The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-09 00:00:00

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TIM M DAT —Morning, gh. Mm Aftertloon, ga. To-MmisMD—orning, M. 4 Mammon, Igh. MEL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MA Y 9. Tisza can be no doubt that the speech of the Emperor of the Faawcn at Auxerre has, not to speak irreverently, the twang of the true Napoleonic vocabulary. The " true genius of France" means of course the true genius of the Emma ; and for our own poor part, we have certainly not waited until now to discover that the irne genius of the Empire is not particularly favourable to liberty or peace. Neither can we affect aatoniahment or dismay at a NAPOLEON'S " detestation " of the treaties of 1815. It would be somewhat more surprising, perhaps, if the heir of the sovereign whom those treaties dethroned, and whose family those treaties sentenced to perpetual exclusion from the throne of France, could speak of them in terms of admiration or cordiality. A sentence of dethronement and perpetual proscription is not easily forgotten by the heir of the dethroned, who was himself proscribed, though it may be contemptuously forgiven by the man who has lived to reverse it. But then the judicious alarmists tremblingly ask, " Why talk " about these Treaties at all? Is it not enough "to reign and rule in defiance of them V' To this objection we can find but one answer. The hero of a great name has his own policy, not yours. Personal and military government has its exigencies ; a Napoleonic Empire has its tradi tions and its necessities. Those who are now the loudest in denouncing the Emperor of the FRENCH as a disturber, and the ruinous uncertainty of his intentions, were also amongthe loudest in acclaiming the destruction of public liberty in France, and have been the blindest devotees or the most wilfuldupesof a system of government which they now impa tiently and unreasonably condemn. Is it conceivable that they accepted the Second Empire, but not with its engagements t Those who have honoured this journal with their confidence have not to learn now for the first time the inexorable logic of modern Ctesarism ; of personal, irresponsible military government ; of a resurrectionary tradi tion of glory and conquest. How can we pretend to sympathise with the worshippers of such a go verninent, who, after fifteen years' experience of its profits and advantages, are now suddenly awakened to its risks and perils It may be that the Emperor NAPOLEON feels that he has come to a crisis in his career ; that he must choose between liberty at home and glory abroad ; that the moment ham arrived when it is absolutely indispensable to his dynastic interests to find or create a powerful diversion to a public opinion daily more restless and exacting ; that his army is sick of barracks and camps, and ashamed of Mexican expeditions ; that the gratitude of corrupted cities is exhausted, and even the devotion of rustic igno rance:growing cold. It is possible that the Second Empire is entering upon its second epoch, that the programme of the Prisoner of Ham is about to be republished, and the map of Europe to be re modelled. If the worshippers of Imperialism, who are now ready to burn the idol they adored the other day, and who once adored as the consummation of human wisdom a system of government we were atigmaised as revolutionists for detest ing, will take the trouble to look through the first and the last chapters of the second volume of the " History of Julius " Cresar," their extraordinary shrewdness and sagacity will, perhaps, find a key to the speech at Auxerre which will save them some future shocks of surprise, and from ministering by their rabid fear to that contempt for mankind on which Imperialism reposes. The rise in the Bank rate of discount seems to have excited a feeling of surprise.in most quarters, yet had been foreseen by many observers. It did not escape notice, and was duly recorded in these columns, that on Thursday last, when the Bank rate was raised from 6 to 7 per cent., the reserve was nearly two millions leis than that held on the last occasion (the 28th December) when a similar movement was made. Moreover, comparing the reserve, as last officially stated, with that held on the 15th of March, when a re duction from 7 to 6 per cent. took place, the fall ing off is no less than 3,168,1731. It is, therefore, mainly to the deficiency of reserve, as developed under the Act of 1844, that the present advance in the value of money is due. The bullion current presents no features of a distinctly adverse charac ter, and the demand at the Bank discount-office yes terday was not exceptionally heavy, but the fact is that the reserve has been reduced to a point below whichthe directors do not consider themselves justi fied in allowing it to sink without applying strong measures of correction. The rising tendency of the value of money on the Continent, the absence of recovery in the exchanges, and the undiminished desire shown by Continental capi s ecurities to this country for wise doubtless contributed to y the more especially as at the mom t tainty prevails with regard to the extent of the damage that may be inflicted upon the financial companies by the monetary dam 11, however, the drain which the Bank directors are combating is less active ,than ib boa beenon similar occasions within easy recollection, the probability becomes the greater of a cure being soon effected. Al two points of some importance, it is satisfactory to re mark that the demand for silver for India has en tirely ceased, and that the inquiry for gold for ex port to the Continent has already slackened, thus inducing a pry:l6l*ot tkat the Bank will receive a good portion of the gold now awaiting disposal. It has already been remarked that the extraor dinary, and indeed unprecedented