The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-01 00:00:00

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Tie' Roll in the chains gua• ranteed, and repart Racal at the price eliargeL " Here's the note, flow much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, The iinclie.s of the gold, and ,liarge fir fashion." Sit A ILESPZARS. Ntanntaetory, ilenrlettitatreet, Covent-fro/sten. London. B ROWN and POLSON'S CORN FLOITR for CHILDREN - 8 DIET. T. obtain extra profit by the sale other kinds are sometimes offered instead of BILUWN sod POLSON'S. "John tirowu," “Join Poison," La signed by the mains on each packet. Eh, eXPreoo* TO CORRESPONDENTS. Advertisement, intended fur The Exprese," London Evening Paper, must be al the (Mice, 10, ttouverie-streek by Two o'clock on the day el publication. DRURY LANE THIS EVrltNn, ROI: ItII Mews. Phelps, T. switihourne, W. seri& el. NI •Ie t) rr, itarrett, and ilate.eirt Ili...lames E. Cross, R. G. L. lin.l4 l .ttn. .n.l E. Ene.:ltiti.—T.. conclude with WAN EU ll L :ILAN DS YolL al X. Miss IluLlspeth. HAYMARK P.Y. 'l'llB lIEIR Al ' Tate EVENINI, Mew lisickstone, . Clapposlale. raaliaan, Farrell, Rogers ,Brai d. Nlet.lassea tloare, de —THE ,ERIor, FAMILY. :Messrs. I.luLkstalle, Farren. gc.—Autl PERFECTION. Slew Burke. PAINCERW& _ VW , F.VENOto:. NO. ROUND TRE CORNER. Memo. Shore awl Forri-der —And IT Di NEVER Toil LATE. TO )I I). Nc.us Vining, V. Villiers, Verner, Baur°, Calhaem, and Mellon , MLwxa Page and Rodgers. LITEUW. Tali Er k Mr. Price and Mim Kate Rlshop.— •,.1 .1. 111 111 F ir; mi Ern i Mr rerhter, Ere.ry. prirc, Fitzpatrick, rtr. ; Mia:es liratton, and Carlotta Leciereq• STRAND. TRI9 EVENING,, M A Pall E TER.% AND YOUNG MY& BAN US.-1, e.a.11. OA: lilt, TIIE SENs.%TION GoA'r. Mews. nirt.. , ll. and Turnvr ; Nleshunes Swaehoronsh, Hughes, Meat Itenhy, &e.—Aisd lIIE FRENCH ESII I kiITION. HOLBORN. TIVIS EVENING, MY TURN NEXT. Mr. Delmore; Muses Foote and Lali vc —And FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Bel wire, Blake, VOll-dre, ate. , Mesdames V. Josephs, C. dmeaden, Resale Foote. Md.'s, Leases, Raymond, de. BRITANNIA. T 111.4 EVENING. FAUST" U K.cIkRGITERITES MANGLE 31ro. (Alio awl Mewl:mit-a J.W.stri, Mein, ant Iti,ot - rouclud. tug with •I'llE DFATMAN'S TII.E.VW RE; OR, WEGU AND THE DOFFINS. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins Dar --‘loroine, lth. Wm Afternoon, Oh. O. to.lloasow—Monling, Oh. 110 n Afternoon, 00. 37n0 LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL I. AFTER the experience of sixteen years, diversified in interest by three International Exhibi tions of the arts and industries of peace, and by three great European wars, it would be hyper critical to affect surprise at the opening of the Universal Exhibition of 1867, in the " capital of " civilizatii , ii," unheralded by propheciesof a millen nial truce and unaccompanied by auguries of uni versal disarmament. Perhaps the comparatively in formal and unceremonious manner in which this new gigantic bazaar of all nations is to be inau gurated to-day may be accepted with thankfulness by a too credulous world as an opportunity and excuse of saying as little as possible about the moral efficacy of thew , enormous shows. Let itbecheorfully and cordially acknowledged that no city could be better chosen fur such a feast of the eyes as this harmless tournament of the useful and the beautiful will furnish in the Champde Mars, than that brilliant capital of wit and pleasure which by the chief of its own municipality has been declared to belong not to Parisians, but to that vast nomad multi tude of the rich, the idle, and the curious, who prefer all countries to their own—except it may be to live and die in. With all its faults and all its follies, Paris, if it disappeared to-morrow by an earthquake, would not have deserved ill of man kind. Perhaps were all its faults and all its follies less, the world could Letter spare a city by none surpassed, by few, ancient or mo dern, equalled in the intellect, the vivacity, the valour of its people, in public spirit and in social charm, in all the felicities and amenities that take from vice half its grossness and lend to virtue the lustre of romance ; a city of the boldest thinkers, the most ingenious artists, of handicrafts-. men of exquisite skill, and heroic instincts—a city which ever and again proclaims a charter of emar cipation to humanity, and in its intervals of lassi tude dictates a new philosophy, or a new sauce, a new religion, or a new skirt. It was not easy for the most obtuse and patriotic Londoners to per suade themselves that their neighbours who dared the perils of the Channel and the fogs of the Thames in 1851 and 1862 to visit the shrines of Hyde Park and South Kensington, would be tempted to forget their Fau bourg' and their Boulevards. London is not an inhospitable City ; the Mansion-house is open to many, the London Tavern to all ; but let us make a clean breast of it, and confess that London may possibly seem a little dull to visitors of light and eager temperament, who in their ignorance of the language call it blares. Paris may be a trifle wicked and heart less, sometimes even rainy and foggy and muddy ; it never is and never can be dull. There may be too many barracks in Paris, too many streets demolished to make sites for building, too mono tonous a glare of interminable white facades all fresh from the masons' powdery hands ; but we defy the most indigenous of Britons, who has eyes to see, and ears to hear, and a palate to taste, and nerves to tingle, unless he be a Philistine of the most incurable suburban or provincial type, whose mind knows no other meridian than " Clapham Junction," to come away from Paris with his native stupidity aggravated by the change. We only hope our pleasant neighbours will deal mercifully with the too un accustomed stranger from these isles, and not cor rupt the obdurate simplicity of his liver with blue wine