The Express. — London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

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Lztah 1104101BOW—Marshhi. 10h. 22n1 Afternoon, 104 1.4 m. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 11. THE Rev. RICHARD PAYNE, Vicar of Downton, directs our attention to a case in which he has in terested himself for the purpose of obtaining jus tice for two of his parishioners, wrongfully convicted, as he believes, by the Salisbury bench of magistrates of an offence against the Game Laws. HENRY FULPORD and MARC WEL sTrAn were accused of night posehing, and the only evidence against them was that of a gamekeeper named PILGRIM. The men protested that they had been in bed the whole of the night on which the offence was com mitted. FULFORD'S father appeared, and swore that his son was in bed with him all night ; and WELSTEA D's father and mother swore that their son was with them in the same room. Mr. PAYNE writes that the father and mother of WELBTEAD are " both of them thoroughly trustworthy witnesses." The magistrates nevertheless relied on the single oath of the gamekeeper, disregarding the up posing evidence, and sentenced FuLroan to six months' and WaLirrEAD to three months' imprison ment. " The prevalent idea," writes Mr. PAYNE, " seemed to be that it was morally impossible for " a gamekeeper to be mistaken." Mr. PAYNE, being convinced that injustice had been done, pur sued his inquiries, and ascertained that the two men whom PILGRIM, the gamekeeper, had mistook for H. FULPORD and M. WELETEAD were CHARLES MOODY and STEPHEN DEAR, the former of whom he took before Mr. HINXMAN, one of the com mitting magistrates, when Moony confessed his fault, and showed his acquaintance with the whole case. But to recognise the confession of these men would have been to admit that PILGRIM, the gamekeeper, had been mistaken, and then what security would there be in future for the convic tion of poachers ; what protection for the game ? When Mr. PAYNE began to move in this matter, the Magistrates' Clerk warned him to be very care ful not to say anything against Priem', who has once before been the cause of an erroneous con viction. The result shows, we think, that the magistrates had made up their minds to sustain PIL GRIM, as a valuable permanent witness, against any amount of opposing testimony. Mr. PAYNE has laid the facts before the Home-office,but Mr. HARDY has intimated that he "does not propose to interfere " with the prisoners' sentence." Mr. PAYNE states that a considerable portion of the popu lation have been convinced by this case that innocent persons may be put in prison, and that confidence in the administration of justice has been rudely shaken. We thoroughly believe it. Such cases are of continual occurrence, and they will be repeated as long as the powers of criminal justice are entrusted to magistrates ad ministering a law made and maintained by their own class and for their own chugs. In most of our agricultural districts, when game preserving is in question, the QUEEN'S justice is no more to be had than in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, but only a spurious substitute which the public has learned to know as country magistrates' justice. If there is any virtue in the Reform Bill for which we have all been so many years clamouring, this abuse will soon be remedied. Ma. Csatimit has published another letter—the third—in correction or amendment of Mr. Rue x Ilea extraordinary misstatement as to his experience of life in this great Babylon which he is good enough to inhabit. The last of the series is the most hopeful. Life amongst us is not so intolerable as had been thought. Mr. CARLYLE thinks that the whole vast multitude of the harmless residents in Lon don—those who behave by second nature in an obliging, peaceable, and perfectly human manner to each other—number quite as many as 2,000,000, including himself. This leaves a rather large re siduum, as Mr. BRIGHT would say. Mr. CARLYLE shrinks from stating the natural inference. The populace or canaille of London—the class whose be haviour is non-human or half human—he holdato be considerably more extensive and much more dismal and disgusting than some of us think. In fact, since Mr. CARLYLE does not suggest any tedium quid, it would seem that to it we must assign the remaining 1,000,000 otherwise undistributed. This number may be too large, but we suspect that if we halve it we shall be keeping within the bounds of reality. It may seem harsh to set down any of those who live aide by aide with us as only half human ; but we must look the facts in the face. It is only too possible so to rear and treat generation after generation as to oblite rate the features which best distinguish man from the brute ; and whoever has seen the crowd at a London execution or a Lord Mayor's show, must admit that the process may he going on in the very heart of a voluptuous civilization. It must be said to our shame that we can show in London a population which in mind and character is scarcely superior to the re maining aborigines of Australia, and as cunning, cruel, and sensual as any savages. This, however, is the worst type of Mr.CABLYLE'S co lot ille,and except on special occasions is not seen except by those who look for it. Not to linger, however, on this unpleasant topic, it will be admitted, we think, that there is great room for improvement in the out-door demeanour of classes very far indeed removed from these. There is notable want of urbanity in our streets. Persons of different cha racters and pursuits fail in this respect in different ways. If you come to four or five people stand ing immovable in the middle of the public thoroughfare, where they must know that they are inconveniencing every porter by, it is ten to one that the obstructors are of the lower order of working men, whose dogged look and passive obstinate rudeness is, in their own minds, associated with a vague sense of inde pendence. If, however, you get spun round by a concussion on one side, or are clean run down by somebody too eager in pursuit of his own affairs to think of you, the aggressor is almost sure to be a young man in broadcloth with a short cane and a profusion of mock jewellery. Even the simple rule of keeping the right hand side of the path, which contributes so much to comfort in walking in a great city, is transgressed in all our thorough fares at all hours of the day. These, it may be said, are little matters, but nothing is unim portant which betokens and nourishes the habit and spirit of consideration for others. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1867, tkt Cent. The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, at tended by Lieutenant Colonel Keppel. The Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, accompanied by the Princesses Victoria Elizabeth and Irene, and at tended by Baroness von Schenk and Hofmarschall von Westerweiler, arrived on a visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales, at 31arlborough-house. Their royal highnesses were met by the Prince of Wales at the terminus of the South Eastern Railway, Charing crow. Their Rovalllighnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Grand Duchene of Mecklenburg-Strelitz honoured the Duchess of Inverness with their presence at dinner last evening at Kensington Palace. There were present the Duchess of Somerset, the (Dowager) Duchess of Cleveland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount St. Asaph. Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord William Osborne, Hon. G. Howard, Hon. E. Dutton, Colonel and Lady Margaret Charteris, the Right Hon. Sir Henry Storks, G.C.H., Mr. Peel, Mrs. Morier, &c. His Excellency the French Ambassador enter tained at dinner, at the French Ernbaesy, at Albert-gate, last evening the Italian Minister, Prince A. de Chirnay, the Murquis Caumont de la Force, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, Viscount and Viscounten Holmesdale, Lady Francis Gordon and Miss Gordon, Sir Charles Lennox Wyke, Sir Anthony and Lady and Miss de Rothschild, Count de lAigle. Baron de Baude, Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Sartoriv, Mr. Metre, pluott. BIGLAND WITHOUT A COUItT. Mentioning that missions are about to be sent to Vienna and St. Petersburg for the purpose of investing the Emperors of Russia and Austria with the Order of the Garter, and that the Sultan will come here to receive the same honour in person, the Times proceeds to allude to the daily records from Balmoral, and to comment upon the injurious effect which a protracted eclipse of her Majesty's prerogative as the visible head of English society has pro duced. The reception of foreign princes and foreign ministers, the holding of drawing-rooms and levees, occasional ap pearances on public occasions, and all the nameless cour tesies and hospitalities of a court—these are just the acts which cannot be neglected without risk of consequences which all would deplore. English society will have leaders, and if the sovereign abandons the leadership, others will inevitably usurp the place, to the injury, perhaps, of that purer morality which the example of the Queen has done so much to establish. But we have also obligations to perform, and even debts to repay, to foreign nations. At this moment the Sove reigns of Russia and Prussia, with other princes of minor rank, are the guests of the Emperor Napoleon, within 10 or 12 hours of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. The Czar, in particular, who entertained the Prince of Wales last winter so magnificently, and who seldom conies so far west, ought surely to visit our cwital. He cannot, however, visit it in her Majesty's absence, and our national character for hospitality is compromised by a contretemps for which the nation is not responsible. Thom is no true loyalty in disguising the inevitable results of this experiment if carried on too long. It would not be safe to allow another generation to grow up rarely, if ever, seeing the face of their Sovereign, and only knowing by report that she had once been the centre of a brilliant court, and moved freely among her people, and it is in the interest of the monarchy itself that the Timm ventures once more to express the hope that her Majesty will soon resume the place which not even the heir-apparent can hold for her. THZ WAR-OFFICE MEMORANDUM AND THS VOLI7NTSERN. The construction which the Times puts upon the words of the late circular from the War-office is, that when the public peace is attacked or threatened the captain of a volunteer company might get his men together, that these men might AM themselves with their rifles, and that they might avail themselves of their professional discipline and organisation to act together as they would on parade or in the field. To the Times this seems a very different thing from placing the volunteers like the troops of the regular army at the disposal of the civil power, and leas could hardly have been done consistently with reason or pru dence. The Daily News hopes th►t the volunteers are fully aware that a War-office memorandum does not make law, sad that if it should chance to interpret law wrongly it will form no excuse to those whom it misleads. All this silly and dangerous muddle arises from the craving of the Derby ministry to seem strong in order to cover conscious feebleness. Not content with the means for preserving the public peace ani enforcing the law which have suf. aced for two hundred years, and are now less required than ever, they must insist on turning the new force of volunteers to a purpose for which they are eminently unfit. If the volunteer force is to be converted into a party engine, if its members are to feel themselves subject to be called on to act against their fellow-countrymen, it will at once lose its popularity and its existence. Its members, if sworn in as special constables, know their civil functions. If paraded for military instruction, they recognise their temporary subjection to military law. If enrolled against a foreign enemy, they would be real soldiers. But to be made into special constables with rifle and bayonet, to be drawn up under officers whom they need not obey, and required to use arms and org►ni s►tions, subject to their own judgment on abstruse legal points, is to put them into an utterly false position. The blunder of government lies in dealing with them as volun teers at all for purposes for which they never volun teered, and for which parliament expressly refused to sanction their being used. The Standard thinks most people will consider that it will be rather a good thing if " the clue" that keeps the law is prepared, to the utmost of its power, to discourage the "class" that breaks it ; and that, should the occasion unhappily arise, the volunteers will be found ready to de fend the laws of their Sovereign and their country from outrage, se well as protect its soil from invasion. We hear that the Bishop of Durham has inhi bited the Bishop-Coadjutor of Edinburgh from officiating in his diocese, because recently, when preaching at St. Oswald's, Durham, his lordship used the Invocation of the Trinity before the sermon. In his letter the bishop ignores the episcopal character of his brother, pointedly addressing him as Dr. Morrell. —John Bull. [The Bishop of Durham is quite right. Dr. Morrell is not a lawful bishop, as by act of parliament there is no recognised bishop in Scotland. Moreover, he is not • temtorial bishop in England, and his claim to be Bishop of Edin burgh is invalid.)