The Express. — London, England, 1868-04-08 00:00:00

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A SECOND EDITION of the EXPRESS, CONTAINING The Latest Foreign Telegrams ; the Latest City ; Railway, Mining, and other Shares ; Sporting, and General Intelligence, IS PUBLISHILD EVERY EVENING. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. THE Emperor of the FRENCH will have completed his sixtieth year on the 20th of the present month, having presided in one capacity or another over the destinies of France for well nigh twenty years. He has lately seen fit to publish a solemn justifica tion of his sovereign rights and powers as the legitimate heir and successor of the founder of the BONAPARTE dynasty ; and as the dynastic representative of the national will of the people who have twice chosen him by overwhelming majorities as their chief. Of what does that justification consist ? Of a re cital of the great events and acts of his reign at home and abroad ? Of glorious wars and distant expeditions crowned with success, of liberty and order reunited at home, of demolished and recon structed cities, of waste lands reclaimed and turned into fertile fields, of railways and cross roads completed or decreed, of universal suffrage enlightened by a vast system of national instruc tion, of liberated commerce and enlarged industry, of economy in the budgets, of public morality stimulated and encouraged by example, of con tentment, comfort, and grateful confidence prevail ing among all classes of the population, of a sincere realisation of the principles of 'B9, of public liberties working in harmony with the great administrative institutions of the State under one supreme bene ficent arbitrator and protector 1 No ; the authorita tive justification which was issued the other day from the Imperial Printing-office makes no men tion of all these things. One would never have imagined, from a perusal of that docu ment, that the " Itveries Politiques" and the " Iddes Napoleoniennes" of the Prisoner of Ham and the exile in England had been fulfilled by their ingenious and enthusiastic author on the throne, or that three ultra democratic contributions by the future biographer of Jumus Cssaa to the columns of a provincial opposition journal in the days of Louis PHILIPPE had been the germ of his own grand liberal policy of after years. His latest apologetic Memoir consists simply of the plelfilscites by which NAPOLEON I. was confirmed Consul for life in August, 1802, and Emperor in May, 1804, and of the plebiscites, upon a similar pattern, by which Naroxaorr 111. was elected President of the Republic in December, 1848, and Emperor of the French in November, 1852. By a singular logic of numbers all the millions of votes of all these plibiscites are added together, and the total is to be taken as the jus tification of the Imperial dynasty against all objectors past, present, or to come. Evidently nothing can be easier or more entirely satisfactory and convincing than this mode of argu ment. It is proved thereby to absolute demon stration that the French people have on four distinct occasions committed political suicide. There is a rumour, indeed, that the present Ex- PEROI is preparing another manifesto of some sort, ir k e th ot jA the shape of a Letter to a Minister, or of an anonymous brochure, to allow his people bow grateful they ought to be to a government which in twenty years has quadrupled the public debt, has founded a Latin empire in Mexico, established the unity of Italy, made deadly enemies of the Italians, preserved the temporal power of the POPE, encouraged the prin ciple of great agglomerations in Germany, and created a moveable national guard of more than half a million of men to intimidate the Germans ; and, by way of crowning the oonstitu ticand edifice at home, has instituted a press law and a law of public meeting compared with which the moat reactionary and repressivemeasures of the last days of the Bourbon Restoration are charters and monuments of freedom. Some incorrigible malcontents in France appear to regard this feverish disposition on the part of a Sovereign to apologise to his people for a rigime so fruitful in benefits and blessings as the Second Empire as betraying a cu taro uneasiness of conscience. They regard this ap peal as an involuntary self-accusing record which may possibly relieve its author for a moment, but will certainly delude neither his subjects nor him self. This is a somewhat harsh interpretation, per haps, but it must be admitted that the policy of pub lishing such justifications is at least doubtful. They provoke reprisals, and when the EMPEROR points triumphantly to the phibiscites by which the French people have again and again sold away their birth • right of 'B9, some invidious critics remind the august apologist that the history of the Naroutome dynasty is not summed up in the national vote of 1804. To point the moral and adorn the tale of the First Empire, something should have been said of Moscow, Leipsic, and Waterloo ; of the Hundred Days, and the Acta Additionnel, of France desolated by conscriptions, wasted by glory, sick of