The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-09 00:00:00

r ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOA T nerrruitos. • THE ANNNAL ORNIRAL MUTING of Ms Institution will 10 held at the London Tavern, Migtopelmtrotreet, To-MORROW, Ml o'clock penology. Mm Right Hon. IL r L CORRY, M P.. Fag Lt rd of the Admi ralty, In the Chair RICHARD LEWI 4 . Secretary. 14. John-street. Adelphl, March 0 JOHN BROGDEN'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. pests FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL,IB67. - - JOHN BROODEN'S IS-carat GOLD CHAINS• _____------ JOHN BROODEN'S BRACELETS. - JOHN HAMDEN'S BROOCHES• JOHN BROODENS GEM and WEDDOG RMS. - ------ JOHN BROGDNYB NECKLACES. JOHN BB,OGDF.N'S EARRINGS. ORIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY. No. 16, MITA-STREET, Coveut gardea. FRAUD.—CAUTION.—(hder BRYANT and MATO PATZNT SAFETY )1 ATCHEO,' trade mark an Ark, sad Mast upon henna them, an Imitations are ONSIMONS offered that do sot afford pearscrios mom Flak HENRY BRZTT and Co.'s "0. 1). V." mot BRANDY, lan par gallon and 365. per dns. , maw sanded by tbe undies' profeek.a. In ease I.e the enmity Sas., kteldre of railway c al llnd 30. logootot. T RELOARS COCOA NUT FIBRE MATTING, W :TED UNBLEACHED. List of MO E. free by poet Warehoure. G., Lt 1W RILL Ih, erpreoo. Al/VERTIMULNIT9 mutt he forward.) to It _ J . If Jana Dna and Some, 3. CAA's-street. aad Halloo garde" the specially appointed Agents. DRURY-LANE. Trim Evaanto, THE M aRCHA ST OF VENICE. Mr. Phelps, Mews SilicialT. Barrett. E. Phelps, M.lntyre. Johnstone, and withMarcourt PRISON ; Sleadanlea Edith OF TO uart at and Hu :sp.:el.—To conclude THE ER ULON. HAYMARKET. Trip= ErMilne, THE BROKEN-HEARTED CUM—DAM la IU BARM. Ml ms tiothern. Illackntone, Itnn.a.ra, ; snd Robertiou —BOX £'D 4'OX. Mr. Roekstone and Mr. Compton. —And FAMILY Jkll. Mr. Compton. PRINCEABIi. • Trite Lent°. TILE COLLEEN bAWN.—After which TITS BTREETA Of lAN DoN. Mr. and Mr► D. lion .leault, Mr. Mr. Douninive Murray, Mears. Neville, Shnre. and Dan Lcennu lolienvtlii, Barnett, eiusinr, :And Addle. STRAND. EeSMDte. MANGE NIANIAOII3. Messrs. James and Tar ter: )le..lanses n uehm and Giuune —PAL : VIVE LEM PZIERSI Dews. Th..rne, James, Nob:sem A: Eenten : Madames Harland, juhease.e, Delk Ac.—ADA COAL AND COKE. BRITANNIA. Tars EVEMING, THE .fl li AITRE%TI(•E. Mn. A. Lane, Mr. Erne Alr —Mr. J. W. Liskard ; Min Kate (litton ; Mrs. J. Y. Arian.—And THE YARIIKR ilif I sGLEWOOD FORINT. Mean Inynolda, Leslie, dr.; Mesitanter t'.,ur:rual•, Edwin, dc. 111011 WATK AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnifi DAY —Morning. Yh. m Afternoon. Mi. fOn. To.guinton —Morning. 3h. 2n. Afh rnoon, 3h. .2 n,. MOTICES at BIRTH, MAILRIAOK4. SO DEATH... are rroccired mall It a'elock f. iusertloo astUe IHOHNE. • Bier, 31. Hd. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 9. AfE. !)I'? lELPS PAPIFIc.ITIIoN OF IRELAND. Tin: hundred tongues of Rumour are busy with the new PIiIME MININTEIes grand scheme for the pacification of Ireland, which is to be announced in the House of Commons to-niorrow evening. Bo rare, so unique an opportunity of displaying the highest qualities of large and liberal states. manship selibrot comes within the grasp of • minister in an old country which might almost seem to have survived its history, and to have entered into that happy state of being in which a nation, like a family, has no history to write, and its dial counts only serene and sunny hours. There is, it cannot be denied, a constantly besetting temptation to the critics of a Statesman who once upon a time was a political novelist. We discern this danger all ar mud us. and are anxious to avoid it. No doubt Mr. DISRAELI'S literary performances hate not been so entirely disadvate tageous to his public career as they might he to an aspirant to the Woolsack. A rising lawyer may be safely recommended to keep his literary passions under strict restraint, and not to stray beyond the °ono ilation of a Hymnal, or at all events beyond Sunday writing for Sunday readers. Even to the rising statesman, literary distinction, except of the severest kind, may be a scandal and rock of (denim in future years when he has learnt that better part of political valour, discretion, and discovered the virtue and the value of silence. Just now the PREMIER must Le sensible of the inconveeionce of having in his irresponsible days given the rein to a fatal power of mimicry, to a satirical invention, and to a litter and biting humour and percept' of the hilierous and the seamy aide of sole pretenders and lofty quacks. Be has betrayed the secrets of the side scenes to the pit, and like the burlesque writers destroyed the illusions .4 the stage and vulgarised the heroes of the political drama. Be has not, indeed, created, but presented in all the squalid reality of a rehearsal, the TsnroLca and T %PERS of the parliamentary b..ards. He has, with that half nrconseions irony of renins which has something it of the nature of a dem...niecel posses sion, compelling its very mockery to Le sincere, clothed with the Eastern mantle of SIDONIA, transcendent disdain of the parochial ideas of British parliaments and rah Mets. and now he pays the penalty, if penalty it be. .4 presenting to an unimaginative public, in his own positive and prosaic personality as the chief of a party progres sive lilo',/,; I.:, the conceptions if policy which a Blooms would scorn, and the combinations of a statecraft which a TADDOI.I: or a T urea would admire. let. The postponement of the Irish Church question until such time as the present Commission shall have reported. 2nd. The issue of a Royal Commission to inquire into the relations of landlord and tenant in Ireland. 3rd. The pant of a charter for the establishment of a Catholic University. 