The Express. — London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

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Matthews, and the lasses Nelson. —And UNDER. THS 108 L —Commence at 71. BIITLENIA. Stns IM MO, OUR LOT IN LIR Mesdames S. Lane and Crantord.—Entertannnests by MN& Pearce and Mr. Mac Lean. —AUSTRALIA FKLI X. Mies R Clagtan.—And ELLA ROdklf - RIRIE —Commence at Si. HIGH WATER AT TONDOS MIDGE. Tint DAT —Mamba, Ti 415 a...... Attemoon, th. sm. To.sotioll—Ma(ulAG AtiarD ooll , th. 65m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14. AFTER waiting resignedly for half the session so as to leave his opponents a fair field for action, Sir JoHN Titei.swsr has to-day moved the second reading of his Church Rate Abolition Bill. The testimony of adversaries was the one thing wanted to certify that measure as the only prac tical settlement of the Church Rate question. That witness it has now received. Those who ought to know best tacitly confess that no better solution of the question can be produced. Last year a numberof honourable memberswere induced to vote against Sir &mix TaxLAWNY'S Bill on the understanding that this session the pro-rate party would produce a more suitable measure. They now see the result. The HOMO% the Horse, and Dmirmotmis can give them no help. Like the POPS they are shut up to a weakly non possumus. This has been made still plainer today by Mr. SOTHERON &TeeIIRT, who comes forward, not with a statesmanlike proposition, but with a whining and inane paragraph, which he is to move by way of amendment, about the "in "justice" of taking away the right of English men to raise among themselves the sums required for the repair of their Church. It is marvellous that a single Englishman exists capable of writing such arrant nonsense. Every child knows that the right to raise money among themselves for the support of their Church is one which does not depend on the law, but is exercised daily with out the sanction of statutes or the aid of police. Even within these last twenty years the poorest of these three kingdoms, suddenly finding itself in want of churches, schools, and parsonages, has raised the sum of five millions for that pur pose, without any help from the civil magistrate. Mr. Esreouiir knows very well that the legal right he defends is neither more nor less than the right of a dominant Church to throw upon the members of other churches burdens which, light as they are, its own indifferent children find too heavy for them. Truly, the age of chivalry is gone when those who pretend to be the special friends of the famous Church of England, to which great men in all generations have been proud to belong, can advo cate such meanness. The Church would indeed be in poor case if it had not children of wiser temper and higher faith than these. Church men who have studied the times know very well that nothing is more damaging to the deep and permanent interests of the Church than the re tention of this invidious privilege. As long as it lasts it is the engine by which the opponents of the Church will always prefer to work, and one which when it is gone they will much miss. While it remains it will be defended by the foolish and the timid, as everything which is is defended ; when it is abolished its former supporters will wonder why they prized it, just as intelligent landlords now wonder why they valued the Corn Laws. It is time this attempt 0 uphold a tax con demned by the present state of society and by modern ideas of freedom and justice should come to an end. Sir JOHN Timswarv's Bill is the only measure proposed with this object. It is to be opposed for the ninth time by a party which undertook to show a better way of attaining the end, but has failed to do so ; and it is easy to see that it is to be opposed strenuously. The course of all true Liberals is clear. The pro rate party, having fallen back upon old Tory prin ciples, must be convinced by to-day's vote of the difference between a Pall-mall re-action and the settled determination of the great, free, and in telligent constituencies. THE DEPOSIT BANK. Those of our readers who have watched the un folding history of the National Assurance and In vestment Association, better known as "The De posit Bank," will learn with interest from our law report that the decision of the Master of the Rolls as to the liabilities of mere depositors and their right to prosecute their claims against the =4-directors of the bank, has been reversed by the Lords Justices of Appeal. They have decided, in re Davies, that the depositor not being a holder either of mutual or investment stock was ' not a proprietor merely because she had signed certain forms of receipts which wei e tendered to her. They have therefore released her from the obligations of a contributory, and have dissolved at the same time the injunction which bad been granted to restrain her proceedings at law. This decision affects a large number of depositors, and will doubt less give a new impulse to litigation. We shall probably have occasion to refer more fully to its consequences, which will be very unpleasant for the ex-directors of the bankrupt concern. "Ms. GUMMI% FINANCE REVIEWED By THE Rua= Mos. B. Dumaxu."