and cheoal gnu at fabulous prices. Most Englishmen are fond of hone-flesh, it is true, but it is, if our Parisian friends will pardon the sug gestion, of horseflesh in motion, not in " still life," in the shape of fillets and °area:ilea. To imagine an Engliahman,with all his healthy natural instincts unimpaired, voluntarily and deliberately partaking of a " fatted" four-wheeler or a truf • Bed hack, is to imagine a Brahmin sitting down to a banquet of cow-beef. We don't expect our lively neighbours to respect the religious prejudices of Exeter Hall or the moral prejudices of our playgoers, who cannot endure to see the Seventh Commandment trifled with except in an " original adaptation from the French ; " but there are certain prejudices about which Euglialunen are more intractable than about their religion or their morality, and without insisting on the sacramental formula of " steaks and chops," the most cosmo politan appetite on this side of the Channel very decidedly draws the line at hone. With this proviso we are ready to believe that all classes of Englishmen will profit by their visit to the French capital this summer. It will be no concern of British visitors to inquire too deeply THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 1, 1867. into the political institutions which their hosts may enjoy or endure. None of us will proceed to Paris to hold public meetings and discuss the relative superiority of Parliamentary governments or administrative and military monarchies. We shall remember that we are guests, and not to look too closely into the private and personal affairs of the good people we are visiting. British " society " will learn that there are beyond Belgravia and clubs out Pall-mall, and that to a considerable public on the other side of the Channel the movements and marriages of a few rich and titled British families are as important and as interesting as though they happened in Kamschatka. Our bishops and clergy will discover that their scandals about vestments and their squabbles about altar candles look as large in Paris as a crowd in Fleet-street from a balloon four miles high in air. Our barristers will find that the most illustrious browbeaters in i..i Pri,4B are conspicuously in significant personages 300 miles away ; our M.P.s will have to own that the names of no more than half a dozen among them have crossed the water, and even Peers and Baronets will acknowledge that there is a world where Peers and Baronets are unknown. Our actors will, we trust, take a lesson in the rudiments of dramatic art ; our men of letters will be agreeably surprised by their obscurity ; our very coachmen will perceive that there is more than one rule of the road, and only one beyond the circuit of these islands, and that not theirs; and, above all, let us devoutly hope that our hordes of vulgar rich will, by a diligent and persevering effort of observation, arrive at the conclusion that it, is possible to live and die like a gentleman in an apartment on the fifth story. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) from W.isliiugton to the confederation of our North Ame rican provinces. It is more than an answer—it is a challenge. When such barefaced designs to remove a neigh bour's landmark are paraded by a man like Granier de Cassagnac, the authorised historian of the coup d'etat, and who has been a government writer ever since, what government can have any confi dence in professions that France does not meditate a raid in Europe ? What minister or diplomatist can flatter himself that he would be serving the cause of peace by facilitating the degustation by France of such a hors d'a or re as Luxemburg, which would be merely a whet to its ravenousappetite ? The Pays, while announcing that it is about to make a regular paper campaign against Belgium, protests loudly that it is not a government organ and that all its staff are thoroughly independent men who speak only their own opinions. The 3fouiteur, without a moment's loss of time, chimes in with this assertion of the Pays by saying that several " foreign journals" [it is always foreign journals which are made responsible for false news] seek to accredit the belief that the Pays is the interpreter of the French government, and that it is important not to allow this mistake to be propagated. Then, in almost the very words used by the Pays, it says that the politics of that journal are entirely personal, and involve no responsibility but that of the editor, who was elected by the shareholders. This explanation will have very little weight with those acquainted with the mechanism of the French press. The form of electing M. Granier de Cassagnac (the standing compiler of the address in the Corps Legialatif) editor of the Pays was indeed gone through by the shareholders, but not until it was known that he had been selected for the post by government, without whose authority he could not have filled it. The Coosti tationncl is always disavowed whenever convenient, and yet everybody knows that it is a semi-official journal. The Ltberte has an ironical article this evening pretending to believe that Belgium is saved, because the Pays is disavowed by the Mouiteur, but at the same time saying how unfor tunate it is that M. Rouher, when M. Granier de Cassagnac, the editor of the Pays, said in his place in the Corps Legislatif that ho was not against the policy of annexation, did not at once say from the tribune that the government did not share his views. A THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION IX THE FRENCH SENATE. In the French Senate on Friday, during a dis cussion on the bill relating to primary instruction, Count de BEGUIt D'AGUIDShEAU, in speaking d the works published of late years against the Christian religion,said— I ban many reproaches to make to the government on this question, and I cannot refrain from censuring the facility with which it has let pan a multitude of