The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-25 00:00:00

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Ir• it were any business of ours to preach pru denoe to the supporters of the Government, we should be inclined to warn them against the de spairing tactics they are at present pursuing. They seem to place all their hopes of safety in convincing the Liberal party that it had much better leave them alone. It is not an uncommon policy in contests of all degrees of importance, from street lights upwards. The combatant who feels that he will got the worst of it if the peace is once broken has always a scope of remove to prove that it should be strictly kept. Unfortunately for the 'woes' of this method of reasoning, its real signi ficance is now perfectly well known. A general who expects defeat will naturally do all he can to avoid a battle. But he wilt never, if his knows his business, let his real purpose escape him. His secret terrors will be locked up in hie own breast, and he will await the attack of the enemy with the air of a man thirsting for the ex citement of the strife. To do Mr. Dm new justice, he is far too good a tacti cian to betray any signs of apprehension. But he has apparently not desired—at all eventa he has not been able—to impart to his adwocates in the press a similar show of confidince. Instead of accepting opposition as the natural element is which a Government must ex pect to live, they spend their strength in proving that the Liberal party is bound by every consideration of justice, wisdom, and patriotism not to disturb their tenure of office. It has often been urged, in depreca tion of a mere part): struggle, that there is no substantial difference between a Ministry and an Opposition. These Conservative pleaders take a bolder tone, and argue that the very greatness of the difference ought to prevent the Liberals from wishing to have the reins in their own hands. Your Irish policy, they say, is revolutionary. Surely that is the best justification of our unwillingness to entrust the Conservatives with the conduct of Irish questions. Only this morning a Ministerial contemporary has stated the effect of Mr. GLADSTONeIi resolution in these terms : " Taken literally, they mean that the policy " of three centuries is to be reversed—that the "entire foundations of English rule in Ireland "are to be relaid." We accept the descrip tion. Both in the letter and in the spirit the resolutions do mean this and nothing less. They mean that the ascendancy of an alien church is to be overthrown, and that the whole attitude of England towards Ireland is to be changed at once and for ever. Is not this good reason for getting rid of an administration which recognises no such neces sity 1 We do not expect Conservatives to think us right in being Liberals ; but we advise them for their own sakes to lay aside the childish petulance which Wile out because, being Liberals, we wish an opportunity of carrying Liberal ideas into action. The first argument which is employed to dis suade " moderate Liberals " from voting for Mr. GL DOOMS'S resolutions haat been used against every necessary enterpriie since the building of the ark. Why, it is asked, should the Irish Church be disesta blished now 1 A year or two hence—when we have had our fair innings, and cannot possibly keep in office any longer--there may be something to be said for such a step. But why do it at this moment ? In answering this question we will use no terms which can be unintelligible to those who put it. We will not 00 =ell as mention justice ; we will appeal to nothing but expediency, We are anxious then that the Protestant Church in Ireland shall be di*. ortablishod fot exactly the same ti others—that the Government is anxious Roman Catholic Churthinlveland shall 10 Mr. Disaszu hinta at the latter 1. feels that something must be done , Irish people. We insist upon dia. because we know ihatissthin . g short of ___ rsitials them. Thil at once disposes of all the charges of inconsistency so freely brought against the Liberal party. We are not bound by the asser tions of Mr. Gamer( in 1813 or Lord PLtriticsrr in 1829. They represented the feelings of a time when the Irish Catholics were still enslaved. Forty years of freedom have now nerved them to demand equality. A change of circum stances in Ireland necessitates a change of tone in England. Emancipation averted a civil war, and the need for dis-establishment is not less in 1888 than the need for emancipation was in 1829. The next weapon in the Conservative armoury is the cry that the principle of Religious Establishments is threatened, and that if the Irish Church falls , tke Scotch Church and the English Church must' fall too. It is not too much to say that this statement is as nearly as possible the exact reverse of the truth. If the Irish Establishment is maintained on this ground, the other two estab lishments will certainly have but a short lease of life, since they will soon incur their full share of lthe discredit attaching to the institution which is kept on foot for their interest. The true policy of those who wish the churches of England and Scotland to