The Express. — London, England, 1859-02-08 00:00:00

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RION WATIUL AT LONDON =IDOL =iga= k.---... tV &ONDON, 117IIDAY, 713. I Pear don't attempt Mien year 'Ameba," wee Swim's advise to • rationsa of strew imagination and weak memory who was laboriously explaining tumult. The Imperial Allegation delivered yester day in the Salle des Etats say be commended as a considerable feat in the "darning" line. M. Di OCIZSONNIaIIE, the sonoroas and satisfied psa lms of the Empire, spins the cobwebs, sad who bet the Eamon himself can darn them We on this rid-Fashioned side of the water are so woe tamed to the grave and quiet screw pedesfris of Royal Speeches, composed by responsible Ministers sad tamed to real Lords sad Commons, that we mm Welly be persuaded to take ',Timely a self denying EMPEROR mounted en • high-principled Hipper', cad emading a flourish of shames and trumpets to his own honour and glory,' and foe the satisfaction of Posterity. The whole scene in that splendid hall of the Loam area which the ingenious profanity of the artist was commissioned to depict CIiattLIMAGXI and NAPOLSOIS in • sprawling apotheosis, leeks Mee like a slrogne,:in the Circus than the opening of a legislative erasion for the despatch of business. Perhaps there was something infectious in the de beached art with which the Salle is daubed ; the Art ed the Decadence, glaring in colour, colossal is the, impotent from excess. Peace, and Plenty, sad Commerce, and Agriculture, are there personified; bat War, mounted and caparisoned, fills a more °on spinouts space, whilst the two great Emperors of the West salute one another. We cannot be surprised that in the midst of such a daring Pantheon the Em Pawl's utterance should be somewhat windy and grandiose. The Napoleonic Idea is at all times a big instrument to play ; it is one of those instraimeru de percussion which sound so terribly in the European concert, and drown the modest constitutional fiddle, with their savage die. Yet, when we read the Speech a little closely, we begin to fancy that the itersaoa has read with advantage the report of M. HALM, and that in compliance with the recommendation of the commission appointed last year to regulate the pitch of French voices and French horns, be has ventured to sot an example of "dropping a " quarter of a tone." Loots Nseofeoe comes out as the great " injured party" of Europe, the victim of calumny, distrust, and atimendentanding. This is the reverse of the medal; on the other aide is the majestic front of the Arbiter apses* and war. Have the debates of the free Parliament of England cooled the generous ardour of the liberator of Italy Hee the Hoarse, the only forum of free discussion in Imperial France —not, we would hope, "that is " famous region where vulgar interests are debated" above which the Imperial Rag le (mo longer tame)man into the empyrean of " Posterity ;" has the Boone, we sorrowfully ask, damped the enthusiasm of a ma ligned and misrepresented lover of liberty—beyond the Alpe Is absolute power condemned to pay the penalty of isolation and abandonment when purchased friends fall off, and the worshippers of sumer stand coldly aloof Is there a Nemesis, not a fatality, in this conspiracy of indifference and re pulsion ; in this silence and suppression of public speech ; in this mute and sullen apathy around • throne, when noble names and lofty principles are Invoked bye man to whom liberty MY once the ladder of ambition, and honour the footstool of usurpation ? When the commander of the gen darmerie reported to his master that the feeling of the population in the departmeota was all for peace, and that even in Alsace the fear of an invasion wee stronger than the appetite for glory, the Ex P ROR is reported to have exclaimed bitterly, "French " men are no longer what they w ere." Sews years of Imperialism were summed up in these few words. The crowned conspirator upon whose fiat all Europe. and England herself, had been content to wait, deplores the periodical fits of discouragement that seise • nation diecnchanted and disabused by rrroladens, exhausted rather thau subdued. The man who bolds the peace of Estop, in the hollow of hie head, sad who is popularly supposed to be more sentimental than scrupulous by nature and by habit, is surprised at so much distrait and somuch alarm, when an Empire of the Might and of the Sword is at once vociferating " Puke," and amassing the deadliest implements of war. Ile recalls the " moderation" of which he has " grit en so mazy proofs," and reminds mot " the power "of France." Is it not because the power of Franco is committed to heeds which may be moderate to day mod notelet to- morrow, ea occasion or ea prioe may dictate, that the " doubt•" of Europe respond to the dumb " distrust" of France hermit ? We have co coos@ to ciosplain of the emphasis with wit:eh the alliance with England is asserted by the ESTERO*. Wem it an alliance beard capon a common freedom and a mutual political sympathy, as well as upon materiel lettersets, he would sot find it fail him when an honest blow wee to be struck foe an honourable cease. But it is sot es, and it is Ik. carte of unequal and uneongeniel friendships that on questions of principle they can no more agree than light with darkness. Russia is the beloved object at the Western Powers jest now; Lewis NAPOLEON vie/ with Lord 11ERFIT in tender coquetries to the Crimean enemy; bat in the maid of the French ES PRIOR UMW (slitters's* an addressed indirectly to Austria, with whose bad faith. obstructive jealousy, and irritating oniony, the goodwill of Prussia, the eirdiality of Russia, the fidelity ■rd devotion of Piedmont, and the wrongs of bey, arc forcibly cootraated. The Speech, we are told, was designed to be pink ; it was discounted in this sense at Paris on Saturday ; and if the expression of a hope that peace will not be disturbed, and the declaration of the IbtrulCia that he will remain firm in the path of right and justice and of the national Dear, may be deemed sufficiently specific and mem to counteract