conquest, sighing for peace, and freedom, and security ; of the tardy penitential avowal of the EMPEROR that it was time to endow the French people with all those liberties, of which he had persistently deprived them so long as Fortune favoured his inordinate designs and indulged his dream of universal dot mination. Why, it was asked, does not the pam phleteer, instead of reciting pldbiscites, recount the final consequences of those ten years of per sonal government and irresponsible power ? Other critics reprinted certain documents bearing date December, '4B, and December, '5l, and signed by the same hand, which certainly present a striking contrast. But these dates, it is true, in these rapid times, are but ancient his tory. What is more to the point and to the purpose as a significant commentary on the Impe rial justification is the pamphlet which appeared on the same day from the pen of an eminent econo mist, bristling with facts and figures, and simply entitled " The Balance-sheet of the Empire." The object of this publication is to show, chapter and verse, precisely what France has paid in the course of sixteen years for the blessings and benefits of personal government. Poor Louis PHILIPPE'S budgets are what Mr. Dia- LEL' would call " fleabites " indeed in comparison with these prodigious amounts of war loans and peace loans, and annual estimates to the tune of eighty millions sterling, all resulting—after sixteen years' experiense—in what 1 When the Emperor NAPOLEON, on the eve of his approaching sixtieth birthday, asks himself in the watches of the night what the en• thusiastic Carbonaro of 1831, the meditative Pri soner of 1840, the Exile of 1847, has done to justify his marvellous destiny, what will his con science reply ? Has he closed the era of revolutions in France Has he established public order or public liberty en durable foundations ? Has he given more than a momentary gleam of prosperity and confidence to the material interests of the country ? Has he fostered and developed the moral interests of the nation ? Has he proved thathis government can bear to be discussed, and that he needs no diversion at the cost of hisneighboura from domestic discontent ? Has he secured to his own dynasty the possibility of a future ? Has he rallied and reconciled ,the old parties, or won the loyalty of the new generation ? To ask these questions is to answer them. The most vulgar sources of evidence suffice. Look at the quotations of the public securities; con sider the forty millions sterling buried in the Bank cellars ; listen to the cries of the reluctant conscripts in the provincial cities ; seek for the suc cessors of the few statesmen who consent to take their turn at the council table ; read the independent journals. Ask any Frenchman you meet, of whatever class, or party, or opinion, whether he believes in the future of the present dynasty; contemplate all the outward and visible symptoms of public morality—whether in finance, or literature, or the drama, or in the daily life and manners of society, and then say whether that wonderful creation of audacious will, which has been so much admired on this side of the Channel, is a monument of genius, or the throw of a gambler 1 THE VOLUNTEER DIFFICULTY OVER- COME. kr is not at all surprising that the volunteers of London and the southern provinces should have joined in a chorus of indignation at the decision arrived at on Saturday last limiting their great annual festival to a mere holiday show. If the authorities had no intuitive conscious ness of the fact, certainly not many hours could have elapsed before they were made aware of their mistake. Astonishment and vexa tion were the inevitable result, for the deci sion threatened to bring discredit upon everybody concerned. The arrangements which were supposed to be the result of careful deliberation were upset,—or at least appeared to be so,—with wonderful alacrity, and it was not easy to under stand how such a change could have been really necessitated by the addition of some eight or ten thousand men to the twenty-four or twenty-five thousand whose presence had already been counted upon. Compared with continental corps d'ormic—with the garrison of Paris, for instance—thirty thousand men do not com pose a very formidable force, and it would be a lamentable confession to make to the world that, within a circle of detached forts over twenty miles in circumference, designed for the protection of one of the greatest naval arsenals in Europe, there is not sufficient space to parade and mancenvre thirty or forty thousand men. At length, however, • way has been found of saving the confession and of escaping from a fancied dilemma. If any difficulty really existed, it seems to have been attributable to a want of under standing between the military and the local authorities, although it is only fair to say that, judging from the facts as they have so far been made known, no blame attaches to the latter. We learn from Portsmouth that Colonel WARD' arrived there last evening, sent by Major-General Lugo- SAY to the MAYOR and local committee, and the bearer of conditions upon which alone the