The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

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To " tlevate to a doctrine" the pretensions of musty landowners to coerce their tenantry at elec tions was net the way is w►ich Sir HENRY Darner °mild expect jolt now to earn the thanks of the Con servative party, tither inNorthamptonshire ar in the country. That the tenant's vote is en appurtenance oldie 'oil, and not the prerogative of the citizen acid that consequently, in the words of Sir Hr.ssr, " no tenant has a right to use his landlord's land to " vote agaiiiet him," may peas for sound, saving truth en the Bench of Quarter Sessions; but it is about the meet insulting proposition which an arro gant oligarchy could throw down before the people. Acoordiegly, we are not surprised that a gentleman of Mr. Rrtatrrt.t7•e acuteness and perspice. city should have seized, at Beckley, - last Wednesday, the first opportunity of declar ing to his constituents, that touching the rela tions of landlord and tenant, he did not share the opinions of his loquacious neighbour. The Hon. Member was too cautions to meddle with the phi losophy of the question; but he dealt with its natural history in a strain which was both enter taining and instructive. A contested election was a nuisance—" a most nn mitigated nuisance," said Mr. KNIGHTLEY ; • declaration which, after the hacknied hustings common-places about distinguished honour and eternal gratitude, has an air of freshness and sin cerity. It was a nuisance, he continued, to the candidate who had to pay, and a nuisance to the constituency, which was very much annoyed and disturbed. Especially was this the case where the screw was put on ; " which, be was sorry to say, "without attacking any party, was too often the MIL" Sir /I mrav DItTDEN, he proceeded, had said that when the tenant differed from the landlord, he should not vote st all ; and for speaking thus the Daily Nemo had hauled him over theocials, and had recommended the application of the ballot. But the remedy would not work," for with the ballot it would be as much in " the power of the landlord to insist on his tenant " not going to the ballot-box as it is now to keep " him back from the polling-booth." We must pause here for a moment; we have got a new view of "the power of the landlord." Sir HENRT Day- DEN, we well remember, claimed to decide what his tenant might not, and should not, do at the polling booth. Mr. XXIGHTLET tells us, and he knows, that it would be just as easy to keep him from going there at all. Some of the effects of this authority must be curious. Would the landlord be satisfied with a moral blockade, or would the recusant tenants be valet-Nes for the day on their farms ? Here and there, where • devolution of property had suddenly thrown the political sentiments of landlord and tenants out of harmony, we might expest to find at elections a whole lordship in a state of siege. We begin to agree with our authority that in Northamptonshire, at any rate, and for the tenant voters, a contested election must be " a great " nuisance." Well, these general considerations got over, we come to a formal review of county tenant voters. Mr. KNIGHTLET has enumerated for us the lead ing genera. First, there were the free and inde pendent voters, who, as always happens on these occasions, were the persons "before him." For them the franchise was a benefit to be enjoyed, an important public duty to be performed ; they de tested the ballot. Then came a clam of which we shall do well to take note, people who, " not taking " any very great part in public affairs, get confused "in the matter of Conservative-Liberals mid Liberal " Conservatives, Peelites and Whigs, and not oaring " much about who gets in, give their vote to oblige " a friend, a landlord, or a customer." We venture to my that Mr. KNIOIITLEY has here fallen upon a dis tinction which no future nomenclator can afford to disregard. The voters who "get confused" will always hold the balance of power in their hands. It stands to reason that people to whom a vote is of no value except as it enables them to put some one under a private obligation, do not want to have the transaction buried in a ballot-box. Having vindi cated this virtuous class of electors, having spoken first of those who are free and public•epirited, and then of those who know nothing of public duty and do not want freedom, there remained one elms, namely, those who have a public conscience but are not free. Mr. XxtonTLIT Neves it for last, evidently because its company is not good enough for the others. Thus he introduces it :—" Then who would be " benefited? The sneaking, lying scoundrel who " made up his mind to tell a deliberate lie, in the " meanest manner, for the lowest motive ; a person " who sold his birthright for a mess of potage, and " after eating the potage, wanted back hie birth .' right—he could use the ballot and lie with im " punity. Were they prepared to be coerced and " insulted by the ballot for his sake ?" There is a picture! To this the 30!. tenant franchise has come within six-and-twenty years after the passing of the Reform Bill. The " honest "and independent" voters for whom the Marquis of CIIANDOS stood sponsor in 1832 have the alter native of either still writhing under the screw or be coming" lying scoundrels." Mr. KNIORTLLY speaks angrily, because be foresees that the freedom which ac companies the ballot would really be used. He is very indignant that a man should withdraw his acts from hie landlord's eye ; but he has no wrath for the people who get first "confused" and then venal, and who end by selling their vote for the favour of their customers or their landlords. Addressing the " independent " electors before him," he talks of possession of the franchise entailing a public duty. Suppose, then, that by the importunities of the owner of an estate a tenant has been induced to promise his vote to the woese candidate, is he absolved by his private en gagement from his public duty ? Are there not two incompatible obligations on him 2 To one of them he mu,t be unfaithful. There is no escape from the dilemma. Inevitably he will break his promise to his landlord or he will betray his public duty. It is the landlord who places him in this immoral position and on him be the responsibility. The franchise is not a birthright which any voter has a right to chop II 111 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1858. and change for potage. It is his to wear and enjoy, but he has no more right to sell it than a moldier has to pawn his