The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-05 00:00:00

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Nevertheless, as outsiders, we cannot but watch with a certain amount of curiosity the singular proofs of party vitality which the thoroughgoing organs on either side periodically supply. During the recess the Whip have notoriously lost many of the seats that hare been contested, and their special journals have from time to time expressed consi derable surprise and displeasure, and in some cases not a little suppressed indignation, at this result. These feelings are of course perfectly natural, but we really cannot share them, nor will the grounds on which they are made to rest bear a moment's examination. So far from there being anything surprising in the loaves which have befallen the party during the recess, it is clear from the admission of these journals themselves that no other result could have been rationally expected. It is impossible to bold a great party together on mere negations. In the battle of public life and political opinions, as in every other arena where the struggle is real, there must be something to fight for. The life of a party is its principles, and its success must de pend on the resolute fidelity of its leaders, their known determination to carry out the opinions they profess and represent. If this position is practically abandoned—if the firm, courageous, awl progressive spirit which alone can impart vigour and animation to a political organization based on file. tat principles be allowed to evaporate—the party miiit id necessity languish and decline. When the beer: has lost its power, and the pulse is reduced to a feeble intermittent beat, the extremities must gradually become chilled and paralyzed. Without definite principles and a distinctive policy no body of public men, however liberal their professions, Or however great individually their abilities may be, can long command a majority of supporters in the constituencies, or permanently retain the con fidence of the country. If a Government stead fastly refuses to identify itself with any of the questions in which the electors are really inte rested, few who know anything of public life in this country, or anything of human nature, will be much surprised to find the representatives of this political negation defeated by a little active and determined opposition. Now, how does the matter actually stand with reszanl to the recent elections which hare termi nated so unfavourably for the Whig party t The party journals lay the blame of this untoward re sult on the constituencies, attributing the dant of their favourite candidates wholly to the apathy and indifference of the Liberal electors. But by a curious inconaistency the very columns iu which these charges are brought against the Liberal electors, furnish • decisive and unanswerable re ply to them. Yesterday, for example, a leading contemporary tool the Liberal electors of tifordshi re rather severely to task for their want of energy in allowing the Tory candidate to win. " A little more enemy on " the part of the Liberal side," we are told, would have returned Sir H. DAMMO4 , I. ; and we have no doubt this is perfectly true. But the pertinent inquiry is, how cornea it to peas that there is so little energy on the Liberal side? Oxfordshire is not an isolated or exceptional case, but only one amongst a number of other' e.ivally striking. It but ex emp: ities afresh what has been the rule of contested elections during the recess. There must be some adequate cause for such a series of striking effects. Nor is the true explanation far to seek. Our contemporary supplies it with cynical candour and in ample detail. The plain truth comes out at once in the intimation that there is in these days no assignable interest whatever in a contested electiou. Formerly, we are told, a candidate really had opinions, and could inscribe on his banner " Emancipation," " Reform," " Free Trade," or something else, which really had a meaning, end the electors knew, accordingly, what they were voting for. "In these days any elector would " be sorely put to it if he were asked what he hoped to do by voting for this or that candi " elate." Our delightfully frank and utterly Noe , contemporary goes on to say that neither party has any definite principles or opinions, at least none they would venture to act upon. The only object which public men strive for in this country, we are told, is office. " The only dil l" ferenoe between the rivals is, that one has one " set of friends, and the other another." If that is a true account of the matter it seems rather hard to condemn with such severity the Liberal electors oft nfordshire, " who sat at home last " Friday, or employed themselves on their own " affairs." Why in the world should they neglect their own affairs, simply for the sake of supplying some friend of Lord ip or a l'si.mcirnires with an colonial appointment T This may be a strong motive to exertion with the immediate friends of the Government; but it is hardly sufficient to rouse into activity large bodies of independent electors through:nit the country. It place is the only object for which political parties in this country are striving, it is quite clear that those who are out of office have far stronger uso tires to aggressive and sustained action than those who are in. Nor can thoughtful electors be justly condemned for taking no part in a mere personal squabble, where there is no assignable Public interest at all. It is true that the party organs make ono excep tion to the low and degrading views they take of the position of the Government and the duties of the electors. They justly emphasize the Foseign policy of the Government as firm, liberal, and dignified. It thoroughly deserves this praise, nor has it been withheld in any quarter. All parties have agreed in celebrating the admirable manner in which the Government has maintained the honour of the country in a most difficult crisis. But the Government of a great and active country like this cannot live