The Express. — London, England, 1866-04-27 00:00:00

TURTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Ow, Thick, and Invalid TURTLE SOUPS ants_ lwatli• ST. JAMES'S-HALL, REGENTETEIXT, PICCADMLY. WM. DONALD, Pros:War. rpo IncerIIIND DINERS.—The WELLING TON, I. James'ostreet. PleamtMr ladies' Saloon MolorreMonths OM Poor. The ealverrlptlow 906•14 an 44w open. Terms, twelve mouths, 41 Da 64.. all mouth., LI 14 — Apply to D. Camormi. 49, 94 JetoWes-sireet. 'LONDON must have a SUPPER and MUSIC -KJ ROOM far Oentlemen.—Semember, we wan ter yea at •• EVANS'," atter the Gored Garden Opera and the iheatara. Vu l/rP0O• HAYMARKET. TEM svintrete. A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Mean Compton sad W. Linen ; Miss Ads Cavendish. —TEE FAVORITE OF FORTUNE. Masan Bucne, Chippendale, and Sotharn Mrs. Ottirmondals, he.—And D ksto AUGHTF.R TO MARRY. PRDICSHWa. THIS EMIT2IO, A GHOST IN SPITE OF HIMSHLF —Alter which THE STREETS OF LONDON. Mesas. Fink* T. Mead, D. Murray, Shore, and Wh ;am Mn.s H. Marston, and , MIMS L Barnett and IL Badgers. LYCXCM. nits EYFainid, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Maws. Hotta:nazi, Fitztric and Clifford ; Mra. Horsinan, .tc.—And moturr. Mew pa s. Ya k, chter, &nary, Addison, Vitddiconsb, Twin, Jordan, Fitvatrick, dte. ; Mesdames Elsworthy and C. Leclersq. BRITANNIA. TElBEwsimia, THE SAILORS RETURN —TheXchaase Family —CLOUD AND SUNSHINE. Mr. James Anitarloa—To eon elude with THE DARK KING OF THE BLACK 110112CLLIN& MIN Clara BL Came, Mr% & Loam HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. THIS DAY —Morning, Oh. San Afternoon, Olt. Wm. TO-MOlsoW—Morning, 11113 m Afternoon, lb. 33m. THE SECOND READING OF THE REFORM BILL. A DOUBLE NUMBER OF THE EXPRESS will be published TO-MORROW EVENING, con taining a full Report of to-night's Debate, together with the Division List, and a variety of important details. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 27. TO-NIOHT, if agreements are to stand good, we shall see the end of the Reform debate. May the ... _ hope be fulfilled! Seven nights, or fifty hours, have already been consumed in tiresome speeches on a question about which everybody had made up his mind before the talk began—a question on which everything relevant might have been said on both sides in seven hours, and as to which nobody will be the wiser when the last speaker has sat down. Happily, when the. Bill has been read a second time the excuse for incontinent talking will fall away of itself, and it will be the fault of the Government if the advance of the measure through its further stages is obstructed. The worst feature in the prospect has been intro duoed by Mr. GLADSTONE'S promise to complicate the question by bringing in a Bill on the Re distribution of Seats. Why he should have al- lowed the simple issue raised by the Fran• chive Bill to be embarrassed by entanglement with another wholly distinct from it is more than we can explain. No one knew better than he that the demand for a Redistribution Bill came only from those who wanted an excuse for opposing Re form in every shape ; and that he should imagine that excuses would fail them if he took this single one out of their hands is what we cannot believe. The promise having been given must of course be fulfilled, but we trust it will prove Mr. GLAD- BToYes last concession to the enemies of Reform, Nothing can be simpler than the question on which the House of Commons will be called to vote to-night. We all understand the meaning of the Bill, and know by heart the objections of its ad versaries and the arguments of its defenders. No juggling of phrases, no artfully constructed resolu tions, can blind the public to the real issue. The House of Commons will declare to-night whether it is ready to trust the people for ever within the constitution, or whether its gates are to be defended against them as against enemies. We have heard from Mr. Lowe that representa tive government is of no value in itself, but only as a means to an end ; and his now allies have frequently told us that no personal fitness will be held, now or hereafter, to qualify the members of the most numerous classes of the community to vote for Members of Parliament. All the arguments by which the exclusive legisla tive privileges of the landed and other interests were defended in 1832 have been furbished up and brought out for the use of those members of the middle classes who would like to form part of an oligarchy compacted by jealousy of their excluded countrymen. But the real middle classes of the country laugh at such offers. They would as soon think of going about in helmets, cuirasses, and greaves, as take up with the worn-out maxims of ELDON and WETHERELL. They do not want to admit the unqualified to the poll-booth ; but, on the other hand, they do not wish to see England divided into two nations in the name of a theory which would deliberately exclude intelligence and moral worth, still less would they do so in obedi ence to the dictates of pusillanimous mistrust. The opponents of this Bill would cut up English society into classes and teach them that some are the natural enemies of others. If the fate of this Bill depended on the constituencies which most truly represent the intelligent, active middle classes of this country, it would be passed almost unani mously ; and instead of taking seven nights to discuss, would have been carried in as many hours. We trust to be able to announce the decision of the House to-morrow morning. The country will be glad to know who is prepared to refuse the just claims of the people as embodied in the very moderate measure proposed by the Government. No real Reformer will be found voting against this I Bill. Those who make the absence of a re-dis tribution bill an excuse for voting against this Franchise Bill, show by that very act that they are substantially against the proposed reduction of the franchise. Honest men may differ as to the comparative eligibility of different forms of procedure, but they will not allow preferences as to form to override their regard for the substance. We shall all be the better, some of as let us hope will be the truer, for the ex pected division. The atmosphere of the House of Commons has for a long time been getting thick and stifling. To some eyes it is no longer a medium of clear vision ; if the shock which is to purify it is to come, it can hardly come too soon. Some of the dwellers