4th. To subsidise the Irish railways. Without disrespect to our contemporary we' shall be honestly rejoiced to find that his infor mation was not so correct as it looked. There is, we are bound to confess, a disastrous sir of apparent probability about this magnificent combination of sip and sop. Mr. DIEZAILI has assured the House and the country that his administration is iu principle nothing but the continuation of Lord DERBY'S Cabinet, and Lord Dirlav's Cabinet, we all know, showed a wonderful alacrity last year in putting all but the merest parochial functions of aI I government in commission. Almost as many Royal Commissioners as party questions ! Enough to distract a political Floss°. The End of the World announced by Dr. CUMMING was formally postponed by the Police. A Royal Commission to inquire into the coming deluge would exactly hit the taste and the temper of a manceuvring administration and a fumbling parliament. A Royal Com- ' mission looks like doing something ; it flatters and occupies some important and impatient personages on both sides. And it en ables Mr. DISRAELI to wait and throw the Irish question upon the new House as he threw the Reform question on the old one, and thus to educate his party by the discipline of events. This may be described by harsh judges as a simple abandonment of all the functions os the Executive, an utter renunciation of all the initiative of power. It is government by promis sory notes and by ledgers in which the names of creditors are registered in a good round hand and with an almost ostentatious honesty of intention, and Letter A may see that his turn comes first. The grant of a charter to the Irish University will hardly con tent the party to whom it is offered, unless it means more and worse than it professes. The subsidy to the Irish railways, however desirable and advantageous on the spot, will scarcely suffice to meet the exigencies of the moment in the House of Commons. Another morning contemporary announcesanother momentary solution of the Irish question, and although this is not an act of statesmanship, we should be glad to consider it an inspiration of Mr. DistaaLt's imaginative sympathies. It is said that the Prince of WALLS is to spend the Easter holidays in Dublin, and that the Duke of CsissaiDos (who is not unkindly re- membered aa " Prince °warm " by the popula- tiou of the Irish capital) is to accompany his Royal HIOHNIAR, and to be the guest of the CHIEF Si. esvraay during his stay. Reformers of a hard and dry texture will smile at this " personal " policy for Ireland. Doubtless it is little ; and so is a drop of water in a thirsty land. But those who know how much popular imagination has to do with the science of government will not make light of a R..yal visit to a people whose imaginations are as warm as their hearts, and who have always been peculiarly sus ceptible of personal impressions. To inch a people as the Irish a Royal face giveth grace, when it is a face of manly generosity and goodwill ; whilst the most beneficent legislation would be accepted as a tardy and inadequate atonement for a long tradition of misrule. We only hope that the Prince of W.sies' Easter visit to Dublin, if indeed it is to tale place, may be the precursor of a royal settlement in the sister kingdom. Witerues the meeting on Saturday for "the " temporary relief of the unemployed " was originated by deliberate mischief-makers, or merely by busy-bodies who sow mischief by want of thought, it signally failed in achieving any useful purpose. The classes really appealed to declined the invitation which has stared them in the face from hoardings and walls for a week past, and the 1.10 people present were not so much people out of work as people to whom work was strange. Anouymous persons of distinction were alluded to as having promised to attend, but a merchant "not at present in business" whose name we never had the pleasure of hearing before finally took the chair, and, with a speaker whose cratory savoured some what of the Corr.' Hall, proceeded to denounce the evils of free trade, and to trace the sufferings of the poor to the "over-production of the world" and the competition England " had to contend " against w ith foreign countries." Another speaker inveighed against the rich as robbers of the poor, denounced the English " thirst of gain," and wound up a wandering speech with an incomprehensible , criticism of the griping qualities of sour wine. It is not wonderful that a meeting conducted after this puerile fashion *should have terminated in a vote of censure upon those convening it ; or' that bothelvairman and orators should have suffered such interruptions as "Throw a water-jug at his " head," and, " We don't want such men " as him." The grave, sad, problem how to relieve the abundant distress of the metropolis, and how to provide employment for those able and willing to work, is not to be solved by a revival of exploded fallacies ; or by the frothy verbiage of the tap-room. To ask starving men to listen to such harangues as were mouthed from the platform of St. James's-hall on Saturday is to add an additional drop of bitterness to their already overflowing cup. The work man who moved that " the wealthy classes " be taxed for the benefit of the poorer classes," was at least intelligible, which is more than we can say for the pretentious speakers who preceded him. But the folly or worse of such a gathering as this does not relieve us of the heavy quas . tem its promoters traded on and injured. The " temporary relief o f the unemployed" has . been successfully accomplished at Beth nal-green by She association inaugurated this winter by Miss BVILDIII7 Courrs. A pro- Such are the of the highest human destinies. To the contemplative philosopher nothing can be more instinctively diverting. People who, forgetful or ignorant of the conditions of romantic art, insist on sect ibing t.. Mr. DISJULELI all the sentimentsof allthe charactersin all hisnovela, and who forget that as Pr' • Minister he has to drag after him a load of Dukes and squires and all sort, of impracticable material, are sorely puzzled to prefigure his scheme of volley for Ireland. Were be, like his old Imperial c. , mi ado i.