— Under this title' Messrs. Saunders and Ottley have republished Mr. Disraeli's anti-budget speeches of 1860 and 1861. The editor, in a preface, laments the partisan spirit in which Parliamentary oratory is always criti cised. "The most convincing logic, the most unanswerable facts are listened to with a scepti cism which no powers of persuasion can remove." This is a sad state of things ; but it appears to have its compensation, for we are told that "on the other hand, the moi.t transparent fallacies are asserted and applauded with a liberal and accommodating faith for which no imposture is too extravagant. This ought surely to satisfy Mr. Disraeli's ad mirers. PARLIAMENTARY DIVLIIONS. LATEST INTELLIGENCIL tiona, will, it may be hoped, contribute to the reconciliation of the parties which divide the monarchy. This grand measure has met, it is said, with strong opposition in the council. The in fluence of M. Bchmerling, whose popularity is in creasing, seconded by that of his colleagues De Lasser and Degenfeld, has vanquished all resistance. It was easy for him to demonstrate that prudence counselled deference to wishes as just as they were reasonable." HOURS OF LORDS-I[L! it QUALIFICATION FOR 43171thifi AMOUT lON BILL Moved—That the bill be now mil c mod Lord Taunton) ; objected to ; and gia ammilanwn i t lowa , to lame out (" now and hart ("We eq six —(The Duke of Marlborough): on queers; thatTrusiri stand pert of the motion ?—Contenta, 65 ; Not-contents, 87 (Ordered, that the name of the Lord Bishop of Win chaster be added to the list of Not-Contents, l) ; Not- Contents, 88. • AMERICA. 1 OONTZNTh. LD. CHANCILLOZ WILL LORD& LOll.OB. Wcothary. lento Boyle Nemec &met Cluew Overdone eevonahiro Saint Germans Cheshom Ponsonby The Debats satirically remarks—" The Moniteur has taken care to apprise the public twice that its correspondence has no official or semi-official cha racter. If it could be doubted that this correspon dence expresses only individual opinions, the doubts would be dissipated by the reading of this passage, and especially of the phrase which ter minates it." /*We:seta. Somers oTegleton Portman' gems. Strafford Cranworth Roeebery Abingdon Wicklow. Crewe Sandy* Airlie vacuums. Deere Say and Sete Camperdown Falmouth Dartrey Sefton Cawdor Leaster Weary Somerhill Cowper Stratford de Foley (Teller) Stanley of Al De they Bede lige. Hamilton derley Duels RUNUP. Leigh Stratheden 'gingham Durham. Lemon Taunton (Teller) Ines Luang. Llanover Wodekonse Granville Pf l p! r Lyveden Worlingham Grey Blantyre NOT-CONTENTi. lIIJIHO sun n o es . EARLS. BISHOPS. LORDS. York. Harrington London Kenyon DIARB. Home Oxford Kingsdown Maechester Lucan Rochester Leamileld Marlborough Manven St. Asaph level and Hal- Richmond Morton Winchester. land Rutland. Orkney LORDS. Ravensworth ISIS. Pomfret Blayney Rayleigh Bl i th u Tller) Powis Boston Redeadale Norraanby Romney Brodrick Sheffield Salisbury. Rosalyn Castlemaine Silchester RAW. Stanhope Chelmsford Sondes Amherst Verulam. Churston Southampton Bantry 'amount. Marina Stewart of Stew. Beauchamp Doneraile Clifton art's Court Carnarrou Dungannon Colchester Stewart of Oar- Cathcart Exmouth Colt :lie of Cul- ilea Dartmouth Harding° roes (Team) Saint Leonards De La Warr Hood. Conyers Strathspey Derby BISHOPS. Egerton Templemore Desert Bath and Wells Farnham Tenterden DOPCBHEP Carlisle Feversham Watungham Klleuboniugh Rugg 'oxford Willoughby de Ellesmere Kilmore Grantley Broke Rene Llchneld Orineked Wynford Graham Llandaff Reytesbury HOUSE OF 0010 IONS-MAT 13. _ _ INOUYE TAX._ Motion made, and question put, "That in the opinion of this house, the incidence of an Income Tax should not fall upon capital or property, and that when applied to the annual products of invested property it should fall only upon the net income arising therefrom ; and that the net profits, gains, or sandes of persons and part nerships (not being public companies) engaged in any trade, farm, manufacture, profession, or salaried employ. meat should be subject, previous to amassment, to such an statement as may equitably And the barflies thrown upon intelligenoe and skill as compared with property :" —(Mr. Hubbard). The house divided ; Ayes, 62 Noes 99. ATM. Barnes, T. Green*ll, G. Baas, M. T. Handley, J. Bernard, Co/ Hay, Sir J. C. Black. A. Hibbert, J. T. Blake, J. Hodgkimoo, G. Bonham-Carter, J. Jackson, W. Brady, Dr. Kakewich, 8. T. Bright, J. Melly, Sir F. Burrell, Sir P. Kinglike, A. W. Clay, J. Lawn, Sir IL Cobbett. J. M. Lanigan, J. Collier. B. P. Leith's's, B. A. Cot, W. levels, H. Dalgllab, R. M'llahon, P. Douglas, Sir C. Marsh. M. H. Doukas, P. Monson. W. J. Duke, Sir J. Morris, D. Tenney, Lord ()Terra& B. M. Forster, W. E. Onalow, G. Gard, B. & Padmore, B. Getty, S. G. Parker, Major Goldsmid, Mr F. H. Faraway, Visa. Rerjeant f l orllrd-UrquhartW. Powell, J. J. Rothschild, Baran Salomon, Ald. &hole/lel& W. Seely, C. Selwyn, C. J. Mandeld. J. Taylor,Thornhill, W. P. Tollemaehe, B. J. Warner, Weetheed, J. P. White, J. Williams, W. Wood. W. Yorke, Z. T. *nuns. Hubbard, J. G. Crawford, B. W. NOW Angerettin, W. Gibson, T. M. Atherton, Sir W. Gladstone, W. Bagwell, J. Gower, F. L. Baring, Sir F. T. Grey, Sir G. Barrow, W. H. Hadfield, G. Berttelot, Cul. Banbury, R. Later, W. Haakey, T. Beale, S. Il H azt s ojt K. B. Beecroft, G. 8. M. 1 Banock. G. W. Heathcote. Sir W. Blackburn, P. Hennessy, J. P. Bouvet.