The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

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IDevllle, T. Mood, D. Murray b. Calhasra. F. Vilifier. J. G. Shoos, G. Mar ry. and Z. Callas {: Miaow L. Moore mod L Radom LYCZUSL THE MIEFSTHIOUS STRAW/HR. Mr. H. Wlddiooesb.—THE MASTER OF EAVILTSWOOD. Mews. leoMar. Jordan, Vimln. Imam Widdloomb, Fitaparkit, Ems: Madaaiss Teruo, Elsworthi, Imam, C. Lociareq. BigTA;flfle., THIS ammo. TITlal NT/AD.—Mr. J. G. Fordo. —Mr. John Bina, Coxwatn of the London.--Johnny Day, the Champion Walker. —The Grand PAN TOKILLS. it. and Madame hicalasittiocia—And Ulmer, King of Gymnasts. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE. lk TO.KOIIIIOW—. Mesta& 20. 4602.....Afterame. Eas. 4=. LONDON. THURSDAY. MARCH 1. M. Tatum has delivered his annual speech in the Corps leSgislatif on behalf of public liberty, and if it be true that on ne s'appuie que stir ce gui resiste, the Imperial Government has reason to congratulate itself on the appearance of so loyal and so eminent an adversary in the field of debate. For M. Taigas expressly guarded himself against the idle imputation of an imperfect or insincere allegiance to the Second Empire. With a severe frankness that should have silenced the murmuring suspicions of courtiers who are naturaliyincapable of believing in the honesty of a public man, " the Con stitution of 1852," said M. TRIERS, " places two " rights In question, that of the dynasty and that "of the nation. The former is not open to di*- " envision, nor does any one wish for a m o.l " ment to bring it into question. The sole " end we pursue is the re-establishment "of liberty in France." Such a decla ration as this from the lips of a veteran statesman who has outlived the temptations and the anxie ties of power, is worth more than any ceremony of oath-taking, because it is the declaration of reason and experience, sickened of change, and desirous only of peace and quietness. It is pos sible that M. TRIERS has on former oocasions spoken more brilliantly and more Incisively ; he has seldom, if ever, spoken with a more discreet gravity or a surer tact, with a more serious pur pose or a more persuasive authority. The influ ence of such a speech upon the public mind is not so much in the character and reputation of the speaker as in the luminous precision and the con vincing clearness, the superior ease and the familiar simplicity which convey every thought and every meaning from the speaker's mind to the under standing of the least instructed reader out-of doors, as well as to every hearer in the Chamber. This is a gift of rare potency in a country where Monsieur TouT•LS-MONDE is often so prejudiced, yet almost always so quick-witted, as in France. M. Tama is obliged to flatter the vanity of his countrymen a little, even in correcting It, when he argues that the principles of 1789 were of French origin and invention, and not derived from any foreign source ; ingeniously forgetting, for a mo ment, the constant mention by MONTESQUIEU and by Voiranin of English institutions and English , liberties, and their constant recognition of the debt they owed to English philosophy and free thought. It matters little, however, to our liberal friends over the water, where the principles of 'B9 came from ; what has become of them is a much more important question for the present THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1866. generation of Frenchmen. It is to this pertinent and pressing inquiry that M. Tams dmaanded the attention of the Chamber on Monday last. He defined political liberty as the transformation of a people from an inert and confused mass into • moral being ; as an indispensable possession to • nation which has attained its manhood and learnt to act with the dignity and responsibility of self respect. With a bitterness that may well be ex cused, he glanced at those countries in which public liberty has long been fixed by law and usage. In France, after nearly eighty years of anguish and exhaustion, a few independent men are obliged to bear witness, in the face of a hostile majority, to those essential principles which the present Coned- Maim, like all its predecessors, proclaims, and the government accepts in theory, and postpones in practice to some imaginary period when there shall be no "parties," and the whole oonntry shall have learnt by long submission and silence to move and speak with as little danger to itself and its rulers as a man who has graduated in long clothes and fortified his digestion on a diet of pap. According to M. DE Prousiorrr, who is acknow ledged to be the ablest, and perhaps the only, doc trinaire of Imperialism, that form of government is capable of an indefinite expansion of public liberty, provided always that liberty is content to move in its own sphere of harmless theory and to leave authority uncontrolled in practice. M. TRIERS exposes the fallacy of that principle of " national " sovereignty" which consists in the abdication of the nation, and the sacrifice of its rights once for all on the altar of a Sr. NA.POLBON or any other founder of a dynasty. A government founded on the national will, he insists, should be a government constantly inspired by a public opinion perfectly free. He seeks in vain for the inseparable guarantees of an authentic ex pression of the national will, for personal liberty, electoral liberty, liberty of the Press, Ministerial responsibility, Parliamentary preroga tive. Whatever may be the form of government — whether monarchy or republio--whatever ano malies may be found in its institutions, that country may be called free in which " the " will of the country directs the government." Applying this test to France, M. Tama asks the Chamber