The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-04 00:00:00

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The meaning of this verdict will be that Mr. Lrrr ban, in his cam suion with the Anseer Au Mochas, sated in COO- fortuity with the privileges of the House of Com mons. Let as see, then, in se tar as the light thrown span the question by the evidence submitted to the Committee enable* us, what these privileges are. Au MOOIAD, one of the four Ameers of Upper &lade, was accused of having acquired tie lobe- Titan°. of one of his colleague by the production of a forged document. The Indian Government ap pointed a Commission of three of their ablest ser vants to investigate the charge judicially. The Commission came to the conclusion that the charge was proved. The Court of Directors thereupon pro posed that ALI Moos to should be deprived of the lands which he held under the forged document. The PRIRIDVIT of the BOARD or CORTROL, for the time being, was of opinion that his sentence wee too lenient, and at his suggestion Au MOORAD wu deprived of the lands thus fraudulently obtained, and also of what are called hie " hub= " lands, leaving him in possession of all hie remaining and very valuable hereditary property. To obtain a reversal of his judgment, the Ameer came to England. We peas over the minor per sonage. u the disinterested and sympathising agency by which he was surrounded—the Conveys, and the amiable lady who travelled from London to Paris, and from Paris to Vienna, for the Platonic purpose of amusing the deposed Prince by play ing chess with him. Our business is with the servant of the English public, the hon. Member for Yoaghal. Thus much is established by Mr. Burr's own statements. His services were engaged for the Ameer soon after that Prince's arrival in England. Mr. Burr admits that he could at any time have assumed the management of the application to Par liament in the Ameer's behalf. He states that he always urged upou the Ameer, and his friends and advisers, the bringing of his case before Parliament, as the most expedient coarse to pursue. He actually moved for papers, this production of which he deemed calm toted to promote the Ameer's views. He waited upon Directors of the East India Company, and upon Mr. Vratros Sam, the ex-President of the Board of Control, to solicit their good offices on behalf of his client. The result of these applica tions was a letter from the Board of Directors in answer to the Ameer's application, which on being submitted, as is necessary, for the approbation of the Board of Control, was materially altered by Mr. Valise's SMITH. The reply, as originally framed by the Court of Directors, was in effect, that the Ameer's case had been judicially decided, and that they saw no reason to reverse the decision. The reply, as modified by Mr. VILINON SMITH, was in effect, that if the Ameer would return to his native country, and exert himself in behalf of the English Government, his request might be favourably enter tained. These services, Mr. Burr declares, were per gratuitously, and simply from his conviction of the justice of the Arneer's claims. But in addi tion to these services Mr. Burr agreed to proceed to India to urge the Ameer's suit there. For this ad ditional service Mr. Burr admits that he was to receive in all 10,00 W., and that of this sum he has actually received something more than 2,0001. Mr. Burr declares that be still holds himself bound to proceed to India if the Ameer insists upon it; that in the event of Mr. Burr's declining ultimately to proceed to India, he will refund the money no mired ; but that if he is only prevented from pro ceeding to India by the Ameer and his advisers arriving at the conclusion that his services are not requited there, he will retain the money received. This is, to the best of our ability, a fair and correct statement of the substantial facts proved before the Committee of the House of Commons. Now, to what do them facts amount ? Mr. Burr is a Member of tho House of Commons ; of a tri bunal which might have been called upon to pronounce a verdict as to the justice or injustice of the treatment of ALt MOOLD by the Government of India; • tribunal which Mr. Bert. again and again urged AL: MOOILAD to appeal to. Mr. Burr, too, it would appear, actually took some initiatory steps, which might hays been serviceable to the Anteer had the case been brought before the tribunal of which he was a member. A Member of the House of Commons stands in the aaan relation • - Parliamentary agent of any in it for justice, that a Judge or solicitor of a suitor. What lodge who undertook to act as &Pulley who had brought, or , an action in his own court? such a step could only be ler or a little less, grave ,tios that the Judge ha remuneration for his sere' placed himself in the awkward unable to peeve that he has not • for undertaking to act as ALI a tribunal of which he is one has accepttd a promise of mid of this sum he has r llIll "" ijII IIIIIMP MI OIPIIII I I IIIIIII. " liuilil l l c ( . I THE DA:',T N E WS : ummoN MORNING actually received * of the Ameer's si tio Lesites t aa ll =r m rsas L a ' tiramme• me st so wswa liewee one consecutive i ,la 'lsi sant awl wrest tal .oo lliTia re at NI India or England 4,7 ,. "Vri,:=Wiessiss wee how mono, or the office "I'llTesam LOWS s s ... ., M a te ih n es a a= b . d non-row. It wil litir nitiferßA 0 wore. be improper f is stay 01711111 M I.DVIRTISIDIMIL. _ for urging . • IS b ... ald. aneal= UV ... 0 1.1 mono of which Ii M . V a r t = is , a Wswiaawase woo& we all right and pro Cr of my SWIMS IN le WWI= .et u the House of Cm At . .. x . r .. ... , ..seistit some other trilnu ra. e . Nam *as ma. ' ellselar, pill la Illuneration for tt adiers te oft. l. :. ..:.—... .1. r acme relation to the Par aPPliing to it aces to the counsel or mould be said of a lads moml or solicitor for a I was about to bring, an The iniquity of such wade a little more, by the coasideratioß sr had not, received rev Ilat Mr. Brri has place esoditioa of being nimbi vossived remuneration ft bloaann's agent before eir the member,. He b 10,0001. for his services, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY more than one-fifth. The urging suit upon the Indian Oqiernment is act, whether the some of action- co England, the inside of tie Rouse of Olin mons, or the office of the Board of Control in Can non-row. It will never do to say that it would be improper for Mr. Burr to accept money for urging • case before the House of Com mons of which he is a member, but that it would be all right and proper for him to urge the case before the House of Cominons, and, at the same time, before some other tribunal, provided he only received re =mention for the services rendered before the latter. It is obvious that by