The Express. — London, England, 1859-04-02 00:00:00

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The Peers heard the significant intimation in silence, then whispered am to another, Whet does it mean and loyally and li.tlemly went their way. I• consequence of the adjourn ment agreed to at the end of the aproar on 'Chars day night, the Commons did not meet. In the course of yesterday, however, • report gained curtsey whieh e though clearly proved to be impossible by the clearest logic of the moat experienced practitioners in the treatment of that constitutional malady, a ministerial crisis, eventually turned out to be net only possible, but a downright fact. A meeting has, it appears, been so e owned for one o'clock this day of the supporters of Government in the Home of Com mons, and it requirse no very great stretch of imagination to conceive what the object of sash an assemblage, at nth • jusettere, moot be. Instead. therefore, of • ►ummary and placid transition of power to Whig from Tory hands se the tam duo, coos, illeilte of the Often nights' &Ws and the ni,j,wity of thirty-nim, the pblia Inuit betintent for the next forty-eight hours with the Weenie ansosoccossat that e,:rtion confidential eonewanicaticeas an peeled between the Q 1711.111 and her Consercatiee ',Misfire..., wed that a eser bream has thereenent been held between Mileideero and thew adherents en the Lown Home of Pezbe. neer. It were idle affretatios, however, to pretend to feel say serious doubt es to the natant of the pro eroding' yesterday, w►ich courtly etiquette ladle shouLd be wrapped op is semi-trnep•reat mystery; and Mill more absurd woo:d it be to Inge anew teinty as to the object or character of the twee which le about to be enacted at Dowsing-street to-day. It Is generally understood that Ind Drane laid before the Heine, as he was bound to do, the cosetitatieseal messing of Ras vetoer Thursday night. Nobody who appreciates justly the personal eke. enter of the noble Earl can entertais • doubt that in the Royal presence he felt impelled, by every seen of boson, loyalty, and selCrespect, to do so frankly and witlunt reserve. Twice ham he been favoured by the lints with the highest confidence the Nineveh of a free people can bestow ; and so MS who has had the like experience of affairs has ever acknowledged more fully the consideration and kindness with which he has been treated. What ever be his faults, Lord D•OT km never been accused of being a mean or a spiritism. man, end he most be that, and wore, if in the critical circum stances of the present hour he wilfully misled or deceived his Sovereign se to the true condition of her aff►irs. We are bound, therefore, in common justice, to presume that the Peen en respectfully in formed her NI \J 1 • T T that, after the sentence of die approval passed on him and his colleagues by the House of Commons with reference to their proposed measure of Its form, it would not be becoming in them, or genie-table to her MAJESTY, to attempt the con duct of legislative affairs in the present Parliament ; and that, as they were unwilling to interrupt the ordinary businem of the ememien, and to put the members of the House gevertraUy to the inconvenience of a general election, he was not prepared to recom mend a dim:illation. What special grounds may have been a.►igned by her MAJESTT for hesitating to accept the resignation of Ministers we do not take upon us to say. Bat that such there must have been, m:1 that they were deemed by Lord Dance of aufhoient weight to jostify him in accepting the grave and unusual re epon.ibility he appears to have thereupon incurred, no lops:nisi man can doubt. Them are probably few things which the Court is less disposed to view with favour than a dissolution of Parliament ta any great party question. All the instincts of governing power are opposed to frequent appeals to popular feeling. We are not now arguing the question either in general or with particular reference to existing etreumetanert, we are merely retelling what we believe to be notoriously true as regards the predilections and leanings of than in the highest places. What, then, can have been t►e ea:eidera. Roos which may be supposed to have outweighed the disinclination habitually felt to any COUTOe of policy which either necessarily or contingently would involve the resort to • dissolutio• ? We bad rather not indulge in any surmises ou this subject. A few hosts must dinkiest all ; sad the public will then be able to jade accurately and justly of the sufficiency of the notification which Ministers will have to assign for retaining office under existing circumstances. But we need not wait till Monday far an ieteepretatioo of that part of their conduct which constitutes the actual bsenne of to-day. For west are their Parliamentary adheren s summoned? It cannot be for eoeseel se for coeferesee as to the ad. les Ministers are to give their Sovereign, for tbst would he to abdicate all Ministerial trust and official responsibility. It cannot be to ask for • renewal of confidence on their part, for Ministers bays bad the best proof of it within the last few hewn, and it has not availed to save them from Parliamentary discomfiture. What is the question, thee, 'beat to be submitted to the eatisambesed but, we balkiest, still unbroken followers of Lord Misr ? Is be prepared to tell them that on the morrow of his defeat b• placed his resignation in the hands of her MAJLITY ; that for reasons he will in due time disclose, and for whose sufficiency he is prepared to be answerable to the country, he has consented to reassume the reins of power, but that to do so with dignity or any hope of public advantage he must b►re an assurance from them that they would sup port him is a second attempt to legislate on the *abject of Reform, with a view to which certain modifications of the existing Cabinet will be indis pensable ; and finally that, should he be intercepted in the coons of such an undertaking by any hostile step on the part of Opposition, he is prepared at coos to appeal to the country Did the