whether • nation which has surrendered all its independence of judgment to • single will is more secure from errors and mis fortunes than a man who, "not being obliged to " deliberate. is hurried away by his passions." The official representatives of Imperialism are fond of sneering at the instability of Parliamentary govern ments, and delight to point the morel of the Restoration and of the fall of Louis PHILIPPE. The national historian of the Empire points to " • career marked by names of painful " memory," and asks whether "the Collett " tution of the Empire had not something "to do with the downfall" of the First NA POLEON 1 No doubt, M. Taunts is a little old fashioned in his ideas of statesmanship and in his economic principles ; he is opposed to the unity and independence of Italy, and in favour of the temporal power of the Pore, and pro nounces himself on all these questions far less liberal and enlightened than the Emperor of the Fermi. But these are infirmities which may be easily forgiven to his age and his recollec tions, and, above all, to his higher and purer oon °option of liberty, as the obligation to "deliberate " before acting," not the right to act unjustly towards weaker neighbours. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Premier himself deem not " campy that place which every Prime 'Mater seght to coon is the etdeatin of the Weed versant's In the len d. DNOLARATIONS AND TIN'I'L The Tina finds it alt to understand how anyone could be essions—if Mr. Nawdegate were not always seriatim—in treating it se a high point of constitutional importance to maintain a requireweat like the declara tion in the Qualification for Offices, which is already repealed in practise, and which Lord Derby only proposes to keep se a pleasant display of the general objections which his aide of the House of Lords entertains to dis senters. If his arguments were worth anything, he ought to have opposed, year by year, the act which is paned every session to indemnify all who have neglected to observe this obsolete owemonial. The only imaginary object which Mr. Newdegate is able to invent for it, namely, restrain wank:lipid oorporations from political action, one which it could not possibly answer. The truth is, the only pur pose it serves to real pest antagonisms', and to remind demisters of now all but forgotten intolerance. The result of yesterday's division will perhaps, strengthen the hands of the government in their proposed attempt to simplify on a similar principle the oaths taken by members of the legislature ; and the course followed by the opposition may, we hope, be an augury that the House of Lords will at length waive their opposi tion to a measure of mere common sense. _ _ The Herald asserts that the schemes of Mr. Hadfield and Mr. Bouverle yesterday for unchristianisieg the Univerel ties and despoil log the church were only so successful be came the conservatives generally judged it better to post pone their opposition to another step. If Mr. Newdegate pawned some grains of the wisdom of the serpent, he won not hare insisted upon dividiog the house. As to Mr. Bouverie's bill, the Herald contends that there is no more injustice in requiring conformity on the part of wranglers at Cambridge to the Church of England ea the condition of enjoying • fellowship than ci enjoying a bone floe. The fellows are the governing body of the college, and if they are &mantas or unbelievers the college will cease to be Church of England, or even Christian. The Telegraph observes that Mr. Hadfield's measure car ried yesterday for the seventh time has now been so often rejected by the Peers that they will scarcely dere to fling it beck again, especially when the fact is remembered that the present sweeping vote is given by a new parliament. The worst thing the body of peers can do for their order is doggedly to reject, session after session, such bills as this. The Star hopes that yesterday's division may be taken to show that the number of those who approve of Mr. Newdegate's theories of national salvation is sensibly PARLIAMINTARY DIVISION. QUALIFICATION NOB OFFICES ABOLITION BILL. Order for second reading read ; motion mode, and question proposed, " That the bill be now read a second tame :" Amendment proposed. to leave out the word "now," and and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day she months: Newdegate :)--Question put, " That the word ' sow' stand part of the question s" —The home divided t—Ayes, 176 ; noes, 55. AYES. Adam, W. P. Olboon, T. IL Morley, S. =r iv S . A. Gilpin. OoL Monism, W. Madrona, W. Z. Nero, 0 Allen, W. S. Madrona, W. H. Nicol. J.. D. Antrim', Z. Goldmmid. Sir I. Norwood. C. M aroon, R. S. Goidamid, T. D. O'Connor Don, Thos Banes, R. Gower. F. L. Oliphant, L. Barclay, A. C. Gower, G. W. Otway, A. J. Boring, T. G. Orentell, H. R. Padmors, R. Bar, A. Murillo, CoL Para. T. Bar, M. T. Grey, Sir G. Peel, A. W. Baxter, W. K. Gridley, Colt s* Peal, I. Barley, T. Grosvenor, render, J. Biddulph, M. Hamilton. IL . Philips, R. N. Blennerhorek WI. Banbury, R . C. Pim. J. Bonham-Cartar. J. Mardearle. J. A. Potter, Z. Bouveria, E. P. Harris, J. D. Potter T. B. Brand, H. Hartley, I. Price, W. P. Briscoe, J. L Hay, Lord J. Rebow, J. G. Browne, Lord Ha J. y, Lord W. Roberta', T. J. Bruce, H. A. Harr, Capt. Robertson, D. Bryan, G. L. Henderson. J. Rottachlld, IL de Butler, C. R. Henley, Lard Rothschild, N. M. Barton, C. liibbert, J. T. Rummell, A. Buxton, Sir T. F. Hodgkinson, G. Rummell, H. Cardwell, E. Borman, K. St. Anbyn, J. Ciuington. C. R. Hurst, R. H. Samuelson, B. Cave, T. Ingham, E. Seymour. A. Cheatham, I. Jardine, B. Shalt*, B. Chiklen, IL C. Johnston., Sir I. Shard& A. C. Clay J. Kerrey, Capt. Simeon, Sir J. Clinton, Lord