original arrangement can be reverted to. This THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY ultimatum previa' that the volunteers shall have Lombard-street, but this is far from being entire pommel= of the main road from Coshes the ease. The effatory seldom ounouhts to 61. to Portsmouth, which, as we have before ex- Protestant attacks always make the amount go up, I planed, is the only highway connecting the main and Brother losamrs would for this Cause wish land with the island of Pertain', and the only turn- the Protestants woull attack them oftener "if pike-road extending the whole distance between the "it were not for the large amount of guilt they parade-ground at Southsea and the battle-ground " incur by the innumerable falsehoods they tell." on the northern face of the Hileha lines. That Birk pf such caprices the Brethren, like their pre this road may be solely available for the deosseore, pray for something substantial and look volunteers, the COMBELNDZI-IX-Cana insists lovingly at the soil. If anyone, they say, will upon the construction of • bridge of barges but give them • piece of land, and endow the coin over the water-course connecting Portsmouth and munity, this is what shall be granted in return : Langston harbours, to divert the public traffic —" We would give them • share in all the holy and the employment of a constabulary force "acts of the community, in our prayers and inter sufficient to enforce this arrangement. The "cession, and a resting place before the high local authorities have accepted these oonditions, I " altar in the Monastery Church when their spirit and the War-office approves the new plan, so that "is called away to the other world." there is still reason to hope that the Volunteer Review of 1868 will be remarkable as a great •uooeee. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANIES. EVERY one wishes for increased telegraphic facilities; no one wishes that existing interests should be unjustly dealt with. The Hon. ROBERT GaitorroN, as chairman of the Electric and Inter- I national Telegraph Company, objects to the pro- pert./ of his shareholders being transferred to the Crown, and bases his protest upon two distinct issues. He mays first, that the provisions of the bill now before the country are arbitrary and harsh, and asks whether the commercial classes will allow the property of a public trading com pany to be confiscated with impunity ; and secondly, that if the measure becomes law, mat ters will not be so well managed as at present and that the message-sending public will bitterly regret the change. The mode of arbitrating after purchase has been decided upon by the Crown ; the patience and faith of the early shareholders and the gratitude due to them—the improve ments inaugurated, such as franked message forms and the remittance of money by telegraph—the intelligence supplied to country news-rooms—and last, but not least, the " very handsome dividend " earned for our proprietors" are all dwelt upon by Iffr. GRIMEITON, and are all points calling for full deliberation and discussion. The property of the companies must be equitably acquired, and if im provementa can be made in the suggested mode of purchase, by all means let them be introduced. But the telegraphs must be worked by Govern ment. On every ground of common sense and public convenience the change will be for the general good ; and the companies only injure their own case when "the surveillance of a " Government department as in foreign countries " is put forward as a bugbear to frighten people into crying out against the bill. Our experience of the Poet-office leads us all to believe it will fulfil its engagements, and by improving the working of telegraph confer another benefit upon the country. The companies will find it vain to struggle against the popular conviction, and had better confine their efforts to securing fair and reasonable terms than raise doubts and insinua tions which are untenable and unsound. Tax death of the Hon. D'Aacv McGEs is a serious loss to the dominion of Canada. He was a man well qualified for the duties of statesmanship in a rising country. A part of his life had been passed in agitation, but his riper years were devoted to the propagation of sound truths and the advocacy of wise counsels. Aa a writer he displayed great capacity, and his oratorical powers were alto gether exceptional. There are choice thoughts , as well as fine words in his speeches. In deed, to his eloquence the Contederation of Canada was partly due, and his speeches and writings in denunciation of Fenianism were fraught with wisdom. How far his premature death is owing to the exasperation caused by his systematic and powerful opposi tion to Fenianism, we do not yet know. But whatever the cause, his assassination will be deplored by all who desire the welfare of the new dominion, and who wish that when Irishmen leave their native land to begin a new life across the Atlantic, they should be animated with the spirit which Mr. MoGsz recently displayed. A few words in a speech delivered by him at Montreal, in 1861, might be pondered with advantage by all Irishmen who