facts which might have been the object of judicial pro ceedings,. I could also wish the state to set the example, so that we should not see in the public workshops a penitent violation of the Sabbath, the only day when men have time to remember that they have a family and a soul, or can fol low any course of religious instruction. The people should not be encouraged in allowing themselves to be carried away by the current of materialism, which leads astray the masses and seduces them from the prescriptions of the most holy religion laws. I have another reproach to make—against M. Rouland on the subject of certain scan dalous nominations made formerly by him, and am glad that be is present for me to tell him that, in spite of the good intentions he manifested last year at the time of a discussion raised by a petition concerning the protestants, to tell him, I say, that be ought to preserve all his life a feeling of remorse for a nomination which was a great scandal. (Murmurs.) M. nc SAINTC-BECVE, interrupting—l protest against personal imputations having nothing to do with the ques tion and addressed to honourable then. THE REVENUE AND THE BUDGET. The estimated income of 1866-7 was 67,013,000!. The expenditure of the year, including the supplementary estimates sanctioned inJuly, was estimated at 66,720,0001.; and the anticipated surplus was, therefore, 293,0001. The actual income is 69,434,56 M, and it is known that the actual expenditure has not on the whole greatly exceeded, if it has not fallen short of, the estimated total. The Chancellor of the Exchequer may thus, says the Times, have the pleasure of announcing on Thursday that the balance of income over expenditure is more than two millions and a half. The additional charge of anny and navy is for the present 5.50,000/., so that we may confidently hope Mr. Disraeli will have a consider able surplus at his disposal. The dead weight annuities amounting to 586,0001. • year, expire this summer,, and the revenue will be relieved of half this in the coming year, which must lead to a renewal of the discussion re lative to the redemption of the national debt. If the Chan cellor of the Exchequer be indisposed to recommend any process of redemption, he must be prepared to encounter the attack of a vigorous and unrelenting antagonist in Mr. Gladstone. If Mr. Disraeli proposes to abate or abolish taxes, he may judiciously reduce or altogether sweep away th e fire insurance duty, and though under no circumstance could a financial minister dispense with an attack on nudt liquors, if the ingenuity of farmers and their friends can suggest any mode of lessening the burden of the malt tax without injuriously affecting the revenue, it will deserve attention. The Post dwells on the wonderful increase in the national receipts, pointing out the fact that of the eight sources from which the revenue is derived, six have produced larger returns, despite the remissions of taxation, than in the preceding year. Nevertheless, as retrenchment has not kept pace with a steadily increasing income, the Post assumes that the balance which we find to our credit must be employed in meeting the increased outlay. The Telegraph fears Mr. Disraeles financial erposl be as unsatisfactory RS his reform bill. Out of the rnsgni fioent income at his disposal scarcely anything will remain after disbursing those charges which are pronounced to be essential for the public service. THZ REFORM TOIACT. The Daily New urges that to go into committee now, without other knowledge of the intentions of the govern ment than what is supplied by the negative inform►tion that they are not prepared to adhere to the only scheme before parliament, would be to join battle in the dark. The question which Mr. Gladstone has put on the notice paper for this evening will give the Chancellor of the Ex chequer an opportunity of reassuring the country on a point upon which it feels considerable uneasiness and sus picion, and Mr. Disrteli's reply will throw light on the course which it may be the duty of the opposition to take. In the opinion of the Telegraph to go into committee upon vague statements like those put forward by Mr. Dis raeli last Tuesday night would be to repeat, in a grosser form, the error committed in not opposing the second leading. The Herald describes Mr. Gladstone's question as amounting to a demand that he shall be allowed to dictate the measure of the government. Compliance is impossible, all the more so that Mr. Disraeli has already intimated his desire to accept the decision of the house at large upon nearly all controverted points—an intimation inconsistent with submission to the dictation of a single member. THE PROSECUTION OP MS. M RS. Th e proceedings of Sir Baldwin Leighton and his fellow magistrates in Shropshire usefully bring into prominence, says the Daily News. the unsuitability of the institution of the unpaid magistracy to the modern exigencies of life. Applying their judgment to England, if martial law hap pened to be proclaimed in England, these gentlemen would justify the seizing any man in London, the carrying him off to Ireland, and the banging him at onoe on his arrivaL No ono, according to their doctrine, could be punished for such a proceeding. Or, again, if there should be a renewed reform agitation. and a new Peterloe massacre by yeomanry, the guilty officers would only have to go and live in Shropshire to be certain that magistrates would screen them from the law, on the ground that they were not proved to have " malice" against the particular vic tims. If to men like these—members of a dominant class and inspired with all the fervour of class antipathies—is to be still committed the function of deciding when the law shall, and when it shall not, have course in this land, we cannot but dread the results. The blot on our system must be removed. In the seat of justice we must have men who have been taught what justice is. Henceforth, the