in that region seem to be losing the capacity to believe in political honour, for during the last few days we have seen even the emphatic declara tion of Earl Russett that the Government will stand or fall by their Bill quietly thrust aside, in order that the assertion may be made that, come what may, the country will continue to enjoy the ser vices of Ministers. It would be interesting to know where these men learned that Mr. Otanwroxis was a tool to be used by them at pleasure, or that his great administrative ability could be commanded at any time to give prestige to a set of men who ~~ had distinguished themselves by jistAiriiky ork ' to which he had pledged his high character. We are not prepared to see the public pay too high a price even for so desirable an object as the n3storation of the virtue of those who can think thus : but an accident that should revive among any class of poWciaqs the oonception of upright ness and sincerity would not 'be * without its compensations. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MR. LOWE'S SPEECH. The speech delivered last night by Mr. Lowe is either for its oratorical merits or for its arguments the theme of almost unbroken eulogy in the columns of the morning journals. The riIIICS describes it as the oompls meet of Lord Stanley's speech: each is of the highest order, and together they are irresistible. Everyone who reach it can observe the graces of its style, but the speech should be studied for the rarer virtue of close and continuous reasoning. Column by column his forces were marshalled, one position after another of the enemy was attacked and taken, until, in the grand charge at the close, the whole line bore down upon the already discomfited antagonist, and the field was cleared by the victor. It may fairly be presumed that the entire government scheme would make working men a majority of the borough voters, and we see, from the experience of France, the United States, our Australian colonise, and the ideas of trades unions at home, what is the nature of the democracy so introduced. Everywhere there is a tyranny of a numerical majority finding expression in false theories of trade, in false theories of wages, in a war against individual excellence. To accept the government bill after leaving received such glosses upon its meaning from the very authors of the measure would be to take the leap knowing that the dark. nese we cannot pierce hides a gulf of the depth of which we know only too much. The Daily New lays the speech is one which, long after the occasion has been forgotten and the orator has become the shadow of a name, will be read and read again, and studied for the masterly disposition of the attack, the brilliant rapidity of its movements, its skilful feints of argument and sudden flashes of illustration, its constant incisive terseness, its occasional felicities, its dexter . . _ ous descents of thought and language, and its soaring flights of heroic cynicism,. Mr. Lowe's chief distinction is an utter oontempt of the fashionable hypocrisies of the house ; and the bitterness of his abhorrence is greatly pre ferable to the nauseating dates of aristocratic sympathy for men who are excluded from political rights as a dan gerous class. Far sounder and wholesome is hie way of thinking and speaking thanLeed Elcho's sympathy,or even than Sir Bulwer Lytton's affection ; and how much better than the cant about a " comprehensive " Reform Bill ! In the 'hat analysis no doubt Mr. Lowe's theory of Eng lish society is not unlike the theory so long held by the chivalry of the Southern States of America about their privileges and their duties. Nearly half his speech was a partisan attack upon the go vernment bill, and the cynical trifling with which he treated the quotations from Mr. Mill and the remark of Mr. Gladstone as to the clams who were to be admitted to the suffrage, was not quite worthy of Mr. Lowe or of the assembly, though both this and the bits of his ex perience of the varieties of democracy are harm less enough, and even amusing, when we come to trace them to his personal experiences of colonial politics and to his recollection' of Kidder minster. Of Lord Palmerston Mr. Lowe speaks as if the disappearance from this mortal scene of an airy and gallant old gentleman of 80 had sounded the knell of the British Constitution. Unless we can find another old gentleman of the same calibre and unconcern, the British Constitu tion, which a famous orator has just been celebrating in splendid language for an hour and more as the mystery and marvel of the world, will fall to pieces. And yet this British Constitution, on Mr. Lowe's own showing, dates from 1832, and is the political offspring of Lord Russell, to whom, you so emphatically tell us' you " owe no allegiance !" Imagine, if you can, some simple-minded stranger, who had never visited England before,and knew nothing of English politics, listening to all these alarming prophecies and fearful warnings, and to the terrors of that oracular and awful peroration—who could persuade him that the meaning of it all was that the re spectable gentlemen on the first bench to the right of the Speaker were proposing to allow 71. householders in boroughs to vote at elections? The Post says that the speech was doubtless able and argumentative, and at times eloquent, but still it was only the repetition of a thrice-told tale, and was comparatively a failure. It was, unlike that of Mr. Bright, relieved by a slight tinge of personality, and an occasional sally pre vented the audience from giving way under the pressure of arguments which were intended to persuade no one. The remainder of the debate last evening did not reach the level of mediocrity. . No speech during the whole debate, in the opinion of the Herald, has been so damaging to the government, and the vehement cheering of the opposition bore witness to their keen appreciation of the cutting taunts and telling sarcasms with which he avenged the many perversions of fact and truth, the unfair quotations and unjust imputa tions, wherewith he had been assailed. He showed that the liberal members who are acting with him owe no alle giance to Lord Russell. For ten years past Lord Pal merston had been their chief ; and they have never trans ferred their allegiance to his successor. The issue of the division may be doubtful, the fate of the ministry has long since been sealed. The Telegraph observes that in Mr. Lowe's