settle in America or Canada. "We " have &country, which being the land of our choice, " should also have our first consideration. I " know, and you know, that I can never cease to " regard with an affection which amounts almost " to idolatry the land where I spent my best, my " first years, where I obtained the partner of my " life, and where my first-born saw the light. I " can but regard that land even with increased " love because she has not been prosperous. Yet " I hold we have no right to intrude our Irish " patriotism on this soil ; for our first duty is to " the land where we live and have fixed our homes, " and where, while we live, we must find the true " sphere of our duties." THE difficulties besetting a discharged convict who desires to earn an honest and respectable living are materially increased when the convict is a woman. Mr. Tom Tar Loa's "Ticket-of-Leave " Man," who kept the popular sympathies alive. for so long, had at least the world of labour open to him ; and though when his past career became known he lost his employment and was shunned, he was permitted to earn his bread laboriously, but in peace, until his evil genius found him out. But a female discharged from prison has to con tend against the disadvantage of sex as well as character. Hence, perhaps, the startling and shocking fact that "out of 4,340 women " committed in one year to prison more than once, " 2,419 had been about ten times imprisoned." These wretched creatures are excluded from poor relief because they are able-bodied ; and are ineli gible for the few employments open to women, because of their bad characters ; and a career of crime is positively their only resource. The " Mission to Women Discharged from Prison " aim at establishing houses of occupation, and to make it a condition of a ticket-of-leave that those holding it shall labour a certain number of days in each week. It is not intended to bestow charity, but to provide work ; and, as there are in London at this time 2,000 women of the class described, with from 5,000 to 6,000 children who are sharing their poverty and learn ing their crime, the importance of the work can not be easily over-estimated. BROTH= lONATII7B tells his troubles to the world through the columns of the Church New. He mourns the " impiety " of those who have con- veiled his monastery at Norwich into a cheese warehouse, but speaks with pride of a building which has been converted from a large barn into a chapel at a village near Staines. Here have been re-established the 'monks of " our first order " who have charge of a few destitute old men. Some dia. tent friends imagine that he is making his fortune out of the offertories at a church is 41b" G, APRIL 8, OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE BRINDIBI HOUTZ TO INDIA. The Times again points out the advantages which the flumeßrindisi line across Italy possesses over the present French route by Marseilles, taking, as it does, by land over at least three-fourths of the distance, which the latter moat achieve by water. The obstacles lie in the aluggiabnese and incapacity of the Italian government, in the jealous selfishness of the French railway companies, and in the apathy and supineness of our own postal autho rities. The Italians have not yet provided a line of first-rate steamers between Alexandria and Brindisi, and they &cau -1 ally disgust and frighten away travellers by the vexations of their custom-Louses, and the dirt and discomfort of their inns and stations. The French, for their own part, en ; deavour to befriend their own Marseilles line by the un conscionable detention of 14 hours In Paris of the English I mails on their way to Italy. A drawback still existing against the conveyance of the Overland Mail across I Italy is found in the break still occurring in the railway communication at the Mont Cads Pass be tween St. Michel de Maurienne and Sara. The greet Alpine tunnel will not be ready till 1872, and long delay has damped the hopes in the eventual success of Mr. Fell's Summit Railway. But the interruption of communica tion across the Alps arising from wintry inclemencies never extends beyond twenty-four hours, and that happens in extremely rare occurrences. Such a loss of time, even I when it becomes inevitable, is but • trifle to sei against the three or four days' gain that the Brindisi route, even in its present moat imperfect state, already gives us over the rival line of Marseilles. THE LEADER OF THE HOESE OF LORDS. The Daily News comments upon the obvious unfitness of the Earl of Malmesbury to conduct the public business and to lead the government in the House of Lords, and points out that his deficiencies as leader are not merely a great loss to the Cabinet, but are likely to prove a misfor tune to the country in the grave circumstances that are culminating. Without oratorical powers, with • narrow range of information, and partisan views, the policy of the government is insufficiently explained by him, and when he attempts to introduce improvements in the procedure of the house, be has to be rescued either by the interposition of the Lord Chancellor or of an opposition