The Express. — London, England, 1867-02-02 00:00:00

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To-Youtow—Morning, lh. Pom Afternoon. 16 40m. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2. WE trust there is nothing invidious in the pass ing remark that the distinguished party of honour able gentlemen whom the member for Birmingham has immortalised by a scriptural nickname, appear to be quite as select in their public appearances out of the Session us in their quantity and qua lity in Parliament. Lord EtA-HO may be cited as a striking exception, having been "summoned," if we may venture to adopt his own characteristi cally humble expression, by a body of northern miners to discourse to them on the law of master and servant, and the mutual relations of capital and labour. lint we must take leave to state that Lord Rialto is a Seotchnian, and that is a consi deration which would naturally outweigh any other with a body of even subterranean Scotch men. Besides the member for Haddingtonshire had figured as chairman of a parliamentary com mittee on the question, and was therefore very properly expected to speak with more than ordi nary authority, though, in effect, he had nothing more original to propose than courts of arbitration, on the French pattern, in preference to penal legislation. That still more eminent Adullamite, the member for Caine, has declined o than once an invitation to meet his fellow-countrymen in public meeting assembled, and to state his sentiments on an open platform, and has lately liberated his just and tenacious mind, and vindicated his conscience from the calumnies of his accusers, over the wine and walnuts of a friendly City feast, which, but for his presence, and we may add, for that of a Chief Justice more accus tomed to public speaking than to judicial dignity, might have passed as unnoticed as the warlike exploits of the heroes who died before Agamem non. Following his illustrious example, Mr. /LOWMAN was discovered, last Thursday evening, by 6 ,;:me curious reporters in the act of being en tertained by :•js Mr.'22 Bid admirerS at Fouil, while by an irony of fate which Mr. BOWMAN'S fine sense of the heroic must enjoy, on the same evening and in the same convivial manner, the fashionable member for Lambeth, Mr. Doe LTON, was solemnly partaking of the feast of reason and the flow of soul which had been prepared for him at a Kennington tavern by his friends and sup porters in the borough of Lambeth, offering liba tions to the British constitution, and clearing his throat and his conscience over the heoltaps of the " Horns." We shall probably have done suffi cient justice to the just and tenacious member for Lambeth if we record the fact that his friends and supporters at the "Horns " listened to the apology of his public life with a not unmanly emotion. And now let us, without disrespect to Lambeth or to Mr. Dour:rex, look in at the Subscription Rooms at Stroud, where, according to report, nearly three hundred gentlemen and Liberal-Con servatives of the borough are drowning in the social bowl their fears of violent and subversive change, and listening with ears attent and glowing smiles to the prophetic periods of their accom plished representative, who, it will probably have occurred to some of them, might have been the author of the Sublime and Beautiful, had BURKE not lived too soon. For we concur with his admirers at Stroud in detecting a sort of oratorical likeness to BURKE in Mr. Hoes MAN ; to the latter BURKE; the likeness of Britannia metal to silver; a shilling copy in electro-plate. Ho has real gifts of eloquence, of that eloquence called particularly " parliamentary," combative, aggressive, com plimentary in vituperation, and vituperative in compliment ; genially solemn and severely not in earnest. Mr. Iloasmary is a great performer in the theatrical world of politics, who, unlike M ArBETH ; " can be wise, amazed, temperate, " furious, loyal, and neutral in a moment." It is only in countries where cultivated and ambitious men of leisure and of fortune take to public life, as to fox-hunting or tho turf, and pursue politics as a " noble science," that these curious and interesting products can be found. No one has accused Mr. Honsmax of being an office seeker ; the only office he ever held he resigned because he had nothing to do, as THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1867. however, Mr. Gladstone cordially assents to gush an arrangement, the party is bound to wait till its right wing is in better temper. The Spertatqr would prefer Mr. Gladstone as premier, but Nees no grave reason why, if he suggests the combination, it should not be accepted. And the ministry would indubitably be strong, strong enough, we almost believe, to put down a London vestry; and we want strength, strength to carry the Reform Bill, strength to rules house elected by a novel constituency, strength to belt down with something of hauteur the interests which are oppos ing all manner of useful progress. The continental truce is drawing to a close, the struggle between capital and labour is becoming a war, weihave our south of Ireland -if its strength be attainable without faithlessness or sacrifice of principle, let us at least make ourselves sure of strength. The Saturday &riew thinks it impossible not to see that the causes which have wrought in the Emperor Napoleon's mind the conviction that the empire in its present form cannot last, do not operate in France alone. France is being borne ►long by one of those great European tides of liberal opinion which, in a mysterious manner, and with no perceptible source of