* P. P. Herbert. H. A. Bridges, Mr B. W. Heygate, Sir P. W. Bruce. B. A. Howes, L Buller, Sir A. W. Hutt, W. Burke, Sir T. J. 11.1enpoote, Col. Inustn, C. fisightley, B. Northeote, Sir S. O'Conor Don, The Paget, Lord C. Palmerston, Viact. Peel, Sir It Pee l, , F. Minya, G. L. Pinney, Cut. Potter, E. Powys, P. L Quinn P. Nkomo. O. Ridley, Sir M. Seymour, Sir M. Smith, Abel Steel, J. Steuart, A. Bnlllraq M. Tref Ws, C. H. Trelawity, Mr J. B. Trollops, Sir J. Vaixlelear, Vane, Lord H. Villiers, C. T. Walcott, Adml Waldroik L. Walpole, S . Watkins, 001. Westlake, T. H.' ... ... —• v. Cairti. J. W . Cardwell, E. W. Chapman, J. Lewis. Sir 0. C. Churchill, Lord A.B. Lindsay, Gen. Close, M. C. Lowe, H. Colebrooke, liir T. Macaulay K. Conolly, T. Ill. Cork, W. Crautuvd, IL H. Mackie, J. Croqdry, F. Mainwaring, T. Disraeli, B. Mans, IL Duff, M. E. Martin, J. Dunbar. Sir W. Massey, W. N. I Evans, T. W. Mllier, T. J. Finlay. A. 8. Mille. T. Freeland, H. W. Mills, J. H. French. Col. Mitchell. T. A. Garnett, W. J. Mon% W. J. Gavin, Major Norris, J. T. 0114/3/k Brand, It. L. Koatchbull - Hugel hen, K. Cu Court. BALMORAL, MAY 12. The Queen, Prince Alfred, and Princess Helena. the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and the household, attended Divine service, yesterday mornuig;at the Castle. &The Rev. Dr. McLeod officiated.l Prince Alfred, attended by Major Cowell, left Balmoral this morning to join her Majesty's ship, St. George, off Burnt Island. The Rev. Dr. McLeod is staying at the Castle. '" A deputation consisting of Harper Twelvetrees, Jesse Hobsoo, Esq., the Rev. F. Tanking, LL.D., W. Rawson Brame, Esq., and Joseph A. Homer, bad an inter view with the Duke of Newcastle, yesterday, at the Colo nial-office. The :deputation was introduced by Edward Ball, Eq., M.P. A deputation consisting of Mr. Hoyden, M.P., Mr. Laird, M.P., Mr. Charles Turner, Chairman of the Pacific Steam Navigation Company ; Mr. Tyner, Director, and Mr- Just, Managing Director of the Company, had an inter view with Secretary Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Hoene-office. Despatched, were received yeeterday, at the Colonial-office, from the Governor of New Zealand. Despatches were 'mutt° the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Wands. His Royal Highness the General Commanding in Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Monday next, the 19th instant. Their Highnesses the Prince and the Princess Michel Schaboffskoy have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, from St. Petersburg, for the season. The Earl and Countess Russell entertained the Japanese Ambussdorsst dinner last evening, at their resi dence in Chesham-plane. The following were also present : The Marquis and M►rchioness of Westminster, Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Merin, &c. Mr. Macdonald was in waiting on the ambssaadors. Later in the evening her ladyship had an assembly. The Earl and Countess of Derby's party on the 28th inst. is a dinner to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Straits, and the Princess Mary. A select circle have been invited to meet the royal guest:._ . The Earl end Conn tees of Laneeborough and Mies Butler have returned to their residence, in Great Stanhope street, from Swithland Hall, Leicestershire. The Earl of Albemarle will leave Rutland-gate to-morrow on a contineatal tour. The Earl and Countess of Cork entertained a select party at dinner last evening at the family residence in Grafton-street. The Earl and Countess Cawdor and family have arrived at their residence in South Audley-eireet for the maw% The Earl and Countese Howe have arrived al Curzon House from Cowell for the mem. . . - . Lord and Lady Rokeby are expected at Montagu Howie in a few days from the Continent. - " Lady Egerton (of Tattoo) gave her second danc ing party I tat evening, at her residence in St. James's square. Their R Tel Hight:mimes the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of MeeklenburtStrelits, honoured her ladyship with their presence. Convocation will be prorogued on the 20th inst. to a future day, and no business will be transacted. The resignation is announced of Captain Walter Crofton, chief &rector of convict prisons in Ireland. The Lord Chancellor hail ordered, ou the recom mendation of her Majeety's Attorney-General, Sir William Atherton, that 4001. from a kneed Chancery fund shall be given to the National Lifeboat Institutioc, in consideration elite plat and important operations. THE EXPRESS, WEDNFSDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1862. THE SURRENDER OE NEW ORLEANS. CAPTURE OF FORT MACON• FRENCH INTERVENTION• (nsorwee Twisaions.) NEW YORK, MCI 2, Rums°. (Per dames City of New York vit. Queenstown.) The Federal Commander Farragut formally demanded of the Mayor of New Orleans an un- qualified surrender of the city on the 26th ult. He likewise demanded that the Federal flag should be hoisted on all public buildings, and all Con federate flags removed. He requested the mayor to use his authority to quell any disturbance, and concluded by saying, " I shall severely punish any persons committing such outrages as were witnessed yesterday, by armed men firing upon helpless women and children, for giving expression to their pleasure at witnessing the old flag." The mayor replied that for the sake of the women and children Gen. Lovell evacuated the city, leav ing the administration of affairs to the civil authori ties. "To surrender an undefended city," he con tinued, "would be an unmeaning ceremony. The city is yours by power of brutal fore°, not by the choice or consent of the inhabitants. It is for you to