The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-27 00:00:00

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Material interests have suffered considerably, but it is not concern for them that most saddens thoughtful men ; it is the necessity they are—or fear they are—under of thinking less hopefully of the progress of their race in wisdom and virtue. What is now taking place is humiliating to human pride. Two of the most powerful and most civilized nations of the world are in danger of entering upon a strife which can not be contemplated without • certain awe, for no other reason than that one of them is afflicted with a ruler who is driven to war as a last resource for retrieving the consequences of his own stupendous follies. Of what use are universal suffrage, revolution, and the " principles of '89," if they cannot save a nation from the worst evils which could happen under the regime of Divine right t Europe is threatened with war about the Luxemburg question ; but that question is itself • pure creation of policy. Two months ago it did not exist, and, apart from the personal exigencies of the French Ererzsaa, it need not have been invented. Now it is too probable that thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of brave men must fall before it can be decided. The laboured protestation published in a semi official Paris journal on Thursday, to show that France desires peace, has not tranquillised a single mind. It is notorious that if the Emperor NAPOLEON desires peace he can have it. No one has been so rash as to threaten France ; no one wishes to impair its power. If it be true, as the C'onstitutionnel assures the public, that French policy has from the first been one of peace and conciliation, whence this difficulty The apologists of the EMPEROR insist on the ag grandisement of Prussia, and ask if it is not rea sonable that France should have something. But on other occasions these same writers show, plainly enough, that they are well aware that what is taking place is something very different from the aggrandisement of any existing State : it is the growth and consolidation of Germany under the powerful protection of Prussia ; and one of the surest tests of the soundness of this change is the ability of the new Confederation to defend the soil and interests of Germany. The writer in the Conatitutionnel observes that the Luxemburg question has become an European question, and that France is holding aloof in order not to embarrass the action of the Powers. We have read much to the same effect in the columns of our Paris contemporaries during the last few days, it being thought desirable to represent the neutral Powers as morally coalesced against Prussia. We take leave to doubt the truth of this representa tion. That England, Russia, and Austria should have shown themselves ready to contribute their friendly suggestions in favour of peace is what might have been expected : but a diplomatic pressure upon Pruaaia by the three Powers is not to be thought of. The Times, improving, as is its wont, upon the hint of the French journalist, reminds the neutral Powers that they are three against two, and remarks how easy it is for might to throw its weight in the scales with right. We have no inclination to dwell on language which probably meant nothing when it was written, and is by this time forgotten by its authors, but really writers in great journals should consider how easy it is to make their country look ridiculous. The genius which could under present circumstances combine Russia and Austria with this country in a war to bring France and Germany to reason is equal to any feat. There is no man in Europe who knows better than Count I Bismsaes the exact worth of big words in a cite like this. If Germany should be willing to with draw its garrison from Luxemburg, it will be to spare Europe the spectacle of its two greatest nations involved in deadly conflict, and not from apprehension of the intermeddling of Powers which have no inclination to throw away their resources in the quarrels of other nations, and which certainly could not unite upon any plan of action. The expedient which finds most favour now is the neutralisation of the territory of Luxemburg under the guarantee of the Great Powers, and the destruction of the fortress. If Prussia is satisfied to withdraw her garrison on condition of the destruction of the fortress of Luxemburg, we shall all be glad, but England must on no account guarantee a territory claimed alike by France and Germany. We cannot conceive an English Minister of ordinary prudence entan gling the country in such an engagement. Certainly we have seen nothing in Lord STANLEY'S brief administration of the foreign affairs of this coun try to induce the belief that he would enter into a bond of this kind. But if the attempt were made, it would be the first duty of Parliament upon receiving information of such an act to make it plain to all concerned that the country preserved its freedom of action notwithstanding the indiscretion of its Ministers. As a nation among nations it is our duty to do all we can to promote peace ; but our forces, not more than sufficient for the protection of our widely scattered possessions and the defence of our territory, must not be pledged for the maintenance in perpetuity of arrangements which, however convenient they may be as tem porary expedients, may easily prove to have in them no elements of permanence. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Times treats political demonstrations as part of the simple pleasures of Englishmen, corresponding to the Corpus Christi processions and Fetes Napoleon of the French. The doings of the Working Men's Conservative Association at Wakefield supply food for special merri• ment—the noble eloquence of the yeomanry colonel, Sir H. Edwards, and the parliamentary manner of Mr. Powell, the member for Cambridge, contributing in par ticular to it. In other articles the Timer d i scusses the alleged corruption in Amerioan politics and the progres sive deterior►tion in the character of the American as semblies ; also the marriage of the Count of Flanders, and the strikes of the London and Paris tailors. The recent publications on the reorganisation of the French army by Generale Changarnier and Trochu enable the Daily News to set forth the ideas of the old and new military schools in France. Endeavouring to hold the mean between the two, the Daily News believes that in war a great proportion of the education given in peace will be utterly useless. Consequently, little is to be gained in such a contingency from the possession of a large standing army. But there is infinite necessity for such organisation as, when need comes, can improvise an army out of new recruits, and for the system which shall rapidly adapt these recruits to the duties they have to perform. What we do need is education among the officers to guide enthusiasm among the men. The latter we have got—we are unsafe till we secure the former.—Another article is addressed to the recent political movements in the United Slates. The Herald is ignorant as to the intentions of the govern. ment with regard to the projected meeting in Hyde-park ; but it is persuaded that the public opinion of the country would heartily support them in any measures they might think it necessary to take with the view of pre venting a repetition of the disgraceful riot of last July. The meeting, if held at all, will be held in defiance of the law. The Standard says the case is eminently one for the action of the House of Commons rather than of the ministry. It is not fair that the odium of maintaining order by force should be thrown on one party, while another enjoys all the popularity to be derived from a supposed sympathy with popular excesses. The Star thinks the views put forth at last night's meeting, called by the London Working Men's Association, ought to have weight with a reform ministry. That meet ing declared a liberal and comprehensive lodger franchise • ricer qua non in any real reform measure. The Star, in another column, protests against the manner in which Mr. Tidd Pratt has used his official position in writing to the Tiny* under the influence of strong dem and political feel , ng. By so doing he has perilled his salutary influence amongst artisans, and run the risk of creating a prejudice against en office which it is most desirable should continue to be exercised in complete harmony with the class whale interests it concerns. 4.• : • ,S 4 TkIE EXPRESS, SATIJRDAY EigNING, APRIL 27 x * I THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Saturday Review, considering the question, " Will there be war?" eonfidmitly says that the Germans most certainly will not give way. If the French nation thinks its honour involved in turning the Prussian garrison out of Luxemburg, there must be war. A few weeks ago it was perfectly indifferent to Luxemburg and its garrison. Nor does it much care about either now. But a great many Frenchmen feel sore about Prussia. They think they have cut ► very poor figure last year; and somehow, although they do not clearly know how, they now find themselves in such a position that, if they let this Luxem burg question drop quietly, they think their conduct will be ascribed to fear. Almost the only hope of peace being preserved lies in the possibility that Prussia may be per suaded to place Luxemburg under the mme guarantee as Belgium. This is not a solution of the difficulty at all agreeable to us, for Englishmen view with the utmost dis like all projects for extending our engagements to defend foreign soil. Bat, as we have guaranteed Belgium, we should not be running a new risk. Or if, in a remote way, our risk is increased, this perhaps is not too great a sacri fice to make in order to preserve peace. The main cause of the reluctance of some of the liberal party to follow Mr. Gladstone is in the fact, the Saturday Review says, that he is too much in earnest for the House of Commons. He cares about reform, and the majority of the house does not care about it. But the liberal party in the country is much more liberal than the liberal party in parliament, and liberals outside the house may manage to give a new tone to liberals inside. This is what is wanted to make Mr. Gladstone's leadership effectual. It is not by the late division that we judge the liberal party to be half-hearted about reform, but by the notorious de clarations of many members, by the cabals and intrigues that half-heartedness has made possible, by the indescrib able difference that pervades men's leeks and words and whole conduct, according as they are in earnest or not. A little enthusiasm in the country, not so much for re form as for political sincerity, would do much to alter this, and the letter of Mr. Gladstone itself appears already not to have been wholly ineffectual in bringing about a change. The Examiner refers to wh►t it terms " the arts of defamation and detraction resorted to by foolish flatterers of Mr. Gladstone and obligate organs of Mr. Bright," and says that in spite of them the people, wherever they have assembled out of Birmingham, have refused to east a hint of blame upon the slandered men whom they were asked to brand as renegades because they would not throw out the first bill that ever contained an acknowledgment of the true principle of hearth-hold enfranchisement. In the rest of the article the Erautiner shows some soreness as to the remarks of Mr. Bright respecting costermongers, de serters, tea-room traitors. be. How, it asks, is any semblance of concert possible, if day after day false imputations are flung, and approbrious epithets applied by the soi-diaost spokesmen