such a decision the door to abuse would be flung wide open. Nothing more would be required to enable a member of Parliament to pocket with perfect safety a remuneration as Par liamentary agent, in a case upon which he was called to decide &sludge, by performing additional services to his client out of doors, and charging a dispropor tionately large fee for them. We will not, In the present state of our knowledge, affirm that the Committee of the House of Com mons appointed to inquire into Mr. Burr's IMO has come to such a monstrous decision ; but if it las—and the intimation attributed to Sir JAMES 011ANAM that the result of the Resolutions was "an " acquittal of Mr. Isaac Burr from the charge of " improperly employing his privileges as a Member " of the House of Commons" seems only susceptible of such en interpretation—it will behove electors to be on their guard against choosing any man for their representative who can or will place himself in such a suspicions position. The part which Mr. BUTT has pl►yed in this transaction cannot be correctly appreciated unless his negotiations with the ex-President of the Board of Control are taken into account. Mr. VeasoN Stamm admits that he had re peated communications with Mr. BUTT—verbal and epistolary—on the subject of the claims of Au MOORAD. Of the conversations no record was kept, and the letters are said to have been private and confidential. It is impossible, therefore, to learn with certainty what was the nature of the commu nications. But this is certain, that subsequently to these interviews and letters, Mr. Vitaxox SMITH altered a draft letter of the Court of Directors refusing to entertain the Ameer's application, into a letter encouraging him to return to &incle by bold ing out the hope that if he made himself useful there to the English Government something might be done far- him. The only reason assigned for this partial reversal of a judicial sentence, on the strength of private, unreoorit.: communications, is that the sentence appeared harsh; but Mr. VERNON Sierra gave the Committee to understand that he was very reluctant to have the Ameer's case debated in Parliament while the Bengal insurrection was in progress, Mr. Burr having given it to under stand that he had informed the ex-President of the Board of Control of his having urged the Ameer and his friends to bring the ease before Parliament. We are not entitled to say that Mr. Bore obtained the concession in favour of Au MOORAD by hinting to the ex-President of the Board of Control that he had it in his power, ma Memberof Parliament, to force on a debate on the Ameer's case; but in the circum stances suspicious will intrude themselves which it is not easy to dispeL We pronounce no opinion as to the conduct of Mr. BUTT and the ex-President of the Board of Control. We are willing to assume that the conduct of both hes been throughout strictly correct. But this will not be denied :—That if a Member of the House of Commons is allowed to set as agent and adviser of any person preferring a suit to the House ; if he is allowed to receive remuneration from the suitor for urging the suit elsewhere, at the same time that he professes to urge it gratuitously in the House; and if the Member thus engaged is allowed to obtain, without challenge, from • responsible Minister of the Crown, who acknowledges that he dreads a debate on the suitor's claims in the House of Commons, large concessions for his client, an enor mons amount of corruption may be safely practised both by members of the House of Commons and by the Executive Government. Such a state of affairs is moot unsatisfactory even as matters now stand. But supposing that the entire Home Administration of India were vested in a single Minister of the Crown responsible only to the House of Commons, with what temptations would the in tegrity of our representatives in the Legislature be then beset? As it is, we have had at one time a Nawab of Surat, Rajahs of Settee and Coorg, an Ameer of Scinde, and a Ring of Oude, knccking at the doors of the House of Commons. Were that House converted into &Court of Appeal from the Government of India, it would be overwhelmed with • deluge of Indian business enough to engross the whole time of the members. And the Indian suitors, who entertain a hereditary faith in the omnipo tence of bribes in judicial proceedings would besiege these members with proffers, which, if we construe the intimation of Sir JAMES GRAIIAM aright, it would be perfectly safe for them to accept. It was once alleged that a Nabob of Arcot had eight members of the House of Commons in hie pay ; if an Indian Bill in any degree resembling that of Lord Piutaarrox's is allowed to become law, every Indian Prince—and their name is legion—and every wealthy Baboo will have his paid member or mem bers in the House of Commons. This is the danger against which the people of England have to guard, now that it is proposed to vest the government of India exclusively in the Ministers of the Crown. We understand that a London committee has been formed for the purpose of organising a constitutional oppo milks throughout the country to any attempt which may be mode to alter the lairs silicas( conspiracy. The drone ut the ersatittas will also be directed against any step on the part el tie government tending to encroach upon our canon. baked libation or to invalidate the security of the asylum afforded by this country to political exiles of all chases and opinion,. The vigilance of this committee has been semibold by the very unsatiefactory statement wade by Lord Derby in the House of Lords on Monday last. The Foreign Secretary has, we (herald) under stand, tarn measures to despatch at once • person of ap proved discretion to watch the trial at Naples aad to rapport the latereeta of the two engineer. "Another rule to which," said Sir John Peking toe at Droitwich yesterday, I hope 1 may hays the hossety es well as ths firmness to adhere Is, that in the navy there should be no party preferences. If o doubt, under our parliamentary system of government, parties we must ocialinse to have. Bat, In my opinion, petty feeling is mischievous and out of oleos when it insinuates itself Into the hiterual adrolnietration of our great public, departseete. And when brave men ere candidates for the honour of shedding their Wood and serving their Qum in a pliant profession it would be a gross perversion sad a heavy dare , fiction of duty on the part of a minister If he looked to any thing but merit and past warriors in the distribution of pro ' motions sad appoiatmenta." (Loud cheers.) Considerable activity prevails is the ship-building depletions atChatbare Dockyard in hastening forward the amid on of those K ;ew steamers which hare been ordered th.Aamtraty to be br,mght froward for