speech one may read tory feelings simultaneously at their best and at their worst—at their best for argument, at their worst for bigotry and unpractical, stag nating, bitter, impossible policy. We can understand the yells of surprise and pleasure with which the conservatives last night learned how many new and clever things could be said for them ; but if their wit could go as far as their gratitude, they would shrink in anger from the brilliant advocate, who not only asserts, but proves, that those who oppose the bill oppose reform alto gether, and deride the notion of admitting any working man within the pale of the constitution who can be kept out. To this complexion, the debate comes from first to last ; and by far the &cutest speaker against the measure could not or would not avoid assisting the government, by showing that it is a question between their bill and no bill, between their offer and no reform, no political progress at all. The Star quotes Mr. Childers' statements to show that Mr. Lowe in Australia was the earnest advocate of the suffrage principles of Hume and Cobden. The majority of the Howe of Commons were described by him as blind, ignorant, besotted, and stupid for adhering to the anti quated wisdom of their ancestors. He told the Austra lians that the army establishment was kept up to secure berths to the sons and dependents of noblemen, and he ad ' vised them, if they wanted justice, to let the Colonial. °Moe know continually that they had their eyes on the ex ample of America, and were prepared to follow it. Such was Mr. Lowe once ; a politician compared with whom " the hon. member for Birmingham" him self must pale his ineffectual radicalism. He is now the recognised bravo of toryism in the struggle against the people. Before he arrived at the period of his peroration he had repudiated every principle upon which English liberty is founded; be had insulted every colleague with whom he once was only too proud to act ; he had repeated in substantially stronger terms every calumny against the people which, in moments less inspiring and under influences leas encouraging, he but lately endea voured to retract. His arguments, if they mean anything, mean that a Venetian oligarchy is the only good govern ment. a supposition. The opponent _ the -_ Jy not give way, and will be uninfluenced by any slequence that Mr. Gladstone may exert to-night. Before 24 hours have passed, the government, the Times anticipates, will have received a lesson which will save the country for many years to come from ministerial caprice in the cabinet and ministerial dictation in parliament. According to the Post, the ministry count upon a majo rity of 12, and anything over 10 will be considered so re spectable that they will proceed with their bill until they are overthrown; as it is certain they will be, either in com mittee or on the Itedistribetion Bill. If, on the other hand, they are absolutely defeated, the only possible *muse they can take is to resign at once. But there is a third event, which seems the most probable of aU, and which is, that they should obtain a ®all majority over their opponents. This will render their position a most difficult one ; and, looking to the constitution of the cabinet, it is probable that its members would not agree among themselves as to the propriety of any possible way out of the difficulty. The Post thinks that a fresh cabinet, including in its ranks such men as Lord Clarendon, with the rest of themederste liberals of the present cabinet, Lord Stanley, Mr. Lowe, Lord /Mho, and possibly Mr. Laing, would hays every chance of commanding the confidence of parliament. The Herald also contends that the time has mom for the reconstruction apolitical parties, and the constitutional liberals should unite with the conservatives. The Tdegraph presses upon the minds of liberal members that the result of the bill's rejection must be a further postponement of reform. There are false liberals who justify their defection on the pretext of solicitude for a larger sad more complete measure. We dare these rene gades again to meet their indignant constituents. We dare them to repeat on the hustings the insolent and palpable falsehood which thinly disguise* the most outrageous poli tical treachery of modern times. JS TOPICS. The Daily News remarks that at present the evidence against the prisoner William Smith in the Cannon-street murder is somewhat loose, and it will have to be carried much further if a conviction is to take place. The decision of the coroner that the prisoner should not be represented by a legal adviser, was strange and unjustifiable. The worst that could have happened, had the request been complied with, is that some of the evidence which now seems to have a certain value, might then have seemed not worth so much. Mr. Serjeant Payne's reference to the Mansion-house was quite irrelevant, for it would have been small consolation to the . . prisoner that his solicitor's cross-examination of the wit nesses there had convinced the magistrates that Smith was groundlessly accused, if, through the coroner shutting out the same means of enlightenment, he had been committed for trial for murder. _ The Times 17 06 1 4 together certain movements of trades unions to show that one of these bodies has a strong and even restless affinity for another, so that a combination of dissimilar trades is the most natural thing possible. Con trary to Mr. Forster's opinion, the Times believes that these unions can be readily enough turned towards politics. The Herald denounces the immorality, wickedness, and cowardice of Italy in coveting Austrian territory, and so threatening us with a war which, should it ones break out, will be no question of Schleswig-Holstein or Silesia, but will convulse the whole of Central Europe from the Adriatic to the Eider. The Times, while admiring the calm attitude of Presi dent Johnson, seems to doubt whether he thoroughly tic derstands the nature and intensity of Northern sentiment, and whether a little conciliation on his aide might not have been more politic. Meanwhile, it is greatly to his credit, and that of Mr. Seward, that no countenance has been given by them to any agitation against this country, and there is no fear that the good understanding will be disturbed either by Fenianism or the North American fisheries. It ought never to be forgotten that hostility to England was the watchword of Southern rather than of Northern politicians before the civil war. Whatever the faults of the republicans, it was no part of their pro gramme, and the republicans will, for a long time to come, maintain their ascendancy in the national councils. Wht Court. OSBORNE, Aran. 2G. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian of Schleswig-Hol stein, went out in the grounds yesterday morning, and drove in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Duke and Duchess of Wellington arrived at Osborne yesterday, and bad the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family. The Dean of Windsor and the Ron. Mrs. Wellesley had also the honour of being invited. ' - Major-General Francis Seymour, C. 8., arrived yes terday. A deputation from Over Darwin, consisting of Messrs. R. S. Ashton, J. B. Deakin, James Wardley, and Joshua Brown, had an interview with the Marquis of Hiirtington yesterday, upon the subject of the Bill for the Redistribu tion of Seats. A deputation from the General Assembly of the Presby. tartan Church in Ireland, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Wil son, moderator ; the Rev. John Rogers, ex-moderator ; accompanied by Lord Cremorne and the Hon. Captain Dawson, had au interview with the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Down. ing-street, yesterday. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malts, the Mauritius, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Australian colonies, New Zealand, the Cape of Good Hope, and Natal. Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the FAA and Countess of Clarendon by his oom pany at dinner, on Wednesday evening, at his lordship's residence in Groevenor-cresoent. A select circle had the honour to meet his royal highness. His Excellency the Ambassador of France enter tained at dinner last evening at the residence of the Em bassy, Albert-gate House, the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire and Lady Alice Hill, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the MarquisTamissier,Viscount and Viscountess Holmeadale, Viscount Espeuiller, the Marquis Caumont La Force, Count Maffei, Lady Frances Gordon and Miss Gordon, Miss Stracey, kc. _ . _ The Countess Apponyi has issued cards for an 'miserably on Saturday next, at Chandos House. . . . - - - Lady Diolesworth received about 200 visitors last evening at Eaton-place. The company were entertained with some private theatricals, the piece being A Christmas Dinner, a comedy in one act. The parts were sustained by Mr. Augustus Spalding, Mr. Charles Stephenson, Mr. J. Palgrave Simpson, Miss Carlotta Norton, The Countess of Charlemont, and Miss Dallas. Before the assembly her ladyship received at dinner the Prince and Princess Ed ward of Saxe Weimar, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi, the Duchess of Manchester, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Lis towel, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of Charlemont, Frances Countess Waldegrave and the Right lion. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., the Earl Grosvenor, the Bishop of Oxford, Mr. and Lady Mary Craven, Hon. Frederick Leveson Gower, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Bernal Osborne, Dr. Quin, kc. The party separated shortly after midnight. The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress will entertain the judges at the Mansion-house on Thursday, May 10. On Monday Mr. C. Fort/3*rue will bring forward a bill to amend the Law of Landlord and Tenant in Ireland. On Tuesday the majority of the English resi dents in Paris assembled in the Chapelle Marbeuf to wit ness the ceremony of confirmation by the Lord Bishop of Bangor, attended by his chaplain and assisted by the Rev. Edward Forbes, the Rev. J. Sergeant, the Rev. George Gardiner, the Rev. K Gurney, the Rev. R. Delayante, the Rev. Dr. Smythe (chaplain of St. Germain), and the Rev. Glasott (ohaplain of Versailles). The church was crowded at an early hour, not by English alone, but by several foreign Roman catholic* anxious to witness the in. teresting ceremony. By 2 o'clock above 60 young ladies and 30 young men having taken the places reserved for them next the altar, the usual morning service was read, and the confirmation service, preceded by an address from the bishop to the young candidates, after which prelimi naries the ceremony of the day commenced. • - ...,`, "' '' •• ""' ). ' ..... *l' : . , . , I • ... , . .. . , „ •' ti I IPr IMF ....--• k 11?* ~. 0 . " g • I ' ' . 1 .,„ " • bound by an •• . • ob It- on, the t oon- e h ceive Mr. Gladden e to be at liberty to • on the TT budget uif nothing had happened ; but it is • • yon such ' 0 a eunnoddtion. The opponents of the bill will certainly not . mt.. 1112 DIVISION. The Times assumes that Mr. Gladstone in announcing so calmly last night his intention of producing the budget next Thursday, must have had in his mind some expecta tion of a great change to be worked on the convic tions of members in the short term that remains of the debate, or else that government must con template meeting its virtual or perhaps its actual defeat with more fortitude than might be expected after the speeches at LiverpooL Were it not for the chances of all things mortal, the division list of to-morrow morning might almost be written out beforehand. If the conser vative party really numbers 289, and can rally to its side some 32 or 33 discontented liberals, it is more than doubt ful whether, with the pin of 9 to the conservative party, brought about by the operation of the election commit tees, there will be room for a government majority at aIL 11\1 Nig , RIL E LiViIefieNTELLIGENCE, , THE LATEST NEWS FROM GERMANY AND ITALY. The Boersenkille states that the Archduke Albert was to leave Vienna on the 23rd for Verona, in order to command the army of the Quadrilateral. It intimates that a resolution was come to at the last ministerial council to make military preparations on a more colossal scale than Austria ever before attempted. The danger of war would seem to be imminent since pre parations are being made to put in motion the frontier regiments of Croatia and the famous red cloaked pandours. It is also announced, in a correspondence from Vienna, that Venetia is threatened with an attack by Italy, and that overtures have been made by the Italian government to Garibaldi It is stated that Garibaldi refused both the command of a corps of the regular army, and