peer. This the Daily Newt shows by • reference to Lord Malmesbury's course when Earl Stanhope proposed • committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, and by the attempt of his lordship to introduce a fresh regulation relative to asking questions in the house. The minister who cannot prepare two simple standing orders such as the house can adopt is hardly the man to guide and direct and moderate it under circumstances of political difficulty. Such clumsiness in details, in matters of form and procedure, as to notices of questions and the competition of committees, gives no promise of judgment, or skill, or prudenoe in the manage ment of the haute politique which is looming in the dis tance. THE PRINCE OP WALES'S VISIT TO IRELAND. The Telegraph is happy to obser►e that the official pro gramme of the Prince of Wales's visit to Ireland recog nises to a great extent the thoroughly popular character of the occasion. The Irish subjects of the Queen will have abundant facilities for gratifying their loyal in terests. In the first place, it is now arranged that, in stead of being whirled from Kingstown into Dublin by rail, the royal party will proceed by road—a six miles road, skirting Dublin Bay, and passing two or three sub urban villages. One part of the ceremonial—the most popular portion in 1821—the procession of the knights in their robes through the public streets, is omitted. The TekgrapA regrets this. It is a pity that nearly all tho rather scanty pomp or ceremonial that surrounds royalty in this country should be reserved for the favoured few. On Punchestown Racecourse the prince will see more wild fun, genuine hilarity, and intense excitement in half-an hour than Epsom can yield during the whole Derby week. In visiting Wicklow, the princes* will see some sweet rural scenery—lrish in its wildness and greenness, English in the character of the many pretty villas and well-kept demesnes. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. The Star. in urging the Importance of reorganising the diplomatic service, says the duty of entertaining Britons and Britonesees on their autumn travels seems about the most important, and is certainly the moat exact ing, of the functions which devolve on our highly-paid representatives. The real work of the service could be more efficiently performed by other means than those already employed ; at any rate it is imperatively necessary to re vise a system which places the service almost exclusively in the hands of the aristocracy. The Standard admits the fact that the condition of the Irish Church is very far from satisfactory, and that the government is certainly not pledged to a con trary proposition. There is every reason to believe that the forthcoming report of the commission will show that the Irish church is saddled with an accumulation of abuses and anomalies, which hamper its action and cripple its power for good, and must therefore seriously embarrass those who would shield it from its assailants. The go verament cannot and will not attempt to defend a system which, from its inherent defects and corruptions, is praco ideally indefensible. Under these oirennistanoes the Standard urges the bishops to set about the work of refor mation without delay, and expresses an opinion that if this had been done years ago there would not have been the present outcry. Advice. from the Mast say that a numerous body of pilgrims, who arrive annually at Jerusalem, are an. imaseed to have reached that city, to be present at the oeranonies of the Holy Week and the Easter fete. The wake connected with the cupola are in a forward state, and the architects are of opinion that in the come of throe months it will be entirely finished. The restoration criginated with the Emprem. Vesuvius, still an object of undiminished in terest, ham been visited lately several times by our eminent countryman, Profaner Phillips. The chartered ship Matilda Atheling, taken up by the government, baa sailed from the Nora, having on beard • number of conv i c t s under lengthened twins of postal eerritude from the erbablishmest at 011athora far emiveymee to Gibraltar. Among the cowrie& dorpataked from (Math= are several of the FOlii&II polsousoo, together with the two oesviols. Corbett and Sweetland, who re moldy mods an attempted move tram the Chathem prism The Matilda Übangi will receive cm board a few convicts from the establichmenb at Porionenth sad Port land. • strong military guard fres the 13th Light infantry and the 15tb Beeinsent proem& in amps el the eenviern. Mr. Harris, one of the registrars of the Han cheder Bankruptcy disietet, boa resigned hi dim en the mead el eadiamed ill heatlL. Tue Paints sun Prinrcuris or Wsrss. —BAND ' narsnan, miens Arm 7.—Tbe Prises of ales to-day is rosened the improv ements in W set ea the royal west& The Primus el Wet, alant ded lry the Mo. Il e r z . pl E, walked sicl deem oat 11e Primroses to Law to meeeterei her Mew*. Tie vidt is to Mrs** en Yesiar nest, it is believed AM their royal Warners will make a knew May at their Neal! brat at a War period et the enamor. It le Mated that the Prime el Wales her semenited to epee the new &aka atlClars Ira Ibilr evapkitiva. .8 . 