The Express. — London, England, 1859-01-31 00:00:00

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The Lori rwallis.-Commaaes : INITTAIX IL. TIM. I ,PILIXOX PiLicuca XX D XXX Qt/ =X or SPIT X: et. Th. Emma V X. Amp lads • to r. 1..., n. II XxXas.-Ix4 TUX 11004M11 "m um. It. Crow MOH WATAIL AT LL DO! LUDO& 11.a•-.11welim pa la %OW LONDON. MONDAY, JAN. 31. .Iwcisnse other expedients to obtain the indefinite postponement of Reform, an attempt will probably be made, when Parliament re-assembles, to rain the question whether general and local inquiry, by means of a Royal Commission, into the working of our existing system of representation ought not to pre. cede any legislation on the subject. 'MS hopeful devo t e for the purpose of delay is not new. It has for some time been maturing by the bureaucratic section of the party of resistance, and is, every now and then, put forward as a philosophical specific against popular demands. Rat it is worthy of note that as yet it has never been formally brought forward in either House. The reason is obvious. So long as susses sive Cabinets could be relied on to play false to their pledgee about bringing in a Reform Bill, statistical inquiry into the number of electors whose names began with B, and into the average number of miles, furlongs, and yards which each elector walked when going to the poll, and other vital matters of the like description, might safely be dispensed with. It was not the useless information that anybody wanted for its own sake, but the power to gain time by asking fur it, and the chance of being able diligently to woes time in collecting if, that was felt to be of value. The call for official inquiry before legislative action wan re garded, in short, as an admirable resource in case of emergency, to be kept in reserve till Iteform seemed really imminent, and then to be produced with all the simplicity of look and earnestness of tone be seeming patriotism suddenly conscience-stricken at its ignorafice of numberless most fen-important details. Had the scheme been one in whose utility its doctrinaire inventors placed any real faith, or had their object been, as they will of course pretend, to facilitate and promote the enactment of a sound and comprehensive measure of electoral progress, they would have urged its adoption during the session of 1832, after the change of government had frustrated Lord JOHN Rt --ends proposals, announced at its commence mett in the speech from the Throne. Lord ORLY was a member of the cabinet who prepared and pro pounded those propositions. lie and his friends, who are now so bewildered with circumspection and diffidence on this particular topic, must have felt acutely the guilt and folly of the rashness they then committed in sanctioning an ex tens.on of the suffrage and a reduction of certain nomination boroughs without previous resort to a statistical job in the shape of a costly and cumbrous Commission of Inquiry. But why did they not seine the opportunity afforded by their expo:Son from office to set such inquiry afoot? Or if dejection and disgust be allowed ass eufEcient excuse for that year, why did they not try their crotchet in the next' The coalition had just been installed. They were full of high promisee of legis lative amelioration. They had made it a e sedition that they were to have a year to consider their plan of Reform. Then was the time, if ever, for the believers in red-tape tightening. and looseninge of political right to ask for the reticulated masses of infinitesimal facts, without which, we are told, they now declare they cannot think of legislating. Bat so ; neither in 1832, nor in 1863, nor in 1831, wee any suggestion made either in Leedom. Commons; and in 1833, Lord JOHN and the l'eelitas having been thrown overboard, Lord I'UNZIiTON became Mi nister, and pledged himself anew to deal with the question ot Reform. The conduct of the war during the first two years, and something else we never could make out, prevented his redeeming his promise. But neither thcee obstruct,ces who were all that time in office, 801 f those who were during that period enjoy. leg the individual freedom of oppoaition, e Ter muttered as audible word in favour of the project, until about twelve months ago a pants pamphlet appeared from the pen of Earl VAST, who was manifestly duped into ?has prematurely showing his hand, by the cir culation of the false report that Lord l' it.sseettott had actually a 144 prepared. In the brochure al luded to, the noble anti-reformer enunciated plainly the 4rand stop-gap statistics! scheme. In a variety of ijaarters it has sine* been feebly reiterated; aad the Law Amendment Society were last Saturday per ensiled to devote a mornini sitting to the subject. But again we ask—why, if the motisee be really those that are professed by the oligarchic and bureau. grafi , : authors of the project—why has it not been brought fairly baton Parliament during the last seven years' Why has it been kept is rffn until thtrt seems to bea probability of something practically king done to redress great grievances and to settle great questions ' Apert, however, (ruin the considerations we have adverted to, and whore significance it is impossible to d. ny, there are intrinsic of jections to the scheme that to every hearty and loyal advocate of popular right will appear insuperdhle. We utterly deny that the eatensi us of the franchise to the ioduetrium climes is a proLletu to be solved by lordly or right honi,urable pedants beefed in a Government office, theorising about the minimum of vulgar stuff that may be infiltrated into the porcelain vases of ex clusive power, without danger to the satin cushions on which such delicately painted and enamelled yowls stand. We spurn the notion of a seli et and secretive c:ique being entrusted with any inquiry into any portion of the great public question— are we or are we not to choose our rulers We say at occe and unhesitatingly, that the Minister who would dally or trifle with such • proposition in any form or shape would betray the duty he owes to Parliament, and the still higher dui} he owes to the nation at large. Parliament could tot, without fatally derogating from all Kit respect and from all constitutional principle, devolve upon the seesaws of Crown the task of tellingi THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1859, ft low it ought to be constituted. The members of ths Cabinet are members of the Legislature, respon sible to its opinion, and removable by its votes at pleasure. The members of