—Record. REPRESENTATION OF LOWESTOFT. —The dieflßEL chisement of Yarmouth having left the shipping, fishing, and other interests of the eastern coasts unrepresented, a petition is being signed praying that • member may be assigned by the new Reform Bill to Low es t o ft an d t h e neighbourhood, which now embrace a population of from 13,000 to 14,000. The project has received the rapport of Sir F. Crossley, M.P., and Sir S. M. Pato, M.P. SOLICITORS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION. The seventh annual forties] of the members and supporter of this association was bald at Willie's-rooms, Bt. James., last evening, when about one hundred gentlemen sat down to • sumptuous dinner. Lord Chief Justice Bovill presided, supported by Mr. Keene, Q.C., Mr. Serjeant Parry, Mr. Bristow (Solicitor to the Admi ralty), Dr. Spinks, and Mr. Secondary Potter. The objects of the society are to relieve such poor and necessitous members as may be incapacitated for business through bodily or mental infirmity or other inevitable calamity, and their wives and families, and the poor and necessitous widows and families of deceased mem ben ; and, where the state of the funds and th e circum stances of the ease appear to the directors to justify them in so doing to render pecuniary assistance to the widows and families of deceased attorneys, solicitors, and who we not members at the time of th e i r d ea th . proctors re Chairman, in proposing the toast of the evening, " Prosperity to the Solicitors' Benevolent Association," said the society was one which had claims on all branches of the profession of the law, and it had especial claims on solicitors, for, as he reminded them, there was so period of life in which sickness might not attack the strongest among them, and strike them down, leaving those who were dependent upon them in poverty. At present the members of the association did not comprise quite one-fifth of the body, but he trusted the time would come when they would comprise more than one-half, and eventually the greater portion of the entire body. The Secretary read a list of the subscriptions and donations, including 25 guineas from the chairman, 5 guineas from Chief Byron Kelly, and • similar sum from Mr. Serjeant Parry and Mr. Secondary Potter, and S guineas from Mr. Bristow, the total amount being about 6001. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. La Sunnambula was performed hero last night, for the first and only time this season,with Mane. Adelina Patti in one of her most charming impersonations—that of Antina—and M. Petit, for the tint time, as Rodolphe. Of all Bellini's operas La S.nnambala is that in which his genius is most truthfully, and therefore most successfully, developed. The genial grace of melody and unaffected expression which he has given to the music of the pair of village lovers, Amine and Elvin, are far more real and at tistic than the stilted and crude efforts at the heroic and the sublime, which, in his tragic operas (not even excepting Norma), sometimes almost approach burlesque. The simple pathos of a tale of village life was quite within the scope of Belliat's genius, as his charming setting of the Sonnaritbula has sufficiently proved—the music being • natural and unaffected expression of a congenial subject. Since its production, in 11131, with Madame Pasta in the principal character, many great singers have identified themselves with the part of Amine ; but none have more perfectly combined the unaffected pathos and graceful simplicity of the character with the highest refinements of vocal art than MdUe. Adelina Patti. Her performance of last night exhibited all that exquisite finish in acting and singing which has rendered the part of Amine one of her most attractive performances during past seasons. Her air in the first act, "Come per me serene," and the fol lowing movement, "Seen it rien," were given with a brilliant and flexible vocalisation and a tenderness of ex pression that are seldom united. Here, as in other por tions of the opera, her embellishments and ornaments were as exquisite in taste as they were perfect in execu tion—a rapid and accurate shake, faultless chromatic males, and elaborate passages reaching to E flat above the lines—all these high executive powers, combined with finished grace and charm of personal manner render McUle. Patti's Amin a performance of exceptional excellence. In the beautiful duet with Elvino, " Prendi Panel "—in the passionate grief of the strata of the first finale ; in the un conscious, trance-like warbling of the sleep-walking scene, and in the brilliant and joyous burst of glad triumph of the final "Ah non ginnge," as in various other portions of the opera, Mille. Patti called forth the warmest expressions of delight from a crowded audience ; by whom, moreover, she was called on to re-appear at the end of each act. M. Petit sang and acted, as the Count, like the accomplished artist which his various performances here have proved him to be ; his principal effect having been made in the well-known cave tine, " Vi ravviso," in which his fine barytone voice and florid execution were well displayed. Signor Fancelli, who was a careful and efficient Elvino, gained great ap- plause by his expressive delivery of the pathetic Mr, " Tutto e @Melte." The remaining characters were filled by Males. Ackerman and Anese, and Signori Polonini end Rossi. REFORM MEETING ON BLACKHEATH. Last evening, a meeting, convened by the Green wich and Deptford branches of the Reform League, was held on Blackheath " to assert the right of the people to meet in the public perk', and to consider the present position of the ref orm question." Mr. Beale' and several of the lead ing members of the executive council attended and took part in the proceeding.. The selection of the time and place for the meeting of course contributed to its numerical strength, for Blackheath on Whit-Monday is, as is generally known, the scene of a large concourse of holiday.makers ; but independent of this accession