The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-16 00:00:00

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N. li°4?--43,01taitmetiw giers. Tins TIM STOUR raur =MAIM • et. Mr Or Bea OP El 1040114111UTIL WC. ka..—Agra um at lifter IL Innan. TiII Won% TRBOONII&110N. taimo.omma a Sboviord Vll. WiTiroß—TEll TWO VOLT& Wawa Siesama rs 4 H -AM TWO TWO DILOT&& Mom I Horton sad MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDON. ne DAT-111anies, (b. NEL ...... Asianems. RASE. oiposaiv—Assial. ei. so s. ih. aim LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 16. Tire diseismiew on Sir Joule Taxtewxy's motion respecting the receipt of rewards by Members of Parliament la consideration of the exercise of their Parliamentary influence cannot, with any due regard to the interests of the public, be suffered to peas altogether without notice. We ate not, of course, going to stir ap again the BOIT, RYAN, and COFFEY scandaL These who please may accept the decision of the Committee as a satisfactory verdict of acquit tal • the maiority of the public will probably agree with Sir J. Tantawue, that it amounts to little more than a direct negative of the allegation con tained in the petition. That Mr. Burr received monies from the Ameer, that he exerted his parlia mentary influence on behalf of the Ameer, are facts beyond dispute; that the parliamentary influence was exerted in consideration of the monies so received is the connecting link of the chain which the Committee declare to be not established by the evidence. The money they find was accepted, notes • retaining fee for parliamentary services here, but as as instalment of the sum of 10,0001. to be paid as the price of Mr. Burr's services in India. Mr. Hamar informs us that the gentleman thee hired is preparing to fulfil his part of the contract, and that, resigning his lucrative practice in this country, he intends before the close of the present Session to make a tender of himself in India to his Indian ' purchaser. This, we presume, must in some degree depend upon the disposition of the Ameer to abide by his bargain. What that Asiatic poten tate bound himself to pay for was an un damaged article—Bonin his entire and mound state, not Burr aspersed by COFFEY and imperfectly whitewashed by a Parliamentary Committee. Should Au MOOIAD be advised to take advantage of this point, we hardly see what remedy is open to the hon. and learned Member for YoughaL An action for breach of promise, brought by an Irish Barrister and British legislator against an Indian Prince, for not sticking to his bargain and buying him upper contract price as agreed, would be, at all events, somewhat of • novelty in jurisprudence--what the lawyers call " a case of the first impression." But let this pass. The fate of Mr. Burr and his bargain is not a matter of national concern. Whether he is or is not worth 10,0001. to the Ameer, or any other In dian Prince with a grievance, is a point that must be settled in the agency marts of the East. Whether 10,0001. is or is not a fair consideration for the re signation of " the lucrative practice," &c., is a point upon which Mr. Burr himself ought to be the beet judge. We shall meddle with neither. With regard again to the particular form of Sir J. TILLAWNT'S motion, it may at once be conceded that such • resolution as that which he proposed was in fact not wanted. By a resolution as old as the year 1096 it was made a high crime and misdemea nour for any person to offer money to • Member as • reward for anything done by him in oonnexion with his Parliamentary duties. This rule applies only to persons outside the Home. Sir J. TitaLAWNY'S pro posal was to extend the scope of this resolu tion so as to embrace the case of Members reetiring rewards for Parliamentary services. The answer given by several of the most expe rienced Members of the Howie was • suißcient answer—vix., that the House has always possessed, and has frequently not been slack in exercising, all the powers which this resolution could confer. On one occasion, as most schoolboys know, the Speaker of the House, Sir Joule TREVOR, was expelled for having received 1,000 guineas for service done in promoting the pealing of • Bill in which the City of London wee interested; and the like penalty was subsequently inflicted on several Members who were found to have par ticipated in the bribe of 100,0001. paid by the East India Company for procuring one of the earlier renewals of their charter. Obviously the thing required ia not to pass a formal resolution defining the precise limits of • power which the House has long enjoyed and often exerted, but vigilantly to watch and unflinchingly to repress the insidious growth of any practices, by which the indispensable rules of nrliamentary purity are at all likely to be evaded. I t is in t hi s p s .rot of view that the recent discussion must be regarded a s eminently useful. If it have ne other effect than that of suppressing the scandalous practice alluded to b . ,- Lord HOTUAII, it will not have taken place in vain, What can be worse than such a proceeding as this ?—A barrister in Parliament is retained by a fee of most exaggerated magnitude (collurably a fee, bat really • bribe) to advise upon ynsioess professedly intended to be brought before the ordinary Courts of Law. Consultations are gravely held, and sugges tions gravely made to the effect that the matter is one in which resort to a legal tribunal is hopeless: the only remedy is by an appeal to Parliamont. The legal member to whom the retaining fee has been paid is requested to undertake the case. He does so, ostensibly as a legislator, really as a lawyer; ostensibly as a Representative of the People giving his unbiassed opinion on a matter of national con cern, really as a hired advocate uttering purchased sentences at so much a period, on behalf of a cause in which his interest is only of the • pounds, shillings, and pence kind. Such is the imputation. Everybody who has mixed at ill in life must have beard of it over and over again in private. Lord Herman has had the coure a ~ to make it public. The very publicity will do good. Let the eye of the general public be once firmly directed upon caws of this class—let