course of action. The Til•yr ,, ple hopes to nee a spirit of conypmmise on the part of the engine -drivers and the firemen. Hitherto all the concessions hav, been made on the side of the directors. Should the strikes succeed—for it is under stood that the course now taken by the Brighton servants will he adopted by those of other companies in niece:4on - we can hardly expect that railway shareholders, already in sore tribulation, will consent to sacrifice the small margin of the earnings which admits of the payment of a dividend. They will rather seek, by revising the scale of charges, to levy from the public the additional cost in curred by an advance in the wages of their men ; and to that alternative the nation would ho obliged to sul •t. The .Starr, without pronouncing any judgment at this stage on the propriety of the demand of the men, thinks the directors have shown that they had hardly any accu rate knowledge of the amount or kind of work performed by their servants. The point upon which neither the directors nor the men would yield seems sufficiently paltry, considering the enormous inconvenience to the public and loss to the company caused by the strike. Meanwhile it is surprising the directors were not better prepan.4 for the emergency after the very formal notices had been given by the men. The Stamford says it is palpable the men have the power in their own hands, and the directors must re cognise the fact. If the men will only ask that which is reasonable they will be sure to gain their point. But even if they ask more we are at a loss to see how the directors can help themselves. The question is one of supreme importance, and now that the mischief has shown itself attention will be doubtless directed to the existence of so great and constant a peril. Perhaps being thus forewarned, the directors will in future be found forearmed. To submit to a strike without the means of meeting it, is a policy —or rather an absence of a policy—which Inuit not be allowed in the case of a rail way board. The public will bear with a little incon venience if they believe the directors to have some good ground for their resistance ; but a virtual suspension of traffic is fraught with such ruinous results to outsiders that scarcely anything will be held to justify it. THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM DILL. The speech with which the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought the debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill to a close, can admit, says the Times, of only one interpretation, namely that the objectionable pro visions will be abandoned, the lodger franchise supplied, the hindrances miming from the adoption of the Small Tene ments Act be reconsidered and abated, and a further reduction of the county franchise submitted to tliscus sion. A tone of conciliation was everywhere manifested in the debate, though the call to the ministry to amend their measure was startling in its intensity. We may once more anticipate with some security a realisation of the hopes entertained at the beginning of the session. Thinking more of their own faults than those of the bill, the house, the Daily News says, read a second time a mea sure of which the large majority heartily disapprove, and the arguments against which were left untouched by Mr. Disraeli's brilliant rhetoric. Under promise of amendment the bill yet survives. The force of the arguments of his opponents were fully admitted at the last moment by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, who, by implication, threw over in his concluding speech the checks and limitations, the dual vote, the re solutions upon compound householders, the exclusion of lodgers, and Mr. Gathorne Hardy. The wisdom of the course which Mr. Gladstone has followed is now made manifest. On Monday not a word of concession could be extracted from ministers ; last night the Chancellor of the Exchequer was most compliant. Mr. Disraeli complained of Mr. Gladstone's peremptoriness ou the previous even ing, but it was absolutely necessary, in the interests of the country, that the demands of the liberal party should be clearly and positively stated ; and we gather from Mr. Diarseres language that it is equally necessary to the con servative party that they shall be conceded. Apparently, then, there is, for the first time, a fair chance that a satis factory bill may be passed this session. The only thing on which no doubt exists, remarks the Pat, is that the government do not accept any respon sibility in presenting their Reform Bill to parliament. The late how at which Mr. Disraeli's speech, the most important of all under the circumstances, was delivered, has rendered it impossible for the penny papers to coin. ment upon it, and their criticisms upon the debate have therefore little importance or significance. The Telegraph is the only paper which alludes to it, and in doing so it falls into an error. " Suppose," it says, " that Mr. Dis raeli, contrary to what he himself said last night, allows his bill to be as clay in the potter's hands, and consents to have it squeezed into a decent shape, still," Sc. It will be seen by a reference to the