launching. The jakming mraw steamer . w ai :Na kneeled from the dockyard mutat the approaching summer—ris , Hero, 91; Hood, 90; )(may, 40; and Charybdis, 21 ; giving an aggregate of shoat 12.002 toes burden. Mr.i,antlity was at Turin A few day. ago, and proceeds to mien, intent OA catering the *sans of his London parer daring the coming spring c.7 O POP l a II" lisprestkrt. itte, r 1" Couq. ; • ogooßn, m( mAilt Tht Quell and Priem Congo andiro al f Oka ilk ON pounds arday waft. . His Highness the Maharajah Dhuleap Singh, se computed by a numerous suite, has loft Claridge's Hotel for Pert. His highness proceeds in the first instance to the island of Sardinia, and will afterwards tr►vel through Italy for several months. Their Highnesses the Siamese Ambassadors sad suite will leave Chtridge's Hotel this morning for Paris, se route to Siam, vat Ilaresilles. Their *hawses will be seceeted by a guard of honour to the station, wheace they win proceed by special train to Dover. The Earl ..a Countess of Derby will have dinner and evening pities on Wednesday the 10th and Wednesday the 17th lad. The Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam have re ceived letters from Canton River, conveying the intelligence that Loed Hillard is recovering from the effects of his severe wound in the left arm, which was shattered by a pupil ball in the operations before Canton. His lordship writes in very good spirits. The 1 Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Cle mantilla Villiers have arrived in town from Middleton Park, near Blaster. The Hon. William Stafford Jerningham, her Ma jesty's Churl IPAffairos at Lima, has I Itaurigy's Hotel for Peru. The Earl of Derby has appointed Mr. Maurice Drummond to be one of hie private secretaries, and Mr. William Freaks has been appointed to be privets secretary to the Lord President of the Colima Major-General Peel, Secretary of State for War, has appointed Mr. William Peel and Mr. J. H. Ord., of the War-ofike, to be his private eseretariss. Lord Her dbige, Under-Secretary of State for War, has appointed Mr. H. J. R. Chao* of the War-odic., to be his private The Bishop of London has lioensed the Rev. J. Paul, 8.C.L., to the Incumbency of 111. P.W.e Chapel, Phalle*. DRAM OP 811 ROBERT CAMPBELL.—We have to record the death of Sir Robed Campbell, Bark, one of the directors of the Beat India Company, and a commissioner for the lieutenancy of London. The de ceased baronet was born la Mt, mid manied in 1798 a daughter of the well-known Dr. Feeley. He le eneoteded in his title and estates by Sir John ?Scholl Robert Campbell, ILC.H., a wider in the But India Company's service. We regret to learn that Dowager Lady Xinnaird died on Sunday bat at Bath. Her Ladyship was seventh daughter of Wallas second Duke of Lasater, by his mar rise with the Bon. Emilia Olivia Usher, heir of the bat Lord St. Gecep. Her ladyship was born 9th Sept., 1787, sad married Bth May, 1808, the late Lord Lnnaird, father of the puma per. By the demise of hue ladyship the families of Lord and lady Kinnard, the Duke and Duchess of Lamar, Mr. and lady Jane Repton, Lord and Lady Foley, Viscount and Lady Isabella de Chabot, the Marquis and liarchionesa of Kildare, and other families of rank, are placed in ref urning. We are glad to learn the Hon. Lady Inglis and her children, by letters reoeived by the Let mail from Cal culate, are is better health than might have been expected, tionsidering the severe mental anxiety end printion they endured during their detention at Lockman. Her ladyship end farody are expected to reach this onantry in the course of the present month. The following from the Colombo Observer, of January 23, gives an amount of an extraordinary saddest to Major Millman, Royal Artillery, sad stds•de.oamp to the Governor of Ceylon --" Although It is still deemed unsafe to move Major Mika= from Hatregazo, we rejoice to hear that ho Is in no danger. It seams that en elephant ceargod him, and was within a few fiat of him, wham Mr. Tyndall, determined to save his friend's Ilia, fired. The bullet writ through Major Milman's left shoulder, splintering a mall portion of the bone. But the end arse answered ; the ballet which had thus disabled Major Milman kti led the elephant, which fell within a law feet of him. do narrow se wept and under such cameraman, ia,we behree,anprecedented." PUBLIC TRIBUTB TO MR. JOHN LILWALL. A public meeting was held yesterday evening, in Exeter-hall, for the presentation of a substantial tribute to Mr. John Lilwall, in acknowledgment of his long and sac maul exertions in furtherance dabs early closing and half holiday movement in factories and homes of business. The chair was taken by the Earl of eIIIATTISBURT ' supported by the Rev. Dr. Archer, G. Hitchcock, Esq., 8. C. Hall Eeq., W. Rivingion, Eq., Alm. Webber, Beg., Rev. J. Brown, R. D. Grump, Reg, Rev. Mr. Kitten, tr. B. Shipton, Req. Rev. Carter Hall, Theodore Janesfireig., Mr. Withers, Mr., Keeling, Mr. Burt, W. Tarn, Beg.,W. B. Graham, Beg., &a From a brief abstract of the last report circulated us the meeting, it appeared that in 1888 Mr. Libra first com esencrd his pre-eminently useful labours, when some of the body of easistaata " never crowd the door except on Sundays;' " others worked in the shop until four o'clock on the Sabbath morning "many fell victims to early graves," and so on ; while now, • 'majo rity of the respectable wareho uses in the metropolis have, mainly through the exertions of Mr. Literal!, come round to the conviction that their asebitents are frail flesh end blood like themselves, and require a moderate amount of ' fresh air, exercise, and teat, to preserve such a state of health mis neemeary to enable them efficiently to perform their allotted labour. Numerous teettmosiale from persons en gaged la various trades were produced at the meeting, all giving forcible evidence of the injurious hours of business which were sommon when Mr. Ulwall took up the early closing question, and the great amelioration that had already reaultedhom hie exertions. The chair having been taken bythe Earl of 811APT60111:11T, the mestieg wee opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Hall, end lettere apologising for absence, but fulli t ooncontes in the objects of the meting, were red from : t Hon. the Lord Ebury , Right Hon. the Lord Stfteley, Ri ght Hon. W. Cowper, H.P , Sir Morton Peto, Arthur Mills, Eel , M.P., H. S. Sheridan, Req., M.P., Mr. Alderman Wire, Rene. Canon Chatupnels, R. Slug's., bil`Connell„ Homey, D. Moore, W. Candela, Dr. Leask, &c. The Rev. Mr. Armee& oared the first resolution : —"That in the opinion of this meeting the abrkl t In the hours of labour in the various departments of industrial life, which hes already been effected through the medium of the Early Closing Asso iatioe has materially