The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

Oxpreoo. TO 00111LIOPONDILOTT. ilessOmisais labobibia kr ...me Sonse,Jestics trebles pepir. art be se the Oda. Illb leinanwarial. by Tee *VW* se the ilw el pelindlia. HIGH NATI/ AT LONDON DEIDON. Tree DAT-61.1104. %Aft. , 4 1 1 1 .1." 0 . lb • Um. fo.oaaaNfadaL 130 a. LONDON, TUESDAY, NANCE 30. ME new India Bill does sot improve upon acquaintance. We had hoped to find in it some consolatory pampa not in Mr. Disituu's speech. But we have been diaapp3inted. The Bill, indeed, is a disappointing—a disheartening Bill. It keeps the word of promise to the ear, and breaks it to the hope. There are too many evidences of good intention in it for us to condemn it in tote ; and Yet it wants so much to make it a really good Bill, that it is impossible to stamp it with our approval. It is not sufficient that in such a measure as this there should be a theoretical recognition of certain principles; we must be convinced also that those principles are to have practical application in such a manner as to ensure their permanent vitality. But the framers of this Bill proclaim a great principle, and then forth with proceed to perform its obsequies. The complaint, therefore, which we make against the Bill is, that it is not true to itself. We had a suspicion of this when all that we knew of its contents was what we had derived from Mr. Dies. rm's speech. Bet now that the Bill itself is before us that suspicion bus developed into certainty. We admit that there is good intention in it. The erection of a well-composed and independent Council is intended. A great deal of pains has doubtless been bestowed upon this part of the scheme. It is altogether an elaborate and complicated affair— partlyeleetive, wholly representative. It is a Council of such a character as cannot very easily be converted to purposes of Parliamentary jobbery. But a well composed Council is one thing —a well-constituted Council is another. Now, the new DERBY DISRAELI Council appears to us to have no consti tution at all. It is true that there are no Ins than eleven clauses in the Bill de voted to the " Duties and Procedure of the " Council"; but we learn little mon from these clauses than that eighteen gentlemen, representing almost every description of Indian interest, and, pre sumedly, every description of Indian experience— eighteen gentlemen selected for their especial know ledge of Indian affairs, and, in a majority of cases, for their proved and admitted aptitude for the work of Indian administration—are to be the mere in struments of • Secretary of State, who may have some knowledge of India and the working of the government, but who is just as likely to enter upon his office with the very rudiments of Indian know ledge yet to be acquired. We learn from these clauses,ostensibly defining the "Duties and Procedure "of the Council," what " it is lawful for the Secretary "of State "todo ; and by inference and analogy what it is lawful for the Council to suffer. " The "Council shall, under the directivu of the Secretary 6 . of State, conduct the business," &c. " The " Secretary of state shall direct the manner in "which all such business shall be transacted," &c. The " duties "of the Council are simply to submit to the dictation of the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State is to bestride them like a Colossus. He is, apparently, to do the business single-handed. Ile is to prepare the despatches to India, and may even mud them off without submit ting them to the Council. All that he is required to do in such a case is to record his reasons. Reasons are always forthcoming ; but meanwhile the mischief has been done. Now, in all this there appears to us to be • re- . venal of the proper order of things. Let it be admitted, for the sake of argument, that the system et " Double Government," though sound in prin ciple, is inconvenient in practice. It is not alleged that there has hitherto been in the Court of Direc tors of the East India Company any want of know ledge, any want of ability, any want of an honest, enlightened desire to benefit the people of India. It has been declared, indeed, by men of very different shades of political opinion, that the East India Company have done their work conscientiously and intelligently, but that the system under which the Home Government of India has been conducted is a cumbrous, complicated sys tem, little tending to energetic action, and provoca tire of injurious delay. It is proposed, therefore, to simplify the administrative machinery, by bring ing the two parts of the " Double Government" into immediate association with each other—retaining the know ledge and the working powers of the Com pany and the responsible control of the Imperial Board. Each, under the old system, had its uses ; each was suited to the part it had to play. The knowledge and experience were with the Court of Directors, and therefore it properly devolved upon them to initiate the public business of the Home Government of India. The power and responsibility were with the Board of Control, as the representative of the Imperial ele ment, and therefore necessarily with that body was the final and decisive voice. We have never heard any objection to this. Among the many condem natory or disparaging comments which from time to time have been passed upon the system of " Double Government," we have never once heard it alleged that it is unsound in principle or disadvanta geous in practice that the Court of Directors of the Fast India Company should initiate the ordinary business of the " Double Government." On the contrary, there is a general ad mission, even by the most strenuous opponents of the " Double Government," that as the Court of Directors possess leml knowledge and experience, and are for the most part well acquainted with all the details of Indian Government, much benefit results from their deliberations, and that it is desirable to secure the application of this knowledge and experience to the thorough airtime, as now, of the business brought before them, without all the complicated formalities which are said to be inseparable from the action of two different governing bodies at opposite ends of the town. But it is now proposed that all this local knowledge and experience shall seldom or never be applied to purposes of useful deliberation. The Secretary of State is to deliberate; the Secretary of State to initiate ; the Secretary of State is to be the Alpha and the Omega—the Be-all and the End all W the new system of Indian Government If the Councillors desire to do their duty, and to earn their money—that is, to take a really active and influen tial part in the Home Government