The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-19 00:00:00

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ROBERT CAPE.TOMN, JAMLS COlOll6O, THOMAS Leerae, and HMOS °SUMMED. Toe r, figure quaintly enough in Mr. DOD'S excel- 1 lent little manual. Yesterday our own columns were favoured with a very admirable communication from " Merrnes Pagru." 1/r. HALE, the excellent clergyman whose personal identity is disguised under this geographical pseudonym, is the recently appointed Bishop of Western Australia. Having been promoted to spiritual lordship over a diocese of burglars and pickpockets, this earnest divine was very laudably anxious to become familiarised as soon as possible with the nature of the element in which he was destined to work. At considerable sacrifice of comfort, and, as it turned out, at no little personal risk, the new Bishop took his passage by the first convict ship that sailed for the scene of his future labours. Everybody remembers with what a touching purity of public spirit the fanny Canon of St. Paul's used to pray for the cremation of a home Bishop—a real " palsees-and.purple-man"—in a first-class carriage, as the readiest means of putting speedy end to the vexatious tyrannies of railway directors in the early days of locomotives. Times have improved. Manners have grown milder. People in authority are not quite so impenetrably reason proof. Less shocking examples will suffice. It is possible that the imminent peril of a Colonial Prelate from • mutinous ship-load of convicts—even though his life shoull be, as we trust it hu been, ultimately spared from their violence—may induce the autho rities of the Home-office to cause a stricter supervi sion to be exercised, both over the class of convicts selected fur transmission to Western Australia, and the proper means of their transport in convict-ships. Our readers will not hr.syr forgotten the long con troversies toac were carried on some ci.,:hteen months back on the subject of Transportation. The result of those controversies was, that the views steadily maintained throughout by this Journal were carried into effect by the Legislature. Transporta tion as a judicial sentence ‘ and a primary stage of punishment, was finally abolished by the Penal Servitude Act of 1857. It was left to the authori ties of the Home Office to select from among those who were undergoing sentences of penal servitude in the various convict prisons throughont the United Kingdom, certain classes of convicts who should be judged mast eligible for annual transhipment in limited numbers to Western Aus tralia—the only colonial possession of Great Britain to which convicts could still be sent. The test for selection was declared to be, not the greater or less culpability of the convict, but his greater or less fitness for colonisation under a condition of qualified freedom. The interest of the Colony, not the punish ment of the convict, was alleged to be the sole object of the new system of Transportation, and ass general rule those convicts alone were to be selected for the purpose who, by a long-continued coarse of good con duct, had given the best earnest of ultimate reforma tion, and the most satisfactory proof of their fitness for a less severe and stringent process of restriction. Such is, and for some time before the last Act on the subject each had been, the theory of Transportation to Western Australia. The practice unfortunately has been very different. The subordinate prison autho rities in this country, to whom the task of selection seems to have been practically entrusted, have appa rently been only too glad to relieve themselves from the presence of the most troublesome and desperate convicts ander their charge. The worst men, and not the best men, have been systematically shipped off to Western Australia. The consequences are pre cisely what might have been anticipated. The state of Western Australia, as developed before the Lords' Committee of 1858, is unsatisfactory and dangerous in the extreme. At the end of 1855 there were more able-bodied men of the convict than of the free class: in fact, as Dr. HALE well expresses it, " the " colonists live, as it were, continually with a " charged mine under their feet, and the system " pursued by the mother -country of sending oat " from time to time a regular supply of men rife for " any outrage, is a system exactly suited to the pm " pose of springing that mine, and of bringing ruin " and desolation on the whole country." It might have been hoped that after the passing of the Act of lBJi, the working of the Transportation system would have been carried out wore conscien tiously. Dr. Hste's narrative leads to the conclusion that the old abuses still prevail to the same extent as before. The new Bishop sailed in the Nile con vict ship from Plymouth, on the 23rd of September, 1857. The number of convicts taken on board was 270. A large proportion of these men was of the meat desperate character. Especially those put on board at Portsmouth are stated se having been notoriously a most ruffianly set. " The warder who came to the "ship with these men said that they were about •s " bad • body of fellows as their prison could pro " duce." No proper vigilance seems to have been exercised in seeing that these desperadoes came on board without implements of rescue or offence. A life-preserver was discovered on one convict as he came over the ship's side. Knives and filet were subsequently found in possession of others. Several implements of the kind were retained undiscovered, and were used on the voyage as a means of getting rid of the irons with which it became necessary for the general safety to fetter the more dangerous of the convicts. So much for the selection of the men: the means for easnring their safe custody on the voyage were, if possible, still more inefficient. This mixed herd of THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1858. 