the clue be once given—and detection is pretty certain to ensue. The public has hitherto been accustomed to attri- THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVNING, APRIL 1,1 bate the presence of so many lawyers in the Bowe, to the not very honourable ambition of pleas; it will not render the gentlemen of the Icing robe more popular as representatives, if enema he gives lees baser motive of a craving for %ere. The lose, If it be properly jealous of its own 'dignity and eh*. teeter, cannot afford to neglect such imputations as these. There is great weight, again, in the considerations urged by Mr. hlsatolie, and to which the very cir cumstances of the BOW ease almost inevitably gave rise. It is pretty morrows that many, nay that most, of the clients of elige gentlemen who receive fee. as barristers for matters that they afterwards bring before the Hoer as legislator, ars natives of India. They are ejected with a grievance. Corruption is the rule in Indirbribery, the recognised procedure of all its courts. How are these people to draw the distinction ("efficiently subtle at the best) be tween the fee to the Barrister and the bribe to the Member, in these cases when en and the same person advocates in the Haan as member, the very same cause that he we. retained to advise ea as a barrister? A tee of 500 guineas is left with papers, in a dingy set of chambers in the Temple—that is the first act ; a conealtation is the second ; a speech in the House the third. Can you hope to make the Indian Prism believe that the speech of the Member has not really Men bought by the fee to the Barrister? Nay, can Asa nuke say me else believe it ? Do you, reader, believe it P Doss Mr. Butz. believe it, or Mrs. BULL, er any of the family who have come to years of die aides P Cu we wonder that our wealthy subjects is Amin are allsd with a profound conviction that our boasted purity of Parliament is but a farce P Can we wonder that it should be publicly stated in India, as Mr. MArtoLua assured us it is, " that the " service of members of Parliament are obtainable " for money ?" Can the House tolerate such impu tation as these? Ought it to hesitate a moment is stringently enforcing the plain rule that no legal member shall advocate or promote in Parliament nay cause or matter in respect of which he has Men professionally consulted is a feed advocate ? This may not root out the whole evil, but it will Arils an immediate blow at its most offensive de velopment. The House has its own credit in its ono keeping. Laxity in such a matter as this wand be treason not only to its own best interests, but to the cause of constitutional Government throughout the world. LORD !VALHI/38MT explained last night the new Foreign-office plan with regard to Passports. Like his predecessor, Lord MAL/USSERY requires every applicant for a passport to accompany his appli cation with a certificate of identity—a testimonial from some one who knows him that he, the appli cant, is the person he represents himself to be. It is not enough that Joss Bum. should go, or send, to Downing-street, saying, I am JOHN Btu, a British citizen, grant me a passport. He must bring or send a certificate from somebody else to the effect—This is JOHN Burr., a British citizen, pray let him have • paasport. The difference between the MALICE/381MT plan and the CLARENDON plan is this, that whereas CLASS/100M allowed of no sponsors for identity except mayors, magistrates, and bankers, MAME/MORT adds to the list clergy (of all denominations), physicians and surgeons, solicitors and notaries. This is an improvement as far as it goes, but we are still un convinced sa to the necessity for any certificate of identity. All our Government can require is a prised facie proof of citizenship. False personifica tion is an offence to be punished by the foreign Government, not to be guarded against by ours. We are not bound to guarantee that the British applicant for a passport really has a right to the name under which he applies for it. As long as he remains in this United Kingdom, he wants no passport; when be goes beyond its limits, if be is travelling with a passport made out in a wrong name, it is his own affair and that of the country in which he is tra veiling. He will come to grief for the offence—and justly. It is an affair for the foreign polio', not for our Foreign-office. Again, we think Lord MALY/A BORT showed no sufficient canes for not conceding to the local authorities the power of issuing Foreign-Aloe Passports. We never suggested, ss Lord Mausasstrav seems to have supposed, that these local authorities " should have a power of " issuing passports themselves independently of the Foreign-office," but merely that they should be provided with Foreign-office forms ready signed by the Secretary of State, which they should issue sa required. We stlllthink this would be the better plan. As to the objection that the local authorities could not be trusted to grant pass ports without pay, we think with Lord GREY, that there is nothing at all in it. Magistrates work cheerfully without pay in administering justice. Most men will work cheerfkilly without pay in doing that which only a few in any given place are allowed to do, and the doing of which, therefore, confers a certain degree of local importance. Imagine a country doctor or a country lawyer declining to sax his seal to the passport of a client or patient. The establishment of Foreign-office agencies at Dover, Folkestone, Southampton, and Liverpool, shows, no doubt, a laudable de sire to consult the public convenience. The reduc tion of the price of the Foreign-office passport from six shillings to two shillings —one for the stamp and one for the expense—will be generally hailed as a great improvement. Lord CLASENDON, stimulated by that wholesome desire for popularity which is occasionally developed in fallen ministers, declared be could see no reason why the stamp should not be wholly abolished ; nor can we. On the whole, Lord lIALIRSHIIIST'II plan is much better than his prede smear's, but a somewhat bolder following oat of common-sense principles would have made it better still. LORD CAMPBELL'S LIBEL BILL. gbe Coun. , • The len, accompanied by Priam Arthve, Naos Lopeld the Primer Louisa, took drive in la open con*. four yeelarday afternoon. Lady CbtarehW, Colon& the eon. A.ll. Hood, and CaptplaDu Phd, were in The Queen honoured the performance at Her Majesty's Theatre with her presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of Lady Churchill, Hon. Lucy Her, Hoa. Mary Belted, the Earl of Sheffield, Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Nada Du Plat. The Princess of Below mad tits Dachas d'Aemele visited the Duelers of Heat yesterday, et bat residence, Clarence Houma Bt. Janes's. A deputation on the mbynt al ma ialmaittlatal law for the prase:boa of trade marks, conablic of Mr. Robert Jack 1. Myer of OAKUM ; Mr. Jebel Moon Smith, J.P., W. A. Matthews, and Mr. J. A. Roebuck, M.P., had as tatervism with the Right Hon. J. W. Hanley sad the Marl rade at . Damegguaore pats**, at the adlos el the Board of degverlisa ea the Bast Biding raw had en interview .