debate that the suppo sition is not contrary to, but in accordance with, the course Mr. Disraeli pursued. THE zsr: INE•DRIvEns' RTI:iP•L Putting the case of the strike on the Brighton Railw,y a far as possible in the words of the parties themselves, the Tuna comes to the conclusion that as regards the FLOGGING IN THE ARMY. In committee on Mutiny Bill, Sir John Peking ton will move at clause 10, at end, to add " but no sen tence of corporal punishment awarded by a regimental court-martial shall, except in the case of mutiny or aggra vated insubordination next hereinafter mentioned, be put in execution in time of peace without the leave in writing of the general or other officer commanding the district or station in which the court may be held." Clause 11, after " mutiny and," leave out " gross," and insert "aggra vated." Mr. Otway, in clause proposed to be substituted for clause 22, line 2, will move to leave out the words after the word " soldier," until the word " shall," in the same line ; and after " flogging," in line .1, leave out the re mainder of the clause. Sir Charles Russell intends to move to continue the crime of stealing from a comrade under the head of dis graceful conduct. In committee on Marine Mutiny Bill, Colonel North will move that clause 2L of the dray Mutiny Act be added thereto. Major Jervis will ask the Secretary of State for War, to-morrow, whether, having in view the proposed altera tion of clause 24 of the Mutiny Act, it is proposed to give the military authorities power to discharge men guilty of felony, or of disgraceful conduct which his rendered them liable to flogging, on the completion of their sentence. THE SEIZURE OP THE TORNADO. Further correspondence respecting the above case was issued this morning. On the 16th instant Sir John Crampton sends word that six more of the crew have been released, and that every body belonging to the vessel is now free, except Colonel Collier and McPherson, the third mate, who are detained as prisoners on parole, " I presume," says the ambassador, "as being liable to be proved Chili= officers. and con sequently prisoners of war." Writing to Lord Stanley front Cadiz, on the lab, the two prisoners say : " My Lord,—My third mate, John McPherson, and my self, are still ' prisoners of war' in the hands of the Spaniards, who are (I mention it without meaning any disrespect) laughing at your lordship, They say as much themselves in their daily newspapers, and their acts seem to prove it. We pray your lordship to inform us what more we can do than we have done to prove that we are British subjects, and that the Tornado is bona fide a British ship, taken in Portuguese waters near to Funchal on a legitimate voyage to Rio de Janeiro. Your consul here could inform your lordship how completely all this has been proved during the recent re-examination of myself and others, at which he was present, by your lordship's orders, to watch the case. We IiCIII/lOd our liberty and indemnity for our lost time, seven months' captivity, and many sufferings ; and we petition ur lordship to interfere in our behalf without delay. Why have the Spaniards been forced to release others and permitted to retain us (untried and unheard) as ' prisoners of war'?" To this Mr. HMIIIIIOIII replies that the application will be " duly eonaidered." Among the letters arc two front Messrs. Isaac, Camp bell, and Co., to Lord Stanley, to the Last of which hlr. Hammond replies as follows : " Foreign-office, March 21. " Gentlemen,— I stated to you in my letter of the 16th inst. that before returning an answer to your letter of the lith, Lord Stanley must consult the law officers of the crown. Having done so, his lordship directs me now to state to you that the passages in your letter with refer ence to the supposed opinion of the law officers, namely, that your refutation of what you ter m the unwanantwl and e/ parte allegations ooatained in the Cadiz Samaria must have been found complete and conclusive,' is wholly inaccurate and unfounded. Lord Stanley is advised, and his lordship concurs in the advice, that a satisfactory con clusion cannot be arrived at as to the merits of the case of the Tornado upon any statements or documents now be fore him ; and it was upon this ground that you were informed in my letter of the 12th instant, that while the protest, for the reasons pointed out, had been and still is maintained, her Majesty's government had entirely re trained from discussing the merits of the case with the government of Spain. For the same reasons Lord Stanley must continue to decline to express any opinion whether the vessel was or was not liable to be captured on the high seas by a Spanish man-of-war, and condemned by a prize court in a regular course of procedure. Lord Stanley di recta me to add that, In the present state of things, it would be premature for him to come to any decision as to whether, regard being had to all the circumstances of the nee, any demand for compensation or redress should or should not be made on the Spanish govern ment." In a further communication Mr. Hammond, on the part of Lord Stanley, asks Messrs. Isaac, Campbell, and Co., whether the person whom they call " the