determine the fate that awaits us here. There is no man in our midst whose hand or head would not be paralysed at hoisting a flag not of our own adoption. You may trust in the honour of the inhabitants, though you might not count on their submission to unmerited wrong. Your occupancy of the city does not transfer the allegiance of the inhabitants from the government of their choice to one which they have deliberately repudiated. They yield the obedience which the conqueror is entitled to extract from the conquered." • The Richmond Enquirer says Fort Macon surren dered conditionally on the 25th to General Burn side, after ten hours' bombardment. Rumours are current that General Beauregard has fallen back from Corinth to Memphis. General Halleck's army is reported to number 160,000 effective troops. The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Charles Latbrope as collector at New Orleans. NEW YORK, MIT 3, Kotsisa. The latest despatche3 from New Orleans report the surrender of the city by the mayor. A bat talion of Federal marines from the squadron hsd occupied the city. General Butlet's forces had landed on Lake Ponchartrain, and were within a few miles of the city. A Cairo despatch seri that the news from Pitts burg Landing is of the highest importance, but its telegraphic transmission is forbidden. Nothing is known here of the nature of the news. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald affirms that a consultation had taken place at Washington between the Federal cabinet and the foreign diplomatic corps. The consultation referred to the French Minister's visit to Richmond, and the question of an armistice was discussed. It was believed that the French Minister since the occupation of New Orleans had concluded that the time had arrived when, under the instructions of the Emperor, he may step forward as mediator. Also that in consideration of the monopoly of com mercial advantages and aid of some kind from the Southern States in regard to Mexico, the Emperor Napoleon had agreed to use his influence with the Federal government to end the war upon terms securing to the Southern States an independent nationality, and that if the Federal government did not accept his mediation, the Emperor would himself acknowledge the Southern Confederacy. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says :—" It is rumoured in Washington that all the members of Congress from the border slave states, and many conserv►tive sympathisers from other states, were considering the propriety of withdrawing in a body from Congress, thus pre cipitating a decision by the people of the whole country on the radical measures of confiscation and emancipation." The House of Representatives had passed strin gent regulations empowering the Secretary of the Treasury to prevent the shipment of goods to fo reign porta, whence they are re-shipped to Southern ports. The Committee of Ways and Means had reported an appropriation amounting to 226,000,000 dole. for the support of the army during the year ending in June, 1863. Nothing decisive is reported from Yorktown. The correspondent of the New York Times ie con vinced that twelve hours after General M'Clellan commences his attack, Yorktown and garrison will be captured. A Chicago despatch says that the Federals have occupied Baton Rouge, near New Orleans. NEW YORK, Mar 2, Evitoso. Money abundant ; gold, 21 prem. Exchange firm and advancing, at 1131 t. Stocks buoyant ; New York Centrals, 86} ; Illinois, 61} ; Erie, 371. Cotton inactive ; middling, 28. Flour, good de mand for export, and sc. higher. Wheat quiet. Corn slightly firmer. Provisions steady. Coffee and sugar, good inquiry. Molasses firm and ad vancing. NEW YORK, MAT 3, ArrERNoON. (Per Bohemia, by Telormph to Portland and from Londonderry.) There is no further news. The markets are generally unchanged. Railway stocks are active ; but prices, though having an upward tendency, have undergone no material change. Government Coupon Bixea, 1881, are quoted k prem. THE " MONITEUR " ON AUSTRIAN POLITICS. We read in the correspondence of the Moniteur, from Munich, respecting the law on ministerial responsibility presented to the Reicharath :—" The impression produced by the message on ministerial responsibility has been most favourable. This act of noble and gracious condescension on the part of the throne, while giving a splendid sanction, a real indisputable guarantee, to the new institu- ROME. Letters from Rome of the 10th state that General Goyon had announced his recall to the Pope, and was to leave on the 18th. Sir J. Hudson, in passing through Rome, had a long interview, it is said, with Cardinal Antonelli. Those with whom the ambassador conversed give out that the Roman question will be solved within the next two months. _ _ The King of Naples is ill with measles, and only sees the two queens. The Journal of Rome publishes the "sacred invitation" to the) solemnity of the' canonisation of the Japanese martyrs. In this jdocument Cardinal Pattuai contrives to introduoe a political allusion. "While God," he says, "in Xis all wise purposes, permits His church to suffer a double persecution, one inflicted by disloyal and ungrateful children, who, imitating the apostate Julian, with the mask of hypocrisy, proclaim the defence and liberty of the church, but jest at its laws, imprison its pastors, disperse the holy orders, and pursue every sincere catholic with