The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-13 00:00:00

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II YNI.tItK TM, EVENN.:. kei A I, Wilms. pl.ni and Kee reef. dee ‘lr4 h et:welleatn. At(' %% I I.I) mews. Soll rn, Inick•t•we, e. wen. mt.man., Itiplerevedlc, 11111. Lee% Ae• —Anee 1 , ,\ \ILLY JAIN. I.Y11:1 1 31. Tit 14 El iNn, H.II 11.).ML1N.17. Mr. Price and 111ss oat, 1.1.1 i 1 . 4 11..1111. 11r. Nlessrs. }:h wry. V. 111,e. tfte. ; Missal Llswurtly, Ilris• Grattan, and Carotin Levleroi. STR.A O. F.VRNIN4. M 1RINEI) i)41111f rEizi. Mr. F. RA,- son MGM I.lllv STATI . KFAI K. Ileum Ihnnw, Jant,.., kr e.l.lnus A. Slimly,'" Kaynham. flarlasid. JulthMone, 11.1 t, IKEN ell EX 11110'110N. HOLBORN. Evrsava, MY 11W.c31::T Mr. lielmore: Meese frOMO and Ixuntn —end I , LYI NO seUD. New,. Neville, Bel mar°, Nako, V. Josephs, C. &Lundell, Bessie Visage. gdites, Leonel, Raymund, &c. RICITANNIA. .... M 1 EVENI,x, TII r. 411.1/ AID IN Til F: WINDINRATIF.F.T Sir. Rey riol•Is. A : qh t• , .. Miles I 'ovelley.—Cll ERRY AND It AT AR. Nle.sr. ithtste.o.l. Leslie, A - : MTS. 8. lam& Edwiu, Rooth, andl M acurtliy. —And MLLE BEARD. H 1174 WATER AT LONDON RRIDOR TNT DAT —Mormart, 06. :din Afternnon.lo. *270. TO•11011ULOW—Iluroban. 11R sin Atteesooo. 116 378 A. II)N DON, MONDAY, MAY 13. THERE seems some strange fatality in our rail way management. Although reforms may be autxested, considered universally approved, and appear on the point of being carried out, some un accountable perversity upsets them at the last moment. The directors of the London and Brighton Railway have performed this feat with singular success and de x terity. They have contrived to muddle a simple question, to introduce discordance where agreement is absolutely necessary, and to give rise to suspicions as to the conduct of them selves and their predecessors which are probably untrue, but it must be admitted not without some show of foundation. And for what is all this done ? Surely the directors are not too blind to perceive that if there is anything wrong in the background, the temper of the shareholders is such that they are determined to have it out. If, as we should be willing to believe, there is nothing more to be disclosed, what conceivable purpose have the directors in view ? Their opposition to the committee of shareholders is not likely to be well construed. It is pretty certain to be pro nounced either interested, or, to say the least, injudicious. In looking at the proceedings of the late meeting, the first point that will strike at tention is the contradictory perverseness we have already cited. The directors seem to have resolved to make n clean breast of the whole affair, and, iii consequence, issued a Re port, which, from its elaborate details, extended to the dimensions of a good-sized pamphlet. No thing could be better. The stockholders of the London and Brighton Railway wished to have the fullest information on the state of their property, and prolixity was consequently, in this case, not a vice but a virtue. Unfortunately, the Report does not tell us much more than what we previously knew. The circumstance of the proprietors of the London and Brighton being in honour com mitted to carry out the Surrey and Sussex, Chi chester and Midhurst, and \Vest Sussex lines is pointed out at length. The conclusion is probably only too true, that this unfortu nate expenditure will sooner or later have to be incurred. Yet, nevertheless, some sort of loophole is apparently open for deferring, if not cancelling, these unlucky bargains, since the Chairman announced that the clauses in the Company's Bill respecting the three above-men tioned lines would be withdrawn for the present session, without prejudice to being introduced in future. In what manner the original promoters of these branches have been induced to forego their claims, at least temporarily, upon the pledged faith of the London and Brighton Com pany, does not very clearly appear. Certain men tion, however, is made of " preliminary expenses" up to date having been paid. It would be very satisfactory to know who have been the recipients of this outlay. We should be strongly inclined to believe that the directors of the Brighton having bought out, in the interest of their com pany, the original promoters of the three lines and tilled their places with themselves and their nominees, have had no difficulty in making an arrangement for delaying the construction of these projects. It is easy enough for a body of gentle men sitting, say as the Board of the Surrey and Sussex, to make a compact with themselves, in their separate capacity of Board of the London and Brighton. There is one thing very clear : somebody or other has been compensated—the chances are highly—for his inventive genius in devising lines which would never pay, but were only intended for sale. The shareholders owe it to themselves in the first place, and to their directors in the second, to insist upon knowing where this money has gone. The proceedings at the meeting were altogether unsatisfactory. The shareholders were nut merely unruly, but positively riotous, and the Chairman finished by trying a coup de th&Vre, which only sufficed to make the confusion the greater. Bring ing forward at the last moment an amendment to the resolution, temperate considering all the cir cumstances, proposed by the Committee of Inves tigation, would have been bad policy at any time. The way in which it was done served to make bad worse. There seems to have been hardly an attempt at orderly voting, and it is not impossible that the irregularity which characterised the whole affair may lead to future litigation. There appears little chance of recon cilement between the contending parties. At pre sent we have a manifesto front the Committee ; to-morrow there will most likely be one issued by the Board, and so apparently the struggle will go on until the property will be depreciated in value to a degree at which there will be nothing left worth fighting for. It is clear that tactics of this sort are simply suicidal. The railway companies have much ground to complain of the treatment that they have received from the Legislature--the Brighton line, perhaps, more than ally. It would be an end'n•ss tusk 4.i recapitulate the instances of favouritism and too frequently bad faith , THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1867. which committees of the Lomls and Commons have exhibited without the smallest show of compunc tion. But it is evident that if relief is to be sought, the application must come, not from bo wl/bred shareholders, who cannot mate up their minds as tm what