The Express. — London, England, 1864-05-02 00:00:00

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Howard. —And ROMA/ AIL JULIET. Messrs. Nelsen aid Vidal; YdIL. Blahs COllllll and Mrs. IL Manion. LYCEML . TEM Emonno. A DAY Vail THE TAM Mr.Wlddional sad Mks E. Lyman—And PLAYING WITH PULL Hamm. Brougham, Imary, Iddlecento, and Shore lillem Carlota Leckrco, Elearade, P. Leelercg. and Lra. Wleatanky. SiITAII/1 lA. THIS 'Vim TEE LIFT-RAIIIIED MARRIAGE. 10s. & Lane and all the Company.—THE GREAT GHOST EFFECT. —DEBO.LEAR Master Percy tesalle and Hires C. 84. Came and rcott.—And • grand SHAH MILIAN TABLEAUX. RION WATER AT LONDON MUDD% Ilas DAT Wargo& 101. •Gm.... ..2116w0ra. 116. 20a Coßwitow Mamba 111. 60a ....Afterawa Oh. Ow LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 2. THEILE are surer advocates, it seems, in the world than the moat zealous Protestant orators of the House of Commons. Mr. SILLS had a brother-in-law of some fortune who became converted to Roman Catholicism, and who, consequently, instead of leaving his money to his relations, lett it to the Oratory at Brampton. During his life Father Hirratizos, the brother of Mrs. SHE; spent about 7,0001. in his religious fancies, so that at his death his assets did not ex ceed 5,0001. But it seems that 5,0001. is a sum large enough to induce a zealous Protestant not only to write eloquent letters, but to get up a debate in the House of Commons, and to run the risk of losing a considerable sum as costs in the attempt to dispute the validity of an indisputable testament. If any illustration were needed of the impropriety of discussing a matter about to be brought before a court of justice, the case of Father licrceisoN's will, which was concluded on Satur day before Sir JAMES WILD; supplies it. It was only a few days ago that Mr. Newt:mown used the case of Father HUTCHISON'S will as a conclusive argument to prove the necessity of an inquiry into conventual establishments in this country. As the case was presented to the Court it was simply impossible that Sir JAMES WILDE could come to any other conclusion than that the will of Father Hurcrusox was valid. It is true that Mr. Hl:rvuisox had been a Protestant, that Mrs. Smith was his sister, and that be had other rela tives. But be was a man of stroug religious feel ings—he had, against the earnest remonstrances of his friends, abandoned the religion in which he had been educated, had sacrificed his health, and devoted his life to the cause of the Roman church. He had not only spent a large part of his fortune upon the religious institution of which he was a member, but he bad laboured so ardently among the poor that he was com- 1 pelted to abandon his duties for a time and to seek renewed health and strength by travel in the East. Li it surprising that a man so earnestly bent upon the propagation of his religious views should leave the whole of his fortune for the same purpose ? It is true that he had a sister and a brother-in-law, but it would be a gross worldly fal lacy to pretend to think that such relations were to be weighed in the balance against those of his church. Indeed the singular thing would have been if Father HUTCHISON had died without at testing the sincerity of his belief by the manner in which he disposed of his property. His con duct was consisteut to the last. From the year 1855, which was the date of Father 111:TCHI.ON . 8 first will, until 1861, which was the date of his last will and codicil, there was no variation in his intentions. In one or another form he bequeathed all his property to the religious community with which he was connected—the, Oratory at Brompton. It is not pretended that any sign of mental disease began until after the year 1855, and yet it is to be observed that in the year 1855 a will was made by Father Huremeow by which his family was excluded from all share in his propetty. At that period he had been a convert for ten years, and his teltamentary dispositions cannot be explained by the enthusiasm of a proselyte. What was rational in 1855 must have been rational in 1861. And if Father HUT CHISON'S will is to be set aside, it must be set aside by evidence as to the mental imbecility of the testator. Of this, however, there was scarcely a tittle. Dr. DEANE insisted that in the year 1858 there was a general paralysis of one side of Father Hue- CHISON'S body, and that his capacity having been blunted by paralysis, he had been overcome by re ligious influence. It is well established that if a man is in such a condition—if he is so feeble and incapable—that he cannot exert his own free will, but is, as it were, the mere mouthpiece of some spiritual adviser, any document drawn up and executed under such circumstances will be set aside as obtained under undue influence. A last will must be the kat will of the testator himself, not of his confessor, of his clergyman, or of his confidential doctor. What evidence was there that the last will and codicil of Father Hrrcnnsos: were extorted from him ? They were identical in effect with the wills he had made six years previous. Moreover, the testator's history was elaborately traced between the years 1857 and 1863, when he died. Protestant gentlemen who bad travelled with him—Protestant doctors who had attended him—Protestant gentlemen who had visited, conversed with him, and corresponded with him—were all produced as witnesses, some of them by Mr. SMEE himself, but not one ventured to say that, paralysed as his body was, his mind was at all impaired. On the very day on which the disputed will was executed Mr. &sea seems to have written a letter to his brother-in-law, HUTCHISON, in which he says :—" Until I saw your hand " writing I had not the slightest idea that you " had soy serious ailment." And up to the very moment of his death he employed himself in cor recting the proof sheets of a volume upon which he was engaged. Here, if anywheiJ, ought to have been found proofs of the feebleness of the testator's mind. It treated of a subject upon which the testator's