• Mr Inzetary Wehrle yeersday at the Horee-olos. The deprolon resisted a/ Lord Hefter end Admiral Dun combs, the sake.; Mr. C. W. Strickland, chairman of Onertor ilerions ; sad Kr. Leman, Clerk of the Peace for the lest Riding of Torkddre. • dorredon, earring Sir Makin Wynn, M.P., era the Hon. F. Posessby, lo a the (} nee Western Railway; Mr. Z. G. liellelrey, M.P., Mr. W. Tikeringhant, Mr. Jr. Beers, Mr. T. H. Hahrsass, and Mr. W. Evens, for the Bb bead lellway • Mr. John Leh* for the Birkenhead Comnieskeers; Mr. lessall b and Kr. Poolley, for the Wal ks/4y Corialidoners ; Mr. . Pugh, M.P., Mr. J. Mein wring, end Kr. C. Townsend, for the landowners and other laiereste, bed an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. art -1171=4 relsdhig the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibers end Mr. B bad ea - Interview with the Rut of Derby yesterday st Wield residence in Downing-street. A deputation fore the gaszellans of the Whiteohapel Union, consisting el Mr. Bruhleld, chairmen, Mr. Wall* vice-chairman, sad Kr. Craven, together with Mr. Farr, the rink, had an intererw with the Right Hon. T. &therm Rstcourt, at the else el the Poor-law Board, yesterday, on the subject of the ealstag rode of taking averages. A deputation foss Lim* 'Lod an interview with Mr. ilearstary Walpole puelestisy. The deputation consisted of Mr. Braes, M.P Xr. Bescroft, M.P., the Mayor of Leeds, 111 r. Alderson ColeriliMr. Councillor Cerip, Mr. Coun cillor Barrett, and Mr. rodrick. ARRIVAL OP MN DUX, OP KAL.AIO7P. DOVER, TIIIIISDAT. This afternoon his Excellency Marshal Pelimier, Dab of Melaka!, Ambassador of the Emperor of the French, attended by him two aides-de-camp, Camel Appert and Com mandant Duval, arrived here in his Imperial Majesty's maw oolvehe the Coma. His Excellency reached Calais last night, slept at Deset's Hotel, and embarked for Dover this morning at 10.40. The marshal was receive' at Calais by a large commons of people, who loudly cheered him on hie arrival and departure. At Dover a salute wag fired from the Heights on the vermeil reaching the Admiralty Pier, when his Excellency was re ceived by Major-General Crawford, the commander-in-chief of the district, attended by his staff; Major-General Maned ; the Duke of Richmond, colonel of the Royal Sussex Militia; the Marquis of Donegal, colonel of the Antrim Rifles; the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord A. Lennox, the Admiralty Superintendent, the Commandant of the garrison at Dover, &a, and a guard of honour from the 11th Regiment of the line, the Royal Sussex Light Infantry, and the Antrim Rides, farmed a lane hem the pier to the Railway Hotel and Make. Hla Eicenency and suite at first proceeded to the Lord Warden Hotel, where the mayor and corporation presented en address of congratnlatica sad welcome to England in his prompt capacity. His Excellency rep lied in French in the following terms Mr. Mayor and Gentleman,—l thank you with every feeling of gratification for the reoeptioa you have accorded ma upon my arrival here. Nothing could have afforded me greats, pleasure than my appointment as Ambassador to this country, and It will always be my earnest desire to proem them cordial relations which have hitherto misted between France and England. If this Osmium could have been enhanced, it has been by my meeting as lending here several in whom I recognise old comrades." His Excellency wore the undress of a marshal of the Empire. Hia aides-de-camp were also in uniform. Gourd Janncourt, the secretary to the embassy, awaited at Dover the arrival of the new ambassador, and accompanied Na to Looks at two p.m., in a state carriage. The commander of the Corse, Captain Ciarnault, who brought over his Excellency, was aide-de-cemp to Admiral Hamelin, the Commander-in. Chief in the Crimea. Captain Luke Smithett had the honour of specially piloting the Come on the occasion. THN ?WU OP WALIIS IN lIIPLAND. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 13. The yacht Osborne weighed anchor this morning at four, and left for Bantry to meet His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, who it le rumoured will return to Cork after visiting Kilkosey. His Highness the Prinee tkitykoff has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, St James's, from St. Petersburg. His Excellency the Duke de Terceira, sworn psaisd by the Marquis de Lora and mite, has lid Chridge's Hotel for Haifa. The Contain Persigny has taken apartments at Forsace's HMO, Belgravia, where she will centime to reside daring her shay in Louden. The Dake of Rutland arrived at his residence a Isw days Am, from Betook Curls. The Earl and Countess Stanhope have returned to town, from Chovesing Park, Hoot, for law swum The Earl and Counted' Talbot have returned to town. The noble sari hoe taken a miaow, in Lowman,- Streit for the season. The Countess Dowager of Meath has left Cla ridges Hotel for Bennfootts, near Chichester. Viscount and Viscountess Combermero are at Leamington, and will not ooms to town until Wednesday nest. The annonnoement of their arrival in &tigress square, from Combennere Abbey, was made In error yester day. Lori Abercromby has arrived in London from a tear to the Rut. Lady Ernest Bruce has returned to town from Brighton, for the &MOM. Sir Edward and Lady