270 men, writes Dr. HALE, " many of them of the " wont character and bent on mischief, were turned " loose together into • low, half-lighted prison " between decks, without an officer in the ship who " had any previous acquaintance with the worst " characters;" and, what appears more extraordinary still, with no place whatever for the separate con finement of the refractory. The natural connect names soon made themselves manifest; in that close and 'welt , ting atmosphere of moral pollution every speci,s of crime rapidly developed itself. From the first the manner of the men had been unruly and turbulent; their conduct soon be- I came openly and flagrantly mutinous. They half murdered a warder, the surgeon nai,oxly escaped with his life ; with horrible imprecations and frantic gestures they threatened a general risiag and an indiscriminate massacre. The women and families of the soldiers and warders crowded wild with terror to the cuddy and poop. The crew were furnished with cutlasses, the guard were kept con stantly under arms, and when the prisoners rushed in a body to batter down tl r bulkhead and bars, which alone restrained them, orders were given to fire down the hatchway upon the turbulent and raging mass. The sight of the guns' muzzles pointing down upon them produced& salutary efllct, and the imminent risk of a successful out break was for the moment averted. Again and again, however, in the course of the voyage the mutinous spirit broke out. " Mamma - PERTH'S" letter was written on shipboard, off Bahia, under date the 3rd of last November, and we are yet without information us to the circumstances under which the Nile performed the residue of her passage. Surely a statement like this, coming from one by position and character so eminently entitled to atten tion, ought to produce a due effect on the Home office authorities. It is only common justice to Sir GEORGE GREY and Colonel JESS to record our con viction that there has been on their parts an ear nest and anxious desire so to carry out the trans mission of convicts to Western Australia as at once to afford a chance of retrieval to the more merito rious class of prisoners, and to avoid inundating the colony with a flood of desperate and irreclaimable reprobates. The fault has been the too common one of placing undue reliance on the subordinate officials, who have a personal interest in disembarrassing themselves, at any cost, from the worst and most troublesome class of prisoners. With regard to the accommodation provided in convict ships, it cannot surely be tolerated that these floating prisons should, by offering no means whatever of separating the worst class of prisoners from the rest, increase to a maximum the chances pre sented by a protracted voyage of reducing all their inmates to one level of depravation and guilt. It is not, of coarse, for a moment to be supposed that anything like cellular separation can be carried out on board a convict ship ; all that can be reasonably contended for is that a separate place of confinement should be provided for the incorrigibly refractory and the hopelessly depraved. Unless both these points are carefully attended to, we shall lose all the benefits of what might. ,if properly managed, be a most admirable stage of reformatory discipline, and what is far worse, we shall impoverish, degrade, and ruin a colony which abounds in promise, and ought to flourish in prosperity. Ems COLLEGE.-BT. PATRICK'S DAT.—On Wed nesday morning the Head Master, the Rev. Dr. Goodf or d, M and the Lower aster, the Rev. W. A. Carter, were each, according to annual custom, presented with a badge with the shamrock beautifully embossed in gold and silver, in honour of Ireland's patron saint, by Viscount Caatlecuffe (page of honour to her Majesty ) ; this young gentleman being the Li ti :lpt Irish noblemen in the whey!, wboee father, the Berl of Deese, presented • similar badge twenty-See years ago to the late Dr. Keate, the then Head Muter, and the grandfather of the prevent viscount presented • similar token to the Head Heater of Eton in 1802. About twenty three of the Irish noblemen and gentlemen, after the pre sentation, were entertained by the Rev. Dr. Ouodford at breakfaet. Among those present were the Hon. Mr. Law -1.-es (ma.), captain of the boats, Viscount Cestlecuffe, Lord Wallecourt, Lord Kent* Lord Langford, Lord Brabason, the Hon. Mr. Lawless (mi.), the Hon. Mr. Trench, :the Hon. Mr. Needham, the Hon. Mr. Butler, the Hon. Mr. Vanua*, Messrs. Smith, Barry, Hoey, Stepney, Humpbris LongSeld, he., he. Viscount Csatlecuffe also ',Tempted his tutor— Ottiwell C. Watertleld, Esq.—with the badge and em blem of the shamrock. ST. PATRtcit's DAY was celebrated in Dublin on Wednesday with much spirit. The outdoor reception of Lord Eglinton, at the ceremony of trooping the guard at the Castle, was very favourable. His Excellency appeared in the balcony, with a large bunch of shamrocks on his left breast . , the band playing the National Anthem " Patrick's Day,' "The Spr ig , of Shillelagh," " The harp that once throe Tan's Hall,' and many other Irish melodies. In the evening there was a drawing-room at the Castle, which was attended by Earle Clancarty, Bandon, Courtown, Leitrim, Desert, Bective, and Mayo ; Countersee Dveart, Clancarty, Bandon, Milltown, &afield, Howth , Courtown, Donough mere, Beetles, and Mayo; Viscount s St. Lawrence An dover, Gough (General), Eawarden. and Dunlo. Vis uountessee awarden, Avonmore, and Netterride. Bishops Tram and Kilmore. Lords Clatmorris, Cloncurry, Castle maize, Carber7 Farnham, Kilmaine, Muskerry, Georgc Hill; Ladies El izabeth Borough, Caroline Burgess,Castle mein., Anne Le Pore Trench, Anne Butler, Mary Bernard, Barbary, Barbara Leeson, Mary Monet, Mary St. Lawrence, Plaskett, Farnham, Kilmaine, Rommore, Darragh, Clon. carry, Virginia Sanders, Margaret Burke, George Hill, Fanny Close, &c. Samoan says it was the most nume reuely atteeded for many years, the company numbering over 1,900 of the nobility and gentry. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the even ing meeting next Monday, at Burlington Roue, Sir Roderick I. Murchison in the chair, the following papers are to be read —l. Contributions t o the Knowledge of New Guinea, by Dr. Salomon Muller, communicated by John Vesta, Esq., F.R.O.S. ; 2. Latest Communication', on Aus tralian Exploration., by Captain Freeling, R.E., Surveyor- Genera, and Mr. Stephen Hack, communicated by the Colo nial-Aloe.: THE OATH OF FEALTY AT OXIORD.—In the town council held yesterday the report of the Wide com mittee 'commending the expunging of the ohm. s forbid ding the mayor:raid sheriff from taking the customary oath to the university was rejected by the casting vote of the mayor, the numbers being 17 for and 17 against. MEDICAL STUDENTS AT OXFORD.—A memorial Ms Waybuns kirwarded to the Hebdomadal Council of the University of OsSord, praying for a reduction of the term of residemoe from three to two years in the ease of medical elndsate. It appears that at present only two • year out of more than 10,000 prifessional men take medical degrees at the university, the great expense of college residence proving in most cues an insurmountable obstacle. More than eighty signatures have been attached to the memorial. Among them are the names of the Bishop of St. Araph, Professors Den hay and Covington, Dr. Jolt, of King'. College; Dr. Tempi, of Buoy ; Dr. Moberly, of Winchester ; Mr. Kaye, and Mr_Maurice. Pea CoRRESPONDENCE.