tff India— they mast place themselves in a chronic state of antagonism with the Imperial Secretary. They must call for the assembling of Coun cils; they must write protests and dic iest.; they must continually endeavour to con trol the Secretary, without the least power, or indeed, the least hope of ever effecting their object., And thus everything is reversed. The weaker and the irresponsible body is to endeavour to act as a check upon the powerful and the responsible Minister, with a certainty, in almost every case, of entailing an Itself a humiliating failure. With the strongest possible sense of its feebleness and insufficiency, the Council must either consent to subside into a nonentity, or must waste its ener gies in vain attempts to control a despotic Secretary. The old acknowledged system, indeed, is entirely reversed. Instead of the initial processes emanating from the knowledge and experience of • deliberative body, everything is now to be originated by the responsible, but in all probability the ignorant and inexperienced, Minister of the Crown ; and instead of the responsible and powerful Minister sitting in judgment upon the acts of the powerless and irresponsible deliberative body, that powerless and irresponsible deliberative body is to sit in judgment upon the acts of the powerful and responsible Minister of State. And so, instead of • ' chain of solid and beneficial realities, we have, from first to last, practically, we do not my intentionally, so many flatulent shams. Let the Ministers look to this in their Easter holidays. The Secretary of State must not initiate, because he has, in all probability, no knowledge and no experience ; the Council must not sit as an incubus upon him, because they have really no power to control him. Place the active power of initiation in the hands of the Council, and the practice u well as the power of control in the hands of the Secretary of State; and you will revert to the natural order of things. We may be sure that any introversion of this order can be only a costly and a calamitous failure. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 30, 1858. holidays, which was fixed for to-morrow, is post poned till Wednesday, on account, it is officially an nounced, of Dome new bills to be presented, which will not be ready till the latter day. The Bourse has been extremely firm, and the ge neral impression is that the settlement at the end of the month will go off well. The Bente rose 60e. for cub and 46c. for account, closing at 70fr. 20c. and 70fr. 250. Mobilier rose 16fr. The railways were all in good demand at advanced quotations. Orleans rose 10fr. ; Northern, 6fr.; Eastern, 17fr. 60c.; Lyons, llfr. 26c.; Southern, 6fr. 260.; and Western, 2fr. 600. The Journal de Belford days that Count Migeon, who after having been allowed a long respite, to suit his convenience, had finally promised to surren der himself on the 21st instant, to undergo the im prisonment to which he was sentenced for illegally wearing the ribbon of the Legion of Honour, has, instead of keeping his word, fled to Switzerland, and that, in consequence, an arrest warrant has been issued against him. The preliminary examinations into the late out break at Chalons are almost concluded. It is said that seven individuals will be sent before the next assizes of the Saone-et-Loire, at which M. Dela cuisine will preside. The prosecution will be sup- ported by the Procureur-Giencral. The trial, it is expected, will lead to some serious disclosures rela tive to secret societies, particularly that of the Marianne. A deputation from Macon, consisting of the Abbe Nanlin e curt of St. Pierre, M. Lacroix, president of the Civil Tribunal, and M. Chamborre, waited, on Saturday, on the Minister of the Interior and Public Safety to solicit authorisation to open a subscription for M. de Lamartine. Yesterday the minister addressed the following letter to the deputation : gentlemen,—I have had the honour of communicating to the Emperor the object of your visit. His Majesty la profoundly touched at IL de Lamartine's situation, and con sider* that the honour of France requires that situation not to beoome aggravated by being prolonged. No one amongst us can be indifferent when there is a question of aiding a man of the highest literary renown of our time, and the Emperor appreciates better than anyone all the claims of your countryman. The prince who for the last ten years has opposed the excesses of the demagogical parties haa not forgotten, and never will forget, the services rendered by M. de Lamartine to the cause of order in 1848, and all the dis asters and all the shame which by hie generous energy France was spared. I consequently can authorise the sub scription of which you, gentlemen, have so nobly taken the initiative, and I am happy to announce to you that the Em peror is the first to inscribe his name at the head of it. (be esurt. WINDSOR, blowear. The Queen and Prince Comport walked in the Home Park this morning. The Primer Alice and younger Royal cbildrem took their accustomed exercise. Sir JUDOS Brooke had an interview with the Earl of Derby yesterday. Bir Edward Bulwer Lytton had alao an Interview with the noble earl at his official residence In Downing-street. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the official mei dance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing street. Present, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy- Governor ; Sir Alexander Spearman, Secretary and Comp troller-General to the Commissionary attended. A deputation from the Roil Institute of British Archi tects had an interview withlrmd John Manners, yesterday, at the tem of Public Works, Whitehall-place. The depu tation consisted of Mr. Bamford Hops, M.P., Mr. W. Tice, H.P., Mr. G. Godwin, P.M Mr. Q C. Nelson, Hon.fite., Mr. Digby Wyatt, Hos.l3ex, 1., gr. H. B. Garlic& Mr. DonaMson, Chaim Barry, Mr. H. Chalon, Mr. A. Aahvltay Mr. G. 8. SoW and Mr. T. H. Wyatt. A deputation from the Bolton Union, introduced by Copt, Gray, M.P., and conaratiog of Mr. Latham (chairman), Mr. Brown and Mr. Kirby (guardisas), togethet with Masers. Hall and Woodhouse (aivhitects), had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Sotheron Estcourt, yesterday, at the office of the Poor-law Board, on the subject of the new union work house plans. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-offloe from the Governor of Malta, the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands, and the Governors of Ceylon, Hoeg Kong, and the Mauritius. AZZIEdL OP THE PRINCE OP 84.101411. DOVER, MONDAY. His Royal Highneso the Prince of Saxony, accom• pooled by a nunterons suite, arrired here this afternoon from Calais, and was morivad on landing by General Cran ked, Colonel Ponsonby, Majors Doyley and Barnard, Captain Wilwaine, and a guard of honour of the 11th Regt. rha royal party dined at Birmingham's Lord Warden Hein!, and left by the half-past 7 express train for London, Mr. Way, superintendent of the railway, haring made arrangements for their accommodation. The Dake and Dachas of Roxburghe have left the Clarendon for Floors Castle, Echo, N.B. Lord and Lady Poltimore are remaining in Devonshire until the and of April to celebrate the majority of their eon, the ion. Augustus Frederick Bampfylde, on the 12th proximo, and are not expected in Groevenor-agave until early in May. Lord - and Lady Chtuchill have left the St. George' Hotel. LOrd Ribblesdale has left the St. George's Hotel. Sir Robert and Lady Wilmot have left the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood, for Richmond. Sir Charles Tempest and Miss Tempest have left tin St. Georges Hotel. Colonel iiiddulph and Mn. Biddulph have ar rived at the St. George'. Hotel. Mn. M'Alpine will give a soirei claimants on Wednesday, the 21a of April, at her residenoe, 108, Batea u:pare. Lord Brougham is now is Paris. THE DEPUTT-CIIAIIiIdANSHIP OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY,—We we given to understand that on the appointment of Sir Frederick Currie, Bart., to succeed to the chairmanship of the East India Company, at the expi ration of the naval term of calm of Mee Donnelly Mangles, Erq., M.P., on the 14th of next April, Captain Emtwick will be nominated to the de puty-chairmanship. This 00101 T entered the Bombe, army se a cadet in 1827, the same year with Sir Henry Rawanima. After getting several staff appointments, and evincing proficiency in the Oriental languages, be was trans ferred to the political department, and made first assistant to Colonel Pottinger, then resident in Sindh. He accom panied Sir John Ksene's army as political officer, and was entrusted with the negotiation of the treaty of 1838 with the Ameers of Lower Sindh. On the advance of the British force into Afghanistan he wan lett in charge of the political agency of Upper Sindh and the districts below the Bolan pass, by Sir William Macnaghten. Subsequently he acted for 4 abort time as resident in Sindh on the departure of Colonel Pottinger. Returning to England on sick certificate, he was selected by Sir Iltnry Pottinger to accompany him to China in 1841, but his health DO4 permitting him to accept the situation, be was succeeded in it by Colonel Malcolm. Captain Eastwick wan elected to a seat in the direction in 1847.—The Homeward Kid. A PORTENTOUS Trucaux.—The Commander-in- Chief is India has tekvaphed for the Adjotent•6eneral (Company's Army) end the Inspeeter-Narral of Hospital. (Qesios's Mole) to Join head-quarters immediately, and they sof:ordinal, have Cabala as early as dike can ho got ready for the.--The ileareirard Mail. Ms LATAItD's Paoaaegs. Mr. Layard, who Was at Indere *arty in last month, was about to leave that city (reships. From Agra ho will descend to Calcutta. MR. COBDEN FOR ROCIIDALE.—The Rochdale Liberal Electors' Association, at their last meeting, ap pointed J. Chadwick, Esti , chairman, and then considered who would be the most likely candidate in ewe of • Mamba hon. There was a unanimous feeling in favour of moot mtnding Mr. Cobden to the electors es the most It and C;P:Tperson to units the libersl interests. The proceed r the committee will be subject to the approve' et • meeting of liberal electors. HENRY WATT, THE ENGINEER OF THE CAO - t t Rl.—On his arrival In London on MUMS, lad Henry Watt was placed under the cars of Dr. Forbes Winslow, la order that the amount of injury which his mind has sue tabled in consequence of hie cruel incarceration might be ae wetly as possible ascertained. It is the opinion of Dr. Winaow, who has visited him several times, t het he may be ultimately restored to the full and undisturbed possession of his faeoltise, but that a capful avoidance of everything that may excite him is neceessr7 for the present. He C 011•41111011 finely though on all Mince, except his recent sufferings, which he exhibits a marked disinclination to refer to. He manifest. a professional interest in the prugrere of the Levia than, and has expreseed a wish to see that vessel. This, bow ' arm has not been greeted, as the consequences of a public recognition of him might be very Injurious. Strong hopes an entertained of his speedy recovery under the judicious esm of Dr. Winslow. - 111 - 111 ; 01.4CiGUTRAOR AT DURLIN.—Three wit wows wen examined yesterday. 'The attack on Mr. Lesson wan established. A policeman came behind this youth and dealt him a crushing blow, from the effect. of which he fell frothing from the mouth. Whilst in this helpless condition be was taken by the hair, and given two more eirnkee on Me naked hied. On receiving the arm stroke be gave a tre mendous meant ; after the second a convuleive shudder passed through. Its body. Another policeman called out " Shame," and implored a bystander, for God's sake, to take Mr. Leeson away, and spread out his arms to prevent hint from being again struck. Mr. Leeson himself gave evidence. His bead is •baved, and bound with pleader, GRAND JURORS' FINES.—It may be recollected that at t►e teat Lincolnshire winter eosins, eighty-mum sugietrates of that county were fined 2W. each for nos attendance at the court as grand jurymen, their absence creating a serious obstacle to the transaction of the judicial Milanese required to be performed. The gentlemen fined antemoonUy memorialised the Treasury for a TVntileklft of the penalties, but the memorial has been returned, with an intimation that the prayer cannot be entertained in its col lective form, although, it is added, individual claims for exemption will receive attention, INDIA. EAST INDIA HOUSE TELEGRAM. TO J. D. DICKINSON, ESQ., INDIA ROUSE. LUCKNOW. The Commander-in-Chief seized Dames on the 3rd of March. He was at 13eedeecoll on the 6th of March, haring been immediately joined by General Franks. The rebels have strongly fortified the line of their camp. Oar batteries will be ready in five days.. Sir J. Outram crossed the Goointo° on the 6th of March with 6,000 men and 30 guns, to take position on the left bank of the river, and clear the country up to Fyzabad. He was immediately attacked, but repulsed the enemy. Brigadier Campbell has placed a strong brigade and patrols u far u the old road from Cawopore. In the attack on Dilkoosa, Colonel Little wu wounded; and in an engagement which General Franks had with the enemy just before he effected a junction with the Commander-in-Chief', force, Major Percy Keith, of the 2ud Dragoons, was