a Commission would necessarily be officially beyond its 1 cognisance or control. The members of the Administration have to prove their case in presence of the House of Commons; and if they manifest ignorance, incompetency, or a wrens, bias, they are forthwith made amenable; while the public, through the ears and lips of the press, inexorably hears and reveals all. But a Commission of Inquiry must be left to its own discretion, and in the exer cise of that discretion it must of necessity work without regard to, and free from interruption or question by Parliament or the people. Into ques tions of local comparison, or casual abuse, or physical suffering, the intervention of such a mechanism may be unfit ; but in the moral, social, and political con stitution of the State, its intrusion would be the most intolerable and insolent of usurpations. Ausriadi IN ITALY. (From Ms Saturday Review.) Austria in Italy is in an incurably false position, mil area from which she will one day tied it in her ewe interest to recede. The Union of Ireland with Nyland end tkotleed, and the British &opine in India, which have h quoted so jeatilicationa of the Austrian dominion in Losolbudy, afford no parallel whatever. Since Catholic imancipation, Ireland and England have been rapidly be anie; toe ; and though the embers of former honed of ems, Mill smoulder, the lin is out, and the repeal nin ths ban died a natural death. India to not a nation, but a of hostile races, incapable of teaming or of ~aWwi"g • regular government; and our abandonment of eras Mestere empire, though it would probably be no try moilorial Ins to us, would make my at ones for anereby and iatcrneene war. In Italy, Austria is holding dews a &need nation, alien to her in me and language, and aspens at eelf-government it her yoke were removed. Not any se; abs Is courpelkd by the moral necessities of Our position is be the tyrant of all the rest of Italy, as well M at Lombardy, and to bring upon her head the guilt and sham of enamel= at Home and Naples OA well u at Milan. This I. spinal all justice and all law; and, whet ia more, it cannot pomibly pay. A province like Lonibudy, which la one van bast end one vast garrison —which is the universal cothaby of all comneron, menden, and propagandists, and reclaim gnat reinforcements to be always et hand—moot more than absorb Its own reveLnee in military eupenees. Austria reaps nothing but chronic bankruptcy from one of the ricking countries in the world. Zbe court. WINDSOR, JAN. 29. Her Majesty received the following telegram this swift : "Berlin, Jan. 29. " From Sir James Clark 10 the Queen, Windsor Cagle. "The rtilloollB has had an excellent night ; the niece also. Both are u well aa can be." Her Majesty's dimes party yesterday included the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, the Dean of Windsor, and the lion. Mrs. Wellesley and Colonel Wetherell, C.D. The band of the Grenadier Guards played during dinner: Overture, Son an I Sir nun. Wan:, canal...ol 1.. r Una Poona Blrab.lo of Ge Prince.. Frederick WJWa. Mbe Duthie. of Kum Peleetha, Guillaume ?ell" Pravalau National QUM, llama. Use Majesty's private band aftcrwarda perforroad in the Drawieg-room the following aelectiona Overture, L. Chapenn• Nance ( ~ n etrte, Tl(4ll—Mr. J.ha Day . &mums.. ........... Auber. lla Ikriot. Bart Her Majesty and the Priam Consort, accompanied by Princess Allot and Prince Arthur, left Windsor Coati° this morning at 11 o'clock, for the Wellington College, near Sandhurst. The suite consisted of the Comatose of Desert, the Hon. Leatrice Byng, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Crofton, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, the Dean of Windsor and the Hoc. Mrs. Wellesley, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Lad Colville, Lieut.-Colonel H. l'onsonby, Major Elphinatone, and the Master of the Household. Iler Majesty was mewled by detachments et the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. lire Majesty, on arriving at the college, was received by the governors end euthorties of the institution, and re ceived an addrem, which was read by the Earl of Derby, and to which her Majesty returned a gracious amine. The Queen went over the building, and having inspected the arrangements, formally approve.' of the regulations sub mitted for her Majesty's sanction. The Queen and royal party left; the college about 2 o'clock, and returned to Windsor Castle. AU the visitors left the Castle in the forenoon, viz., the Earl end Countess of Shaftesbury and Lady Victoria Ashley, Viscotutt and Viscountess Sydney, and Colonel Wetherell, C.B. The Duchess of Kent dined with her Majeety (attended by Lady Fanny Howard end Mite Victoria Wortley). Major- Gesural the Ron. C. and Ilre. Grey had the honour of being invited. The band of tho 2nd Life Guards psellained at dinner _ . . Cleftimisd Marrh ..... .... Wlcorecbt. wake. " 119agsale" I Annul anWatiall." Ludo. 411 Liaminseer . Pouttettl. 1./Jup Her Majesty's private bead afterwards plsyed la the Drawing roots Ike following pieces: 2vortnre." Oberon• . " isobtku" Cbour du Numb!. •• utenibuil .................. 11wW16'....., kw. 30. The Queen sad Prince Consort, Prince's Alioe,Trie;ses lielena, and the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic hosehold, attended Divine ser vice this morning in the private chapel. Tho lion. end Very lie►, the Dean of Windier efilciated. Her Majesty rroeired the following telegram this morning " Berlin, 10.20 a.m. " From Sir J. Clark to the Qncen, Wmtbor Caine. " The Princess has had another excellent night, and her Ito* Highness and the young Prince are quite well." Governor Kortright had an Inteniew with Sir E. Daiwa Lytton on Saturday, M that Colonial -office. A deputation from the City of London Union, coasisting of Mr. Heath, Mr. Sibley, and Mr. Warwick (Guardians), Mr. Baylis (Solicitor), and Mr. Bowring (Clerk to the Union), had an interview with that Right Hon. T. Sotheron Eatcourt on Saturday, at the aloe of the Poor-law Board, in White hall. The Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President, gave s dinner to the Ministers and Onicers of State on Saturday, at his re sidence in Arlington -street. Ths 11.011 of Sheri& for the present year was settled at the meeting. Despatcher from the Governor of British Columbia were received on &tardily at the Colonlal-office. The Indipwndente of Turin states that the ring presented by the Empress of the French to the Princoes Clotilde was scompanied by the following autograph letter: —" It