they want, but fn nu practical men of hominess, who see both the evil and the possible remedy. The •teat difficulty is the want of agreement. The Clmirman of the Brighton Board, a gentivinan of undoubted talent and integrity, cannot, for ,oine reason, concur with the evially honest and able President of the Committee of Investigation. This is only a specionm of the too constint divergence of of ' and apparent incapacity to make mutual cini- Ce53i , .113 that cause us at times to despair of the future of railway property. There is the property, good and sound in itself if only pro perly managed, but no two persons can lie found to 'pad the same "IMO in as to what proper manage• ment is. As retrirds the London and Brighton, we think that, looking at all the facts of the ease, the Com mittee have the balance of right on their aide. They have had the courage to tell the truth. It is not a pleasant duty to bring circumstances to light that depreei,tte the property of both them selves and their co-shireholdues. Generally the return for this kind of plain speaking is not praise, but blame. Still it is possible to push an ad vantage too far. There can be no doubt that the direc tors, past or present, of the London and Brighton COMpallY have by their mistaken policy done much to destroy the value of an undertaking that only lately ranked '4 the first in the kingdom. No doubt they acted with the best intentions, but two-thirds of the harm that occurs in the world is done with the best intentions. The evil com mitted, the prettiesl course, it may be repeated, is to seek the remedy. One point is incontestable, the advisability of getting rid of contentions, and of acting in the mutual interest. It is often bene ficial to make concessions, oven when the right is almost wholly on one aide. The Committee of Investigation of the London and Brighton are in the latter position. Can they do nothing to ter minate the present divisions ? With so valuable a property at stake, it is worth while to strain • point to meet opponents half way. If no other consideration should suffice, it might be well to give some thought to the many families whose in comes depend solely on their investments in this line, and are menaced with ruin unless its affairs are placed on a satisfactory footing. will not afforstseaseh satisfactill to those mose r clos•iy in. terested, eitat in the vast property involved or in the management of our highways. Considering thalength and minuteness of the inquiry, the eminetee of the persons engaged. and the gravity of the crisis through which those great undertakings are even now passing, the result an nounced seems singularly inadequate to the occasion. It will ,trike most people a somewhat lame and impotent conclusion that the beet thing to do with railway ember rassment is to act on the late Lord 3lelhourne's easygoing maxim, and" let it alone." Such, however, with two qualifications, is the decision. tan= INTELLIGENCE. ' • THE LATE CONFERENCE AND ARMA MENTS IN FRANCE. The jul...tuit de. Diffrats of yesterday contains the following Since the oommcncemont of the crisis which closed by the signing of the treaty yesterday at London we have always advocated the cause of peace, and no one more heartily rejoices than we do that a terrible war has been happily avoided by the wisdom of European diplomacy. But precisely fortbe reason that we donut wishto see France exposed at any moment to have her repose troubled and be often compelled to plumber hand on the hilt of Lersword, we are of opinion that in future she should be prepared for any event. According to a despatch which we hose just received, Lord Stanley yesterday proposed to the minist,ra of the powers represented in the Conference a general dis armament. If such a proposal wa■ made, we do not think that France could at the present moment accept it. It is to be presumed that if 11. de Bismarck saw that our arsenals were well stocked with good arms, that our cavalry and artillery were supplied with the necessary amount of horses, and that our military stores were abundantly provided with boots and clothes, he would not have been interrogated in the parliament of n. rth Orr any as be was by M. von. Benningsen. Justly confident in the integrity and modem. tion of France he would doubtlees have yielded in a friendly manner and without noise to the cabinet of the Tuileries the evacuation of Luxemburg, which he consented to only at the solicitation of England and of Europe. A nation, intoxicated by recent and almost unexpected I success, but still possessed of the innate sentiments of courtesy and equity, will be the less likely to forget the rules of international politeness, the more clearly it sees that its ueighbours are in a position to appeal to those rules. We do not, indeed, think it necessary to call the whole nation under arms at once and for ever. as was proposed a few days ago in the Corps Legislatif. lint we think it indispeneahle that our soldiers should be in possession of good arms, which they may suddenly be called upon to use. The Mexican war has exhausted our magazines and arsenals. We must fill up this void. Our rifles are infe rior to the needle-guns : let us replace them by guns of precision such as the progress of the military art requires. We have left thousands of horses in Mexico; let us quickly buy others. It is working in the cause of pesos to deprive neighbours who are now not over kindly disposed towards us of the desire of taking advantage of circumstances in which they might imagine that we were too unprepared to meet them. In our days more especially the old maxim, si ris parrnt pant Whin, is perfectly true. France should at this moment desire peace with strength. (REUTERS'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, MAT 12, EVENING. The elections at Andrea have resulted in the return of Signor Ferrara, the Minister of Finance. The news that King Victor Emmanuel will shortly pay a visit to Paris is confirmed. The Duko and Duchess d'Aosta will also proceed thither. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THI REFORM DEPCTATIoN TO MIL GLAISTONE. The House of Commons having come to the conclusion that it would be well fur the interests it cherishes, to establish the borough franchise upon inc quality and injustice, reormers, says the Nero, have, in consequence, the starting point of a new course of resolute and combined action, and those people in parlia ment and elsewhere who, by habitually deluding them selves, come at last to think that they have the art of de luding others may b.! commended to Mr.Glaclstone's speech on Saturday. The proceedings at the interview in question, will prove the beginning of a movement which is destined utterly to defeat the machinations of those who think that tbe people of this country can be treated as &tante of intelligence. Speaking in the name of that liberal party which, in spite of a thousand defeats, proclaims itself from year to year to be the efficient controller of the policy of Great Britain, Mr. Gladstone declares that this fraudu lent minister MI hill cannot be, and shall not be recognised as a settlement of the que,tion of parliamentary reform. Reformers must now gird themselves for the struggle. It is their advantage that all that has been won has been acquired unconditionally, without any kind of compromise. The principle of household suffrage affirmed, it will be for the libend party to insist on its full and impartial applica tion. The great work of reform, however, has to be done now as always out of doors, where it can never be in danger. The iirrald maintains that the upper and middle classes have held aloof altogether from the reform movement. The day which sees the passing of the conservative bill will see the fruition of those middle-class aspirations to which the Manchester reformers will idly appeal. These gentlemen know perfectly well that the present govern ment will never grunt household suffrage pure and simple; they will hod that the middle classes have not the slightest desire to oak them to swerve from that determination. _ _ The Times, without alluding to the proesedings on Saturday, has a general article on the virtues of the Reform Rill, extolling the test of personal ratepaying as indirectly securing " full scope for the influence of a man's regular social connexion." This test, in proportion to the rigour with which it is applied, will secure the perma nency, the respectability, and the trustworthiness of the elector; but it will also secure that the influences which ought to sway him shall have due play, as well as the other influences certain to operate in every contested election. The Past refers in detail to the proceedings at the inter view, to show that the effect of Mr. Gladstone 's amend ments, even though they have been sedulously represented as being less liberal than the intentions of the govern ment, has been in no way to shake the confidence which is felt in him among those who have agitated and worked hardest in the cause they have in hand. The reason of this is obvious. Honesty and stedfastneas of purpose will always have the greatest weight in the end. The Telegraph endorses the programme of the Reform I%li= with much enthusiasm. If parliament adopts the bill the comment which the country will offer on the " settle , meat " will be an ardent, universal, and narrating agita tion, beginning from the day that the measure is called " law " till it be abolished, along with the chamber which Mr. Disraeli bewildered or intimidated into adopting his scheme. The Star takes in the main the same view. It think,, however, that a united and strenuous effort might even now prevent the measure from passing. 3114CELLAND)Um TOPICs. Observing that the rights of the public to the use of the parka is one of the questions which will bring the qualill. cations of the new Home Secretary to the test of actual trial, the Times says it would be uncandid to disguise the fact that in none of the cases of parks quoted against the League Is the parallel complete or the example applicable. The reason, and perhaps the only reason, for making an exception in the ease of the London parks is that they are the only places avail.ble, to which we may now perhaps add that the public inconvenience of such gatherings has proved to be less than was imagined. It is the duty of government, however, to consider not special but common interests, and that in due season should bo the course adopted. At present it would be better to rely upon that general discretion which all parties seem ready both to anticipate and promise, and postpone discussion until irritation and animosities have subsided. The Daily Neva describes the scheme which the select committee on the local government of the metropolis has recommended to parliament. The changes are important and useful, but can hardly be accepted as a satisfactory basis. The establishment, for example, of a body of jus tices of the peace—half for the sake of exercising autho- rity as magistrates, half as a representative institution— is a device which cannot be commended. Similar weak- I nem and inconsequence is shown in dealing with the ( representatives of other interests to be s en t t o th e Supreme Municipal Council. The Star believes the provisions of the Scottish Reform Bill will substantially be the same as those of the English measure—the rating franchise being conceded in boroughs, which will be virtually, according to Scotch practice, a M. rental occupation franchise. In counties the occupation franchise will be the Milli* as in England, and 5/. property in place of 10/. property as at present. There are no 40a, freeholds among Scotch county qualifications. The exact number of seats to be allocated to Scotland has not as yet been determined, nor the exact mode of redistribution. It is believed, however, that a seat will be given to the conjoined universities. The T..triroph thinks it ha:arils little in affirming that the report issued by the royal oommisgoners on railways CIVIL LIST PENSIONS. The following pensions on the Civil List, which exhaust the amount available for the current year, have been recently granted: Half. a year to M. conablerition of the valuable and disinterested service, rendered by her to emigrants in New South Wales. 100!. a year to the family of the late Dr. I'etrie, being pensions at the rate of 2.W. a year to each of his four daughters, in consideration of the eminent services ren dered by him to archeological science, both as an author and i.e a $ üblic servant. 10M. a year to Lady Harris, widow of Sir William Snow Harris, in consideration of her husband's valuable inven tion of the system of lightning conductors. 100!. a year to the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley. on ac count of his eminent services, as a botanist, to practical horticulture and agriculture. 9:d. a year to Mr. George Cruikshank, on account of his great merit as an artist. the Court. - 08E4 MNE, 31.tv 11. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Countess of ruledon ; and her Majesty and Princess Beatrice rode on ponies in the grounds this morning. Princess Louise walked out this morning, accompanied by Miss Grey ; and Prince Leopold went out attended by Mr. Legg. The Hoe. Mrs. and Miss Grey left Osborne today. MA v 12. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, axompanied by Princess Louise. Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice also went out. The Rev. R. Duckworth performed the service this morning before her Majesty and Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting were also present. The Judge-Advocate-General arrived at Osborne yeater day, awl had an audience of her Majesty. The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole arrived in the evening, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The lion. Mrs. and Miss Gordon have arrived on a visit to her Majesty. Colonel George Maude, C.D., has also arrived. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Tres.- Bury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Burlingham, 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, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. The plenipotentiaries accredited by the European powers to the London Conference on the Luxemburg question met on Saturday for the fourth time, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial. office to the governors of the North American Provinces and Bermuda. We are authorised to state that the court an nounced to be held by the Queen in June will take place at Buckinghain Palace on Friday, the 21st of June, at 4 o'clock. Two drawing rooms will be held in that month, on her Majesty's behalf, at St. James's Palace, the dates of which will be shortly announced. There will also be two state concerts and two state balls at Buckingham Palace in the course of the season. His loyal Highness the P►ince of Wales will hold a levee on the part of her Majesty, at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, the 29th instant. Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton entertained his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and the Countess Thi,risa Bernstorff, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl and Countess of Dar trey, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon and Lady Emily Villiers, the Earl of Bective, Lord and Lady Otho Fitz gerald, Lord Brabasos, Lady Molesworth, Hoe. Frederick Ltveson Gower, M.P., Hon. Thomas De Grey, M.P., Mr. and Lady Catherire Weiland, Mr. John Lumley, fie., at dinner on Saturday evening, at the family residenoe in St. James's-square. The Right Hon. Guthorne Hardy, NLP., rand Mrs. Hardy received the following party at dinner on Saturday night at their residence in Grusvenor-creacent. Belgrave-square :—The Lord Chancellor and Hon. Miss Theager, the Earl of Morley, the Right Hon. Charles Bowyer Adderley, M.P., the Hon. Mr.. Adderley and Miss Adderley, Sir William Heatheote, Bart., M.P., and Lady Hestheote, Admiral the Hon. Arthur Duneo.tibe, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Buncombe, Captain Arthur Hayter, M.P., and Mrs. Hayter, Mr. Smith Barry, M.P., Mr. and Hon. Mr.. Talbot, and Mr. Fleming. Prince de Montholon has arrived at the Clarendon Hotel from Park. Lord Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has issued invitations to a State banquet at the Clarendon Hotel for Saturday, May in honour of her Majesty's birthday. At the annual regimental dinner of the 10th Royal Hussars, which is fixed for Saturday, the 25th inst., at Willie's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, the Prince of Wales, as colonel of the regiment, will be present. At the annual dinner of the royal regiment of artillery, appointed to take place on the 31st inst., at the same place, the Duke of Cambridge, as colonel of the regiment, will preside. We read in the Times :—" The ministerial arrangements consequent upon the retirement of Mr. Wal pole from the Home-office are not yet entirely completed. Mr. Walpole remains a member of the cabinet, though without office ; Mr. Cathorne Hardy will succeed Mr. Walpole at the Home-office as soon as the state of busi ness in the House of Commons will admit of his absence during the interval necessary for his re-election ; and Lord Devon will probably be appointed to the Presidency of the Poor-law Board, though without a seat in the sahinet. No declaim has yet been arrived at as to Lord Devon's sue cesaor in the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lanever.” We observe that a great public meeting of the National Reform Union in support of household suffri.ge, a lodger franchise, and the ballot, will be held at St. James's-hall on Wednesday evening nest, at A o'tlim. k. Mr. Samuel Morley will preside, and the mating will be ad dressed by Mr. Bright. The open.' for the week at Covent Garden are 11 Barbiere (to-night), L'Africaine (Tuesday night), Don Gioranosi, with a new Don Giovanni in Signor Cotogni (Thursday), and Le None di Pifmiro (Saturday). The operas for this week at her Majesty's Theatre are 11 TrOPltore (to-night). Der Preiee'teft (to morrow night), and Otto Nioolai's Pala ; or, The Merry Wires of Win4s”r-Bret time since 1863 (Thursday). In the first two MdUe. Titiens is associated with Signor Mongini, in the last with Mr. Mohler as tenor. Mr. Mohler is entrusted with the part of Fenton, originally sustained by the late Signor Giuglini. On Saturday anew soprano, Mdlle. Gissconi (from Genoa), will make her fist appearance in Lnerezia Borgia. The Lyceum and the St. James's Theatres will be closed at the end of the present month. Mr. Fece.ter's management concludes this season. The St. James's will be opened for a short season of French plays. In the mean time Mims Herbert will resume management. Mr. Walter Montgomery has gone to Australia. Mr. Neville has met with an accident to his hand through the bursting of arm. At the weekly meeting of the members of the Royal Invtit.ition, on Friday evening, Freq.'s .r Bain de livered a lecture "On the doctrine of the correlation of force in its bearing on mind." A sturgeon, nearly 601bs. weight, was cau,ht in the Hasnble river, in Hants, last wok. CANDIA, ATHENS, MAT 10. Advice! received hero from Greek sources in Candia state that on the 4th instant the Turks, with a strong body, attacked the Christians at Sphakia on two sides, but were repulsed. The fol lowing day a fresh attack was made, which lasted till the morning of the third day. The Turks were again repulsed and retired to the open plain. THE BOMBAY MAIL. BUZZ, MAT 13. The Malta, from Bombay April 29, arrived at 6 a.m. to-day. OUTWARD MAIL OF APRIL 27—MAY 3. The Delhi left Suez for Bombay at 6 p.m. on the 12th inst. HALL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. -.