The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-25 00:00:00

THZ DAILY NEWS: LONDON MORNDIO et Pm& txrizt u ..2%.4.4. lawZ r albteal w i re. w i re.ma al seaMl la No alms aad tat. lig ameral aras—la of tit Dot marl% ta tie vartad maainalla itemusalit la. anamlaial Is las at. lalDna. aarl masalan aailue—ahlt pour la as 6. 1 1 16 . 1011110 N NEW ItILIASLII AND INPAVIAL as t ir Ts: f ed . 41=tha barna sappDai :7_ l olll - 01( L SMOG WONT. ALL consume ADVIUSIIIMXa. SO. hie Mijcidem. tharalmy tw r Wiz = m isty Fa a lirrliaa=l i er= Isiatarat aa7 pralles sea Ty be yettepai et say banamaaer arnnom ram Magian or at las dim SMI11110•1110 isboa 11.11. V Man* via L la Masbate at b pea r. aliarad pers. say paean, mil ea ft:la m e as of aim agar may la m* It at Oa my ~Er. bal4 la ohms by Pymbellat sir. etc Oxpreoo. dwuseasati lelsodad lair "Us 11aimin,..146 - 6 Imot pew. meg as at as M.. 116 assmisrliesl. Who Mut se iis as, It failkolii& SATO Fro Iv Tin LOTS 011 i e S ircirse. rl r.Orar —JAMS Moos MOM FOS LO O M Kr. Sodors o—ra OS- Fora—Orrors r 7. POW Tao ammo, E MI MI artIORTS DIZAIL—AeI le isI72ILALIU IN OHM CAT; The Mom Illrom Oa hen %Mimeos Mom RAMA sad O. Air& liaat—Oro PIO NOWT. Tug Ifrione._WAllLlT. Ashirmi—THl TWO Mali Boom Onus Noon ad MOSomb.—Aad Rlr DilOY newt Oren lofts. lire Nam EMIL lassolls ; O Wersir.—Oluarre halt out G. HIGH WATIH AT LONDON lIIIIDOIL Ziolgr-= ' t a ...... - a. as. Der= l lb. lon LONDON, TIEVIRSDAT, MANCE 25. THE discussion that took place the night before last on the Psasport system has had the beneficial reeult of reducing the question to its true bearings. The practical point for consideration is, not the folly of foreign Governments in perpetuating a system. the inutility and vexatiousness of which have repeatedly been admitted by the most competent foreign aathorities ; it is simply, what regulations oar own Government ought to devise so as to render the procuring of a British passport a matter of the lout possible vexation and expense to British citizens. After the deliberate testimony of many dis tinguished continental pabliciats--after the recorded conviction of the Emperor of the Faviat him self—that passports are "an oppressive inven " Lion—an embarrassment and obstacle to the " peaceful citizen, but utterly powerless against " those who wish to deceive the vigilance " of authority,"—the cue as against the Passport system may be regarded as decisively established by the very admission of those who are now employed in enforcing it with renewed stringency. But this is not the point. A considerable body of functiona ries on the Continent have a direct pecuniary inte rest in maintaining the syetem ; the inveterate pre judices of the foreign police are stubbornly arrayed in its favour; and it is not likely that the EMPIOIOI, however 'bong the opinion be may entertain as to its absurdity, will, or indeed can, enforce the sudden abandonment of • set of regulations, the carrying out of which gives lucrative employment to many, and the surrender of which would be regarded as fraught with danger to the public safety by all but the thinking few. The utmost that the British Government can do in this direction is, by friendly representation and reasonable remonstrance, to press for a relaxation of those very objectionable and vexatious regulations which have recently been adopted on the other aide of the Channel. It is pro bable that the very practical arguments arising from diminished railway receipts, deserted hotels, unoccu pied lodging-houses, and unvisited shops, will have a greater weight in this direction than any formal correspondence on the part of the Foreign-office. When the panic originating out of the crime of the Rue Lepelletier shall hare in some degree subsided, common sense may be expected to resume its sway in the councils of French statesmen ; and the slightest exertion of common sense most suffice for the discovery that nothing can be devised more. pre judicial for the best interests of France than to in terpose artificial barriers to her free intercourse with her English allies. The real question, however, for us to decide—the question over the decision of which our Government is supreme—is this : What regulations are to be enforced here upon British subject' applying for a passport to British authorities? This is the tree point. As everybody knows, nine-tenths of the embarrassment and vexation which have arisen sine* the change in the system are owing to the absurdity of oar own Foreign-office regulations. In comment ing the other day on these regulations, we put one of two hypothetical cases of the possible hardship that might be inflicted by !those rules on that very numerous clams of our fellow-citizens who have near relations living in France. One of the very cases so put has actually occurred, and was stated by Mr. itiONCKTON MILNES to the Moue. An English gentleman received • telegram stating that his daughter was dangerously ill at St. Omer's. He went at once to his banker's and got the recom mendation. He hurried to the Foreign-office. He arrived there before four o'clock, and was told, in compliance with the rules, to call there the next day at twelve. He did so, and got