The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-11 00:00:00

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON MIDGE Tim DAT —Bforming. 3K 45m— —..Aftsnioon, 4b. sm. To.M.Mituvt—DOTAMS, 1d 25m.. —Afternoon, 4b. 45m. )lOTTeltil of BIRTH., MARRIAGES, and DRAMS are received until 12 o'clock foe insertion same evening. Price, Is. ed. A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams, and the Latest City, Sporting, and General Intelligence, Is PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAR. 11. THE IRISH POLICY OF THE OOVERN- MENT. It would resemble rather the existing endowment of Kaynooth. It would enable Al the edi tion of Catholic youth to be retains at the priesthood. It would ultramontanism, for ultratoontane t he the directors of the instituti wall not create distrust in thfhats popula tion, for that population world obtain a. cheer*, education at the hands of the priests, though at the expense of England. But while these am motives which may very possibly make the idea eminently palatable to the Catholic hierarchy, or to such of the Catholic inhabitants as they repre sent, they are, for that season, all the more calculated to stagger the English people. It is ob vious that nothing would be thus done to appease Irish animosities. The separation between the sects would be only widened and perpetuated. Nor would the assault upon the Irish Church be more than staved off. When the principle of endow manta for all denominations is once sanctioned, it is certain that a demand for equality of endowment cannot be silenced. Soon it will be pointed out to us with irresistible logic that while Protestant Episcopalians have university revenues in a high proportion to their numbers, Catholic Episco palians have an educational endowment that is far inferior, and the conclusion would be enforced that either Trinity College must still come down, or the new University must be enormously raised. More over, the new principle will be invoked first by the Presbyterians and next by every division of Dis senters which may chance to spring up. Peace in Ireland will certainly never be bought by such means. The like arguments apply of course to the sug gested policy in regard to parochial endowments, with the not slight distinction that everybody is opposed to them, except the people who hope by such arrangements to maintain theirown supremacy. It is very idle to discuss in the present day the plan of paying the Catholic clergy by a grant out of the Consolidated Fund. Even such a division of existing ecclesiastical revenues among the various denominations as is proposed by Earl Haunt, and partially by Mr. BRIOHT, is quite certain to meet with the all but unanimous resistance of the Liberal party. But the very last thing that the British nation will ever dream of doing for the Irish church is to pay some millions a year to secure its retention of its revenues untouched. No vote will ever pans the House of Commons to carry out such a notion, and therefore the further fact that the Irish priests declare officially that if it did they would not take the money is an immaterial, though not insignificant addition to the objection. On this head, then, the state ' merit of Lord MAYO is interesting only as showing that for the moment the Tory policy is decided to be one of no surrender. Experience indeed teaches us, as it has already taught Lord CH4N BORNE, that a policy of . no surrender may at any monent be changed into one of unconditional surrender. But at least it is evident Mr. Mesa= has not yet educated his party to this point. The church and the land are still his masters, though no one can be better aware than he that if he cannot bring these interests to yield to his autho rity he must perish. THE FIRST NIGHT OF THE IRISH DEBATE. is that it was fair enough as a pax and full of a kind spirit towards Iv, as some persons opine, the present session is to be an Irish one, it may, in truth, be affirmed to have commenced only last night, and characteristi cally enough. Mr. Coast*, the member for Kil dare, in giving notice of a question respecting the utterances of a reverend Mr. FEssass, who said that the Protestants of Ireland would die martyrs but would first die soldiers, caused considerable laughter. This little incident set the House in a proper disposition for listening to the great Irish de bate which was opened by Mr. MAGIIIBI. With a modest premonition of his own inability to deal with the theme of which he was full—not only in bead, but in hand and pocket, judging from the bundles of pamphlets and papers which he referred to in the course of his speech—the hon. member proceeded to state the case of Ireland. His exordium described the liberty of the humble Irishman east the present moment held at the tenure of a spy's whisper, a policeman's suspicion, or a perjurer's information ; the towns of Ireland were held by garrisons, and a military occupation existed to all intents and pur poses. The material prosperity which some gentlemen assigned to Ireland, he contradicted; and explained the decrease of emigration not by the growing con tentment of Irish farmers, but by the unusual stagnation which exists at present in America. He asked more than once whether Irish landlords were to be allowed to convert the QCEEN'S sub jeses into the QI7IBN'S enemies, by driving Irish peasants from the land of their birth into a foreign country, where they cherished themselves, and in culcated on their descendanta implacable hostility to the laws which produced such results. There was all the force of an argument in the dramatic way in which he imitated the exclamation of a Yankee's '• my God !" on bearing the injustice to which the Irish peasantry were exposed. With regard to the Irish Church establishment, if the case