The Express. — London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

T . 1.1 1 11330 AT SERVICES.—Dunng the stof the pun mar the National Lifeboatnstitution. by le boat and other preens, contributed to the saving of 707 from different wrecks oa our coasts. The institution irre a : waded SUMS In the same period on its lifeboat establishments, in addon tiztll e n . E4,o6o for rewards for saving Eta and Tthe oohs_ baitheion miser* APPEAL to the rune far ANCE, to enable than to meet the continued bean &monde on the bosaltelioas lid useless emshose Contributions are received by the London and Country Bankers; and by the Secretory, R ichar d Lev* Rm., at the Institution, lt, John-street, Adolph', London. TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clear Thick. and Invalid TURTLE SOUPS always ready. ST JAIIIIFS-HAI4L, P.ROSNT-STRINT, PICCADILLY . WY:DONALD, Pim:wider. LONDON most have a SUPPBR a nd MUSIC ROOM for Geollemen.—Resembeir, we watt tar you at " EVANW," afar die Om ot canton Opera sad the Theatres eitt erprelso. TO 0011RESPONT0INTS. Adnetbieineots intended for "The irpreee," London Ilvening Paper, must be at the Moe, 10, Soureclentavet, by Two o'clock oo the day of publication. HAYwAsarr. Teo limas', A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Messrs and W. Ferree ; Mies Ada useendien.—TlLli FAYORITH ri; a rl n tTUNl. Menem Ruckatoae„ Obippeadale, and Whom Mesdames Chippendale, Seville, dc.—And SHOCKING ILTRNTS. PRINGIONN. TIM 9 Ermine, A GHOST IN SPI OF ZLF.—Aftur arida STNIZTS OF LONDON. TZ HIMS Mama Vining, T. Maud, D. Murray, More, mad Villlen ; MIH. Mani." and Mow Jr , Barnett and IL lodger& LYCEUM. Tins htinmro, srmrsoN AND CO.—And THE MASTER OF RAVENSWOOD. Mews. Fechter, G. Jordan, Veda Komi, Widdleomb, Fano Arick, ; Mediates Teams, lieweeibl. lavenu, sod C. Lecacq. BRITANNIA. Eaminie, THE DARK KING OF TIM BLACK MOUN TAINS. Sibs Clara 81. Came, Mra Um —Master R Bandies —The &hams Banally —And TE E 800TTISH Mr Jana Andaman. 191011-WATER , AT LONDON-BRIDOL Tvis DAT —Monaog, 4h. 67m Attensorm, A. 12n/- To-Moattov—Moralag, 51L 90m Attanioon, Mt 47m. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5. A..-4 increasing disposition has of late been appa rent among those who present themselves to the public, either for its instruction or amusement, to resent the free expression of public opinion. We have, not very long since, seen attempts by theatri cal managers to put down the ancient privilege of the audience to hiss; we have seen playwrights in dignantly denouncing disapproval as malicious con spiracy ; we have seen an actor obtain damages on ac count of acritique which represented him asbeing im perfect in his part ; and our law report yesterday contained a notice of the case of a gentleman who sued a literary contemporary for libel in reviewing his book. This convenient tendency to invoke the law to silence censors gives the last case an im- . portanoe which, intrinsically, it is perhaps not of a nature to excite. Dr. Suss wrote, it seems, a novel which the Atheneum called the worst novel ever perpetrated. It taxed the book, besides, with "inanity and vulgarity," with " profanity " and indelicacy," with " bed Latin, bad "Frei*, bad English, and bad grammar," and with various other faults. Dr. Svitsuss declared that the critic had killed the book, and he brought his action for damages to the amount of 1,0001. It seems, however, that his counsel had not read the book he was retained to support, and when the op _ posing counsel had read a few passages from the work in justification of the severity of the critique, Dr. Sras.uss's advocate professed himself unable to defend it, and threw up the case, a procedure which Lord Chief Justice Elms declared to be emi- nently sound and proper. In this instance, then, it has been established that the judgment pro- nounced was justifiable, and we must assume that it was only an author's wounded vanity which led him into court without taking advice as to whether he had a case. But it is probable that Dr. Braauss may have had the course he adopted suggested to him by the success which other efforts to put down or punish criticism have lately attained, and it may, therefore, not be unseasonable that the public should consider how far in such cases the critic or the author criticised deserves its favour and sup- Port lt is not unfair to recall at the outset that the function which critics have to perform in guiding to some extent the public verdict, either on books or entertainments, is one which is not merely demanded by the public, but desired by the persons who are immediately concerned. An author, or his publisher, sends his book to be reviewed ; a theatrical manager invites the critics of the press to his theatre. Both, no doubt, hope for a favourable notice, but both have voluntarily invoked judgment, whether favour- able or adverse. In such circumstances it seems pretty plain that neither has any right to close the mouth of censure. Of course, if personal malioa should in any case be discovered, that circumstance would alter all the eonditions of the case ; but where no personal hostility can be alleged it seems unreasonable that those who are invited to criticise should have to answer at the bar of a court of law for having criticised in an un favourable sense, whatever the severity of language in which the observations are couched. A dis tinction on this head would, however, of course, lie in regard to an author who has not sent his book for review, or the actor who has not invited the press to notice his performance, and who may say that he is not to be subjected to remark because his manager has asked for remark. In such cases the right to criticise on the part of the press can hardly be put higher than the right of any private individual to publish a critique. But then it is not to be put lower. If the critic condemns, he must be prepared to establish the truth of what he asserts. If he has plainly asserted a fact which is proved not to be a fact, he must submit to pay for it, and this was the doctrine whichwas illustrated in the case of Mr. EMERY against the Gtotrivorm. That gentleman was charged by his critic with not knowing the words of his part ; he satis fied the jury that he did know the words accord ing to