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Prove that he is among the greatest of living philosophers, and the distrust will be intensified into dislike. Let such a man enter the House of Commons, and there uphold in practice the doctrines by which be has acquired his reputation, and he will be treated as if he were • pickpocket or worse. The members whose claims to intellectual supremacy ho chal lenges or refutes will retort that "he is too clever "by half." Any member who is bold or rash enough to give expression to the sentiments of his kind will exclaim that " philosophers are not wanted "in the House." The more stolid and prejudiced among the public will gladly re-echo the cry, and the member who most thoroughly merits an atten tive airing will become the bait for the sneer of the scorner, and the object of ridicule on the part of thousands who would laud him to the skies were they capable of appreciating his excellencies. Now it was with the drawback of a great phi losophical reputation to uphold and justify that Mr. MILL took his seat in the House of Commons. His friends had worked fur his election because they believed him to be a political thinker, possess ing in addition a rare capacity for practical states- manship. They knew that some of his avowed opinions were unpopular, and that it was generally believed several of his cherished theories were ridiculous. By opponents he was stigmatised as a man of crotcbeta. In short his career as a poli tician was considered as a great experiment. We believe that if a vote were now to be taken, it would be found that the opinions held three years ago concerning Mr. MILL still prevail in the breasts of those who then enunciated them. Those who treat him with a respect which does them honour, and those who revile him with the audacity of ignorance, could both discover in his Parlia mentary speeches and conduct ample materials in support of their views. The friend would point to his warning against treating the National Debt as a burden it were unnecessary to lighten, seeing that the supply of coal is but limited, and when ex hausted will render posterity unable to bear a load of taxation which is now carried with comparative ease, and to his energetic yet temperate ad vocacy of the Reform Bill of 1866, on the ground that though a small step it was really • step in the right path. The tribe of detractors, on the other hand, would extract passages from his speeches which are uncomplimentary to merely selfish possessors of landed property, and would ask—ls this the Political Economist who, we were ensured, had a panacea for every ill to which the body politic was liable t and would 'contend that in reality he was nothing better than a quack or a communist. They would .amuse themselves and their audience with other extracts in which Mr. MILL had spoken his mind with reference to the claims of women to political equality. If these things failed to answer their purpose, they would refer to the famous pamphlet on Ireland and clench the matter by styling the member for Westminster a Fenian in disguise. The time hos not yet arrived for adequate]; THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY E' weighing all the claims which Mr. Muslim gpon public notice in the character of a valuabla servant. Little men are wont to complain about the imperfect recognition their Mr vices have received, or to ascribe this to the fact of their being misunderstood. If the men of real worth were to imitate their feebler and more querulous brethren they would often prefer a lite complaint. But they do not struggle for applause. Their aim is not self- exaltation, but self-sacrifice. Besides, if praise be grateful to them, they have the consciousness that in due time they will obtain the wished•for reward. Now, it is obvious that Mr. MILL, whatever be his shortcomings, has never courted popularity. He entered parliament after he had passed many years in the service of the late East India Company. He might have had a seat at the India Council board ; but he preferred to spend the remainder of his days in that studious retirement which is so much to the tufte of the man of letter. He was induced to change his mind at the solicitations of 1 those who desired to see him an active member , of the House of Commons. He did not seek for an honour which so many crave. Unlike those who would cheerfully purchase a seat with half their fortunes, he refused to stand if his election I were to entail an expenditure of money on his part. He declined to exercise undue influence by canvassing the electors in person. He would not take a single pledge, or be fettered in the expression of a single opinion. On these unusual, but very rational conditions he was returned by a large majority. Perhaps no other member re tains his seat by a like tenure. When it is said that Mr. MILL is prone to enunciate revolutionary schemes and to advocate , proposals which are considered impracticable, it should be remembered that be does not thereby forfeit any title to our confidence as a member of parliament which he had earned as a philosopher , and a political economist. His speeches are but his doctrines applied to the events of the hour. All that startles the commonplace critic in his pamphlet