The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-11 00:00:00

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If it achieves anything it will achieve only what Mr. MILL calls " the unrivalled feat of making a re " doublement of agitation both inevitable and " indispensable." This is the consequence of seeking peace rather than the basis of a just peace. It is ridiculous to imagine that an ar rangement which Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. BRIGHT, and Mr. MILL decline to accept, and regard as per nicious, can be durable. Mr. DISRAELI is an un rivalled parliamentary manceuvrer, for the simple reason that his compeers and superiors in the House of Commons shrink from the arts to which he is not ashamed to prostitute a fine genius. He has his reward ; but the reward is of necessity a short-lived one. Grave constitutional questions are not to be settled by parliamentary manoeuvring. It may suit Mr. Duotssu's purpose, or gra tify a passing mood of insolent triumph, to repre sent the opposition to the vital points of his mea sure as inspired by the spirit of faction, and to restrict the candour and generosity which he attributes to the House of Commons to the fifty or sixty real or nominal Liberals who have voted with him. But Mr. DISRAELI cannot deceive himself into the idea that a compromise with these fifty or sixty members is a real settlement. The passage of the Bill of the present Govern ment may put a stop to discussion in the House of Commons during the existence of the present Parliament ; but if the Bill become law, the pre sent Parliament cannot survive the organization of the new constituencies which it will create. It has in this case probably only one clear session before it. The remnant of its life will be disquieted by dis content and agitation out of doors. Its dissolution will be the signal of a new struggle. The elections will turn, for the first time during the last thirty-five years, on the question of Reform, and tho new Parliament will ad journ the strife from the hustings to St. Stephen's. The Bill of the Government is so felicitously framed as not simply to keep alive agitation, but to extend and embitter it. At present the demand of those who are without, is that a considerable section of them shall be fairly brought within the pale of the Parliamentary Constitution. The Bill of the Government does not honestly meet this demand ; and it creates new causes of dissatisfaction. It will foster ill feelings between a favoured mino rity of householders, to whom it grants electoral facilities, and the aggrieved majority, from whom, on transparently disingenuous pretences, it with holds them ; between the propertied classes, who in vestry assembled regulate the franchise of their parishes, and the poorer classes whose privi leges are thus disposed of ; between the occupiers of small tenements who desire votes, and the compounding landlords whose interest it is to keep their tenants off the rate-book and the re gister ; between the towns which the Bill candidly and liberally enfranchises, and those which it shackles indirectly with disabilities. Well-dis posed and right-minded men, who may be com paratively indifferent to politics, and lukewarm on the subject of reform, but who care for peace and justice, will be almost forced into agitation for the redress of the inequalities which the Government measure creates. Only one way of accomplishing this end will be open to them. The advanced post cannot be called in. The main body can _A THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 11, 1867. come into line with it only br marching forward. The facilities which the Bill gives for the selection of all the worst elements in the boroligh population fur the purposes of party cor ruption and victory, can be met only by including the good, and even the indifferent, with the posi tively bad. The Government measure is based, as has been traly said, on the principle of selec tion ; but it is framed so as to attract the worst and reject the best elements. If household suf frage, not simply as a measure of justice, but as a means of checking corruption, becomes before long not merely a Liberal but a national de mand, the country will have Mr. DISRAELI'S Bill to thank or to blame. This suffrage, in all its simplicity and purity, will be introduced by the measure now before Parliament into twenty-nine English boroughs. The principle of personal rating and personal pay ment of rates will establish a franchise practically indistinguishable from, or at least closely approach ing to, household suffrage, in Scotland and Ireland. Among the majority of Thursday, we are not sur prised to find the names of some honestly Liberal members desirous to secure to their con stituencies the application of what they hold to be a sound principle. They have doubtless voted in accordance with their convictions. We should be sorry to charge them with having been influ enced by selfish regard for their own particular boroughs. No doubt they believe that house hold suffrage, once established throughout Scotland and Ireland, and in twenty-nine of the English constituencies, cannot be withheld from the rest. They think that the constituencies in which it is established will serve as a fulcrum for the lever which shall move the entire nation in the same direction. It may be matter for regret that they should hare sought this object by indirect means, forgetting that in morals, as in mathematics, the straight line is the shortest road from one point to another. Those who, without fearing household suffrage, would prefer to