off by the tidal train that night, but arrived at Bt. Omer's two hours too late—his daughter was dead. In this case there was no difficulty about the recommendation ; the delay was caused by the absurd rule which interposes a day between the application for the passport and its delivery. An other instance cited by Mr. Miurts tarns on the impracticable rule as to recommendation. A young officer just returned from India, having very few acquaintances in this country, received a telegram on the Thursday that his father was at Boulogne, at the point of death. He went at once to the Foreign office and stated his position. He was told he mast have a recommendation. He spent the whole of Friday in trying to procure one, and at last fell in with a friend who recollected having once dined with a police magistrate. A letter was written to the functionary in question, and a recommendation . . _ obtained. Oa the gatarday the young officer got his passport, but not until it was too late to catch the Volkeetone boat, and he d id not reach his father's bedside till Sunday. Now this, it is quits clear, is utterly unendurable ; and, indeed, Mr. germane FITZGERALD, in his very sensible and creditable speech, did not attempt for • moment to defend the CLARENDON regulations. Hs admitted that in the estimation °flier Majesty's premmt Goverment I British passport granted to & British sable* st out to trays : i i :-Ntel was a mere sertigoste of eitizenship—a certificate of the fact that the be N? was a subject of the British Crown. He admitted that Government felt it no part of their duty to make any inquiry sato the antecedents of the appli cant for • passport. He admitted that it wee a res t inconvenience that no British pup. porta should be issued except in Imam eel &clued the intention of Government to edehik, several branch offices in the principal port. Re ....t e d that it was the desire of the Cute. — ITER to make such a reduction for passports as would pleas also intimated that it w mina al the XXCIZQI in the resent chap to • THE ItktiRESS, them within the reach of almost any one of her MAJZSTY'N subject,. The candour of these admissions and the good in tentions apparent in these proposals, are to be added to tie several proof recently furnished of the advan tage which the country is likely to derive from the , somewhat peculiar position occupied by her M►- iserv's present advisers. In order to avail ourselves as far as possible of these favourable dispositions we beg to offer a few simple suggestions as to the mode in which, as we conceive, the whole business may be arranged with the greatest possible saving of cost and trouble to the public, and without any necessity of making the slightest addition, by branch offices or otherwise, to the expenses, or to the patronage, of Downing street. Let us just see how the matter stands. It is admitted that a passport granted by the British Government is nothing more than a certificate that the beam is a British subject, and, as such, entitled, while abroad, to the good offices and protection of British officials and allied Governments. Let printed forms of passport be prepared, at my office you please, the Foreign or the Home, certifying in such terms u may be deemed convenient this essential fact. Let each form be stamped with a duly pre pared signature of the Secretary of State, the forgery of which should be guarded with the usual penalties. Let these forms be distributed throughout the country, to the mayors of ail towns, to justices of the peace, to police magistrates, or (which would, perhaps, sneerer the purpose still better) to the local postmaster'. Let the applicant sign hie name to the foot of the passport, and let such signature be attested by the local =amity who issues the passport, and who may, if any one can, be safely entrusted with the not very responsible power of indicating by such signature that the applicant, according to the tenor of the printed document, is a British citizen. Even in the comparatively rare cues in which the appli cant might be personally unknown in his own neigh bourhood the fact of his British origin is one which may be safely left to the acumen even of a very hum ble class of officials. The lower the social scale, the more lively is the perception of those peculiarities of manner and diction which stamp that contraband and prohibited article—the foreign refugee. Let a sum of ls. of good and lawful money of this realm be the outside limit of cost, and let an account be opened at each local bank, for the transmission of the sums received on passport account to the Treasury. The adoption of some such straightforward and practical scheme as this would at once free the loco motive Briton from all the--; - .emotions arising out of the Passport System, and accomplish on behalf of the British Government all that it is bound to under take for the reasonable satisfaction of Foreign Powers. As regards the Continental Governments, the Government of Great Britain is bound to do no more than supply in the passports it grants to its subjects simple certificates of British citizenship. Al regards the British nation, Government is bound to furnish such certificates at the