on its Foreign policy alone. Its mistaken friends and obsequious flatterers, in deed, may strive to persuade themselves and others that this is possible. They may pretend or profess to believe that the public mind is occupied " with national affairs in the highest son-re," "to " the total exclusion of ordinary party topics and " ordinary party interests." But this short-witted ostrich policy will deceive no one. Such a miserably impotent excuse for the open neglect of the more important half of its duties cannot help the Government, and is simply an outrage on the nation at large. A spirited Foreign policy is all very well, but the country cannot be always singing " Rule Britannia." Whatever the Government may resolve to do, or to leave undone, there are a large number of home questions in which the country is deeply ' interested. There are wrongs to be redressed, and rights long withheld to be conceded, which, however steadily statesmen may labour to forget, the people will be sure to remember. We will not, however, too hastily accept the injurious date ments of the Ministerial journals, that the 00111111- client intends deliberately to ignore these preeing questions. It needs no special sagacity to predict that the days of any Ministry that seriously at tempts to carry on the Government of the coun try without a Home policy are numbered. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1862. rbt Qrourt. OSBORNE, In. 4. The Earl of Clarendon and Sir James Clark arrived at Osborne yesterday. The Prince of *ales, altemded by Msjor-Oteneral the Hon. H. Bruce and Major Teesdale, returned from Bucking- ham Palace this morning. ♦ Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street The ministers present wen Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Sari Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Gorey, Earl Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. The Committee on Palmation of her Majesty's most Has. Privy Cmincil had a meeting yesterday at the Privy Conneil-oMoe. Present :—The Loed President, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Argyll, Earl Russell, the Duke of Somerset, the Duke of Newcastle, Sir George Grey, Sir G. C. Lewis, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the ChanceUer of the Exchequer, the Right Hon, C. P. Villiers, ►od the Vice-President. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the International Exhi Lilian of 1882 held a meeting at their of in the Strand yeatetday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat rester. day. An appeal from New South Wales, " Humphrey e. Hawked and another," was conamared. The lords pre sent were Lord Chelmsford, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, and Sir E. Ryan. Despatches were received ysaardey at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Lord High Cometise . ion.: of the lonian Wanda A Privy Council will be held to-day. The /Winona! Xining says :—" The departure of tie Crews Prisons for Lomb's is Ilzsd for the 10th inst., ask should the Prices of Wales sot visit Berlin es his way W the Zest, her royal highness will meet him on her journey. I The Crown Prance.. will embark for England et Oasis, to which place the royal saloon carriage will rna from Berlin." His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh has arrived at Claridires Hotel from Malpare Osietle. York shire. The Archbishop of York has arrived at Claridge's Hotel from the Archiepiscopal Palace, York. The Marquis and Marchionets of Londonderry arrived is Cows yesterday crania& from Powencourt Cart* comity Wicklow. The Marquis sad Marchioness of Westminster arrived at Oreammar House lasi evening from Eaton Hall, Classlure. The Earl sod Couuteee Howe have arrived at Caries How two °wall Hall, Limier,hire. The Karl arid Countess of Dououghworo have arrived is tows tow *lir ow ha leolabd. Field-Marshal Viscount Comberinere it pre vented attending the opening at parliament by an ►ttack or rbenmatte gout. Viscount and Lady Mary Bandon leave town to day for Folkestone, on their way to the south of France. Lord Crewe arriv.4l in town yesterday from Crews Ball, Cheshire, for a few days. Lord Taunton arrived at his residence in Bel grave-square lad evening. Lori Ebury returned to Moor Park yesterday shanzooe. Lord and Lady Calthorpe left Grosvenor-square yesterday for Peery Han. Birmingham._ . . Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton arrived in James'oegasre a few days 'Mee, from Tattoo Park, Cheshire. His lordship awl family hare since left tow, for Brightoo.__ . _ Lady Moleswortb bag arrived at ber residence he lates-place, from the Continent. We under4and that Lord Aveland will succeed the kte Earl of Yarborough w Lord Lieutenant of Liu coluihire. The colonelcy of the 59th Regiment of Foot has become vacant by the death of LioetAleorral Taylor, which took place on Saturday last at his residence, Prestbary lodge, near Cheltenham, in his 720 d year. Goldsmith's statue, by Mr. Foley, will be ready in about three mouths. Mr. W. C. Kyle, the how. secretary, states, in a letter to Mr. Whiteside, that 1,1001. will pay for it, and cover all other expenses. The sculptor has contri buted 1001., by reducing his charge from 1,0001. to 9001. Much complaint and grumbling on the part of intending exhibitors at the forthcoming Exhibition, both at home and abroad, is still recorded. Let week the 10,000 manufacture:* and others representing various branches of industry received the precise particulars of the spout within which they are to confine their productions. Hitherto they had known only the number of superfLial feet which was placed at their dim : peril ; now they have been informed of the shape of the area allotte Ito them. This important information hen been sent to them on a small card, which is divided by lines crowing each other at qual distances into a number of squires, each representing one liquors foot. An intend ing exhibits who had obtained an allotment of, any 12 allure feet, would not know whether that was to be lift. by 2ft., or aft. by eft., and, until he wee aware of the arrangsmesta which bad been made for him, could not of course proceed with the preparation of his mem for the display of hic goods. Numerous euggestions have been made to the Exhibition Commissioners for giving additional Mitt and interest to the opening ceremony on the Ist of May neat. Perhaps the meet extraordinary of these prepestans is that submitted by the owner of a popnlarequaistrian frame. He recemmende the adoption of hie propped on the pound of the emploteseee and exesilesee et bin troupe, among .he be includes "time el the Ilasel girls in Europe." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE FRENCH NAVY. According to the report on the state of the empire, just presented to the Senate and Corps Legislatif, the following is the present state of the French steam navy :—New ships, 12 ; mixed, 23 ; total, 35. Plated frigates, 2. Ordinary frigates : new, 15 ; mixed, 6 ; total, 21. Corvettes, 7. Advice boats, 36. Total of all kinds, 101. During the year the navy has been increased by 13 new ships ; but, on the other hand, 5 have been lost at sea, and 11 condemned as old. There are afloat and finishing 1 ship, 4 plated frigates, 3 ordinary frigates, 6 advice boats, and 2 floating batteries. GERMANY. Public opinion in Germany seems to follow with increasing interest the incidents of the conflict which exists between the Prince Elector and the States of Electoral Hesse. The latest correspon dence from Vienna states that considerable emo tion has been caused in diplomatic circles by a note which has been addressed on this subject by the cabinet of Berlin to that of Vienna. According to this information, M. de Bernatoef has declared in the most positive terms that the agitation caused by this question in Germany would not allow Prus sia to remain inactive, and that it, therefore, resolved to take forthwith efficacious measures, in order to prevent the agitation in Hesse from ex tending to the contiguous provinces of Pruscia. At the same time the cabinet of Vienna was in formed that Prussia could not permit, as in 18150, an armed intervention of the German Diet in the internal affairs of Hesse. It added, moreover, that it depended on the Prince Elector to come to an understanding with the representatives of the country as to the mode of re-establishing the old constitution of 1831, so as to bring it into harmony with the fundamental arrangements of the federal pact. It would seem that this resolu tion, announced in terms so formal, has produced in Vienna great astonishment, and that H. de Itechberg at once addressed a copy of the Prussian note to the secondary states, with a view of taking action in common with them, as to the course to be followed in order to induce Prussia to adopt more moderate sentiments. The cabinet of Vienna reckoned on the concurrence of the secon dary states in residing the views of Prussia. POLAND. The following are the principal passages of the declarationjof Canon Bialobrzeski, which the organs of the Russian government in Warsaw declare to be written and signed by himself, and counter signed by Canon Louis Caagewitz, director of the chancellery of the chapter : As to the provisional suspension of divine service in the churches which have been exposed to open profanation, I ram actuated by no other motive th;ku e: zealous end oonicientious regard to my duty in the direction of the church and people, to which my oath, the divine law, and the prescriptions of the holy church equally bound me. By singing songs, not religious, especially in holy places, these men not only did not praise the Lord, but on the contrary offended Him, because they prevented the proper performance of the holy sacrifice of the mass—a sacrifice which Christ accomplished on the cross for the salvation of man. What else could Ido in regard to inch men than to shut up the charches for a time, in order that they may reflect on their improper conduct., and that further scandal may be avoided. In conformity with the prescription of the ecclesiastical judge (Bode siestas chap. v. 6), I summoned a meeting of discreet pints to give me support and counsel, and they multi mously approved the step I took as the best for avoiding I all farther offence to our Lord without leading to evil results, the more especially as the government itself opened up this made of action. In giving expression to the wish that the persons arrested in the church might be set at liberty, I by no means desired that they should be freed from the responaibility which rested on them on account of Mass committed elsewhere. Such are the motives w►{eh I bare to allege in in, juatificatiou before the High Tribunal. If they are not sufficient, I implore the sympathy wed coainderration of my distinguished and merciful judges. Honourable judges, deign to respect my age, my weaknees, sod the intentions which guided me in the fulfilment of my ditty, which was to snatch from eternal damnation the souls committed to my care, and to mare them from the reepousibility they incurred in the Eight of God. Be pleased to ramemeer the maxim of justice that it is better to sliow one guilty to escape that to punish one innocent. Take me under your protection, and I will be de voted to you unto death ; and God, who knows the most secret recesses of the human heart, will pour out the abun- dance of his gnu on your latest daeoendants. Deign to protect me and God will protect you in all your needs. I finish by declaring that I have made ►ll my ►vowals, and put forth my justification with my hill and free will, and without the least constraint from any quarter. The Dibata, commenting on the above document, supposing it to be genuine, pertinently asks why a Mall of such excellent intentions should have been condemned to death I (wirria's rissouita.) DISTURBANCES IN BUCHAREST. BUCHAREST, Fxs. 4. The peasants in several villages having been e xcited by revolutionary agitation, prepared to march un Bucharest. The sub-prefect, who wished to stop them, was killed by them, and the pro curator ill-treated. Prince Couza has despatched troops to meet them and arrest their advance by force. COCHIN CHINA. PARIS, PL. 5. The P&6l papers of to-day publish a telegram from Alexandria, dated the 3rd inst., announcing that Admiral Bonnard had obtained rather con siderable successes in Cochin China, the details of which would be brought by the next mail. CHINA. 