of a volunteer force subject to the orders of the commander-in-chief, and that he has been authorised to raise a corps of volun teers to be under his sole command, to be equipped at the expense of the government, and to be con veyed in government vessels to such points as he should designate. The Presee of Vienna contains the following re marks on the last Prussian note Prussia's reply of the 21st of April to the Austrian despatch of the 18th confirms the worst suspicions of which the tactics of the Berlin cabinet have been the object. Prussia declines any obligation on her part to disarm ; she requires Austria to take the first step in that direction, and then the Prussian government will consider what Prussia will do. This is sot the answer which might be expected from those who enter tain peaceful sentiments, and who desire to tranquillise the world. To us it seems impossible that Austria can now relax her precautionary measures. The country should expect the wont, and, while anxious for peace, should collect all her forces and prepare for the battle. The Italia of Naples report& that convoys of guns and other war material continue to be des patched from Naples. On the 19th some were forwarded by railway, and to day, the 21st, two battalions of infantry, a company of field artillery, and a cargo of gun-carriages, were embarked for Genoa on board the Volturno. The Lombardia, of Milan, says that General Pozza, after having inspected the fortress of Pizzi ghettone, visited the positions of Formigars, Cava curta, &c. The whole of this line, it is said, will be fortified. The companies of artillery in garri son within the fortress will be completed, and pre parations are made for placing the guns in position and fortifying the small forts with batteries. THE ATTEMPT UPON THE CZAR'S LIFE . The St. Petersburg journals are full of details respecting the recent attempt on the life of the Emperor and the rejoicings of the people at his escape. The Russian Gazette of St. Peterslntrg mays that on the 6th instant the marshals and depu ties of the St. Petersburg nobles resolved unanimously to present Ossip Ivanovitch Ku missarof, the peasant who foiled the assassin's aim, with s holy image, and to open for him a subscription, to which all the no bility of the district are invited to subscribe. The permanent deputations of the nobles waited upon him to obtain his consent to be enrolled in the book of nobles. Komissarof gratefully ac cepted the offer, and in doing so gave the following account of what took place : I do not know myself what strange feeling possessed me when I saw that man pressing through the crowd. I was watching him, but when the Emperor came up he went out of my mind. All at once I saw him draw a pistol and aim at the Emperor. I bethought myself that if I rushed upon him he would kill some one else, or, perhaps, myself, and without mom ado I struck up his arm. The pistol went off and after that Ido not recollect anything. I was as it were in the midst of a fog, and when I came to myself I saw a general, who embraced me. I was taken to the palace, but I was stunned, and it was an hour and a half before I cpuld speak. Apartments have been hired for him in the Rouatzd house. His family name will be changed into that of Komissarof Kostromskoi, in memory of the province which has twice furnished saviours to the Imperial house in a moment of danger. He was obliged to show himself on the stage of the Russian Theatre, and to relate what happened. He was invited to a grand banquet at the English Club. It is said that 600,000 fr. have been subscribed for him in St. Peters burg alone, and that a proprietor of Kos troma has offered him a considerable quantity of land for the purpose of enabling him to support his new dignity. The Emperor himself, says a correspondent of the Nord, asked General Todleben as a personal favour to direct the education of Komissarof. (REUTER% TELEGRAMS.) FRANCE AND ITALY. PARIS, APRIL 27. The Constif ntiostnet of this morning publishes the following :—" We are in a position to state that Italy has neither made armaments or effected concentrations of troops. The declarations of the Italian government are precise in this respect, and are confirmed by all private or official information. The government of the Emperor Napoleon has not two policies and does not encourage warlike inclinations on one side or the other. It desires the maintenance of peace in every quarter, and does all in its power within the measure of its rights and dignity to pre serve the blessings of peace to Europe." The Con , stitotionnel also says :—" Immediately after the receipt of Prussia's reply, the Vienna cabinet entered into communication with the Prussian government, in order to settle the manner in which mutual disarmament should be effected. We have grounds to expect that these negotiations will be I shortly attended with result." THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BERLIN, APRIL 27. Prince Bratiano and the other members of the Roumanian deputation left last night for Dussel dorf, in consequence of a telegram from Prince Charles of Hohenzollern. SPANISH FINANCE. MADRID, APRIL 26, EVENING. The Epee° states that the committee of Congress upon the National Bank Bill will authorise the go vernment to create a new bank, but without grant ing the concession to particular individuals. ARRIVAL OF THE BAVARIA. SOUTHAMPTON, Aram 27. The Hamburg and American Company's steam ship Bavaria, from New York on the 11th instant, has arrived here. She brings 285 passengers for this port, Hamburg, and Havre ; 5,100 dots. in specie for London, and 22,700 for Hamburg. On the same day, 45 miles off Sandy Hook, she passed the Sazonia bound for New York. Her news has been anticipated. THE BOMBAY MAIL. SUEZ, Aran. 26. The Baroda, from Bombay April 14, anchored at 3 p.m. to-day (Thursday). WO .