The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

p _ • • THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVEDTING, FEBRUARY ,. A 14ils • - ise6B. I raST INTELLIGENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. PARIS RXHIBMON FIRST-CLASS SILVER lIEDAL, 1647. Of Mr. W ARD Hea-r, Mr. SCLaTER-Boors , and mato auP I wage' or t a y, ti b yt y, taisiag tim It em,. sumnfita of Importers a llar e p .. i . i s a the ' - 4 ,--- t • -44-se- JOHN BROGIDEN. Mr. Mow - ultra, are already THE DEARTH OF FOOD. (ram orraV/Int CORIZSTONDENT.) GINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFACTORY, circles. The alleged object be cri inr ati to inq in ture . °Sala into g wi l es, aa abdiehall more inmeiteetwelfoodeanw all dia.Thwy the offiliall e t a n t . I Custom-house grievances, it is faked, and with government were some pears daft reqshed to acid Into Dearth and famine seem to be making the tour PARIS, TIMISDAY EVENING. O a t% lOCCRIZITA-STRIOrr, COVINT•GARDEN. some justice, whether these gentlemen bring every continent and our every mu du asefuls. We yesterday referred to the distress The Emplane he. a severe attack of influenza, gi JOHN BROODEN'S 18-carat GOLD CHAINS.: special knowledge or technical training to their - prevailing in Prussia, Austria, and Russia. We which, without confining him to his bed, does not Y ! task ;whether their labours are systematic and TRY lAMB Pure. extract to-day the following from the Vigie of allow him to leave the Tuileries. This malady, ai JOHN BROGDSN'S GOLD GUARD CHAINS. I w ith a definite aim ; or whether the The Daily News says riche document thet,. m o th: . ?emulate. Cherbourg . Th e wr i ter says : of nteonAustrian newspapers sr, on 1111 Frano. l i. ...lughh ..which generally only comes with the March winds, r i At °Huntsville I have seen from MO to 200 e these poor is now prematurely prevalent. President Schneider T I " inquiry" will leave off as it began, and , and the was laid up with it the other day, and M. Berryer, 3l JOHN BROODENE GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. ( ] save no other result than that of providing a not only Metternich and fichwarzenberg, but the authors w le r vas a ttch o es it s""e he ale make l e ) :plan cove t red , the wi with ro ragg o; d th b e un' d ma' arf plan another sufferer, is still unable to attend the Corps se glib but hollow answer to troublesome questions of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and all the fore- the filthy fragments abandoned in the street' ; I have JOHN BROOM:MK/OLD BROOCH CHAINS. 'in the House. It is obvious that mere compli- runners and followers of the French Revolution, from witnessed natives coming down from the mountain with Leff ial at if • 1 33 . - - mentary visits to our government offices and an Voltaire to Royer Collard, from Condoroet to Chateau- amen laden with dates, robbed of all in an instant by these The public is asked to be quite easy about the ,i l BREAKFAST. -E PPS'S COCOA. exchange of civilities with a few heads of depart- brined, turn in their graves. Unhappily there is too much famished Arabs. The latter I have seen cudgelled an- bill calling out a contingent of 100,000 men, pre- , us.- evidence that this jealous dread of contemporary public mercifully by Europeans in order to make them desist, Dented to the Corps Legislatif yesterday, because, . I , ______ manta will not enable gentlemen profoundly and yet they received the blows without seeming opinion us entertained by the nearest advisers of the throne. acquainted with the subject to make such sugges- Only the other day the Minister of Justice, speaking to - forsooth, that has been the figure for many yeah' 3 ighe er l i t relso, I hone for official reform as it would be the duty of the Legislative Body, declared that on no amount would to e feel . them other notloe t d h , an squa gi tti ve ng up on a the ain single pate. put, and the whole number has not been habitu- ! 1 with their be the wall, ---47-- -m -L_ the House of Commons to accept. The matter ' s the go' eminent exempt foreign journals, and especially e deem of An) ; ally called out. It is true enough that about' t too deep and complicated to be dealt with in this journals printed in French, from a rigorous censorship. children, the oldest of whom could scarce l y be more than TC. OORRESPoNDENTB.4O,OOO on an average have generally remained in , t Umerneenseen intended foe .. The ' • London Evening I pleasant off-hand way. The Custom-house move- four. When Imy children I make a mistake, they were the reserve ; but-and this is a point of great im- :, e =.4 molt hs b e de at y Ot t lebilostloa rnam, I . °. virk.4lftst. " Tw° meet us* but a type of other movements in the tire Court. only skeletons ; their legs and arms were, in the mod portance, which seems to have escaped observe- 16 rigorous meaning of the words, no more than bones. e - same direction, and it is said that the pigeon-holes --tion when the army bill was discussed-every soul , ( RATSIAP.TIT. -e-- covered with shrivelled skin. On looking at thou pour of the 100,000 men of this year will be called into I little things, so frightfully shrunk, one was at • loos to 'Mrs Smorso, TIIE BROKEN -iIEARTED CLUB.-A WIFE .of the Treasury are at this moment choked up WELL WON. Mews. &Ahem, Radon-me, Howe, Kendal, with petitions for revision from the various de- active service fur five years, and will, moreover, be r The Queen drove out yeste °Bß rdaY ßNE. aftern Fm oon, n ac . - know by what effort they could stand on their feet. I Bra ll ; r d weigherile. ' ac.. ...1 "I" "bellaw.-Meer under 'tit control. Any inquiry, to be companied by Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, and bought a dozen pound loaves and distributed them to the a i rrcrAl6 L -RR PNR-VligaloSi Ulf THE BRIGAND . partmenta iforced to serve in the reserve for four years after- 3 PRINCIMS I useful, must be searching and extensive , and the attended by Colonel Maude on horseback , starving children, but this was scarcely done when Iwu our. wards. f Tam snafu THE OCTOROON. Mr. sod stn. Dion Maui- I allegation against the Treasury Committee is, that The Queen went out this morning, accompanied by rounded by a sure of Arabs vociferating for • share. Only It is reported thatM.Hauasmann and M. Rooker I molt, Mr. J. n choke. Mr. Vining, .t Mita Simms -Attu whichwith great difficulty could I get out from the midst of the e ARRA?! NA POGUE. Mr. and Mrs. D Boudeanit, Mr. Ylnins, it has neither the power nor the knowledge neces- Princess Christian. have agreed to make a substantial diminution in Messrs. Murray. Neville. &liii.lve: OW Harnett sat .18. Addle. sary for a settlement of the difficult question it Prince Christian went out riding, attended by Colonel poor wretches, the numbers of whom rapidly increased ; the octroi duty on wines brought into Paris. S T RA ND. has undertaken. Mande. and had it not been for the aasistasioe of some Europeans I There . i is some hope that the Luxembourg Gardens 1 This anomie. OLD SALT. Mr. Emery and Miss !icily Moore. do not know what might have beoome of me. Scarcely be -After which THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD. Mews Thorne Their Royal Higbneeses the Prince and Princess of had I got clear of the crowd when I saw them fall upon may yet preserved. The debates in the Senate I 1 and James ; Mesdames Ada Swanhorou4h, Johnston,, Harland, Wales, with Prince Albert Victor, Prince George, and the Bolt, Se.