least possible cost, and with the least trouble. The scheme just roughly suggested, or something closely analogous to it, would in our opinion realise both such result,. By the adoption of some such plan our Government would wash its hands of all participation in the vexatious nuisance of the Passport System, the discredit of which would then only fall where it ought to fall, on those who, though convinced of its inefficiency and absurdity, still choose to perpetuate this most foolish of all restraints on the free intercourse of friendly nations. The new liberal candidate for Beverley, Mr. Ralph Walters, addressed the conatintincy in the Town Hall on Tuesday night last. It is rumoured (says the Worceseer Chronicle), that our timeliest chairman of the County Charter Sessions, Sir J. Pakington, wi I resign that °Mee at the midst see alone, in consequence of his inability now to spare the time neemeary for the proper conduct of the berhsese. We (BA.rbonw Journal) have to 'mimeos with men the death of Wm. Wingfield Baker, Eeq., of Greet Sall, Essex, the respected lather of George Wingfield Dighy, Req. Mr. Baker died at Sherboree Castle on Sunday, full it years, haring weed We 87th birthday. By hie death Richard Wingfield, Eq., mamba for South Benz, beams entitled to a Tory headmen* property, and will eawitme the name of Baker. It is stated by the Edinburgh papers that Mr. Chas. Dickens refused to accept any remuneration for his forthooming reading at the Philosophical Institution. The &mews have, therefore, commiselonei a magnificent imolai bowl, which is to be presented at the close of the lecture to morrow night. Oa Monday evening, Professor Nichol delivered the Ant of • coarse of four lectures on " Recent Astronomi cal Diecewerles," In the Loam Room of the Litersry and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The extensive nave of Worcester Cathedral is, it le said, to be Stied with a pulpit end mate—perhape with chairs, aa on the Continent—for the purpose of popular woks' and preaching. _ ARMY EirrimATEB.—This mornings supplemen tary sothoono was issued for the years 1838-59. It to propmed to mit the Roam of Commons to rote 25,0001. on account for the Serwrys of the United Kingdom and the Topographical Department. MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday] the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoras entertained at dial, the aldermen and members of the Court of Common Come of the wards of Yarned= Willa sad Without Line-east, Qammaithe, Walina, Tater, and Viatry, and their leas; the sheriffs; the near, wataleas, aeon of aestamie, end tallowy at the Cana Compay ; the staatar, .seisms, end awn of meat eat of the Fraerari qempay, and mama whole Anna, The bead tithe &at raffia Orr& nee in eilemdearat, ma me the arrived perhened in the Mew aad Atria the dimmer the Igyptiaa Hal, where emeas were hid for 290. Ansa th e men preween wets Lad de den, Admiral Sir C. Napa, M.P., Mojer-flanal Look*, Y.F., & Shwa M.P., Dr. W. IwoO lEP., Camel 22. P Mr. Dams Denbar: Thanes (abdomen Deal of Watt . % Mr. sad Haw. T. 0. Wales. Oa relleed Mayer), ItirDlikitolllll. is &W. Weley, Mr. J. D. Dr. Mow sad the Miran Deme, Ml. Dada _ma Mim fiehatime, Mr, end Wm. iladdany,_Xr. Din Ceps Caper ea Min Cooper, Kr.Welay, Main R. Hawke, Mr. J. Ds Donley, Affirms Wir D. O. Mae, Dart., Mamma Mir KM Wire, A4lllllOllllll end Ma. Roes, Minas ad Mrs. Phillips, AM... ad BUM Law man end Min Lawrence, Mama and Ilre. Gadd, Alarms end Sheriff Alba sad Die Al. Kr. W. 8. pryer (mauls, Of er ib:l f C Coasp the r jgr a TER BLEW. or LONDON ON THE SOCIAL EVIL. -The inelail Loudon hem eddreend the Mowing to the NW O 11111117 f Ws diomee :—" I beg to wawa the fol iate( appal the London Dianna Pealteadmry to the trywia9systam deep sad laity load rdagee has bee Willed in theimeeptien of Wei mem than bee ad boa a wrmawafat imweees elpsitenticriem Tide le 1n yeet swag he my imam enonal of support widish h the eanilainat sad yeerly moisten. man of the imentallea It he bent resolved, there fore, alb a bineleg, r immemmee the ellidemay of the Leaden Diammen Pallantfary, whia wan Wlliglllll4llll yy the lie Damp of Lanka he was it, ma its muse sad ithielm Impart, mars emmememiste with the wants at the dieter, end taw ale to meet the om elette appiereme from the i s la Landau. The report. of that Methanol' la ahremee to St. Mary Maradaleas. Was* OR the twe pen yam, together with the teetletmay of the He,. 3. Myer, maim, end the Raw. C. B. 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The Qom held a Levee yesterday afternoon, in Bt. Janstr's Palace. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived from Buckingham Palace at a quarter put 2 &dock, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards. The great officers I of state received the Queen and the Prinoe Consort upon their arrival at Bt. James's. Her Majesty's body guard of the Boa Corps of Gentle sun-st-Anos were on duty in the state micas', ander the command of the Lieutenant. THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, ISSB. Int Court. THE LEVEE. Deign W. C. dathibted. 