* _ 1. i ~ ;Erse, 1M PARIS. (non ova OWN OORRISPONDINS.) PARIS. THURSDAY ETIRDFG. The text of M. de Bismarck's answer to the Aus trian proposal for a disarmament fully bears out the suspicion that the description given of it by the Moniteur du Soir (not repeated, be it observed, by the great Moniteir) that it was " favour able" would turn out to be false. It is, in reality, evasive, ironical, and provoking. This day, April 26, is the day on which Prussia—had the proposal been simply accepted—was to have dis armed," Austria having by the supposition dis armed the day before. But the dates have arrived and nobody now thinks of any disarmament as a consequence of the despatches. It results from M. de Bismarck's language, that so far from accepting an offer which Austria professed to consider as an immense concession for the sake of peace, he will only modify the orders already given to the Prussian army after he shall have been satisfied that the reduction of the Austrian army is an accomplished fact. The calculation is that it would take Austria a month to put her Bohe mian garrisons in the same position in which they were before the movement in the view of war began. During all this time IL de Bismarck does not even promise to make any reduction. But even assuming that Austria would eat humble pie to the extent arrogantly asked for, that would not do, because M. de Bismarck goes on to my he assumes that all the minor states of Germany (which are known to side with Austria) will also revoke the military measures which they have taken for their own protection. The Bourse was extremely bad. Although the closing prices were not the lowest of the day, they show a fall in Rente of 40c. for cash and 36c. for account, being afr. 20c. and 67fr. bbc. At one moment the price for account was 66fr. 96c. Italian (terribly depressed) fell lfr. 50c. Mobilier fell Mr. 50c.; Credit Foncier, 12fr. 50c.; and the Northern Railway 12fr. 50c. The Head Centre Stephens, fresh from the honours of the Marquis de Boissy's table, has left Paris and has embarked for New York on board the new packet Napoleon 111., which is now mak ing its first voyage. M. de Boissy, of whom it is no libel to repeat that he is the Senate's " fool," is the only man of note in Paris who has osten sibly patronised Stephens. The Duchess de Morny, who for some time after the death of her husband was in a bad state of health, is now said to be better. She is at present living in one of the many houses of the late duke in the Avenue Gabriel, where she passes her leisure hours in sorting his political papers. These, according to custom in Prance when, a man who has held high office dies, were sealed up and sent to the Tuileries for the Emperor's perusal, His Majesty has returned most of them to the Duchess, and among these are said to be many (probably not all) relating to the coup 1 d'etat. DEATH OF LORD OLENELO. The death is announced this morning of Lord Glenelg, who many years since, as Mr. Charles Grant, held a conspicuous position amongst the statesmen of this country. Born at Kidderpore in the Presidency of Bengal, in 1783, he was brought to England, and was en tered at Magdalene College, Cambridge, having had amongst his college contemporaries the late Vice- Chancellor Rodwell, Mr. Robert Grant, afterwards Governor-General of Bombay, Lord Canterbury, late Speaker of the House of Commons, Dr. Stanley, late Bishop of Norwich, Dr. Sumner, late Archbishop of Can terbury, Dr. Jackson, late Master of St. John's, and the present Duke of Northumberland. He took his B.A. in 1801, when he was 4th wrangler, the senior wrangler of the year being the Rev. Henry Martyn, a well known Indian missionary, between whom and Mr. Grant a close intimacy existed. He was Chancellor's medallist in 1801, and member's prizemaa in the same year, in conjunction with Henry Martyn. Leaving Cambridge he applied himself to the study of the law, and in 1807 was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lis. coin's Inn. In 1813 the Earl of Liverpool, who was then Prime Minister, appointed him a lord of the treasury, and this position he held until 1819, when Lord Liverpool made him Chief Secretary of Ireland, He remained at that poet until 1823, when he was trans ferred to the Board of Trade, and discharged the duties of its vice-president until 1827. On Mr. Canning booming prime minister in 1827, Mr. Grant was advanced to the presidentship of the Board of Trade and the treasurership of the navy, and remained there until Jan., 1828. In 1830, under Earl G rev's administration, he became President of the Board of Control, an office which he held until 1834, when Lord Melbourne, who then became Prime Minister, ap. pointed him Secretary of State for the Colonies. This ap pointment he held until January, 1839, when he was suc ceeded by Lord John Russell. It was in 1835, while War and Colonial Secretary, that he was raised to the peerage. In the House of Commons he sat fur the Fortress Burghs from 1807 to 1818, and for Inverness-shire from 1818 to 1835, when he went to the House of Lords. By his death a pension of 2,000/. • year falls to the government. The family is a junior branch of the Grants of Grant N.B. springing from • second son of that line who obtained lands in Glenurquhart from James `V. in 1509. There is no successor to the title. REPRESENTATION OF NOTTINGHAM.—In addition to Lord Amberley and Mr. Handel Cossham, who are expected to oome forward to solicit the suffrages of the electors, Mr. Serjeant Simon, of the Temple, has just issued an address, stating his determination to contest the borough on liberal principle& IMr. Simon avows himself " a member of that great liberal party whose policy has materially advanced the cause a political and reli gious freedom, and promoted the commercial interests and the social happiness of this great empire." He " thinks that the time has arrived when the great ques tion of reform should be settled, and the just claims of the working classes recognised. Having regard to the manner in which previous governments have treated, the subject of - reform, the present government have acted wisely in the course they have taken • and if that course should fail to attain an imme diate success, it will have given such an impulse to public opinion as will secure a certain, and not distant settlement of the question." The conservatives promise a candidate, which will make a fourth. Mr. Acland (the agent of Mr. Serjeant Simon) has also issued nn address to the electors, in which he states that " he will resort to no measures inconsistent with the principle of purity of election. In fighting the battle of independence the electors will not seek their rights by wrongful means. The business will be conducted (says Mr. Acland) at my office. We need no committee room, for we shall have no committee. Without the means or will to debauch the constituency, we shall have no secrete to keep." Mr. H. Coseham addressed the electors and non-electors in the market-place on Wednesday evening. THE WINDSOR ELECTION COMMITTEL.