% er the water, • " personal government,' he w.•::1..1 probably in dulge in a 'piebald .;. ; say, a plebis cite conducted under the ansi.i.cs of an army sent expressly to enliven the elector.: an all but una nimous popular vote for the E.,;lish connection, followed by decrees or.lorin four palaces to he built for the r.cr;.:;.ni:ut rtwidenos of a Prince of the ; rat Imperial progrees through the kingdom. ace n.panied by a frenzy of acclamations ; the Irish Church Esta blishment abolished, and all the religions acknow ledged by the law inscribed acconding to their cumbers on the budget of public worship ; the land expropriated by the State f. r y.nblic uses with a handsome indetnuily to himllorcis, or divided mesa the "peasantry" at a ased annual rent to THE EXPRESS, MONDAY the State ; something between the Ittiilien system ly conducted public discussion might result . and the Napoleonic colonisation of WWII sod Illm illisciple o i ti i •n • a extended the Landes. An English Pawns of the extended by parts the i let very largest views and of boundless lemilnation dna meetings the t noel lected will be pardoned by the boldest clisoovereas " friends of mem" • where 'the should of sudden panaceas for ancient and in- help. inveterate national ills, if his Chief Sem- f l ' tau for Ireland announces to-morrow Os Friday next a State trial which proiffises to evening • series of measures somewhat rank in history as one of the most celebrated in the less sweeping, less expeditious, and less compre- annals of Constitutional Government, is expected pensive than an Emperor's decrees. Still, without to commence. Oa that day President Jonsson is demanding the reckless remedies of Imp.- summoned to answer st Washington, before the Aaiun, the House of Commons may not unrea- American Senate, presided over by the well-known sonably expect something more and better than • Republican and Abolitionist Chief Justice Cuss!, series of postponements and inquiries, of commis- the several articles of impeachment lodged Mons for putting off, and commissions for put- against him by the House of Representatives. On ting out of the way all the difficulties which it is Friday, according to the description of the form the duty of a responsible Executive to solve, or of procedure in the New York press, the House to make way for those who can and will. of Representatives, resolving itself into • One of our morning contemporaries ventures to " committee of the whole," will be admitted anticipate Lord Mayo's revelations, and sums up to t h e Senate Chamber, and the return to the propositions of the Government as follows : the summons will be read by the secretary to the Senate. Arrangements will then be made for the summoning of witnesses. The trial being com pleted, each article will be read by the secre tary, and the roll called, when each senator will answer " Guilty " or " Not guilty," two-thirds being required to declare the accused guilty. The decision will be given, and commuuicated to the accused. If found guilty, the PRRNIDRNT will from that moment be deprived of his office, the functions of which will devolve upon the President of the Senate, the Bon. BIZ/JAMEY F. Wane, of Ohio. The journals most opposed to the trial 1 1 allow that the Senate is not likely to be governed by party passion and personal feeling in the degree in which they have been displayed in the House of Representatives, but will weigh carefully and can didly the legal aspects of the case, and the reasons and motives of the Paistosarr's action. The New York Tribune ridicules the idea of any serious trouble arising out of the trial. "As for revolutions, and "armed legions, and blood-shedding, and Dicta tors, and business panics, and financial ruin, "and social chaos, not one in ten thousand," it says, "anticipates even a shadow of any • " thing of the sort ; the assertion of the people's " right to rule will bring no panic ; peace follows "the footsteps of law." This seems to be the general opinion, although expressed by the Republican journal with characteristic confidence. The absence of any attempt to suspend the PRESIDRNT during the trial: is regarded as a token that there is no desire to resort to unconstitutional methods, and it is believed that however the trial may end, a prompt concurrence of the executive and legislative departments will render abortive any revolutionary designs. An order which General GRANT had issued, for bidding any movement of troops except under his direct instructions, had contributed not a little to remove apprehensions of violence, and the steadiness of the premium on gold at New York is but one of many signs of the general belief that the public tranquillity will not be disturbed. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) lcons t icie coasted le, they lents. The t trookis refusing tit 3My al feeble nunaly of semirofflei 1 diplomatic Unfortunately, lOW of the mot posers ere, Is a mallied way, inelbsed to follow this example. Direct oswilastitiou hi, of course, out of the question ; and a better expedient is to be found in reducing the dividends by imposing a good high Memo tax. There is no denial al liability to pay the full amount, but simply the avowal that the Slats is obliged to levy a tax upon inmates is general, and that inoomee from the National Debt must oome like others within the category. It is to be hoped that the movement for denying existing obligations will not make the Immo progress in the new world it has in the old ; but it is ominous that two great conventions of different polities and in different states, have miaowed in favour of paying the government bonds in greenbacks. the Cwt. WINDSOR CASTLE, Wine 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, arrived et the Castle at a quarter before o'clock last evening, from London. Vionewiten Clifden, Colonel the Hon. D. do Ros, and Colossi Da Plat, were in atioadance. Prince and Prince= Christian alio accompanied her Majesty from Paddington. Their royal highnesses were attended by LadySinan Melville and Liout.