theatrical custom, and he recovered damages for the erroneous accusation. But even here it will easily be seen that in general a fair latitude must be allowed for difference of opinion, when the question is one not of fact but of opinion. Had it been asserted of any actor that he spoke too fast or too slow, that he dressed unsuitably, or in any way played less satisfactorily than might be, it would be hard for him to persuade a jury that his critic was so utterly wrong as to be unjustified in publishing his opinion. For the opinions of no two men seldom wholly agree on any subject, and to say that no unfavourable opinion shall ever be pub lished in regard to a person who voluntarily comes before the public, unless it is certain that every body must share in that opinion, would be felt at once to be wholly unreasonable. But the press in the fair exercise of its functions is entitled to the support of the public on higher grounds than it can always claim is a court of law. It undertakes the duty, always difficult and deli cate, of discriminating for the general information between the good, the indifferent, and the bad, that,. 'elicit public favour. In the huge mass of what is thus daily offered private opinion would be helpless, and its expression would be lost. No one could read everything, bees every- thing, see everything ; no one has eaan 4 friends as to be able to rely on theiltnh l'' P Pak,' cans their ol a r: 12 8064 4 111617, th tied ?„ mo " . passengers l36 Mum 44 1111hj, 1864. The truth is that, precisely in proportion is in. creme facilities of loeolootiou, we multiply OlXaGiong o f locomotion. Traffic is stimulated and augmented by the very channels which we open for it. Mr. Haywood ad vises these should be one grand new thoroughfare, with a new bridge (esat of London-bridge), running east and west ; and another passing north of the Bank, but close to that centre, to run north and south. Minor channels should also be cleared out and improved, but the new lines must be opened. Even they may be choked up in the next generation, but at any rate they would help us now. Not that Mr. Haywood is an advocate of excessive breadth in thoroughfares, for he says this leads to conceit• tratlon of traffic, whereas the great object is division. He would rather see two moderately good streets or bridges than one very wide. He thinks that as a general rule " the great bulk of the metropolitan population selects its residences with the view to the facility with which the City can be reached," and so his great object is to make the City accessible from all points of the compass by " a well-arranged system of suburban highways and railways." Very soon, indeed, we may expect that a million people will want to go to the City every day, and we must pre pare for them while we can, and as beet we may. solely as to what is best to see, read, or hear. Amidst the infinite struggles of mediocrity true merit could never make its way to fame. Those, therefoin, who undertake to sift roughly the bad from the good, perform an invaluable sertice to the public, the author, and the artist. They are the means by which, in the subdivision of social labour, t►e intellectual gold is dug from the mine, and separated from its surrounding impurities so as to become conspicuous and admired. Such a ser vice cannot, however, be fully or rightly performed without sometimes condemning. A merely stupid performance may be left unnoticed, but sometimes the really good is dashed with evil, and sometimes the bad is too concealed, or so seductive, that it needs to be displayed and denounced. The secu rity the public has that these duties shall be rightly performed lies in the certainty that a critic who is found to be untrustworthy loses his aim, and loses his influence. But that they should be not only well but firmly performed is clearly the interest of the public above all. And it is the pub_ lie that is really injured when attempts are made to silence honest criticism. The natural tendency of the press is rather to be too lenient than to be too severe. There is enough of good feeling among the brethren of the pen and of theboards to make perfect impartiality hard to be maintained. There are also instances inwhich the power of the press is profaned by being influenced by personal favours. These are the true dangers that beset newspaper criticism in the present day, and against these public opinion ought to fortify it. For its fault in the main is undoubtedly not severity, but rather a tenderness to established reputations which misleads the unthinking part of the world, which is unfair to struggling merit, and which is hurtful even to the objects of popular favour. A criticism, whether of books or of entertainments, more firmly discrimi nating on the part of the press, supported by an authority more decisively exercised on the part of the public, is not one of the least among the wants of the age. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) OZADITONE ALM • FIND STITUENTS. of Calne. THE EX . fIitES*,;:IIIURSPAY EVENINkt, "APRIL if; 1864. F2' THIS S'VEPING. KIEMSN'rEiI. The executive committee of the Gladstone ban quet to be held at Liverpool this evening have issued th e following report : " The executive committee of the Gia4tlon• banquet desire to place on record a few facts as to the arrangements which have been made as to the 'me of tickets to those gentlemen who will be present at the Philharmonic HAIL Of course there could have been no difficulty in selling 2,000 tickets on Inch an occasion to gentlemen who wished to hear Mr. Gladstone ; but that is by no means the simple course which has been adopted. Before any public notice had been given of Mr. Gladstone's intention of visiting Liverpool, 189 circulars were toned to the liberal county and borough magistrates, town councillors, and other leading politicians in the hundred of West Derby, in viting them to act as stewards. It will be observed that 136 have accepted the office, 49 of whom are wag's trines for the borough or eounty. On the same day, 24th March, about 250 circulars were issued to leading voters in the county district of the West Derby Hundred, asking if they wished a guinea ticket reserved for them ; and on the following day 150 more circulars were issued to