The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-25 00:00:00

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The strike of the North Eastern engine-drivers appears to have ended in a conspicuous failure. Tho Com pany, having secured a sufficient number of hands for the service of the line, are able to decline negotiations with the malcontents, and even to dictate a more stringent form of contract to their men. The strike appears to have been ill-advised and ill-conducted. The result, however, if we may judge by what has happened before, will only be to teach the men to secure, by the amalgamation of local unions, a broader basis for operations at some future time. The men who have lost their places on the North Eastern line will be rapidly absorbed elsewhere, and probably the class to which they belong will be the gainer by their personal inconvenience. The strike on the Brigh ton line procured advantages for the men, and while occasional successes are thus gained, failure leads to nothing more than a return to the atones qw, ante Whoa. The Tailors' strike which has begun this week in London finds the masters at a disadvantage. They are threatened with the loss not only of the profits of the season, but of their customers. The class whose wishes they have to consult would be ready to give them any amount of moral support in a contest with their discon tented workmen, but, having done so, would be very likely to go off to the first shop which they found in full operation, and procure there the gar ments indispensable to their social felicity. It is probably& conviction of this kind that has already led several first-class firms to concede the demands of the men. At present work is suspended in more than eighty West-end shops, and two thousand men whose services are much needed are idle. For the general reader who is not curious about the comparative merits of the " =alga " mated log " and the " universal time " log," it may be sufficient to state that the men require that certain of their charges for " extras " shall be formally recognized, which they allegeto be the more necessary since einployersmake deductions whenever a garment requires less work than ordinary. The public muntot be expected to enter into the details of these disputes, and its judg ment, or rather its impressions, will be chiefly influenced by what it sees of the way in which each side pursues its interest. At the great meeting held at the Alhambra on Monday, where it is said 7,000 journeymen tailors were present, the speeches were moderate in tone. It had been preceded by conferences between the employers and men, which had terminated without result. The men's committee had since served upon the masters a new scale of charges, upon which they had agreed, and expected them to be ad hered to. A resolution was carried at the meet ing to the effect that the men did not wish to enforce their own views, believing that the matter might be best settled by a council of the trade, for which purpose they desired a meeting with the committee of the Masters' Association ; but this resolution was seriously modified by another autho rising a general strike against those employers who had been served with the kg, or scale of prices before mentioned. It is evident that masters who concede this scale will have left themselves butlittle liberty for the future. There is nothing in the present aspect of the controversy to preclude a fair settlement on terms that should be satisfactory to both employers and men. The tailors are concerned to have it under stood that they are not striking for increased wages. They say that what they want is " that a univer " sal and uniform time-log should be drawn up " applicable to the whole kingdom, by which the " time allowed for making a garment and each " portion of it should be fixed, the wages for that " time to be paid as each locality might deter " mine." There is no doubt that the men are entitled to have their work defined as far as that is possible, and they are wise in leaving the value of labour to be determined by the local market. By seeming to stipulate for advantages to be en joyed by their brethren all over the kingdom they may deter men in the country from coming up to London to profit by the sudden demand for labour that has been caused by the strike. The influx of foreign workmen has also been to some extent provided against, if we are to take literally the statement of the chairman of the Alhambra meeting, that an alliance offensive and defensive has been concluded between the working tailors of London, Paris, and Brussels. This glowing sense of community and interdApendence between the working aliases of different countries is a remarkable fact of social history, and may have more important consequences than we can at present foresee. English sympathy and English aid have been extended to recent continental strikes, and at this moment the master tailors of Paris are extremely embarrassed by a strike which societies in this country are understood to have sustained with funds. Mr. ALLEN, the Secretary of the Society of Amalgamated En gineers, adverted to this subject in his evidence before the Royal Commission on Trades Unions, and stated that the rapid development of trade societies abroad was removing all fear of foreign competition. Annoying and embarrassing as these strikes for