The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

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Mr. Be!more: Mises loofa Yd Lennox —And FLYING SCUD. M. Neville, Bel lmore, Blake, Voltaire, Ac. ; Mesdames K. Josephs, C. Nowadays, Drib Foote, Addeo Lennox, Isymood, de. BRITANNIA. THU EV=ll4O, THE PRINCES UV THE PEARL ISLAND ; OR, THE THREE KINGDOMS OF PEARL, GOLD, AND SILVER. Mrs. Lane and Mies Jaeubs.—}lni-rate Pantomkolsta .-41 ad THE SKELECuri CREW. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. DAY —Morning, oft em..— Afternoon. 61t. 96zn. To-lioanow—Yarning, eat 4 Afternoon. ^d lam LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 26. MR. SEELY, who has just been addressing his constituents, at Lincoln, has earned for himself a title to speak on Reform which the stoutest Conservative cannot impeach. To Mr. Lowe's demand to be shown the failings of the House of Commons, the member for Lincoln has given during the last two sessions a very definite and practical answer. Ho has proved that every administration, unchecked by the House, has been squandering public money in our dockyards, and has been neglectful of the public security in our Navy. Even the House itself, unwilling to confess its own shortcomings, has been compelled to admit the main truth of Mr. SEELY'S statements, and two successive Governments, which the House failed to bring to account, have been forced to acknowledge that much of the accusation is incon trovertible. This remarkable result is due to the ability and energy with which Mr. SEELY, for saking the easier but profitless part of general de nunciation, set himself to acquire an accurate knowledge of the errors and mis-statemerta made by the special department he selected for examination. For he soon found, he tells us, that the House, as to any such inquiry, might be divided into two sections. On the one side were ranged Whigs and Tories together ; all who had ever been, or who hoped to be, connected with the departments of Government ; all the county members ; and all the representatives of pocket or nomination boroughs. All these were directly or indirectly opposed to any investigation tending to greater efficiency and economy. On the other aide were the members for large towns, all in favour of judicious economy, but none willing to undertake the drudgery needful to hunt up, in defiance of official misstatements, the real sources of waste. Mr. SEELY undertook the task unaided. He engaged a competent accountant, and soon ascertained that there were serious errors. But the Departmental Secretaries would not look at his figures, nor even deign to point out what the; called his blunders. Then he laid his results be.;;;; ;le House and the public, and the authori ties were compelled to meet him, and to confess the truth of his statements. He asked for more documents, and was refused them, but was told he might look over the original books. But just when he was beginning to understand these they were taken from him, and further opportunity of examina tion was flatly denied. So stands the matter, and the House will again be called on when it meets to procure for ono of its members the opportunity of examining the public accounts which it is the peculiar province of the whole body to scrutinize. Shame willthen enforce it to Mishit on a disclosure of the whole truth, when charges so specific are made ; though shame was not strong enough to induce it to give that attention and labour which would long ago have prevented the abuses that Mr. Seetv is now dragging to light. The points on which the indictment is framed are both largo and small. In the first place, there is a sum of 2,000,0001. in four years which Mr. SEELY declares to have been wholly un accounted fur at all. Then there is the fact that, till he began his research, the net cost of vessels built in Government yards was understated by 35 to 40 per cent.,through the omission of the itemsof foremen's wages, rent, rates, and other expenses. These in last year's accounts have been included, but the value of the pensions given to the men on superannuation, which cf course are a burden on the public, is still left out, thus making the apparent amount of wages less by so much. Then, though the officials now admit that interest ought to charged, they have set it down at only 46,000/. ; while Mr. SEELY calcu lates that the real value of the stores, buildings, &c., in hand is not less than 10,000,0001., on which the interest ought of course to be charged at 500,0001. Then it seems that boats, which, ac cording to their published lists of prices, ought to have cost only 71. or 81., are charged at 90/. or l 1001., and that the explanation on inquiry is given that these were fitted as admirals' barges, though such a destination is quite undiscoverable an the face of the accounts. Again, pursuing the investigation which brought some startling results THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1867. before the House last year, Mr. SEELY shows that the cost charged as repairs to certain ships is out of all proportion to their value when new. The Frederick William would have been built by a private builder for 134,4531., but her repairs are charged at 281,691/. On five vessels the repairs amounted to 232,0901., while the whole five might have been bought new for 152,148/. These grave and damaging charges are a specimen of what Mr.SEELY has substantiated, or is prepared to substantiate. They not only mean that there has been outrageous waste, if not plunder, in the dockyards, but that it has been going on without the smallest check on the part of the superior officers, without reproof by the Government, without discovery by the House of Com mons. The country now, thanks to Mr. SEELY, sees how it is governed, and how efficient are its parliamentary representatives. And while all this squandering of public money has been taking place, the estimates have been carried to an unprecedented height, on the allegation that it was necessary to reconstruct the navy, and yet official incompetence has failed to give us either vessels or guns proportionate to our needs. We send wooden ships to foreign stations, we despatch even ironclad* without a single steel shot or