I. P. Kennedy, T. Smith, J. B. Collier, Slr R. Kinglike. A. W. Spies. A. A. Crthurst, Sir G. Kinnaird. A. F. Stansield, I. Colvile, C. P.. Labonchere, H. Stirliu_g:Marwell. Ccs=, (4 ll. F. Laing, B. Sir W. Col. T. Lamont, J. Stone, W. IL Davey, R. Lawrence, W. Sykes, Ccd. W. Mike, Sir W. Lawson, J. Bynan, E. J. Dillon, J. B. Ward, A. H. Taylor, P. A. Dodson, J. G. Ludlum, W. H. Tarns, W. M'C. Donna; P. Lee, W. Tracy, O. R. Duff, M. IL Leeman, G.' Trevelyan. G. 0. Muds; F. Lelevre, G. I. Villiers, C. P. Dundaa, Sir D. Lewis, H. Vivian, Capt. Dunlop, A. M. Lecke, J. Waldegrave-Leslie, intiVice•Adoi. Lowe, IL G. Evans, W. Lusk, Aid. WOW), E. W. Ewer, W. Mackie, J. Whitbread, S. Ewing, H. R. H'lrdsu. T. Whitworth. B. Fawcett, H. WlAren, D. Wlnnlngton,lllr T.R. Fenwick. Z. N. Marjoelbanks, D. C. Woods, H. Fildem, J. Marsh, H. H. WYkl. J. Foley, H. W. Martin, C. W. Wynn, C. W. Porde; C. Mat=;:.. W. Young, A. W. 11 Forster, W. Z. 11 F. A. Young. B. Fort, It. Mill, J. Fortescue, D. 7. Mills, J. IL Tgl4llll. French, Col. Mitchell, A. Hadfield, G. Gaselee, Beryl. Monk, C. J. King, P. J. L. Osaka& J. IL More, B. J. NOW. Adderley, C. B. Henley, J. W. Parker, Majcs Barttelot, Col. ncritate. Sir F. Itidi sch a er air M. Beach, W. W. Hogg, LL-001. , C. Bridges, Sir B. W. Holmesdale, Visa. Sclater-Booth, O. Bromley, W. D. Horst&ll, T. B. Selwyn, C. J. Bmee, Mr H. Huddleston, J. W. Severna, J. C. Cave, IL Jellitte, H. H. Simonds, W. B. Clive, Capt. Kekentch, 8. T. Suttees, F. Cole, K. Kendall, N. Burton. H. B. Cole, I. L. Langton, W. G. Thorold, J. H . Corry, H. L. Letroy, A. Turner, C. Cox, W. T. Lbsdsay, Col. Walpole, S. H. Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord J. Walton& J. W. Dutton, R. H. tallier, 8 B. Wlee, H. C. rendes. J. Miller. T. J. Wyndham, H. Oreonall, G. Mordannt, tdr C. Guinness, E. L North, Col MUMS. Hamilton, Lord C.I. Packs, C. W. Newdegate, C. N. Hamilton, Visct. Paget, B. H. Greene, L Hervey, Lord A. Palk, Sir L. Unless Messrs. Horsman and Lowe are to be considered members of the opposition, only five anti-ininistertaliste, namely, Messrs. Antrobus, .1, Hartley, P. M'Lapu, Si r W. Stirling Maxwell, and O. W. Wynn, voted in the ma. -ty. Large as was the majority, it would have been still larger but foe the fact that Viscount Milton, Sir Fres. Crossley, Bart., Lord Frederick Oevendisb, Mr. H. F. Beaumont, and Mr. W. B. Beaumont were shut out from the division, in oceasequenos of their having accompanied • deputation to Loth Russell. Um Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. Fa. 28. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, and attended by the Dueller of floxborghe, went oat driving yesterday ef tax aope. The Judge Advocate General had an audience of the Queen. The Pris:mot Wales took a carriage drive yesterday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. F. Motion The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Major Teesdale, dined with Earl Grusville, at his sieldenoe in Bruton-street. A deputation from the borough of Dewsbury, consisting of the Mayor of Dewsbury (Mr. R. H. Ellis), Mr. Alderman Day, Mr. Alderman Ridgway, and Mr. W. Blakeley had an interview with Earl Ewell, at his official residence in Do wniog-streek yesterday, on the imliamentary enfran chisement of the borough of Dewsbury. The deputation was introduced by Viscount Milton, M.P., Mr. H. F. Bean. monk M.P., and Mr. W. B. Beaumont, M.P. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. Present—Lord Chelmsford, Biz E. V. Williams, and Sir J. Cobras. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his Royal Highness Prince Allred honoured the Earl Granville by their prenatal at dinner last evening, at his resident's in Bruton-street, Berkeley-square. There were present to meet the illustrious gnats—The Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of HarrowLy, the Earl of Car marthen, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Hon. J. Howard, the Right Hoe. Robert Lowe, M.P., the Right Hon. Henry Austin Brace, M.P., Mr. Samuel Whitbread, M.P., Mr. Leveson Gower, M.P., Mr. John Erik, M.P., Mr. Robert Dalglish, M.P., Mr. G. L. Phillips, M.P., Mr. William Baker, Dr. Quin, Dr. Price, Mr. Bent:gate, Mr. Tinsley, Hon. Frederick Lerma Gower, ALP., Mr. Percy, Mr. li'Lean, Mr. Waddington Smythe, and Major Teesdale, in attendance on his Royal Highness the Prince of Walm. Covers were laid for 34. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge re ceived their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge sad the Princess Mary at dinner last everting at Gloucester House. Thore was a select circle invitol to meet the royal Party- The Earl and Countess Russell entertained at dicier yesterday evening, at their reddenee in (Ibrahim place, his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Earl and Countess Grey, Viscount and Visas:adage denherby, Baron Beck Phis, Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lady Rose Fans, the Right Hoe. Edward P. &ever* M.P., Hoe. George Eliot, Mr. Barrington, Mr. Jerroise Smith, &c. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained at dinner last evening, at their residues in Orcevener. merest, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Bessborough, Lord and Lady Skelmendale, Lord Brabaron, Lord John Hay, Hon. Frederick Hay and Lady Constance Stanley. Lord Hyde, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Wm. Vernon Harcourt, &a. Later in the even* the Counteu of Clarendon bad a reception. Among the mem bers of the diplomatic corps present were the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow, the Prussian Ambas sador and Countess Bernatorff, the French Ambassador, the Spanish Minister and the Marchioness de Molios, the Saxon Minister, the Danish Minister and the Countess Bulo the Henseatio Minister, the Marquis de Tamisier, fec. The Karl of Malinesbnry entertained a select party at diaper Let evening at lie residence in Stratford place, amoept whom were the Margeh and Marchionere of Bath, Sir A. and Lady Paget, Mr. G. Beatinok, M.P., Mr. Calmat, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ross, tio. The Marchioness of Ely entertained a distin guished circle at dinner last evening, at her residence at Prince's-gate. Her ladyship will succeed the Viscountess Jocelyn m lady-in-waiting on her Majesty on the 13th inst. Sir Alfred Joseph Doughty Tichborne, a Hamp shire Baronet, has just died at the age of 27. The manor of Tichboroe, in Hants, has been In the Tichborne family from 200 years before the conquest. The baronetcy was crested nearly 250 years ago. The deceased was the eleventh baronet. _ _ _ Tag BPRAEZIefi Dlrfrrali.—The Right Hon. the ' Speaker gave his fourth parliamentary full dress dinar Let evening. to the following noblemen and gentlemen : Lord Milton, Lord William Hay, Lord Henley, Baran Maya de Rothschild, Hon. Captain Grosveoor, Sir Morton Pao. Sir Wentworth rake, Sir Francis Crossley, Sir Henry Rawlinaon, Colonel Greville, Mr. Crawford, Alderman Lawronoe, Mr. Look*, Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Sala. bevy Butler, Mr. MoCollagh Tanen', Alderman Lusk, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. Dailies, Mr. James, Mr. Hervey Lewis, Mr. Mambas, Mr. Seines, Colonel Akroyd, Mr. Bees, Alderman Salmons, Major Gavle, Mr. Gerislea, Mr. Laing, Mr. Maguire, Mr. The. Mr. Leetham, Mr. Watirin, Mr. White, Mr. Faweett, Mr. Kinglake, Rev. Charles 'arrivals (chaplain), Mr. Alfred Denison (private earentary). FORZIGN anaiaa. Were the spirit of political liberty in Germany at all like that which animated our own ancestors under similar circumstances, there ought to be, the Times remarks, • serious crisis is Prussia. There is scarcely any violation of constitutional rights committed by Charles I. of which King William has not been guilty, and the counsels of Count Bismarck are • Prussian parody on the counsels of Strafford. It would seem, however, that Prussian electors as 'a body are, as a Penumbra royalist speaker expressly asserted the other day, vary well satiated with a strong government which develops their trade, protects their pecuniary interests, and we may add, bullies their weaker neighbours. The virtue of moral courage, which is indis pensable to political success in this country seems to be so rare in Prussia that no liberal statesman can be found to organise sad lead an effective opposition to Bismarck, though the latter has the whole intelliguos of the country against him. The Post reminds M. Thiers that the system which it is to be presumed embodies, in his opinion, the ideal of poli tical freedom, broke down through its own weakness ; and that this fact seem to suggest the la b ro•oe that the alternative rests betweea the present order of things and • republic. A wise statesman would be in favour of letting imperialism, which has given free teed* and national greatness sad prosperity to France and unity to Italy, have • fair triaL Oar system and that of the United States widely differ, got we each think ourselves free, and M. Thiers thinks so too ; and the French system, which differs from both, may yet be equally free, though in another way. M. Thieve, by his facts and in hie own person, does much to prove that it is so. The Telegraph Suds it difficult to comment with patience cm proceedings so discreditable to the American cabinet and people as those connected with Mr. Banoroft's late ad dress. The sole purpose was to conciliate the favour of the mob, and it is impossible that ill feelings towards friendly nations constantly fostered among the Ignorant and degraded should always remain under the control of those who encourage them for the mere purpose of secur ing a temporary popularity. In • oountry where the public a:ousels are so directly influenced by the opinions and feelings of the muses as they are in America, the in- L dnigeoce of the habit would suffice to turn the scale at I some critical moment, and lead to the most deplorable results. ionsorourAx LOCAL 00V=nMITT. The facts which at once prove the necessity of • change in the local government of the metropolis and indicate what must be the fundamental principles of any improve ment lie chiefly, the Daily News says, in the prodigious multiplicity and complexity of the present arrangements for metropolitan government. The endless variety of ex tent of jurisdiction which exists gives rim to an infinite confusion in detarroiniog the limits and authority of each, the sources of misgovernment increasing with the subdivi►ion of the duties and the limitation of the powers of the rulers. No one of any ability or position cares to become a member of a vestry or board of guardians, whose functions are confined to the management of the r caroms of a small parish ; while, by • singular legislative blander, the Metropolitan Board of Works, which was in tended to be at once the wart of appeal from the vestries, and the general directing power in metropolitan govern ment, is elected by the vestries themselves. To remedy the evils no course is possible but that of consolidation into larger and better defined districts ; anl Mr. Beale's suggestion, which has already reached so practical a stage, deserved; to be kept steadily in view while we await the report of the committee, which will furnish the data on which • change most be enforced. COILS:MATZ INSTRUCTION IN IRELAND. The Daily News corrects some erroneous statements of the Saturday Review on the subject of Iriah university edu