fall, which has been going on for weeks past in public securities, is largely owing to the heavy sales which have been pressed here by capitalists on the continent, who have been quick to discover that this is virtually the only market in Europe in which they can obtain the requisite supplies of ready money. In explanation of these sales it must be borne in mind that the existing crisis in foreign affairs embraces a far wider scope than we have been accustomed to for a long series of years. All Germany, as well as Italy, and, probably, France, are directly involved in the anticipated conflict, and, considering the hundreds of millions of securities held in those countries, surprise cannot be felt at the sudden pressure of sales here. The consequence is a fine opportunity for such of the English monied public as are not disposed to have dust thrown into their eyes by the efforts of the panic-mongers, and who are alive to the tempting nature of the investments now offered to them. So far as regards the panic in the shares of the finance companies, it appears to be chiefly attributable to the uncertainty felt by the public as to the nature and extent of their commitments, and as to the amount of the calls that may be needed to enable them to tide over the crisis. The pressing question as regards these companies is, what is the amount of their immediate liabilities to the general public, includ ing depositors, &c., as distinguished from those to their shareholders. By this test the financial com panies must stand or fall. And though there can be no doubt that at the present moment the diffi culties of these concerns have the moat important bearing upon the general financial situation, it does not necessarily follow that, because one or two of them have made mistakes, they are all to forfeit their position. With respect to these as to other securities, the present is a time when investors are called upon in an especial degree to exercise dis crimination. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. PR rkres alb lily b. (THIS DAY.) by experience, went through of fres trade. They opposed they, brought it about, and m that they approached the bill in a friendly way, and asked to substitute 201. for the lower figure in the counties, to stop at 8/. rental in the boroughs, and to oppose a large invasion of leeeeholden in the county oonstitnen cies,—the Times cannot think the liberals would disdain an compromise, and simply try the issue which shall be use Host. Therald finds that should the Irish Reform Bill be adopted, three conservative boroughs will be virtually dis tram:hind, and a, fourth vote gained to the whip through the representation of the Queen's University. Whether New Roes may not be lost to the conservatives by its amal gamation with Ennio:a/thy, and Colersine by its junction with Ballymena, remains to be seen. Enough is known to convince the conservatives of the absolute necessity of offering the most strenuous opposition in all its stages to a one-aided measure, which must so materially diminish the numerical strength of their party. The Star says the opposition must clearly understand that the measures now laid on the table are only compro mises suggested by her Majesty's ministers in the hope of settling a question which all parties have professed a de sire to settle ; and that they are not in any sense such bills as could in any other circumstances receive the sup port of reformers. Eke Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAT 8. The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove out yesterday afternoon, and drove in the grounds this morn ing, attended by Lady Churchill. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice also walked and drove in the Home-park. Prince Alfred, attended by the Hon. E. Yorke, arrived at the castle this morning. Count Gleichen visited her Majesty, and remained to luncheon. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar dined with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Teck, rode on horseback yesterday morning. The Prince and Princess of Wales took a carriage drive. In the evening the Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by Viscountess Walden and Major Teesdale, went to the Royal Italian Opera. The Hon. Mrs. A. Hardinge has relieved Viscountess Walden as lady in waiting to the Princess of Wales. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council oat yesterday at the Council chamber,Wltitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were :—The Lord President, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. Colonel Harness and Mr. Helps attended the committee. A deputation from Cheshire, consisting of L. P. Town shed, Esq. (the chairman of quarter session), Lord Egerton of Tatton, Sir P. Grey Egerton, Bart, M.P., Mr. Tolle macho, M.P., Mr. G. Cornwall Legh, M.P., and the Hon. W. Egerton, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, at the Home-office, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the governors of the North American provinces. Despatches were sent to the governor of the Falkland Islands. CABINET COUNCIL.