mind was peculiarly sensitive—it was composed during the veil time when the paralytic disease of which he ultimately died had become seriously developed. But the book betrayed no traces of imbecility ; on the contrail, Sir Jsmas Witoe said that ho had read the book, and " although it showed a man of strong religious " faith, it yes a work which no one could pos " sibly have written except he was of sound 11 " mind." In short, as the Judge declared, "them, " was a total absence of anysingluteettosbowthnO " any human being had been grty al the 14115 " impropriety of conduct towilksibe testator, WO " it wont , ' therefore be unjust and preposterous to " doubt the validity of the will." Accordingly, Sir J LIMB WILDE pronounced in its favour. But the misfortune of Mr. Sias did not stop here. He and hiswife not only missed 5,0001., but they will have to pay the costs of the snit which has just been determined. Sir Jxstns WILDE is oi opinion that Mr. &a; in disputing his brother in-law's will, had no desire to possess himself of bis property, but was actuated by nothing more than " a sincere desire for the welfare of the " deceased." But the sincerest desire for a testa tor's welfare cannot be indulged in at the expense of his estate. Before the validity of a will is dis puted there ought to be some reasonable grounds of doubt. And as this element in the case was wanting, the Judge felt himself compelled to call upon Mr. SmEE to pay the costs. THE , EXPRESS MONDAY E l e 9 IS% . Efit Court. 477-c • ----- 08110/INI. Aran. 30. The Qua* Princess Helena, and Prime Leopol4 :a ceded ties Ron. Lary Lytteson; eel Laset-Odbeel Da Plat, drove to Hyde yeeerday. MAT 1. The Queen and Princess Helena drove oat yesterday. Lord Stanley al Alderley and 1L Quads arrived al Osborne. Lord 'Mosley of Alderlay bad an &aims*, and M. Quads had the honour of being repaired by her Majesty. M. Quads and Lord Stepley of A lderlay had the honosr of joining her Majesty sad the royal family after dimmer. Priam Arthur. attended by Major Elphinstome, arrived from Greenakk Park. This moraine divine service wm performed at Osborne before her Majesty, Prisms Helms, Maass Louise, Prince Arthur, sad Prince Leopold. The Rev. G. Prather° officiated. Today is the smeisersery of the birth of Prince Arthur. The Prince sad Primates of Wales, Weeded by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey, Lienteoant-General Kno ln, and Captain Grey, visited the exhibition of the Royal Academy on Saturday. The Prince' of Wales took a carriage drive in the after noon, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Grey. The Priam of Wales rode on horseback, attended by Cap tain Grey. The Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz visited the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlbcrosgh•bonae. The Prises sad Prisons of Wales, with the Hos. Mrs. W. Grey and Captain Grey in Waiting, nitpickd divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. J 11211114, yestealsy morn ing. The acesinuaioa service In alai by the Bishop of Loudon, the sub-deam, and the Rev. T. V. Porch. The rev. the subdean preached the seance. The Prince spa Prioress of Wales drove to Kew in the afteraoon, red visited the Duchess of Osenbridge. Major Teesdale has euceecded Captain Grey es Equerry in Waiting to the Priam of Wales. nen will be State Commie at Backisgham Palace on the 11th and Zkd instant. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at Cambridge-house. The miuistera present were Vi: count Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, Earl De Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Clarendon, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colonial olßos from the Governors of Vaacoaver's biked sad British Columbia. Deepatebes were seat to the Gov't 401. of the West Lxlia Weeds sad the North Moltke& provisos. TarCorrmiorcs—On Saturdayevening, shortly after the breaking up of the Cabinet Council, Karl Russell had circulars sent to all the pleni potentiaries attending the Conference, anoounc;ng that the next meeting would be held to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street. CABINIT COUNCIL—(Tara Dsv.)—On Saturday evening Lord Palmerston caused summonses to be issued for a Cabinet Council this afternoon at Cam bridge House. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred has arrived as Berlin, and is staying with the Crown Princess. His royal highness was received by the King of Prussia on Ss terday at 1 o'clock. Toe prise* will remain in Berlin about three days. Lord and Lady Clarence Paget received a select party on Saturday evening at their nwidenca, at the Ad miralty, Whitehall. Among the visitors vies—HL Excel lency the Freach Ambassador, his Erosßracy the Swedish Minister and the Countess Wachtmeister, hie Excelleocy the Saxon Minister, his Excellency Baron Beast, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset sod Lady Geraldine St. Maur, the Duchess of Cleveland. the Earl sad Counter of Erroll, Lady Molesworth, the Right Hoa. Sir J. Pakingtoo, Ad miral Sir Rodney Randy. Rasr•Adminl Hoa. J. R. and Mrs. Drummond, Hoc. Mn. Denison sad Miss Desiree, Hon. Mrs. Norio°, Mr. Lewd, Hoc. Mrs. Hassago, and Miss Henan., Mrs. Humphrey Mildmay, Hon. Mrs. Phipps, Mr. Gregory, M.P., Ho. On Saturday night the Countess de Grey gave her Pint receptioe this e Ism at the fsmily mansion is Csrlton•gerdere. A name:root sod distinguished oompaey responded to the invitations. The Duke of Newcastle is in much the same state. The answer to inquiries yesterday was that his grace had peeved a favourable D;ght, aad was thought rather better. We are glad to learn that Lord Palmerston was much better OD Saturday. He wee able to attend to bast. mass at borne. The Very Rev. the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford (Dr. Liddell), and the Rev. the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (Dr. Wheweli), and Lady AM.ek, have arrived at the Deanery, Westminster, on the mouton of the animal election from Westminster School. The