The Express. — London, England, 1868-03-16 00:00:00

~~ ~. t i 1, I k JOHN BROODER'S CLASSIC JEWELRY. PARIS FIRST-CLASS SILVER MEDAL,IBB7• JOHN BROGDEN'S IS-carat GOLD CHAINS• JOHN BROGDEWS BRACELETS. --- JOHN BROGDEN'S BROOCHES. —_'----_ JOHN BROGDEN'S GEM and WEDDING luN"---___— JOHN BROODER'S NECKLACES. JOHN BROGDEN'S EARRINGS. --- °RIG IN AL GOLD C HAIN MANUFACTORY. NO. 16, HEN RIETT A-STREET , C ovent garden. FRAUD. —CAUTION. —Onler BRYANT and MArd PATENT SAFETY MATCHES, trade mark an Ark, and Intitt npnn haring them, SA inatathma are sometimes offered Mast do o u t afford PIInTFA,TION FROM FIKK HENRY BRETT and Co.'s "0. D. V." MT. BRA NPY.IBe. per gollon, and 30e. perdue., reCOl9 - rnended hy the medical onlennn. In a cAso for the country 302. . Inclualvt of ratlway carrisge.-114,,,ru hare, and 30, Renent-st. NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. Lcasee and Manager. Mr. ALFRED WIGAN. At Ratituat Seven. DEARER THAN LIFE. Mr. J. I. 100 LE as MICHAEL GARNER. At a QuArt,r•pnat Ten. LA VI VANDIERE. LA VIVA N WEAK—Mont Inane and Chantounl. gilt Orvrtss• ADVEWTNENIENTS must i forwarded to Messrs. J. K. JornisnN 111.1 $o 4s. 3, Cudle-etreot, Holborn, and 60, flatten instdca, the lion:1011y app Anted Agents. Ditur.r-L t:t E. 'tilts Errs an, ROl3 ROY. Mr. T Powr!e, Mr. Phelps, 3lesirs. W. Ilarrisl n. Phelps, re, L.urat, and Harcourt : Mes dsnuot E. t u.3d and Fancy 1111 (dart.—To conclude with THE WONDER HAVtIAP.KET. Tilts EVENEM, 11I'ne.a N IY3 CM/ST.—A H6llO OF ROII t (Y Memo &Allem BUCkStOttr, Compton, Ckippenriale, Ropers. and r, ark ; Monlamea EubertSoll, Burke, rlcippeadlele, Phew illiun , laws, Ac.—Awl 1111.: tift()K E-N-lINkItTED CLUB. pat Tnis EVT:NINO. TIIR COLLY.Y.7: RAWN.—After which THE STIOCICTi LONDON. Mr. and Min D. Bouncault, Mr. Vining, Mr. Dnalinick Murray, Means. Nevi:lo, Shore. tind Dan Leeson; lientlinuce Ehiworthy, tiarocU, Sniter, and Addl.,. STRAND. 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A DEPI rATIoN, strangely composed, waited on Mr. DI,RP 13.1 MI Saturday, on thu subject of the Sale of Liquors on Sunday Hill. It included the Roman Catholic Allen nttilli it. of WENTMINSTER, clergymen of the Church of England, and emi nent Ninconfonnist ministers. The political elements enlisted in sol.pert of the measure are not less 0:k iously blended. The rcpresentativee of the 'lathe:Alain of Manchester and Leeds, of the Toryism of the mall cathedral city of Chichester, and of rid: social democracy of Lambeth are co operatiiii; cordially. A charm as potent as that ed by i:ccate— Black spirits and white, Red epiril. :tad toil', Mingle, atingle, atingle, You that atittgle may— must have been used to unite spirits of political and ecclesiastical lines and shades of colours as divers as those which the incantation invoked. That charm is a common interest in tho material and moral well.being of the humbler classes of society. In his great speech on Friday, Mr. Bittuur urged that we are all, at bottom, of one religion. " I sup " pow," he said, "there will cane a day when men " will be astonished that Catholics, Protestants,and " Nono.nformista have all had so much animosity " and snvivion towards each other. I accept and " believe in a very grand patiage which I once met " with in the writings of the illustrious founder "of the State and colony of Pennsylvania. He " says that, ' humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, " and devout souls are all of ono religion, and " that when death has taken off tho mask, they " ' will know one another, though the divers " liveries they wear here makes them strangers.'" The deputation which met Mr. Disquiet' on Satur day was, in its small way, an illustration of the words to which the House of Commons had listened with sympathy on Friday. The faith which operates by works is common to various churches, and brings their representatives into friendly relations. No doubt they know each other better for their intercourse ; the liveries which disguise them are for the moment dropped, and the ono religion by which they are animated is recog nised by all. But this is not the only strange thing in the matter. A miracle as great as that which wafted the holy house of Loretto across the sea transported Archbishop MANNING into Exeter Hall. The conscious walls of that edifice, listening to what passed, can scarcely have believed their ears. We shall hardly be surprised now to learn that the Foes has con sented to do duty for Mr. SPURGEON at the Tabernacle ; or that Mr. NEWMAN HALL has under taken a curse of lectures in St. Peter's. How ever this may be, the association of men of different creeds in the common work of philanthropy is of good omen for England, in these days of theological division and estrangement. The Bill, which unites men so far apart theolo gically as Archbishop MANNING and Mr. NEWMAN HALL, and who politically have as little in common as Mr. HAZLET and Mr. JOUN AGEL SMITH, has for its object to impose restrictions on the sale of liquor on Sundays. At present the hours on which public-houses are open on Sunday are from one to three in the afternoon, anti from live to eleven in the evening—that is, eight hours in all. Mr.fJoirs AUL SMITH'S Bill limits these hours from 011 e to half-past two in the afternoon, and from eight to ten in the evening. It, there fore, cuts four and a half hours from the publicans' Sunday trade. Outside of the metropolitan district it forbids drinking on the promises. Our worthy contemporary, the Hunting