wages are, they are not always the worst mani festations of that spirit of association which of late years has seemed to reveal to the working classes the secret of their strength. They are not to be compared in their effect with those demora lising restrictions upon industry which, u the public have lately learned, are systematically im posed by the rules of some trade societies. An employer must do the best he can in the face of competition to secure a fair profit which shall yield interest on his capital at the usual rate, and also repay him for his trouble and risk ; but he would far rather choose that his workmen should make an honest demand for increased wages, which he could ill afford to give them, than that they should frame secret rules to minimise the amount of work to be done in his shop and fur his money. There was a time, and that not long since, when the British workman took pride in his superior skill and ability, and was proportionately esteemed for them by his fellows ; but we have lately heard of rules and customs—happily confined to one or two trades—which are unintelligible except on the assumption that every exertion of industry above a certain average is an injury to the employed class. Individual excellence is in danger of becoming an offence and the note of an anti-social disposition. This pernicious way of looking at life and labour is calculated to sap the manhood of any set of men who adopt it, and we trust that one result of the inquiry now pending will be to bring a sound disinterested public opinion to bear upon it until it gives place to a healthier and more English sentiment. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1867. trained forces, the bitter by adhering to her own plan of a small 'waling army with large reserves. The Dad!, News thinks it important that the public of Europe should pronounce itself with severity against the true authors of the impending war. The war that is coming, if war it is to be, will be a war of which the first and the last, and the full responsibility, must rest with the government of France. France in the Schleswig•Hol stein business poaitively declined to restrain the easy victories of the Austrian and Prussian armies, and it is certain that when war broke out between Prussia, with Italy for an ally, and Austria, without an ally, last year, the government of France was not taken by surprise. The Emperor of the French counted, if not upon the defeat of Prussia, upon the disruption of Germany by a civil war, and the appeal of one or other of the vanquished to his beneficent intervention in extremities. He did not even mention Luxemburg when his foreign minister presented, with the utmost politeness, it is true, the little bill for compensations last autumn. Nothing was then said of an insult to French honour and a provocation to French susceptibilities. In brief, when the Empire of Napoleon was restored a new era of wars set in for Europe. Had France been free since 1851, the unity of Germany might have been conceived in freedom and born in peace. When France u neither free nor contented the landmarks of all her neighbours and the peace of Europe are in danger. Belgium. the Post observes. is deeply interested in the result of the quarrel, since it is obvious that the presence of Prussia in Luxemburg operates as a check upon any de signs which France might entertain against her defenceless neighbour. The circumstance is curious. and not alto gether insignificant, that the Comte de Flandre will be married to-day at Berlin to one of, the princesses of the House of Hohenzollern. The Standard declares that Count Bismarck is forcing on a war, while the French government is systematically endeavouring to 'impress a war feeling. Our contempo rary thinks it will be little short of a miracle if peace is kept through the summer. OIIE CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE. GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL. The Times quotes the speeches of Mr. Forster and Mr. Stanafeld in proof of the statement that a large number even of the most faithful followers of Mr. Glad stone doubt the soundness of the principles to which he committed himself and his party, and really believe that the present measure gives a foundation for a satisfactory settlement. Household suffrage, with or without limita tions, is, for good or evil, the fundamental borough fran chise of this country in times to come. The decision of the house on Friday week makes an end for ever of five-pound, six-pound, or seven-pound franchises. It only remains to amend what is still faulty in the govern ment scheme. One of the first things on which those who desire to make the bill acceptable to the country should insist is the reduction of the term of residence to one year. The engrafting on the bill of some provision for the repre sentation of lodgers is another necessary provision, and on the vexed question of rating the bill may be further im proved in the direction of justice and simplicity. If the government will address itself to this work in a spirit of true patriotism we may be spared the calamity which the Birmingham speakers would bring on us—that of having another abortive bill this year, followed by fresh agitation in the autumn. The Telegraph dwells on the legal effect of the rate paying clauses. It is utterly incorrect to suppose that • vicarious payment by the owner of the house will com plete the electoral qualification of the tenant. This would be the case if he were rated ; but he is not ; and to become so, he must upset the existing arrangements be tween himself and the owner, between the owner and the parish. These restrictions, however, apply only while the parishes are under the Small Tenements Act ; and one side of a street may be under the rule of exclusion, yet the other side may have household suffrage. More than this, by adopting or rejecting the Small Tenements Act, • parish may, year by year, alternately enfranchise and dis franchise the majority of the inhabitants. A more ques tionable project was never seriously offered to a delibera tive assembly. Either, says the Star, the ministry must improve the bill, parliament mint throw it out, or the crown must dissolve a parliament which has ceased to represent the people. All that is needed is for reforms?' to continue the constitutional work of agit►tion in a constitutional and vigorous manner, and victory is certain. INTRI KIM. The moral which the Tiws sees in the failure of the great strike on the North Eastern Railway is that the gra tuitous creation by the men of the greatest possible incon venience, instead of serving their purpose as was antici pated, contributed largely to their defeat. The directors derived unexpected help from many quarters, but the forbearance and cooperation of their customers proved of the greatest service. The interests of the company had become identical with those of the public, and so the public lent their aid, and the company was carried over the crisis. Altogether the event is calculated to weaken the belief in the power of trades' unions when firmly re sisted, but the most welcome result of all would be the conclusion that victory in these trade disputes may be ex pected to incline to that side for which the support of opinion can be obtained. The Post says it is lamentable to think of the wide spread desolation that will pervade all ranks if the tailon' strike be not speedily composed. What would happen if some amateur tailor should get possession of the human form divine upon which to work out his behests is some thing too frightful to contemplate. One shrinks from the idea as from some horrible nightmare. The Standard continues to dwell upon portions of the evidence before the royal commissioners, with a view of showing that trades' unions are the sum of all villainy. The Star follows suit with the Spectator in complaining of the manner in which the evidence is dealt with. There are of course a great variety of trade societies, some of them having some decidedly objectionable and unwise re gulations. The Times, it is alleged, simply picks out day after day any passage which illustrates the working of a bad rule, anti absolutely ignores all the rest of the evi dence. Not one in a thousand of those who see the " frightful example" daily hell up in the extracts quoted by the Times is ever likely even to come in sight of a full report of the evidence, to say nothing of the possibility of his studying it. On the face of it, the Star says, we can neither pronounce a trade union good or bad, any more than we can at once declare an agricultural society or a West-end club good or bad. All depends upon the con stitution and the regulations of the association, and the manner in which it proposes to carry out its objects and to gain its ends. THE EXPECTED HOSTILITIF4. In the opinion of the Tillie,. the Germans have an im portant advantage over the French in their Lendwehr system which bas now been adopted even by the minor states so lately at •ar with Prussia, while in France on the other hand there reigns something like anarchy of opinion in military matters. In physical qualifications also the German ought to make a more available recruit. The two enemies are familiar with each other's valour ; they ought to be ready to do each other justice without renewing a struggle to which neither of them has reason to look back with unqualified exultation. Should the wer•cloud that is now threatening Europe e►entually vanish, it is not only to peace that we should look forward, but to general disarmament, and to that object France and Germany could both equally conduce ; the former by acting up to her own views ►bout compact and highly. Eta Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aram 24. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald. Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Christian, went out riding. Lady Churchill and Major Elphinstone were in attendance. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accom panied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. Princess Beatrice rode in the Home Park The French Amtwasador arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dinirg with the Queen and the Royal Family. Loni Raglan and Major-General F. Seymour, C. 8., have succeeded Lord Skelmersdale and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by Captain Ellis. The Queen of Denmark and the Prince of Wales, attended by Madame de Bille, M. de Cutenschiold, and Captain Elie, visited the Exhibition of the Institute of Painters in Water Colour at their gallery in Pall Mall. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council Office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montague. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the Committee. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Majesty the Queen of Denmark, and the Prince Teck, attended by the Duke:of Sutherland, Madame de Bille, Captain Ellis, and M. de Cartenschiold, honoured the Insti tute of Painters in Water Colours with a visit yesterday, previously to the exhibition being opened to the public on Monday next. The Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope have arrived at their residence in Grosvenor place from Chevening, their seat near Sevenoaks, Kent. A marriage is announced between the Earl Brownlow and the Lady Adelaide Talbot, fourth daughter of the Earl of Shrewsbury. The marriage of Viscount Pollington and Miss Venetia Stanley Errington was solemnised yesterday at St. George's, Hanover-square. The bridegroom was attended by Mr. Charles liana Gaskell. Sir Rowland Stanley Errington entertained a large circle of relatives and friends at breakfast ►fter the ceremony, at his residence, Stratford place. The marriage was celebrated at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, on Tuesday, by the Rev. H. T. Dewier, vicar of the parish, assisted by the Rev. James Porter, Fellow and Tutor of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, of Henry Fawcett, Esq., M.P., of 42, Beesborough•gardens, S.W., Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Professor of Political Economy, Cam bridge, to Millicent, daughter of Newson Garrett, he' of Aide House, Aldeburgh. The Lord Lieutenant presided at the distribu tion of prises of the Royal Dublin Society cattle show last night. He congratulated the society on the success of the show, alluded at considerable length to the importance of flax culture, and believed it would not as present flourish so well in other provinces as in Ulster. He referred to emigration, and stated that those who deplored it might set about improving the dwellings of agricultural labourers, and increase their comfort and keep them at home. There are not so many English in Rome just now as is usual at this season ; on the other hand, the place swarms with Americans, including a great many naval officers from the ships at Civita Vecchia.. The Emperor visits the Paris Exhibition almost every day, normally between 5 and 6 p.m., and seems to take the liveliest interest in the wonders collected. At Mr. Hancock's stall at the Paris Exhibition a French pickpocket, on Saturday, attempted a feat which was a source of some merriment to those who witnessed it. On the top of a glass ease of jewellery, which serves for a counter, there seem to be lying carelessly strewn about several very precious diamonds and other stones. They really adhere to the under surface of the glass. They are so finely cut that by mere pressure the air is ex. eluded from the surface of the stones in contact with the glass, and in this way they adhere. But they seem to be lying outside. A very gaily dressed Frenchwoman, seeing that nobody was watching them, covered them with her handkerchief, sad attempted to sweep them away, while at the same moment she directed her inquiries to another part of the stand where some of Mr. Hancock's most brilliant productions are displayed. The want of conveyances at Paris is an evil uni versally felt. To go to the exhibition, like the descent of Avernus, is easy enough ; the difficulty is to get away. The police do not allow a cabstand within a mile ; and when 40,000 or 50,000 people try to get away all at once, the confusion is frightful, and the suffering of women (not to speak of the men) very severe. The only remedy at pre sent is to keep your cab or to engage • carriage. But to keep a cab costs two or three francs an hour ; to engage • carriage and pair for some gay afternoon costs 60fr. ; and few persons care to add these to the other expenses of • capital where everything is dear—where, for example, what the French are pleased to regard as the prime part of beef, the fillet, is sold in the market at 4fr. a pound. Letters front Toulon mention that the engage ment of volunteers for the crews of the fleet, which had been provisionally suspended, has now been reestablished and on most favourable conditions by ministerial instruc tions, which order that no great rigour should be exer cised in selecting willing young men who may present themselves. It is hoped by this measure to man the ships without having recourse to any levy of the seamen on tho maritime inscription, who would in that case be reser►ed for cases of urgency. The Austrian Reichsrath has been summoned for the 20th of May. The strength of the two parties, " Fede ral." and " Constitutionalists," will be about the follow ing :—Bohemia—Federals, 14 ; Constitutionalists, 40 ; Mo ravia— Fetbluls, 3 ; Constitutionalists, 19 ; Lower Austria —Federals. 0 ; Constitutionalists, 18 ; Upper Austria— Federal., 0; Constitutionalists, 10; Balsburg—Federal, 0; Con.tittatiocaliata, a ; Bile.ia—Federals, 0 ; Constitu tionalists, 6 ; Tyrol—Federal., 10 ; Constitutionalists, 0 ; Vorarlberg - Federal., 0 ; Constitutionalists, 2 ; Styria— Federal., 3 ; Constitutionalists, 10 ; Karinthia—Federals, 0 ; Conmeltut: Hata, 5 ; Karniole--Federals, 5 ; Consti tutionalist, I ; Trieste Federal, 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ; Gore 4:nuliaca- -Federal, 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ; Istria —Ved..r.l. 1 ; Constitutionalist, 1 ; Galicia—Federal., 34 ; l'on.titctiontdintm. 