approach it practically ; or who would like to see it guarded by such limitations as might exclude the residuum which makes even Mr. BILIUHT a little nervous, may regret this course. But the real responsibility for what may follow rests with Mr. DissASLI. The intolerable political inequality which his Bill is calculated to establish between persons socially indis tinguishable, and between boroughs of the same rank and standing ; the jealousies between class and class which it threatens to rouse, and the rivalry of corruption between the political par ties which it will almost everywhere infiame—can be abated only, if it passes, by a measure of household suffrage. In that event the Liberal party—that portion of it which is Liberal in thought and purpose as well as in name—must presently reorganize itself upon this basis. It is impossible for the nation to rest for a moment in Mr. Doutasm's scheme ; and there is no mid station now, though three months ago there were many. well unden4d s that ininisters,having strained the docility et ' their f to the utmost, had found it indispensable to take their stand at last upon this comparatively insigni ficant question, and that, had they been lelVin a minority upon it they would have thrown up the bill and dissolved parliament. The single interest of the Spectator in the matter of re form, now that there is no hope of an intellectual reform bill, is that the tory squires should see clearly what they are doing, should vote consciously and not blindly, should recognise to themselves that, under whatsoever pretext, or excuse, or theory, or hope, they are establishing in Great Britain household suffrage. That franchise may work very well, in the great centres of intelligence it certainly will work well, and physical power in the last resort lies there, end not in Harwich or Honiton ; but it is not a system which men whose runent litre is resistance to the rule of numbers ought to have established. Either they have been converted, in which case they ought to have announced and justified their conversion, or they have not been, in which case they are subordinating their principles to their party ties. In either owe, whether they are im moral or only inconsistent, they are assisting their chief to establish immediately and without checks the system which only last year they declared to be revolutionary, to carry a bill three times as democratic as that for which they overturned the liberal government. Hyde-park, the Chronicle says, is attached to no royal residence ; and it in, to all intents and purposes, simply a pleasure-ground for the inhabitants of London. The best course, therefore, would be to regard it no longer as royal property, but to make it over to the metropolitan authori ties. In this way it would be regulated like the public pleasure -grounds of any other large town ; and whatever restrictions might be imposed on the use of it, no accusa tion of political bias would lie against those who framed them.—The same journal describes the decision on Thurs day night as another victory in the cause of retrogression. The thirst for restrictive legislation grows by what it feeds on. REFORM MEETING AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, FRIDAY Nicnr. A meeting of the committee of the Liberal Asso ciation and of the Reform League of this town was held to-night, Mr. Alderman HAMMEN in the chair. The CHAIRMAN in opening the proceedings said a " monstrous baud" had been perpetrated on the people by the vote of Thursday night, and it was the duty of true reformers to move step by step to rescii,d that vote. Mr. T. A. PARTRIDGE moved, and Mr. RADFORD, chairman of the Reform League, seconded • resolution which, after expressing thanks to Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Mill, for their unanswer able and exhaustive speeches demonstrating to the House of Commons that the government scheme for the personal payment of rates would practically exclude them from the borough franchise, declared that the meet ing regarded the decision of the house in favour of this plan, after its fraudulent character had been so clearly proved, as a crowning proof that a majority of its members will resist any substantial measure of reform until their hostility be overcome by the combined action of the people. Mr. Councillor HARRIS supported thin resolution, and in doing so urged the desirability of a petition to parliament couched in strong but not intemperate language. The resolution was carried unanimously. The Spectator, treating of the case of the poet Young, expresses a hope that Lord Derby will make his peace with literary men by giving a pension to Mrs. C. Bennett. We (Gardeners' Chroniele) are requested to an nounce that in consequence of the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Hall of Arts and Sciences by her Majesty having been fixed to take place on Monday, May 20, at South Kensington, immediately adjoining the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, the society has deter mined, upon the suggestion of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, to hold a special floral fete, to which it is hoped that the exhibitors of tricolour zonate pelargoniums and other plants will largely contribute. An Embassy from Japan to the United States has arrived at New York. It oonsists of two commis sioners, a secretary, five interpreters and attaché., and several servants, and came by way of San Francisco and Panama. Its object is to examine and report upon the army, navy, railroads, canals, schools, and various other objecta of interest in the United States. Shortly