the leading liberal politicians, in the Liverpool polling district. The acceptances to the invitations were suffi ciently numerous to exhaust the places at the disposal of the committee, who then proceeded to the distribution of the seats in orchestra and gallery ; 40 or 50 of the gallery tickets were in the first instance placed at the disposal of the chairmen of the various polling districts. The orchestra tickets were afterwards distrilrated to those friends who had been previously disappointed of banquet tickete. The 390 ladies in the boxes are, for the most part, introduced by the stewards and vice-chairmen, and are all of well-known liberal families. The committee believe that they may safely snort that with the exception of the representatives of the press, almost every gent/e -man taking part in the meeting is a voter for either the county ar borough of Liverpool ; and they hope that theymay further state that no tingle card of admission to some part of the room has been refused to any voter. The invitation to the high table have been sent to those noblemen and gentlemen who were officially connected with the county— to the liberal members for lenosahire boroughs and ex members for Liverpool and the county. The following gentlemen have been compelled to decline, mostly in eon sequence of political gatherings taking place elsewhere Right Hon. Milner Gibson, M.P., Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. Cheetham, M.P., Mr. Woods, M.P., Mr. Hib bert, M.P., Mr. Platt, M.P., Mr. James, M.P., Mr. W. Gladstone, M.P., the Earl of Sefton, Lord Lilford, the Bishop of Chester, and other gentlemen have also expressed their inability to attend ; and the list of guest* is finally fixed as follows : W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Duke of Argyll, Mr. Gosehen, M.P., vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., High Sheriff, Colonel Sir John Jones, K.C.8., Sir Thome Birch, The Recorder, T.B. Potter, M.P., George Wilson, of Manchester, Hugh Mason, of Ashton, Oliver Haywood, of Mai:charter, Thomas Ashton, Thomas Barley, M.P., W. Evart, M.P., Edmund Potter, M.P., Henry Grenfall, M.P., Weld Blundell, of Crosby, Col. MoCorquodale, J. C. Ewart, James Heywood, W. Rathbone, Jun. (chairman), Dr. Temple, Robertson Gladstone, T. Brocklebank, H. Hornby, T. 1). Hornby, Benjamin H. Jones. The exact number of tickets noted is as follows :—Banquet guests, 25 ; Press, 24 ; Stewards, 136 ; 21s. tickets, 388 ; total, 573 ; ladies in the boxes, 390 ; gallery--200 ladies and 604 gentlemen, 804 ; orchestra, 224 ; total, 1,991. The committee fear that it is pos sible some of those whom they would most wish to have included have been omitted ; and they sincerely regret if (in the invidious duty of distribution) they have uninten tionally failed in recognising the just claims of every friend to the liberal party ; they have only further to add that on no previous occasion have they met with a mom cordial and hearty and considerate response from the liberal party than that which has been evoked by the wel. thine visit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer." The town to " the bishop of the diocese and clergy of all denominations" will be responded to by the Rev. Dr. Temple. Lord C. Paget and Lieut.-CoL M'Corquodale will respond to the toast of the navy, army, and volunteers ; Mr. Gladstone will then speak, and will be followed by the Duke of Argyll, who will reply to the toast of the House of Lords, and by Mr. Goschen, who will reply for the House of Commons. There will be then • toast to the liberal party of South Lancashire, and another to " Mrs. Glad stone and the ladles." MR. ROBERT LOWE, M.P., AND HIS CON. The following protest has been sent to Mr. R. Lowe, by 61 of hie constituents : " To the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, 3LP. for the Borougl " We, the undersigned liberal electors of Caine, hereby protest against the course you have taken on the introduc tion of the government Franchise Bill into the House of Commons. We consider your speech on that occasion to have been given in utter recklessness of consequences to the liberal party and to the government of Earl Russia You were sent to parliament to represent this borough as a liberal member, and now you are found running from your allegiance to the liberal cause on a vital point, and eliciting by your animadversions on a great liberal prin ciple vehement cheers from the tory benches. We have observed with pain and regret the ungenerous and unjust satire you have flung on the masses of your fellow working countrymen, ignoring their prudence, self-reliance, and perseverance. Speaking of them, you say, `if you want venality, ignorance, drunkenness, and the means of intimi dation ; if you want impulsive, unreflecting, violent people, where would you look!' Against this we, 61 of your con stituents, think it our duty to protest, lest our silence should be held longer to countenance your reaction. And we have the honour to remain, Jotts D. 111880 P, and sixty others. Caine, March 28." Mr. Lowe, in replying, says that he views with the greatest concern the divided state of the liberal party, but this is due to the government of Earl Russell, who have committed themselves to such a measure as renders it ne. pessary for many moderate sad conscientious men to choose between them and the permanent interests of their country. He has not run from his allegiance, as in May last he strenuously opposed in the House of Com mons any reduction of the pecuniary amount of the borough franchise, and in his election address in June he said that he saw no reason for great organic changes. With regard to the expressions which are complained of, he applied them, not to the masses of his working fellow-countrymen, but only to practices which notoriously exist in some borough■ among the poorer classes of electors. " I entirely agree with you, gentle men," adds Mr. Lowe, " as to the possession by large num. hers of the masses of my fellow working countrymen of great prudence, self-reliance, and perseveranoe, and, in deed, of many other qualities to which we owe the present position of England among the nations of the world. But you will now see that as I was not, as you suppose, speak ing of those masses, I cannot