Caroline Kerrigan have returned to town, from Broom Hall, Norfolk, for the MM. The nuptials of Lord Arthur Edwin Hill, M.P. and the Hon. Mary Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Hon. and Rev. Alfred Curzon, and sister of Lord Scars dale, took place yesterday in the prettily situated church neer to the Hall, at Kedleston. The dress of the bride wee composed of white glace silk, with two skirts trimmed with bouflants of tulle and covered with two deep Brussels lace Bounces, high body trimmed with Brussels lace, wreath sad bouquet' of orange flowers and myrtle, end Brussels lace rail. Among the company premed were the Marquis and Ms:thiourea of Downshire and Lady Alice Hill, Lord Sandy,, Lady Charlotte Chetwynd, Lady Mary Hood end Miss Hood, the Hon. Mrs. Curzon, &c. After the ceremony the distinguished party partook of a rielorchl breakfast, and the newly wedded couple proceeded to Omberaley Court, Worcestershire, the seat of Lord Sandy., to spend the honeymoon. " His Once the Duke of Devonshire," lays the Asir Salsorter, .. has for some time pest bees paying his pommel respects to his tenantry in North Derbyshire and elsewhere. The neat ten or twelve days wilt, we believe, be devoted to a visit to each of his grace's tenants in the southern part of the county. This proceeding on the part of the sable duke must produce feelings of mutual respect end esteem between landlord end tenant. We are happy to say that his grace has kindly subscribed 601. towards the erection of the miniature Crystal Palace in the Derby Arboretum." In the Hoare of Commons on Monday, Mr. Kinglake will move an address for further papers relating to the capture of the " Cagliari," and will call the attention of the home to the correspondence between her Majesty's Government end the Government of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, on the 'abject of the capture. The subject also comes before the house to night, Mr. Headlam intending to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has as yet received the opinions of the Law Officers of the Crown, and nt, whether he can state to the home what mune the government intends to smear. On Thursday next the Lord Advocate will bring before the House of Commons a bill "to make provision far the batter Government and Dieolpline of the Universities of Scotland, and improving and initiating the mores of Seedy therein; and for the Union of the two Universities end Colleges of Abide's." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. Crzo* eta owx PARIS, TurmosT liviernre. The Boone opened with a little me animation, under the influence of a large purchase in the Rente made after official hours yesterday, and in conse quence of a slight improvement in the quarterly product of the indirect taxes, which is pointed out by the Meniteur this morning. The upward move ment, however, was not sustained, and business be came extremely dull at the close. The Rente for amount, after having touched 69fr. 60e., left off at yesterday's prise, 69fr. 46c. For cash there was a fall of 10c., the last price being 69fr. 36c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 60e. Railways closed at the lowest prices of the day. Orleans fell 12fr. 600. ; Lyons, 3fr. 76c. ; Reetern, 2fr. 60c. in the other lines there was no change, and some were scarcely quoted all day. There is a talk of a negotiation with Baron Roth.- child for a Turkish loan at 6 per cent. The principal cause of the feeling of discourage ment which prevailed at the close of the Bourse, was the prevalent belief that all the expedients sug gested by different financiers for getting up a rise, have been definitively rejected. M. Damon's argu ments in favour of a change in the tax upon the transfer of shares were thought to have produced an effect upon the Emperor's mind, but the Ministers of Finance and Public Works are unwilling to give up a resource which provides &revenue of more than twelve millions of francs. They suggested that the companies should compound for a certain sum to be paid annually in proportion to the number of shares issued. The committee of railway directors, how ever, repudiated this scheme as one which would weigh more heavily upon shareholders than the ex isting system. The abolition of the entrance fee to the Bourse seems not to be thought of. The only proposal which is thought to be yet under considera tion, is that of relieving the companies to some ex tent from their obligations to perform new works within a given time. But supposing that they were to be allowed fifteen or twenty years to finish what they have undertaken to do in ten, the amount of money to be raised would still be so large that many people think the present relief to the market would be so small as to be insensible The great fact is that the existing number of rail way obligations is so large as to divert the capital which would be otherwise invested in the Rents. It is obvious that when money may be placed in obli gations at 276 fr., which rate is equivalent to Rents at 66fr., there will be few buyers of the latter security at 69fr. and 70fr. Most of the Cams which sprung up sometime since for the purpose of advancing money for carrying over accounts have expired. Two of these bubble establishments have blown up within the last week. The fatrie, having evidently learned that the go vernment refuses to alter the tax on shares, gives an opinion that there has not yet been sufficient ex perience of the operation of the measure, voted only last year, to warrant any change for the present. The French government has, I believe, sent an energetic note to Portugal on the subject of the re cent seizure of a French vessel which was about to land blacks upon Portuguese territory. It is believed that Piedmont is now disposed to let the difference with Naples on the subject of the Cagliari stand over till the meeting of the Paris Con ference. The Empress, in the absence of the Emperor, went to the Gymnase Theatre last night. Ferukh Khan, the Persian envoy, left Paris the night before last for Marseilles, to embark on board the Christophe Colomb steam-frigate, which, as already mentioned, has been placed at his disposal. He was accompanied by all the members of the