The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1867. Bill at once out of the bands of Fate and Mr. Dis raeli. Fate, we suspect, is represented In Mr. Dis raeli's eyes, so far as this measure is concerned, in the shape of a committee of the whole house. There he expects to find the blindness, the caprittiousnaa, and the blunders to which be trusts for his safety. The liberals must resolutely decline to be fatalists. Next Monday, on the motion that the fiyaskea do leave the *hair, they will have their last opportunity. A series of resolutions de fining the principles of reform which the country requires to have embodied in the bill, will force the ministers to a decision. They must then either consent to reconstruct their measure, in obedience to the demands of the nation, or a worthless bill and a worthless ministry must fall together. • tire Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Ann 1. The Queen and Princess Louise walked, and rode on ponies in the grounds of the Castle this morning. Prince and Princess Christian went out walking. Princess Augustus, Prince Philippe, and Princess Amilie of Saxe Coburg have left the Castle. Prince Arthur has also left the Castle for Greenwich. park, attended by Major Elphinstone. Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Du Plat have succeeded Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood and Colonel the Hon. A. Harding. as Equerries in Waiting. The King of Denmark and the Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel and IL de Scbeile, rode on horseback yesterday. In the afternoon the Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords. A committee of the Council on Education sat yesterday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. The lords pre sent were the Lord President, the Chancellor of the Ex. chequer, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Robert Montage. A committee of the lords of her Majesty's Most Hon. Privy Council sat yesterday, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Robert Montagu. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alex ander Williams attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of C&DIAIa and the Bahamas. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, and the Australian Colonies. Lyceum Ter.rrez.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Tech, and his Royal Highness the Prince of Teak occupied the Prince of Wales's box at this theatre yester day evening. The anniversary festival of the British Orphan Asylum, ;Rough, will take place to-morrow (Wednesday), at Willies Rooms. Hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cain. bridge will take the chair. The Duke of Rutland is still unable to leave hie room. In addition to the contusions he sustained in the hunting-field he is labouring under a slight attack of gout. The Duke and Duchess of Manchester yesterday joined the party limiting the Earl and Counteaa Spencer at Althorp. The Right Hon. Francis Blackburne is considered by his medical advis . era to be convalescent to-day, and able to sit up. The Duke of Devonshire on Saturday received an address from nearly 800 of hie tenantry, expressing their gratitude to his grace, and their reprobation of Fenianisre. The Hon. Mines Pitt, after the funeral of their youthful brother, the Earl Rivers, last week, left the family residence, Rushmore Lodge, near Salisbury, in Wiltshire, for the official residence of their uncle, Earl Granville, the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, at Widmer, in Kent. Two wealthy and youthful earls have just fallen victims to that scourge of our climate, consumption ; viz.. Earl Brownlow, at the age of twenty-four, and Earl Rivers, at the age of seventeen. The rent-roll of the former produced 120,0001. a year, and that of the latter 60,000/. a year. COLONEL BERKELEY AND HIS CREDITORS.—In reference to the circular issued to the creditors of the Hon. Colonel Berkeley by the committee appointed to in vestigate his affairs, the fact may not be generally known that nearly the whole of the colonel's pecuniary liabilities stated in the circular were incurred by him not on his own account, but as surety for other pazties.—Times. THE REFORM LEAGUE DEPUTATION TO LORI) DERBY.—The Secretary of the Reform League has received a letter from Mr. Barrington, stating that the indisposition under which the Premier is suffering will prevent his lordship from receiving the Reform League deputation this afternoon as appointed ; but the earl has requested Lord Stanley to represent him. It is expected that as many as 300 members of trades' societies will attend. During the time the Paris Exhibition is open the public will be admitted without special leave and with out passport to visit the imperial palaces, the museums, the state establishments and monuments. The Palace of the Tuileries can be seen when the Emperor and Empress are not resident there, and in addition the following places will be open to the public at certain specified hours:—The Palace of St. ('loud, the Palace and Museum of Versailles, the Trianon Palace, and those at Fontainebleau and Com piegne, the Chateau of the Malumison, the Imperial Manufactures of Sevres ware and of Gobelins tapestry, the Museum of the Louvre, the Thermea Museum, and the Cluny Hotel, the Imperial School of Fine Arts, the Sainte Chapelle, and the Imperial Church of St. Denis. The servants at all these places are strictly forbidden to accept any gratuity. Speculation as to advertisements at Paris is as suming formidable proportions. The privilege of adver. taxing on the walls of the Exhibition building has been purchased at an enormous price, and even the walls of the neighbouring buildings are let at an incredible sum. One company explode, as they say over here, the kiosques, and another has started to exploiter the cabs that purchase the privilege of sticking advertisements on the boot of the said vehicles. One square yard of the Great Exhibition wall omits a thousand francs (40!.).i A hugo block of anthracite, weighing 8,0001 be., has arrived at Paris from New York. Anthracite is a species of coal, metallic and friable. It burnt slowly, without smoking or making any smell. It is composed of carbon, silica, and iron. It burns beautifully, but is very difficult to light. It