after their arrival at New York the Japanese were persuaded to take off their native attire, and to make their appearance iu Yankee clothing ; and the New York aldermen intro duced them to New York customs by at once taking them to Niblo's Garden. M. Louis Blanc, who had some experience of popular meetings in his own country in 1848, says, in the Temps, that he felt ashamed for the English people that there should be the slightest fear about their demonstra tions. It was • calumny on the good sense of the public, • calumny on liberty, • calumny on England. For his own part, he paid so little attention to Mr. Walpole's placard, which recommended all peace able citizens to keep away, th►t he and another Frenchman, a friend of his, went together at 6 o'clock in • carriage, both of them astonished to find how little Englishmen know and how ill they judge of their own country, and both of them laughing at the formidable pre cautions taken by the government. He describes in the same pleasant vein the aspect of Hyde-park, with its usual promenaders on foot, on horseback, and in carriages, and with many others who were there to see what was going on. Among these be recognised the French Ambas s►dor, " who was sitting quietly on a chair," and, in spite of Mr. Walpole's solemn warning, he found Lord Gran ville, Lord Halifax, the Duke of Sutherland, the Marquis of Sligo, Lord Ranelagh, Lord Chief Justice Bovill, ■cad other personages, walking about at the risk of swelling the ranks of the rioters, and encouraging by their presence the enemies of order and of property. The two friends then proceeded to another part of the park, and saw " five or six hundred policemen sitting on the grass, eating, drink ing, laughing, and seemingly not penetrated with the ex tent of the danger from which society was to be rescued by their courage." Miss Curran, who painted a portrait of the poet Shelley, which ham been recently alluded to by the Aar %RIM and other journals, was Amelia Curran. It was Sarah Curran who wa■ betrothed to Robert Emmett, the Irish patriot, who was executed for treason. When Emmett was apprehended the Olken of justice proceeded to Curran's house to search his daughter's apartments for proofs of her lover's guilt. Amelia let the officer, in and stated that her sister was ill in bed, and begged that they would allow her to go and prepare her sister for the visit. The officers consented. Amelia then went to Sarah's room, and whispering, begged her for God's sake to tell her where Emmett's letters were. In a very few moments she had concealed all the letters shoot her person, and, having made her sister sit up in the boil she let the officers into the bedroom, where they found nothing criminatory. Sarah became melancholy through the rest of her life. Amelia lived chiefly in Rome, where she died unmarried. A gentleman now residing in Southampton knew her in Rome, and 111 , her portrait. She is like her father, the illustrious patriot, orator, and wit, about the eyes and mouth. She was an accomplished and high-spirited woman. LITERARY AND SeLENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENKIHNG WEEX.—Sfooday— Society of Arts, at 9, "Pottery and Porcelain," Mr. Chaffers. Geographical, at 85, "Chinese Tartary," Captain Osborn ; Dr. Livingaton e ' s L os t Journey," Mr. Findlay. Tuesday—Royal Institution, at 3, " Spectrum Analysis," Professor Miller. Engineers, at 8, " Optical Apparatus in Lighthouses i" " Experiment+, on Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water," Mr. Byrne. Wednesday—Society of Arts, at N "New Machinery for cutting Slate, dm.," Mr. Fothergill Cooke. Thursday—Royal Institution, at 3, " Ethnology,; Professor Huxley ; Numismatic, at 7. Syro-Fps ptian at 74, "Assyrian and Egyptian Civilisation," M r . Nash. Antiquaries, at 95, " MS. Volume of Songs of Henry VIII.," Mr. Chappell ; " Earl Stanhope's Po r t ra it o f th e Empress Leonora, Mr. Scharf. Royal, at 85. Friday— Philological, at 81, Anniversary, " Excrescent Consonants," Professor K. Royal Institution, at 8, " Absorption o f Gases by M etals, " Professor Odling. Saturday--Royal Institution, at 8, " Ethnology," Professor Huxley.— ..Wyo./qua. THE CHURCH IN NOTTING-HILL.—The Lord Archbishop of Armagh, acting for the Bishop of London, oonsecrated on 'Ttiay last the beautiful new church St. Clement's, Lancaster-road West, Notting-bill, which has been erected through the exertions of the Rev. A. IX Robinson, the incumbent of the district, liberally aided by the Bishop of London's fund. It oontatna accommodation for 900, all the seats being free, and one-half unappro priated. The Bishop of London is the patron. LORD BURY. —W e(Norfulk News)are sorryto hear that this smith's nobleman has not yet recovered from the effects of his recent accident, and that be is still unable to come down into Norfolk or to attend to public matters. Cht daurt. OSBORNE, MAT 10. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ae ooinpanied by Princess Louise ; and her Majesty and Prince Leopold rode on ponies in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice walked out. Lady Churchill left Osborne to-day. The christening of the infant Princess, third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, took place yesterday, at Marlborough-house. Thv ceremony was performed by his Grace the Arch bishop of Canterbury, in the presence of the Queen of Denmark, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Arthur, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Duke of 011112- bridge, the Grand Duke, the Grand Duchess, and Prince Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Strelits, the Prince and the Princess Mary Adelaide, Princess of Teck, and Count Gluchen. The infant Princess received the names of Louise Vic toria Alexandra Dagmar. The sponsors were :—The Queen of Denmark, the Grand Duchess Cannons (Princess Dagmar), the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits, Primer Christian of Schleswig- Holstein-Augustenburg, Princess Louise, Princess Louise of Hesse, the King of the Greeks, the Crown Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederick of Hesse, Prince Edward of Saxe Weiniar,and the Duke of Schlesvrig-liolstein-Glucks burg. The following had the honour of being present at the ceremony :—The Countess of Macclesfield, Madame de Bine, the Hon. Mrs. Stoner, General Sir Wm. Kaollys, K.C.8., Major Elphinatone, M. 41e Castenschiold, Major Teesdale, Mr. Herbert Fisher, Dr. Farre, Mr. Paget, and Mr. Preseot Hewitt. After the ceremony luncheon was served. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday forenoon at a meeting at Ilarlborough•house of the Committee for the Paris Regatta, to be held in July. The following were present : the Duke of Sutherland, the Hon. G. Denman, M.P., Mr. C. J. Selwyn, M.P., Mr. M'Gregor, Mr.Chitty, Captain Donnelly, and Mr. Wylde, Secretary. The Prince of Wales honoured Mr. Geo. G. Mama with a sitting for the obverse of a medal for the Acclima tisation Society. In the evening the Prince of Wales, attended by Major- General Lord Frederick Paulet, Viscount Royston, and Major Teesdale, left 3larlborough-house for Dover, en eon& for Paris. The plenipotentiaries accredited by the European l'owers to the London Conference on the Luxemburg Question met yesterday for the third time, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Conferenoe will sit again to-day (Saturday). A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. Mr. H. W. Wickham, M.P. (chairman of the West Riding Quarter Sessions), Colonel Smyth (deputy chair. man), and Mr. J. H. Dixon (deputy clerk of the peace), transacted business at the Homßoffice yesterday. A deputation consisting of Mr. C. H. Turner (chairman of the Great Eastern Railway), Mr. Lightly Simpson (director of Great Eastern Railway), Mr. W. H. Shaw (solicitor to the company), and Mr. R. Baxter (parka. mentary solicitor) had an interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, to solicit the board's recommendation to suspend the stand ing orders of the House of Commons, to enable the Great Eastern Company's Finance Bill to be introduced. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office yesterday to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, Malta, and the Straits' settlements. THE PRINCE OP 1, ALES'S VISIT TO THE PARIS EXHIBITION. The vessel in which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales left Dover last night for Calais was the London, Chatham, and Dover Company's fine steamer the Maid of Kent, Captain Pittock. This vessel had been specially ordered by the Admiralty fur the conveyance of his royal highness across the straits. The Calais and Ostend steamers for the other passengers were on the opposite side of the pier. Mr. Knight and Mr. Karns, the Queen's courier, superintended the royal embarkation, during which the heights and castle were lighted up by the glare of the lightning, a par ticularly bright flash occurring just as the boat mat off from the pier. The Maid of Kent left the pier at 11.20 p.m., the see being far from rough, notwithstanding the disturbed state of the atmosphere. The passage across the straits to Calais was made in about an hour and forty minutes, the vessel being a very fast one. From Calais his royal highness proceeded by train to Paris, and it was expected that he would arrive at the English Embassy at an early hour this morning. During the prince's stay in the French capital he will be the guest of Lord Cowley and will make several vista to the Exhibition. The Prince's stay in Paris will be limited, it is understood, to about eight days, and the royal return to this country will take place about Monday week. The Queen of Denmark re mains at Marlborough House with her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, who is still progressing satisfactorily. General Knollys was in attendance at Charing-cross on the departure of the Prince. The return of the Court to Windsor will be either on the 15th or 113th, and on the 20th her Majesty, with the junior members of the royal family, accompanied by their royal highnemea the Prince and Princess Christian and the infant prince, will leave Windsor for Balmoral for a short period. It is, we believe, the in tention of her Majesty to stop at Leeds on her journey to the north, and perform the ceremony of laying the 6rat stone of the Hall of Arta and Sciences, and afterwards re sume her journey.—Cowl kw. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Donegan with his company at dinner, on Thursday, at their residence in Grosvesor-square. There were present to meet his royal highness—The Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Sefton, Lady Moleeworth, Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn, Colonel the Hon. J. and Mrs. Maodonold, Dr. Quin, &c. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose will enter tain his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge at dinner on Monday, the 27th of May. The duchess will have an evening party afterwards, and on the following week a Viscount and Viscountess Falmouth entertained at dinner last evening, at their residenee in St. James's square, the Earl of Stradbroke, Viscount and Viscountess Ho!modals, Lord Eliot, Lord and Lady Vivian, Colonel ilia Hon. Strange Jocelyn, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Wat son Taylor and Miss Taylor, Colonel and Mrs. Wood and Miss Wood, Colonel Gambier, Colonel Airey, Hon. Mr. Calthorpe, Mr. Digby, kn. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton entertained at dinner yesterday evening, at their residence in St. James's vinare, his Excellency the Danish Minister, Lord Chutes, Lord and Lady Lyveden, Lord and Lady Aveland and Hon. Mum Heathcote, Sir Dudley and L►dy Marjoribaaks, Mr. and Lady Elizabeth St. Aubys, Captain Shelley, Mr. Edwin Earton, Mr. Fleming, Mr. Petra, Mr. Tracy, kc. The Countess Cowper had a dinner party last night at the family residence in St. James's-square. Later in the evening her l►dyship had a reception, at which a numerous company assembled. Tho British ambassador at Paris and Countess Cowley have issued invitations for a grand ball, which is to take place on the 17th of May. With deep regret we have to announce the fact that the popular Earl of Chesterfield is at present suffering from a severe illness. The noble earl has been eonfined to his room for some days , but his friends anxiously hope that he may soon be catered to health.—Derbyshire Courier. THE THREATENED GOVERNMENT PROMEt'UTIONR. —We (Imperial &Dino) believe that the Home-office will not proceed against Mews. Healer, Bradhiugh, Ito., for trespass in connection with the meeting in Hyde-park on Monday last. ST. PANCRAS WORKHOUSE.—For many month/ past small-pox has extensively prevailed in the pariah of St. Pancras, and wards hare hew fitted up in the work. house for the reception of the patients, where there have been from 30 to upwards of 40 for • long time past, but the whole of the patients are now convalescent, and this day Dr. Bennett, the resident medical officer, reports that the nurse; and atteadants will be dismissed, and the wards closed. This result has been obtained by an arrangement being made for the whole of the cases of smallpox as they occur being received into the Smallpox Hospital at a charge of fear guises, per patient. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Though the termination of the Conference has set the public mind of Europe at rest as to any immediate apprehension of war, the Times has no hope of • really stable pacification while vast armies are kept on foot, and labour, expense, and ingenuity oontinue to be devoted to the production of machinery for effecting mutual anni hilation. All Europe is, as it were, mined ; the slightest accident may apply the torch, and yet it has become so used to the danger that it has almost learnt to consider this armed peace as the natural state of mankind. France has been the great offender in the m►tter, and if the Emperor will but carry out • real disarmament be will confer on mankind • benefit which he will regard in the latter years of his life with more reel satisfaction than all the triumphs of his arms and all the successes of his diplomacy. The other articles in the Times, this morning, treat of the financial scheme of the new Chancellor of the Italian Exchequer, the satire of M. John Lemoinne on his English neighbours, and the proceedings of the London and Brighton Railway. On the last subject the Timm says that whichever way the division may go next Thursday, the property of the line will henceforth be ad ministered on sounder principles. By 031/13110P consent it is recognised that there mast be no more of these fights over branches or extensions, whatever may be the appa rent provocation, necessity, or excuse. The Daily News eongr►tulatee Italy on the brightening of her prospects. Signor Ferrara's financial programme appears at once comprehensively framed, carefully con sidered, far-sighted, and practical.—American polities and the case of the Tornado are the other topics discussed in the Daily New. Amongst the matters dealt with by the Poet this morn ing is the time of publishing the marriage banns. Our contemporary considers them, whether published at one time or the other, ► disagreeable interpolation, and cannot understand why the exhibition of the names of the parties upon the public notice-board of the church for three con secutive Sundays should not answer all the purpose. In the present conflict of old and new law, and of law and custom, it might be as well to have a short act, declaratory sad permissive, making it legal to publish banns at any time of Divine service that might be most suitable, only requiring that the practice in any one church should be uniform, so that people might know when to expect publication. The Standard urges on the government to press on their Hyde-park Bill with all possible alacrity, while the Stwr thinks th►t Mr. Diriraeli's demeanour last night, when questioned by Mr. Bright, showed th►t he wes as little sensible of the gravity of the subject and the interest felt in it by the country, as of what was due to an eminent public man fulfilling an obvious parliamentary duty. At present we have to wait till after Monday to know what will be done. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The London Conference, the compound house holders, and the Hyde-park meeting, are the leading themes with our weekly contemporaries. The .Votarda.v Renew anticipates that with the happy close of the deliberations of the Conference charges and re criminations will cease to disturb timid minds. The in telligent opinion of Europe was unanimously opposed to an unnecessary contest, and in smoothing away the diffi culties which impeded a friendly arrangement, the con ference has enjoyed the great advantage of swimming with the stream. The Saturday Review believes the decision of parliament in favour of the government scheme of borough franchise is in harmony with the decision of the country. No serious difficulties now beset the passing of the bill until the question of the redistribution of seats is ap proached. New difficulties have been imported into this part of the subject by the decision of Thursday night. The objections to the maintenance of very small boroughs have been intensified by it. On the Hyde-park question, the Re lire is vehement. What is lost. it says, is the honour of the country, to which the loss of the American colonies, Walcheren, and (Intros are as nothing. The Reform League have shown that the destinies of this country are in the hands of the most pusillanimous and weak govern ment that England has ever possessed. The Horne-offios, the Examiner says, in discussing the week's work, was never the fit place for Mr. 'Walpole. It is precisely the department for which he was by nature ill-suited. Mr. Burly will probably make • better secre tary of state, for the supervision of magistrates, con stables, culprits, mad people, publicans, sanitary boards, water-workers, and gas-makers. But it will take Mr. Hardy a long time so win the personal regard so remark ably manifested towards Mr. Walpole. Desiring to cast away disguise, the Eta/miner wishes to confess that in the sharp debate and great division of Thursday last, no human being really felt that the issue lay between the rival schemes for equalising householders claiming the franchise. The struggle was in reality be tween the friends and foes of the bill as • whole, It wee LATEST INTELLIGENCL (nietn's runnums.) THE CONFERENCE. BERLIN, MAT 11. The statement of the Patric of yesterday evening that Count Bernstorff is believed to have already given the members of the Conference to under stand that three or four weeks would suffice for the evacuation of Luxemburg is without founda tion. HUNGARY. PESTA, MAY 11. Herr Szentiraly, of the Deak party, hss been elected Burgomaster of Pesth by 2,623 votes, against 1,344 votes given to Herr Vidaes, of the extreme left. CROATIA. AGRAM, MAT 10. The majority of the Croatian Diet have passed a resolution asking for the recall of the royal com missioner, Herr Cichs, from Fiume. The deputies of Fiume protested against the reso lution, and retired from the sitting. The debate on the address to the throne will take place to-morrow. PORTUGAL LISBON. MAT 11. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Depu ties the preliminaries of a bill authorising the con struction of a railway from Oporto to Begoa, and from Oporto to the frontier were agreed to. The American squadron, under Admiral Golds borough, is expected here from the Mediterranean. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA. The Royal Mail steamship Scotia, from New York on the let May, arrived at Queenstown at midnight (May 10), with 254 first-class cabin pas sengers, and 100,000 dole. in specie. She landed all the mails except those for Liverpool, and a portion of the Scotch, and 68 passengers. She pro ceeded for Liverpool immediately. All well. NEW YORK, MAY 1, 2 A.M. The Virginian legislature has made an appropri►tion for the education of children, irrespective of colour. Frequent disturbances occur in Richmond, in conse quence of negroes insisting to ride in the street can, con trary to the regulations of the proprietors. General Sickles stopped the Firemea's parade at Charles. ton, on Monday, because no national flag was carried, and required them to carry one at the bead of the pruce.eion with a guard of honour. The firemen acquiesced, and the parade continued. A man was subsequently arrested for mutilating the flag, and sent to gaol. There is great destitution in the interior of Georgia, and thousands are in danger of starvation. A mass meeting of whites and blacks took place on Monday in Columbia. A negro orator declared that the Southern people and the negroes are the best of friends. Lawlessness continuesto prevail in East Tennessee. It is reported that Union men have been ordered to leave several towns. A mob of loyal leaguers in Blount county recently dis persed the congregation of a Methodist church, supposed to sympathise with the rebels. Petitions have been circulated in Texas, praying the government to divide the State into two parts in conse quence of the predominance of loyalty in the western, and disloyalty in the eastern portion. The friends of Mr. Davis are renewing their efforts to procure his speedy release on bail. Mr. Davis is in good health. Senator Wilson has addressed the people of Newbern, Goldsboro', Raleigh, and North Carolina, exhorting the freedmen particularly to sustain the republican party. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter advocating the confiscation of rebel property, and denying the right of Senator Wilson to promise the South representation upon their conforming to the Reconstruction Act. Informatioo has been received at the Treasury depart. meet that the Canadian customs officers are aiding and abetting smuggling from Canada into the United States. MEXICO. NEW YORK, HAT 1, 2 A.M. News published in the New York papers from repub lican sources from Tampico to the 17th ult. state the Emperor Maximilian was still besieged in Queretaro, that Miramon was mortally wounded, and that the garrison of Vera Cruz was on short rations. (BT Amemc NEW YORK, MAT 10, 6 r.r.• The government has ordered the writ of habeas corpus in reference to Mr. Davis to be obeyed. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Teutonic arrived out yesterday evening, and the Guion screw steamer Chicago on Wednesday last. Closing prices :—Gold, 1371. Sterling exchange on London, 109/. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1081; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, 63k. Cotton— Middling Upland, 27. Petroleum, refined, 241. • Arrived in London at 12.45 a.m., May 11. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SAITILDAT, lAT 11. • &M. P. attreelle. & T. W. 115 m US, , ' , W. go 12 1.1 D. 1 & --.--. --. 0 ...- 11 airs WAR 45 11. Z. 1 EX.! so 0.1 2 Aberdeen .61115 N.N.I. 1 Z. f 6.0 2 Leith 19.5544 8.1. 2 LILL r 0.1 t Ardrossan 10.44161 3.8. W. 5 S. or 0.92 f 3 6rosaartle ,10.4460 &N.l 6 OW. cr 0.04 1 Valentin WM Id 8. 4 2.6.2.. um 0.00 2 Cape Clear 26.37 63 B.W. 4 O.W. b 0.50; 4 Liverpool 29.44 00 &&& 1 I.E. or 0.13 1 1 Holyhead 30.466 &&W. 1 && W. or 41.1, 2 Penzance 10.62 65 W.O.W. 4 &S.W. re 1046 4 Bran WM 60 OW. I JUL! re !OAP 2 Lortant 11.61 61 B.W. 6 & eb '4.111 3 Rochefort Plymouth Weymouth Portsmouth 2044 Oil &W. 4 : S.& re 0.28 3 Loudon - Yarmouth 26.466. & 2 &S.W. to - 4 Scarborough 1.6161' 3.6. 1 && d 0.10 1 Shields W. 66 60. N.E. 2 X& mf - 4 Weldor I - - - AKMARKS. Atmaspherical pressure has dee d mince yestneday. prin cipally In the south-east, but is now increasing at places In the south nt the British isles. The wind■ are south westerly, mule rate. except In the north, where they are north•westeriy, light. Weather Is overcast, with rain in the north and west, and log in the eat: thunderstorms occurred la the south last night A Turin paper says that the household of the Princess Margaret, daughter of the Duchess of Genoa, is shortly to be formed. Is this to be taken as significant of matrimonial projects! The young princess, who will complete her 111th year on the 20th of next November, is an exceedingly pretty person and said to be very amiable and well brought up. A report was lately current, origi nating apparently in Prussia, of a projected marriage be tween her and Prince Charles of Hohenrellent, reigning Prince of Roumania. On the 3rd inst., Duke Ernest of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, brother of the late Prince Consort, with his wife, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, celebrated the 25th anni versary of their marriage. The illustrious couple passed the day in quiet retirement, at the hunting lodge of Ober hof, near Gotha, whose citizens presented their sovereign with a valuable piece of plate. A letter from Tih4ran of the 7th ult. states that his Majesty Naar-Eddin-Shah had formed the design of proceeding with all his court to Welled, a place of pil grimage held in great veneration. Although everything had been already prepared for a speedy departure, and measures taken to ensure the conduct of public affairs during the Sines absence, the material difficulties of the expedition, wird the consider►ble outlay required for the displacement of twenty thousand persons forming the royal suite, gave rise to doubts as to the realisation of the journey. Cardinal d'Andres hu just forwarded his de fesoe, drawn up under his orders by the Abb4 Palmas lia, to the Pope in • volume of 500 pages. His endoeNce sent with it • latter in which he demands a trisl in acconi anoe with canonical laws, or the suppression of the brief by which he was deprived of the spirital a minis.ration of the dimes. at Sabine sad Bubiaco. EXPRESS FROU PARIS. (111011 OUR OWN PARIS, FRIDAY Evisisc. There is but one voice to acclaim that the 1,, don Conference has succeeded in averting There is even no difference of any importan ce the versions given by several evening papers of ti terms which now await only a formal signature be certainly given to-morrow. It seems to agreed on all hands that Luxemburg is to be, tirely severed from Germany ; Prussia to evacn, very speedily ; the fortress to be dismantled ; th e province to be neutralised under the sovereignty .4 the present King-Grand-Duke ; and the neutrals } to be guaranteed by all the powers. One report says that Pru;sia will withdraw he t troops within three or four weeks. The Frew alone suggests that Prussia, after promising to withdraw, may perhaps back out of the engagement on the pretext that France tinues to arm, but this seems to me quite an is. admissible hypothesis. The France says : _ _ _ The friends of peace owe much to England for the pe w , tical spirit and wise foresight which Lord Stanley k m shown in the conduct of this important and delicate din Rarely, in leed, has a question so pregnant with compil e . tions been settled with so much decision and promptita4e, The Council of State is understood to harm adopted in substance all the amendments to th, army bill proposed by the committee. In cow. qnence the change from the original project tai Ibe very considerable. It is now proposed that th minimum of the army, whether active or of ai l reserve, shall be 800,000 ; no further force to raised without an annual vote. Of course the op. position will object, and most rightly, to so high, figure as a minimum. The official exoneration at men drawn for the army by a money payment to the State is to be abolished ; and the old system under the Act of 1832, by which substitutes we ll purchased privately at the market price is to be re. !rived. This change will probably reduce the price I of a substitute far below 3,000 fr., which is the present rate. It is, however, to be stipulated tbg every substitute shall, in addition to the agreed price, pay 200 fr. to the fund for army pensions. This