humble mechanic John McPherson," is the same person as "the Don Juan McPherson whose name appears in the Chilian Nary List annexed to the report made to the Chilian Con gress by the Minister of Marine on the 10th of September, 1866, as senior engineer of the first-class, and as having entered the Chllian service on the lit of May, 1/457, and being on leave of absence in Europe!" No reply to this inquiry is published in the return. The Grand Duke Alexia Alexandrowitz, the second son of the Emperor of Russia, is shortly expected at the Cape of Good Hope, on his way to Australia, China, and Japan. The Panama papers state that the South Pacific mail, which left London on the 17th Jmuary, did not arri%e at Panama in time for the mail packet which left fiat port for Valparaiso on the 10th of February, and that the Chilian and Peruvian mail' would be detained at Panama for a fortnight in consequence. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ARMED PEACE. The Belgian War-office, having instituted an inquiry respecting the armaments which are going on in Europe, the following information has been obtained : FIIANCE.-4 40,000 Chassepot rifles are in course of manu facture, the greatest portion to be finished before the Ist of ltarcb, heiß. PRI'AMIA.—The needle gun and rifled cannon system to be maintained. The gnn manufactories are very busy in completing the stores for the arsenals. 1,100,0n0 breech loading steel barrels have been ordered mince the war. Ar...erat.t.—The alteration of 600,000 guns on the Wanzl principle ; :700,000 to be completed by the end of the year. Sot TH 4:ERNIANT.—Bararia, Wurtemburg, Baden, and Hesse-Darmstadt adopt the breech-hauling gun, on the un derstanding that the system may be changed if the experi ments which are going on at Munich arc not found to be satisfactory. The Prussian rifled cannon is preferred, and large orders are in course of execution. EViiiANli. - 1: , 0, 0 00 Enfield rifles are already converted on the Snider principle. 3.10,0P0 guns of the mine kind will 10 , ready in the coui,e of the year. 1,000 genii are being converted every .:ay in the government manufac tories. -1•2‘; rifled c•nnons of various cciihres will be maim. factored by the end of the year. It u•si.t.--600,0a) guns are being converted on the C.ir'e principle (a modification of the needle-gun). •• be ready by the beginnii.g noit par. cannons are in course of const, the field batterie•,. DECLAIM.—The chambira h.• .1., : ,tim for the conversion of the present gd , ;doaders, but the model gun has not yet Is.•en ..!.on. ffou.aNn.—The conv,rsiou of ;he prtdent arm into guns on the St'll.ler principle. ITALY, SPAIN, I'OKTi•.:aL, GREECE.—The breechloading gun adopted. Spain and Greece have ordered cannon from the manufactory of M. Krupp, of Kasen, in l'rtt.Nia. I:Etutuis will continue the u=al of the titled Pnhaian cannons adopted in 1864, and will bring into use the breechloading small ann. (11EUTER's AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 27. --- It is stated that the treaty of commerce between Austria and Belgium will be finally concluded this week. Baron von Beust will accept his election as a member of the Bohemian Diet. SERVIA. BELGRADE, MARCH 26, EVENING. The Prince of Sonia has issued a proclamation announcing to the inhabitants his departure for Constantinople on Thursday next, in order to thank the Sultan for the evacuation of the Servian fortresses. The only condition of the evacuation is that the Turkish flag shall be hoisted on the citadel beside the Servian standard. During Prince Michael's absence the government will be conducted by the Council of Ministers. ROME AND ITALY. ROME, MARCH ?6. The official Journal of Rome of to-day declares it to be incomprehensible that the speech from the throne at the opening of the parliament at Florence should have spoken of the legitimate liquidation of the ecclesiastical property. Such a measure, it continues, is illegal spoliation suffered by the church, and cannot be legitimate, when ho who can alone authorise it will never ac cord his sanction. THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. FLORENCE, MAACH 21, Everinta. The Chamber of Deputies to-day confirmed 15 elections. Official intelligence has been received here of the death of Senator Do Filippi at Hong Kong. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SUM, MARCH 26. The Baroda, from Bombay March 14, arrived at midnight yesterday (25th). AMERICA. (BY ATLANTIC TZLICIIAPIL ) NEW YORK, BLutem 2li, 6 P.M. A revolution is reported to have broken out in Hayti. President Jeffrard is said to have escaped on board a French num-of-w•ar. The Inman steamship City of Limerick arrived out to-day. Closing prices :—Cold, 134. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bouds, 1001; Illinois, 1151; Erie, 57i. Cotton : Middling Up land, 31i. Vitt ettUrt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Mesa( 26. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Duchess of Roxburgbe. Her Majesty, with Prince and Princess Christian, drove out this morning in a carriage and four. Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry in Waiting, was in attendance upon horseback. Princess Louise, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, went out walking. Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by Mr. Legg. Princess Louise went to London last evening, and was present at the Pbilharmonio Concert in Hanover-square. Lady Caroline Barrington, the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Ben. thick, were in attendance. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstono, was also present at the concert. Rear-Admiral Henry Mangles Denham, PALS., Mr. Henry Pennell, Mr. Ceorge Harvey, ]'resident of the Royal Scottish Academy ; and Mr. Noel Paton, R.S.A., her Majesty's Limner for Scotland, arrived at the Castle to-day, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon them by her Majesty. The Queen was accompanied by Princess Louise during the ceremony. Lord Crofton, Lord in Waiting ; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Bentinek, Groom in Waiting; and Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, Equerry in Waiting, were present. The Duchess of Roxburghe left the Castle this morning. Sir James Clark has also left the Castle. Lady Churchill has succeeded the Counteu of Caledon as Lady in Waiting, and horn Raglan baa succeeded Lord Crofton as Lord in Waiting to the Queen. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, Natal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labium, the Straits Set. tlements, the Australian Colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. Her Majesty will, it is expected, visit their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales towards the close of this week, and will very probably remain a night at Buckingham Palace. Mrs. Thomas Rani entertained at dinner last evening, at her residence in Gloucester-square, Hyde-park, his Excellency the Italian Minister, Prince Ouroussow, Baron de Loe, Lord John Hay, Lady Suffield, the Hon. Henry Strut; the Hon. Mrs. Loyd-Lindsay, the Right Hon. W. E. and Mrs. Gladstone, Mr. and Lady Ma egret Beaumont, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Button, and Mr. John S. Lumley. Later in the evening Mrs. Ralli had a musical party, which was numerously and fashionably attended. The Right Hun. the Speaker will hold his first levee (full dress) this evening (Wednesday) at 10 o'clock. According to the Cape of Good Hope papers a royal proclamation had been issued by the Queen of Mada gascar, forbidding civilians to wear hats with brims. That privilege is restricted to the government officers. The civilians are now wearing a kind of skull cap. Many wear their old hats with the brims torn off. The btreeta are strewed with the discarded brink EXPRFSS FROM PARIS. 01011 ma owi oweroirom.) PAM, TrESDAT EVENING. The Luxembourg question is presented to-day by the Path press in a more serious manner than it has ever yet been. In the first place the Pays, whose editor, Grapier de Cassagnac, was first em ployed to put forth feelers on the subject, as he daily does for the annexation of Belgium, says : In what the journals call the Luxembourg question, there are two distinct things. In the first place, the newspaper rumours in circulation ; and next, the negotiations which the French government is pursuing or may pursue. As to the rumours, we of course publish them for the satisfaction of the legitimate curiosity of our reader.. We cannot allow them to be ignorant of what is said on a subjezt of great importance. But as to the negotiation., of which we du not profess to know anything, it is v‘ ry probable that we should not in any case speak of them to the public. These are grave and delicate questions, its to which it may he said tit they have no commencement but only an end. We hop that this will have au end. Next comes Senator ihferonttii•re'a j mncil, La Fria , ~ which affirmed the other (lay that there was no truth in the reported negotiations about the cession of Luxembourg, and now, having obviously Kiceiced instructions identical with those given t,r tho Pays, contradicts itself as follows : We are reproached with our incredulity on the subject of pretended negotiations for the cession of Luxeib-nirg to France. We arc not going to revert to what we have already said. But if it be true, as certain journals per sist, that p , rrperfrra are going on relative to this affair, we may be permittel to think that a sentiment of patriotism and propriety should repress conjectures and discussions which could only serve to compromise nego tiations of great national Interest. That Napoleon 111. is trying hard to annex Luxembourg there can be no manner of doubt. We hear of *instant telegraphic correspondence be tween Paris and Berlin, and Paris and the Hague. M. Charles Baudin, tho French minister plenipo tentiary at the Hague, who was expected in Paris for his brother's wedding, writes to his family that ho fears public business will prevent him from coming. Letters from Luxembourg state that the rumour, which was at first received with incre dulity, is now causing immense excitement in the town. A number of functionaries from French neighbouring departments have arrived in the pro vince, are paying visits to the moat notable fiuni lies, and are, in