68. Efts Curt. WINDSOR CASTLR, Arm 7. The Queen drove in the grounds yesterday after aeon, acoompanied by Princess Christian. Prisms Louise, attended by Lady Churchill, went out Her Maisety, sooompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, drove ont this morning. To-day L the birthday si Prime Leopold. Prince and Princess Christian dined wit% the Queen last evening. Their royal highnesses viaited her Majesty this morning, and remained to luncheon. The Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli 'raved at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Hon. Mrs. A. Gordon and Liank-Oeneral Hon. C. and Mrs. Grey had the honour of being invited. Lady Weterpark has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting. Viscount Hawarden and Major-General Francis SW. mour, C. 8., have suoceeded Lord Raglan and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell as Lord and Groom•in-Waiting to her Majesty. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council mat en Monday, in the Council chamber, Whitehall, on matters relating to public vacci nation. The lords present were—the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of St. Helena, Malta, and Heligoland. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Mauritius. A deputation from the guardians of the Hackney Union, conaiMieg of Mr. T. J. Parker, Mr. P. Thompson, the Rev. John Uodding, M.A., and others, transacted badness at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. THE ROYAL VISIT TO IRELAND.-It Waa inti mated by the Lord Mayor of Dublin on Monday, at the meeting of the town council, that the committee of tho corporation engaged in considering the preparations for the royal visit, had agreed on recommending illumina tions, which will, therefore, in all probability, be general on the night of the arrival of their royal highnesses. The Lord-Lieutenant, the Lord Mayor stated, had left this ' matter entirely to his discretion. His lordship also mentioned that the Lord Mayor of London and Lady Mayoress had accepted his invitation, and would be accompanied by several leading members of the London corporation. WIFATILICIt RICPORT.—(rats DAY.) WIDNESDAT. APRIL 8, 8 AK. 1 29 W. Lamm a T. W ' • 110 4 i t 1 5-7 , ....--.. 1 . W. & 1 1 1 ..._ ...._ _____ _ _ ..,._:_,... _ ' Nal= .B9r N. 2 , N.L ;no 0.31 . . 2 tansdnia 20.8.2 r N.N.L 3 Z. 14c 0.30 5 Leith - Ardroems_ _ °regnant's 29.79r . 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'drone fora, with itsthrectron daring lad $4 hours. Z.—calm. Weather: b.—bine s 4; c.— clouds (detached): E— ke ; h.--Ball ; m.—mist? (hazy). .Ix—overeat (dull); e —rain ; e.--enow ; I.—thunder. lain-fall, mew or fall melted), during lad Ed hoed. Sea detturbsnos. REMARK& --- Since last evening there has been a considerahle diminution in atmospherical pressure in the south of El:lsland and in Irmee. Readings at southern stations are more than half an Inch lower than they were yesterday morning, whilst those In the north of Scotland arc slightly higher. The reading at ient Is half an inch less than that at Nairn. Pressures In the west show a tendency to rise since lag utdit. Temperature has fallen considerably on the east coast of Eng. land Last evening a strong south westerly wind arose at the entrance of the lingllsh Channel, which was succeeded on our west and north-west COILII • by a gale from the northeast. A north-eagerly gale Is reported this morning at Holyhead and Scarborough. On the west coast et Ireland the wind is now fresh from the same quarter. During the last 24 hour. much rain los fallen on our northern and western roads. Snow showers are reported from the north of Scotland. There Is a high sea in the Bay of Biscay and at Brest A meeting of Irish solicitors was hold at Dublin yesterday to consider the clause of the Irish Reform Bill making it a misdemeanour for agents to vote at elections, and a resolution against the clause was adopted. REPRESENTATION OF COLERAINE. —The proba bility of a change in the representation of Coleraine, in the event of a dissolution or the recurrence of a general election, is again talked of here. The speech of Sir Hervey Bruce delivered on the Irish Church question has displeased a good many. His successor in the representa tion of the borough is mentioned as Daniel Taylor, Eaq., J.P., the most rising merchant of the place. Taylor is • staunch Presbyterian, of molt advanced Liberal opinions, and is exceedingly popular in Coleraine. — Northers Whip, IMPORTANT TO CLEBAYNIN AND CHURCH WARDS:SR.