be correctly rill to ` ignore , these good qualities, because I did not mention them. My view has always been, as I expressed it in my speech on the 3d of May last, that the fran chise, as at present established, is a ' vast instrument of good, a lever by which we may hope to elevate the working classes, requiring a little and only a little effort and self-denial on their part ; a little security that they are able to conduct their own affairs, before we intrust them with ours.' Since I made that remark it has been proved by the government returns that at least a fifth of the borough constituencies is made up of working men. I rejoice at it, and, as a friend of every class in the commu nity, I think it much better that this natural process should be left to work itself out than be artificially ac- celersted, and should consider it very unfair to the work ing men who have already achieved this honourable dis tinction to mix them up with others who may not have exercised the same prudence and self-denial. Such, gen tlemen, are the explanations I have to offer. It would give me great pleasure should I find that they have induced any one of you to reconsider the censure which he has ~passed upon me." It is stated (says the Efiterkorne Journal) that Mr. Coleridge, in ceder to make his maiden speed' in the Henn of Commons, returned retaining fees given him at Bodmin to the amount of 400 k The death is announced. of Sir George Law Mar ehall Parker, fourth baronet, of Ha/burn, Waridokahiru. in hie 26 th year. He was barn in 1340, sweeeded kis father, Sir George Parker, in 1867 , sad at the time of Ids death was lieutenant in her Majettrs 3rd Cloorldia Regi ment. He la susersbil try bk.me* sew air Raw Parkek fifth baronet, bore in 1822. The first baronet wee Sir William Porker, Rear-Admiral. ~~-~~ I • AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The '.. /itelepeNdanct says that, in consequence of the last diplomatic note of Austria, the danger of an immediate conflict is postponed, and this fact deprives the report. of warlike preparation, whether on the part of Austria, Prussia, or Italy, of much of their interest. The Vienna Gazette, in its evening edition of the 3rd of April, says that the step taken by Austria with regard to the note of the 31st of March is eminently pacific and eminently legal, and should Prussia refuse to make a corresponding declaration on her side she will not only prove that she does not respect federal right even at the very moment when she pretends to be making efforts to develop it, but will also manifest her intention of disturbing the peace of Germany. The Vienna Gazette hopes that Prussia will avoid taking this decisive step. The cabinet of Berlin must be convinced that their military demonstrations have produced through out the entire of Germany a legitimate dis trust, and that their efforts to make Austria , suspected of the odious design of provoking war t have been unsuccessful. The public opinion of Germany, which has already spoken with a rare unanimity, would not hesitate to confirm by its t , acts the judgment which it has pronounced. (uoirsoes KAILLSRUIIK, Anw. 5. The official Karisruher Zeitung publishes a letter from Vienna in which it is asserted that besides the despatch to the minor German states Prussia has also addressed a circular note to the non-German powers. In this note Prussia expressed her appre hensions that she would hardly be able to avoid the appearance of an aggressive policy if to prevent the now threatening attack of Austria, she should be compelled to commence hostilities. EVACUATION OF MEXICO BY THE FRENCH. PARIS, Arum 5. In consequence of communications exchanged between Marshal Baraine and the Emperor Maximilian, the Emperor Napoleon has decided that the French troops shall evacuate Mexico in three detachments. The first detachment will leave in November, 1866, the second in March, 1867, and the third in November, 1867. Negotiations are being carried on between France and Mexico for substituting for the present financial arrangements of the treaty of Miramar a fresh treaty which shall afford guarantees for the debt owing to France and for the French interests involved in the Mexican loans. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, A? IL 5. It is officially denied that the United States have demanded permission to construct an American war port at the Island of St. Thomas. No negotia tions are being carried on on this subject between Denmark and the United States. RUSSIA AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. ST. PETERSBURG, AriaL 5. The Journal de St. Peterabourg of to-day publishes an historical review of the question of the Danubian Principalities, accompanied with official documents. The object of this review is to show that from the year of 1856 to 1864, Russia has always insisted upon the expediency of consulting the wishes of the Moldo- Wallachians, and has given her consent to a union of the two peoples so long as experience should not prove such a course to be prejudicial to the welfare of the Principalities. CALCUTTA, CHLNA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, APRIL 4. The Nyanza left at 3 p.m. to-day, with all mails and passengers ; she may be expected at Marseilles on the 10th, and Southampton about the 19th inst. The Maisilia, which would in the ordinary course have taken the Marseilles portion of the mails, &c., has arrived at Alexandria with one of her paddle wheels disabled. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (►llor OCR OWN CORRNSPONDE2 T 3 PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVILNLIGh There is as much anxiety as ever on the subject of the apprehended war. The event now imme diately looked for is M. de Bismarck's reply to the Austrian note of March 31. If he should decline the jurisdiction of the Diet appealed to by Austria, as, to be consistent with his recent declaration, he must, many people think his answer will be tanta mount to a declaration of . war. The Bourse has more than lost the slight rime of the last two days Rente fell 15c. for cash, and 274 c. for account, closing at 67fr. 60c. and 67fr. 624 c. Mobilier fell 10fr. ; and Italian, 40c. It is announced that M. Hidalgo, the Mexican minister in Paris, the delay in whose return was attributed the other day to the death of M. Lang- Isis, has resigned his post. I am not surprised to hear this. He left with an unpalateable message for Maximilian from the Emperor Napoleon, and I heard at the time that he accepted the mission with a will. Maximilian will probably not last long, but he enjoys acting the emperor, and stands upon his dignity as much as any monarch who sits on a solid throne. It is rumoured that the new Mexican minister will be General Almonte, the principal agent in getting up the ill-starred French inter vention which is now so great an embarrassment to the Tuileries. Madlle. Bouvet, the Empress's reader, who was said some time ago to be about to marry M. Emile 011ivier, is now positively engaged to M. Carette, a rich landowner and a member of the Council- General of the Ain. The marriage will be solem nised very shortly in the chapel of the Tuileries. At the Castellain sale this afternoon the unique specimen of terracotta of the fifteenth century " La Chanteuse"—lately exhibited in the " Retro spective Exhibition" of the Champs Elysees--was knocked down for 8241. Ido not know who is the purchaser. I hope it may be Mr. Newton, who is here to look out for the British Museum. _ . Batty, the lion tamer, had a bad scratch on his hand from one of his lions, at the Cirque, last night. The Moniteur, in recording the accident, says that although the sight of blood might be supposed to add to the danger of the performance it was continued without interruption. M. de Ladoucette, a senator, has just been created a baron. An old man, aged 65, who lived alone and in a Sate of pest wretchedness at Saint Mende, bad not bees seen as anal for some days. The police being informed of his disappearance made an entry pearly into the room be occupied, when he woo found there lifeless, having Swum* expired from apoplexy. Only a sum of ffir. doe. wad diestared in emit, but beneath • heap of age wire iesnd smassied shares and bonds of venom I-away ameasies,repesesting a Peas of 48,000 fr. Nothing whatever is known of the miser's fns Dy. FORRIGN A/FAIRS. The Dade News thinks that if the Civil Rights Bill which has been passed by the American Congress receives the President's signature and the approbation of the Supreme Court, the negrues will gain as much as would have been given thorn by any or all of the measures which have been brought forward only to be ♦hrown out by friends or foes. It will at once constitute them, and all other descendants of alien races except Indians (who are not taxpayers), citizens of the republic, and equal with all their neighbours before the law in regard to protection of life, liberty, and property. Excellent as was the Freed men's Bureau Bill when it was instituted, it has become lees necessary with the change which has passed over the spirit and method of Southern affairs, and before the year is out which the agency has yet to work, matters will be still more favourable for the harmonious co-operation of the landowners and the labourers. The Post laud. President Johnson, and says it is to the immortal credit of the American people that not one indi vidual has been called upon to expiate on the scaffold his offence against the established government. The Herald regards it as barely possible that Austria should emerge from war without the loess of Venetia, and Prussia without the rectification of at leant the Rhine fron- tier. But a congress of European Powers could take no action on a crisis which springs out of the violation of treaties, and as far as they are concerned Austria and Prussia have made their own bed and must lie upon it. The Telegraph pictures Denmark and the adjacent Scan dinavian countries as watching with keen matiefaction the quarrel between Austria and Prussia. Is the event of a pro longed contest,Austria would possibly be willing to avail her self of the maritime aid of the Scandinavian powers ; and it is not an impossible result that the course of events might unite Denmark and the Confederation in common action ; bat the Telegraph hardly thinks that the Dante can place mesh reliance on such a contingency. In the meantime, it is certain that Denmark, as well as the governments of the minor states, regard Prussia as their chief and deadliest enemy. Etre Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 4. The Queen, accompanied by Prinoeas Helena and Princes' Leiningen, drove out yesterday afternoon. Lord Ceanoy" and Major-General Francis Seymour, C.B. (Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty), attended the funeral of Queen Marie Amelie at Weybridge yesterday. by command of the Queen ; and Lord Camoys, by her Ma jesty's command, placed three wreath" upon the coffin d the late lamented Queen, as a token of her Majesty's affection and respect. The Queen went out walking this morning, accompanied by Princess Louise. The King of the Belgians, attended by M. Brewer, and Prince Philip and Princess Philip of Wurtemburg arrived at the Castle, and remained to luncheon. Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley, Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, and Lieutenant-Colonel Du Pia, drove to the Railway Station in Windsor, and met his Majesty and the Prince and Princess, and accompanied them to the Castle, where the Queen, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting. received the King and Prince and Princess at the door. They were afterwards conducted to their apartments. Farl and Countess Russell arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey has arrived in town from Fallodon. The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer re turned to town yesterday from Brighton. The Right Hon. T. Milner Gloom returned to town from Theberton House yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle are expected to arrive at their house in Piccadilly in a few days from Climber, Hotta, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne left Lansdowne House, Berkeley-square, yesterday, for Dover, on their way to visit the Count and Countess de Fish=lt at Paris. The Earl of Kerry and the junior members of the family have already arrived at Paris. Yesterday morning the lst Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe, left the Cavalry Barracks, Spited, near Windsor, about 