-And COAL AND COKE. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. Princess Louise, arrived at Marlborough House yesterday the children and snatch away the bread which I had and Corps Legislatif on the Montmartre Cemetery I IRTTANNLA. (THIS DAY.) afternoon from Sandringham . of At Oran, in the middle of the city, in front show that M. Hausmann has lost his prestige of ' of the Hotel de l'Univers, I witnessed the most disgusting perpetual victory. It is confidently stated that a i EVENING, UPSIDE DOWN.-DON QUIXOTE. Mn.S.attendance In were the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey,, General Sir spectacles. Every evening there is thrown out of that MN E. Lane, h Misses Edwin and !tooth : nustanntinists Messrs Deane, W. Knollys, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, Mr. Fisher, and majority of the committee on the bill for mutilating , establishment the remains of the kitchen, damaged leaves Louis, Newham. and Yletoreill ; Male. c Stephan end Miss Bone THE REPRESENTATION OF THE VNIVERSITY OP LONDON. Nathan-To ...vat:hide with fHE FLUME ILA.. Elt. Mr. Holzmann. the Luxembourg Gardena has determined to report • The Tones has no desire to suggest any name to of salad and other vegetable', the entrails of foul game, and filth of that kind. Well, on the evening I speak of I against it on the ground that M. Hausammin flog WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. the electors of the London University, but it remarks with A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the sins net -morales, all. elm_--aftentoon. 511. 1011. t that already the old spirit of exclusiveness, which is official residence of the First Lord of the Tres bourhoed.._ over this offaL saw • dozen Arabs fi ghting with the dogs of the neigh- slighted the Chamber by beginning his work before tuatosaiow-ttorning, sg. mm........Aiteenoon, Lg. DO= retire appropriate enough at Oxford and Cambridge, is invoked aury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present the bill was presented. • ^ for were the Lord Chancellor, According to the Memorial Diplorratalue, the The Pope's nuncio positively denies the rumour LOVDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12 . to guide the choice. Some candidake are appeahn,, the Duke of Marl- favour on the ground of having been graduates of the borough, the Earl of Malmeabury, the Right Hon. late disturbances in Portugal were not connected that his Holiness has refused the necessary die ___-...--_ University of London, and seem to hold that the want of Gathorno Hardy, the Duke of Buckingham and with politics, but with food. It says : pensations for the marriage of Prince Humbert with ON AND AFTER TO-MORROW this fortuitous distinction should be fatal to any other Chandoe, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, The allure of the harvest has been felt in Portugal as in his cousin. candidate. la the opinion of the rinses nothing more the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Hight Hon. other countries.'" Cereals rise' inliprice every day. The THE PIUCE OF THE unworthy of the university , nothin g more pernicious H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. population, tr i e d,b y t h e ~,,,,,,r , wished to prevent M. Jules David, grandson of the celebrated to its true interests, can he imagined. The links Manners, the Earl of Mayo, and the Right Hon. the exportation of wheat, and bad been guilty of acts of painter :, writes to the Debate that the "Death of EXPRESS which bind the graduates to each other are TOT, Spencer H. Walpole. slight. Approaching moat nearly to the conception of a violence against those whom they consider monopolisers The authorities, obliged to interfere to protect the liberty now offered for sale as the work of David, is only t, described i n the catalogue of paintings - WILL BE state university of all our institutions, its graduates are, o f commerce , f oun d th emse l ves at issue with the people. a copy, and that the sole original picture is in the in fact, only • body of men of proved intelligence from all THE QUEEN'S BOOK.-Her Majesty the Queen Hence the disorders reportedly telegraph and the hostile writer's possession. 0N E PEN N Y. ports of the British world. When such a body, which as has graciously presented to the Willenhall Literary In- demonstration sgrinst the detachment of cavalry which At the Bourse the feeling was that the upward yet is not very numerous, begins by putting aside every stitate a copy of her "Highland Diary," in compliance escorted the King and Queen on their return from Villa candidate whose name cannot be found on its own calendar with a request recently made to her by Mr. J. C. Viciosa to Lisbon. movement had reached its culminating point. Advertisements received after 12 o'clock cannot -every Oxford or Cambridge man, for instance-and Tildesley, hon. secretary of the institution. A letter It is reported that the King and Queen of Por- . cash and 10c for account , closing Rents fell 20e. for appear on the name day. thus rejects, without consideration, the most eminent per- written by command of the Queen, accompanying tngal will not be p resent at the marri ag e of Prince at 6 8fr. 80e. and 68fr. 75c. Italian, under the PODS in the country, it would seem to run at once into the the volume. states that " it is not her Majesty's intention u . „ . o „ in fl uence of a rumour that a tax of 10 per cent. will OFFICE, 10, BOUVERIE-STREET. errors of the old societies, and to justify the enemies of to present the work to institutes generally," but that she cberto, in consequemee of t h e agitated state I be put upon the funds, fell 43c. Credit Fonder university representation in their objections. The obi- was unwilling in this Instance to refuse the request the eotultry. --- --- fell llfr. 25c. Blobilier rose 3fr. ';'3c. gutty and freedom which distinguish the London Easel , " made to her on behalf of a society of working men, par- THE Report of the Midland