—It is well that it shouldbe widely known that there is no security accorded to letters either received from or sent to persons residieg in Erases. A French gentleman, residing le Plymouth, told us the ether day that he seat a letter to his brother, who re sides la Paris, and that although he first gemmed and then sashed it, It bad been opened, and was delivered open. araraber gentleman who Ike. in this neighbourhood informs es that kis letters were delivered in France after having beta opened aad the lettere that he h a d rece i ve d h a d b een andwaled with the official semi. In one of these lettere the writer stated that there was a feeling in Paris of great Insecurity, sad that the present dynasty was not worth six maths' purchase. It is strange that the authorities should have allowed such en opinion as tbia to travel. On Saturday last a resident in Otorge•street, Plymouth, received a letter from France. It had been opened, and was sealed with two seals, etch as lugs as a half pens Owe. The letter was mat to ua before it was opene d, roe us to rem it, the gentleman to whom it was addressed being very Indignant at the evidence it gave of the eystern of spa that sow reigns, throughout France.—Plymouth Astrid!. SOLVENCY MUTUAL GUARANTEE COMPANY.— Tits ordinary general meeting of shareholders in the above company was held on Wednesday last at the offices, 38, Xing William-street, Cornelius Rack, CLUnnati of the (Unc logs, fa the chair ARe* the clittal prelltoinaties, Mr. C. R. Caudell, managing amen'' read the report, di sc l os i ng a sa meet da state of the company's affairs, and recom mending the dsclaratlon of a bonus varying from 61. 6e. Bd. to 231. le. per cent. on the prernhuns of participating mem bers. The report and lanoe-sbeet ware unanimously adopted. Mr. - Rock was unanimously re•elected chairman of directors, and the meeting terminated with an understanding that the buatoers of the company was In futuro to be carried on by the Mercantile Asaraace Coterany, to which all the policies were In coarse of bolsi transferred. CITITAL PALM. ONE SHILLINO DAT. -- To triuntsv, MAIL= Ig.—Admissions on payraeat, 883; ditto b MKS thskete. 286; Mimi, 1,288, rbt Conn. Viscount Sydney Sydney had an audience of the Queen on Wednesday at Buckingham Palace, and delivered to her Majesty his Gold Stick of aloe as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard. --- Yesterday was the birthday of the Princess LIWM. The Ducker of Kent paid a visit of congratulation to the Queen in the forenoon at Buckingham Palate. The Earl of Derby bad an attlienos of her Majesty. The Prinoe Cor ,iort rod. on horseback with the Prince of Wales, attended by Captain the Eon. D. de Boa. Prince Alfred, auended by Lieutenant Cowell, arrived in the afternoon from Alverbank. The Princess Alice tooklL(l2.lva in a carriage and four in the forenoon. The Queen and the Prince Conaart, with the Princess Alice, and the Princess Louisa, took a drive in an open carriage and four in the afternoon. Lord Colville and Capt. the lion. D. de Roe attended on horseback. The Queen gave a ball in the evening to a party of be tween 160 and 170 of the juvenile nobility and gentry. The Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir damp Contra) and the Duchessof Cambridge and the Princess Mary arrived about 9 o'clock. The Queen, the Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, Prises Arthur, end the Princemes Alice, Helena, and Louie' enterei the Throne Hoeas soon after 9 o'clock, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary. The Princesses Alice, Helena, as 1 Louis wore pink glace skirt., with bouilionnies of pink tulle, tastefully trimmed with wreathe of snowdrops. The Prince's Alice wore a wreath of enowdrope round her heed. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred wore the highland draws. Her Majesty's private band was in attendance and danc ing commenced. The following had the honour of receiving invitations, but some wtro prevented by domestic Unction from obeying her Majesty's commands: The French Ambassador and ;1., ,nes is de p ern i g .y, Countess Lj (metre de Persigny ' Igian Minister and Madame Van de Weser, Miss Master Alb. rt, and Kiss Louisa Van de Weyer ; the Turkish Ambassador and Madame Maurits, Mademoiselle Idusurus, and Mademoiselles Rebuke and Cassandra Maseru' ; Prussian Minister and Countess de Bernstorff, Count Andrew do Bern:4olH, Countess Therm de Bernatorff ; Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, Lord Sicken!' Arthur Cecil ; Earl a nd Coun tess of Hardy icke, Hon. Edot Constantine Yorke, Hon. Alexander Yorke ; Sir John and Lady Pakington, Master Herbert Pikington ; Earl and Countess Do-la-Warr • Mar quis and M archi oness of Exeter, Lady Victoria Cecil; the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Marquis of Worcester, Lord Henry Somerset ; Earl and Countess of Verulam, Lady Harriet and Lady Jane Orimeton ; Viscount and Viscoun tess Strathallan, Hon. W. Drummond, Hon. Hersey Arabella Drummond, Hon. Frances Drummond ; Lord and lady Claud Hamilton, Miss Louisa Hamilton, Miss Emma Hamilton; Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Ormsby Gore, Miss Ormsby Gore; Colonel the Hon. A. N. end Lady Mary Hood, Miss Mary Hood, Master William Hood; Colonel Y. H. and Lady Emily Seymour, Miss Seymour, Mies Florenos, Master Hugh, Master Albert, and Miss Georgina Seymour; Lieutenant-Colonel and Lady Emily Cavendish, Miss Caven dish; Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson of Invercauld, Muter Albert, Master °creel= and Miss Amelia Fiuquhanim; Viscount and Viscount ess Newport, Hon. George Orlando Bridgman, Hon. Frances Bridgman, Hon. Gerald Bridgman; Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps, Master Phipps, and Muter Albert Augustus Phipps ; the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Lord Churchill, Mr. Gibbs, Lieutenant Cowell, LE., Sir James Clark, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey; Lady Caroline and Miss Barrington ; the Counter.' of Cale don, the Earl of Caledon, and the Hon. Walter Alexander ; Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Mies Victoria, and Miss Evelyn Paget; the Duchess of Sutherland, Lords Albert and Ronald Leman Gower; Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lady Emil y Hyde Villiers, Lord Hyde, and the Hon. George Hyde Villiers; the Marquis and Marchioness of Aberoorn, Lord George Hamilton, Lady Alberni* and Lard Ronald Hamilton; the Hon. Charles Gore and the Countess of Kerry Master Francis Gore, Mies Emily Gore, Muter Spucer Gore; Colonel Hon. Augustus and Mrs. Liddell, Master Edward and Muter Franca Liddell; Lord end Lady Charles Wellealey, Mira Victoria, Master Henry, and Muter Arthur Wellesley ; Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Master Frederick