The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, FRIDAY, MAl:cif 8. hoe Sr. L - : , .N11:1 ,, has :ccd his Sale of Laud by !suction Bin, which •ro;;,• down last 4.1 .11, but has done so without removing or notigAting any of the objet tions to which it was then shown to he liable. The coarse of modern experience has decisively condemned that habit of perpetual intetmeddling with the customs of trade which is the inveterate propensity of lawyers of leisure, and has convinced the public that the less the freedom of hosiness transactions is restricted th• better it is for the comnltlllity. The lesson, however. is one win Ai some ~ 1 out senators have yet to learn. In his desire to reform what he supposes to be the practice of land auctions Lord Sr. LEoNARDS has co !need a crusade precisely against that class of auctioneers whose interests combine with their character and position to guarantee the commu nity against practices inimical to its welfare, and been induced to attempt the redress of grievances which have no existence except in his own excited imagination. His Sale of Land by Auction Bill is bawd upon the assumption that auc tioneers are in the habit of running up the biddings for estates above the reserve prices fixed by their clients, the vendors. Why it should be supposed that they are inclined to do anything so foolish we are left to conjecture. A moment's reflection should be sufficient to satisfy anyone that no auctioneer ill his right mind would do so suicidal an act. The very fact of his being paid by a commission altogether contingent on his success in effecting a sale might be sup posed to be quite sufficient to ensure his not going a fraction beyond the reserved price. He would be a chivalrous auctioneer indeed who, after he Lad reached the limit fixed by his client, and thus secured his commission, should make further bid dings on his own responsibility, thus running the risk of throwing away the fruits of his toil when they were within his grasp. It is a well-known fact that if the auctioneer does not earn his commission by selling under the hammer, he does not once in ten times obtain it at all. Either the property is withdrawn from sale or disposed of privately by his vendor or his solicitor ; or, as is frequently the case, some previous pri v:ste offer is accepted without the auctioneer's in tervention, and all the latter obtains is some trifling fee for drawing up the bills and advertise ments. Of the many estates disposed of by auction in England in the course of a year about seven eighths are sold in London, and the auctioneers and land agents who have the conduct of these sales are, as a chum, men of the highest respec tability, of long standing in their profession, and good social position. Probably, if they were con sulted, they would be able to point out some in conveniences which call for a remedy, though not exactly in the direction of this Bill. It is probable, however, that they would think legal interference likely to breed more evils than it would cure. The Bill of Lord Sr. LEONARDS might 1,0 fairly entitled an Act for the Protection of Land Buyers. But if either party at a sale requires the protection of the law surely it is the vendor, who is usually driven by difficulties or death compelling new arrangements in families to bring his property to the hammer, for the purpose of effecting a speedy sale. In these circumstances the vendor has every inducement to sell, in order that the large outlay in the necessary legal and other expenses of preparing for the sale may not be thrown away. It is well known, though difficult to prove, that combinations take place in sale rooms to depreciate property, far more prejudicial to vendors than anything which an auctioneer can devise to injure a purchaser without the injury recoiling upon himself and his client. The confficting decisions of the common law and equity courts with regard to puffers at auctions ought to be reconciled. The former holds that a sale is vitisted by the employment of a puffer, whilst the Court of Chancery holds the opposite view. Lord ST. LEONARDS, who is an Equity lawyer, by his Bill perpetuates one of the greatest evils connected with auctions, and one that the highly respectable class of men now engaged in the business have almost entirely dis carded. This hi very inconsistent, for not withstanding the decisions of the court of equity it is n-t usual to appoint puffers at Chancery sales. Every bidding there must be hoiol po, the auctioneer not even putting up the pr perty, in order to get over the first difficulty of starting the bidding'. Every one accustomed to attend a ictions must have observed how in u.-11 longer a sale of this kind takes than one c nducted Ff THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1867. iii the o discs A ky. It 1- the purchaser cannot be prejudiced by the employment of puffers, since these persons will never, for ot.vi- OUR reasoni. go beyond the reserved price. The public, nevertheless, have a very great dislike to seeing prices run up by the agency of these ge ntry. One conse q uence of the dishivovr with which puffers are regarded is, that a respectable class of men cannot be induced to addict them selves b. the employment, and those who do follow it are very apt to bid injudivionsly, or make ',TOM mistakes, so as to greatly prejudice saki , . For this and other reasons, the system has bee me nearly obsolete, while, if this Bill passes, it must itecessarily be revived. The:— ie a clause in the Bill of Lrd Sr. LKONAI'...