remain as they are is to get rid of the diseased limb with all the speed possible. The three cases are altogether distinct. The special reasons which call for disestablishmeut in Ireland have no exist ence in any other part of the United Kingdom. Neither in England nor in Scotland is the esta blishment the church of a conquering race ; and, therefore, neither for England nor for Scot land will the overthrow of the Irish Establishment be anything more than the removal of an ano malous exception. Now we axe quite willing to acknowledge that there are powerful arguments to be alleged against excessive smoking. We do not believe with a very tall speaker at the Conference that the aver age height of Frenchmen and Englishmen has dimi nished in consequence of this habit, or that it is the probable cause of diphtheria and of other dilemma ; but that it is injurious to the young before the constitution is formed, that it is an expensi►e practice, that it does in some cases weaken diges tion, that it may in some cases produce paralysis, that bad tobacco is wholly hurtful and good tobacco not always beneficial—may readily be conceded. But when we are asked to acknowledge that tobacco must of necessity injure every one who uses it in moderation, such a request proves that fanaticism has got the better of sound sense. Exaggeration always defeats its object, and if we 1 are told that our spiritual and temporal welfare hangs upon the use or disuse of a cigar, our respect for the good intentions of the writer will warmly enable us to preserve our gravity. Smoking, says one of these gentlemen, produces eccentricity. We venture to think that not a little of that infirmity is to be found among the rigid purists who do not smoke at all. Perhaps, however, the Conservative journals do not look for much result from either of these appeals. But a man who is prepared for revolution, and indifferent to the prin ciple of endowments, may be more impressible through the medium of his pocket. The most deadly arrow is reserved for the last. If lyou help to carry resolutions you may have to stand two elections in nine months. We wish we could feel that every Liberal member of the House of Commons is above being frightened by this threat. We fear, however, that there are some whose votes can hardly be relied on in the prospect of an immediate dissolution, and for the sake of these weak brethren we will say a word or two on this aspect of the question. The course taken by the Government last session has, we believe, made it impossible for them to resort to a dissolution this session. Instead of providing for a special registration, which should bring the new constituencies into the field at the earliest possible moment, they in troduced a clause into the Reform Act, which practically postpones a general elee tion till the beginning of 1869. The Irish difficulty has suddenly come to the sur face and disturbed all their calculations. Of course, notwithstanding this provision, a disso lution is constitutionally permissible. But the farce of making a solemn appeal to the country in April, after expressly enacting that the real opinion of the country shall not be procurable before January, is so extravagant that even Mr. DISRAELI will probably think twice before he introduces it to the public. An election this year will have no value whatever as an index to the wishes of the electors. It is moat unfortunate that such should be the case, but that it is so is the doing of the Government. In their anxiety to secure themselves against the danger of an adverse verdict they Lave voluntarily cut themselves off from the chance of obtain ing a favourable verdict; and, whatever threats his supporters may indulge in, we do not believe that Mr. DISRAELI will really attempt to defy the consequences of his own over-ingenuity. But if he should do so, we will add one parting caution to waicring members. Two victories aro better than one defeat. A Liberal who votes for the resolutions may have to incur the cost of the former ; a Liberal who votes against them will certainly have to put up with the latter. MR. GLADSTONE'S bill, framed upon a suggestion of Mr. Harass's, for the abolition of Compulsory Church Rates, passed the House of Commons atmid night yesterday amidst "loud cheers." Mr. lIRNLIT and Mr. NZWDEOATI attempted to postpone the measure, but the House was aware that thate honourable gentlemen would find every date unpropitious, and rejected their solicitation by 131 votes to 28. It must be con fessed that the way in which Ministers and their supporters have been scattered by this bill is very unedifying. The latter have as a body evaded a decision, their attachment to the compulsory rate not being strung enough to induce them to risk a defeat by voting for it. But from principle or for propriety's sake a section of the Cabinet has gone out in each division with the little hand ful who are unable as yet to see, with their leader, that majorities make everything right. The attempt at the last moment to scotch the bill waif supported by Lord JOHN MANNELS, Sir STAFFORD NORTHOOTZ, and Sir J. PAEINOTON, who, with ?dr. Scrassa-Boors[ and the Arroasas- GENERAL