and Mies Alioe Wood ; Right Hon. 11. and Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Miss Herbert ; Right lion. W. E. and Mrs Gladstone, Master Stephen, Miss Mazy, and Miss Helen Gladstone; Lord and Lady John Russell, Master George and Master Francis Albert Russell; the Right Hen. H. and Lady Mary lAbouchere, Miss Mena and Mute Emily Labouchere ; the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lorn, Lied Archibald, Lord Walter, and Lady Edith Campbell ; Vis count and Viscountess Emlyn, the Ron. Muriel Campbell, Hon. Frederick, and Hon. Ronald Compbell ; Lord and L Stuart. t Blantyre, the Hon. Mary Ellen, Evelyn, and Gertrude S The Ditches' of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at Clarence-house, St. James's. A deputation on the subject of the Mutiny Act (Scotch billeting question) had an interview with Gecerel Peel yes terday, at the oilier of the Secret ar y of State for War. The deputation consisted of Messrs. William Kerr William Murray, and William Dahymple (Edinburgh), Mr. Adam Black, M.P. Mr. Baxter, M.P., Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., M.P., Sir William Dunb ar Bart., M.P., Mr. Fergus, M.P., Mr. Craufurd, M.P., 81r John Ogilvy, Bart., MX., Sir Edward Colebrook., Bart., M.P., Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P., Mr. Dalgleish, M.P, Mr. Buchanan, M.P., Mr. Alex. 8. ILL r., Mr. Cowan, m.r., Mr. Stirling, M.P., Sir Graham Montgomery, M.P., Mr. D un l o p, Y.P. and Mr. Duff, M.P. A depntetion on the business of the Great Southern of India Railway Company, had an interview with the Earl of Ellenborough at the Board of Control yesterday. The de putation consisted of Mr. Chapman (chairman), Cheetham, M.P. ((chairman of th e C o tt on S upp l y don) Mr. H. A. Bruns, M.P., Mr. A. B. Bruce, C.R., Sir J. Voice, M.P., Mr. J. C. Evart, M.P., Mr. Milner Gib son, M.P, Mr. Borstal', Y.P. , Alderman Kershaw, M.P., the Hon. My Liddell, H.P., Mr. Notman, Mr. Rotipsll, Sir Alexander Rammy H.P. Mr. Stephenson, M.P., Mr. J. R. Smith, M.P., Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P., Mr. Townsend, Mr. Woods, M.P., and Mr. Whit wor th, secre t ar y t o the Cotton Supply Aanciatkin. bur Maurice Berkeley, K.C.8., had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley yesterel4 at the Board of Trade, and presented a petition from the landowners and merehacut ft the neighbourhood of Portsmouth for the improvement of the entrance to the Longton Harbour. A deputation on the subject of Hampetead-beath had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday at the office of Works, in Whitehall-place. The deputation emulated of Mr. Turner, Mr. Gurney Hoare, Mr. Pryor, Mr. D. Powell, Mr. Le Breton, Mr. Douglas, and Mr. Sudlow, parliamentary - The Bishop of Montreal had aa interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday. A deputation from inhabitants and ratepayers of Milton next-Sittingbourne had an Interview yesterday with the Right Hon. C. B. Adderiey, M.P., President of the General Board of Health, at the otdoe of the Board, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Xeres. Charles Wood, William Whitehead Gasooyne, John Frog* John B. Hole, and Thome. Tarps. The deputation was introduced by Sir Brook W. Bridges, Bart., M.P. A deputation from the Society of Friends, consisting of Josiah Forster, Anthony H arr i s , F ranc i s Fox, Samuel Fox, and Robert Forster, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office, on tho subject of the African slave trade. The roadway of the new Chelsea-bridge is now complete and ready for opening to the public. Yesterday it was crossed for the first time by their Royal Elighnesees the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, accompanied by their attendants. Mr. Page, the engineer, and Profeseor Faraday received the royal party and accompanied them along the bridge. Sir E. Bufwer entertained at dinner on Wednes day Lord Loraine, M.P., the Earl of Carnareon, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Chelsea, Lord Robert Call, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, M.P., the Right Hon. C. Adderley, M.P., Admiral Walcott, M.P., General Hall, M.P., Mr. Butt, M.P., Mr. Warren, M.P., Mr. Peacock, Mr. Ford, Mr. Gammen, Mr. Bimodal°, &c. The Right Hon. Edward Horsman, M.P., received at dinner, on Wednesday, at his house in Richmond•terrace, the Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Charles Rumen, the Right Hon. Vernon and Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Lane Fox, Sir R. Bothell, Sir W. So merr in e , Mr. and Mn. F. Dundee, Mr. Kinglike, Mr. Fonblanque, Mr. Elphin stone Duff, &c. Mr. and Mrs. Northall Laurie have left the Queen'. Hotel, Upper Norwood, for town. Last night the Lord Mayor and a large party of Mende attended one of the public 'rappers at Christ's Hos pital. The Duke of Cambridge, governor of the inatitallon, was also present. Professor Owen delivered the lint of his annual series of twelve lectures upon Pahoontology, In the theatre of the Museum i n yerreye-street, yesterday, to a very large and distinguished audience, including a great number of the fairer sex. We were by no means surprised at this, as the learned professor showed last year that he possessed the hippy faculty of rendering his subject pleasant and profit able to the comparatively unlearned, ss well as to the pro fasted sauna ; the younger ladies yesterday seemed q u it e as much oc nried La note-takir4 se t h e termitic The subjects; for the present year are " Fossil Birds and Reptiles," sad the lactates will be delivered on Thursdays and Fridays, at time p m., the fee for the course being fixed at the low sum of tive shillings. _ _ A Vienna letter in the Inderpendance of Brussels says —.Sir Hamilton Seymour, availing himself of a leave of abase°, which he obtained some time ago, will shortly Pay a visit to England with Lady Seymour, who has lately recovered from a rather serious illness. Baron de Bour gooney will also pay a visit to Paris after Easter to fetch Madame de Bourqueney and hie childnai to Vienna." LATEST INfELLIGENCE RELEASE OF HENRY WATT, THE ENG LISH ENGINEER, AT NAPLES. (DT SUINARINI AND BRITISH TNLIORAPD.) (TROY OVA OWN CONAISPONDINT.) NAPLES, MARC!? 18. Watt has received permission to return freely to England. The decree was signed this morning. INTERNATIONAL DEALING WITH REFUGEES. (From yesterday's Moniteur.) Some foreign journals have appeared to be astonished that Franco should have asked the Continental and neighbouring Powers to remove the dangerous refugees from her fron tier. France has in that respect done no more than use a right of international reciprocity. Nobody was astonished that Switzerland last year should have asked the French Government to