on Ireland has been already published in another form. What he has spoken in favour of women's suffrage and personal representation he had written years ago, and without shocking the reading public. We know not what the ultimate verdict will be, but we may safely anticipate that his public career will tend to convince the most sceptical of the incapacity of the House of Com mons to appreciate truth in a concentrated form. The failing of Mr. MILL is his unwillingness to dilute his speeches with commonplace. He does not stoop to employ the arta by which the weak minded and the timorous can be entrapped. It is impossible for him to tell an English audience that it is endowed with every virtue under Heaven. Mr. MrLL cannot, like the late Lord PaLmmurrox, render his very shortcomings condu cive to his popularity. Nevertheless, there is no living Englishman who could with greater pro priety follow the example of England's noblest philosopher, and console himself under the obloquy of the envious and the unenlightened, with the prospect of a bright future for his fame, appealing from the hasty sentence of this age to the sober judgment of posterity. FOUNDERS' INTENTIONS. A VERY curious history might be written of the purposes for which bequests have been made or endowments founded. There is a churcliyard in Surrey in which an eccentric man lies buried, "eighteen feet under ground," who left • sum of money to five poor boys to be nominated by trustees, on condition that upon the anniversary of his death they should lay their hands upon his gravestone, repeat the Lord's Prayer, the Apostles' Creed, and the Commandments, read • chapter from the New Testament, and afterwards write two verses of the chapter. These observ ances are, we believed, still retained, and it would be amusing to know how many bequests, per haps equally strange and foolish, are in force throughout the country. The Report of the School Commissioners just issued contains a number of odd statements which would turn to good account in such a narrative. It shows how impossible or how foolish it is to attempt, in the present state of society, to carry out the charitable intentions of men who died three hundred or four hundred years ago. One founder, for instance, wishes a psalm to be sung at his tomb and a prayer to be offered for his soul ; another requires the scholars to provide " clean wax candles to keep light in " the school during the winter ;" a third insists that every scholar, before his ad mission into the school, shall be able to read perfectly both English and Latin. There was a free school founded in 1512, the master of which is " to make no potations, cock-fighting', nor drink " ings, but only twice • year ;" there was a school founded by a certain ANTHONY PINCHBECK, in which all scholars bearing the founder's name are to be instructed without payment ; there is another in which the pupils are required to pay for rods, which seems hard upon them, consider ing for what purposes the rods are required. It reminds us of the custom which pertains at Eton, where, on the accession of a new head master, the boys present him with • birch. The Commissioners say truly that to interpret literally the founders' intentions is simply to tra vesty them, and to render the schools not only useless, but even harmful. On the other hand these intentions are sometimes wholly disregarded, and the very evil against which a founder provided is suffered to prevail. Such, for instance, is the case at a town in Wales, where the founder, although himself a clergyman, forbade the schoolmaster to have any cure of souls. Nevertheless, " the " mastership has been regularly given to the " curate of the pariah, who reads two or three " services every Sunday, and has an " extensive parish to look after." When we read in this interesting report of school masters receiving a good income, but without scholars, of masters sending their pupils to private schools, of one-fourth of the grammar schools in one county suffering from the physical infirmities of the masters, of schools in which the scholars are " profoundly ignorant on all subjects," of trustees who are paralytic or imbecile, of chil dren following their own devioes while the masters are pursuing theirs, of one school boasting two masters and one scholar, and of another which has been closed for eight years owing to the obstinacy of a trustee---it is evident that the dis graceful neglect of a founder's intentions is even more injurious than their literal interpretation. In either instance the necessity of reform is obvious. ROYAL AUTHORS. Out Paris correspondent told us on Thursday that he had bought the Enrxiton's DOW pamphlet, and found that there was really " nothing in it." We have since had a similar opportunity, and find that the opuscule is chiefly composed of docu ments already wall known, with nothing new or original except a few lines by way of introduction and aleaohmicou This ispeibizti the thing a little too MARCH 21, MP nen the French Zigll/o"wrote his " Life of . like, ekeirksre. net ersily and iruketentielly the 1 "letter c a " 1:, t h e • pea ll so e one t er m ines form of tie leg% ie worth • So long as the Alga of the pen in As** oomplehied that their Bove- in lie g iend baa 64" s