Herald nap, a verdict of soquittel, wherever the ease is tried, is a foregone conclusion ; and, awarding to the Standard, through the decision of the Shropshire squires, the Jamaica Committee " stands be• fore us now an example of conspiracy detected, malice bailed, and insolence rebuked." If the Star understands the position of affairs, the charge of murder was made under legal advice as the proper mode of investigating the death of Gordon, but such a charge could not be made under the Colonial Governors Act, which merely admits of the trial of misdemeanours. The committee may now, therefore, fall back upon the mode of procedure authorised by that statute, which being admi nistered under the Court of Queen's Bench a warrant will reach Mr. Eyre anywhere in England without requiring the egregious farce of a petty-sessions committal. Under this form of process also, not one, but all of the crimes committed in Jamaica may be tried. THE CESSION TO THE I:MED BUTTS 0? RL•BBIAN AMERICA. The Poet regards the telegram which announces the eadott to the United States of the whole of Russian America and the adjacent islands ea the counterpart to us of what the Pllllll4ll treaties were to our neighbours the French. The difficulties we have already had in British Columbia in dealing with the Yankee element of the population and the exact territorial jurisdiction will become proportion ately intensified now that the Suttee bound us on the north as well as the south. A reference to any map will show the difficult position of a colony separated from us by a hemisphere and shut in on both sides by an aggres sive people. The news which reaches us to-day may be eit e _ recterieed as a first and most important step on the part of the United States towards claiming the whole of the North American continent am their own. It is the answer RAILWAY PROPERTY. Observing that the public disinclination for all kinds of railway securities is carried to an unreasonable length, the Duilg K aes says that the utmost evil that the share hohlers can undergo is to receive so income for a while, but it may happen that this result will turn to their ulti mate advantage. The idea of new branches will be aban doned, and the general administration economised and im proved. This is no ideal picture. Those who are ac quainted with the railway history of the country can easily recall more than one instance where apparently hopeless financial depression has in the end been attended with the happiest results. UN Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 30. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon. Princess Augustus, with Prince Philippe and Princess Amelie of `Saxe•Coburg, arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen. Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice walked and rode on ponies this morning in the Home•lark. Prince.. Christian, I'rincess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and Princess Amelie, walked and drove in the grounds of the Castle. Prince Christian and Prince Philippa went out walking, Prince Leopold also walked out, attended by Mr. Legg. MARCH 31. The Queen, accompanied by Princessehristian and Prin cess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, drove out yesterday after noon in a carriage and four. Princess Louise and Princess Amalie went out walking. Prince l'hri.tian and Prince Philippe of Saxe Coburg rode on horseback. Prince Arthur arrived at the Castle yesterday from GreenvrichiPark,..tteuded by Major Elphinstone. Countess Blucher, the Dein of Westminster, and Lady Augusta St.,nley, also arrived at the Castle. The Queen, Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, at tended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster preached the sermon. The King of Denmark, the Prince of Wales, and the gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday morning. The communion service was read by the Rev. Thomas Helmore. Anthem, " Tut me not to rebuke 0 Lord," Croft, sung by Messrs. B. Barnby, M. Smith, and Whitehouse. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Llandaff from 1 Cor., ch. vi., v. 17. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke of Cambridge attended the service. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministen pre sent were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marl borough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. North cote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A deputation from the members of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of the Condition of Mer chant Seamen, introduced by Rear-Admiral A. P. Ryder, and consisting of Captain H. H. Beauiish, R.N., Mr. Edwin Chadwick, C. 8., Commander W. Damon, R.N., the Rev. D. Greatores, Mr. Thomas Gray, the Hon. Auberon Herbert, the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., the Rev. J. Scarth, Mr. James Southern, 1)r. Domett Stone, Captain Henry Toynbee, the Hon. C. H. Tracy, Com mander E. H. Verney, R.N., and Sir Harry Verney, Bart., M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Rich mond, at the office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall, on Saturday, on the subject of the improvement of the condi tion of merchant seamen. Despatches were sent on astunley from the Colonial office to the Governors of the North American Provinces. His Royal Highness the Field Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock, on Friday, the bth April. It is now understood that her Majesty the Queen will remain at Windsor Castle till after the accouchement of her Royal Highness the Princess Christian of Schleswig- Holstein, which event is expected almost daily. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge entertained at dinner, on Saturday evening, at Glouces ter-house, Piccadilly, Major-General Lord Geo. Paget, C.B ; Lord Hotham, Lord de Roe, Lieutenant• General the Hon. Thos. Ashburnham, C.B. ; Colonel the lion. R. W. Charteris, Colonel the Hon. Dudley de Res General Sir Wm. Gomm, G.C.B. ; Sir Charles Russell, Lieutenant-General Knollys, the Chaplain-General, Ge neral St. George, General Stephens, Major-General Napier, Colonel de Bathe, Colonel Airey, Colonel Carleton, Colonel Whitmore, Colonel Ringworm, Colonel Ponsonby, Colonel Bruce, Captain Arehdall, Mr. Ro maine, C. 8., the Rev. Mr. Halpin, and Colonel Tyrwhitt, Equerry in Waiting to his royal highness. The Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg•Strelitz returned to St. James's Palace on Saturday from a visit to the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. Princess Mary and the Prince do Teak abo returned to town on Saturday from Belvoir Castle. Prince Murat has arrived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, from l'aria. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford give a dinner on Wednesday next expressly to meet her Royal Highness Princess Mary and his Serene Highness Prince de Teck. Lady Chelmsford will have a reception later in the evening. ILLNESS OF THE EARL Or DERBY.—The friends of the Premier will be sorry to learn that the Earl of Derby has been compelled since Thursday last to absent himself from parliament, owing to a sharp attack of gout which came on with much severity on Friday. His lord ship has to keep his bed. The Countess of Derby's parties announced for the 6th and 13th inst. are postponed till after Easter. The Hon. and Rev. George Herbert, brother of Lord Pow* has been appointed by Lord Derby to the deanery of Hereford. The Hampshire Advertiser of Saturday states that the chief witnesses who will give evidenoe in favour of the Australian claimant to be Sir Roger Tichborne will be the mother, the Dowager Lulynchbome ; Mr. Hopkins, the Tichborne family's s'acitor ; Mr. Lipscomb, the family doc tor ; Mr. Bulpett, the family banker; the Rev. A. Bishop, for many years the incumbent of Tichborne ; Mr. Super intendent Everitt, of the Hants County Constabulary; and Mr. Baigent, a Winchester tradesman. There appears to be no chance of the claimant's being ►llowed to take possession of the title and estates without the decision of a court of law in his favour. He is still residing with the Dowager Lady Tichborne, at Croydon, in Surrey. Several members of the Tichborne family have been to see him, and have refused to acknowledge him a their relative. Last autumn Canon Girdlestono published some particulars respecting the frightfully low rate of wages paid to the agricultural labourers of Halberton and other parts of Devonshire. Various persons sent him money as • removal fund, and within six months fifty labourers have been sent out to follow their own vocation in better paid districts, where they are doing well, while wages in Halberton and the neighbourhood have risen and the labourer has been in all respects more liberally treated. The canon even hopes that those who remain, will, before long, rise to 12s. a week having • house end garden rent free—the very least an agricultural labourer can live upon honestly. The rev. gentleman adds that some of the farmers are accom modating themselves to the change in • manly and plea sant spirit, while in the ease of others there is no manner of abuse with which they do not assail him and nu kind of retaliation in which they do not indulge. " What little I have done," be says, "will, I hope, be further developed and made permanent—the formation of an agricultural labourers' union for all England." Covent-garden Theatre opens to-morrow night with Norma, the part of Norma by Madame Maria Wilda, who made her successful debut in it last year ; anal on Thursday Mdlle. Lucca, Signor Mario, and Signor Grasiani are to appear in Fawai e MorgArrita. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE OPENING OF THE PARIS EXHIBITION. (THIS DAY.) The following short notice in the Gazette de France represents pretty faithfully the general im pression in Paris concerning the opening of the Universal Exhibition to-day : The Monireur having delayed till this morning to pub lish the programme of the opening of the Exhibition to- morrow, people began to suppose that the ceremony would be postponed, and they were the more justified in thinking so because—in that immense and ugly gasometer which coven the Champs do Mars—there is nothing yet exhibited but unopened bales of goods and empty shop windows. But now, at the last possible moment, the Monio-ur pub. balms the programme, and the reason for the delay is very perceptible. The " solemnity " will have nothing solemn about it. As we said two days ago, the opening ceremony will merely signify that the Exhibition is not yet opened, or opened only fictitiously. The Emperor, Empress, and Prince Imperial will indeed go in car riages to the Champ, de Mars, where they will be re ceived by the Imperial commission only. Accompanied by this commission their Majesties will walk through some of the galleries, proceeding through files of spectators com posed of the foreign commissioners, the jurors, the mem. bers of the scientific, historic, and industrial committees and the corps diplowatique, and the members of the three grand corps of state, the Senate, Corps Legislatif, and Council of State. As to the exhibitors, subscribers, and public paying 20fr. at the doors, they will be allowed to go everywhere except in those parts of the building reserved for the imperial eortige. We should state, how ever, that after the Emperor has gone the public will be allowed to look at the passages which he passed through. Our Paris correspondent remarks on the above : —" There is very likely a spice of ill-nature in this prognostication. I will hope that to-morrow's display may be not quite so pour as the opposition journal would foretell. Herculean efforts have been made for the last week, and are yet making every hour, to remedy, as far as possible, the lamentable state of unre.adiness in which the E