cation, dispoeing of an important argument of the weekly journal by the simple statement that there is no protestant educational institution in Ireland of a denominational cha racter which receives either State recognition or aid, sad, on the other hand, there is in the important instance of Maynooth a Rom en catholic institution of this kind, which receives both. Homan catholic' are fairly represented in the senate of the Queen's University as it is, and the only persons whom it is desired to exclude from it are the enemies of united education, whether catholic or protestant The issue raised by the proposal of the govern meat is not one between protestant. and eathotice, but one between laymen and priests, or more correctly between Irishmen of ell religions denominations and ultramontanse. The London University offers the exact relation for the class of problems presented by the existence of sec tarian colleges for the higher education side by side with the national. The state must adopt one of two principles—either to confine its recognition and aid to colleges whisk comply with conditions which entitle them to be regarded as national, or to recognise and endow without inquiry or distinction all colleges alike. No one hes proposed the latter plan ; at all events it is quite certain the country is not prepared to adopt it. But the former would leave the ease of sectarian institutions =- provided for, were it not supplemented by an open rani. vmity on the London plan. Such a university, however, exactly meets the requirements of the ems, by opening a renege to degrees to all who, from whatever reason, object to the national institutions, and enables us to reconcile state action in education with perfect freedom of choice to the educated. It is understood that the authorities at the Horse Guards have determined on strengthening the depot bat talions of infantry serving in Ireland, and that the depot battalions at Belfast, Templemore, Mulllngar, Finney, and Battevant will shortly be considerably augmented by the addition of several of she English and Indian depots now attached to the battalions in this country. Dean Gamier, of Winchester, has just celebrated his 901 h birthday. The venerable dean 'Usual regularly to his cathedral dud's. The fine French ship which went ashore at Shashi's, is the Isle et Wight, is likely to be got off. THE lUNIITTZT, The contradiction which we were able to give in yesterday's Express of the rumoured resignation of Earl Banal is repeated to-day by oar morning oontemporaries. The Timms says the statement came to it with such parti cularity of detail as to command assent, but it is glad to know that we are spared the disadvantages of a provizional administration. It Would be mere affectation, howe►er, not to acknowledge that the readiness with which the rumoured break-up of Lord Russell's administration was received was due to the intrinsic probability of the statement. The session has barely bated three weeks, and It cannot be denied that the ministry has become perceptibly weaker as it went on. The unfounded statement that the cabinet was about to perish will not be wholly a matter of regret if it should prove the occasion of terminating the rivalry within it and eliciting from the government what is now so urgently required, an emphatic declaration of policy. Every day of delay in this respect adds to the embarrassment of sup porters and the strength of opponents. The Daily News accuses the Times of repeatedly pre dicting evils of Earl Russell's ministry. The charges that it was without debating power, that important offices were vacant, and that the leader of the House of Commons was untried, having all been falsified, the conclusion seems to have been come to that if anything was to be done to pre vent the strengthening of the government, it most be done qteckly. Hence yesterday's rumour, launched with so mach rolemnity—the mode of the discussion revealing the true motive of the announcement. The whole ques' ion was discussed without the least refer -111109 to the most eminent statesman in the country next to Earl Russell, namely, Mr. Gladatoas. It is inconceivable that the conductors of a great journal, knowing how the samoneeemente of our best newspapers are telegraphed over the world, should intentionally do anything need lessly to shake the confidence of foreign courts in the go vernment of England. The correct view of the case, doubtless, is that the Times has suffered from confidence misplaced, the effect on which the author of the story calcu lated being independent of its final acceptance by the public. Whenever statements of this kind respecting Earl Russell's ministry appear in the Times, the public unanimously pea ammo° one name, a name synonymous with brilliant but perverted talents, and a justifiable ambition frustrated by nooontzollable egotism. This suggestion the Daily News notices as the one affording the expl►nation hitherto made of as occarreses which is not creditable to British josumalises. Though this rumour is unfounded, the Past fully be lieves that when Earl Russell has =Tied reform, if he does carry it, be will withdraw from active political ifs. Sir G. Grey, it is no meet, is about to retire, and the whole race of old whigs appear to claim the privileges of superan nuation. The Herald hopes that the engaging frankness of the reasons which were given for Earl Rowell's supposed re sign►tion will be appreciated by the liberal party. Un fortunately hie lordship is not the man to do what by every role of logic and good taste he ought to do. A ru mour, very much better subetantiated than that of hie re signation, deduce that at the Othinet Council of Saturday, held at his lordship's private house, he roomed