embassy, by Dr. Fochetti, professor of chemistry and pharmacy at the University of Teheran, and by M. Henry, professor of history, philosophy, and French litera ture at the Military School of that city. The Persian envoy is the bearer of some magnificent presents from the Emperor of the French to the Shab, and a complete assortment of everything con stituting the peculiar industry of Paris, as well as a large collection of elementary books of the French language, which are intended to be used in the schools of Persia. Ferukh Khan, before his depar ture, was nominated by the Emperor Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour; two of the gentlemen of his legation have been named officers, and two others knights of the same order. The Persian envoy pre sented to Prince Yonssoupoff the insignia of Com mander of the Order of the Lion and Sun, conferred on him by the Shah. It is said that the Persian ambassador, who was most reluctant to quit Europe, was obliged to go because he had entirely got through the enormous sum of money which the Shah had placed at his disposal. He did not like leaving Paris on the 13th of the month, because it was an unlucky day; but he ultimately satisfied himself that the evil spell was broken at sunset, and accordingly he set out by an evening train. Madame Orsini, with her two daughters, has, it appears, gone to Nice, and not to England, as was announced. She will probably reside in Florence, her native town, where her mother is living. Her father, Signor Ercole Lorenzi, who died some years ago, was physician to the Grand Duke. Queen Christina is expected to pus the summer in the neighbourhood of Paris. The London journals have committed an error in announcing the arrival of Lord Cowley in the English capital. His lordship has not left Paris, but in tends, we understand, proceeding to England on Monday or Tuesday next, with the intention of making a vary short stay there. THE DIVISION nt THE HOUSE OF LORDS. _ _ _ Order of the day Ibr t. mend medial', read. Moved, That the hal be sow reed • mooed Um; objected to Aa amendamet moved, To lea L o r d " sow" tad Mart (.. this day etz ramtile)—(Th ): After long debate, oe Qamlies That (" Dow") mead part of the motion ? Comet% 7 : Not-Coateata, 36. 00/1111L111111. Ctorewlon, 11,1 MintobelL Lord Maim) finheTlMP. imnoortb. Lord Omni Glomana.,'Smt WroMooloy. Lord (Tam) ittannono. myrooltrvert Cbrioadml. Lord lavantor. Thema Raoafort. Dots Hattbatab•rtaad. DP • Har top. Vt= Data, llama. Crewel Lamar, Monpia aapir b id= ll.l"l6.L4 Lied d Paltabora. MmaL r . a. Lard e n Crtr7r;r4 MOW lard ...'... thr W 1 ., 1M4 1 14 igerd fraior) tw i A IM Mada. Ileri a ., M7egloWed". Lord riielsiOlmel — Mr. , , ,t, Varulam. Mart Damage, TIMMS Mudlie. °Mai, who found much difikutty in getting her pawr4 it Vontoe, Tondo her firm appearance la the ballet at Her Ilajouti's Theatre last night, and displayed a nimbleness of loot that one u'onlil have thought capable of overcoming any impailment to Marne. whether official or otherwise. In the bill she is idtapir styled MOM. Manna. PIEDMONT. The debate on the Deforesta Bill commenced on Tuesday, and was very animated. MM. S. Della Margherita, Boggio, and Msmiami, were the first speakers. The latter, who was "left speaking," made a great sensation by saying "Napoleon 111. is an important ally for England; for Switzerland and Belgium a powerful neighbour; but for us he is the descendant of the great man who did so much foe Italy. On his father's side he has Italian blood in his veins, and I can give yon the positive assurance that he has not forgotten Italy." In the chamber on Monday, M. Crotti requested the president of the council to fix a day fora ques tion he wished to put respecting • pamphlet pub lished in England by Mszzini, on the policy of the Piedmontese cabinet. Count Cavour in reply ex pressed his astonishment that a deputy should want to question the cabinet about • pamphlet by Mazzini, and declared that he would not reply to any such question. " I am ready," he added, " to give the fullest explanations as to the Conspiracy Bill, and any question M. Crotti may wish to put in his own name on that matter shall receive an answer. But if he intends to call attention to the attacks against the Sardinian government M. Mazzini has thought proper to make, my only reply will be a contemptu ous silence." This declaration was received with loud and prolonged cheering from the Chamber and the galleries. M. Crotti declared himself perfectly satisfied, oily remarking that as the British press enjoyed a wide circulation, he had thought it might be expedient to enter into some explanations on the policy of the government. k 'BM, .THE GREAT FIRE AT CHRISTIANIA. In the terrible conflagration at Christiania on the night between the 13th and 14th inst. three quar ters of the city are reported to have fallen a prey to the fames; aaiong other buildings the bank, the Exchange, and other public offices are a heap of ashes. The money and papers of the Bank were saved. The loss is estimated at 10,000,000 fr. THE TRIAL OF SIMON BERNARD. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—THIB DAY. This morning keying been appointed for Mr. James to 'Waring the jury for the defence, the greatest anxiety appeared to be evinced by the public to be present, and the court was filled long before the hour appointed for the commencement of the proceedings. The Lord Chief Justioe, the Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Jus tice Brie, and Mr. Justice Crowder, 011118 into court at ten o'clock. The Attorney-Garserel, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C., Mr. Welsby, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Clerk, apposite} for the pro secution. Mr. E. lames, Q.C., X. Simon, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Sleigh, Mr. Brewer, and Mr. Scoble appeared for the Rte• The prisoner was placed at the bar and the trial proceeded. Mr. James commenced his address to the jury by de claring that he was not using ordinary language when be said that the decision in this ease affected the liberties of England. It had best the boast of England hitherto that it was her privilege to defend the weak against the strong. Many