had been reversed, and the Protestants of England were called on to pay for the pomps and splen dours of the Roman Catholic ritual as carried out by Dr. Marninvo, he intimated his belief that Mr. swoncars would become an English Fenian, and Mr. WHALLer something worse than his ancestor 'Catostwn.L. THE Irish policy of the Government is at last de- I velopecl. It may be described briefly as Tory supre macy upheld by !rants from the public purse. Oppo bitten, wherever it exists to the present state of things, is to las bought off. The Church is to be maintained intact, for to touch it would be spoliation, but Irish Catholics are to be appeased by Englan.d paying their clergy, while Protestant diameters are to be gained over by an increase of the &Onto Donlon. Trinity College is to be maintained because it numbers 6,000 graduates, hut the complaints of Catholics are to be sileneed by an endowment out of the -public parse of a purely Catholic University. On other questions we are simply bidden to wait.. Lord /Liao will re-introduce his bill to give tenants conrenintion for unexhaustod improvements ; bet a commission is to be appointed to °Gunder the laud question fully. A commission is already sitting on eel. ols, another isconsidering the question of the purehr.se of railways, and another is investigating the dritribution of the Estabkahod Church revenues. On all these subjects, therefore (except possibly that of the railways), we are informed that the precut parliament will not have information to enable it to take any steps of the nature of reform. These m atter' being thus conveniently postponed,' what r amain for practical consideration on the face of the Government statement, are merely its princij .lea respecting the general endowment of all eh arches, and the special endowment of a Catholic University. And even on these heads we have only ideas to deal with, for on the first no legielation is proposed, and on the second the scheme is avowedly a mere outline, to be filled up as the parties incline and as Parliament may prefer. But what this proposal amount, to in theory deserves, as it will doubtless receive, a careful examination. The Irish Catholics, instigated by the prelates, have for some years expressed dis- satisfaction with the Queen's Colleges, while the existence of Trinity College, from which they are excluded, is a grievance of old standing. It is important, indeed, to remember that the opposition to the Queen's Colleges has always been rather clerical then lay, and that is spite of the objections of the priests they have been receiving a gradually increasing support from the Catholic population. But the late Govertunent so far yielded to the outcry that it proposed by a supplemental charter to intro • duce &sectarian element in order to allow the con- On the whole, Mr. Mammal's two hours' speech of last evening was, with all its defects, the best he ever made in the House of Com meas. There was less of those solemn appeals to Heaven, those ponderous asseverations lof undisputed principles, and those dogmatic 'emanations of oontested facts that one has been in the habittof hearing whenever Mr. Mieutaz ad dressed the Souse in one of his set speeches. it , was net to be.eepectsd that he could wholly divest himself ef some of kis bad habits as a speaker. The case of &eland, as stated by him, eon slated of solid blosiks of argument, indeed, but they were sough hewn, and there was sat that collide juncture which makes the dampish, oration. Mr. Mammies rhetoric is of the Cyclo pean order, and PYLACHIION himself never wielded his brawny arms in the /Human caves more eigo roualy than the hon. member for Cork did Jest night in the House of Gommons. Mr. Nears's speech was a defence of landlords in general, and Irish landlords in particular. As a professor of political economy, he must of coulee try a fall with Mr. MILL. .But how little he was competent for the contest ICU at once apparent from the fact that his answer to Mr. MILL'S argu ment consisted of implied abuse. The man who can only meet pure and clear sagnment by calling names places himself altogether out of the court of reason. I , rring of degrees on the students of reetstian col- 'eyes. On this scheme, itself retrograde, Lord Mare pre poses to insprove. His idea is not merely to allow the Catholics to set up a college which should be %recognised, but to set up • university for them. It is t. , be complete in itself, it is to have no con nection with other institution*, it is to be com posed exclusively of Catholics, it is to extend itself by affiliated colleges as fax as it pleases, it is to include in its governing body at least four Catholic bishops, to be nominated by the Crown ; and the whole post of the establishment is to be defrayed by the British tax-payer. And the sole and avowed motive for all this is to preserve the revenues of Trinity Collage from attack. Now, it is certainly possible that this bold and ingenious scheme may meet with a favour from the Roman Catholic hierarchy such as an endowment of the parochial priesthood would not obtain. The latter idea they distinctly reject, because they fear that payment by :Ragland would weaken their dependence on Rome, and possibly their hold pn their own people. But en dowment of a Catholic university on the terms proposed would not be opwi to tbs.@ objectivism. Sir F. Hmere, in a speech fuk' of "Galatia', asked the house to institute further ;wittily, and then Lord A. CLINTON introduced his long shim of sooolutiono in a speech of which all wipon Roy . THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 11, 1868. 