and penmen of the leader of the liberal party _ Mr. Gladstone speaks of being quite willing to attempt " concerted action" again, whenever " suitable occasion shall arise." It seems to the 4dtddor that suitable occa• sion will arise at once. Because some of his troops have taken advantage of a favourable construction which might be put on their desertion in the last battle to desert, need be fear to lead them into action again, when no such favourable construction could be put on their desertion, and desertion therefore must lead to punishment? For Our own parts, we think that the more divisions there are in which the wish of parliament to enfranchise the best class of artisans is clearly tested, the more chance Mr. Gladstone will have of gradually chaining his selfish sad disunited army into courage, discipline, and fidelity. With regard to the continental excitement the Spectator says there is nothing as yet apparent in the struggle to which the British mind can fasten itself with a sense either of liking or antipathy, and public opinion, though fretted as usual by the annoyance consequent on war, awaits events in a spirit of the coolest criticism. If there is a bias at all, it is towards the Prussian aide, partly from a latent fear for Belgium, partly from a liking for any power which seems at once strong and unaggressive, but chiefly from cordial appreciation for Count von Bismarck's bulldog courage. To take a menace from France unmoved, seems to the average Englishman the perfection of politi- cal nerve. Mr. Gladstone's decision to persist no longer in moving his amendments, at once disposes, in the opinion of the Chronicle, of the false issues which have perplexed and divided the opposition, and brings home to those who may hereafter support the government bill the full responsi bility of their acts. It puts an end to the delusion that the bill can be regarded as a settlement of the re form question ; since it is clear that inch a settle. went cannot be effected by any measure which is not acquiesced in by the representatives of the party specially connected with reform, and specially trusted by the leaders of the reform movement. That section of the opposition which has persisted in treating the importance of passing a good bill as altogether sub ordinate to the necessity of settling the question in some way during the present session has no longer any standing ground. This ambiguous position being no longer tenable, the broad principles which have all along been at issue resume their proper place in the conflict ; and it becomes necessary for men to choose their sides, or to confess which side they have chosen. The present Reform Bill, if passed at all, cannot be passed with the concurrence of any sound liberal. tire Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ann 26. The Queen, accompanied by Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon. Her ➢fajesty walked and drove in the grounds this morning, attended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish. Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr. Legg. Prinoess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord Raglan, and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London this morning, and honoured with visits the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, the French Gallery, and the Society of British Artists. Her royal highneai afterward■ visited the Prince and Prinoess of Wales at Marlborough-house. In the afternoon her royal highness honoured with a visit the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, and afterwards returned to Windsor Castle. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by Captain Ellis. The Queen of Denmark and the Mince of Wales, attended by Madame de Bille, M. do Custenachiold, and Captain Ellis, visited the Exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, at their gallery in Pall-mall East. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial. office to the Governors of Malta, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Lahuan, the Straits Settlements, the Austra lian colonies, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. The Queen has signified her intention of laying tho first stone of the Hall of Arts and Sciences on Monday, the 20th May. The contractors for the building, Messrs. Lucas Brothers, are busily engaged in making preparations for the ceremony. The ground is being excavated to some feet in depth, so as to mark out the amphitheatrical form of the building, and the excavation will be covered in with canvas, to protect the spectators of the ceremony from every contingency of weather. THE COURT.—Her Majesty the Queen and royal family, attended by the suite, will leave Windsor Castle, it is expected, on Wednesday or Thursday next for Osborne. During her Majesty's residence in the Isle of Wight their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian and infant son will reside in the Lancaster Tower of Windsor Castle, at which palace, it is anticipated, the royal christening will take place on the return of the Queen previous to her Majesty making a trip to Mineral. Her Royal Highness Princess Christian is understood to be making rapid progress towards convalescence, and, if well, the Prince and Princess may probably accompany the Queen to Scotland, instead of taking up their residence at Frogmore. ROYAL VISITORS To THE PICTURE EXHIBITIONS.