-Colonel G. Gordon. Prins Leopold drove out yesterday afternoon, attended r Mr. Duckworth. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince= Beatrice, walked L the grounds this morning. Princess Louise rod* in the Home-park. Sir James Clak has left the Casts. MARCH 8. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove out yesterday afternoon. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Faphinstcoe, arrived at the Castle from Greenwich-wk. Prince and Princess Christian dined with the Queen last evening. The Earl and Countess of Tenberville arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Queen, the Prince and Primes Christian, Princes. Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Pnnoess Beatrice, and the Imam and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Rev. T. J. Rowsell, honorary chaplain to the Queen. preached the sermon. Prince and Princess Christian remained to luncheon. The Prince of Wales rode out on Saturday, attended by Captain Ellis. The Princess of Wales drove out in the afternoon. In the evening the Prince of Wales went to a oonver. aazione of the Royal Society at Burlington-house, attended by Lord Alfred Hervey, Captain Elia, and Mr. Hohmann. The Prince and Princess of Wales, with the Countess of Horton and Captain Ellis in waiting, attended Divine service yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Communion Service was read by the Rev. the Sub dean and the Rev. A. Sitwell. Anthem, " 0 that 1 lore w." Bennett Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Kil. more, from Hebrews, chap. ii., vertu 2, 3. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of 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 Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. Despatches were received on fistorday at the Cokmial. office from the Governoi• of Gibraltar, Ceylon, Hang Kong, and Lubusn. Despatches' were nut to the Clover. nor-General of Canada, and to the Governors of British Honduras, the Mauritius, and the Falkland Islands. FEMALE SCHOOL OF ART.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to patronise the fete to be held shortly in aid of the building fund of the Female School of Art. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of ♦Wales, on the Decagon of their wieit to the New Queen's Theatre on Friday, were Owed to request the attendance of Mr. Toole at the ekes of the new drama, Dean than Llfc; and the comedian bad the honour of being highly complimented by the royal party upon his pathetic and comic acting, as also upon the great success of the drama. The house was filled with a brilliant audience. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Lady Moles worth with his company at dinner on Saturday evening. The Marquis d'Aseglio, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Earl and Countess De Grey, Viscount and Viacom tees Cranborne, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord Courtenay. Sir Anthony de Rothecbild, and Mies de Rothschild, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., Mr. W. Harcourt, and Mr. Alfred Montgomery were invited to meet his royal highness. Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald was in waiting on the Duke of Cambridge. The Earl and Countess of Sefton entertained during last week at Croxteth, for the rase meeting, a numerous circle, Including the Earl Annesley, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea, Lord Barrer!, Lord and Lady Alexander Lennox, Sir Robert Peel, Sir Frederiek John stone, Colonel Hon. Henry Forester, Mr. and Lady Agnes Joliffe, Colonel and Hon. Mrs. Dudley Carleton, Colonel Vyse, Mr. C. Leslie, Mr. George Payne, Mr. H. Brownrigg, Mr. Blackburn., be. The Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue and France. Countess Waldegrsve entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in Carlton-gardens— The nacho's of Argyll, the Earl and-Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Mint*, Viscount and Viscoun tess Enfield, Lord ►nd Lady Dufferin, Lord and Lady &matey of Alderley, Lard and Lady Norreys, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Linty Chastain, Denison, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., General and Mrs. Malcolm, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hayward, to. Later in the evening her lady had a select evening party. The Right Hon. Cathorne Hardy, ALP., and Mrs. Hardy received at dinner on Saturday last, ►t their reddenos in Grosvenor-crescent—The Duchess (Jane) of Marlborough, the Earl of Lawton!, Lord Chalmdoed and Hat. Miss Mealier, Lady and Miss Ravin, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Neu/hoots, Bart., M.P., and Lady Northeote, Coma P. Skaskeld, C. 8., Count Maffei, Sir John Therold, Earl., ILP., Mr. Skase, he. Tun Haw Darr.—Aooording to returns pub lished this morning it appears that the total quantity of malt made in England sad Wales dining the year ceding September 30, 1867, was 47,513,365 I/thole, and the net amount of duty charged thereon was 8,380,2771. 