strength, from time to time burst the bounds of precedent and sweep society with them. It is hard to say why, in England, there should now be an apparently passionate desire for reform among classes which a year ago were indifferent. And it is equally hard to say how it happens that, whereas a year ago, when there was a loge minority in the chambers de manding increased liberty, and especially increased Fe curity for the press, the Emperor answered that no change could be made. It is trite that a change would be incon sistent with the very nature of his government, yet now he himself offers to give greater liberty, and to make the press more secure. And what may be said of reform in England may be said of reform in France, for the great countries of the civilised world move in a certain harmony and union with each other. Reform, if wisely and judiciously conceived, is a good thing here, and it is a good thing in France, but dangers that ought tote acknowledged accompany reform in both countries. In England we have no hesitation about reform. Whatever may be its risks, we are willing to have it, on account of the positive good we hope to derive from it, because we see reason to think that it will benefit the nation, will in. spire it with new confidence in its institutions, and give it that motive power in politics which now is so sadly want. ing. In the same way, advances to a more liberal state cf things in France are a great gain, for Frenchmen, if the y are to prosper, must learn to govern themselves, and not trust blindly to the hope that a poor perishing mortal may live on and govern them for ever. And both here and there it is obviously desirable that the reform which 's needed should come, if possible, from the government that exists. According to the Examiner the most independent and intelligent men among both whip and radicals have during the autumn given up the notion of a 71. franchise, and pronounced for household suffrage. Anything short of that, thanks to Mews. Marsh, Horaman, and Lowe, has come to be regarded as not worth obtaining. Twelve months hence, if nothing be done in the interim, even household suffrage may have disappeared as a middle term, and property and privilege may be left face to face with the blind and unbridled force of mere numbers. If the Queen's Speech is silent or evasive on the one all-absorbing question of the day, it will be the bounden dutyof the opposition, either upon the address or by way of resolution, to declare that until the one thing needful has been done they will allow no other business to be pro ceeded with. If a decided course of this kind were to be taken, the people, still loyal to constitutional usages, will infallibly be told that they are betrayed, and that further appeal to the justice of an aristocratic parliament would be useless. No deprecations or protestations will avail. The loudest and rashest demagogue will snatch the reins from those who have so much to lose and so little to gain by convulsion ; and the foolish and factious higglers for comparatively unimportant conditions will find, as they found in France, on waking from their fitful dream, that "it is too late." The Imperial Reriew has reason to believe "that her Majesty's government will, in the ensuing amnion, lay on the table of the house a bill to amend the representation of the people." MK. BRION; M.P., AND MR. DANNY SEYMOUR, M.P.—The newly-issued number of the Fortnightly lk ring; print', in conspicuous place and type, the following honourable retractation and apology :—" Two unconsidered charges were made against Mr. Bright in the November number of this Review. I represented him as having said, first, that ' all the land of England is in the hands of 150 proprietors ; and, secondly, that 'the poor only are fit to legislate for the rich.' lam happy to retract both charges. It is needless to add that I very sincerely regret having made them.—Henn' D. Serstous." A new drama, by Mr. T. W. Robertson, is underlined at the Princess's as in active preparation. Madame Rudersdorff has been - singing with pest success in Holland. Madame Lind-Goldaehmidt has again left Eng land for a sojourn in the South. Madame Schumann has arrived, and been play ing in the provinces as one of a touring party. Messrs. Armitage and G. F. Watts were elected Associates of the Royal Academy on Thursday evening last. Mr. W. Holman Runt stood next in the order of votes, much behind the above gentleman. These elections were made without putting down names. The General Exhibition of Water-colour Drawings, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, will open to the public on Mon day neat. The private view took place to-day. The A theafrum announces with pleasure that Mr. Gye has abandoned his idea of giving Italisn opera nightly. The president of the Royal Society, General Sabine, has sent out cards for two evening receptions, which are to be held at Burlington House, on March 2 and April 13. AnAnglu-Saxon class has been formed at Irni versity College. Mr. R. H. Major, hon. secretary to the Geogra phical Society, has been promoted to the keepership of the newly-created map department in theßritish Museum. It is currently reported, according to the Army and Nary Gazette, that Sir John Pakington has given Vice-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, the commander-in chief in the Mediterranean, permission to visit the port of Toulon with the fleet during the approachrng summer, so as to afford an opportunity to as many under his command as can be spared from their necessary duties to proceed to Paris for the purpose of seeing the Exhibition, Several names