xhibition undoubt edly is. It is admitted by no hostile commentators that the imperial commission has reckoned too much upon the furies francese to achieve impossi bilities ; that the work was begun too late, and in forgetfulness of the fable of the hare and the tor. toile. The weather gives some promise of clearing up, and I almost dare to hope for that rarest thing in Paris during the last nine months—a fine day." (aztrea's TEL/GRAYS.) THE NORTH GERMAN PARLIAMENT. DECLARATION OF COUNT BISMARCK ON THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. BERLIN, APRIL 1. In to-day's sitting of the North German par Bement, Count von Bismarck, replying to the interpellation of Herr von Bennigsen relative to the Luxemburg question, said :—" We value amicable relations with France and avoid wounding her susceptibilities. I cannot there fore reply to the second portion of the in terpellation as to the course that may be adopted in this matter by the Prussian government in con cert with its federal allies. Your language becomes a representative of the nation, but is not diplomatic. Respecting your first question, asking for information in re gard to the rumoured negotiations between Holland and France for the cession of the Duchy to the latter, I may state that nothing is known of the conclusion of such an arrangement between those states. The Federal allied governments believe that no foreign power will endanger the undoubted rights of Germany. We hope to pro tect them more safely in a peaceful way the more the debates in parliament shall show the indisso luble ties between the government and the people." BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, APRIL 1. Lord Howard de Walden had an audience yester day of the King, and delivered autograph letters from her Majesty Queen Victoria to the King and Queen of the Belgians, announcing the accouche ment of the Princess of Wales. PORTUGAL LISBON, M•acx 31. The funeral of Deputy Julio Pinto, killed in the late duel with Senhor Sa do Nogueina took place to-day. The Cortes have passed a resolution of sympathy with the family of the deceased. A large number of deputies accompanied the body to the grave. The pall was supported by members of the Cabinet. Senhor Mendez Leal delivered an ora tion in honour of the deceased. The event has caused great public sensation. THE WAR IN THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Fan. 26. Public opinion and the press are more than eve r in favour of peace. Several conferences have taken place betwen the ministers of the allies and the United States representative. An American steamer has been sent to Paraguay to convey to General Lopez the bases of negotiation. The revolutionary movement continues in the Argentine Confederation. Matters remain unchanged at the scat of war. LISBON, MAacit 31. . The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Shannon arrived here to-day from Brazil, &c., and will leave for Southampton at 6 p.m. to-day with 223 passengers, specie 10,9981., 720 bags of coffee, 783 rolls of tobacco, 1,094 bales of cotton, and 167 packages of sundries. The Seine, with the outward mails of 9th of March, was at St. Vincent (Cape de Verdi) on the 20th March. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. EXTRAORDINARY THREAT AGAINST BELGIUM. (nom cam Owl CORRIMPONDINT.) PARIS, SUNDAY Eviwnro. The following almost incredible gasconading passage appears in an article of the Pays : We declare that the very legitimate annexations of Prussia, founded on the profoundly rational principle of nationalities, have had the necessary and foreseen result of placing that power in • territorial situation from which France naturally derives a right to claim, and, if neces sary, to take, compensation—that is to say, to reconstitute herself in her natural limits, and to retake Belgium, which beckons to and is waiting for us. Is this clear? If M. de Girardin has no opinion on this matter, we have one, and here it is. It is an opinion that may now be read in our columns every day. But we can only state our own views, and we do not go so far as to dictate to government the day, the hour, the marshalling of the armies, and the plan of the campaigns. Still less do we reject the hypothesis of the possibility of • pacific arrangement. We will not insult the government because it thinks right to exhaust all possible diplomatic means before resorting to the always terrible and always uncertain arbitrament of arms. Let the government chose its own time, conceal or hint at its plans, display or dissimulate its resources—in • word, let it play the game with Prussia as it best can : that is the government's affair. It has the responsibility and should be allowed full liberty. But our business is to enlist in battle array behind the government the send. manta, the honour, and the patriotism of France. There is no sensible m►n who does not consider the reconsti tution of Franco in its natural frontiers as the most de sirable thing possible for French interests, at least if this work can be accomplished with the free consent of the populations. The PRESIDENT—M. de Sainte-Beuve, do not interrupt. 