Advertiser, the organ of the Licensed Victuallers, is sadly distracted between the alias al ita spirituel and its spiril glance, or rather it diem* the one for The Publican in its columns triumphs Pharisee. " The hundrods of th " Sundays rush from the im oke " confinement of the metropolis to " fresh ammo, sad baddital reerfation " Marie, BaaaffeAeo 1 1 8160 110% er become the objects of its earnest The question, we must admit, from difficulty. Prohibitive !mishit. purely moral purposes, the gnardianahly by the Stale of grown men, presumably fit to take care of thenteelvm, and interference between buyer and seller are motion which, whether they be sound or the reverse, are not yet admitted' in England. If Mr. Swim's Bill were a species of Sabbatarian Maine Law, double objection might be taken to it. It must be regarded, however, as a measure of police. There can be no doubt that the opening of public houses, for • long series of hours, on Sunday, is a serious nuisance to respectable and orderly people. It makes the streets in some parts of the town no thoroughfares for ladies and children. A day on which many people, who cannot be forced to church or chapel, have at once nothing to do and a good deal of money to spend, is almost sure to be a day of disorder and violence. Too often Saint Monday is but the sequel of Sunday's debauchery. If the public-houses were not so full on the first day of the week, the workshops would be fuller on the second. The practical effect of Mr. Swn'u's Bill, if it can be worked, is certain to be good, just as the limitation of hours now in force has proved beneficial in comparison with the less restricted arrangements which went before it. But, then, comes the question—Can it be worked Tho Government of England is not a beneficent despotism. It cannot rely upon the passive obedience of its subjects. The working-men of England are soberer than they were in the days of Smou.svr, when " painted boards were " put up inviting people to be drunk for a penny, " and dead drunk for two-pence." From the time of the Gin Act, which was proposed to meet this evil, downwards, excessive stringency has, however, only provoked the successful ingenuity of evasion. The temper of the people must be taken into ac count in all English projects of law which regulate their comforts, their luxuries, or even their vices. Restrictions of the Sunday traffic in liquor are sure to be fraught with moral and social benefit. But over-stringent regulation may defeat itself ; and possibly the promoters of the Bill may find that they will best secure the object at which they aim by a compro mise. Contented acquiescence in a moderate re straint may really answer better the purpose of reform than forced submission to severer prohibi tions. THE TWHBORNE ANOTHER element of romance has been added to the TICH BORNE GM. Lady HENRIETTA FELICITE TICHBORNE, who has throughout ac knowledged the claimant of the baronetcy as her son, died suddenly last Thursday, and a post mortem examination, followed by a Coroner's inquest, was demanded by the latter. The medical evidence was clear that the deceased had died from natural causes, and the Coaossa declined to listen to any details of a statement made by the gentleman claiming to be Sir ROGER TICHBORNE, that his reason for wishing an inquiry was that " one of his own servants had been offered 1,0001. "to put him out of the way." It will be remembered that the gentleman who alleges him self to be ROGER CHARLES DOrGHTY TICHBORNE, tenth baronet and heir to the family estates, says that after undergoing various misfortunes he reached Australia twenty-seven years ago, and re mained there unknown and unheard of up to the time of his leaving for England. On arriving here his identity was disputed by some, and admitted by others ; and among the latter was the recently departed lady, who received him with affection, sup plied him with money, and acknowledged him publicly as her missing son. One effect of her demise will be that cross-examination as to the grounds of her belief is impossible, and that her personal depositions must be taken for what they are worth, and without chance of alteration. A long lost son, an alleged personation by a stranger, a lawsuit with relatives swearing to totally oppo site conclusions, a noble name and vast estates hanging in the balance, a painfully sudden death, anti an allegation of hiring of bravoes—all these seem to take one out of England and the nine teenth century. Au atmosphere of melodrama and sensation-novel has pervaded this extraordinary case throughout. THE DUKE OF BE.ltTonrs STUD. THE sale of the Duke of BEAUFORT'S stud on Saturday appears to have been eminently success ful. English aristocrats and turf magnates were stimulated in their bidding by the presence of astute agents from France and Austria ; Mr.l EDMUND Tarrxasau., as auctioneer, " never ap- I " peered to greater advantage," and the large sums realised testify to a keen appreciation of the duke's judgment as a breeder of racehorses. The 26 animals sold realised 15,480 guineas, or an aver age of nearly 600 guineas each, the largest amount, 3,200 guineas, being given by Captain Mactieix for Vauban. The Duke of HAMILTON was a purchaser of two horses, and the Duke of BEAUFORT was himself present with Lord LONDES BOROUGH and the Marquis of Hssrixos through out the proceedings. Our correspondent "Meteor " remarks of the great Danbury stable that it sent forth two score of winning horses last season, and that