in terser the refugees who desired the restoration of royalty at Neufchatel. Nor was any one surprised that Spain should have asked us to i,,terner the Car list refugees, and that the Cortes should have thanked the Emperor for having prevented civil war by that measure. The conduct of France, then, has been founded on an absolute principle of international right existing at all periods. UNITED STATES. By the arrival of the usual steamer at South ampton, we hive New York papers to the 6th inst., but they contain no news of say interest. The New York cotton market closed at about 12c. fur middling uplands, and at 121 c. for middling Gulfs. Flour was in good demand and firmer, especially fur good shipping grades, which were not plenty. Southern brands also con tinued in good demand fur export, and the market cloud at firmer rates. Wheat was quiet but firm, with Wes of small lots of prime Kentucky white at I dol. 45c., Virginia mixed at 1 dol. 20c., and Chicago going at 1 dol. 2c. Corn was firmer, and sold at 680. to 70c., with sales of prime yellow for export at the latter figure. Pork was firmer, with kaki of mess at 16 dole. 80c. to 16 dole ttic. on the spot and at 16 dole. 7k. to arrive next week. Sugars were firmer and in good demand. Coffee was in moderate request, and prices unchanged. Freight engagements were moderate, and rates were without change of moment. The dipper ship Wanderer was taken up for Cronatadt, Russia, to load with cotton at lc. per lb. THE BOMBAY MAIL. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re ceived the following from 3larseilles this (Friday) morning: " The steam-ship Valetta, with the Bombay mails, arrived at Marseilles at 10 last night. " The mails leave for London at 10.30." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1 , 80111 OVA OWN COMIESPONDIEN T.) PARIS, THVIODAY EvEsING. It has been rumoured for the last day or two that M. de Persigny has resigned. I believe I may now state that the news is positive, and that the reason is vexation at Lord Derby's ministry having aban doned what he considers their promise to go on with the Conspiracy Bill, and glee a difference with Count Walevrski. The friends of the latter deny most strenuously that ho is likely to go out; but there is no knowing what may be the effect of M. de Persigny's influence at the Tuileries. The Emperor and Empress went to the Opera last night (for the first time ainoe Jan. 14) to see the first representation of M. Halevy's new opera, the Magieienne. The house was as full as it could hold. As much as 100 fr. were paid for a seat in the pit (not the pit-stalls). There was a great crowd in the Rue Lepelletier, attracted by a feeling of curiosity easy to be understood, when their Majesties arrived. The opera is well put upon the stage of course, but there is very little music in it with any claim to originality. The ballet is, in fact, the prominent part of the production. The paragraph in the Monitaur complaining of a misrepresentation in the Times, is, of course, a good deal talked about. The official journal has adroitly pounced upon a single exaggerated assertion in a long :article, containing much that was very true, and which the Moniteur would be sorry to repro duce. It cannot, however, be denied, that in this particular instance the Times has laid itself open to the reproof administered. It is quite certain that the Emperor, so far from " never quitting the palace without being surrounded by spies and squadrons," does go about just as usual. As to spies, of course they do not strike the public view, but if the only employment of spies was to keep a look out against men likely to rush upon the Emperor and assassin ate him, no objection could be made to them. Bat the Emperor does continually drive out in the very phaeton which the Times supposes he has abandoned since January 14. Yesterday he was in the Bois de Boulogne without escort, and was walking about with the Empress and the Imperial Prince. I hap pened this afternoon to be a witness to the almost rash way in which he sets at naught precautions which most men in his situation would be likely to take. Passing through the Tuileries gardens, be tween 3 and 4 o'clock this afternoon, I saw the Emperor alone, standing on the steps of the little staircase leading from his study to the reserved garden, which is only fenced off from the public promenade by a railing not more that forty yards from the palace, and a railing which anybody might jump over. For at least a quarter of an hour he remained alone, leaning on the banisters in an attitude of contemplation, with his legs crossed, and smoking a cigar. The day being very fine thousands of people were walking in the gardens, and great numbers leaned over the railings to stare at him. When at length, being summoned by an usher to give audience to some one, he went into his study, he left the outer door open. Whatever may be said against him, troth commands one to say that pusillanimity is not one of his cha racteristics. M. Boitelle, the Prefect of Police, is an old friend of General Espinasse. I hear from Genoa that Mr. Hodge has, on se oonnt of his health, been removed from prison to an hospital. The Bourse, after opening buoyantly, experienced a considerable fall, in consequence principally (so far as I can learn) of rumours relating to Count de Persigny's leaving London. The Rente for account, after being quoted at 69fr. 6.3 c., dropped for the close to 69fr. 40c., with a fall of 20c. For cash the fall was 10c., the last price being 69fr. 40c. Mobi lier fell 17fr. 50e. The Lyons Railway fell 10fr.; Orleans, 7fr. 60c. ; and the other lines from 2fr. 60e. to arr. The last official act of M. Pietri before quitting the post of Prefect of Police was to issue an ordin ance relative to the exercise of the butchers' trade in Paris under the new system about to bo introduced. When any person who purposes opening a butcher's shop has made a declaration to that effect at the Pre fecture, if no opposition be made within the delay of a fortnight, he may commence business. The or dinance contains the regulations to which the butchers are to conform as regards the size of their shops, the means of ventilation to be employed, and those to be adopted for having a proper supply of water. I should be sorry to take on myself the responsi bility of advising any Englishman to invest money in Paris just at the present moment. But it is cer tain that the abolition of the monopoly makes a great opening fora few English butchers here. A Food judge of cattle would find an immense field in the French markets, and by selling the very best meat, cut up in the English way, might at once command an immense amount of custom. Rump steaks, such as one sees in the