of great literary reputation are to be found among the candidates for the North German parliament. As well known in England wo may mention those of Gottfried Kinkel, Gustav Freitag (the author of the "Lost Manuscript," "Debit and Credit," &c.), and Professor Momuisen, the historian of Rome. Two large floating cisterns constructed at Cher bourg have arrived at Havre oa their way to Paris. They are intended to supply the aquariums of the Exhibition with sea water, and during its continuance will make con stant trips between the sea and Paris. A Paris letter in the Nord has the following : " I am informed that the withdrawal of the right of ad dress will be the object of reclamation by a certain part of the deputies. The decree of the 24th November, in conferring that right, had invested the Chamber with • prerogative which the decree of the 19th January takes away. The opposition sees in this change a modification which requires the sanction of a plebiscite, and which a decree ia insufficient to decide. Such is the theme which M. Jules Favre is said to propose to sustain." The French decimal system of coinage has been adopted in Roumania. The town of Philippeville, in Algeria, has jtust been lit by gee. Fonnus-orncE, J.N. 31.—The Queen has been pleased to improve of Mr. Andrew J. Stevens as consul at Windsor, Canada, for the United States of America.— Ga:ette. ... DOWNING -STREET, JAN. 30.—The Queen hes been pleased to appoint Alexander Campbell, Lowe Esc., to be a non-elective member of the Legislative Council of the Turks and Caicos Islands.—Gamtfe. THE OPENING OF PARLIANENT.—LORD GREAT CHAMBERL A IN'S OF rICE • PALACE OF WESTMINSTER, FEBRUARY 1 1867.—A1l peeresses on announcing their intention of being present on the occasion of the open ing • of parliament on T u esday. the sth day of February, wi ll have places reserved for them in the Rouse of Lords, if the announcement be made at this office before 3 o'clock on Monday, the 4th aunt. Peers'eldest sons will have tickets for the peers' eldest sons' box forwarded to them upon a written or personal application at the office. No persons can be admitted, except those entitled to be present in the House of Lords, without a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain.—WlLLouothr DE lunar, 0.C.--Gardie. Vie eaurt. OSBORNA, F EIS. 1. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, accom panied by Princess Christian, and again this morning with her royal highness. Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Henry of Prussia walked in the grounds this morning, and Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Mr. Legg. Prince Arthur and Prince Christian, attended by Major Elphirmtone, landed at Stoke's Bay yesterday morning, and visited the new fortifications in front of Gosport and Portsmouth, round which they were conducted by Colonel Jervois and the commanding officers of the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers. Their royal highnesses afterwards honoured Lieutenant• General Sir George and Lady Buller with their presence at luncheon, and in the afternoon visited the barracks of the Royal Marine Artillery at Eastney, and the batteries of Sonthsea Castle, returning to Osborne in the royal yacht Alberta at 6 o'clock. Sir John Cowell and Captain Von Schroctter had the honour of accompanying their royal highnesses. Dr. Robertson had the honour of dining with the Queen and royal family yesterday. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Marchioness of Carmarthen, took a carriage drive yesterday. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour. able Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on matters relating to quarantine. The lords present were, the Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoote, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison attended the committee. A committee of the Lorda of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, and the Right Hon• H. Corry. Another committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council also sat yesterday on the seine subject. The lords present were the Lord President, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northoots, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended both committees. A deputation, introduced by Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., and consisting of Mr. W. Allan (Amalgamated Engineers), Mr. D. Guile (Ironfounders' Society), Mr. R. Applegarth (Amalgamated Carpenters and Joiners), and Mr. Odgers (Trades Council), had an interview with the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole at the Home-office yesterday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day at WhitehalL The lords present were Sir William Ede, Sir E. V. Williams, Sir R. Kindersley, Sir J. Col vile, and Sir Laurence Peel. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands, New Zealand, and Bermuda. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the West India Islands, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, and the Australian colonies. The Dakeof Buckingham, Lord President of the Council, gave a grand dinner at Cbandos-house, on Thursday evening, at which the roll of sheriffs for the year was settled. The company included the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Be►ufort, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Lord Stanley, Viscount Cmnborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Meths:Me, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Mr. Helps, and Mr. Harrison. The Right Hon. Stephen Care, H.P., Chief British Commissioner of the Anglo-French Fisheries Commission, returned to town, from Paris, on Thursday last. The other British commissioners are expected to return in the course of next week. We are authorised to state that the Queenwill on Wednesday, the 27th instant, hold a Court at Buckingham Palace, at which her Majesty will re ceive the Corps Diplomatique, the members of her Majesty's Cabinet, and other official personages, with their families, to whom notifications of her Majesty's gracious intention will be sent by the Lord Chamberlain. RETURN OP THE QUEEN To WINOSOR.