• making it illegal for a vendor to .dter the reserved price during a sale. But surely he has a right to change his mind any time the fall of the hammer, and every inducement not to do ao capriciously. What is still more extraer dinary, the vendor has not power to take less th:di the reserved price, even after the property has been bought in. Owners of land are prone to set a higher value upon it than it has in the estima tion .1 other people, and when alterations have to be made in reserve prices, it is invariably in the way of redwing them to meet the public. Who can say that the purchasing portion of the public is danedfied `thereby' Tli,re are other clauses in this Bill calcuLted to place serious obstacles in the way of business, protricting sales, and wasting a large amount of time of the public during the most valuable hours of the day—such, for instance, is the clause making it compulsory to read the conditions of sale before taking hiddings. Such a regulation vorihi be intelligible if proposed in a rude com munity where investors in land had not acquired the accomplishment of reading and spelling. I 1n p0,10,1 41 the busy worldof London f.r enforcement dining just those hours when business 11101 are impelled by the urgent stress of affairs to save every fraction of time it is simply vexatious. The c,,,,,li t io n s of sale almost invariably relate to matters which cannot receive due consideration in the sale room, while intending purchasers have had the opportunity .4 showing a copy to their solicitors xid taking advice thereupon. At a time when the advantages attending the disposal of p:- :ierty by free and open competition are more and :lore appreciated, and the practice is extending to every department of trade—being adopted at cattle markets, wool falls, and even f..r the sale of stocks and shares—it cannot be sup posed that the House of Commons will so far in terfere with the course of business, and especially with sales of estates, as to impose restrictions which would render such sales exceedingly diffi cult, depreciate the value of property, and call into activity a set of harpies who would soon become as great a nuisance at the Auction Mart as the com mission brokers are found to be at the con non auction sales. It will he necessary, however, fur all who are interested, whether as auctioneers, land agents, or owners, to be on the alert. One of the law lords on the second reading of the Bill in the House of Lords expressed a wish that its provi sions might be extended to all kinds of sales, specifying those of tea as exceeding in value all I the sales of land effected in London. While such is the disposition of some of the peers we trust that the House of Commons will be true to the principles which have guided our legislation for the last twenty years, and prevent the imposition of vexatious restrictions on the buying and selling of any kind of property, but especially of pro perty in land, the transfer of which is already ren dered sufficiently difficult by the present cumbrous, slow, and expensive process, which now ahnost prohibits dealings in it except for permanent in vestment. Ws fear there is no room to doubt the mournful intelligence of the death of Livin.wrosz, communicated by Dr. KIRK, on the authority of the Johanna men who accompanied the great tra veller, and report that they saw him murdered by a barbarous tribe, and themselves buried his remains. Dr. Krag, who is Vice-Consul at Zanzibar, had an opportunity of examining the witnesses and be lieves thes statement, and is further of opinion that we shall never know more than the little they tell. Thus has fallen one of the greatest of modern travellers, a man full of enterprise and daring, always directed to a definite aim, and that the noble one of extending the influence of civi lization. This is not the tune for attempting to estimate the precise value of Li viNowroNE's dis coveries, pronounced by Sir RODERICK MURcHIsON ten years ago to be " of incalculable importance," and since greatly extended. He himself was con tent to venture into regions where no European had been before, mastering the languages of savage tribes, taking astronomical observations, and care fully noting the natural features of new countries, in the firm belief indispensable to discoverers, that no knowledge is useless, but that sooner or later every fact finds its place in the great whole of human science. He has died like JOHN WILLIAMS by the hands of those whom he sought to benefit. Prudence will, doubtless, have much to say to the exposure of his valuable life among savages ; but v iNosvoNz knew as well as anyone the risks he incurred, and was satisfied that it was necessary to encounter them. He has fallen as a soldier on the field of battle, and his name will be remem bered by his countrymen as one whose life did honour to his generation. THE ABYSSINIAN PRIiONEIL9. —We read in the broadenr of yesterday:—" According to correspondence from Massowsh, brought by to-day's mail, the last expedi tion of the Emperor Theodore against the tribes which have not submitted to Abyssinia is said to have led to no r esult, the rebel leaders whom he pursued as far as Gondar having succeeded in escaping from him. The anger of the Emperor turned against the ancient capital of the sove reigns of Ethiopia, which, by his orders, was first pillaged and then destroyed. The English prisoners are still at ' Magdala, and the Emperor has not yet given any reply to the letter of the Queen of England." SOCIETY FOR THE ENCOURAORNENT OP THE FINE Aare.