two examiners (Mr. Ritchim of Christ Cho-oh, Oxford, sect Mr. Hotharn, of Trinity, Cambridge) are stayiag at the official residence of the bee I muter, the Rev. C. B. Scott, The next meet;ig of the Fox Club will take place at Brooks's on Saturday amt., May 7. The May general meeting of the National Rifle dasociatiou will be held at Willies Rooms, on Thursday, the 19th, at 2.30., Field•Manhal his Royal Higbee., the Duke of Cambridge, K.G., presideet of the associatioo, is the chair. The annual grand Yorkshire ball is fixed to take place on Monday, the 6th proximo, at Willis's-room, King. street, St. Jame's. The Counts De Grey sad Kra Frederick Milbank, kayo each undertakes to form a fancy quadrille. THE ROYAL VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE—By a grace ful coodrscension to the wishes of the undergraduate portion of the University, to whose loyalty the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince sod Princess of Wales at the date ori ginally fixed (June 15 to 171 would have been a source of much vexation, as it being virtually eon-term, they could have had no sham in the welcome to their royal highomace, the 16.4 will commence on the 2,d, and fermi. nate on the 4th, of June. Honorary degrees will be conferred is the senate hoes. on the 2nd and 3rd, and there will be Brand banquets in Trinity and King's Colleges. Amongst the other arrangements are the presentation of an address by the mayar and tows oinliciL Their royal highnesses os their arrival will then peas id to the eovereiss's apart ments at Trinity College Lodge, and will hamar the Vita- Chancellor (Dr. Cooluon,master of 8t Peter's College) with their company to dinner in the evening. The distribution by the Princess of the prises for the term to the University Volunteers, a visit to the University amateur dramatic performances, the always attentive University boat sac, a grad Hower show, sod a ball at the Guild will all be included is the pr ogramme if possible ; but bow they ere all to be made to . ' fit " n a matter for future °end &ratio°. Preparations, too, are mekies for an illumination and other festivities, and, ' weather permitting," there is SO doubt of the reception of their royal hisbnemes being worthy of the °caution. and such as will leave as the minds et the illustrious visitors a pleasing rentemtwanee of the enthusiastic welcome accorded them by the time-boooared University and ancient borough of Oambridior, DEATH OF THE COUNTERS OF FaLmours.—We have to onnonnee the death of Anne Frescos Countess of Falmouth, who expired at her residence in W hitehall. gardens betwren 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday nuncios. The hamentrd countess, who bore a high reputation far her benevolent disposition and her munificence is alleviative the distress of the poor, was daughter of Mr. Hairy Bankes, of Kingston lacy, enintv Dorset, Sbe married, August 27, 1810, Edward drat Earl of Falmouth (who died in December. 1841), by whom she had an only sos, George Hoary, who died in August, 1&32. LORDS aND Costwows.—The House of Lords will sot meet on Thursday sent, the sth instant, being Amen. simpday. The House of Commons will sot meet en Wed. neolay, the 25th instant, being the Derhy.day. Mzttorri GARIDALDI.—OOIOOBI Menotti Gari taldi visited the Royal Thames Yacht Club-house le All». merle-street on Fndav evening, and was entertained at dinner by Captain P. C. Lovett, at Limon Park, Bucks, • member of the club, and owner of the echooper-yacht Mime, 170 tons. There were also present at the dinner Signor Moedini (deputatt), Colonel M. Corriani, Signor L Wolff, Signor Majus, Major Mesta, Dr. 0. Guersoui, Captain Grant (secretary R.T.Y.C.), and other gentle. men. Captain Lovett bed previously presented Menotti Garibeldi with a handsome and valuable dock. fns, bearing • suitable ineeription, as • toter' of frisodshm. Moat of the Italian gentlemen above-named bad been cruising friends with the gallant owner of the Mirage in Sardinian waters. We have mine learnt that the Mayor of Plymouth has addressed a letter inviting Captain Lovett and his friend. ' Menotti Garibaldi and staff, to Plymouth. and which bee been replied to ea behalf of Ifeeotts and his friends. who're unavoidably prevented from arampting the invitation by previous arraogements to proceed, rid Francis. this day (Moods') to the South. THE CONFERENCE. THE BRITISH AND AUSTRIAN FLEETS. (From tin rims.) Tho mystery which has enveloped the earlier proceedinp of the European Conference is gradually be ginning to disperee, and we gain some insight, though by no means go clear es we could wish, into the parkas and motives which actuate the different performers in the momentous drams. No armistice has yet been speed upon, but it would sewn that, unless some new and on. toward inflames interferes, a °oration of hostilities is neither an improbable Door remote event. The two German powers have gained so much that there is very little more left them to gen. Holstein, Marc and Jutland are already theirs, and the island of Alum will, we learn, be ceded es the peke of a breathing time allowed to the overmatched and outnumbered Danes. Little ' more is left to seize than Copenhagen sod the island on which it steeds. All the rest, by repeated sok of violence and under one pretext or another, all equally good to sup port the acts of the stronger party, and equally worthless in the eye of justice and equity, has been seized. Nothing now remains but to set the seal of legality upon acquisitions due to the strongest and the most manifest exertions of force. . . . The chances of an armistice do nos, if rightly eressidered, depend so much on the will of Prussia es oe the policy to be adopted by the other four great powers. We apprehend that Bemis and Sweden are ready to ad in wooed with England and France for the preservation of what is yet left of the kingdom of Denmark. The difficulty ie that as England earn/10CD must act together to produce any germs improstioo, the least divergence of view is fatal to