illustrious men had stood on the very spot that he now occupied to defend the freedom which had ever been the pride of Englishmen. This case had been fairly intro duced to the jury, but at the same time he had a right to protest against the extraordinary manner in which this indictment was framed. The real purposes of the pressen tion had been disguised from the very opening —it was not instituted to satisfy some complaint of Englishman, but to gratify the thirst for vengeance of a foreign potentate. But not content with having forfeited the lives of Orsini and Floret, that potentate wished to see an English scaffold stained with innocent blood for the sake of serving his own selfish ends. The Attorney-General had been silent throughout upon the act of parliament under which the in dictment was framed. He made no mention that the law wee being strained for the first time in English history to gratify the demands of a foreign power. The government had shrink from proceeding in this matter by act of parlia ment, and they were seeking to get out of a difficulty by in stituting a criminal prosecution, the like of which was never before known In the jurispi admix of the country. It was at ' the suggestion of the meet acute criminal lawyers of the day Olt this exist iment was being tried; but for the MU of British freedom, and the glorious principle of Nein& fair play, he appealed to the jury to interpose their mks and defeat it. Let him meal to their minds the isellials of this are, with the view of showing that a poli tical *pees was to be accomplished by this prosecution. The annooncesnest of the event of the 14th of January was seesived in these realms with a feeling of horror and indig nities. Detestation for the assassins was universally ex pense, but though the people of England could not re cognise the principle of tyrannicide, they could not shut out from their view, in considering that crime, the positioa of Italy, and the antecedents of the Emperor of the French; while protecting in the liveliest language against the dagger of the meads, Englishmen could not avoid feeling some sympathy for those whose rights and liberties had been rudely destroyed by the legions of the despot. After the attempt upon the Emperor's life, there ammo the threats of high French function►ries, and the abusive ad dresses of the French colonels. A demand was previously made by the Emperor of the French that something should be done to check the proceedings, if not to expel political refugees from these shores. In reply to that demand, the minister of the day brought a bill into the House of Commons to restrict the asylum we had offered to the unfortunate refugees of all climes and countries. The House of Commons, however, refused to give the bill a second reading ; from all aides it was condemned as being a measure dictated to the British parliament, and Lord John Russell, one of the greatest politicians of the age, declared that if the bill passed he should feel himself ashamed and degraded. Not alone was that opinion con fined to the noble lord, but to the majority of the English House of Commons, and eventually the measure led to the downfall of the Palmerston administration. Lord Derby then succeeded to power, but the French difiloulty still remained, and the new government set themselves to work to discover some other method of getting rid of it. It then occurred to the Attorney-General, instigated by Mr. Bodkin, to change the charge against the prisoner from one of mis demeanour to that of wilful murder. For that purpose an old act of parliament was resusitated whose framers had never contemplated its application to such a case, and now it was sought by that means to assuage the anger of the despot without having recourse to the machinery of parliament. Lord Derby's government were seeking to ob tain from an English jury what the English House of Com mons had refused. Well, that being so, let them just see what ground the government had to justify such an unconsti tutional mode of proceeding. They were anxious, they said, to check conspiracies to murder foreign potentates; but, while denouncing such crimes, the jury should not lose sight of the events which had induced the attempt of the 14th of January. Italy—formerly the Queen of the Earth, the home of liberty, and the promoter of all that ennobled civilisation—was now :the prey of the tyrant. Her institutions were suppressed, her eons scattered to the four quarters of the globe, end her fertile lands made a dead waste. Who could wonder, then, that while breathing the air of freedom on English soil, the Italian should sigh for his own sunny dime? Who could wonder that he should conspire to regain liberty in his own native home ; nay, who could wonder that dark thoughts of assassination passed through his maddened brain? But though Englishmen detested the meassin, they never had and never world deny the right of Italians to make open or disguised war against him who had destroyed their liberties. 8o much, then, for Italy. Now let them glance at the his tory of Franca. Since the time of the revolution in 1791, every one must have read of the scenes of bloodshed that characterised that period of French history; but the people then were struggling for liberty—which they enjoyed for a cement, and then followed the Empire of the Groat Na palms. After that the Bourbons; of whom It was said that they learnt nothing and forgot nothing by the vicissitudes of their dynasty. Again the French people arose in defence of mmatitutimal government, and the revolution of 1830 placed Lents Philippe on the throne. In that reign, what hap pened? Why, the real pmeeentor—Lonie Napoleon—made • illmemit upon France to recover the sceptre of his great ends; bat the attempt failed, and he afterwards might that asylum on our shores which he was now denying to the victims of his own tyranny. While in exile on the Rhine, in Switzerland, in England, and is America, he wrote and preached in favour of liberty and republicanism. Time wore on, and the revolution of 1848 arrived. Then followed the republic, which Louis Napoleon solemnly swore to uphold as its presidential head ; and finally, in December, 1852, the butchery of an unarmed mob by a