shell, without which their guns would be no better than popguns against an armoured vessel. We indulge the petty prejudices of officials to the peril of our naval supremacy, rejecting through the personal jealousy of the head of a department the systems which every other progressive maritime power is adopting. But all is carried on without re monstrance from the model representatives of the ten-pounders who, we are perpetually told, carry into effect every improvement and every reform that is necessary or desired. And as these abuses continue in full force, even under a govern ment which piques itself on departmental ability, and on no other, we may perhaps be allowed to think that a change which would make the nation more closely interested in its own affairs, which would send to the House fewer nominees of great families, or owners of long purses, and more business men, and representatives of business men, would be vastly conducive to the more faithful administration of public affairs. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THII3 DAY.) The Times this morning publishes a letter from its correspondent at Washington, giving an account of a conversation with President Johnson upon passing events. " Mr. Johnson," he says, " was good enough to give me an interview this evening at the White House, and he expressed to me the views which I shall, with his unction, endeavour to repeat to you." These views, it may be Wetly stated, differ in no material respect from those which the President has put forward in his various messages to Congress. With regard to the threatened impeachment, the President said with a smile: " I had contracted Old-world ideas, derived from Magna Charts and so downwards, respecting the right of the accused to be heard, and to be fairly tried, but these seem to be going out of date. Now a committee sitting in secret, and hearing one side only, and that side the enemies of the accused, prejudge his case. It is a con sistent part of the general system which we see being pursued." The Times, in its leading article columns, fully endorses Mr. Johnson's arguments. In other articles the Times treats of the unequal rating of the metropolis, the condition of trades' unions. and the search of passengers' luggage. While the serious evils of the present unequal rating in London are fully admitted, the Times expresses a belief that difficulties not only of parochial working but of principle are opposed to a general taxation of the metropolis. Trades' unions, if their exist ence is allowed at all, ought, the Times argues, to be allowed to be brought under the same set of rules as ordi nary friendly societies, requiring them on the one hand to register all their rules, requiring that those rules should be conformable to law, declaring all rules not registered absolutely void, and inflicting penalties on any one who strove to put them into execution, and, in return for this, giving to them every legal facility for arranging their difficulties with strangers, and as between the society and its own members the simple and inexpensive method of settling dill', rences pointed out by the existing law. With regard to the luggage question the Times thinks the English government should make the first advance. All that Mr. Disraeli is now asked to do is to consent to an exceptional course upon an exceptional occasion. The policy of a general change is quite another matter, and may be discussed at a future time. It I. not under considera tion now. The Daily News believes that on the whole the advan tages of Signor Scialojes financial scheme considerably outweigh the objections which may be raised against it, Whatever may be its defects it possesses the one para mount virtue of necessity. Only the perversity of fac tion can refuse to it this supreme and terrible merit. If the plan is rejected the government will probably dissolve, and this will cause a delay which the country can ill afford. In other articles the Daily News shows the ad vantages which • railway to India by the yalleT:fkl t !e Euphrates would passer. It would save • thousand miles in distance and shorten the period of transit by ten days. The line of railway from sea to sea neoeseary to perfect the coma cation is 900 miles, and it is stated on good eniliP.'eering authority that it could be made for 10,000/, a mile. If that be so, this magnificent route to India may he acquired for • little more than half the cost of the Chatham and Dover Railway, The construction of this railway has now become a subject of pressing importance, and the difficulties of Turkey are • reason for its immediate solution. A third article in the Daily News discusses the question of Mormonism. Some interesting extracts are given from Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new work, and • hope is expressed that a bill which has been brought into the American Congress for the abolition of polygamy in Utah will pass this session. Con gress has only to re-organise the territory of Utah and make provision for the encouragement of emigration, in order both to submerge Mormonism as • political power and put an end to its institution as a social phenomenon. The Post hears that the long•pending differences between Hungary and the court of Vienna have been satisfactorily adjusted. A separate Hungarian ministry has been conceded, and the nomination of its members is almost complete. The new ministers will enter upon their functions as soon as the Reicharath Extraordinary is assembled. The Star thinks that no one can glance at the stern figures which were laid before Mr. Hardy yesterday with out being as sternly impressed with the conviction that a great injustice is now being inflicted upon the householders of Betbnal-green, St. George's-in-the-East, and other localities, which, although separated by long lines of palatial streets from the habitations of more prosperous and wealthy citizens, have claims upon them which no parochial boundaries can obliterate, and which no scheme abort of an equalisation of poor rates can reasonably satisfy. Emperor will, in the end, be compelled to select his ministers from among the best men of the chambers, instead of culling them from the functionary ranks, and then sending