one-sixth of the sum total of the stakes run for in 1867 fell to its share. The with drawal and dispersion of the Duke of BEAUFORT'S stud temporarily reduces Mr. DAY'S famous estab lishment to a third-rate power, and speculation is! already rife as to which owners will fill the stalls recently vacated. The Duke of BEAUFORT has, , however, retained his brood-mares, stallions, and yearlings, from which it is inferred that he antici pates resuming his active connection with the turf at no distant day. At a time when there is much moralising upon the vast estates changing hands, and the noble names brought low by horse i racing, it was suggestive to note Mr. Terreasais's tone on Saturday. It was not so much in fur theranee a • national amusement that the pur chase of racehorses was advocated, but "as • " much safer investment for capital than rotten " shares, as you could almost always get their " real value for them"—a sentiment applauded to the echo. IT will be seen from a letter which we print in I another column, and which has come to hand this morning from Harvard University, that the cm-1 mittee of the American Boating Club adhere to their conditions, and that the negotiations for a race with the Oxford University Boating Club have in consequence failed. The Harvard men say they have learnt the art of steering by that the difficulties to be overcome slipper to us to largely preponderate on the Oxford aide. Weinman Saint PAVILION was a good eatholie, or simply a " primitive Christian,"—whether he worked miracles or had no other agencies than his own goodness and skill,—matters little in the continued veneration for his same. Neither Fenianism nor the Irish debate will disturb the sentiment to which Irishmen of every party will to-morrow abandon themselves. We are glad to see that the anniversary festival of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick will be presided over this year by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wm.'s, who will have an opportunity, as he wears the shamrock in his button-hole, of adding to the utterances on Irish affairs which have, of late, abounded in parliament and in the press. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) MAscs 15. The Qum drove oat yeelerdey dembees. eloompeaied by Primal °MAW% Prime lempeid. sad Mono Bleeirke. Priam Arthur, attended by Major Ifightaitooe, arrived at the Castle from Ommewieh-park. The Queen, Prism sad Primer Christian, Prisons Louise, Prince Arthur, Priam Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, and the ladies and amalgams in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private obspeL The Bev. C. Kingsley, Chaplain ia Ordinary to the Queen, preached the sermon. The Karl of Halmesbury, and the Bight Hon. Lord and Lady Claud HAalikiol4 arrived at the Castle yederday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal Family. The Rev. C. Magas, also arrived at the Caatlion &tar. day. Miss Carpenter had the honour of an interview with the Queen on Friday, being introduced to her Majesty's pre- SOWS by the Bight Hon. Sir Stafford Mortise:de. The Princess of Wales drove out on Satorder, attended by the Itemhioness of Carmarthen. The Prince and Prinoess of Wales, with the Mare hioness of Camarthen and Captain Ellie in waiting, attended Divine service yesterday st the Chapel Royal, Bt. James's. The Communion service was read by the Rev. the Sab ana and the Bev. A. SitwalL Anthem, "Stand up and Wain the Lord".. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Lard Bishop of Gloss- Dater and Bristol, from Bpbesians, oh. 6, v. 12. Prime and Princess Christian returned to Frogmore on Saturday morning. The Bari and Countess of Bradford arrived at Frogmore on a visit. Goss A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir John Paloiugton, Sir S. Northoote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, the Duke of Richmond, Lord J. Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's most honourable Privy Council sat on Saturday, at the Privy Council-office, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The lords present were—the Lord President, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Chancellor of the Riche quer, Lord Robert Montagu, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. On Saturday afternoon last her Majesty the Queen, acoompanied by the Princess Louise, and attended by the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor and the Hon. Mrs. Wellesley, inspected the progress of the works made since her last visit at the Prince Consort's memorial chapeL The Queen afterwards went to the Chapel Royal of Bt. George, to inspeet the cenotaph recently erected in the west aisle of his Majesty the late King of the Belgians. Her Majesty afterwards returned to the Castle. The Court Journal states that the Queen, accom panied by some of the members of the royal family, 'Mends to visit Germany in the autumn. The Prince and Princes., Christian returned to Frogman on Saturday morning. Prince and Princess Christian, attended by Lady Susan Melville and Lieutenant Colonel O. Gordon, dined with the Like of Cantbridge at Glottesster Roues yester day evening. The Count and Countess de Paris are expected to arrive at York Howe, Twickenham, in the coarse of the taming week from Spain. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury entertained at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Arlington-street, Piccadilly—Hiss Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, the Duke and Dashes of Wellington, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Count and Countess de Clermont Tonnerre, Viscount and Viscountess °mahatma Viscount and Visoountem Royston, Lord Redesdale, Lord Colchester, Lord and Lady Otho Fitsgerald, the Right Hon. General and Lady Alive Peel, Mr. A. Russell, Ito. The noble marchioness bass lamed cards for evening parties on the 27th and 28th inst. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been honoured with a visit from his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at Altborp. His royal highness arrived early on Friday morning, attended by Captain Ellis, and went out hunting with the Pytehley hounds the same day. In the evening the Earl and Countess Spencer had a dinner party at Althorp to meet the prince, the company including the Duke sad Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Clanwilliam, the Countess (Dowager) Spencer and Lady Sarah Spencer, Lady Charles Bruce, Hon. Mr. Fitzmaurice, Count Herlyi, Colonel and Lady Emily Kingeoote, Captain Seymour, Mr. H. Seymour and Captain Ellis in waiting on the Prince of Wales. His royal highness closed his visit to the earl and countess on Saturday evening. The Earl Cowper has honed invitations for a grand ball at Panshanger on Tuesday, April 21. The Countess (Frances) Vialdegnt ve and the Right Hon. Chichester Forkscne, M.P., entertained at dinner on Saturday evening, at their residence in Carlton gardens, Viscount Castlerosse, M.P., and Visoountess Caetleroase, Lord and Lady Taunton, Lord and Lady Lyve den, Lord Edward Clinton, M.P ,and Lady Edward Clinton, Lord Henley, M.P., the Right Hon. Charles P. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, bLP., Sir John Johnstone, M.P., and Lady Johnstone, Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, M.P., Mr. Knatchlinllaugeesen, M.P., and Mrs. Hugessen, Mr. Layard, /LP., Mr. Bernal Osborne, Mr. Bortheiek, de. Later in the evening the counties had an evening party. VISIT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE or Watza.—Although the armaments for the reception of hie Royal Highness the Primo* of Wales have not yet been made public, it is understood that the Lord Lieu. tenant will proceed to Barouscourt immediately after St. Patrick's ball, so as to allow the interior of the Castle to be fitted up in a suitable manner for the royal guest. The bsstallatioa of his a royal highness as • Knight of St. Patrick will take plasm in Christ Church OathedraL The ceremony will be • moat imposing one. It is stated that the Prince will leave for Dublin the Tuesday before Easter, and that the installation will take place on the following Saturday. During hie stay the Duke of Cam bridge will be the guest of the Barl of Mayo.—Saunders' New. ROYAL HORTICULTURAL &CITY. The first spring show of the Royal Horticulture], Society was held in the gardens at South Kensington on Saturday last, and proved • decided success. There was a more than ordi narily brilliant display of Bowers, a very keen competition existing between she hyacinth growers for precedence. That flower was splendidly represented by Messrs. ent iced' and Bon, Wm. Paul, Ontbuh, jaw, Mr. Higp, There were some remarkably Sae Bliss of the valley, and • new striped-leaved variety by Mr. Salter was greatly admired. Tulips ware well represented by Messrs. Cut bush. Prinzu/sa, crocuses, variegated pelargoniums and azaleas all showed the advantages of the mild and early aping. Mr. Bull contributed • collection of his new and rare plants ; and in roses, Mews. Paul and Sons made a great display, which will be continued this week, and Mews. Lane and Bow exhibited some choice specimens. In the afternoon her Royal Highness the Dunker of Our bridge, the Princess of Took, and a numerous assemblage of the aristocracy, visited the exhibition, and the band of the ist Life Guards played from 3 o'clock. The liberate of Great Barklampetead propose to boon a Li ail& dinner and liberal demonstration in their Wen MI le the 18th inst. It is expected the lion. W. Omeper, H P., win preside. Rtes vicarage of Todmorden, vacant by the death of Ile Roe. A. 7. Plow, M.A., is mirth 3001. a year ; patron. ilia Rev. Dr. Yolerwortb, view al Rochdale. Ganes Aloarnsms Boomer, CALIDOTTIAN-soar, N.—The number elpaiiansfer *Mimic ending Blank 14 wee 1,017, el where 107 were new awn PIM ineveniente. Dui it ie Dashiki to quote a dries word fades from hie lips. Contrary to his habits, the Prince bolds his Saugus just like a hardened diplomatist. N. de Bismarck himoall, who ie not wont to be very redcoat, isaistaias as obstinate Aimee, and ainnausagers are obliged to pope fa the dark. THE DISTURBANCES IN TOULOUSE. The Toulouse Journal of the 13th says that Thursday palmed off in comparative quiet. The troops occupied the Place da Oapitolo and the Place Bt. Etienne and other points of the town. In the evening horse patrols traversed the streets, but the display of force was not so considerable as on the previous day, and there was no artillery opposite * Hotel de Ville. The troops returned to their quarters at half-past 11. (=nib TimoßAms.) PRUSSIA AND KING GEORGE. VIENNA, limicu 16. .. The weekly newspaper edited by Herr Warrens, started some time ago with the object of defending the interests of the King of Hanover, publishes a document to-day evidently emanating from au thentic Hanoverian quarters. This document at tempts to show that Prussia fails to execute the engagements entered into by the treaty relative to the