the most barefaced way, beginning a canvass fora plebiscite. The King of Holland has, I believe, come into the French view of the subject, but it still seems to me next to certain that Prussia will oppose an invincible obstacle. I hope it may never turn out that English ministers, under the Idea of preserving the peace of the world by propitiating France, have put any diplo matic pressure upon Prussia to yield this point. The French party which desires the annexation of Luxembourg desires also the annexation of Belgium and the Rhine. Luxembourg would only be a whet to French appetite. The best way to keep France quiet is for all powers to lay down the rigorous rule that she must not have another inch ofj territory, and above all things not to sanction the fallacious principle of universal suffrage to con firm the conquest or the sale of a people. Although it continues to be said that there will be no official inauguration of the Universal Exhi bition on April 1, I hear that the Emperor will visit the building on the opening day, and inspect only those departments which will be then com plete. These, I fear, will be extremely limited. The Bourse was extremely heavy. Rent° fell 20c. for cash and 121 c. for account, closing at Gdfr. 05c. and 68fr. 925 c. Mobilier fell 13fr. 75c. All the securities dependent on the Mobilier were de pressed, owing to a report that a combination with the Societd Immobilii,re and the Comptoir d'Es compte had fallen to the ground. There was a talk of negotiations for the sale of the Hotel du Louvre and Grand Hotel, which belong to the Socik mobilike, to some English capitalists, for a sum of between 30 and 40 millions. Credit Foncier fell 10fr., and Italian 30c. The Northern Railway fell 10fr., Lyons Gfr. 25c., and Southern ilfr. The money article of the Press• notices a rumour that the negotiations reLitive to Luxembourg are broken off. TUE GALE. WRECKS ON THE IRISH COAST. WEXFORD, Masai 24. Intelligence was received here yesterday (says William Coghlan, Esq., the collector of customs), that a ship was riding at anchor close to the shore in the North Ray, near Blackwater Head, and that she was in very great danger. It was blowing very hard from the south at the time, and the weather was thick. The Civil Service lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was thereupon at once launched, and proceeded under sail to the vowel, which was found to be the barque Loretta, of Liverpool, having a crew of 14 men on board. She was bound from Antwerp to Liverpool in ballast. The services of the lifeboat were gladly accepted by the master, as one of the chains had parted, and had the other given way, the ship and her crew must in all probability have been lost, as the sea was running very high. With peat difficulty the lifeboat boarded the barque, and with the aid of two steam tugs, which subsequently arrived, she was taken safely outside the banks. TYRELLA, DUNDRUSI BAY, Makes 24. A sloop was observed to be stranded yesterday morning, about one mile from the wutchhouse m Dundrnm Bay, during a fresh gale of wind. She was the William, of Peimpol, bound to Iceland with gear, salt, and provisions for cud fishing. The crew laid out both anchors in hopes of getting her off, as she was stranded at low water mark, and they could have walked :shore had they been desirous to leave their vessel, but this they would not do. As the gale increased and the tide made, it was known that the smack would probably part from her anchors in the broken water, and indeed she shortly did so, and came broadside to the sea. The lifeboat of the National Life boat Institution was quickly launched, and proceeded to the scene of the wreck, but in the meantime seven of the crew had left in their own boat, and had succeeded in reaching the shore, but were unable to return for the re mainder of the crew. The vessel noon foundered, or otherwise tilled with water, as the sea washed completely over her. When near the wreck two of the ears of the lifeboat were broken, and she was driven to lee ward and on to the beach, in spite of all the ex ertions of the crew. The boat was, however, again taken to windward and launched, but with a similar want of success. By this time, however, through the severity of the weather, some of the gallant men in the lifeboat were exhausted by their exertions, but volunteers were soon obtained in their places, and the boat was again launched and proceeded through the broken water. Every sea tilled her, but she behaved most nobly under these trying cir cumstances, and after great difficulty, the vessel was reached, and the six poor fellows who were left in her were rescued from their perilous position and brought safely ashore in the lifeboat. The master of the smack fell into the water while endeavouring to numb the lifeboat, but was rescued by the exertions of those in the bout, after being some minutes under water. Great praise is due to the coxswain and crew of the life boat for their persevering and gallant services on this occa sion, as they suffered much from their exertions and ex posure to the severe gale then blowing. The cost o f thi s lifeboat, as well as of three others, was presented to