the exertion of their salutary power. Austria seems to be aware of the danger of the course on which she hu ea tared. She knows how impossible it word be for her, with her embernowed finances and her discontented pro vinces, to sustain the shock of a European war. She is sending her ships into the North Sea, is order, as she says, to protect German commerce from the depredation of the Danes, and we nmy as well believe her until those ships make their appeaser in the Baltic. But she ought to reflect that by sending a fleet into these waters she really gives pledges to England, and that it is not wise to act point ally and directly hia defiance of the wishes of a powerful neighbour, and at the Dame time to place the means of complete redress in her buds, and then to calculate on her forbsar•noe. If the Austrian fleet returns to the Mediterranean, it is entirely by oar sufferance, and it is not wise to furnish people who are fully able to execute whatever they have determined with such easy means of retaliation. The whole difficulty of the ease, however, is really cared by the Emperor of the Preach. IT. has mode himself remarkable for the strong resolution with which he bee hitherto supported the policy of his empire. He seems now desirous of distinguishing him self as passive and stationary amid the vortex of politics whirling around him, and of showing Europe how possible it is to neutralise the coon try which till lately assumed to take the pets cipel direction of its affairs. Aemming this conduct to be what it professes, that there is is it no afterthought, no mental reservation, it is ors of the most remarkable in duces on record o• the destruction of a mighty &Buenos by the very hands which have created it. The pride of the Emperor of the Preach has hitherto been that, without desolating the worll by perpetual wars like the of Louis XI V. and the great Napoleon, he hoe contrived to remise an influence equal to either of them. Hitherto he has undoubtedly succeeded in maintaining this intimate, due alloveaea being made for the difficulties of hie situation. Bat now all this is to be changed ; Fr.ugos is to be the only country in Europe that has no opinion to offer on its dearest interests. She will still formally emir at conferences, but only more pointedly to mark bow entirely she leaves the regulatioe of those affairs to others. A greet power is for the time withdrawn from among us—a lower whose plies it is not easy to We can only trust that this om'nous Banes may be attended with what would be a sufficient indemnity for the lose of the counsels and Mamma of France. Let us hope that em France has given np the office of arbiter of Europe she will dimnim there armies which have farad ea other nations the ungrateful burden of defensive prepare. tioa, and as she is content henceforth to do nothing, so she will give us this proof that she intends henceforth to do nothing which can in any way e'strrb the poem to which she appears to have become so sudden and so sincere a convert. (From th• Morsimq Post.) When the Coeferestv shall rc-esemble on Tuesday next it will, at any rate, find the English fleet a step nearer to the seat of war. The Channel squadron has come round to the Downs, and is consequently within some fifty boom' mil of the Baltic. We do not, however, flatter cuireslves that the Germans w"I think much of this demonstration. They are now so accustomed to regard us as permanently peaceful, they think it so certain that Franco and England will never act together in this matter, and they have played with us throughout the negotiation* so succeesfally, that they may be expected to count on our eternal neutrality as no interminable good advice. We do not hope to con virtu them of their error, but even now we may point ant that the English —as malty recent event" have proved—are, after all, sometimes excitable, especially when Rag land is toothed. Now, whoever touches the ace touches England; end the Getman; forgetful of this, seek to perpetrate another Sinope In the Baltic. There are three Austrian vessela of w►r in the Channel on their way north, and there are sight coming on the rune snood. This fleet of II sail would, when combined with the Prussian naval force, suffice to overpower the Danes ; and these Beets, acting in conjunction with the land forces, might pro. teed to the conquest of the whole of Denmark. We have no doubt that such is their intention. We noderstand, however, that assurances have been given that the Austrian men-of.war will not eater the Baltic. Bat when we remember how faith was broken in Holstein, in Sleewig, and is Jutland, we think we can appreciate German assurances at their exact value. We therefore urge the government to provide on this occasion for a certain fulfilment of the assurance by their own determination that the German squadrons shall not pass the Cattegat. The sooner the fleet now in the Downs proceeds to the Baltic, the sooner shall we feel confident of the probability of good faith being for mum kept with us, and we shall be free from the anti cipation of being precipitated into war by such another outrage as that which immediately led to the struggle with Russia. In consequence of the order for the Channel squadron to to to the Dowoa °Meer, on leave of absena►t Plymouth sod elsewhere have been requested by telegram to join their ships with as little delay as wissible. THE REPRERENTATION Or WOECESTER. -- The address of the conservative candidate for Worcester has been published; the candidate is Mr. H. Allsopp. of Hiodlip Hall, near Worcester, and principal in the great brewery firm THE REPRESENTATION or STOCKPORT.