their anger —the other proceeding from the declared enemies of Christ," dm. ITALIAN ADDRESS TO LORD PALILERSTON. The Turin journal, the Ratio, publiahes the text of the address which the Italian ‘ Association of Emancipation has sent to Lord Palmerston. It is as follows: Treseorra, May 5. My Lord,—We have heard with joy and gratitude the words full of meaning which yoti,l expressing the sen timents of the great British nation, have uttered in the House of Commons in defence of the unity of Italy and the principle of non-intervention. You have recognised the fact of the Napoleonic occupation of Rome to be a flagrant violation of noo•intervention. It is an obstacle to the unity of Italy, and threatens the peace of Europe. If England only perseveres in her efforts to make this principle re spected, the Italians will suffice alone to obtain the entire deliverance of their country. Receive, my lord, our respect ful salutations. (Signed) The Central Council of the Italian Asso ciation of Emancipation, the Preaident, G. Garibaldi, and the other members of the council. PROTESTANTISM IN SPAIN. The Epoca of Madrid has the following:. Great efforts have recently been made, out of !Spain, to get up an excitement about what is called a religions ques tion, though it does not deserve the name. The conduct of the governor of Seville is severely blamed for prohibiting religious meetings which took place there. Thew meetings were not held in the house of the English consul, as stated in a telegraphic despatch, but at the residence of • protestant minister, and were repeated every Sunday. The facts of the came are that the ecclesiastical governor communicated to the chief civil authority a com plaint addressed to him by several priests and other per sons, relating to meetings held at the protestant clergy. man's ; that application had been vainly made to the consul for him to prevent the scandal caused by the great number of persons attending the said meetings ; and that the civil governor informed the consul how desirable it was that the wishes of the ecclesiastical authorities should be respected, in order to avoid a conflict, which might become a serious matter, owing to the attitude of a great part of the popula tion. As we have been informed, the civil governor thought that the end might be gained by adjourning the meetings for two or three weeks, and then resuming them in other places, so as not to attract public notice, if the consul, as he alleged, could not openly resist the demands of the English residents. The consul, who is • catholic, admitted the necessity of preventing the threatened con flict, but he hesitated in presence of the firm resolution of the English subjects, and requested that an official note, or • private letter, might be addressed to him, stating the necessity of interdicting these periodical meetings. The civil governor declined to send either, and expressed his in tention, if further complaints were addressed to him, of preventing the meetings as contrary to the penal mode, owing to the number of persons present., and no competent authorisation having been granted. Since then nothing more has been heard of the matter. Matters passed as we have stated, and all the other allegations are unfounded. MEXICO. (Br ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TILEGRAPE.) (PROW OWL OWN COERIBPONMOrf.) SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 14. The Seine has arrived. She brings news of the entire withdrawal of the Spanish and English forces from Mexico. 8,000 French were on their way to the city, 2,000 more were near the Mexican coast, and 4,000 more were at St. Thomas, on their way to the Gulf. A special steamer was sent by Sir Charles Wynne to St. Thomas, with des patches to catch the English packet. A French and English attachiS have arrived in the Seine with despatches for their respective governments. The yellow fever is very bad at Vera Cruz. A number of English marines have fallen victims. The Seine brings nearly three-quarters of a mil lion dollars' worth of specie. OINUTZIeB TZLEGRAMS3 THE DISTURBANCES IN PORTUGAL LISBON, MAY 12. The tumults in the province of Minim are com pletely ended. Troops have been sent to Oporto. The question of the Sisters of Charity is still being agitated. The government has a majority in the Cortes. ELECTORAL HESSE. Bru fILIARD, NAT 14. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Mittnacht put a question to the Minister of the Interior respecting the attitude which the government intended to take in view of the propo sitions of Austria and Prussia► in reference to Electoral Hesse, and especially requested to know the views of the government on the legality of the re-establishment of the electoral law of 1849. A strange work is announced at one of the Paris libraries, entitled "AM el Radar and Catholicism," written by the Emit himself. Is this book the Emir, it is said, contend' that catholicism gives too much importance to spirit over matter, and that the Jewish religion, on the contrary, allows too much to materialism. bfahomedanism alone, be says, satisfies the claims of both matter and spirit. He comes indeed to the conclusion that bfahornedaniam will be the religion of the future, and can be supplanted by no other, deceit includes them all. It is reported that the French government is about to erect a lighthouse on the Moonier', one of the Obsess' Islands belonging to