is customary in Spain when a young mum takes • husband, for her beat friend to offer her • ring. A Spaniard by birth, I wish to observe towards you the tradition of my country. Will you then, receive this ring, and permit me, while waiting to embrace you u • cousin, to call myself your Ent friend." A letter in the Nord, from Berlin, dated Friday, says:—" Early this morning Prince Frederick William assembled the servants of his household, and showed them W infant son, whom he held in his arms. I have seen workmen and poor women hurrying from the moat distant quarters of the city, and even the peasants from the neighbouring villages, to learn how the prince,' is progressing. The bulletins signed by the doctors, Schoculein, Wegner, ant Martin, are read and copied with incredible eigessees. In fast the Berliner, so cold by nature, are giving way to tbe meet ardent enthusiasm. A committee it is said will to farmed to secure for all poor children born yesterday is Prude the sum of 260 thalers on reaching their 24th yew. There will be another grand illumination and a serenade, with torches, when the Thumbing of the euguet prioress' takes place. There are alas to be court we., modal far, and, In fact, everything is a Mte—end for the moment politics are forgotten." His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Dachas of Malakoff h►ve arrived at Albert-gate Howie, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Wellington at ithethfleldsaye. His Excellency the Prussian Minister and tho Countess Berne/lord entertained at dinner lan evening, at their resilencs on Carlton House-terrace, his Excellency the Bavaria Minister and the B►ronets daCetto, hie Excel lency the Ilenoverian Minister, his Excellency the Minister for the Netherland., hie Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Comte,. Platen, hie Excellency the Danish Kintner and M.dams Deckum, the Duchies of Inverness, Count Blucher M. and Madame Conti, Mr. Cowell Stepney, &c. excinancy and the connotes will leave town to-day on a nett to her Majesty at Windsor Cantle. The Marchiooese of Salisbury has issued cards for assemblies nu each Saba/day In February, at her mansion in The Earl of Ellenhorough has arrived in town for thermion. Rig lotdpnip 124 a taken a mansion is &dna square, the residence of Sir Richard &Miele,. The Earl and Countess of ].anesborough will arrive st their residents in Great Stanhope-street, on Wed nesday, front Snit!:land 11.11, Lelosstarsbire. Viscount Eversley and the lion. Misses Shaw Lama ha,. arrived at their residence is Eaton-place, from Hackield Place, Haat& Sir James Graham comes to town today from Netberby Park, Carlisle. Sir Robert Peel will arrive in town on Wednesday from Drayton Manor. Lady Emily Peal will ritual' in the country for 'be praeont. Sir Michael sad Lad y Shaw Stewart hate arrived at their residence in Beltran-square from the Continent for the ...moo. Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothchild have arrived at thrir mansion infiroovenor-plare horn Aston Clinton. The Queen's Advocate and Lady Harding enter tained at dinner, en Thursday last, the lewd Chancellor and LeJy Chelmsford, the Right Hoe. Sir John and Lvly Pakington, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole and Um. Walpole, the Solicitor-Genetsl and Lady Cairns, Sir Henry Storks, &c. Lord Campbell, the Chief Justice, accompanied by some of the members of his family, was present at the special service at Bt. Paul'. Cathedral last evening, occupy ing wale peas those of the Dean and Chapter. Marine Goldsmidt (Jenny Lind) was also in attendance, with her husband. The distinguished lady, of whom so many pl•'se iag recollections linger in the popular mind, was the cynoeure of all ilea as Abe left the cathedral at the time of the *orrice. The evening meetings of the members of the Royal Institution commenced for the season as Friday owning. It Etas boa customary 1,1 Professor Faraday to deliver the drat lecture, but on tale occasion Mr. Grove, Q C., one of the vice residents of the institmloo, was the lecturer, and his subject was, " The Electrical Ditcher., sad its Strat:Bed Appearance to Rarefied Media.• On Saturday afternoon the first stone of the pro posed Notional Gallery for Ireland woo laid by ht. Excel -4WI tbo Pavlof Eglintoun on :he ground of, and adjoining, the Royal D tblin Society. Tho weather having bees exceedingly inclement all day, the attendoare was not very numerous. LATEST IN TELLIGEN CE. MARRIAGE OF PRLNCE NAPOLEON AND THE PRINCESS CLOTILDA. TURIN, SUNDAY. Yesterday, at 3 p.m., Count Cavour, in his cha racter of notary of the crown, drew up the matri monial contract between the Princess Clotilda and Prince Napoleon, in the presence of General Niel, the French ambessailer, Prince do la Tour d'Ausergne-Lanragais, and the grand dignitaries of the state. In the evening a deputation of the National Guard was presented to the Princess at a monster banquet. Later in the evening a serenade took place on the Place Royale, by the band of the National Guard, in honour of the betrothed couple, which was accompanied by enthusiastic shouts of the people: " Viva il Re !" " Viva i Sposi !" The town celebrated the interesting event by a general illumination. To-day, at 10 s.m., the marriage was celebrated. The benediction was pronounced by Archbishop Verceil, assisted by the Bishops Casalce, Pignerol, Savone, and hielle. At 1.30 p.m. the married couple departed for Genoa, accompanied by the Bing and the royal family. The Mvuit.qtr of this morning contains the following messages "GENOA, JAN. 30, 7.30 r.w. , - "The King and their Imperial Ilighliesses Prince Napoleon and his bride have just arrived. They everywhere met with the most enthusiastic reception from the populace. Their imperial highnesses will arrive at Marseilles on Wednesday morning, and will depart from thence the same day at 3 P.M. They will stop at Fontainebleau, where the Princess Matilda will be awaiting their arrival to receive the Princess Clotilde. Their imperial highnesses will arrive at Paris in the course of the afternoon." " GENOA, SUNDAY. " The young ladies of the palace presented a large bouquet to her Imperial Highness the Princess Clotilde on her arrival. The whole town and the port were splendidly illuminated." Last evening the royal and imperial party were expected to appear at the Carlo Felice Theatre, Genoa, splendidly illuminated a yiorrio. To-day (Monday) there is to be a grand review of the gar rison of Genoa by the King, accompanied by Prince Napoleon and General