- • CEREMONY FOR tAtING THE FIRST STONE BY THE Q UMEN. The following ceremony will be observed on Monday LI-xt : I. The i!neen will leave the Paddington Station of the Great Western Railway attended by a cavalry escort, and paining through Hyde-park will arrive, at 11.30 o'clock, at the site of the hall opposite the memorial to the Prince Consort in Hyde-park, where • guard of honour will be drawn up and receive her Majesty with a royal saluta. 11. Her Majesty on alighting from the carriage will be received at the north end of the tent covering the site of the hall by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the cha rutin of the provisional committee, with the other members of the committee, and be conducted to the spot where the stone will be laid. 111. During the prom sin the militant band will play. IV. Upon arrival at the spot the National Anthem will be sung. V. The Prince of Wales, after a abort address from himself, w band to her Ma:esty the report of the pro- visional committee reo rain the undertaking, and the measures ta .en to carry it into effect. VI. The Earl of Derby wi I band to the Qualm the coins and inicri, tion, and Eel Granv,lle the glass vessel in which they are to be enclosed. Her Majesty will then place them in the vessel. VII. Mr. Lucas the builder will hand to the Queen the trowel, and Lieut.. Colonel Scott, the director of the works, will hand the line and plummet and assist her Majesty in placing the glass vessel in the stone. VIII. During this operation and at the lowering of the Mane into its place a flourish of trumpets will be given and a royal salute fired in Hyde-park. IX. The Ar3hldshop of Canterbury will offer up a short prayer. X. The " Invowisione aU'Anuonia," the composition of the late Prince Consort, will be given under the direction of Mr. Costa, and at its conclusion the National Anthem will be sung. Xl. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales awl the provisional committee will conduct the Queen to the south east exit from the tent, and thence to her carriage at the Prince's entrance in Albert-read, through the conserva tory of the Royal Horticultural Society, and by the north western-terrace of the gardens. XII. The line of procession in the parks will be kept by the household troops. WKATHXR RIPORT.-(111D3 DAY.) MONDAY, MAT 13, I ♦.L EXPRESS FROM PARIS. 010111 OUR OWN 001IRESTONDENT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. The decisive announcement in the official part of to-day's Mosiiteur leaving no doubt that war is happily averted, we may expect public attention in France to be seriously directed to the realisa tion of the liberal reforms promised with so much ado on January 19, and which have hitherto been a dead letter. The only part of the pro gramme as yet executed is the substitution of in terpellationa for the address and the extension of the powers of the Senate at the expense of the Corps Legislatif, neither of which can be seriously described as liberal measures. The bills on the press and the right of public meeting are still hung up in the committee rooms, and very serious ap prehensions are entertained by the opposition de puties that an excuse is sought for to throw them over till next year. Yesterday M. Jules Favre made an eloquent but ineffectual speech in favour of the principle of granting pecuniary indemnity to innocent persons wrongfully arrested on criminal charges. The go vernment speakers would not admit that there was any solidarity between society at large and the false witness or erring judge or jury, to whom the misfortune of an unjust conviction was imputable. The example of Italy and Switzerland, where the principle of indemnity is acted upon, was cited in vain. M. Chassepot is at the present moment in St. Etienne, superintending the manufacture of the rises, large quantities of which are being delivered every week to the regimente of infantry. In the Austrian state lotten• connected with the loan of 1840 the Bishop of Bruns, Count Schafgotache, has just won a prize of 300,000fi. Thu eighth volume of M. Guizot's "Memoirs" has appeared. It comprises some of the most important foreign questions which occupied the July gonna:lent between 1840 and 1848 ; the Spanish marriages, the affairs of Rome, and the Swiss Sanderbund were the precureers of the great catastrophe of the latter year. M. Guizot seems to dimwit all these questions with much frankness. The report of the Famine Commission of India is severe in its condemnation of the Board of Revenue. The commissioners estim►te the mortality ie. Orissa and Midaspore as certainly not less than one-fourth of the whole population, but state that they have no reliable statistics of the whole population of the province. The statistics vary from :t3 to 5 millions, which would make the mortality from three-fourths of a million to a million ►nd a half, in an area of 28,738 square miles, or half that of England and Wales. The deaths from starvation and its result, disease, in the Cols and Soothe] districts of Chats Nagpore have just been officially reported by the commissioner, Colonel Dalton, as 33,296 among a popula tion of half a million. It is not known what sentence the commissioners have passed on Sir Cecil Bowdon. Loss or A STEAnsn P.—The fine steamship Prince Consort, trading between Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and the north of Scotland, struck on the rocks two miles south of Aberdeen during the thick fog of Saturday morning. The sea was running high at the time, end ail efforts to get the vessel off proved fruitless. Fortunately, the disaster was seen by the fishermen of a coast vil lage half a mile distant, and without loss of time boats were manned and desp►tched to the wreck. About 100 pas sengers were on board, many of them in bed, but, warned by the crash of some danger, 'they hastened on deck an• clothed, and through the energy of Captain Parrott and his crew, 36 in number, and the providential arrival of the fishermen, every soul was got safely to land. Not a particle of anything in the shape of luggage was brought on shore, and in the course of an hour or so little remained together of the steamer but the portion amidships with the machi nery. The scene of the wreck was visited by large num bers of spectators during the whole of Saturday and Sun day. A good deal of luggage and cargo has been washed ashore and otherwise recovered. The Prince Consort be longed t ) the Edinburgh. Leith, and Clyde Shipping Com pany. Captain Parrott, her commander, ia an experienced seaman, and was the last to leave his ship. P. I Batrese , bea, T.. 1 e. W. I Z. 1 to ,11 I. D. ; ;9. Nairn 2D.63 401 N.B. j 2 4 N.E. ,oe 0.37 3 Aberdeen b.