killed, and Lieutenant lanes, of the Engineers, wounded. Before his junction with the Commander-in-Chief General Franks had cleared the road from Sultan poor to Lucknow. On the 19th of February he prevented a junction between Bundeh Dussein Chukladar and Nazim Mendee Dooesein, attacked them successfully on the same day, and defeated them with a loss of 800 men and mix guns ; on Feb ruary the 20th he made a forced march and seized the stronghold of Badhayan, which Nadia Mendes Doossein was proceeding to occupy. The Nizam then took up a strong position at Badshahgunge, two miles from Sultanpoor, with 25,000 men and 25 guns. On the 23rd of February, General Franks attacked and carried the position. He drove the enemy in crowds before him for some miles, killed 1,800, took 20 guns, all their ammunition, and a standing camp. Among the wounded were Rajah Hussain Ali Khan, and other leaders of note. Oar loos was only two killed and 18 wounded. General Hope Grant's brigade on February 23 attacked Meangunge, a fortified town in Onde. After a breach had been effected, the place wit stormed by her Majesty's 53rd Regiment. The rebels lost 600 killed and four guns. Oar casualties were 18, two officers not named being among the wounded. Jung Bahadoor had crossed the Goomtee at Sultanpoor on the 3rd instant. bmallpor had broken out in the Ghoorka camp. A large force of rebels crossed in Ohorachpoor on February 5. They were attacked by Colonel Rowcroft, and pursued for seven miles. Enemy's loss great, and eight guns taken. The force under Sir Hugh Rose occupied the Fort of Rarodia on March 1, and repulsed an attempt made by the enemy on tho fort during the night of the 3rd of March. Sir Hugh Rose forced the passage of Mudinpore en route to Jhansi. The report that the ex-King of Delhi had been convicted and sentenced to transportation for life was erroneous. His trial is not yet completed. General Roberts arrived at Nuirerabaci on the 22nd of February. The advance on Kotah is immediately expected. Operations against the Bheels are in active pro gress. The insurgent Bessayees have taken refuge in the Canara districts of the Madras Presidency. A movement was made against them by a force under Colonel M'Clean on the 3rd of March, but they evacuated a strong position which they had chosen, and are now with their followers dispersed through the Canara jungles. Punjab and &bide all quiet. Nizam's country all quiet. CHINA. Commissioner Yeh is on his way to Calcutta to be kept under surveillance. H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, March 9, 1958. Per steamer Vectis, Malta, March 29. From VINCENT MONTANARO. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (now ova owx PARIS, MONDAY Branum. The Patrie announces that the Count de Peraigny will arrive in Paris this evening from London. The same paper says there is no foundation whatever for the inferences drawn by certain foreign journals (rom the recent orders of the Minister of Marine to make an extraordinary levy of sailors. The reason for the order is simply that, in consequence of the war in the East, the number of sailors on the ordi nary rolls is very small, and the object is not to put the navy on a war footing, bet only to ensure a sufficient supply of men for the regular peace esta blishment. I am assured that the Emperor will be present at Cherbourg at the inauguration of the railway, which is expected to take place in the month of May, and that the Mediterranean and Brest fleets will be united in the Cherbourg roads at that time. The inauguration of the Boulevard de Sebastopol did not take place to-day, to the disappointment of a considerable crowd, which waited for several hours in the hope of seeing the ceremony. One government journal gives as a reason for the post ponement that the works are not oompleted, while another says that the administration thought it better not to have the fete during Passion week. I have no doubt myself that the true cause is that M. Hauumann, who, as Prefect of the Seine, was to have inaugurated the ceremony, is dismissed from his office, u I intimated three days ago. Efforts have indeed been made to prevent any change in the administration of the Hotel de Ville for the moment, but I do not think they have been successful. Madame Hausmann has left Paris for Bordeaux, where she is staying with her relations. The Patric, following the safe plan of not giving reasons, says simply that the inauguration is poet poned till Monday, April S. Probably M. Halms mann's successor will be appointed by that time. The Slide is permitted to write against the Assumption of Titles Bill, and urges the objec tions (grounded upon the arbitrary powers which it would give the government to prosecute particular individuals, without reference to any general rule) which I have already said were warmly pressed in the committees of the Corps Legislatif. It is more than probable that this bill will be abandoned. "At the moment when general attention is di rected to the bill on the nobility," says the Union, "it is not without interest to present to the public a statistical account of the Senate and the Legislative Body, as regards the number of their titled members. The Senate contains 16 dukes and princes, 20 mar quises, 38 counts, 2 viscounts, and 20 barons. The Legislative Body is not less rich, having 3 dukes or princes, 14 marquises, 31 counts, 8 viscounts, and 36 barons." The last lifting of the Corps Legimlatif before the LOMBARDY. Giovanni Prati, the well-known patriotic poet of Italy, having lately visited Padua, simply to see his daughter who resides there, has been peremptorily expelled from the Lombardo-Venetian territories. He is a naturalised subject of the King of Sardinia, though born in the Italian Tyrol, and his passport was perfectly regular, with the visa of the Austrian authorities at the frontier. His political views are notoriously moderate, and he has never taken part in any secret conspiracy. The Archduke Maximilian, the Austrian Viceroy, has gone from Milan to reside a few months at Venice, leaving behind him, in addition to the gene ral repugnance to Austrian rule, a local matter of dissatisfaction in the arbitrary suppression of the Milan races, which appear to have been regarded by the government as likely to afford a pretext for treasonable meetings. At Venice, the signs of dis affection are even more prominent than at Milan. Not only do the Italian nobility and upper classes refuse to attend the viceregal court, but on the 22nd, the anniversary of the ineurrec tion of 1848, the Archduke and Archduchess having got out of their carriage in the Piazza of St. Mark to join the well-dressed throng of citizen prome naders, no