for IRELAND, appear on the list of Mr. SeHRZIRER'S minority. The fate of the measure in the Lords is uncertain ; but, at all events, it cannot be thrown out on the pretence that either the Lower House or the country have yet to make up their mind about it. Mn. C. A. Bererzi,, whose name was made familiar to English readers by his " Five " Years in an English University," has pub lished at New York, in the character of a United States Bondholder, an indignant protest against the proposals made in the Western States to tax those bonds or pay them in "green backs." The case he puts is rather a strong one. Re signing the first place to those who "paid with their "persons," as the French say, and risked their lives on the battle field, he thinks, nevertheless, that the bondholders are entitled to some little credit for patriotism, inasmuch as they lent money to their Government at a time when the European authorities and the Southern secessionists were proclaim ing that the Republic had given up the ghost. In no succeeding year has the market value of the bonds in gold exceeded what was them paid for them. As the war went on and the result seemed more and more doubtful, they continued to lend the Govern ment all trey could spare. Mr. BIRISTED has I also a word for the foreign bondholders. The wealthy in Europe who were hostile to the North speculated in Confederate bonds and blockade j runners, while Vsnee who bought the United States bonds in Germs.ny and in England were, as a general rule, friendly to the Union. 1 'ovrarai • said, in reference to Bran's execution, i hat the English had shot Mt of their admirals to en courage the rest, and Mr. BiliftlM suppose a that the Western Republicasa are now preparing t. o eta cute the present bondholders as an encourage meat • to patriots at home and sympathisers abroad. I REFORMERS RUN WILD. THE zeal of social reformism too often runs away with their discretion. They jump at con clusions from slight premises ; they substitute feeling for argument, and rashly imagine that half, if sot all, the evils of society result from a con tempt for the nostrum which they make it their business to prescribe. The vegetarian tells us that all the coarse passions of our nature are stimulated by butchers' meat, and that if we would but keep what he terms " a pure table," we should lead virtuous lives. The teetotaler argues with great truth that drunkenness is of all vices the most hurtful to society ; and with no truth at all that, because the abuse of wine and beer is bad, the use of wine and beer is indefensible ; and then comes forward the anti-smoker, and declares that the root of social evil, the main cause of national decline, may be traced to the pipe and the cigar. The " British Anti-Tobacco Society," which held a conference last Saturday at Exeter Hall, has been in existence fourteen or fifteen years, and under its auspices a number of publications have been issued against " the pernicious and offensive prao " lice; of smoking, chewing, and snuff taking." There is an Anti-Tobacoo Journal published monthly ; there are prize essays on smoking—two of them by young ladies ; there are handbills for I gratuitousdirtribution; thereisaballadupontobacco i MR M&tr SUPPLY or Er r °LaND• — This morn 55 for one shilling, which we can scarcely recommend ; a nears was published rebates to the past and press. et u a profitable invest men t ; an d f or anot h er shilling i supply of live and dead meat to this country and to tk e the reader may purchase and peruse " Three rtitrik an wei Sin e :,: d t i h n e I P a r bi t l i e t rva . e on t" awe im a P e : rt :tu • " hundred and sixty five interviews with innokers, lit f u any on; - Ism , m aw. " chewers, and anuff-takers," a pamphlet which l it amounted to T 83,271. The year 1866 shooed a we are informed may be read "with something ! decrease 0145,364 en the previous year, and in 1867 there' like a sensation a l interest, and certainly with ' was a further decrease of 50,087 on the number ins " much more profit than a fashionable novel." 'Ported in 1866 . The ism period narks a &aline in the The peculiar and copious literature of the ~..11ualber,of sheep , lambs , and swine, imported into al number of the two former , la 1867, MINE " anti-tobacconists " may be commended for diver- 534 - 7 88 — ; a t d ul et the latter ' 49375. The mion if not for profit, and ea there was no argu- I emu, e tt r ib u t a ht, t o th e temper er , restricting be. I decrees ii, e( ment put forth at the Exeter Hall discussion in I posed to the topertntion ef cattle into this country favour of the Society's principles, which may not owing to the cattle Awe. be found in the Society's publications we shall do I COMMUNICATION srrwasic Harmer GUARDS no injustice to the cause by con fi nin g our Wen- AND PASNENOIDLIL-A bill has been b roug ht i n b y Mr. I tion to the latter. I B. B. Sheridan and Bic Patrick O'Brien to save! railway Tobacco, we are informed, is injurious to the °°l°Psni°l to °dahlia met " of " mdminf ettitli tetwinti body, and destructive to the soul, opposed to the and sa d guard s divers laws of health, and to the precepts of Christianity; sv m mile wiWcat a topping . sad is thi s m . it destroys the nervous power, stupefies the mind, I , soot it is substantially the same as lobe bill pre and perverts the conscience. One writer goes so seated by the Duke of Richmond ; but the penalty far as to say that the massacre on St. Bart ho- ito be imlniend ta 6i., not for war/ tr.