Committee of Con- city eminently qualify it, however, to play • new and tioularly as the Willenhall Institute is one of some stand- AN " OMINOUS CONJUNCTION." miltation shows how exceedingly difficult it is to nmarkable part in English political life ; for it is a pa- ing." A meeting of the members has been called for The Arenir National reports front St. Peters- WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) reverse, or oven arrest a m i s t a k en railway policy. ranter that narrow views of a representative's duty will to-morrow (Thursday) evening, to acknowledge this gracious burg that a camp, composed of half Russian and It would have been diflicult to choose out of the not prevail SP at the other universities, where the gra- and graceful act on the part of the Queen. -Birmingham half Prussian soldiers, is to be formed at Katisch WEPNINDAT, FesRUAST 1!, II A.M. complexion, and personal likes pati. in July next, and that the troops are to be maineu- 11`. i 11132nese. Si', ranks of any railway proprietary a body of goal- dilate,' are of one general . . and dislikes are fostered by the isolated society of the The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of vred together as was done in 183:5. E T.I W. 110...-.---., W. Z. Ito Outten more deserving of confidence than the . 311 . 12 D. 9. place. Commons and Lady Charlotte Denison will arrive at the •.•--- - - - - ntembers of that Committee, or better entitled to - right hon. gentleman's official residence at the New - 14 _ airn - 30.37 411 W.S.W. 2I 3 W.N.W. e - 2 speak with authority on its a ff airs ; and yet, alliErr 111:CCARS. Palace, Westminster, to-day, from Omington, Notts. Wilma r useau f s.) Aber d ee n .. 30.37 .39 W.N.W. 1 6 N.N.W. eb - I after investigating and reviewing the Com- Referring to the complaints which have been urged The Right Hon. G. J. G oec h en, M.P., and THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Leith so.uvr &W. I 1 I B.W. n- - Ardroiess 30.49 44; W.P.W. 1 4 N.M. oc - 2 • g vagran cy u a crime,Oresneastia 90.50 MI .a.W. I 3 N.M. bee OM - pany's affairs, they can do little more than re- against Sir R. W. Carden for treat ing .. Mm Goes en entertained • a select at dinner last ALEXANDRIA, FEB. D. Valenta 30.caf 46, 8. 1 3 N.N.W. teo O.OE 1 cord an expression of unavailing regret. Various the Dail , Nave . remarks that the public will not delihe evening at their residence in Park-lane. Advices received here from Annesley Bay to the Car.,. p ctti:t 3 4 4 1. 4 1y e l Vi . ; I W.N.R. w- me. - In lines and works, involving an expenditure of nearly bay blame him for the results of this experiment. ne ra tact is that he treated the gaol as a practical reforms.- The Lord Bishop of Grahamstown has returned 29th ultimo announce that Sir Robert Napier had Limp* - 110.67 Sal W. a a W. Cr - 1 3,500,000/., admit of being postponed , and the tory. He caused full inquiries to be made. and tops diocese • arrived at Senafd. theyeeas 30.643Te1l W.N.W. 1 11 W.N.W.. co - - Tensenee .46K1 91 N.N.E. 1 6 N.tt. c- I Cost of the London station may b e c ut down ; but treated each prisoner according to his character and The Lord Bishop of Mauritius will preach on The Punjaubees landed yesterday. Bred --- 90.64,43 N.E. 45 , N.W. re e. 04 4 the C 'We hesitate to advise the complete condition. and he infers that the remedy has effected Sunday morning, the 23rd inst., at the Chapel Royal Laded. 30 63@46. SUL I 2 I N. to 0.04 2 • It was reported that a skirmish had taken place Roalssfoei . ... 30 . .65f 63: 4.4. Ifl S. m- I Ir that, h owever of a single propoeed line, represent' • proj desirable that course may be, the convicted practicalbeggars an good nee from the fact that although all the Whitehall. leg some eels must be adhered to until it (an be seen was never oat of prison the city of London so free from beggars as it is at the present time. • Our contemporary agrees with Sir Robert that the begging whether certain advantages can be secured to the ,___ Company by agreement with its neighbours. EDlP•aulas oug ht no t to be perpe t ua ted , as it is, b y t The giving of alms, but that every vagrant solicit melt is, the shareholders are told that they had alms should be given into the custody of tbe po i better assent to the great money bill of 5,000,0001. -on this indispensable condition, however, sane ly, latterleg i slation solicitingworkcatholic theabjectLime-reverendAntalo.Evuxuec. Roman catholic clergy, or at any rate • great Count Cambray Digny proposes an increase of the Puts which so startled them on its announcement three that each Ca'a should he investigated and properly Pre - number of them, pronounce an opinion that only amount demanded by the Minister from 649,040,264 months APO, and the Comnany is to remain coin- . t is yield for. Apart from the wisdom of Tull . a . eourae, I . .. separate legislation cant avail ; but ►although the eleren se .65 - ! N - TW. S - 1. : I • ▪ I ; 313 .61 weals" N.N.W. 1 I I W.N.W. W. ;i . . W. eb - 30.5er'34' W. 2 a ' W.N.W. 30.69 1 - 3 6 1 34' W.S.W. 3 4 W.N.W. ob - - b 147 flat W.N.W. 2 4 N.N.W S • 30.47 f as N.W. 1 2 .1.. W. eb Ise 4S N.M. 5 - - - 2 - 2 - 3 lso.a as w.s.w. - - -i), - - 110.56 97. N.W. I - - let - - Lyons ,30.30 43 N. - - - b - - Rout 'a Cos ,30.241 is' 12.N.1. 1 1 : N.N.E. bo , - 2 to 736.2'13,344 lire. This difference arises Dried- am...Am ammeted sad reduced to M dee. at sea level. no THE Report of the Midland Committee of Con sultation shows how exceedingly difficult it is to reverse, or oven arrest, a mistaken railway policy. It would have been difficult to choose out of the ranks of any railway proprietary a body of gen tlemen more deserving of confidence than the members of that Committee, or better entitled to speak with authority on its affairs ; and yet, after investigating and reviewing the Com pany's affairs, they can do little more than re cord an expression of unavailing regret. Various lines and works, involving an expenditure of nearly 3,500,000! , admit of being postponed, and the cost of the London station may be cut down ; but the C "the hesitate to advise the complete abandonment of a single proposed line, representing that, however desirable that course may be, the projeeti must be adhered to until it can be seen whether certain advantages can be secured to the Company by agreement with its neighbours. The milli is, the shareholders are told that they had better a.ssent to the great money bill of 5,000,0001. which so startled them on its announcement three months ago, and the Company is to remain com mitted to a capital expenditure of 8,000,0001. All that can be certainly promised at present is a prudent forbearance in call ing the money up. The Committee blame the directors for