Opposition, by whose dense array the Ministerial minority was so far outnumbered on Thursday night, power within itself the unity of purpose or the spirit of cohesion which ought to animate a great party, it would matter little what tale Lord LIMIT was prepared to tell his followers when they are gathered at his official residence this afternoon. Bat it is idle to conceal from ourselves that no such unity exists. Good men and true men there are both amongst the leaders and fueled ; but an unconcealed aim is harboured by some, to rob the late victory of its legitimate fruit; and sooner them ass men who are in earnest about Re fers at home and the support of Constitutional liberty abroad called to the councils of the Crown, there are certain pseudo-Liberals who do not hesi tate to own that they would prefer seeing Toryism reepited from official banishment for another season. There is one honourable and plain—but there is only one—way of paralysing the counterplots of those to whom we allude. Let the flag of a real Reform be unfurled. Let the people have something to look to and to rally round ; and then they may laugh at the intrigues of Trimmers and the tergiversations or Tories; for we shall feel the old confident faith of better days, that the might of the many is ever able and willing to enforce the right when unfal teringly proclaimed by the few. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY, APRIL 1. TM LOAD CIIAOCSLLOI folk his rat on the woolaack M Na o'clock. Tlt•re w a radar larger stardom.) of pen this earl, and 'ha Lar was crowded wilt ambers of the saw boom. 11sseralirfirsts bats moo advsaced s stas. Lard Itt DIADA Lit laid an ibe taLl• • till to neraists Us ado sad worms ?fais; sad it wasreads des{ Mast Ths Dun. of ARGYLL it would hardly be osseadrat, to the proem state of pitfalls affairs, to discuss the subject of lobos olueetaco, sad ho should then fose pceopose till that day totterght a notice Thiel' la ►.d on the paper nl Wog to that isportat quo. ion. SALT. Lewd STANLEY of •LDEKLEY, whose tieing was pared with loud leaphor, said I. bad a pave:ice to pat to she Wig k rd the Porgies Seerstery, to whir h he should to gird of aa assure, if. ne could he pow without eadaegoing the peace of the ovoid. He slaw dto learn whistber any in stemedoes hill bon sent to Lord Melt to argotiate with the Climes goer..meat respecting ilia olsolesion of British sat toss that empire, sad whetter any cconeuakatan had been ISINVIPIi from him as the subject? Mao, whether say in ehroMko• had been gives .o the Hoe. F. Bran, lin Ma jesey'e emleforeerkie at PAW, directing Oita to prom this warm ogres the aitiolins of the Chianti gwveinsuent ? The Mal of MALY ESBUILY yea gaits of optaion that the joistiso of Os teri'le 444 might be pat to him without elatoweasiog her Ilejestio gosernsairet LAI Elgin hal tetralweel so fo•troche at with respect to rho admiftion of silt bolo Moo, beeento it was thought bettor to leave the abettor sotteety is his doentioa. But when the tariff cease how, her ?Needy's government timid that no strongenseat had hien made with raised to sell, sot that It still re morse? • rostra...sod ant. la. WIAISS bp. Bruce west our, afoot a watts yo, be sr.s charged to exert himself, wliti • view le haws it put mon another ibetiog, snit he (Lord Motmobsq) volorttood Mr. Brow tolottet Mut to to pat lba& RAILWAY TICKETS TRANSFER BILL. Yu mon d mcselmests woo oprord to. DIANSLAVORTER BILL. This MD peril through togurottos. 1111 MINIOTERIAL CRISIS. The lad of DIMBT—Is wig that this M. do sow artisan, 1 tredosy had % Oat si'core •ith mutest to the Ma • elpoblle age's win tot le costernierl into say Yr hareem I. or dOperegmorat of the oomrsiosacce tibia met twit from the vote *I lest atilt. Om the cookery, I coasinswed that so.• to be is sakes that I ilk it seesesery in levitc my atheism to amt me et ea early how lists mors - ag ; sod door the rabbet I bad ea salters of M 111.0.ty at Buckiagbasa name?. I base set theamm Yoe of bar Mejeety to make say essemooketio• Is yowler& ell,. el I) abet lr takta plan; buss 1 &balk tie slab s mean is so aides!, sod the sessuppasou al As veils lot *Ott most be so lisposlist, isaidertag tke Nam of Commas hos sajossosi ttl Xraday ant, I sball bre or malt els 11111111.1111MICO et year leitehips, sad the sonisionss W latereeta of the public., end I .hell 1111.0 het show my sera at the gravity of the ocenilow by posipmeng till Mon a" next the oSeriag of any statement. I hope that I chill at QM time be prepared to lay before >oar lordship the ad irks which I and my e dimmers litre telt it our duty to Wader to her Majesty, end the mune whirl, with her Ma. joked asoetioa, we propere to adopt. Their lordahipe then adjourned till Dlonfayi (IMO' LIST NTOHT . 4 OA.ZETTZ). LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCTI I.—No tic• is baraby rives that hat 11.jesty Iv Id • disarissr roma .t Br. Jarsca's Palace, spun Thursday, April 14, at 2 eels, k. _ _ _ - - LORD CHAIIDZIALiIfed-OFFICE, MARCH I.—No tice le hereby gives ,het her Majesty will bold • Myer, at 6t. James Palace, on Wadseeday. April 6, at 2 ,;cloak. WAR•OMCE, MANCH 3l.—The Queen has been grackaily pie ,std to make sad onitsie • apecha rtatete of the moat brinowt•ble order of the Rath, for titivintieg the Right Hod. Visouuet Cariniag, Goreruvr-Geficral of Indio, mad 'be Ittght Hos. Lord Elphinarcese, bloveraGr of the Part ?fealty of Boiabay, to be eat,. teetaben of the eleil divieiwt (.1 the Bret dim, or Rolgltia °read Cruet, of the told mat Loons:able order. _ _ _ MAICH 31.—Tbe Queen his been pkased to appoint Ceram Frederic Sayer to be police ma gistrate for Gibraltar. WHITEHALL, MARCEI 25.—The Queen bag been pleased to anywise Cionge Ritbardon, gest., to Sc lieuiceeet in the Artillery Company of London, fur the term ut five yea* from the date b.nof. WRITCHtLL, APRIL I.—The Queen has been to orn ma stitate sad appoint Maya-General Ma So li k a r d Slade to be Limmeasat-OuveruJr of Use Wand of Ornery. 11/OwNING-sTatET, Martell 31.