Niel, and in the eveniog there will be a ball in the state apartments. A Turin letter of the 28th states that the Arch bishop of Vercelli, decorated with the St. Helena medal and the cross of the Legion of Honour, had arrived in Turin to perform the marriage ceremony. He was to be assisted by four bishops. The Prince Carignan and the senior Knight of the Supreme Order of the Annunciation were to hold the nuptial veil over the heads of the august couple, pursuant to a very ancient custom. Last evening the Strada Nuova and the Piazza San Carlo of Turin were illuminated by Signor Ottino, a pyrotechnic artist of celebrity. On Friday Prince Napoleon was present at a de bate in the Chamber of Deputies. lie had been rather looked for there before, but it is surmised that he deferred his visit out of delicacy until the dotation bill of his bride had been voted. As it was he heard rather a dry discussion on the law regu lating the profession of an attorney. Count Cavour left his scat to pay his respects to the prince in the ambassador's tribune. In a congratulatory address presented z .by the municipality of Turin to Princo Napoleon these words occur:" May our respectful and sincere con gratulations be so many happy presages of the real isation of the hopes which at this moment fill the heart of all men who are proud to call themselves Italians." The Prince, in his reply, echoed the word " hopes," and expressed his sincere wishes for the happiness and " future prospects of the country." The significance of the interchange of compliments cannot fail to be remarked. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM OF (Fr= the 06ortyr.) - - It it act st all to be expected that Austria will sign away her territory to • Simper (*agree*, or even submit to a herd surrender of her sovereign authority over subjects who have revolted before, and who are expected, by her own cos friss sad bar array of rat armed force, to revolt agar. 'fhb Is undoubtedly • difil xilty, but it is one that Austria ter herght upon herself. She hes mimed the opportunity ; end V redo sot act of her own accord, she must submit to the - _- of the general rht of Europe ; for it is clear Mr the err of Italy, of y, of Voider of Naples, of Shay, of Tuscany, of Rouse, will never settle dews into ads tranquillity wader their present gather sad oppressive yoke. Here le the root of the nil, and It le bin net no ass Is to be embed. On Saturday • special meeting of the Law Amendment floolety wee bald for the porpoise of bearing a paper by Mr. Chadwick " on the methods of preparation for legnialkm—by epee comoneeions of inquiry or by the close cabinet method, emacally as applicable to the reform of per Sir James Stephen in the chair. Mr. George Hear; Moore, of Moore Hall, Mayo, formerly M.P. hie that county, bas publitiald a bog haw to Count biontalimbert, running to 116 paps at a pamphlet. H. take' H. de Moutslambert to took for raisin Entllah laraltatioma. M. Saienth is announced to deliver a lecture on the " Dianna' of National Characters," at the Bt. John's wood Literary landtuta, to-morrow evening. Kr. Harris, the stage manager at the Covent Oman lyrics' solablishmaar, is is Paris recruiting novelties co aced •ith his proteauon. According to letters from St. Petersburg Roasini's Noise is highly popular. Madame LMti• Ila-Salta, Signor Erhardt, and Signor Taorborlik ring rho principal vt/ka ia this opera. Madams Farraria is the favourite of the ballot this During the late performance of a new comedy called Ondrillee, at the Oymneee, Parisi, card. were hastily inter changed bye relation of one of the authors and an impartial spectator, who ventured to c.mdtron the play somewhat loudly, therein coinciding with the opinion cf the suasive, as plainly 'speared. • duel was the mealtimes. A latter from Paris ways, that "an Eneliabtaan, not enknowa as • ' rasa about town' in London and Peri., was tasidastany nixed up is the .dairy... The irirth-dai of Frederick the Great, white is slwaye kept at Berlin u • festival on the 24th, we ea oppelsaity for many rwial niesiags, and was eagerly laid hold of. TM most distinguished assembly wee that of aboat SOO of the liberal party of the Houle of Representatives, over which Coent von Schwerin, the president of the ken moot ably presided. The tom to the health of the Lag end also that to the Priam Regent were given by the oint ment with groat elect, and the shires on the ismary sad acluevuesite of the Greet Prestwick by U. von Beneath was net kat stirring and eloquent ; whin the spoon de livered by M. Mathis. on proposing the health of the Prime I end Princes Frederick Waliem, in which he referred to the Linn alliance and the hopes, so near their fulfilment, of • andatalies of the Tsarist dynny, was received with hems of acclamation which wee little, if at all, inferior to hearty British cheers. tioirers is about to bare an opponent as a might spa. The .A.ei ds 4, Aelspon, a small Mi med), *nal, 'bleb, awn 1814, Ism been published In es ASA% lons, Is is appear daily hoes the IA of March. A Amber at Wisp ars sail to petscalse this opposition to the Cour,e. On the 18th the blessing of the waters of the Neve took place with the nevi coreenceies. Canon thun dered from the fortress, a splendid chapel was erected on the lee of the river, the upper clergy arrived in procession, sad at the gives moment, all being lacovered, the IStaperer, his hasty, W west, sad the splendid regiments of the guard who Mad the Piro du Palate, bowed their hoods. After the nehgions owewohy the weal review was held. A letter from at. Patieraberir of the 18th, in the Bromide boilipendirees, wry, —" The Orand Doettem Ileleaa, widow d ON Omd Dalte.lllichael, brother of the We Emperor Midair. Ms Om trades to the •erfe upon trs 014101 has the 134 d the moat mouth, sod epos the most hband ecoditioas. Beeidse their eoeloeure inehichag, lowa, Wars, garden, poultry-yard, out shed, molt will receive four acme of arable land for which he eau pram sum/ ewe, truly lasigo.O Aril, about half.a-rnuble oe se. They will, moreover, receive wipe from 2. to 40 roubles a year for their labour upon the Woad Dot bees's estatm." LOAD PALMICIIITON'a PARLT IMENTART DINNER. —TM killowing comprise the invitations to dinner at Cam bridge-hems tee Wedasoday nest, previous to the °ruing at the mentos :—Lord Ashley Mr. T. 0. Hexing, Right Hite. M. T. Haim% Sir IL Ltethell, Lord &nett Bruce, Hoe. B. Hoeverkt, Hon. H. Bread, Mr. Wentworth Bean moat, Mr. J. liceihani Carter. Hos. W. H. Cowper, Sir W. Codriagtas, Mr. C. C. Clittrd, Lord Camleriires, Lord Dunces, Mr. Chichester Fork...cue, Hon. 11. Fitzroy, Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, Right Her. Sir O. Orey, Mr. R. W. Orry, Right Has. Si, W. O. 11a)ter , OW B. Milt, Mr. T. Heakyy, Right Hon. H. Herbert, Si,ll. Keating, Has. A. Kinsaird, Right Hot. Sir U. C. Loots, Right Hon. Labour/a% Right Hos. R. Lowe, Right Hos. J. Mon eriel, Right Hos. W. Nowell, Mr. hloncktos Mines, Mr. Baud Osborne, Lord Alfred Palo, Sir J. Hamden, Bares 1.. De Rothschild, Mr. Denby Seymour, Lard Jamrs 81sward, Right Hon. Venice Smith, it.... C. P. Vilify., (light on. stir C. Wood, Mr. Joules Wilms, Slr F. Wil liams (of Herr). TZSTI3IONIAL To FIR W. M. fAIININI3.