clause provoked a good deal of discussios. On the whole there is reason to hope that the bill to be ultimately voted will not be anything like such abed one as that which excited a general out. cry in the country when it was launched as & feeler a few months ago. To-day the pictorial journal La Lone was tried by the Correctional Police for having published & caricature of the famous M. Louis Veuillot, of the Univers, without the permission of the Minister of the Interior. M. Veuillot, who acted as informer, states in his journal that he instituted the preen tion not on amount of himself, as he is notoriously too meek to resent injuries, but because relinia was turned into ridicule in his person. No report of the trial is legal. The court sentenced tie editor of the Lune to a month's imprisonment. The Countess Vimercati, one of the Princes Mathilde's ladies of honour, is dead. She was the wife of Count Vimercati, who has for several pan played a considerable part in important negotia tions between France and Italy. The Bourse, supported by uniform good news of the Conference and the rise in Consols, was et• trumely firm. Rente rose 25c. both for cash sad account, closing at 69fr. 6c. and 68fr. 95c. Italian rose lfr. 95c. upon M. Ferrara's financial statement Credit Foncier rose 17fr. 50c. ; Compton d'Escompte,lofr. ; the Northern Railway, 17fr.5trt; and Lyons, 10fr. Credit Mobilier and its de pendent securities continued to participate elightly, if at all, in the general improvement. ITALY. (raw' ova owx cosaxaroxoixr.) FLORENCE, MAT 7. Signor Ferrara has asked and obtained widest difficulty from the Chamber of Deputies permisee to delay his promised exposition of the finsaCil state of the kingdom and the proposed bases of ks future financial policy till Thursday next, the 9th of this month. As I remarked in a former lette, the time which the new minister—who, as is .41 known, undertook the arduous task proposed him very much against his own inclinati.m. asd solely from motives of real patriotism—has had id the preparation of a financial policy, and the as rious measures arising out of it, has been wonder fully short. Nothing but the moat strenuous an plication, and a power of work truly herodesa could have sufficed to accomplish in the time the amount of labour which the task entrusted w Signor Ferrara implies, and the small graceof two or three more days has accordingly been cher fully conceded. Some of your contemporaries have been give' what professes to be a complete explanation of the mysterious circumstances connected with the hi of the Ricaaoli ministry. But it is worth whikto caution those who take an interest in contener• rary Italian politics that none of these accounts us to be accepted as wholly correct. It is prole* true that great efforts have been made by anal the irresponsible advisers around the King bring about such an attempt to govern without parliament as that which cost Clutrles the F . his head. But I have reason to believe that the story of these intrigues which has been give' i s wrongfully injurious to the King ; and that. " 0 the other hand, a perfect knowledge of the fun would show that one of the statesmen whom thin stories are intended to defend is more piny is the matter than his Majesty. To the Kin, he' ever, must be awarded the very serious Mole i failing to understand the position of a cons ,l ? tional monarch to such a degree as to eneour4 around hint and to listen to, if not to be led h! , unauthorised and irresponsible advisers, Op ise jects are quite other than thew of the recgius 4 ministry of the country, and whose means for the advancement of those Mess* patible with the carryin) stitutional government One thing oonnectei at least certain—that tation by the circumstath consenting to take a without in any way causes or motives of it, able for future service can justify or excuse guilty of the grossest ing to conccahnents ft character, and most i of the country, for Olt which are the bane an I think I may vent*. confidence that all thi with reference to the to between Italy and] troops by the former aro wholly devoid of I beginning to believe ii for the present. But 6114 An inqi at the Lord Wearthy, another bow Thomas in Suttertol at about 5 c Taylor lark something / who struck off, aed the give it up, I blow bard e shook hand good for roe • stable,_pu ryz.liel struggled a K M'Car ceased, bad between th, Mr. Slate of blood on caused inde The jury vesture." HLVY morning on many y half-peat ew :3 of rain, wit thunder. ' heavier, th, vivid, and sheets nth against the with fear( alarm. Fli of thunder was so hea clocks were bling the v of the stop only. No air, but th outskirts of se objects are wholly ine" ) * net qUite e; ying on of responsible and 0 .0. eUf a little tools for no abuse Isle o ed with the fall of Riae'ha whom I was the has so damaged his repo' he could mend dances of his retire m ent, I 'l Ur. N n e o w t n! a quite unaccountable step, Al and I, Ore • attempting to ex plain is Ur. Clark e E it, as to make himself %mita' snhuntt.dl ice of his country. Nothisl :or to ,fbat ie his silence. He has be 2 ° hte, finshe moral cowardice in consent' i: h the . nete a fatally damaging to his ion w th o injurious to the best intoesn c'n their ro he sake of those r a re . n b d e :d std canker of Italian social life. the Lure to assure you with pelted 4 :__l; i stitiee he assertions of the Parisian. ;t7te,s Cos and agreements having been coot sod sub m i, France for the furnishing of se rto the latter in cam of (Y, t o consider foundation. 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