* but for lomew's Day owed its " commotion and perpe- I every enribille, and few evert linirs•7 of such canine, tin " tration t o t o b acco i n fl uence r ano th er th a t provided with. salient masses ef scaanuniession. To th e very arguments o f th e emehar-t;„- favo ur prevent any wanton or misehirress me of it, however, weed are „ i ncontrovertible ; f " it ;r ii i ts ; 0 1; any person netting it in motion without ressenalds excess ta " effects be liable to ape ct Si.,., ogres dare aspirin." ;" • third, that "90 per seat. mto eat, nalty ad. IL .4 persons lose their health arid *air lines by it ; and i satin erildshinuliss; Ind observes an lilt lilealltes of " as for lunacy, the numbers who deprive them- : the mils en so peat that all anomie he agginate thin -" selves of intellect by the use of snuff and lona "maim like that el • dielteldhia mein to 13 . " tobacco is doubtless far greeter than from any I 41 ' 14 rn""ma• his imP''aia• w *lira war mods " other cause." Moreover, he newts that I "Itttait the l " . " 111 " t tion with common roost te tha Pada a distends. is eassepassee of this practice lies at the foundation of n I the meeplance of Mr. Gladatone's renalations would be. vast amount of immorality, and is " endan- Th e lun g sompoises, d ooa d emss d osar Nt as d es ma " goring the souls of millions of mankind." sot be pester than the moral oommtanos d a sneribm4 He brings forward a number of sensational awe- Parlisenit. dotes in favour of his views. A gentleman tells The Pod, &daring that the days el the Irish church him that after smoking a cigar he is uncomfortable 1,111 d an __, lmabe f_a. a dd s th at the ides for several hours. A Dutchman who was a I —`"' 111'.' a mtlLtew '. t"" sock d the church is el Ragland too absurd to be entertained in any soaleslas smoker one day blew out his brains. A young I b o a wi m man is found with a pipe in his mouth when he I ought to be at church. A shoemaker pawns his bed clothes to buy tobacco. A solicitor who smokes becomes • hypochondriac and imagines that he has been bitten by a mad dog. A dinent ing minister, who enjoys a pipe and a glass of porter, contract. pecuniary liabilities, and is obliged to hide himself in America. Then we are told that the worst vices to which mankind resort are generally found to have been perpetrated by smokers, and the most solemn words of Scripture are applied, or rather misap ' plied, for the purpose of denouncing this very terrible vice. EDUCATION WREN!. In the opinion of the Deily New the scheme introduced last night by the Duke of llariberongh marks an utterly inadequate sense of the public manta, though some of the proposals are in the direction of reform. The conversion of the revised code into an sot of parliament, in which no improvement could be introduced without repeated repeals to the House of Commons, is a retrograde movement, reducing to insignificance the duties of the proposed minister of education. The govern ment proposes, " on public grounds," to make the accept ' mos of a conscience clause a condition of Privy Counall pants in eases where only one school in a locality can be aided from the public funds. In other cease, managers of schools receiving State aid are to be at liberty to continue their present practice of imposing their denominational teaching upon all the children whom they admit to secular instruction. The bill is to contain no provision for rates in aid of schools, even in places where it is proved that education is most deficient, and voluntary aid least to be relied cc. The Duke's greet objection was that the reli gions difficulty would be found so great that the schools would become secular ; and yet by this very measure he proposes to give secular schools amass to the Privy Council pants. The Times will not be surprised to find that parliament eventually resolves on something which will be a com promise between the government bill and that of Mr. Bruce. As to the proposition to create another secretary of state, a new cabinet minister is certainly not necessary to do merely what this bill allows to be done. While the government plan falls very short of efficiency, and takes refuge in imbecile optimism when pave defects are visible to all beside, improvements are, nevertheless, suggested in the practical worldng of the present system. The relaxation of the stringent rule requiring a certificated teacher in every school that receives a government grant is a step in the right direction. The Star sari the introduction of such a bill at the pre sent moment gravely cumulates the proofs of Mr.Diaraeli's unfitness, and of the wilful powerlessness of his party to meet the righteous demands of the times. The fact that both Houses of Parliament were largely occupied with education last night is only one instance of the exigent mood in which she subject