011 ltholataset be Oa Sib loath. by Wrath en meth trey Team eat =Mee Werairt Or id of thearlyt. "l"*l en age= the Yth Pates Vie r othMilaX . M. paethrin ar Mai `fin. Ma zel lithebtaq fthadNOL rMiLeM4r. Y ntit= . lie =Mar 11111M1111 of Whetheeter, by the We Bea Spam * enallethetha eteenn. ea opetheanot le the Sal Ounrda, by IthennothOelonel ether 1. O. eat en, 411 M Metal D =thien.:lMDrig i.w.. Hr. M. IL intenth th e of Y. WI. ananithal.N.. bil n r a ritheetho. r...o lli e Ttlor y..r . Y.P. ..P f . beiv on oppeithent . a me of the Tborna. imam Cooed at floolbemplethbY the steno Malden Mr. ?bathos th Iretnat by Nth Do la Wier. Llothannt Job s Wreath Meath en appleathet to the 24. , M. P. at AXUtlrs wit °` by Weed Mega WY A. M. ea appastheet el /LOA, by Omani 4thz N tel. A. Tow, eypetetzsoot to the Sept Ithlnthe =an the of Itherant R . ' JP. I =. by Othend Ear Muellorth Lletheret R. N. *deb. by taunt ilk J. isten_lL. P. Tatman appolataten to Wiieithaa. bT Gaoled S. J.C. 1111116. ea liPilslmsl le Os Mb 'Pram by Uwe larnatheera Moths. lathatat O. Rama. bt i ttpler J. Ithisyse. r& D. P. Webb, by Shwa ° J B Wel. by Mr. H. Ttherth ar w eliero the Dyke of T. P. 7111 .00. Mr J. of ta r J. J. et tho the colony of Mr. bY Mos Jan by With Woad*. Lleothst-Oclord %Mot Doenthro r.breado_blP , l l ll: T. Bathe, M.P. Mr. & Wealth, On et Cons* Wriest.* Cionsa .1. W. S. W_glea. th (Meth Oltooth Llessenent tryble.th filthr-thearel WOO.. t he MWN Mot W*. se Ids agoesiewit as Allawap-Osessal for Irthad. by a Data. J. A. eta. Ti.ae Tthethek by the Myth Hon. Lord &Way. The Mowing gentlemen presented addresses of congratu lation on the marriew of the Princess Royal : Mr. Townshend Malawariog, M.P., from the borough of Denbigh. Mr. Jamas R. Bryant, Mayor from the corporation of Pembroke. The Mayor wee preiented by Viscount Emlyn. Lord Sondes, High Steward, Mr. Adolphus William Young, and Mr. John Mellor, Q.C., members for the borough, from the corporation of Great Yarmouth. - - Hr kajcatz er and the Prince Consort returned to Bucking ham Palace the Levee, escorted by a detachment of Ws Osiris. The Queen drove out in an open carriage, accompanied by Prince Leopold, in the afternoon. In attendance were the Hon. Emily Cathcart, Lord Colville, and Lieut.-Colonel Ponaoeby. The Prince Consort, with the Prince of Wales, rode out on horseback, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Roe. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included the Marquis and Marchioness of Baliabory, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Marquis of Lane:lows% the Rail of Car lisle, the Berl of Malratelniry, the Bari and Countess of Mountcharlee t Lady Blantyre, the Right Hon. B. and Mrs. Disraeli, Major-General and Lady Altaic Peel, Major- General Sir F. Williams, and Colonel Frauds C.B. The Band of the Grenadier Guards atlrnN and Played during dinner the following pieces: Overture "1,, Lae Jac Feu • Labor. Waft " Rom of Caatillo " The Queen's private band abarweille read In the drawing room the iellawfag aorgsetlfsr : Overture, " Culla@ .................. Tersetto "TI LI • Mon, a V r ft Lamm " eeedinall • peeme aka Doan." A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in Downing-street. The ministers present were :—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Salisbury, Earl of Hardwicke, Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Mr. Secretary Walpole, Earl - of Malmeibury, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, Earl of Ellenborongh, Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW FRENCH AMBASSADOR AND THE DERBY GOVERNMENT. The Constitutionnei of this day (Thursday) con tains the following semi-official article, signed by its political director, M. Renee : The late regrettable incidents which have arisen in the re lation' between England and France had produced an im presston which the honourable character and conciliatory tone of the last despatches have already in part removed. The present subject of preoccupation is whether the present cabinet can lest? Will Lord Derby find a majority disposed to support him in the House of Commons; or will some new parliamentary convulsion again change the &Bastian, sad open the door to new complications and difficulties ? To this question we think we may answer, that the Darby ministry will probably get through the present session with out any check of sufficient importance to entail its over throw—that hi the better opinion in England. The relative situation of the parties composing the opposition is not such as to prompt them to assume a hostile attitude at the present moment. The great struggle for power will therefore probably not come on till February in next year. The only thing which might at ones compromise the exist ence of Lord Derby's ministry would be an alliance between Lord John Russell and Lord Palmerston. But to this alliance there would be various obstacles:—the two names are of equal weight in the political scales ; both these states men have been prime minister., and Is all probability neither of them is disposed to take a subordinate part. Even, how ever, in the improbable OW of these leaders uniting, there would be other difficulties to surmount, To effect a fusion of their political friends would not be easy. Lord John Russell is at