4 ; Ittikovina—Federals, 2; Constitu tionalists, 3. Total, 75 Federal., 128 Constitutionalists. LATEST INTELWIGENCE. THE LUXEbIBURG QUESTION. A Paris correspondent of the Journal de Gere writes as follows : Do not believe in peace : war is inevitable. The provo cations of the German journals, of some deputies of the Reichstag, have exasperated the nation which believes its honour to be hurt and trAidi is ready. France bas employed in making preparations the time which Germany has lost in saying France was not ready. Five hundred thousand excellent troops only await the signal. In truth, it is Germany that is not ready ; it is Germany that has lost a year. Phrases, however diffuse and obscure, will never make up for preparations, and except phrases what has Germany been doing for a year? Where is the assimilation to the Prussian army of the new contingents, of that eighth corps in particular, whose operations during the late war caused some amusement here ? The Prussian officers complained a good deal of their artillery at Wows. Have they had time to improve it ? People here are convinced that Germany as usual will be taken by surprise. The German journals have been more calm for some days. This is an improvement, but it is late. I fear that the evil is now irreparable, for the war has become national. The Paris correspondent of the Indepoulance &lye says : There is no mystery made of the preparations of all kinds which are making in order that the nation may not be unprepared if war should break out. It is said that several hundred pieces of cannon have been sent from the south to Strasburg. Gun vessels have also been sent by rail, but their destination is not known. The greatest activity pre vails in the Ministry of Marine, and all the military com mandants in the principal porta are arriving there to receive orders. To-day a report is circulated that a fleet will be sent to the Baltic as a squadron of observation even before a declaration of war, but this is no doubt one of those rumours to which no importance is to be attached any more than to another which states that England and Russi► have objected to the employment of a French squadron in the Baltic in case of war. It appears to be certain and admitted that the French Emperor will take the chief direction of the war. Count de Palikso is spoken of as chief of the staff, and General Fleury as chief commander of the cavalry. Im portant commands are to be entrusted to Marshals M'Mahon and Baraine ; and one would no doubt be given to Marshal Forty were he not afflicted with cerebral hemiplegia.. The publication in the Moe deer of the warlike preparations in Holland has been much re marked on, and it is surmised that Prince Napoleon's visit to Prangins may have for its result the hastening of an armed union between France and Italy. The Aveuir National contains a private telegram from London, stating that a note from Count Bismarck had been received, to the effect that Prussia was disposed to evacuate the fortress of Luxemburg in order to avoid war, but that the national feeling in Germany compelled him to maintain the static quo till the Prussian parliament had met and decided. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) PARIS, Amin. Z. The Constitutionne/ of this morning publishes an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, in which it protests against the idea that France desires war. "The policy of France," it says, " is a policy of peace and conciliation. The French government sincerely believed that after her increase of terri tory Prussia would have made it a point of honour to show moderation and consideration for the rights and interests of her neighbours. The go vernment of the Emperor has never seen in a settlement of this question conformably to the intersta of France and the wishes of the population of Luxemburg anything but a guarantee not only of peace, but of a dur able peace. The French government never thought that it could in any way be to the interest of Prussia to maintain a garrison in an indepen dent country—never thought that Germany could claim the same national rights and a common origin with a small country, the population of which by Count Bismarck's own avowal entertains a deep repugnance for Germany, and would, if consulted, vote with enthusiasm for reunion with France. And now the government of the Emperor does not aim at raising a war out of a question in which it had seen but a pledge of peace. France, animated by no ambition, has put aside every claim. As far as she is concerned the question has become a European one, and even in this new phase France holds aloof in order not to embarrass the pacific action of the powers and not to involve national susceptibilities. Without fearing war, if a war, though God forbid, should be unjustly provoked, France desires peace and is anxious that no doubt should exist with regard to her intentions." TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 24. The official journal La Turquie of to-day says : " We are authorised to deny in the most formal manner the assertions of the Paris journal La LiberN concerning the state of things in Crete and Epirus. Omer Pacha is on the point of crushing the last remnants of the Csndian