4a 9d. The quantity of malt made last year was lam than had been made during the three years immediately preceding; but exceeded the quantity re tensed Millirem the years of 1830 and 1863, inclusive. The average pries of barley in 1866 WAS 375. fid., which was an imams of 7s. Bd. upon the average of the previous year. The average of 1866 has only been exceeded SM. them sines 1830. In Scotland during the year ..ding 31st Dismember, 1867, the quantity of melt dimmed 'with duty was 2,363,449 bushels, and the duty itself mounted to 319,:1261. 18s. 21d. In Ireland, daring the lame period, the quantity was 2,369,8251., and the duty charged, 321,3131.12 x. sfd. The total quantity of barley imported into the United Kingdom during the year 1867 wan 1,591,442 quarters. Foattiene-ormen AOSNCIES.—A return was issued this morning of the names of persons for whom clerks in the Foreign-Gatos now act as agents, or have so acted during the last five years, and of the segregate emoluments which such clerks bare received dur ing that period. From that Saturn it appears that five of them gent:cmen have acted as agents, and their emelsmeate from 1863 to 1867 Maladies, wen as fellow :—Measea. Alston and Bidwell. 13,343/. ; Mr. Btaveley,3,726L ; Mr. Hertelet, 2,5141. ; Mr. Inegao, 1,124/. GRIAT MORTHIAZI HOSPITAL, CALZDOXIAN-woo, N.—The stingier of palliate for the week ending Men* 7 was 1,029, of which 395 were new oases. ....... !i.T. W l u lf. cillginem., D. w. a 1167 tsu.. &horde= 40.40 ri W.B. aT * 1 I.Z. • r 1 74 w °." 1 Leith A:drown. 1111.40 4 w sr . 1 N. bun , 1 _ N.W. Gromacoolli . .1 &S.W. 1 N c '& O6 8 , N.W. o c . _ Bolistia . C. s. W. N . so '0.60 8 itarhoTh .42 &W. N . W . m 0.66 6 V=. •• . &W N .W. oc 0. 6 0 4 -au Lair. cb ass 1 W.N.W.W oo I _ - rosindow Brod •„ N a . W. • vr. oo Is A Larlosi.• • • Jai a 8 . W.N.W. a,— i Rootwiwi * LW. ac & o Mumma • OMB a w • • N. 46'0;0.06 4 Weymouth .7tr, 8 N.W. ho o 0. gme. "......k 1r g alZ a osi a mw ell s n i s? W w. .B. WW W * . : 4 LW. o o 1 1 14. W. libe ' 0.01 - 84.88. 4 asortoriegh NI W ILW A.W. h a & 2 LW. s adder a. W. Pods Stroultom — 4.1 W. B.N.Z. , 0 - =sees. NAM ! lib ILW. I - - W. 8.11. se _ ; ' E • AU G • MARC . , in -,imi , . FINANCE. may. .. •' 4 •• % Y i t now oo fresh 1 J ts have ((Mal led =r 6ll of . :o • , ilmiz , &Seas, thi to out 4 1Ibout , expedients. cud obro of =w ro • . are tot tr. OM ohs* plan of retain . it il td hove their armlike' to the feebl MR. DISRAELI'S LITTER. In acquitting Mr. Disraeli of the fault of boast ing, of which he had been accused, the Tines is driven to recognise that his statement as it now stands is deficient in every element of accuracy. Of the five things which the conservative 'arty, he alleges, were taught between the years 1856 and 1866, there is really but one that can be mid to have been learnt in this interval, and that is th►t the borough franchise should be based on rating; but Mr. Disraeli himself de clared on another occasion that this truth was apprehended by the " unerring instinct" of the House of Commons. It is very unlucky that the thing he did not say, and men thought he bad mid, was accurate, while the things he did say, and men gave him no credit for, were inaccurate. The situation is embarrassing, and in the dilemma thu presented it is difficult to determine which horn is the leas acceptable. On the whole, the Times thinks, with the greatest respect for Mr. Disraeli, and owing the too probable laxity of our own virtue, that it would have preferred to let the matter rest where it was. It is not easy to get rid of a fable which has so much truth in it as that which represented him in a boastful mood at Edinburgh ; and in the attempt to do what he cannot hope to succeed in accomplishing the new Premier has drawn attention to a string of inaccuracies which had passed unnoticed. To be arrogant is, after all, not the highest of crimes, especially when your friends have con doned it, and Mr. Disraeli's defence is only another proof of the dangerous facilities of pens, ink, and paper. The Post says it is an unprecedented occurrence for a Prime Minister to vindicate his policy, or the accuracy of statements made by him in an official capacity, in a letter communicated to the daily press. At Edinburgh Mr. Dis raeli said that he educated hie party ; in his recent letter that they had been educated. The latter expression is more consistent with truth. Mr. Disraeli, in common with his followers, had been educated ; that is, taught that parliamentary reform could no longer be opposed, and accordingly, when in office, he, in order to retain office, persuaded them to swallow at a gulp a measure which they would have rejected, and rightly rejected, with dig dais if it had been offered to them by their opponents. The Star quotes from several of Mr. Disraeli's speeches, delivered between 1859 and 1867, in which he defended the 101. limit, and protested against giving any strength to a household democracy. As late as 1865 he declared that the suffrage in any extension must remain a privilege and not a right, and the privilege was to be gained not by living in a house, but by virtue, by intelligence, by industry, by integrity, and to be exercised for the common good. No small requitemeats these! How very privately, even in 1865, the education was carried on ! THZ SCOTCH MONA MU. Mentioning a report that Kr. Disraeli is now prepared to give the Scotch members ten seats instead of seven, the Daily News repeats the constitutional and political objec- tions raised to the ministerial proposal, and capture its belief that the majority of the Scottish members support Mr. Baxter in his proposal that whatever new members ►re fairly needed by that part of the country shall be procured by disfranchisement of the petty English villages which have lea than 5,000 inhabitants. Thom who kaow the very strong national feeling which has for many year. rex - toted in Scotland respecting the injustice done to her in the matter of representation, will appreciate the public I spirit which