the head of a rather hete rogeneous army. Biota the time when a portion of the whig party fell away from him, he has endeavoured to supply their places by recruiting among the radicals. Lord Palmerston and his whig associates would probably be but little disposed to enter into a compact &Lianas with MM. Roebuck and Gibson, and—although the history el parliamentary pertatetics furnishes extraordinary precedent' it onexpected reconciliation—a sudden union between Lord Palmerston and Mr. Gibson and Ida friends at the present moment would be something startling indeed. Lord John Russell might, it is true, try another alliance— he might turn towards the Peeliter But there he would be met by obstacles of asimilar kind. MM. Sidney Herbert and Cardwell, and even Mr. Gladstone, would not be much disposed to form part of a Cabinet in which they find them selves sitting side by side with Mr. Roebuck. The situation then, so far as we can at present judge of ft, seems to guarantee to the Derby ministry • sort of truce during the present melon. To give battle without being in a position to profit by • vic tory, and for the mere pleasure of fighting, would be • game scarcely worthy of reasonable men, and one which might be dangerous to the adversaries of Lord Derby. If then, as we think probable, the cabinet should succeed in getting through the presto teenion and holding on till next year,it will probably, in order to emerge from a precarious position, have recourse to a dissolution, with the view of reconstructing a great con servative party, not consisting of pure tortes only. The situation of Lord Derby's cabinet in regard to Europe seems to be pretty nearly that of the last ministry ; there are but a few shades of difierence. It is however conceivable that a conservative ministry may lean more readily towards conser vative principles in Europe, and that its tendencies in regard to liberal ideas may be leis enthusiastic. For example, the Derby cabinet may have more affinities for Russia than its predeporasee had ; nevertheless, lbw examples are to be found in the history of England of two administrations, so diffwent in their origin, being so very nearly agreed in their foreign policy. Lord Derby, like Lord Palmerston, takes the French alliance as the basis of his policy. There can be no doubt that the pressed cabinet is exceedingly well disposed towards this ahem. It is, in fact, composed of men who were the fled to recognise the empire. Other go vernments thought that the recognition should be postponed, in order that it might be made simul balmily by all the states of Europe, but the Derby ministry would not consent to these delays, and was the first to hold out • friendly hand to the Emperor's government. It cannot then be doubted that Lord Derby and his colleagues must have it at heart to realise, for the benefit of the alli ance, and for the sake of justice, all that appeared equitable end opportune to their predecessors. That confidence which was • " little shaken" by the late incident will be gradually restored; and unreflecting irritation will disappear before the friendly and reciprocal feeling of the two governments. The Emperor, by his choice of the Date of Malakoff to represent France in London, has desired to prove, in the strongest manner, bow much he desires the maintenance of the alliance. The Emperor's object in making choice of this illustrious man Is to dispel all the rumours of a disposition on the part of his government to change the character of its relations with Europe. In select ing as his representative at the Court of Queen Victoria the marahal who in some sort personifies the alliance of the two nations, and who is the living comment of their common glories and dangers, the Emperor has made a choice than which none could have been more significant, or more flatter ing fur the English Queen and people. We have no doubt that the news will be reoeived with joy in England ; that the Duke of Mslakol will be welcomed there as a brother in arms, and will meet with a reception worthy of himself and the peat rowendis which he represents. Despatehes from the Lord High lonian Islands and from the Governor of Heligoland war received yesterday at the colonial-oelce. of the Visrr or THE PRINCE or WALES TO Gazinwiat SOIIPITAL.-011 Tuesday evening the Prince of Weiss, ao oompanied by Colonel Phipps sad Mr. Gibbs, paid a visit to Greenwich Hospital. His Royal Highness ma caducted through the various departments of the hospital by Sir W. Delyell sad Adjutant-General Wild, and spent some liew time in oamvssmation with an old peasicaer named Drum mond, one of the few surviving sailors of the Victory. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge end the Prisms Mary honoured Mr. sad Mrs. Bates with their company at diluter yesterday. The following were invited to meet their royal highnesses:—The Duke and Duchess of Maathistor, the Netherlands Minister, the Bel gian Waster sad Madame Van de Weyer, the Dachas of Lasater, the Berl sad Countess Grey, Viscount Chelsea, Frame Countess Waldegrave, Mr. Haroourt, M.P., the Bishop of Oxford, Lady Elizabeth Murray, the Hon. F. Brag. Lady Caroline Murray and Major Purvis were in wait* on their royal highnesses. L.,it night the Duchess of Northumberland had • " reception " at Northumberland House, which was at tended by above 400 persons of distinction, and most of the members of the carps diplomatictut. Previously to the as sembly, the noble duke and duchess entertained his Excel lency Coant Kislmaneegge, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernetorf, the Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emus Stanley, the Bari and Countess of Hardwick., the Earl of Carnarvon, Viscount Pevensey, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford, Lord Redesdale, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Loraine. Lady Col dwater, the Right Hon. Spencer and Kra. Walpole, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, Sir Michael and Lady Wavle Shaw Stewart, Sir William Jolla., Sir Frodariak and Lady Smith, Colonel Taylor, M.P., Mr. Newdegate, M.P., Captain Wyndham, Ito. Covers were laid for thirty.. The Right Hoa. the Speaker gave hie sixth par liamentary full dress dinner last evening, at his mansion on Carlton Honae-terrace. The following were present :—The Earl of Lincoln, the Marquis of Stafford, the Earl Gros venor, Lord Robot Clinton, Viscount Ebrington, Hon. Charles Howard, Hon. John Edmund; Elliott, Ben. Arthur Klausaird, Hon. Henry Berkeley, Sir John Ogilvy, Sir Harry Verney, Sir Edward North Buxton, Sir las. Maths ion, Major-General Buckley, Sir Erskine Perry, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Heedlam, Q.C., Mr. Ed ward Ellice, jun., Mr. Oiler Puller, Mr. Blaney, Mr. Whit bread, Mr. Wegnelln, Mr. Pottle* Borer" Mr. Thomson Hankey, Mr. E. W. Crawford, Mr. Adams, Mr. William Williams, Mr. Freak Crossley, Mr. Baxter, Kr. J. H. Our ney, and Mr. Charles Paget. The Hon. George grave and the Rev. Henry Drury bad the honour of join ing the party. His Excellency the Saxon Minister left town last swabs for Paris, to meet Prince George of Saxony, who will arrive in London on Saturday next. The Duchess of Wellington and Lady Julia Hay us sojourning at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon entertained a select circle at din= last evening, et their mansion in Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe have left town foe St. Lecmarde-mi-Ses, where they have tamed a suite of apartments at the Royal Victoria Hotel. Sir Francis Scott has left Claridge's Hotel for Great Barr Hall, near Birmingham. • a fter The Times, referring to the Earl of Ellen borough's explanation relative to the " Ermines " ob- Neva :—" Will Lord Derby and Lord Harding. de4 with aged oonddence that it has ever been in contemplation to seek for recruits in Canada among the fugitive slaves from the United States? Or will they smart that the= also Emmen • only were sought for? Or will they =ode- MOM d yet further, end inform us bow many lettere or despatches Lord Ellenborough has shady Deft obliged to withdraw, and whether it be has that tee of those candsted of a letter in the Queen's name, ignoring the very isalmos of the East India Company, addressed to tha Nalterojah of Owelior, announcing Lord Ellenborongh'e sconnion to the sovereignty of India in terms of Oriental magoldoence, before which even the glowing dithyramblos of the Soot math proclamation ere pale and Medicinal r. The Prince of Syracuse is at present finishing a statue, in white marble, of one of the philosophers of Naples —Baptists Vice, and which is to be erected in a principal equate of the city. ANNUITY TO THE Soft OF SIA HENRY LAW mancm—A 'pedal morel court of the Bast ladle Company is to be held oa the 7th of April, when the Proprietors of But India Stork will be asked to approve a rembiket of the Court of Directors granting to the eldest see of lb. less Major•Geoerel Sir Henry Lawrence en atom* of with reversion to his younger brother, In the event of the I death of the elder brother without heir meg. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. The Moniteur of this morning contains the fol lowing paragraph : " It is endeavoured by the evil disposed to excite misgivings with respect to the application of the law of public safety, by misrepresenting the inten tions of the government. The culpable expectations which followed the attempt of the 14th January imposed on the Government the duty of protecting the public security, and for this has sufficed the arrest of a few men notoriously dangerous. As for those who remain within the limits of the law, if they do not render themselves guilty by fresh mis deeds, they have nothing is fear from the effects of this law." (mom OUI OLIN INDINI9 PARIS. WiDNIUIDAY EVINING. Some hesitation was felt at the commencement of the Bonne es to the political signification of the Duke of Malakoff'. appointment as ambassador to London. But it becoming known that the govern ment press had received orders to represent the ap pointment u the most striking proof that the Em peror could give of his desire to maintain • cordial alliance with England, the Route, for account, which had declined to 69fr. 55fr., recovered to 69fr, 75c., closing with a &Sof only sc. For cash, the last price was the same as yesterday, 69fr. 65c. Mobilier rose 105.. The Orleans, Eastern, and