—In the Conaistory Court, Carliale, on Friday, the Worshipful Chancellor Burton gave judgment upon an =etiali point in a cause which has for some time man tle parish of Deere, in this county. The Rev. Dr. Ace, the vicar, and his churchwardens appear to have got athwart each other, and a dispute arose between them as to the churchwardens right of somas to the church, they having taken • joiner, who removed the "ancient look" upon the door, placed a new look in its stead, and provided duplicate keys, one of which was retained by the church wardens. Therefore the vicar oommeaoed proceedings against them in the Cansistury Court of the choose ; and in the course of the suit, articles were "exhibited" by both aides. One of these submitted by the promoter was to the effect that the laws ecclesiastical vest the sole ens. toad y and control of the key in the vicar or incumbent ; and upon this principal plea issue was joined. The ohms. *eller, in the course of his elaborate judgment, admitted that many decisions at law had been givers which imparted some colour to the assumption in the article ; but inas much as the churchwardens had certain important dudes to perform, and for the due performance of which they were answerable to the court, he held that the law meet, for Tray consistency, have contemplated their right of in dependent access to the church at all reasonable times in the discharge of their duty, and they could not have such independens access so long as they remained in the sole custody of the vicar or any other person. He therefore rejected the article submitted by the vicar. The proctor of the latter gave notice of appeal.—Combevland Paeserd. EXCAVATIONS AT ROME.—The Gioruale di Anne says:—" The excavations now being made by the mini. Scenes of the Pope are producing the moat interesting historical results, sad briaging to light a large number of the ancient masterpiesee_of art with which the holy city was formerly embellished. Two nights of steps whisk led from the river have bees *leered, end two perages have been discovered which gave direct axiom to the interior of the adjoining_ market. At the depot et marbles on the banks of the Tiber WA also found at% debase with sculptured ornaments , in a position exi conespending with the provisions of the Wirced director of the works. Up to the present time there have bean found ill blocks of African marble, 240 of antique yellow, sad as many of serpentine. Other varieties are met with in smalls quantities, smolt as antique red and gram, bree d° and even Chalcedonies. At Ostia , where the re esierchee are being made by a commission of antiqua rians, some remarkable monuments have been found throwiag a new light on the worship of Cy bale In that pyre. Among other things there is a series of votive offerinp in the ground consecrated to that sodden. In the mine place was dimomnd the remains of a temple destined for initiatory ceremonies, and which for an edam quite animus al its kind ; also a hoses very ele• gently decorated , and en the walls of which was a MOM ting a festival gamed to Diana. This painting is el =delicacy of execution." WORKMEN'S STRIKE IN ITALY. —Many thousand persons, mostly workweek paraded the strode el Turin iwo days beak sheath, "Dean with the seleistsy " Down with the tax I" ]lad einalty wee sa =a t a sa d pancnerag anises arose out el ths vivito al the nis . nneleyed at the arsenal, in the Waage maybe bed isisp. deluded Ind sie lie Al t lime railways of Upper Ita the ly. Tha aath Shoes srines wai wen of posses as of the tax on permit =sin the eel has shoe werayeall de. shoed , Other steams, mere suds*Sebes pies* at D -"" end see el the wears a( es w limed es wawa, • day tgrli - II It would have led te Ma al 11 1 011 W• • • The tax has bsea for ea ississat salpenisi. FOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE IN ITALY. A Florence letter, dated the 4th, in the Slide, says : Universal mileage, as is known, does not exi t is Italy, the electoral qualification b. ing filed at 25(r. 11. Rio Mardi recently brave:it into the chamber a bill, the read. lag of which has been authorised by the bureaux, end which contains the following provisions:-1. Extension of the suffrage to all citizens who can read and write. 2. Reduction of the number of de. patios, so that there shall be only one for each 100,000 inhabitants. 3. Election by provinces and no longer by college.. 4. Payment of members by means of certificates of attendance, at the rate of for each sitting. 5. Absolute exclusion of government officials from the Chamber. If I remember rightly, the left, through M. Crispi, has been several times on the point of proposing to apply to Italy the principle of uni versal suffrage. 1 observe that M. Pon= di San-Martino, leader of the Permanents Club, has also distinctly declared in favour of this system, but only in the case of political election,. This gentleman is of opinion that it could not be resorted to in administrative elections, " the ratepayers alone having a right to decide upon the appli. cation of the revenues which they furnish to the provinces by means of tun." Although this latter portion of M. di San•Martioo'a programme is very questionable, the adhesion of so prominent a politician to the theory of eel. vernal suffrage is an important fact, indicating that this question claims a prompt settlement. THE NORTH SCHLESWIG QUESTION The French journals continue to make com ments ou the journey of General Rasloff, the Danish Minster of War, to Paris. It is a curious coincidence that immediately preceding tkii journey of General Rasloff reports should have been circulated that the Danish government applied to that of Austria, requesting the latter to see that the