—Her Majesty, attended by the ladies and gentlemen of the royal smite, is expected to return to Windsor Castle from Osborne on Monday next. Her Majesty will land at Gov port and proceed to Windsor by special train on the Lon don and South Western Railway. Her Majesty, it is um derstood, will sleep at Windsor Castle on Monday night, and come to town by special train on Tuesday morning, in order to open parliament. The Queen will return to Windsor on Tuesday evening, and proceed on the following day to Osborne. THE ROYAL VISIT TO SHROPSHIRE.—Yeeterdsy his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales repeated his visit to Lilleshall, the Shropshire seat of the Duke of Slither laud. A alight alteration upon the arrangements of the previous day took place, the royal party travelling by special train from Stafford, and alighting at Donnington, instead of at Newport as on Thursday. All the neces sary arrangements having been previously carried out by the Duke of Sutherland's gamekeepers, shooting was com menced within half an hour of the arrival of the train at Donnington, and some excellent sport was bad. The royal party shot through the woods towards Lilleshall-hall, where they stayed for lunch, and then continued their sport in the direction of Newport, where a special train Was in waiting to convey them bask to Trentham. Shortly after half-peat 5 the Prince and his suite reached Donning ton, and arrived at Trentham at a quarter to 7. It is understood that his Royal Highness will finally leave Trentham in the course of to-day. The guests invited by the Duke of Sutherland to meet the Prince are the Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl Vane, Prince Teck, the Marquis of Huntley, Viscount Newry, the Earl of Dunmore, and Colonel Marshall. Major Grey is in attendance upon big Royal Highness. Prxmoutu, Fa& I.—Captain his Royal High ness the Duke of Edinburgh, K.G., arrived at Plymouth by the Thursday night express from Paddington. From the Plymouth Railway station he proceeded to bfoorshead's Royal Hotel, Devonport. On Friday morning the duke proceeded on board the Galatea. The Princess of Wales, attended by the Mar chioness of Carmarthen, took a carriage drive yesterday. Tho Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are ex pected to arrive at Stafford florae, St. James's, early in the ensuing week. Earl and Countess Russell, with their family, have arrived at she Hotel Bristol, Paris, from the south of France on their way to England. Lord and Lady Enfield have left the same house for London. " The marriage," says tho Europe, "is an nounced, for April next, of Emma, daughter of Baron M. C. de Rothschild, Consul-General of Bavaria at Frank fort, to her cousin, Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, of London, M.P., son of Baron Lionel. The mortal remains of the Countess Dowager of Jersey were removed yesterday from Berkeley-square to Middelton Park, Bicester, and the interment takes place to-day. The death of Mr. G. R. Barry, the liberal parlia mentary representative of the county of Cork, leaves a vacancy to which several politicians of liberal principles already aspire. Mr. Vincent Scully is stated to be in the field, and Mr. M`Carthy Downing, an extreme liberal, will, it is add, address the electors without lees of time. A conservative candidate will in all probability come forward. Mr. Miller, member for Colchester, will apply for the Chiltern Hundre,ls on the meeting of parliament. Sir E.lwaril Kerrieon is about to retire from the represen• tation of East Suffolk. At the meeting of the members of the Royal In stitution yesterday evening Mr. Scott Russell delivered a lecture "On the Crystal Pekoe Fire." In the course of his lecture he said he feared the Crystal Palace Company would not receive more than a fifth part of the sum in sured. But if the funds of the company were not equal to repair the damage, he thought such a national institu tion as the Crystal Palace, which exercised an important influenoe in educating the people, ought to be restored by the efforts of the public. On February SO it will be exactly fifty years since the celebrated historian, Leopold von Ranke, took his doctor's degree at the rather early age of 20. The occasion will be celebrated in Berlin by his friends and admirers. A curious result of universal liability to service was mentioned the other day by Baron Dalwigh in the Darmstadt Chamber of Representatives. It is that in • thousand German enterprises "beyond the seas" there are hardly more than two or three Prussians. Their liability to serve in the army prevents them from leaving their own country till they are too old to be enterprising. 