Western railways rose sfr. each. Lyons, 7fr. 60c. Northern fell 2fr. 500. I understand that the bill of pains and penalties against usurpers of titles of nobility encounters a very considerable amount of opposition in the com mittees of the Corps Legialatif. It has been attacked on two totally distinct grounds. Some members, such as MM. Riche and Legrand, confine them selves to an examination of the bill itself, which they demur to as impracticable. The code of the first empire enacted penalties against usurpers of titles of " imperial" nobility. Three was something definite to be protected. The titles created by Napoleon 1. were few; the evi dences of them were modern and undoubted, and, in point of fact, there never was a usurpation of any one of them. The thing would have been too absurd. But the present bill affects to stigmatise the usurpation of any title whatever. How, it is asked, in the present state of French society, can it be judicially ascertained who is and who is not of noble descent? Make a law defining nobility, and then we will provide proper penalties for the infrac tion of it, but this bill puts the cart before the horse. Other deputies go farther. M. Emile 011ivier said, in his bureau, " This bill is at once hypocritical and unconstitutionaL It is hypocritical because it is an attempt to revive titles of nobility by a side wind, The government dares not openly propose to create an order of nobility. But the hereditary pension granted to the Duke of Malakoff, on plausible grounds, was an insidious step towards the erection of an institution which the country is not prepared to sanction, and after this bill will come osajovatz and substitutions. The bill is, moreover, unconstitu. tional, for the date of 1789 is inscribed at the head of the constitution, and the first canon of that date is the abolition of nobility." M. de Chambrnn, young man who represents the Loodre, warmly sup. ported M. 011ivier. The majority of the committee are either against the law altogether or desire to see it radically amended. Whether they will maintain this independent attitude when the public debate comes on remains to be seen. It has often bap. petted that the valour of which the deputies give proof in their private rooms oozes oat under the influence of Count de Moray's frowns. The general opinion, however, is that the bill will not pass this session, and that it is another of the many great mistakes made by the government since the vertigo with which it seems to 'have been attacked on Jan. 14. The Court of Cessation, sitting in the last resort (the three chambers united), have this day decided a case of great importance to every inhabitant of Paris. The police, on the strength of some antiquated ordinances, instituted a prosecution in 1855 against an old-established wholesale greengrocers' firm named Lesage and Co., with the object of establishing the absurd proposition that no fruit or vegetables could be brought into Paris for consumption without being taken to the central market for inspection if they had been purchased from the producer, or if otherwise, to be sold by auction there. Various decisions have been come to upon this point by severaljunior courts, and the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Caseation decided in favour of the monopoly of the Halle salesmen. This decision has now been happily overruled by the full court, in spite of the opposition of M. Procureur- General Dupin, who since his restoration to his old office Deems to. have a marvellous facility for advocating the wrong side. NAPLES. THE RELEASE OF WATT. (P 1101( OUR OWN 0015IBPONDINT.) NAPLES, Maxca 20. The following rescript, the substance of which you have already received by telegraph, was put into my hands shortly after it had been signed. I send it entire, in consequence of certain curious phrases, and of the reasons assigned for the royal act: " His Majesty our Lord having been informed that the English engineer, Signor Watt, is still in the hospital in this capital, and that the medical men have not been able up to the present time to form a decided opinion on the state of his health, at the same time ';eporting well of his general health, having learned too that the Grand Special Court of Salerno consider that the proces in which Watt is impli cated should be prosecuted for all the other accused, and having admitted the accusation independently of the said engineer, who for the present has been excluded from the proceedings now pending, which decision has been, and still is being executed, his Majesty wishing to give a proof of deference towards a subject of her Britannic Majesty, has deigned to permit that Watt may return ,to England, or to his own country, where he may receive such care and assistance as circumstances may render necessary," &c. The possibility of such a result was alluded to in Salerno a few days since, u I had reason to suspect that the matter had been the subject of conversation between the members of the Grand Court and Mr. Acting Consul Barber. My suspicions have now been converted into certainty, and I congratulate both Watt and his friends in the prospect of a speedy re union. Further than