in numbers the South London and other branches of the League were largely represented, several of their members having come by omnibuses and van, to give their support to the gathering. Three platforms were improvised for the coca- Sion, at which Mr. Baxter Langley, Colonel Dickson, and Mr. Luby presided. Mr. Reales spoke from Mr. Lang- ley's, or No. 1, platform ; and Mr. Luby's, or No. 3, plat form was rendered very attractive by the presence of Mrs. Harriet Law, who earnestly advised the leaguers to have the women at their back, adding that by that means they would get anything and everything. Lettersof apology were read from Lord Robert Grosvenor, ALP., Alderman Salomon', M.P., Sir Charles Bright, M.P., Mr. Doulton, M.P., Mr. Hughes, M.P., Mr. Locke, M.P., Mr. Layard, M.P., and Mr. Angerstein. The following resolutions were proposed from the three platforms :--1. " That this meeting is of opinion that no reform bill can be accepted as a permanent settlement of the parliamentary franchise which does not embody the principle of residential and re. gistered manhood suffrage, protected by the ballot, and that the bill now before parliament will be an unsatisfac tory and abortive attempt to even t. mporarily settle the question, unless it shall confer the franchise upon all householders, irrespective of the personal payment of rates, or at least place the compound householder in the same posi tion with regard to the parliftinentary franchise in which he now is as regards the municipal franchise, and unless it shall clearly also confer the franchise upon all lodgers who shall have occupied for twelve months, whether in the anise house or not, apartments for which they paid • bona fide rentof not less than 101. a year,without regard to ques tioned annual value, orany similar questions ; and unless by the disfranchisement or grouping of the small boroughs it shall equally and clearly apportion the representatives of the population throughout the country, and finallyprovide under proper conditions for the payment of the legal ex penses of elections out of the local rates, and substitute the vote by ballot for voting papers." 2. "That this meet ing protests in the strongest manner against the attempt proposed to be made by what is called the Royal Parks Bill to prohibit altogether, or most vexatiously fetter the right of the people to meet in Hyde-park for the discussion and consideration of matters affecting their social and political interests, and calls upon all true re formers throughout the metropolis and the country to unite in denouncing and resisting this most unprovoked and audacious attack by an unreformed and class-preju diced parliament upon the convenient and hitherto orderly and peaceful exercise of one of the most precious, useful, and constitutional of our popular rights." 3. "That this meeting claims in every respect the same reform for Ireland that it claims for Ragland and Scotland, and cordially de wires real union between the people of Great Britain and Ireland upon the basis of mutual interests and equal laws and rights, civil, political, and religious." In the six Australian colonies—viz, New South Wales, Victoria, New Zealand, South Australia, Queens. land, and Tasmania—in 1865, the imports amounted to 34,976,6391., and the exports to 30,219,4111. The export of wool amounted to 9,612,305/. ; of gold, to 11,165,811/. ; of coal, to 274,303/. ; of copper ore, to 618,4721. ; and of grain, to 1,335,7484 The tonnage inward mooted to to 1,969,091 tons; and the outward tonnage to 2,018,224 tons. Excluding New Zealand, the number of hones in Australis was in that year, 550,874 ; of horned cattle, 3,719,175 ; and of sheep, 29,293,744. In the year 1825, there were in Australia 6,142 horses, 134,519 horned cattle, and 237,622 sheep._ THE RITUAL CONIIIISSION.—it is not correct, an • contemporary po has been led to supse th at Lord Shaftesbury his "given a wigging to Mr. Hiady," or that he ever had sty communication on the subject of this commission with the Home Secretary. Be ore a single commissioner was nominated, and before be himself had been invited to serve, Lord Shaftesbury wrote to Lord Derby that be considered that neither himself nor the Bishop of Oxford would be satisfactory members of • com mission intended fairly and judicially to investigate the subject ; for that both were committed to strong opinions on opposite sides. Mr. Walpole afterwards wrote asking Lord Shaftesbury to reins.. 4 his objection to serve ; but nothing passed as to the compoaition of the 00101111:111gOIL LATEST INTMLIGEN CE. THE AMNESTY IN HUNGARY. The Vienna Gazette publishes the following autograph letter from the Emperor of Austria relative to the amnesty : Dear Chevalier de Somers,—My heart compels that on the day on which I place on my head the crown of St. Etienne a full pardon shall be awarded in my king doms and countries also which do not belong to the crown of Hungary, to all who have been guilty of an offence towards me or towards any member of my imperial family; and that that memorable day may, as far es possible, carry joy and consolation to those whom misfortune bas struck, although by their own fault, and may restore to liberty and to their families those who have suffered the greatest part of their punishment, and who have been discovered to be improved and not dangerous to society. I think it well, therefore, to remit all the punishment which has not yet been suffered in the ease of those persons who up to the day of my coronation es Bing of Hungary, and of the countries under this crown, have been condemned for offences against myself, or for offences against a mem ber of the imperial family, and to order that for crimes of this kind if they were committed before the said day, there shall be no judicial proceedings, so that all the processes for deeds of this kind shall go for nothing. I think it well also to remit completely in the cane of 454 condemned prisoners named in the sub joined list the remainder of their terms of imprisonment, to commute, in the case of four others, perpetual into temporary imprisonment; finally to spare the lives of eight persons condemned to death, and to leave to the dia -1 position of any supreme court the substitution for this punishment of a suitable term of imprisonment. You will take care that this act of grace may be executed on the day of my coronation. (Signed) FRAZIeIs JOSEPH. Buda, June 4, 1867. (MUTTS'S TELEGRAMS.) ITALY. FLORENCE, JuNr 11. The commission appointed to consider the Eccle siastical Property Bill have met twice, to draw up a counter scheme, in accordance with the directions they have received from the (Member. Signor Ferraris has been elected president of the com mission. SPAIN. MADRID, Jume 11. Trustworthy reports are current that the Queen will go to Rome to be present at the centenary, and that either before or after she will visit the Paris Exposition with the Infanta Isabelle. The King of Spain and the Prince of Asturias will also go to Paris. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA. Juxic 10. The Syria leaves at 8 and the Delta at 9 o'clock this evening. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 13th, and the latter at Southampton about the 19th inst. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (IIION 001 OWN 0011111111PONDZOT.) PARIS. MONDAY EVENING. The Patric, although not generally aspiring to the character of a " liberal" journal, joins under present circumstances with its " habitual adver saries" in protesting against the suggestion that the liberal reforms promised on January 19 should be withdrawn because Berezowski, a Pole, fired a pistol at the Emperor of Russia. The Figaro, by way of illustrating the logical force of the reaction ary argument, says that if a man were to go the Pre fect of Police and say, " Sir, I have been insulted by a hackney-coachman, please to shut up all the pork butchers' shops," he would certainly be sent to a lunatic asylum. The government, if it does fail to realise the press and public meetings reforms this year, will certainly not use any such insane reason ing. But there are symptoms of &disposition to en courage delay and throw the blame upon the oppo sition for proposing numerous amendments. M. Rouher on Saturday very vehemently assured the majority that they need be under no apprehension of a dissolution ; but he carefully abstained from intimating, as he knows how to intimate when a proper cue is given, that government expects the bills to be passed this session. The time lost in considering amendments is attributable not to the deputies who move them, but to regulations art fully devised for the very purpose of making the right of amendment troublesome, and in general practically inoperative. The Pays persists in its monstrous proposal that in consequence of Berezowski's crime the pension of 35fr. a month generously granted by France to a great many Polish refugees should be withdrawn from all of them. Par parenthese, 1 believe I stated that the assassin received from the French government 35 centimes a day ; I should have said 35fr. per month. The unpopularity of the miserable suggestion of the Pays is confessed this this evening with great naireti. It receives, it says, every day, and every one of its staff receives individually, heaps of anonymous letters full of sarcasms and insults. Deputy Granier de Cassagnac, who wants to annihilate tho Council of the Order of Advo cates because they have declined, by a majority of one, to punish M. Flocquet, for crying " Vive la Pologne," thinks it neverthe less good taste now that the King of Prussia is in Paris to say because Camiar strove to make the Rhine an impassable barrier to protect Gaul from Germany, all Germans now on this side of the Rhine are intruders, and must prepare either to tramp or make their submission to the French Em peror. All Germany, he nays, is now a regiment, of which the King of Prussia is the colonel. It cannot be suffered that any part of this regiment shall be quartered on the French side of the Rhine. This question presses for its " inevitable solution," and M. de Cassagnac is good enough to hope that it may be " a pacific one " ! I doubt greatly whether M. Rouher ventured to hint anything of the kind at the dinner he gave on Saturday to Count de Bismarck and Prince Gort chakoff, at which were present the Marquis de Lavalette, the Marquis de Moustier, M. Baroche, and M. Benedetti. Neither do I think, although M. Rouher has taken the affairs of Germany under his peculiar protection, to the great disgust of the Marquis de Moustier at such interference with his department, that he will have broached anything so formidable as the Rhine question during the visit which he paid to Prince Gortchakoff to-day to meet M. de Bismarck with him by appointment. Prince Humbert will be at the ball at the Tuile ries to-night. The Pram, which, with a certain leaven of inde pendence, is a sincerely imperialist journal,ventures to say of the present position of the Army Bill " The difference between the government and the committee is one of principle. The government wants, under one form or another, to have every clam of the men capable of serving entirely in its own bands ; whereas, the committee desires to maintain the right of the chamber to fix the annual contingent, and not to seize upon every able-bodied youth in the country for military ser vice, but still to give the peasant the cherished chance of escape by drawing a good number. THE HUNGARIAN HOUSES OF PA - RLIAMLAT. A BRILLIANT SCENE. The special correspondent of the Times at Pesth, describing the beginning of the great ceremonies observed at the coronation, gives an account of a meeting on the fith of the House of Magnates (or Peers) and the House of Deputies (or Commons) to appoint deputations to wait on the King with their addresses, and to transact business connected with their presentation to his Majesty. For an hour or so before, carriages, driven by wonderfully attired coachmen, and guarded by still more wonderfully attired Chasseurs, went to and fro in the streets to take up their owners, and gorgeous /rib/muses came out like tropical butterflies in the warm sun, congregating around doors and standing in the passages almost aghast at their own splendour. No colourist could give the smallest idea of the richness of some of these uniforms ; others were rather extravagant and grotesque than effective. " There was a small gathering at the foot of an hotel staircase this morning of positively startling people. One had a tall ealpak of gray astrakan fur, with • yellow satin bag, ending in a great teasel of gold la ce. On the front of the cal was was a scarlet medallion, bearing in embroidery the b of the house he served—apples and leaves—his brown face and black moustache contrasted with a white lace frill with lung ends; the gold laced collar of his scarlet humor jacket was crusted with gold ; from his shoulders hung a pelisse of green and silver trimmed with gra7 fox-skin, and worked all over with apples and leaves in silver; his tight