insurrection." SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 24, EVENING. Senor Corradi has presented in the Senate the following amendment to the bill of indemnity de manded by the government on account of the recent exceptional acts of the administration :—" The Senate declares the ministry free from responsibility for all acts which have not been opposed to the principles of justice, but it does not adopt as laws the decrees which have been promulgated, because they render difficult the constitutional conciliation of parties, upon which the existence of our national institutions depends." PORTUGAL. LISBON, Ann 24, 5.17 P.M. The President of the Council of Ministers is slightly better. Disturbances similar to the last again broke out in Oporto in the evening of the 22nd instant, but were suppressed by the troops. At 9 p.m. all was quiet, and since then tranquillity has not again been disturbed. LISBON, Aran, 24, 9 P.M. One regiment of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry have left for Oporto. The Spanish soldiers who entered Portuguese territory during the last Spanish revolt have been sent to Madeira. The Prussian government in Luxemburg is purely a military one, and it interferes in no way in civil matters. Otherwise the attacks on the Prussians, of which the newspapers and pamphlets published there are full, would, no doubt, soon come to an end. The Etendard publishes the following telegram : —"Stockholm, Tird.—The Duke of Dalecarlia, youngest brother of the King of Sweden, has been struck with apo plexy. All hope is lost of ►wing the life of the prince, who had just completed his thirty-sixth year." _ _ The Vak.ofremuf, a Roman catholic journal of Vienna, thus refers to the project attributed to Baron de Beast of applying to the Holy See for a revision of the Austrian concordat :—" The Roman court is not disposed to consent to such a step, which would infringe on eccle siastical right. The Holy See can only yield on points on which concessions have been made exceeding the strict right and clear doctrine of the church. M. de Bengt. there fore, has no assistance to expect from the church in his efforts to revise the concordat." The GaletB is going to bring out a piece called Lel Commixes, which is made up of sentiments and events connected with the invasion of France. S EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WED:C[BMT EVEEING. The prosecution of the Arenir Nathrna! for false news has had a ridiculous conclusion. The correctional tribunal this morning, after hearing M. Peyrat, the editor, who defended himself, sentenced him to pay a fine of 41. The judgment, which alone may be reported under the Napo leonic law, states that the article incriminated contained false news, more especially in so far as it stated that some horses belonging to the gendarmerie had been taken for the regular cavalry, and that certain regiments were to be exercised in camp drill and made to sleep under tents, eight at a time, and cook their provisions in the open air. The judges felt that when notorious news of vast military preparations crape up every day, it , would be absurd to pronounce anything more than a nominal sentence against the A rcnir Natinnot for a trivial inaccuracy among a great deal more news which was in the main true. But what shall be said of the folly of the government in instituting such a petty prosecution at such a time! The rumour current two days ago that Marshal M'Mahon had arrived in Paris was not true, but ho is expected very soon, and there is no doubt that if there is to be war he will be commander in-chief of the army of the Rhine. It is probable that his successor in the governor-generalship of Algeria will be General de Montauban, Count de Palikao, who will in that event be made at once a marshal of France. The Preset gives an " latest news" a report that M. de Bismarck, who is supposed to be at his country house in Pomerania, has merely sent his horses and carriages there as a blind, and has gone off on the sly to St. Petersburg. There was a rumour in the Faubourg fit. Ger main a day or two since that an attempt has been made to assassinate the Pope's Nuncio. The origin of the story was this. Two young men from be hind the counter of a draper's shop went to the papal legation, and rushed upstairs, paying no attention to the concierge, who roared after them to ask where they were going. On being asked by an employe what they wanted, they said they wished to speak to the Nuncio on urgent business. Being told that they had come at the wrong hour, one of them drew a sword from a stick in his hand and flourished it in the face of the person who stood in his way. The men were arrested, and when asked to give an account of themselves only said that they wanted to enter the pontifical army. They are still in prison till inquiries about them can be made. They are at all events guilty of the specific offence known to the French code of for cibly entering a private house with arms in their hands. The fashionable season, unusually dull at the commencement, will this year be unusually pro tracted. There are to be grand balls at the Tuileries at the end of May and beginning of June. The city of Paris will give two splendid fetes at the Hotel de Ville. Prince Napoleon, whose stay in Switzerland will be a short one, intends to have some grand receptions at the Paleis Royal. The Austrian