'he himself said ; or as his chiefs, who accepted his resignation with alacrity, said, because there was nothing he would do. He would, perhaps, not object to be a Minister without a portfolio ; I but it may not uncharitably be doubtal whether his occupation, as a slashing leader of Adullamites, is not the one that shows his qualities to the best advantage. He has sat some thirty years in the House, and if he had sat for sixty years, and were to sit, as we sincerely wish ho may, for thirty years more, he would be neither more nor less ornamental and useful a legislator than he was in 1836, and is in lB6i. It was said of Sir ItoiiEur PEEL that he was " a great Member "of Parliament ;" his character and genius, i his tastes and habits, were so eminently par liamentary. This was high praise for one of the greatest and most laborious of English statesmen ; but to have been a Liberal Member of Parliament, to whom not a single act of Liberal legislation can be traced, is hardly a sufficient title to fame for en otiose and oratorical parlia mentary defender of the Constitution. In this after-dinner speech to his admirers, Mr. Hott.smas repeated, with evident pride and pleasure, an opinion ho expressed on parliamentary reform during Lord DERBY'S brief tenure of office in 1859. He had then objected to the lowering of the suffrage that the arguments in favour of lowering it to 6/. might be used in favour of uni versal suffrage. It did not then, and does not now, occur to the authorof that stupendous proposi tint, that any argument used in 1832 for reducing the suffrage to 10/. might have been equally used in favour of universal suffrage ; and that any argument used on the other side in favour of not reducing the suffrage qualification at all might be equally used in favour of restricting or of raising it. Happily, the Reformers of 1832 were not turned aside from their purpose by such logic as that. Yet Mr. HORSMAN, after the pre vailing fashion among his party of dressing up for hisownbenefit private conversations, makes hie audi ence laugh at the expense of some unnamed "ardent " young Reformer," to whom he had repeated SHERIDAN'S words," Sir, I was a Reformer before " you were born, and shall continue a Reformer " after you are hanged." Perhaps Mr. HORSMAN, referring to HANSARD, may be able to show that he voted for household suffrage in Mr. Hume'sl days ; a fact, if it be one, which would convict hint of having lived as a Reformer, before he was born again as an Adullamite. Of Mr. GLAD srusL's eloquence he speaks with a warmth of sympathy and admiration evidently unaffected; but while he calls Mr. GLADSTONE'S elo quence " divine," he adds with delicate effrontery that the allies with whom Mr. GLADSTONE acts must have been especially distasteful to his high moral character and genius -such allies, for example, as Mr. MILL, Mr. FANYI 'Err, Mr. HI:011es, and, we might add, Mr. Cot - DEN, if Mr. COSHES were still living. Mr. HORAMAN was a Reformer, he insists, before the present generation of Reformers were born ; and therefore a Reformer, when he opposed Mr. GLADSTONE'S budgets, and the commercial treaty with France ; he was a Liberal when, with all his powers of vituperation and bitterness, he was doing his worst in parliament and out of it . to intensify the exasperation of the people of the United States against this country, and to add fuel to tho flames of their civil war. Doubtless, he was an ecclesiastical Reformer while his whole parliamentary energy was spent in attacking the Bishops ; but what has he reformed in Church or State ? We are quite ready to believe that Mr. HORSMAN is in his own sense a Liberal and a Reformer ; he is certainly very liberal in the use ' of language, only his political dictionary is not adapted to the use of simple people who have no:, reformed the English tongue. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) Returning to Mr. Bright's defence of his career, the Times again expresses its surprise that a man who deals blows himself in any direction should expect his antagonists to take all patiently. With two or three exceptions the criticisms on the hon. member have been simply criticisms on his speeches and not on himself. As to his attack on the House of Commons, the postponement of measures is not due to the constitution of the house, which is fully abreast of the public opinion of the country. Taking one year with another, the House of Commons passes more measures, and more useful measures, than any legislative assembly in the world ; and if it be un decided or hostile respecting any measure submitted to it, it is because the same indecision and the same hos tility are to be found in the nation at large. As to Mr. Horsman, though he professed to say what ought to be done, the Tim.. cannot exactly discover his views. He dues not appear to see the way to a satisfactory settlement of the question of reform, though it may perhaps be in ferred that he would be in favour of a variation of the franchise. However, before many days are over we shall know for certainty whether Ministers have "a policy" or not ; and if not. bo"4 they mean to justify the want of it. Tne Dnil yNews prints nearly the whole of Mr. J. S. Mill's address at St. Andrew's University, and comments upon it in sympathetic terms. That such wise and gene rous and tolerant teaching should be possible in the eccle siastical capital of Scotland—the scene of religious feuds and murders—is an indisputable mark of progress. Another article in the Daily News treats of the Italian scheme for the sale and conversion of ecclesiastical pro. PertY• The Post is disappointed with the lions which now adorn the base of the Nelson column, and contrasts them unfavourably with the two magnificent beast, which watch the entrance to the tomb of St. Peter's in Rome. Whatever their merits, there can be no doubt that from this day tho new lions cast the statue of Nelson in the shade, and he is no longer the principal part of his own monument. The figures are monotonous, and show unmistakably a want of fertility of