13HAROHAF., D. 24, 1861. (By talegraph from Alesondria.) Pekin and Canton are quiet. Ningpo has fallen into the hands of the rebels. CANTON, Mc. 3L The export of tobacco from the Manillas has been prohibited. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Dam 26. The total export of gold since the departure of the hat mail amounts to 173,245 ouucee. The following telegram bas been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Feb. 5 : BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. The Manilla, with the above mails, arrived at Marseilles at 8 am. this day. The mails were to leave for London at 10 sin. Several of the French journals state that, from the let of Apra, all portagentampe in France—like those in England—wilt be perforated outioao, co Li to adroit or being easily separated without the aid of any cutting in strument. --- The Dfhate publishes a letter from the Rev. Dr. Hughes, Archbishop of New York, is answer to as article which appeared is the Monde, in which the archbishop is amused of being an advocate of slavery. The charge, he says. is mutpleeely unfounded, as he is not, has sot bees, and eta sever he, an advocate of such en institution. The archbishop also deities being the author of an article pub lished in the New York Mdropolthin Record, and since translated and inserted is the Monde, and adds that, if ik I bore the ma at Wm, the rlgaatan is a to:mu. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nod on owx PARIS, TITZEIDAY EYNNDIG. The official contradiction by the Moniteur of the assertions of the independance relative to Count Walewsid and the Roman question is the more valuable because It well known that the senti ments attributed to Count Walewaki are really en tertained by him, and moreover by his wife, who is a notorious crony of the Empress in all court in trigues against Italy. In all probability the cot respondent correctly reported what Count Walewski really did aay to some of the senators, but the Moniteur's quick reply shows the Emperor's deter mination not to be responsible for such doctrines, and to hold by the policy intimated to Cardinal Antonelli by IL Lavalette. This note, therefore, con siderably enhances the hope already entertained that the Emperor is seriously looking forward to the _ _ evacuation of Rome. A Turin letter in the Mats [published in yesterday's Express] tends to confirm this view. I hear that Prince Napoleon, who has quite recovered from his recent it nessorill certainly make a speech in the Senate before going to Eng land, and moreover that he intends to produce new and important documents relating to Roman affairs. The Emperor has been to Versailles to-day with Prince Richard de Metternich, on • sporting excursion. It is stated that at the meeting of the Copyright Commission yesterday the principle of perpetual property wag warmly advocated by M. Nogent Saint Laurens. M. Dupla; without repudiating that principle, suggested various regulations to prevent the abuse of it. M. Suin was of opinion that the present law of copyright is sufficient. Another meeting will be held to-morrow. At the Bourse there was a great deal of buoyancy during the greater part of the day, but the Bente and several other securities suffered a considerable reaction before the close of business. The Rente, after fluctuating between 71fr. 65c. and 71fr. 40c., closed at 71fr. 15c. for cash and 71fr. 40c. for account, with a fall of sc. in each case. The Italian loan, after being quoted at 68fr. 60c., left off at 68fr. 10c. with a rise of only 100. Whiner rose 17fr. 50c. The Orleans and Eastern railways realised an improvement of 10fr. each ; Western rose 6fr. 25c. ; Eastern and Lyons, 3fr. 75c. each ; and Northern, lfr. 25c. K Gonin's report on the conversion of the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. will be presented to-morrow. THE EXPEDITION TO CANADA. The following information has been received at the Waroffice : "Two batteries of the 16th Brigade of Royal Artillery arrived at Halifax in the Arabia on the 16th of January, and proceeded to Bermuda in the Cleopatra on the 19th. "The 2nd battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards left Halifax on the 16th of January, and were landed at St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 19th. "The Hibernia, with Artillery, Engineers, and a portion of the 15th Foot, disembarked on the 20th of January at St. John's, New &imswick. "The Madawaka road is completely opened. The first detachment of troops reached Rivii‘re du Loup on the 16th of January, and on the 24th, 1,039 men, including the ' whole of the 62nd Regiment, had arrived there in good ' health and spirits. "The transport Mauritius, with a detachment of the lah Regiment, end Royal Artillery horses and guns, put into St. John's, Newfoundland, on the 24th of January, short of cool." Accounts from Irkurtek (Russian Aida) state that the litichmlver has been frozen there linos the middle of December. Accounts from Liege, Munich, Nurnberg, Stutt gardt, Baden, Vienna, and other districts of Germany, state that the rivers have overflowed their banks, and that the country is covered with water. In some towns boats are floating over the market places. The Nurnberg Correspondent did not appear on the 21st of January, the waters having taken possession of the printing °floe. Marshal Valliant is npolccin of as likely to be appointed to the post of Governor to the Prince Imperial. His highness will bays reached the mature age of six on the 16th of March next. The prince's civil household will be formed soon after that date, bat the military household will not be oesetitatal till after his first communion. The marshal's present position as Minister of the Imperial Household, As, will not belaffected by this appointment. Just as the French Academy of Sciences was about to open its sitting on Monday, the president was in formed of the decease of its oldest member, M. Biot, who was also a member of the French Academy, and of the Academy of Inscriptions and Bella•Lettres. M. Biot had died that morning in full possession of all his faculties, and had passed the previous evening in scientific conversation with several brother academkians assembled round ha bed. Biot was eighty-eight years of age. After the president had communic►ted the mournful intelligence to his col- leagues, the witting was at owe brought to a close. Blume IN GRILMANY.