4i te of the v.. • • was of f . •t Lplature ll* was ex . ', .to A riklnis known the 1. be Irish gov t po • 'on toolt•four lung hours te.iniravel measures which the government platten. Indeed, the picture which the noble earl drew of the steady and advancing prosperity of Ire land, of the increase of agricultural stock and of money in the savings' banks was such that the obvious conclusion from his exposit des motifs was that there was no necessity for any remedial measures at all. Had Lord Mnsounwe been alive be could have suggested to Lord Mayo at the conclusion of his speech "Can't you let well alone 1" The only substantial evil which Ireland was labouring under, according to him, was that of Fenianism, and that was an import—not native produce. The proper conclusion of the statement would have been fiat Nihil. But as everyone in the House and out of the House felt that something must be done—to Lord Mayo fell the ungracious task of stating what that something was to consist of. His own Tenant Compensation Bill of last session (with a tag) ; a promise of a fresh inquiry into all the relations of landlord and tenant (which provoked something Wm a jeer) ; a general promise that something would be done about railways and an inquiry made into the subject of education--such, with the dis- Itinet pledge of a charter to a Roman Catholic Uni versity, are the remedial measures in contemplation for Ireland by the Government. Lord Mayo was tedious in the extreme, perhaps because much was expected, and he had little to bring forth. Like Gotrosnrrn's Traveller he was "melancholy, slow" in his peregrinations, and moreover he was physi cally unequal to the labour of a four hours' delivery. There are but few instances in the records of Parlia ment where speakershave assumed tothemselves the license of such lengthened oratory. Sir R. PEEL, in introducing his great scheme of financial reform in connection with the repeal of the corn laws and the imposition of the income tax, and Mr. GLAD sirox t in introducing his financial policy, though both long and laboured efforts, did not occupy so much time as the present IRISH SICHETART. The only instances, we believe, in which he has been exceeded in point of time are those of Mr. O'Coxima's six hours' speech in moving for a repeal of the Union in 1834 and Mr. SPRING Rice* six hours' speech iu reply, and Lord PRLMEHATON'S celebrated answer to the attack on his (foreign policy in the Dox Pacirico affair. The last, we believe, is the longest on recohl. It was com menced somewhere about 9 o'clock at night and was continued far into the hours of next morn ing. It kept all who heard it deeply interested from first to last, and it won a triumph. But the experience of Earl MAYO'S effort last night is decidedly against the practice of long-winded speeches. TRI word " question" has various meanings in popular use. In politics it usually signifies a subject, • topic. We have the Church-rate Question, the Irish Question, the Alabama Question, and the phrase is convenient though apt to become a' little tedious by repetition. In the parliamentary order-book a question has long oeased to mean an inquiry merely, or even to have the sense in which the French use the word " interpellation." It signifies an expression of opinion, rather than an attempt to elicit one. Sometimes boldly dogmatic, at others insidiously insinuating—in either form it loaves no mistake as to its author's sentiments. Occasionally it is sarcastic ; it is the twist of • sneer, not always at the official addressed, but at some opponent in the air. * The other day Mr. CANDLIsH gave notice that he should ask the Flan COMMISSIONER of WoRKs " if there will be " any objection on the part of the Government to " place a statue of OLIVER CROMWELL in West- minter Hall, between the statues of Cmunne the Fiagrand CHARLES the SECOND." This question, now somewhat familiar to us, Sir H. W. Human hopes to parry by another. He has given notice that he intends to ask the FIRST COMMISSIONEE of \Voting, before he answers the question of the honourable member for Sunderland respecting the statue of Oclvsa Ctionwatit, " whether he " will defer any decision on this question until he " reads The Cromwellian Settlement in Ireland,' "by Psannssa•ar." This is a novel " question " even in the parliamentary order-book. Lord JOHN MANNERS is told in so many words that he must not decide a particular dispute until he has read a particular book which his counsellor thinks is a convincing one. If a single book, why not twenty ? If this is to be insisted on as • practice, the duties of our Ministers of State will be distasteful enough. Dull men usually like dull books, and there are a few dull men in the House of Commons who are, moreover, particularly given to asking " questions." In short, • parliamentary question would become, under such circumstances, • publishers' question. Dowager Duchess of Athol° and Miss Warner had the honour of secompanying her Majesty. Lieutenant-General the Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey, and Sir John and Lady Cowell had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family yesterday. The Queen, acoompanled by Princess Louisa, walked in the grounds this morning ; and Prisons Beatrice rode in the Home Park. The Queen received to-day, at Windsor Cutle, an address from the Corporation of the City of London on the subject of the Fenian cutup& The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attenZed by Captain Ellis. The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon, at tended by the Countess of Morton. Prince and Princess Christian took luminous with tie Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-bonne. The Marchioness of Carina:Uses has snesseded the Countess of Morton as Lady-in-Waiting to the Prisms el Wales. Yesterday being the anniversary of the wedding day of the Prince and Princess of Wale, their royal highnesses gave • dinner party, at which