—lsut evening Mr. 13.Ottley delivered an interesting lecture on the History of Engraving before a numerous meeting of members and their friends. Al ter adverting to the importance of the art, both as the means of per petuating and disseminating examples of painting and other kindred arts, and as the precursor of printing, he proceeded to point out the error which had so long pre vailed, of attributing the invention of, or first use of, engraving to the Germans. The investigations of Lath and W. Young Ottley had now fully established the claim of the Italians to the invention of copper-plate engraving and among historical evidence went to show that th e same people first used wood engraving in Europe, though probably deriving it from Chinese and Japanese. The lecturer, treating of the historical part of the subject, briefly described the various processes, which he illustrated by a small selection of subjects from various masters. A discussion followed. CAMBRIDGE LOCAL EXAMINATIONS. —in these examinations, 32 candidates from Christ's College, Finchley, out of 35, were succeseful. Fifteen of these were placed in honours, being the largest number so passed ; seven were in the first class and six in the second. Eighteen distinctions were gained in special subjects. This college was instituted in the year 1857. by the Rev. T. R. White. rector of Finehley, and the profits arising from it are expended solely in promoting its efficiency. The English Independent states that Dr. William Smith, who last week resigned the classical professorship at N-m C.lllego, is tube the new editor of the British Quarterly Be•iew. OUR CON TEMPORARIII3. (THIS DAY.) flu (Curt. BUCKINGHAM PALACE. ftt non 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princes Christian, drove out this morning in a carriage and four. attended by the Duchess of Roxburgbe. Major-General HOD. A. N. Hood and Colonel lion. A. Har!lnge were also in attendance upon horseback. Her Majesty drove out this afternoon, aCCollipaaiea by Prince , . ('bristien, and attended by the Lot) •in-w siting, and visited the Princess of Vales at Marlbortrlgh bou.e. Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge was in atten.l..nce horse. back. Princes* Louis also drove out, attendrd I.y Lady Caro line IL,tTine,don. Prince Arthur urrbed At the Palace this Lunt.in4 from Greenwich-park, attended by Major Elphinbtw,.. A committee of the Lonls of her Majesty's Mod Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall. on matters relating to quarantine. The Lord. present were the Lord President, the Duke of Marlbo rough, the Duke of Richmond, the Right Hon. H. Corry. and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. A committee of the Lords of her Ntajesty's Moat Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office upon the subject of the cattle plague. The lonls present were the Lord President, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duk•., of Richmond, and the Right Hon. Stephen Mr. thrri.con and Dr. A. Williams htirmled the committee. TI, is FFN I !!;•I'...2.RECTION. The Tim. , feels bwitul to utter a caution against too readily ts•lieving that the danger which threatened Ireland a few hours ago has vanished. The rising has been too well concerted, too general, too uniform in its action and aillA for us to credit that all is over with the repahse of a certain number of bands from various police barracks. and with the capture ..f two or three hundred of the rebels. The latest news does, indeed. somewhat modify that on which the government /teems to have relied, and there is rea.m. to conclude that we have to deal with a very troublesome. if not a politically for midable, conspiracy,—one which is not likcjy to be destroyed eaccpt by promptit mit and severity. The fact that everywhere those whom it is Ireland's in terest to retain :trc fleeing the country makes it all the more imperative that an end must he made of Fenianisni. A special commission should sit at once. We have played too long with treason. These people believe that the government will not hurt them—that at the worst they may receive a sentence of penal servitude, which is likely to be remitted after a few yea's. It is only by timely severity that they can be undeceived. The Com mander-in-Chief and his officers must also be thoroughly supported in whatever measures may be necessary to give security to the country. The Post fitnla encouragement in the statement that the Fenian leaders are not Irish gentlemen, but American Irish, and in the proved fidelity of the soldiers and police. The Herald calls for condign punishment and a speedy example. There will be no more question of prosecution for treason.felony. These prisoners, taken in arms, will be tried for high treason. Of the rank and flle there are already hundreds—there will soon be thousands—is the gaols. Loral Naas has now a sterner work to do than that which be proposed the other day when Ireland was at peace. The Tetegroph considers the rising as very little and very locaL It is a consolation to find that the badly armed bands who are roaming about do not appear to have any very wicked designs against the life and property of private individuals. It is better for us, at all events, to deal with political madmen, however troublesome, than with mere murderers and thieves. Many of them must now be un deceived in their sanguine expectations, and when they find how little trust they can put in each other's fidelity and firmness, rebellion will receive a heavier blow than any that can be dealt it by Lord Strathnairn. THE ARMY VTINATES. General Peel last night, observes the nlllOl, it:4l to face a task of excessive difficulty in asking for an in creased vote for the army estimates in a time of peace. We are paying a larger sum for a smaller force, but when we remember the increase in the mere coat of maintaining It man and the necessity of furnishing the soldiers with the best possible weapon of attack, we can underNtand that this must be so. Whatever be the Kin 141 NM of our army, it must be maintained in efficiency, even though the convenient formula for reckoning its coat at 100/. per man, of which General Peel w.ms himself the author, re quires to be altered, as it is this year, to 106!. It is in connexion with the cost of enlistment, and still more with the dif f iculty of getting recruits at any cost, that the pro posals for establishing an army of reserve, which General Peel explained last night, must be considered. The Tana abstains at present from condemning or approving the plan unfolded by General Peel, but it suggests various considerations which should be taken into account before the government proposals in this respect are