& 0 3 . L rb 1.14 6 Le,th Ardruesan 41.71 43, E. 1 5 6 , I 0 6.70 4 Greencastle 2974 43 B. I , 4 6 B.W. ro 0.38 3 Valenti& U. 41 U ' 2 4 I,lt. ro 0.33 2 Cape Clear_ 29.41 47 R.W. 5 6 I &W. I b 060 6 Ureepool 29.6549 &N.& I 3 3 L i ro 0.16 1 Holyhead 29.55 44 LICE. 7 4 I 8.9. W. ro 0.41 6 Pinnace- 4.1.41.1 55 8.8.8. 3 6 B.K c - 3 Brest 29.49 56 B.W. ;3 5 B.S.W. ru 0.59 2 Larlent 29.4554 &K. : 3 4 &W. on 0.65 ltochefort 29.8 169 W.R.W. t 4 1 8.1 ro 0.26 2 Plymouth 19.47 58 , 1 5 &W. ; c 077 3 Wellsoeth 29.'3 53 E. 24.1 3 4 W. om 0.04 Portsmouth 29.5261 It. 1 3 8 W.&W. , u 0.10 2 London 19.57 46 E. 3, 4 S.S.W. ; boo 0.2 - 5 - Yarmouth 49.57 45 E. N.P.. 6 6 E. N.& r 1.13 4 Itrarborougb 49.66 45 N.& ' 3 5 N.E. o 0.55 4 Shields 29.74 49 N.& ' 5 6 N.E. 00 1.10 6 Helder REMARKS. Atmo►pherdd premiere Is greater In the north end east than It was on Saturday, and less hi the south : bat Is now lacreaidng generally user the &Walt Wee. Temperature has decreased, end the *lnds hare become northeasterly, moderate to fresh Rain bets been general the tall on the east coast has been large. A steamer left Southampton last week with 1,300 German passengers. The passage money amounted to 70,000 dollars. There were, • few days ago. 7,000 persons in Bremen waiting to emigrate to the United Stake. LIFEBOAT SERVICE...I.—WEXFORD, IRELAND, MAY 10.—A ship was seen to strike on the Long Bluth yester day during blowing weather front the R.S.R. (reports Win. Coghlan, Req., the collector of customs). The Civil Ser vice lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution was thereupon promptly launched and taken is tow of a steam tag to the spot. The master gladly accepted the service' of the lifeboat, and by throwing sonic of the cargo overboard, and with the assistance of two steam tugs, the vessel was ultimately got off the bank, and con ducted clear of the Tinker. Four of the crew of the ship had left her previously in a fishing-bout, and at the desire • the master three of the lifeboat men were left on board to assist him in taking his vessel into harbour. She was the brig Ayrshire Lass, of Ardrossan, bound from Liver pool to Halifax with a cargo of salt. THE LATE &roam .—The Rev. A. Baker writes from Addington Rectory, Winslow :--" Sir—We have ex ' perienoed here this afternoon (Friday) one of the most awful hailstorms that I ever remember to have read of, 1 1 accompanied with thunder and lightning. Time, about 4.21, and lasting about 15 minutes. I measured • hail stone exactly five inches round end two inches across. The largest weig hed was one ounce, :out it had somewhat melted. The ground was covered with such all around. The formation of all seemed to he threefold—an inner kernel, surrounded by an opaque covering, and • transpa rent exterior of irregular shape. They appeared like three distinct oongelations into crystals of different forms. The destruction of foliage and fruit has been enormous. In one room of my house twenty panes were broken, and all the windows facing west have suffered more or less in the saute proportion. But at the Manor-house (the residence of Mr. Hubbard, M.P. for 'Buckingham) I believe every patio in the roof of very ex tensive hothouses and forcing-houses and a large conserva tory has been thoroughly broken through, and many of thuse at the aides of the same houses. The plants below are sadly riddled and destroyed, amp whole bunches of young grapes cut off. The tips of almost every branch of the SRO timber trees are also stripped off, and goselierries and currants are thickly strewed beneath their bushes. I I have never before seen such a complete wreck after • storm. At the time of my writing, nearl 6 p.m., the ah.. tent thunder is still murmuring, chie fly in the south." The storm has been very destructive to the crops, espe cially at Stowe and Akeley ; and the borough authorities at Buckingham have stated their intention of opening a subscription list to assist the poorer class of the inhabit ant., who have suffered very severely by the calamity. CHARGE or MANSLAUGHTER BY A SOLDIER.--On Saturday morning Peter Byrne, a private soldier in the )rd battalion of the 60th RifillS, who has been 11 years in the regiment, and who bears two good conduct stripes on hie arm, was brought up at the Guildhall, Winchester, before the mayor (Hr. W. Fielder) and a full bench of magis trates, charged with the wilful murder of William Brown, of the same battalion (who had only joined on the first day of the present month), on Thursday night, in the barracks at Winchester. The prisoner is a line-looking man, and has an open, intelligent countenance. The first witness called was William Colley, who deposed that be is a pri vate soldier in Winchester barracks, and at about live minutes to 10 on Thursday night was in bed in Nu. ll I room. There were four other soldiers there besides the deceased. The deosased wan sitting on witness's hed-cut, when the prisoner came i oto the room and asked th e deceased if he could fight, to which be replied " No." The prisoner then locked the room door, and after taking off his belt and jacket went back to the cot to the demised, and asked if he could fight, when the deceased again replied " No," and added, " You ha better be quiet, or I will tell the colour-sergeant." The prisoner then struck the deceased I with hie fist under or on the left ear, and knocked him down upon witness. The blow was a violent one. The prisoner then turned off the pa. Witness lifted up the deceased, who said "I am dying." Sergeant Marshall then came to the door, and it was opened to him, and the prisoner was reported. The deceased was taken to the guard-room, and thence to the military hospital. Witness saw the deceased at 11 o'clock the same night, when he was dead. He had not heard of any quarrel between the deceased and the prisoner. The pri soner did not appear to be drunk. Privates T. Cause and Henry Jones corroborated this witness. Sergeant Mar shall deposed that at about five minutes put 10 o'clock on Thursday night he knocked at the door of No. 11 l room, and was admitted, when his attention was called to the d-- ceased by the witness Jones. He was lying on the floor between two cots. Witness took him to be drunk, and ordered him to be taken to the guard-room, where he was put in • celL Soon afterwards in the guard-rnom witness was told that the deceased had been struck, and one of the guard said he was dead. Witness then felt him by the aide of the neck, where it had been said he had been struck. The sergeant of the guard ordered deceased to be taken to the hospital, and witness went with him. This was about 20 minutes pest 10. The prisoner was after wards ordered to be confined in a cell. He was then drunk—not fit for duty, yet capable of taking care of him. self. The bench committed the prisoner to take his trial at the next Winchester Assizes for manslaughter. Ile also stands committed upon the coroner's inquisition on a similar charge. THE HYDRAULIC VCSAIII. NAUTILUS.