—The Queen has bean Owed to appoint Edward Jelin 1 re, Eq., ono Liss tassat-Ouvernee of St. Vivant, to be Lieutenant-Governor ef Antigua, in the absent e of the gevern r; and William Clocks Sargeennt, Key., to be admiulatraior of the gosera taint of St. Vincent, awing the geese* of the lisassesst govenbse Foaztox-oevicr, MARCH 30.—Noting is hereby grieve, tint the lad of Yelmesbury has eppointed Jobe l'reatoa, KN., to boniest at &Ham for the hew of Fort-ion cam passports. Toe Dinstos ox MR. WTLD's AMENDSZNT.— Mr. WOW' .woodmen! to Lard John Rowell's resolution ended, es Mr. Wyld bed been ieretatil wield be the tear, la • division Wthicet a dimwit" end Is the ebsence of the eest majority of the frittvis of the belted. As Mr. Berkeley bed tee notion of movies oe the hooks to meet Mtber shot- Lakes of Lord Jobs Reweli's Mahn or SUCCINI. so good red Cm an be wised by Outlaw" the ballot emotion on se over tired and lanyahist how. Tho Wyk. of Mr. Berkeley, Intl hie Awes Team' experience se Mader of the empties, was walled to r•ciecit, sod Mr. Wylie psresmrense wawa the wwweinnore not only of Mr. Berkeley, bet et Kr. Meer tlibscm, Mr. Brlebt, Mr. W. J. ox, mad ethos et the led yerlkuu story Blonds of the heller, wide Mr. WlM's loony still sore disietwatde to be hoses, end the meek co. es woo saprctel, Meow. Bietketry, Maw (Meek leek?, Fos, wit sway whom Irving all Wan. We re ewers the Meads of the bast the the eilesee et Ks ether 13$ eeppertere of the omen IN art to be team el lailleadog a nwr.e of Its swam *kWh the ballot hr up be tide time had is pietist:wet. We are le ' tweed Rat la weelltsce with the advice of his twain fue -1 = l e ! g e r. Z e ll a l 1 7: t . Tv e . 111 e o s l o e: e rly e. ?:7; ible brim ne,eUeVbeto elms a regales Mete end tell etteadaece at the athisies. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1850. (IProia the flues.) The eonserestives mat yesterday sioning, pur suant to settee, at the Calton Club, end fond themselves streedingly unanimous es to the impolicy of a diesolation, To the noofficial sad unexeectent madam of the party, with no private objects to answer, we believe that nothing is so unwelcome as a general election jest now. Bet Lord Derby has other to deal with, and while the rank and file of hi, followers were casting 'teem, looks at one another in the rlaba, be was otherwise engaged Is Downiag-street and Buckingham Palace. • • It is stated, laded, that, giv ing way apparently to ressetment, salaistas are resolved to stand their ground all pieced in a minority on a direct qtrs. lion of coefidence, and in that ease to appeal to the people. In other words they will not resign without a dissolution, They have does their test, they cossider ; they have brought a bill to a second reading which no other goveroment has done fur the eight years the matter hie been fen mit Won ; they have declared theniselres ready to consider and want ressoneMe amendments ; and if the house bee now stopped the businees on the very threshold, upon it most rest the reeponvibility of inaction. Oa such a coarse of proceeding Walden are, doubtless, pre pared for a great variety of opinions. It will be contrasted with the bearing of the minister who woo lost placed in a minority by a pee es of combination exceedingly similar to that complained of In this butanes. Even if there be nothing undignified in the first attempt to brave a victorious opposition, still a defeat, once Inflicted, may be followed up with equal success, end Lord Derby may have to make his tbruatened appeal ee the enduring victim of several discom &OM, Ineead of the iodigoant repudiator of one. This is a quotient that the cabinet =let decide for itself, but it must sijezt a free application of that parliamentary criticism whrh Mr. Disraeli claims as a valuable part of our polieical traditions. It is difficult to see what will be the immediate seat of each a dotermisation, whether the combined foe will Wink it oemeaary to follow up the attack, and what is to be the fats of the reform question meanwhile. For any light on three ccetingetciee we most wait Ull Monday evening. (From Um Kornis, Fost.) In consequence of the defeat of the Wash, a• Friday morning, Lord Derby yestemisy gammemed a cabinet council to consider the cows. which govwrament ought to pursue. The remelt of the camel be immediately commu nicated to the Queen. and the noble bed stated to his plata in the Meuse of Peens last night, that on Monday he would fully inform parliament o the decision at which the govern ment had arrived, sod of the advice which he has tendered to her Majesty. This is the Rum of positive news with re•p•ct to the mints er:al crisis. No may add to it that Lord Derby bas called a meeting of the conservative p.rty foe Mile day. beyond this all le conjecture. We think it, however, probable that Lord Derby has not yet reeigceri eflics, and equally probable that if be has suggested a dissolution to the Que.'s, his proposition hoe lxec deemed unlesiraLle in the present state of affairs. We shall not beeurpriref if the able lord wakeful appeal to his party to cantinas their sup port to him, and if ha deem the critical state of Europe a soilicimt justification for not hsatily relioqislahlng office. (From the Press.) They may, It appears to us, under thew circumstances, without any inhiegeasent of constitutional usages, elect either to nisign and leave It to other to form an admicistra- Ike, er Very may ask the sovereign to give them the oppor tunity of making an appeal to the country, or they may re mota at their pests; at all mats till ouch time as they can biles loan WOO the present Manningooniplicetionv in Eu rope, standing, from a mos of duty, in the meantime, in the position of challengers egaleat all Demers, and aweluiug the brunt of a direct vote of censure urn their general policy. The firm of the three contuse would, no doubt, be the one moth in c neonates with the kerngs &Moistly excited at the moment by defeat, and It might sot improbably be the most emberreerhig tt those politicians who have combined to effect It. It Todd be co:instant with political wage; end no one maid &say, should each ha the determination of Lord Derby's Cable*, that they bat laid diem with dignity the power wti.