—A new comic opera, or vaudeville, by Herr Emil Heimann, the Witch of the Mill, has been successful, it is mid, at the second theatre in Bar lin.—ln Dresden, a new symphony, " Wald-Symphonie," by an amateur, Mr. Lodge Ellerton, has been produced—A new opera by Herr Langert, on the story of "Joan el Aro," has just been given at Coburg.—ln Vienna, the Phil harmonic Society has announced two retrospective concerts during the present mouth, to be made up of music by lank, Orlando Lasso, Palestrina, Vittoria, Eccard, Prsetorius, Henry Schutz, Chambonnßres, Corelli, A. Soariatti, A. Lotti, F. Couperin, J. Hammy Handel, Umatilla Bach, Bnccherini. By the Deutsche Musa Zeitaxg, we perceive that Herr Lautertach has been playing at Dresden during the winter, and with success. . _ A most influential mooting was held in the Town Hall of Manchester, yesterday, to consider what should be done for the removal of the protective duties levied on the Importation of cotton goods and ootson yarns in India. The importance of the Ambient drew together a large assembly, in which the free-trade conservative element was for once freely blended with the old standard substance of the liberal political creed. Memorials to Lord Palmerston and Sir Charles Wood were adopted, strongly urging the removal of Indian duties, which not only affected the trade of the district, but were directly opposed to the policy so closely followed by the late and present cabinets. Mr. Algernon Egerton moved the first resolution, and Mr. W. J. Legh seconded it, and other resolutions, moved and supported in a similar way, were adopted. A letter was read from Lord Stanley, agreeing with the views of the promoters of the melgag. The mayor presided, and received the thanks of the assembly. GOLD IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.—The Times con tains full particulars from a special correspondent at Vic toria, 'Vancouver Island, of the results of the mining season lan year. We may state, in brief, that the latter combo. rates the glowing accounts which reached us throughout the summer and autumn, giving a superlative description of the wealth of the upper gold country. The portion of British Columbia which has yielded nearly all the gold produced this year, and which is destined to attract the notice of the world to a degree hitherto not accorded to the country in the aggregate, is a newly•discovered district called Canhoo (a corruption of " Cerf bond," a large species of reindeer which inhabits the country). The district is about 500 miles, in the interior, north (or north-cast rather) from the coast of British Columbia and the mouth of Fraser River. A miner writes that his pins far surname anything ever produced in California, and cites the fact of 1,700 dollars has tog been dug out of two crevices in the rock less than three fest under the surface. In fact, the explanation of the enormous yields the large solid, ouggety character of the gold and its proximity to the surface. Men who had never mined before, tradesmen, mechanics, and labourers new to the work, did just as wall as the old, practised miner. This result will cease es the efflorescence of gold near the surface because exhausted. Then some skill and much labour will be required to produce far leas resulta then paid the exertions I of the Cariboo men last season. Williams's Creek, which finally tamed out the greatest encores of all the weeks for risk liner , Yields. began is August to produce. Demon and Cs. took oat 50 0000.11 in one day, and in a few days reached the bed-rock, when in one pa..l of oardirt they get GOO &Bora Abbott and On., en three t o tour feet, 6blained 900 dollars ID ono pla-fral o f dirt. Tw o ox e n . ordinary fact was confirmed by Y a . Abb o tt himself w h oa be Icame dews to Victoria the rAilar day. H. and his toai. pertsma arkilt mob a fortari. to i s m 'm a w as we/he MR. BRIGHT AT BIRMINGHAM. BIRMINGHAM, Tummy Moat. The anniversary of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce was celebrated this evening at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbestan. Mr. Ono. Duos, one of the vioe•presidents of the chamber, took the chair. These were also present the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., Mr. John Bright, M.P., a number of deputies from chambers of commerce in London, Manchester, Sheffield, Wolver• hampton, and other places, and many of the leading merchants and manufacturers of the town. Mr. BRIGIT responded to the teed cf "The Borough Members" given from the chair—lle regretted that there was not in nearly every town a chamber of commerce, sitting as a committee of vigilant*, watching the progress of all questions affecting the industry al the country ; and he thought the different chambers might be emaciated on a broad and liberal beefs with the best effect, because what affected one trading community affected all. If chambers of commerce declined to disease any important question because it might be inconvenient to a minister or affect parties in the House of Commons, they should not pretend to take commerce under their guardianship at all. The corn laws and the tariff were essentially political quer Lions, yet they had been discuased with advantage by chambers of commerce, but such chambers had been feeble, and, consequently, disregarded, because they had not suffi cient self-respect, or did not appreciate the duties they bad undertaken ; and they sometimes