all the outward and visible algae of hostile prepa rations at Algiers, Toulon, Marseilles, Lyons, and Turin, we an only say that the " unjust suspicions," " sad " the interested apprehensions" which the intennou denounces, will have been easily allayed. It has been said that a skilful exercise of power is better shown in making use of incidents as they arise, than in forming schemes with remote views. The orator of the Salle des Etata is generally re puted no mean adept in either school of policy. No man, as an orator who barn the first and last word is • debate, knows better how to wield what PAM. Louis Oman called la mitrailk do ramyesmono— repostrophs. Tree, N.trotsoN the TEM'. des sea miner; bet we candidly confess that be suns to es to fire his hollow shot very wildly when he apostro phises " GOD, 0011111Cill0011, and Posterity," as the lest jukes of his lib sod reign. We are irresistibly re edoelsolot Otheatisbesset Mend dropping on his knees. Nay, are we net reminded of General BONLPAITZ, who closed his despatch to the Directory announcing the negotiations for the Treaty of Campo Formic with the following noble and touching expostula tion t—" I have merited by my services the approbs " don of the Government and of the nation ; I have " received repeated marks of its esteem. I have now 4. 60 more to do but to mingle again with the crowd, "to grasp once mare the plough of CIXCINNATCS, "and to set an example of respect 63r mager " testae, and aversion for military rely whir& has destroyed so many republic* and raised several ▪ stales." In a preceding paragraph of the sane deepateh, the modern ClectseArtls had suggested . . _ that " war with England would open a Geld et activity more extensive, more essential, more • itarions," than war for Italy. " The people of 0 Singiaad are of more worth than the Venetian " posy* and their Liberation will for ever aims& " date the liberty and happiness of Franco.' Barely, it is a sonsfort to be assured that the Nephew is prepared te consolidate the liberty and happir nese of Nears at a cheaper rate than the " fibers " tics" d Bagimmi. Mi. JoMt SMUT MILL has given us, in the form of a succinct and striking pamphlet, the result of his mature refiectious on Parliamentary Reform. Though be makes no reference to earlier opinions, the most superficial glance will make the reader who is at all conversant with his writings in past years think Mr. MILL has seen cause to modify nuke of the view be formerly held. He still cline to the thee radial idea of BRITIIAM that in a wiled system every man not mentally or monelly disqualified eaglet to poem some share in the repremataties of the commenity. Bat he urges that as all man are sot equally component by actual study and prenamed redaction to judge what is good fee the mike at large, some attempt ought to be made to give increased voting power to the better taught and more intelligent member, of of society. He would graduate this eakaaosd else- torsi power aceording to certain tailings and tests of intellectual acquisition. To the foreman of the factory, ea one who, it may be presumed, has been mimed above his fellows by pro-eminent worth and skill, he would give two votes, if the hands around him were given car. To farmers and other inane trial clams he would give three votes, if the waged labourers were permitted to have each a single voice at elections. To professional men and graduates of universities he would be still more liberal. Mr. MILL is likewise an advocate, and somewhat of a warm one, for the representation of minorities, which he declares to be indispensable to the realisation of a truly democratic system. We observe with regret that sue has lost his confidence in the ballot; but we are consoled by finding in him a resolute opponent of that worst of all conceivable expedients for col lecting the suffrages of the people—that of "voting " Paperi." It is not to these points, however, that we would especially desire to direct the attention of the reader in the brochure of this eminent and eloquent publicist. By far the most valuable portion of it is that in which he deals with the difficult subject of re-dietributioa. Re does se net in the spirit of a political map-maker, but is the exalted and truly noble temper of a man who looks beyond the aims sad objects of the day, and mks only to fad what may be permanently useful, wise, and worthy of national respect. He avows ire liming his dislike to all schemes of mere disfranchisement, and his strong preference for the opposite system of com prehension and inclusion. He prefers grouping of small towns together to the transfer of seats to either counties or great cities ; but he remon strates justly against making the old shrunken or withered tree the stock upon which the newer towns are to be grafted. In many cases the places condemned, for their size or obscurity, to be placed in schedule A or B, lie close to one another, while the materials (or adequately reinforcing them lie at a distance too remote for anything like a hone*. geseity of feeling or identity of sentiment. Mr. Mat gives several striking illustrations, and then asks why we should cling superstitiously to the wrong metres in making new, or rather re- modelled boroughs. His suggestion is that all country towns with a given population should be taken as the materials of the amended list; that they should be divided into groups, according to 1 1 contiguity and aggregate population, withoatrerard to whether two or more of the old boroughs Right be joined together to constitate ace d the new; but securing to each of them a contributive place in some one group. We own we think the adoption of some principle like that which is pleaded for by Mr. Miu would go far to obviate the most plausible objections t►at are raised soloist the system of grasping. We would not go the length GI saying that the claims of groat towns should be disregarded or three of great counties either. But we have been always of opinion that the country town element was one that ought not to be discarded or contemned in the re-construction of our repre sentative system : and any plan that helps legiti mately to preserve and purify what is good in it is entitled to the best consideration. haw Pass. —ln addition to tie new peers who toot OW Nato is the Mess of Lorde os Ttursefay leer, the totiowies piers rat Iret is earn onset (Aar the &Atha of their Warn :—The Lord Deshevaliea the Lord Lyon'. the Led ribbons, the Lord ettermeredalia and the Earl of Aytirt EAST WOICISTKIBUIRR.