Eastland. FROM PARIS. (mg ous owx PARIS, TUESDAY Eviim'G. We have had melancholy weather for the grand review in the Champs de Mars. Several pelting showers yesterday, and a drizzling rain nearly all night, made the ground terribly heavy. !flack clouds and almost oonetant rain have prevailed throughout the day. Just as the Emperor and the King of Holland crossed the bridge of Jina, at two o'clock, the weather cleared a little, and for three or four minutes some watery sunbeams told a fiat tering tale. But long before their Majesties had finished their gallop in front of the lines the rain came down again—not very hard, it is true, but it was quite enough to be disagreeable. Later, - _ the wet became more decided, and the troops got thoroughly drenched on their march to bar racks. There were unusually few spectators. The heights of Trocadero, generally crowned on such occasions with people thick as a swarm of bees, only showed here and there two or three umbrellas. The usual exaggerated statements are made as to the number of troops in the field. The Pattie estimates them at from 40,000 to 60,000. I believe 30,000 to be above the mark. During the review the Em press, the Queen of Holland, and the Imperial Prince sat in the balcony of the Roole Militaire, decked out with crimson hangings for the occasion. A great many generals rode with the Emperor's staff, and by express order they were in full dress, with white breeches and boots d Vecuyer. The King of Holland goes away to-morrow. Referring to an assertion of a London journal, that the French army will never leave Rome so long as the present Pope lives, the Prase says : _ " We cannot believe that French policy can be so gambling as to allow the security, union, and deli verance of a great people to be contingent upon the life of a single man." There was less business doing at the Bourse, but the character of the market remains pretty nearly the same. Bente rose 10e. for cash, closing at 70fr. 70c., and left off at yesterday's price, 70fr. 80c., for account. Mobilier rose lfr. 25c., and the Italian Loan sc. The Orleans Railway rose 12fr. 50c. In the other lines there was scarcely any change. Caisse Mirs is only lfr. lower. The Pays and the Temps are trying hard to get up a duel between some of their staff, but have not yet succeeded. M. Grandgu'llot wants to fight M. Nefftzer, on account of an article written by Duvernois, whose quarrel M. Nefftzer declines to take out of his own hands. K Duvernois has challenged M. Grandgnillot, who positively refuses to meet him. But although M. Grandguillot thinks M. Duvernoia not worthy of his steel, a subor dinate writer in the Pays, named De Beaufort, sent shim s challenge this afternoon, and the bearers of this challenge were at once referred to two friends of K Duvernois. An identical note published by the Pays and Temps of this evening, and signed by the friends of both parties, states that M. Duvernois refuses to meet M. de Beaufort "at present," on the ground that K Grandguillot haying insulted K Duver nois, the latter must persist in obtaining satisfac tion from him in the first instance. The press, of all shades of politics, Legitimist, Orleanist, and Republican, continues to exclaim against the servile doctrine of M. Grandguillot that a jour nalist's private character is to be considered damaged by the recitals in a ministerial decree of warning or suppression. A *foamier named Dnvant, condemned to death by the Assize Court of the Aisne for murder and robbery, coolly said to the judge who passed sentence upon him, "I appeal to the Court of Douai !" This libel upon that court and upon K Mirk, which raised a laugh, necessarily involved an admission by the desperate wretch that he was guilty. A private letter from Pesth states that an unex pected political demonstration took place on the 7th at the National Theatre. A uew comedy wu being performed; in it occurs a scene in which one of the actors looks over an album of photographic portraite, calling out the names aloud as he does so. When he mentioned that of Victor Emmanuel, a thunder of applause burst forth, and lasted at least five minutes, the pit standing up during this spon taneous ovation. . . One of the French gentlemen now visiting Lon don writes to a friend at Paris :—" In England the success of a religion' society or a life insurance company depends on its being conducted—nominally at least—by the nobility, whose illustrious names are advertised on all occasions, and generally all public associations are named ` I am sure the English are an aristocracy-loving nation. If people are not noble themselves, they want to know and mix with the nobility. Most of my English friends (and I know many) always contrive in conversation to make me understand that they are acquainted with Lord N— or Sir and Milady X. Y.Z. Mrs. M—, to whom you kindly introduced me yesterday, sent me the following note:—' Mrs. X— presents her compliments to Mona. Auguste and trusts he will honour her on Wednesday next (the dinner hour is 7 o'clock), to meet Lady Mary B—s and a family circle.' I do not know Lady Mary, nor should I have thought when I called on Mr. M— at his office in the City that that good-natured merchant or his wife would have troubled themselves to ask me to meet one of the nobility of Eng land at their house in the Regent's-park." „ . A Constantinople correspondent writes :—" This year it so happened that the