drunken sol diery. The President of the Republic had the leading men of the nation arrested, the people bayonetted and shot down by thousands, and eventually he waded through blood to the second empire. And this was the man who appealed to an Eng. lish jury to have his vengeance gratified against a refugee, of whom it could only be said that he had takes part in an attempted regeneration of Italy I He did not deny that the prisoner had assisted Orsini in obtaining grenades, bat that act was not inconsistent with the idea that be was taking part in the preliminas lea for a general rising in Italy. Be that,how ever, as it might„before be could be convicted the prosecution must show beyond all doubt that the remade' used in Paris, were those with which the prisoner was connected. Now had they done this ? He contendod that the identity of the grenades had entirely failed. None of the witnesses could swear that the grenades produced in the coarse of the trial were like those which the pri soner produced in London and Brussella. The evidence of identity was in one respect suspicious, because the witness was under arrest in Belgium, and on the whole en tirely defective. The descriptions given by the witnesses of those which were connected with the prisoners did not correspond with those found in Paris and now produced, after the attempt of the 14th of January. Then again, as to the pistols par chased of Mr. Hollis, in Birmingham, and forwarded to Paris by the prisoner. It was not denied that the prisoner was collecting arms in Paris, with a view to a rising or an smuts somewhere or other, but it was denied that he insti gated this murder, or that he was a party to the ill-fated attempt which Onial maim In ea voigniutled se rat. There was no illegals* or attempt at co•eeelment is the ac tions of the prisoner. He took the phisk to Os beobtag- office. He gave his own name. He declared the ontente et the box, and while doing so, he made& remark wholly ele m ., detect with the belief that he tram a party to the insane act of Orsini. It was said, however, that there was a letter foetid et the prisoner's lodgings, which went to prove that he mut here had some knowledge of it. This letter referred to a sxiety called the Friends of Italy, and despite what might be said courts of law about the illegality of such combinations, the m could be no doubt that they did exist. And who could in kit heart condemn them? They werenot directed against English. men; they were not oonepiracies against our beloved 'over t i re ; no, they were the combinations of men longing to g e t e y e, their country and their liberties. Suppose we were exile. in France, with our institutions destroyed by a tyrant, should we not conspire to get them beck again? What wen then then about " the Friends of Italy" that could in the remotest degree prejudice the prisoner ? The letter wee dated early in July, 18.57, and contained expressions of opialee e with regard to the Emperor of the French which were certainly strong, but not stronger than had been uttered by men who bad held dike under the crown. It was ridiculous to say, however, that g letter written twelve months before the act could be remind as evidence that the prisoner was privy to what Genet did l e a fatal moment of impaled. This letter was written by Mr. T. Alleop, an enthusiastic sympathiser with the Italian care and in the absence of proof it was not right to infer that the prisoner entertained the view which it expressed. A second letter in evidence was the one written by Oralni to the psi. sonar, and which simply referred to somebody or souraddeg as the Red Company." There was nothing in that Tina came the evidence of Mrs. Radio, who, despite the drilling c d the police, had given her evidence in manner that reflected credit upon her as an Englishwoman. She had told the truth as far as it went, but her husband could have tkrou the moat light upon this case. He could have told as erbe. thee the prisoner hired him to participate in the attempt of the 14th of January; he could have disclosed the real object of the accumulation of the firearms in Paris, which the pi. sonar had arranged—but he was not called, end the jury were left to make what they could out of his wife's eel. deuce. Why was Radio not brought over to give evidence! He, of all men, could have established guilt or innoomme and why was he not brought over from France? It was ft answer to say that had he come he could have ben esteemed under the Habeas Corpus Act, becalms, under the Extradition Treaty, Radio could ban been given up to France again. Why, then, was be not brought over ? Why, because be would have told the jury that like Orsini he had aspirations for liberty, although a poor man, and he had joined an expedition to regenerate his native country ; but. that in a moment of impulse Orsini, who had undertaken its direction, turned away from the original purpose and mode the and end dastardly attempt on the life of the Emperor. Pam ce to the evidence of Miss Cheyley, the housekeeper of Omit, and what did that show 1' Did I t not establish the impremin that the sane of the rising which the prisoner had ne couraged was Italy P She was told by Orsini that he Ira going to Italy when he quitted England. She Otte-wade had conversations with the prisoner about Ordure visit to his native home. She was to repair there to him, and tin prisoner raised her hopes in that respect by always speak* of the coming restoration of Italy. When the intelligence arrived of the fatal, the Means. attempt of the 14th, he 111 to convey to her his conviction that Orsini must be read a be would have been by that time in Italy. Was that Made. eat with his guilt ? He should have thought the dulled ()mini and Pierri would have satisfied the cravings of th Emperor for vengeance ; certainly the scene at the gafficelm on that cold grey morning of their execution should haw made the Bntish Government pause before they fame. tuted this prosecution. Not a word was mid by skim of the wretched men to implicate the prime; on the contrary, if the truth could be lank and posterity would discover it, it would be found that bib srrrthat he was innocent that both had been taped peditton which had the