is now regarded ; the pettineus of the government measure is a sufficient instance of their inability to meet the exigency which all but thentselvei acknowledge. The Telegraph considers the proposals good u far as they go, but they are painfully insufficient. The troth is that to compulsory rating, or to some scheme den equally sweeping character, we must speedily come. The duke's plan has good points, which must not be lost ; but the beet thing that his grace could do would be to incorpo- rate his bill with that eif Mr. Bruce. United, they would form one of the greatest measures which, within the pre sent generation, any statesman has been privileged to bring before the parliament of England. a s e s metropolitan street 4 o wtioh need illistihs most will be appmentlythe last to obtain and if the simile of the Timm be just, and " the Strand • kind of aneurism in the most vied part of the body," more prompt and vigorous treatment should be adopted than there are any tokens of as yet, The noble space taken from the Thames is enclosed but not reclaimed, and as we recently pointed out is not useful because of its wilfully unfinished state, and of the contractors' rubbish with which it is bestrewn. The congratulations upon the speed_trelief of the people panning from the Temple to Westminster seem hollow when the facts are realised, and the arguments concerning the benefit to accrue to legal industry, to parlia ment, and to the City from the determination to open out "the finest thoroughfare ever con structed" lose half their force when it is seen how small and comparatively useless is the portion immediately available. The only part of the Thames Embankment which can really be spoken of as " completed " is that lying east of Somerset House. Here, though the wall is unfinished, the ground between it and the houses has been levelled, and could be opened for traffic at once. The visitor to the Temple Gardens, or to some of the waterside streets run ning down front East Strand, finds huge hoardings and unfinished masonry impede his view ; but a closer inspection shows him that the space enclosed is level as a grass plot, and that not remains but the large and ugly wooden sheds planted at right angles across the roadway, to prevent its being used forthwith. But this bit is compara tively unimportant, and the view westward from Waterloo-bridge tells a very different story. At the ordinary rate of contractors' pro gress, a month must elapse before that wild chaos can be subdued. The iron rails of three separate tramways intersect it, along which small locomo tives and " trams" have been plodding their busy way. Very few people seem to be at work, and the whole place looks terribly deserted and desolate. At noon to-day the constant chip chip of the stone mason's hammer could be heard, however, above the din of the streets, and a railway truck full of brieks stood ready for use in what will be the new thoroughfare. The ground, save where the little tramways run, is full of inequalities, and cranes and disused machinery are plentifully dotted along its surface. Vast mounds, like waves of earth and rubbish, rise incontinently where conve nience demands a level ; while holes and valleys correspondingly deep assert themselves like candid pitfalls to the looker on. The blocks of timber strewn carelessly about and across these undula tions, and which look precisely as if they had been washed ashore and there left, would make rafts for an army ; while the temporary structures, the wooden bridges to the steamboat wharves, the huts for workmen, the old iron, and the upright beams so fixed as to represent an ancient gallows-tree, pre sent formidable obstructions to the explorer. Some deep and heavy ruts in the dry mud by Waterloo-bridge show that carts and waggons can be driven up it, but we venture to say that nothing with springs would survive the perilous course from Westminster. Nor, judging from what we saw this morning are proper efforts being made to smoothe the way. Nothing was being cleared up ; no one was constructing a road ; the signs of active life were absent. Such men as wore at work were engaged rather languidly upon the stone, and the future thoroughfare looked as neglected and forgotten as it has done for months past. Let the reader take a ship-breaker's lumber yard, a stone-mason's quarry, some pit tramways, an out-door hospital for incurable old stores, deserted gravel pits not yet beautified by growing grass, and mix them together in incomprehen sible confusion, and he will see the greater portion of the Thames Embankment as it is. To speak of a roadway through and upon this being opened " forthwith " is to assume the aid of magic or of infinitely more energy and enterprise than has yet been shown ; and, however excellent may be the intentions of the Board of Works, unless the con tractors are stimulated beyond all precedent we des pair of seeing the really valuable part of the new thoroughfare in use until long after the present session has expired. 'THS E 'RESS, WEDNESDAY ' ' l i i I 1 w i MARCH 25 il : ; , . a —..: , •• is ine ani tellBl;it iou : '4l6(" the i th e i il eir d ay " Cit in" ..' ;. ' : : 4 M r , . 