Greek and catholic Faster fall on the same day, which only occurs once every three years, and great and universal were the rejoicings. Amongst the most active of the community who took part in the day's ceremonies were the hamali, or porters—strong, muscular fellows, who in this country do all the work of Pickford's vans. From an early hour they might be seen in groups in the street, dressed in their gaudy best, perform ing in the circle a graceful and fantastic dance, which they went through, accompanied by music of a spirited though decidedly barbarous character. Later in the day they all assembled at the Grand Champs, a large Armenian burial ground, where, over the graves of their dead relatives, they continued their orgies still more vigorously. The general scene was very much after the fashion of Greenwich fair; swings, acrobats, performing monkeys, Punch and Judy, Ac., were at work, the three sticks a penny' alone being wanting to make the thing complete. A pleasuat contrast could not but be observed between these light-hearted, simple pleasure seekers, who desired no stronger stimulants than coffee end lemonade, and many of the lower orders of our own community at home, whose notion of a holiday con sists in drinking hard all day, sod winding up with a fight in the evening." The Naples correspondent of the Times writes : " At one spot where yesterday I meta host of joyous nationals, I remember to have urged Tajsni, one of the advocates for Sardinia, to get into my carriage ; but he was afraid to be seen with me, and be continued his daily course on foot, for he was exiled from Salerno, and only allowed to come in for the trial. The last time I met him our the road he was in deep mourning ; he had just loot his wife, • victim to the tarbarity of the government, who refused to grant her prayer to be allowed to breathe her native air before she died ; and, after this touching story, he urged me to drive on and leave him. In my hurt visit to Salerno I visited Niootars and hie companions in their prison. Some of them were under sentence of death, and most of them were led out shortly after in chains at midnight and shipped off to their gloomy destinations. Yet the true-hearted &lonians did not desert them. There were crowds in the streets, sod boat-loads of sympathisers on the sea. And now Niootera is their deputy and Victor Emmanuel their King, and I have witnessed such an ebullition of joyous en thusiasm as has well-nigh overcome me." The first stone of the breakwater at Castle Cornet, at Guernsey, was laid last week. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(THUS DAY.) The &skim took the chair at woo. CHURCH BATES ABOLITION BILL. A large number of petitions for and spirit the bill having been presented by various hon. members, Sir .7. TRELAWNY moved its second reading. (*di. narily speaking, he might feel some discouragement, b e . cause when • measure carried several times by large map,- rides loses numbers of its supporters, and at last bode a majority against, that was cause for discouragement ; but he derived some consolation when he regarded the names by whom he was supported, and the circumatanoes under which the majority against him last year had been obtained. What were the grounds of the present opposition threatened by .the hon. member (Mr. S. &boort) ? It could not be that legislation was not necurry, because that hon. gentleman himself put forward a proposal for sea. ding the question, besides which every person of an. thority in that house, in the church or out of it, was in favour of it except Archdeacon Denison, who had pub lished • pamphlet against any alteration in the law. As far as he understood the opposition, it was that of • right hon. gentleman who preferred a different measure. The I motion for the second reading was not to be met by a negative, but by a resolution which threw over altogether the sacredness of church rates. (Hear.) No doubt the right hon. gentleman would not give up church rates without some provision to meet the object, but he must do so by some new change or by coming upon the consolidated fund, and he believed it would be found that neither Scotland nor Ireland would willingly row io any proposal for imposing fresh taxes for church rate purposes. With regard to the pros pact of • compromise, seeing the number of proposals brought forward, and the difference of opinion that existed upon every one of them, he saw very little hope of • settle. meat in that direction. Dissenters did not like to have a line of demarcation drawn between themselves and the members of the church. As for himself, he bad no objection to be "ticketed," but he could well understand why others might object to it. He did not believe that the Church of England was so tolerant as it boasted to be. He had beard complaints in that house of the treatment of protestant. in Spain. But if he were • Spanish minister he would be ins dined to write a very insolent despatch on that subject, and on good grounds, for be should only have to refer to the treatment of dissenters in this country. Again, they denied justice to certain individuals because they would not when asked to take an oath used to • false blasphemous lie. He would advise the church to trust to the voluntary principle. He believed that the abolition of church raise would be perfectly consistent with the maintenance of the churches, sod that war abundantly proved by experience where the voluntary principle had bees put into operation. He and others who acted with him were said to be enemies of the church, but there were others who were, in his opinion, greater enemies of the The church had within it many men d great thought, great learning, and who were likewise great writers. But these men, once in the church, could not get rid of their canonical obligations, and could not turn to any other profession except he believed that of Boman catholic priests. They were the enemies of the church who wished to keep it timid, ignorant. servile, and stupid. What would the Burleys, the Darwin, the Macau lays, and, greater still, the Buckles---(a laugh).