were present :—Prince Arthur, Princess Louise, the Duke of Cambridge, the Duchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary Adekide and the Prince of Tack, the Maharajah Dhulesp Singh, the Arch bishop of Canterbury and Miss Longley, the Duke and Dachas of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Wel lington, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Count and Countess Cileiehen, the Marchioness of Carmarthen, the Danish Minister (General de Billow), Earl and Countess of Bradford, Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord Harris, Lady Caroline Barrington and Colonel du Plat (in attendance on Print** Louise), Major Elphinstone (in attendance on Prince Arthur), Colonel the Hon. d. Macdonald (in attend ant* en the Duke of Cambridge), Lady Geraldine Somer set and Major-General Lord Frederick Paulet (in attend ant* on the Duchess of Cambridge), Colonel Oliphant (in attendance on the Maharajah Dholeep Singh), General Sir William Knape, and Captain Ellis. The band of the Grenadier Guards Ives is attendance dazing dinner, under the direction of Mr. D. Godfrey. /liter dinner their royal highnesses had an evening was• M. Balsere., the Argentine envoy, bad an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign-odlcs, yesterday. A deputation from the Pease Society had an interview with Lord Stanley, at the Foreign.oftloe, yesterday, on the subject of the relations of this country with the United States. A deputation from the Manchester Education Bill Com mittee bad an interview with the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, is Downing-street, yesterday. ♦ deputation bad an interview with the Duke of Rich mond and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, yesterday. at the office of the Booed of Trade, on the County Court Admiralty Jurisdiction Bill. The fourth anniversary of the Prince an d Prin ce= of Wales's wedding day was celebrated at Windsor yesterday with the customary honours. The Earl and Countess Fitswilliam arrived at their residence in Greevenor-square yesterday afternoon from Wentworth House, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, for a few dale. The Ladies Fitzwilliam will return to town to-morrow from Eastbourne. A marriage is laid to be arranged between Mr. Vivian Hampton and Lady Laura Phipps, daughter of ilia Marquis of Normanby. Tar " JOLLY Nion " advertises that he " has " had the honour of twice appearing, by special " invitation, before his Royal Highness the Prince " of WALsa in London ;" and the music-shop windows have for at least a couple of years been making themselves hideous with " illustrated" songs of the lowest order. The Pall-mall Ga:ette has been wondering how long it may bo before " Champagne Charley " and his friends invade good society, and get a hearing in drawing rooms; but that lugubriously cantankerous periodical, the Churd& Times, professes to have caught the " Chic.kaleary Cove," who has lately supplemented " Champagne Charley," within the rails of the altar I Here is the paragraph which contains this piece of news QUICK WORL.—The annual meeting of the congregation of St. Matthew's, Newingtoa, was held on Tuesday week, is the building in Lyon-street, which, until the comple tion of the present new church in the New Kent-road was used as the place of worship. It was peculiarly notrocable that in the exact spot where a few weeks book the Blessed Sacrament was administered to a devout, if small mope gation, now (within the altar rails) a piano was placed, OD whisk a young gentleman wee playing " The Mickel/airy Bloke," and *Des M a like nature. It is almost needless to add that after this exhibition of irreverence the ineom beat spoke lengthily about the church being the bulwark of Mr. Francis Henry Bacon, ton of Mr. J. Bacon, Q.C., has been appointed secretary to Vice-Chancellor Gifford. Mr. F. H. Bacon holds the appointment of re• 'tieing banister for Middlesex, in which position he see. mailed Mr. Edmond Beaks, M.A. Mr. Bacon was called to the bar of Lincoln'winn in June, 1866. The Marquis d'Azeglio has left London for Paris sad Italy. _ _ Mr. iayard to-morrow will ask the First Com missioner of Works whether the works to be undertaken or the Piccadilly side of the Burlington House site have been stopped on account of an alleged interference with the rights of the Albany ; and whether, if this be the are, t►e Royal Academy will be able to complete the building which they have commenced, so as to hold their annual exhibition in it next year. On the Army Estimates, Mr. James White in tends to move that in the opinion of this house it is expedient that the rating clauses of the Reform Act of 1867, affecting compound householders, should be re pealed. Mr. Childers, on the Civil Service Estimates for 18689, will call the attention of the hoops to the extent, cost, and clesaestion of the civil Service. _ _ Mr. Otwsy intends on the Army Estimates to mill the attention of the committee to the Increased and unnecessary expenditure for military purposes, and to move the reduction of the vote by the sum necessary for the pay and maintenance of the battalions of British in fantry stationed in the West Indies and Mauritius. Courtr FINANCIAL BOARDS.