—An in nersole' swim of Australian colastioto. Sir Hoary Watson Parker, Jobn Dobie, R.N., T. W. my, J. H. Challis, A. Fotheringhasa, °corps A. Lloyd, P. It Flower. B. Many, Robert Willie, Charles Vistula, lidward Whim D. Laruacb, 1. 8. Mort, sad Leslie, Lops., sr ✓essUed au Friday, at the t fIla• of Mr. SerYtant Meunier. ftrieeis-gerdyris, Hyde-park, to present to Sir Wiliam Montagu Maus* the elegant aol costly tiller ferrite pun based by the subscriptions of lb. inhabitants of New South Welts. The service was coutpnettl of *nth Myer salver, ' , rotated by the bar of New South Wales; and a raiiimticent enema, accompanied with four dssesrt recd., repreectiong Spring, Sumner, Au umn, and Winter, pu nched by the colonias. TUE 80/01:611 it 11 not generally an btratood that the whole gunoarit of w, .of the ErrouAh Beak add lace the la.t &aim Rift , and artitch can be eg.ateg by any litigation of the n,ttr. of the /If 11011 Boat T. Die's, - i. wrier 6,0( 0 ii -.1 CRYSTAL PALACE. H -( • IV)W,1 J)4T.- SATC IDA T. JAN. 29. —Admlarion• 4s o , Oki by maw White, ',ebb; total andloret PRUSSIA. BERLIN, :mi. 30, 11.30 A.Y. OFFICIAL BULLETINS. The Princess Frederick William has slept quietly during the pest night. The health of her Royal Highness and the young Prince continues satis factory. _ _ (Signed) Dz. Scnozmitx. DL Wzowss. DL Stamm. (THIS DAT.) BERLIN, Nosna,r, 3Ax. 31, 11.2.5 A.m. The Princess Frederick William hu slept quietly during the past night. The health of her Royal Highness and the infant Prince continues satis factory. _ (Signed) DR. 60II0EN LEIN . DR. WEON DR. MARTIN. SIVITZERLAND. BERNE, JAN. 29. The Federal Assembly has been cloud. The President in his speech said—. We will maintain our independence u an united and armed people, but without giving offence to neighbouring states." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 3001.10 A IL The Empress and her slater, the Duchess of Calabria, departed to day for Trieste, where the latter will embark for Naples. This stems to show that the King's health is re established. SERVIA. A Vienna letter of January 27 expresses an apprehension that the reorganisation of the new fiertian government may perhaps after all not be effected so quietly as was at first hoped. A member of the Skuptschina having moved that all those persons who took part in the dismissal of Prior() Michael should be sent out of the country, that body proceeded at once to vote a decree of banish ment against the families of Nikolitsch Skin ano witsch, Ilnesewitsh, and Zack Moreover all known opponents of Prince ,Miioscb, fearing to reside in fiervia, are likely to take refuge in Austria. TILE AUSTRALIAN MAIL (HY ELECTRIC TFLEORAPR ALIMANDRIA, JAN. 24. The Columbine arrived at Stu z yesterday morn ing, bringing 28 passengers and 73,4611. sterling in gold. lier dates are—Sydney, December 11; Mel bourne, December 18; King George's Sound, December 24 ; Calk, January 8; Aden, January 17. She was detained three day. at Melbourne for a supplementary mail bag. The European arrived at Sydney on the lath of December. The Oneida left Galle on the 25th of December, and should leave Melbourne for Suez, on the 21. q inst., with the January nails. "Ullimme.m..._ EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (1110 X 00/1 OWN CORIESPONDINT4 PARIS, SUNDAY EVENIND. The Marquis Pee de Villamarina, the Sardinian Ambassador, has gone to Marseilles to await the arrival of the Prince and Princess Napoleon, who are expected there early on Wednesday morning. They will remain only half a day at Marseilles, and will leave at about 4 o'clock for Paris. They will pass through Lyons at night without stopping there, but will halt for a few hours to rest at Fontaine bleau. The Princess Matilda will receive them at the chateau, where they will breakfast. Their arrival iu Paris may be expected at about 3 in the afternoon of Thursday, Feb. 3. The Presse, availing itself of the full measure of liberty which the French journals have been per mitted to enjoy in discussing the question of peace or war, describes the characteristics of despotism in the following burning words : Despotism ir like • bar of steel—it may be broken, but it will never bend. It will never give up a single one of those privileges which, taken together, oonatitute its brute foroe; it will waver make any real concemions. The plaintive voles opprcomed populations never finds an echo in ha lieut. It is necessary to explain that the despotism alluded to is that of Austria. This power, the Prim firmly believes, will be deaf to all the advice which is supposed to have been tendered by the cabinet of London, and will continue, in the words of the Austrian Gautte, to consider the question of any infraction of the treaties of 18:6 as " a problem which can only be solved at the cannon's mouth." The answer of the Constitutiontsci to the article in the Daily Yews upon the effective force of the French army is reproduced this evening, doubtless by order, in the Presse, Pays, and ?aerie. rmtl3, SATURDAY EVENING. The Bourse hu been feverish, and a rise which occurred in the middle of the day was not sustained. The rumours of war continue without abatement. There was a report that M. Delargle is about to be superseded in the Ministry of the Interior by M. Laity, lately a prefect and formerly a lieutenant concerned in the &filar of Strasbourg. It was also said that Count Walewski was going out. Rumours of this sort are frequently circulated without any foundation. The Rent* closed at 68.70 both for cash and account,with a fall of 18e. and sc. Mobilier left off without change. Most of the railways were a trifle higher. _ _ After Hoarse the Rente was done io a Café on the Boulevards 30e. lower, in consequence of the rumours of war assuming additional intensity. Marshal Castellano has paid a flying visit of 24 hours to Paris. He left