windows of Joe's, are unknown in Paris. The man who should introduce them would make a fortune. Madlle. Louise Magnan, the daughter of the marshal, was married to-day at the Madeleine, to M. Haentjens. The elite of the functionaries now in Paris were present at the ceremony. PERSONAL PRECAUTIONS AND POLICE. (Prom the ameitewr of yesterday.) In its impression of March 16, the Times pretends that the French police penetrate even into the inti macy of the domestic hearth, and that they introduce uneasiness ant distrust into the relations of family life. It adds, that it looks back with regret to the time when it could not refuse its admiration to the noble confidence of the Emperor " driving himself in his phaeton," as now he can no longer go out without beia surrounded by squadrons of escort. Its staeient to allude to sua e.legaiions toestimate them at their due value. Never was the French police less inquisitorial than now. If they have redoubled their teal since the attempt of Jan.l4, thosealone who regret its failure can complain. As for the allegation about the Emperor, every one knows that his Majesty has in no respect changed his usual habits, and that he continues to go out every day without an escort. There is ground for astonishment that the Times, which has so many means of being well informed, should be able to amuse the English public with facts so radically false. LOLA MONTHS .AND THE COUNSEL. The case at New York of "Jobson and Seely," lately reported in the Soren, in which Lola Monte,, was the chief witness, ended, it will be remembered, in a general affray. It appears that a charge of contempt was accordingly lodged against them by the referee, and that Judge Ed monds was appointed as a second referee to report upon the facts in the new form. The principal witness on this occa sion was again Madame Lola Mentes, who was examined as follows, by Mr. Clinton Q.—Did you see the commencement of the affray f A.—l did. Q.—Be kind enough to state whether Mr. Jobeon or Mr. Seely used the first violence ? A.—l saw the stick of Mr. Jobson descend upon Mr. Seely. I advanced a little, thinking that he would strike him. I then saw Mr. Seely ward the blow off, and it fell on his shoulder from his head. Q.—The blow from the stick you mean? A.—Yee. I was epprehenlvo myself that there would be • dagger in it, and cried out Take care, Mr. Sealy." Q.—Was the violence you have described the first vio lence between these parties that you saw P was quite close by them. I wee perfectly calm, not at all frightened, and I sew it perfectly. Mr. Schermerhorn—Speaklonder._ Vititii:aLTWiiiapeaViOtlf enough for you, I warrant Mr. Clinton—My question was whether the violence you have described of the stick descending on Mr. Seely's head, was the first violence that you saw between the parties ? A.—The first violence of Jobson against Seely. Q.—(By the Court)—What occurred next P A.—Mr. Seely was at ono side of the stove, and Mr. Jobson standing at the other; Mr. Seely was very quietly writing, and this respectable gentleman hers, this lawyer (Mr. Schermerhorn), was questioning me upon my testimony, as to my being a chambermaid, and I was very quietly waiting till this perse cution was done; I saw then that Mr. Seely was quietly writing; I looked at him and saw be was very calm. He rods, turned his bead to Mr. Whiting, and asked if this fellow warn to be allowed to go on in these unnecessary pies- Hoes ,• Jobson rose up with an eye full of wickedness, and looked at Mr. Seely ; 'Fellow I how dare you call me a fel low " I said to him,. " You ere nothing but a fellow !" hou remember my saying that ; Mr. Jobson then bad ris e n; e then called unutterable names—names not for my utter ance ; in fact, there was one name that I did not understand till afterwards. -- RefirteLWhat wu it? The witness gave her notion of the word employed, and wee corrected by tho referee, who informed her of the proper "012, 7 5 h peter, is it r' ahe said. " Excuse me. I did not understand the word. That wu all." _ _ _ Referee — After Mr. Seely Witfed the blow off, what happened ? A.—lt seemed to me they both got together again ' • it seemed in my opinion justly that ; I remember per fectly the blow being given, and that I wan happy that the blow had not fallen on Mr. ilteely's head, where it was intended ; it toll here on his shoulder ; then I think Jobson went a little further forward and made a grab, and they both grabbed together. Referee—Now, Mr. Sehermerhorn, go on. Mr. Schermerhorn—l don't want to examine this 'Rates very much ; I only want to see how much exactly the knows of it. your recollection very distinct about this oc currence P A.—Yee ; I recollect you calling me Betsy Watson. _ _ _ B.—Never mind that. Jut speak of the affray. Neva mind our convention. Do you recollect distinctly what occurred about the affair? A.—Yea; I recollect &peeking to you about it • you were very frightened—eh, you were very frightened; I came up to you and I mid, " There, air, is the consequence of your doing l" Mr. 8. (unesally)—Never mind that; never mind that. Witness—You asked me what you mid; I spoke to you, but you were awfully frightened ; you were very much annoyed. Mr. B.—No, I don't think I was very much annoyed. Now, did not Mr. Seely strike Jobson first on that occasion ? A.—l told you he did not. Q.—Will you swear, madam, that Jobeon struck Seely with a whip before any assault was made by Mr. Seely on Mr. Jobson° A.—l have sworn once, sad that is quits sufficient. Yr.l3—l speak now of an @Walt, not of his being struck. I ask you whether Mr. Jobson was not assaulted first P A. — I don't know what you call an assault, but I think you mad* an assault on me all the time. Mr. B.—No, an assault is miming the Bet to strike at a per son. If a man strikes at you he assaults you. Witness—And what is the meaning of assault and battery? Mr. B.—Assault and battery is Loth striking at and hitting. Witness—Ab, that's it. Mr. B.—Answer me that question, whether Seely did not strike at Dobson Wore Jobson raised his whip to strike him? A.—Mr. Seely was entirely cool; so cool that I was sato niphed at him. 1-177e11, now, that don't answer my question. Referee—She has answered you already. Conned—l think she has not. Referee.—She has. She has said she did not see Mr. Seely strike Kr. Jobson, but that the first thing she saw was Jobeon in the set of striking Seely. Witness—Oh, I know how to manage Mr. Seherrnerhorn I have seen him before I Counsellralkeii;t; whether Mr. Seely had not sasaulted Mr. Jobeon before you saw Mr. Jolson strike him with his whip P Witness--And I asked you the meaning of assault and battery. I have never in all my life been brought up for assault and battery. Counsel—You are very fortunate that you have not been. Witaces—lndies do not ass their bands to strike. Q.