11. DE S.urrit-Brurs—lf it is to M. Henan that M. de Segur d'Aguesaesu intends to allude, I protest against un accusation levelled at a man of conviction and talent, whose friend I have the honour to be. (Order, order.) The PRESIDENT —I did not remark any personalities in what 11. &gar d'Aguesseau said. He spoke of certain doctrines but did not name anybody. SEVERAL Voices—Call the interrupter to order. Benin de Cuarris-fflosrvi.avit.t.e—lt is impossible not to feel deep affliction when we ace in a certain modern literature, the authors of which have just been eulogised, the laws of eternal order trampled under foot, re ligion attacked, and the bases of society under mined. (Great applause.) No one should be permitted to come here to praise men who carry the torch of the incendiary into social life, by propagating amongst the masses doctrines of atheism and irreligion. All the ener gies of good men should be combined to avert that peril. We protest against these doctrines with all the energy of our convictions. (Renewed approbation.) The cup of immorality is overflowing, and to us more especially be longs the task of indicating to the government the means of providing a remedy. I, for my part, shall never shrink from any duty of the kind. (Hear, hear.) M. DE SAINTE-IL:EVE (again rising amidst cries of "Order, order," from all part► of the house)-31. de Segur d'Agueaseau spoke of two things. There is a current of immorality and obscenity which nobody defends, and which I reprobate with contempt ; but there arc also honourable and respectable philosophical opinions which I defend in the name of the liberty of thought, and which I shall never allow to be attacked and calumniated without a protest. (Order, order.) Y. ns MAUPAR.—Then you will be the only man in the Senate to defend such doctrines. (General assent.) Count Dg GlU)l4.44.Luts-FLAN•axtres.--It is the first time that atheism has found a defender in this assembly. Marshal CA:4110111111T (turning to It de Bainte-Beuve)--- You are not here, sir, to defend a man who has denied the divinity of Christ, and who has set himself up as the in veterate enemy of the religion of our fathers, and which is still that of the great majority of Frenchmen. (Prolonged movement of approbation.) M. DE MAUPAR—ThE opportunity is e good one for pro testing with energy spinet such principles, and against the anti-religious and immoral tendencies they produce. (Hear, hear.) M. Dr SaIM•BEOVE pronounced SOON words not dis tinctly heard. (Cries of " Order, order.") The PRESIDENT —lf you persist in your interruptions, M. de SaintHeure, I shall be obliged to call you to order. You raise, an you perceive, incidents of a nature to dis turb the habitual calm of the deliberations here. Nobody was thinking of H. Henan ; it is you who in naming him brought him into court. Let me nquest you not to pro long this regretable incident. (Great &Kilauea. fieverel members rose to speak.) H. Suin—We wish to return to the question under die. cussion. Several VOW/IC—Yes, yea, The Priest DENT--1 invite the speaker to continue, but to confine himself to the question as the Senate desire.. Calm was then gradually restored, and the discussion went on for a short time longer. Commenting on the above, the .lotimsal des DAM* of to-day remark. :—" One is astonished at the pretension of the Senate to met themselves up as a council to decide questions of dogma, for it was really • point of dogma that was discussed on Friday. The cardin►ls who were present took no part in the incident ; at least the Mon deur does not inform us that they did. Perhaps they were stupefied even to the loss of speech at bearing mere laymen speak on this matter with so much authority. It is too much the habit in certain quarters to regard the human mind as • kind of conscript, which it is necessary to subject to camp discipline. But Marshal Canrobert will permit us to remark that this is an enterprise even more difficult than the taking of SebeatopoL" A New York telegram in the Timts referring to the treaty ceding to the United States for a consideration of seven millions the whole of Russian America and the adjacent islands, says :—" It is reported that the British diplomatists in Washington are greatly excited, and will request her Majesty's government to remonstrate upon the subject. The President bus convened the Senate for Mon. day, to take the treaty into consideration." THE PROsECUTION OF MR. EYRE. (FROM OCR OWM CORRESPONDENT.) MARKET DRAYTON, sere twm , From a remark dropped by Mr. St.•f.hcn Thursday, it was anticipated that, either summary of the facts deposed to by his wittie;st or by the establishment of a right to reply t., ti remarks of Mr. Gifford, the latter gentleman woe be compelled to share with him the advantag e gaging the attention of the court on the last the the proceedings. But probably perceiving thr u,. lesaness of further argument before the bend. • which Mr. Eyre had appealed, Mr. Stephen to: tented himself with supplying an omission ~ in the evidence tendered on Thursday, and f•a• rest of the day formed one of the audience listened to the eloquence of Mr. Giffard. Commencing his address within five min. ; ;, of the assembling of the court, Mr. Gifford spn• his speech over a period of nearly sit hone I use the word " spread " advisedly, hymn* : tl learnedcounsel is an exceedingly deliberate speake: and though Mr. Stephen's speech occupied oi hour less in the delivery, Mr. Giflanl . a addre. contained considerably less matter, in mor e „,,„ than one. It was clear to those who were fat-ire by hearing Mr. Giffard that in preparing thy n.,: for his speech he had been fully impressed the value of that axiom which directs the "them up of the plaintiff's attorney on the altar of a At., case. At the outset he coolly proclaimed his rus e tion of not replying to the legal arguments •,,h,,• had been so abundantly adduced by Mr. Stept in the course of his statement for the prosecut e , " Facts " were what Mr. Giffard relied on. all under his treatment the " facts" were divided 31t two heads ; first, adulation of Mr. Eyre and that he did or said as Governor of Jamaica ; at. secondly, abuse of the prosecution. For • learned friend, Mr. Stephen (who was present Mr. Giffard, indeed, was good enough to say the apart from the present inquiry, lie had cur respect ; and for Mr. Shaen (who was also preset he likewise professed an esteem somewhat vale'. ' by the addition that it was " because lie did know any-thing about him ;" but for the James. committee (who were absent), Mr. some difficulty in finding epithets which spit. to him to be sufficiently opprobrious. " Mahcioe. " malignant," " false," " unjust," " unscrep lons," and "slanderous," were used up at an ea hoar