them to an assembly of which they know not the spirit or the character. In short a half parliament or half constitution system is impossible. In the end it will infallibly be all or none. The Saturday Review regards the intention attributed by some to the government of appealing to the House of Commons to assume the initiative in the matter of reform las altogether absurd. Failure to propose a reform bill can only be justified by a belief that changes in the represen tation are neither necessary nor desirable. A commission can never furnish a suitable tribunal for the determina tion of great constitutional questions, and a bill for a com mission will never be passed by the House of Commons. The government has only to disclaim all intention of reform and the liberal phalanx is reunited. The proposal of a writer in the Edinburgh &nitro to depose Mr. Glad- stone from the place of leader is slightly ungenerous and wholly impracticable. Treating of the conference on church going, the Spec tator observes that in all the working speakers, except one, who wanted oratory, and another who complained of the inherent evil in the human mind, there was the same leading idea—a belief that society was no better for Chris- tianity, and church-going was, therefore, useless. Divine or human, say the workmen, Christianity does not solve, or help to solve, the problem of our lives. And that is, we believe, the actual and most lamentable opinion with which the clergy have to deal. Apart altogether from the enormous dif ference between practice and profession among church• goers, the workmen here, as on the Continent, have formed to themselves a creed, the law of brotherhood, which they say is higher than Christianity as taught alike by church and by dissent. It gives them a principle on which to act in the daily concerns of life, a principle which, as they say, will settle the quarrel of capital and labour, while clergymen's Christianity simply affirms that employers are always in the right. It is a new faith, and not an atheism, with which the clergy have to deal, and with which they can deal only in one way, by showing that the law of brotherhood is in itself a constituent and vital part of Christianity, one which it rests with the workmen themselves to raise to its fitting place in the practical daily ethics of human kind. Let them show, and show in prac tice, that all which is true in the dogma of equality, all that is beneficial in the doctrine of brotherhood, all that is effective in the principle of liberty, is contained in Christ's own teaching ; that the workmen's faith is in fact possible only because He descended, and the churches, they may rely on it, will not long be empty—though respectably' may possibly be thinned out. Vie Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 25. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and the Duchess D'Aumale, drove out yesterday afternoon. Colonel Ponsonby was in attendance upon horseback. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning with Prin ours Louise. Prince Arthur and the Duke D'Aumale rode yesterday afternoon, attended by Major Elphinstone. Prince and Princess Christian and the Duke and Duchess D'Auniale walked in the grounds this morning. Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice went out also. Male. Clinchamp had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Jonathan Peel arrived at Osborne yesterday, and had also the honour of being invited. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on the subject of quarantine. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir S. Northcote, and the Hight Hon. H. Waddington. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. A deputation from the National Freedmen's Aid Union of Great Britain and Ireland, consisting of Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., M.P. (president), Mr. John Hodgkin (vice president), Mr. W. H. Werton, Mr. R. G. Warton, the Rev. J. C. thdlaway, M.A., Mr. Arthur Albright (hon. secretary), and the Rev. A. Hampeon (secretary), had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-office, yester day, on the question of an appropriation from the surplus funds for relief of distress in the manufacturing district, in aid of the freedmen of the United States of America. A deputation waited upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, in Downing-street, to call his attention to a memorial praying for the discontinu ance of the examination of passengers' baggage arriving from Paris during the forthcoming French exhibition. A deputation from the Tower Hamlete Association for the Equalisation of the Metropolitan Poor Rates, and delegates from various metropolitan unions and parishes, had an interview with the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, at the office of the Poor•law Board, yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Canada. Till Cover.—lt is understood that the return of her Majesty and the Court to Windsor Castle will be the beginning of a somewhat gayer season than usual. Caaissr Consen.—There will be a Cabinet Council on Tuesday next at the First Lord of the Trea sury's official rasidenoe in Downing-street at 3 o'clock. His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh arrived in Loudon bat night from Plymouth. The Prinott kid Winner' de Teck returned to town on Thursday evening from visiting the Prince and Princess of Wales at Sandringham. Frames Countess %VsNegras° and the Right Hon. Chichester Forteecue have received at Strawberry Hill since Tuesday last—Their Roy►l Highnesses the Count and Countess de Paris and Duke and Duchess de Chartres, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon and lady Emily Villiers, the Viscountess Dungarvon, Sir Bounden Palmer, M.P., and Lady Laura Palmer, the Right Hon. Charles Villiers, M.P., the Right Hoe. George Goscheb, M.P., the Hon. F. Leveson-Gower, M.P., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. T. Hughes, M.P., and Mrs. Hughes, the Hon. L. Stanley, Captain Hosier, Mr. Hayward, M.P., Mr. William Harcourt, Lady Molesworth, Lady Scott, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Vernon, Major the Hon. E. and Mrs. Boyle, the Hon. Francis and Mrs. Byng, Mr. Jerningham, Mr. and Mrs. Badgett, Mr. Charles Harcourt, Mr. C. Hamilton, the Marquis de Beauvoir, the Hon. Boerio M. Gordon, Mr. B. Morin, Mr. Aldenon, &c. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland (lays the Staffordshire Advertiaer) are still staying at Trentham. During the late severe frost the lake at the front of the hall frequently presented a very animated appearance, being often thronged with respectable paeons of both sexes. The duke not only permitted access to the beauti ful sheet of ice, bat heartily joined on several occasions in the seasonable sports. Rumour very confidently says that the Prince of Wales will pay a temporary visit to Trent ham early next week. The visit, it is understood, will be strictly private. The Right Hon. Seymour Fitzgerald has left the United Hotel, Charles-street,St.James's-equare, to assume the government of the Bombay presidency. The right hon, gentleman was accompanied by Ms family. The Speaker of the House of Commons will be the guest of the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Monday, Feb. 4, end meet the mover and seconder of the address, and other members of the government in the House of Commons. Covers will be laid for forty. _ _ The " special " information of the Imperial Re; UK', the new tory journal, is of rather a puzzling cha racter—witness the following paragraph in the number of to-day :—" We are empowered to state, on authority, that there is no foundation for the rumours that are in circula tion relative to the intention of the government to intro duce a reform bill." Perhaps on the Saturday after the meeting of parliament we shall be told which way the oracle should have been interpreted. The Hon. Admiral Duncombe, M.P., at hie recent half-yearly rent audit of the Hutton-on-the-Forest and Ruby estates, made a second return to his tenantry in re spect of their losses from the cattle plague, previous to the act of parliament coming into operation. This return makes up half of the losses sustained by his tenants. Yesterday evening Professor Odling delivered an interesting lecture to the members of the Royal Institu- tion on Mr. Graham's recent discoveries respecting the penetration, diffusion, and transpiration of gases. The new college at Hull was opened yesterday by Earl De Grey, who delivered a speech on the ad. vantages and requisites of education. THE REFORM QUESTION. DEPUTATION TO MR. PIM, M.P. A deputation from the " Irish Reform League" waited upon Mr. Jonathan Pim, M.P., yesterday after noon, with the object of eliciting his views on the question of reform. The deputation consisted of Mr. P. J. Shanley, journeyman printer, secretary to the " League ;" Mr. Richardson, journeyman printer ; Mr. Edward Keevil, pipe manufacturer ; and Mr. J. A. Mowatt. Mr. &immix introduced the deputation. Mr. RICHARDSON addressed Mr. Pim at some length in reference to Lord Dunkellin's motion, upon which the late government had been defeated, and solicited the hon. gentleman's support in favour of such a measure of reform as would prove satisfactory to the rich as to the poor. Mr. J. A. Mow Arr also addressed Mr. Pim on the same subject. Mr. EnwAsti RCEVIL regretted that Mr. Pim had joined the Adullarnite party in the late struggle for reform in the House of Commons. The Reform League now wished to learn whether Mr. Pim would assist the people upon the question of reform, and also whether he would vote for • continuance of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. Mr. Mow Arr thought they might leave the latter subject out of the question for the present. Mr. Pus, M.P. thanked the deputation for their observa tions respecting himself personally, and also acknowledged the kind support he bad received on the occasion of nig election from the liberal and working classes, but he considered the support so willingly given end the assistance accorded him were in expectation that he would use his own ludgment as an honest man, and take that course in par ament which he conceived to be for the good of the country. It had been said that he did not support the liberal party on the question of reform. That certainly was the case. He thought that on the occasion in question the liberal party were wrong, and he voted against them. I As he said in his speech on the hustings, he would not support any party in any instance in which he thought they were wrong. It was well known that Lord Dunkellm at the time he proposed his motion was perfectly prepared to support • lower qualification than 71. He did not say how low it would be, but he was prepared to reduce the amount. To the question that had been asked as to whether he would support a reform bill, he could give a very explicit answer. He was prepared to support a re form bill. Mr. KEEVIL—How far will you go? Mr. Pill—l must wait till I see what the reform bill is. I have not so far considered the question as to be able to propose a reform bill myself. It I were, I would say how far I would go. I expect to see a reform bill brought in by the present government, and I think that if they do not bring one in they will commit a gross mistake. Bat I expect a bill will be brought in by them, and that it will be so liberal as to satisfy the House of Commons. People's views and feelings differ on the matter from tune to time. If a reform bill is brought in I shall en deavour to give it the best consideration I can, or to vote for such amendments upon it as shall, in my opinion, be for the good of the whole empire. Mr. Pim went on to say that he desired to see the working classes properly represented, and he thought that some of the gentlemen of the deputation who had spoken s, well might make excellent representatives of the working classes. If he were to judge from their speeches, their presence would be very much to the advantage of the House of Commons. With reference to the habeas corpus, he hoped it would not be necessary to con tinue its suspension, but he could not give his opinion on the subject until he had heard the statements of the government. After a few observations, Mr. Pini con cluded by expressing his desire to see the reform question settled. The deputation then withdrew. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The answer of the Examiner to every claim for further delay of reform is brief and plain. Vague words put into the mouth of the Queen will not answer now : it is too late. If ministers are not prepared to face the question and to deal with it without further delay, they will have forfeited all equitable right to he beard or heeded ; and parliament, in defence of its own dignity and honour, must refuse to allow them to trifle with a posi tion which they will have shown themselves unable to comprehend. If they are incapable they must go ; but parliament will remain, for it is a great and governing institution, not a mere temporary and tolerated cabal. Parliament cannot afford to wait until the manes are wot•ilised before it proceeds to mete out justice between man and man. "Great cry and little wool" is the reflection suggested to the Examiner by the reforms which the Monde''r officially proclaim►. Questions haring been once allowed with the concession that ministers take part in the debates, the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GERMANY. CARLSRUHIF., JA.v. 25. A conference of delegates from the four south German states will meet on the 3rd of February next at Stuttgard, in order to determine a baaia of a common military organisation. REORGANIZATION OF THE SPANISH ARMY. MADRID, JAN. 25. A royal decree has been issued upon the reorgani zation of the Spanish army which fixes the effective at 200,000 men. This force is to be divided into the standing army, the contingent to be determined by the Cortes, the active reserve at the disposal of the government, and the second reserve only to be called out by a special law. The provincial militia is abolished. AUSTRALIA. DOVER, JAN. 25. Messrs. Money Wigram's ship Sussex, Captain Ridgers, from Melbourne on the 16th November, arrived here to-day. _ . _ She brings 190 passengers, 30,000 oz. of gold, and 1,200 bales of wool. THE BOMBAY MAILS. IN, J.t.v. 26. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Ripon arrived off the Needles at 9.50 a.m. to day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDEVT.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENUG. Although the expectation that the Monik"r would deny the rumours of a new loan has not been realised, the France and other officious jour nals affirm very positively that none is in contem plation, and I believe they are right—for the pre_ sent. But lam informed that M. Rouher will shortly bring out some financial measures of a bold and sweeping character. Among the most pro minent of these, if the hearts of those in high places do not fail them, will be the aboli tion of the octroi duties and the imposition of a stiff income tax, and greater burthens upon house property. The Emperor is said to have de clared it a shame that a working man in Paris, who earns 3fr. a day, should have to pay lir. out of it for octroi duties upon his wine, meat, and groceries. There will of course be a great outcry on the part of the monied classes against the great innovations on the tapir; but the Emperor looks to the vote of the plebs, and I have not the least doubt that M. Rouher's financial mission is to do something startling, and quite out of the beaten track. It seems to be settled that February 14 is the day fixed for the opening of the legislative session. There is an impression that the session will be unusually short, and will be followed by a dissolu tion and a general election in the autumn. The policy of a dissolution would be very intelligible. The "reforms" of January 19 would furnish a most plausible excuse for an appeal to the country, and according to all reasonable presumption, seeing the steady progressive march of opposition during the last six years, the Emperor would have to face a much smaller minority of dissentient deputies in 1867 than in 1869. A private letter states that Marshal Bazaine (who intends to embark the last French soldier in Mexico by February 3 at farthest) had sent one of his aides-de-camp to Juarez to arrange a meeting with him. If this news be true we may expect shortly to see a marked change in the language of the semi-official journals, which for several months have been in the habit of speaking of the head of the Mexican republic as an impotent charlatan de void of all root in the country, and only recognised by a few brigands. It is reported that the Jew boy Mortara, stolen from his parents by the Pope's agents, and ever since forcibly retained in the Pope's custody, to the great scandal of the whole world, is to be made a priest, and that now, at the age of 13, he has already received minor canonical orders. M. }Lavin, in a grandiose article in the Slide, announces that he has opened a subscription, not to exceed 50 centimes, for the erection, in a public part of Paris, of a statue to Voltaire. The At:emir Natitmal would sympathise with the' idea were it opportune ; but of this it doubts, and suggests, moreover, that the jesuits may yet have influence enough with the govern ment te nip M, Havin's project in the bud. It is not correct, as the Secle says, that the only statue of Voltaire in Paris is the one in the saloon of the Theatre Francais. There is one the size of life in a niche outside the new Louvre, and a statuette in front of the Hotel de Ville. The Mgi/car reproduces the statement of the' Italia that a considerable section of the Italian Senate is against going on with the impeachment of Admiral Persano. The Bourse was again heavy. There was a rumour which affected quotations, that Victor Emmanuel had been shot at, but it is not con firmed. Some of the Spanish journals state that M. Morella, proprietor of the Hotel de France, at Madrid, and Hard de Paris, at Valladolid, offers to supply 400,000 dinners a day at Paris during the Exibition, at lfr. a head. They are to consist of soup and three dishes. Pio Nono has received the complimentary homage of a visit from all the ex-members of the British cabinet present in Rome this winter, excepting the Duke of Arygll, whose absence from the Vatican, the corre spondent of the Morning Post says, has been remarked with displeasure by his Holiness. Sir George Grey has had an interview with the Pope, and received the thanks of his Holiness for the facilitation. afforded