—There will be a Cabinet Council to-morrow, at Earl Russell's official residence in Downing-street. The council is appointed for one o'clock. The Ow/ says that the Prince of \Vales will occupy Titness, the residence of Lord Annaly, during the Ascot Race week ; that Lord Otho Fitzgerald. M.P. for the county of Kildare, is about to be appointed Treasurer of the Household, in the room of Viscount Bury, who lost his seat at the last election ; and that the Marquis of Nor manby, late Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, will be appointed lord-in-waiting to her Majesty. The Owl also believes that the goveniment intend to amalgamate the two bills—for extension of the franchise and redistribution of seats. Captain and Mrs. Washington Hibbert received a distinguished party at dinner yesterday evening at their residence in Dover-street, Piccadilly. Covers were laid for 40 guests. There were present—His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff, the Duchess of St. Albans and Viscount Falkland and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the Marchioness of Waterford, Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, his Excellency the Italian Minh , . ter, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Bective, Lord George Gordon Lennox, Lord Dun kellin, Lord and Lady Proby, Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont, Mr. and Lady Gueudalin Petre, Sir Robert Gerard, Baron Meyer de Rothschild, Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Lord Albert Leveson Gower, Lady Molesworth, Lady Susan Vane Tempest, Hon. Mrs. Dudley Ward, Lord William Hay, Mr. Edgar Washington Hibbert, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner, Scc. Mrs. Washington Hibbert had a reception after dinner, which was numerously at tended. Aloft. P^ !; 11 VIENNA, MAT 9. The outbreak of war is considered to be immi nent. Great pneasiness )Isll been. created here by the speech of the Emperor Napoleon to the reayor of Auxerre. The goods traffic on the Northern Bailvray will shortly be stopped. In the event of war the Archduke Carl Ludwig will go to the Tyrol, where he will superintend the formation of rifle corps. It is expected that 30 millions of florins in small coin will be issued by the government. Vlll RI D • edy for ; ~ . we . , ..i • 1 led with : ' •. , • . tried i, - • 1 100 . e * " . - 4411 - • . ' . rough all this before in natter posed it till events, stniripT than end made it their ruin. Suppose The . . • , MAN LAT >7.. I 1 IGENCE4+ %%tow Insentatti • : • ING WAR. THE LIPRCTED WAR. The Times is g lad Lord Clarendon was able last night to declare that England bad refrained from importunate solicitations to the rival powers. So long as one power covets what another will not yield, no conside ration of morality or economy can secure a permanent peace. The only thing that can prevent hostilities is the dread of defeat, but the two powers which, in the event of a war, would be the aggressors, have no such appre hensions ; they believe in their success, and look forward to substantial gains from a short campaign. The confidence of the Prussian Minister is ominous of a convulsion, and at this very moment it happens that the arbiter of the continent who alone could check these am bitious states, speaks only to spread dismay in every ex change. The result is that we may have to look on the saddest spectacle that the world has seen in our time. If the accounts the Times receives be correct, Lord Clarendon's estimate of a million of men in arms falls very far short of the truth. Prussia has placed five army corps in her central and south-eastern provinces on a war-footing, and four more in other parts of her territory, the whole amounting to 365,000 men. Reserves, which may be called out at any mo ment, would add 210,000 to this force, so that the Prussian army, in case of war, may be made to reach the enormous number of 575,000 men. On the morning of the 2nd in stant an order to place all the Austrian armies on a war footing was issued, and 630,000 men will soon be under arms. The levies of Italy will probably amount to 400,000 men. The minor German powers have considerable armies. Such are the forces about to be marshalled in this strife. We can only hope that at the last moment France will in terpose to prevent this fatal war. Perhaps it may be in vain to speak to Austria of the cession of Venetia, but if the imperial pride could so far stoop, all pretext for the conflict would be taken away, and the sympathy of the world would be completely on the side of Austria and its German allies. _ . Calling to mind the immensity of the troubles Count Bismarck is pertinaciously bent on entailing on his country, the Post cannot affect surprise at hearing of an attempt to cut short his career, and the count himself will probably regard the fact as the most natural thing in the world, whilst the German people will have the opportunity of reflecting on the different course affairs would most likely take if the aim of the assassin had been perfect. The time bas gone by, the Post concludes, when well directed diplomacy might have averted a war. According to the Herabl Austria could not reckon upon being able to fight at any future time to better advantage A few months or a few years hence her armies may, owin i i to the impossibility of finding the money to maintain them, be small or ill-equipped ; her cause may ap pear far less just to Europe ; and even her Ger man subjects may be despondent and have lost all their present inordinate love for fighting. The inducements to Italy to embark in war at once are even stronger. The differences between Austria and Prussia, and Italy, are not susceptible of arbitration or compromise. They can only be settled by the decisive defeat of the one or the other, and no power can therefore interfere effectively unless it adopts beforehand one cause, and is both able and willing to exert sufficient strength to insure its triumph. The last measure of the Italian government can hardly fail to provoke immediate hostilities. The call to Garibaldi can have but one meaning. Austria can treat it in but one way, and give but one answer. CHURCH RATE ABOLITION. The Tines hopes Mr. Gladstone's bill will be passed by • sort of general consent in the House of Commons, and encounter no adverse reception in the House of Lords. It is generally felt that the whole sting of the present law lies in the nominal power of compulsion, and this is re moved by the first clause of Mr. Gladstone's bill. The part of the bill directed towards ex cluding dissenters, or those who object to the payment of the rate under any circumstances, from having • voice in raising or administering funds for ecclesiastical purposes will have to be carefully considered; and the Times, for its own part, thinks the less church men look to such artificial guarantees or counterpoises the better. They will probably gain much more by simply abandoning coercion than they can secure by any legal agreements. At the same time, as we have said, the bill is a matter of compromise, and we presume each side must obtain something in the form of a concession. The Herald describes the bill as one for the total and unconditional abolition of church rates, and as opposed to the very principle of en established church. Churchmen must be blind indeed who believe that it can be calculated to nerve the interests most dear to them, or to secure a peace which will never be granted until the church has been despoiled of everything which can tempt the cupidity or provoke the envy of her enemies. THE HZDISTRIBVTION OF Burn. The Times addressee to the oonservatises a variety of arguments which should induoe them to use their power wisely, and co-operate in the passing of the Reform Bill, after obtaining those modifications which are due to their weight as a great party. Suppose the bill was so much damaged that the government had to abandon it ; the HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The revival, last night, of Gluck's celebrated opera, Iphigrnia in Twirls, was an occurrence of much interest to lovers of music, if not to the general public. The opera is unquestionably one of the grandest and most beautiful ever brought upon the lyric stage ; it was splendidly got up and superbly performed ; and the acting and singing of Titiens, Garduni, and Santley often roused the admiration and delight of the audience; but still a sense of heaviness evidently prevailed, and there was little of the enthusiasm often caused by works of a much inferior order. The taste for dramatic pieces founded on subjects taken from classical mythology has in a great measure passed away ; and in music there is a craving for that florid, ornate, and garish style which is not gratified by the plainness and simplicity of the great old masters, whose music is often, in truth, too good for the vitiated taste which is fashionable now-a.days. PRINCE ALFRED AND ME CORPORATION OF LONDON.—Thurstlay, the 7th of June, has been appointed for the attendance of Prince Alfred at Guildhall, to receive the freedom of the City of London, to which his royal highness is entitled by patrimony, he having signified to the Lord Mayor that that day would suit his convenience. The ceremony will probably take place, as usual on such occasions, in the Council-Chamber, if not in the Guildhall itself, which would be a much more desirable place, hold ing, as it does, at least five times the number of people that could be accommodated in the Council Chamber, and having regard to the extremely attractive appearance of the interior of the ball in its restored and embellished state. On the City Lands Committee the duty will devolve of making the necessary preparations fur giving all due dignity and effect to the proceedings, and they have a pre cedent for resorting to the great hall on the occasion in the fact that it was there the Prince of Wales received the freedom of the corporation on the memorable visit of his royal highness and the Princess of Wales to the City shortly after their marriage. THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The third and final report of the Cattle Plague Commission has just been issued. It considers scientifically the symptoms, nature, origin, method of propagation, and treatment of the disease. As was stated in their second report, the commis sioners requested some of the most eminent physicians, veterinary surgeons, and chemists of the day to investi gate the cattle plague from various scientific points of view. The reports made by these gentlemen are printed in the Appendix to the Report of the Commissioners. Some of them represent that their investigations might with ad vantage be carried still further, and the commissioners recommend these suggestions to the consideration of the government. But enough has already been ascertained to supply us with some valuable results. They renew the recommendation for the slaughter or quarantine of cattle at the ports of disembercation, and urge that ad vantage should be taken of the present opportunity to render permanent those alterations in the ripply of meat to large Myna which it has been proved could be effected with such little comparative inconvenience. From the opinions of the commissioners that the disease is purely contagious, and that no method of treatment or disinfec tion can be relied on, the conclusion is obvious that our mea sures must be almost entirely directed towards preventing contagion, and that =eh measures should be both stringent and continuous. The scholars of Nichol-street (Spitalfielda) Ragged School have contributed, in pence and half-pesos, the sum of 4/., in aid of the lifeboat fund now being raise d in many of the Sunday Schools in London for the purchase of a lifeboat to be presented to the National Lifeboat Institution. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MAT 9, 9 A.m. All hopes of the preservation of pave are aban doned, and war is now believed to be unavoidable. The rumour is current that Count Mulinen, who arrived here recently from Paris, was the bearer of a reply from the Emperor Napoleon to an auto graph letter said to have been addressed to him by the Emperor of Austria, PRUSSIA AND THE FEDERAL DIET. FRANKFOBT-ON-Tlig-MAINI9, Kit 9. It is believed that at the next sitting of the Federal Diet a motion will be brought forward re questing Prussia to withdraw her troops from the Saxon frontiers. Prussia is said to intend explain ing her military movements as measures of defence. It is expected that the Federal Diet will pass a resolution ordering the mobilisation of six federal army corps. The current rumour that the Duke of Bruns wick is acting as mediator between Austria and the middle states for the conclusion of a defensive treaty of alliance is not yet confirmed. BADEN. CABIBRITHE, MAY 9. The government have ordered the compulsory purchase of horses for military service. ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 9. The National Committee of Rome have issued a proclamation declaring themselves ready to assist young men who may be willing to leave that city in order to take part in the war of independence. SERENADE TO COUNT VON BISMARCK. BERLIN, MAY 9. Yesterday evening at 9 o'clock a serenade took place before the residence of Count von Bismarck in celebration of his recent escape from the hands of the assassin. About 2,000 persons were present, to whom Count von Bismarck, in expressing his thanks, said :—" We are all ready to die for King and Fatherland, let it be on the pavement of the street or on the battle field. Our common feeling finds its best expression in the cry of Long live the King !' " M. de Monteverde, a Russian officer, arrived here yesterday with an autograph letter from the Emperor of Russia to the King of Prussia. HUNGARY AND AUSTRIA. PESTI!, MAY 9. Count Maylath has arrived here, and is con ferring with the principal members of the Hun garian Diet, whose moral support the Austrian government seeks to secure before the settlement of the question of the affairs common to Austria and Hungary• FRANCE AND THE TREATIES OF 1815. PARIS, MAY 9. The Constitteticvanel of this morning publishes an article in which it denies that the speech of the Emperor at Auxerre is an encouragement to the ambition of Prussia. The writer says :—" The object of France is neither to serve the ambition of Prussia nor Italy, but to assure her own dignity and security. The programme of France is known and has just been repeated. It lies wholly in these words—reform of the treaties of 1815. Any enter prise not directed towards this object will find her not indifferent but attentive, vigilant, and resolute. The speech at Auxerre is not therefore a compro mise with the various interests agitating Germany, but a last appeal to the wisdom of the siguitaries of the treaties of 1815 on behalf of the peace and secu rity of Europe. It is for them to consider if it would be expedient to leave to the chances of war, always uncertain and formidable, that general re form which France wished to see carried out in peace and by means of a friendly understanding." SPANISH FINANCE. MADRID, MAT 9. The government have obtained a large majority in the congressional committees for the nomina tion of the members of the committee, who wi' have to report upon the financial bill just brought forward by Marshal O'Donnell. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 9. The North German Lloyd's steamer America, from New York on the 28th April, has arrived off Cowes, with 295 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen, and 3,500 dole. for Bremen. On the 28th lilt. she spoke the screw steamer Hermann bound westward, 38 miles off Sandy Hook, and on the 29th the screw steamerAllemania bound westward, 187 miles off Sandy Hook. Her news has been anticipated. THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTIVES. The following telegram has been received at the India-office : " Sir Bartle Frere to Lord de Grey. " Bombay, May 8, 9 p.m. "Colonel Merewether, at Aden, on the 28th of April, reports that Mr. Rassam and the released captives are all well at Kooats (1) and preparing for their journey to the coast." The IneMpendetnee Beige says :—" The speech at Auxerre has produced in Paris, and will certainly produce throughout the whole of Europe, a profound sensation. Public opinion is excited, and the reserve with which the independent journals discuss the subject, shows that the meaning of the imperial protest against the treaties of 1815, under existing circumstances is understood by everyone. The commentaries of the officious press are not of a nature to diminish the impression created. The Constiretionnet maintains that Prussia and Germany are equally entitled with France to repudiate those treaties. The Pays says that the Auxerre speech has made the heart of true France vibrate with patriotism, and that this patriotism consists in the recollections of the heroic past which the Emperor has evoked and in con. fidenoe of the future of the nation committed to the firm and wise bands of Napoleon the Third. These considera tions, says the bedipeadanse, are not calculated to inspire confidence in the future which is referred to. The Auxerre incident seems to give the coup de grdee to the hopes of peace which, in spite of the probability of an im mediate explosion, were still entertained." The Emperor Francis Joseph has expressed a wish to meet Napoleon 111. and confer with him upon the state of Italy and the contingencies that may arise in the course of the war. The proposal, however, was not enter tained at Paris. PARIS. PARIS, TIMMY BRIM. The tone of the Paris press entirely tr out m y construction of the Emperor's speecht it AT AUXICREE. CFII.OII oat means war. M. Emile de Girardin, than whom, from the nature of his long experience of war and revolu tions, and the society which he frequents, no man is better able to interpret such an official discourse, devotes to it in his journal, La Liberfe, these two lines only : This speech requires no comment. In Franca and Europe it will sound like a canna shot. Senator Gueronnikre's paper, La France, says : We are profoundly devoted to the cause of peace ; but, under existing circumstances, our first duty is to tell the truth to our