leads the liberals of that part of the country thus to decline a moosesion of their rights on the terms of doing the cause al representative government a wrong. If Scotland has anything to oak for in the way of improved legislation, then every vote she leaves to the small bo roughs is an adverse vote. Those who accept Mr. Disraeli's offer in this matter are deliberately preserving the efficacy of the votes by which the Irish Church is maintained, by whish education is hampered and retarded, by which pur chase in the army is continued, by which the game laws are upheld, by which taxation is kept at a 1111LAJMU111. MX L/BiltAL POLICY. Returning to Mr. BOUTOTillell speech, the Telegraph in- Efate that Mr. Madam* is the leader of the liberal party, first by the unanimous choice of the oeuutry, which also chooses his followers ; next by his consummate poltial and pasonal gifts; and lastly by the hearty adhesion of all that large section of the opposition which will survive household soft rap to me the new house assemble. The ministry is pledged to continue the series of "trial:, liberal measures," sad the liberals hare to see that the measures answer to the pledge, making them do so if they fail. It is absolutely mosewary for honest men, ou prin ciple, and for the less earnest, from prudential motives, that there should be an rod to the mutinous folly of the pest year. All those who wish the nation to count them as true liberals must forthwith advance to Mr. Gladstone's side, and stand ready to fight there not less honestly than he himself means to fight. NEWS. Matra 7, EVENING. Maet iacha has been appointed President of the Council of State, Agathon Effendi, Minister of Public Works, the Telegraph, and the Post ; Mumtaz Effendi, Minister of Justice, &Met Packs, of Public Instruction ; Caboun Pucka, of Commerce ; and Kiamil Packs, minister without portfolio. :•8. . ............ t 1 r . E I '.- ' N i anis tiro i • Casom's ' ' 'Ail.) TURKEY. 4 _ , CIONSTANTINOPLE, 11Asci OUR PARIS LETTER. PARLIAMENTARY DEFEAT OF THE GOVERNMENT. (MON 005 OWN CONJUSPONDIT.) PARIS, BUND•Y ISVZNING. The A velar National, Dibats, Libertif, and Revue des Deux Monde: publish a joint letter addressed to Visoonnt de Kervifguen stating that although the undersigned are bound by a promise not to prosecute his " worthy colleague," M. Grapier de Caassgnac, the engagement does not extend to him, and they call upon him to publish within three days the documents alluded to in his calumnious certificate to the Pays, otherwise they will apply to the Corps Lsgislatif for leave to indict him, without prejudice to a civil action in case the permission should be refused by "the majority to which he belongs." The government yesterday suffered an important parliamentary defeat, resulting in the definitive rejection of one of the most objectionable clauses of the amended press bill. You may re member that the original proposal to 1 1 enable the police tribunals by way of sup plementary punishment to deprive a convicted journalist of his civil rights was shown by the op position to be an insidious device for disqualifying prominent writers for a eeat in the chamber. In order to soften down a little this monstrous consequence the government consented to an amendment, making this disqualification only applicable to a second offence (recidire). But yes terday, on the report on the amendment, MM. Carnet, Pelletan, Picard, and Berryer made a terrific onslaught on the clause altogether. They scorned the guarantee affected to be given by limiting the disenfranchisement to a second offence. A journalist who was consistent in his opinions could not help being a recidiviste within a very short time, and it was greatly to be apprehended that after a dissolution prosecu tions would be rapidly instituted for no other purpose than to keep distinguished opposition members out of the chamber. Cato, said M. Carnot, was • hardened offender, for he wu tried fifty times for the same thing, and a correctional tribunal of the present day would cer tainly have no mercy upon him. The majority seemed to have a prophetic instinct that the clause which they were now asked to vote against their adversaries might some day be used against themselves, and in spite of the utmost efforts of the Ministers Baroche and Pittard, and M. Nogent Saint-Laurens, the reporter, it was rejected by 134 votes to 72. Mr. Disraeli's letter to the Ingliah papers elicits the following observations from the Opinion Nationale : We do sot dearly understand Mr. Disraeli's point. Mel he mean to deny that the " education " of his puiy was accomplished by himself! DoWeemeantosay it waseffeeted by the foroe of events! Due Is that ease what becomes of the reputation he has hitherto enjoyed of having been the only man astute enough to restore his party to power' There is another consideration which his letter leaves in tact. The tory party up to the last moment set its face against reform, and represented lithe aimless and dangerous. We are, therefore, driven to regard the conduct of the tales of 1867 as the result of a sudden Illumination rather than of a gradual eduestiol. Mr. Disraeli would certainly have been wiser had he held his tongue. The nautical piece, the Vengeur, was produced at the ThLtre Chitalet last night. In the appre hension of some manifestation attending the cry of " Viva la Republique," with which by the Em peror's special permission the piece was to conclude, at least live hundred policemen in plain clothes, to say nothing of those in uniform, were distributed in all parts of the theatre, in the adjoining caUs, and among the crowd in front of the doors. It was not till 1 in the morning, when the audience was fairly tired out by a very bad piece, that the dreaded cry was raised, and then so feebly that the sinking crew of the ship must have been supposed to be terribly ex hausted. No echo of the cry was attempted in the body of the house. WEATHER REPORT.