111111. A ' it '. ' ' , 4 ` • 1 . . ' . '" P°RAR I :P.: ' I .. ; B i v ''' H if i lii :: . ) : R ME NE N D r i -Wif , : I DAY.) , id shall beendowed. 1 impossible to • ' even one oigar of I , ' paoposallsmamie he , 'glib and wane at the ohm of ev . , RIP, i '' rem -' % / Amp Tin °memos. it, ~,,- • ovu m. in the Times as )ne to conciliate the ' " out enervating both the physical . mental ! Th e rim, rejects altogether the idle terror held , inimediate benefit to be conferred by 113 dieratablishment I " constitutions." More persons, he safe, are . oat by istineard won= au rho di ami gii i i mi al embankment is not corroborated b JJ hart of this will coo-, enalaved by tobacco than by strong drink ; more the /A a s h ur a t o list the i n t Asp to the ankle& . nonainun in which we And it this I 1 .. __ _. _II ~..- ............ 1...... 41...1- 1...u5. --a 4u.5..u..... 11. 14. .....1 —.m.a J-211.1---.2.-.. --a -L---- An-A .2.- maa—m— -a Pwrtanno of metropolitan street 111 =ch s flu Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Num! 24. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday afternoon and drove, aasompanted b 7 Princes; Louise. Her Majesty went oat thin morning, smompanied by Princes Chriatisn. Primer LOWS, and Primers Beatrice rode in the Home. Park. Lord and Lady Charles Bruce and Major•Oeneral Sir T. M. sad the Hos. lady Bidduiph had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family yesterday. Counter Blucher has arrived at the Castle cm a visit to her Majesty. Lady Churchill has succeeded Viscounts., Clifden as Lady is Waiting. Lord Raglan and Colonel the Hon. Augustus Liddell have succeeded Lord fikelmeredale and Captain Lord Frederic Kerr, as Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Sir Francis Grant, president of the Royal Academy, as• companied by Mr. Knight, secretary, arrived at the Castle this afternoon, and presented for her Majesty's sanction the transactions of the Royal Academy for the last year, and Lid before her Majesty the diplomas of the four academicians last sleeted, for her Majesty's signature. Sir James Clark has arrived at the Castle. The Princess of Wales drove out yesterday, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First L or d o f the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmeabury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duk e o f B uc ki ng h am an d Chandos, Sir John Pa.kiagton, Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. The Prince of Wales, attended by Captain Ellis, visited M. Val Prinsep'slaudio a few days since. Madame Van de Weyer gave her second small dance last evening. It was honoured by the peewees of their Royal Milian.= the Prises sad Primes. at Wake, the Priam sad Princess Christian, sad Princess Louise. It is stated that arrangements are now being made for a tour by his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, which will include most planes of interest in Italy and the Rest. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Nary Adelaide of Teek left town yesterday, attended by Lady Geraldine Setaireet and Lad Frederick Paulin, for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of But/and. Their royal highneemee will remain at Belvoir till Monday next. . His Royal Higiuseira the Field-Marsha Com manding la Chid will hold a levee et one &Week ea the 31ffit but The Earl and Countess of Derby and the Hon. Yiniertok Stanley, 11. P., sad Lady Contemn Stanley arrived in town yesterday /ran Knowsley. Tile rI of Came:von has arrived in town from the math of Franey, and the mentor is daily expected to arrive have the Continent. A marriage has been arranged between the Hon. Yr. Plaskett, son of Lord Pineall, &Waist te the lega -1 kat at Berlin, and KU Rosanna Bkariderassib, deter of Sir Rewised Blitinerluwwit, Bert., for gyp. The Feed of Roden lies eeriotudy ill at Theyinore- Pee I.'o-night the new Foreign -office built by Mr. 0. CI. See*, will be opened to thee; te Asa Yr. sad .tea. Mena have iseseeded inaileibes the sated slued to be sleek Ilk ember *RI not be a ball, for the Anil ;sears .Iliet_in the new. yoro ir s. aisa ties A. me agertenset eseester for (brine, and nem the raw ealsedab Ind are. Rowe-edilewe en beak *Me le ail oraf a watt widsk might be ArTerild be-gindle a tempos* basso. Ma. Mogi will al* snake bee fatuities thie MEW GOSSIP PROM THE OWL. We learn that it is improbable that the Princess of Wales will go to Ireland, although her royal highness has expressed the utmost anxiety to be present at the installation of the Prince of Wales as a Knight of St. Patrick. It I. understood that the ladies of Dublin contemplated availing themselves of the opportunity of presenting to her royal high- I nese a national souvenir, with an address.—lt is understood that the office of Minister of Education will be offered to Sir John Pakington ; and that General Peel will be invited to resent* his former position as Head ed the War Department.