•h they smutty-1 with dbleterestedneas and patriotism. At the am* time, if Mr. Dieraelee eloquent representation of the present centilitre of the European difficulty tc c >meet —and we me no roaeoa to doubt tt—the government have a duty otter than that which they owe to themselves, founded are higher and more impotent ecinaidoestions—a ditty to than civilised world sad ts humanity. It recta with them to &elide to which they will give the rreferenee. la their breams is the feeling, and to their judgment we leave the (Froth the Sarnia, Review.) As might have bees espectod, " the dodge" has succeeded. The betenerneonii elements of a disunited opposition have been est:shined for a moment le defeat the came which they profess to &pure. ✓air E. &Awes Lyt ton, in one of his novo* has very profoundly tc- , marked that it is a popular error to have filed upon sight se the mem of conscience gad remorse. It Is the "seat minuted," se he well observed, when the muse of an irretrievable fault overwhelms the slaves of passions with the sentiment of Usck dismay at she conse quences of deeds which they on no kisser recall. Of the 330 readmits' who bare bees constrained, by venom god loomeietsit considerations, to shelter the lest ellosoe of • re a.otiable and speedy settlement tithe question of Motu; we believe that a very considerable majority already look , back to the work at which they ham assisted with no eery complacent reflections. We suppose that hi the history of paitiee a more unwilling majority was never marshalled ►y a whip in a division which their conscience condemned end emir patriotiem dissuaded. We meat wait till Moe da, night to learn the whole cossequencee to which the tediestit selfishness of an tusecrnpuloss fact:on has devoted the country. (Prom the Spectator.) Our eottempontries aro noting the moat three mar. which lie before ministers—to dissolve, to twigs, or to go on, simply dropping the bill. As a ternporery txpedieet, the last amuse would n•nt be incoovenient to any party; it would feoilitste the pawing of some hairiness which rather pewees upon the House of Commons and the executive, such se the badKet. A dissolution wou'd lay the grand quarion bake* the public in an aspect most injurious to the proseut government, and that in many ways; for in -tenor, boroughs to be disfranchiewl would fed no favour for tte authors of the bill; on the other head the liberal party generally would find that they could obtain a larger measure tram Lord John Raman, )Ir. Bright, and Kr. Sidney Herber, while the wet prudwit at well as earnest poetics of the liberal party would dimes is the indication even by Sir lessee Gnaws that raeseart which would be the favourite. (From tho John Bull.) The best gray of solving the dife inky, at it some to so, is to carry t n the session to sn eod, and despatch the neces sary btudneot required, on the underetandisg that the couttty shall be appealod to at its does. At all events, England denude of Lord Derby that she shell have an orgartunity of swain, bee voice heard in a matter of such vital lespretance. • • • We have some rectos to beheve that should a &Anne of ministry be unfortunately forcrd ea by Mak ey, the Doke of Newcastle la the statesman who Is most bkalr t, be summate! to her councils. In that OM the people of England would not be sorry for the °pre. twat, of rookies snore marabou for the injustice which woe dies to the noble duke at the time of our Crimea dhasirra (From the Sunday nous.) Lord Derby mutt be entwined tint, with his party, he elms ma stem the torrent and avert the tempest which, mace lot loose, would sweep ay.,. the land like a devouriag cea dagraiiut. When ministers have been abandosed the helm, the property and working classes were Oct la that antagonism in which we now behold them. Dees Lord Decay wish to prevent a rinse of " the (amiss jean*" as the There &stigmata, the working claws—deem he wish Is check that fearful movement which woold bring rola to the amtlee, without giving bap' in, as to the cottegin—in • weed, goes he wish to preserve order at hone and peace abroad? Theo let Dine set as the national voice, wherever it ens be essertabed, dictates; let hies do his obvious duty, Nod re ' swim at the laze. (From the Weekly Dispatch.) The Dwby Menu Bill le digested by a majority of 39. nit le the drat mew, and a very good one. It clears the mewl el " rabbish." Notaritharanding Mr. Diaraelre boost, we do not think the peace st Europe as all compro mised by the lora of "Mr. Harr*" or that Lord John Rumen in the least compromises the dignity and influence of this ocatatry in emphatically separatirg both train any Identity ni h " Lord Malmesbury aka." We Lye to ISO an English twigs policy sow. E etourt. The Duchess of Rent visited her Wed, re lorday at Bacidaitam Palest. Karl Darby hed andlemee ol Clasen. • The The Princ of e Ccapart Mice horseback, die attended by Copts Da Plat. The Gomm, eaoompaaled by the PrberesMAllosend Helena, sad attended by thelion. Flora Macdonald, took a drive in en open carriage and four in the afternoon. Colonel the Ras A. N. Hoed sad Captain Du Plat attended cm boreetack. The Preece Commit, attended by Colonel the Hon. Ste Charles Phipps, tilted the South ILe Kum& Her Majesty and the Prince Coastal hemmed the lr. fortunes at the Haymarket Theatre with their preenealast evetsing. In att end ance were Lady MaedeaaM, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish. the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Viscount dtrethallan, Colonel the Hoe. A. N. Road, and Captain Litt Flat. " Vhe — Prince Contort, attended by COIOIKI the Hos. A. Hardioge, honoured Mr. Thomas, architoot, with a visit en Thursday, in the Alpha•road, Regent's-park, end inagetted ....C . O . l7;el — the Hon. A. N. Hood and Captsie Du Plat have relieved Major-Gensral the Hoc. C. Grey and Wong the Hoe. A. Hardingsin their du , ies as the Equerries In Welt ing to the Queen and Prince Consort. The Duchies