readers, and we are oansimined to my that, after the Emperor's speech, we so louver believe in peaoe. The France proceeds : When the Emperor Napoleon , invoking the s ouvenirs of the first empire, declares that he " detests" the treaties of 1815, the sentiment cannot possibly be construed as the impotent lament of a sovereign resigned to suffer them ; the protest must mesa that he is determined to put an end to them. The Auxerre speech has been un derstood by everybody in this sense, and the profound emotion which the words have excited leaves no room for doubt sa to their interpretation. Such is the truth. It is most serious ; but we above all people, as sincere parti 'sans of a policy of peace, cannot remain under any dela , don. And now, then, that France means to go to war because she " detests " the treaties of 1815, it is very pertinent to tusk what remains of those treaties which does any harm to France 1 The Emperor himself declared, in 1863, when he proposed a congress, that they " had ceased to exist." His own accession to the imperial throne, eleven years before, was the greatest breach ever made in those treaties. That breach is acquiesced in by all Europe, and no fore i g n power dreams of aggression against the empire. There remains, in fact, no shred of those treaties which does the slightest harm to France unless on the supposition that she wants to extend her frontiers at the expense of her neighbours. The famous declara tion, "The empire is peace," was fondly thought to be an avowal that the Emperor had sufficiently " avenged Waterloo " by being made Emperor. But now the Auxerre speech forebodes that in the Emperor's mind vengeance for Waterloo is yet to come, and that he yet hankers after the bloody glories of the first Empire which he so complacently dwelt upon be fore the vine-dressers of the Yonne. There are rumours this evening of ministerial changes. No doubt, if there is to be war, many of the ministers—and the most important of all of them, M. Fould—who have been deceived while the Emperor in his own cabinet was " privately" tele graphing to the French ambassador at Berlin, will have to go out. There was an upward reaction at the Bourse to day, but only on the principle that it is a long lane which has no turning ; and the rise betokens no change in the political situation. Bente recovered from yesterday's great panic to the extent of 65c. for cash and 70c. for account, closing at 63fr. and 62fr. 80c. The Italian Loan (which it must be re membered has fallen 20fr. in the course of a month) rose lir. 10c. ; Credit Foncier rose 40c., and Mo biller 30c. ; the Northern Railway rose 25fr. There was a private ball at the Tuileries yester day evening, which will not, however, be the last for the season of the entertainments known as the Empress's Mondays. Instead of the four origi_ !tally contemplated, it has been decided to have six, and two are to come. At the assembly last night there was little dancing except among very young people. All the political magnates present gathered into groups eagerly seeking disclosures on the momentous situation revealed by the Auxerre speech. It was observed that the Em peror conversed apart for a long while with the Duke de Palikao, who, according to rumour, is destined to a high command in the coming war. Colonel Charm' posthumous work, " The Cam paign of 1813." was published at Frankfort last week. It begins with the return to Prussia of the remnant of the grand army after the retreat of Moscow, and comes down to the moment when Napoleon learned at Erfurt the rupture of the Austrian alliance. The author did not live to finish his history. The book is interdicted in France as was the former one by the same writer, " The Campaign of 1815 and the Battle of Waterloo." Captain Magnan—no relation of the late mar shal—whose name was some years ago much be fore the public as the founder of French steam navigation on the Danube, died last week at his ill I residence near Marseilles. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY. Nairn Aberdeen Leith Ardrossan Greencastle. Va 'ape Clear Liverpool Holyhead Penzance Bred Lorieni itochefort WEDIIISDAY, MAT 9, B A.M. F. 3 W. 1 7. 17 1 S.W. S W.B.W. 6 ll N.W. 4 N.W. 6 16 W.S.W. W.N.W. N.W. 6 W.N.W. 4 61 &S.W. 5 N.N.W. W. 4 W. 2 N. 1 64 N. W. 5 W. 3 53 S.W. I W.S.W. 2 5 W.N.W. 01 ss W.N.W. 3 5 N. W. 29.38! 49.41 1 29.641 , 29.696 29.66,61 29./1616S 29.86 6 21)."'L 29.75. 6 49.94 53 1 29 . 913.2 29.96 10.04 S.W. S..i.W. W.S.W. S.S. W. B.W. S.W. B.W. W. N. W. N.S.W. W.S. W. N.W. W.S. W. N. N. E. B.R.W. B.W. B.W. Plymouth ,22.88 Weymouth 29.84 Portsmouth 29.85 London .. 29.811 Yarmouth 29.7 U 51 Scarborough 29.08 61 Shields 28.84 5i fielder oc o.ni x . w. PRONABLa ON NORTRZLII FRIDAY. Comm W.N.W.to 8 S.W. fresh to strong. TITCRSDAY. Between S.W. snd N.W., strong, squally, showers. As above. Wzrreas. Chiefly westerly, fresh BOUTUIIIII. or strong, with some rain. As nest above. ELSTZAN. Similar. Northern—Scotland. Western—lreland. Wales, and adjs. modes. Southern—English Channel and Bay of Biscay. Eastern—Eastward England and North Sea. As above. 81mUst to above. TER New RI.7BBIAN NOBLE.—A letter from St. Petersburg of the let announces that the new noble, Kom misseroff, bad made his first appearaoce in the world of fashion. The writer says:—" Lest night took place at the Winter Palace the grand ball which has for some time past been the object of general interest, being the first occasion on which dancing has taken place at court since the mourning for the heir to the throne. There were 2,400 guests, the whole of whom par took of a sit-down supper. Before the ball there was a presentation to the Empress of many ladies, and also of a number of deputations which had arrived from the interior expressly to felicitate their Majesties on the 25th anniver sary of their marriage. Kommissaroff was also present, and conducted himself with perfect propriety. He evi dently possesses much tact, and his appearance sad de meanour daring the evening were unazosptionaL" 3,000 tons of broccoli have been sent away by railway during this season from the western parte of Carn ival, Airily to the metropolitan markets. 