— Yesterday her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, accom panied by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and the Dueheu of Mecklenburg-Strelits, attended by Madame de Bille, M. Caatercault, and Captain Ellis, paid a visit to the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall East. This exhibition, as well as that of the Institute of Painters in Water Colours, which is situate opposite Marlborough House, in Pall-mall, are to be opened to the public on Monday. During the day her Royal Highness the Prince's Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lord Raglan, visited both the exhibitions of water colour paintings, the Gallery of the Society of British Artists in Suffolk-street, and the French Gallery, 120, Pall-mall. _ . Hut Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh, K. G., captain of her Majesty's ship Galatea, is expected to arrive at Dover this day, to take leave of her Majesty and the Royal Family, before startles for his long voyage to Australia.—United Berri« Gazette. The Duchene of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz will leave Cambridge Cottage, Kew, early in the ensuing week, for their real_ deuce in the Ambassador'. Court, St. James's Palace, for the season. The Lord Chancellor has allowed funds to be appropriated out of the Tichborne property for in quiries to be made on behalf of the Went baronet in Australia relative to the anteoedents of the claimant from that colony to the Tichborne title and estates. Colonel Luahington has had an interview with the aoi-diaant Sir Roger Tichborne, and has declared that be is the son of late Sir James Tichborne. Yesterday morning a bazaar was opened at St. James's Hall, under the immediate patronage of her Royal Highness Princess Marguerite of Orleans, her Royal Highness the Princess Blanche of Orleans, the Duchess of Leeds, the Duchess Coetellacio Caraocioli, the Duchess de Sangro, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marchioness of Lothian, Lady Clifford, Lady E. Howard, and a large number of other ladies. The stalls were most beautifully arranged, and the articles of the most varied description, all free gifts, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the education of several thousand Roman catholic children in connection with the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.—The Earl of Derby will come to town to-day from his villa at Roehampton to attend the Cabinet Council. Lord Stanley and the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole have been staying in town during the recess ; also Sir Stafford Noithcote, who has been absent only a few days from his duties at the India Board. The Duke of Buckingham is expected at Chandon house today from Stowe, Buckinghamshir e , Th e D u k e of Marlborough returned to town a few days ago from Paris, and went to Blenheim Palace, Oxon ; the noble duke is expected in town to-day for the Cabinet Council, and the duchess and family return on Tuesday for the season. The Lord Chancellor, who has been passing the recess at Norwood, will come to town to-day expressly for the meeting of the cabinet ministers. The Earl of Malinesbury, Lord Privy Seal, is expected to arrive in town to-day from Hewn Court, near Christ church. Tl , e Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer and Mrs. Disraeli will arrive in town to-day from Hughenden Manor, Backe. The Right Hon. H. T. L Corry, M.P., the First Lord of th e Ad m i ra lty , arr i ved i n town fast evening, accompanied by some of the head offi cials of the Admiralty Department, from Plymouth and Portsmouth. The Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., returns to town t od ay from Westwood•park, his seat near Droitwich, Worcestershire. The Right Hon. Go tham. Hardy, M.P., comes to town to-clay from his seat near Staplehurst, Kent. Tux LONDON SCOTTISH VOLUNTEERS. — Large numbers of persons interested in the annual games of the London Scottish Volunteers have proceeded this morning to the Middlesex County Cricket Ground, Caledonian. road, Islington, where the sports commenced to day. The programme is an attractive one, consisting of flat noes, putting the stone, throwing the hammer, high and long jumps, sword dances, throwing the cricket ball, sack races, reels, he. The committee of the day are Captain Lameden, Captain Pendsr, Lieut. Tratman, Lieut. Sutherland, Lieut. Trotter, Ensign J. Anderson, Colour. Sergeant Malcolm, M.P.,Sergt. Budge, Private M'Kerroll, and Private A. G. Mackenzie. Mr. It. Webster, late of Trinity College, Cambridge, is the judge of racing; Pr , vete M'Kerroll, the starter; and Capt. Mackenzie and Colour-Sergean Malcolm, M.P., the judges of dancing. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (=Tars Trzsaiams.) PRUSSIA. PARIS, Ana 27. It is believed that the King of Pntwaa will open the session of the Prussian Chambers on Monday next in person, and that the speech from the throne will contain satidactory declarations rela tive to the Luxemburg question. ROME. BOILS, AMU. 26. Twelve soldiers belonging to the battalion of Chasseurs died on Wednesday last at Tivoli, and as many more are now dangerously ill. This has not been caused by cholera, as reported, but by the imprudent use of old copper cooking utensils. The Osservatore Romano publishes an address, signed by 400 catholies residing in Rome, protest ing against the usurpers of the temporal power in the states formerly belonging to the church. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Aran. 27. The West India and Pacific steamer America, from the West Indies, has arrived here. She left Port-au-Prince on the Bth April. Advice. from Hayti state that General Saget occupied the provisional presidency pending the arrival of General Salnave, who had been elected president. General Salnave arrived at Cape Hayti on the 27th March, and was received with enthusiasm. Salutes were fired from the shore and from an American war vessel in port. The Financial Department had published a notice that import and tonnage dues would be received in national currency at the Treasury rate. The Jamaica news was unimportant. NAZAIRE, APRIL 27. The Transatlantic Company's steamship Wash ington has arrived here, with 202 passengers, and 1,100,000 francs in specie. Her dates are San Francisco, 19th ; Valparaiso, 11th ; Callao, 21st March ; Colon, 2nd ; St. Martha, 4th ; and Martinique, 11th April. A fresh political movement had broken out in Columbia. The population of St. Martha was in arms. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAVA. The Royal Mail steamship Java . from New York on the 17th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 12.30 a.m. to-day (Saturday), with 165 passengers. After landing all the mails excepting those for Liverpool, a portion of the Scotch, and 23 pas sengers, she proceeded for Liverpool at 12.50 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, Aran 17, MownNo. The opinion of Chief Justice Chase sustaining the refusal of the Supreme Court to consider the Mis sissippi injunction, declares the court has no jurisdiction in the ease, having no right to interfere with the President in the exercise of his official funs. tions. The application was without precedent. If the injunction were allowed and the President refused to obey the court would be without power to enforce process. If the President complied with the order of the court, and re fused to execute the Reconstruction Act, and the House of Representatives impeached him for such refusal, could the court interpose on behalf of the President, and prevent his trial by the Senate? The Supreme Court could not consider any complaint against the incumbent of the presidential office. Governor Shirkey bus intimated be would alter the bill so as to come within the jurisdiction of the court and then offer it. The court has permitted the Georgia application to be filed. The Attorney-General making no objection, the Supreme Court has aubpcenaed Generale Stanton, Grant, and Pope to appear before it on the tint Monday in December to answer the plaint. General Sickles has issued an order, setting forth that the general destitution prevalent in his district renders ( xtraordinary me►sures for relief necessary ; he therefore orders th.t no person shall be imprisoned or property seized for debt incurred during the war. S►les of property for debt incurred within the year previous to the war are to be postponed for one year, and implements of husbandry and household goods to the value of five hundred dollars are to be reserved to each family exempt from legal seizure. The carrying of deadly weapons, except by the military, is strictly prohibited. The governors of South and North Carolina have allowed the pardon of persons convicted by the civil courts. General Sheridan has ►nnounced that, pending the decision of the Attsrney-General, all those who have been disfranchised by the Reconstruction Act will be excluded from registration as well as those about whose right to vote any doubt exists. The registration is progressing in Louisiana, most of the applicants being negroes. The conservative candidate has been elected Mayor of Pensacola, in Florida. A number of radical negroes be came riotous and threatened to burn the city. A detach. merit of national cavalry were called out to preserve order. A large and enthusiastic meeting of negro radicals was held at Nashville on Monday. On Tuesday the Tennessee Conservative Convention at Nashville nominated Mr. Emerson Etheridge as governor. Six negro representatives were present, and speeches were made denunciatory of Congress. Governor Brownlow has declared the registration of voters in eight counties of Tennessee null and void. Maryland has decided by a majority of 10,000 in favour of holding a Conservative Constitutional State Convention on the Bth of May. MEXICO. Adrices received hero from Vera Cruz state that the Emperor Maximilian's treasury is reported to be ex hausted. The republicans at Alvarado are stated to have equipped a steamer and two schooners,for the purpose of blockading Vera Cruz. The state of Coahuala ham rebelled agaituit the authority of Juarez. (Br ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Arm 26, 6 P.n. Closing prices :—Gold, 138. Sterling exchange on London, 1001. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 110, firmer. Illinois, 1131 ; Erie, 582. Cotton—Middling upland, 27. Petroleum, re fined, 25. The National Steam Company's steamer Louisiana arrived here on Thursday, and the Canadian mail steamer North American at Portland to-day. On Tuesday morning, soon after 10 o'clock, the Emperor and Empress paid another visit to the Exhibi tion, and had scarcely left before a terrible dorm of rain came on and continued with much violence for some time. The weather in the after part of the day was so bad that comparatively few visitors came. On one of the Emperor's recent visits his Majesty made a long stay in the Italian section, paying much attention to the remarkable colleo fion of objects illustrating the fine arts which the penin sula has sent raais, so it is rumoured, will receive most of the reigning sovereigns of Europe during the present summer, and of these the first to come it is expected will be the King and Queen of PortugaL The King of Italy is expected on the 15th of May. Of the great uumber of persons that attended the Paris Exhibition on Sunday many were disappointed at finding all the oases in the English court covered up. One of the papers undertakes to explain this eirmanstanoe to its readers:—" It must not be forgotten that the English repose' absolutely' on the Sunday." "At the Marquis de Moustier's weekly recep tion given on Wednesday evening," says the Prase, "it was remarked that the nunister held a long conversation with Count de Colts, the Prussian Ambassador, in one of the rooms where they were alone together ; soon after, with Lord Cowley ; and lastly, with Prince de Metternich. All the beads of foreign diplomacy were resent." s N~% E. 11 61 ]PRESS FROM PARIS. • . I. • 1 IMPORTANT OFFICIAL CIRCULAR ON THE IMMINENCE OF WAR. Mow on OWX 003ABIPONDIOIT.) PARIS, FIUDAT $71:1111:110. The principal