and English embassies, which were not so gay as usual before Lent, are about to make up for lost time. Lady Cowley has issued cards for re ceptions on Saturday, April 27, and the three Saturdays following. It is feared that Prince Oscar of Sweden will be obliged to leave Paris in consequence of alarming news of the state of health of his brother, the Duke of Dalecarlia. The France states that the band of the Guides is excepted from the general suppression fixed for the French cavalry regiments, but that it will be transferred to the Cent Gerdes, and be supported from the Emperor's privy purse. The committee of master•tailors decided yester day that the placards with the words Fermi pour cause de greet should be removed from their shutter► but that their establishments should still remain closed. The Bourse has sustained a further fall. Rente closed at 65fr. 30c. for cash, 65fr. 25c. for account, with a decline of 20c. and 35c. Mobilier fell sfr.; Credit Fonder, 12fr. 50c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte, Mr. ; and Italian, 50c. The Northern Railway fell 10fr., and the other lines about 2fr. 50c. I spoke some time ago of • new caricaturist of wonderful talent who had arisen in Paris, named, or at least called, Gill, and whose drawings appear principally in a pictorial periodical called La bow. It is such a ticklish thing under the French law of libel to publish a caricature, that few people will venture to do it without the consent of the parties, lest they should be prosecuted for an attack upon the " consideration " due to every citizen. Ac cordingly Gill's admirable caricatures of Lachaud, Emile de Girardin, Jules Fevre, &c., are accom panied by lithographed reproductions, which add greatly to the value of the pictures, of letters authorising the publication of the caricatures. The Lune lately applied to M. de Lamartine for per mission to publish a caricature of him. The pen sioned poet wrote the following answer, which strikes me as an extraordinary excuse for sensitive ness and vanity : However great my gratitude for the biographical ar ticle of which you speak, I cannot authorise in my person a travesty of the human face divine, which, although it might not offend the man, would be an offence against nature, and turn humanity into derision. I have already told you, and I now repeat it, that my consent would be false magnanimity, which would countenance in regard to others a like outrage on the dignity of God's erestures. I will not be an accomplice of such a deed. I told you when you did me the honour to call upon me that my face was common property, just as the sun and the river ; but that such as it is, I will not voluntarily pro fane it, for it represents a man, and is • present from God. Receive, km, LAMARTIN E. P.B. I fully authorise you to publish this letter. Surely it would have been far more dignified if M. de Lamartine had said, " When I was at the head of the French government there was no occasion to ask permission to pub. lish a caricature. lam sorry that there is less liberty now, and would be far from wishing to a% ail myself in any case of restrictive laws, which I abhor. But what would be disagreeable to me, and what I have a right to refuse, is to have my autograph published in direct connexion with the caricature which you want. lam quite indifferent to the caricature, and you may be quite sure I shall not prosecute you. But Ido not want to publish a caricature of myself, and therefore beg you not to affix my signature to the sketch which you propose to issue on your own responsibility." He might thus have avoided making himself ridi culous. M. de Lamartine was, and even is, one of the handsomest men of the century ; but it is too much that under the pretence of keeping God's image sacred he should condemn en nurse all such artists as H.B. and Gill. FIRE ON BOARD THE ST. VINCENT.—FLYNIOCTII, Arm. 24.—The steamship St. Vincent, from Adelaide January 21, with 61 passengers and a cargo of wool, copper ore, and wood, for London, put in here this evening with her cargo on fire. She has been towed into Clovelly Bay Cutwater, grounded on the mud, sad filled with water, by • party of seamen from the Ordinary, with government fire floats. The fire was first discovered on boanl on Good Friday morning, while the St. Vincent was nearing the English Channel, and fearing the smouldering fire might burst oat into flames, 56 of her paesengers were transferred to the barque Delta, from Havannah for Falmouth for orders. The Delta bad not arrived at Falmouth up to a late hour tu-night.—Reufer's Telegram. LAW INTEL' (THIS DA CHANCERY CH .