adopted, and especially thinks that it is still to be proved that a militia force enrolled with a view to service abroad in case of ne cessity might not be as efficient and more economical than the reserve recommended to the House of Commons. The Dail!, Nears praises the vigour, clearness, and straightforwardness of the statement of General Peel, and proceeds to define our military position, as affected by the estimates, and to make clear the principal items and the government proposals thereupon. The Herald regards all the proposals as admirable, and is gratified to observe that the general's plan of reserve found equal favour on both sides of the house. The Telegraph declares that the scheme lack* depth, breadth, and fitness'. If we adopt it, we shall spend more money on recruiting for the regular army—that is all ; if we reject it, we shall not be one pin the worse off ; and, in either case, the work of reorganizing the military service will remain to be done. Neither General Peel nor any other war minister seems to have thought of tapping a new spring, and of obtaining a fresh supply of a better kind. The mm of the whole matter, the Star says, is this : Our military needs are exaggeratel They are likely to be both smaller and better supplied than they are now ; so much al that retrenchment rather than increased expendi ture is our primary duty. But large or small, they are capable of being met by improvements in the details and the principles of the service which our statesmen have not the courage or the foresight to propose. ESTIMATES TOR THE CIVIL SERVICE. This morning were issued, stitched together in one large five shilling volume, the estimates for civil ger. Moes, classes 1 to 7, for the year ending 31st March, 18&8. . . . As compared with the votes taken on the estimates originally presented in 1868, the estimates for 1867-8, which amount to 8,202,953/., show en increase of 408,117/.; compared with the sums included in the Ap propriation of 1666 an increase of 304,4971. The sums re quired for the various classes are as follows: Public works and buildings, 842.,:i35/. ; salaries and expenses of public departments. 1,703,230/. ; law and justice, 3,026,942/. ; education, science, and art, 1,487,5 W. ; colonial, consular, and other foreign services, 499,280/. ; superannuation and retired allowances, and gratuities for charitable and other purposes, 359,5ZA/. ; miscellaneous, special, and temporary objects, 183,854/. These classes do not include the sum of 860,0001., granted in 1866-7, to enable the Treasury to make advances for providing new courts of justice ; these advances being re payable out of the Surplus Interest Fund of the Court of Chancery. THE NEW NATIONAL GALLERY. REPORT OF THE JUDGES. This morning we have a copy of the report of the judges appointed to consider the designs of a new National Gallery. With much regret they state that they have unanimously come to the conclusion that they are not prepared to recommend any one individual design for adoption. At the same time they think it doe to the competitors to point to the design for a new national gallery by Mr. Edward Barry, and to that for the adaptation of the existing gallery by Mr. Murray, as exhibiting the greatest amount of archi tectural merit. The judges then submit various sugges tions as to what they consider to be desiderata in the erec tion of a gallery suitable for the reception of the national pictures. The competing architects having heard a rumour of the intention of the judges, wrote to Lord J. Manner,, stating that they agreed to enter the competition on the distinct understanding with his lordship's predecessor (Mr. Cowper) that one of the competing architects would be selected for employment. A contrary course, they re present, would be a breach of faith, and would confer a lasting injury on every one of the competitors. In appears they are supported by Mr. Cowper himself, but Lord J. Manners says that no record exists in the office of any such understanding, and that he must abide by the original instruction to the architects, which ab solved the government from any undertaking of the kind, and not by a private understanding of which be knew nothing. Mr. Cowper says that the engagement of the architect whose design had the award of the first place is quite independent of the adoption of the particular design. Lord J. Manners says that by his instructions he conceive* the judges are quite at liberty to refrain from recommending any one of the competing designs for adoption by the government, and yet fulfil the expectations of the competitors by recom mending that one of the competing architects should be selected for employment. This, however, the judges cannot be considered to have done. A meeting of the Digest of Law Commission was held on Wednesday. There were present : Lord Cranworth, Lord Westbury, Lord Cairns, Sir J. P. Wilde, Mr. Lowe, Vice-Chancellor Wood. Sir O. Bowyer, Sir John O. Shaw Lefevre, Sir T. Erskine May, Mr. Daniel, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Reilly. The death is announced of the Rev. Dr. George Oliver, a gentlenian who has devoted many years of his life to the advancement of the principles of Freemasonry, and who has at various times held high office Mite ranks. THE QUEEN'S COURT. The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace yesterday afternoon. The Queen wore a black anoiri: antique dress, with a train trimmed with crape and jet, and a diadem of dia monds and opals over the Mary Queen of Scots cap, with a long veil of white crape lime. Her Majesty also wore a necklace, brooch and earrings of diamonds and opal+, a diamond cross suspended from the necklace, containing a miniature of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, the riband and star of the Order of the Garter. and the Victoria and Albert order. Her Royal Highness the Princess Louise wore a train of rich white silk, striped and thinned with blue velvet, and a white satin petticoat of tulle over glace silk, trinnned with bows of blue velvet. Head•dress, blossoms of the narcissus and convolvulus, with feathers and veil. I)ia. lleula and ruby ornaments, the Victoria and Albert order. and the Order of St. Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice wore a dress of white satin trimmed with swansdown ; bands of blue velvet in her hair, and pearl ornaments. Her Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice, accompanied by the Hon. Mn. Grey, the Miesev Grey, Colonel Lindsey, and General Grey, honoured the Glynipic Theatre with her presence last evening. Tho Earl and Countess Russell entertained at dinner last evening Earl Granville, Lord Eliot, Lord Edward Russell, the Right lion. Sir David Dumb's, the Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, and Lady Augusta Stanley, ike., at their residence, in Chesham•place. The Countess of Malmesbury, we regret to state, continues in the slime hopeless condition. For some days past the Earl of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, and Lady Manners, and other members of the family, have been with her. The .Marquis Conynghain left tuwu un Tuesday for his seat in Ireland. Viscount Casticrosse arrived on Tuesday last at his seat, Killarney House, Killarney, from Rome. Vis countess Castlerosse and Lady Alice Kerr continue at Rome. His lordship's return has been hastened by the state of some portions of Ireland. Viscount and Viscountess Lismore left London this morning for Ireland, as the alarming accounts of re bellion and bloodshed in the south made his lordship's presence on the spot necessary at once. The Right lion. John W. Fitzpatrick left town on Tuesday lust for his seat in Ireland. His Excellency Shahin Pacha, General-in-Chief of the Egyptian army, accomp►nied by Colonel Marnsbly Bey, Colonel EMatann Bey, and M. Houstafa Effendi. has arrived at Claridges Hotel from Paris. The Times is authorised to state that there is no foundation whatever for the statement in the Ou-/ that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been in communica tion with Mr. Bright as to the details of the proposed Reform Rill. Mr. Gladstone was one of the speakers at the annual meeting of the Newport Market Refuge and Indus trial School held yesterday. In the course of his address the right hon. gentleman urged the claims of the houselesa poor of the metropolis on the practical sympathy of the well-to-do portion of the community, remarked upon the shortcomings which had characterised the relief dispensed at workhouses, and recommended the Newport Market Refuge and Industrial School to the support of all who de sire to shelter and sustain a class of destitute persons for whom very little provision exists. The Bishop of London, u Dean of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, preached the sermon at the 12 o'clock ser. vices in the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, on Ash Wednesday. There were many members of both Rouses of Parliament present, and several bishops. It is said to be the first sermon his lordship has undertaken since his severe illness, which commenced towards the close of Sep. tember last. On Tuesday Mr. Graves will move in committee of the whole house that the chairman be directed to move the house that leave be given to bring in a bill for the better regulation of publio•bouaes, refreshment houses, and beer-houses. Mr. Hubbard next Friday will ask the Vice- President of the Committee of Council on Education whether it is the intention of her Majesty's government that the grants voted to promote elementary educa tion be administered in strict conformity with the principles and regulations of the revised code as approved by parliament. With reference to section 22 of the revised code, whether the number of scholars now considered adequate to maintain a school is greater or less than the number, thirty, for whom school plans have been provided by the Committee of Council on Education. Whether families interested in a proposed school will be allowed to decide for themselves the suitability of the religious denomination under which it is to be founded. And whether, in the event of a de nominational school not being acceptable to all the families locally interested, its suitability will be determined by reference to the majority who can, or to the minority who cannot, maintain it. The select committee to try the Tipperary county election petition will be °bonen on the 25th. Mr. Sandford intends, on the second reading of Terumts Improvements (Ireland) Bill, to move, " That it be read a second time upon this day six months." Among the miscellaneous advances from the Civil Contingencies Fund during last year, and which have to be repaid from the vote to be taken for 1867-8, are the following :—Funeral of the late Viscount Palmerston, 2,0791. 19s. ; equipage money to the M►rquis of Abercorn and Lord Chancellor Blackburn, 3,6921. 6s. 2d.; entertain• went of Queen Emma, of the Sandwich Islands, 2,1141. Is. Id. ; expenses of electoral statistics, 9,1471. 4s. lid. ; Mr. Lambert, services in preparing information relating to the late Reform 8i115,500/.; " Parliamentary Record" supplied to public departments, 400/. ; repairs to Speaker's state coach, 27/. 25., &c. The Ruin which is expected to be required for the coal commission during this year is about 10,000. The inquiries have been divided by the commission among five committees, vis. :—On possible depths of working ; waste in combustion ; waste in working ; probabilities of finding coal under certain strata ; and on mineral statistics. The expenses of Mr. Rassam's mission to Abyssinia are estimated et 6,610/. For the expenses of Lord Granville's journey to Germany, in 1865, in attend ance on she Queen, the sum of 5831. 16e. Id. is asked, The outfit of Lord Lo ft us, Ambassador to Berlin, is 2,5001. The Bishop of Newfoundland, from St. John's to Bermuda and back, 1201. ; the Bishop of Antigua, visiting the islands in his diocese, 94/. 