event of this day is the news that the government, through the Haves lithographic agency, has sent to all the provincial journals a manifesto destined to prepare the public mind for immediate war—la guerre saws phrases—as I have heard it said. The nature of the relations of the Haves agency with the government is so notorious that I think it needless to insist upon the entirely official character of the circular article, which is in the following words: There must be an end of everything in this world. The patience of France is subject to this common law ; and this should be known in Prussia as well as in the minor courts which aspire to the singular honour of being dependent upon her. Our long suffering hi regard to the cabinet of Berlin and the Northern Con federation has for a year and more gone beyond all the ex pectation of Europe. Being ruled by our respect for the liberal and civilising principle of nationalities, of which we were the first generously to unfold the flag, we lettGermany free to dispose of herself, hoping that the dangerous ver tigo which followed the victory of Wows might soon dis appear. Prussia seemed to us deeply interested in restrain ing the proud pretensions of the utopists and the univer. shies, whose stand point or object is—revolution. With out injury to foreign interest worthy of all respect, and without attacking the independence of her former con federates, Prussia might, by • patient and just policy, have doubled her strength in a few years, and that to the profit of the general peace and the equalis►tion of Europe. A little prudence and candour would have enabled her to accomplish this task, and we gave her credit for good genes enough to do it. But now we mast needs open our eyes to the light, and after having reckoned up the sacrifices which we have made for the sake of the fruitful idea we wished to propagate, we must confess that the measure of our patience is full. No ! Prussia his alto gether failed to understand the disinterested policy which we followed in her favour. No ! The agitators who are at the head of affairs in Berlin, Stuttgard, or Munich, are incapable of comprehending the meaning and character of our attitude. It was by the force of right and the free consent of souls that we had hoped to reconstitute the nationalities of the centre of Europe, and it is now by the sword and violence that Prussia pretends to pack populations like herds of cattle to enhance the splendour of a mown. After Sadowa the Prussian soldiers treated Hanover and the Elbe duchies not as peoples belonging to the great German family, but as conquered foreigners. At Frankfort pillage was orga nised and placed on the order of the day, just as in the worst times of the middle ages. The most express clauses of the treaty of Prague in favour of the Danes of Schleswig were at first evaded and then repudiated. That is not all : At the moment when we had every reason to suppose that Germany would remain organised in three groups, treaties secretly prepared and signed ion , dared the Berlin government sovereign mistress of the armies of the south. Official speeches opened hori sons still more vast, and yet we continued peace ful, and thinking of nothing but the interests of industry, in spite of all these offensive proceedings. But at the last moment, yielding to the solicitation of the King of Holland, we required from Prussia the renunciation of the citadel of Luxemburg, which she detained by no other title than a flagrant usurpa tion. It was, everyone must admit, a small thing indeed to ask after the extraordinary aggrandisement of Prussia. Well, now this most just claim has latticed to let loom a torrent of wild pumices in Berlin which border upon insanity. For the last month we are the object on the part of the Prussian newspapers of every conceivable species of calumny and threats. Ambitious designs are imputed to us in order to cover those conceived against us ; and we are treated as if when once Germany has spoken France had nothing to do but to hold her tongue. There is now no such thing as public law in the world ; the in terest of Prussian Germany is all in all, and Fame her self counts for nothing. The Northern Orman Gazette intimates to us again to-day that the observations of England, of Russia, and of Austria will not be accepted at Berlin any more than ours. Prussia wit/ remain in the citadel of Luxemburg because it is its pleasure to do as. IT 18 • CHALLiNGE I IT Is WAR. Prance can /40 longer hesitate in presence of awe* wad provocations. If Prussia dairy* to have recourse to the solution of battles, we cannot prevent them. But she must learn in her turn that this terrible game, when we are forced into it, may not be displeasing to us, for we have often shown that we know how to win. The case of M. Alexander Dumas against M. Liebert, the photographer, was pleaded today before the civil tribunal, presided by M. Benoit Champy. The plaintiff' complained of the publica tion of a series of photographs which are now ex posed for sale in Paris shop windows, representing him in various poses with Miss Ada Isaacs Menken, the American equestrian. When the news of this action was first bruited, I supposed that the photo grapher, with a view to scandal, had taken from well-known portraits the heads of the author and the actress, and arranged them together in groups of his own composing, after an abominable and never-sufficiently-to-be-reprehended practice much used in Rome at the expense of the Pope and several cardinals. But it appeared from the evidence on the trial that M. Alex. Dumas sat bond fide together with Miss Adah Isaacs Menken for all the portraits in question, and only objects tardily to their publi cation, in consequence of the displeasure of his family and the observations of certain journals. After counsel on both sides had been heard, the Imperial