—The select committee on the House of Commons arrangements have at present under eonsideration plans submitted by Mr. Barry for the construction of a new house, to be built across the East Court, near the Speaker's netdmace. The entrance is to be from the present chamber, which It is pro posed to converted into a vestibule. The new building will asat about four hundred and ninety members, and will be sixty-three feet square, with division lobbies thirty feet wide at either side. If sanctioned by par lament it can be built and opened within two years at a cost of about 100,0001. The committee are decidedly opposed to any suggestions for a tribune from which members should address the house. Cardinal Cullen, having had his attention directed to the fact ♦hat, owing to the action of some Roman Catholic re presentatives, there was danger that the University Charter of incorporation might not be sanctioned, has ad dressed more than one of the Irish members, expressing, on behalf of the Roman Catholic, Prelates of Ireland, "an earnest hope " that this portion s/ ministerial policy would be in no measure discouraged; but that,on the contrary, every effort should be made to secure its earlyacoomplishmeot.— The Irish members who sit en the opposition bombes are to meet this afternoon (Wednesday) for the purpose of dis mooing the Representation of the People (Ireland) Bill. Dr. Brady, M.P., intimates that be will metre its rejection on second reading, unless outvoted is confers:am by hie brother representatives. There will be a vigorous effort made by the Irish conservative members to secure as increase of repre sentation for the northern counties, and with that object new clauses will be moved.—The whole question of Bode statical Miles is about being inquired into, with the assent of Government, by a select committee of the House of Peers. It is not probable that the bill on this sub** which is before the other breach of the Legislature will be further proceeded with until Earl Stealtope's committee mane their report as to the expediesey of repealing the existing tots.—A list of further new peen is still in existence. There is, however, little likelihood of the distinctions being conferred for the present oil the various gentlemen who are destined forlhe honour, except in the very improbable coast of Mr. Disraeli electing to resign if defeated in the Reuse of Commons.— The inquiries of the Irish Railway Commissioners are cow fined to tweertaining the original cost of the several main and ►iasch lines ; the arose* shim expended on thN ; their present condition ; the value of the debenture sesent ties and stook, pre:mead and original ; the aunt re glared to be expended to put the lines I. thorough week ing order; and the result of the last three years' worlds. of sash lion ' correspondent of the Dublin, Express states Castle, of hiverreel, e fa-rlopei I berdeaosa eareand on the Biesk'wsisr. 7 evesiag. tlbe wes bound tessaasstrol flit alpissathesp imbed at 30.0:4111. The VZIO, jPOI tel*lert of eke *sew 41--Sasiews asplitsed teas him, *loodetaleiliklillii sass& 7=41131'.. elTwe No* havar, lost late a : .• ; .. I l I Wed= gi/S •• 00 ber••CM;6lll7ll7dis=difili Kr. i;s7 A corresPonaw • I rata for Ow ilnut Mac elect bid alloanommat to Cto Wont a.* Q. Conway CI - , port la the dish. The ordluary gook will in ter at a of over 1,200 tone bu r , door in the asehorg loattlng to what not* tho qvad.nonle, bank on Soturdey et r . butilboroyal boa* wUI taw the eeriidor VI a floor ,:pod= Tor Melbourne with II • . bed tin must ilea rho roosts in. the weeicra captain did Dot *fp • .milderw reserved low 'noggin' and eupporweinn and anal tili: had sob Aro eitiornow air dunmensas—rarut. gipirsiwa7. - loteldoloal -boob .1 =will 'mama *I swwfdoe sad natroatuntrat roes l: u ot elf ticcbook on I hen rich turps% aro woad ; and lit warp oval ardir were swept Now paiS bob oflivalp pot 'lame& FOREIGN NEWS, (THIS DAY.) (aroyea's yatscatits.) • AUSTRIA. IMPORTANT ACTION OP FRANC; RICSPECTING POLAND. VIENNA, MARCH 25, The New Free Press of to-day says w e learn that the French cabinet has announced its intention of inviting very shortly the signitaries of the Vienna treaties of 1815 to take into considera tion whether and what steps in common ought to be taken relative to the late acts of Russia, whereby the Kingdom of Poland has ceased to exist." The new Army Bin divides the military strength of Austria into the line, the landwehr, and th e landsturm (levee en mane). The regiments of the line are to be under the control of the Minister of War of the Empire, and the landwehr under the ' control of the Austrian and Hungarian Ministen of War. AMERICA. The Inman royal mail steamship City of New York, from New York on the 14th inst., arrived at Queenstown at 4 a.m. to-day (March 25), and, having landed mails and ramengers, pecceeded at 5 o'clock for Liverpo'L All well. (Per the City of New York, Via Queensiovro.) NEW YORK, Masai 14•Noos. The Senate reassemble I as a court of impeach ment for the trial of President Johnson yesterday, Chief Justice Chase presiding. Attorney-Gene ral Stanberry read a plea from Mr. John son, stating that, after careful examination of the articles of impeachment, he was satisfied that a I period of 40 days was necessary to prepare an answer, and he respectfully asked to be allowed that time. The managers from the House of Representatives