this morning by express train, for his post at Lyons. Whether the object of his visit was political, or simply to see his daughter the Countess de Hatzfeldt, who has just lost her husband, is matter of conjecture. It is stated pretty positively that the Emperor offered the old Marshal the vacant post of Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, but that he refused it, and that in con sequence the contemplated removal of :gushed Canrobert from Nancy to Lyons will not take place, at least for the present. Various reasons have been assigned for M. Louis Veuillot'a journey to Rome. He will doubtless see the boy Mortars, and will state in the Unirers that the child, miraculously inspired by the teaching of the church, does not desire to be restored to his parents. To see the little stolen Jew can hardly, however, be a sufficient explanation of the &placement of so great a personage as M. Veuillot. Another motive is suggested to-day, which I think more likely to be the leading one. It is said that M. Veuillot, finding his favourite policy of an Austrian holy alliance completely scattered to the winds, desires to take the Pope's instructions as to the particular line of Jesuitism which it may be practical for bim to take in his journal under the altered circumstances of the situation. SOLITARY FORCES OF FRANCE. The Conelifuticanal of yesterday contains the fol lowing reply to an article in the Daily New. of Thursday lest : The Ife.ly Noes of the 27th, In an article the kindly spirit ' of which we are happy to acknowledge, announces that t, the Emperor Napoleon has at his disposal 400,000 men; bat that, if we deduct from this number the 130,000 men ho re ; quires at Pear, a considerable force at Lyons, and the 70,000 men occupied in Algeria, ho would only has, 130.000 men loft to place in lino in case of war." ' Although we has a the well-founded hope, that the Enips roe will not have to employ the forces of the country, we con sider ourselves bound in honour to rectify the facts. • At present Algeria occupies in fact 70,000 men, but our rule would nut be endangered by reducing i :its figure to 00,000. Paris at present beta not a garrison ot 130,000 men, but only 0(30,000. Lyons bu a gurisnn of 16,000 moo, but thei are by ao means indispensable, end might be consider ably reduced. We shall give the fortes of the empire in case of war, and It will he seen that, without having recourse to may extreoe ' dinary measure, France maid collect are ry coneotersble army. On the lee of April, by keeping the whole contingent of the class of 1867 under arm., and not granting furloughs, we have:under our flag 668,000 men. On the let of . June, by calling in the entire contingent of the class of 1848, we should have under the flag, as may be seen by the following tables, 632,000 men, and with the volunteers, who in can of war always amount in France to about 60,000 men, we should attain the figure of 682,000 men. The general strength of the sway on April 1, 1869, will be Infantry (serving and belonging to the clams preceding the year 1867), 268,728; on furlough 99,000; men of the class 1867, sad serving, 43,600; tote], 361,228. In the came way the cavalry is 40,900; 12,600; 12,700; In all, 72,100; the artillery, 27,400; 13,900 ; 2,900; total, 41,240; the engineere, 6,710; 4,600; 460; total, 11,760; military train, 4,870; 4,400; 460; 9,720; giving • total fur the force actually serving of 291,668 die, of men on furlough 134,400, 01 men belonging to the claw 1867 of 60,000, and in all 469,058. Further, there is the squadron of the Cent-gardes, eistal to 142 men, the Imperial Guard 29,800, the etas, gendarmerie; forego and indigenous corps, all of which are recruited on the voluntary systom, 49,000 men, giving a grand total of 668,000 mem. Although the annual contingent le 100,000 met, it is only put down es 60,000. because 19,000 are excused every year, 6,000 are bet apart for the Levy, and 17,000 sent home to sup port their &malt s. The men on furlough liable to be called in ere soldier., nosily all of whom went through the Crimean campaign, to whom leave of absence wee given from economical motives, and who In a week could rejoin their corps. The strength of the army on the let of June will he he totals as before, and respectively for the infantry 890,978; cavalry, 83.800; artillery, 46,460; engineers, 12,110; military train, 10,120; cent gardee, 142; imperial guard, 29,800; the other corp., 'peeled above, 49,000; volunteers, 60,000; giving a grand total of 672,400 men. The regiments consist of battalions, war squadron., and depots. In ease of war the depot' would be more than suffi cient to maintain treaquillity at borae,besidee ("ding the battalions and squadron' of war. Let us admit for these depots • uoreber equal 6.100,000 men, towbich are to be added 2.5,000 gendierreer,Periaian 'verde, Ems , and 60,000 for Algerhanniking in all 17.5,000 MO kept at home, end which have to be de dueed from the above grand total of 672,000 men, leaving 497.000 men. Thus France. ineteed of being able to place 10 line only 130,0011 men, as the Daily New* suppose., could if required place 600,000 ; without changing the working of her military instiintioes in anyway. We repeat that wed* not give thee° thrum to make • parade of our forces or pre pare Cl.. pubtio mind for a °cutest ; en the contrary, we be lieve finely in the maintenance of peace ; but, atter all. the beet mode of maietaining it for a great nation is to prove that else is not disarmed. SPAIK. The Madrid journals of the 24th state that in the receptions held by the Queen on the rrevious day, in honour of the birth of the Prince of Asturias, Tery complimentary addresses were delivered by the Prisidenta of the Senate and of the Chamber of Re presentatives, and that the Queen's reply to that of the Senate was as follows : Gindszuen,—The sentiments expressed by the Semite go &freight to my heart. H.vrn, whist' has aimed) granted so many of our frisbee, will stain realise our hopes. I will continue, with full faith in she miswrote of the country and In the character of Spaniards, the work which I have commenced. In order to terminate it, I will, if Provldenos accords to ms the tailpipes' of so doing, educate, with tie &miasma' of my augast cocoon, our dear son In the sentiments of love for his people and of veneration for our holy religion. We will both tell bon in what manner the heroic fipsaieh people hive always combated for the throne of their kings, and bow much that p:oplo demi ve that their peter,, .hall devote all