—MT. Labouchere, writing to the Times, says :—" I may, then, fairly state that my late colleague and I were unseated be cause one of our agents had been concerned months before he became our agent in taking publichouses in undue num ber for Mr. Flower. Now, air, I would venture to call the attention of the legislature to the new and strange prin ciple of jurisprudence on which the decision of the \S indsor Election Committee has been based. Ido so in the interests of all candidates, for as far as I am concerned I have unfortunately no appeal against the decision. It is sufficiently difficult to prevent over-sealous com mittee men and agents from compromising their candidate during the election i but if he is to be retrospectively re sponsible for all their previous acts, I venture to say that no candidate can expect to hold his rat against a petition. Were this retrospective responsibility introduced into the procedure of courts of law no man would be safe. I might, sir, to-morrow have the advantage of making your acquaint ance ; some days later I might take • servant whom you had formerly employed. Ought I to be hung if it were sub sequently shown that you and the servant had murdered some one last January in London while I was in Italy ? Were I still a member of the legislature I should myself point out the necessity of a reform in the composition of election committees!. As an elector of Westminster I shall, through my tative, Captain Grosvenor, present • petition to the Hones of Commons praying that some alter ation be made in the present system, and that a properly qualified judge be added to every committee to explain the ' lelementaryI elementary principles of jurisprudence to well-intentioned gentlemen who know nothing about them." SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION. Yesterday afternoon the Rev. Charles the delivered his second and concluding lecture at th e Institution. " On Sauce and Su s audience. In his grit lecture, on defined superstition to be fear of the behar powerful and eloquent discourse he shoi—re d utrtron is alto Cher aimija S savage man , afraid of ost pilYske ure be a cause ""all uisibi s . Sad ii" ops 4l6lM rt . her, tries to propitiate the natural epodes which ems him persons. All superstitions, he ch eerte d , ,„ explained as being developments of that law, adduced numerous illustrations in rapport position. The second lecture, yesterday, wee devoted the consideration of science, the great suety superstition. As the savage is afraid of natural from his inability to cope with them, it ray • , courage in those who first boldly attempted tourer them ; and the piesent position of science is due few brave men, who had not only to canted with but to struggle against Public opinion. Mr. Illegds7 dbly pictured the condition of those men who we subsiding scientific truths amidst the msp wops • like of thew fellow-countrymen, who viewed th e i r with alarm, and too often stopped their career He expressed warm admiration of the ancient Ch i who first discovered the distinction betesen the t end the fixed stars ; and of the Greeks Romani, who added by little end little to the •-• knowledge, until they became frightened at the .. their discoveries, and relapsed into a state of supsimat a little above that of the muse. He attributed much ." stimulus to investigation in early ogee to the J ligion and to the Hebrew writings, and briefly a.., some of the men who, in the darkness of the middle shone forth as the lights and were the martyrs of sr It was not, however, until the middle of the 111th that any solid foundation was laid for scientific and he attributed therapid advance afterwards made country in some measure to the foundation of Society. Again and again in the course of his lees. Mr. Kingsley wittimush force and animation deciann es, those who at the present day, as well is in fen der t r ou‘s posed the progress of mien° e from fear of the consequese to which it may lead, and he condemned in still now language those who, admitting that science should at the manse time would limit the MO W bon of it to their own ideas of what was suitable generality of mankind. His views of ethnic vs comprehensive. The attainment of any new t regarded an important advance in soirees, whit not require a specially trained mind for its knowledge discovery, but only theexereise of theoniinazypovenf mind, guided by judsment and common sense. In that he considered the writings of Mr. Carlyle as emineei / y talc, and the knowledge of them essential to a r tion. He took occasion, when viewing science to denounce the existing system of educating of both sexes in a certain routine without regard peculiar intellectual faculties. He pointed out Vl' force what science has already done for man, who however, in a semi-barbarous state, and indicated might do hereafter. Science, in Mr. Kingsley's • is synonymous with wisdom, and he concluded by quoting the mirage from Solomon, " ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," c a m to the quotation that the Creator formed the earth knowledge, and founded the heavens with wisdom. The language in which the lectures were written was vigni e aquent, and Mr. Kingsley delivered them with puts energy and variety of expression, though a wrom iatasr Lion detracted from the unpredion produced on the en became accustomed to it. ~-~-- Iy 1,. ...I ~.. ~.. CO Wier is l 8 Ja Grow*, phin II LLTZ Polioe-ei of the Gd arged w ch Mr. Col/ the oaks I The fad will be res dot the o ante whit Mr. D'l but admit James street ( before hide M] Ifinories. 