-(TBD3 DAY.) MONDAY, 810acii 0, 8 &IL ATTEMPT TO MURDER THE MEP CONSTA BLE • OP DERR TERME. On Saturday evening • desperate attar'. , ia a made upon the life of Mr. W. G. Fox, chief constable of Derbyshire. Between 5 and 6 o'clock Mr. Fox v ae walking tawards his office, at the top of Station street, Derby, when he was met by a man named James Connor, who was recently discharge from the county force, Comber said, " la that your sad be came very abusive At length he said, "D— you, I will s h oo t you," nodl : palling from his pocket a pistol, presented it at ge, Fox's bead. Mr. Fox tried so persuade the mitt to go towards the office ; but the fellow said, " sir, I shall not go with you, I will shoot ", at mum," and therempoa fired the pistol. Th e pu . tol was heavily charged, and Mr. Fox was woucded in both hands and legs. Ten or twelve shots 'ere et• traded from one leg, and eight or ten from the other, Several shots were also extracted from his hands. m r. Fox, after be was shot, rushed at his would.be murderer, sad the two struggled together, Mr. Fox at leogth ne , eeediog in wrenching the pistol from Connor, An d dragging him to his office, where he is now in cist.ly, waiting a magistrates' it:wary. Mr. Fox's injuries are net dangerous. There is no doubt it was the position in which he held his umbrella that prevented the 'bora from entering his head. The umbrella is complaely riddled with shot. Yesterday Mr. Fox was going on vett le=rownoted sad reduced to Id dos. Mao lovel. ma 11121 2). I Anise rioady), Wield* di/adios et lootlower the within lan 4 hours. Thoreemeter owned In abode. Satrap* ono, with Ito dfrectioo thrbg loot 26 hews. Woothow: floe shy: —abode (dotsched) ; 2. I`g h.--hall ; I.—Oglekdog ; gimmr) —WINONA 4.—eart ; —4lroader. Sold•fall, wow or hail melted), gulag hot 26 bead dis Motorboat:ie. The sudden change of preinere winds set in cm Saturday ex tended to all sestasea, and the cavitations have bees most violent, tumountiset to maw& sightereth• of as inch of rtes and di In g.oMbsa. In Miami • fah rapid deereme hes ism mines ba "my drwbre aAM is... yet, nettegebis. Pressures me generelly low, with a Millarence of readings of halt an lash Menem these et Nabs and Rochefort. Temperatures have est elveigai Meek during the bet twen*four hour. Cla Satanism a eseth-wasterly Boman set in at midday at Greencastle it modsgMed bp It mat test lueremed In extent and violence imp sake* Misr 01 lour; and very severe west and north west gales were Oil mends, In both the English and Irish cluusnele. WagiMegs wen tamed on Saturday evening. This morning • mailitiMe benth-wseletty wind prevails in the west : in the Rena alkalised Ris calm. Rail storms with rain have prevailed porsW over these islands. MIA is also this monies from several Madura, both cm our west 12:o r rg i s east coasts. Wardens repeated this morning. A letter from Munich dates that the young Prince of Taxis, who has recently made bin beet appear• mice se an actor in Switzerland, after baying fulfilled Bat futotticas of aide-de-amp to the Mai of Bavaria sad Lima:mat-Colonel he the army, h r asked his . . . . . . _ . Majautro pormiooloa to slow Ids seam to *hot et M. de- Fels. If the King greats the autheriastiee, eeehisig fart ther will oppose the Prisee's marriage wit► Mlle. Yea• seer, iil4l sewer. Tux Wzrr Lomax HOSPITAL, 114iimissitm, w.—The umber of patients amiss treatment at this hospital daring the past week ummutsed to 674, of India 246 won sew tans. GREAT FIRE AT POPLAR.-(TIIIS BAK) mix morning at an early hour a fire broke Got itt the premises belonging to Mr. J. Kendall, a bread and biscuit baker, No. 259 - , High-street, Poplar. The building, independently of the bakehouse, contained seven or eigh t rooms, and when the discovery of the fire was node I. ) th e polioe the whole of the residents had retired to re se but they were made sensible of their danger, end inanags e i to reach the street in their night clothes nearly stolid with the smoke. With as little delay as possible the la escapes attended, as well as numerous engines of the Metro. politest Brigade, but by that time the lames were rolling out of every window, and had caught the adjoining 1.r..11.4ei. The exertions of the firemen bad, however, the effect of saving, with slight damage, the oil and colour wareldatre of Mr. Milton, but the dames in Mr. Kendall', ile a could not be extinguished until they were hurried 0t..: the roof destroyed. The roof and second floor of Mr.o i. e . ton's house, and the back rooms of No. 'Ca, are also (early destroyed, and the rest of the house enticements seri, :1:y injured by tire and water. The election for North Northamptonshire, r~•ca aioned by the appointment of Mr. G. Ward Hunt n Chas. pallor of the Exchequer, took place at Kettering on shut. day, the High Sheriff (Mr. H. de Stafford O'Brivi.) pre. siding as returning officer. Some excitement was coma•'. Bleated to the proceedings by the candidature of Dr. Lres in the adv►nced liberal interest. On a show of hands lr in; taken, it was declared to be in favour of Dr. Lee : as that gentleman retired, although he said be shoal•( possibly go to the poll on some future occasion, the Ift;h Sheriff declared Mr. Ward Hunt duly elected. Ma. RASSAM Aru 1110 ItEcEirrs FROM THRODORUK.