Advocate Chevrier summed up against M. Alex. Dumas, who, he said, forgetful of certain principles which should always be remembered, had authorised the publicity of these photographs, although later, " when it was too late," he was sorry for it. The public minister, therefore, while congratulating M. Dumas on the feeling which had led him to bring the action, was of opinion that it ought to be dismissed with costs. The court will deliver judgment on this day week. The Bourse was better, but without any other reason than the state of the market with reference to the approaching settlement. Rente rose 45c. for cash, and 55c. for account, closing at 65fr. 85c. and 65fr. 75c. Mobilier ruse 10fr., Credit Foncier 40c., and Italian lfr. 10c. A Belgian journal, called the Echo du Parlenient, has lately presumed to publish articles against the annexation of Luxemburg to France, and is not now allowed to enter this country lest its arguments should confuse the minds of Frenchmen. We read in a letter from Rome :—" Rome was quite crowded with American naval officers this week, there being three United States vessels at Civita Vecchia, and everybody on board of them eager for a glance at the Eternal City. Those of the Shamrock are still lionising Rome, but the Miantonomab and Augusta have already joined the Colorado and Frolic at Naples, so that their officers must console themselves with Vesuvius aad Pompeii, instead of the illumination of St. Peter's and the Girandola. The monitor and her consort are to return home in July." In 1846 the colony of New South Wales in cluded what is now victoria. Its population was then 200,000, it is now 400,000. There were then 391 schools and 19,033 scholars, now there are 1,069 schools and 53,463 scholars ; there were 138 mills, now there are 173 ; there were 124 manufactories, now there are 2,1.33; the tillage area was 193,360 acres, now it is 378,Z4 ; there were 88,126 'wraps, now there are 262,687 ; there were 1,430,736 horned cattle, now there 1,961,905 ; there were 7,906,811 sheep, now there are 8,14,511 ; the ships employed were 800, the tonnage of which was 140,000 tons; now 2,000 ships are employed, the tonnage of which is 650,000 tons ; the yearly export of gold was nil, now it is 2,647,4)681.; 40,000 tons of coal were raised, now 600,000 tons are raised ; the expenditure was 290,0001., now it is 2,314,7941. • THE LONDON AND BRIGHTON RA IL WA V. OF LWBBTIGA• REPORT OF THE TION. The report of the committee of investigation of the London and Brighton Railway hes- bismisiemsd. This committee was constituted chiefly to ascertain the actual position of the Brighton stockholders in relation to the bar of the present session, which proposes to make them liable for all the obligations of the Surrey and Sussex, the Chi. charter and Midhurst, and the West Sussex Junction and it appears that the new capital to be raked for these undertakings is 1,859,6001., including 595,0001. al. ready subscribed, or agreed to be subscribed, by the Brighton Company to the Surrey and Sumer and Chichee ter and Midhurst companies. With respect to the subscription to the Surrey and Sussex, which amounts to 500,0001., and the manner in which the Brighton pro. prietary have been brought into connection with that speculation, the statements of the committee unfold a series of proceedings calculated (remarks the Times) to eclipee the most famous features of the London, Chatham, and I Dover management. At the half-yearly meeting of the Brighton Company, on the 29th of July, 1865, the director' intimated that the Surrey and Sussex line was promoted " by an independent company with whom they had entered into a working arrangement," and it was upon this repro. sentation that power was asked to subscribe towards the capital. The committee of investigation now report that they have aaoertained that the Survey and Sussex Company consists only of Brighton directors and their nominees (clerks in the office, ht.), "who are entered on the register without having paid anything for their Mares ;" that the subscribed capital other than the 500,0001. supplied by the Brighton Company was "literally nothing;" and that the Brighton directors are also the directors of the Surrey and Sussex Company, " with the exception of Sir F. Arthur and Mr. Coles Child, who are, however, the auditors of that company." So recently even as the half-yearly report of the 14th of February last, it was stated that this and the other two lines " were then managed by indepen. dent companies, having separate organisations and stalk and distinct capitals," and it was by the concern thee constituted that the agreement was concluded with the Brighton Company under date the 18th of May, 1866, with the object of its being absorbed by the Brighton with all its debts and obligations, a point on which the committee of investigation observe, "It is, perhaps, needless to add that without parliamentary sanction this agreement is not binding on the Brighton Company, as the directors had no legal power to enter into it." More. over, the agreement, although entered into nearly two years ago, is represented to have been completely con. reeled from the Brighton proprietary, who, it is assumed, remained under the supposition that they were committed to nothing but the subscription of 500,0001. to the Surrey and SOMME. With regard to the Chichester and Midhurst and West Sussex Companies, the committee consider that the circumstances are so far similar that practically say _ . . declaim to which the Brighton shareholders; may come as to the Surrey and Sussex should govern that of the other mot The committee leave these statements for the Brighton proprietors to judge whether they feel bound to take over the three lines in question. Finally, they admit that " they quite believe the directors intended by the arrangements as to these branch railways to promote the interests of the Brighton Company," but they point out that the share. holders were kept in ignorance of their real position, and that the directors "obtained sanction to arrangements which only involved limited subscriptions to what were believed to be independent companies, and en ultimate adoption of the railways of those companies; whereas it now appears that, as to the Surrey and flumes, and the Chichester and Midhuret, there never was any subscrip. tion or shareholder independent of the Brighton Com• pany, and that it is now proposed, for the first time, that the whole of the capitals for those railways should be supplied by the Brighton Company alone." THE TRAGEDY AT RUCKHURST-HILL. LATEST PARTIOULARS.