can be sculptured into orna ments with as much facility as marble, and is remarkable for the brilliant polish it takes, and for its beautiful colour. An amusing correspondence between Mr. Bergh, Professor Agassiz, and P. T. Barnum, is published in the New York papers. Mr. Bergh, who is the president of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, writes to Mr. Barnum, and tells him that he (Barnum) must stop feeding the boa-constrictor in the Museum with living animals. In reply, Barnum says that boa-eon strictors will not eat " dead " food, and encloses • letter from Professor Ages iz sustaining that statement. Bergh rejoins by saying that if the Intakes will not eat " dead" food let them starve, for it is "contrary to the Providence of God " that living animals should be furnished to the reptiles. Barnum satirises this theory, and writes • long letter, puffing himself and his Museum, and defying Bergh, who had threatened prosecution. Of course all this is a great advertisement for the showman. Another terrible disaster has occurred on the Western waters. The steamer Mercury ran on a snag in the Arkansas River, sod twenty-five passengers were drowned. Many of those who saved their lives were badly frost bitten, as for several hours they bad to stand in water four feet deep, with ice floating upon it. A storm of sleet and rain also came upon them, and four were killed by a tree that was blown down. To add to the mis fortunes of the survivors, when picked up by a passing steamer, the crew of that vessel, with the connivance of its officers, robbed them of their clothing and effects. They were taken to Memphis, and are in a pitiable con dition. A deputation from Thames Haven, consisting of Mr. G. C. Graves, Mr. John Hooch, Mr. John Irwin, Mr. Richard Phillqqe, Mr. James Brewster, Mr. Joseph Louth, and Mr. Predk. Giblett, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-olice, yesterday. Dr. A. Williams was present at the interview. THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—At a special meeting of the Nottingham Town Council yester day, Mr. Browne proposed the adoption of the report of the committee recommending the council to invite the Royal Agricultural Society to visit Nottingham in 1868. In the course of the discussion which followed it was stated that Lord Middleton had offered his magnificent park at Wollaton, a mile and adialf from Nottingham, for the cattle show, with the permission also of using the sdja- I cent lands for the trial of agricultural implements. There I was railwayacoommodation nearly on the spot, and the town and county possessed peculiar advantages for the holding of such a show. Within a radius of 20 miles of the town there was a population of 500,000. The nobility, gentry and general public had already expressed themselves in favour of such a meeting, and about 1,000/. had been pro- mised. The sum required was 3,0001., and this would no doubt very quickly be raised. A public meeting for the of raising further subscriptions is to be held on purpose Wednesday the 10th instant. Derby end Leicester are also candidates for the meeting of the society in 186:4, and the council of that body give their decision as to the town they will visit, on the first Tuesday in May. NST ITUTIONAL LIBE R A LISM. 1 Lemberg would, under such circumstances, become -1111. DAY." Price One Penny.--Ontee, 49, Faamatreet. wortm — esa. We can only hope, therefore, that Strand. IKAPPIN BROTHERS. —Natabliahed A.D. 1810. CHESTS of SILVER PLATE for the COLONIES. CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FURNISHING. MAPPIN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHERS, 222, REGENT STRUT. B ENSON'S WATCHES and CLOCKS. special Appointment to 111. R 11. TOE PRICE (IF WALES. Prize Medal. 1.010011. Class 33; Dublin, Class 10. W ITI II Es —Citron... tem. Keyless, Repeaters.Chronirgraphs,ire. ('Li M' K For Di Roorns,l'arriages,(lturches, JEViELLEßV—iiiresialities in Monograms, Crystals, Diamonds, and Fine i;olii. PLITE, and WORKS of ART in Bronze, by Leading Artists. PRICEs and Descriptions, see Illustrated Pamphlet, post free. Watehes and Its sent to all parts of the world. J. W BENSoN, :IX, OLD BOSIrsTREET. steam Factory and City Show Rooms, tit and 6 , /, LIIDGATF:.B ILL. Paris Exhibition, IsB7, English Section, (lava 23. BROWN and POISON'S CORN FLOUR for cinulaurs DIET. To obtain extra profit by the sale other kinds are 601011aM4111 offered Instead of BROWN and PoLSON'S. "John Brown," "John l'ulaon," la signwl by Obs maws on each packet. Efte ersiretso. TO CORIIRSPONDENTS. Ldvertlaementa Intended for "The Flpress:" London Evening piper, moat be at the office, 10, liouverte-street, by Two &dock on the day of publlcatton. moderate counsels will prevail, and that the French EMPEROR will see that the greatness of Franco is too well assured by the numbers and warlike character of its people to heed the small increase which would result from the annexation of a petty German State. DU URY LANK TWI ERNI/id, HOT; 1:11\' - - Messrs. Phelps, T. Swlnhourne,W. Harrison, Intyre. Barrett, end Ilarcnurt Mesdames E. Cross, H. O. Le Thirre. 11111i.L‘pe.th, and K. Ileoughem.—To conclude with WANTED lICSDANDS FOR SIX. 31Lii Iludspeth. AYMARKIM Tff/9 Evintr:to, TII E lIEIR AT LAN. Mews. Backstops, Chippendale, Compton, Farren, Rogers. Braid I:onion, &c. Mesdames Chippendale, Moore, &e.—THE SERIOUS FAMILY. Meson Ruckatame,larren, ft.—And PERFECTION. Illasßurke. ratscsmrs. Tale ETIMING, NO. I, ROUND TRP. CORNER. Metes. Shore end Furryster.—And IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MEND. Messrs. Vining, V. Villiers, Verner, Shore. Ca%sem, and Mellon; ilisses Page and Rodgers LYCEUM. TRI9 ErENINo, BAITIPPTiLiSiii. — Ntr. Price and Mitt Kate Blehnp.—And TII I: lAN MOP 1 . Mr. reenter, Messrs. Jordan. Emery, Pri..e, Widdicornll, Fitzpatrick. eze. ; Idenrade, Elsworthy, OrAtton, and Carlotta Leclercq. ers,►xn. Tins EvEmma, MARRIEDDA IioIITEFLS AND YOUNG HRS. BANDS.—ESM E I.DA ; OR, TILE SENSAT lON GOAT. Mesms, Thome, James, Itobion, and flu nee Mesdames Mranhorough, Hughes, Weatheraby, &e.—and THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. ROLBORN. THIS Eynnat, MY TURN NBET. Mr. Belmore; Muses Foote and Lennox.