—In a letter addressed by Brigadieralen.,4 W. L Merewether to Lieutenant-General Sir R. Napier. commander-in-chief of the Abyssinian field force, am! dated " Camp, Zoolla, 18th January," the fonner says : " A discussion took place in parliament regardino . ..t money received from King Theodorus by Mr. R in justice to the latter gentleman, I have the honour vi state that the money so received was at once credited him to government, and appears so in his accounts, with 3 foot note that 6,800 dollars were taken back front hint by the King when the mission was imprisoned in •luly, 1 tkiti." This letter appears amongst the parliamentary papers issued this morning. The Lord President of the Council and the Ducheu of Marlborough entertained at dinner onSaturdayevenin4. at the family resident's in St. James's-square, his ercrl• lency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness lintunow, Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Chelsea. Lord and Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Alan Chordal!. Lord Hyde, Lord and Lady Delamere, and the Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli. After dinner the duchess had an assembly, which was well attended. The government have purchased the antiptarixt and arahicological collection of the late Dr. Petrie. and also the well-known specimen of early Inab art called the Tara brooch. These are to be the property of the n amt. and are, for the prastnt at least, to be deposited in th. Royal Irish Academy. We learn from the Liverpool Albion that Mr. Byron has discontinued the management of the theatre, the Theatre Royal, and the Alexandra Theatre, Liverpool. It is thought that the last-named will in fortnight be closed for a short time ; at the Amphitheatre the company will themselves keep the house open for a 11, period. The doors of the Theatre Royal hare long bees closed. Altogether the drama at Liverpool, which is mule I posed to be so essentially a theatrical town, secros to be it a low ebb. The Hon. Joseph It. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia. who will be remembered as American minister to En.;. land from 1850 to 1853, died at his home in Phila.l . phi*, on February 20, at the advanced age of 82. Mr. Ingersoll is of a celebrated Pennsylvania family, his fatal being the well-known Jared Ingersoll, and his brother Charlie J. Ingersoll, a prominent American dement. from the time of the war with England in 1812 until hi, death, a few years ago. Joseph It. Ingersoll was in old times a Federalist, and later a whig, by which party h. was selected to represent Philadelphia in five America: Congresses. He was appointed minister to Englanl by President Fillmore, and while there received for hi. rm.. neat attainments the honorary Oxford degree of D.U.L. He has lived in complete retirement of late years. According to the last accounts from Anwrici new gold-fields have been discovered as a locality on the Rooky Mountains, at Sweetwater, in Decota, 10 wih•s from Omaha, within 100 miles of the route to be traversed by the Union Pacific Railroad, which in extent and richneu, and facilities for working, are likely to surpass any yet opened up. _ _ . _ Speculation is busy at Aldershot Camp as to the number of regiments which are likely to form the sundae strength of the division. There is no doubt that prior to the field-day season a considerable augmentation will It made, and the amp will wear its wonted aspect of wiliury activity. Mr. klapleson has taken Drury-lane Theatre fur performances of Italian opera. Mr. Atapleson's teasucy on the 28th of this month. A great number of vessels, some of them of large tonnage, put into Portland roads for shelter during lat week. The Channel Islands mail packet wee unable ou account of the weather to leave for Guernsey and Jerky on Wednesday, in consequence of which she could cot leave the Channel Islands for England until Saturday murm• ing instead of ea Friday morning. . . • TiE BISHOP or WINCHISTSIL.—A alight itu• provement was manifest in the health of the Bishop of Winch.der ea Saturday, and this was considerably is. creased yesterday by quiet and ref reshinc sleep. Hi. lord• ship is still, however, in a critical condition, and prayer , . of whkai printed forms have been circulated, were offend yesterday behalf in every church within his Cl ' tangy* DeATH OF Ma. CROSLAND, M.P.—A TURBO . has just weaned in the representation of Hudderstell Mr. T. P. Crosland, M.P. foe that borough, died at his re• shines, Gledholt, near that town, yesterday afternoon. He had for some time been in a declining state of health. He was 52 years of age. There are already rumours es to the aspirants to fill his place. Mr. Leathern, who wee us* nooessful at the last election, is spoken of, as well as Mr. SonseontZemunont. MS. WM. JOHNSTON, OF BALLYKJLBRG. — N t Jobwiles, says the Roeder* Whip, has not been rebind from eonsssawt. Up to a late hour last night irridall. no order se inthnation had reached the authorities Downpotriok Gaol, and he wee still i n prim Tk e. , Downpetrich correspondent of the Dubin Ennis,/ Mali telegraphs the following :—" The government has refuel to reline Mr. Johnston. If he petitions for himself the/ will sneakier it. He declines doing so." GLUMLY 01 ILLUirrliOnon.—A crowded and &Minable audience assembled here on Saturday, t0 . . 0 * nem a dramatic performance sustained by various artistes tv i rj n ee the benefit of Mr. L. J. Sefton. agent Yr. , who gave his services and sustained the rile of lard Dusdreary. Mks Mande Stanley showed dramat ic taste and cultivation of no mesa order. Amoeget the company wen the Duke of Beaufort, Colonel Stan 104 - Ceartesay, Prime Treabolikei, ke. Htru. Wear Does. —This important addition to the works of the Hall Dock Company will be opened fore the the close of the present yew. It h expected that du Prince of Wales will attend die opening ceremonial, * l ' for invitation to his royal highoess to do so having been weeded Won* Lewd Wealook, the Ind-Lhuthiest of the Mast Riding, ca behalf of t ae Hall Desk Coopeal• Austral. or irms Mawmarratr.--Quzstrwro wnt, Mown 9.—The Galen steamer Manhattan. Imo K ew Tea, arrived hen at 7 a.m. be-day, with 32 pamstder L She hoofed setae, sad preseeded bewail* fa lantrilL Ri---