500 tons of mackerel have been sent to London and other places from the county of Cornwall during the last fortnight. LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY.) • eft 10 WOll Alit she 1 Priam ler her d 01l en , pegret oe Mr. *toted f within •ention but. the co The Pol the 27t Tooting loam, the ?Ir. ii long w' boos Ti thk whom Mr. 2s el Z. from ma Vie ii i ewt; i sa e sod wart. Wool Sibloot. 1 4 1 : 21 t 11. ton. to • • oter 6 .t low , s p a two T sad Ricks . Lewis prime dor ' and otolia• w . cart ; b found. I oPecto Lorca . Rie for h matter. . . plooded magi . kept to " d. wore ; Comte mo o. odith II wttbo' It • . • . on lis I . light d that r ow • &if), is . . • .de l to hor "" • Promo ▪ . Woo r. or to ;ought 0,1 fore, .n sta labou mrt Greet tad . liY" 'wing h Both p • Aim& • titobbiog h • c OW Ik e •• . i• to en as s Oft e a she COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. After Term Nisi Prins Sittinp as Westmisstic—o s t" Mr. Justine Yellow and Common Juin.) This was the first day of the after term obi pin 4. tinge. The list contains the large number of lig mow Of them 93 are remansta, the remsinln 93 ere em mama. The usa)ority of the muses an mew f„ yaw juries, but as the sittings only extend sow A m cisys special Ones are not tairen +r cs they v i have to go over to the sittings ate! • t orm w _ are happy to learn that the Lord Chief J ustice b ail lii, fa r recovered from his Dime attack of quinsy that onfidi e s hopes are entertained that his lordship will be shie to m il his seat in this court on the 22nd inst., the first day d Trinity term. MUTH O. If &RUN. nil was an action on the warrant h ia c hons. fR Mr. M. Chambers, Q. 0 ., and Mr. IPPNIgirl the plainti f f . The defendant did not appear. The plaintiff is a solicitor practising in Soothe**, roe, abet residing at Caritedsry-villas, MaideAull, "se a defendant resides at Beigad -hill, Enfield. The plc being want of a brougham „ horse wee aWasta advertisement in the newspapers, and applied to the S. fondant, He went to H. naiad, saw the hone sad li kt him, but not being a judge of horses he relied on th e r es d,s' , " nation as to soundness, sad ulnas* paid him 1 for him. When he got the horse has was found that he was lame and saris k m spa Plaintiff 1111144 to the defendant, but its i s k no notice of the letter. The plaintiff then sent the ken Tattenall's and sold him, and the present set* * brought to recover f9l. 19s. 6d., being the differs, h. tween the 1001. paid for the horse and the expense i e . marred, and the sum rea li sed by the sale. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for th" amount, and his lordship granted execution in four an COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nid Prise in Iffidcßeenx.—(Before Mr. led" Willie and a Special Jury.) 11:11911LET e. DILL. This was an action to recover damages for false wanment and libel, and the defendant pleaded not by statute, and oleo a plea in justification that the I%el was true. Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. Hansen, Mr. Bell, sunk Curran appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Bovill, Q.O, Mr. Forsyth . , Q.C., and Mr. Garth for the defendant Mr. Coleridge an opening the case, said that the pis". tiff, Captain Keighlay, had been captain in the 49th U m Native Infantry, and the defendant was M 14044411111 Bell, of the Indian army. At the time when the oath, action arose, Major-General Bell was the cosussaisg officer in Pegu, and the circumstances of the NO aye these. In May, 1853, Captain Keighley was officer of public works at Rangoon, and he that position until he was removed on the sth Odle, 1857, by Colonel Conningham, under instructions frauds Commissioner of the province. Captain KdOley ) 2 a to keep various accounts, and he was ordered to elm these accounts in by the Ist October. He had patent fi re proof safe in which to Ti tb , government papers, and this safe was wi ka in his brother's house at Rangoon when a firs kin out there on the 30th of September. He with pet di culty saved some of his papers that were loose, bat the iron safe remained in the fire, and when it was reciened after the fire, the papers which were in it were faladisk reduced to ashes. The learned counsel said that no is* the feet of Captain Keighley 's accounts being in urea, and the fire occurring the day before the delinry the accounts was ordered, might possibly nib suspicion and cause inquiry • send a Win of inquiry was constituted composed of Colonel WOoes and two captains named Scott. They examined be fti circumstances of the fire and reported. Capt. K.4ike did not receive the last of his overseer's accounts 31C lie 7th October, and on that same day he received skis from Colonel Conningham, the chief engineer of PIA 41. siring him to hand over his accounts to two gentian who would take them from him—Lieuts. Newmanit Trevor. He delivered them up,snd afterwards &dad Is have anything more to do with the woman Es was ordered to attend a committee of inquiry; bat be declined to do so, though he said that he was milk to meet any specific charge that could be preferred. 