private fortune of King George whilst the latter in November last completely fulfilled that article of the treaty stipulating that he should deliver up to Prussia the Hanoverian securities sent away to London in 1866. ALLEGED PERSECUTION OF JEWS AT JERUSALEM. BERLIN, MARCH IC. _ . It is announced that the Chancellor of the North German Confederation recently telegraphed to the Minister of the Bund at Constantinople, desiring him to examine at once into the persecutions of Jews stated to have occurred at Jerusalem, and, if requisite, to take active steps for their redress. The North German Consul immediately repaired to Jerusalem, and procured the release of Rabbi Ayeh from confinement, at the same time removing Dragoman Dahud, the Prussian consular represen tative, from his post. T E• " RESS, MONDAY EV $ . T i. , : H 16, 1 . .. . bower heraeseespenyhar Majesty. • _,.......". ... I EW S. bow w • till . 'a go ri for ' . . ' ' 7. ' ' Thilir" ►: fr."--"i"..P.. . Irs .j" 4:11alla cIARTI4". Y aiXtinl°42°.4:ll.gerliaaeliillt ' 1 OZ NAPOLEON'S ::: JOURNEY. the free& air, race. The Harvard gentlemen may that the • ay milady waltzed est. this sarealsg, aseesepsWed br On Ned of Pxinoe Napoleon's mysterious a Ol Brilittoltri Iroalt 1) . 16 1 141 t 1111 their au " ) inikala I° ik• B s Login. Pdaeses Emirtee teas taibeitems P. - persetb a vo,* isi T z Southend," Oxford rule as it would pe f0r011 , 4 to whips tile I m it ii a d p i i ii , 4 , m om = ialisi 0* won tut prim. Napoisea was th e s li c C l i g i e s Cl Tyeeserds y at Desden, st solicitude. , American style. the result oi the conespondeAcie atoning, and rsmalaed to leashes& sad yesterday meals( ha started tar legyela Where la is sot free l ls greatly to be regretted, but we feel bound to add Nr- Geord• Novrel of Ballsa B4 iffook 1610 had the be to-day, sad visa win be be te-asorrow ? The Orem' Biel for I , that we differ from the American committee, and boar Cl 8"."114.11 to biz ...16 0W. lasPoilloa Tagii " peed eoatinae, to follow Ids atop b 7 step mad reward all works et art la oxydfsed silver. -.u......m., tw !al.& *ha rliffinnlii. fn 1. nwsremn. aim... tr. I. ... WI lifivieminta. Ent il is sash , . to 000 to ..loot ....a TIM IRISH QUiBTION. The Times devotee an article to Mr. Bright's pro positions, coming to the conclusion that his scheme aims at a doubtful end by more than duubtfal means. It is by no means certain—indeed, Lit is improbable—that the money advanced at the risk of the British taxpayer could ever be recovered, except by the alienation of those very affections which, as the price of the bargain, is was pro posed to oonciliate. It is by no means certain—indeed, it is most unlikely—that the elevation or a "few score thou sand" of tenants to the position of landlords at the ex panse of the State would propitiate " the people " of Be ; land •' and as to the support derivable on the most favour. able supposition from such a clam, we could obtain that without difficulty as it is. In the opinion of the Daily News the Howe of Com mons has shown itself signally unequal to the discussion, and even to the apprehension, of the grave subjects which have been brought before is. Themes so great were never so poorly debated. The only speeches rising much above the level of conimon-plare have been those of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Mill, and Mr. Bright. The Land Bills promised by Lord Mayo and the proposed establishment and endow ment of a catholic university are intended to facilitate the maintenance of existing ecclesistioal and economical arrangements. If the Irish members swallow the bait they will deserve to feel the sharpness of the hook. No doubt Mr. Gladstone will this evening present his own ideas of the neoessary legislation for Ireland, if not with the freedom and explicitness permitted to independent members, yet with frankness and fulness. The Post says if the majority of the house choose to con. nive both in keeping the present administration in power and in ignoring evils so patent that none ono deny them, they will pursue a most misehievons and foolish moire. When the liberal party, observes the Telegraph, have embodied their Irish creed in distinct parliamentary deck rations, 24 they must and will do during the session, Mr. Disraeli's opportunity will be lost. The fate of the minis try will then be decided on the hustings at the next gene ral election, and he will meet, as Premier, • new parlia ment elected to turn him out. PBIVATZ BILL LIGIBLATIOX. The Times says the real point in dispute between Mr. Dodson and Mr. Dudley Baxter respecting private bill legislation, is whether the vested interests of *slating railway companies ought to be entertained in future by parliamentary committees as a valid ground of opposi tion to new schemes. The inquiry is one which must turn in part on fact, and in part on principle ; but the more the Tones looks at the matter from both the points of view taken in the oontroversy, the more inevitably must it revert to public advantage sa the only common basis of dieousion. Let the definition of " publio • advantage " be enlarged sufficiently to include the interests of the shareholding u well as of the travel log public, and no very serious difficulty remains. it little reflection will show that free trade cannot be applied consistently to a railway system like the English, and that no other alternatives are now open but more or less judicious regulation. TRADE AND FIKANCI. The Daily News discovers in the