regeneration of its object, ad that it was • sudden sand uncontrolable imputes that aimed them for going forward to its accomplishment. Despite a .sent system in France, that permeated every hones and urn building, that equalled the days of Foncbd end the coreuetto of public security, when the wife of • man's bosom ess bribed into becoming • spy upon him, the French goy= meat had been unable to secure • scrap or • particle of ITi• dean to implicate the prisoner in the crime for Med two human beings had suffered, and two more wee undergoing a eocondary punishment. But the pee anxiety of the prisoner; his fervent prayer wee tait the country which had given him abetter in the bow of his exile would not believe him to be =ads If paying the hired assassin. A few words more, sad booing& have completed his duty to the prisoner. Let the Pry re member that the indictment for conspiracy still bug ewe the prisoner's head ; let them remember that k was the opinion of more able jurists then bb. that the act of parliament under which the present todiel. mint was framed, was inapplicable to the prevent mete= regarded the vindicaton of the law, he believed this trid m. a mockery and • sham. The great object of the :proem= was to induce an English jetty to do what parlismest beim fused ; to eetablieb the principle that an idle me not protected in this country. h had been the pal boast of England, as it was of ancient Roma the the purity and freedom of her institutions enabled beta afford • shelter to the exile of all nations. We led bad things here ; we bad had an exiled pren hood here ; we had had exiled nobility her, and the monarch of to-day in France had obtained edge hers while In exile. Would an English jury, the, bow to the insolent demands of a foreign pe tent= and sacrifice that great and noble principle? Ile weak states of Sardinia and Switzerland he bid compelled to succumb to him, and they had died the laws to satisfy his demands; but the Britii nation, speaking through its representatives I frrisat, had indignantly rejected his mom= ad hurled them back at him, and he me eati•fied the jury would follow the example. 111 might threaten invasion • he might Menem his free to intimidate na,but he oosj6ed the jury to tell btu, that von his 000,000 bayonets glistening on our shores, and hie seta jirrythundbe still eting foundedthreats could extort from them a derision at valiance withdoora upou ye t t ui s tu bo u ul tub d jdoecinonet'ic'eouioafatbstßrit the truth. Time out of mind, British Melee in that very rent had vindicated the sacred cause of justice when comp Lion of both the crown and the bench had vainly attempted to coerce them. Recalling the memory of those amide= steady jurists, he now implored the jury to coed= irell before they consigned to the scaffold the gentleman at the bar, for he was a gentleman both bz uj ..i 3 r i th end =testis; simply because it would gratify a who bed ueid a throne upon the ruined Beetling of • great =pie. The closing remarks of the learned counsel were recited with applause. The court then adjourned for half-en-hour. On te dueling, loCsmpliel to-morrow. nnnu r nc:d that he should =Mom bi stunui rd ing up until The Attorney-General then proceeded to reply, sad is tie course of his observation, he denied that the indictment we founded upon an old act of parliament. it =a jowl Itln t h h i l last never yestr bsen of George upon b it e n f cl ute th um e er ie enough. Happily, this was the first case of this natemthit had ever occurred in this country, and Neden why the act had remained a dead letter lea now. No one could rejoice more than he shell if at the close of this ease the verdict of the jai restored the prisoner to liberty, end wiped away the_l.l! that now rested upon this country from the wdm! the conspiracy to murder the Emperor of the Fear originated on its shone. Ile contended, hoverer, the tY evidence established beyond all doubt that there was a el! 'piracy to murder the Emperor of the Frach, sad whit Y conspirators consisted of the prisoner, Alleop. Ofd u Pierri, Rude), and Gomez. Alleop ordered the grails; the prisoner conveyed part himself and got the carps conveyed to Brussels, where they came into the peen= of Orsini. Orsini and Pierri between them in getting the grenades conveyed to Paris, when rig killed, the crime of murder was as complete es thodlii the French . The with, 4 h th e e att i rpt tio fai n led of . ki b il u ing t other the _. "71111 2: individual whose death was intended bad been struck d It was admitted by the defence that the gnu= by Sow wen um Mr. at T l e g y rus lor bu o t f it u ll us irm co in u g t h eu em dud tlereat the rot " tion hod failed to establish identity between them En other articles which were connected with the On! tbutwhilethieut prisoner produced If, duu : d as h% these tb p w , :r . : u sot ue ut tle; i r"A Madame Baghenzi, and handed to Mons. Georg", iod"2: were token away by Zeguerras, then who m'y those which were in the poeseseion of the , The witnesses swore that there was a grout Illma between them, and of course, that being so. that' tol d "11 been difficult and costly to manufacture. Why , not the defence clear up the doubt by mole maker*? That would have removed ell difficulty. „, oa 7 . 'b r : puttur iserned ium gentlenun was still addressing thin/P i "' toetMd both n tn C t ou he A bod wu y, in th s e ufr ga ers lier b ien, y the lt wis bench er"del ; position that could possibly be occupied, the DAV spectators being evidently persona of distinction one-third ladles, elegantly dressed. The prisoner with with the most strained attention to the address of the counsel who defended him, and when tee learned spoke of the =shed liberties of Franco. Oa dieted allusions to the patriotism of the Dr. Barnard drew himself up to his full heighter" r • iled with animatiou, and hie whole appearanos_eoten edreagest excitement. On the other her, Mr. James ropudisted the idea that kli e „; would have hired en assassin in • count22""ji, he bad token refuge after being driven 7, 7 r • native land, the prisoner bowed his assent to the ismom calm and dignified manner, and without anything theatrical display. The ',relict will probably be returned so" lee 1310,101 r. II