--The vacancy mused by the death of Mr. Kershaw in the repre sentation a/ thin borough has set the liberal sad comerva tire parties on the 1'" eine The latter have issued placards calling upon their (mends to reserve their votes, as e suitable candidate to represent their views will be brought before them. On Friday eight • large sad influential meeting of liberal friends was held at the Reform Amociatioa Rooms, the President, Mr. Edward Walantley. in the chair. It wee stated that Mr. Leese, of the firm of Karam./ Lease sad Co., awl Si, James Watts, of Manchester , had Imo waited upoe, hut both reetlemet having declined the hamar, the choice*, the meeting fell upon Mr. K W. Watkia, Asir man of the Manchester, Sheffield, sad Liosabidliss Rsilwy OulnamaY• LAMEST INTELLIGEITOIC. THE WAR IN DENMARK. The War to-day says that " the prOneatione of the two great German powers, their arrogant . language, the odious conduct which they observe towards Denmark, the exactions of which they are guilty, demand energetic steps on the part of the governments of France and England. The inso lence of an Austrian and Prussian journals in creases hourly, their preparations for war con tinue, and the ordonnance of King William calls for new recruits ; the Austrian ship of the line Kaiser, the frigate Fredericia, and the corvette Empress Elizabeth have proceeded towards the Baltic. Forty-eight pounder cannon, cast upon a new system, and which penetrate nine inches of iron, have been tried at Berlin. These warlike demon strations impose duties upon the signatories to the tre►ty of 1852, which has been so audaciously violatcd." The Northern German Gazette reproduces in a conspicuous place an article from the Correspondence Fri:trim-ink—ma organ of the Prussian government, in which we read :—" The conquerors of Duppel will not quit the soil which so many of their brethren in arms have bedewed with their blood for the liberty of the duchies until it be free and united to Germany. King William, who, with the Emperor Francis Joseph, is the liberator of Sleswig from the Danish yoke, has given his personal gua rantee to the people of the duchies that he will conduct their cause to a successful issue. Let the people of Sleswig Holstein and of all Germany be convinced that the holy cause is in good hands." We read in the Doeschafttr of Vienna of Friday last :—" We learn that the German powers will exhibit at the next sitting of the conference a perfect understanding in opposition to the preten sions of Denmark. According to sure information the political situation of England is such as to impose upon its government the greatest reserve, so that it must abstain from engaging in a war in behalf of Denmark. The affairs of America so entirely demand the attention of the English go vernment, that it requires to have its elbows free of European complications. The German powers would have sufficient reason for breaking off the negotiations for peace, if Denmark persisted in keeping up the fictitious blockade of the German paw" The Nord says that the despatch of the Channel fleet to the Baltic "would intimidate neither Den mark nor the German powers, for both know perfectly well that England will not make war without allies, and there is nothing to make us believe that France and Rus sia will depart from the expectant attitude which they have observed hitherto. Probably the only result of a notoriously platonic demonstra tion by England would be to call into existence the susceptibility and the amour propre of the contend ing parties, and thus to raise another obstacle to the pacific adjustment of a conflict which already presenta, without this element, such tumerous and such considerable difficulties." The Dagbladit announces that the Grand Duke Nicholas, the eldest son of the Emperor of Russia, is to pay a short visit to the court of Copenhagen. Apartments have been prepared for him at the Castle of Christianborg. (zsirrix's mear-ims.) THE NEW GREEK MINISTRY. ATHENS. A ran. 28. The ministry formed by M. Balbi is composed as follows : President and Minister of Finance Minister of the Interior Minister of Justice and Public Worship . . . M. Papazsph;rspulo. Minister of War . . . . M. Zimbrakaki. Minister of Marine . . . K Caner's, Jun. Minister of Foreign Affairs M. Caligas. The question of .the lonian elections has been settled satisfactorily by the Assembly. The budget has been adopted. G, MAY 2, MC' (nom ous oin it. T. W. • Naira — Lalth W. N.W. Azdroara 111.74611 8. Orlwasaatio 16.111521 W. Galway 'MOM W. Valenti& 'lo.l/7166 WN. W. Cape Clow W.N.W. 16 . 91 ; W. or=ou e r 3 29. llalzhead W.&W. Prahreko Met W.N.W. FINILIMOII 80.16 N.W. Bred 30.110,114, W.N.W. 10.1217: W.N.W. Rochefort 'et 24'67 W. syra Ina 66 W. inot h 12.166166 W.N.W. Poriaitootb- 119.904 W.N.W. Land IRKS& W. Dolor 26 &W. Timm& '90 .17 N. W. Scarborough 11.06 6.3! V. Welds 11.66.66, N.W. - ,.;r EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS. Svenet Emma. The debate !on the " Coalitions" Bill, which it was thought would have been concluded yesterday, stands adjourned to Monday. The first number of the Monitiur du Soir appears this evening. It contains nothing important, unless (which I doubt) the following paragraph may be so considered : No official confirmation Isms yet bees received of the news given by the private telegraph relative to the despatch of en English squadron to the Baltic. In say ease this measure, supposing it to have been taken, can have oo other character then that of a demoastration destined to support the demand of a goopoolios of hostilities which has bees triode to the belligerents. ' • There is nothing in the above which may not be inferred from the telegrams in the ordinar► journals. The general tenor of the news is that a Beet is ordered to the Downs, by way of a demonstration, and will proceed to the Baltic should the obstinacy of the belligerent powers render such a step necessary. The Exhibition of Modern Artists (henceforth to be annual) was opened to-dav, in the Palais de l'lndustrie, and was attended by immense crowds. In front of the building two beautiful colossal eques trian statues, by M. Clesinger, attract the notice of passers by. They are in bronzed plaster. One represents Henry IV., and the other Napoleon ILL In the great room of the Exhibition the principal picture is M. Meiasonniees " Battle of Solferino ' (only about a foot square), which was exhibited