of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard end Sir George Cfiuper, arrived at her ream*, Clarence hones, St. James's, yesterday morning, from Frogmore. A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the offi cial residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were :—The Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Fathom% the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Sir E. Bever Lytton, General Peel, Lord Stanley, Sir John Pakington, and Lord John Manners. A deputstion from Clerkenwell, consirthtg of Mr. Mutate (guardien), Mr. Bonitos (whetter), and Mr. Scargill (clerk), had ea interview with Mr. Secretary Eatcocirr, at the Hoene dies, yesterday, on tha subject of the Local Amassment& Exemption Abolition Bill. Despatches were sent from the Colontal-oboe yesterday to the Govsniors of the West India Colonies, Canada, and British Colombia. Despatches were received from the GOTSTOOII of the Anstrahan Colonies. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has Madly emended to Ist:noise the petformance of Haydn's celebralel cintsta, The Seasons, at Ezeter•hell, on the 10th of May next, for the Lezedt of the London Society for the Protection of Young Females. The Duchess of Satherland has returned to Trentham, from visiting Lord and Lady Blantyre at Erskine Howe, N.B. The noble duke and duchess came to Stafford Bowe to-day from their seat in Staffordahlre. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breads'bane, who we now at Nice, are expected to return home early In the aiming month. The Eirl and Countess of Albemarle sod the Ladiee Keppsl will leave town in a few days for Scotland. Viicount and Viscountess Villiers have gone to the south of France. The noble viscount and viscountess hue been ind•tad by the impaired health of his lordship t 3 repair to a milder climate. Lord and Lsdy Lilford and the Hon. Miss Powys ere expected borne Oe the 12th inst. The minims of the Ms. Miss Powys and Kr. Fs akerley is appointed to be solemnised on the 23rd inst. Lord Ward has arrived at Dudley House, Park lase, from Italy. Prince Mahomol, eon of the Salton Tippoo S ihib, has arrived at the Oriental Hotel, Vero street, from Celcatte, with the view of renewing his rotor tidbits of loyalty after toe proclamation of her Majesty to the native princes of India. Sir Richard Madox Bromley, T►.C.B., the Ac ootintual-Gesecal of the Navy, paid an of& ial visit ye-ter day (Friday) to the Deptford Dockyard end the Royal Vic tualling Yazd. It ie reported that an accountant is to be ap pointed forthwith for thew yards. _ At en inquest held on the remains of the late Marquis of Wa'erford, a verdict in accordance with the fees of hie melancholy death wu returned. The writer of an obituary notice in the Press remarks that In personal appatr acme the I.te marquis was " a genuine Beresiord, with the clear, the twor.hiug eye, and regularity of features, hereditary for generations in that nal-) ram. In bAlly brio he wits ermsplesous for • chest and shoulders of rare development. At thirty years of age Lord Waterford was probably the strongest man in the kingdom, and his activity was equal to hie rigour." Lord Waterford is the third peer who, within • 'bolt period, bst his life from ',tutting. Ths lots Zeal of Ilarswood and Lard Fitsluudingt died from bad fills to the field , end only a few days aim a country gamesman sad loaded proprietor was killed whits hunting In the county of Cork. We (dthemeewras) understand that Mr. Tennyson's sew volume of porno, which is nearly ready for the pram, is entitled "The King's Idylls," and that the subject relates to the legend t.l King Arthur. M. Perroties appeal to those who had correspon dence with Biranger ban aheady called in 2,200 °lbis letter,. Mr. Palk, M.P., is announced to deliver a lecture at the Temperenre Hall, Torquay, during the Raster rear, on the " Dwellings of the Pose." The New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, at their last roosting, unanimously voted Mr. Fahey, upon Ws resigning the office of tressurcr, the sum of fifty guineN as en scknowle len nt of the efficient manner in which be bad discharged the dada of the office. The Scottish National Gallery has just had a noble bequest rude to it. The exquilite Gatuaboroogh, the tine whote-Lngth of Mrs. Graham (Lord 1) nedoela's wife) I I bought by Mr.Oraham, of Redgotton, foe 2,0001., was be queethed by him to the Bcottiah Gallery. We read in the Art-gossip of the Illustrated Lou don News It wu the Marquis of Hertford who on Bator- day last gave two thonsand five hundred and Shy g-ulneas for the Sir Jahns portrait of ' Km. Hoare and Child ; it was my Lord Ward who, on the rune day and in the same room, gave eleven hundred guineas tx the Si, Joshua por trait of 'Who Prnelope Soithby.' Astother thootand, it Is said, won't sot bars stopped Lard Hattfard. His lorisbip was determined to Lave the picture. If Reynold, is ap is the auuket, Tuber is gettig does. In the year 1853 the ir.ll-known Mr. Windily, of Tcttenham, gave 746/. for Turner's 'Dawn of Chektianity, and el; Saturday last be only got 330 guineas for his porches.. In 1853 the same gent'emaa gave 735/. for Tome's 'Gleams and Scylla,' and on Saturday last thought himself fortunate In obtaining 280 glillea• for hie o.Ver•lptimated sequisition." The Literary G azelle states that the offer to the Literary Food mashie in the offu of a library, accompanied bye num of 0,000/. to be spent escharively upon its math- Milano,. In coneid,ration of thk gift of kooks, it Is required of the fund that it shall, at its own ant, procure a new charter, far the purpose of making catain organic chsnges fe its oottatitutim. The time when it is proposed that the' books and the 10,0001. shall come to the fund is remote sad indefinite, bring dependant on the termination of two per sons' liens; but the condition lasted on le that the new charter shall be obtsinal at once. "We understan4," says our ootamporary, " diet the opinions of the council end the vin-preeMents have been taken upon the proposition, sad that it is now natl.r the consideration of the committee."