—It is believed the oleo- till Sill aot take play at wet be the neat tea days or It.rtaight, ns lator• the eat ens bs forestal, dee-lazed vacant ter ma forms ant have to be pas through to entitle the pre seat Lad Notthlrick to task s seat in the novae of Lords; sad Maws these forms are east lots the ark for a eta thlekta Wi I sot be batted. Mr. Pant/ton, wheat Maras we hew elbeel is i. said t. be rtrovaisir. lead sad Mr. Lygus, sat Mr. Dascleseell, forasely 11 1 7. 11 f ro: Tevhsehary, Weasel sa weal ly ..f Crown from • wa ling elf to tbe Vara lbetsaace. Waretke. a. 801011 7 akesss a. la Ur e awes of Get lm.sta's ote realteals sal that the Hes of Waging Swami Mr. Ca thaw as a ra yam ale he tee O.IIIIOTR dinette ass hashed by teed Mal. at kM sent at. T•bleley. t.sa e eanandewed to Lied WatJ, she dare a seedy segai•setaus be the some. dos. gbe court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Fn. 7. The Qom, with Prince Arthur, Inlaid sad drove In the Roefecperk thla teceniag, end viand the Dashes of lent at Fregetore. Primo Alice sad Memo Haim reds ea tionsbalit. Priam' Lentos end Prises Leepeld drove out in an open carriage and four. The Hari of llabuitabery arrived at the Castle yesterday ea a visit, and retuntad to Leaden again So-day. Tim Judicial Cotarailter ciao Privy Comma rat yveloday W loud an appeal from Now Iloaik Wake. "L or d v. TM . . ___ _ _ Camliwiwooresii Sydow." TM lark mewl wero—Loved Desedows. lard Judea Light Dreg*, Dr. lewhiagica, &r I. Rye; sad Mr J. Ordwilp. ♦ cliguisike, esseiotim d the is,. Dr. Conks, reo6w of St. Mesgent, Mama. Trollop mid Heirbee, dierehwardeew and Mr. As w. dirk, wit► Mr. /mak had se in terview with Lord Jam Meows ywierday ei the oillee et Public Works, Whilehall-piste. A Berlin letter, of the dth, stair that ler Majesty Queen Victor* the Emperor of Buda, the Chasm of Prussia, the (head Duke of Weimar, sad the Priam. Charles of Prude will be the godfathers end godmothers of the ihroat prtme. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Counties Bernatoff will give a grand dinner party on Therday neat at Prussia Moms, to bo followed by the dimeest, la oalebratios of the birth of the Whet Plzen of Freels, pe•deoa to ber Majesty the Queue. The Duchess of Cambridge sad the Prism= Miry and the Duke of Cambridge will honour the Comities Berse.orff with their memos The Duke d'Aragon has left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermywatrissi, for Paris. _ . The Marquis of Waterford has left Claridge's !kW tor Clungtumors, Ireland. The Bari of Morn ingtou has arrived at the Cla ressica, from Drayeet HOGS% Chlppewham. The Earl et Stroll:woke has let the Brunswick, larmys-etriet, Ilst Newmarket. Barra tad Bareness Lionel de Rothschild have left Kingston He nee, for Peru. Lord Zgliatas has oestribated 100!. to the fend Ise the wars of web of art far tha saw National Gantry of Wan& The Earl of Ripon is likely to take his meat in the Somme of Lords on Thursday or Friday of this week ; and the writ hr the Weft Riding will probably be Weed on the ems evednk The 8p;a1 ow has appointed the following mam bas to wine oa the puma conwatteie of eleotioos for the feeloot weeks :—The Right Hoe. Sir F. T. Barlog, Bart.; the Right 800. Sir W. Meredyth Boeservale, Bart.; Biz William Mathews, Bart. ; Robert Pabsor. leg.; WM= Mee, Beg.; sad John Bonham threw, Pee. . _ We (Weeper Daily Mail) aikdiestaild that • deputation of the lammed Vleteallem le about le proceed Is Landes for the purpose et urging epos pwliement the some city of es lagiskyleno Me shim 'demon of the trade, end leseggeet the eater sof thereeeedieswikkenghtlebendepts• • petition, Aped by upwards of IMO reembere of the spbrit trade, eagles for Inquiry, is about be be Oar warded to Robert Deeds, Req., M.P., for preestalion to the Noose of COO 1111012; Similar petitions, we mdeeelned, ere those to be forwarded from Edinburgh, Stirling, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Kilmarnock, Pdaley, sad other elf the principal *erne In Seotland. Captain Pollen's ulterior surveys have ocomertnad Ids la the °pintos that the Red Sea dim so elanMee whatever to the successful submergence of a telegraphis cable. He has sounded the mid-clutenel from Sees to Petite and dads the bottom soft mud from Sum to Jebel Tear, but rock from theme to Perim. To greatest depth ea this Mae to 1,060 fathoms. He hut also sounded the whole extent of the on inshore and within the reefs on the seekers ride, sad the same from Seem to Suakin a the waters Ade. He le now armless to complete the 'army ea this Has from Suakin to Perim, ea he judges that to be by far the preferable route, the bottom throughout being much mare eras and the soundings considerably less. A letter frost Hassiorg says:—" There is sal ver& grief in this city at pesemit en essoust of the death of Peotemor C. F. Warm, who foe the leed twenty-five yens bee been oat of its meet die ingeiehal anatomic His attainmeste ea • 'oboist end es a Sepia were of the 'aghast ordrr, sad made of camming to his modest. the knowledge which he poseemsd was both affectionate and successful, while his perfect sequistanes with .8 the latticed.' and details of International law had acquired for him • fame le other countries which could only be surpassed by the high Minding whit& hs bed aequired In his own. Professor Warm yea well Mews in England, and the wallah, tearoom which be list your pre Woes the com mittee cities House of Commons on the Stade dam will sot AO to be appreciated by ell by when it was permed." The French Legi;latif union waa opened yester day In the noble hall in the sew Loewe known by the name of the " Satle des