5s consequence was that on the 22nd January, 1856, be cos placed under close arrest, there being at first a ingust's guard and afterwards a corpor al ' s guard over II was a rule of the service that an officer pied under arrest should be furnished witk tie charge against him, and that he should be brae* to trial with all despatch ; but Captain Keighley was lied in confinement for nine months without any charge less brought against him. On the 22nd Oct., 185 d, awl martial sat, and he was charged before it with a fro& lent misappropriation of 47,834 rupees between the 3111 January, 1854, and the 30th Sept., 1859, with a wilfalie atruction of the cash accounts and vouchers, in marls ' conceal the state of his accounts, and lastly with faladad The trial continued for three months, and the finding instill the plaintiff was guilty of the first charge to the extent l• simple deficiency in the accounts to the extent of 11,1' rupees, which amount the court considered that tho soner should make good ; but the court acquitted dad the remainder of the charges. For some reason se coke Sir Patrick Grant disapproved of the finding, and arched that Captain Keighley should return to his thq. lii This order was received on the 19th of Arl. Under these circumstances, Captain Kei-hky's was to return to his regiment. In that rand st April, however, a fresh charge was brought spied lie in reference to some Pegu prise ; money. After the inns* tion had gone on for some considerable time he told las president of the court appointed to investigate the wag that he could give no further information, and that be should go to Calcutta he heard from the rant that he was required u nl e ss sty. He named the day dist he should leave, but in fact he waited for a day a two beyond that time, and, hearing nothing, he on the 461* started for Calcutta. Upon this Major-General Bell vistele Calcutta that the plaintiff had left Rangoon strait permission, and that in fact he had deserted, and ibis se the libel complained of. On the 30th July, wits* plaintiff was ill, having to walk on crutches, he ass plissi under arrest, and was confined for twenty-four boos •I without room t ough wi tho ut utensilue monsoono af sent to Rangoon to be tried for deaertiok na ny y w i s f unriowitZti:o.ntewixAcentite:ltorwrinia.nuornisketsribtivehe vs: si whilst he was under arrest on the 25th of weber, 1* a civil suit was commenc ed against him be the row met for 102,800 rupees, and his counsel, gr. OA who was perfectly well acquainted with all CIO! Reighley's affairs, was engaged for the goverwnest the verdict was against Captain Keighley. Upon til! I was released from arrest, his sword was retft r a imi l him, and at the same moment he wase anis upon civil process. It ap frowi t i e , tion of Major-General Belrerliimaelf that this Far from military arrest had been ordered by his I!r_ the very purpose of allowing the civil law to, ON put in force against him. The learned counsel,in to these main facts, also detailed a variety of dry; stances which he contended showed that Major-Cat a , Captain Keighley. He add ed that the plain . t „, Bell hail acted with unfairness and with ildfeelintigto; being in prison for eight months on the civil promos,'" 1 released, but an order was published dismissing his% fie! 2 the service. Captain Keighley had in main tried toll! from the authorities in India, and from Sir Charles 2 .04 h l e . reaso t reso n urce of his he appealeddismiss to or aaniureryd"restsh, e au on d i t h ys erefa u 4 4 from which he had a chance of obtaining junco form S misery and ruin which bad been inflicted on him ; n 3 (The case was proceeding when our report iv. I a. 4) 0. 4 1 rt. 0.08 oc 01 ro 0.11 ton J. 41 ro 0.3), ob 0.071 oc 0.1 o 0.151 ✓ 0.04. CO 1 0.11 , Cm 1 0.051 ro 1:4 2 2 CENTRAL CRIMINAL CO' 2 2 (THIS DAY.) is The the bate o death Jasaia tempi Tar* that I sad a ! tem* _ _ I tam dicey ilia Germ Ter . rate] sent 1 Tree', time be p cult, In vi team volut • what In he Went Ae OWE the 1 wort 1 men (Before Mr. Baron Channel.) TUC CASK OF INFANTICIDE. Emma 511,147X11t, aged 17, and described in the ealevAr sit as being a spinster, and who h ad been remanded fro last session on an indictme nt charging her with tbe In minter of William Shadholt, her infant child, was law at the bar to take her trial. Mr. Collins appeared on the part o f the prosece utiro!, ol _. it will be remembered thi the se against th prwr, WAS that she bad thrownt the decaecised infant into can.d, and the body was subsequently discovered Anil in the stream by a police constable. Mr. Ribton said that be had just been instructed )11_111 sheriffs to defend the prisoner... d his instructions!, only so recentlyoome to him han that he was not pee?r, to undertake the defence. His application to the es!! therefore, was that the trial should he postponed war. next sessions of the court. He did not believe that go' application would be opposed by his learned friend who ft' peered on the other side. Mr. Collins observed that under the circuistancesslani. be should not attempt to resist the application for Pj• ponement. Mr. Enron Channell said that he should be the lal!, 1 1 1 . to force on a ease of this description, mid, coneequeoqr, should grant the application, and adjourn the trial 0 1 ." prisoner until session of te court. The prisoner, t hewho see med in ah we akly state, wo t bill removed from the bar. (Before Mr. Justice Montagu Smith.) The grand ,jury having returned a true bill for tbolir...; demeanour of the taking away one Eliz.ibeth Toll/ Fr her parents and gnsrdians anst eltristiax 0101,4,.," described as a merchant, and El k" liouglaoo, • •Pii. m. the Sleigh,-"-ilwittiwonhofinor was h Mr. Healey, stated. fist l! learned friend Mr. Serjeant Ballantine hail been indr og g e Ito defend Oliftus, but the learne d sergeant was so in the election committees of the House of Co Iremotal, k, ' I he could not possibly attend this court t 041 1.0 (Mr. Sleigh) had oft _received the brief at so late Y last night that he had had really no time to 1_ .. .7 1 , himself for the defence. Under the•ie TITO , p IWV had to apply that the trial of the case should be i luntil to-morrow in ' • Mr. Justioe Montagu ith observed that b e WI. and with shin Gen are I ease are I t~ I