contributed to promote the moral, intellect ual, and physical ire t of the rising generation of this metropolis and otter populous cities and towns throughout the kingdom." He teetiffed, from long acquaintance, to the many good qualities of Mr. Litman. He had known bits, he said, 20 years since, when se a mere young shopmen, his brain was even thin stored with plans for the benefit of his fellow-labourers. Mr. Lavin lied all the qua lities necessary for the task he had andertaken—he 'had r ,1 f presmisse, rat anolooy, and powened ICTl'Unlike MgWINN be woe not addicted to ll . ng hie hied eying the wI ; nor like the whirrs, of buildiog walls to kw* lb Mai mama. He paid this tribute to him Air MeV red oaporiose• (Hear, hem.) Having alluded in ceitelynteu teem le an article white bed appeared in the lkidp ,Wists - ettlie weridai, Dr. Amber added that the ag p aisles Aeoledelkeo wee desply indebted for the Id hod elothedlosat Ito pills poem Whatever foie* lb* Olio, the whole et ttl• ammo papers were on the die it bwomalty, sad to that redoes fact was to be attaining Ulla al the society's mom. The Rev. Mr. LITTON briefly seconded the resolution, med Mr. Buirroo supported it, when it was =AM by ao tr.tl!C. Ham, .seed the second resolution as follows t. That the remarkable aurorae which has attended the prostat general may abating and Saturday hall-holiday sesetements is, ander God's blessing, especiany to be attri buted to the energy and perseverance of Mr. John Literall, flee honorary secrebuy of the Early Closing Aesociation sod that in the opinion of thia meeting the time hes arr i ve d Whin an opportunity should be afforded to the public at bops/ mariang, by • substantial testinicsi a l.k a p i t i ed n of that gentleman's invaluable &offices.' to the resolution being seconded, the SECRETARY road • list of subscriptions, incloding 101. from the elude men, 101. from Lord Flory 601. from Mr. George Hitchcock, 601. from Mr. Tars, two guinea. from Mrs. S. C. Ha, three guineas from Mr. B.C. Hall. and various other sow, amount. tog in all te upwards of 300/., the whole having been con. tributed without the slightest solicitation. Mr. ROBERT BAITER seconded the r eAutiolll. He said that the energy and perwrenume with which the iadustrist alarm followed their labours, not only in this metropolis bat la the whole country, was the admiration of the world. But there were bounds to be set to thin perpetual strain. The soul mutt be considered as well as the body, the health as wall sa the gain; and the Early Closing Association wee • remarkable step in the direction of regeneration. The ear-, vents had originated it, and the mestere supported it bemuse they saw that in promoting the comfort a t tt:::=aw Gloved thee increased their efliriency and 11. trt oteduhey should see the great work progress, and that It would continue to be supported by the exertions of Mr. Literati, to whom it was already so much indebted. The resolution wee then put and carried with every mark of warm and earnest sympathy from the satire neetiag A vote of thanks to the Chairman, proposed by G. Hitch cock, Eeq„, and seconded by H. D. Grainger, Keg., wee Pained en amiably itchnoolPdged, and the proceedhsp ter minated. ROTAL SOCIETY 07 MIIIICIANI.—The 120th enniveratry festival of this misty takes plea ht ta Free masons' fiall, this main& wimple Lard Saseivk will male. we Ha I 1113-E LECHONB • c r. .in.zarsoL LOW) STANLEY AT KI NG' LYNN. (THIS DAY.) .. L,41,1 HiIt7SILIC THL10141.11.) - .. (plow ova ows oomaroxpairr.) t KING'S LYNN, THURSDAY. The nomination of Lord Stanley for this borough took place to-day at eleven o'clock. These being no opposi doe his lordship was declared duly elected. Lord (Trainee addressed the *lectors for upwards of an hour. He spoke first on the India question, strongly advocating neutrality in religious matters. India he said, would be governed best without home interference. Oa the sableet of parliamentary reform his lordship said ha still adhered te his already expressed opinion in favour of extended representa tion, but he thought it only reasonable that the government should be allowed till next session to prepare a general measure. He should therein, oppose any partial proposal which might be made in the interval. He announced that the government would nut propose any conspiracy bill until they had esoertained front results of pending proceedings that the present law is insufficient. He hoped that the law u it stands would be found adequate for all purposes. His lordship, in conclusion, said he bad accepted office solely because under the peculiar personal nirctunstances in which he was pl►ced, it seemed to him that he had no right to decline. A. vote of thanks was passed to the returning officer, after which the return of his lordship was made out, and the pro ceedings were at an end. DROITWICH. (FRON 01711 OWN 111.01TI1.) DROITWICH, WIDNIIIDAT. The election for the borough of Droitwicb, conse quent on the appointment of Sir John Pakington u First Lord of the Admiralty, took plata at the Town-ball bare today; the Mayor, J. H. BILADLIT, 111K1., presided; and otter the lima tetzealeetee, W. H. Ricerrrs, Reg., it borough magistrate, briefly pro posed the re-shed= el ths Right 800. Sir John Somerset Palologtoa se •St end proper person to represent th• bo rough in parliament. E. Hu acnorr, Neg., seemeiled the nomination. No other person being propoissd, The MAYOR returned Hr John duly elected amidst much applause. The Right Hon. Sir J. 8. Pentteorort then addressed the Menem In • speech occupying an hour and a half in the deli very. After some Introductory remit**, he said—Parliament met in December with the prospect before it of having to deal with the state of India, the Bank laws, and with the subjeot of reform in parliament; and he went up to parlia ment with • deep inn of the importance of the great guil tless to be discussed. If he thought one thing less probable than another, it wee that there would be an early change of ' administration, or that the government of Lord Palmerston would fall. But In the Interval between December and the present time there had occurred that disgraceful and wicked attempt to murder the Emperor and Empress of France. By en interposition of Providence—for it would be mockery to attribute it to any other canae—(hear, hear)—that blow did net strike where it was intended it should do. Blood was shed and innocent lives were Iced, but he thanked God that that great men who ruled the destinies of France escaped. (A voice, " Amen I") He regretted to say that the foul plot had been planned, end he might say carried on in England. One of the conspirators, Pierrt,was an Italian, who had resided in Birmingham as a teacher of language', and yea considered • quiet, inoffensive mans long as he remained