The Express. — London, England, 1866-02-26 00:00:00

EI L :ARE. -36 0th _ Reresentation.—THEATßZ MYIIIMY. pMaa•-11A1V12.6 ha MAGIC mad ttl M. sa performed by comma before bee Majesty the Quem end the loyal Family at Wladaar. Templay immiL Nov. 21, Ladd. The marvellour BPEIINX. the Mirth of Plawer Trees, and atodares celebrated Wise Basket Teak as == d em a pl i be i tt . lm.-6 1 —SOYLr Y EVIG Yttcbel,fTNig,d at a: WadassaZ Noz-oahte, llgiptfac-hall..—Adothatoe. timed Mills. M. " Almost mbracaloas."—Vida "The Them." Apra 18. UM 25 OLD BOND-STREET (Late Oall and Ilarthfa Bank).-1. W. BENSON, Watch and Clort Maker to N.B.H.the Mace of Wales, havtng reconan doted the alum siefiallioreat Promises, thefts' an inensation of ARTISTIC WORKS, consisting of CLOCKS and BRONZES from tin ateliers of Italy, hence, and Edgiane Watch 4, of ever! construction, Diamond and line Oold leiniEssi, Silver rat Illectro-Plate. JOAN BROGDRN. ORI MN AL GOLD C H AIN MANUFACTORY, a, lIIIINIUSTTA4T/JZT COVENT•O4III.DIN JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD OHLINS. JOHN BROOD/CH% GOLD GL AHD CHAINS. JOHN BROOMS'S GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. JOHN BROGDENS GOLD BROOCH 0 HAMS. LONDON must have • SUPPER and MUSIC ZOOK for Gentlemen. -Remember, we wait for you at "SPAM.* alter the Covent-gotta= Pantomime, sad the Theatres. Vitt otirorttiO. urMA&LIr TIEN r 111111216, A ROIL6ITIC ArfACHIIINT. Noma W. Amp and Campton : Ma Ads Cavendlak—BlLOTßAß BAY. Nam& *Ahern and sacksioas : Ida Noah Nowa —1(1413178 IN Tin SAYILLRICIT.—And A K 133 IN THY DAIL rznicsiors. ma inartige, "Mob IT DI Print TOO LATh TO =ND. Mesas. V O. Msivals. I. Mead, D. Murray, b. Wham, 1. Vithank J. G. for., G. X. ray, aid M. °Woad ; Maim I. Moors sad I. lodpra LYCZUIf. Tao ram', THE iiiiiiiiious ersANoze. Kr. H. Widdkounb.—rag Manila OF B.AVANBWOOO. Mown. Firobter. Sord u 2, Vezln. Inset', Widdlcomb. Filsosidak. Imo aisedames Ternan.lOnrorthy, Lamm O. Lading. BLITANWI A. Tan THE CASUAL WARD.—Wra. Howard Pawl. —lllr. J. King, brave Cozwala ad Ike Loatim—Joiany Day, akia champion Walker. —The Grand Pale TOltlite. Kn. B. Lae. K. and madame Ettataanbaolt—And Ohm; Ong of Gymnast& HIGH WATER AT LONDOIF-FRIDGE. MI DAY Koran& 114 14m..... Mimosas. Ob. Os. To4loo4oW—. Morning. Ob. Ths.....Misrooss, O. 67.. LONDON. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 26. lie nothing has the House of Commons departr I further from ancient tradition than in the light in which it regards an election petition. At the be ginning of the 17th century, complainants alleging that their representative bad been irregularly re turned to parliament were not permitted to re tract such assertions at their own free will; their petition could not be withdrawn without the con sent of the judges to whom it had been presented. This was the ruling of the General Committee of elections in 1623: they held that the House of Com mons had a duty to perform in such a case ; that the whole kingdom, which it represented, was interested in every election ; and that no " underhand com bination " should frustrate investigation into those returns that had been challenged ;n due form. The House of Commons of the present day is hardly, in the matter of contested elections, "so exact to preserve the public ;nterests, as curious also and inventive for the private :" it no longer maintains the right which the whole commu nity has in each particular return. The result is, that constituents are free to assert corruption against their representatives, and to withdraw those assertion's even with greater impunity than the legislature intends that they should enjoy. It may be difficult to apply the maxims of 1623 to existing conditions of parliamentary life : but certain evils attend this wide divergence from prin ciples laid down by Glanville, Coke, and Belden. A contested election has become a trick in the game . of politics : a set-off by one aide of the House against the like move by the other : and a Conser vative member finds his seat disputed because a Liberal return has been challenged by the agent for the party to which he belongs. Petitions are also presented with an even baser object ; solely to dip into the pocket of the sitting member, to make him pay away money with yet more pro fusion in the committee-room than In the borough. So powerful are the agents, the withdrawal of petitions is so entirely a matter of party compro mise, that even when members snowed '1 getting rid of a threatened contest they but rarely recover from their opponents the expenses thus occasioned. The law, indeed, provides that a petition shall only be withdrawn on payment of these costs to the sitting member ; but in practice, as happened to Mr. Wynne in 1859, be may be subjected to the annoyance for several weeks of an impending but frivolous petition, and be compelled to pay for this annoyance into the bargain. Motives such as these prevail so largely, that a classification of the petitions presented after a general election would afford but