opposed the delay, but the Senate refused to order the trial to be pro. ceeded with at once by 26 to 25 votes, and by 40 votes to 10 ordered that the President should tile his answer by the 23rd inst., and that the trial should proceed as soon as the replication should be filed by the House. Attorney-General Stanberry has resigned his post, stating as his reason that his participation in the defence of Mr. Johnson would engroaa his en. tire time. The President has accepted the reng nation, and appointed Secretary Grounding (query, Browning 0 to act as Attorney-General pro t, MI. Congress has passed the bill prohibiting appeals from the national and circuit courts being e ,, n. sidered by the Supreme Court. Mr. Davis's trial has been postponed from March 25 until April 14, and his bail has been renewed. General Hancock has appointed the 17th and 18th April for the Louisiana elections. The returns from the New Hampshire elections aro nearly complete, and show a reduction of 700 from a republican majority of last year. OUR PARIS LETTER. ACTION AGAINST THE FRENCH JOCKEY CLUB. (ram( ous ovrs oosszarossurr.) PARIS, TUESDAY ECLNINC. The French Jockey Club lately warned off from all the race-courses under their control • well-known gentleman of the turf, named Vaillant, and declared that no horse belonging to M. Vaillant should he qualified to run at any races under their jurisdiction. The reason given for this decision was the alle gation that, contrary to well-known rules, M. Vaillant had entered at La Marche, under the name of Caesar, • horse which had won a race at Landbody, in Ireland, where it was called Grandstown. It was further stated that M. Vaillant's jockey, Reginald Riddell, who rode the horse, was aware of its identity, and in consequence he was declared disqualified for • short period, which has since en pired. M. Vaillant brought an action against Prince Murat and other members of the Jockey Club contesting their jurisdiction and claiming damages to the amount of 100,000 fr. The Civil Tribunal of the Seine, however, presided over by M. Benoit Champy, decided that the Jockey Club, as a tribunal to which all parties entering horses at these races had submitted, was sovereign in the matter, and dismissed the suit with costs. There was no public meeting of the Corps Legit latif to-day. Members were occupied in their bureaux with the election of theßudget Committee. Their deliberations were unusually long, and, according to several reports, unusually animated. M. Magne's supplemental credits for 1867 and 1868 and the augments' expenses for 1869 were very severely criticised in six out of the nine bureaux. It is probable that the eighteen deputies of which the budget committee is com posed will contain a somewhat greater leaven of opposition than has ever before been seen, but of course not one strong enough to thwart any pro vision/I which this government is thoroughly deter mined to carry. The trial of Viscount de Kerveguen before tbe Tribunal of Correctional Police is fixed for April 3. The valet chosen to succeed the Emperor's old favourite servant Leon, whose death is announced, is named Muller. He was in the service of General Courtray at the time of the Strasburg affair. He speaks German fluently. The Bourse was extremely calm, and specula tors were indisposed to do business. Rente rose 20c. for cash, but fell sc. for account, closing at 69fr. 25c. and 69fr. 15c. Credit Fonder fell 7fr. 50c., and Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. In other securities these was scarcely any change. Mr. Gladstone has consented to preside over the Statistical Section at the approaching meeting 01. the British Amoslation for the Advancement of science at Norwich. The sleeting takes pia*. in August. Subscribers to the Brand Testimonial intend ing to be present at the dinner on Saterday next, the Nit inst., are requested to procure their tickets at Willies Rooms, in order to enable the axamittet to make their arrangements. SALM AND PURCHASE or COMMISSION.i. Trevelyan will move the following resolutions on the '2l st of neat mouth ; 1. That the parasite and tale of inilitary commissions be discontinued after a date to be fixed fa that purpose. S. That from the MIS date every 0 1,11 on full pay be credited with the than existing value of. hit °°MiniatiOa*, taking into coosidwatioa the regulation and the extra'Agabillan prices. 3. That'll* sum so • credited be paid by the government to any officer retiring from the service at any time anberquent to the above mentioned date under circumstances which would previously have enable d him to sell hie commiailien 4. ThAV portion of the sum so credited be paid to angitared glitinoted to be effective majerieneraL 5. That after the abaramisstioned date the reshnottel promotion up to the rank d captain be made &Geordie( to a combined system ef andurity and selection, earl above that rink by sehitaion. & nit suitable i;ementlines of retirement be provided at the tapes" of the state flerr oases el every mak. 7. Thai a fired 'proportion of the maid coromiscions in each intrust to 21104 by the prune ion of quillied asevecomaiseireed nears. . • I , y 1 . I