subordinated the interests of commerce to the temporary interests of particular parties- Three or four years ago chambers of commerce took ups bat did not proceed with, the question of mari time law, urging that war should be con fi ned to vessels a;med for war, and that nobody should interfere with property being innocently carried acmes the ocean. It was argued against this view that you should do In much harm as possible to your enemy ; but if this should be the rule at sea why not also upon land, where the property of private persons is respected ? If England is superior in power and mischief on the see, is she not also the most powerful in the amount of property at sea? We have probably property worth a hundred millions ster ling at sea, and in the event of a war with a country like the United Staten we should doubtless receive more damage to our commerce than we could inflict upon the commerce of that country. The growing expenditure of the government was another question with which chambers of commerce might deal. That expenditure was three hundred millions sterling over the amount in the preceding twenty years. The question of cotter supply wea another that might be dealt with. Mr. Bright alluded to his unsuccess ful efforts to obtain a royal commies' ion to inquire into the cotton growing capacities of India, especially of Bombay and Madras, and quoted from four speeches made by him to prove that he bad foreseen the disruption of the American States, and the consequent dearth of slave-grown eaten. He recalled his plan of dividing India into separate prsst fancies, each with a government of its own, and expressed his belief that if the committee he obtained bad led to its legitimate result, we should have had plenty of cotton at the present moment. A world of nonsense bad been talked about American affairs, the blockade of the Southern ports bad been declared ineffective, and yet the effects of its effective- DM had been deplored. No blockade( had ever been so effective over a similar extant of coast. At this moment the population of the States now under the Washington government was greater than that of all the States in 1850. All the maritime wealth and power now belongs to the North. Nothing could be more ignorant or more foolish than to speak of the Northern federation as of a few dis connected province., to be trampled on, insulted, or injured at pleasure. The people of Lancashire considered that England's interference in the American struggle meant war, and that such interference would be fatal to their beet interests. If cotton be now a shilling a pound, it could not be got through war at lees than five shillings. There were thousands of families not knowing where to-morrow's food wee to come from, yet it would be the cheapest thing England ever did to subsidise these families until better times came rather than encourage an unjust and violent attempt to break a legal blockade, and declare war against • people anxious to be friendly with us, and engaged in the patriotic endeavour to maintain the integrity of their government, and sustain the permanence of their Union. (Applause.) The interests of Lancashire depended at this moment absolutely upon the principle of friendly neutrality being maintained by this country and government. He was pleased to see the neutrality principle advocated byithe Manchester Chamber of Commerce, and at the way in which (the distressed operatives bore their deprivations. Many of them had saved money during better times, and their ordinary employers possessed great wealth and bene volence, with the will to render necessary mist once. In conclusion, Mr. Bright said that if Clam hem of Commerce would regard these questions mor e broadly ; if they would forget the Prime Minister and the hopes of • coming election ; if they would divest themselves of party considerations and regard themselves mainly for the time all the guardians of commerce—they would exercise more self-respect, and assert their views with more firmness, and they would have greater weight with government and parliament. They oould represent opinions which official statesmen had not the means of forming ; and they should bring all their intelligence and energy and truthful's/me and earnestness to bear on the procuring of such laws as would benefit the great body of the people. I The other toasts were "The Mayor" "The Board of I Trade," " The French Consul" (acknowledged by M. Ver. they de Latour), " Our Unionise" (responded to by Mr. Adderley, M.P.), " The Associated Chamber of Com. mercer" and others of a similar character. THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE. TUB MQUENT. A late edition of the Nereastk Daily Chronicle yesterday gives the following summary of the day's proceedings. The inquiry wsa resumed to-day. Mr. Emerson, sinker, rid he had worked in the pit since Frisky, the day after the accident, until the bodies were found. A large fall of stone occurred in the shaft, and also two smaller falls, one on each aide of the shaft. With excep tioo of those portions of the shaft which he believed had been struck by the fall of the beam he considered the shaft had been good. He described the socumulatioo of debris as consisting chiefly of brattice planks, tightened together by very large stones, some of which it was necessary to split in the execution of the work. Mr. John Taylor, coal owner and viewer, was an im. portant wanes. He had been twice down Hartley pit within the last eight months, and he considered that it was not in any respect a dangerous one, that it wee conducted with skill, and proper precautions used for the safety of the men. His opinion with respect to gas was that the gas which had killed the men was the result of imperfect com bustion, which would produce carbonic oxide ; this mixing with the ordinary carbonic acid naturally produced in the mine would, be thought, cause the death of the men. John Short, engine weight, was re-examined as to the dee and strength of the machinery employed in the working of the colliery. . _ John Hceiius, chief engineer