—This morning was published the draft of the bill brought in by Mr. Wyld and Mr. Hodgkins= for the establishment of county financial boards. The bill contains 139 clauses, and there are appended to it seven schedules. It is proposed that each financial board shall consist of one person lb be elected by each of the several bodies in the county appointed under various acts for the relief of the poor ; and the guardians may determine that it is advisable to tipsily the sot, and give notice thereof to the clerk d the pleat, who is to notify the fact to the chairman, treasurer, tad clerk of every other union within the county. If within the limits of a county there lie a majority of unions in favour, the chairman of quarter sessions is to declare "that it has been deter mined that it is advisable that this act should be applied to the said county," and the clerk of the pesos is to give notice thereof to every magistrate and to the official representatives of each board of guar dians. The act specifies the powers to be conferred upon these financial boards, which ere numerous and important. The aft is not to Wand to certain cities and towns which are mantis. of themselves, nor is it to apply to the City of London. TILE CIVIL SERVICES or ScoTLLND RED IRE LAND.—Tbis morning a return wee loaned of the MUM 'toted in the estimates for the civil services for the year ending Slat March, 1868, which were applicable to *cos/lend sod Ireland respectively, ludic each of the sues alums to which the estimates are divided ; the ems clargeshis an the consolidated load for the year ending /larch 31, 1967, sada% included in the annual esti:, *Wm. The total amount of the vote* applicable to Boat load wee 418,4161., and to Ireland 1,938,6711. There was a fteldser sum of 637,8491., conelsting of general votes for the am 100 of both countries and England, which *suet be appotticasd. The suss uremia in the year aiding is Ides .h, 1887, in respect of wavier chargeable to the ass esiblated bud wee, in Scotland, 134,392/. ; in Ireland, !91,9221; end the unapporliessed vats amounted to 123,2871. The revenue derived from Sectlaad during the same period, alter deducting the amount 'Of duty paid On British orpirite not consumed within the country In which the duty was paid, and niche, the mostry oboe the consumption took place credit for sash doily war, in Beetiond 8,289,242/ , sod in Ireland, 631T,1211. Of that. odoil the amount paid in the Esau of lowa tax by seetiat sins 467,0291., and by itiMilil36;43ll. Mud. .derived from the PeUedlilet4l gliestiond woo 4011.71111 3s. Sid., and hem the ilislodlee la Imbed • ' - o :ncruhvai. To -7. Plna.to PETITIONS.--SisOS the ; rutpresent esesiso le petitions, can Asia love been preeentbd for a prohibition el tbe sole el um en Baader ; 107 netifAsoss WW I =l lB . lh rg b netotsee in &cur of, end Svc, with 889 dins- Miss sisfaus tioa Isle of Liquass cm ileaday BW Seventy- • thrse petitiesuocoleining 29,388 Upstarts have boom promoted in fume of granting a aegis: to the Beiaso. l l Oothelics University of Ireland, and thus with 2,18114, astares, praying for an acacias of the alstivs ter .111101001. We suppose our contemporary is correct in its facts ; but there was once a man .who confounded "Shades of Evening else° not o'er us " with ths Evening Hymn ; and as one presumes the "C/sickaleary Cove" was not sling, but only played, the reporter may have made a mistake. We trust it inconsistent both with " Protestant" princiii, plea, and with "Catholic" principles such i i iii those of the Chsev.h Time., to observe that the p ro p er "title" is " Chickstaery Cove." not " Chieka hoary Bloke," though we have ascsaiakmd that the w "rd " bloke" does occur in the course of th e ly r i ca l poem in question. The difference between "cove" and " bloke " may not seem very important, bu►t in quits as important as some of th e =wee stir which our "Catholic" content- i WS The that iti object is events which are Serie is independent and can freely develops her fora without asking permiadon from anyone. The armaments of Semis are a matter of internal concern, which no one has any right to inquire about. The Skouptchina, or rather the Barran people, have expressed their unanimous opinion as to the necessity of arming end making military preparations. Every Servian beholds with joy the action of the sovereign, who, by these military measures, has given &reie quite a new importasioe, and readied her to the height of the mission which she is des tined to fulful se a principal in the changes which are on the eve of accomplishment in the East. A abort time ago we had but 20,000 gene for the whole of Serra ; we have now more than 300,000 of the bed pattern. a unen t ary dadf, m0aa 1.,.. ; and if the " Obickaleary R ,- NEWE Ireland. . , to posterity as a Protestant co that of ,itir7i; " 4 ;Fr quite ourtutt. 11 4helliielcar '< ' x -, . - . DAY.) 5... --.....-- , t b omum We hear . . ;, le authority TEE ratillilltN lON AGAIN. ex 'tor of thi *. Y ° ' th. - / fce ' rebind toggo . on. i of term ! Wes's °, soeit t ..• • •y expired . of • r, . f rd 4 wou4ssim by following extract from .' journal, .ti*: $ e lull in the agitation „„, r _........._the of &lope was only temporary. 'll had contem- As predae admits that the Bervian government Ki doh the noble earl tt Court. not only arming - bt*.armod, and that its object / prosperity of Ire- wurreoz °Aims. Koami 10. Ito take the principal role in the events which a at hand. It says : tural stock and of Th e Q ueen d rove out yester d ay afternoon. The OUR PARIS LETTER. (nom oca Owl CORIMIPONDIZT. PARIS, TUNIIDAT Emma. _ The Press Bill was voted yesterday by 240 to 1, the single dissentient voice being that of M. Ber ryer, who, as a lawyer, could not bring himself to unction a measure full of anomalies, incongruities, and impracticable enactments. The opposition generally, not without much debate among them selves, resolved not to oppose the bill, which, if not in itself a progressive step, at least shows that government feels the necessity of progress. They thought, moreover, that the Senate, which would be delighted to exercise its new pre rogative at the expense of the bill, cannot decently put its suspensive veto upon an enactment carried all but unanimously by the Legislative Chamber, Nevertheless three leading members of the opposi tion,MM. Jules