—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Neville, Del more, Slake, Voltaire, &e.: Mesdames F. Josephs, C. !Wanders, Dade Foote, Adds., Lennox, Raymond, &c. BRITANNIA. TIT'S EVENING, FAUST:Oft, MARGUERITE'S MANGLE. Nn. Lane and Sleadanies Jacobs, Edwin, and Booth. -Conclud ing with THE DUSINIAN'S TitEAsURE; OR, WSW AND TUE BOFFINS. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. - _ TIM Doi —Morulng, Oh. lft AlteWoon. Oh Wm. ro4lolllloW—Morning, Oh 50m Atterumm, lh 1M o. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 2. THE unofficial reports which have circulated for a week or more respecting negotiations between the King of HOLLAND and the Emperor NAPOLEON for the cession of Luxemburg to France acquire great importance from the grave, though guarded, language in which Count BISMARCK yesterday referred to the subject in the North German Par liament. From the first it was obvious that those negotiations would not be prosecuted without rais ing a question of the first importance between France and Prussia. It is difficult to conceive how any one who had watched the course of European events since last Juno could suppose that Germany, which had held her territory intact, and had even increased it during her days of division and weakness, should signalise her increase of strength and her advance towards unity by the surrender of one of her great fortresses. Luxemburg has from immemorial times been an acknowledged part of Germany, and the King of HOLLAND, it% Grand Duke, was in that character a member of the Germanic Confederation. This potentate appears to have imagined that when the Bund was shattered at Sadowa, Luxemburg ceased to owe any obligations to Germany, and that he was at liberty to make it Dutch or French, or whatever ho pleased. But the claims of Ger many upon her Princes and States were prior to the Bund, and were its cause ; they survive the particular organizations which have at various times represented and expressed the common rights of Germany, and their assertion would be clearly the duty of any Power pretending to de velop the unity of the Fatherland. The GRAND DUKE'S rights were always subordinate to his duties to Germany, and ho could hardly have supposed that he would be allowed to hand over to France a fortress which has hitherto been maintained to defend Germany against that Power. It does not appear at present to what extent the Emperor NAPOLEON is prepared topush his claims, and while the question is pending there is cer tainly no reason why any among us should betray susceptibility on a subject which so little concerns us. If the Germans think they are so strong that they can very well spare Luxemburg, and if the people of the Duchy desire to be come citizens of the great French Empire, we can have not the least objection. On the other hand, it is not for Englishmen to be the first to palliate the sale of a whole population like cattle, at so much pe . r head. The question which Herr VON BENNINCREN put to Count Bismsitra yesterday was, " Whether " Prussia was prepared, in concert with her " Federal allies, to secure the connexion of the " Grand Duchy with Germany, and the right of " Prussia to garrison its capital permanently, and " against every danger ? " Count BISMARCK re plied that the question well became a patriotic representative of the nation, but was not diplo matic. The Prussian Government d;d not know that an arrangement for the cession of the Duchy had been concluded between Holland and France, but, he said, "the Federal allied Governments " believe that no foreign Power will endanger the " undoubted right of Germany." Count BISMARCK added a remark to the effect that the unity of Government and people must be so exhibited in the debates in Parliament as to show that no designs against Germany would prosper. It would be impossible to imagine anything more studiously moderate and inoffensive than the lan guage of the Prussian Minister, while at the same time the inflexible resolution of the Prussian Government is made clearly apparent. The less decisive was Count BISMARCK'S language, the more he seemed to invite a patriotic pressure upon Prus sia which he knew most certainly would be applied. A moment's consideration would show that Prussia could not yield on such a point. All her preten sions to be the leader of Germany depend on her readiness to defend every inch of its sacred soil. The hold of the King of Pitt SHIA on the reluctant governments of North and South Germany would be gone if the Prussian army were not at all times ready to resist designs upon the integrity of the national territory. The Confederation of North Germany and the treaties with Bavaria and Wur- OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) RUSSIA AND THE UNITED STATES. The Times cannot but recognise the reported cession of Russian-America to the United States as an event of considerable importance, attesting, as it does, the mysterious sympathy which has long existed between Russia and the United States, and establishing, as it will, a republican instead of a " Cossack" power on the north western frontier of the new Confederation. The new ter ritory will add so little to the commercial wealth of the United States, that it becomes evident it has been pur chased with a view of asserting the claim of the United States to supremacy on the North American continent. Their jealousy of the Canadian Confederation is altogether groundless, as the union of the provinces will render them less dependent on the mother country than ever. At all events, we have no right whatever to protest against the act, and must not place ourselves in a false position by vain remonstrances. We retain our hold upon Canada more to please the Canadians than ourselves, and we shall be happy to make it independent as soon as it pleases. If the close connexion of .British Columbia with California and the large proportion of the American element in its population are destined to attract it into the union, the substitution of the American for the Russian flag on the shores of the North Pacific will but hasten their operation by a year or two. The territory, observes the Daily News, is of little material value. Half of it is within the Arctic Circle, and five-sixths of the inhabitants are Esquimaux and Indians. Nor is it true that the effect of the cession will be to exclude British Columbia almost