with Mews. Hawks, Craw ebay, I, and Sons, Gateshead, stated that in him opinion the 1 beam would carry considerably more than the weighs upon it at the time it broke—at least four times more. He did not think the fall of the beam when hoisted up three or four inches had been the causo of the accident ; if that fall had canoed a fracture it would have become • complete fracture before that, sod he understood it had gone on working about a month after it fell when they were about to put the new brasses in. He observed on examining the remaining portion of the beam that the gudgeon hed been keyed and wedged into • hexagonal hole with considerable force ; this would have • tendency to cause the beam to break. He thought 1 there had been two or three causes in operation tending to 1 the fracture of the bean. In the diet place the gudgeon 1 had been unduly keyed ; there had been a want of more equal distribution of the metal in the beam, too much being in at the centre boas, and espesiegy at the time when the fracture took place, the weather was very frosty. His opinion was also that the bot tom spear had given way at a bolt-brie. The break ing of this spear would relieve the weight of the engine out side, and would cause the beam to strike violently on the opting beam on the inside, produciag • severe shock ; this in his opinion would account for the accident. 1 Thomas Clara., ironfounder, ooseidered that the iron composing the beam was of good quality. Henry We.nara anglaise, Walker Ironworks, slated that i the beam vas composed one-third of Bleaarvon No. 3 coal 1 blast pig bon, and the remaining of No. 1 Omo Scotch. Very few people present. Inquest adjourned until 1 to. 1 useruo. Fonitatt-omcnt. Pim I.—The Queen bas been planed to approve of Mr. Beery B. Hammond as Cowl at Dublin, and of Mr. Jams W. Marshall as Card at Lai% tor tbs %Tinted States el Anberice.—entette. PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE CONSORT LT aailitaliki s: At a meeting of the town council of Cambridge held yesterday, the principal, apart from purely local, news for consideration had gelation to the above object. The MAYOR (Mr. Charles Finch Foster) presided, and there was • very full attendance. The matter wee introduced by the Town Crux (Mr. C. H. Cooper) reeding a copy of the resolutions agreed to at the Memos-house meeting, which had been enclose( with • note from the Lord Mayor of London to the Mayor of Cambrklgis, seking the latter to convene a public meeting, or adopt other such measures as might be expedient for car. rying the resolutions into effect. The MAYOR observed that he would state briefly to the council his remota for not at once convening a public meeting on receipt of the Lord Mayor's letter, and his first wee that he did not know if all his fellow-townsmen would sympathise in any general movement for the erection of a monumental tablet to the memory of him whom they all so deeply deplored, a man most estimable in every position both of public and . private life. He thought that the ma toot? m or . the . pub al ohicouldCabr:b.cidge were rected. m d b enro7 that some amount had already been raised exceeding that required for the erection of a monumental tablet in London, so that they might on that paned be readily excused from contributing to further that object. Towards • memorial of a load character to p erpetuate the memory of one sonnivereally beloved, he, - and he wee sure they all, would be proud to contribute. (Cheers.) He should be glad to wit nets the erection of • building for, or the furtherance of, some charitable pupae, in lien of the erection of a monu mental tablin—s tablet which, if erected, parties would go to criticise merely., a work of art—as more 00111011•11 i and in unison with the feelings and character of the late Prince. Mr. Alderman SIIABT Stern moved that it be left in the Mayor's hands to call a_public meeting, for the purposes he has shadowed forth. He (Mr. Smith) quite agreed that what was done should take • local shape, especially le plenty al money had been already subscribed for the metro. politan testimonial ; that what was done here should be of a local character, so as to remind ns, and our children after us, of the virtues of the lamented Prince Consort. Mr. WIFIBZT seconded the motion, and it was carried unanimously. it is expected that the meeting will be convened for the earliest convenient day. In all probability,. the matter having been strongly urged by many writers in the local pram the testimonial will take the shape of furtherance of the interests of the Royal Albert Asylum here, and which, to quote one of said writers, " has been enriched by hie (the late Prince's) liberality ; its object is to ',wide an annuity and • home for those of the aged and infirm who, having once occupied higher position. in life, in its decline find they have little left but an untarnished character." . . "This noble charity will thus be placed upon a secure foundation, and the memory of the Prince perpetuated as an uedyine benefaction to the poor and needy of the town." EXTRAORDINARY CA10L .7 4 SOLICITOR CON. iiiiiiiblioß nil:Lad 1-1+;i1.61. BOSTON, MONDAY. The town of Boston has this day been the scene of considerable excitement in consopenee of it having become known that a repeatable solicitor, named John Henry Millington, had been apprehended on • charge of stealing a silver watch. The prisoner is the son of the late Mr. J. B. Millington, formerly clerk of the peaoe for the Parts of Holland, in the county of Lincoln, and the head of one of the leading law firms in the district. He was brought before the magistrates at the Sessions-house, Boston, on Monday afternoon, and the case fully gone into. From the evidence then adduced, which is of • very lengthy and complicated character, it appears that the prisoner was in the habit of frequenting the Ship Inn, Skirbeok Quarter, a respectable public-house, occupied by a person named Hayes. On Friday, the 17th Jan., Mrs. Has placed a silver watch and guard, belonging to her eon, lto bt. Hayes, in the liquor cupboard