Fevre, Picard, and Marie, were so dissatisfied with the result of the long debate that they abstained from voting. " The contingent of 100,000 men was voted with only 11 dissentient voices, namely, those of MM. Bethmont, Carnot, Dorian, Jules Fevre, Gamier Pal*, Girot Pouzol, Glaia Bizoin, Magnin, Duke de Martnier, Picard, and Jules Simon. Some of the opposition deputies, who are often called " democratic imperialists," such as Havin, Curd, Darimon,Rmide 011ivier, and Rundel, voted for the L I bill ; Thiers also voted for it. MM. Berryer, I Marie : Gueroult, and Pelletan did not vote at all. The war prophets who said the crash was to come this spring have now agreed to fix September as the period when France and Prussia are to come to blows. It is a great thing to have a respite. Preparations are, however, certainly going on. It is not yet generally known, but I believe I am certain of the fact, that orders have been given to transport from Algeria to Strasbourg, Metz, and Thionville all the guns, war materiel, and camp stores not considered absolutely neces sary to be kept in the colony. Whenever, there fore, the signal is given, troops may be brought from Africa to the Rhine frontier in leas than a week ; and there they will find a war outfit ready stored up for them to act with. The Bourse was weak during the greater part of the day, but there was a smart rally for the close in tae Rente, which left off at 69fr. 46e., both for cash and account, with a rise of 6c. and 10c, There was very little change in other securities. THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Mr. erns W. Field, of New York, gave a dinner last evening at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, at which about 70 of the principal gentlemen in England interested in telegraphy were assembled. By arrangement with the telegraph companies Mr. Field was enabled to have the telegraph wires brought into the dining-room of the hotel, sad many interesting messages were despatched to and replies received from New York, Washington, Havaanah, Newfoundlaad, and Heart's Content. Among thes• war may state at full the following me.sage. from the President of the United States, and from the Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretary of State. The President tele. graphed se follows : Express my congratulations to the telegraph festival assembly. I wish them . 11 possible success, and that their wires may be multiplied through many seas, and their stakes be attended through many lands." And Mr. Seward said "TtnliTt; the telegraph builders. Instead of building a bridge for the tramp of hostile armies nevus the ocean they have stretched a Wire beneath it which effectually exchanges friendly sentiments, sympathies, and affections." Mr. Gladstone was expected. but being detained by the Isiah debate, the following letter received from him by Mr. Cyrus Field was read to the meeting : House of Commons, March 10. "My dear fir,—l had cherished to the last the hope of coming to you, but unhappily it is now air fed that 'Lord Mayo will not speak until after dinner, and I Wore fear that my previews at the only time of the evening whoa it could have been of use will be impossible. I should have much enjoys 1, and I had greatly coveted, the opportunity your kindness offered for speaking a word of good will to your countri. But I am detained here by a yet higher duty : for there is, in my judgment, no duty for pub lic en min England which at this junctue is so h igh ,so snored, as that of studying the case of Ireland, ap plying the remedies which I believe it admits. We shall be hen till past midnight, but not without thoughts of your festival and of the greatness of the country with which it L connected. You are called to encounter diffi culties, and to sustain straggles which some years ago I should have add were beyond human strength. But I have learnt to be mere cautious in taking the measure of American possibilities, and looking to your past, there is nothing which we may not hope of your future.—l am, duo., W. E. GLADSTONI." Her Hajeety the Empress ban, by a decision of the 2nd inst., conferred upon the protestant infant schools d Eltrsaburg the title of "approved," and appointed as pseeMant the baroness de Maniere, and as vim-president Madame Brackenhoffer. A private letter from Grand Cairo, dated Feb. El, nines that Mr. Gaze, of Southampton, and hie party of Palestine excursionins, were there, end about to start for the Holy Land. They had telegr aphed; to Jerusalem far • awnloade of looses to meet them at Joppa. They kid had • magnifleent four days' voyage from• Brindisi to TAleamadria. On proceeding to Cairo by rail they 'topped at lise Par-el-Shaba station, and the Oriental station 'master came on the platform to make hie miasma to the passengers he knew. He spoke English with • strong Hampshire brogue, and he turned out to be a &calm:apt= I gentleman named Tindal. The excursionists had seen all the lions in Egypt. At the Grand Cairo Hotel they dined with the niter visitors, 150 sat down to dinner. Among the dinner party were the Doke and Duchess of St. Albin* the Marquis of Sly, the Princes. de Croye, and several Englith noblemen end gentlemen besides. Daring the nay of the excursionists in Cairo they were alarmed with. *.smart shack of an earthquake. A troop of donkeys conveyed them to the pyramids—when on the top of one them they sang " God eve the Queen " with such knew thet the solemn Bedouin Arabs, who had woo them, seemed exited at the loyalty of the &Man. The excenionists travelled on the !Imam ~.,20iiii a large number of Mahomedan pilgrims Ikon. 77.4rohnrok of Attegrath, in Abyssinia, is orna gewithin by rude pictures of mints and ineidents in history, executed without any ideas of peeves "lst lice is the absence of art redeemed by antiquity, asillany have been finished little more than half • °gator,. Anegyether errors of the artist critics have discovered • , • eosin anaelizoniern in one design. The sebless is the parse of the Bed Bs& Masse, deaths( ea the farther 'Mak, Se Making his rod with meek* Way ever Pharaoh, eshess hares is rapidly balm seleserged, while the llsyp- isiseley, *beady nearly cordjeed, ere Wow their dank ~their bads. GOSSIP FROM THE OWL. It is probable that Mr. Disraeli will recd her Mayeety to confer upon th e D u k e of Athole e th d e Thistle that is vscant by the death of the Earl of itoshe ry . —Although borne of the contemplated plena. h im b ey postponed ' we have moon to inhere that SirJol , ua Tril ep ; P. for Lincolnshire , is amongst three whom Lord Derh; has recommended to the Queen for a seat in the Boum et Lords.