bmeati r to bilis" lull W j i l l tadb. &nan reign was taking 4be bread est of tbeir mouths. eked of d, the will stand unmove d i gn o mm bu , 0, - i s bah iiFi;bo„it„ to it, b oa d to t They were willinet holeeTet. to let the ' matter ease. help WI vim. aii 60..... the aura is Weed peas for that once, in the hope and berm, tbat is not and uses: wee fin any mese meaceptibled argument) the EMPEROR would not enter into comillitition the church of Ireland, that it bee always bean in danger, with them again. The same complaint was and that at 104 it ii now to fall. raised by English authors whelp •9seen VICTOIIa i The iko"°mut sa y . that Kr ' Glad "'" , in forcing on the Highlands. published her Journeys iii "Irish church question now, is only playing the part of I Although it would not be denied that the Qua's a true hor what stee l an, will g tr e y t ing w to hic oo h niatenttkolreland ew if by . ebowing e. had a good plea for the publication of a diary of this kind, is almost the same as getting it, just which possessed so much interest, and al a promised apology is almost equivaleet to the was calculated to offer a good example of apology itself--and compelling his advarssrim, if they v i rtuous an d simple lif e to all d ame , appeal to the new constituency, to lay the issue tfore fi tha na t emostituency in time, and in a form to allow 1 of her subjects, still the fact of the publi cation, resulting in the sale, for profit, of many t volves a llhyanre o m f ah mi e n n is p uy thei m r r m D inda. 1i 1 ,. f his .,e doin d g o so b. i .a n; thouaands of oopies, supplied the market end ab• will be a the more perfectly secured. Th p e question irill sorbed for a time the capital of the booksellers be submitted to the householders, not in the form of am end librarians. This touched the professional Wimpy, speeches, easy to explain away, but of a concrete author nearly. When he went to his publisher measure, explained Ey a premier, and published to th e I 1 country, which has finally to accept or reject it. The new with a three-volume novel or a book of travel, he ; was told that there MY no chance with the °°nst'ilusaoy, no doubt, has rights, but those right s me , libraries just then, for they had expended all the most °`"tly recognised when a enhetentiee proposal ready difinal money allotted for that period of the publishing j aludgin.t.scussed is laid before It for its year on the Qusas's Diary. I The Spectator mentions a. rumour that Mr. Disraeli will Now the English authors, like the French, hint a willininess to concede disestablishment, but not might well be content to let royal rivalry and disendowment. . . _ competition pass for the nonce ; but the latter certainly have grounds of complaint when an Imperial author becomes " book-maker," and enters into competition with them with the rakings of his cltsk, offered to the public for the low charge of oae franc. It will be no excuse for his Imperial Majesty to plead the verdict of our correspondent, that there is " nothing in it." People are curious to read what royal authors write, even when they have nothing to write about. And thus thousands of francs are diverted from the professional market. There is no sin of the professional author with which the critic deals so severely as with that of book-making ; throwing together a number of old fragments with a few scraps of original matter to give an appear ance of novelty, and so deceive the purchaser. If this practice is reprehensible in the author who writes for his bread and cheese, how much more so is it in the imperial or royal amateur who writes merely for amusement or to indulge the °Graeae* scribendi ! The new government, says the Spectator, if raised to power, will not bee whig government of the ancient type. It need not in the public interest be quite as weak in the peers as the present one admits itself to be ; but Mr. Gladstone, a Scotch merchant'. eon, owes as little to birth or connection as Mr. Disraeli himself, and be must this time come into power wit# new men and strong men about him, men whom the new parliament will trust as well as this one. It would be easy, though it would be premature, to name a cabinet at least as anti-aristoesstio am Mr. Disraeli's, with its four dukes is esse or is pow, and one which would leave the country nothing to regret in the change of ministry, except perhaps the removal of Lord Stanley from the Foreign-office. That, no doubt, it is to be regrettea ; first, because the country has a confidence in his judgment which, whether well or ill founded, is of itself a source of strength, en►bling him, as it does, to act with decision even against the prejudices of his own followers ; and because the liberals happen to be without any man marked out by common consent for the Foreign•offce ; but it most be remembered that for the day our important foreign business is with America, that the Cabinet must contain several men who understand our relations with the union as well even as Lord Stanley, and that one °film, even when well tilled. deem not make a ministry. Iv is said that Prince NAPOLZON will be back at the Palais Royal on Monday. The result of the " mission," is to have ascertained that armaments are going on, and will go on, every where ; that Prussia and Russia are firmly allied with the intention of resisting any combinations of France and Austria which may seek expression by arms ; that Germany is thoroughly resolved to consolidate her unity ; and that France is isolated. the (curt. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 20. The Queen walked in the grounds this morning and drove, accompanied by Mama Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also want out. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain MRS, hunted with her Majesty's stashounds yesterday. The Princess of Wale, drove out, attended by the Mar chioness of Carmarthen. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) In the evening the Prince of Wales, attended by Lord Alfred Hervey, Captain Ellis, and Mr. Maximum, went to a lecture at the Boyal Institution of Great Britain. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labumi, the Straits Settlement', and the Australian colonies. While entertaining no apprehension that the doctrine of perpetual allegiance laid down by our text writers can involve us in any practical difficulty, the Tines thinks that a declaratory enactment on oar part would be advisable, and would be far better than any con. ventions with • single foreign power. If we were to declare that any Englishman who becomes naturalised abroad ceases at once to enjoy the privileges and to be liable to the duties of an English subject, and, in order to recover his status, should he afterwards desire it, must be naturalised here as if he were a foreigner born, we should lay down the true principle on which to act. The International Coinage Commission sat yesterday at 6, Old Palace-yard. Present—Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., the Bight Hon. Stephen Cave, M.P., the Right Hon. J. Wilson Patton, M.P., the Right Hon. W. Lone.ld, Sir John Lubbock, But., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Baron L. N. de Rothsokikl, M.P., Mr. T. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. Thomson Monkey, M.P., the Governor of the Bank, the Astronomer• Royal, and Mr. givers Wilson (secretary). In other articles the Tunes comments on the Abyssinian intelligence, the new imperial pamphlot, and the question of fortifications. The objection which the Bishop of London and hie thirty-five friends entertain to admitting dissenters to college fellowships or the government of colleges is declared by the Daily News to rest on a surprising miss!). prehension. It is not correct to say that the colleges discharge the (onetime of educating the young men ail clergymen, their religious education being the same sort of general instruction which every edu cated man ought to receive. Dr. Tait must be aware that there is no religious test for the professors in Scotland, and yet their lecture rooms are ►ttended by young men, the majority of whom afterwards become ministers, some in the established church, some in the free church, and some in the epiaoopalian church. Doe. Dr. Talt mean to say that these young men are lea °Alio dox—lesa sectarian we might ay—than they would be if the professors belonged to a particular denomination ? The young man who proposes to enter orders must attend the Theological Professor, and the opening of the fellowship. to dissenters will have no effect upon this arrangement. The case of false accusation of poisoning, Dr. Begers's relations with the Strand Union, aad the expatriegien debate of last night, are among the other topics disclaimed by the Daily News. The Poll says that if the government are beaten on Kr. Gladstone'. resolution a dissolution will unquestionably follow, and it is simply a question whether, in order to avoid the expenses of a second general election, the liberal party will leave the present government in oboe for some years to owns. LORD CluatalllLLlN'S Orrice, Manes 6. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's birthday will be kept on Saturday, the 23rd of May next.—Gantac. It is said to be not improbable that her Majesty the Queen will pay a visit to London about the week after next, and stay for a few days at Buckingham Paths. Tun QUERN'. VISIT TO ALDRRSHOT. In Con section with the Queen's visit to Aldershot on Thursday, the following order was issued yesterday by Lieutenant- General the Hon. Sir J. Y. Searleti, K.C.8., to the troops under his command :—" The lieutenant-general command. ing has been directed by his Royal Highness the Field marshal Commandingth-Chief to express her Majesty the Queen's approbation of the steadiness of the troops on parade yesterday, in which his royal highness concurs." I THE PRINCZ OF WAILS AND THR ROYAL HUNT.— Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, left Paddington by the 10.10 a.m. train on the Gress Western Railway, in order to hunt with her Majesty's staghounds, the fixture for the day being at Wokingham. A large num! er of hunting men went down by the memo train for the prize is des tination, which was Twyford,that being the nearest point to the meet from the Great Western line. Mr. Harry King, the Queen's huntsman, provided • first-rate deer for the day's sport, and there was in eonsequenes • good field upon the ground, notwithstanding the mugginess of the weather. His royal highness after the chase returned to town by rail. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had • dinner pasty yesterday evening at her residence in St. James's Palace. The company included their Royal Highnesses Prince and Primes. Christian and Princess Louis' attended by Lady Sean Leslie Melville, him Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, his Highness Prince of Teak, hoc Royal Highness Princess Mary Adelaide of Teak, his Royal Highness the Duke de Nemours, the Princess Marguerite d'Orleans and the Duke d'Aleneon, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, Lord William Paulo!, and Lord Frederick Pratt and Lady Geraldine Somerset, in waiting on the Duchess of Cambridge. Later in the evening the Duchess of Cambridge was visited by • select company, including the principal ambassadors and foreign ministers and some of the leading aristocracy. The Duke of Hamilton passed through London yesterday on his way to Paris. The treaty in negotiation by which Hamilton House would have become the Junior Athenaeum Club has been abandoned. There's • hitch somewhere, says the Herald, referring to the subject of Ireland. The resolution prepared with so care on Thursday was not forthcoming at the appointed hour jesterday afternoon. Appearances are very much in favour of the genendly-sooepted theory that the reso lution abet with criticisms of • very unfavourable charac ter from some of those influential members of the party, to whom, by the graced Mr. Gladstone, and through the medium of Mr. Glyn, it was communicated on Thursday evening. The Herald doubts whether the resolution win ever go to • divison or even come on for discussion. The Star complains of Sir Bounden Palmer's remarks last night in the debate on British citizenship, and is thankful that though the details of the coming settlement of this question may be left to lawyers, its principles will be clearly laid down by statesmen in harmony with those generally received views which Sir Bounden Palmer ban vainly attempted to disturb. 0684 00 11 IN PROBANLR VIED IVE PRINCESS OF WALP 10 11110 LAND. The Ifmnicipsl Council t Dublin met yester day in 'ermines of the whole house, for the pur- pose of preparing an address to the Prisms of Webs on the occasion of his approaching visit. An iattniiMon was conveyed to the Council by the Lord Mayor to the effect that circumstances had now rendered it not Improbable th►t the Prinoe might still be occomponied by the Princess of Wales. The intelligenos afforded groat mathdastion,aad In consequence the meeting adjourned to a future day. The arrangements for the royal 'jail are approaoh ins *repletion. The aperient of the Lord-Lieutenant for Baresseourt yesterday morning will enable the Board of Werke at once to take pommies of the state apartments In Deblia Castle, and carry out the improvements, refer nishinp, and decorations which have been approved of by his excellency. The plans for the arrangements at St. Patriek's Cathedral are so far &dummied, under the super vision of Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King of Arcot, and Mr. Owen, architect to the Board of Works, that work man will be at omen placed there to execute them. These arrangements are of such a nature that every seat within the cathedral will be so designated that its alone, will have no difilenty in dissevering it, and that no disappointment can possibly occur, as no seat can be occupied unless by the holder of the ticket corresponding to it. The labour of selection from the number of appli cations for admission already received has proved so for midable that Sir Bernard Burke has found it necessary to associate with himself • committee for that purpose. The programme of the installation has been prepared by the Ulster King of Arms, and forwarded for approval to the Lord Lieutenant and the Prince of Wale'. It provides for • ceremonial display scarcely, if at all, inferior to that which took place on the occasion of the great installation in MI. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S PROPOSAL FOR AMENDING TEE BANKRUPTCY LAW. This morning was published the text of a short bill presented to the House of Lords by the Lord Chancellor, baring for its object the repeal of various enactments relating to bankruptcy and to matters connected therewith. At the same time was also issued the draft of the substantive measure proposed by the Chancellor for the amendment of the bankruptcy law. This bill is divided into twenty-five parts, awl it contains no lan than 503 clauses. Another bill, prepared by the Lord Chancellor, and pub lished this morning, is intitaied , " A set to abolish arrest on final process in civil actions in England, and otherwise to amend the law relating to judgments, decrees, and orders, and to arrest." THE WEEKLY PRESS. Lady Molesworth has returned to town from Although it would have been better if the whole visiting Sir Anthony sad Lady de Rothschild at Axton question of the Irish thumb bad been remitted to a new Clinton Park. parliament, the blunders of the ministry, thinks the 1' The marriage of the heir presumptive of the aatwrcial Review, render this impossible. Nevertheless, ' King of Italy with the Perron Margaret, his cousin, is if lb. Gladstone had merely uttered a strong declaration axed to