State." The inaprenk the Prince.. Clo- Slde, and the Princess Matta* were present In a tribune ea the right of the throne; ana the esareattl of the assem bly, when the who!. of the dipkwastic corps, the esinisters, morals, admirals, cardinals, the ntwebers of the coo stinted bodies, and the principal &milometers—ell In their rick oficial costnesse—were esesmbled was igniting In the extreme. In the arrangements on the platform in the Palace of the Innen yesterday, where the throne stood, a .light cheese wee obaersable. On former occesime the only princes tithe Imperial family who had seals to the right end left of the Emperor wore Prince Jerome and his son Pilules Napo leon; Preen Louis Lociee Bonaparte sad Prince Mont 'Maley. In the present Incesce the Emperor had on his right Priem Jerome end Perms Louts Lucien &eager% both seated; sad on his left Priam Napoleon end Priers Mars; bath also meted. The tread musical footles', which will assemble In the lakititice Palace of the Champs Myatt' 7,000 Orpheoldats from all points of Prance, wall take plea on the llth, 12th, and 13th Much neat. Elsv,n choruses sill be acing by the united societies, via :—The " Vent Creator" of Bested ; the " Depart des Chsseews," by Mendelseoho ; the "Mystdree &Isis," by Mosert; the "Jour du Seig neur;" the " *tow of the Hugasnota," by Meyerbeer; the .Yragniant du 18itne Pauline," by Marcello; the Chabres et les Teutons," of Louis Lacombe; the Genies de la Tens," of Samuel David; the "Chant des Monied nards," of Kuchen; the " khrolas des Orplseosa," of Mdlle. Nicolo ; and the "Retraite," of Laurent de Rill& The " &lot au Chuiteure de Province" will be assented by the Orphooni,te of Paris. A pamphlet, by M. Emile de Girard* entitled Oman," wUI appear at Pala is a few days, A feints telegnm from Algiers mentions • pro eloastke lewd by Orel M'Yeboe, in wbkh he ensoanore that the Division Lemma het been recalled to Preece, wad ectealudes vita the Setlossiag words.—" Depart, depart, soldirrs ; be breve, dheipliard, and steadfast." A private telegraph from Algeria, dated yeater day,easosacia that the 23rd and 90th Regiments of the Line and MIL Mamma we to cowmen*, em►arkiagon that day for Iterwillea, mad the dIM end 56th keg matte wen to tan bark the Mewing meek. An incident of some significance took place in the Itavaristt Chamber of Deputies oa flaturdey lad. One of the memtero, N. de Lercheefeld, stated that in consecurnoe of the diminished diatom of ;ewe, he abould demand of the Rosamund the prohibition of the exportatien of homes. Fr once sad Sardinia were now main; largo purchases in Gercestey, end it wee incumbent epri the whole German people to join in measures of sett de'erace. The President of the Chamber having asked if this proposition was sop. ortad, the whole chamber roes la Wed., and the diecumion en the subject was toed for the next sitting. A do•patch , since received, says The Chamber line unanimously mimed to tripte.t the goscruncot to prohibit the export of beta a to the south end west." A letter from Bt. Petersburg, of the 29th ult., sutra that the En3reror had presided over two giving,' of the Curetted Coatuittce for the Einaacipiolon of the Serb, in ceder to =eke hiineelf personally segvalated ai.h the pro g eo of this great reform. The Nord of Bruited' nye :—' 4 A letter from Bt. PetereborK mmiime I rumour 'Midi, if it ben oat •o be tree, will wows than the goosremeni him realised to ester oa the path of rto io a telerslion. TOG rumour is *at t►e eetabliahtment of a sresgague in the amyl's!, wtere hearts. dere Jews have only bran allowed to reside undkr vary severe wetriethas, is sh..ut to be anitioai ed." The Wathiogtoo corteopoodent of the New York Vora giver utn-acy to a rumour that Presidcat Buchanan was coWtnn-Itting watrionay with a wilow LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, .ii./8. NAPLES. NAPLES, YIUDA2. A mermage, received from Bari, announces that the King has again fallen ill. His Majesty is suffering from an attack of pleurisy, which had been imperfectly cured. He will return to Caserta. The marriage of the hereditary Prince was cele brated yesterday. It is amerted that a note from the English Government has been received here, containing remonstrances against the insufficiency of the am nesty granted by the Neapolitan government. SERVIA. BELGRADE, BrxnAT. Tho solemn entry of Prince Miloschand Prince Michael into the town, amidst the rejoicings of the populace, his taken place. The Senate and the ministers have not been allowed to take part in the reception. INDIA. The following telegram, from Mr. Acting Consul- General Green, wu received at the Foreign-office this morning at 3.10 a.m. : ALEXANDRIA, lint. 2,1859. The steamer Nemesis arrived at Haas en the 30th January. Dates :--Celeutta, 9th January; Madree, 13th January; Hong Kong, 30th December. The following telegram is dated January 11.—Major MacPherson reports from Owalior, that on the 3rd, or perhaps the 4th instant, 3,000 of Tantis Topee's *cos, ander a Newab, pro bably Rapem Ally, crossed the Chonogal, at the Ipeppier and Pepiebdia °heats, from Loklune es rusts to Jeypore. Nothing hu been heard of Lord Elgin's voyage up the Yangtes Lang. Baron One is at Kong Kong. According to news received from Cochin China to the 18th December, no active operations had taken place, and it was reported that the admiral was waiting farther instructions from France. THE AFRICAN MAILS. (IT KACIIMIC TILIMIZAPI.) (nom ova owx COSILINFOXIMITa LIVERPOOL, TOIRSDAT. The African mail steamer Armenian has arrived at Liverpool with 12 passengers, 2,300 ounces of gold, 126 balsa of cotton, and 134 puncheons of palm oil. Trade opened at Bonny on the 14 of January. Log Eyo, of Old Calabar, is deed. The slaver Julia was captured at Cape Coast on the 19th De amber by the American frigate Yineennee, and sent to the United States. The ship called Julliette was deserted by her crew at Bonny, and reported to H.M.S. Archer. The Rainbow (steamer) left Bonny for the Niger expedition on the 6th of January. Latest dates :—Bonny, 6th January; Lagos, 9th ; Accra, 10th ; Cape Coast, 12th ; Cape Palmas, 14th ; Sierra Leone, 19th ; Bathurst, 23rd ; Teneriffe, 29th; Madeira, 31st. The Royal Mail steam-chip Ethiope sailed from Sierra Leone on the 16th of January. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mow ova owx PARIS, Moxo•r ETINING. Before these lines mach you I have no doubt that the Emperor's speech will have spread oonsternation in every capital in Europe. If I read it aright, it is by far the most alarming symptom of a coming storm that has been seen in modern times. Not only does it disappoint the hopes of those who within the Met forty-eight hours have been encouraged by official hints to believe that it would be decidedly pacific, but, apart from the expression of a bare and matter-of-course hope that the peace will not be broken—an expression which in the imperial month signifies nothing more than it did in the confessedly alarming speeches of Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli— there is not a syllable in the discourse tending to contradict or explain away any one of the grounds of just apprehension which have pre-occupied the public mind linos Jan. I. Bat what is more serious still, the speech openly preaches the doctrine of universal intervention, and seta at naught alike the advice of friendly foreign powers and the opinions, wishes, and interests of the French people. A despotic monarch at the head of the most powerful military nation in Europe—who eight years sgo was raised to the throne by universal suf frage, aided by a successful conspiracy and the un scrupulous use of bayonets—now tells his people and the world that his nation has " confided its des tinies" to hie individual will; that he sits on an elevation far above the regions of " vulgar interests;" that he makes no acoount of the present generation, and accepts the jurisdiction of no tribunals but those whose jadgments are either secret or to be made manifest in futurity—" God, his conscience, and posterity!" Doctrines more frightful than these hays never been proclaimed from any throne. As long as they remain in the ascendant in France the peace of Europe can never be moored, and the curse of large standing armies and ruinous military preparations must continue to paralyse commerce and thwart political progress. The Emperor, you will have observed, thinks fit to give an interpretation of his famous Bordeaux phrase, " the empire is peace," and he is careful, in spite of Lord Derby, to explain it in such a way as to leave himself at perfect liberty to plunge into the war which be is supposed to contemplate. He only meant, he says, that he was not about to " recommence an era of conquest," and intended to inaugurate a system of peace only susceptible of being troubled " for the defence of great national interests." This explanation, if only taken by itself, is a very ugly symp tom. When construed, as it necessarily must be, with reference to existing circumstances, it shows that a state of things not within the purview of the Bordeaux speech is at hand, and that a war phase is looming in the near future. Still it cannot be denied that the position laid down is plausible. It would be unreasonable to hold the Emperor pre- eluded from defending by arms any great national interest of France becauae of his having said "L'Empire c'est la pair" at • Bordeaux dinner in 1852. But what are great national interests? Here, unfortunately, we find within the four corners of the speech itself an interpretation which opens a terrible vista of capricious and endless wars. France, we are told, a little lower down, "has an interest wherever there is a just and civilising cause which ought to prevail." In other words, France, by the mouth of its ruler, claims a right to make war wh and wherever he—who owns no judge but " God, his conscience, and posterity," and tells his own people to think only of their ordinary avocations and trust everything to him— may see a just or civilising occasion to have resort to arms ! Verily the comity of nations is impossible upon each terms. His Majesty says he will neither suffer himself to be " led away " to war, nor "intimidated" to remain at peace. This reminds me very much of the language he used when he was meditating the acquisition of the empire. Then he affected to reproach the zeal of his supporters, and told them that all their clamours would not advance the proclamation of the empire a day. This was said while palpable pre parations for the empire were being hurried on, and the empire wee very shortly after established. So I am convinced it will be with the war now brewing. There is not a word in the speech about treaties, and the *ulnas with which England is spoken of in contrast with the warm expressions used in re gard to Russia is very striking. Towards England her imperial ally assume airs of injured innocent*. Her alliance . has borne its fruits.," but the put tense is need with emphatic significance, ►nd no thing is said about the actual state of our relations. The war journal, the Press., thus gloats with de light over the speech : This speech will produce en immense effect in Prance and in Europe. Without departing from the reserve commanded —— . - by the gravity of the circumstance. and his own exalted position, the Emperor has succeeded in giving a rapid but secures description of the state of the alliances of France— accord with England, cordiality with Roasts, community of interests between Pramle and Piedmont, and multiplied died diaries with Austria. Although the head of the state has not abandoeed the hops of maintaining peace, it is consoling t s thorn who think of the honour of the eoantry to be told that hie government will "neither allow Deal to be led away nor indmileted," and that in its eyes "Frame has an intermit in every just and civilising cause which ought to prevail." The abnormal state of Italy Is not concealed, any more than the unerminees which it excites among diplomatists. Bat we And that the policy of France " will remain immoveable in the path of right, Justice, and national honour." Our readers know that our