entirely from the Pacific, inasmuch u that colony has its own coast line for half its length, from Simpson River to Fort Langley. It was lately said that British Columbia had joined the new confederation. This colony would give a Pacific fron tier to the new dominion, if the latter were consolidated by the settlement of the southern part of the Hudson's Bay territory, which is the only section of it capable of colonisation. It may be, however, that the altered po litical situation of Columbia will produce • temporary hesitation in the counsels of British Americans. The isolation of British Columbia will increase the difficulty of treating it as a British colony—the American element in the population being certain to increase in strength now that the colony is flanked on both sides by United States territory. This, however, need give us no concern. Every colony must follow the law of its population, and if at any time the people of British Columbia want to become American citizens they will find it easy to do so. At the Fame time it does not follow that they will want to throw off British protection because of their foreign origin. The importance of the transfer lies in the fact that it is so com pletely in the natural order of events, and there is nothing in it to excuse an attempt to make it the ground of a factitious excitement in this country. The Herald thinks it would not be quite politic just now for either the American or the Russian government to do an unfriendly thing to the government of this country. If it should he represented either at St. Petersburg or Wash ington that the conclusion of such a bargain is looked upon as inexpedient, is objected to on our part, we may still hope that the matter would be reconsidered. We have, anyhow, a right to a voice in the matter, and if Russia is really inclined to abandon America we should be allowed to make the first bid for the strip of ground which ilea between our colonies and the Pacific. The Post anticipates that America will soon begin to complain of having the new American colony separated from its territory by British Columbia, and will be asking our government to entertain propositions for the sale of the latter. There never was a moment when our American colonial affairs were in a more critical position than at present. There never was a moment when wisdom and decision in their management was more needed. THE LASH. The new clauseimoved by Sir John Pakington List night, certainly, says the Times, seems like a retrogression from the principle enunciated during the late debate, since it is enacted that any soldier may be flogged for two specified offences at all times, sod in time of active service for any breach of the Artielesof War. Yet the clause was evidently eatisfactury to the house, and w.is carried without a division after the former clause had been negatived. The Times bows to the decision, ►lthough it still hopes to see the army governed without flogging during peace ; and in the meantime it is sure that courts martial generally will use their powers with increased temperance and discretion. The Daily News remarks that it is Mr. Heidi= upon whom lies the blame of the suggestion which was adopted last night, the hon. gentleman being, it would willingly suppose, impelled by the instinctive impatience of officials out of place to provethenuelveswiser than their successors, rather than by a bitter and troublesome eagerness to rob the concession of the government of half its grace. The question is not a pat ty one, and let it be fairly known that the discredit of the mutilated concession which has been made belongs to the initiative of three prominent members of, the late liberal administration—Sir George Grey, the ex- (may we be permitted to hope everlastingly ex ?) whig Home Secretary ; Mr. Cowper, the ex-whig Chief Commissioner of Works ; and Mr. Handbills, the ex liberal Budge-Advocate. The re-amended clause was however, thanks to Mr. Otway's un wear i e d sp i r i t an d ex , ertioria, carried by a majority of 13 only in a full house ; and it is tolerably certain that the Mutiny Act will neve r again pass undebsted and unopposed until corporal punish ment, already abandoned in principle by those who refuse to abandon it in practice, is entirely and finally abolished throughout the service. THIS EXTORY RVIOLUTIONB. Discussing the various projects now before the Rouse of Commons respecting the borough franchise, the Times comes to the conclusion that, subject to certain simple alterations, that proposed by the administration is conve nient and eligible. There is no reason why longer real. deuce should be required from the occupier of a home) be low 101. annual value, than from a 101. occupier, and the onetime attempt to make • distinction in this respect, if not prudently abandoned at once, ought to be given up in committee. The power to deduct rates, when paid, from the landlord's rent will of course be clearly given, and the rates'exigible from the compound householder cannot be higher than the compound rate. The diversity of defini tion of the qualifying tenement under the bill and under the existing law may be prudently reconsidered. Theso are, however, the incidental circumstances of a ratepaying franchise. The franchise is In itself simple ; it is elastic, and when fairly carried out will operate like a law of "natural selection." It will be the work of the Rouse of Commons next week to remove the defects apparent in the machinery sketched out in the bill of the administration ; but the idea of the bill will probably be enacted in the Reform Act of 1867. The Posf still thinks it of paramount importance that it should be ascertained whether the government is prepared to give up the invidious and untenable distinctions now embodied in their bill, and that before the Speaker is allowed to leave the chair the ground should be cleared for consideration of its clauses either by a substantive re solution or by an instruction to the committee embodying the necessary alterations. The Standard, assuming that Mr. Gladstone will en deavour to defeat the bill at its next stage, appeals to the liberal party to separate themselves from him, and to aid the government in the carrying of a useful measure. This Reform Bill may. if they so will, be the bill of the