some time ago at Mr. Bingham's photographic studio. Immediately above this, in the 'place usually devoted to a grand battle piece, is a fancy picture, by M. Janet Lange, of a Mexican soldier on a splendid white charger, doing battle with French troops. The Mexican is flying before su perior numbers ; but he is the principal figure in the picture, and everyone would take him for the hero of it. A laudable novelty in the arrangement of this exhibition is the ap position of the word "exempt" to the pictures of those artists who have obtained a right to exhibit without the sanction of the jury, and who do not contend for prizes. Formerly it was a great puzzle to visitors to see the best pic tures without prizes. The "rejected" saloon is almost empty this year. Artists have found out that the appeal which the Emperor slyly granted them from the jury to the public only redounds to the credit of the former, and most of them take their slighted works home quietly. One merit of the present exhibition is that there are fewer staring battle pieces than of late years. The Venuses, Ledu, &c., are more numerous and more indecent than ever, but less good. There is nothing to compare with the Baudry and Cabana! Venues of last season. THE MORTARA CASE OUTDONE. We extract the following from the Temps of to day :—" The New Joanna of Giant recounts an affair which throws into the shade the Mortars scandal, and which the civilised world will read of with indignation and horror—the abduction of five children in consequence of religious prejudice.. On the 21st April Antoine Lauber, the father of a family, living in a small town in the canton ci Lucerne, had his house invaded by an armed force and his five children taken away by order of the autho rities. The father's crime conflated in not having his last child baptieal by the sociali sation authority of the place. We do not know what religious creed is here in questioc. The Swim journal does not inform as on this point, and it does not in the least signify. Ile wrong consists in the intrusion of authority, in the oppression of the conscience, sad in the negation of the family. The evil doers celebrated their crime as • victory by libations and salvos of artillery. Antoine Lauber bee appealed to the Federal Conrail, who will not, of CO9lllll, tolerate in Switzerland infamous behavioer like this, which is aloolated to bring diegreee a the whale nation." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAT.) 210112 AT, MAT 2, II A.N. ROME. ROSE, MAT 1. The Congregation of the Index has cOndemned twelve works, among which are the " Life of Jesus," by M. Peyrat, and the defence of the Lyons Liturgy. THE SPANISH PASSIVE DEBT. MADRID, Aram 30. The usual monthly auction for the sinking fund of the Passive debt took place to-day. The prices fixed by the government were for the first class internal, 52 ; second class, 31. 50 ; foreign, 36. No offers were made for either description. THE BRAZIL MAIL LISBON, N 1. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, with the above mail, leaves for Southampton this morning with 123 passengers, 12,2001. in specie, 781 bales of cotton, 688 bags of coffee, and 341 packages of sundries. MONTE VIDEO, Attics 29. (By telegraph from LiaboL) Exchange, 52, 51i (521 ?). Ox hides 6rm ; small sales have taken place at 6.10 ; dry American scarce, sto 5.10 ; dry German, 5.70, active and advancing. Wool, small sales. Tallow, 1.80. Number of beasts slaughtered, Mocte Video, 133,500 ; Uruguay, 61,000. Imports unaltered. BUENOS AYRES, )(Azar 27. Exchange, 49k. Ounces, 29, 30. Wet salted ox hides, 40. Dry American, 38 to 41 ; good demand. Wool unchanged. The stock consists chiefly of de fective qualities. Tallow, 14 7-9. Lumber, 29 to 34. Flour firm. Refined sugar, 18. No improvement has taken place in imports and freights. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Mar 2. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 10.40 cm. to-day. ARRIVAL OF THE GEORGIA AT LIVER- POOL LIVERPOOL, lLty 2. The Confederate war steamer Georgia, last from Bordeaux, arrived here this morning. She carries six guns. TAR FEDERAL NAVY.—The Official Navy Register for 1864 has just been issued from the government orem. it reports the number of vessals, including those gill build. Mg, to be 617 ; among them 72 iron clads, and two mon— ths Avenger and Vindicator. From Deoseaber 31, 1862. to March 6. 1664. the navy has lost 39 gesels by capture, de struction, esaggieg, wreck, kr., including air iron clads and three rums.—Americon paper. A Momrrea Bronx —The largest elevator in the world is to be built this series at Milwaukee. Its storage capacity is to be 1.500,000 bushels. It is to have Dine re. ceivnig and sve shipping elegrotom capable at taking in 45,000 bushel, and giving out 25,C.;3 bushels of psis in en hoer. New York doss. ~CeurTaava trwo.—The through rate of pomp free See Francleco to New York, ioelading railroad fare, by the Orizaba sod Americo, was in the steerage, 40 dole. ; end in the Ordeals, for best aorocaromiatsone, 162d015. 500. —Nat York piper. : , : PROBJUILL TVIWILILT. ON NOLIWILII WIDXSSDAT. F.W. to &W., mode- 00522. LW. to N. W., boob, rote to strong, some with showers. min at ttmse. As obese. Wygriaa. As above. W.N. W. to W.&W., Bourg/Jul. W.I.W. to N.N.W., moderate to strung, fresh, showers to a with some ratL Saw plume. W. N. W. to &S.W., TAM A& As rat above. fresh, some rats. Northern=grotlend. Wantons= Wales, and ad. jerenotes Southern-_-_toglish Channel and leg. &angora solastward ingland and North Sea THE BOYLE Lacruaaa —Yesterday afternoon the fret of the lactates foaoded by the Host Robert Boyle for proving the truth of the Christian religion against sotorions infidels waa delivered in the Chapel Royal, Whitehall. For many years these lectures were delivered in the city churches, where scarcely half a dozen people could be ob tained to listen to them. Lest year some improvement osa made, and the Rev. E. Gerbett, the lecturer, delivered them In frailty Church, St. MaiTlebooe. Another step in ad. mace has been taken by the Duke of Deveoahire (a trustee) and the Bishop of London, and for this year the lectures will be gine in the Chapel Royal. Yesterday aftersooo the chapel wee crowded in every part. There were present the Chanosilor of the Eachaquer, Mr. Cardwell. Secretory of State for the Colonies, FAA Powys, the Speaker of the Home of Commies, the Bishop of Winchester, Sir J. Worn% Lord Clarence Paget, M. P., Mr. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Grant Dud, M.P., with several other members of the Boom of Commave and many clergymen. The lecturer appointed this year is the Rev. Charles Marimba 8.D., chaplain to the House of Comatose, and rector of Lanford, Heim He selected for his test the 17th chapter of the Acta of the Apostles, verse 32, "And when they beard of the resurrection of the dead some mocked ; and others said, 'We will hear thee again of this matter.'" He pointed out the interesting nature of the imiairy bow Christianity operated upon the philosophy of ancient Mmes , sod bow it cum afterwards to be the moral law of civilised men. The object of his lectures, he said, would be to endeavour to trace the prover of this great tran s f orma ti on , t h e most signal of all religious revolutions. Hs added that the object of the founder of Boyle's lectures was the asser tion of the truths of Christianity mount unbelievers, sod although it had been usual to glee them a cootrorenisl taro end to urge special remove in defame of Christianity, be thought be should sot be departing from his iostructima if he took a somewhat different coarse, and poi n t e d ou t some of the changes of religions opinion anumg the ancients, for he believed that at the present day they would be more likely to recommend the truths of Christianity by recording the progress of conviction in the rabid of man than by answering old objections or by combating n ew ogee, w hi c h were really Dottie' more than old objections with sew faces. He thee proceedd with much clearness to sketch the re ligions state of Roman society before the birth of Christ, sad stated that his following lectures, to be delivered on the nest seven comecutive Sunday afternoons, would deal with the cooveraiou of the Roman empire. The Londonderry Journal states that one of Lord Leitrim's bailiffs has been shot, and that Peter Griffin has been arrested for fring the shot, which took effect in the bailiff's thigh. It is net known whether the wooed is dangerous. Another account states that it was the we of the bailiff, a lad about 15, that was struck by a shot fired into the home, which shattered the boas, rendering ampu tattoo mcemary. The outrage occurred about tea miles from the 'Wags of Milford, county of DonegaL MUSIC. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The Prophite arm given on Saturday evening for the first time this Man. This most gorgeous of Meyea. hose's operas attracted a crowded and fashionable audience, sad was mcdnoed with all the splendour and magnificence with which it boa always been clothed at this theatre; bat it has certainly never been performed there with so weak sad ineffective a out The part of John of Leydes wan assigned to Herr Wachtel, the new tenor, who has re. eentlyphael so =soh applause by thesxtraordinaypowerand compass of his maw On Saturday evening he was mi. dently labouring ander indispositioa, for his voice did Dot display its usual strength and brilliancy. We by no means say of Herr Wachter' voice that it is " vox et preens& nihil," for he has better gifts than mere vocal power ; bat it is certainly on his vocal power that he mainly relies, and when this fails him he cannot command success. jam of Leyden is ons of the grandest as well as most arduous dm meters in the whole range of the opera stage, while there is no great part that depends eo little on mere vocal exmation. It hardly contains • single air at all prominent in a musical point of view, except the ansersiont song, sang by the Prophet with dasperstemirth at the moment of the catastrophe. The representative of the Prophet mast be an actor of the highest order ; sod such was Mario, who, in this character, has left every other performer—everyone, at least, either on the Paris or the London boards—at an immeasurable distance, especially le the wonderful some el the coronation, where the recreant fanatic, raised to the summit of earthly grandeur, is forced to deny his unhappy mother. These who saw the son and the mother together, when the opera was Bret produced oa the Covent-garden stage, in the persons of Mario and Viardisailjernia, witnessed a scene which thee can saver forget The part of Fides, which the composer wrote for Madman Visrdei, sad withheld the opera for years till be maid obtain her, is as arduous as that of the Prophet himself. That incomparable artist has had many successor' in the part, but no one has squalled the truth and beauty of the original dramatic picture. Of all her suocesson, the Adam of Saturday night, Mademoiselle Dalian, was the most incompetent. Her performanee, in one word, was a failure. On the other hand, the character of Berths, to which justice a hardly ever done, received it on this occasion from Madame Rudendorff, who not only acted the part with intelligence and feeling, bat sang the music with brilliancy and beauty. The other parts were sustained as usual. Tagliafico was (as he has always berm) an excellent Count Ohertitial ; and Neri. Baraldi, Polooini, and Capponi were the three psalm-singing Anabaptists. Were Mario to resume his part of John of Leydso, which of all his great partais that which then is the least reason for his resigning., and t were the part of Fides more ably Mled, thee the London represents. tion of this opera would be this best, as well as the most splendid, at any theatre in Europe. CRYSTAL PALACE. The winter aeries of the Saturday Concerts at the Crystal Palace terminated on Satan:lay. The beauty of the weather, kinked to the excellence of the estertainment, bought together • very large