in the bar. On the following Saturday evening Mr. Millington went into the bar, which had been left by Mrs. Hayes for a few minutes, and on her return she noticed that she had accidentally left her keys in the lock of the liquor closet, which was always kept locked. Mr. Millington had some gin and water, and left the house. On the 28th ult. Mr. Millington placed the watch in the handset a friend named Raggett, and asked hula to get it valued. On his way to the silversmith's, Haggett, by the merest accident, met young Hayes, the owner Of the watch, and showed the watch to him. Hayes at once iden tified it as his property. Information was given to the police, and Millington was apprehended. In defence, he stated that on the previous Tuesday, • man named Ludby. or Lutby, residing at Mareham, had called upon him to con sult him on some legal matters, and that as the man had no money, he had left his watch in pledge, and that he (Mil lington) had advanced him 10s. He gave two or three different accounts of the transaction, and was unable to find a memorandum of the tniasoction which he said he made at the time. These proceedings took place on Tuesday, the 28th ult. and on that day Millington was brought to the Sessionsdouse, but he was allowed to go at liberty without ever being brought before a magistrate. After that time he threatened the superintendent of police with ea action for false • went, and the superintendent in consequence obtain a warrant for his apprehension, and he was ar raigned on the charge this afternoon. The evidence was 'ray clear, although the prisoner stoutly maintained that if he had time allowed him he should be able to find the man who brought the watch to him. He was fully committed to take his trial at the next sessions, but boil was ac p ti e ett and the committing magistrates, who had been friends of his late father, expressed • hope that he would be able to clear himself of the serious aline laid to his charge. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) -.--- WIDIUMIDAT, 111121/11T ii, 111 L. N.. ~..._ -..i e;.~ ~: ID/ONIAX ...129.1q1 Bann. GALWAY ......130.11 IrAimina EOll9/ =orria 0 41 1 9: Lowpop 1'30.691 Dorn 1 30 IS POSTOIO4IIII ..;90.17; PLYZOOTZ ... .20 N.&1!. _ 'V N..madeTaie. with rain to -- Ireiand—S.W. to N.W, and to Nit., moderate, some rain. Central—W. to N., moderate. N. Cout—W to N moderato tOfTe;h, 8. Zroglood—W. to N.N.W., fresh, very toga. I.N.W. N.W. M.N.W. W.N.W. W.N.W. M.N.W. MOW= 1111011 PIIDAT. W. to N. sad to N.L, mode. rste to W. to Nr r nesh to strong. —.. s W. W. to N. and to N.E., mode• rata, N. W. to N. and to N.F.., froth to light, ans. W. to N. and to N.E., trait to moderato, tine. =PLANATION. oottiolod sad Wooed to Id at mean tap levol :each 10 feet, of vertical Ti.., cawing about one-hundredth of an inch diminution ; end each 10 deg., above S 9 deg., causing nearly threahundredtho Increase. IL—Exposed thermometer in shade. M.-11olatened bulb (for evaporation and dew point). D.—Directlon of wind (true—two points of mag netic). P.—Force (1 to 11—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). Initials : b, blue alq c. clouds (detsched): f, fog : lightning m, misty (hazy) .o, overcast (dull) :r, rain; snow . r, t. thunder. 8.--ftwellstarbousce 11 to 9). W.—Wot, or snow, or hall, since last report, In Inches and decimals. P.—. THE PRINCE CONSORT MEMORIAL FUND.—The total amount received at the Mansion-house up to last even ing, in aid of the above fund, was nearly 26,0001. Amongst the subscriptions received yesterday were—Lord Crasnorne. 501. ; Earl Grey, 501. ; and the Msrquis of Sligo, 501. -•- • • MEMORIAL IN GLASGOW TO THE LATZ PRINCE CONSORT.-0¢ Monday a meeting, convened by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, in compliance with a wish expireeed by a number of influential citizens of Glasgow, was bald in the Council Clamber", Glasgow, for the purpose of adopting measures for the erection of a memorial in Glasgow is memory of the late Prince Consort. The meeting was large and influential. Among the gentlemen present wm—.S'ir Archibald Alison, Bart. ; Robert Dalglish, &q. M.P. ; Alexander Heade, Fig., late M.P. for Glasgow ; the Very Rev. Principal Barclay; several of the es and woodl ice", Re . 1U Lord Provost moved the first resolution, that • monument be erected in Glasgow. It was seconded by Rir Archibald Alison, Bart., and • numerous and influential committee was appointed to raise subscriptions. A list ot subscriptions was read, showing that 2,700 i. bad bean sub. scribed. _ _ -- WarrzsALL, F. 3.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint Patrick Framer, Eq., Advocate, to be Sheriff of the Shire or Sheriffdom of Renfrew, in the room of Robert Macfarlane. Esq., appointed a Lord of Session in Boothed.—Gazerte. lieesion-oiriee, Jen. 23.—The Queen bag been maraud" pleased to appoint Edward St. John 'Neale, seq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation in Clime, to be Sonetary to her Majesty i l e =ation in Japan. The Queen W ale) be , gmaioualy to appoint TUC= Francis Wide, Na., L, to be Seczetary to her Majesty's Lew 1 tion in Chnin—Ganits._ _ Tin Hausa or LORDS. —Some new peers, as well as some new commoner', will be entitled to take their seats on the assembling of parliament to-morrow. In consequence of the death of the Earl of Mount Viscount Valletort, M.P., will be entitled to his seat in virtue of the earldom, he being the sth earl His lordship was barn in 1832. By the death of Boma Poneenby, intelligence of which reached England in Wu. her, his cousin, the Hon. William Ponsonby, succeeds to the His lordship is the only eon of the late Rm., so d Se v. Richard Ponmonby, D.D., Lord Bishop c;( Deny ßaphoe . Itephoe. By the death of the Earl of Ur. b osom & Lord Wonky, late X.P. fccGreat Grimsby, soar ee l s t o t e MBy the death of the Earl of Egßx,t o go d the onism* the number of peers has Ir 4 p A re d uce d by two, the present Earl of EgLinton being te e 20 run d we, and the present Earl Forteecite lral. s f or some time had A mat is the How of lizo4 r y6„„ Ewing.