embarking in so many new undertakings, and so readily and enormously enlarging their dimemions, and when a season of financial difficulty came on, delaying to ask for the money minima until their necessities had grown to a formidable maguitude. They confirm, for instance, the statement that the extension from Bedford to Londou has cost with its Metropolitan branch more than 3,000,0001. beyond what the shareholders were led by the first statement of the directors to expect. All this, however, is now an old story. The Com mittee were appointed in order to ascertain what can ho done for tho relief of the Company under the burdens by which it is ovcrweighted, and it is to be regretted that so little relief is possible. The Report, however, contains testimony which may well encourage the shareholders to meet in a hopeful spirit the diffi culties which were created for them in a period of universal buoyancy and excessive confidence. It will be satisfaL tory to them to be iuformed that no illusion has existed as to that vital question, the' earning powers of the line. There has been no playing fast and loose with the capital so count ; and as all expenditure that could, on' , the strictest principles, be charged to revenue has been so charged, the apparent profits are the real profits which remain after the fullest provision has been made out of revenue for the renewal, strengthening, and improvement of the permanent way, works, stations, bridges, and rolling stock. When this can be said of a railway, the share holders, whatever reason they may have for feeling dissatisfied, have a firm standing ground. There is one recommendation of this Report which, coming from a body of influential and independent shareholders, deserves to be im- Referring to the complaints which have been urged against Sir R. W. Carden for treating vagrancy as a crime, the Diato Nev., remarks that the public will not delibe- rately blame him for the results of this experiment. The fact is that he treated the gaol as a practical reform&. tory. He caused full inquiries to be made. and treated each prisoner according to his character and condition. and ho infers that the remedy has effected some practical good from the fact that although all the convicted beggars are out of prison the city of London was never so free from beggars as it is at the present time. Our contemporary agrees with Sir Robert that the begging nuisance ought not to be perpetuated, as it is, by the giving of alms, but that every vagrant soliciting calms should be given into the custody of the police —on this indisrensable condition, however, namely, that each case should be investigated and properly pro vided for. Apart from the wisdom of such a course, it is a fact that the workhouse does not afford the requisite relic)! in every case, and that men and women die of star vation in consequence. While that is the case, and while out of a hundred beggars only one may need alms to save body, and perhaps soul, from perishing, the public will never be persuaded to refuse, indiscrimi nately, to relieve, all who seek relief. But, then, the course which Sir Robert pursued is not easy of general application. His personal autho rity in Holloway Gaol procured that it should be done there ; but, asks our contemporary, " are we pre- pared to commit this new teak to the governors of all on: gaols? The parishes ought to do it. but they never will, because they are compelled to rate themselves for the maintenance of the poor, and their iutenist urges them only to use the regular official means for staving off pauperism by ignominy and hardness, and so keeping the rates as low as possible." The question no to how such • plan as that adopted by Sir Robert Carden is to be estab lished for the country at large, involves • problem which the Daily Aare cannot pretend to solve ; but Sir Robert has shown what may be done on a small scale, and it will be a matter for thankfulness if anyone will devise the means for carrying into effect on a large scale the undoubtedly sound principles on which he has acted. THE RTANDARD AT TIM MILITARY COLLUMS. The Post learns that the standard of age for entrance into our military colleges has just been lowered from 16 to 19 to 15 to 17 years. The principal reasons are understood to be—First, that the ago of the cadet, under existing arrangements, ia too groat to permit of a very satisfactory result in submitting him to the mammary rules and regulations of such este. Ibbahments. Second. that the officers join their corps too old in respect of promotion, the result being—at any rate in the seniority corps—that the rank of captain is not to be attained until too late a period of the man's life. Third, that young men above 17 cannot be kept under proper control at what are known as " Cramming Schools," where they contract such habits as not only militate against discipline at the colleges, but render it a very difficult task to work up the young officer, when first commissioned, into proper military style. On the whole the Port is inclined to think that the reduction is too great and that the authorities have plunged from one extreme to the other. The authorities will do well to wait until an inquiry has been made in pursance of Lord Eustaee Cecil's motion for a royal commission. pressed on every railway board throughout the kingdom that has extensions on hand. It is, that with every half-yearly report there should be published " a complete and detailed " account of all the engagements of the Company, " showing the works in progress and those in " abeyance, with the cost already incurred and " that which will be required to complete each " work ; and also the capital authorised to be " raised in shares or by borrowing, with the " Acts giving those powers." Why should not shareholders have information so necessary to enable them to understand the position of their own affairs ? If they are wise they will insist upon it. It is needless to point out how much mystery and confusion, with all their pernicious consequences, might have been avoided in the case of some of our lines—the Metropolitan, for example—if the public had been properly informed on these points. There can be no diffi culty in giving the information, and when once the wishes of shareholders are made known there can be no sound reason for withholding it. THIS IBISIVI CIII:1101 AN!) nig GOTEENMVIT. The Star says Mr. Disraeli is supported by many good Orange sympathiser from Ireland, who give to him aa unquestioning support, because they know their ease wotild be abscutely hopeless if they were not on good terms with the dictator of the tory party ; but they derive poor satisfaction from the lukewarm countenance of an ally who is well known to be mocking them in his heart. They live in fear and trembling lest proteetant domination meitne to oat their views. 