take place at Turin on the 22nd of April. The of his opinions last Monday, and had talc= naatninn to civil part of the ceremony will be performed at the King's renew and amplify this deniaretion, and liven sense general pair% and the nuptial benediction is to be pronounced ia indication of his eke " ela the Irish church when the the cathedra Prince Humbert and his wife will alter. question of chartering and endowing the Catholie wards visit the principal cities in the peninsula, and University is brought on, he would have been in a better about the period when the Zimmer of Austria will go t o Position than be will be if the reellatte a is ' meted. To china for tke fird time after her confinement they will hero dealt gently with the English clergy, sad to have ensvisit Inas Pimplier Mario Anne, the great aunt, at convinced than slowly that they must look to the general pr, and dien pain a week at the court of Vienna. geed Chete, and to hays suggested to theta that, A letter from Monte of the 14th says :—" The after all, cannot be good policy to insist that a sound state lioss were had last an d wan fay constitution shall be bound up with a rotten me, would etcoded, --e inaeg f ee *, m u ms , pin* a d m i tatitse In have been wiser thin to provoke alarm, and irritate them plain evening dram, aliment!the Pope's master of *we b' bringing forwardr ispluti • nn. Strange te ley ' in g ie ni- merles had intimated that se Ashen out of swarm denim, in the readinam to conciliate, in • combination of would be rem i n d , except these wearing eon:* d onne and earnestness and breadth of view, Mr. Gladstone was, in . swords. The wet sp i te d"' ont o = nu at the yret . h th i s Irish debate, far 841".." by Se *" octscep, ware the ladies, sithougb not Mr. Disraeli, with a weed ease in big hands, . attired. the Raman ~t heeteet often wins party victories over Mr. Gladstone • bat he were weettag - 1 7 — sie — ' diaelends Om r i ck high dresses. ' Cardinal finds Mr. Bright far more difficult to d eaf with. resolved at the door of the great saloon, and It will be curious, but it is by no means improbable, that tha ßese r r eactent de &Aire lost theme. The the when the next liberal ministry formed—which, to de- sawn= teettead fat ° w a nl y, Gow n s and cepant, the serve the name, mad now include Mr. Bright—it will tied , Idler el wham is a brother et the aftua painter Gareth, is Mr. Bright's dispoidtke to look on great questions as embellished in the m e a n i e and perish department of question@ for the people and the empire, a eounterbalenee the p lepagande Oak., Th e Sp ." that will be much needed against Mr. Gladdens's bathing weed fse the sheen/ Are bbi shop vanadohd at the wish to espy la party fights, sad his tendency to ems in anhamy.* s i re trength againn •• quaetrwr • I•••lwgrnund w t. hite h• ee7 1111 1 At the present time the gardens of the Zook- s a opponen mon gfroielly MOW& • vary good collection of ism la Logically it may be true, rye the Banotiner, la dims-ioal mint _ bean. Ilatortnesiely the leasesatire the q uedics of aural endowment, that the adablkh- the Imo diniroote bobs ma d aseterisi equality in ow paths et the Galled Paz aim aro nth Inientanfon, IMO= wield hulk a prosodist kw isepoldbig w lidaked "WV tb° • "Jaen vitamin /theald ~ .- ; .i e . .., L . ,, . 1 ...,-fo. THE REGULATION OF RAILWAY& The Duke of Richmond's bill to amend the law ' relating to railways was published this morning. This bill provide* that every incorporated company shell, seven days at least before each ordinary half-yearly meeting, pre pare and print a full statement of the accounts of the pre ceding half-year, and estimate of the expenditure of the half-year to follow, this provision being enforced by the imposition of a penalty of 51. for every day during which it Is not complied with ; and the document as printed is to be distributed, on application, to every person who holds any ordinary or preference share or stock in the compeer, or any mortgage, bond, debenture, or debenture stock of the company; end any company acting in contravention of this order shall be liable for each offence to • penalty not exceeding 501. In the case of any falai nostion of the accounts, the auditor or officer of the company who signs them shall, unless he satisfies the court that he was ignorant of such falseness, be liable to indictment, and on conviction thereof to fine or impri sonment, or, on summary conviction, to • penalty of 501. It is proposed to empower the Board of Trade to appointone or more competent inspectors to examine into the affairs of an incorporated company and the conditions of ill under taking, upon application made in pursuance of • resolu tion passed at • meeting of directors ; upon applica tion by holders of not less then two-fifths of the &irrigate amount of the ordinary shares or stock of the company ; upon the application by holders of not leas than one half of the mortgages, bonds, debentures, and debenture stook ; and upon the application of holders of not less than two-fifths of the guaranteed preferenceshares or stock, provided that the preference capital issued amounts to not lees than one-third of the whole share ospitarof the company ; such applications being supported by evidence showing that good