a reform bill to which his colleagues curtly refused their amen*. If his lordship thereupon threatened resignation be had thought better of the matter on Monday morning, and the Administration goes on just as harmoniously, and with all that unity of principle which has been evident in all its proceedings sines parliament met. The Herald is able also to •dispel that distressing doubt of the Times that Lord Derby would not accept office if called upon to do so. If • partial change did take plate the Herald knows no member of the present cabinet with • better title to the premier ship than the Duke of Somerset, who has shown in some parts of his career a commendable contempt for uninformed cOnion and sensational cant. The Star says there were rumours yesterday that the go vernment had resolved upon adopting the el. rating prin ciple. Such stories, if well grounded, would bode more serious danger to the cabinet than a whole flight of such tales as that of Earl Russell's resignation. The Advertiser gives a statenent with much confideoce to the effect that the appointment of Mr. Gosohen has greatly offended the other members of the government ; that the Duke of Argyll has only been prevented by royal In fluence from reigning on account of the nomination of . Earl de Grey to the secretaryship of India, and that the LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. The Avenir National has the following :—" The events of Bucharest begin to assume greater Im portance inthe consideration of governments. Russia i publicly mixes herself up in the question by an 1 article which appears in the official Journal of St. Petersburg. The nomination of • foreign prince,' says this journal, 'is a violation of the treaty of AccordingtothePatrie Franceand Austria are of adifferent opinion, and seem resolved to allow the Ronmain people to dispose freely of their own des tiny. Russia demands a European conference. The Porte seems to have taken the first step in this direction. A Berlin despatch announces that Prussia has accepted the proposition of Turkey for the assembling of a conference at Constanti nople. We have no further news respecting the movements of Russian troops on the Pruth, but on the other hand we are assured that Prussia is making very extensive and very complete prepara tions for war. We must not regard in too serious a light the warlike news which comes to us from so many quarters. The refusal of the Count de Flandres obviates for the present the first objection of Russia, and the announcement that the choice of a foreign Prince would be considered by Russia a violation of the treaty of 1856, would of course equally apply to the Duke of Leuchtenberg. We have no recent news from Bucharest. Bat if the Ronmain people do not know whom to select for a prince, there is a very simple mode of getting out of the difficulty, namely, by not choosing any. We know that some people do govern themselves, and they seem to get on very well." THE AIISTRO-PBUSSIAN CONFLICT. The Paris Prase of to-day says :—" People in Prussia continue to speak of the prospect of war. IL de Bismarck no doubt wishes to make a diver sion in order to cover the suppression of political liberty. It appears from a letter from Berlin that Prussia is silently making preparations for war. There are eight hundred infantry engaged day and night in the 'manufacture of war munitions at Nelsen It is well known that Prussian engineers were sent to Austria to inspect the fortresses there. They have made their report, and represent the fortress of Oimutz, which from its situation would take a leading part in case of a war between Austria and Prussia, as being particularly formidable. The feeling in the military society of Berlin is decidedly warlike, and the superior officers speak of a war with Austria as probable." The Freese, on its own part, thinks that Prussia would not commit such a piece of folly. NAPLES. The correspondent of the Temps says: The cabmen's strike in Napier' seems to have been seem ponied by some political incidents. Bevecal domiciliary visite were made. Amongst others the house of the curate of San•Liborio, and those of the priests Mancinelli and Pa radini were visited. An ex-colonel of the mai guard, named Span*, wee arrested, and on him was found a cypher of the Ferns*. Mace, and a document which is raid to compromise Francis IL Other steps were also taken. Two emigrant notables who had returned to Naples were ordered to leave, and Mgr. Pantegua, bishop of Castellamare, whe wee allowed to return to Naples when the cholera broke out, was conducted to the Boman frontier. It is said that on quitting the Neapolitan territory the bishop turned round to the gendarme' and sail to them, "Tell your despicable authorities that I shall return in a year and the King oleo," to which one of the gendarmes replied, " Four excellency need not take so much trouble, for wo shall came to see you in Rome." THE WAR IN MEXICO. Letters from Vera Cruz, given in the New York papers of the 17th ult., state that on the 18th of January a caravan of one thousand mules, laden with goat skins and istla, was captured by the liberal forces under General Nodose, and the pro perty sent out of the reach of the imperialists. On the 23rd instant the same forces entered the com mercial depot at Tanhouguila, where they over powered the imperial command and captured one thousand bales of merchandise, the best of which they sent off to a place for safety and the residue they committed to the flames. The loss sustained by the merchants of Tampico is estimated at 650,000 dole. by the two captures. Many rumours were in circulation at Tampico, nearly all of them being favourable to liberal suc cesses gained in the vicinity of the Rio