Crimean medal for beer. Any land owner obtaining it of him is clearly guilty of unlaw ful possession. The right of the State to the free dom of all her trustees is one which no private arrangements about potage can possibly defeat. The time is fast approaching when the audacious and increasieg usurpations of the territorial interest must be stayed with a strong hand. Claims and pretensions which till lately were kept in the retire ment of the steward's dice, are now advanced in the market-place. Oppressive practices formerly palliated, are now professed and vindicated. Hints have grown into maxims, expedients have become systems. The forbearance of the great body of the nation is presumed oa and abused. In that readjust ment of our internal political relations which every party in turn has new acknowleged to be inevitable, the only practicable guarantee of independence, the protection of the ballot, most be secured to the voter. Large-acred squires may 07 "coward" and " sneak.' Perhaps our ancestors of King Amteres days would have despised us for sleeping behind bolts and bars. In both cases there is only one excuse—there are rob bers abroad. The influence which will remain to the worthy portion of the landed gentry will still be immense, and what is more, it will be honourable. The tenantry of Fawsley will turn out with as much enthusiasm as ever to shout for its generous lord and vote for his son. The voters of independent spirit will be spared grievous sacrifices, and the " con " fused" will have less to trouble their ideas. What ever may be done to restore the ancient independence of the county constituencies, whatever reconstruction , of their elements, or extension of their limits, may take place, without the safeguard of the ballot, the , tenant voter will be but the prey of his landlord's party, the freeholders will be overwhelmed, and we shall see the House of Commons invaded, as now, by a progeny, representing neither the conscience, the understanding, nor the interests of the nation. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (15011 OVA OWN 0011RNSPOWDIXT.) PARIS, FOIDAT Brume. Ever since the event of January 14 there were rumours that M. Pietri's position had become uncer tain, but it was only, u I learn, on Friday last that ke was made to understand that he had nothing to do but to resign. On that day the Emperor pre sided at a council to determine oa the fate of Orsini, Pieri, and di Radio. M. Pietri, whose position as Prefect of Police naturally entitled his opinion to much weight, spoke at great length in favour of a commutation of punishment for all the prisoners. He did not, of course, attempt to extenuate their guilt, but he urged ;many reasons tending to show that mercy would be politic, in the interest of the Emperor. A reprieve would, he said, produce an excellent effect in France and Italy, more particu larly in the latter country, where, on the other hand, it was to be feared that the execution of Orsini might produce great excitement and a rooted feeling of bitterness which would not be without danger. While dwelling on this latter topic he was suddenly interrupted by General &pinnace, who exclaimed loudly in a sarcastic tone, "Oh ! have we got an Italian patriot here ?" M. Pietri, who is a Corsican, changed colour at this ominous reproof from the rising star of the Imperial Court. He said, with some confusion, that he;„wsa not ashamed of the appellation, but then looking at the generally illegible countenance of the exalted personage who occupied the chair, he read in it distinctly an approbation of General F.spinasse's sally, and sat down convinced that his tenure of office was at an end. It is quite certain that one among many other important results of Orsini's bombs was to give a new direction to the policy of the Tuileries, which may be expected to manifest itself by yet further changes in the personnel of the administration. Both M. Billault and M. Pietri were understood to represent in the cabinet what is called the Pallas Royal interest, by which expres sion is meant that they were more or less influenced by suggestions made by Prince Napoleon or his father. It is not the first time that jealousies of interference from that quarter have been spoken of. The dismissal of M. Pietri, following closely upon that of M. Billault, is considered a decided blow to the Palais Royal, and I am assured that it is by way of a salve for the vexation caused by it that the Prince Napoleon has been appointed president of a commiesion to define the exact limits between the jurisdiction of the Prefect of Police and that of the Prefect of the Seine—a subject upon which there have been frequent conflicts. The Prefect of the Seine (M. Hauserman) complains, it appears, that the muni cipality of Paris has in some respects less power than the town councils of other places, in consequence of long-aanctioned usurpation by the Prefect of Police. It will matter very little now how the difference may be settled, as in any case the whole thing is likely to be conducted altogether en jamille, M. Boittelle being not only an intimate friend of Counts Moray and Persigny, and an old comrade of General Espinasse, but also a cousin (by marriage) of M. Hausmann. What is called the "political direction" of the Prefecture of Police is now to be absorbed by the Ministry of the Interior, so that the new prefect is shorn of a good deal of the old power and dignity of the office. General Espinosa° is in fact, though not in name, Minister of Police. He, I am told, is very little seen by his subordinates. He has frequent interviews with the Emperor, works by himself, and issues his orders in writing. I have heard a curious, and perfectly authentic anecdote, illustrative of the state of things during the last days of M. Pietri's administration. It is usual when the Emperor is going out to telegraph the fact from the Tuileries to the Prefecture in the Rue de Jerusalem, and then numerous police agents in and out of uniform are despatched to the line of route which he takes. But it very frequently happens that the notice given is so short that the Emperor is outside the barrier and in the Bois de Boulogne before the police have arrived in the Champs Elystes. M. Pietri, deeply feeling the weight of his responsibility, represented these facts and asked to be furnished every morning with a programme of the Emperor's movements, so that he might be enabled to make proper arrangements in time. The request was refused. An hour before the arrival of their Majesties at the Opera on Wednesday evening, all the houses