House of Commons ; the next will be that of Mr. Gladstone —or, it may be, of Mr. Bright and the trades' unions. The liberal party have not Mr. Gladstone's motives for factious opposition ; they have motives for endeavouring to pass this bill by which he is not affected. " It is in the hands of Fate," said Mr. Disraeli, when re. plying list evening to a question as to the period of the Easter recess. The Star believes the phrase, which was received with very significant laughter, sounds the key note of Mr. Disraeli's reform policy. All he wants is to leave the business in the hands of Fate. He has no prin ciples, no real policy in the matter ; but he trusts to Fate to pull him through somehow. It is, therefore, the duty of the liberal party to do their beet to take the Reform THE LASH. PARLIAME.NTARY DIVISION LAST NIGHT. MUTINY BILL. Considered in Committee—New clause 22 :—Question put, " That the clause, as amended, be added to the Bill." The Committee divided—Ayes, 162 ; noes, 175. AYES. Agnew. Sir A. Forster, W. E. More, R. J. Amberley, 'tact. Forteacue, 1). F. Murphy, N. D. Anstruiher, air IL French, Col. Norwood, C. M. Ayrtun, A. 3. Gaselee, Seri. O'Beirne, J. L. Bagwell, J. Gasket, J. M. o'Di/to fithue, The Irnines, E. Gavin, Major Ogilvy, Sir J. Barry, C. R. Gilpin, C. Oliphant, L. Bathurst, A. A. Gruber), G. J. O'Loghlen, Sir C. Water, W. Z. Greville•Nagent,Col Peel, A. W. Barley, T. Gray, Sir J. Pelham, Lord Beach, Sir M. H. Gridley, Capt . Potter, E. Beaumont, W. B. Griffith, C. D. Potter, T. B. Blake, J. A. Grosvenor, Capt. Pritchard, J. Blennerbassett,Sirß Gurney, B. Pugh, D. Bonham-Carter, J. Gurney, S. Bearden, D. J. Bowen, J. B. Bernfeld, G. Rol/arias, T. J. Briscoe, J. I. Hamilton, E. W. Rothschild, Baron Bruce, Lord C. Hankey, T. Rothscldld, N. 31. de Buller, Sir A. Hammer, 131 r J. Russell, Sir W. Bunton, C. Hardcastle, J. A, Salmons, Aid. Campbell, A. H. Harris, J. D. Samude, J. OA. Candlah, J. Hay, Lord W. Samuelson, B. Chambers, M. Ilayter, Capt. Seholedeld, W. Chambers, T. Henley, Lord lirlirieber, C. Childers, H. C. Herbert, H. A. Seymour, A. Clay, J. Hodgson, X. 1/. Sheridan, H. B. Clinton, Lord A. Bolden, 1. Simeon, Sir J. Cogan, W. 11. Borman, E. Smith, J. Collier, Sir B. Hughes, T. Smith, J. B. Coltburst, Sir G. Hurst, R. H. Stanley, W. O. Cowen, J. Ingham, R. Stanideld, J. Crauturd, E. H. Kennedy, T. Stock, O. crawfurd, It. W. Kinglalce. J. A. Stelae, W. H. i'reniorne. Lord Kinnaird, A. F. Stuart, Col. Dalgilsh, It. Knatchbull - Huges- Sullivan, E. Davey, R. sea, E. tirnian, K J. De La hoer, IL Lamont, J. Taylor, P. A. Dent, J. D. Lawson, J. A. Torrene, W. T. Dcring, Sir E. Layard, A. H. Trevelyan, G. 0. Derereuz, R. J. Leathern, W. H. Vanderbyl, P. Duke, Sir W. Lechniere, Sir K. Warner, E. Dillwyn, L L. Lee, W. Welkin, X. W. Duff, L. X. Leenian, (I. IVeguelin, T. M. Duff, R. W. Leferre, (1. J. West e rn , Sir T. B. Dunlop. A. C. Lewis, H. Whatman, J. Edwards, C. Locke, J. Whitbread, 8. Eliot, Lord Luak, A. White, J. Enfield, Viset, M'Laren, D. Wickham, H. W. Evans, T. W. 31adoribanks, D. C. Williamson, Sir H. Ewart, W. Merry, J. Wykl, J. Ewing, 11. E. Milleurn, F. A. Yutuig, K, Eykyn, R. Still, J. 8. Finlay, A. S. Miller, W. TELLEIU3, Fitz Gerald, Lord 0. :Bluing], A. Otway, A. J. Fordyce, W. 1). Mitchell, T. A. Vivian, Capt. Forster, C. Monk, C. J. NOES. Adderley, C'. B. Pergnoson, Sir .T. Mowbray, J. R. Amissley, Cot. Floyer..l. Naas, Lord Arc Mali, Capt. Porde, Col. Neville-Grenville, R. A r:weight, R. porteocue, C. P. Newdegate, C. N. Bomaßay, R. GaUwey, Sir W. Newport, Vise'. itk.lge, W. Gilpin, Col Noel, G. J. liille, 11.. T. Gladstone, W. E. North, Col. Baring, T. Go'Utley, 0. Northeote, 81r & Barrington, Viact. Gooch, sir D. Parke, Col. Barry, A. 11. Gore, J. R. Paget, R. H. itartaelot, Col. Greville.Nugent, A. Pakingtoo, MI. Steins, Earl of Grey, Sir G. Palmer, Sir R. Beecnift, G. S. Grey, T. de Parker, Major Ilstoyon, R. Guilmort, B. L. Paull, H. Bidditlpti, Col. Gwyn, H. Peel, Sir R. Bingham, lcool Hamilton, Ld. Claud Peel, Gen. Bowyer, Sir U. Hamilton, Lord C. J. Ridley, Sir M. Braila, H. Hamiltoo, 1. Robertson, P. F. Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, Viact. Rolt, Sir J. Brooks, it. Hardy, G. Russell, Slr C. Brown, Lord J. Hardy, J. Samford, G. M. Bruce, Lord S. Harvey, R. B. Bolster-Booth, G. Bruce, Major Hay, Lord J. Selwyn, C. J. Bruce, sir 11. Hay, Sir J. fievenie, J. E. itruen, ti. Hesillion, T. E. Seymour, G. H. Borrell, Sir P liennaker.Major J. almonds, W. B. C.dcraft, J. H. lleygate, Sir P. W. Smith, 8. G. Cardwell, E. 1111.13 an], T. B. inollett, P. R. carlngton, C. R. Magi, Lt.-Col. Stanhope, J B. Cave, i. Holton', It. 8. Stanley, Lord Casendlsh, Lord O. II ornby, W. H. Stanley, P. Cecil. Lord E. Hoffman, Lord Stirling-Maxwell, Chiatterton, 11. B. Ilowna, E. Sir W. Clinton, Lord E. Hunt, G. W. Btopford, S. O. Clive, G. Hutt, Sir W. Surtees, IL X. Clive, Capt. Jervis, Major Syker, C. Cole, J. L. Johnot,me, Sir J. TKorokl, Sir J. Corry, H. L. Kerolake, Sir J. 'lllynne, Lord H. Courtnnay, Lord Kanalake, E. K. Tottenham, LL-CoL Cooper, K H. Kavanagh, A. Tracy, C. E. Cowper, W. F. Kekewich, S. T. Kell*, J. Trevor, Lord A. Cox, W. T. Turner, C. Cubit', G. Kendall, N. Vance J. Dalkeith. Earl of Kingacote, Col. Yandeleur, Col. Dawson, R. P. K nor, Col Verner, E. W. Dickson, Major Knox, Major Verney, Sir H. bimodal*, It. Laird, J. Walcott, Admiral Disraeli, B. lauyon, C. Walker, Major Du Cane. C. 1.W1,, A. Major Letroy, Walpole, 8. it. in prt:owl*, A. Walronsl, J. W. Dyke, W. H. Lennox, Lord H. Walsh, A. Dyott, Col. landisay, Col. C. Walsh, Sir J. Ealwanlo, Sir H. Lindsay, Col. It, Wyndham H. Egerton, Sir P. Lopes, Sir M. Wynn, C. W. Egerton, E. C. Malcolm, J. W. Wyvill, M. Egerton, W. Manner,, Lori J. Yorke, J. R. lane, Lieut.