a doubtful teat of the general prevalence of electoral corruption, or of the relative degrees in which it may have been resorted to by the opposing parties in the house. Supposing, however, that the laws which govern the initiation and withdrawal of these proceedings are operating now as heretofore, a °entreat of the number of petitions recently presented against the number laid upon the table of the house after the two last general elections will show, to some extent, Low many returns may ultimately be contested, and how many members it is probable will be unseated. Forty-eight returns are this year challenged, involving the seats of seventy-one members. So far the opening of the present parliament closely parallels the commencement of its two predecessors, in 1857 and 1859. Petitions were presented in those years against 49 and 41 elections ; and the seats of 72 and 61 members were thus questioned. Of these bat gin 1857 and 11 in 1859 were declared void by the committees ; and of these threatened contests but 25 and 22 arrived at the maturity of a trial. If, then, parliamentary agents and committees act according to the manner in wbich they conducted themselves in those two sessions, it may be expected that about 25 retnt.ms will be contested, and that perhaps a dozen seats will be taken from their present occupants• And it may be also anticipated that these investigations will not be terminated before the approach of the Whitsuntide recess. After the general election in 1852 petitioning reached an altitude since unknown. To quote Mr. Milan's explanation of this phenomenon, "the agents presented petitions like a pack of cards; s fast as one side dealt one petition, the other dealt another, and so it went on ;" and the result was that 158 seats were contested, 46 committees were called into action, and 36 representatives were unseated. The petition presented against Mr. Chichester Foe tescee's return has evoked comments naturally sug gested by what appears to be a factious proceed ing, and it is certainly to be regretted that in all probability June will have been entered upon before the Secretary for Ireland is seen is parlia ment. A recent article in a contemporary journal correctly explains the reason why Mr. Fortesone is denied the power of presenting himself at once to his constituents for re-election ; it is not because ~.1411411 J • THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1866. his last return is contested, but because his seat is of Injurious prawn we are sow promised a merespoadiee claimed, that the writ for Louth county is withheld Pegiel of Perhaps almost at prejadic * ease. With the and Mr. Fortescue's reappearance in parliament ii 111119 sl diteceo a fresh of ureic wiirin will come ap th i r giesatid o d i lnu th a e nd ßa l : r k. nrs I thus delayed. In theorising on this text, however, 1 wok the mug equeo ue s a .e.s it " plyiesthe measures," two possible difficulties of a very visionary nature sai d s mor a l fir l ea ae teeme pressure ht tilt mousy are suggested. It i s su pp ose d that if the market. After this ordeal we shall work Word again to seat had not been claimed, and if Mr. For- another period of s.agniition, and that constantly pass kerma had been again returned for Louth county, ' through a vicious circle of site nate excitement and depree• his second election would not be vitiated by proof sio** These fr k l ua h nt e and Gs °ft.. t serous e u ffe t at ible ? e n bauges n is of bribery and treating at the preceding contest ; la' meamosciegney mar ket of m uncertsinty which is highly pl e a!: and out of this idea is developed the suggestion judicial. The Daily Ness does not advocate the absolute that acceptance of the Chiltern Hundreds supplies repeal of the Bank Ant, which is responsible for the violent ' an easy escape to members anxious to avoid the' oscillations we have witnessed, but desires that its interrogations of an election committee. Neither ! provislocs should be adapted to the great'y altered dream of these positions can be maintained. Lor d Buy r ol etanam which twenty yea el unprecedented commercial a. Aison f o F f n th n e ee ret return s second return in 1859 for Norwich, made under theimptedertz b r ays b rou ot et:lit b nt t of tbs oom ß ee m r bof circumstance; thus supposed, was nullified by the those of the Bank of England suffices to prove that the bribery committed on his behalf at his preceding greater liberty accorded in monetary matters abroad acts election by that city ; and, as regards the means of with positive benefit. It is evident that • Prge demand escape from parliament afforded by the Chiltern bevies been experienced in France for the circlet/Pon, it Hundreds, it should be remembered that the go- wee satisfied without difficulty or demur, and what is of more importanoe, that when the necessity ceasei the notes vernment is responsible for the p to which returned in due course to the Bank. The transaction was this fictitious office of trust under the crown is perfectly legitimate. There was no question of letting loom turned, and that, as happened to Lord Chelsea is a quan tit y of irredeemable paper to remain in permanent 1842, it would be withheld from those members see, and by degrees to raise gold to a premium. All that whose desire for the relinquishment of their seat is was done was to relieve • temporary went by affording fa prompted by unworthy motives. cilities that under no pretence could be considered as en dangering the value of currency. 