7 o'clock, en route for the Regent's-park Barracks. The regiment of Royal Horse Guards quitted the Knights bridge Barracks about half-past 7 in the morning and arrived at Windsor at 1 o'clock. The 2nd Regiment of Life Guards shifted at the same time to the quarters vacated by the Royal Horse Guards. A meeting of the civil servants of the crown employed in the Inland Revenue Departments was held yesterday to enforce their right to the elective franchise. Mr. Y. Scudamore, of the post-office, presided. Mr. Anthony Trollope moved the first resolution, and Mr. Edmund Yates moved the adoption of a petition praying I for the enfranchisment of the civil servants of the crown. _ _ . -• The charge of forging the Countess Bellew's wail once more came up at the Westminster Police-court yesterday. The last of the witnesses having been exa mined, the magistrate (Mr. Arnold) adjourned the ease until he should decide whether or not he would commit Mrs. Came for trial. - - Mozart's Don Juan was given at the Grand Opera, Paris, on Monday night. The Emperor and Em press were present. It fell perfectly flat, though the mile en Beene was splendid. Signor Rossini's last soiree for the season took place at Paris on Saturday. The Slabat Mater was to have been executed ; but an indisposition of Madame Conneau inter fered, and miseelianeous pieces were given in its stead. The duo from Semiramis was finely sung by Mademoiselles Vitali and Bloch ; duo from William Tell (instrumental), White and Diener ; aria, from "'mist, :Mlle. Vitali ; Pro Peeratit, Tamburtni ; duo from Dow Panzuak, Tansburini and Mdlle. Vitali ; the La=arone, by Delle-Sedie; li Porere Bambino, Gerdoni ; and an air from Mercadante's Leonora, Mdlle. Vitali. The Abbe Liszt and Sivori were guests at the dinner which preceded the evening's entertainment. PEncrEas' Pantos CORPORATION. —The anni- versary dinner of the Printers' Pension, Almshouse, and Orphan Asylum Corporation, will take place to-morrow (Friday) evening, at the Freem asons' Tavern, Great Queen. street, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., in the chair. MR. CARLTLB.—On Tuesday night Mr. Carlyle dined with the members of the Senates Academicus in the Douglas HoteL The other [peen were Sir William Stir ling ell, Bart., Sir David Baxter, Bart., Professor Huxley, LL.D., Professor Hurst (of London), Professor ndaU, LL.D., Professor Ramsay, LLD., Dr. John Rae, Thomas Brakine LL.D., and Dr. John Muir. Principal Sir David Brewster occupied the chair, and Professor Douglas Michigan was croupier. " The Health of Mr. Carlyle was proposed by the chairman, and drunk with great enthusiasm. Mr. Carlyle had attended a meeting of the University Court in the morning. In the course of some remark; he maid that he was of opinion that reporters should not be admitted to the meet i up of the court, which he thought ought to be regulated fir that respect like a cabinet council. He afterwards went t•—kh the different dam-rooms of the university while the students were being examined, and looked over several of the old books in the . IHe signed hie name in the book kept by Mr. 8 11 X(the librarian) ice Motions visitors Yeeemeda nt % 11/..lliykine, of Ihilathan, entertained a number of ms to dinner to nest Mr. Carlyle, end en Friday wetting he will eye a party for time mane parpose.—Bdilibergit toesitop Cows*. THS REFORM MENTINGS. The Times protests, so far as the press is con cerned, against the dictum of the speakers st the West Riding meeting, that no difference of opinion on the Re form Bill must be allowed amongst the liberal party. Un reasoning faith and implicit obedience are natural and proper in the ease of men of whom a vote is all that is wanted, but it is a doctrine of evil import that the pees is to fall into this parliamentary rank. Their Ueda with regard to the re-distribution of seats the Times finds it impossible to understand. It can not think on the whole that the most timid and jealous eonservative need be much alarmed for the imme diate effects of the bill ; but suppose it be carried, surely the hundred and odd cities and boroughs with excessive shares in the representation will fight hard for dear life, and them the country will be put into a mess of exasperated antagonisms, from which we may not recover in our time, and which may lead to results far out of any man's know. ledge. 'lf we are in the frying-pan now, a universal infla tion of constiluencke, without the removal of a single in equality or grievance, will be nothing less than a very hot fire. It will be &change of situation certainly ; and we don't deny it to be a cast of the die—a merit in some eyes. But we don't like gambling on any board, least of all the poli tical ; and we claim the right not to follow leaders into a position to the uncertainties of which they themselves shut their eyes. . . . The Daily New observes that it will be bard for those who look through a diminishing glass at the reform meet ings which have been held in various parts of the country, to reduce the great gathering of the liberals of the West Riding to dimensions reconcile ble with their theory of popu lar indifference. Twelve thousand persons do not come together in rain and wind to 'support • cause which excites in them only • faint interest. When the West Riding has spoken, we know pretty well how England thinks and will speak • and the West Riding has adopted the government bill he artily and unreservedly. The old whig aristocracy— " the thoughtful and educated liberals," the manufacturing ' capitalists and radicals, end the unenfranehised workmen were each represented. Government by public meeting is not • desirable substitute for the ordinary action of parliamentary institutions ; but there are occa sions en which what is undesirable may be neces sary ; and the present political crisis is one of them. The constituencies alone can decide between disputing authorities what was the question on which in their minds the last general eleatioa turned. The only —or, at any rate, the easiest awl most emphatio—way of making known what they meant when they sent a liberal majority to the Rouse of Commons is by expressing their sentiments in public meetings.' The Telegraph matte in a variety of ways the accusa tion that it desires the people