'Brien does not be- lieve that Mr. Bright's plan would answer the purpose for which it i• intended. The rest solution of the Irish gum- tion is, he says, the rooting of Irish affections in Irish government, and the making of eve Irishman an enemy of organic lmngn. The E. doctor an those who think with him do not believe th — aiMr. will . ever be able to discover such a solution of the Irish difficulty in the House of Commons, but in an Irish House of Commons he would. Mr. Bright is obliged either to prove the clergy wrong or, in fulfilment of his pledge, be must support them, "and the latter," says Dr. O'Brien, "he will yet do." ~K I altoad be the next tub thrown to the liberal whale, and they even suffer the mortification of having to adopt in parliament a tone of moderation and equity which belies their feelings, and inflicts upon their supporters the misery of voluntary humiliation. No situation could be more forlorn. A preliminary list is published of eminent per sons living between the year 1800 and the present time whose portraits have been promised for the exhibition to be opened at South Kensington in April. Besides the modem portraits, the exhibition will include • supple mentary collection of portraits of eminent persons living before the year 1800 who were unrepresented or inade quately represented in the two preceding exhibitions. For this a large number of pictures have already been pro mised. The report of the committee on the Budget of Count Cambray Digny proposes an increase of the amount demanded by the Minister from 649,049,264 to 736,228,344 lire. This difference arises princi pally from the expenses attending the conversion of the ecclesiastical property. The committee also propose a reduction of 1,109,818 lire in the ad ministrative expenses, and an increase of 1,250,000 lire for supplementary circulation of Treasury Bonds. The value of the remaining ecclesiastical property is estimated at 1,027,000,000 lire. The committee propose the institution of an agricul tural credit establishment based on the mutual principle and the abolition of pensions, substi tuting for them a system of private assurance banks. It is stated that Count Di Passeranno has been appointed Prefect of Turin. The Herald attributes much importance to the inter ruption of the Manobester meeting on the Irish church, which it takes as an endorsement on the part of Manchester of the principle of that establishment. The Herald allows, however, that the church may possibly be made more efficient for ha work by a revisions of its territorial arrange ments and parochial limits, the abolition of sinecures, the union of contiguous benefices, the planting of fresh min i @ions, and the redistribution of its revenues. THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS AND MISS BERDETE Corm.—The civic guards of Liege, following the example of their Antwerp brethren, have resolved to present Miss Burdett Coatis witbtheir photographs,enclosed in a beauti fully bound ornamented album. The binding is in red morocco with a silver gilt border. The Independance speaks of it as quite a princely present. It is to be pre. muted to Miss Burdett Coutts by the Belgian ambassador, Baron Dujardim _ _ The Timcs says it has been ascertained that the waste stook of old material proposed to be utilised by Colonel Campbell socording to the Bessemer process will supply the royal gun factories exclusively for 12 or 14 years, Independently of the large number of guns con ceded to Major Palliser for the purpose of conversion on his principle. Barometer corseted and reduced to M deg. at sea level. The letters r f (falling), s (staady), indicate direction of motionof themarcury whlnu lent 14 hours. Thermometer exposed In shade. Extreme form, with Redirection during lait 24 hours. Z.—calm. Weather: b.—bid sky; e.— clouds (detached) : I.— fog: h.—hall; I—lightning; m.—minty ;barn o.—overcast r —rain ; s.—snow; I.—thunder. Rain fall, snow or hall mselted), during last 24 hours. Bea slieturtance. A Berlin letter says :—" Between Herr Nie man, the opera singer, and his wife, Madame Nismann- Sftbach, measures fora divorce We pending. The lady demands the payment of a sum of 70,000 or 80,000 Balers. The negotiations on the subject hare been interrupted by Herr Niemann's sudden departure for Bt. Petersburg." SPICIILATIONS DI COTTON. THE opinion gains ground that nothing lees than a Royal Commission will redress the grievances and reform the abuses of our Civil Service. The anomalies of that service are so numerous, and so deeply rooted, that to attempt to cope with them by the wandering inquiries of amateur commis sioners is a certain way of rousing ill-feeling and disappointment. The proceedings of the Com mittee appointed by the Treasury, composed " At Kazan," says the Ruesian Gazette, " is reli giously observed the custom of bathing on the solemnity of the Epiphany (6th January). This year at • tempera ture of 20 deg. Beaumur (13 below zero Farenbeit), more than 100 individuals, old men, young ones, and lads, plunged into a hole broken in the ice of the river /Wanks, and came out some looking as red as boiled lobsters and others pale as a shroud." Horses in Victoria are as unsaleable as sheep. One paper speaks of them as selling at sixpence each. Another says :—" On Thursday last five were knocked down for half-a-crown, end ten others only realised 285., the purchaser buying them to feed pigs with—, novel way of disposing of bone-fifth, it must be cordwood.* But • better prospect is opening up. Eating them does not teem yet to have suggested itself to the colonists, but it has been found that • profitable use can be made of the noble animal by boiling him down. One poor creature " fat but melees" had realised 15 gallons of pure oil, and "readily sold at the first offer, for currying purposes, at 6s. 6d.," and to this, it appean, is to be added the price of the hide, the value of the hair, the glue from the hoofs, and the bones for manure, " all of which would be realised if the process were carried out in a large and systematic manner." The 500th representation of Guillaume Tell took plant on Monday night at the Grand Opera, Pans. The performers afterwards went, at midnight, and gave a sere nade to iloodoi at the Mastro's residence, Rue de la Chaussee4P.Antin. The first performance of this great work took pleas at Perim on the 12th August, 1829. The part el Arnold was sustained by Nourrit, and that of Matkilde by Mme. anti-Demereau. _ _ Letters from Melbourne say that great interest his been' manifested in the colony of llsibeeemo on the =Neat of preserving superfluous