—We hest that Sir James Elphl ns t one, late M,p. for Portsmouth, will not be Governor of ILIIMII4II, la has been generally stated.—We are g i ven to tie. dentand that the office of Parliamentary s ecret ._ to the Poordaw Beard , lately held by Mr. sehTeirt Booth (now Financial Secretary to the Treaauryl, s ee offered to Lord Busbies Cecil, th e mem b er for South Essen, and declined, and that it will probably be pi eee t at the disposal of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, Bart., ht,p..„„. The abet committee of the House of Commons will meta next week to °plodder the proposed bill for establishiep market for foreign cattle, with the in tentiou of OD:p= " all imported ale be slaughtered at the waterside. A strong and jopposition will be raised spinet the atotemplated measure, which is •• return to the worst form of protectioa, and will raise the already exorbitant price o f meat in London.—The bill for th e purchase by the state of the business and plant of the verious telegraph companies in the United Kingdo m is already , and will probably be laid upon th e table of the houseby the Chance of tho Exchequer before Easter. In no case will the go vern ment leek com. psdeory powers of purchase ; but, in the event of the pro, peed absorption taking place, a uniform charge of la for iesseages of 20 words, irrespective of distance, wilt be made.—The Lord Advocate intends, on &X cart e day after Easter, to introduce the Education Eift fee Scotland. The measure will embody a the recomme n datx...... - by _ ....mrcenastions zgestOrl by - _ Education Commission, but not include the principle of oompulamy attendance at school—Proreitions for re. organisang the Customs Department, em a view to re. moving the general discontent among the employM at the P system of pay and promotion, have been for some Ems under the consideration of the Treasury ; and the government have at length resolved to put the Customs am th lnland e same footing in those 'evicts as the Dep artment of Revenue. WILTHZR REYOBT.-(THIS DA' WZDNIEDAT, MAIM 12, 8 ILL —..—. Nabs .. . 13.991 41 absidesur..729lBl 42 GI .—th 29.08 1 45 Litman.. 28.98 f 44 Oresaatulla 1121 47 Valletta ... 12 871.47 Calm anw ma i 47 Roches Pt.. .85 f 45 Liverpool .. .18145 Rolshaad.... NI lt7 PODIUM .. .211 1 trod ...... .461 Lorlent .671 Rochefort Plymouth Wilt Weymouth 4Ol Portsmouth .451 7 London _ 29.491 Yarmouth .521 Scarborough 211.371 ittlelas .221 1 Brunets .89 Paris , .77 Strasbourg ; 0 2 Lyons t 20.11 tleart'sCoa 159.43 a ' -. l w. 14 4. . • B.W. Cl. 8.8. W. L., G 8. _ 8.8. E. I r W.S.W. an 1. 1 , &S.W. ch. u'.. B.W. r u. 7:. 5 &W. fre 1.10, 4 W et 003: 2 W.S.W. I cr 0.14. - co n r OAS 1 I W.N.W. —r, BW. len V> W. Ico 004 1 5 x,0.014 N.W. 0,1 , 5 2 N.W to oil 4 8.9. W. 04 0.43 - 4 B.E. 1 0' 4 3 8. cnr . 0 09 4 1 £3.W. • &11. 6.8. Z. 11.8.1. &LK w. w.&w. B.E. 8.8. W. 8.8. W. 8. B.M.W. W.&W. 8.8. W. &&W. &S.W. &Li &w. &w. aw. w.s.w. I. W. , o 3 Barometer corrected and reduced te 32 deg. at sea level. TY Setter. r t (tailing), a (steady), Indicate chrettien d ineuenrn gaelgeyeary wlthlu feet 14 hoar!. Thvor mow( erre* in shade. Ritrente force, with its direction during last SS Igrett Z.—calla. Weather: b.—blue sky; c.—clouds detached,; s.. tog; h.—hall; ; m.—misty (hazy) o.—osemg r—rain s.—snow; —thttader. Riau -lan, mow OE hall malted), during last 24 boars. Sea disturbance. REM.kRIES. The slight decrease of barometrical preesnre which enmeneured yesterday afternoon in the west h is assumed serious po.i...rti..ns, The readings from the western and northern stations al.. almost all below n inches. In the sonth.esat of England preisate is greater than it was yesterday morning, hut it h DOW decreasing. The difference of readings between Green. castle and Lyons amounts to 21.5 inches. At Lyons the in: crease of pressure since yesterday is four tenths. Temperature In those islands is blither, showing the greatest tee in the south-west of England. The southwesterly wind notice , ' in the afternoon of yesterday Increased during the night to a gale..ll the western and southern coasts of Ireland; It still continues in the Irish Channel and at the entrance of the English chinned, In the south of Ireland rain has fallen in large amount, whild it continues to fall at stations on the Channel coast. A high sea is reported from Penzance. The weather appears unattled. Warnings issued. THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY UNION AND MR, DISRAELI.--CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 11.