reasons exist for requiring , the examination to be made. The expenses, however, incidental to such an examination, are to be defrayed by the parties upon whose application it is made, unless the Board of Trade should see fit to charge the same or any part thereof to the company. Any oom pany may, moreover, by resolution at an extraordinary meeting, appoint inspectors for the same purpose, and they shall have the same powers as the inspectors appointed by the Board of Trade. It is also pro posed that the Board shall, upon application, have power to appoint an auditor in addition to the usual auditors of the company. In these cases the min pony may declare • dividend on the report of the majority of the auditors ; but where there is • difference of opinion amongst them any auditor may, at the cost of the company, kale • statement explaining the grounds upon which he ' differs from his colleagues. With nisi to the transit of live stock or goods partly by railway and partly by sea, it is proposed that • con dition exempting the company from liability for any loss or damage which may aria' therefrom shall, if pub lished in a conspicuous manner in the oßioe where the through-booking is effected, and printed in • legible manner on the receipt or freight note, be valid as part of the contract between the consignor and the company. An important clause is introduoed into the bill relating to what is popularly known ea the " packed parcels" mode of conveyance. The Duke of Richmond proposes to repeal the acts affecting this question, and to substi tute • clause declaring that the rate of toll prescribed for small parcels shall not extend to goods of the Name de scription sent in Imp aggregate quantities (although they are by the usages of the tads divided into separate pack ages or parcels), when they are sent by &dealer in such goods to cae person who is the real consignee, and not merely an agent for their distribution amongst different consignee'. The burden of proving that goods are sent within the meaning of this provision shall, moreover, lie on the eassiguor. Another feature of the bill is the introduction of a clause rendering it compulsory for all railway companies (under • penalty of 101. for each rase in default thereof) to provide and maintain in good working order efficient means of communication between the passengers and the servants of the company employed in every train which travels more than Mem miles with stopping. In cams of injury or death arising from accident, the gristle's of sompensation may, upon the application of the parties in terested, he left to the declaim of an arbitrator to be ap pointed by the Board of Trade. Provision is ►lso made for an Independent medical examination of personsinjured, by disclaim of the' court or arbitrator before whom the quo. tics of damages may be tried. The other elaessein the bill relate, for the most part, to matters of detail. The " Haagen "of the forthcoming Royal Aca demy Exldbiten will be Msaws. liaclias, Sydney Cooper, mad Calderas. Mr. Holman Hunt's new picture, illustrating Bootactiob novel of " Isabella and the Pot of Beall," will be displayed, for private view, on the 16th, 17th, and 18th of April next, and to the pablio on the Monday next fol lowing, the 20th al that month. *. P. Osalo has in hand for the forthcoming IMO A•Sairw Sibibition two pictures which deal with 111•1Mod111•1141a it apposed points: 1. The PuriAce- Ilbaddier 1b 11Oft 61 Christ. She is reprossatod as —tow WM* with dowse in her Irma. In the hook assooll Is the aslosaso is the Temple. 2. Mazy, sitar the Orwell:ion, in the oireots in Jorasaisia, Wain naiad a slam wall sad awing her hands in midair% pis/. Mr. Eyre Crows has neatly finished a piotaro soprossating that aftorosoao of the oxosation of Nary Queen at Seine wherein the shall a/ Sartiropluaohfrt showed tits body of the Qom to the (AM Imps& dv agfkor trio iv - lifted iv ,aiipi All bus ..41 ai ;$3:1414. . 2 44orrirs . ?lot FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) (amrrn's Tumults.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, DIARCR 21. The Cesarewitch arrived here this morning, and will be present at the review of a portion of th e garrison of this city, which takes place to•day, AMERICA. The royal mail steamer Australasian, from New York on the 11th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 1 a.m. to-day. She brings 109 sacks of mil s. She landed 77 sacks and two paasengers, and p N . ceeded for Liverpool at 1.15 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, Bimini( 10, MAN. The Sergeant -at-Arms of the Senate has served the summons on President Johnson to appear bef ore the Senate Court. The President rep:ied thit the matter should have his attention. It is reported that the authorities at Victori a are organising defences against an apprehended Fenian raid from California. KEW YORK BARN 11. The Reconstruction Committ ee h as , recommended the passing of a bill to admit the Alabama repro. sentatives to Congress on the grounds that fraud and violence had been used to defeat the new em et i. tution in that state, and that the Senate unwma nt . ably delayed the passing of the House Bill pro v id. ing that the majority of votes in each State shall decide the elections