-THE NATIONAL IV:INa 11.4211 C- EARL BFIREWSBERT 01 TUB LI This case was specially appoint bofore Mr. Hawkins, the chief el Rolla The question was wheth to be put on the list of contribu If., each on which 500 f. had bee peered as solicitor for Mr. Barn who attended the meeting. Mr. appeared for Earl Shrewsbury. The discussion on the quest Earl Shrewsbury was patron ings Beak, and was willing, i peered when this affair was to contribute 2,000/. in ord of the District Bank might be po was stated, had acted from th. matter, had paid 50W., and woul, 1,5001. if the money was for the who might have joined the Dii his lordship's name having been were read before the chief Me deuce referred to in the matter Rail Shrewsbury was not to be pi holder of the National Savings B was to benefit the District Saving Mr. Munn, relied on the appl bury for the shares in the NI allotted to him. The National to nearly 6,0001. by their tonne Savings Bank. The clefelerk (Mr. Hawkins) contract for shares now before hii binding on his lordship, and ther list of contributories. Mr. Matthews asked to go befor if Lord Shrewsbury should wish made. _ . _ The ch ief clerk gave permission Mr. Munn asked for costa s and Mr. Matthews opposed the al fair case to contest. The chief clerk allowed costa, I dealt with a matter in the same a peer or pauper. Order accordingly. EQUITY CO (Before Vice-Chancellor HAMMES V. TOTTENHAM AND RAILWAY COM The plaintiff in this tease was tb of certain property of which the session on the 25th of June, 186! certain tenants from year to ye/ wards a negotiation was entered and ultimately, in November last by which the company were to pt property for 1,7001. within pay interest on the purchase n Mr. Charles, for the plaintiff, money might be paid into court. Mr. Townshend, who ►ppe►red that the reason for the delay in t was that the title had not been ac were in possession, not under plaintiff, but by an antecedent tii yet been touched for the purpose' The Vice-Chanoallor directed t paid into court before the 15th of THN UNITA!) AUCTION ADVAN COMPANY (umirm) This was a motion for an it defendant from advertising or et! sales as sales of the company. auctioneer, carrying on business gate-hill, and he had entered ar pan; by which he alleged that I formed he agreed with their ages Pilgrim-street to them, he beim floater. Them statements the col asserting that the premises in P long to them and that they ha sales carried on there. Mr. M'N►ughten supported the did not appear. The Ven-Chancellor grouted tl davit of service. COURT OF QUEE: !NZ NIDDIJSZX OM Mr. Justice Blackburn attend, the senior pulsar) judge, to cha jury. Sir Win. W. Knighton wa His lordship said they had bee jury for Middlesex to act in the pose of seeing if there was an before them. The same mai before them as before the ordi county, but in practioe, since th, tral Criminal Court, and the la now transacted at the Middles( were now scarcely ever brought fore, so far as they were concern be considered as merely formal. were a great many things w of this great criminal oourt of the tilted before them ; such, for inst that might be called state trials, and therefore it was right that th semble and dispose of any such b brought before them. Practically annoyance if they when there was reason to IN ten as be had referred to wei but that could only be done by si That bad not been done, prol being good reasons against it, tient importance to legislate u was possible something might before the end of the term which pose of, but practically, if s informed. Not having heard he could prophecy with tolerable c come before them. If, howeve their services would be required them in the course of the term N would give them such advice anc cane required. They would their room, when they would be be necessary to attend again to b The grand jury then retired. Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Justices Blackburn THE KEEN r. Mr. Sleigh showed cause again obtained calling upon the justi clause why the defendant should custody, that being a more so needing by habeas corpus. The 'Acted on his own confession on indecent exposure under the Vug had been sentenced on three of I prisonment with hard labour ( consecutive, and each to nor ties) of the other, so that I to nine months' imprisonmen eel contended that under magistrates were justified in al as they had done. They were aim bad done by the 7th and Bth G judges act, and also by what wi 11th and 12th 'Vic., ch. 43. The! that immediately the defendant I offence he was in prison undergo brought hin! withits Jervis's Act. The Lord Chief Justice said but from the use of different last acts quoted by the learned that was not the object of those Mr. Ribtoo appeared in supp tended that the section of the V the defendant bad been cons terms the power of the justices in which they had sentenced bin to a longer term of imprisonment Mr. Justice Blackburn said if on separate days before magi-4 sentences would have been cies charged with three separate off. Mr. Ribton said it could not be he left the presence of the judi sonment so as to make these sent Mr. Justice Blackburn said from the moment of conviction. imprisonment with its adjuncts I The Lord Chief Justice said it power they ought to have it. TI three offences, and ought to be p Before the court decided this c.ca bench should consult the other pl and the extent of the practice, Geo. IV., under which the judges sentences, and therefore they a meat. Judgment reserved. COURT OF COMM Sittings in Banco.—(Before Lonl Justices Ryles, Keatin This case woes ouiWihese ciry On the 13th April, 1 4 66, a co to Mr. James Wilde was being re were pulling down a stairc•se, a gold fell down with the ru uki by a boy. 60f. of the with the defendant for as present action was by the a.lmini recover this sum. At the trial Justice Mellor, the jury found to Mr. Gent now moved for a rule the ground that there was no evi. diet. It was proved that Wild lived in it, and kept a shop th diod suddenly. His widow lived th afterwards the cottage was iuhabi Another circumstance was that date earlier than 1458. The only