inset, se as to make it e• aseeptable article in the Englis► market. The problem to be solved is to get good beef and mutton, Thick at Melbourne are worth only lad. per lb.. to the milEone of English mouths w►ich can get no host mil. Tin modes of meserving the meat have bees tried—ear is Sydrey, end the ether is Melbourne—both of mishit are add to have euroseded. Commenting upon that cotton 'peculation which is now going on at Liverpool, where people are buying the article fester than it is known to exist, the Times observes that the pries* are now such as would ocrsainly repay a large Indian cultivation, and revive the flagging receipts of the Indian railway. and navigation companies. Even the port of Bombay, lifted up to heaven in order to be dashed down, may be comforted and revived by Bursts at 70. a pound and Mill rising. The movement referred to, extraordinary as it may meat, and even indefensible to aon•treding mink most necessarily inseam the alt. In New Hampshire, in the United States, 42 persons died vie inn wivatde of 90 yews d see; few ewe owleislens, tee of Wien was 106 run old. THE FREE TRADE MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. FROM PARIS. if 1.. v trill 00114i/X 0011/12POND111. i SPEECH OF HR. WILLIAM CULLMI BEYA::Y. PARIS, TUESDAY Evmum. 1 , On the evening of the 30th ult. a din: . ~,,,, The Boars of II; a severe attack of influenza, given to Mr. William Cullen Bryant, at Delmonice'p, : , which, without confining him to his bed, does not York , by the Free Trade Association, u a mark of avo .. , ciation t for his s e rvi ces d F b e half d of f ree trade , allow him to leave the Tuileries. This malady. Pres ident Ti..." s". which generally only comes with the March winds, 1 7: c :01, the Hon. Edwards Piezrepoat, t, the Rofmti7,Ar:sq is now prematurely prevalent. President Schneider Tilden, Mr. Cyrus W. Field, Mr. Parke Co lain, ;- I was laid up with it the other day, and M. Berryer, Manton Marble, and many other gentlemen. L•tt• .. another sufferer, is still unable to attend the Corps were read from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Protes.o. 1 i, Legialatif. 1 Bascom, and Professor Perry, of William a College, C,,,. ; The public is asked to be quite easy about the 1 Smith . " am . mr W . alker : David a D n u d dley e lfi rs eld, th e n a I ' resWe" of ..t. ' Assacistbill calling out a contingent of 100,000 men, pre- , toast, which was customarily first in order7" " T r l...: e. C l l.,: , sented to the Corps Legislatif yesterday, because, . M ag i s t ra t e ;^ d run k without comment. The ne• t t 0.. ,: forsooth, that has been the figure for many years' Mr. Field said, was ono which would be ant.C. l . • :. put, and the whole number has not been habitu- i Their honoured guest had laboured through a l er: L' e : ally called out. It is true enough that about the diffusion of just notions in political mono . .i, ~,.,1 40,000 on an average have generally remained in , though he had never held cdfice—(laughter)- he 1.1 . 1 . the reserve ; but—and this is a point of great ire- :, erciaed,ift his own ) sphe There a s , p e n a w ker er which wouid 0r t .1%.• . . ;1 ~ t portance, which seems to have escaped observe- I give i . company to " drink to the health of William (lien :: r y a 'he kdiell .*.ryWt. tion when the army bill was discussed—every soul' (Loud cheers.) Mr. Bryant then said : of the 100,000 men of this year will be called into 1 Mr. President and Gentlemen—An honour 1 ',. t active service fur five years, and will, moreover, be l i requires from me a particular acknowleclgtn• at, , , forced to serve in the reserve for four years after- 1 yet I hardly know how to make in fitting tern.,. wards. ferred as it is by men whom I so much value an,l I‘. . and who possess in so high a degree the esteem o: It is reported that M. Hauasmann and M. Rooker fellow-oitieens, I cannot but feel that it would n: have agreed to make a substantial diminution in ward services infinitely greater than I can pretend n. : ., the octroi duty on wines brought into Paris. rendered to any cause. What I have done in a4.1,'.1.„ 4 . .... _ I principles of human liberty to the exchange of between man and man and between nation and has been very easy to do. It was ,imply to listen to own convictions, without any attempt to reason c . away, and to follow wbithersoever they might lead this manner I have been saved a good deal of trouble. perplexity and bewilderment, come waste of I had any to waste, and perhaps no little (Laughter and cheers.) Another circumstance hos my task easy. I had only to walk in a path smoet:,..l lighted by some of the best thinkers of the sge—imp unprejudiced men, who had no object in view but t simple discovery of truth. It was not difficult to u ,', such a path. Grand and noble intellects held tb. over it, and I could not well step astray aO,l guidouce. Beside, I bad only to follow in the a,y the world is going. The tendency of enlightened e, opinion in all countries is toward the freedom of tr ..;,, There is no difficulty in swimn.ing with t 1... • I saw that the navigation was safe, and let my •.•,! with the stream, while others laboriously tried t ••• It or lay moored to the shore wondering which n.ty • .y ought to go. We shall have them all with in y.•;. '•!.. President—a merry fleet of all manner of craft. tour. , ot the some easy voyage. (Applause.) stance which has made the task of the Mea. of trade more easy is the involuntary alreissiona "11, , t •- . . protectionists make of the fallacy of their .1.... A capitalist in New England, owning cotton or sea. 1 : s however great his attachment to the proteeti., s , has no idea of employing any part of I.:, • ! • raising wheat in the t.. 0 his inilla, it .t ' • v save the expense to him and his work-people : . it from the distant West. (" No.") He brill. •.; : ' thousand miles away and sends back his fah.: -s change, at the very moment that he i. lm. laws to be paned which will prevent tn.. sumers, from buying iron and cloth and p ir • Europe, that we may, as they say, save the . • • freight. When we make a new acquisition of r-r•it o. they do not object that we are to have free trade a ra t a now region. On the contrary. they rejoice in a s : mark..t. This they did when Texas was flan :. • • Union. They made no opposition to the •• California on the ground that all revenue I .ws " shut out the trade of that wide region would nay repealed. When we talk of annexing Canada they object that we and the Canadians will then t o co ! • • r independent of each other. In this they any this they tacitly admit the advantages of (coy t. Whatever other objections may be made to the iris.. a of new territory, the enlargement of our bona's I addition of