19a. Bd. M. Guizot read on Tuesday evening, in the sa/un of a friend in Paris, a chapter of the Bth and concluding volume of his " Memoirs," which is to be published in • few days. It gives an account of the Pontificate of Pins IX. and a sketch of the political state of Italy during the interval between 1846 and the Revolution of Febrwkry. The volume closes with a summary of the events that have sine* then taken place in the Peninsula. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE MILITARY ARMAMENTS OF EUROPE. We find the following in the Muuiteur Soir. It will be seen from it that the great increase in the armies of Europe is for the purpose of mutual respect and keeping the peace : The military question is on the order of the day in almost every country in Europe. It is not only so in the Case of great powers like France, England, and Austria, but of small states like Denmark and Holland, which are replacing their system of armament and re organising their armies. The general principle adopted is that of obligatory service for all citizens, and a division of the army into an active service force and a reserve force. The moment the great powers adopted this system, it became necessary for the other states to follow the example. In the project for the confederation of North Germany obligatory service is required. Austria hsa adopted the same principle in all the provinces of the empire. The four states of South Germany have agreed to enforce the same system. Sweden and Denmark ' have proposed to their Chambers that every Swede and Dane should be enrolled. Holland is desirous of increas ing her active army from 55,000 to 70,000, and of forming a national guard of 106,000 men. Finally, in the south of Europe, Spain and Italy are endeavouring to augment their effective force and a commission, appointed by Victor Emmanuel, is engaged on a project which, by declaring every Italian liable to ser vice, would raise the Italian army to 500,000, of whom 300,000 would be in active service, 100,000 for filling up gaps in the service, and 100,000 reserve. The whole of these preparations is not a menace to the peace of Europe, but a guarantee of the mutual respect which the powers owe to one another. If the military art, like other sciences, has made program which renders a change in its armament indispensable, it must not be forgotten that armies are not required merely for war : they maintain public order ; they develop° ideas of discipline and order, and contribute, even in time of peace, to the force of nations and to their dignity. THE ROMAN EMIGRANTS. A Florence letter in the Dihnts contains the fol- lowing It is alleged that the Roman emigrants are about to cause grave embarrassment to the pontifical, and conse quently to the Italian government. The emigrants are very numerous, about 12,000 it is said. They intend to enter Rome all at once as to their own homes, according to the suggestion of Garibaldi. However pacific the entry may be it is difficult to believe that some trouble will not be caused to the temporal power. This project is attri buted to Professor Filopanti, of Bologna, who is one of the chiefs of the advanced party. (asusn's Tasozmie.) THE EASTERN QUESTION. VIENNA, MARCH S. The Prem of to-day says :—" Russia agrees in principle with the proposal of France to recommend to the Porte the cession of Candis and the greater portion of rheas&ly and Epirus. But she considers this proposal merely as a point of departure for the solution of the Eastern question, which requires the concession of the acknowledged political and civil tights of the Christian subjects of the Porte. Eng land declares that these proposals entirely upset the Paris treaty of 1856. Further negotiations be tween England and France on the subject have led to no result, but Russia has announced her inten tion of making an official proposal for the provi sional settlement of the question on the basis of the French propositions." THE SOUTH GERMAN STATES. MUNICH, MARCH 8. The resolutions of the military conference at Stuttgard have been ratified by all the South Ger man governments, who now declare the object of their understanding to be the establishment of a common military organisation similar to the Prus sian military system, which will enable them to defend the integrity of Germany in common with the other German States. The conference deferred the adoption of a resolution respecting the future garrisons of the fortresses of Ulm and Rastatt. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAUCH 7, Evrsnic. The Council of Ministers resolved to-day that notwithstanding the adverse votes of the provincial Diets, the principle of a general obligation to mili tary service should form the basis of the conscrip tion for the present year. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. VIENNA, MARCH 8. Prussia has officially informed the Austrian Cabinet that the obstacles to the conclusion of a treaty of commerce between Prussia and Austria are not yet removed. Austria has declared herself ready to resume the negotiations with Prussia on this question immediately after the return of the Austrian commercial plenipoten tiaries from Florence. The Council of Administration of the Creditan stalt will propose, at the next meeting of the share holders, the payment of a dividend of fully 5 per cent. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. VISIT OF THE EMPEROR. PARIS, MaRCH 8. The Moniteur of this morning says : "The Emperor paid a fresh visit yesterday to the Champ do Mars. His Majesty expressed his satisfaction at the activity with which the works connected with the arrangement of the Exhibition are being carried on, and particularly remarked upon the large number of objects already sent by foreign exhibitors. He expressed a hope that French exhibitors would not allow themselves to be forestalled, and that each would make it a point of honour to be perfectly ready by the 28th March." EXECUTION OF THE MURDERER LEN HIRE. PARIS, MARCH 8. The murderer Lemaire was executed at 6 o'clock this morning. An immense crowd surrounded the scaffold. AMERICA. (lIT ATLANTIC TRIACRAPH.) NEW YORK, MARCH 7, 5 P.R. On Monday the House of Representatives will adjourn its sittings until the month of May. The proposal for the impeachment of President Johnson has been referred to the Judiciary Com mittee for investigation during the recess. Closing prices :—Gold, 154 Sterling exchange on London, loBi. 5.20 United States Bonds, 109} ; Illinois, 1144; Erie, 54. Cotton : Middling upland, 304. " The carnival," writes a correspondent, " is certainly defunct in Paris, as, without the exhibition of the Bceuf-Gras and its peregrinations along the streets and boulevards from one rich house to another, it would pass away every year completely unnoticed. On Tuesday, with the exception of some children, scarcely a fancy dress was to be seen anywhere, unless in the cortige of the day. The crowd in the public thoroughfares was immense, and wherever the ox and its retinae passed along all traffic became for the moment impassible. The Monitcor has ex. plained the true ch►racter of the plaster figure which stretched forth its arms over one of the cars. It repre sented the Genius of France inviting the natives of all countries to the Paris exhibition. At night, as is usual on the Mardi Gras, all the masked balls and dancing places were crowded to excess." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE SENTENCE UPON M. EMILE DE WRARDIN. (PROM OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.) PARIS, THIIintIAT EVINCNG. At half-past 11 this wonting the judgmeil! of the Correctional Tribunal in M. de Ch.:una's case was pronounced by President Delastaux. The following is a translation : Whereas in the number of the Liierf: of March 1, I'h;;', De Girardin, the managing director, published in an article of which be is the author. entitled. " Ihs Ihs. tints. Meilleures " (Better Destinies). beginning with these words :--" Of all the speeches of the Miniatl of State," and concluding with these, " In the balanc e the weight of his opinion:" And whereas iu this article the author, reducing the speech made by the Minister of state in the Corps Legialatif on February 16 to the following phrase :—" We have gradually and every year led the country to better destinies "—makes that phrase the buds of his operations, and examines what he calls the extenial and is. terns! situation of the country. With regard to fun ign affairs, he restricts the greatness of imperial France to the territorial aggrandisement produced by the annexation of three new departments, and affirms, in a form and style which fails to conceal his real intention, that this aggran. disement was obtained not only at the price of the heaviest sacrifices, but moreover by the solution of all the great questions which he examines in a sense contrary to the public interests. With regard to home politics he confines himself to expressing his preference• for the legal state of things anterior to December 2, 1851, and measuring France, as he says. by a comparative scale of liberty be affirms that she is far below Germany, England, Belgium, Rolland, Italy, Poe tess], Switzerland, and that the only country in Europe below France is Spain : Whereas these affirmations with. out discussion cannot be considered as a criticism on the acts of the government, nor as a censure in the jadicial sense of the word, for in that sense censure is only something one degree above criticism : An•l whereas, in every article of loyal criticism the reader ought to find the element of a decision either for or against the solution proposed : Anil whereas, if it were otherwise, the press; under the form adopted by the article incriminated would, either forcibly or aurrepti. tiously, impose its opinions upon the public—a thing which it has no right or duty, and, doubtless, no desire to do : And whereas the aforesaid affirmations, put Us:ether with a manifest intention to " attack," constitute the offence of exciting to hatred and contempt of the government : And whereas the author of the article, with the object of reviving rancours of another epoch, for the purpose of ere. sting excitement, to-day renews the attacks against the act of Dec. 2, 1651, which has been twice acclaimed by universal suffrage and now belongs to history• : And whereas after hay. ing in the course of his article affected to consider France as isolated from her government he concludes by the fol lowing queries, which betray a criminal intention, and are at the same time smart decided forty of weeds exciting to hatred and contempt :—" Is Franca more powerful than she was before 1851? Is she more free? Materially, ',ea it possible fur France to prevent the irreparable faults which have been committed And, if these should be aggravated by new ones, what means has France to throw in to the balance the weight of her opinion !": And whereas the declaration made by M. de Girardin in court—that if his article exceeded the limits of dis cussion and censure which are his right, he had no inten tion to excite to hatred and contempt of the Emperor's government, and that he committed the fault and pub. liahed the incriminated article at a moment when, by the letter of Jan. 19, the Emperor entered spontaneously on the path of his present policy--attenuates the mis demeanour, but does not extinguish it: And whereas besides there are extenuating circumstances in the cause: And whereas Serriere printed the number of theLiberto which contains the incriminated article, knowing that it was to be published : And whereas he also knowingly aided and abetted the author of the article in the acts which pre pared and facilitated their execution : And whereas these facts