operations of the money market that there are just now signs, if not of re covery from the extreme depression of the pest two years, yet of impatience of the continued unfruitfulness of money. If, however, the enormous losses which the British public has incurred through its too easy confidence in foreign governments are not to be repeated, it is desir able that the inquiries which preeede investment should take a wider range than they have hitherto alone. Great mistakes have been made from which • little political knowledge would have saved those who have suffered by them. During the last 20 years conti nental governments have borrowed money to amounts out of all proportion to their resources, and for purposes and objects which it is notorious have not contributed to the good of the nation, and whit& have since been renounced. But these governments are at length compelled to face their difficulties. Some countries like Russia, ►nd some companies like the Brighton Railway Company, however, always paid their dividends until their resources came to en end ; and it is to this point that the lender must look if he would have the satisfaction of not having acted imprudently. The punctuality of reckless governments is of no value as a pledge of the future ; their oollapse is only a question of years. Proxi mate and effective resources which are sufficient for the burden they have to bear should stand first in the con sideration of the foreign lender. A retiring pension of 6,400 fr. has been settled by the French government upon Millie. Augustine Brehm, of the Corneae Francais., as a reward for 27 yeah' conse cutive services at the Theatre Francais. One of the results of the new kw on the press will be the apposition of thirty-six new political papers in the provinces and three or fear in Paris. TEE BISHOP OP Wntatisrez.—During the peat week the health Cl hie lordship has decidedly improved, and no unfavourable symptoms have occurred. Following the preliminary conference of working men bold on the 14th of last month, under the presidency of the Earl of Lichfield (reported at the time), a general conference of the urns class of the :immunity wee held on Saturday last at the moms of the Society of Arts, at which the same noble lord took the chair.. The object of the conference was to elicit the opinions of the artisans, and to enable them to confer with representative men of other glum u to the extent to which the technical education of British workmen in various branches of in dustry is defective, and the means of remedying de. facto; and also as to how the cost of pro e ff i cient industrial education should be met. Amon gst e gentle men who were present at the commencement of the eon forum were the Right. Hon. W. F. Cowper, 111. P., Lord Charles Bused, Mr. Ward ALP., Mr. T. Gray, of the Board of Trade, Mr. Seminal; Hoare, Ur. Hodgson Pratt, Hr. J. Heselton, Kr. T. Paterson, the hon. secretary, de., A gentleman earned Leach, of Alexandria, has forwarded to the Nesenm of the Hartley Institution some specimens of arrows used by Abyssinian warriors. They me above three fuel:mg. The sticks are made of vine branches and other tough woods. The heads are of iron. Some of the heeds are of the ordinary lance shape—others are shaped like a flattened fish's head, and are barbed. One of thetas& to an ugly weapon consisting of : n = iron spike about six inches long with a twisted serrated nig" Some of the head" am ingested into tie etieb : ethers are fastened very securely with a cord nude of the akin of somas animal, which is twisted round the stick when wet. Yr. Leash writes word that the Abyssinian spear is eve feet six inches long, and fus a formidabhrlook _ _ _ - A women of the wolf fish was caught oft the Isis of Wight twit week. The wolf Bah is • straw and verseiees and pugnacious mature. It Ilia a hideous eel swims wits great rapidity. Is is gag ge Elg i r Ce' llgg law in the swath et OW Mikis Mica& It is ales easslt la the German Ostia. AMERICA. The North German Lloyd's steamship Hansa arrived at Southampton this morning with 58 pas sengers for that port, Havre and Bremen, and 266,327 dohs. in specie for London ; 292,115 dole. for Paris ; and 1,588 dots. for Bremen. The Hansa spoke the steamer Weser on the 7th inst., and the *Borussia and Allemannia on the 14th—all bound for New York. NEW YORE, MARCH 5, NOON. The House Committee presented the twelve articles of impeachment against President Johnson to the Senate yesterday. The Senate resolved to organise itself as a court at 1 o'clock to-day. Chief Justice Chase received notion to appear and pre side, but sent • communication to the Senate dis senting to their action in receiving the articles of impeachment before the court was organised. The Ohio Republican at•teconvention has adopted • resolution in favour of General Grant for the presidency, and of Mr. Wade for the vice-presi dency ; also resolutions approving the impeach ment of Mr. Johnson and the currency payment of bonds. Tho Pennsylvania Democratic Convention has adopted resolutions endorsing the course pursued by Mr. Johnson, condemning his impeachment es grossly partisan and unjustifiable, and in favour of the currency payment of bonds. A mass meeting has been held at Baltimore, endorsing President Johnson's conduct and de nouncing his impeachment. Mr. Jefferson Davis has been enthusiastically received at Now Orleans. OUR PARIS LETTER. THE RAILWAY AND THE TURF. (rRO* ova owe CORRISPONDINT.) PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. Viscount