should overawe the legisla ture intooompliance with the bill, whilst its real argument is that violence is the only thing which could prevent the inevitable triumph of the people's cause. In another article the Telegraph comments upon the enormous dis parity in number between the municipal and the parlia mentary electors—a disparity so extravagant in some please that no rational person can suppose it to have been deliberately intended by the le;islature. In the large majority of boroughs the principal disqualification of householders at present is not the ten-pound valuation, but the rate-paying conditicm. That condition Mr. Glad stone now proposes to abolish, and the result will be to make the electoral roll nearly co-extensive with the burgess rolL The Poet rye it is not improbable, if the present bill paws the second reading, that it may be necessary for parliament to meet for an autumn session in order to settle the complementary measure and the fate of the govern ment ; but that will be a cheap price to pay it the dis turbing and disorganising influence of the reform question can be thereby finally and satisfactorily determined. The Star asks why the twins, who have their associations, secretaries, and treasurers, do not take some deps to evoke that strong feeling against the bill which, according to the tory organs, is entertained by the great majority of the nation? THE 01 It is remarked by the TOWS that, whatever were Louis Philippe's defezte, his single lifetime may be said to have founded a dynasty, and at the present moment the Orleanist is the most able and implacable opponent of imperialism. Whateyermay havebeen the faults of LoubsPhilippe'sgovern ment it did honestly allow France to be ruled by parlia mentary talent, and put a career before every man who could speak or write on political subjects. Consequently political ability in France is still Orleanist. It is no little honour for a family that it should be associated in the minds of a data of gifted men with the memory of consti tutional freedom, and that this should be the case is a sufHeient reply to those who would unduly censure the late King of the French. Of those who called Louis Philippe to the throne and upheld him in the early days of his reign the most eminent stood by Queen Amelie's grave at Waybrkke. In a few years they too must be withdrawn fromthe scene. The time has now arrived when we can eon ekles the reign of Louis Philippe without prejudice or partiality, and do justice to an illustrious couple, remark able alike for their high destinies and for the misfortunes tbatilmeset both the opening and the close of their lives. TRAFFIC IN TSZi CITY. The Times gives a few of the men remarkable state ments which occur in a report just made by Kr. William Haywood, engineer and surveyor to the City Commission of Sewers. Mr. Haywood assures us that the moving or Tits population in theCityis nearly seven times aegrost as residential or sleeping population ; that one-half of the °isle inhabitants of the entire metropolitan area, or, in other wee*, 730,000 men, enter the City proper every 111 haus. It crams that though the extensions of the Night= and iketth-Eastent Hallways, and the opening of flouibwerbaireet and bridge, laws all diverted, tame from London bridge, the actual traffic on London-bridge is greater than it ever was. Though the metropolitan rail- THE NOTTINGHAM ELECTION Wyma n ,. (THIS DAY.) esk The committee met this morning at II teel and proceeded with the evidence in honor et the me.; member (Sir R. Clifton). Mr. H. E. Adair oceapini-es eiteir hers retir . Al the Luseetiog aiter re - maining er Si. osennitts ain th e immami. deliben t:l aiw er thsa quarters of an hour, returned to the comma The Chairman said that the committee &Ind it* . request the learned counsel on both sides to ting le g lion and crouexamlnation of the *mow d ose aa possible to the point, and they wished * e l m an • that irrelevant questions had * ea , skim ..., ab r e r discd . Rodw ti ell , beetwe esid that be lie w rean as y in eu lt em pod s4 d i vueindie.u. i rre l evan t, which wee relied en on the other is.. m e was his duty to contradict as far as pose& all Ike* manta which bad been put forth on the other hie course of a ten days' inquiry. The Chairman said that the operations of " were not intended to apply to the dos of __ dosed, but to the manner in which the quentimnia , nation in chief and croes-examinatioas were put, Grossly was then called, and examined by flode George He stated-1 am a sheriff's 411111111 sag ma sent at the nomination and on the hii w r Hooton come out of the Exchange the hustings, and tear a blue rosette off a gid e man's dress. He annoyed Sir Robert, oiled Wel, imoundrel, and put hie fist in his face, sad mai* of disgraceful language. The nomination was a Term affair altogether. On the polling day I vletted wed th e polling booths, which were surrounded by large awn of people, who were abstracting voters, sad yn them from going to the poll. I teed to remove fine c he w time by speaking to the police, but the policeman tstie I spoke said that they could not leave the petition te t. they were. I heard Sir Robert make complaints * a ~. voters were obelaucted, and from what I sew egsgi &odd say those complaints were Pun. By Nitain Vivian—l was uite close to Reeina: he celled out and abased Sir and I herd what he said. I did not notice that had ie in his hand. I did not hear him say that he would ilig Robert up. I saw Sir R. Clifton at thtding st g ze i. the voters io could not get up. Sir r people, the polka, and other persons at the duct, - Captain Vivian—You left the impression ea sty 1 that he addressed the body of the peel& p m. he or sot &darer the people I—He spoW towards lie sons in front of the door and said, " PR hue lih sage kept clear." B$ the Chairman—At the St. Mary's ward I saw ptimient who were prevented from voting, and I Wei to be voters bemuse they called out to me that lia Mr. J. lisaington, the late chief constable d ham police, celled end examined by Mr. On the 24th of June, from - &domino i oared, I made • communication to thr i CMS= at the Maypole between 11 seed 1 night. I had made • previous commukstica mayor. I waited on Sir Robert by direction of the Sir Robert had announced a meeting on the 98th. 1 t it unwise, house there was to be a ralletill of and breach sympathisers, and I thought it likely to a breach of the peace. Sir Robert consented net I the meeting, and I informed the mayor of the hit people who attended the meeting at the inationtilin,, whom I term Paget and Morley'ssympathheo. to ensemble about 5 o'clock. From in ormatir 1 lin t inbred, I should try that from 3,000 to 4,000 owe! the country. By the committee—About 1,200 CAW has NM* and the remainder from Knutford and Lemke. 