pantaloons of earning red were slashed with silver, and his boots were of yellow Morocco leather, with a band of gold lace and tassels at the top, and gilt heels and enormous spurs, the get-up being completed by a heavy curved scimitar, ablaze with all kinds of metallic finery. He and his fellow regarded each other in their new clothes with much curious wonder, each ;nimble novas froades et non sue prone. These were but the ' life hussars,' or ;mogul attendants of a Magyar noble, sad were by no means singular for finery among those with whom they stood. There were men who shone as if they were in armour, in their parti-coloured clothing, and it was not possible their misters could devise greater glory of attire for themselves—at least one might be pardoned for thinking so." There was a small gathering outsideto see the deputies arrive. The men in their wide-awakes, or fiat round felt lute, long frock coats, pantaloon'', and Hessian boots, were only distinguished by these peculiari ties of attire and by • certain Oriental cast of face from the ordinary crowd of any European city, and the women were dressed in the universal style of porkpie tioancterie and crinolined garments which has spread over Europe. On entering the house the President was found to be read ing the protocol of the proceedings of the day, and the seats on both sides were tilled by the members in all their splendour. "The general effect was not so brilliant as might have been expected, because the members sat with un covered heads ; but there was a sheen of colour over the 1 seats as if a rainbow were . playing about. On the left ti of the President fizenvann, • Venetian nobleman by Titian look' of man, sat a few members in black or sad-coloure d, who represented the extreme radicals. They have no sympathy for the coronation, and look upon it as a farce of no merit or entertaining power ; but though they were gloomy and solemn as covenanters, they did not eschew long boots, tight pantaloons, and sabres. Derek was not visible, but Mike, Count Belt:Szrebenyi (who has done all in his power to promote the comfort of the English visitors), Baron Ambrosy, who served on Benedek's staff, and the owners of many famous Hungarian names, could be made out in the glitter of the assembly, and the Akers of the house, in rich dresses, with tri-colour scarves and sashes, moved in and out from time to time with com munications between both houses. The proceedings were in Hungarian." As the correspondent was going over to the Upper House a magnate announced that the peers had risen, and they were seen issuing out of the lofty portals and de scending the steps " in • torrent of waving feathers and raiment of many colours, like the contents of some pyro technic projectile which has burst aloft and is letting its golden rain and silver Pears and many-hued sparkling. fall through the night air." The magnates could not, however, outdo the members of the Lower House in their richness and magnificence, although they could boast of finer equi pages and a wore numerous and embroidered &detail fe. Conspicuous among them " were prelates who would make a ritualist fall down and worship, so grand were they in purple robes and trappings, and cocked—yes--cocked hats with gold teasels." A numerous deputation waited upon the Empress, who received them with the ladies of her court and wade • profound impremion by her beauty and graos, to solicit ber consent to be crowned Queen of Hungary. The Empress laying aside the paper that had been placed in her hand; for her guidance, expressed herself on her own accord as follows : " I joyfully accede to the desire of the nation notified to me through you. It is in accordance with my own most fervent wishes, and I bless Providence that has let me live to ace this sublime moment. Assure the Diet of my sin cere gratitude and accept my cordial greeting." While the coronation was in progress, on Saturday, the party of the Extreme Left and their friends were to retire to perform a solemn requiem for the death of the Hunga rian constitution on the hill of Buda ! The authorities ordered troops to attend, but they had directions not to in terfere in any way unless a breach of the peace took place. The two Grand Dukes, sons of the Czar, are, it is said, going to Nies, to make a pilgrimage to the monu ment erected to the memory of their elder brother. After • stay of a few days, they will return to Paris and leave for England. . A couple of New Lebanon shaken got married recently in America, in open violation of all law as pro pounded by that sect. Both the parties were young, and had carried on a correspondence for some time, although they had never spoken to one another. The correspond ence was discovered, however, and the young men was expelled, whereupon the young lady fled, rejoined her true love, and they were married according to the rites of the outer world. Consideruble indignation and excitement exists in consequence among the " family." At Cincinnati, a few nights ago, the management of the Parepa•Briguoli Opera Company announced that in consequence of • railroad accident, while on their way from Chicago, Signor Wiwi°li and three other members of the company were so severely injured as to be unable to sing. Before the performance commenced, Mdrne. Parepa stepped to the front of the stage, briefly informed the audience of what had taken place, referred to her hus band's injuries, and her own mental distress in constr. quence, and begged their kind indulgence, promising to do her bast. A storm of appl►use greeted her appearance. The Florida correspondent of the Cincinnati Com surrial says th►t Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has 3flO acres of land near Jacksonville, which she planted with orange orchards. She has been offered twice its cost. A telegram was received in New York on the 25th ult., from San Francisco, stating that the benevolent societies in that city celebrated the Queen's birthday. The French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, and Austrian con sul., prominent army officers, and citizens participated. Yesterday was quite a fete day in the royal borough of Windsor and the more immediate district, in consequence of the concentration of a large body of the metropolitan and county volunteers in the Great Park, where one of the most successful field days of the season was held, in the presence of a vast concourse of specta tors, including the principal aristocracy and gentry of the neighbouring towns and country seats. The value of the park as • review ground has long been seen, and Ler Majesty the Queen graciously accorded the requisite permission for the review through the intercession of Major-General Seymour, C. 8., the deputy ranger. The weather was magnificent; and as many of the trades people of Windsor closed their shops, the day was ob served as • holiday. BOATING IN BELFAST Locate.