— The conditicnal donor of the library is understood to be Mr. John Forater,stitberof "The Lie sad Times of OHver Gold smith." The conditional donor of 10,0001. Is said to be Mix Burdett Conti& The Select Committee of the House of Commons ea Military Organisation met yesterday. The following err the members of the committee:—The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, to the cher ; Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Wal pole, the Judge-Advocate, Sir John Ramaden, Lord John Russell, Colonel Wilma Patten, Lord Palsoenton, Mr. Mai sel, Earl of March, Lord Holism, Mr. Horenen, Sir James Graham, Mr. Ellee, Mr William Codtington. After taking the evidence of Lord Palmerston, the oommittee adjourned till Tuesday are at 12 o'clock, when it is expected that hie Royal Highness the Dole of Cambridge, the Duke of New castle, and Berl Grey, will be examined. The Blue Book containing the minutes of evidence reettivel by the Royal Coarnalasimers for Manning the Navy has been laid apse the tab'e of the home. The commission ers sot Mecnry-eight days only; and the exact number of winsome+ they examined was reveety-rive. The witnesses comprised eight flag officers, twelve captains on the serving list, and two on the tearryed liat, two cowman lent on fell pay, Sir James Graham, Sir Thema Fremantle, Sir John Liddell, Sir Richard Bromley, Mr. Richard., Comptroller of Victualling, fifteen shipping melon, mostly under the Board of Trade, and a number if offices sad civilians of mares rank., holding positions in restrike with the royal or mercantile eerier, or public inettutione. There were 1111110 sin warrant oilier., the foreman of riggers at Wo)l- eke, two boa' swabo's mate*, end three seamen riggers. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRANCX Mr. Renter has received the following telegram this morning : _ . _ PARIS, SATURDAY. " Six divisions of the or y are about to be placed on a war footing. " The regiments to be reviewed to-morrow (Sun day) will already have received the fourth batta lions that were to be added to them. " It is reported that a corps d' observation is form ing at Relly in the immediate neighbourhood of Cubs (department Ain) the junction of the Sardinian and French railways. " In the corps last mentioned the native Tirailleure and other regiments recently summoned from Algeria will be incorporated. "It is said here that the Grand Duke of Tuscany intends to impose a new constitution upon his 'objects." AUSTRIA AND PIEDMONT. The following is the text of a protest sent by Count de Cum'' , to Count Brassier de Saint-Simon, Prussian minister at Turin, against the violation of the Sardinian territory committed by an Austrian patrol : _ . Tart's, March 20. Excollency,—l have jest been informed by the competent local authorities that last night eleven arrest Austrian in fantry mothers, commando' by a sergeant, violated the Sar dinian territory at the passage of Limido, near the place called Stansaverde, by penetrating by BAWD' on the terri tory of Carbosaarra. Thus men did not return Into Lom bardy until a quarter plot dee in the mornhag, by the bridge of ()reechoes. They declared that they had lost their way, and they requested to be directed to the Pavia reed. Taking into account the explanations given by those Wan, and withmit giving to this fact an importance which it perhaps does not merit, I nevertheless think it my duty to point it out to the attention of the cabinet of Vienna. This violation of territory might have been attended with very serious consequemea if the Itints government had followed the example of that of Austria, and placed advanced poets on the _ . oestrous Unite of the (Nader. In such a case, if the Austrian patrol had been met by our soldiers, a collision would have been inevitable. I consequently leave to the impartial judgment of any unprejudiced person to julge of the disastrous effects which the measures adopted by the cabinet of Vienne might produce if the King's government did not endeavour to guard sgeinst them by a conduct full of reserve and moderation. I request your excellency to make what precedes known to the cabinet of Vienna.— Accept, Fee., " C. CAVOUR." THE BRAZILIAN MAIL. LISBON, FRIDAY, APL 1. The steamer Tyne, from the Brazils, &0., has arrived, and will leave Lisbon for Southampton this day, with news to the 10th of March. She brings 111 passengers, diamonds to the value of 18,9701., and 16,259/. in specie. The dispute between Paraguay and the United States has been peacefully settled by mutual expla nations on the facts which had caused it, namely, the affair of the steamer Waterwitch, and the con duct of the government of Paraguay towards the merican agent who was entrusted in 1867 with the ratification of the treaty of commerce. The government of Paraguay has concluded a aew treaty of commerce and navigation, and gr►nted 0000111/4iOWl similar to those of other nations which have obtained commercial privileges from the go vernment of Paraguay ; it has also engaged to pay an indemnity to the American Navigation Company, the amount of which will either be tired by a refer- ence to Washington, or else will be submitted to the arbitration of Prussia, Rus►ia, or England. - An accident has happened at Rio de Janeiro on the Don Pedro Railway. The locomotive ran off the rails, causing the death of three persons, among whom was the inspector-general of the railway. Besides the killed, six persons were wounded. Exchange oe London 24 rune dialta were done at 25. Exchange on Feria, 385; on Hamburg, 716, 720. The Tyne beings &site amounting to 680,0001. on London, 1,400,0006. os Prance, and 350,000 =TOO baaoo on Ham burg. Price of coffee, 5,300-5,400; stook, 20,000 bar. Sipco the Tamar left there have been 'hipped 111,474 bags, 78,768 of which were for the Hinted States, 6,226 foe the Channel, 7,826 for Havre, 6,260 fur Marseillea. The following 'hips bad arrived .—John Bageh►w, Itialetoo, Bather, Britannia, Mary, lasperedor, Catharine, Duckwitz, Regulus, Alice Gill. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. tlllOll MS OWN PARIS, FRIDAY EVENINO. The Pays says :—" The preliminary negotiations relative to the meeting of the congress appear to have made a great stop. We are assured and we think we know that the Powers hare come to an agreement as to the basis of the diplomatic discus sion." The Pays has not often of late been chosen as the medium of any semi-official communication cf importance, and I much doubt whether, in the pre sent instance, it has any warrant for its assertions _ _ beyond • telegram from Dresden of yester day's date, asserting that the Powers were "pretty nearly agreed" upon the prelimin ary programme of the congress. According to the latest rumours in Paris this evening, both the time and place of meeting are still uncertain. The Prow*, although now a peaoe journal, expresses au opinion that the news from .Dresden has "no cha racter of authenticity." I did well in observing, some days since, that the ' announcement in the Moniteur that two regiments were going to Algeria must not be construed as a contradiction of the previous intelligence, that troops were being withdrawn from Africa to reinforce the supposed army of invasion. It is now stated posi tively, and the nem makes considerable sen sation, that three native regiments called the Turoos, all desperate fighting fellows, are ex pected at Lyons under General Bourbaki. These men, it is observed, from their unceremonious habits, would be very disagreeable guests in a city like Lyons, and it is not supposed that they are to be brought there for garrison duty. The last letters from Lyons mention a rumour that the usual grati fications previous to commencing a campaign, have bola distributed to the army of Lyons. It is said also that infantry officers have been furnished with horses —a step not usual except in contemplation of war. The Bourse wu but very slightly affected by the news of the defeat of Lord Derby's ministry ; and after giving way but about sc. the Rents rallied, and closed with a rise of 40e. for cash and 35c. for account, at 68fr. 60c. and 68fr. 460. There was scarcely any business done in other securities. HANOVER. A letter from Hanover, in the Weser Ga:ete, says:—" Cout batteries are to be established on eight different pointy, for the protection of the Elbe, the Warr, and the Ems, particularly at Bremer haven, Branshaneen, Pelham. and Pellum. Each of these batteries will be armed with 68-pounders, and have garrisons of 60 men. Harboarg will also pro bably be fortified. Engineers have already com menced the preliminary operations for these bat teries." The Federal Council was occupied at one of its recent sittings in considering the means to be adopted to meet the expenses which might be caused by the armaments in Switzerland. Two plans were suggested —one, a loan from capitalists, and the other a national subscription. The Council decided for the latter. PERSIA. Accounts have been received from Teheran to the 27th Feb. The Shah wan about to nominate an heir to his throne, a step rendered necessary by the recent death of the Prince Royal. It was generally thought that the choice would fall on the second son of the same favourite Sultana, the mother of the late prince. She exercises great influence over his Majesty and belongs to the party of rogxae. It was she who brought about the diamiissal of the Sadrazam Mires Khan, and supported the can didateship of Ferrouk Khan to the high poet which he now fills. Hassan Ali Khan, the new minister to the courts of England and France, was to leave on the let March for Europe. He MIA to be the bearer of an autograph letter to Queen Victoria, and another to the Emperor Napoleon. He will be also accredited to the Bel gian government, and will divide his residence between the three capitals. The relations of the Persian government with the States of Affghanistan have grown most friendly. A line of electric tele graph has been constructed in order to connect Sat tanich, the place where the Shah fixes his residence for the summer, with the capital. The construction of a railway was also talked of. RUSSIA. The Emperor of Russia returned to St. Peters burg on the 22nd ult. from Cronstadt, whither he had gone to inspect some works now going on there. THE ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCE FREDERICK WILLIAM NAIL STET MEL The magistrates who presided at the recent in vestigation at Dover Into the circumstance attending the fatal accident to the Prince Frederick William, mail steamer, neer Calais Harbour, have made their report to the Board of Trade to the following effect That the official number of the said ship celled the Prince Frederick William, of the port of London, was 19,600, of which James John Pittook was the roaster, and which ship Winged to Joseph George Churchyard, of 56, Lombard etre% In the City of London. 2ndly. That the ship sailed from Dover en the 26th of February, at 20 minutes before 12 o'clock at night, with the India mails, the ordinary British midis for the continent, and 37 and was bound for Cattle. &lily. That the ship arrived at the mouth of Calcite harbour at about 16 minute to 2 o'clock on the teeming of the 27th of February, the wind then being W.N.W., blowing strong, and a heavy sea miming. 4th. That it wu proved that the venal and proper signal lights for the mail vessels to enter the harbour were shown. sth. That when the said ship had nearly entered the port of Ca leb, beteg at the time In the proper channel, she tailed the ground In mooing the bar, which caused her in some measure to lose has steerage way, owing to which the fol lowing sea carried her violently against the East Pier, and this accident resulted In the damage of her paddle-YU:id, so uto disable her from moving her engines. She then drifted on shore about half a cableM length to the east ward of the East Pier of Weis Harbour. She came broadside on, with her head to the outward, forming a breakwater, which enabled her crew to get the starboard goseethost on shore in safety, with three of the sew and six of the passengers in her. The port guarterboat Ms appears from the evidence) must have been damaged at the timo she struck the pis, and it was washed away by the sea shout the time the starboard guarterboat left for the shore. The tide at this time was making, and shortly site- the starboard guarterboat had kit the ship, the ship altered her position, bringing her head round to sea ward. The crew of the starboard guarterboat made several attempts to get that boat off sgain to the ship, but failed, pattly in consequence of the ship having changed her posi tion, and partly from other miens detailed in the evidence. 