-CoL Manners, Lord G. Pane, Col. Montagu, Lord B. TELLERS. Pielden, J. Montgomery, Sir G. Taylor, CoL Fellowes, E. Morgan, O. Whitmore, H. This morning has been issued, in response to an address of the House of Lords, a lint of the cities and boroughs in England and Wales returning members to par liament previously to the passing of the act 2 and 3 Will. IV., c. 43, and stating the nature of the suffrage existing in each city and borough ; also a return showing the num ber of electors in each city and borough in England and Wales for 1865-66, classed according to the several qualifi cations in respect of which they are entitled to vote ; and the number of such electors who oome within the descrip tion of mechanics, artisans, and other persons supporting themselves by daily manual labour, cLisied in like man ner, distinguishing those cities and boroughs which were entitled to return members to parliament previous to the passing of the 2 and 3 Will. IV., c. 43, from those which have been enfranchised by that act, including the borough of Birkenhead. Mr. Lanyon will on the 12th move that "in the opinion of this house it is expedient that two or more pro feadonal architects should be added to the committee ap. pointed for the purpose of selecting a design for the new Courts of Justice." On the second reading of the Tenants Improve ments (Ireland) Bill Mr. Gregory will move to leave out all the words after the word " That," in order to add the words " without prejudging the second reading of this bill, this house is of opinion that no enactment for the settlement of the landlord and tenant question in Ireland can be deemed satisfactory which does not provide for the encouragement of leases in that country. . _ Lord Eustace Cecil will, on going into committee of supply on Friday, call the attention of the house to the necessity that exists for a re-organisation of the War ofiloe, in order that the efficiency and prompt action of all tho+abordivatc departm mita may be increased ; and to move for a select committee to inquire into the best means of accomplishing that object. - - ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—The following are the preachers appointed by the Bishop of London to preach in the Cathedral during the mouth of April :—Apnl 7, Sun day morning, the Rev. William Sparrow Simpson. MA., of queen's College, Cambridge, rector of St. Matthew's Friday-street ; April 14, Sunday morning, th e R ev. Ro b ert George Baker, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, vicar of All Saints, Fulham ; April 19, Good Friday morning, the Rev. John Russell Stock, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, rector of Allhallows, Th ames - s t reet, and Lord Mayor's chaplain ; afternoon, the Rev. Arthur Martineau, M.A.,of Trinity College, Cambridge, rector of St. Mildred's, Bread-street ' • April 25, Sunday mornin g , th e R ev. John Russell Stock, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, rector of Allhallows, Thames-street and Lord Mayor's chaplain. The Very Rev. Dr. B. H. itilman, the Dean of St. Paul's, will preach on the morning of the 21 s t , b e i ng Easter Day. The names of the special evening preachers have already s_.ppeared. SPECIAL SERVICES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.— The Dean of Westminster has announced that the annual series of special services in the nave of the abbey will com mence on Sunday, April 28, by which time the special services under the dome of St. Paul's will be chimed. The Rev. S. Flood Jones, incumbent of St. Matthew's, Spring. gardens, the satins; precentor, is preparing a book of anthems, chants, and hymns which are to be used during the services. A deputation from the Birkenhead and Wallasey Commissioners, consisting of Mr. Mocatta, Mr. Mott, Mr. Waln (law clerk), Mr. Boyd, Mr. Littledale, M r . E wer (l aw clerk), Mr. Helps, and other penis, opposing the Mersey Docks and Harbour Bill, had an interview with the Duke of Richmond at the office of the Board of Trade, White hall, yesterday. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Laird, M.P., and accompanied by Mr. Legb, M.P., Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., and Mr. Wilbraham Egerton, M.P. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (camas's nuoGßAxs.) THE PARIS EXHIBITION. PARIS, APRIL 2. The 34 oniteur of this morning contains an ac count of the opening of the International Exhi bition yesterday. It says :—" The Emperor made no speech on the occasion, but in taking leave of the members of the Imperial Commission expressed the fullest satisfaction with the general result of the exhibition. Their Majesties were not accom panied by the Prince Imperial, although his con dition continues to be most satisfactory, as it was not considered advisable that he should undergo the fatigue of so lengthy a ceremony." HUNGARY. PESTH, APRIL 2. Count Maylath has entered into his functions as President of the Upper House of the Hungarian Diet. The resolution of the Lower House relative to the proposals of the committee of 67 will be discussed to-morrow by the Upper House. The adjournment of the Diet is expected to take place very shortly. THE AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, Aran 1. _ _ The Mongolia, which arrived here this morning, brought the Australian as well as the India and China mails. THE BRAZILS. BUENOS AYRES, Firs. Z. Exchange on London, 50 to 50i. Dry bides, 43 for 23. Tallow, 1411. AMERICA. (BY ATL•21110 TRLIZEAPII.) NEW YORK, Amu. 1, 6 P.N. According to the official statement the national debt of the United States has been reduced 15 million dollars during the last month. A war steamer, said to belong to the Mexican liberals, has left New York for Tampico, loaded with ammunition. The City of Paris and Hermann arrived out yesterday, and the Sazonia last night. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Closing prices :---Gold, 134. Sterling exchange on London,loBl. 5-20 United States Bonds, 109 i ; Illinois, 115 i ; Erie, 581. Cotton : Middling Up land, 30i. Petroleum, refined, 27. NEW YORK, APRIL 1, 5.30, P.Y. . • The present temper of the Senate appears to be unfavourable to the Russian treaty, which will be fully debated before action is taken thereupon. COMMERCIAL IYEELLIGENCE. Gold, 134 f. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 109 ; Exchange, 109 ; Erie, 584 ; Illinois Central, 113. Cotton, middling Upland, 31c. Petroleum, 17c. —(Times, second edition.) EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION. (NEON OUR OWN OUREOPONDENT.) PARIS. MONDAT Winn. We have had the fine day which I ventured to . predict. From morning to night the sky was almost cloudless. There was, however, a sharp ' north wind, with a strong March rather than April flavour, which led to a very general evasion of the , order that gentlemen visitors to the Exhibition on this opening day should wear evening coats and white cravats. They did indeed don the full dress . costume, but nine men out of ten wore a good woollen paletot over it, and some sported com forters round their necks. Frenchmen agree with Shakespeare that a March sun is " full of agues," and I suppose it was in deference to this maxim that the ushers winked at the infraction of the published regulations about dress. It was a great thing to have the sun at all. The weather was far more favourable for the purpose than any day in the past month would have been, and we have had so much wet of late that there was no dust. , There was none of that " movement " in Paris which betokens a great national fete. I was in several parts of the town in the course of the morning and could not help remark ing the absence of any particular stir and bustle. Nothing at all approaching the expected number of foreigners has yet arrived, and this is not to be wondered at considering how far and wide the news has spread that the Exhibition would cer tainly not be ready on April 1. I went to the building at about 1 o'clock, passing by the Arc de Triomphe, the Avenue Josephine, the Pont des Invalidew, and the Avenue La Mothe Piquet. This was but an hour before the Emperor was to come, and yet there was nothing like crowding anywhere. Along the quays stretching from the Place de la Concorde to the Pont de &Ma there was just a thin, and by no means unbroken line of spectators waiting to see the imperial cortetjc pass—and that was all. A grand review or a horse race at Surdsnes puts a great many more people on foot than did the news that this was the open ing day of the world's show. The fact is the Parisians well knew that there would be little to see outside ; and the entrance fee of 20fr. for this day was a prohibition price effectually prevent ing the million from thinking about the inside. 1 have reason to think that very little money indeed must have been taken at the doors, those who could afford a napoleon for a spectacle not caring to part with one for an imperfect sight of a cere mony which at best could not be extremely in teresting under the circumstances. It was quite unnecessary, as it turned out, for the Imperial Com mission to warn the public that those who wished to avoid being blocked up in a crowd would do well to take the Ceinture Railway at the Rue St. Lazare station. There was not the least difficulty in getting carriages up to the doors, and gendarmes and *ergots de rifle judiciously placed at every spot where a " jam" was thought possible had scarcely anything to do, and nothing occurring to provoke or perplex them, they were most par- ticularly civil. The senators and other great bodies of the state, whose attendance was not, so far as I could observe, very numerous, did, I believe, avail themselves of special trains provided by the Ceinture Railway ; but a friend of mine who was misled by the Commission's proclamation into patronising the roundabout rail, spent about an hour and a half in performing a journey which a cab would have done in twenty minutes. Inside the building and in the park there were of course a great many people, but the place is so vast that there was nothing like crowding or excitement anywhere. The public consisted, I should think, almost entirely of the exhibitors and their families, the juries, those specially invited for the occasion, and of season ticket-holders, whose number is very considerable; of 20-franc peOple caught in the tourniquets this day I am persuaded there was a very /Ma sprinkling indeed. I saw the Emperor arrive from the gallery of the handsome Inter national Clubhouse, erected under the auspices of the Duke de Valmy at the Pont de Jihis end of the park. The imperial cortege consisted of three carriages only ; and because, I suppose, this was a peaceful exhibition—perhaps also because it had be en announced that there was to be no " grand"ceremony to-day—there was not the usual escort of Cent Gardea. There was no escort at all—only out riders. When the Emperor, after passing along the Quai Billy, arrived at the Passy end of the Pont de Jina, his carriage halted for a minute to re ceive a numerous deputation, male and female, from the workpeople employed in the construction of the building. A few minutes before I saw this depu tation descending in a very long line from the heights of Pansy. They bore with them a variety of tools, and some of the women shouldered brooms over their shoulders. One of these presented the Empress with a bouquet. At this time the fine flight of stairs extending from the Pont de Jdna to the top of the Trocadere was thronged by people, to the number, I should think, of as many as ten thousand. The imperial carriages crossed the bridge, and on arriving in the park passed under a very splendid velum of great length, of green velvet, embroidered with gold and studded with golden bees. As I anticipated, the Prince Imperial was not of the party. I wonder at his name having been included in the programme, for the public will be sure to think now that he has had a relapse. The Emperor and Empress and the Princess Mathild e alighted, were received by the various foreign com missions, and then walked through some of the galleries. And here—referring to the ample details which you will receive from your special coy respondent—l can give you little more news than the Moniker du Soir gives its readers in small print this evening, namely, that "On this Ist of April the Universal Exhibition was opened with the ceremonial previously announced." The form of the building is such that there can be no coup d'ril. Those in one gallery cannot see what is going on in another. I was stationed in the Fine Arts Gallery and saw the Emperor and Empress followed by a very long string of commissioners pass through it. I noticed that the Emperor paused several minutes in the Italian Gallery to contemplate a statue by Vela, of Napoleon 1., in a dressing gown and a sitting posture, representing him at St. Helena during the last hours of his life. In the fine arts galleries there is not that ap pearance of unreadiness which distinguishes mod of those where industrial products are to be exhibited. A very clever excuse has been sug gested for the notorious incompleteness of the