—On Satur day a large party of noblemen and gentlemen, with Mr. Ruthven, the patentee, assembled cm board this vessel to witness the results of the various experiments made in stopping, going ahead or astern, and taming. On arriving at the dockyard, Woolwich, the party proceeded to view the Waterwitch, the new ironclad boat, which is being fitted up by the government on the hydraulic principle. .r. CHARLIE OP MURDER. GREENWICH POLICR-COURT.--(THLS DAY.) Eleanor Bell, aged 54, described as the wife ,1 an engineer residing at 436, New-cross-road, Deptford..., placed in the dock before Mr. Trail!, charged with th e wilful murder of her ton, William John Bell, aged enhe years and xis months, by cutting his throat with a kni t , Mr. J. T. Mose, solicitor, appeared for the priAuner, remarkably stout-built person, and who was 'memos's. dated with a seat during the inquiry. Sarah Ann Wankll said she was servant to the pn. sorter, and had been with her and her linguini hail months. The pristmer's husband is a retired chief IN . gineer of the royal navy. About 4 o'clock an N . turday afternoon witness let the prisoner'■ da. Mary Ann. aged 20, out at the street door, awl Oka went downstairs to see the prisoner, but could not find In the breakfast room she found a stream of blood, and sex it the body of the deceased son, its head near a pa,kiss. ease, and the feet on the hearth-rug. Witness immeMitely ran upstairs, and found the prisoner near the beiressa door, and asked her what was the m►tter with Willie, when she replied, " He vexed me so, and I was obliged to do it." Witness then met her mater comic; from the drawing-room, and he went down and brought deceased to to foot of the st ai n, while witness ran Lett s doctor. On returning witness found her master hoblia4 her mists as. A knife, whicb'r►ae used in cutting brcid was found on the table in the breakfast-room with bl upon it. Witness hail seen the deceased at •twenty.fi,, minutes to 4 in the afternoon sitting at the table writing in his copybook, and the prisoner was then sitting on the other side of the table, with her arms folded. During th e afternoon witness heard no noise. By Mr. Moss—During the put week witness h a d noticed a peculiarity in the conduct of the prisoner, wh o would be frequently behind her, being very lidgetty, s ad not remaining long in one place. The prisoner bad Nes an invalid during the nine months witness bad been in her service, and had not left home. Witness had remarked to the prisoner's daughter bow tldgetty her 111:111104 wee. The prisoner was always very kad to the deceased, and would assist him in has I. *sons, which he did not like. When witams saw the prisoner near the bed-room door, sh e appeared very wild, and was rocking herself to and ha and her eyes appeared to be starting from their sockets, and when her master was holding her she continued rock ing herself about. By Mr. Train--Witness had never before heard the prisoner complain of deceased having vexed her ; in fan, she waa always kind and fond of him. Mr. Hope, surgeon, of Deptford, said be was called by the last witness, and on going to the prisoner's residers, he found deceased lying a little on his left side with a stream of blood which bed flowed from the body towards the cupboard. The deceased was then quite dead, wit► has throat cut from ear to ear, close to the vertebra•, sad an attempt had evidently been made to raver the bead from the body. Witness took possession of the knife,whick had a large blade. By Mr. Traill—ln witness's opinion there had beet several attempts made to Dever the bead from the body, after life was extinct. Examination continued—Witness then went upstairs into the bed-room, and found the prisoner with her husband, who appeared frantic, asking the prissier what she had done, and telling her she had killed his boy. The prisoner replied, on witness asking her what she had done, " He aggravated me so," and she then nude • rush towards a drawer, when witness seised Ler sal ordered his coachman to go for • constable. 'The primer frequently raked for water and beer. By Mr. Moss—Witness found the prisoner in a state st great excitement, but during the time he remained in the house, about 2i minutes, he did not notice 'myth's% which would lead him to form, an opinion as to her amity or insanity. Mrs. Lucy Cockerton said she resides at 440, hee• cross-read, and next door but one to the house occupied by prisoner's husband. Oa Saturdiy afternoon with'n was fetched by the prisoner's servant, and she then sae a great change in the appearance of the prisoner, whom the had not seen for some months before. She had a peculiar wildness in her appearance. Police-constable King, 255 It division, said be ass called to take the prisoner into ce,totly, but that on pro- needing to do no she wrung her hands together, ad said, "He aggravated me to do it." The ptheeer asked several times for water, and also for her bread. and on sitting down she wrung her bands again and re peated that deceased had aggravated her. Witnevo did oat notice any blood either on the prisoner's hands or drew. Sergeant Kittuer, 4 R, produced the knife found on the table of the room in which deceased was found, and which had blood on the handle of it. The witness Worstsll was re-called, and said she ha cut deceased some bread and butter with the hit which she left in the breakfast-room. This being the whole of the evidence, the prisoner vs committed for trial at the next Old Bailey session/. UNIVERSITY BOATING IN THE UNITED STATES. On the 19th of July a boat-race is to take plate between the crews from two great American Universities. Harvard and Yale, at Lake Quinstgamond, and its American papers contain a great deal about the subject The New, York Tribmie describes some of the crew with freedom which would be new to Being Life. It mays :- "Under the shude of the old trees which so beautibilly embellish the lawn of Harvard University, at Cambridge, Mass., a group of students are conversing earnestly, mad the all-engrossing theme is the coming University race is July. William Maikie, a tall handsome fellow, with a pair of ' haw-haw' mutton-chop whiskers, is the central figure of the group. This young fellow with the figure al an Achilles and the manner of a well-bred gentleman is as well-known in the streets of Boston R. Jame* Rueell Lowell, from the fact that he caved Harvard from le..isg the