in the Rue Lepelletier, opposite the building, were searched by the police. An English gentleman of my acquaintance, who has long had apartments in Paris, with his own furniture in them, came over from England in a French mail boat three days ago, and observed on the passage that the captain seemed to be more than usually inquisitive about him. Last night he received at his house a summons to appear at the Prefecture of Police, for "matters con- cerning Lira." lie went there this morning and after being asked a good many questions as to what he had been doing lately, and what he intended to do for the future, was politely sent about his business, without any explanation. His passport being regu lar he can only suppose that, as he wears a beard and speaks French well, doubts were entertained about his identity. Marshal Canrobert has taken possession of his command at Nancy, and has issued an order of the day to the troops ; but a local journal says that this his first visit will be very short as he returns to Paris in three days. At the Bourse very little business was done, but it was rather firm at the close, the Rento rising 10e. both for cash and account, and closing at 69fr. 500. Mobilier was nearly stationary. Railways were rather lower. ARRIVAL OF THE BOMBAY MAIL. We have received our advice§ from Bombay in anticipation of the Overland Mail. The date is Bombay, Feb. 24. The following is from the Bombay Times: The trial of leshomed Bahadoor Shah, the ex-King of Delhi, by the military commiasion appointed for that pur pose, has been the most interesting event, news of which has reached us from the North-West, during the last fortnight. The evidence adduced leaves no reasonable doubt whatever that the charge which con stitutes the gravamen of this miserable man's offenos against us is fully sustained, and that It was by his order that forty nine of our race, chiefly women and children, were cruelly butchered in the Palace at Delhi on the 16th of May last. Meantime the life of the guilty wretch in whose skirts the blood of our innocents is found, is guaranteed, and we cannot wonder that the interned indignation is felt and expressed on all hands at the fact. A contemporary assures us, on the strength we suppose of a telegraphic despatch, that the ' royal murderer has been found guilty by his judges, and is sentenced to transportation to the Andaman/ for life. So este the sun of the last of the Moguls! Sir Colin Campbell, contrary to the general expectation that he would cross the Ganges at Furruckabed, end direct Ms march through Oude upon Lucknow, has moved from that place down the right bank of the river again to Cairn pore, where he seems to have been accumulating stores and troops for his final advance to join Outram at the Alumbagh and commence the siege of Lucknow. There can be no question that the position so gallantly held by the latter °Doer during the last three months has been the post of honour as of danger, during the opera tions which have characterised them ; and we shall look impatiently for the notice that is to be taken of General Ontram's brilliant services in this campaign. With his small lone, not 4,000 strong, he has had to watch a city covering aa area of twenty-eight miles, and garrisoned by disciplined troops twenty times his strength, has had to keep communi cations open with Cawnpore, and bold Donnas, while attack after attach has been repelled by him, entailing the severest leas upon his assailants. The Commander-ice-Chid was at Commute on the 12th February, waiting for the siege trails from Agra, which had not arrived. Troops had been croadisg the Ganges since the Ist February, and a large force is now assembled at Alum high, to commence operations against Lucknow on Sir Colin'e arrival from Cawupore. The attack would take place about the 19th or 20th of February. The Goorkhu are advancing towards Onde on the eastern side, and are clearing the country in that direction. On the 7th February, they attacked the enemy, about 10,000 strong, under the Rajah of Gondah, whom they defeated, with the lees of fifty killed. The remainder were completely dispersal Central India is being rapidly cleared of the rebels. The strong fort of Rainnuggur has been taken and dismantled by a force from Jubbulpore, and we have now uninterrupted communication with Calcutta. On the 11 th February the force under General Rose left Saugor, and advanced towards the fort of Garraketta, which was evacuated ,by the enemy. A flying detachment was emit after them, which cut up their nor, killing about 100. An action took place at Shorapore, in the Nisam's terri tories on the Bth of February, between the Madras troops end a body of Rolullae, in which Captain Newbury was killed, and Lieutenant Stewart badly wounded. The town of Shorapere was evacuated in the night, and taken posses sion of by Colonel Malcolm. Ths Rajah, who had fled, was subsequently oaptnred at Hyderabad. The 71st Highlanders and 18th Royal Irish hays arrived at Bentbay, and still remain at the presidency. The Governor-General, with the full powers of the council oonliorred upon him for six months, ia now on his way up to the North-West Provinces, the desirableness of his presence in the disturbed districts having been generally recognised, and the seat of government has been removed from Agra to Allahabad. The left Calcutta on the 31st December, and arrived at Allahabad on the 7th February. The Lieu tenant-Governorship of the Central Provinces, and the Chief Commissionership of the North-West, have been abolished, and Mr. Grant has returned to Calcutta, to resume his seat in council. A very respectable and influential meeting of the native gentry of Bombay voted an address to ►er Majesty a few days ago, expressive of their abhorrence of the crime. committed in this rebellion, and their loyal wishes for the establishment of the Brit fah power in India on a lasting foundation. The address goes home by the present mail, signed, u we believe, by all the leading members of the Bombay native community. The Bombay Standard of tho 24th ult. says. By this time the force in the immediate neighbourhood of Lucknow, including that under Outram, but excluding detachments left to guard the rear, will amount to at least 20,000 men, with 100 pieces of ordnance, many of them of the largest calibre. The policy of the chief obviously is, to have no more hand-to-hand conflicts; his guns are of inch enormous size as to be employed with des tructive effect beyond the longest range of the heaviest of those of the enemy. The fire poured by them as Lucknow must at once become so frightful and so crush ing as to coonskin ruin and conflagration everywhere, and compel its occupants to take their chance of escape by flight, poor as this may be, rather than suffer the certainty of being roasted or blown to gloom in their den. The only fear is that they may disperse before we get within reach of them ; but with eight or ten mounted corps, regular or irregular, we shall still be able to give a good account of a very large proportion of them, the rest being left without a single place of refuge. We take the following also from the Bombay Standard: The Mysore Field Force, as it was originally termed, wee organised near Kurnool in the middle of July. It has been elided to from time to time, and last month confided of the fAlowing troops :—H.ll.'s 12th Lancers, H.ll.'s 43rd, a heavy siege train from Ramptee, 2 troops of Horse Artillery, 3rd Com. of Foot Artillery, 2 light field batteries, 6th and 7th Madras Light Cavalry, let M. N. 1., 3rd M. N. 1., 6th Y. N. 1., 19th M. N. 1., 60th M. N. 1., and two company's Madras Sappers and Miners. Proceeding northward and westward they reached Masowly, where on the 21st January • party of the rebels were over taken and cut up by them. The fugitives escaped into the fortress of Rarnnuggor, the existeoce of which was never dreamt of. Mortars were sent for, but as they were not accompanied by Artillerymen, the bombardment which ensued was ineffective. The main body of the force having arrived next thy, the rebels were found to have fled, and the place was destroyed. The troops returned to &hots en the 24th. On the 26th they made • dash on Bodeen, where some of the re bels got wounded in • skirmish. On the 29th they arrived et Chalks, sixty miles from Jubbulpore, and within the limits of the district. On the let of February they came back to Moonaire, a well fortified stronghold oc cupied by the rebels in force. On the 7th they were attacked by the insurgents at Sleemanabad. The fight was of short duration ; the enemy, having after their first onslaught retired to a grove of mango trees, were speedily driven from this and dispersed. The columns both of Whitlock and Rose, during their advance, were in oommunleation with the troops of the Rajahs of Punna and Rewa, under command of Capt. Osborne, who had about this time captured M ishere and Bijrajooghur. He seemed anxious fora heavy force near Rears, as the troops commanded by him were deemed so little trustworthy, that he could not venture on the execution of the prisoners he bed captured, despatching them after trial to Jubbulpore for execution. A detachment of Whitlock's force marched out to meet the prisoners, 94 in number, with • guard of 600 matchlock men and 100 troopers. The culprits were all a:rated in the evening, two were hanged, and 92 shot. About the end of January, the Negpore Irregulars mutinied at Ryepore, 17 of them were executed on the spot, when tranquillity was restored. The 33rd Madras Native ' Infantry left Jubbulpore on the 3rd to bring the disorderly to their senses, but found themselves anticipated and the work performed to their hands. The whole of Whitlock's force reached Jubbtdpore betwixt the 7th and 10th. On the 11th the 4th and 6th Madras Light Cavalry left for Allahabed and Misrepore to co-operate with the troops entering Oude from the south-west. The main force was to follow about the 13th, and will probably take the direction of Cawnpons, the three great column, each about 6,000 strong, with close on • hundred guns amongst them under Oen. Roberts, Oen. Sir Hugh Rose, and General Whitlock, closing up on the Amine, as the Commander-iu•Chiel crosses the Ganges. Having swept the country before them and around on their advance, it is probable that about the present date Lucknow is being invested. The inthrgents know how bootless it is to try to enter Natant when they are daybed as much ea they are hated. A wall of Ike is gathering all around, to the west, north-west, and 'outli ers*, so that they is nothing for it bat to abide their fate. It is said that the Governor-General is willing to pardon the people of Oode who hairs rises in rebellion on their laying down their arms. The promise of clemency does not include the mutineers or times convicted of any special act of atro city. The resolution mans wise. CAWNPORE. FEB. 5, 1858,-1 mentioned in my but that his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was expected in camp on the 4th of February. His Excellency and suit*, with a body guard of Lancers, arrived on the evening of that day, and have taken up quarters Ina bungalow adjacent to Cap tain Brien's, which is satiated on the banks of the Ganges, and close to the entrenchment. The force is expected here on the 6th (to-seorrow). A small brigade warn detached and has marched towards Umbellah. The 'anent etth, ISM informed, forma • pert of the brigade. Colonel Campbells brigade, consisting of H. H. 7th Humors, a troop of Royal one Artillery, end H. H.'s 79th, moved across the river this morning and marched towards the village of Onso. This brigade will remain there till the arrival of the force from Fatteghur, which. on its snivel at Cawnpory will make preparations for crossing the Owes at once. The force at Alumbagh is still very much tuu-rssed by the menses, whose Are is now incessant; our troops are obliged to be constantly under arms, not knowing the moment the wretches will =Air • nigh. Some three days since, the rebels attacked our position in three different points, but our fellows were prepared for them, and gave them a warm reoeptioe. The rebels were forced to retire, suffering very much in killed and wounded. We had but cos killed ; the unfortunate men belonged to H. M. 90th regiment. We have the road hence to Alumtegh well , much go that individuals go to and from so Alum unmolested.. We give them lots of shell and shrapnel from our bakeries--roved shot they would return. This morning two more 10-inch howitzers arrived from Allahabsd, under Marge of a small detachment. These are the boys for jack espoy : • couple of shot from their batteries per minute will most assuredly put our sable foes in a tremor, which con be got rid of only by a bolt—and ran they will. Lacknow is to be ours without fail by the 15th current, and the poor eepoy rendered a boneless wanderer. It is cur rently reported that we have an army of from 10 to 12,000 marching towards Calpee from Bangor, and another force of about 7,000 from Jhansie. Should these armies join the Cawnpore force woe be to the rebels now at Lucknow, who, it is said, number one hundred and eighty thousand. The light brigade that proceeded to Calpee has returned— nothing worthy of remark trenspired beyond having to en camp out there. For so many days, not a rebel was to be seen. The gentlefolks about here drive out in the evening in their open carriage*, or take an airing on horseback. We have our bands on the Esplanade every evening, and every thing here now denotes a life sa in times of peace. lam told there is a large number of sick in the General Hospital, and that an influx is impacted on the arrival of the force from Furruckabad.—Boniboy Tiara. Cl* Court. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Priam Consort madded gesterday at a meeting of the council of the Docity of Comma, WM at the Duely-ofilos, Bucte, gate, St. Jamsfe-park. There were Wm pre sent The Cimaatilor, the Right Rom Thomas Pemberton Leigh; the Rem Hmry Bonds William Brand ; the AttornerGenwal, ; the Treasurer, Colonel the Ron. Merles Breeziest Pldeps ; the Duke of New castle, Lou* Pertmea, sad die ssoritsry, Mr. Janes Robert Henry Whitmore attended and took the oaths on his t as Keeper of the Privy Seal, in the room of the riet i r sc enry B.,uverie William Brand, resigned. Prins Alfred, attended by Lieut. Cowell, returaed to Alveetreak, Tie Princesses Alice, Halms, end Louisa, end Priors Arthur, took oaninge drives. The Prince Coneort, ettended by the Earl of Verulam, Lord Colville, and Captain the Hon. D. de Roe, honoured the perierseenee at the Haymarket Thestre with his presence itt the wewerni. Mr. Clarks Buxton, M.P., was presented to the Queen at the Imam Wedaesday by hts brother, Sir Edward Buxton. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Cooper, left her residence, Clarence home, St. Jansen yesterday, for Frogs:Dore. A deputation from the Aborigiuse Protection Society had an interview yesterday with Lard Semley, at the Colonial office, on the goverment of the Hudson's Bay Territories, and of the colony of Sierra Leona. The deputation cimaistad of Mr. S. ChriethlE s i z :r. C. Gilpin, M.P , Kr. H, Pease, M.P., Gemmel Y.P._, Mr. Gerard Balsam, Mr. R. N. Fowler Mr. . Lewin, M. J. Mayfield, Mr. A. K. 'abider, Mr. F. E. Fon, Mr. R. Alum, Mr. G. L. Neigh bour, Mr. W. Jams, Mr. E. Fry, Mr. F. W. Charm, Dr. Hodgkin, the Her. H. Eireard, and the His, J. Barnet. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, Sir Andrew Orr, Mr. Buchanut, M.P., Mr. Dalglie M.P., Mr. Turner, town clerk ; Mr. Knight, treasurer of the Clyde Navigation ; end Mr. Maclaurin, parliamentary event, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hoe. J. W. Henley the Presi dent, and the Earl of D o n oug h more , Vice-Preeidest, of the Board of Trade, on the subject of the Clyde Navigation Bill. Sir John Maxwell had an interview yesterday with he Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Charles Elliot had an interview with Lord Stanley, yesterday. were sent yesterday from the C o l on i a l- o ffice to the Di at ha rn m om of Canada, Hoeg Krieg, Ceylon, and the Marititta. (TROY LAST motifs osmium) LORD CIIAMBERLAINII-OMCR, MARCH IS: Is hereby gives that her Majesty wW hold a levee at St. Jasiss's Palace on Welessdm, 24th inst., at two o'clock. ST. JAttn's Pn LACR, MARCH n o —The Queen was this daypleess dto confer ths honour of knighthood upon Hes& .2..aimmt Cairns, Esq., her Mejeety's Solicitor- General. ST.. lAXEll'a PALACE, MARCH 17.—The Queen has be pleated to appoint William Lennox Weenie, Lord de Rea, to be captain of her Mejeaty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, to the room of John Robert, Viaoount Sydney, re- 87. JANES'S PALACE, MARCH 18.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Countess of Caledon to be one of the Wks of the Bedchamber in Ordinary to her Majerty, in the room of the Duchess of Wellington, m illed. WHITEHALL, MARCH 17.—The Queen ken been plemad to grant the o ffi ce of Solicitor- General for Scotland to Charles &Mlle, EN., Advocate. Fottemx-ornce, MARCH 19.—The Queen has bean planed to approve of Mr. George Vail as ooneni at ()lupe for the United States of America. The Prince Consort hu beed graciously p1Z1, 41 to signify his intention of honouring with hit promos the concert for the benefit oli the Middlesex Hospital, which will take place at the sew St. James's Hall, on Thursday nut, Marcia 25. Mr. Caesar Hawkins bu been appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to bar Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary will leave Bt. James's Palace at the close of the ensuing week for Cambridge Cottage, Kew, where their royal highnesses will remain until otter the Baste, holidays. The Earl and Countess of Rosebery and Lady Louisa Priorore arrived in town a few days since from Dal• may Park, sear Edinburgh. The Earl of Btradbroke hu left the Brunswick Hotel, S. James's, for Henluim Hall, Suffolk. The Comtesse Stadion hu arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, St. Jamee'a, from the Continent. Lord and Lady duerneey and the Hon. Major Finch have left Claridge's Hotel. Lady Molesworth received at dinner last evening, at her rsidenee in Eaton-place, the Count d'Apponyi, the Marquis d'Areglio, the Counties de Persigny, the Marquis and Merchionass of Clanricarde, Maria Marchioness of Aides bary, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Mr. Harcourt, M.P., sod Frances Counters Waldegrave, the Countess of Tankerville, Viscount Chelsea, Viscoantess Palmerston, Hon. Mrs. Sidney Herbert, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. IL Milne, M.P., Mr. Tbackeray, and Mr. Hayward. The name of Mr. Butt, M.P., wu erroneously substituted for that of Mr. Butt, Q C., amongst the guests at 81r Edward Lytton Bulye's dinner party in our bares pion of yesterday. The Artists' General Benevolent Institution will give their anniversary dieser, in Frcemuons' Hall, ea Saturday next, the 27th of this month. Lord Elcho will take the chair. Wa Excellency Baron Brannow, the Russian ambareador, arrived in Dover at 12.30 Nix morning, sad pews/dad isernedialely to the Bhip Hotel. Hi+ Excellency wee received on landing by 8. M. Latham, Esq., Russian viee•ooesnl, and by Mr. E. T. Way, superintendent of the Dryer Railway station. Ills Excellency is expected to leave ►y the noon train for Loudon. The obituary of this week (says the A thenawm) inductile the name of Mm. Owen, whose claim on a parting word here lies on her being the sister of Mrs. Hemline, the accomplished woman and amateur melodist, who set and pub lished many of the lyrics by the poems, and who, some twenty years ego, compiled the life which prefaces the cora plias edition of the " Poem' of Mrs. Hemans," published after her decease. The Subscription to Mr. Brock's " Biographical Sketch of General Havelock" reached the very large num ber of 32,000. A lug* part of this purchase has been ea elasively toe the America& market. SPAIN. Letters from Madrid, published by • French government lithographed correspondence, state that Republican and Socialist proclamations have been lately distributed in the city. They first made their appearance at the time of the rising at Chalons. They produced no effect either upon the army or the people. TURKEY. The Awgsburg Gazette says that France and Eng land are agreed upon the following points:--l. The Porte must repress the insurrection in Bosnia and Herzegowina. 2. It must faithfully execute the Hatti Houmayoum. Should these requisitions be complied with it will not be necessary to consult the Paris Conference on the subject ; but if otherwise, the Conference will be formally called upon to settle the question. TRIESTE, MARCIE 19. Constantinople: letters of the 13th state that the Porte has refused to comply with the demands of M. de Boateniers note. Barret Effendi, the Coln miseary in the Principalities, will be recalled, Kernel Effendi wee to leave on the 13th for the Christian provinces, with instructions to maintain the statu quo. The Pais Pattie announces that several small vowels are now arming In different ports, for the purpose of being emit to China to reinforce Admiral It*Mt de Genouilly's flotilla. ALUMBAGH. FEB. 7, 1858.—Sir Colin Campbell is at Cawn pore. The 79th Highlanders and 7th Hussars have crossed the river on their way here. Orders have come to store a large quantity of provisions for Europeans and natives. The plans of the Chief are kept quite secret. There appears I. be no immediate hurry for en advance on his part. Ac counts from the city are still favourable. Desertions are reported to be moat numerous. The Moulvie is said to be a prisoner in the hands of the rebels. The Begam is in • Sr. Mann Sing has gone to Fyr.abad, and is trying to treat with Jung B ah edoor for protection, which if he does not succeed in he will fight, and it will perhaps fell to our share to lick him. We have just heard that Sir Colts Campbell's force at Futteghur is on its way to Cawnpore and it is said the Chief is going to Calpee before moving this way. Nous verrons.—lboiteA Observer, Feb. 20. ALLAHABAD. FEB. 11.—The whole force is to be in motion to morrow. They have been crooning the river at Cawnpore for the lied few days, end they talk et the snack commencing on the 20th. Sir Colin Campbell came here two day. ago, and had an interview with the governor-general, and left again the same afternoon. It was concerning Oudo affairs he came. There is a report here that a relation of the old king has proclaimed himself king of India, and has given orders to the insurgents not to try and tight use but to disperse in bands of forty or fifty, and scour the roads and kill all the English. I think that is the worst news we have had yet. Mr. Russell, the Times man, left this morning on his way to Lucknow.—. Bombay Standard, Feb 23. FUGITIVES FROM LUCKNOW. Mr. Osborne, sub-de pu ty opium agent, writing on the 4th of February from a place midway between Fyiabed and Oude, says :—" Several Christian fugitives have lately been saved from Lucknow through the instrumentality of Mann Bing. This morning a Mrs. Duhan (an East Indian lady), with three children, arrived safely at my house, en route to Clorttckpore ; she la, I believe, the wife of a merchant at Allahabad. She states that Mann Sing has treated them all with kindness. They arrived here in native costume. I am trying to 8t them out from such clothes se were left behind by the rebels and wpm. They this evening to Goracipore. The names of the peoA 'r e el pre served snd brought from Lucknow by Mann Sing are as fol lows : —Mr. Hare's family, 6; Mr. Wronghton's, ditto, 8 or 10 ; Mr. Francis, and ditto, 7; Mr. Badly, and ditto, 7 ; Mr. Short, and ditto, 12; Miss Jackson; Mrs. Orr and another lady ; Mr. Duhan (my present guest's brother) and family, 8. " There are more, Mrs. Duhan says, but she cannot recol lect their names at present. " Mann Sing after all appears to be all right, and Mrs. Duhan says he told her he would not fight against us. My scouts tell we the rebels at Tends are becoming daily more tired of each other. All the Bunneahs have run away, and the rebels an cutting up the green crops for subsistence." TRIAL OF THE EX•KINO OF DELHI. (From the Delhi Gazette.) The trial of the ex-King of Delhi commenced on Wednesday, January 27 in the Dewan Khu of the Palace. The court is composed as follows :—Colonel Dawes, Horse Artillery, Preddent (in room of Brigadier Showers, about to leave the station); members, Major Palmer, H.M.'s 60th Rifles; Major Redmond, M.M.'s Slat Regi ment; Major Sawyers, M.M.'s 6th Carabincers; and Cap tain Rothney, 4th Sikh infantry. Major Marriott, Deputy Judge-Advocate-Cieneral, government prosecutor; and Mr. James Murphy, interpreter to the court. . . . The trial Ina to have commenced at 11 o'clock, a.m., but owing to delays, caused by the sudden change in the constitu tion of the court, in consequence of Brigadier Showers' ap proaching departure, it was half-put 12 before the pri soner was brought in, although he was in atten dance, sitting in a palangtran outside, under • guard of rifles, at the appointed hoar. lie appeared very infirm, and he tottered into court supported on one side by the interesting youth" lamina Bukht, and on the other by a confidential servant, and coiled himself into a small bundle upon the cushion assigned to him. He pre sented inch a picture of helpless imbecility, as under other circumstances meat have awakened pity. lie sat coiled up on a cushion on the left of the president, and to the tight of the government prosecutor; his son Jumrott Bukht standing a few yards to his left, and a guard of rifles beyond all. Several European gentlemen were in court, as spectators, and later in the day some ladies took the seats provided for their accommodation. The proceedings commenced by the members of the court, the prosecutor, and interpreter taking the customary oaths. The prosecutor then read the charges against the prisoner, and then proceeded to address the court in a clear, concise, explanatory manner, and concluded by stating that although the prisoner might be folly convicted by the court, no capital sentence could be passed upon him, in consequence of his life having been guaranteed to Dim by General Wilson, in a promise conveyed through Captain Hodson. The prosecutor then put the question through the inter preter, • guilty or not guilty?" which the prisoner either did not, o• alkicted not to understand ; and there was some delay in explaining it to him. He then declared himself pro foundly ignorant of the nature of the charges against him, although a translated copy of them was futoished and read to him, la the presence of witnesses, some twenty days pre vious. After some more delay the priso r ze f r e teaded "Not Guilty," and the business of the court p On the second day the sittiog was closed, in consequence of the iodise saition of the prisoner. On the third day, while the evidence was being taken, the prisoner, coiled up easily upon his cushion, appeared lost in the land of dreams; and, except when anything particular struck him, continued unmindful of what was passing around him. On the fourth and fifth days he was aroused from sleep to Leer the evidence read. A professional artist was in at tendance on the latter day, making a sketch of the prisoner, as ha lay on his couch. On the math dry, the translation of • letter, dated the 24th of March, addressed to the late Mr. Colvil, Lieut.-Governor N.W.P., wee read, disclosing the fact that as far back 11 a year and a bolt ago secret eminence were sent by the King of Delhi to Persia, through the agency of one Mahatma Nossun Uskseres, the object of which was evidently to ob tain mistime to complete the overthrow of Bt hush power is India. The perusal of the ktt3r, which bears both the Delhi and Agra postmark, excited considerable sensation in court. On the 7th and Bth days the prosecutor examined through the interpreter, a person named Jutmull, formerly news writer to the Lientenant-Governor at Affrs- His evidence was most important, and notwithstanding an apparent desire to criminate the prisoner as little as possible, it most be most damaging te the "Royal Cann." hat was elicited from his on the second day related ally to the massacre of the European prisoners of all climes sad ages, on the 16th of May; and oonfinned all we have already heard concerning cold-blooded atrocities committed absolutely under the prisoner's own apartments in the poleax The canal water, which ran through the place of execution, was, it appears, used for the purpose of wuhing away all traces of tb e bloody deed. Captain Forrest, Commissary of Ordnance, was examined on the Bth and 9th days, and on the 10th Bir Theithiles Metcalfe, C. 8., gave evidence. The soothsayer," liu saun Vekheres, was examined, and denied all that had been said of his wonderful powers. The prisoner was then referred to, and notwithstanding his recorded statement of hie firm belief in the powers nazi. bated to the witness, he denied all knowledge of him or his powers. He was reminded of his statement made but a tr2ais previous, but all to no purpose; he complet e ', him ; and Hasson Uskberee was returned to 134 illa7r of confinement much to the disgust of those who ex . petted some interesting revelations from him. The next witness called was Bukhtawur, a peon in tko service of the late Captain Douglas. His evidence cid 7 related to the occurrences of the Ilth of May. The court was occupied the whole of the eltrenftk day with the examination of a person named ch s . nee, formerly editor of a native paper, entitled the Delhi Hews, conducted on • f novel principle; td editor's duty being to write his paper full, mg then carry it round and read it to his subset. ben l The witness stated in reply to questim; that the Mahomedans of the city were in the habit of boasting that the Persians, aided by the Russians, we re coming to drive the English out of the country, and pr o it as his firm belief that the Mahomedans were very m uc h excited about the Persian war. The Chuppaties which were circulated, were, he said, for the purpose of bringing tomb., a large body of men for some Mistiness to be explains/ to them hereafter ; and he said they orientated at or new /tureen]; precisely the opposite direction from which Sir T. Metcalfe traced their origin. The witness In reply to question by the prosecutor said, that about live or six days after the city had been in possession of the mutineers, he heard that there was • great dieturbasce in the palace, and on going to see the cause, found a number of sepoys and some of the prisoner's armed ser vants, killing European, men, women, and children. There was a great crowd collected, and he could not see dis tinctly through it ; but, after the slaughter was completed, he inquired of the sweepers, who were removing the bo dies, and heard that in all fifty-two persons had been killed. Of these only five or six were males, the rest all females end children! The bodies were being removed in carte, and ware thrown into the river; when he saw them lying dead, they were in • circle. A number of Mahome dans were on the top of liima Mogul's house, spectators of the scene, and the witness heard that Musa Mogul himself was one of those looking on. These un fortunate people were confined, previous to their massacre, from the 11th to the 16th of May, in • sort of receptacle for rubbish, where the prisoner's lowest culprits were confined, and in which it would bare been an insult to confine a person with any pretensions to repectability. There were many better and more suitable buildings, but they were not allotted to the Europeans. The above is the substanee of Chunee's evidence, elicited by severe cross-examination by the prosecutor and the pls. trident of the court ; and he concluded his evidence of this day by replying to a question put by the prosecutor, as to who gave the order for the massacre of the Europeans, "The King himself ; who else could give the order ?" On the twelfth day " Golam" was examined and gave some particulars of the massacre of Europeans inside the Palace, of which he was an eye-witness. The prisoner's Eshowe, Essam-oolla Khan, was them called in end examined on oath. His evidence, which ought to be and might be, but for evident " bias," interesting and important always breaks, down when coming to a actin' point, vie., criminating the prisoner. The prisoner was more lively than usual to-day; declared his Innocence of everything several times, and amused him self by twisting and untwisting a scarf round his old bead, and asking for • stimulant occasionally. [The verdict and sentence are mentioned in the summary of the Bombay Times, given in another column.] THE INDIAN ARMY.—Nearly our whole Indian army is at present actually on field service. The Commander in-Chief has nearly 20,000 immediately under him, with at least 16,000 more is his rear and flanks. The columns of Roberta, Rose, and Whitlock, with their »- serves, wil l roaster 20,000 at least. Chamberlain must have 10,000 at his disposal—giving a grand total of 65,000, mostly Europeans, in almost mamma conflict with the enemy; while there are probably half es many more in leaser detachments on active duty. 111,0e0 Europeans are mustering in the Punjaub, and we have pro bably 60,000 in all the native armies of Bombay and Medias included, stationary on garrison duty.—Bonibay Standard, Feb. 24. We (Times) have very much pleasure in stating that a telegram has been received from Naples, annoancing that, in consequence of the note delivered by the British go vernment, not only had Watt, the engineer, whose mind had become affected, been liberated, but that the king had given orders that the trial of Park should proceed with all pos sible despatch, in order that he might be speedily set at liberty, and enabled to return to England with his fallow prisoner. A letter from Florence of March 9 states that eight persons had been arrested on account of the murder of a Frenchman, who had been stabbed at ten on a Sunday evening, in the Via di Semillo, near the Piazza S. Spirit*. Letters from La Plata and Rio Janeiro report that the yellow fever is raging severely among the ships' crews An English soul of war, after Buttering dreadfully, was at last evacuated by the thirty men who were spared. Several other ships of all nations were also evacuated. MADAME BOSIO AND SIGNOR TAYBERLIK.—Then eminent artists have arrived in Paris from St. Petersburg, 114 rode, we suppose, for Covent-gardens—Mt oleo' World. WHAT A CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT WILL Do.— The Peorsessist to-day says that the course to the Derby go vernment la the affair with Naples is quits clear. In the first place "we must back is the strongest manner the de mand of Sardinia for the instant surrender of the vessel thus illegally detained, with heavy damages for her detention. In the second place, we must demand the instant surrender of our two countrymen, with an apology for the wrong dons, and ample compensation to the sufferers. To suffer them to remain in confinement one single hour, to suffer them even to take their trial now that we are acquainted with the law lessness of their capture, would be to court insult and to in cur merited contempt. We ought to listen to no proposal of mediation or delay. In proportion to our long and fer stretched forbearance ought to be the promptitude and pe remptoriness of our action now: LORD MALINESSURY AND THE EMPEROR.—Lord Mialmesbury, in his despatch to Count Walewski, e x pr es se s the desire of the present government to maintain in their integrity " throe rinse and friendly relations which, since the restoration of the empire, have marked the alliance between France and Great Britain." The words we have italicised are the concentrated expreasioa of a most unfortunate dew of this international question and herald the renewal el • most unfortunate course of conduct. They era an in stance of the same folly and impropriety of which Lord Malmeebury was guilty when he glorified, in the House of Lords, the overthrow of French liberty and the acceraion of his former boon companion le absolute power. What business has en English minister thus to proclaim officially, in the name of a nation the majo.' rity of which doe* not agree with him, that the sinkable relation between the two countries is connected with the existence of • particular form of government in Frazee! What can be more improvident than thus to state the alliance on the permanence of a power of recent and revolu tionary origiu, which may be superseded to-morrow by its constitutiond or republican opponents, embittered against es by the adulation we so needleesly address to the object of their bate I , —Sestrifay Review. THE LATE LORD BRAYBROOKE AND " PEPTB DIMIT."—It has been rid that his lordship actually dis covered " Pepre Diary ;" but this, we believe, is • mistake. The " Diary" is written in shorthand, was deciphered by a clergyman of the name of Smith, and in the year 1826 Ira first given to the world, In two volumes quarto, edited by Lord Braybrooke. No book dug from the dusty shelves of any collection, after more than a century of neglect , oat be compared in Importance with " Pepys' Diary ." Lad Braybrooke, it is dear, was not at all aware of. the treasure his position enabled him to give the public. He was afraid of what he had,;and was • little afraid to the very last. Lathe first edition he cut Mr. Pepys lo the quick ; to the second edi tion he did little or nothing; to the third edition he did a grist deal—be restored passages which he had cut from his author without any kind of judgment; and when • fourth edition was asked for he °died in to his aid more than one perms able and willing to "edit him. This fourth edition is • well. edited work, and in its full-sized octavo shape a handsome. looking book. Still, we have not the whole of Pepys;—and why not P Lord Braybrooke was squeamish. There are suppressed passages current in learned societies that merit publication as Pepys hod set them not separately. The inner thoughts of man as they relate to himself were never so ana tomically laid bars ea they are by Pepys in that invaluable " Diary" which the late Lord Bray brooke was the first to give. though imperfectly, to the public.—lllwatrated London NMI. DEATH OF SIR JOHN M. BURGOYNE, BART.—WO have to record the demise of Sir John Montagn B= Bart., who died on Wednesday last, after a protract The deceased baremet was born Oct. 17, 1798, sad mewled. Dee. 20, 1831, Mary Harriet, daughter of the late Colossi Gore Langton, M.P , of Newton Park, Somerset. He sour ceeded his father, Sir :Montagu Roger, the eighth tonna, k Mario, lBl7. Sir John was for many years in the army, which be entered in October, 1817, and afterwards enthused into the Grenadier Guards, and obtained the rank of Wood in November, 1848, but retired in 1848. The late boniest was a Deputy-Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, and served the dace of Sheriff of that county in 1852. The gallant deceased Is succeeded in the baronetcy end family estates by espial John Montagu Burgoyne, of the Grenadier Guards, whit served during the Easteta campaign and was wounded at the battle of the Alma. He was born Oct. 1832, and married, in 1868, Miss Neilson, daughter of the late Captain Henry Nielson, R.E. 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