—On Saturday even ing last, about 7 o'clock, two gentlemen, one of them lately arrived from England, projected a pleasure excursion on the lough. They were accompanied by two of the fair sex who, of course, anticipated a pleasant evening, and who entertained no presentiments of the somewhat alarming predicament in which they were so soon to be placed. Having got as far as the boat-house at Thompeon's Bank, at the suggestion of our gallant Englishman, his male com panion was induced to go &soon, for the pur pos e of asking a question regarding • boat-race which had oc curred on the river, whereupon our hero took the op portunity of stealing • march on his lees acute Irish friend, and, seizing the oars, made off with the boat, carrying refreshments. ladies, and all with him. The tide was running in the same direction, and, of course, his abili ties as a rower were apparently all that he stated, for in • very short time he was out of sight of Thompson's Bank, and never slacked his pace till he was below Bangor. Not satisfied with the distance he had placed between himself and his supposed rival, as soon as his strength was ex hausted he made his fair companions take • share at the rowing, and, as time and tide were still favourable, they made as great progress as did their admirer, and in a short time they found themselves at a startling distance from Bel fast. As the evening was considerably advanced, our party had some thoughts of returning, but this was found errata:: more difficult enterprise than was anticipated, and the exertions of the three were of no avail oi, i; os ropelling the boat homewards — still it glided in anopposi te direction. Having beaten about for a couple of ours, and finding they were waking no head against the tide, but rather the reverse, and as a slight squall arose, the young gentle. man, with his companions, commenced crying for help. After a while, help at last, arrived in the shape of a couple of boats, which the jilted companion, fearing for their safety, /sad requested one of the harbour constables to despatch. They succeeded iu picking them up, and, having got them in tow, brought them to the quay, where they arrived at half-past 2 o'clock yesterday morning, thoroughly tired and sufficiently fiightened to prevent I their trusting themselves again so far from home on the "swift rolling tide."—/fortAere Whig. COUNCIL OF LAW REPoRTINO. The following is a copy of a letter addressed by Sir Roundell Palmer to the Lord Chief Baron and of a letter ! from the Treasurer of Serjeante-inn in reference to that society sending representatives to the Council of Law Re. porting in pursuance of the bar scheme : " 11, New-square, Lincoln's-inn, May 11, 1817. " My Lord,—Understanding that your lordship has in. timated your intention of moving, on the first day of Trinity Term, that Serjesnte'-inn do send two representa, fives to the Council of Law Reporting to act with the members already appointed to represent the several Into of Court and the Incorpor►ted Law Society, I beg to sub mit the following statement for the consideration of your lordship and the other members of Serjeants'-inn, in the hope that the society will be pleased to co-operate, and give their assistance to the council in carryin g out a useful reform, now recognised and appreciated by the pro. Pension. The society will remember that the scheme under which the council is constituted emanated from a com mittee appointed by the bar. The evils of the old rya s , * were—First the multiplicity of the reports ; there being no less than 14 of the so-called authorised reports, the Law Journal, and four of the weekly series, which en. tailed both expense and labour upon those who had to administer and advise upon the law. Secondly,—That the reports were brought out independently of on e another, and without proper supervision, the consequence being that many eases that should ported found their way into them, and it was not unusual to find four or five reports of the same cue differing in materially from one another as to render the decision wholly worthless as an authority, and obliging the Judge to disregard it altogether. These grave defects, felt by the bar ►like,it was the object of the scheme to remedy, and the council have endeavoured, in spite of some opposition (the motives of which it is not for me to examine), to give effect to the wishes of the profession, and to carry out the scheme, and much practical good has already resulted from the introduction of the new system, for since that intro. duction the whole of the so-called authorised reports, with one exception, that of the Court of Queen's Bench, Lye °eased, so far as future cases are conoenred, or have been placed under the supervision and control of the oounciL Two of the weekly series, via., the "New Reports" and the " Jurist," have also been discontinued, and reports that wet the profession upwards of 201. can now be bad for a subscription of 51. ss. The scheme contemplated giving compensation to existing interests, and the council, with that view, have appointed old re porters on their staff. Although the " Law Reports" have been in existence hardly two years, there are already nearly 4,000 subscribers, with every prospect of a greater increase. The council feel it to be of very great importance to have the co-operation of Serjeants'-inn, the presence of whom representatives would consolidate their body, strengths* their hands in the control of those acting under them, and enable them also to be incorporated, by which the system may become a permanent institution. I venture, therefore, respectfully to express the hope that the Society of Serjeants'-inn will Rive that co-opera tion, and join with the other Law Societies in assisting the council to give a proper record of the Case Law of the country worthy of those high sad eminent persons who have to administer it, and thereby confer a benefit, as well upon those who have to advise, as of the suitor whose interests are affected by that law.