of the morning ; and as the day wore on. it was necessary still to abuse the other side. ti learned counsel found it necessary to repeat t choice expressions with which he had alo e charmed the ears of his client's ne • ' hours. I can give you no more striking pr, of the extent to which Mr. Giffard went acting up to his brief than to menti. the circumstance that in one of his frequent ref ences to the prosecution, even Sir Baldwin Leight, the chairman of the bench, thought it desirably interpose, and with an apol og etic reference to fact that he had also " stopped counsel on the of side," begged Mr. Giffard to refrain. These interruptions of counsel by the c • - of the bench form, by the way, not the least not feature in the case. Sir Baldwin Leighton. : many years known in the House of Commons the tory member for South Shropshire, holds strt opinions of his own on other questiona beside; t' of the duty of policemen in connection with • preservation of rabbits. To do him justice he in the course of a lengthened experience as a cote magistrate, gained an intimate acquaintance the duties of his office ; but there is, of coin_ considerable variety of manner possible in the formance of the most narrowly defined duty, and. putthe matter mildly, I may say that it is within t scope of a sober imagination to conceive a ni• strata displaying on the bench huts self-esteem ;•• more urbanity than are met in the person of t chairman of the Shropshire Quarter Sessions. my last letter I mentioned how up to a cert point Mr. Stephen had been frequently interne.: in the course of his address by remarks from chairman, and yesterday Mr. Gifford suffered the same way, though in the latter instance interposition was kindly meant, and it further, Tercel front that addressed to Mr. Stephen, much as its effect waste make the learned 001/11. and not the chairman, look ridiculous. In p suance of the determination with which he started, to ignore questions of law and deal "facts," Mr. Giffard hid been drawing a mov picture of the island of Jamaica at the time u• the Governor thought it necessary to hang Gordon. With a clever prefatory allusion tilla ho proceeded to picture Mr. Eyre protecting lives entrusted to him by the Queen f " fiendish outrage, barbarity, and lust," and chided by asking whether, for doing that, he w& t be persecuted to death, winding up the pass.n:, the exclamation, " Good God t is this jetties and then burst into tears. It was clearly eset t by those who had been present when the chairs rebuked Mr. Stephen for slightly raising his ' in commenting on the terms in which Mr. E referred to Gordon at a time when his victim hardly in his grave, that Mr. Giflard would be re • dad that he was not addressin4 a :I' 4 But though the chairman moved uneasily in A seat, he did not say a word, and Mr. G recovering from the depth of his emotion, tee ceeding to apologise for the little scene, when Baldwin Leighton, seeing his opportunity, be in with " Oh, don't mention it ; but will yo ti much longer 1 because if you will, we had better to lunch now." The ludicrousness of the ewer —a Queen's Counsel in tears, and the charm thinking of his lunch—utterly spoiled the tin,: this otherwise powerful passage, but the rt m. was made with such perfect artlessness, that once M il Giffard at accepted his positioe, and dr , : his eyes and resuming his natural voice, went with the crowd to luncheon. When, some three hours later, Mr. Gilfard eluded his defence and the magistrates ?L.!. tired for consultation, the interval woo regarded by tho audience with that fever: anxiety which would be natural at the china , similar cause, but tried under inherent on::: stances. No one present doubted for a in. we what would be the result; indeed, Sir IL Leighton,with that itafati of which I have alt given an amusing instance, disclosed the `- that the magistrates had no need for private • sultation ; for on Mr. Giffard reewniur his said : " The magistrates wish to retire fir a time—we won't be very long." And very they were not, for in less than a quarter • hour the magistrates re-entered the room, chairman holding in his hand a prof N''. containing a wordy decision, the Incre writia; which would occupy at least one-hall the were they absent from the bench. With the contents of that paper c m are air,. acquainted, and you will probably also 11.0 e !ec' that on its being read the country gent , .. filled the room cheered their brethren ~ 1t bench, and that when the applause uas lc in the court it was taken up by the "' who tilled the street outside. As a c ominet:t• on this latter fact I have only to add that on LC nesday night, when Mr. Stephen had mace , his speech, the very same crowd ho,ted Mr. E: as he entered his carriage. THE ACCIDENTAL DEATH INSI* it ‘Ncr, CourA —A correspondent of the Tines makes known let this company has refused to pay the pronnini on policy of the late Mr. Jeffcock, the engineer. who ro` in his efforts to ex'ricate the poor creator'* left in pit after the Oaks colliery explodun in Deconl..r. reply to questions put to them by Mr. Ri own, the et engineer who went down but escaped, they a 7. 1, 11: risks incident to your profession are covered . policy, but you are expressly forbidden to pho• 7 . 3 in voluntary danger under any circtunstano, whiter/ Thus, it would appear that if a mining engineergoei scene of disaster after an explosion in a conl-pit-, h‘• a risk, according to the Accidental Death C..mpanY• incident to his profession. They add, "It i,. th , characteristic of nobleness that it he disinten - g ,.1. cannot be disinterested if the direct cwisequenert k secure pecuniary benefits which under other circuiesn would not accrue." It can hardly be suppus...l slot consideration of his policy could have enteied the head poor Mr. Jeffcock before he ventured up on what celled to be his duty—a duty necessarily inchlentsl u' profession of a mining engineer, evechilly a N engineer. I