Exhibition, namely, that if the opening had been postponed three months longer it would not have been ready then, it being everybody's experience that the only way to drive masons and carpenters out of a house is to inhabit it. The appearance of the small central garden, with a band playing, the sun shining, and ladies in rich toilettes promenading round it, was very pretty. FIGHT BETWEEN FENIANS AND THE MILITARY. CORK, MANnAT. A fight is reported between three armed Fenian and a party of police yesterday, near Mitchell's Town, in this county. One insurgent was killed, and two other s captured ; one of those captured is bl'Clure, who com manded a body of rebels in the late rising. One more arrest has been made in this city, and is. a$ Killeagh, in this county. CORK, llnn , .tv EvemNa. Later reports respecting the conflict between the military end the Fenian, near Mitchell's Town, yesterday, state that no force but the military was employed. The soldiers surrounded a wood where the insurgents lay concealed. A long conflict with revolvers and rifles, from behind trees, numerous shots being exchanged, took place. Three rebels were captured, one escaped across the river, and one pd. goner died of his wounds. Ile was named Toomey, and is said to have been a comfortable fanner near YouglaL One of the prisoners, Captain Ill'Clure, for whose arrest a reward of WO& was offered, was also wounded. Five eel. diers, it is rumoured, are wounded. STRIKE OF THE PARIS TAILoRS. —At a meeting of the journeymen tailors of Paris, held on Sunday last, which was attended by 2,500 persons, it WWI decided to s trike for higher wages. Notice was to be given to the masters yesterday, and if the conditions demanded wets not complied with, the strike was to commence forthwith In the course of the proceedings M. Deguergue read the following telegram from the London Trades' Union, signed by Mr. Matthews :—" Your telegram nueuived. Having . entire confidence in your success we promise you our moral and material support." The meeting, after several salvos of applause, telegraphed the following reply :—" The Paris tailors assembled in the Hall of the Elysee Mont martre have received your despatch, they accept your generous offer of assistance, and thank you ire the name of humanity and fraternity." THE. UNITED STATES AND RoME. —The fad that Congress has refused to appropriate money for the PAW? ' of a minister at Rome 'ought to be conclusive ; yet we note efforts to have that most righteous action reversed. A statement from Rome (which we presume to he prompted by the minister) asserts that American pro testa:its are now permitted to hold meetings for public worship in a house designated as the American embassy, though it is nut the actual residence of the minister. This, it is imagined, will nerve to allay dissatisfaction, so that the embassy may be continued. We trust it will have no such effect. The government of Rome is no concern of ours ; and we have no right to quarrel with her authori ties concerning it. That is, in our eyes, a very stupid bigotry which, in a Christian land, forbids Christians to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences ; but Rome is not bound to see such matters through our spectacles ; and strangers who do not like her ,laws may keep out of her jurisdiction. Our position is that this country should never have had s ' minister there at all. Rome, so far as she is a state at all, is an ecclesiastical State ; and thus her important', her power, are ecclesiastical ; and we sent her a minister for ecclesiastical reasons—that is, with an idea of gratify ing or propitiating the Roman catholics, especially thee of our own country. Apart from her ecclesiastical r!:.• ratter, Home has not half the claims to a mission thst Itavnria has, or that Saxony has ever had till within the past year. And, now that Italy is trying to reconstruct herself, integrally and potentially, our keeping a minion.] at Rome is an unfriendly and ungenerous emlxtrresseuent to a great though young power , with which we ought to cherish relations of cordial amity and mutual good will. — New York Tribune, March 18. CAMBRIDGE UNDERGRADUATES AND THE Pe —At the Cambridge Borough Police-court, yesterlay,there was a large attendance of undergraduatea, who bet i• 01 drawn there in consequence of some of their nu ..ber being charged with assaulting the police, and w at tempting. to rescue a prisoner from custody . It s m., ars that during the athletic sports which were lodfl 10-4 sal several of the Cambridge men were visited by underm duates from the enter university. On Saturday niuht Dr. Ransom hail a notion that some attempt nimbi le made to annnoy him, and so he was more watchful than usual. When his servant reached home, at about hit. past 11, be found that the door had been tied to the door of another house by means of a cord re,ciiing ft one to the other. Shortly after midnight the doter his night-bell ring violently, and rapidly epeniir.- the window he saw a policemen struggling with s worn, t idler men and other constables came and there was rePll' e tustle, in which the constables alm os t l os t th e ir prisoner. Their opponents, who were, with two exceptions. CAM bridge students, knocked off their hats, and aubjeete them to other indignities. They at last aucceeded in getting their prisoner safe in the police-office, and then they .recertaia ,l his name to be Edward Courtenay I ogle. student of Christ Church, Oxford. The charge of 'login.: Pr- Ransom's bell was entered against him, and yrstenlaY this charge was heard before the magistrates. But with this first defendant was associated others. They were John 1. - Charington, also a student of Oxford ; Robert C. alon cnef, of Trinity College, Cambridge ; Alfred K Jacob' son, of Downing Coll ; and the Hon. W. C. Wentwort h Fitswillissn, of College. Against these Inno charges of attemp ting to rescue the defendant Boyle. 01 . assaulting tbs ice, and of interfering with them in the performance their duty. Boyle was fined 30s. and me!, or 14 days' imp isonmant, and each of the other defend ants were aned 50s. and costa, or one month's imprison' meat. _ _ OEYNTAL PALACE. - ONZ SHILLING DAY' MONDAY, APRIL I.—Adminions on payment, 1,1 SO; ‘l lo ° by mason Waste, 1,284. Total visitors, 2,414. f • 1 t 'I i i