the National Lifeboat Institution a few years ago by a hence volent lady, and her boats have since saved scores of lives. The youthful Earl Rivers. was buried last week. His father and mother I licd last year, and his sister was killed just before by lightning in the Alps, while on her wedding tour. The youthful nobleman was only 1; years old. lie was the fifth earL His ancestor was Sir William Pitt, an Elizabethan diplomatist. The Chathams are a younger branch of the Rivers family. The late countess was a sister of Lord Granville. The Into earl is succeeded by his uncle. The father of the late earl, fearing that his son was not likely to live, would have cut off the entail for the sake of hie daughters ; but the son not having reached 21 yaws of age before his father died, could not give his consent. If the son had lived until he was 21 he would have cut off the entail. By the operation of the law of primogeniture, the father, with a magnificent estate, could not make a provision for his daughters, nor the son make a provision for his sisters. THE PROSECUTION OF MR. EYRE. (THIS DAY.) (BT TEL/ARAM., MARKET DRAYTON, WLDIIIISDAY Arms:roes. Mr. Eyre surrendered at noon to-day, and entered the court with Mr. Gillen', who appears for th defence. A solitary attempt was made at applause, but it was immediately suppressed. Mr. Fitzjauo, Stephen opened the case in an elaborate speech- THE ENGINE-DRIVERS' STRIKE. LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THLS DAY.) The whole of the Brighton Inca have tendered their willingness to return to their duties, the men :at the metropolitan cud of the line still remaining resolute. The servants of the company living at Brighton needs r nearly one-half of the engine -.'rivers, a.el with such an influx to those r.lreioly erop7oyed the working of I the trains this morning assmned a far different aspect to that of ) - ester-day. The whole of the main Sine service has been resumed, a h the exception of sonic slight delay in starting the early trains, but little interruption has taken litre. The trains travelling to the suburban entities, altheegh not strictly adhering to the time tables, lime fully realised the demand of passengers ; and sve are informed that moat of the Munchen in connexion with the wain line service are being worked. Only in one instance has the traffic been eutirely stopped. between Kensington and Clapham Junction. In that ease, however, little inconvenience has been Mt. in cut. sequence of the trains belonging to the South Western Railway running in the same direction. The applica• Goes at the engineers' department for situations in the plane of the men on strike have been very numerous to-clay, and it is said the full comple. ment of firemen have already been engaged. Milers a new driver is engaged, be is accompanied on the engine by a travelling inspector, guard, or other experienced person, in order to be initiated into the working of the signals; awl as an encouragement to the new man, and a further guard against mishaps, plate-layers have been stationed along the line between the signal posts with flag indicators• BRIGHTON, WZDNESDAT MORNING. The strike is at an end so far as this part of the system is concerned, and there is no doubt but that during the day nearly the whole of the men residing here or on the branch lines will offer themselves for work. Last evening the men sent delegates to thu Brighton station front their committee•room in the town, with a view to test the feelings of the officials, and as soon as the determination of the directors was made known to receive the men back to work till Thursday active nego tiations commenced. At the request of the men, Mr. Craven, the locomotive superintendent, saw them at their committee•room, and after some discussion they signified their intention to return to work this morning on the con cessions of the directors. During the evening they had delegates, and telegraphic messages passing to and fro with the Loudon committee, but it is understood the latter re. fused to give in. The decision of the Brighton men was, however, telegraphed up to town. The men have hitherto kept faith with their promise, and the main line triffic Is working with its accustomed smoothness. By this evening all the branch lines will likewise be in working order. In committee on Representation of the People Bill, Mr. Colville proposes, at clause 4, line 19, after " and," to insert. " who shall be seised at law or in equity of any lands or tenements of copyhold or any other tenure whatever, except freehold, for his own life, or for the life of another, or for any lives whatsoever, or for any larger estate of the clear yearly value of nut less than U. over and and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of the same, shall be entitled to vote in the election of a knight or knights of the shire to serve in any future par. Bement for the county, or for the riding, parts, or division of the county in which such lands or tenements shall be respectively situate."