approbation is no matter of o3nveatioo, and is not lightly given. We bars never shrunk from making oar Marva either expressly stated or implied by silence as to those acts of the govern ment which we have found it impossible to approve, but the noble language of the speech, its policy at once firm and con c•liatory, command. our entire sympathy. So noon as the first tumult of alarmed interests shall subside, the whole country will, we treat, agree with us in our appreciation edit. It le curious to read the following conjectures an to the probable import of the speech, in a corres pondence to the Nord of Brussels : It is not earprisieg that the English ministerial speeches, the effect of which must have been alculated, should dis closes* &Malta result; we know by experience what value to attach to the official declarations of English orators. It le only em Monday next, when the Emperor will have made Ide spew*, that we shall know what we have to trust to. All I can say is that at the Tuileries yesterday evening, the geseral coaviction, la well-informed groups when coaveres lion was going on, was that the speech would be eery pasgle. Is say cam, what public opinioa and the groat Interests of the washy demand is that the speech should be oatagetkal one way or the other. If war were derlsred to-morrew, you may be well united that trade would suffer lees than it has dose from the state of uncert.inty which has prevailed for the lest six weeks. I will even add that the idea of siding Italy to conquer her inde pendence would very speedily become popular in France. Whatever may ultimately be the ease about pacific seaureaces I can assure you that military preparations are going on es if our armies were to take the field to-morrow ; everything is ready, sad our arsenals were never so active as they have 1 1 been within the last two months. On Monday, at 2 o'clock, the telegraph in all probability will Inform you whether we are to have pesos or war. It le possible, however, that the Emperor's speech may be very vague—that, like that of the Queen of England, It may tell very little which was not known before. But It mu-t be remarked that if, under pee sent circumstance.% the Emperor should say little, he must be understood to mete a groat deal. If he should be reserved, 'he inference will be that he insane war, end only daires to Isis knee. The Bourse opened under the false impression which prevailed on Saturday and yesterday, that the speech would be pacific. The Rents, without realising the wild priors quoted on the boulevard yesterday, rose to 68fr. 95c.; but as soon as the tenor of the speech became known, it dropped 60c. all at once, and closed very heavily at Sfifr. 10c., with a rise, however, of 26e. from the last regular quota tions of Saturday. Mobilier, after having been done at 806 fr., fell to 772 ft. 60c., closing without change. The railways were in many cases 20fr. or 30fr. lower at the close than in the middle of the day, and left off heavily at about Saturday's prima. THE NAPOLEON PAMPHLET. An article, signed by M. Saint-Mare Girardin, on the pamphlet " Napoleon 111. et l'ltalie," is pub lished by the Dekts. We translate the most im portant A war i i rr Mr merely free from the contagion of the revo lutionary spirit, each is the assurance which the pamphlet , gives us. Not that It considers war to be imminent or no . The pamphlet believes, as we ourselves have thought, and as we still think, that the mediation of diplo macy can prevent war. This it also thought in Eagland. Tbea assurance*, coming from verities quarters, encourage us to hope for peace. We hope it the mote since the este* getic repugnance evinced in the psmphlet against the revo lutionary spirit convinces us that this spirit will no longer have a share in the camels that might urge a rupture of the peace, and that it would hen no share in the management Barg of the wsr. Nothing then fur the revolution, nothing for the revolu tionary spirit, either in the motives fur war, should these motives prove victorious over those for peace, or in the direction of the leer such is the doctrine taught in the pamphlet. We he •ray °Mackie with I', have I. ng agreed with it. Whenever we have desired the intersection of French diplomacy or even of Fr...ream soldiers in Italy, it was to combat th. re the revolutionary spirit and force, so as to swage the eider, there to the Phenol spirit, which is an legitimate adver.ery and the certain martyr of revolution. There is, then, there his elways been for you an Italian goes ' Lion, some persons will say ie a reproachful manner. Yea, there her tong bees for us an Italian question, and we cannot eon mot to forget it now, never harm( forgotten it at any period. Ah I If to empress painful and 111111.00.4 questions it were Bulgiest to deny them, we should make common cause, perhaps, with theme who deny the Dakar question because it disheeess them. But what would be the nee of this preme ditated ileum f We, who believe that sllesce I. injurious to government., Wittig, yet more strongly in the brief that it is unions to those parties who desire it against the might of — We continus, therefore, to think that there is in European Italian question; end on thin point .its we are it the opinion broached in the pamphlet, without seeking, however, to trace beet, like it, this quellion to Henri Quatro. The Gni:vessel Paris, in 1866, diem-tied it, se may be row ; and eartaioly it did sot do a* with • view to elicit war from it, bathes the Congress of Paris desired pesos sod made it. We shall he permitted here to remind the pamphleteer, since the pamphlet seems to forget ir, that ten yea= before the Coserers of Paris, in 1846 ant 1847, the Italian quad= already engage d the attention of Europe, and especially that of Framer. ho doss net recollect the =malt= yet sante= despetches of N. Gaizot on the Italian quer ties f Who does a= remember the debates in the Chamber of Peers sad is that of the Deputies on this subject I' To upbid the Meets of =elevate freedom ha Italy, and with the help of =di Imo-loin to combat demagogy and