1 nw the market-place about 7, or a little titer, whoa! ordered out by the mayor. I saw • pest dial of tv of stones and fighting. Several of my men ore down, and I wee struck ; that was after the e the platform. The stones came in all direction. / ber of persons were surrounding p i:illation'. than throwing donee at the in di parts of the insrket-plaoe, and the Worthen They were large stones about the size of a can't I picked up some and handed them to the mayor. I i saw any atones like them in Nottingham. Of owe was a great deal of excitement. We made 11 r and drove the pewit out of the market-place. The i arrested were all &whose& next morning she prepared to prove, and told the magistrates so, *A , those arrested had assaulted the polio. There ore el rated number of Nottingham men and i I witnessed the stone-throwing ° fr= the Exchange-hall, where I was standing with hot I wee at the Moakley-hill polling plan ea the i polling. There was a great crowd of excited ugh, ware shouting out that Sir Robert Calks's v were not allowed to get in while Paget and Ifotis. woe being let in the backway. I recollect Ma coining up about half-past 8. There were a a;17:1 men in the peonage and I told him that they eight' turned out, that they were obstructing the screw made no reply and the men were not turned out [The evidence was proceeding when our relaC " The Princess Helens of England," Gazette de Prance, "by her marriage with POP of Augustenburg, will become the niece at s 1 lady named Lee. The family of this latter soot , established themselves at Paris, hoping, as is set with rich Americans, to form an alliance with soot European family. There were two young ladies, whom attained their wish, as one married BMW • Minister of Wurtemburg at Paris, and the t time after inspired with the warmest love Frederick, brother of the late Sovereign Duke d tenburg, and uncle of the present P&p marriage took place at the United &eta Wm' Paris, and the bride and bridegroom started for on a wedding tour. They had reached Beyroutk when the Prin' oe was taken ill and died. HI ielik turned to Paris to the house of her sister, the BM Wachter, end now becomes aunt of an English Primes' The Paris journals announce the death Gustave de Beaumont, member of the Indite* merly member of the Chamber of Deputies for ' from 1639 to 1852. In 1.848 he waa appointed of France at Vienna, which post be restpsd ea the ministry of Cotillion Barrot, Dufams, and He was one of the deputies who met in the mirk 10th arrondissement on the famous 2nd ci Dassmbes de Beaumont was the author, in conjunction with ' Toequeville, of a work on the " Peniteatiery the United States, and its application to Form' also the author of " Ireland ; Social, PbOtied Religious," and " Marie ; or, Shivery Ia the States." He was 62 years of age at the time d DWI OF ME. 1B e. Failhair eminent artist, after a long and painful illness, cep Tuesday. Although for a long time almost s miled t ouse, and at intervas suffering 'evenly, M h until the last few weeks his literary snd &Minot His last work, which he has left completed, is on " Pageantry in the Yiddls 'of the subjecte on which he had so well q to write. His most recent engravings we Wins for the " Numis ma tic Chronicle," works. They show not only unimpaired truthfulness, truthfulness, but also a decidedly auPel although for years he was quite unrivalled in his inp of ancient coins. Mr. Fairholt's dm= amount to very many thousands, and his exceedingly numerous. His own works "Os (with 500 woodcuts), his " Dictionary of Terms of " History of Old Civic Pageantry," "Up the Home again," fcc. are well known. He emoted ts of the drawings a nd engravings of the late Lord le-. 4 borough's sumptuous Miscellanea Graphiett,"Jbe.,,k ventoeium Sepulchrale" of Bryan Farmed , . nu , ta, Smith's " Roman London" and " Antiphon o:4Bwr borough," Mr. Wright's "Histories of Domaine and Caricatures," Mr. Halliwell's folio edition of " ww" speare," he. His unpublished sketches are nwelleei and he had very choice collections of scarce boob we e menlireval potter,. Kr. Fairholt will be much mind .: wide circle of friends. His manners were setewbl! , ,r; he poseessed a large fund of peculiar informatiosZo will with difficulty be found in any other Pen"' _r at unmarried, the last survivor of a family of 16 ; ea- go him the name of Fairholt perishes, as we leer ° " Lower's English Surnanies."— ?isms. ST. BEFTWITT'S Carl/CH, Doeroes DIONI.—Mr. Alderman Wilson, the represeeletleeo"s Castle Baynard Ward, a short time brick handsome gift of two handsome stain ease one in commemoration of his wife, and the other M oja memorate his connection with the want, both have just been put no in St. Bent's church. ow- v i k Commons. Them windows in style are in wwwde i n ref the surrounding arebitecture, and are executed Sill s ., best style of modern glass-painting. The el l tiLios ' duoed are as follows. In one window is the Crit our Lord, as the principal subject and below 1 10 _,.. smaller one with the Last S 'the whole beat "Per' border Is the e 6g rounded with a rich and appropriate ' de the chief subject is the Asonnaion of our Lod. lower part is filled up with a represeutatim of 01 4 _11 weeping over the dead body of Christ. Thie f 'ewr oos , also surrounded by a very beautiful border. ..„...ga tam of these windows was entrusted to Mr• a Gibbs, of Bedford-equare, who has mem* trX:. large two.light window for the grand staircase o,__l••,, a ,"'lr Hospital, which was also presented to that inew i T oti aa Alderman Wilson, in his capacity of one d the srs OPP al the hospitaL In this last - men tiarecalittote„„_,s, mated life dee fi gures of King the ma"' founder of the hospital, cad Queen Vittoria. 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