Grande. At daylight on the Ist ult. several trains loaded with French soldiers reached Vera Cruz from the interior. These soldiers were being sent on board of transports in the harbour. It was reported that they„ are en route to reinforce the garrisons of Tampico and San Luis Potosi and to take up a posi tion on the Vera Cruz side of the line of the Nunco River, in order to be there in readiness to meet and check the advance of the " ilexicolaid the United States. s,The French — ad — been very bi - silyerigag landing unfixed jshell ammunition for breech- 1 loading gang. The Brownsville Courier of the 7th ult. reports that General Medese, with 2,000 men, had taken pos session of the roads leading from Tampico. The French garrison, 100 strong, reinforced by a few hundred men, was ordered to attack the liberals. The latter formed an ambuscade and cut off and massacred 60 of the French advance guard. The remainder of the French troops, five hundred strong, received the attack, using their bayonets vigorously, and forced the liberals to retreat, closely pursued, for several hours. Medeee and almost all his staff officers are reported to have been killed. The liberal loss is reported at 850, and the French loss at 100. NEUTIIIII TZLIGILUM) PRUSSIA AND THE DUCHIES. BERLIN, Kasen L It is stated that in the ministerial council held yesterday the definitive settlement of the question of the Duchies formed the subject of the discussion, and that a resolution was arrived at. RUMOURED NEW RUBI3LiN LOAN. ST. PETSB.SSITEG, MAICU L The rumours of a forthcoming new lottery loan of 100 millions of roubles are still current, and it is stated that it will be issued on the same conditions as the loan of 1864. SPAIN. MADRID, Pia. 28, Evlanra. Senor (Aril° Alvarez, a member of the pro gressist party, took bis seat in the Senate to-day. A special mission has arrived from /trowels to present the Order of Leopold to the Prince of the Asturias. TEE BRAZIL MAIL. LISBON, Ku= L. The Royal Man Steam-packet - Company's ship Rhone has arrived here from Brazil, and will leave for Southampton at 8 a.m. to-day, with 52 paa sengers, 2,039 bales of cotton, 130 packages of ran dries, and 60,000 in specie. The Douro, with the out-mail of the 9th of February, was at St. Vincent on the Mk d Filtruary. THE INDIA. AND CHINA XUls, ALEXAXDRIA, 1, 4 ri. The MAINIVISiIIe Imps&les steamer ifeig, „g g , the above mails, left here this morning, a y b. empeetod to wive at Marseilles on the e xit i v i of the 6th March. MA BOTHERN AND THE SPIZITI74LMS. PROTESTANTS AND OATR ND OL I OB ZS gilt ZEALA. We extract the following from the harm! de 'trim r In one el the sentries whisk form the ceilidh &go o of Mk au Masai her taken place which her ma id it greatest anotica, sad widish my lied Ito Woo; i sk i i , It is wen known that is the metros of German Plir embollog and protertsntai lire In the mh o harmony, sad that seta of intolerance are of ray IN . lb gamuoes, This spirit of toleration went to *lad u mi . ben of both weeds used the same churches and the p barial places. Thin st►te of things has been 0..- within the few dais bY the publiseu mi circular in the Bund newspaper, nji g h enjoined the adholie clergy to °home lowing prescriptions at the burial of preeigi m h longing to the commune " The ban not is he - *dhoti° parishiosesa not to take part la Ike a- c es s ion of protestant' ; their bodies to be Mimi itthe =consom m e .; ground—' tern non benelisin' 6 catholic parish priest to appear at the %MI, 66 6 us witness in a (Avid sad private capacity, sad a c t emit ih robes of the catholic ritual ; no protestant paskete ugh church and still lees the pulpit of the chug." This aeon produced an explosion of indigestios is ths gu m of w e , and especially is the liberal canton el relswe to its capital, the reddens of the Bishop. At a m i k was denied that say such circular was in existems,l6% Brad be Its impression of February 19 pebbled tier of the circular. Upon this M. Girardin, the viseas ee d of the Jura sad the substitute of the Nam, skew s letter to the Bawd on the 21st, In which he ashessndlt justify the circular. and affirmed that he WWI all own responsibility, and without the 'movie* d 6 bishop or the chapter. The catholic inhabitant d 166 on their part assembled en Batnrday night lab, any 6 6 ing a procession, with torches and mule, thsp6. o l the town. The mimic Nand while the promise yam Mg the Chapter-house, and before the residues if 6 Bishop the crowd began to sing the two Menem up ( elnem Gott" (We all bslicoete am 6 fc la gendee lkb-.11 ° real die bend mm Bonds " (Bream, giro th hand of cutioa). M. Meth Preeideat ci the Mull Bolenre, then spoke as follows —" Our Mike h 6 religion which Christ preached, the ratlike ci hers sl toleration amongst men, while the Might d 6 vicartmeral is the religion of hatred unapt* • Waded ma le the tomb. We do not admit it u cint let no clergy hope that they will farce m to lonesl6 in such a path." The proteetsat label:Manta tub apt in this catholic demoestration apinst bitolassea amm ic 11 or t M ▪ 1701 M ceilidh h um Pohlad Wu; do* the lhoib i d w. io P , the Peer vu7 ale es. niir tkA aut and v. mai T Vut l 7 diem Ail bad* ;ad which *he/ aad Fru the Id. it al Pad** h , saki et to be mit the baud ) hawed h as " )eddleik. L jou' 17111 . weld as I tot dulls 'Potato in% erg." Idd t a la de g o . )11 of Bolder' lid At les addle% lam IA ablithei that aPI tlut 1101 111al ed. Iliac we eadeseeledb a WWI ell Oa Ylsah oudidel d as d ea t lset sof h ob DI day dam wad dips 111 swam d 114 o dense, uip t dl te am Gek, raj in ;ream gbe the Meth rl ' Mike 6 d i ft igiott ci Ink id edits el At uusin halt it r ciao/ ie as to Weals debts *dad • Wham RIM ALM MIZE thio mai% eke Ye