sooner was the presence of their Austrian Imperial Highnesaes observed than, by a tacit con cert, the Italian ladies and gentlemen walked off to an adjoining place, and the august representatives of the foreign oppressor suddenly found themselves alone. At the La Fenix Theaue the daughter of the Austrian General Nugent, though married to an Italian nobleman, had the bad taste to insult the audience by ostentatiously, as she sat in a front box, fixing the Austrian colours in her head-dress. In dignant murmurs were raised in the pit, and the lady, with her friends, thought it prudent to with draw ; but several Austrian officers who escorted her away were exposed to the hisses and groans of the excited people. We also hear of a remarkable demonstration at Padua, - where several WundreiStudcntS:;fterrUais in the cathedral, chanted the De Profundie on the day of Orsini's execution. It is said that something of the same kind occurred in other Italian cities. THE MEDITERRANEAN. (IT ELUTING TILIORAPN4 (PROM OUR OWN 001ZWIPONDZNT.) SOUTHAMPTON, TIIIIDAT. The Sultan arrived from Marseilles with a Malta and Gibraltar mail, 3001. in specie, and fall cargo. She conveyed the last China mail from Alexandria to Marseilles. "THE' RELIEVED PROM LUCKNOW." The following tribute was paid by the passengers on board the Peninaalar mad Oriental Steam-packet Com pany's ship Colombo as ths gallant commander of that vessel, just previously to her arrtval at Southampton on Saturday lad : " Ship Colombo, at See, March 26. "Dear Captain Field,—We take this opportunity, before the diepetvlin of oar party, to express how much we feel in debted to you for the pleasant end prosperous manner in which onr 'homeward voyage has been accomplished. We assure you that in thus addressing you we are influenced by • sincere sense of tho unusual kindness and attention which we have throughout experienced from yourself and the o®- oars under your command We beg that you will convey to all the officers our thanks and wishes for their future pros perity and raceme; and with the like good wishes for your self we subscribe ourselves your much obliged friends, " JCLIA INOLia, MA lICIABETOTHAUCIHNESSIT, REBECCA APTKOZPI, ISABELLA FULTON, JCLIA J. HARRISON, LIZZIE Rooouts, JAYS B. PILL; D. B. PZLLT, LIZZIE fliturns, CLARA ALICE NORMAN, M. Cowls. And the Gentlemen." A Paris correspondent of the Independance Beige writes I spoke some time since of a projected emigra tion to Loudon of the entire company of the Theatre Fraucals, about the month of July. This project, which was very seriously entertained, baa bees abandoned, and the uncertainties of the situation, as regards the international question, has not been without its influence in preventing the plan from being realised." A new work by M. Proudbon is shortly to be published under the name of "Le Boa Dien au Illte The Gagetta del Popolo of Turin states that on the 24th Mr. Hodge was allowed an interview with M. Brof ferio, who has been appointed his counsel by his friend* in London. It aloe mentions a rumour to the effect that he I. Ant to undergo a preliminary trial in Piedmont, according to the forms prescribed by existing international treaties. He L described as a young man of a prepossessing exterior. The funeral service for the Piedmonteoe who fell at the battle of Novara (March 23. 1349) wee celebrated en the 27th in the cathedra of Turin, in the presence of depu• 'glans from the Senate and Chamber of Deputier, the com mandants of the National Guard sad the garrison, several other high funoticamiss, and a numerous and respectable ooagregation. We (Malta Times) understand that during the stay of the Siamese Ambassadors.* the Imperial Hotel, one of their permits having been gat, of gorse trifling offence was forthwith laid on the Boor end bestissdoed wail he be came Insensible, and reetorativee were obliged to be used to bring him to his seam. This at gives ea idea of tits low state of civilisation either country and goveramint rays seated by these ambmsedors. TSB PIRG AND LOW OP PI UNN LIM IN BLOOMUrrir. A great sensation has been created in the neigh bourhood by this calamitous event. The question naturally asked by every one who has since visited the ruins is, how, in a house so email, and with every appliance for saving life so close at hand, so many persona should have been allowed to perish. That question is *gaily solved, as will be seen from the following particulars :— The building in which the lire commenced was only 20 feet wide, about 80 feet deep, and not more than 40 feet high. It was entered by a gateway as far as the carpenter's shop was concerned ; there was a pri vet* purge, partitioned on each side, which led to the stair ore forming the approach to the bedrooms. This staircase was at the back of the shop, and ran up to the lower part of the second floor. The back wall, which was immediatel behind the houses in Great Russell-street, was built with "dummy,' Cs., bricked up, windows and immediately in front of these windows, within the interior of the build ing, were erected four common stoves, the other four being on the west and eastern side of the structure. No light being available from the back, a skylight was formed in the roof, sou to allow a borrowed light to the back rooms, the front being supplied by the windows from the street, an d the front windows were on a level with the different floors, mak ing, as might be supposed, the means of egress considerably less difficult ; indeed, it is asserted that, with due precaution, presuming that the inmates had been fully aroused in time, they might have dropped from the top of the building with out receiving any material injury, providing the police or fire-brigade's jumping-sheet had been at hand ; bat the whole of those who have perished seem to have died before my assistance beyond the first-floor ladder had arrived. It was stated yesterday that the lower floor was occupied by Mr. Taylor, a carpenter and builder, but it was Mr. Stubbs, a carpenter, who occupied the place as a workshop, Mr. Taylor being only the landlord of the home', which he held on lease from the Duke of Bedford. lir:litteViditiidyesierday that the last time he was in the workshop was ten o'clock on Saturday morning, when he left to transact some business in the Caledonian-road, Islington. Upon returning at night he recollected that he had not put up the shutters of the shop, and he repaired to the building for that purpose, but not having the keys with him he left the shutters down as he had dons before. He also stated that the duet which we referred to yesterday as being at the back of the ground floor had all been removed on Wednesday or Tharedey last, and no fire