there. Orsini also resided in England ; and, he was ashamed to say, some Englishmen were also mixed up in the foul and dis graceful attempt. Referring to Lord Derby's speech in the House of Lords on Monday night, he said, in order to judge of the feelings of the people of France they must exchange positions with them, and imagine a neat of Englishmen coming over from France and attempting to blow up our Qum at the door of the Opera-house. The French were • warm and impulsive people ; they considered they bad been en the brink of • great misfortune, and it would not only have been a misfortune for France, but for Europe, had the attempt succeeded, and we should not be extreme in taking 06110011 at any language which they in a lime of excitement may have made use of. The ques tion was how were we to deal with the matter P And he must say he thought the government of Lord Palmerton had not dealt wisely with the critical event. On the re-assembling of parliament government introduced • bill to amend the law of conspiracy. Did they introduce the bill with that caution which was necessary? (No, no.) The government was placed in a position which required the greatest caution. It wan a double question. First, how far the Amos of foreigners conspiring in England to commit • murder abroad came within the English view of the crime of compirecy ; and secondly , how far the same offence came within th e law of England when the canoe was a conspi racy by • foreign person to commit the murder abroad of a person who was • sovereign, end an ally of England. These were question' on which the most eminent lawyers of England differed, and he thought the government would have been wise to have maid, " Before we introduce this law we will ascertain carefully what the law is." But instead of that they proceeded im mediately to legislate. But that was not all there was the despatch of Count Walewski. That despatch had been the cause of more offence than It ought. In the first place, it had not been well translated, and he (Sir John) felt convinced that the French government intended no offence by it. But our government never answered it—( h ear, bear)—but on the receipt of it went to parliament with • bill; and whether they intended it or not, they held out to the British and to the French people the appearance that they were legislating under foreign dictation. (Hear, hear.) Nothing could have been more unseemly and unwise in our government than to have so introduced the bill as to give it the appearance of resulting from foreign dictation. It might be ieked, then, why did he (Sir John) vote for the introduction of the bill, and how it wee that there was • large majority of the House of Commons favourable to the first reading. But that decision did not really take place on the first reading, but on the question of laud being given to introduce it. When the government cams down and told the House of Commons that the law of England on the subject of conspiracy re. pared to be corrected, under inch circumstances to say you shall not even in troduce a bill would not only be an un gracious act towards the government, but, to his opinion, would be a moot unwise act towards the country; therefore he (Sir John) could not agree with the minority which re sisted the introdaction of the bill. But the division which over threw the government wee not a division on the bill one way or the other, it was a question whether her Majesty's Ministers had duly regarded the honour of England in not sending an answer to that despatch of Count WiMwski which had given offence. (Hear, hear.) The conservative opposition did not seek to overthrow the government, the amendment did not emanate from their benches, but they supported it because the proposition wee simply a true one, for the result of the despatch remaining unanswered was, that it was circulated throughout Europe, and printed In the columns of the ifeleiteter, where it ought only to have appeared simult•- neously with the answer of Bog (Loud cheers.) That answer ought to be clear and dedelve, conciliatory to France, depurating the foul mien, but asserting the dignity of this country, that it would never abandon the right of asylum which all the world found in this free land. (Cheers.) That ought to have been the coup of the government, bat they Inked the moral courage to give that answer, though had they !Bawd that comes there would have been an end to all dillicolty in the matter. As to the law an It now existed he would gin no opinion upon it, but it would shady be ascertained by means of prosecutions now going fanned how far that law was efficient, and whether fresh issidlation was wanted. He hoped and trussed that her liejesfifs renal &sitters would so answer the despatch of Count Wakeraki as to =Wain the honour of this coun try, and at the same thee 63 give no tames to the French government. Our duty armed to be twofold—drat, to pro cisim to Europe that we cannot and will not abandon the right of asylum for all the world in England—(cheers)—but together with that declaration let them make it equally patent that we will not sanction the concoction of so foul a crime In this land, and that our krapi tality moat not be abused. (Cheers.) The second part of our duty was to maintals, as long as we can with honour, that alliance with France which be believed to be conducive to the peace of the world, and which he believed was also for the bemetit of the two countries. (Hear, hear.) navies thus explained the immediate came of the downfall of Load Palmerston'* government, he said he thought that down fall must in frankness be attributed also to other causes— vie., their want of dechion, want of asserting an opinion of their own, and of acting up to an opinion when formed. He referred to the conduct of the govern • went on the church-rate question and in reference to hie own resolution on education as illustrations of their indeolskm. visions, and vacilletion. What the people of Engird lead was tint person' should have an opinion, and having ea *Dion, should stick to it. (Hear, hear.) After MOM 11•111 ou India, he canes to the ques tion of referee. The ward reform had two meanings. It bad • coorantionaMnd rty sien—• sense in which those who it seeking grist democratic innovations on the on. Taken in tide annythe party he had the bracer to ant with in public life had name proJauned themselves ardent reformism. But the wad iellerns" had a better and men legitimate slain in whisk it meant • careful rendes and outdoes improvement of all our fusillades., whether reproicataths er °therein. In that larger and better seen he wee nailed in saying that the present edintais teatime were ardent reformers. (limy, hear.) It was In this inn sad mutt that thsy had remised, ender the them hitaidtrissuirlateafitensti:eoha=4"Neanaib Itireprineu7s.t:.driemerd'a:Lpeepie.ebbsiniti really anion of a quarter cor• century ago, pail he MI nassalse a Anal" MARCH. 