a new and extensive provinces it a •t commercial and industrial advantsge, because it a the exchange of commodities between the: , .... I us perfectly free. Yet there is • certain plats. -,l‘ty or what the protectionists say when they talc f home industry and a Lome market—a plauair which misleads many worthy and otherwise sensible la • i•• • —sensible in all other respects, and whom as men I .ah and honour. There are clever men among them who to their aide of the question a great array of facta, inata which, however, have no real bearing upon P. Iv There is plausibility, too, in the idea that the Boa tinily circuit round the earth, and if there we:e aav !. • rate interests to be promoted by maintaining it, I have thousands believing that the earth stands •••;,1 ",. ' the sun travels around it. " See for yourself," they vr- , g I Ray, "Will you not believe the evidence of your OW:I I, The sun comes up in the east every day before stands over your head at noon, and goes clown in the at :. noon in the west. Why, you admit the fact sh.t. yoc y the sun rises, the sun sets, the sun is up, the sun is d.,. u. What a fool was Galileo ! what nonsense is 01.• .:.-te.a of Copernicus ! what trash was written by Sir Nev. Lion !" (Cheers.) I remember a case in p cat -an anecdote which I once hoard in Scotland. c. water to the signet, collect in England an atto,n. c. of this name of Moll, who knew very little except w. A rel. , : M. Jules Simon, in the course of a speech in the to the drawing up of law papers, once Leant a he- Corps Legislatif on Monday, said A few years ago the turn on astronomy, in which some illustrat.•?. v Pere Enfantin, at the end of his life, wrote • book Dieu et given of the daily revolution of the eir d t e h re o d n Catalyse. The author had personal friendly relations with the then Chief of the State, the present Emperor, and • frequently recurring to the subject, he 1u01.e.1 up f.. was word would have sufficed to make him renounce the publi- Lis law papers and said, " The young amettArnleywhich wi:serioa perplexed to him , be and one cation of the work. The book appeared, and the publisher, turns round. It's vera extreordinar'. Tye M. Victor Masson, was called before the law officers and It' sax same re al:pretty yeah, ren in d o t in hat n gr e t tl a e t t told he was to be proceeded against, and it was not until an thretty year lee size; an d n yet the young mos g :he the last moment, when he had exhausted all his efforts us ed t ur ns ro und, It's awe e x traordinar'. - o•rc•A with the Procureur-General, that he decided to declare laughter.) Here was a man who was not to ta that the Emperor had accepted the dedication of the work, by this nonsense about the earth's revolving tagsa ifud th l e:re were any mon sap , th, s 7: I and that he held an official letter to that effect. So that this publication was criminal in the eye of the public pro. gai n ed by denting imaginar y Mr. Moll pecan ,-`' • haw a seceder and innocent at the Tuileries. Of course the pro- visa. and better informed in other reeler th an he. ceedings were dropped." (Erne med laughter and cheers.) Perba•ts, Mc. "'o whole army of his way of thinking, many of 1..10 _at h eto unie use atether A newspaper is about to be started at Sitlia, i f ll l i ff i e a n r t r us e t % y o u n. w .T o d i u 7 re in hear d o f a m an New Archangel, in Walnuts. to lift himself from the ginned by the waiothat I of to Mr. Gaze, the oriental excursionist, left South- pantaloons. Now if anything were to he gin l e c a e l t y:at , , ,n a ampton, last week. On Friday he and his party left 7 is e v ry ou r r e OrAs possibilityof the feamte.ntOnnedgnieht a .y, "I ' o3 Paris far the Holy Land. In consequence of the trains can lift two hundred pounds ; your weight bit over Mont Cenis having temporarily cease d running Mr. drecl and sixty pounds. A power of grovizstion e tol.:ae Gaze was obliged to hire conveyances to take his party hundred and sixty pounds keeps you & ov ate:l , c Al:. 0 , 2 over the mountain at a cost of nearly 20 guineas. have only to apply • counteracting force a little _tea, n tlr y n on th r is, According to the Atlantic Monthly, "Men say, you will be lifted into the air. Take 1.01.1 waistband, therefore, with both has 1 .., and in reply to those who object to their clubs, their men's vigorously. If you do not lift yourself up v t the ti , nt dinner parties, and their smoking rooms : ' Women over . trial , you must pull harder." All that might P:7: whelm society with superfluous dry goods. The moment pl ausible to cue who count had no ex n perienz a t e, o i ladies are invited, the whole affair becomes a mere quer I ca Sion of costume. A party at which ladies assist is little I and for nearly half • oentory.wth occamiocal abort renal. more than an exhi bition of wearing apparel- They drams I tlons of the effort, prompted by the return ?f , e7 , ' , I the e ;e7t ) of lifting itself from th e Pe nd by the asistiosi. too, not for the purpose of giving pleasure to men, but I sense. When the first pall was made, and a rxi ,, l i n oi l v,„ ; for the purpose of inflicting pain on one another. Beside. we were told d t n t n r t her y ano nn the d r, an an o d the t r b e n an now e what (la war a lady who is carrying a considerable estate upon her se „. ? roal h e we nt of which the waistband form , 3 all person must devote • great part of her attention to the management of that estate. She may be talking to Mr. to a limiter accident, somewhere calls a " I r tins mat thing about Shakespeare and the musical-glasese, bat the sight," mortifying n to the pride fai ntaed r Ph om "e:heePby' n a by the thing her mind is really beat upon is ernshing Mrs. Smith true that • man with her new lace. Even dancing is nothing but an ex- I must waistband,but he cannot do the feat for himself, Bunter torn to shreds and tatters, presenting what Pope. a11t:.,414 ceedingly laborious and anxious wielding of yards of without. One strong man may raise another in this vafs silk trailing out behind " I and be raised by him in turn. In this ease toot The veteran Auber , in answer to a gentleman . perform the office. The force must •come fi n° ill an interchange of offices—freedom of Mo. No man e - even with the strength of Samson, eon el feat 's ° the other evening, who ' oongratukted him upon his re- I a room imself and endeavour to perform the markable vigour said, " They never so often told me I alone without ooming forth from the undertaking to me! was young as sines I have grown old." I his nether garments full of ghastly rents, invitu6 ‘ t7. An employd on the Orleans Railway has in • en lby lad" f • tb mom P e ''' . item exmg oreign commerce ; e vented amalgamation of coal and other