bad been made, even for heatiag glue, for many days, at the least fi ve or six. He stated further that the whole of the parties who perished were exceedingly industrious and sober, and that they regu larly paid their rent when due. Mr. Stubbs has lost all his stock-in-trade, working tools, &c., and he was not insured for • singe penny. How It was that the Duke of Bedford allowed a build ,Mg to be run up without any back windows is much diecussod in the neighbourhood, as, with the exception of a warehouse further down, no other house in the same street is so erected. Had there been windows at the rear of the building, every one in the place could have stepped upon the roof of Mr. Calvert's museum, in Great Russell 'treat, and have passed over in safety, as it was not 12 feet from the oopiag of the roof. The last named gentleman, who is well known to the public as a traveller and author, will be a serious loser by the disaster, as he had the whole of his splendid collection of agates, corals ' precious stones, and ape dmens of Australian and other (gold which he had been col lecting for over 20 years, much inj ured by fire and water. These once splendid gems stood in Mr. 15' owerby's former in Great Russell-street, and Mr. Calvert estimates El i o s e .., sat the lowest at 8001. That gentleman is also of opinion that had there been any back windows to the house in which the fire commenced every life might have been saved. He distinctly heard the cries and screams of the poor people as the fire rushed up the stairs, and entered their respective rooms. There is one thing quite certain, that, independently of the manner in which the house was erected, it could not have been substantially built, which is evidenced by the rapidity with which it fell so goon after the outbreak. This is borne out to some ex tent by Mr. Superintendent Braidwood, who, in his official report, describe the &meg, done as follows No. 20, Gilbert - street, Bloomsbury, let oat in tenements ; a house of eight rooms, and carpenter"' shop on ground floor, burned, and fell down shortly after the arrival of the engines. Fif teen lives lost. Ne. 12 ditto, Mr. H. Harding, fringe maker, shutters scorched and window glees broken ; inured in the Sun Fire-office. No. 01, Great Ruasell-street, Mr. J. Calvert, mineralogist and author, partition on ground floor and back warehouse and museum considerably damaged by fire and water; insured in the San Fire-office." The following will be found to be a correct list of those who perish 4, whose bodies remain in Bt. Giles's Work house, each being labelled, so that their relatives may be able to identify them at the coroner's inquest :—James Hedges, aged 63; Wm. Henry Hedges, aged 20 Mrs. Ann Hedges, aged GO; John Hedges, aged 13; dad Richard Hedges aged 15. Richard Smith, aged 52 ; Mrs. Harriet Smith, ;gad 62 ; Alfred Smith, aged 14; George Smith, aged II ; Marian Smith, aged 3 ; Albert Smith, aged 3 (twins) ,• William Smith aged 12; Harriet Smith, the younger, aged 16; Teresa Smith, aged 7; and Richard Smith, aged 17, who was killed by jumping out of a window, and whose body still remains in the University College Hospital, but there is no doubt that it will be removed to the workhouse, so that the inquest can be held upon all the bodies at one time. The officials of the London Brigade and the Royal Society made a moat searching inquiry yesterday with a view of find ing out the cause of the catastrophe, and the result was that they learned beyond a doubt that no gas was burned in the premises, or even laid on into the building. A subscription is to be forthwith opened for the relief of the survivors, who have been bereft of all they possessed. The whole of the house evidently fell at one time, and the contents, as they have been turned up for the parpoee of searching for the bodies, are of a most miscellaneous ter. There are all sorts of articles of domestic furni ture, Bibles ' London Journals, pamphlets ,loaves, scattered about in endless confusion. Two or three loaves are still standing on the shelves which adhere to the walls, scorched and blackened by the flames. It hoe been stated that an unfortunate delay took place, owing to the engines being upon the wrong scent, attributable, no doubt, to the hasty information afforded at the time. They proceeded to Guildford-street, Russell-square, instead of Gil bert-street, Bloomsbury ; and from the confined situation of the promisee on fire, it was some time before they reached them. It appears that one of Smith's sons was the last up, having returned home at as late an hour as 1 o'clock on Sunday morning, about an hour and a half before the fire was discovered by the police. In his progrees up stairs he would pus through a passage contiguous to the carpenters shop. At this time of course ell appeared safe ; whether the unfortunate youth was smoking when he entered, and dropped tobacco sparks amongst the shavings la the pomp or not, will probably never be ascertained. THE INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Wakley, the coroner for Weet Middlemen, opened an inquiry at the Fox Tavern, Woburn court, Bloomsbury, before a respectable jury of tradesmen of the neighbourhood, touching the circumstances attending the deaths of the several unfortunate persons who perished in the late disastrous fire in Gilbert-street, Bloomsbury. The names of the deceased persons are Richard Smith, aged 40 ; Harriett, his wife, 41; Alfred, 16; Harriett, 13 ; Harry, 11; Walter, 9; Thomas, 7; Maria, 5 ; Mary Jesse, 2, sons and daughters of the Out named; James Hedger, 63 ; Eliza, his wife ; William, 20 ; and John, 13, their sons. The Coroner said-1 intend sitting to-day until three o'clock, and if the inquiry be not concluded by that time then I shall adjourn until half-past ten or a quarter to eleven on Thurs day morning, on which day I shall propose to sit again until three o'clock. If we do not conclude then I shall propose • further adjournment for a week or ten days. It may be a very brief inquiry or every protracted one, and I mention these things now, in order that no gentleman may be bound over to appear on a future day, to whom it may be a matter of inconvenience to attend. If, therefore, any gentleman is likely to have any engagement, or to be out of town, on Thursday, or in the early part of next week, I should ad vise him at once to user, it, in order that ha may be ex cused from further attendance, because any gentleman who, being bound over, does not attend, will be liable to a heavy fine. --- Mr. Cooper—lf the inquiry should last five or six weeks, will the jury be bound over to attend ? The Coroner—Certainly. The calamity is a very awful one, and no time can be