assemblage. The pier dr resistance of the ocasert wee Beethoven'. Pastoral Sym phony, which displayed to great /advantage the qualities of Mr. Mann's Ear archartra. A young pisoist, Mdlle. Marie Krebs, newly arrived from Breeden, made a successful dflod in • faatasia on airs from Listrcia Borgia ; and a violinist also from Dresden—Barr Inuterbsch, concert master to the King of Saiooy—made a great impremion by his admirable emeontimi of a tubule composed by himself. There was some pleasant vocal music, rung by Mdlls. Eft. quid (the Swedish vocalist). Signor Geremia Bettini, and others; and Arditi's "La Garibaldina" concluded the commit DRAMA. HAYMARKET. As far as we are aware, the comedy of Sullivan bar never appeared is an English form, though ita scene is laid in London, until it wee represented on Saturday night at the Haymarket Theatre. under the title of David Garrick. with Mr. Bothers In the principal character. The adapts. ties, made by Mr. T. W. Robertson, follows the original very closely, for gagman is a comedy remarkably free from French impurity. Is changing the title to hand Garrick we eennot think that en improvement has been effected. Rightly or wrongly, ignorantly or intelligently, Garrick is regarded as our representative English actor ; and wheat Mr. Sothern undertakes to give • living picture of such • man, he eta hardly avoid disappointing • too exacting *a dieu*. To set Garrick ill, in many people's eyes. to veep sore oneself with Garrick, and this is marosly a position which any actor ought to occupy. There is much in this piece which may gaiter the vanity of • highly sensitive profession ; much in it that is ea moral as • dimmer's by the Abbe Passion ; but cot muck in it that will raise it above the level of • fair average play with fair average parts for fair average octant Miss Nagy Moore', rendering of Ada Ingot was • delightful piece of pure girlie acting, full of simple, natural grace; Mr. Chippendale bad so fault, except that he looked too aristocratic for the coo veationally vulgar City merchant ; Mr. Bac/Moos skipped with boyish gaiety through • part which reminded us ex ternally of Toey Lumpkin ; sad the minor characters were well played by Mr. Clerk, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Coe, Mn. E. Fiturilliam, end Mon. Snowden—the last estrus lookiag like the stout lady in Hegarth's picture of " Evening," who is going up to Sadier's Well to take her syllabub. The chief part—David Garrick—played by Mr. Bothers, was, on the whole, • satisfactory reader* of • character bevies many phases, bet lliW reality. More geniality and im pulse, as much art, but more tact in concealing it, more haled in the sentiment of the situation, lees tragic depth of tee* in the MAO= parages, sod • trifle leer econtricity is the business of the drunken some, we should have regarded se marked improvements. If Mr. Sothern bad been an un known actor coming forward to earn • position in light sod sentimental comedy ids performanes might have been fairly called a encore, bat something more ie expected from the creator of Lord Dondreary. If that embodiment is not to be considered • great theatrical " fluke"—the beginning sad the end of an exemardinuy theatrical reputation—sad the long series of diverting stage caricatures of modern society which seemed to be promised by the actor are ever to have shape and being, Mr. Saturn mast not waste has talent and energy on such very 'prentice-work as he minuted to per• form on Saturday emealog. ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY. On Saturday the third and last of the spring exhibition of flowers took place at the society's prdsen, Regeet's-yerk. The weather, though omeimally gloomy, was as favourable as could be expected at this memo of the year ; and the company. though not so unnierone as at the summer exhibitions, was still large and fathionable. Ir deed, with regard to that most indispensable adjenct to I 'roomful flower floe day—the society has been unwontedly favoured this year, for the weather on all the three days of the spring exhibitions bail been above the average of the season. But the bloom of Homes, like the linnet's mg, memo to be " all indmeodeet of the leafy spring ;" for whatever the indioatioes of Farsabeit, every one wbo visits the Botanic Scenery's godless at the earl of April is sure to MO Mey suriculea, pumice, pelargoniums, kn., in the perfective of bloom and beauty. Whether it be that our hoeticulterisas bare worked out Swift's idea, and mc extract "'sunbeams from cucumbers," we de not know ; but certain it is that the florist's art seems to be in a great MII&011ie independenl of the son's rays, for it sever fails, be the spring as cheer less as possible, to produce growths of such luxuriance, of snob variety of Vann and colour, as to throw our " " into eastacice of metros. The Gild blame of Saturday was not inferior- to any of its predecessors at this period of the year. The roses were es pecially stroug, and commanded universal oommeodation. BISMINGHAIN MUSICAL FDRYITAL.—The arrange meats for BIM great triennial celebration are progressiod the days appointed for holding the festival being the lith„ 7th, Slb, and 9th of September next. The morning psr formasces will embrace the following important works : Tuesday, Meodelasehe's St. Para; Wednesday, Allalll4ol, an oratorio composed for the occasion by Mr. Code; Thurs day, the MessiaA ; Friday, Beethoven's Mount of Ohms, Yos•rt's Mass in 0, and a selection of choruses from Handel% Sofosto•. TM evening concerts are now asdS eamiderstion by the mammal's, and will is ell probability comprise secular s•tatas by two of our leading English compoesee. The Festival will be brought to • close by • performlasee of ifijah. The Earl of Liehhold, lard-bea• tenant of Staffordshire, will act be president of the meeting. Evrus. AND Co.'. MCIIICAL LIMAS; AND 1101111011.—Praspoduess grays Dabeerlbere easy eater Wt.. Iff, bemsamsteet, taMea—ladveetleema•tj iihriii aye.■ MM. 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