combustible', it makes exclusion, the more certain it is to imPel"" tr of Jemmy wind. So no nation ma especially petroleum, made for convenience of use in the itself. Mr. President and gentlemen : form of bricks, which, it is said, is calculated to effect an law imposed upon us by the necessi ti es immense saving in the foal necessary for generating steam. Iwirwreh ber ange humanf of er n e r a a t ya n l dne e l a yee T, It burns with intense heat and for • long time, and is Goa and nature commanding us t o be likely to be extensively employed very shortly on the other. It is the law of the household- Orleans line, where some very satiatiotery experiments the neighbourhood—it is the law of di have beam made with this material. The compound is included under the same government it be for mankind if it IMO in an own celled beeiveriee berrieheires. raised as • law to be samedly regarded MUTH OP • AILINCH SZIr•TOR. —M. Baron munity o f notions in their intercourse Aleade de CitapayeMontlaville, senator Cl From" who Were that lew,to be 'grilled , th,:„ . soci, l bee jut stied at the age of 68, barna his (area as a pure senseit. M i t a "S ,I t t: rrx legatimiet. He addressed a letter to Chaim X., in which o f the way, sot railway from ty he pretested hie regard for the royal pawn, and to show t o State sea a sail upon the moan, his Minority declared himself ready to amp* the poet of tendon of this law. It is proclaimed enb-prefeet. In 1833 he was one of the radial party in locomotive, it le murmured in the tip the Chamber o f D em m e . , and wrote is t h e m a ce ' h d r er th eg e ar air Cl Use steamer. The or which endeavours Joornek Le Ben Sees, Journal du People artilidal bank= against the free • Anima of the Primes Cowart is shoat to be citizens with those of other count misted in the Peeples Park et Hall. A emaidensble por. the order of nature and strikes Ifea ef the aelimalied ere he. bees already enntribitted by (Applause.) lir pubis. • namMe Milne (by Bark) of her Warty Other spembee prolonged the eking* name the bathiesse peer. 1 when the eampany Marred V *Ain it is to im pos ,, T t omen : There • r r __ cadges of our condiur s e law of mutual succ , advantage'. th e W u 's a to be useful to iehold—it is the le? t. r of different p rollo la ment, and well wou ld to equa by l degree 154. „ rded the re" 7, Urge with each ot.s.: swia 'tete would low tars is not a intik!: • g front oid•Poot at 'as s Y to otty. or _ , which io not u 11 , • .: ed in the s hriek of . W . l tipple of water' al"!1, !be nation by wh ic t"br on obotnwt as at. interooun• v aries, revolts 47 ■ it its 0W• festivity to i late hoer. A Paris correspondent tells the following " It has often been • matter of wonder to me how Ger mans, possessed as they are with an ordinary tongue, similar to that of other mortals, could manage to pro nounce their language. A curious incident has occurred, proving at all events that this member, the chief instru ment of speech, most at least be in • perfectly healthy state so as to articulate a single word of that language. M. de Goltz, who, owing to the operation performed, has been tongue-tied for the last three weeks, but who is now fast recovering, wished • few days ago to break the silence to which lie had been condemned, and, ringing for his valet, vainly endeavoured to utter a single word in German. All his efforts failed. It occurred to him to try to express himself in French, and this he instantly accomplished with as much facility as before the opera tion. Those details were given by Ntlaton himself." . . M. Bagier has been authorised by tho Minister of the Emperor Napoleon's household and the Fine Arts to let the Italian Theatre to M. Carvelho, for representa tions to be given on the nights when the Italian company does not perform—namely, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. THE LATE PROTESsORIAL ELECTION AT OXTORD. —The Rev. James E. Thorold Rogers, late professor of political economy in the University of Oxford, has addressed a letter to the members of convocation, in which he refers to the recent contest for the professorial chair. He complains that the tine raised between himself and Mr. Bonamy Price, the successful candidate, was not confined to a consideration of the respective claims of his rival and himself, but was waged with different weapons. He pre sented himself before the university, not as a politician, but as a teacher and writer on political economy ; but printed slips from newspaper reports and advertisements were widely but stealthily circulated throughout the country, for the purpose of stirring up the passions of political par tisans and of awakening the religious animosities and alarms of the electors. And these " intrigues," he says, " were singularly successful ;" although he expresses his belief that Mr. Price's personal supporters were as unaware se himself of the success which would attend those machinations. It bad also been im puted to him that when he was moderator, some six years ago ' be gave unfair advant age t o hi s own pupil' in the schools ; and this is a charge which he denounces as • malignant falsehood. The rev, gentle man justifies the course he pursued in offering him self for re-election on the ground that as the university had made him re-eligible he would have shown a want of respect for memeation, and of self-rupee* also, if he bad not sought the suffrages of its members.—Mr. Gold win Smith, referring to the issue of the election, =proem his belief that the great majority of the really academical pert el the eirostititeney, including some who are elrengly opposed to Mr. Rogers in polities, voted for him en am &Weal pews* bat the elution was caroled against him by a swamping Meanies of fay usavesidents, temight up by the party whip through tli•pelitisil ',pained= which was set en foot for the *Mimi el Kr. Gladstone, and which is kept steadies foe the gamma pawn of ek► tiosouriag and Intrigue. HE\IAP.K A slight Increase hi barometrical preemie bat taken place in Scotland since yesterday morning, but no change of importance In reported front other stations; this increase to the north, however, remarked yesterday afternoon chanced during the night. A fall is reported from bairn and Leith since night. Pressures are generally high, but are decreasing. At statloas on the Channel coast and in France the temperature is lower ; whilst in the north, although there has been n.. mate rial change sines yesterday, lin still rather high. Light north westerly winds are prevalent on the Channel asset, but on our north and west coasts their direction is (cora south-west to south east. From our western and south.westcrn coasts mist is re ported. The weather is Ins on our southeast coast.