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Mull inn* pod . t • triffithe fa nit Hon in this light, of to du tele Pat vied to the ut with psi who ated t y's tiev ct it, d the atm I hee aryl at j we." adolime THE MURDER AT BLAHUNGONE The murder of David M'Ewan, or Mleece, of which Joseph Bell was convicted at Perth Gni Court on Wednesday, and condemned to be executed le the 22nd of Dicky, was a singularly brutal and unread crime. The prisoner, who is a native of Burton= where be was bred a potter, but who hie been is for about eight years following the lawless life of a poacher, is about 27 years of age. He does not epos to have been previously acquainted with the due* and the only ostensible motive for the mender was to pi the few pounds of money generally in possession of th latter in returning home after his tour with his brad. cart. M'Ewan, who was aged about 40, and was woe, was in the employment of Mr. Muirhead, baker, ADA, and was in the habit of making certain rounds in* Is cart every week, usually bringing home from the MEW circuit about 41. or 51. The unfortunate man went usual route on Monday, the 18th of December, sad es way home that evening, about 5 o'clock, darkness Wiwi in, he was shot and robbed, the cart going en empty, eel the victim being left on the ground dying, and seek insensible. The right side of his face was fright* wounded, the nose, cheek bone, and jaws being llama The injuries evidently arose frum a gunshot, fund siting a few yards of his face, though not sulliciutly awl leave the marks of powder. The poor man ow quits unable to do more than ejaculate a few incoherent ark, and the probability is, though his senses had less Wt to him for a time, the surprise and shock were et =WO as to have prevented him giving any informatists keln the discovery of his assailant. His death took OM IL a neighbouring house about two hours after the We The rural police lost no time in their inquiries, esithe following night they apprehended Bell on seaski. It was proved at the trial that Bell led a very dina petal and irregular life, poaching being almost his WI occupation. He lived among ploughmen, labourers. saf ooalworkers, sometimes repaying favour shows him by* prevent of a bird, bat generally selling what he knoel down by his gun. The gun used in the crime was to rowed by him on the 7th of December, and its history iu followed by the evidence up to its being discovered bj boy under the arch of a bridge over a stream a few Ws after the murder, and within a short distance of theism of it. Before the murder Bell was proved to have boa I great want of money, while on the night of the mime be began to spend freely, and on his person the following l was found the sum of 41. 18s. The employer of calculated that the money he should have brught leek* him was V. 15s. 7d., but deceased had also money vibes.% and the prisoner had already spent a good deal Ware is was apprehended. The footmarks discovered near ths seas of the murder were deposed by some witnesses towrope& with Bell's shoes, but upon that point the evidence ow what wavered. The prisoner, in his deolaratace beige 9s Sheriff, asserted his innocence. but acknowlede& kug.g had and having hidden the gun, pretending that dr. custom to do so at night. The money found spa Om le declared to have been paid to him on the Mosby fer Pol by a dealer from Dunfermline, but all the praaalse there were brought to prove that they had sever bet sal transaction with him. It was proved that Wei we several references to the bread-cart before the craw, as g the subject was in his mind. He told his landlady model that if he shot anything he would send it with the kW cart. To one witness he said he knew a man that woes the Kinross side in • gig, and if witness would laif Mt horse by the head he would soon " chuck" him. said he was not a man of that kind, when pnaeoef I °M that he was only trying him, but that he feed been! swfw man in his day. The evidence in the cam occused court all Tuesday, and the following day counsel Went the jury, and Lord Ardmillan delivered the UAW- "'" jury unanimously found the prisoner O tt i/ty, On and easto fig r of death passed on him in the usual form. resef sentence the prisoner said, " Thank you , my lord, 1,0 innocent." --- LORD RICHARD GROSVENOR, M.P., Al 0 CONSTITEINTIL—Fifty-seven signatures have been se' tamed in the county of Flint to the fx= memorial, which has been forwarded to Lord Grosvenor, M.P. : " We. the undersigned sor,, electors of the county of Flint, have leant_ ,ses deep regret and surprise that it is your WIWI intention to vote against the government Rass Bill now before parliament, which bill we deem "I judicious, moderate, and well considered, enonst* • does from such deep-thinking ntinds as that of the earl at the head of the government, the Chaneellor the Exchequer, and other colleagues. We be l e i t lordship will be pleased to re-consider the dere be taken, and to call to mind tne liberal sentiments,ra" by you on the hustings, for the promotion or "'— sentiments we pledged our support. Elrod In' s THE QUERN PRAYED FOR AT A NAHOREDAN Pt VAL,—For the first time in India (says a the Friend of Indio), the " Khutba" has bee r half of the Queen of England. The event took Piee s : Lahore, by Mir Hassan Shah, Pirzadsh of Battals , Red festival, in Alamgir's Musjid, which Las been . mei over to the Mahomedans for public worship. 'Transle_ • " 0 Lord ! help and befriend her who has b es towed oil' this splendid musjid, and has given us this noble bust namely, the Empress and excellent lady whose "Wil e° tends from east to west , and who has b ecome victorious eel the kings of Arabia and the rest of the world ; her wbso name is Victoria. God reserve her empire and as L ! and bestow on her sub jects the blessings which kw ow her government. 0 preserver and gracious helper ef le° ' kind. Amen (i. e. hear)." ROYAL COLLEGE OP SERGEONS.—The fOllOl6ll gentlemen having undergone the necessary tumb le* : for the diploma, were admitted members of the colkr a meeting of the Court of Examiners, on the 26th vii: —Mears. Barnabas Walter Lamb, SteurPc'e t ' , ..._,.. cestershire ; James Brierley Hughes, Congleton. William James Tattersall, Bacup, Lancashire: er. l , Beaumont Pattinson, Heavitree, near sister' ; ;T. Conlbou*, Old Dalby, Leicestershire, students of Bartholomew's Hospital. Clement Samuel BlYtltt Swinton, Yorkshire ; bl one kt on ,Beenchley. Frederic William Parsons, Bayswater ; and Charles Market Beeping, of King's College. William John. verfordwest ; and William Joseph Rickards. Cornwall, of Guy's Hospital. Moses " Staffordshire • and James Lawson Cooke, Market NO" l of the Birmingham flohooL Henry Child Budagi ei t r nelly, Carmarthen, of St. George's He e P ele ". Ads Edward Bowkett, Poplar. of the London Hogie",, Hill, LS.A., Pimlico, of the Westminster Heslu"" School; ward Malins, Liveol, of the Edinbugh Alexander RiddochGesy, M.A. and N.B. Mule . • At the le' martini of the court, Mr. David !ell Thomas, of Greenwkh Hospital, passed his ei" e b e jr for naval surgeon. This gentleman bad rwallom admitted a member of the college, his 'ploms date April 11, 1861. • Thi 4 eeetme Watne (hem Ceti the de Ii , 5 ~ '~. i~ f.~ 1 11 111 ~~ ~`' ;~1 t . ,~' eini;d posed i from WOUE with Z LC I p h of na