by him, as Rome Secretary, for the access of catholic chaplains to prisons and penitentiaries in Great Britain. The Scotch clergymen at Rome have settled down contentedly in their new locality outside the Porta del Popolo, where it seems likely that there will soon be quite a protestant colony. The Prussian minister, Baron D'Arnheim, on bearing of the expulsion of the presbyte rian clergymen and their congregations from the precincts of the city, immediately communicated with Mr. (hie Russell to offer the Rev. Messrs. Lewis and Williamson the use of the chapel of the Prussian Legation in the Caffarelli Palace. Those gentlemen tendered their grateful acknowledgments for the baron's liberal offer, which they did not accept on account of the diffi culty of arranging suitable hours for the services, as the Prussian chapel already serves for two distinct protestant congregations, the Prussian, or, properly speaking, high Lutheran, and that of the Swiss Calvinists, who, having no resident diplomatic minister in Rome, but only consul, have no privileged legation chapel of their own. And so the room over the roll, outside the walls, has become definitively the head-quarters of the Scotch kirk, both established and free, the minister of one church officiating in the morning, and the other in the afternoon. " Much is said at this moment amongst artists," says a Paris letter in the Saba Public of Lyons, "of an application made to the ministers of the Emperor's house hold by a number of painters and sculptors, complaining of the decision of the jury for the Universal Exhibition. The petition stater that out of 700 places allotted to the French school 500 have been reserved to the members of the jury, thus leaving only 200 for all the other artists in the empire." UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON. The Council of University College, London, after hearing last Saturday the opinion of the law officers of the crown that they were bound to comply with the requisition for a special meeting, and that any resolution pared at it would be legally binding, decided to summon a special court of proprietors for this day week, Saturday, February 2, at half-past 8 o'clock, to discuss the matter named in the requisition. The .Secrtator believes it is the intention of one of the Fellows to raise the principle in dispute in the broadest form by moving—" That in the opinion of this meeting any candi date who is otherwise the most eligible for any chair or other office in this college or the school, ought not to be regarded as in any manner disqualified for such office be cause he is also eminent as • minister or preacher of any religious church or sect." There is a rumour which our contemporary can scarcely believe, that a counter-propo sition will be submitted to the meeting, declaring all per sons engaged in the clerical or ministerial profession un suitable for chairs in the college. " There was a universal belief," says the ithener urn, " orated by every kind of declaration on the part of the promoters, and fostered by unflinching adherence, that no disqualification on religious grounds was to be tolerated, whether es to teacher or pupil. The best professors were to be chosen, independently of their faith, and of their notoriety as followers of their faith. To the surprise of the old friends of the college, it turns up that eminence as • teacher of an unpopular sect is to be hence forward a disqualification; and some declare that it always has been so, and that the real principle of the college is untouched by the recant decision in the matter of Mr. Martineau. Univeisity College belongs to its proprietors. It is for them to declare what it is to be ; and for us to accept their decision. It is for them also to declare what it has been ; and for us to believe them or not, as we may. Our object in writing is to press for a large attendance at the meeting, is order that a definite result may be arrived at. Pray let the world know how the matter stands, lest in forty years more there should be need of a new correction of opinion." At Rome, a few nights ago, • Russian prince in the Cafe African, Prince Nicolas Troubetakoy, happening to enter into that establishment to light his cigarette, just as the Pontifical soirri were effecting a perquiaition on the persons of everyone of the visitors and hahitais of the rofr, , was himself captured with the of polloi and searched to the skin, either for revolutionary manifestoes or prohibited weapons, none of which the obirri discovered. The prince was indignant at this treatment, and made • formal complaint of it the nest day to the Governor of Rome, Monsignor° Randi, who made most ample excuses and promised that the police agents should be punished for making such a gross mistake al overhauling • Huainan prince instead of • republican conspirator. The Moniteur de la Aieurthe states that a magni ficent stallion called Souverain, purchased by the French government for the imperial breeding stud at the prioe of 10,000 fr., was killed at the Rosieres station of the Eastern Railway by a goods t• 11411 running into the horse-box in which it was being conveyed. KING'S COLLEGE, Loxriox.—There are among the list of wranglers the following students of the college and school :—Clifford, 2nd wrangler; Humphreys, sth wrangler of the college; Gathers, 12th wrangler; Humphreys, *hlat wrangler of the school. LITERARY ASO SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENIWING WCZK.—Monday—Entomological, at 7, anniver sary; Actuaries, at 7, "Rate of Mortality from 1781 to 1861 ;" Architects, at 8 ; Society of Arts, at 8, "Pottery and Porcelain, Majolica," Mr. Chaffers (Cantor Lectures) ; Geographical, at Bj, " Best Site for a Capital of India," Hon. G. Campbell; "Inland Navigation of Travancore," Mr. Markham. Tuesday—ltoyal Institution, at 3, " Vibra tory Motions and Sound," Professor Tyndall ; Engineers, at 8, "Ships of War." Wednesday—Society of Arts, at 8, " Judge's Report on Art Workmanship Competition." Thursday—Royal Institution, at 3, " Vibratory Motion and Sound," l'rofesaor Tyndall ; Royal, at ttj ; Antiqua ries, at Bj. Friday—Royal Institution at S. "Crystal Palace Fire," Mr. Scott Russell. Saturday—Royal Insti tution, at " Harmony," Mr. Macfarren.