-1 have the honour to be, your obedient and faithful servant, (Signed) " Roornmcc PALMER, Chairman. "The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron." " 1, Serjeants'-inn, Chancery-lane, May 28,15,7. " My dear Sir,—l have the satisfaction to inform you that, at our ' Green Cloth ' last evening, the Lord Chief Baron's motion, that this society shall send two represen tatives to the ' Council of Law Reporting,' was, I may write, almost unanimously agreed to. Our representatives are, I have to inform you, Mr. Serjeant Hayes and Mr. Serjeant Pulling. Should the council require further ex plication bs pleased to address me as above. (Signed) "E. B. BAIN, Treasurer. " James T. Hopwood, Req., Secret►ry to the Council of Law Reporting," The Rev. Professor Jowett preached at St. Botolph's, Bishopegate, last Sunday. The Rev. W. Rogers and his curate read the usual morning service. THE CORK FENIAN PRISONERS . -At 3.35 p.m. yesterday the prisoners charged with Fenianism, and sem Mooed to various terms of penal servitude, or who have had their sentences commuted from death to penal rervi tude for life. at the late special commission for the county of Cork, arrived in Dublin en route to convict prisons in England or the colonies. The convicts were all dressed in the convict uniform, and were kept under a thong con- stabulary escort, in a carriage especially appropriated to their accommodation. Amongst them are—Captain Jobe M'Clure, Edward Kelly, David Joyce, Thomas Bowles, alias Cullinane, James Walsh, alias Colonel F. X. O'Brien, Francis Joseph Meanie, Bartholomew Moriarty, James Kearney, and James Connell, alias Cummins. As the train passed along the line no demonstration took place, the transit of the prisonerabeing unknown and unlooked for. When the train had arrived, no delay was allowed to occur before the prisoners, handcuffed, were pieced in the prime vans, police constables being in charge of them. The cam victs, as they were removed from the railway carriages, presented a miserable appearance, their beards and mous taches having been shorn o ff , and their hair closely cut. In fact, it was impossible to distinguish them from de. graded felons of the lowest class. Having been placed in in i:iJ trt v t a ; iao an oore ;d a thn re : ::ex h,r, ,.Lt -iu ge r.d he cawbeinastovaldt the eli f iz oi pu r erdltiaie: w r. i f th tozy t ing he pr l eet r e t d e iz ti m reyebed iate Evening Mail. ° Tor C° th n e vic i t ireat hia nr—'l.7o be tli: BISHOP PROUDIC A WIDOWER.—Be Was free now. Even in his misery,—for he was very miserable, — he could not refrain from telling himself that. No one could now press uncalled-for into his study, contradict hist in the presence of those before whom he was bound to be authoritative, and rob him of all his dignity. There was no one else of whom he was afraid. She had at least kept him out of the hands of other tyrants. He was now his own master, and there was a feeling—l may not call it Mrs lief, for as yet there was more of pain in it than of eatisfair Lion —a feeling as though ha had escaped from an old trouble at a terrible cost of which be could not as yet cal culate the amount. He knew that he might now pre up all idea of writing to the archbishop. She had in some ways, and at certain periods of his life, been very good to him. She had kept his money for him and made thistle° straight, when they had been poor. His interests had always been her interests. Without her he would never have been a bishop. So, at least, he told himself now, mil so told himself probably with truth. She had been very careful of his children. She had never been idle. She bad never been fond of pleasure. She had neglected nu Ac knowledged duty. He did not doubt that she was now 'e her way to Heaven. He took his bands down from his head, and clasping them together, said a little prayer. It may be doubted whether be quite knew for what he was praying. The idea of praying for her soul, now that abs was dead, would have scandalised him. He certsialy was not praying for his own soul. I think be was praying that God might save him from being glad that his wife was dead. But she was dead ;—and, as it were, ins moment! He had not stirred out of that room since she had been therewith him. Then there had been angry words between them ,—perhaps more determined ty on his part bets ever had before existed ; and they had parted for the lest time with bitter animosity. But he told himself that be had certainly been right in what be hail done thee. He thought he had been right then. And so his mind waist back to the Crawley and Thumble qua.. Lion, and be tried to alleviate the misery which that last interview with his wife now cre,ted by aiouring him self that he at least bad been justified in a hat he had dons. But yet his thoughts were very tender to her. Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no ahem* so thoroughly as that which need' must be endless. We want that which we have not— and especial' that which we can never have. She hail told bun in the very last moments of her presence situ him that be was wishing that she was dead ; and be bad made her no reply. At the moment he had felt, with savage anger, that rock wu was a his wi wis dow h ;— }fx- d w he ord . • had e h no in w .. co u n t i h e a r he pas" ... , " Id d A all that he possessed in the world to bring her hack agate. Yes, he was a widower, and he might do as he pleased. The tyrant was gone and he wee free. The tyrant was gone, and the tyranny had doubtless bees very oppressive. Who had suffered as lie had donee Bat in thus being left without his tyrant he was wretchedle desolate. Might it not be that the tyranny had been good h fo i r m k l m ih t e h n at he trh th e o l fg rc h i t o had f a ato " ry w :v ' hi ‘ e . h ha li t e w hii i e d g rell 6 - 1-11 na hw had well marked as he was reading of some man who bed been terribly afflicted by his "rife, whose wife had starved him and beaten him and reviled him ; and vet this ems had been able to thank his GM for having thus mortified him in the flesh. Might it not be that the mortifiestite which lie himself had doubtless euffered in his flesh had been intended for his welfare, and had been very good for him? But if this were so, it might be that the niortifice tion was now removed because the Lord knew that his servant had been sufficiently mortified. He had not Ines starved or beaten, but the mortification had been certainly h ee is ver , : uth Tli — e . n . T t h b e ere Lo cs rd m that he was very angry with himself, and tried to pray that he might he forgiven . — The Last Chronicle of Barr t , taken boseeihtoertdh:e.—thienotoornehtheaisn"toilt'mhe' by Anthony Troilope. !L:i:rdtAiftehrtor INN.