de Saint-Romain, a leading man on tho French turf, has just appeared as an appellant before the Imperial Court of Paris against a decree of the Tribunal of Commerce awarding him 300 fr. damages only against the Paris and Medi terranean Railway Company for a delay of four hours and a half in the arrival of an express train by which he travelled from Paris to Marseilles. Viscount de Saint-Romain, who had several horses engaged to run at the Marseilles race last autumn, had calculated according to the time-bills on arriving at Marseilles at noon on Oct. 27, the first day of the running, but he did not get there till half-past 4, when the sport was all over. The I delay he alleged to be greatly prejudicial to him, and his counsel urged that personal superinten dence of his stables on a race-course was a prime necesaityfor every sporting man. The defence of the company was that a heavy fog between Paris and Lyons prevented the train in question from keeping time. It was admitted by the plaintiff's advocate that this, as constituting a via major, was a good answer to the action as far as it went. But the fog, which lasted only as far as Lyons, caused but a delay of two hours. The company, instead of sending on the express train at accelerated speed, which might very well and safely have been done, tacked it on to an ordi nary train which stopped at a great many more stations. The Tribunal of Commerce held that by, this conduct the company had wilfully broken its contract with Viscount de Saint-Romain, and awarded him 300 fr. in consequence. His counsel, on appeal, said these damages were so ridiculously small as to be illusory, and claimed 15,000 fr. M. Peronne, for the reopen dents, argued that 121. was a very substantial compensation for • delay of four hours and • half in a journey from one end of France to another, and that if the company were called upon to pay so much to every passenger, their cue would be a hard one. It was not reasonable that a contrast made merely by M. de Saint-Romain taking a ticket at the Paris station for Marseilles should fix the company with such • heavy liability. If his arrival with r!gerons punctuality was of such great importance to him he should , have made a special ocustract. The truth was that he expected the company to compensate him for turf bets which he fended he might have won had he arrived in time. That was a pretension which no court of justice could lissisliun. The court took this view, and, stopping EL Feionne in the middle of his argument, (Bemired the appeal, with costs. I believe the oppoeitiva has quite decided to • • • l vote against the public meetings bill as being s mockery and a delusion, taking back with one hand what it professes to give with another. They think the existing law, which says frankly that no public meeting shall take place without the permission of the authorities, better than one which; while professing to dispense with previous authorisation in certain cases, hedges round the new right with conditions which are a snare exposing citizens to heavy fines and irn prisessment, and after all leaves the government full power to prohibit or dissolve any meeting whatever. The bill, they say, is confessed by its supporters to be an ingenious device, having nu other object than to keep a shadow of the Empe. ror's promise, and prevent it from being said that free meeting cannot on-exist with the empire. General Dix, who, it was said, had gone to Loo. don for a fortnight about the affair of the Alabama, has returned to Paris, after an absence of but three days; and it appears that the only reason for his absence was the marriage of his lon, which to,;; place in England. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE op POISoNINQ. A trial, in which three persons are charged with poisoning by arsenic, is now exciting intense in terest at Niort, in the department of the Dens Sevres. The prisoners are a wealthy widow lady named Texier, whose property is estimated as worth 900,000 fr. ; her father, a well-to-do farmer, aged 71; and a servant-girl named Richard, xEo had lived for nine years with Madame Texier. The indictment charges that the three prisoners conspired to take the life of the late M. Texier, the brother-in-law of the widow, by long continued slow poisoning by arsenic, and ascribes as motive the desire to hasten the inheritance of his tune by his relations. As far as the case has gone there is no proof of the prisoners' having had any arsenic in their possession. A Dr. Danne, who attended the deceased, eertir.vs that he detected arsenic in hie remains by that famous, but by no means infallible scrutinisvr, Marsh's apparatus. M. Lachaud, who defilidi the prisoners, will argue that if the deceased wai killed by poison, it must have been contained in the remedies administered to him by Dr. Ganne. A very strong impression prevails in the neighb•mr hood that the prisoners are innocent, but pa-, :3- spirit runs high on the subject. TILE BOAT BA(' BET Ir E 11.11: V AL') AND O.ITORD. The following letter has been received at Oaf ..rd this morning from Harvard University : " Cambridge, March :;, " Gentlemen,—Mr. Watson has received your later ' dated Feb. 14. We regret very much that we fet.l obliged to close the negotiations without coming to an agreement in regard to a race. We understand perfectly well your objections to engaging in a contest in which the systems are so different; but we still think that you do out entirely understand