under the Reconstruction laws. The House has passed a bill exempting from th e internal revenue tax all domestic manufactures, excepting distilled and fermented liquors, petm leum, and tobacco. The treaty between the United States and the North German Confederation conceding the n;ht of expatriation and free emigration has been re ferred to the foreign relations committee of the Senate, nominated by the convention. The Governor of California has refused trans mit to Congress a resolution of the Calif.rnian Senate in favour of the impeachment of the dent upon the ground that it might influence the trial. General Vickers, the newly-elected senator from Maryland, has been admitted to a seat. Mr. Wilson has introduced a bill i❑ the Senate to authorise the issue of 50 Years' Bonds, bearing 6 per cent. interest for 20 years, and :1 pt-r cent. afterwards, the principal and interest to be payable in coin ; the amount of the issue to be equal to the entire interest bearing debt, except the 10-40 and Five per Cent. Bonds. The bill further authorises the increase of the currency to 500,000,0011 dots. The House of Representatives has refused to rite upon, but has referred to the committee of ways and means, a resolution in favour of the gradual substitute of currency for bonds. General Hancock has asked to be released of the command of the fifth district. The Georgia Convention has nominated Central Grant for the presidency. The South Carolina Convention has passed a resolution requiring all persons voting for the new constitution to vote also for the candidates. (BT ATLLIITIC 2XLZOBAPH, THROI7CH MIL RECTIVS AGE:CT.) NEW YORK, MARCH 21). The Hamburg and American steamship I iermania arrived out at 3 p.m., and the Cunard steamship Java at 4 p.m. to-day. The Allan steamship Hibernia also arrived out to-day. Closing prices : Gold, 138 a. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 110} ; ditto, 1885, 108 ; 10-40 Bonds, 101. Illinois, 137 i ; Erie, 71. Cotton : Middling Up land, 25. Petroleum, standard white, 25i. Flour extra State, 10 dole. 30c. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 25c. OUR PARIS LETTER. (nom out °wet COILIMPONDE(T.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. Marshal MacMahon has been in Paris for the last two days, although the Moniteur does not announce his arrival, and he is in constant corn• munication with the Emperor. _ _ _ To-day President Delesvaux, in that famous Sixth Chamber—the terror of the press—tried the Situation and the Figaro for a libel upon the Corps Legialatif. This was not an ordinary press prosecution, but one founded upon a law of August 11, 1848, which has scarcely ever been acted upon. That law adopted an enactment of 1819, which provided special penalties against libels upon the parliament. But there is a proviso that a prosecution can only be instituted with the consent of the chamber. This consent, as you are aware, was given a few days ago. The force of folly could , scarcely go further than making an affair of state of the trifling squibs which would neverhave attracted much attention published by the incriminated ' journals. The beat of the joke is that the editor of the Situation, M. Orenier, was lately on the Pays, and is even yet an ultas-imperialist ; and the Figaro is by no means systematically hostile. Reports of the trial are, by the wisdom of the insti tutions lauded in the pamphlet which has just made such a terriblefiasco, prohibited. All that the public have a right to know is that M. Jules Richard, the writer of the incriminated article in the Figaro, is sentenced to two months' imprison ment, and 5,000 fr. fine, and that M. Grenier, of the Situation, favoured doubtless in consequence of his antecedents, is excused from imprisonment, but mulcted in I,ooofr. The correctional tribunal of Nantes yester day sentenced M. Laurent Pichat, a writer in the Phare de la Loire, to a month's imprisonment and • fine of 1,000 fr., and M. Evariste Mangin, the manager of the paper, to 15 days' imprison ment and a fine of 000 fr., on account of an article in the number of Feb. 12, held to be defamatory towards public authority, and calculated to trouble the public peace and excite hatred and contempt between citizens. The court gallantly showed its independence by throwing out one of the counts of the indictment, which charged the accused with the common and almost unanswerable offence of " excititing to hatred and contempt of government." The Bourse was again weak. Rente closed, with a fall of Sc. for cash, and 10c. for account, at 69fr 10c. and 691 r. 7 io.; Italian fell 35a., and Mobilier, St r. 75c. There was no political news—nothing but a reaction against the notoriously artificial rise of the last two or three months—to account for this change in the tone of market. Lady Den arrived yesterday (Friday), at lAverpool, keen Anodes, by the City of Antwerp, site four years' slums* from Ilneksid. Henry Walter Miller, son of Dr. Miller, the vises of Osesewlob, who wr edussted d Oilced, where be took a ssuisel tepee, wee °Medea a demos as St. Neet's ea *War work by the Bishop of Illy, sad wee roarded She faked'. Wednesday at Vesely, sear Sir ednibere, bee been appointed to the mussy of St. May", Ilk r I iL _:: (7. ›. 7' • AWP? '~: