The Express. — London, England, 1858-04-29 00:00:00

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TRX 01PHAE OE 01.1E00E. MILE.I6OO; 61.11b.rws mingertoll.past HIGH War= AT LONDON DEMON. sik ... a = mkosies. ft Aftweris. OIL Om Soft& lb. Um .A.lllmmen. 31m. LONDON, THURSDAY. APRIL 29. THE Conservatives are paying the penalty of their insurrection against the PALMERSTON dynasty. Bo king as they acquiesced in the occupation of the Treasury Bench by Lord PALMERSTON he openly opposed, or covertly thwarted, all measures of Por liamentary Reform. He resisted the introduction of any special measures of Reform by private Mem bers, both in the last and the present Keaton, under the pretext that he was this minion to introduce • general measure of his own. And as soon is Parliament assembled in the present year, he introduced bis India Bill principally with a view to divert its attention from the question of Parliamentary Reform. So confident was he of the success of this stratagem, so certain that he had cut out more work for Parliament than it could get through in the course of the session, that he did not even take the trouble to get his promised Reform Bill shaped out in case it should be needed. The Marpio4 fidelity of Mr. Int , mAis Rum:ones elicited this fact, when by obsequiously entreating his patron to favour the House of Commons by pro ducing his new Charter, even though be was out of ales, he compelled the great man to confess that there was no such Charter is rerun *Weird. Seeing his lordship so indefatigable in his anti-Reform labours, the Conservatives rashly thought they might calculate on his aid in this line of business ender any circumstances ; and accordingly, when a ♦evolution de nutpris drove him from power, they took heart of grace, and ascended the vacant throne. But the deposed Minister hes not been long in teaching them that it is only on the condition of their allowing him to retain office that he will do their dirty work. In office he would have opposed Mr. Locks KING'S Bill for extending the County Franchise ; out of office he and his retainers either stand neutral or actually •'pport it; and so Mr. Dimmer.m, after magnanimously moving the " previous question," was warned by his whippers-in that the PALNIIWTON squadrons had left the Conservative camp en masse, and was obligel to allow his motion to be negatived without a l division. This is one of the many blessings which we owe to the deposition of Dictator PALMLINTON. We have his whole tail either supporting Mr. Locks KING'S Bill in the House of Commons, or abstaining from opposition; and we have the Times and the Globe out of doors doing their best to get up an agitation in its behalf. Lord JOHN linsao t. very properly urged the passing of the County Fran chime Extension Bill into a law, on the plea that seeing Parliament will not give us Reform in bulk, we must even take it in detail. Am extension of the County Franchise would materially' accelerate other essential reforms. We hops Mr. I Local Bina will make bay while the sun shines, and push on his Bill while if dillies PALMERSTON is sulking and lying idle in his tent because Agamemnon Driter has laid hold of the Briseis of office. If he follows up his victory of Tuesday night with promptitude and energy, he will speedily get his Bill through the House of Commons, and the House of Lords will scarcely venture to reject two measures in one session, both of which relate exclusively to the constitution of the representative Wasik et the Legis lature, and both of which are presented is it by large majorities of that branch. Bat Mr. Locks meet let no grass grow under his heels. It needy wane* Comore. ati wee in the House et 0011111160118 are weakened by the secession of the Pst.nzeurtnit section Mat he can count upon carrying hie Bill with a high band ; and if by any untimely accident befalling the DISILBY Cabinet Lord PALMIIIITON is eves for a shirt time restored to office, the Conservative snake, whisk is oily scotched, will knit and be itself again. Now so one can with say sonatisnee count upon the sur vival of the DIMINT Odium hem one hour to smother ; for its amity is incurring defeats !ros trum continually the good will of the independent Liberals to leave it neasesiled. Barely to allow the DEIST Ministry to maintain itself in office is almost as hopeless a task as to allow one of the dressed dummies in a cheap clothier's shop to remain stand ing on its own legs without support. The mere stir in the air occasioned by some thoughtless urchin racing past is sometimes enough to blow the helpless mannikin over. IT won't do. The country has made up its mind on the point, and the Howe of Commons, which in this respect at least adequately represents the feel ing of the country, is equally decided. Church Rates are doomed. It is not a case for oompromise ; it does not admit of subterfuge. The time has come when nothing short of a total abolition of this odious and indefensible impost will satisfy the deter mination of the constituencies. Miserable enough it is to see the chiefs of partios—Lord Joni! Russr.u. among the number—overly retching at any substi tute, however absurd, for that measure of full and complete justice which alone will, which alone ought to satisfy the country. It is really dillicult to say whether Mr. Puttea's proposal for making Church Rates a permanent rent charge, or Mr. BUXTON'S for increasing tithe in order to create a tend for maintaining church fabric, be the more ab surd. It is not necessary to say more of either than that they both tend tolls and perpet one a tax of which the c ountry demands the abolition, and which in the course of a very few years would in all probability abolish itself. The cry of the constituencies is— R ismovs t hi s impost, which we feel to be odious o sad vexation." The answer of Mr. PULL= ie.-- is We can't do that, but we can change its near, sad, • = e a th a t & h in d style, sake it certain imaged of asst on the absurd proposal. The numbeillrei division list—ayes, 54; noea q 31?--are th, 1111.0- priate epitaph on the defunct solecism. It is really lamentable that the wiser friends of ths Establishment do not contrive in some way to pat a stop to these very pitiable exhibitions. The Church of England is rich ; the members of the Church of England are jest now very much in earnest. They are especially fond, am anyone who knows anything of provincial life can testify, of de corating the fabric of their churches. Church-revival is a great fact—erchiteeterally, at all events, if not spiritually. Rational people will be well disposed to agree with Mr. WAtrout, that the time hes come when the jealousy of the law should no longer be allowed to interfere with this particular develop ment of pious munificence. There can be no we/1- grounded objection to meal so much of the Mart main Acts as may now operate to preclude parties from making voluntary provision for the repair of the church fabric. If compulsory rating were aboliahed, and the artificial restrictions upon private munificence removed, does any one seriously believe that the least difficulty would be experienced in maintaining our churches in efficient repair? The more probable result would be, that if the matter were left to individual exertion, thousands would be readily contributed where hundreds are now with difficulty raised. A com pulsory rate is practically incompatible with free will offerings. Where men must pay, they won't give. Let it once be understoodthat the maintenance of church fabrics was left to the voluntary liberality of churchmen, with no legal impediment to its free exercise, and no candid person can for a moment doubt as to the result. There are those who profess their inability to understand "bow we can have a National Church " establishment without some provision (i. e., core " pidsory provision) for the repair of places of woe " ship." The difficulty hardly deserves a serious solution. We most have such a Church Establish ment as is practically possible, not such as is logically and theoretically complete. In numbers of parishes at the present day no rate can, or ever again will, be levied for the repair of places of war ship. In every point, except being repaired by rata, those places of worship belong to the National Church Fetablishment. Does the circumstance that they are not repaired by rats prevent them from being national ? Surely the great end of a National Church is to promote in the nation that spirit of peace and goodwill which is the essence of the gospel teaching. If the compulsory levy of a rate for the repair of those fabrics, which could be otherwise maintained, is hostile, nay, is fatal, to this spirit, does not the argument derived from the notion of a National Church wholly fail? Which is it most desirable to keep up, the logical consistency of ideas, or the practical harmony of facts ; to be oonse quential and quarrelsome, or inconsequential and free from strife; to set our Christianity above our metaphysics, or our metaphysics above our Chris tianity? Church Rates may, or may not, be essential to the logical notion of a National Establishment; but we all know that the attempt to enforce them on conscientious objectors is grossly inconsistent with the spiritual notion of a Christian Church. It has also been represented as unreasonable to uphold a provision for the payment of the clergy, and to have none for the maintenance of the churches. This argument is, of course, not intended for those who, as advocates of the voluntary principle, object to all compulsory pay ments either for clergy maintenance or church repair. It is meant for those who, acquiescing in Tithes, object to Church Rates. Even with this class it can have no weight. The mere fact that Tithes, as now settled, are set made the subjects of general protest, and that Church Rates are, creates a sufficiently wide practical dif ferentia between the two cases. But it does not rest there. Much may be said in favour of Tithes re garded only as a national provision for a national clergy, which cannot be urged with any truth in favour of Church Rates. It is well that the teacher should not depend too entirely upon those whom he teaches for the means of subsistence. Sab servieney, oratorical display, the unceasing neces sity of finding new sources of excitement, are among the objectionable results of a system which makes the pay of the preacher depend on his popularity. The system of a State provision for the clergy, has many faults of its own, but it avoids these. There is much to be said on both sides. If the thing were to do again from the beginning it would, no doubt, be done differently ; as it is there is no serious desire in any quarter to alter or readjust the last settlement of the Tithe question. Bat no one contends that the compulsory system of supporting Church fabrics has any inherent fit um in it in eomparison to the voluntary system. And besides it ia, at the present moment; it long has L been, and, as long as it last•, will manifestly eon ; tinue to be, a fertile source of disquietude, vexation, and strife. Is it wise, is it Christian, is it the part 1 of a prudent Churchman or an enlightened states ; man to perpetuate this bitterness and ill-feeling for the sake of some 300,0001. a year, which the volun tary exertion of Churchmen is abundantly compe . tent to supply ? A DEAD calm reigns in the Money Market. Some three weeks ago, after a lengthened period of inac tion, holders of money remarked with much satiafac tics symptoms of a revival of demand ; the applica tions at the Bank of &gland, in Lombard street, and in most other quarters, exhibited a decided inoresae ; and the leading discount and other establishments promptly took advantage of the change. Instead of 21 per cent., the rate pre viously prevailing in the open market, 21 to 21 per cent. became the general terms for first-claw bills a movement which was sufficient of itself to divert a moderate amount of busi ness to the Bank. Attention was at the same time eagerly called to various circumstances leading to the inference that a permanently increased de mand for money would henceforth be experienced. It was pointed oat that in several branches of trade a partial recovery from the lets stagnation wan observable; that the highly encouraging advice' from the Asiatic markets must give a sensible stimulus to the industry of the manufacturing districts; and that the pecuniary require ments of the Beat India Company, and of the British Government, mast exercise an influence upon the market. In all this, we featly, ~ the wish wee," to a great extent, " father to the " thought." The increased demand witnessed at the period referred to was undoubtedly promoted by the payments on the Indian loan ; but this was chiefly because t►e subscribers, instead of confining tu mm i es' t o paying into the Fiat India Company's Treasury the amount of the first instalment, pre ferred to anticipate the subsequent instalments. 8o enermous was the supply of money welting invest meet in first-Wen securities that the New Pear per Cent. Debentures of the East India Company haws at once attracted a large mass of capital, both frost Millions cannot peeribly &garb the money ntarket, for stem approximating to ene-balf el thee.*** loan has been paid up, and the remaining payments are spread over a period of four months. Added to this, the East India Company release the money almost se fast as it flows in; 900,0001. is again rendered available for the service of the commercial public, having been handed over by the Com pany to the Bank, in repayment of the loan obtained from that establishment jut prior to the late monetary crisis. The only way in which the Indian Loan could affect the money market would be by the remittance of a portion of it to the East in the shape of bullion ; but of this there seers* to be at present no prospect whatever. Whilst the Indian Loan, in so far as its influence upon the money market is concerned, thus shrinks into insignificant proportions, the very moderate re quirements of the British Exchequer, as developed in Mr. DISRAELI'S Budget, cannot possibly lead to any disturbance. The estimated deficiency of six millions in the current year's revenue has been redeeed to four millions. A million ands half of this represents the amount which the fitate had undertaken to appropriate in the cur rent year to the cancelment of Government Stock. Mr. DISRAELI'S decision altogether to shelve this obligation disposes of the difficulty in a way which, though not perfectly satisfactory, effectually precludes the idea of immediate financial difficulty. It is true that a new issue of two millions of Exchequer Bonds is proposed, but the money is wanted merely to pay off the holders of the two millions which ex pire an the Bth of next month. This is a mere treader of money which can only have a momentary effect. It is by no means improbable that the re payment or renewal of these Exchequer Bonds may be arranged in such& way—with the assistance, pos sibly, of the Bank of England-•-as actually to in crease the amount of unemployed capital. _ . _ The pecuniary necessities of the - State, both at home and in the East, being thus easily arranged, the question arises, what immediate prospect is there of a more active demand for money in purely com mercial channels? In some departments of textile manufactures there is undoubtedly more business doing, owing partly to the encouraging adviom from India and China; bat trade, considered as a whole, is still depressed, especially the export branch. Our exports last month, as we gather from the Board of Trade Returns recently issued, were 14 per cent. leas than in the corresponding month of last year ; whilst the decrease in the ex ports for the first quarter of the year was as much as 18 per cent. The most that we can reasonably hope for is a very gradual improvement in the general business of the country. It will not be for gotten that similar stagnation was witnessed during a period of five or six years after the crisis of 1847. The value of money fell almost immediately after that epoch to 3 and 2 per cent., and did not rise permanently above 3 per cent. (the present minimum rate at the Bank) until June, 1853. Com- munications are now so much accelerated that the re-echoes of the monetary crisis of 1857 are being borne back to us from the furthest owners of the commercial world with great rapidity ; and this consideration is annulated materially to abridge the duration of the collapse of trade. But in proportion to the severity of the late shock to confidence most be the caution of reviving com merce. Even an occasional failure in trades carried on by means of long dated bills, tends to discourage mercantile enterprise, ma proving that the after effects of the pressure of last autumn have not yet entirely passed away. The prolonged and almost hopeless depression of the markets for colonial produce up to within the last few days furnishes another proof of the utter indisposition of the mercantile classes to enter into any engagements savouring of specu lation. We see the natural result of this state of things in the present condition of the money market. Capital overflows ; money is " a drug." The great dealers in money really hold up their hands in deprecation of fresh deposits. Deposi tors find themselves compelled to lodge their money for one and two months certain before these inexorable establishments will consent to re- lieve them of it. Noe are the latter open to the charge of striving to obtain an undue advantage ; for where is their inducement to take in money, even at so low a rate ss 2 per cent. per annum, if they can not possibly And employment for it? The rate of discount in the open market hoe fallen again to about 21 per cent. for choice bills; the Discount De partment at the Bank is again almost deserted ; and the prospect of a superabundant supply of money seems as clearly defined as ever. Ms. dirnerroNs's licrrioN ON THE DANUBIAN Panicrraf.rnae.—The kliewbig are the terms of the Imo tlea which Mr. Obsinone Intends to submit to the Homo of Cartes ea Tuesday next .—" That en humble address be puended to her Majesty, to submit to her Majesty that this his.., hese* faded the obligations impend by the Treaty of Park, so far as they effect the Danubian Principalities, Ins °hawed with satisfaction the general know end spirit dike doeheralisia rimorded by bar Makety's chief *nip twaliseg at the eaudennote of 1866, eiretemilag the fatare orpnieslion of then Peritonea Lad ham* to convey to hr Majesty the sanest hope of this home that, in the far thw promeastlan M this snisjsca, jot weight any be given to those wishes of the people of Walkable sad of Moldavia white, through Utak repressatatives elected b ooaknnity with the add treaty, they have recently expressed." In the House of Commons on Tuesday next Mr. Mellor will more, as ea sowadmeat to Mr. Lyme. bill to altar sad stood the Law ol Claus& PAWN "That. cessilier- Mg the present conditions of the church rats question, it is bet expedient to permit this istredactios of any bill miming to that subject which does not pnwkis for the mein szliso non of church rates." On going into committee to-toorrovr night, on re solstices relative to lodk, Lord Harry Vase will move, "That the ohmage of drazommaces .to the AM pro posal by km Majasty'a late advisers to Wooster "be go vernment of India from the Beet India Company to the clown, magas it larapedbint to premed torthar with Isglala tics ear. shyest ihning the proms 'mina." CITT DISPIIMUST:—The sixty-ninth anniveresr y dieser of this halleatima took pleas Met evening, et the Albiaa Tames, dblierSstreet. The chair wee ocoapied by Themes flunkey M.P., who wee supported by Mr. AY= end Atha. Mr. Deputy Lett, 'rascal other membure of the eseyaration, sad • umber et path nessiemeted with the thy. The chain's; its prepaiag Crle the charity, dated that during the pad year so in i a l lMlS gating@ bid rellerod, s ent ele*• dew hundred peen & There w om en Ilswthgthias whit 6- w e mewl 11001 aMI mu" mg h e SZI that theft the yet • Ile - eieneat et support it bed eadvol wee set NEON le nest esnest ex paams. Me harimear. thet thew Mod et the charity wed/ fed sad as te nake frisk insides., and that the fade wail be pined is ask a peaks se to justify hue is entheshig to held the din of treasurer, which In bed inure, hit so siseit plemar• to All up. Dthlag the wean& !tandem and sow nth- 1 seriphs' is th e masust of 14e. mem saarmaced. The Mamas Is pagoda( the man of the dos espeend Ids meet et the abuses of the cc. Cd Mayer, mid sad tint We was the fret eassias per eons am whisk the laid macieleate a the City Ind set thus by yesillsg. nary bail, however, the can nay et sae el the shisids, and dining_the year the corpora ties WA simm • demetion et 1011 The stailal meats ware snits dineetios ot Kr. Idyls Grey - m Maser wee admirably sened; the bill ad kw was meet enter she, bat at the ammo thee, wwW te the admirable ammo. sand whisk diethuraishm the ad" ewaT MA was placed ea the tale as het and la en geed order se it could be dose ems at the seeellset party. IDLY EYINIXO. PARIS, WEDNIIIDA. The acrd* of the Corps Legitlati4 which wee pro/beta till May 1, has been further prolonged to May 8. It wu found impossible to get through the business this week. The debate on the budget, which is not yet over, has not been very interesting. It has hitherto turned almost exclusively upon the question whether a budget can be said to be in equilibrium when the whole of the sinking fund is not set down u part of the ordinary expenses of the year. The two most interesting speeches on this point were those of M. Deviack and M. Barochs, of which I subjoin extracts : X. Derrittcx said that, ma the reporter of the commissloo, he had • declaration to make • he agreed with the government eammalmery (11. Vultry) t hat the financial Austin was eatiefeatery, but he entirely diamgreed with his swamis in support a/ the proposition that the budget really miaowed • surplus. M. Vultry had said that them was nothing but • minnolarstanding about terms between the committee and the government, but he (M. Devinok) would con tend that there was much more. There was • difference on a point of principle. The sinking fend amounted to 123 millions, consisting of 87 millions of den tin, properly so called, and 86 million, the amount of the reserves. The question was, whether the some belonging to the sinking fund ought to be inscribed in the budget of expenses. Upon thedquesfion thercommittes bed so doubt. It was in accordance with reason, precedent, end law, that when • debt was contracted, the payment of linden • outdo time should be provided for. What would be and of • de partment which should ranee to Laoribe amens hi obligatory expense the sum neomeary to pay elf • lees f Why, the worse would be nese* to mien the they te be made Prconsats speak ,as effielthimer es priffelphe at this ' , abject. Frew the dime el the lend= el the Atha( toad down to 1848, thin he me Merl on the budget to be band which did ace plum the slaking fond swoons Its enemas, not cce lbet MOW it as an neat. On this sub join be could math better then cite an authority, which, le Ye egee, wee lie highest possible, namely, that of the pormi MO& 1 rinanoe, who, in 1846, drew up the re plete& in WWI el 1847, end took care te put the sinking had mai swages. This course wee positively pn =id hr • theme of 1827, and had always been fcllowel. Mee lbey voted • loan of 1,500 millions, the Irandredth pen Angina the do oinking had r pay It off, was napalm* fie WI& Ths bed therefore takes en eemeenea epos OWL lyi MINNA that • part of the um amt's of Os daft 41004 1 seostarry, be Owed from ils =NW aftispurel. MI la that owe the weer seed amid tasks a spoil /anal kr authority be ores al Ike ill minims onaprig tits Tarn. In the skean el say era rossoure the whole 123 millions should be eatemei la the budget se exposes; that we the basis of the French financial system, the best in Europe. He knew that the ex ample of England might be cited. England had at this mo ment a budget with • deficit of 90 millions, and a national debt representing a espial of more then 20 milliards. If on the other side of the Channel a sinking thud were put in operation according to the French system, the deficit would De not lees than 299 millions. This we a state of things which did not tempt imitation. But further, there was too analogy between the ffnandel situation of France and Eng land. Console were at 97 while the French Threes were at 70. The reason for this difference he took to be that in Eng land CotiaoL were specially favoured, certain investments being of neomeity made in theca exclusively ; while In France investments were more free, and, moreover, railway obligations had been allowed to come into competition with the Bents. At • time when there existed such a power ful agency for praising down the Rena, it was very unfortu nate that the government should attack the principle of the sinking fund. He had felt it • duty to contest the de:arise put forth by the government ommaiseary. He thought every effort should be used to bring the sinking fund into complete operation. In matters of inane there timid be no raison dentending. The situation we In reality good enough for them to dinette with any artificial representations to make it appear beam. The country would know that the sinking fund, which had not been in operation since 1848, was now to be brought into play—but in part only. So long as it did not operate to the fall extent, he would never admit that the budget was in equilibrium, because the first condition of a finandsl equilibrium was, that the anneal receipts should correspond with the permanent expenditure. M. BAKOCIIL in reply, add that so far trout attacking the principle of a inking fund, the government was now asking the Corps Legislatif to beer it into operation after • suspen sion of ten years. He was sorry to are the worth " deficit " sod "want of equilibrium" in the report, because they might produce • bed impression in the minds of those not familiar with financial language. His profound convio lion was that they were not applicable to the budget of 1869. It would no doubt have been very desirable to apply the whole erne of 123 millions towards the extinction of the debt, but the government was obliged to go on by degrees. , As it was, the State would bare spent 7 millions less than it bad received, and would besides have extinguished 40 mil ' lime of the consolidated and 6of the floating debt. That seas a great result. A preliminary meeting of the members of the Paris Conference was held to-day at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, to examine the boundary treaties between Turkey and Russia. The semiofficial Oat Deutsch Post publishes the following as the pro- gramme of the business to be transacted by the plenipotentiaries :-1. The settlement of the Turco- Russian boundary. 2. The definitive regulation _ _ _ of the Moldo-Wellachian question. 3. Theratifica tion of the regulations for the navigation of the Danube. Any question not bearing upon one of these threw points which any power may possibly desire to bring before the Congress will (the ()it Deutsch Post affirms) be rigorously excluded from their deliberations. The French journals may poe- 104 continue to harp upon the Isle of Perim, but I eaa namely doubt that the French government is too well aware of the determination of England not to admit the jurisdiction of the Congress upon that subject to attempt to bring it forward. There can be no doubt that the question of Perim, if there be any question about it, has nothing whatever to do with the treaty of Paris. A meeting of several foreign ministers was held yesterday to consider a proposal for voting an inter national reward to Mr. Morse, the American, for the discovery of a valuable improvement in the electric telegraph ; but several of the diplomatists present wishing for more precise instruct.ons from their governments, the meeting was adjourned. The fourteenth line vessel of the squadron of evo lutions will be christened the Louis XIV. It is confirmed that this squadron will be augmented to fifteen. The Bourse continues to improve. The Rents roes 100. for cash, and 150. for account, closing at 69 fr. 60e. in each case. Mobilier after some flue. tuation, occasioned by speculations on the result of the general meeting, rose 2fr. 50c. The Lyons rail way rose 7fr. 50c. Northern, 3fr. 75c. I and most of the other lines 2fr. 50c. each. The visit of the Emperor to Cherbourg for the thseebid purpose of letting Is the water lato the sew dock, the iosuguration of the stelae of Napoloos 1., and the opin ing of the railway to that himoreant port, is stated by the local para.'s to be fixed for the 23rd of Jolt'. . . . . A Paris letter in the Indipetaance Belga says : The Cologne Gazette affirms that M. de Haboar has been ordered by his goverment to ask for some 'splenetic*. frost Count Welty/kJ, touching the resent attitude of the cabinet at Turfs, and putionkrly apropos of the vary explosive speech of amoral I Marmara. According to the German parr, the answer of the Minister tor Foreign Affairs was h4.dly, bet evasive, and the Austrian Ambassador retired ' 61:411 the laterview very 111-eatislied with eh. result. lam neither the oonidaat of M. de Hulas. 113 r the Minister for Funks Alain; nevestiasims, idormation coming from a god scmree authorises MI to acissarm, to a certain extant, thealetement of the C6i0,01 Oswego.' A petition to the Emperor is now in course of dipaitare at Havre, pa*" that is ooreqemee of the ozwaieva of the commerce of that port, k eta be node the thief town of a sew *arum; to be and the Was Maritime, LIVERPOOL,THURSDAT. The sergrotsamer Gambia, African Mail steamer, has arrived at Liverpool. She briup dates from Sierra Leone to April 5. She left at that place the barques Rosetta and William Browman, the brig Countem of Zetland, and several American 'hips. The steam-ship Pearl, with Dr. Livingstone on board, sailed on the 31st of March for the Cape, all well. The slave barque Almeida had arrived at Sierra Leone, having been captured by her Majesty's ship Conflict on the 26th April, in latitude 48 deg. 43 Mill. The Gambia spoke the barque Mogul from Liver pool. THE MED] Comn one own 001111111PO/MINS.) YALTA, Aran. 23, 1868. The Prussian frigate Thetis, while in Greece, shipped on board soma oxen of yard sakes end roam antique marbles, value about 2,0001. These are from the quarries tee dimmers& by Professor Siegler, who was employed by the Limn of Prima to explore Ia Greece : and on one of the Weals of the Archipelago, and oleo near Cape Hatapan, he dimmed Immense palatine of these valuable marbles. These he hampered his &tannin by purchasing large tracts of lands In which the garrise are situated, and he is now successfully wceidng them. His Holiness the Pope has ordered 300,000 f. worth; 300000 E worth are also ordered for France. It is said the supply is inexhaustible, so that any quantity ma be obtained. The Prnesiaa frigate sailed for Lisbon on the 23rd. Oa the 20th the strived from Southampton, and ameeded on to Alexandria a few hours after. Oa the 21d the Wye arrived from Marseilks with the Mamba mail and passengers, but still remains In Malta ;r vi elteg icht. iir the Teviot, with the potties yid Southsaiptoo,aa The allot* with India nail, arrived amass day, end pro ceeded an to Alexandria. Haw Majesty's ship Wanderer waits the arrival ot the Twice lo rowed to Lord Lyon, with letters for the dent. COLLISION BETWEEN TWO STEAMERS Ili TEI CITAIIRIL.-(TH18 DAY.) (sy siacraza misitan.) (raox ous ow,' col SOUTH F, Timmlnv. The South Western Steam Packet Company's steamer Havre, bound from Havre to Southampton, cruse into million this morning with the same company's Ammar Wager, bound from Southampton to Havre. The eallislon took place in mid channel. The Wonder was so much Surged that ohs wu obliged to be towed beck to Southampton by the draw Ham. The latter vernal is damaged also. The Weeder had upwards of forty passengers, a few of whom are 'lightly injured. The steamer South Western will be &spades& to Hans this afternoon, in lieu of the Wonder. It is oomeldered vorpthdai that the Wonder was not cut down to the vmer's THE PUBLIC HZALTZ. (Frcat the Registrar-Othenl's Weekly Retunis.) The deaths registered in London were 1,144 in the week ending Saturday, Aril 24 ; they show a decrease on thew of the previous week, when the amber was 1,207. In the ten years 1848-67 the average number of deaths in the weeks aorreeponding with last week was 1,064 ; but the deaths of UM week moaned in an noremed population, end they should be ommared with the avenge when the latter loss been raised in proportion to the insrosen, a mama= which will make it 1,169. The rate of neonate that now oh=therefore, agrees closely with that which is by calculation from famr in the third week of April. The deaths erbang el a ia" bronehitis and which in the previous week were respectively rg e rio i ' 103, declined last week to 120 and 62. B;ty one children died of whooping-cough, • oonsiderably her mortality than occurred In any corresponding week ten years, except that of 1864, when the deaths from this com plaint were 83. Whooping-cough is at resent twice es fetal as either measles or marlatins. The deaths from mea sles are not so numerous as they were in some previous weeks. Forty death. an referred to scarlatina; no less then Mar of these occurred in one Weft in a house on the top of Shooter's-hill: The registrar states that to the annul observer there is nothing in that elevated situation which would be noticed as the probable mum of so great a mor tality ; bat it is understood that medecel men attribute it to an open ditch in the neighbourhood. One child died on the 12th init., one en the 14th, and two others en the fol lowing day. Six persons died lima week at the age of 90 l7eeaann end up wards; the two oldest were a woman in Newlregion Work loads*, 98 years old ; and the widow of a dock labourer in Redreen's-row, blibrand Old-town, who is said to have died at the age of 101 yaws. Lest weak the bhrties of 894 boys and 916 girls, in all 1,810 children, were registered he London. In the ten cor responding weeks GI the yens 1848.67 dm avenge number was 1,698. THE PM AT BT. lATEARINE DOCK. The lass occuioned by this fire, the first of any extent that hem occurred in the Metropolitan Docka stwe their construction, is much greater than was at first supposed, and will probably exceed 100,00 W. The greater part of the damage was caused by the water, of which more then twelve tons a minute was poured on the building by the steam floats dose. The warehouse, which occupied the whole of the Haat-quay, was eight stories high, molt story lebg separated into three &Midas' by party walls of great thick nem, although there was a oommuniostka between the di visions on each floor. It was in the coon Weldon of the top story that the fire coma:aimed. The goods deposited in this and the other upper stories consisted principally of tobacco, rice, sugar in cases ()tsarinas), gaits hemp sad dm Am soon sa the steam foots began to play the fire on the top door was obsaved to slacken, while its fury on the floor beneath (the 7th) was un abated. Ia order to prevent the flame realm the lower floors, the firemen, who were 'Mimed on the Mk, resolved to flood that story, and semordingly dammed up the door ways with bales of tobacco cad other goods. la this way the water on that floor speedily became between two sad three festdeep. The damage dose by this and the consequent partial flooding of the lower floors was six or seem time as great as that immediately effected by the firs. However, there can be no doubt that bat far sane each mason Whig taken the damage would have been still grease. No Wiry was done to any of the shipping. Threelerp mode, whioli were moored alongside the quay—one of them Whig the Lord Ashley, screw steamer, fitting out for New Zealand—were hauled off into the middle of the basin ell ma ea the fire be n n a following to Yr. Broidwood'o alkiel mot ea Bdamage done Nthin-lloaa, lad Mai Moil: Tin worshowon D div 1 8t Kadfailas Doak, lir its* Saw sad sub banned out sad awl de, and aofilmis mike anorely doasogal by war. TM D sad 0 &whim Ow a & may damming by wow. no bellikes web %Mid in the &ad& Untie. LhorPool owl lollialh mea lg alliance, Glob*, Ispwid, Loads* , Al.. Firwollicai. The faun of In anknoion." WRECK OF THE 817E2 STRAUSS—A despatch from Malta, dated April 24, brings a and piece at moms. The Bose Mesmer, belonging to the Itgyptian company, ran labors ia a ekes air Mrs, a ApeS IL The ship went all to pieces, and of fifty-eight paeans who tram an board, twenty-three are reported to have perished. The captain of the motel, M. Demises end one of his lieutenants, M. Basler, ere moos, the victim. The tarp, whlo► was very valnable, is entirely lost The Sem was instmel at Alexandria for 1400,000 h. It is mid that the asenrers an la a pest semeare covered by counter assarenoes in Pins. TEN ATLANTIC TELEGRAM—As we intimated Doom time Mies, a podiminery sapeditioa— if we may so term It—will Meet film this esaalry about the middle of next mouth, whin bob the Agoessemsoa aad Niigata will awe away into deep warm, mil Ihem try a misty of experimente oonneeted with sabeasegfes; the cable, with a view of row Mb* prediesity the vales el this sew apperatee,emd glee how he gems saggeedoes which have boa MID mgard to buoying ft at IM elm be carried oat. Doe* Me brief aperbroalal mobs every known MO which am be le Few** I sw at = lar ender mulegmilt be sestel the malt at dm esTedireee , *O. , the re Wheel ppm! M kg any little deems width may said is the ewe= the dad Muting of the erpeditioa la Jens aeaL CHURCH RATES AND THE VOLUNTARY Pant cirm—Thir living predloe et the volaalley apish wbieh is amid oat in the principal ee well se the baled midis@ is the metropolis, end In some of ear to p= loam is is finitely Mbar May aide of corepaisury taxation.. nem is a= of Do @sallow, sad tis little doubt eat it will readve a sew Jaipur ken die venvaler of se impom mike, betides its Mbar amesTmesse, emotes • Tory &tidbits sed rated optima se madam' eopport. At the risk of tor= mad easidiemes, we bag to main oar irsaviedea, which a of how pas will amply Met, that the hem the Comb ad is to threw breself br tbe iiideardoe of her fobrico as the free eibrieds of her emeenuseles.—Dets• THE REWARD Ow RLOQIJENCL-77b Derbiago wisimat abed le Mee Sir R. W. dam lad yar at London, to the dignity of • beironet.—Melfasdoes Lesi. ember. preys— " fle — pe; t shall be eligible for, or be elected as, a director of the com. parry who shall not be the holder, in his own tight, of hundred shares at the least, and who shall not have held shares six months at the least previous to his eluti on ," 6 substituting the period of three months In lieu of am months, and also so much of the 22nd clause of the deed of wirer as provides that " Every vrancy oocrimied in the °Moo director by death, resignation, disqualification, or remove or by any other means than by going out of office by r ets as thererbefore mentioned, shall be filled up by the els*, of a new director at an extraordinary general meeting py shareholders, to be convened by the directors for that pa r . pose, within the space of three calendar months ne s t shun an& vacancy shalloccur," by substituting the num calendar months in lieu of three calendar month& by, 01M•11! Goal, M.P., presided. Mr. Lawerrza, a director, moved a resolution, in Rom. anis with the advertisement convening the meeting, g e to alter the dud of settlement, so u to m a l e CT! t candidates for seats at the board should have hi d their cation three months before election, and va should not be filled up until six instead of tle n monthertar they arm He believed this alteration wry extend the field frees whence to select directors and greatly promote the frarants of the beak by bringing Way rarle men whom the present law tended to duds, .t b . Moon; a dheetor, seconded the motion. Mr. Deputy Donator thought they ought to bra sou areason for the alteration than they hat lee heard. cogent last vacancy at the board, by refirement, wn filled up in a manner that looked very much late • jos, and ft anmated to him that the proposed skew holt woul d somewhat tend to hell tate refit elections in future. Re was averse to all changes, air t could be incontestably shown that the change to be raids would be a beneficial one. _ _ _ of the deed of settlentant u provides that Mr. it; argued that the alteration would reduce the power of the directors to fill up vacancies with ther m nominees, supposing they were ever disposed to nest le such a . alteration, in fact, was &Auk for the t of the proprietors, ea enlarging than poem / of election, end he for one hoped it would be made. Mr. Jisexteos suggested that they ought to lower tb, qualification of directors. There were 900 proprietors In th hank, and yet only 200 of them were eligible for 'leaks the board. The joint-stook banks of the metropolis wove too asolualve and aristocratic in their direction., and he so tharefore anxious to me this beak diminish rather thsa mews the qualification of its directors. After some further discussion the motion less put frets th chair, and carried unanimously. The proosedinp closed with the usual compliment to M chairman and directors. EAST INDIAN BAIL WAY.-(THIS DAY.) This afternoon the eleventh annual general meet. fag of the proprietors of the above railway was held et the London Tavern, Mr. R. W . CRAW FORD, railway drainer el the board of directors, presiding. The report her already been published In the Isom. The following was the statement of the revenue accent it the half-year ending the 31st of December len :- Dr -To knoinotive power, 12,601. 10s. ; to eraintmance way and works, 7,1291. 14s. 6d. • to math* 2,6681. 12s. 95. •to merchandise c harges, 1,3061. 61 M to electric tele graph, 0961. 6• 105. ; to peered 2,4081. Be. 3d. ; to steam packet. acmes; 841. l e ralt ; 41:11together 26,7771. 16e. dd. To Wen 7. 6s. ld. Total, 69,3331. Is. 7d. Dr.--11, traffic receipts, vit. -Parings/a, 27,2961. Ife. It ; and pasengers* luggage , 1,2 W. is. Id.; live id, 1161 1 1 8 . 6e. Ild. ; carriage., 8811. 16e. gel. ; excess fan 28861. 78. ltd. ; Venal train. 2.3211. 10e. ld. ; inerehmek 18,4911. lid.; minerals, 19,1931. 18s. ; making 68,4681. 18e. 6d. By sundry receipts :-Heat of rooms and engine driven? bungalows, 2961. 16s. 2 1 1.; money on goods, 668 k 71. 6d toPther• 8641. 3e. It Total, 69,833 t. Is. 7d. The CHAIRIUN in moving the adoptioa of the raped stated that yeeterdiy the directors had the @oddment& d rewiring from India the revenue account dove to the 31. of December last. It appeared from this statement that do receipt, of the half-year were 69,3331., sa non& 64,3071.1 the aorrespcading half of the previous per, sal the working charges 26,7771. as against 24,04, ass 36.62 spinet 36.72. A report received frost t ie dist engineer represented that the loss notated by the company from the mutiny was not repeat as might bet boa saticipated • in fret the principal loos was that of eVt fist on the work, which had been computed at ems or *bt month.. Notwithstanding this delay tans to eel of the sumener, certainly before the ekes el estssa, the company would have no leas than 291 Mud railway opened and in workiag operation ; while In d u g the sad of the next year the company would hare m ad& timid 160 mile. ready for opening to traffic. The mothers were aware that the terms of the Jubbulpors limbed ter agreed on between this company and the goatisiet I India. Tbat would be a moat important emeaska of th original scheme, and he had the satisfied= of Sods* it presented much lets engineering difficahin Oa had been met with either on the railway desk open, or on the works now in program. In ecarinis he bad only to state that the cost of the marks news plated and to working operation had not exesshe h estimates. (Hear, hear.) The motion having been seconded, Mr. Bobo' asked the chairman whether it woad et be advisable for this and other Indian railway commis to appoint a deputation, to confer with the mass upon the subject of the future administratim. sl Indian affairs. If the elective priuciple wen sapid in the new government of India, it was eely ik that the proprietors of India railway stock shod participate m the franchise. The proviso= of ilsot bit stock who ?tormented 6,000,0001. were to mooy the ' lege, and =rely those whose capital invested in Wks so equal to 34,000,0001. were entitled to a mamba the trier. The CHAIRMAN deprecated discussing • pealed testis at this meeting. The proprietors might deport ors falba the directors would not neglect their intend I sax sll might be involved or mixed up with the Ispialleg dirs in the government of India. After a brief discussion on the aostmts, the sopents adopted, the retiring directors re-eietaid. sod a nwills paned camelidating into stock all the =lsms ialle oompeay which have not been already year& resolutions of the general meeting of the Mk Weber, The proceedings closed in the octal mans. - A imbecription, headed by the garieser, May Ward, sad suggested by Col. Braytesehe, 0.1.1., les bra met ea foot, In Ceylon for the meet of week( the Primers Frederick William of Prods with pod semele to the value of 1,0001. The maximum in 64, the odds= one shilling. Mr. Bueloitone announces that the WRNS el Mit Amy iledgeriek Ism been of a far mess swims termadar Ibm it wee at SM considered, and will meat her neardag la reformances keel for some days. HER MATISTIN THEATRIL—The great event of next week will be the newel of the Modiste, Oki bas excited the interest and curiosity of the medal 001110111101 at Lobos. Mdlle. Thiene will nada the pat ef which is admirably adapted to diaday has vocelist, mid her genies se • tragedies. Madero dessal oppose for the lout dine this swam as Amens, thriberees wink& tz g u p ai or verval mama she has pre-ewinently risks own Oluglinlnames the pert of Marko. flAl.s or Mb. FALCIE'S COLLECTIOIL—n• lowing wore the principal lots sold minder, la * Oen :-1,494. Four Befwilmque panels. lONllity is dr Pekoe el the Luxembourg, 1491. 2s. 1,606. As 4WK casket of diver gilt, from the Bibtborp collecties, XL 4 11 . =tankard, 681. 1,813. Altar esib ies rn : l 6l. 1,614. Pearl nautilus, 271. 4 11 . degas-canto wine-000ler,!491. 1,667. Marla ilon • Chastity, by Baron Book, 381. 1,688. Mirth pal Bacchus and Arising, 255. 1,669 to 1,662. Pm as haus of the Masse—Theile, Urania, Clio. T =The Xdana of Geld, 661. 1,666. ' eta 291. Ths among of yesterday', sale Ise and the total to mead time, 7,2001. EQUALISATION OF POOR H A TES.—LINS WIZ mostlag if the elmgy, okordawerless, ourrowsh of the stetropaillea rabble, Weide of peabse. atr, radial gra favourable to the above oa• the Leedom dients Coffee- beta, Ludgetavbill, to ote eet. egerikrall steps should be takes to scours the psi =in the Houle of Oommoos, the roodrood lo 4 3,. rht to is fixed fur the 12th of Nay; Mr. Aid" 'LI,: prodding. The Claainma, in bitted's:Mg the 414.0 •". meeting, mid they bed met that evader nicker M to buoisees this for asowias. AU moat, be bolleell, aware of the Mil he bed Istrodarad. The pea* '• often beta brim dimmed, sad at all the and* principle of ea equenesekna of the rate bed lora b r tr 1 relludoted. Is everebeks. be the sad grellial irked time mad& use all lay in their power. Mr. Rowe UM saved the bet net Nos : That, as this melding egress to the addlag mode of rating the peer la mud sad orre , — i i SO poor or as sal *est le the Slat the hal sow beble mimeos previlee dr* I II I b delbable diet goddess preenaled bat t praying that It sitala Ws I IW. y r =IP, la ascending the aprees y g ym eassurrease vitithe olgeois al Ilse aeselledE asurippepeei by lir. Mhos (abeissies et the een,.. red emetied. Osbar sombelleas sera breed to la pow el the imilasok wad the webs garraitaL • ROYAL HOLLERS ow 1110141110N1L—Tbs (whim, bavbig saillimpas the aniessory eardson. the Ellkuut, von Wiled membens of the 0a... steelang of the egad of esisebtwe es thelleth • llesana Walter WI" ANI•Z Feadretsne, DMA ; Alba miontiallho ; Beale* Willa Dana • impi t e millir. &and • Ws; him 167 . 11 =iy item; Sums wails! ; minims Pais& Ilan Onfil fralles.