provost it. pernicious eaplevions, such way the policy of France In 1816 and 1847. This i.olioy was not inefikeelons. It pro-hued in the administraiun of the Its/ien governmenis at Naples, Twin, end even Horne, happy change., that were intertupted and overthroan by the revolution of 1848. We like to revive there rensitiacesare., because they prove that rte sympulty of France for the polite. of Italy is of old dot& They prove, too, that if we When aU is not fee the beat in Italy, and that we ought not in 1869 say more than in 1846, to wrap oenelvest up in teethe= egotism, this seament with us is neither of yester day war of to-day. On Thareday night last a new piece, called Mon. (rose. was given in the Court Theatre, at Vienna, sod t..e Emper,r, with several ate r members of the Imperial fanny, went to see IR In one of the semet an envoy appeara, and irafenua llottrom that Charles 11. will be acktowl Aged King of Scotland If be will comsat to swear to the Covenant. On hearing this 111ontrme waxes very wroth, and rade in good set terms at "the antis( hypocrites who would fain plans the Church above the ekes." As soon aa the words c,ted were prominent there was a perfect storm of applause, which kited au long that the Court cool l not fail to remark that a public demonstration had been made against the Jesuits. Amongst the pasaengers from Australia on board the warner Theme., ethial oo the paaeage San Alezendrie to Southampton. are the Bis')op of l't rthddejot Bell, sad Lieutenant It. Goff. NAVAL AND MILITARY: STAFF COLLEGE. The following general order has been lamed from the Hone Guards : Feb. 4, 1849. In compliance ern . the genoral order of the 17th Dttwet• ber, 1&57 the following examinations for admission to the eta College will be bold during the present year, viz, IN A 110137.-1. Examinations for the admission of fif teen oaken—throe of whom may be from the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineer —will be held at home on tho Ist of Await ; end at foreign stations either on thst day, or as . b:101118 Possible after receipt of the examotatfon Paper" tem the Commit of Military Education. The successful cm gathers will form the junior division of the college, and will job tt after the next ensuing recess. In Decumexa.-2. Officers desirous of catering the col legs for one you only will be examined In conjunction with the junior division of the students, and will be expected to their ability to enter open the studies of the loftier There lOU be at least five vacancies for this clam amilleloteo, open to officers of the Cavalry Guards, ga d Liss. & In the same month will be examined such officers, vines, Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, Guards, or Line, as saw wish to compete at the final examination, vOlooat baying posed throve: o ti c te en.c ieetoll All other with the examinations may be learnt = e t general orders of the 17th December, 1867, and 3rd June, 1868, to whloh officers desirous of com peting are referred. By order of his /loyal Highness the General Com minding-in-Chid—O. A. "Wirrnmair.., Adjutint-General. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 7. APpomrmeirre.— Cap tain 0. W. D. O'Callaghan (1846), to the Algiers, 91, tams Wean alp, at Porhonontb, Comm d. Master J. W. Mo. J. Ball (1846), to the Algiers. pa Pa radon: 0. A. V. Welch (1866), to the Medina, 4, wheel gleam vessel, Mediterranean station ; and W. H. Batsman (1 , the Algiers. Clerks : C. Moyle, to the Blenheim, 60, screw steam ship, Sat coast guard webs in Portland-road.; R. T. Boys, to the Russell, 60, anew steam ship, for coast guard es/vim at Pahnouth ; W. W. Blayney, to the Nile, 90 screw steam fag-ship, at Quee nst own; W. P. Taylor end G. W. Joon, to the Algiers. Assistant Cleric: W. H. F. Armstrong, to the Algiers. CHATHAM, FEB. 7. The Swallow, 9, serew steamer, Commander C. L. Waddilove (1866), baa arrived in the river, and will come into harbour to-morrow, to be paid off. he has bass no wards of Luz years in oesonilasion, aid is last from the — CoXi:E. P. Halate gaardahfp g, th o: hoe Mojoo r l e s s h e u row eteamer been . s C Z2.I d a ys at dockyard to making= Inspection it tLe stored b. em to the do= rooorve. WOOLWICH, Fri. 7. The Banshee Admiralty steam vowel is ordered to be got ready for foreign service, and has been docked te examination and trilling repairs. The ceremony of presenting colours, by Lady Vivian, to the 2nd battalion of the 17th Regiment, took plea at Mount Wise. Deveskort, on Thursday. COAST GUARD VOLUNTZERS.—Above thirty the Cu!kraut fishermen, who ere enrolled in the Guard Volution, are et present exeroiriug with the great tuna and swell arms on board the Spanker gun-bast is Shields Harbour. The fisherman Wising to Newbiggin will also be drilled on board the emu vowel, while she le lying in the T yne.—Newoostli CArottiels. SOCIETY. Lest night the =sal meeting of the members of the Juridical Seciety was held st their moms, St. Martin's place, Trafalgar-squire, Sir RICH•ILD Bemuse'. is the chair. The paper for the evening was a memorial up= some po , nee of the law of divorce ' by Mr. H. Y. Roche, one of the anthorleed reporters of the new Court cif Divorce. The act establishing the court of Sir °renewal' Cresswell Mr. Roche dedigsated as the k. t re . Weet legal mead moot of the day, replacing, as it the incoevenitmt, =pensive, end enednalous promos w h had fcematly preveiled,aad which confined the relief of being divorced !rein • =enigma spouse to the rich. To show that the sew court is= relief to those who, under the old system could never have escaped from the misery of a union with the morally ceev rime, it was only nocereary to examine the cases which had been already &Wed there, ranging as they did from dn. matte servants to the upper stratum of middle due society. He regretted that the 37th clause of the act bad been re sorted to, as he considered the fell court the beet constituted tribunal to judge from the demeanour of the whereas with respect to the =sits of the petition ; whines, with • jam deciding upon the fact, the full court, whin asked to pro nounce judgment. could only be guided by the judge omit airy's notes. And another incouvenience was. that as the law glowed, under soma circumstances. an appeal to the Rouse of Lords, it would be necessary for their lordships, in the absence of say record of ascend below, to go afresh into the whole case, =sin ripping up all the disporting evidence, which now hd more publicity given to it than even under the old tripartite system of the suit in Doctors* Commons, the action at law, and the privilegium in parlia ment. The prasmt law U. admisistered did not remove the old seedal of the acton for vim. con. Morality wan Waled by the evidence being heard in open court, in hearing of the idle and dissolute, brought thither through the vicious desire of gratifying a prurient taste is list.ning to the dis gusting detail of adultery and frequently of incest. It wary too, to be lamented that the court was not properly NA adequately protected from belts made the victim of fraud and collusion. As a remedy to these dmwbarksupon an &antic= of the law, otherwise so salutary, he would propose that no publicity should be given to Mae proceediags - that the court should be supplied with en adequate mein; of guard ing !whist fraud and collusion; and, instead of there being a shifting and fluctuating court, he would establish an ade quate and competent permanent tribunal. A short discus. Won followed the reading of this paper, in which the chair man, Mr. Moorman, and other gentlemen took part, end the proceedings closed with the vote of the society to Mr. Roche for his excellent paper. The American Secretary of the Treasury, in recent document, suggest,s an invitation from the Malta States to the commercial countries of Europe to mist in a reeptetive body for cossetted= to • uniform currency. uniform weight. and measures, and a uniform system of cam mercisl statistics, being of the opinion that this reform would be favourably received and probably Molted by each of the mantel.* so represented. Eer. the United States govern. sent occupies • wellies, bot h politied end comments:. 'bids would justify it in taring the lead in the matter. A painful cue of lynching had occurred at NeWasks. The mob broke into the gaol at Omak, took from it a couple of horde tree= and hang them front eine. back to beck. Through design or mistake, the rope, instead of being placed monad the neck of am of them, was drawn through the mouth, the knot bring up n the reps of the neck. In his horrible struggle to release himself, be bad worn all the flesh of his right aim below the elbow, bursting several veioe up= his neck end left arm. Els staffirii meet have beta horrible, sad the apparent/sof both pleiay showed how terrible had been their dying straggles. ACCIDENT AT THE HAVRE THEATEE.AII DA. detente accident occurred three nights mg.) at the }UM Theatre. In the performance of the name Marvin., the pre:deal singer Millie. Durand -Eperche, who personated the " White Lady," in derendingln the third seta flight of steps which load from • lofty vilely to the stage missed her footing and tell from It height of tea trek Thos keemose Phe was tarried off the stage senseless, bat after • while conecionanme returned. It wee then found that, in falling, her for had caught in • pleas of wend, and that she had bent bark her t es eo violently that she suffered • great deal, sad tbet she was otberwise • good deal hurt. The performence of the test of the piece was of course suopetalod. The accident was mused by the upper pert of the flight of reps being extremely al tep and narrow, end last year another ringer, eldete. Clare hurt herself in descending it. On Saturday, Mille. Demand- Epee= was going cm well, end in a few days she will, it is thought, be able to mess her diadem A GovEanmerrr Aorrr."—On Friday evening lest a perms dressed to • gold-lead uniform, red wetting ea Albert chain, called at the Helmets of Vries= Ina, Airdrome end repress nted to Mr. Cheermen, the proprietor. that he was an officer in the =Trice of the government, end beds for twelve m, brake nee for himself, as be beent eden seat down by the Seer they of State to take charge of the county priories. He further Witted that be bed already been to the gaol. and put the governor "nailer arrest," and that be had 1.5 bet men there. The fellow told his tale with so marts plant& lity that Mr. Cbeesernme-e thetuth not eerily "done "—wee Induced to give credence to it, as also were other persons there at the time. £O. cordingly, one of the beet beds in the home was placed a the dispeaal of the "government °Metal," and he was trotted with ell the respect and erection which a room of such authority would be PIIKOPPfI tO emernand. Next day he made known the "imv reset business" which bed brought him to the town to general parties who came to the house, and even spoked it openly at the ordinary of the inn, going eo minutely into detail., that no one appetite le have ques iooed the truth of his &seeders. Am may be sup. p sed, hie " minion" POOPS get noised abrond, end coming to the knowledge of Mr. Hillyard the governor of the gaol, ha went down to the Haunch, stranger by whom be wee to he superseded. By this time, howm.r, the reamer was figuring in the chequer of " a drunk and incapable," In the bands of Polkeesergeent Hills; and on inquiry it turned out that hie name wee lanes Meetly, and that be was fore Neely in the 6th Carabiaeors, but latterly had been employed as • warder in the convict establishment at Br 'lepton. having obtiencri levee of absence till tote rday night, and made applicatien to Mr. Slayer& with a view of getting a sitstaeon in the Maiteenne prisons. When asked for sa teeter:melon of hfs *endue; next moreieg, he mid he was may for what bad occurred, bat he attributed if to • blow he had received while in the Crimea, end which he said had aft rued hi. brain. A. there was not sufficieat to detain him be was discharged, Paving the duellere of hie watch, which he bad esern.d for the at the shop of Me. admen, a. security toe the payment of his bill to Me. Cheese- Man.-soitth Eastern Geoff..