6th. That about two hours after the ship grounded, the Cale' lifeboat was towed out of that harbour by the Outline mail steamer, and am cut off by her just outside the mouth of the harbour. In coming alongside of the Prince Frederick William, the lifeboat, as appears from the evidence of one of the crew, struck violently twice under the steamer's counter, by which, in our opinion, the lifeboat was injured. She was then moored alongside of the Prince Frederick William, and seven or eight of the passengers on herd got into her, when, from causes which are narrated In the evidence, the lifeboat capsized, and three of the pollen ' o'clock the same morning, the' tide having receded, the par angers who had remained on board, and such of them se regained the steamer, when the lifeboat espied, walked on ' shore. Having maturely considered the statement of the muter, and the voluminous evidence which has been adduced before us, we are of opinion : let. That the casualty which occurred to the steam-ves ' eel the Prince Frederick William, on the morning of Feb. • 27 kat, wu not eased by the wrongful act or default of the • muter, Inasmuch salt has hen proved to our satiefaction , that the usual signal lights were exhibited, authorising him , to enter the harbour. 2nd. That with regard to ths lamentable loos of life which subsequeniM occurred, we are furher of opinion that such I loss of life was not caused by the wroorful act or default of , the waster of the Prince Frederick William, and It appears to us to have arisen from causes beyond the control of him self or of any of hie crew. We have, therefore, in accordance with the provisions of melon 438 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1864, nem ned to the said James John Pittcek his cettificate of competency u weer. Lewis STRAD; J.P. EDWARD PERZAND ASTLZT, J.P. I concur in the shove report, H. Bseam, Nautical AweatOr. CONSERVATIVE SPEECHES ON REFORM.— The speech dative ed by the Chancelkr of the Exchequer on la endue ng his bill on the reptesentanon of the people, and that of Sir E. B. Lytton on the cone subject, have bassi separately printed in the pamphlet form—the ftra by Maas. Routtedge and Co., the second by MeIIITS. Blackwood and Son. Mine Edith Heraud will read Antigone, in con javetion with Mr. Henry Nicholls, on Satarday next, the oth init., at the Crystal Palace. The new opera-house, Covent-garden, opens to tight with II Troratore ; the first appearanixs of Mdlle. Lotti as Leonora, and of Signor Debassent as Il Omits di Lima, In England, e the Royal Italian Opera ; Mdlle. Didi,le as the Mucosa, and Signor Neri-Deraldt Maurice. The Gardeners Chronicle remarks that the con tinue' absence of role from the metropolis is becoming a sub ject of very serious um Lathes'. Lam year the autumn sup ply woe to short as to compel the Inhabitants of aU the valley of the Thames to open their wells end deepen them, and it seems aa if matters were about to became worse. The arrest in the f.ll of rein in the neighbourhood of Lon don may be set down, our coremporsry says, at in inches., From observations male on the depth from the surf cc. at which the water Mood in a well in the gravelly stratum near 1 London, it seems that daring the three lest weeks the uneler- I armlet water level hes been lowering at the rate of half an I inch per week I The Metropolitan Police force is at present being regularly drilled at the Wallington Barracka by experienced sergeants now serving in the polies office. " Thies," says the Iraite,d Service Gentle," is a very proper proceeding. It gives additional security to London, and may ultimately enable the inhabitants to disp:nse with the presence of gourdetneo e who seem not to know bow to conduct themselves." TuE REPRESENTATION OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVER. EITY.—Mr. Wigram having imaed sn ailthese auntie:teeing that he shall immediately refire his scat, unless the nform qaesticte leads to a dissolution of parliament, the period of hesitation is at an end, the two candidate., Mr. Selwyn and Mr. Hemsford Hope, are fairly in the field splint one ano ther, with the usual machinery of London and local tom mi.teee. Juestior from the addresses they have issued, the principles of the two °maidens appear to be nearly Mettles!, and say difference that exists Lets oit them can only be gathered from the !merely of their respective friends and opponente. A brisk castor is wing am and a close contest appease to be inevitable; but at trams, it is imposed:le to ju4e with what nsult.—Cheebridge lotelejeculeat. MR. DISRAELL—No modern parliamentary champion matt have acquitted bim•eU throughout a most Mffbolt end dishatrening crisis better than Mr. Dlrraell boos done• and whatever may le the effect of t•e policy of LA4 Derby upon his party, his Chancellor of the Excbe qu•r has been seri at gather, and has sommulated s very time amount of what in the slang of the day is celled poli tical capital. Nobody OW doubtel his genius; and the wurrility that acct..' 0 doubt it answered Itself. But be has in these later months shown so much ptheacer skill, and ferbeermee, that it i, matter of regret that no re. arrangement of offices can prevent his retires belay lest to the country foe the preeeet. I was not a Disrielite in Weer days—l am not one now; nor n.m Anybcdr , bate ; bat the mm who withholds admiration f.Olll Ilr. ninth as Led Derby's leader of the Comma., mply Gila to understand parliamentary 'seem- 0 Council of Tee," is Literary Gicette.