— of • futo-e day say of such a system. He b► lieved that the ease had been clearly mule out ler the total Kb:Maim of church-rates, and that the •bolition oould be effected without any danger to the church diva tuna, and he therefore appealed with confidence to the house to support the second reading of the bill. (Hem.) Mr. BUXTON seconded the motion. He believed that the time was come for making some compromise on this subject. He thought the best compromise was that which would maintain the church rate whilst abolishing the penalty for non-payment. It might be said that this was abandoning the whole question. But this would not be equivalent to an abolition of church rates, for it left the position of the church untouched. Till some such compromise was agreed upon there was no alternative left to persons on his side of the house who wished to see the church structures properly maintained than to support such motions as that of the hon. member for Tavistock. Mr. S. ESTOOTTBT then moved the amendment which stood in his name. Mr. MACDONOUGH seconded the amendment, end was speaking when our report left. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAT.) MEDIFIXDAT, MAT 14 • LK. B. E. D. D. 1.0. L E. --'- N/JR S . ... 19.91 47 44 NA 2 b 2 ABieursli .. 1019 46 as $. 4 • 2 Lem Umnos Azosousi turrusa 29.90 80 48 && I e 3 GALWAY . MEM . 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(ram uir =We names) DOWNINO-STREET, MAY 12.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Joseph Moseley, Esq., to be chief justice of the Supreme Court of her Majesty's Forte and Settlement' on the Gold Coast. and assessor to the native chiefs within the protected territories, near or adjacent to the said forts sod settlements. Her Majesty has also been pleased to ap point James Richard Mohican, Esq., to be colonial secretary and clerk of the council of the Island of Haebadess Fleetwood Wilson, Esq., to be auditor-general for mid Blood of Barbados.. Dowitum-eranisr, MAY 13. —The Queen has been pleased to appoint Anthony Musgrave, Earl., tubs lientenaot governor of the Island of St. Vincent. Dowantu-ersgrr, MAY 13.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Rev. Piers Calvisley Claughton, MD, Bishop of St. Helena, to the bishopric of Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, vacant by the resignation of ths Right Rev. James Chapman, au.; her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the Venerable Thomas Earle Weill, D.D., archdeacon of George, Caps Towo, in the colony of the Cape of Good Hops, to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of St. Helens, uppoonn the resignation of the Right Rev. Piers Wesley ton, D.D. Foesiott-onics, MAY s.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Walter Bonh am, Esti., Dow he Majesty's consul at Naples, to be her Majesty a Condi- Geoeral at Naples. Warrznadd., MAY 10. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be paned granting nit ethos or place if Lieutenant-Governor of her Majerti'l Hospital, at Greenwich, unto Rear-Admiral Sir Sumba Lushiogtoo, K.C.8., in the room of Rear-Admiral Se William Faiebrotber Carroll, demand. Mr. Gladstone's addresses and speeches delivered at Manchester het month have been published in a not sal convenient form by Mr. Murray. The Channel Islands are importing fat cattle from Ragland. Hitherto they Dave been importing them from France, but inch cattle are now dearer in tie Will than in this country. As previously arranged (says the licatscion), his Royal Highness Prince Alfred left Balmoral on Moeda, morning, on hie return to his ship, the St. George, and ter veiling rid Perth, arrived at the railway terminus at Bum tisland exactly at 8 p.m. Some preparations for •he coming 1 reception to so august a visitor were O' proviaed by the railway authorities—the station havnt its arches and pillars hung with festoons of our; greens and flowers, with the word " Weloome twisted in large characters, and the building other' wise tastefully decorated. A considerable number of pen' pie as ambled at the 5 p.m. train, expenting the Fruhe at that hour, and by 8 p.m. the quadrangle in front of i ts station wax completely blocked up by the crowd, a"le ct somber only being admitted within the precinct' of the station. The arrival of the train was the signal for a continued round of cheering, and as the Poo* stepped oat, dressed as a civilian, the assemblage cheered vociferously. ()spiels Egerton was waiting at the shame. The Prince was accompanied by Major CowelL The crowd drove in the gates, and accompanied the Prince to he to‘ He left the shore amidst great cheering. Dr Piml copal poll Th thi - ; Tp Lao, of • earn Inv* Pim aaw a eh my§ mar - d — a. to touh t.r Abc liol b. C 0