misspent which may be employed in endeavouring to discover its cause, and to prevent the occur rence of such a disaster in future. The sight is one of the moat awful spectacles I have ever witnessed. I may add that I hope no gentleman will allow himself to be sworn on the jury if he is at all connected with tho premises, either as a proptietor or in any other way. The jury were then sworn, and Mr. Adams, church warden of St. Gilee's-in-the-Fields, was chosen foreman. The jury then proceeded to the parochial workhouse to view the bodies, and afterwards examined the scene of the calamity. On the return of the jury after an abases of half an hour, a juryman asked the coroner if in his experience he ever saw such a horrid eight? The Coroner said he certainly had not. The juryman—And the work of an hour too. A great building like Covent Garden Theatre was burnt down with out any lives bring lost. Here a miserable hovel took lies and al l these lives were lost. The Coroner—l really deal understand it. The following depositions were than taken : Alfred Chliman—l reside at 6, Grahma-atreet, Welworth road, and am a porter. I am brother to Mrs. Smith, and have seen bar body, that of her husband, and those of their children. I have identified them. (The W4llllOl stated the arms as given above.) My bratkew-in-law was • porter. He was a poor Wearing men; ha and hie family hays ban in greet dietress. He has never attempted or threatened to commit suieklajp my knowledge; neither W my deter. U. was at titnes,Tittr awry to say, given to drink. I as not aware whether any children inn in a burial dub. I should think ark I saw my sister this day fortnight at my own haws. BM eon of ha house, saying it was nat R i tt sl ll, and Ma was looking for apartment• in Ho. 5, Pied Bull-yard. I have been to the house in Gilberiestreet. The family occupied twos rooms on the second door; the front room and the back num. One opened into the other. The gait from the two rooms was from the front room on to the lending. There was no way out of the beck room but through the front room. There was no back window to the house whatever. There was a skylight over the landing, but whether there were any means of escape by it I cannot say. There were four rooms on each floor, two Beat and two west._ _ _ light was there? Witness—The light of the front room wu from the front windows. The light of the back room came through a small square window on the staircase, and ongoing upstairs you were liable to put your foot through it. Mao was no ven tilation and no light, except what was borrowed from the staircase. . _ A j When your sister said she should leave, what rwondid she give for leaving? Witness—She said the house was in a very dilapidated state. The water came through in a disgraceful manner, and caused the beck room to be ustlt to sleep in. A jurymaa—Was there a drs-place in tho back room P Witness—Yes. _ _ The witntiehere got rather excited, observing that he wished to make a statement to the gentlemen of the preen is lleTerence to the henna in which hie sister lost her life. The Coroner said if he knew anything u to the unmet the fire he bed better state it, The witness continued—My elder complained to me of their being a carpenter's shop under their dwelling, and said considered it dangerous, and would get out of the place as soon u she could. Kjuryman did she not remove? Witness—On meet of the number of her family persons would not take her into apartments. The jurymen —How long had the carpenter's shop been carried on under the dwelling P Witness—To the best of my belief something like three months. I think it commenced last Christmas. By the jury—My brother-in-law is; been in and out of work, but not in constant work for some months peat. He and hie family did not lease the house twelve months ago. Fthe Coroner—The family lived there about six years. za Berson-1 live at 10 Richard's-place, Heggerston. lam married , end my husband's name is Samuel Sargon. He Ins labourer. lem related to William Hedger. lam the daughter of William and Eliza Hedger, and sister to William and John. I have eeen the bodies, and identified three of them, bat I could not tell whether what I saw were the remains of my brother John. They lived at No. 20, Gilbert-sheet. My father was a journeyman bis cuit-baker and confectioner. He lodged on the second floor, and occupied two rooms. Neither my father nor my mother ever attempted or threatened to commit suicide that lam aware of. They were not in distress. Saw them alive last Sunday week. They bad lived In this house altogether about three years. They had • front room and • beck room, one leading into the other. The front room had a window to the street—the beck rooms window to the landing. but no door to the landing. By the jory — l visiTerMy father end mother once a week. They were not in distress and could havo left the house when they chose. My bro ther William once said to me I wonder at father and mother living at the top of the house, because if a fire were to occur in the shop below, we should be all burnt to death." There was no ventilation to the back room but what I have mentioned. The ground Mice was a carpenter's shop, but whether any one lived In it I don't know. James George Fleming, engineer of the Chandoe-street fire-engine station, said—l was at the fire with my engine about fourth. I arrived there about half-past three o'clock. After the fire was subdued I assisted in getting out the whole of the bodice. We found the young man in the front wall, and near the window, at the east end of the building on the second floor. The floors had all fallen in before we found the bodies. The bodies laron the flooring. The entire of the flooring squatted. When I arrived there were two branches playing on the front. I saw that it was coming in and I said " ran—scamper," and had no sooner done so than the whole fell in. After cooling the ruins, I went in to see if any body was there and I found a young loan u I have already stated near the east end. We got him out and we found his father underneath:him. We then cleared the rains further and found eight children under them. We afterwards found Mr. and lire. Smith,'. they were allatopofeachotherasit were. The bodies laywith their heads downwards, and all we had to do was to take ,hold of their feet and pull them up. We took out fourteen bodies altogether. It was about a quarter or ten minutes past four o'clock. There was no sign of life in any of them; they were all quite dead. They had their night shirts on, which were more or lees burnt. One boy had his rouses partially on, and it appeared to us that be was in the act of dressing when the fire took place. The place was all in