rice lint year by the magnificent trainin4 which gave his crew before they entered for the rice. Yew Hawthorne, the son of the celebrated writer, Ptan.l. by hie side with a number of other Iletv.rd late whose names are famous wherever New-Enghei education and culture are appreciated. Leigivietk a sallow-faced, daalc-eyed lad with deep Nick eyes, and a picturesque pair of shore on his fort , with handsome silk bows, son to the celebrated Nice. las Longworth, who made the Ohio another Rhine. " smiling vineyards, and died worth incalculable and Longfellow, son to the poet who has male Chula River and Mystic River' ever famous, stand dog to Blade as be discusses muscular Christiasity in his frank ringing tones, with a respectfel manse which denotes the reverence in which they Lola their senior for his superior knowledge of the rowing cek- Here you may see on a fine 'say seions of the Moll who wrote the history of t'e birch Republic. Relations of James Russell Lowell, or Ilir.l.o".fev dom Sawin', and many young lade who inherit the proudest literary names of New Enelaiel. 'roue:. Ito' thorn measures around the chest 47 inches, which n as inch more in measurement than Heenan, tier gladiator, can boast of. Alden P. Lorine, n fine-Ineklat lad of 21 tears, standing six feet in his stockings, is ," the "stroke" for Harvard this year. Loring i, ' l ' 4 ' eyed sinewy-looking fellow. weighing 1115 pound., Rltho...:h he does not look mote than 110, and be longs to thc twitted Loring family of Boston. George bow oar of Hervanl, is 21 years of age, feet •ti height, end is a fellow townsmen of t'oftin, the low o r Yale, from Irvington. New York, who has conic to st the humanities et Harvard." The New York Tikes, commenting upon the preparatica s for the race, observes We mrree with the the boat crews of Yale and Harvard could not coniri i successfully, at prisient, against tbo.e of (Wool linage, but still we should like to se them try It "' do them good. 'We observe th it the 11 irs.,l me , demanding that the race in July Abel be rreee. l on 1 .' 41 Qui n idgarnond, because it is a smooth sheet of water.' ir there is a chop in the Connecticut water. w' a. h 'o.' l be unfevonrable to a perfect race.' While they acre-" 4 themselves to favourable' conil onl y.t be s y will ii skile to race with Orford or Cambriilne. The Tl ia inci i• school-boy river, and the contending boats b:,.e l'• Piloted ronnd very ugly reaches, in and out weene. boats and bargee, under bridges. and with :di the e. of a crowded etream against them. Thin VP:, was partly 'damped by a barge, tin one OCCRPioII the' l bridge boat was sunk, and there have been Me ini.t.inceil of steamers getting. right ;n the w v. circumstances, to pull over four miles and a half in ts. two minutes thirty-nine sem:eels is tough v erk• university men must get used ro pulling in 1...1 o .t. r. know what training mean., before they go in to win as i 'l dark orliAt blue. The daily bill of fore' for ir' sad Yale crews, actually under training. wool I eiske 1" . • certain of an English eight shake in Iris OP.-. r •.• f, jellies, eggs, mutton, hrewl and milk, steaks.' ' ie•t to ‘ .. 1 mg theineel yes to quantity'- what on earth can "WE^ • expeCt to do on such a regimen, except to g. t dyspla K and puffy If this is training, there ere a 7new10 , .e ,, "`!:. outside the ',Diversities who would like to 'e 1.0 thro '.° a emcee of it. Our young friends should remembrrZ the object of training is to enlarge the muscles. out sporting papers call the • bread-basket.' " ROYAL FREIt RomPITAL, (IRAY.R.INN-RoAn. —ll° number of patients relieved at this honk,' dnrinl the wee' ending May 11 was 3,308, of which 1,091 were cow Si: t inzs in Mr. Justi t.i.it in eons .notice the hu•ine++ wo The court mo refrrence to The hank f,r his died ts and pi Mr. Sargo M r. c „•diton al, ,d gone on noency, and beh.dt it wt ipOIICO of t n,, n, and als he Metropol hoiniing in His Honot laded with nt aciuittc, , • otection. oP &elaJur rae ac the had rho od II.LEGED This morni ees %alit ination , lier he charge of led ,change fur se • referred ago 0A which Doi tilted upon his i he court wmu lee ith the mem the t looted that be, , isle public I Mr. l'oland Se, • strutted b rk- itora to the I he defence, i the *ch. of tit. P The Lord M lci • It may pert • canon it we by rehend at Di ws - ' ..tY hY M i a • Sermon-lar rds t appeared ley that I ith ; ' from e al . d it was rep of or that h Jur id . be ere (hewn • was or appeared Us ly, the Leeds I 'ty of their in .. • e due, ti h the Is 34 - • • ugh the m 'es . the teal W ~ 4 ,s uat t ee n di a mit now node de connexion ril ry little doul er k Forted Co , . the part of I uded of ti o • .. piracy, th it great eaml N consider« ity , t Mr. Greenl • in attendant • r that purpow . the charge of of view to his be es considered n. 1 I Mr. Poland, a be capitulation o 'dunce, and tl is , .. the pris . • ether of non ea Mr. Sleigh ob • that the 1 ro• to one case at a given in sup{ we . Id not be gii g. Mr. Poland si re- charged with her persons, t at • . ,and it al .e two charm M The Lord Mai a itted to use 111 Yr. Poland tl .._ eley who ca r a rn -street, had Jr . interview wit the course of is 'toranY. and • • ted to dim cunt of bill I , ( MW., and me to time • , when the . is time the as e 10,0001. Kr. Greenlee, s •., ding whet M 1. A William& M Is ht before 1 e, the South Ys J • . of the cc II haring-cross et i Inspector Purl d • ve hie cab ire i - ve, the cab la a . of seven bel a ... 'ved notice i d Y within the • a ' if% They t e. 'cies plying f • • tether {net • . comp.: i f i if . blic, to se i e t i. , ner, instea k • rank within t, • - •to take th, II;;1::r.. .. e ' l n :':•ll:l..di t i "."ll(''' r .ii . t ..:,la. ith:lint i la l th vetbsbanefno4N . l s et , ifttia"t e ta bli u .:l° ) Cerie gte nhtutv:w h h p":66 ,d an :i .in kfle°:4l l 'llll''' lr cab lead been o it day with tl • ' case in the • . It been turned "on. Mr. Ni, • . e of w hi ch imi ' ' l *.Ying the d . „„ t h tb«r cabs c The P risoner 1 a rer of cony, 11:Nicholson . much as to thi The p r i soner Si . ih'. whether h e 'teen th e p eorti , Very reammonsbl n ve ry „.,,,,...,, or seven day.. .... TWISLVE .00 owner of !eft. elareldoo 03. court under m __ fo r &island, li e ' —.."'"", " Is ‘ *Mg the fol . ' er dowing drain t y fo , t " ' 4 . W he a rs i untiPlaint officer of heal ' I. who Mated t he . on th e ow! :ilt more ~ removed ' the insisantie w A L _Person who 1 " had now b , hlr. Curtis said t IP :- ..er wiab a, theAl 011.3 641104 , " 00, 1111 g 4 of the e atte a g abee of i u miler a aa Di , • I. Owl proce ...a thl 14.ialr" AI perk is undi Italica 4 th,