constitute in regard to Etude de Giranlin the mis demeanour provided for and punished by Art. 4 of the decree of August 11, 184 ff ; and in regard to Serriere, the misdemeanour of complicity provided for and punished by Articles 59 and 00 of the penal code, and the 160 VA article of August 11, 11446, modified Art. >t of the same decree, and Art. 453 of the penal code : The court sen• tenets Girardin to pay a fine of 5.000 f r., and Serriere to pay a fine of 100 fr., and condemns both jointly and severally is costs. This sentence, although the fine of 5,000 fr. is the maximum which the court could inflict, is milder than was expected. During the two hours that the audience was waiting in court yesterday, while the judges were in the council chamber, the greatest astonishment was expressed by the bar at the delay, because in these suit of cases the judges generally have their judgment drawn up before the hearing and only appear to deliberate as a matter of form. Most irreverent remarks were made in court about the judges having sent to the Tuileries for "orders," and about a proctireur-general's clerk in a cab running after the Minister of Justice in the Bois de lioulog,ne. I do not know what the truth may be, but I c•r taitdy do not exaggerate or misrepresent when I say that the public have no respect whatever for these Correctional judges, and do not believe in their independence. I have seen people who de clare they saw a proof-sheet of a semi-o iticial journal in which the sentence iipon M. de Girardin was stated to be one mouths imprisonment besides a fine. Rightly or wrongly I cannot tell — the belief is that if the judges required to sleep upon the matter it was that the•; awaited instruc tions from a power which in a e ll-on:ais...l state has no influence on the judicial bench. Of course if the judgment is not such as the government in tended, the Procureur-General will appeal. Notwithstanding the mildness of the sentence, M. Emile de Girardin publishes in this evening's Lawrie a declaration of war in limn against the government. Ho says the condemnation places him in the ranks of the " systematic enemies of the imperial government," and forces him—pain ful though the separation is—to break with the friendships of twenty years (meaning his friend ship with the imperial family). His " cruel wound " Can be cured by nothing less than " am putation," and ho proudly gives the Iluiper..r notice that his (M. de GirardiMs) •' respounbility" cannot go the length of " solidarity " with him. Tamberlik is now in Paris, on his way from St. Petersburg to Madrid, where he has accepted an enga,T• meat for fifteen nights. Fraachini will make his first Ap pearance this season in Paris in Verdi's opera, Us /3,114 is Maschera. THE LATE"ARTENICSWARIt."—OUT4oIItIIantptiII correspondent, writing yesterday, says :—The TeM3il. 4 of Mr. Charles Brown left here for London by the :0(1 p.m. train this afternoon, preparatory to their tempormy interment in Mensal-green cemetery. The body w., ~c-companied companied by Mr. Hinton, Mr. Brown's travelling coin. panion and business manager. The pleasant and com panionable qualities of the deceased are proved by the number of literary friends;who amidst the turmoil of their professional lives in the metropolis often came down here to cheer him by their sympathy and friendship. It redounds to the credit of the United States go. e minent that their representatives in this country took the greatest interest in his welfare, and were solicitous that,heing American citizen, nothing should be wanting to solace him in hislast illness. Captain Britton, the United Stateseonsul at this port, although he was not a peraonal acquaintance of Mr. Brown's previous to the llatb.r's arrival heir, behaved towards him as a father to a son. ilia Brown would scarcely allow him out of his sight, and the captain watched him hour after hour. and affectionately closed his eyes after death. From words that escaped him before his death be was evidently thinking of the great country be fi nd the ocean, which he loved so well. DEATH OF PRoFltssOtt GooteOß. —.The death is announced of John haslsir, Profesaur of Amitomy in the University of Edinburgh, at Wardle, near E.lillllllr,ill. on Wednesday. The deceased gentleman died unmarried in his 53rd year. His chair was, it is understood. the most lucrative in the University of Edinburgh, being worth to him over 2,0001. a year. No inter day a al! Ireland. Juncti ~,,, TLcc did not is patro t.A.k P° 3B c Her Ma rams! Yell under tin gunboats .1 It i+ cr. FenlMtt detectives present ; the tuoven iLo Yahu, It us sal, inunediate Despatc Fenian to hills, but t bad raw, lug the fa: The assize longed for had been r to Dublin Several •oilers to t A still full• arnu Cork and t commissar It 13 Lai ,' . 11 - 111. , 1/ Bat be W.I. mil to the arre At Clo, Feniuns w, Foot, with were killei arms ca ti On Wel and Thurh of deposits The iruturg resident gt arum. Horse w to the tow threatened Several hospitals. Mud hear, The ittNi Irish, one Tiiesilay. Lor' P urgent re,c The ga.,l towns are In e4mse guards hal terminus u A grant night. Ample a ing Dublin attempted. shot-pro, f which soin, tation of to be adj require. DI ',Cacho' have been barracks in garrison 1.,n Artillery al their Arno entrance. park, has Bevar's-b cient to ni A troop Castle to r Tuesday n duty on all Major 0 rick Juncti !cry, and on the e 1 The 11,11, 1 A number i town Gaulle, I Con, it is sup last night. visited early i Patrick Melo $ had. They t. 1 direction of A body of s - hi the neighb tam. At Greenfie • of Penien,, to 111 "faY'a gam hie family ho Awl the rebel. Colonel Puref They found ti P. Madden the rebels left The resider Crantstowu, i while was a. le the huu liberated. The e e .o„ Ira " also vial Police afterw. and conveyed The res id e , to next atta. taken. The natio' exception by the Diet. A lo w ith Xightditt lune now uni •nd eveni ng bacovered - - the usual subs