—A Memnon. VERY SMALL TALK. —He ia ina dreary waste of bald meteorolo gical statements , a morass of neighbours' affairs, a labyrinth of censorious and ungenerous comments on the doings of other people ; pitfalls of scandal— doubt less, however, not intended for any real damage—surround him. Let us drop metaphor ; go into any society ; not necessarily into that of the suburban " Row " of semi detached villas, or that of the small county town, or the colonial garrison, but into the homes and among the families of English gentlemen. It is painful to listen to the general conversation ; a name of a mutual friend is meationed, and something which he or she, his or her belongings have said or done, is commented upon with a freeilo.n which, to be in soy way justifiable, presupposes a thorough knowledge of all aides of the case ; and the minor worries of life, servants, babies, and the like are sure to have their full share of the conversation. Of course conversation about our own past, present, and future is strictly legitimate ; in fact it is almost too true that it is to be wished that egotism were a more p revailing vice in such intercourse. If there be conversation which should be the exception and not the rule, it is the farrago which, in too many homes is dished up for daily con sumption. If anyone thinks we exaggerate, and that small talk such as we have been describing is quite un necessary, let him endeavour to abstain for four-and twenty hours only from discussing other people's affairs, and he will fi nd in the difficulty he encounters a ffoof of the truth of what we have alleged. And this pernicious habit, if indulged in, obtains the mastery. The mind becomes enervated, the mental viaion is contracted, the reflective faculties are paralysed by disuse. At first too lazy to look up, the victim's back is soon stiffened so that ere long he cannot. When in health, he refused to gaze on God's world and to seek for lessons from it by the light of the glorious sun ; he preferred by the aid of his miser able artificial light to gaze fixedly into the minutia of the little plot of ground immediately around him ; and now, even if he can raise his head, be is dazzled by the extent and afflenflenr of the prospect offered to his gaze, and without a sigh or a struggle shrinks back to his own narrow apliere of observation. — The Argosy for January. The passengers who canto home in the West Iwlla Mail packet La Plata, and who have been detained in quarantine at the Motherbank for upwards of a week, received pratique yesterday. MR. BRIGHT, M.P., AND HIS WORSPEoPL The Manchester papers of this morning publish full report, of the proceedings of Mr. Bright's workpe o o, ' yesterday at Rochdale ; and the accounts enable us to sup plement the report given in another part of our paper with some further details. The object of the address, whi c h we subjoin, was to refute the charges brought against M r . Bright as an employer of labour, by Mr. Pope HeLneer t Mr. Rd. Garth, M.P., and other members of the consereatire party. The firm of Messrs. Bright Brothers, in w hi ch Mr. John Bright is the principal partner, is tap e d in the manufacture of cotton and carpets, and employ. about 1,200 " hands" of both sexes. With h a d i an exception the whole of these partook of tea jester, day evening in the Public-hall, and after tea a meetin g for the presentation of the address was held. Tim chair was occupied by Mr. James Tweedde, one of the oldest workmen in the Messrs. Bright's employment. Mr. Bright occupied • seat on the chairman's right, wh i h i t Mrs. Bright, Mr. Thomas Bright, Mr. T. B. Potter, M.p. , and Mr. Goldwin Smith occupied places in one of the N. leries. Invitations had been sent to Mr. Garth, Mr. Cgi., and one or two other gentlemen who have made ther: selves conspicuous by their attacks upon Mr. Bright, but none of these invitations were accepted. The address was as follows : " Field House Mills, Rochdale, Jan. 2.1,1867. " To John Bright, Req., M.Y. Honoured Sir,—We, the workpeople employed by*, firm of which you are the head, desire to convey our emit sympathy with, sad our sincere respect for you, m a i, he malignant slanders which have been urged against yo ; as our employer. We feel impelled by a sense of duty t a take this opportunity of declaring to you that all the rep ort , which have been circulated against you throughout the country are entirely false. They have been made and 'mk t by parties who, to make political capital, have attacked, en unscrupulous and base manner, your private durum. We are well aware that the consciousness of those WWI being untrue will be sufficient to uphold you in the dipa y to which you have attained. Your conduct, as our em ployer, has been such as to meet our entire approval, y ft have alwaysendeavouredtoimproveour mma4social,and.. tellectual well-being. As a public character, your lad endeavours have been to raise the great wealth-produciag class to the full right of citizenship ; and we take in a opportunity of saying that your public acts have inva riably met with our approbation; and we pray that roe valuable life, as an employer and statesman, may bag l e spared to your family and country, and at last you may meet with the great and just, and be welcomed as a poi and faithful servant. " Signed ea behalf of the hands in your employ, " JAnn TWEEDAMI, Holler Coverer, Cbair- C otten man L " JOHN h RRRLSY, Wariper, Secretary, Depart. " THONAN FIELDING Mechanic Treasurer I Emu. "MARK HAW, oA‘er, Chair• C arpet MAW, " JAMES MOLONEY, Piece Looker, Secretary, " TitowasJecamait,CarpetPrinter,Treuurer,) Mr. JA.llltB Straw, carpet weaver, in moving that the address should be presented to Mr. Bright, said the meet. Mg had been called for the purpose of giving • denial to the slanderous attacks that had been lately made on their employers. The people of Rochdale did not require to be told that Mr. Bright's private life contained in itself a complete answer to the charges that had been circulated. (" Hear, beer," and cheers.) Mr. GINOILGI INGHAM, overlooker, in seconding tb• motion, said the workpeople of Mr. Bright had met to express sympathy with their universally-beloved master. He felt that