stipulations of the Treaty of Prep with respect to North Schleswig should be executed and that both M. von Beust and M. de Moustier sent communications to Pntssia on this subject. It is also remarkable that according to the Patric, the Prussians have commenced the armament of the recently erected fortifications of Alsen and Duppel in a very formidable manner. (num% rsuastme.) THE WAR IN THE RIVER PLATE. PARIS, Aram 8. The Monaeur of this morning says :—" Letters from Rio de Janeiro, dated March 11, contain authentic information from Paraguay which con firms the forcing of the passage of Humaita by the Brazilian fleet, and the storming of the Estabelici meuto redoubt. The citadel of Humaita had not, however, yet been carried, and the army of Lopez, which had been prematurely announced to have retreated into Bolivia, was maned in front of the Brazilian positions at Tayute. The occupation of Assomption by the Brazilian squadron appears to be confirmed." OUR PARIS LETTER. (FROII OUR OWN COr.RESPONDENT.) TCESDAV EV!'N:N.;. The Pat, i•: of this evening says We contradicted a few days ago some rumours 1-(W:A to a sort of diplomatic intervention of France in the nego tiations going on at Berlin between Prussia and Denmark. These rumours are now revived in a new form. It is pre tended that the cabinet of the Tuileries has expressed as opinion upon a despatch sent to Berlin from Vienna on the subject of the Duchies, and a political object is attri buted to the journey of the Danish war minister to Paris. We have reason to believe that Id. Rasaloeff comes here, as he is going to London afterwards, solely to make obser vations with a view to improved organisation and arma ments in the Danish army. The present state of ingotis. tions between Denmark and Prussia is, moreover, not of a nature to justify the supposition circulated, still less to I Mmessitate any exceptional diplomatic efforts, either on the part of Denmark or of the French government. It might be wished that these negotiations should go on quicker, and that the interests of the population should weigh as much as the political interests now under discussion at Berlin ; but we can in nowise admit the necessity of an intervention which would change the character of the present situation and modify the attitude of the respec tire parties. I look upon this article as a semi-official collim ation of what I stated very confidently on Friday last, that France will do nothing for Denmark. A great many senators having left Paris for the Easter holidays, the committee on the Public Meetings Bill, of which M. de Maupas is the re porter, has adjourned till the 21st instant. There is no doubt that he will report that the bill ought to be sent back to the Corps Legislatif for a second reading. The debate on his report can scarcely come on till the first week in May. Till then it will not be known what orders government may decide to give to the senators, and till then, therefore, conjectures will be open as to the result of the " conflict " which the France thinks so important. The iron-dad squadron at Cherbourg has been warned that it will be ordered to Havre on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor and Empress to the International Fisherman's Exhibition at the beginning of June. A newspaper which was founded shortly alter the battle of Sadowa under Hanoverian patronage, and which during its ephemeral existence con stantly advocated war with Prussia, has just ex pired. Its title, La Bituation, can scarcely be much known to fame, for although it was wont to talk big, it never had more than 350 subscribers. In the course of little more than a year it got through a million and a half of francs. The parties who found this money have behaved to the staff en bon prince, for everybody connected with the paper gets a year's salary, and that of the redacte it-ebef was 00,000 fr. Under these circumstances the statement in the farewell article that the reason why the paper ceases to appear is that the object of its foundation has been attained, may perhaps be more true than in the first blush readers may be inclined to think. That the occupation of the Situation should be gone seems to me not one of the least important among the peaceful symptoms of the moment. The continued heaviness at the Bourse resulted in the slight fall of 2}c. in the Bente, 15c. in Italian, 2fr. 50c. in Credit Fonder, and 2fr. in Credit Mobilier. A Bremen letter states that emigration thence hoe never been witnessed on so lug* a mak as at present. Between 7,000 and 8,000 persons have pawed through the city during the last few days, coming chiefly from Simony and Prude. Many oleo arrived from Bohemia. QUIMNSTOWN, APRIL B.—The Cunard extra steamer Tarifa, from New York, arrived here at 9.35 a.m. to day, with 61 passengers. She landed the despatches and seven reasengers, and presseded for Liverpool at 9.50 a.m. AB well. AIISTZALIAN MAIL.--G•LLB, IlLisca 23. —The Bombay from Sydney, Ist tad., arrived today. °lnv's° Man of Dee. 20-26.—The Desks( arrived at Melbourne on the 11th and Sydney the 14th Fehreary. Ousirato Siam Feb. 00-26.—The Simla arrived at Dale ea the Sted Wank