on what grounds we are un. willing to change our method of steering, and why we think that it would not place the coin. petitors on an unfair footing. Wo have learned the art of steering by means of wires connecting the rudder with the bow oarsman's feet. A coxswain would tin refore be only a dead weight for us, and we see no justice in a crew being obliged to carry a dead weight in the form of a coxswain, more than that it should be required to carry ballast to equalise the difference in the weight of boats, which is often very considerable, or that coxswains should be of the same weight. A crew selects a coxswain, of as light a weight as possible, and it frequently happens that the difference in the weight of the coxswains of two contesting crews amounts to twenty pounds, and crews rowing under Such conditions are con- sidered fairly matched. American crews merely follow out this principle of selecting as light a coxswain as possible, and find it possible to dispense with one altogether. You have objected to having the race on a broad and tier. featly straight course. We made this stipulation because, according to the best information we could procure, there are straight courses of three miles' length in sevcril parts of England, sufficiently sheltered for the lightest shell boats, and because we think a straight course fur. niahea an opportunity for a more fair and satisfactory rue than a winding course, on which one crew necessatily boa an advantage in regard to position and knowledge of the water. Not that it is at all impossible for a crew to be steered without a coxswain on such a course as the Putney course on the Thames, or the course on the Ouse which you speak of in your last let. ter ; for we row daily on the Charles River, which is narrow and winding, has a strong tide and is obstructed with bridges. Mr. Watson, in a private letter to Mr. Willan, suggested Lake Windermere, not knowing that the water is too much exposed to the wind to funiish a suitable course, and thinking that as you are not accus• homed to row your races upon lakes the idea of rowing upon such a course might not have occurred to you. You say in your letter that the adoption of oar change nethod in the th sing would e teer style nfy necessitate boats, and an entire nndnunts,,t we e andin adopt ynon boats. ur r i od we without in n nmo reasonaking whyy h change would not be as groat in the one case as n the other. Hoping that you will be convinced that we do anr tent the . Bred no unfair advantages, and regretting that our car. repondenoe must close in so unsatisfactory a manner, — We remain yours respectfully, _ . " A. P. Loring, G. W. Ifoldrege, W. H. Rimmone, W. W. Richards, and H. C. Watson, Committee H. B. C. _ "To F. Willa's, W. W. Wood, R. G. Marsden, C. B. W. Tottenham,Edmand S. Carter, Committee 0. U. B. C." A correspondent writes :—" It is curious that the first common brimstone (*loured butterfly seen this season in the neighbourhood of Bittern, in Banta, was observed in the same spot, a sunny gravel bank, as that on which the first insect of the same species was obsen cd last spring." At the Staffordshire Amazes, on Saturday, Mr. Brixton, of Faxeley, sought to recover damages from the North Eastern Railway Company for injuries received by him when a passenger on the company's railway from York. When the train in which he was travelling had arrived between Masbro' and Eckington, the carriages were thrown off the line by some cattle that had strayed upon it, and the passengers were severely shaken. Sir I:. Peel was one of the passengers, and having to travel near Pazdey, offered to drive the plaintiff home. Sir Bobtrt, however, was sent on by special engine, but the plaintiff was not permitted by the officials to accompany him. Subsequently, the plaintiff found himself severely injured, and was now said to be • " wrecked man." The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 800 f. damages. Mu. BYRON AND HIS COMPANIRS.—The other day (says the Liverpool Albion) the companies of the Alexandra Theatre and the Amphitheatre adopted an address of sympathy with Mr. Byron. Mr. Byron has replied as follows :—" To the Members of the Com• panics of the Alexandra and Amphitheatre. Ladies and Gentlemen,—ln acknowledging the receipt of the letter signed on behalf of the companies by Mr. Calvert, Mr. Co and Mr. Eldred, let me express my deep sense of the 'dod wper, oes' prompting so generous a recognition of my poor efforts to make you happy during my management of the above theatres. Had I not been overwhelme doy an ammealation of disasters I could have hoped no prouder position than that of manager over so Wll9l. hearted, zealous, able, and faithful a band of brother artists. It was my unceasing desire to rain falls that position, and I should have been contra to gurgle* 111141 i to have continued my association with those for whom I felt great esteem, and with whom, in spite of every isagieable trouble and anxiety, have spent a sot altogether unhappy year and a hail of My life. But it was not to be, and I can only now take tway farrewell ow o lry f you prowerity all, sad trish aw, y aeminm ou, individunbally arwadadoollec letter but miry inadequately empresses my feelings ; bat I out ware you that them is not a single member of sr/ COMplillift, from the highest to the lowest, that I @Mu ferret or fall to &drams to the beet of my power when I as in a resits. te remember old friends.—l am, ladies aadrtsflsssw,ya w insonl7, MEW. BMW." • ~~ , ~y~