invention. The Past also devotes au article in tribute to the memory of the Countess• Dowager of Jersey, whose life, it says, from the wide range of its esperience, may be said to be historical. Married at a very early age, she was, says the Post, the leader of London society before Nelson had fought Trafalgar or Napoleon was crowned at Notre Dame ; and at that time " to be a leader of society was something more than to crowd rooms with mere strugglers for happiness." Warm sympathy is tendered by the Herald and Standard to Mr. Rottman in his troubles at Stroud. The Telegraph adheres to its statement that her Ma jesty's ministers intend to propose a commission of in quiry into the boundaries of the parliamentary constitu• moles, and adds that they have definitively resolved to propose an autumnal session, which shall commence in November, professedly to peas the contemplated measure of reform. THE WEEKLY PRESS. Failing a reform bill or after passing a bill the liberals, says the Spectator, may at any moment resume power. They have a majority of seventy, which would be greatly increased by a dissolution, whether before or after the bill ; before, because the towns would punish all hesitating members ; after, because the new electors would be eager to exercise their power. The single impediment in the way of a strong liberal government, able either to carry reform or use the insults of reform, is the want of unity in the liberal ranks, and it is on the removal of this want that ►ll noteworthy gossip turns. The aristocratic whigs backed by the liberal plutocracy want Lord Granville to form a ministry with Mr. Gladstone, hoping that Earl Rus sell may be persu►ded to let his principles secure their triumph through his self-denial. With Lord Granville Mr. Gladstone will have behind him what Pitt for some years had—the nation and the families of 1688. Unless, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (rsurzs's TILZGRA)IB.) ROME AND ITALY. ROME, Fes. I. The official journal of Rome contradicts, as wholly unfounded, the statement that the conven tion between the Italian government and M. Lagrand Dumonceau had been preceded by long negotiations on the subject with the Holy See and the Italian bishops. It further says :—" The assertions of the Italian semi-official journals re specting the opinions of the Holy See upon that operation are entirely untrustworthy, and are a manteuvre employed to gain time and mislead the public in order to facilitate the consummation of the impious and anti-Christian projects which they are secretly preparing." FRANCE. PARIS, FIB. 2. M. Marino Papadopoulo Vreto, a Greek publi cist, has been nominated chevalier of the Legion of Honour. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 2. The concession for the railway from Kursk to Kier has been granted to Messrs. Merck Dolgo rucki. The length of the new line is to be 438 versts. The capital for the formation of the com pany is fixed at 41 million roubles, and the shares will be issued in pounds sterling, francs, thalers, and Dutch florins. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN. FEB. 2. It is understood that Prince John will leave this capital to-morrow for Athens, to undertake the duties of Regent during the absence of the King. Immediately upon his arrival King George will start upon his visit to Copenhagen. SYRIA. MARSEILLES, FEB. 2. Advices received here from Beyrouth to the 23rd ult., state that France has obtained the resti tution of the confiscated property of Joseph Karam, and a general amnesty for the Maronites. Joseph Karam had entered Beyrouth with the French Consul-General, when the population, it is added, raised shouts for France and the Emperor. Joseph Karam had visited the foreign consuls, and had left Beyrouth with hie friends for Algeria, where he will in future reside. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. MARSEILLIO, FEB. 1. The Menageries Imp4riales steamer Said, with the above mails, arrived here at noon to-day. THE BRAZIL MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, Fes. 2. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida arrived off the Needles at 11.25 a.m. AMERICA. QUEESTOWN, FEB. 2. The Royal Mail steamship Persia, from New York on the 23rd ult., arrived here at 1 a.m. to day with 69 passengers and 76,220 dole. in specie. She landed all the mails, except those for Liverpool and Scotland, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1.20 a.m. All well. NEW YORK, JAN. 23, MORNING. Resolutions have been introduced in the House of Representatives declaring that civil State go vernments do not exist in the South, and that the South is not entitled to a voice in ratifying consti tutional amendments. The Supreme Court of Alabama has decided that Alabama was de facto a government under the Con. federacy. It is reported that a serious difficulty has arisen between President Mosquera, of Columbia, and Mr. Burton, the United States minister to that republic. The latter had demanded his passports. A meeting in aid of the Cretans was held yester day in New York, at which the mayor, Mr. Hoff man, presided. Funds and clothing were sub scribed. The Indians in the Western plains are becoming warlike and troublesome, and have recently perpe trated numerous assassinations. N. P. Willis is dead. Two more Fenian prisoners have been sentenced at Toronto to be hung on the Bth of March. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, FEB. I. Gold, 135 k. Sterling Exchange on London, 108;1 ; Illinois, 114 ; Erie, berk ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 1071. The stock market is firmer, but trade generally is depressed. MEXICO. NEW YORK, JAN. It is reported that a severe conscription is being enforced in the city of Mexico, and that the Em peror Maximilian has decided to abdicate if the National Congress should refuse to sustain him. Mexican advises received in Washington on the 23rd of January assert that Juarez is in possession of Matamoros, Monterey, Chihuahua, San Luis Potosi, Agnes Calientes, Guadalajara, and the greater portion of the roads leading to the city of Mexico, so that in the event of a successful tight with the Imperialists, who had gone to meet the liberals, he would be able to occupy the capital. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDM:T.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVFMNG. Joseph Karam, the Christian agitator in Leba non, who for years has been a thorn in the side of the Porte, is now safe in Algeria, and the influence of France, by whom he was always patronised, has obtained the removal of the sequestration of his property, so that he will have a handsome income to live upon in Algeria, where doubtless he will long remain quiet. The Memorial Diplamatique learns with regret that the efforts made by the court of Madrid to induce the Italian government to restore the pri vate property of the ox-King of the Two Sicilies have not been successful, although supported at Florence by the French and Russian envoys. The sequestration is to be maintained unless in the case, not to be at present expected, of Francis 11. formally renouncing all pretensions to the crown of Naples, and taking himself away from Italy. The Opinion Nationale looks with fear and trembling upon the hardihood of the concessions which the Italian government is prepared to make the church, and fears that under the pretext of a free church and a free State it is paving the way for an imperiani in imperio. Prince Paul de Broglie, the second son of the Duke de Broglie, who was an officer of the navy, has determined to take holy orders, and has just been received in the little seminary of lay, • branch of that of St. Sulpice. A marriage on the aoliciaire principle—i.e., without the assistance of the church—is thus an nounced in the Sii'cle The marriage of M. Albert Regain!, editor of the Litre Pais& with Mane. Caroline Deicher takes place to-day. The ceremony being entirely a civil one, Regina,' invites those of his friends who have not received letters to be present at that solemnity, which will take place es 11 o'clock in the mains of the sth arrondissement. . . The fashionable organ, La Gazettc desitr,f,vpw, giving an account of the court ball, says A great many guests, on leaving the Tuileries, went to supper at the CaftS Riche, the Cafe Anglais, and the Maison Dor6e, which were glittering with Uni forms up to a late hour. Perhaps there may be room for some improvement i❑ the organisation of these magnificent court 1 . ..t.c5, to; make the supper tables accessible to a greater number of guests. We have heard the ob s , r , a. tion made, and, therefore, we desire to submit it to consideration in the proper quarter." At the Bourse Rente closed with scarcely a frac tional change. Cridit Foncier recovered bfr. from the fall of yesterday, and Mobilier rose lir. 2.k. The market was inactive. ARRIVALS AT SOUTHAMPTOP.-( THIS LAY./ (BY ELZCTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. Lieutenant Brand has just landed. The Tanjore has arrived. Among her passengers are 14 Japanese princes and seven Japanese conjurors ; two of the latter are women, the first that have ever left Japan. THE MORT HON. MR. BRAND, M.P., Limb PELHAM, M.P., AND THEIR CONSTITUENT\ LEIVPS, FRIDAY NIGHT. This evening a crowded meeting was held at the Lecture-hall, in this town, for the purpose of hearing addresses from the borough members. The chair eu taken by Mr. B. GoDLiv, the president of the Liberal Registration Society. The Right Hon. Mr. Bruen, on coming forward, waa received with loud cheers. He spoke chiefly upon the topic of reform, observing that the development of the wealth and prosperity, together with the growth and eds. cation among the working classes, since the passing of the Reform Bill of 1832, were such as to fairly entitle, not all perhaps, but a very large proportion of them, to a share in the representation of the country. The new class of working people which had risen up since that time were indeed full of intelligence and full of ceder and were by no means to be confounded with the buel of metropolitan roughs who pulled down the paliege of Hyde-park. The abolition of the nomination boroughs in 1832 and the transfer of the seats to the centres of wealth and industry admitted the middle classes generally to the franchise, and it was now time that the most intelligent of the working classes should be ad mitted also by some wise and comprehensive measure. When Lord Pahnerston's government was compelled is withdraw the Reform Bill of 1811 e, he stated to the premier his opinion that it would be difficult to carry any measure of reform unless it were di. vided into two parte, one dealing with the franchise and the other with the distribution of seats. Lord PalmerstooX reply was characteristic, for he said it was quite plain that the then House of COIIIOIOIII was not disposed to deal with the question in any shape whatever, and that was why it was not mooted again till the parliament was dissolved in DOW.. He justified the course taken by the government of Lord 1. Russell in dividing the bill into two parts, and exposed the objects of the then opposition, who, under the pre tence of making the measure more comprehensive, so overloaded it that not