this! can say nothing. To express thanks or acknowledgments to this government for an act of mercy would be absurd and hypos critical ; moreover, it would be an insult to the British nation. The Neapolitan government have simply given up a man whom they captured in vio lation of international law, and have imprisoned since last June in violation of all justice. When they have insulted the British government to the tall extent of their power, and driven a "civic Hornung" to the very verge of insanity, then they send him home to be cured ; and this is styled giving a prod of deference towards a subject of her Britannic Ma jesty ! How her Majesty will appreciate each marks of consideration it is easy to imagine. It cannot be supposed that our government will now leave the case u it stands. It has shown tolerance and patience to a fault, and it M time for it to rise—not to oppress the weak, but to defend the weak against the op pressions of a power which has acquired so sad a notoriety for disregarding all the dictates of law, and even of humanity. I have asked myself why is it that an act so natural as that which has been prompted by deference towards British subjects was not performed before ? How is it that this sen timent has so recently been awakened ? What new light has been thrown upon the subject? Perhaps the decision of Dr. Phillimore ham wrought a miracle, for it imposes on England the obligation of rapport ing Sardinia in her demands forthe restitution of the Cagliari, and the liberation of the prisoners. I shall not be surprised, therefore, if Pars also be given up, and the case be thus simplified as between Naples and Piedmont. But, even should this lie the case, de voutly is it to be hoped that the British government will demand full and ample apology for a deep injary, and large compensation for men who have suffered so severely as Park and Watt have. The intelligence will communicated to Watt in the evening of Sunday, and it was made known by Mr. Acting Count Barber. The poor fellow re calved it without much delight, but with a greet access of nervousness. " Well, then, it is all oter, is it?" said he. During the week he observed, "I should like to get rid of this before I go home," st the same time tapping his forehead. Indeed, for some days he has been more suspicious and obsti nate than ever, and the opinion of his medical nos was that he would refuse to go under the imprewite that some trap was being laid. He will leave to-ds/ for England, and will arrive together with this letter. May he recover his health and quicP/ resume his duties. It is melancholy to thlo how much time has been lost and how much suffering entailed by the mildness d the mildest of noblemen in enjoining gentlemen and bandying compliments. Very far am I from recommending bluster at any time, bit sound and just decision and prompt action. Bas this been the policy of the British government to. wards Naples since the conference at Paris? lit one thing be persuaded, that this government will never yield anything from a sense of justice, sr from dictates of humanity—if you want pres s " ad vocate's, circumepice." voca m te ee , t a i , D hou g h a li th bee is n mo h nlin eld g at ,to Si m gno tore r lammitesr. Bates his bail, and to sign an act acknowledging the " grazia" of his Majesty. Watt and the Attorney General were present, sad I treat shortly toter!t the liberation of Park, but the phase of Writs voi still, as it appears to me, remain unchanged. The sub-offloers, were on duty with the corps. The Yeomen of the Guard wen commanded by the Bios in Welting. Naval end Cooke, The Queen and the Priam Consort entered the Throne Room, attended by the Duchess of Manchester, Mistress of the Robes; the Countess of Caledon, Lady in Waiting; the Marquis of Exeter, K.G., Lord Steward ; Karl De la Warr, Lord Chamberlain; the Duke of Beaufort, Muter of the Horse , the Marquis of Aberoom, K.G., Groom of the Stole to his Royal Highness; Lord Claud Hamilton, Treasurer of the Household; Viscount Newport, Via-Chamberlain; Colonel the Right Hon. Cecil FOrallar, Comptroller of the Household ; Lord Region, Lord in Waiting ; Lord Begot, Lord in Waiting to ►is Royal Highness ; Colonel the Hon. Charles B. Phipps, Keeper of her Mssuly's Privy Puns; Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Major-Genersi Berkeley Drummond, Groom be Welting; Colonel Francis Seymour, C. 8., Groom in Wahine to Ws Royal Highness; Lord Colville (Clark Marshal), Equerry in Waiting; Captain the Hon. D. de Ras, Remarry in Wetting to hie Royal Highness; sad Mama Macpherson and Ferquhums, Pere of Honour is Her Majesty wore a train of manes Mee velvet, blamed with several rowed old Los. The pettiroe4 wee of white ▪ trimmed with ruches of white ribbon end old lace to correspond. The Queen wore, es a hoed-dews, a diadem of enteralds. The Foreign A.mbasesdors old Miniature were introduced, when the following presentation to the Queen took place in the diplomatic circle :—By the Promise Minister, M. A. W. Deichmann. The following prepotedoss to the Qum took pleas, the names l eg isviz s =rziousl oodeur left at the s Lord Chem berlahee igeTrD. 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