4 , 180er• BELFAST. tbrongS the et:scale Droitirich he might see some voters to whom he could not say it would be quite sate to entrnit the destinies of the eountrydwhile be saw before him men of edncAtion and talent who Moot enjoy the franchise. A vote sf thanks to thefiSayor oonoluded the proceedings. • • BTAMFORD. STAMFORD, WEDNESDAY. This election wok place to-day at the Town-ball ; the only candidate being the Lord-Advocate, John Inglis, of Edinburgh. liming bee= nominated by Mr. Phillips, and seconded by Mr. Alderman Handson, Mr. Inglis was declared duly elected. Mr. Donis then returned thanks. He aaid he took office under the present government under circumstances which appeared to him to make it not only incumbent upon every one to give such support as he could to Lord Derby and his colleagues, but he took office, and trusted to support them, because be firmly believed that their measures, when they should be developed, would be suck as not only to deserve, but to command very general support in the country. After glancing at the circ;Metancea which led to the downfall of the late government, the hon. member mid there were cer tain matters which unquestionably demanded very important and most serious consideration from the new government. Pint, obviously, in point of time, was that mown upon the second reeding of which the government of Lord Pshnersten was defeated. He (Mr. loeis) thought no man could read the amendment of Mr. M. Gibson wit h out at ones that the tarrying of that amendment did not in the Meat affect the merits of the bill or the question it involved. He was not prepared to say that the bill wee by any means the measure demanded by the present circumstanoss. But he would say that, if there was a defect in the law of Inglend such as was represented, or if any serious doubt existed as to what the law was in regard to eo important a matter as conspiracy to murder, be should be prepared to support any reasonable amendment of that law. Bat he would not con sent to consider that measure or any other measure upon the same subject, until there should have been given an answer, on the part of this country, to that despatch of the French minister, the want of an answer to which sealed the fate of the last government. (Cheers.) With regard to the bill relating to the government of India, it appeared to him that bad he been la parilainent he should have sym patkiesd with those who thought that this was not the most expedient time to make a radical and fundamental change in the government of that country. But the House of Com mons came to an opposite resolution, and he did not think there was anything wrong in the potent government bowing to that resolution. Of all rein in this country there was none in whose heads a zneasum on so important a subject could be placed with or greater safety in thee& of the noble la r d rre l lde i leofthe Board of Control. And he felt persuaded that the bill which would be produced tinder that noble lord's immediate superintendence would be such se would give sathiaction to parliament and the country. At any rate he thought it would not be subject to those objections which were so forcibly stated against the bill of the late government, he meant the objection that by the operation of the measure the whole P and the whole power connected with the governroento at = would have weed without qualification or control into the hands of the minister of the day. (Hear, hear.) The brat topic notioed by the hon. member was the question of Par liamentary Reform. For a number of yam back the House of Commons had repeatedly recorded thefr conviction that the law regarding the representation of the people required revision and amendment. Easocessive governments had announced the same opinion; and although there was no very loud or clamorous demand in the country for a change In the law in this respect, he thought it could not be doubted that there was a very serious, and not the less serious because • very calm and deliberate, expression of opinion among the educated cheese generally, that • re-consideration of this subject at all events was at the present time highly expedient. (Hear.) Heconfeesed that he also entertained that opinion. It appeared to hire that the time was come— not for a new Reform Bill—no one knew what that meant— but for • reconsideraden and revision of the law, regulating the repreentation of the people, with • view to l'onsidei whether they could ad be Improved. That the present go. vermeil would addresses& minds to this subject earnestly and honestly he had so doubt ; and be trusted the result would be that in the session of 18.59 it would be considered in a fair, dispassionate, and tusprejudioed spirit, both by the government and by the two houses of parliament. (Cheers.) After again expressing his thanks for the honour conferred urn him, the hon. member concluded amid applause. The proceedings then terminated with a vote of thanks to the mayor. WENLOCH (SALOP). The Right Hon. Colonel Cecil Forester having accepted the office of ComptrDllsr of the Household under the new ministry, vacated his seat as one of the members for Wenlock, and yesterday (Wednesday) he was re-elected withtut opposition. Mr. T. llyrrox (Shipros) proposed the right hon. gentle• man for re-eisetion, and in doing so said, if theee were more such member in the House of Commons the task of the new ministry would be an easy one, instead of being, as he feared, a wry laborious undertaking. Mr. G. PRITCHARD seconded the nomination, and con gratulated Lord Derby's ministry upon coming into power at such a fortunate time. The Indian mutiny was now nearly suppressed, the war with China may be said to be virtually at an end, and the late commercial crisis had almost pawed away. The MAYOR (Mr. Ferriday) having declared Colonel Forester duly elected, the hon. member thanked the electors in a brief speech, in which he confined himself to saying he should continue to pursue the same line of policy which he had hitherto followed. The ptooeedin~ which lasted but a abort time, then elated. BRIDONORTH. Yesterday, Mr. Henry Whitmore, one of the members for this borough, appointed. Lord of the Treasury, was reelected without opposition. The new Solicitor-General iiis issued the follow ing address TO THE ELECTORS OP TUEBOROCGH 07 RELPAST, " Cieettiene;„LHaving accepte d the office of her Majesty's Solicitor-(renal, my Beat in Hones of Commons bee be come vaunt, end I suture to uk from you the restoration of the important trust you have already twice committed to my cent. My public conduct has been now fur sous years before you—my political principles are well known to