—The Union last night was densely crowded, the ladies' gallery being well filled, and the greatest interest being main. tested in the proceedings. Mr. Moulton (John's) presided over the debate, which was opened by Mr. Moore, of St. Katherine's, who spoke in support of the following proposition : " That in the opinion of this house the recent elevation of Mr. Disraeli is a sign of political decay." The speaker supported his proposition by referring to the conduct of Mr. Disraeli in respect of the Reform Mr. Vincent (Queen's) defended the Premier, and con. chided by moving an amendment to effect that " the right hon. gentleman's elevation to the premiership justly merits the satisfaction with which it has been received." Mr. Faber (John's) moved another amendment, "That whilst this house deeply regrets the reir nation of the Earl of Derby, it regards with satisfaction the appointment of Mr. Disraeli to the pre. miership." A spirited debate followed, and at its clew the amendments were negatived without a division, ad the house divided on the original motion, when there were—ayes, 12 ; noes, 1013. The declaration of the tun. berm was received with loud cheering. The constabulary at Killteely, count• Linivrick, ripped up the flooring of the altar in the Roman catholic chapel on Monday, and found nearly 100 pikes, 74; of which were in a perfect state of preservation, having been well oiled and wrapped in flannel. There were thsturbancoi in the place last March. The priest has always been opposed to Fenianism, and warned his people against it. In an insurance case against the ScottishWidoia Pend, the jury at Dublin, yesterday, found a verdict fat the plaintiff, the executor of the late Mr. Siocl.ii, in a policy of 10,0001. _ . . - . • On Sunday the curate of Notre Dame-de-L. .nite addremed his audience, composed of the er(nt, d l r , '' , Re of the great world. After fulminating at tl.e at , ence of a proper spirit of penitence in his congregation, the cum* terminated his sermon by announcing that whoioeser amongst them went to see Pest Pm-Our •hool.l be then and there excommunicated. The curate of the leine from his pulpit had uttered a like threat on Sumlay week. A. letter from Caernowitz, Hungary, in a Vienna journal, reports a mad disaster. The train to Lender', while crossing the iron bridge across the Petah, was rutty precipitated into the river by the giving way of part of the platform. The engine and the adjoining carriages cm taming lire stock and merchandise fell into the river. The engineer and stoker were drowned, but happily the pen sensor caress, stopped short before reaching the fatal spot. The following is the subject for debate at the weekly meeting of the Oxford University Dcbatings..xietT , on Thursday next :—" That this house regrets teat should have been found necessary to entrust the poet of Prime Minister to so dishonest a politician as Xr. Disraeli." Moved by Mr. Ale**, Firmenose. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.— AI the "alt' nary meeting of the society on Monday lest 3 paper ins read on " The Geography and Mountain Poeta of 'Mak Columbia, with reference to an Overland Itouto," hy A. Waddington, a gentleman who has devoted may Yew , in exploring, personally or by by agents, the defeat valleys and parse, in order to ascertain which is th e mod practicable for a wangonovad and railroad from the Pei& acmes the Rooky Maintains. Captain G. H. thaw% B N., Dr. Cheadle , Mr. Dallas (late governor of the Rod eon's Bay Company's territory), Dr. Rae, lie. Freagricg Whymper and others, took part in the discussion eikb followed. The following gentlemen were elected Fellow' of the society :—Mesars. Chisholm Anstey, G. Bentkl, W. Bull, W. H. Cole F. Dutton, and R. G. K Didn't Major Goldsworthy, lir. IL Jamieson, the Earl of Mr. W. W. Lane, B . A., Major G. D. Pritchard, ft.f-, 31 L W. B. Watson, and Mr. W. 0. Wentworth. VISIT Or NIX MAJESTY'S STAOHOUNIS TO GLOC . CIESTERISIIIIII6.—ergini Dar. }--At 6 o'clock this momin,, H. King. the Queen's huntsman, brought her il a j eo, staghounda from the royalkennela at Aso* an d left Wow' 'or with them by specialtram oaths Great Western ROW for the Tetbury-road Station, which is situated 3 fee miles from the meet at Trouble-home. He also toe do deer " Valentine" and another with him, and she little rest the bunkmate and bounds would r each Troollv house at noon. thuFaLporto.uurgenr, larger MARCH beet a . 9 h . ip — ping The fr re . is o a l t ppar:ties ofot the world than for some tons past, and it would seem to 0?•it unmistakably a revival of trade. Oa Sunday there west about 20 ail, making a total of just 198, of which numb 140 are awaiting orders and the residue a farewells wind, to proceed to their,deatinatiosia Awing to the moss favourable state of the men market, the d e tentions ei grain -laden vassals for orders have been very short the lately arrived Seat. The weather has been veri bow Serous Is this quarter for some slays, blowing " P le otbem N.W. sad W.N.W., sad among the steamer s sod , 61102 taking r=s) in the western bay was Ler M.jst . 7! Mono p Fox, -Commander Moriarty. weelesr Proseeded iaiderstutg. to the westward on Monday u:oroing ac th., ken, 74; of which ving been well distutbancvi been opposed to it. Atish Widows' I a verdict foe . Sincl..ir, in s me-de-L .rutte the al , ence of ion, the ciliate that whoioever Nier 410111.1 be ate of the Made• seat on Sutday in a Vienna a to Lviaterg, woo partly iy of part the is carriages cos. the river. The itppily the par sg the fatal spot lebato at the kbatingS?ciety , regrets Mat it at the post of litichui as It. .%t the or& last a paper rog eases of Irina Route," by Kr. sited may Yea , a, the different uch in the meet from the PM* . H. Richards , tor of she Hod. , 31r. Frederick imussion which elected Fellow' y, G. Bentley, K Thant' Earl of hard, ILE , • :YDS Tel GtOt• hismoming,3ll. her 3lajeet7 l ;, and left Willi Vesteraltsile s, situated a fee d ale° took tbe o, anal ate k I reach Trouble . at present in di parts of tM d seem to iy there snow f which numb e a favourable ring to the !owl detentiora.l very short mei been vet/ b° 4 2, g Ple trO ' MOTS and otb" as her Majeetrb rri- - I