only did they propose that parlia ment should treat the question of the franchise and redistribution of *eats is one measure. het also bribery and corruption. He thought himself that in order to give the country the full benefit of reform they should deal with one question at a time, but not satisfied with overloading the bill with so many objects, the tories, under the leadership for that occasioa of Lord Stanley, actually proposed and carried a vote the the last part should be taken first. The liberals might indeed have defeated the tories in fair cod open fight, but, unfortunately, the government PI not from the assaults of its open enemies. but from the defection of the false friends of liberalism; and the unholy alliance formed between the vexed and gloomy spirits of the cave of Adullain and the tories were to many for the administration. If he had to write the epitaph of the Reform Bill of 1866 it would be, " Hers lies a bill which even its enemies owned to be honest, but it wax lost from the defection of those who ought to hoe been its friends." (Cheers.) What sort of a bill there would be introduced next session, not being in the secrets of the cabinet, be could not say ; but he assumed there would be one, the working people having so unmistake ably pronounced their desires in that direction. A bill framed and proposed by an angel from Heaven would probably not have satisfied a tory opposition ; but parlia ment might have become wiser, the tones might also have become converts to liberalism, though be did not think it was very likely ; and it might be that the parlia ment of 1885 would still settle this question. He could net but think that reform had receded in so much as it was now in the hands of Mr. Disraeli, instead of those of Mr. Gladstone, and he could not help esi.reen lag his conviction that the working-classes had so mud i suspicion of the liberalism of the tones that they would not receive such a bill at their hands, even though the time should come for gathering grapes from thorns or Igo from thistles. (Cheers and laughter.) Fur ha part he should gladly receive converts to refenu from whatever quarter they might come, but he was not the less of opinion that the boon would not be rrgarJed as complete unless it came from the hands of Mr. sdlsd• stone. He concluded a somewhat lengthened ablrev4 by stating that his opinions in favour of a compretiessas Reform Bill were not those of a day, or formed for the rt• pose of catching astray vote, but a ere the matured ; , :tir• ment of his mind that the institutions of the country (. 41,1 be materially strengthened by admitting the working , :b . ss generally to a larger share in the representation than the! now possessed. (The right hon. gentleman resuna.l has seat amid much applause.) Lord also expressed his strong attachment to the cause of reform, and his opinion that recent gorill• ments had done wisely in confining their attentt,s to the domestic affairs of the country. (1 11 avoiding enemies in foreign quarrels. (eher , ". l next touched on church rates, observing that mush at lo respected any measure on that question winch tntaaaol from Mr. Gladstone, he could not hut think it would It• better for the church itself if it were left entirely to the voluntary principle, but at the same time lie drpkitd the growth of ritualism, and should not he :a% ,rse to tc troduction of a measure that would check the prer'sl 4 a movement so dangerous to protestan tistn. tO . question of reform he concluded his whin , • by a tints from Mr. Gladstone's speech on the n bignation t:t late ministry, when he said, " Time is on ear sale. t'' working men are marshalled in our support, and althokt , the banner we carry in the fight may in some um , of the struggle droop over our sinking heads. yet • rise and (tort again in the eyo of Ilea( eu, nod nl l . l borne by the hands of the free people of the I 'nited hat,: dom, if not to an easy, to a certain and perlt. , p , tO t Cant, victory." (Cheers.) Moth the hon. members met with a ern' enthoan.7.: reception, and on the motion of Mr. IV. r.si 1.. tte,oultti Mr. VERRAL, the following res tlution " That the meeting having heard the opinion' of Hon. 11. Brand and Lord l'elhatn, the member, for borough, on the leading political topics of the .1 .).. 10 '7 to express its entire confidence in those gehth 10. to thank them for the very satisfactory tn atno ...- which they have discharged their parliament iry A cordial vote of thanks to the chairman cm: :ludo at proceedings. " Disturbances," says the F 0i ,..,..1.1 3 .. ,33t Turin on the '..2lth ult. Bands of workmen, lalenn.: the most part to the government establid the streets shouting ' Bread and work r Th.-y some bakers' shops, but raised no sedition. c lic.. butcher's shop was rifled, cud, strange to ~)• t h e L o d . was not carried away or eaten, but thrown trampled under foot. The national guard iiit.irow a . order was finally restored." DEATH OF' LORD GRAY OF GRAY.—We announce the death yesterday morning, st ki. rcai.len , %: , . the Champs Elysies, of Lonl Gray of Gray, nt leis .• year. The deceased nobleman was long knoan in 10, for his benevolence, and on many occasion" leek ch!". at meetings convened for charitable objects with British subjects,— Gakmani. few: soW amyl ber just Dt Mr. ritor roan Sittini The no pros thereto Dr. ; titionet cruelty at Eart of med: public* a court the lad: and the The t appeeher that all 1 worth, a he knew the Sev and lie t< of firear. himself. Webb, a lost 150/. prehensi. zerland, to Engle: charge ni John B he search and that there was oo • p ar t Leyland. One or material, for the pr