you. In discharging the important duties of a law officer of the crown, I trust that, without any departure from those prin ciples, I may be enabled to find enlarged means end opportu nity of promoting all measures of publio advantage and im provement, and of watching over the interests of the town and constituency with which I em connected by birth and beg associotice, and to represent which I consider the highest honour that can befall me in public life, I hope to have the please» of waiting upon you as soon se the smenge mode oonsegneat on my new duties will permit me. And, moutimo, I have the honour to be, path-men, year chained end very faithful servant, " H. M. CAIRNS. THE CHARGE AGAINST Mk 18440 BUTT, Y.P. The committee met yesterday morning for the purpose of considering their report. The proceedings ware private, the public being excluded. The committee sat in deliberation four hours and &half. At half-past four, Sir James Graham informed the rem satisfies' of the press that the committee bad mine to some general resolutions, the terms of which he regretted he could not communicate to them, as lin feared it might not be consi dered respectful to the House of Commons, which was wijourned for so long a time. Had the hones been sit ting, and had he been able to report, he would at once have given the press the formal resolutions. The right hoe. baronet added that the effect of the resolutions was on acquittal of Mr. Isaac Butt from the charge of Mt employing Ms privilege, aa • • member of the ones of Commons. The next Indian telegram will be due in London this day week. It will contain news from Calcutta up to February 10. No very important new., however, is eapeoted here before the 29th inst., when we shall have intelligence hom Bombay to the 9th inst., some days after the invasion of Owls by Sir Collo Campbell. , - GLOUCESTER GRAMMAR SCIIOOL.—Tbe charity known as the Crypt Grammar School having of late years very much increased in velar, it has been decided to build a larger and very superior school, capable of ae about 400 boys. nem will be • head mertr= master, with aastatatita, and Greek, Latin, mathematic*, ke., will be taught to boys living within two miles of the Cron, from eight to seventetn peanut sae, at • price not exceeding six guineas per annum. No Moan MADEIRA.—A Funchal correspondent says that it ie not an open question whether any more Ma deira wine will ever be produced. None hoe been made mince 1861, and there are now only muss 7,000 or 8,000 pipes upon the entire island. AU recent attempt. to manufacture this wine have utterly failed, and pumpkin vines now dory the old grape arbour. once covered with abundant clusters of rich grapes.—Tinsaa. Mae. MARY WESEL—This gifted American lady, celebrated for her public readis of tthakepear• and of " Uncle Tom's Cabin Dramatised,' wee lately obliged, by threatening% of pulmonary disease, to team England for the milder climate of Cannes, in the south of France. We ale happy to learn that her husband, by whom she was accom panied, and who is also favourably known an the author of the anti-slavery toad, " The Clarks and their Friend.," baa obtained, through the kindness of the Duke of Argyll, an appointment in the Post-office in Jamaica, with • selary of 2001., thee enabling him to moan a permanent residence in a climate peculiarly congenial to the health of his wife.—Anti- Slavery .61recata DISPOSAL OF CORPORATE PROPERTY TO TUE LarrcAarou AND YORKIDIIII RAILWAY.—The Liverpool Town Council, at their westing yesterday, decided to grant a perpetual lease of land on the the of the old Borough Gaol, comprising 18,800 square yards, to the Unmake and York shire Railway, at an annual rent of 2e. lid. per equate yard. The compury gave the council the alternative of selling the lend infest far 21. w ee la Keen yard, but the arrangement of a peepatuel hem prdurel. The lead is to vpro peisis4 by the esaryany se stramAna of their ware ho use and pod tab assumodstka. INNININOW:!=.I7 UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, WIDNISDAY. The Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Com. pany's steamer City of Baltimore passed Cork about noon to-day. She brings news one day later from New York, but as • strong easterly gale is prevail. lug in the &wool, with a heavy sea at the time of her passing Cork, it is unoertifikWwhakifour she may arrive to-morrow. ►a"' FRANCE. (ram ova OWN oomtzeroirozwr.) PARIS, TUESDAY Evmuse. The Minister of the Interior (General FApinaset) has sent a circular to the prefects, recommending them to exercise redoubled surveillance over foreigners, to watch public-houses, and to arrest all known members of secret societies, and keep them au secret. There are rumours that the government has received information of a projected general rising. The provincial papers now speak of nume. roue arrests every day. The number of political arrests effected in Pans alone since Jan. 14 amounts to upwards of 400. The secret of the accurate re. port of the Orsini trial upon which the government journals plume themselves so much is now out. I learn from a certain source that the shorthand writer's notes were copied out u the trial was going on and sent to the Emperor, and he it was who or. dared that they should be published textually. The Swiss journal the Bled, the official organ of the Federal government, makes the following strong observation upon the new creations of French con• sulatee in several Swim towns:--" Public opinion looks upon these consuls as being in reality nothing else than French spies. Will Switzerland allow the French police to obtain a footing upon her territory f " It is said that the shell seized upon Pierri, and the revolvers taken from the conspirators, will be depo. sited in the Artillery Museum. The Bourse has been very bad indeed. The rents fell 2k. for cash and 60c. for account, closing at 69.5 and 69.20. Mobilier fell 25f. The railways were more depressed than they have been for a long while. Orleans fell 27.50 ; Northern, 12.50 ; East. ern, 20; Lyons, 15; Southern, 10, and Western, 15, Rumours of the instability of the Derby ministry caused uneasiness, and the arrests going on in Frame are beginning to be much talked about. It was understood that the bullion in the Bank of France now amounts to 305 millions, and that the discount accommodation has fallen below 450 millions, a state of things indicating the most com plete commercial stagnation. The P says, in its weekly commercial review : We have no decisive change to notice in the general sitar don of commerce. Daring the early part of February they was a hope that businem would resume its wonted activity. but the movement lasted but • very short time and affairs have now relapsed into • state of await nal venal stagnation. Purchases have been