dames when I arrived. No one called out, nor do I know where the fire commenced. By the jury—We were celled by a stranger. The win dows were all gone when we reached the scene. The front wall gave way in the maitre. By the Coroner—We are supposed to be informed by the police or strangers. We have no organisation to send signals to any other station. We got information of this fire from a stranger who was sent from the Crown-street station. Another fireman—l got information from a policeman at the Blackfriare station long before thu roan. The reflection of the flames bad attracted the policeman's attention. A juryman—Was there anything in the construction of the joist@ that was dangerous in case of firs? Witness—l think that if the walls had stood the Boors would not have fallen. The engine was there at half-past 3. Andrew Brown Sullivan, 34 E—l gave the first alarm of the fire by springing my rattle. It wee about a quarter or twenty mutes past 2 o'clock on Sunday morning. The Coroner—The fire station is very near, and the fourth engine only arrived at a quarter past three. Have yen any doubt about the time? . . Witness—No I heard a cry while standing at the corner of Mon tague street and Great Russell-street. It came from the house where the fire was. I believe it was No. 20, Gilbert-street. I ran thereat once,andjust as I turned round Bury-street I saw the fire. On my going up to the house, the flames were just coming out of the lower part of the house. The fire was so strong that I could not approach the door, and immediately sprang my rattle. I then saw a man at a window above. I don't know who it was. It was the window on the Brat Boor front en the west side over the shop . and directly over the window where the flames were arming. I heard him my out. I told him to hold on, and no sooner had I done so than some glass broke and I stooped my he to prevent his falling on my face. I had scarcely done as before I felt the young man fall upon me; he fell on my head, and then on to the ground. I then took him up • he warnot dead. I then saw another man at another window, and called to him not to jump, but to remain But. We got a ladder, and a stranger named Cowell went up it and teemed the man and some children. There were three children. A man and his wife got out safely. No engine or fire escape had arrived at this time. I cannot recollect at what time the first engine arrived. Policeman 68 E was the first to come to my resistance ; he came imme diately after me, and we both sprang our rattles together. I requested him to go for the fire escape, but not for the engines. I saw none of the second.floor windows opened but that one the young man jumped from. I saw no one at the other window. I could not see the second win dow for the flames. The the escape arrived about five minutest after the last person had been got out dive. It came before any engine, but I cannot my which engine Was the first to arrive. _ . By the jury—When I first saw the fire it was at the Museum aide. I knocked at the door. Thee was foe leaning from the door. lam not certain whether the door was on fire when I went there or not ; I know a pert of it was on fire. I cannot say who the constables were who got the ladder. I did not attempt to go to the door. I could not came it to be opened, because my attention was attracted by the man at the window. By the Coroner—l was there about two or three minutes before the man jumped out. There tame a gush of glass, and I leant my head down to escape it. Directly I did son the young man jumped upon me. I was not annoyed by it. When a fire happens, we have instructions to ge to the neat Aro-station for an engine, and then to the nearest fire es We have instructions to send to all the stations. Whsateit firtrescape came the flames were so strong that it could not be need. It was too high for the second floor windows. It was put up at the next house, and the man in charge of it went up to the roof. By the Foreman—lt was about ten or twelve minutia before the fire-escape arrived, after the first dist:ovary of the fire. I saw no boy who gave information to the fire-mcape. man. Ido not know a boy who lived in the lower part of the house, and who was moat active in running to the aro escape and engine stations. John Curie—l reside at No. 8, Bury-street, Bloomsbury, and am • painter and glazier. I was at the fire on Sunday morning; it was about twenty minutes or half-pat two o'clock. I heard • person crying out "murder." The cry and the sound of the pdiceman's rattle were simultaneous. I was not in bed at the time. Had just returned home, and had passed the end of Gilbert-street about five minutes pest two o'clock. I ran directly I heard the alarm. I saw two policemen there; one was springing hieratic., sad the other was dose to the door of the house. I don't Walt the door was then on fire, bat the flame was coming through the shop window. It was not so great at first as afterwards; but it was rather large for such a small space. There was nothing but the Vaster of the door-frame between the window and the door. I did not perceive whether the door was open or not. I heard several calls, but I can hardly say they were calls. They sounded like screeching. We sow a hand and arm pat out of the second floor window, but it did not remain loefir and we saw it no more. The bottom sash of that window WAS up. The Rm. Mr. Long, the curate of Bloomsbury, here reel and said—l wish to state, Mr. Coroner, that hiving MOM the house, I am prepared to my that it was impossible far any me to get out of the window where the arm appeared, as there 1.111, boards all across it. Whams continued—With thLaseistanos of a young ime who was there I got a ladder. We saw Mr. Haatirood at the first floor window. This was three or four mica's, afire- I got there. As Noon as I got there I ram the band Mt out. The man had then fallen into the road. I wad lat the ladder and Mr. Eastwood gave me a little girl Am or ten years old. She was the find to owe down the ladder. Then • woman cams down with an infant in her right. Mr. Eastwood thus crawled in at the window again, got a little boy out, and then came down ides' self. He went backwards and forwards as cool and eels es If he was at work. When all wore got out, and be cams &lin WINK be appeared licked" as it were. He had Mr played wonderful nerve before, but now he fell into my smut and said, " Oh, ray dear boy, I haven't got • Mftbit o It was a quarter of an hour or 20 minutes beim war Ike escape or any tire engine arrived. When Bactircedessin down the last time I could have got the people oat Mae second floor had the ladder been long enough. ilea escape arrived too late, bat the man in chards of all