hid k el paw* It Williams weed deadest, Was testi:Min to 6 IPA% to PAN e Okada weup Madam Is 6 itk pahliskiwu t all theoccames 1 sad that dea d bad naiad bder it eseserzy so Nee York, al seamy iaquitim a ei that he to* e sited ter, sod le gnat go NO , wed the PutPu l he wart thuds pladalog of the to tlie fib 4 h 0 the gat!. to si sad hi &tad lefonaticadis THE LIBEL 'UPON MR. 9OTHIEN. At the Central Criminal Court this no* Benjamin Beaman surrendered to take his Idol k publishing a false and defamatory libel ease It Bothers the actor. fie:leant 13el4ntine and Mr. Neap Williams gal for the pernecution. Mr. F. H. Lurie appeared for the defendant, cane the case was ogled on he made an applicant" IA Deputy Recorder, who wag the prey diaz judge, is roan the trial to the May session. The appliance Tr. ported on an affidavit made by the defendant 116 effect that the libel be was charged with pathetical copied from a New York newspaper, that all theocarten referred to took pia°, in New York, sad that Out examination it the Nansion-house be bed nand portant information which would naafi esessegt procure the attendance of "ileum from New Ygek, of he had no opportunity to make the newest? *skies to procure their attendance. He observed that be thetigli Mr. Coleman was entitled to the delay headed* sad therefore trusted that the court would gnat *I Ofle• tion. Serjeant BaUantine strenuously opposed the tato meat of the inquiry, and he remind' el the mut *Mina Mr. &Ahern wrote to the Times romplalaing ed the si vertisement, which called attention to this fist, ffs Coleman in reply to that letter wrote t 3 the edikr toe, that he wee fully prepared to justify it, sad his sinned now was that he bad only received nettle hdometkeelle the inquiry that took place at the Ifansion.hoem smiled the attention of the court to the nay nibs nature of the charge that was made sgann Yr. Man and reminded the court that he had elreedy, whie tide examination by Mr. Lewis at the Musks lieratloollie l l disproved the allegations that were made against bin' sli he added that, although it was oontiory to his di sal his advice, Mrs. Bothern had insisted upon gttadeg giving her evidence that there wu not a tittle cd fads Lion for the allegation contained in this libel that he home had been made unhappy in comegnine d the infidelities of her husband. He welt ale lay that the prosecution knew the parties stela len referred to in the affidavit, and who were voinhateledi given the information to the defendant Wm professed to rely to support the internees els:pi lei made against Mr. Solberg', and he did not beffes lbat either of them would dare to appear la the eiteselsh He also urged that it would be a creel thing farina le the position of Mr. Bothers, whale prospects sad Wei whose family depended upon the estimation in Olden" held, to allow such an accusition to continue to be In* over him. The Common Serjeent inquired when the Warm* le leered to were supposed to have taken place '• Serjeaut Ballasting replied, in New York tee paint ; and he urged that this fact aloes shoved clearly tins not could not, under any circumatenese, have We tegia foe the public good, so as to support a plat of inOil dlars under Lord Campbell's Act, and that they could alb beet published from a malicious motive. Mr. F. H. Lewis, in reply, said that the dabalaat a not pledge himself to plead a janidestioe, and all he la for was that to which, u it appeared to him, he entitled—namely, that be might have an one making the neesseery inquiries, and it might be the to "' tat 01 there inquiries would Indere MD adapt quite a different course to that of pleading 1 O AS. tion. It appeared to him that it would be better, ID fa! the prosecutor himself was concerned, that the eau AO be pore trona& The Deputy-Recorder mid that he had not Warrior thing during the argument to slaws him to Altair sta opinion he had originally formed, that he o ught e grant the application that had been made oil behalf el SI defendant. Be did not state say facts that he P"P n t prove in answer to the charge, but de °Wet of application for s postponement appeared to bgo° might have an opportunity of fishieg out mmstl6lll other. Under theme circumstances he should refers It applicatin for postponement. Serjean o t Ba ll antine subsequently oriented that 111 trial of Mr. Cooper, who is charged w ith publirldst • same libel, should be postponed to the Apra woke* An application was thee male to lit the trial of C,leman foe Saturday, which was maid to. SPECIAL SIRVIOMI AT ST. Pava—The Ml° ing is the Set of preachers appointed for the str rims SL Paul'. Cathedral for the math of oas t March 4, the Rev. He Twills, Mesta of the School, Hammersmith ;March nry March 11. the Rey. Cspe_sl near, minister of St. Paul's, Osslow4gosis Nmw the Rel. Dr. Hook, dean of ObiobeMer. AMERICAN FRNIANISE IN • NEW P gill t; Fewiaahmi, that ogee raised its head so WI 10 10 puolie vodkas of the day, is new like the mac .is tlis who seeded the servitor of the good Samsrtut-8 fallen into the bands of the broken-down politiot.gt4 II the late Fenian meeting in the °roper Institute% Wood and two or three more attessated poliww "7 0 1 repreessting both smeared on the &Vona g . saseawasd themselves ohatopiowi of '` the mass." 0: last feather that breaks the camel's beck. dine of the organisation, which oommea' hi perusal fend end general " balling." snag of the ambitioe and the avarice of a would-be Wider. 111 : be expeeted to hurry downwards with a rush shies go, hasion of the broken down politicians. John Ball u clujj take his deer-dieser adp in pea" without 11 ° 4 d' eg oel la his dreams by the nightmare of Feeissoism. 10 4 Wood sod the velitieiaes have laid the ghost. —l l. cw Amid, Feb 17. I