—Mr. Dillwyn intends to move a clause providing that persons entitled to vote at city and borough elections shall only he entitled to give one vote fur one member. After the second reading of Metropolitan Im provements Mil, Mr. Treeby will move that it be committed to • select committee. In committee on Canada Railway Loan, Mr. Adderley will move the following resolution :—" That the comtnissionen of her Majesty's treasury be authorised to guarantee interest, at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, on any principal money, not exceeding three million pounds sterling, to he raised by loan by the government of Canada for the construction of a railway connecting Quebec and Halifax." On Friday Mr. H. Seymour proposes to call the attention of the house to the desire of the Red River settleumut, in North America, to be formed into a crown colony. Mr. Monk, on Monday, will ask the Attorney- General whether he considers the doubts which have arisen as to the legal time for the publication of banns of natri• mony in churches during morning service to be well founded; and if so, whether it is the intention of the govern• meta to introduce a measure during the present session for removing those doubts, for legalising marrieges knowingly solemnised without due publication of banns, and foe relieving clergymen who may have celebrated such mar riages from the serious penalties they have incurred under the act 4th tire°. IV., et. 76. The agricultural operation of sowing is a month late in the south of England in consequence of the uuge nial weather. From the Lime cause the fanner. b.u•e lost a great number of lamb , ' in that part of the cou::try. The captain of a Swansea trader just arrived in Southampton reports much damage to shipping. He nle; a trader in the Irish Chanwa, the captain of which hml broken both his legs, one of them in two plsees. The crew had set one of the legs, but could not set the other. They did not know whereabouts they wer.•. and could not ran, on account of the weather, to any ne.Lr port for shelter or assistance. ROYAL INSTITUTION.-011 Saturday afterno..r., in the course of the last of a series of six keen, ,ai „ Cool Gas," l'rofessor Fmokland said that he ha, just had the illuminating power of the gas supplied to titb fermis large towns tested by the standard sperm c.e..P.,5, and now holds written and signed certificates in his pos• session of the 'exults as follow :—Berlin, Iritto emelt, • ; Paris, 12'3 ; London, 12.1 ; 9'o ; Edinburgh, Manchester, 221,1; Liverpool, 22'0 ; Glasgow, : .V.er• decn, 3. - 0; Greenock, ti':.; Hawick, 300; Intern"', 25'0 ; Paisley, :30•3 ; Carlisle, ; Birmingham Thus the gas aupplied to Kdlnhnrglt and Glasgow gi'rs more than twice the light of the gas provided for Lcaoion. The above shows the average light given by the gas fur nished in London ; but, in particular instances, it el'y equals nine candles. The g4s, of London also, he st.i.td. is richer than it ought to he in sulphur compounds. at is burning gives off too much pokonous sulphurous 'CI.,. and other gaseous vapours iiiptiious to health and pro. perty. London gas is now wont than it was many • ago, although its methods of manufactur e ha, le , a cheapened by the discoveries of science, all new 0n... viol a in this direction having been eagerly taken up by tier companies, who, so far us is known, have nut adopted single invention which would benefit the consumer. .1, tlk gas is damaging to works of art and beauty. the ! while should, by paying a fair price for it, at least have it of p. quality. Ile concluded by retying, „ it should base illuminating power of twenty candles, below whirl, Lo 6 is fit for household use." THE. DISFIZANCII ISl' NEXT .)F RED: VrE. greatest excitement prevail:, in this borough on tll. •' ject of its proposed ilisfribchisement. At a meet, - •••• the council the subject Lint Saturday the A that a deputation havin,,, been appointed at a publi , ~,••••,• ing to wait on Mr. tflailotone, and explain to him s :a ti.e borough shotill not In ilisltailehiseil, he hap wi the right hon. gentleman to fig a day. and 11114 n n i • , 1 following reply :—"Carlton-house.terace, M.,reh '2l. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge your letter of yesterday. In reply, I lie,: to I cannot yet judge whether it will be jossible for toe h , '" after to enter upon the .iiiestion connect , ,1 the boroughs proposed to be disfranchised, by w.y c. venation, but I shall in no cane arrive, without fur sideration, at any final opinion as to the mei, mode a : , l 'immure in which parliament should deal VI it II time, however, for ouch conoi lerat . has not yet r. and the important business now i 111 l ne.liately peen.li t this moment precludes toy anticipating it. You 1.••7 ever, doubtless, circulate the information which tr, ,v thought material on a subject of so much interent. Ii• the honour to be, &c.. W. E. lila, ,ST, E. The M.t, Reigate." The council resolved on petitioaing • Lt against the disfranchis went of the bon:n ig h, tention " more especially to the divided opinion et z.' . * commissioners in their late report on the election 1. and to the great increasing wealth and rapidly-6u... population of the borough." Comm. PALACI. thrs Bar.Lnro DAY.— Tt; BADLY, MARCH %.—Admissions on payment, on!';'!; by 11011/Wi tiokota, 1,831. Total viaitxa, 2,749.