although he had the eloquence of a Bart, or the pen of an historian, he could never do justice to the character of that great and good man. (Applause.) It had been said that W. Bright possessed a narrow and lank mind ; but they could give that • complete contradic tion. He was a kind and generous master, and if his same did not flourish at the time of the cotton famine, with thousands of pounds attached to it, u my Lord Derby's did, that was not to say that his purse was never opened. Mr. Bright's private purse was always at the disposal of the poor. (" Hear, hear, and cheers.) And it was not by the people of Rochdale alone that Mr. Bright was beloved. He well remembered at the great demonstration at Mac. cheater that when his noble master stepped on the piss. form and received an ovation of the most remarkable scription, tho band striking up " Should Auld acquaintance be forgot," the tears swelled in his (Mr. Ingham's) eye, and his heart bounded when he considered that the ma to whom so much honour was being done was his mute. (Cheers.) The meaning of the tune was well ham. The people of Manchester knew that they bad made a Mtw take in rejecting Mr. Bright as their member—l" bar, hear," and loud cheers)—and they were anxious to tu.,a all the amends in their power. (Hear, hear.) Mr. YATES WHrITAIIER, carpet weaver, sripported s resolution. It had been stated that a notice had once boo posted in the Messrs. Bright's mills" No Irish need appl3.' To that he was able to give • flat denial. (Cheers.) -4A it was said that Mr. Bright was disliked by his people, and that he had been hooted front his mills. Ns could only say that when Mr. Bright entered his we misty and came amongst those whom he employed, tie most kindly feeling existed between them, and that inn placethat he was aware of was so thorough a cootidens established between employer and employed. (" hear," and cheers.) He earnestly hoped that Mr. Bright life might be long spared, and that whoa he had finish, his course here below he might hear the still small toe saying " Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." (Cheeud The motion was also supported by Mr. I:. Oldham a by Mr. Mark Kershaw, and was carried amidst loud ea continued cheering. The CHAIRMAN in presenting the address, said he did with feelings which he could not express. Ever since ho was a little boy, in 1E22 or IEHI, he had worked for Mr. Bright, said he was still working for him. lie (the Chair. man) had suffered much sickness and affliction ; he bad had to use crutches for years, and he had never been with out a meal's meat. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Bright had been like a father to him, and if every one whom Mr. Briiht had treated in the 'erne manner was to come before the meeting, they would have no end of speeches. (Applas,) Turning to Mr. Bright, the Chairman said—lt is with the greatest respect for you and your brothers that I give this address. WEATHER EXPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SATERDAT, JAWART 26, 9 A.N. B. ILiW. r. Nitrame. I. " 12 F., D. 9 Nairn '29.91 A. Aberdeen t0.04 33 W. N.W. I r t . ; : ti lt 4 .: Leith .. 38 B.E. 1 3 W \.N. Araircee. -H ' Greencastle . _ 29.81 41 , S.W. 4 W.N. W. r 60: ! Valentla 29.7021 B.W. 0 3 . 1r O.N ; cape Clear 2 I.eo 48 . S.W. h 5 N. W. ' 033 • 11=1 . : 29717 42 8 E. Penzance 30.14 47, 5.5. W. 3 Brest, Lorient 36.2046 5. 3 Rochefort 30.2544 W. 2 - - 7 W. N. W. co 6 N. N .W. cr 0 tr; 5 N. W. 5 $. W. 3 W. - • tl - Plymouth 30.13 44 N.N.E. 1 0 N. W. Weymouth 30.15 40 N. W. 1 5 Y. 'l% . ~ Portmuouth 30.12 40 W. N .W. 2 5 N I. • Loudon 10.04 40 W.N. W. 1 5 N.w. 1 . , - Yarmouth . 30.02 40 Y.N.W. , 4 4; N.N.W. ft • Scarborough 30.01 3.4 W N.W. 2 4 W..\. %V, it.. Shields Helder REM AR A s. Itarometers oo r.iphily ie:t7lll.yiti the,• Itritiab morning they are again tallith.; in thi• went, where have backed to month-east and itiervg , ed in free. have decline,' except In the math of Ireland. where riven four or five degree.. tin our mouth-western rinds are fresh, awl on our other comas light • westerly. Much ruin has fallen at Valenti. and c... CITY OF LONDON SA'llOOl--OHL of the , wranglers recently published at the I't:liver:l , bridge, three were educated at the City of 1, 4 :d0n • Mr. C. J. lambert, Itesittfoy scholar of the 0 11 . 014 ' School, was third wrangler; Mr. li. 11 umplo, ! -1 for six years a pupil in the same school. hi h and Mr. W. H. Chaplin, Travers scholar of the 1 . 1 : London School, was twentieth wrangler. A CHILD'S MIND.—The mind of a shrift been likened to so many disaimilar thin..o.. and : to such an infinite variety of treatment ; it 11.1• urged into so many royal roads to le.train,.;, an t with so many '` infallible cures," a s t o • that children are still as charming and it 4 Some famous doctors have treated it inure empty cupboard, into which were to be crunined. 011 , . possible expedition, squares and cube', 01..10140 every possible subject, until the shelve. wcre r , with solid facts, and education .1. ' l ' l have set to work on it as something ins, . bad sod vicious; to be timed, restr.iined, perpetually guided, scolded, and pre.1.11 1 . 4 31 food only of few and special kinds, all Niteci.dly j. ,, and manipttlated— . As It they threneht. Ilke orehate No tend twat fit to eat tin they h.ei to be taken only in certain fixed ways, mph t Is. rules as immutable as those of the !sled,. an•l Both these systems, in spite of the Mesitahlo which crowns the labours of every , L uaek, h a s, ~,va:". ! failed. They produced, indtea, of abortive, precocious beings, who aimed a: l.'" • women before they were children : hut iu t s• they lacked none of the conceit and phttrittees. age, the graces of childhood were utterly ssalltitl;. new, vivacity, love of mischief, and curiusdy• ~" but blotted out; and in their place came sumo , . the less crafty because it was demure, and hyt ,, krl" the less mischievous because the uhhappy rese ,, e , r unaware or only half conscious of its .;. patent, model, perfect child—if ever met with- . o ,', more intensely dieagreeable than he W 311 etre more perfect the cure, the snore patient. —Qaarteri g &view, new number. ►- a M agl rie be exc tilt she ine gst eve Lid hat te r She wit