--(THIS DAY.) BIT/CH SST. II I LL, SATURDAY. This morning Dr. Home reports that the young girl is progressing favourably. The most dangerous wound which Hie has received was one three inches in depth, intheted by the dagger, under her right shoulder blade. It was out of that wound that the braes sheath protector was extracted. None of the other 12 wounds which she received are more than an inch is depth. If she does recover, Dr. Horne states it will be simply owing to the extraordinary power of endurance of her wonderfully strong constitution. All here take the greatest interest in the muie, and the sufferer is receiving considerable attention. The girl has told Dr. Horne that she did not hear a clock strike while she was lying in the field on the night of the tragic occurrence from 10 o'clock until she heard Buck burst-hill church clock strike 4. The sound of the striking to awake her, and she got up and leaned against appeared fence, where she was found by the policeman. She had become sensible two or three times before that, bat she was only able to crawl along the grass. It was very cold, and the rain fell heavily. The prisoner is quite unconcerned about the whole affair, and speaks about it with the greatest freedom When he was being taken to prison on Thursday afternoon, ar he was riding in a railway carriage along the Groat Eastern line, he saw some one he knew on one of the eta. tion platforms. To the suprise of the people, he nodded, laughed, and waved his handcuffed hands at her. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 8 I.Y. R. B. T. W. ilte -I __L Nairn 39.50 44 E. Aberdeen 19.61 45 B.K Leith 19.4906 IL Ardrosman 19.43 46 K Greencastle 19.45 47 W.S. W. Valentla 1943 47 N. Cape Clear 19.47 44 E. Ilverpool 29.4648 &X Holyhead 19.40 46 &&W. Pentanes 9456 48 W. Brest 19.65 52 W. N. W. Lorient 29.01 60 W. Rochefort 1909 54 &W. Plymouth . 29.53 50 W.N.W. Weyms nth £9.55 80 S.W. Portsmouth 29.51 50 B.& W. London SY .6S 50 Pt. Yarmouth 51.62 e 8 &S.& Scarborough 29.60 44 4.E. shields 19.60 46 Z. Helder — w. / I L lit e. ,7 7:1 0a 8I &Z. I fir I 4 : I 8 8 1. . ro r 1 N.N.E. 11e 0.04' 4 B.W. b — I 4 2 8.2. r 0.14 6 11.8. W. lor 0.23 2 6 ; B.W. re 0.73 4 • B.W, tic an 4 4 S.W. oh 0.08 3 • W. r 0.44 2 41 & ,a / I 8.. I e 0.01 3 6 • E. 8.11. I ro 0.06 2 2 • M. Iro 002 - 4' 8.8.1. I o 4 3 8.8.8. • C., 0.01 4 Li i o —l4 - - InMAIM& There has been a considerable diminution in barometrical pressure since yesterday over the whole of the lititbh blet . the decrease Is stll couthating. The winds In the north have a,eshs become easterly, while those In the south have veered west ward. Heavy rain has prevailed on the west coast of Eagisildi the weather is still overcast, with rain hi places. RUGBY TERCENTENARY. —The meeting of Old Rugbeians at Willis'. Rooms on :day 4 will take place at 4 precisely. The Bishop•Deaignate of Rochester will be in the chair. REFORM MEETING AT MANCIIEsTEIt. —-A crowded and enthusiastic reform meeting was held in the Free trade Hall, Manchester, last evening. Mr. George Wills* was in the chair. Mr. Bailey, M.P., Mr. Hugh Mason, I Mr. Robert Kell, Mr. Jacob Bright, Rev. G. W. Condors Mr. J. B. Tore, Mr. Alderman Heywood, and other gentle. men addressed the meeting. Revolutions were Puma strongly condemnatory of the government Reform Bill, and expressing the unabated confidence of the liberal Fuel in the leadership of Mr. Gladstone. The following lefts( has been received from Lord Amberley, but was not reed at the meeting:—" Rodborough Manor, Stroud, April 24, 1867. Sir,-1 regret that I shall not be able to attend the reform meeting at Manchester on Friday neat, which is to be held for the purpose of condemning the govern• went reform bill. At the same time I beg to assure you of my sympathy in the object you have in view ; for I believe theonly hope of either materially improving the bill, or pre. curing its rejection if it cannot be improved, now lies in an emphatic and unequivocal expression of the opinion of the country. Aa far as I am concerned, I should be vet': glad if the measure could be so amended as to establish household suffrage in all boroughs, irrespective of the local arrangements as to rating ; but I am afraid there is little probability of this or any other result satisfactory to real reformers being reached during the present session of par. liament.—Your obedient servant, AMIllll.1:1"." SPECIAL SERMONS. — To-morrow, at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, during the morning service, the ery Rev. William Alexander, dean of Emly, will preach in ad of the Bishop of London's Fund. The special evening see' vices in the nave of Westminster Abbey will be ors.: mimed at 7 p.m. The opening sermon tomorrow be preached by the Very Rev. Dean Stanley. DurifiLM a j the several preachers will be :—Ou the 12th, the Ilev. Tom James Rowsell, chaplain to the Queen, and teeter of St. M ,rgaret'S, Lothbury ; on the 19th, the Very Rev. Dr. Hook, dean of Chichester ; and ou the 2btb, the Lonl Bishop of Oxford. ~'~ the bee Bal pal Out eirc Q•C Atli Mrs Geo defe '4lt of [TI Thai at th e , tunatel 4i video that th Px ,;'r lip.ll