—Did you date where yosiew Seely striking Jobeon P A.—l did not may that I atm Seely striking Jobeon ; I ea, Johns strildng Seely. Q.—Well, I ask you, then. A.—Well, Imy no. Q.—Did you make use of this expression :—" Pummel him well; I would like to see hint pummelled P" A.—l never In my life made use of such an unladylike expression, and no tritium will say that I did ; I will tell you what I did say :—" Never mind him, Mr. Sealy ; he is not worth striking by a gentleman." Refores—Oh, never mind that. Witness—But he asked me, and I must tell what I did My. Conned intimated that he had no farther questions to put, and the witness retired. _ .lucrtniicimociis,inUporting to the Supreme Court, gave hi. opinion that a contempt had been committed before Mr. Referee Whiting, that Seely, though lot the aggressor, par ticipated in the contempt by striking Jobson a blow, that Jobeon was rude and offensive, and that he truck Seely. He reported also, the modified apologies to the court of both parties. The judge took the report and affidavits of the oounsel of Seely, which state that Mr. Edmonds' (the referee's) report was partial and unwar ranted. He said the court would consider Mr. thady's sue, but inumuch as Johson wee not en attorney of the court, it was a question whether it or the referee (Mr. Whiting) should punish him, A legal question of a delicate nature is now ex citing extraordinary interest In Westphalia, vin., wbether a husband has a right to open his wife's letters. The question areas out of a milt for divorce, instituted by the husband, bx which he obtained a decor; but the oonolusliw Own of evidence was a letter from the Lothario, addressed to the wife, and the contents of which would never have been known had not the husband been so ungallant as to break the seal. The divorced wife at own proescuted him for opening the letter, and the tribunal of Una° has decided that he was wrong, and has sentenced him to a fine of ten thalers. An appeal Is pending, the result of which ia anxiously watched by the public. THE DANGER OP READING PORBIDDRX BOOKS IN RUSSIA. A St. Petersburg correspondent of the .411, e . wine Zeitung, writing on the 15th ult., refers to the case of Bofrath Wuchinn, a respectable 1. assian gentleman and Wl* pensioner, who has just been arrested and sent awe, f rom by home, bceauro be had b een .:Ity of reading aloud, in publi c places, certain tracts printed abroad, 'of a criminal pu re; v. The correspondent adds—. I enclose to you the extract free a Gazette, which announces that Hofrath Muchinn 'ill to h i sent, under guard, away from St. Petersburg to one of fp s remote governments, and to be kept there uni strict police ittveillance.' This means in e th er words, to Sitcr..i ; and the addition, under strict I N A, surveillance is a very heavy aggravation of the punistasee the real signification of which is what people in the We s t of Europe, can scarcely form a oorrect ides of. The' (Pre t e tracts, printed abroad,' were the Kelokol (the Bell), ain London, and a part of the " Voices, from Rud ( r are:ah is Rosie), which are well known e as the retch, newsy writings of Herten, printed in London at vi e , is called the ' Free Ruesian Press,' No 2, Judd-street, B eey , wick-square, and which are circulated here in great nu e *, If the reading aloud or communication of these errs* recite such a penalty, and be it observed that no limit lake to its duration, and the 'strict police surveillance' may tt, e ,,, continued for life, whilst the remote government is not sp se , fled by name—then thousands of peptone here in St. Pe e , burg are equally guilty, for three writings are actually pasty from hand to Land, though inthei with greater ninon:ape. tion than Bofrath fduchinn displayed. You can h e t, now begin a conversation without its turning open the le e , attacks made by the Ifolokol upon Sakrevraki Bering, Oa* Adlerberg, and even higher personages. if any ens IN not himself read them, he has at keg heard of they, et. eggerated even by repetition, and the inadequacy of a paki prohibition to put restrictions on intellectual activity, h e never been so completely exemplified as in the cue these papers brilliantly written, and printed in the Run e I language. f the object has been to make an example d Iluchinn, and intimidate others by the sentence pan ed spa him, I believe it will produce no effect but the observance d greater precautions and closed doors when the same curt thing is going on. DINNER TO COMMEMORATE THE RETURN 01 COLONEL CARTWRIGHT, M.P. A dinner to celebrate the return of Colonel Cart. weight for the southern division of the county of Northarop. ton was held in the Town-hall, Brackley, on the dternuas of Wednesday, March 17. About 90 eat down to &rem ander the precedency of J. STRATTON, Esq. Amongst th ou present were R. Knightley, Esq.. M.P., W. Willa", g m _ Rev. R. P. Humphrey, Captain Severn, Major Cartwrisfi: the Rev. C. S. Peel, J. Willem, Esq., Captain Barclay, a. Risley, Esq., Ike. The health of Colonel Cartwright having been drunk, ti lt gentleman returned thanks. His address was chiefly krg and personal in its references. He concluded by myi st he believed that In Lord Derby they had the motto* servative chief in the country. (Cheers.) He believed tk Lord Derby had great difficulties to contend with ; but i s present days were different from those 20 yeses ago, vim whig and tory divided the whole house. Now these pun s were so subdivided that there was no majority in the pug s . meat. Now there wire three minorities, and the *mum tire was the strongest, and if no factious opposition le brought against it he was satisfied it would remit 'in power this year, and gain additional confidant in the country to that which it already pp. sewed. (Cheers.) There were many questions now before the country, and which used to be cabinet questions only; and it was well known that as soon as the Palmerston gores meta was out of power they became hungry and wasted to get back again; but the conservative leader in the Housed Commons answered them well. (Applause.) He stocerely hoped, and he was satisfied, if there was no factions oppas tion, it would be se, and that depended upon whether the other parties should rally together—the consen - stivee had very fair prospects of carrying on the government of the count in this year, and he hoped the next. Cheers.) Its to drink all their very good health'. (Cheers.) ' IT; health of Rebuild Knightley, Esq., colleague of Colonel Cartwright in the representation of the *mulles division of the county, having been given, Mr. RAINALD KNIOHTLEY LOW, and was loudly clewed. He returned them his sincere thinks for the