confined to few aaeortmenta for the immediate wanta of consumers, but anything like • complete laying In of stock has been ad journed by common consent. The export trade gives no sign of life, and the advice from Germany and the United States contain nothing to warrant the , expectation that our manufacturers will re7eiveanyorders of importance from those countries this spring; in consequence there is a dead calm in all articks de Paris. The situation of the NOI4OIOWieS shape is a little better, but the sales effected are chiefly in cheap Rennes. Ahead all the Paris houses have bought fewer spring stuffs than natal. Prudence is the order of the day everywhere. With the exception of certain houses in the north, more especially those at Aveanes, Roubaix, Lille, and Taming, which are doing pretty well, the manufacturers of times still feel the affects of the crisis. The sales at Rouen and Mulhouse are more than one half less than in preceding years, end the late rise in ootton is a further obstacle to business. Lyons bus for some time past alternated between animation and dead m/m. Almost all the principal factories received orders from Parts simultaneously a little while since, which induced them to set up their machinery, but these orders have sot been renewed, and a reaction has now set in. Raw silks ire lower, bat the prima asked are still too high In regard to the large stocks in hand. The holder* of raw materials mad submit to much larger sacrifices before there can be any decided improvement in businese. The same observation applies to almost every species of merchandise. It will have been observed, frem the customs returns, that the dodo§ in the enirepties had decreased a little since the end of No comber, but they ars still much larger than they were ak this time last year, and as all the foreign marble are squally glutted, it will be • long time b efo re Was will be able to place their goods to their eatiatibeibe. Raw cottons go off better than anything else, in oases= of the news from Liverpool and the United States. movement, far from leading to a resumption of Maims M spun cottons, rather bee the effect of rendering the Weald. of the manufacturers still more precarious. Corn is somewkst firmer. The millers, who for some time past had not but working touch, are now buying a little. but there are is "pea teddies transactions either in eon or flour. I am informed that a bill for throwing open the bakers' trade is now under the consideration of the Council of State. The names of the officers of artillery killed in the Crimea are, by order of the Emperor, to be engraved on the bronze pieces of cannon which are to be oast in the Imperial foundry in order to perpetuate the memory of the celebrated siege. The name of the Cour de Sebastopol has been given to one of the inner courts of the Museum of the Artillery, in which all the cannon and mortars taken during the late war are arranged. Two enormous anchors, which belonged to the Russian navy, ornament the principal entrance. AUSTRIA. The Borattdialle of Hamburg contains a letter from Vienna, which says : Our affirmation that the Austrian government intended, if necessary, to occupy Montenegro ham been dieputed ; but it was perfectly exact. The disturbances in Bosnia and the share which Montenegro takes in them have been the subject of various diplomatic conferences not only in ViRlllll bat at Parts, and Boma de Hubner has made known to the French cabinet the intentions of Austria with respect to Montenegvo, on aemost Of the protection which France has for some time whichsoseded to that petty state, and of the insolence with that protection has linked Prince Danilo. The French cabinet does net appear to have been pleased with that declaration. Neosho*, however, Austria is reinforcing her troops in Dhoti* end frit be tins that the insurgents of Bosnia have reteived a reinforcement of 4,000 Montene grins, It is very pod& that the occupation of the Bleak Mountains by some Austrian battalions will soon take place. DENMARK. A letter from Copenhagen of the 24th alt. says that the ministerial crisis which had arisen in that city had been put an end to by the three ministers, MM. Andras, Krieger, and Uusgaard, having with drawn their resignations, and by the cabinet - having come to an understanding on the coarse to be adopted by it in the dispute with the Germanic Diet. AN AFRICAN RTVER.—We had chanted the Sanaa sad graceful sandstone scenery, on the sea- gad, kr a view novel and most characteristic. The hippopotami stow raised his heed from the water., alerted, gazed upon es, and sank into his native depths. Alligator, terrified by the splash of can waddled down with their honid claws, dint.. ing the slimy bank, and lay like yellow lops, abesatutai as with small, malignant, green eyes, deep set under warty hewn.. lfonkeyo rustled the tall freer Below, jungle men and women— • • whbeesk mot o orUd la their *Wok not took Lot Ilko 1W lakabltooto o' th' earth, And Yet aer oat" — planted their sitouider-eloths, their rude sags, sad coma lipoa the mud inlets whine Ileh abounded. The ehlg wan 'rattling blue, the sager bluer, and over both snag the thinnest Sae. tempering raw tome, of miss to gestate bratty. On both aides o the abrioking stress a dose =mob of many-tinted vegetation, _ Toren sod baci, sod pie sad hectic red." shadowed swirling pools, where the current swept upon the growth of intertwined fibres. The N.khl el Shaven, or Devil's Date, eccentric in foliage and frondsgc, projected gracefully carved arms, noontimes thirty and forty feet over the wave. This dwarf-giant of palms has no t but the mid-rib of each branch is as thick es • esel'e thigh. Upon the watery margin large lilies 4= brightness, some sealed by day ; othere, w gleamed beautifully against the dark verdure and the roost brown of the beck-stress. In scattered spots were Idea woven traces of human presence; tall mom and mew waving over a now impenetrable tangle; pisstathe, Mier' cans and bitter oranges, choked with wild grat er t r ip lingered about the homestead, blackened by the d' • Ire. And all around reigned the eternal arbor afhweer► deep and saddening, broken only by the curlew's war" re by the breess rustling the tree tops, whispering wog the matted foliage, and swooning apes the tepid bereat el dr wave.—Capt. Burton, in Bleekureorre Ifetrzior for March. held Arm bulk Mitt He went who Th that sent them the b HI inwn Till An oomp debto on tot for 01 it de/ list ui Me Ream comp Th This had z aecou that: the 1 hardl Mt band Mt wijou the upwe be two I MOW the b time. la was 1 perio TL his ci a tiro for 1, _ . Be the d and • a fee sgtim word violet on tl aecur fi WM 1 he ho -7 111 no strik, long lane, give' impr be M Inn diner wu pree of t witt of ot till who peal NW r i P . C ' him 1 - 1/4 - nil • /