the hoer@ e 4 his life to the sugininatitiou their glory and proeyerily. I am persuaded that, in order to anise at this moult, the Sens,e will continue to afford me IS. co-operation, which has already be. a so useful to um. — itie reßyoller :Majesty to the address of the Chamber of Derv* was in substance the same. ITALY. SARDINIA. Craoll ovn own CokILEBTONDENT.) TULIN, Jib. 28. It will be in conformity with my ordinary prat- 4. tics if I speak only briefly of those pulling events of which you may read in any of the journals pub lished in this city. Prince Napoleon has visited the fortifications of Alessandria in company with General Niel, and both have congratulated General La Mar. mora. On Sunday morning the French general officially asked, in the name of Napoleon 111., the hand of the Princess Clotilda for his Imperial Highness. In the evening the betrothed, with the King and the whole court, wont to the theatre, occupying the front circle. They were received with loud and protracted cheering. The high aristocracy, better advised, have ceased their opposition, and appeared on that evening with all possible display, In my last I referred to the activity of Austrian emissaries, and some intrigues which had been set on foot by the clerical party. The latter have done all they could to prevent the marriage about to take place. As the Prinee,s Clotilda is extremely young and very religious, they tried to persuade her she was going to take for a husband a man tinctured with unbelief, and to live in an atheistical court. Some time back the gees. tion was mooted of giving a Princess of Saxony to Prince Napoleon for a wife, but it dropped to the ground, not without the occult and hostile inter ference, it is said, of Austrian diplomacy. Since the , marriage of Vittorio Emmanuel's daughter with the son of the ex-King Jerome has been spoken of, the , Court of Vienna have endeavoured to revive that negoti►tion, assenting to what they formerly dis approved. These and similar manceuvres have com pletely failed. The Princess Collide. gives every sign of satisfaction. Nor is the Prince less content, and he sincerely admires the frank, affable, and cordial kindness of the Kiog, his father-in-law. On Monday evening last there was a grand ball at Court, at which about 1,300 guests were present. Nothing could be more splendid cr more joyous. The King conversed long with Eir James Hudson. The curious pretend to know that the British Mi nister took upon himself to expose to his Majesty the grave dangers into which the present policy of his Cabinet might lead him. But Sir James is well aware that Victor Emmanuel has the Italian national cause at heart even more than his own Ministers have. On Sunday next the marriage will be , solemnised ; on Monday ;the King and the bridal pair will be in Genoa, where a brilliant reception awaits them. On the following day a French flotilla, which is already on its way, will , conduct the imperial pair to Marseilles. Napoleon 111. has shown his desire to honour the new relationship just formed. It wu at first pro posed to put off the celebration of the nuptials for some time, but something happened in the meantime to hasten the ceremony. Perhaps it has been owing to a discovery of certain intrigues, and perhaps the increasing complications of diplomatic intercouse between various European states may have partly been the reason. Fresh troops continue to pour into Lombardy, although two contrary parties are at issue in the Ault° Council at Vienna. One wishes to see no act committed that may be interpreted as a sign of con cession and weakness ; the other, at the head of which is Baron Betel, endeavours to remove every pretext for discontent on the part of France, and disapproves this sudden despatch of 30,000 and odd men to Italy. All agree, however, at Vienna, that little hope remains of preserving peace. Should the difficulties between France and Austria be even removed, there would still be left the far more serious ones between the latter power and Piedmont. Sardinian diplomacy has every right to demand the demolition of those new detached forts that have been built at Piacenza contrary to the letter of the treaties; it can require solemn reparation, and at all events proportionate indemnity, respecting those un jest sequestrations laid on the property of such Lan bards as have become Piedmontese subjects. In short, Piedmont, as the protectress of national Italian interests, is able to demand of Austria, and of France too, that they chill withdraw their troops from the Roman state, and it can gene rally also demand such a settlement of Italian affairs as may allow Piedmont to disarm and live in repose. I do not myself think that these knots can be unfas tened otherwise than by the sword. Here we are beginning to see light thrown on some secret con ventions. France will not herself begin the war but will assist Piedmont as an auxiliary in virtue of her alliance and family ties. Napoleon will not himself command the army, but the chief will be Victor Emmanuel. As in the Crimean war, France disclaims all thought of aggrandisement by con quest. She believes she will be sufficiently rewarded if she procures a faithful ally in the Italian people. The Emperor hopes that Italy will henceforth be of necessity attached to the fortunes of the Buonaparte family, and anxiously desires to humble the main support of that coalition which drove Napoleon I. from the throne. I believe you may accept these statements with full confidence as exact. The task of French diplomacy at the present mo ment is to circumscribe the future war, and on every Bide by every effort to ealm the strong apprehensions of England and Prussia. AU the letters we receive from the other side of the Alps make mention of the vest military preparations of France. A Sardinian diplomatist, Signor 8., received yesterday the news, that between Grenoble, Lyons, and Toulon there are stationed three army corps fully equipped and ready for embarkation at a few days notice for any point of the Mediterranean coast. A. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A communication from Vienna of the 23tb, pub lished in the Correspondence Hares, states that a rumour was gaining ground in that city that the Emperor Francis Joseph intended proceeding to Italy almost immediately. " His Majesty," says the letter, " will certainly proceed in a very short time to see the Grand Duchess Charlotte, his sister-in law, who is at present at Trieste, where she intends to await her confinement. His Majesty (the rumour goes) would seize on the opportunity to inspect the troops of the four corps d'armes BOW in his Italian possessions. Ilia Msjest3 'is presence there would, it was thought by military men, produce an excel lent idiot on the spirit of the troops." Another Vienna letter says :—" It is fully seen here that it is necessary to complete the military measures lately adopted, by introducing more energy into the civil administration. Amongst other things, step* are to be taken to cause the military and civil authorities to act in perfect union in Italy, and to fleet that object some changes amongst high func tionaries are to be made. Count de Mentslorff- Pouilly, formerly ambassador at S. Petersburg, is to be bent into Italy, and it is believed that be will be appointed military governor cf Milan. The choice is considered a good one, M. Mensdoi ff being both a roldier and a statesman, and consequeirly qualified to smooth down the differences which arise between men of the sword and men of the pen. His nomination will not, however, in any way encroach on the powers of the Archduke Maximilian as Governor-General of Lombardo-Venetia." LAW INTE (THIS 1 COURT OF QUE Map 4 Hirea—;adore L Wightsose. Crow niis QUEEN V. 011.1teki (CIA, A few days ago Mr. Somata lag upon tho Rev. Mr. Gabon, Northamptonshire, to show caw not comman ding him t 9 of parish clerk for that place. Mr. Watkins Williams now al tha rate, . . Lord Campbell asked if the V that the pariah clerk bad taken as a groued fur diamiering him Mr. Williams said he did not. Lord Campbell—Thin dms be was nq heard before bsiog di on Mr. Willi.n —I dmit Lo Lu Lord Campbell—The vicar moo in dismissing him but Le ought fist instance, an d not having do mu must bo made absolute. ___.._... Mr. Ssrjeant Hayes said i prived Mr. Peach of his cil properly takenawaythe rove, Hon, hut to his affidavits nos made no mastics of that, and new ground for hie &missal, truth. He stated that since Mr be had lately got &license for ke had en idea that it IMP incompat for the last ten years be bad km Lord Campbell—lle dismisses a Lisenat, and without imputing i Mr. Sergeant Ilayea—The whatever. He states that he n clerk for the keeping a public-1 • Well, air, I must lire. You if you could." (Laughter.) Tht he informed Pesch that he nook desk Lt Is came insolent, and a forted for your clerk than a I a bins to his lawyer. Lord Campbell—A ecm de( exprewo a hope that unlese then ground fur removing the auk I may be allowed peacctbly to cm and receive its emoluments. T 1 rently to the incumbent, but wt and seeming injustice, a little w and forgotten. idr.iwSieent Hayes—l will clerk with regard to his future y Lord Campbell—He may etty an unchristian feeling to the vie him from heaven rather than eh Rule absolute. COURT OF E: SWlap 1¢ Rasoo.—(Before Barons Martin, Wei nit ATTORNEY-GENEUAL V On the sitting of the court th Mr. Baron Martin delivered j had been argued during the information Mod by the re? from the defendant In probate duty on 115,0001. beini rt of the estate of the clueee , formed after his death when money less paid. The agreem was enlercel Into before th and the question for I court was whether this 115,000, Now, to entitle the crown to effects must be of nlequate above the value of 201. to rends It wu contended that this liable to duty as the not take place until after the Jrl kre no trust had ever been is crown. The case came withis Diem , cd" and the Attune the opinion of the court the el, isdfluxe r nt. J odgmtat for the defendant. CENTRAL CRIh (THIS The !Mop of the above cou ing, before the Right Hon. the Aldermen thr F, G. Moon, Bar undtr-Acriff., and the must Ci BLe drtt edition of the ceirnd prLwnere. .. 'ilttlfecorder, when the gn he Ira. happy to Inform the only the wand number of prise few charge. of magnitude— usual. There was no el and only one of mantlaughte peculiar character. The factor at: obecutity, and, as was too frequ the police-offices, the depositiot it was almost imposeible to read that the prisoner had tan age her down, and the was sullen where it was found that she had and this wound was eventually tione for the ountideration of it. be, first, whether the injury WI and not whether that injury U It should he made out the down accidentally, and that t of canting her any mischlif, have arisen from misedventt not be liable to a criminal sotnowha• vcaliar character was chart-ol with attaultiot out of a window. It appear. dream of tits, and the , she it out of the window, at the o my children," and this being ■ grand jury, therefore, should actuated by % desire, as the thu gave her child's life when the t would not, iu his opinion, be ju moult. Ilia lordship thin Collyer, who is charged wilt house, and tad, that before be tatirft.,l that the ti•c accidentally, and also that supposition that this ctfoice nay other pc-ion than the pHs( The grand jury then retired, to dispose of the baldness of tho TILE POLIC (THIS MANSION The occupier of a dilepidatt street wee .eimutoned for n notice of the Court of Sewers was deecribe I as being in a del It wet proved that the untie 7th of Deoetober, and that tin maimed nimo4 in slant quo. The t surveyor, upon I the direction of the Court of and found them in such a toed the inhabitants and the public by the emut ler was what w that no doom if the shoring tumble thew note of the buildin The Lori 11 &Tor. wh o we occupier'. delay in vaftintlin such eirennu •ances, asked hitt the terse of the notion Detrain., yaw baked at th well as eyes Ade open, said there was much dangtr as If he thong., there WOO ar,v, h Adding in tr. bonne hitnarif. . . the conditior the prvFiA,.. if:1;1;4 geaor ran 1 •oleested. If t within one e the marl y.lr . The def.r 'ant —My wit. all cohver.ier.• to take her out I The Lori Nlsyor said the c made it don , ly ineutubent t house shoot: not (Z. It woo how the defe.nlaut could be es coach peril. The I:feud tut—She Is hair 01111Neilber not. The Lord \ Layor—Yott mw of her life, r d yes mutt sry His lordet p then signed th obliged to rty the amount Incurred by the direction of tL WORSHI SPRIot , cn.tucr Joh , , Dvf; e. 61 yews of al new to the moonet of :M. Mr. Cam , . its Wray. of 19 deposed—l -tra are of the 'a he Loyal United prier treasurer. The eat iety Ship. in Wheeler-erect. Sp' receive end account for all in, On the 11th of November la the 27th of Deembi,r lest I estoufshowet ho replied. '• you 6 :'•daY, hot will latest on l b .' 111,luday Gdlott after some .msoidereion r. appointed dtv arrived the leads with respect to the nil iLek