kindest' of the toast. It was a great pleuure to him to to present on that occasion to celebrate the return of Colonel Cartwright for this county They had fought a good led, and they had gained a victory; and he was happy to say, in which he thought they would all join him, that it was over. (Laughter.) He thought thew was no doubt but that contested elections were most unmiti gated nuisances, not only to the candidate himself u ho had to pay for it—and here he spoke feelingly—but the whole constituency were very much annoyed and disturbed; and where parties were close rum and the result rather doubtful& became worse, where the screw was put on, which he wu early to say, without attacking any party, was too often tie case. Sir Henry Dryden, when at N orthampton, spoked the relation of landlords and tenants ; but he could not sae with him on that occasion —(hear, hear, and cheers). Hell not wish to enter upon that subject, but he might say that* Henry was hauled over the coals for it by a portico dile press, not only in this county, but also in London. Tic f ie s i tr id News devoted an article to him, in which it Raw an appeal to the ef fi awy of the laelloL Now, as it a happened, the case that Sir Henry Dryden referred to would not be affected by it—that where tenants differed from their landlords they should abstain from voting against their land lords; bat with the ballot it would be equally in the powr of the landlord to insist on his tenant not going to the ballot box as to keep him back front the polling-booth. (Applanee.) Who was it that would be benefited by the hello ? It was not the persons before him, the free and independent elector,, —who looked upon the franchise as a benefit to be enjoyed and an important public duty to be performed, and who did their duty fearlessly and detested the name of the billot. (Cheers.) It would not affect that other doss who, not taking any very great pert in business affair s , get ea fumed in the matter of Conservative-Liberals and Libra- Conservatives, Pulite" and Whigs, and not tang much about who got in, gave their vote to oblige a friend, a landlord, or • customer ; end these persons don't want the ballot. There were also a class of persons of independent means, and who were too indolent to take the trouble to vote; and this clam did not require it. Then who would ts benefited ? The sneaking, lying scoundrel—(beer, hee)— who made up his mind to tell • deliberate lie in the manta manner, for the lowest motive--(applause)--a perste who sold his birthright for • mesa of potage, after eating the potage he wanted back his birthright. He could use the ballot and lie with impunity. Were they prepared to be or weed and insulted by the ballot for his sake f It must sew be forgotten that the ballot must be compulsory. It wad not do for one constituency to use it and another not; and thus it was malty years ago, ladies were compelled to wear an unnecessary hoop to distinguish thee from prostitutes. If the constituencies insist spa secret voting, he thought the members ought to le allowed also to vote under • mask. For did they , set think that the screw was applied on them ? He (Idr, Hmgkh ley), fortunately not being made of very squeezable mats* had not much to complain of in this way' but some had. It occurred to him last year conscientiously and after rani thought to vote against the party to which he belonged. He did so, and he sincerely regretted, that he could not do odor vile as en honest man ; but it must be perfectly obvious that •to do this moat risk ell chance of coming into offies ti P tre;', Now, he didn't lay the slightest claim to praise= that account, and they knew that though he was note not man yet he had all he wanted. He occupied • much loom honourable position ea • free and unfettered member, the he should do if he were • mere placemsn. (Cheese) Now, be would like to avoid any further ease tests, and he thought they would all agree with him in that. -In order to prevent contests they should carefully attend to the register. Sir Robert Peel said that the conserratte battles were to be fought in the registration cowls. Hs thought, however, they should not object to any vote =lea they had sufficient rumen for so doing. He thought that bl far the most important ground for avoiding another oontat was in the manner he and his friends had voted. and UP uformoefdthatheiriiiterepitc of their o l wn f they thim wederieateu.suidpuvorunly es:ali the whole constituency, and not the delegates of a brie merely, he considered that they would be satisfied. (Mau) The fourteenth anniversary of the birthday It Prince Humbert, heir apparent to the mown of Sark* was celebrated at Turin on the 14th. On this masks 611 King issued a decree promoting his Royal Highness to the rank of captain of inhntry, and the prince accord** wore the uniform of captain of the Piedmont brigade daring the day. Count de Cavour gave a grand banquet at which Sir J. Hudeon and Prince de Latour d'Auvergee were present. The former propo,e4 the health of King Yleter Emmanuel, to which Count de Cavour responded by pee• posing that of all the sovereigns in alliance with Piedras& A letter from Nice says that the King of Pro& has abandoned the intention of taking up his residence in de vicinity of that place, and that the functionaries of the royal household who had been sent to prepare a houN fot Majesty have been recalled. The next Indian Telegram will be due on the oat inst. It will contain news from Calcutta up to the 24th 111 The Colombo, with the China mails and the Luck** retageer, is expected at Southampton on the 26th inst. During the last eleven days 14 mail packets, with f iO re u i rham n'a pt ila ori. ba nte ve arri enf ral vea s hasavd bean ebass " eig Patch lit, v e i:., M th ap e T d s h d: Parente Teviot, Ripon, Alhambra, Tyne, Arego, sad la Plata. The departures have been six, viz., the Aver Malabar, Fulton, Tamar, Tagus, and Orinoco. The director and the reeponaible editor of the Pastier., the radical journal of Owl* in Sardinia, bas been condemned to 16 days hoprimonneent end 2001 r. ins Es an article offensive to the Emperor of the French. AI:REST OP AN ENGLISHMAN IN PABIS.--We understand that one of the sons of Mr. Aldermen Skids, 6 11 a recent visit to Paris, was placed under arrest or the ee• veillanoe of the pollee, as a suspected politioel refugee, eat that he did not regain complete freedom of action WWI a telegraphic communication had takenptaee with Notangbuse making inquiries respecting him.—al offing/barn lowtot F I COI; Anal rw in the initta Olyrni Dr. the ca and hi wren in Cl) Captai in Mr. in wit Oxfon proof sir i by the in one which fore pr to the which ccipt. 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