11:01:18 TOP/08. The Tina is dissatisfied with the refuel of the govern ment to reaper:lint the joint oommittee of inquiry into the metropolitan railways, which did such good errvice is 1864. The proposed expenditure for railway works in Lon don is nearly JO,CC),OCIi. That for all the rest of the constry is only 27,C:3,0001. Is whet country exoept Bac ked would projects so vast be subject to • fragmentary treatment, end sent to • number of tribunals, c oh of which is to act without any concert with the other ? The Poet thinks no such strong r - se for a joist coat =Hum of Lords and Commons colds this year as in 1864, for although the metropolitan railway bills appear numerous, it is probable that some will be abandoned—as, indeed, some have already been—end for those that remain the new works to be executed under the powers sought are, in the great majority of care., not of that considerable nature or import as to require any very lengthened eossideration on the put of the committee. The Daily News points out the remarkable admis sions of Cardinal Autonelli's circular, democetratiog in numerous ways that the temporal power cannot live on it. own merits and resources without the perpetual inter vention of • foreign garrison which it cannot afford to pay, and adds that the document should be weloomed with en thmiaam by the parliament at Florence. One whisper to honest readers will suffice as to the treatment of the case. Separate by an easy mental operation se you read the spiri tuel sovereignty from the temporal ; the former al essentially independent of time, and circumstance, and mortal vicissi tudes and destinies ; and the latter as essentially subject to the conditions which affect all earthly governments and fkates ; you will instantly find that all his eminence's el,ffi midis disappear as if by magic ; the Holy See is saved ; Italian unity is completed ; France is justified, ►nd catholic Europe is content. The Herald believes there can be but one oprnion re to the impoliey, nay, the abiolute folly, of the publicition of the circular now. Cardinal Antoselli cannot himself have had ally part in giving to the world a despatch the tone of which le so offensive to a government with which he hes subsequently entered tiros negotiations the r ier't of wbieh is to assure the papsey against the dangers he had apprehended. The Telegraph argues that we shall not get a reel re ' trenohment of the estimates till a reformed House of COM moos takes them in hand. but nevertheless expresses appro val of the course which Mr. White will take this evening in bringing the subject of our expenditure under the notice of the public. In proportion as he sad others shall add to general &emaciation, special and industrial action, we shall hail them the more. Contrasting the arrangements of a French hospital, io even • third rate towo, with the defective condition of our pr,viocisl infiansfies —and more particularly with the dreadful state of the sick wards of our colon workhouses —the Times urges that either the public standard of charity should be raised, or the officials brought up to • higher mews of their duty. Toe best way to prow: 1 is, it believes, the most usual, most straightforward, and moat constitu tional way of compelling bo• do, iesp-otors, guardians, psi-Wars, and functionar;ei of every kind end degree, to do their duty. The Star quotes the reftetion by Cambridge University of the offer to endow, by • private isdividual, a lecture ship there ca American history so an event which fu abates another aid • 000virieng proof that a deep-stated dread of i • progress still ex;ste unmet • large class of Eneshmee. Our neiversities ere in some respe:te at this dsy what I they were two husdrel years ego, nurseries of totyisco and bigotry, and instruments to crush in the minds of many of lour young men every liberal feeliog and impulse. Nor can we say that ono is • whit bohiod the other hi this more:mil I intolerance. Tax Quinn's Comm—We are authca:g 1 to state that, in consequence of the lamented death of Sir Charles Phipps, the Queen has postponed the court appointed by her Majesty to be held to-mor row, to Friday, the 9th of March next, at the same hour. The dates of the other courts announced to be held by her Majesty have been changed to tl,e following days : Thursday, March 15 ; Friday, March 23; Thursday, April 12; Monday, May 14 ; Tuesday, June 19. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the private residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Chesham-place. The ministers pre sent wen —Ea'l Russell, the Lord Chencellor, Earl Granvi'le, the Date of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, the Marquis of Hartingtoo, Earl de Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somereetpthe Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Groschen. and the Right Hon. C. P. 'Villiers. Tan !Ars SIR 0. PHIPPIEL—Str Charles Phlpr - entered the Queen's Houhehold in 1848, and so; soon after appointed private secretary to the Prince Consort. The bigh opinion entertained of him in the discharge of the duties of this position induced bis Igo} al Highness in 1849, on a vacancy occurring in the office of Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Puree, at once to select Sir Charles Phipps to fill it. In discharging the important duties attached to this office during a long period, his ability in the transaction of business, his strict integrity and untiring zeal in the Queen's service were conspi cuous in the highest degree, and were most highly appreciated by the Queen and the Prince Consort; and by his death her Majesty has to lament the loss of one of her most faithful and devoted servants. It is expected that the Court will remain at Wiodaor about nine weeks. DRATH or THZ EARL 07 RARRINOTON.—We hive this morning to anions°, the premature death of the Earl of Haniogton. The mournful event occurred on Thursday evening last at Cannes. It was only last autumn that the young earl, who bad been completing his education at Christ Church, Oxford, left the uoivereity, to accompaoy his Mead, the Duke of Hamilton, toSootland for the shooting season. While there be caught cold. After coming to London to consult the moat eminent of the faculty, he was advised to go to • milder climate for the winter. Since his arrival at Canoes he gradually got weaker sad died as above stated. He wee born 27th See. timber, 1845 (coosequently be bad tilt yet attaiDed hut majority), and succeeded to the family honours on the death of his father Is September, 1862. The lamented young aobiegasis is nowaided in the earldom by his cousin, Mr. Charlie Wyndham Stanhope, eldest sun of the late Hoe. and Very Rev. Fibmey Henry R Staehore. dean of St. Buries, be Oarolioe Wyndham; daughter of the late Hon. Cherie' Wyndham. The present peer was born in Anent, 1809, and married in Febinaly, 18.19, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. R. L. Pommel', by whom hie lord- ship has • flamer:ate family. A. choice selection of ancient paintings and por trait.. the works of oelsbrated maters, incite:Hog Holbeia cod Vaadycir, has been removed from Windsor Castle to London. The paiotinga, about 38 in number, *oculist ing prinoipally of portraits of former monarchs of the °metre, each at those of Henry VIII., Edward 111.. and Hoary 111., are of unusual historical value. The Ballwin were taken from the Queee's retitiew room Pod the private stale-room leading from hew Majesty's apartmeata to the lihrory ; while the Vandycka were removed from the mag nificent room of that game. The wbo'e of the oboes were easefully peaked in a ,Duple of vase and 000 med from the Castle to tows, their destination, though unknown, bahig probably the South Kensington Museum. tin Court. WINDSOR CASTLE. F•. 24. The Queen, acnompanied by Prineees Helena, &eve out yeeteley aftunooo, attended by the Dubin of Roxburgh*. The Queen, with Prioosse Helena and MINIM Louise, went to London this natirsing, and raid a visit of coodolente to Lady Phipps, atf3t.J.lnee's Palace. on the occasion of the death of Colonel the Hon. Sir C. B. Phipps. Her Majesty woe attended by the DOQiIIIIIII of Roxburgh* sod Lieutenant-Go:lora Hon. O. Grey. Prioos Alfred arrived at the Ciarrtle yesterday, baring completed bis *ankle on board bet bisjesty's ship Raooon. The Frio°a went to Logsdon to-day, attended by Lientooant Hsig. Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, had an audience of the Queen, to moot the addraom from the Rouse of Lords in mower t, her Majesty's Menage. Fa. 25. The Queen, aooompanied by Prisons Louie*, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. The Chasmllor of the Faehequer arrived at the Castle, and bad an audience of the Queen. _ _ . The Queen, Princess Helena, Princes§ Louise, Princess Beatrice, Prince Leopold, and Princess Hoban'ohs, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the pirate ohspeL The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Prinoe sad Primers of Wales, attended by the Countess of Macclesfield led Major Teesdale, retarced to Yarlborough•hoose on Saturday afternoon, from a visit to the Date of Rutland. at Belvoir Coatis. _ . . Prises Alfred, attn ndod by Lieutenant Haig, arrived at Marlborough-house, on a visit to this Prime and Princess of Wales. The Prince and Princess of Wales and Prince Alfred,with the Countess of Maeoledield, Major Teesdale, sad Lieute nant Haig in waiting, attended Divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Communion berries was road by the Rev. the Sub- Dean end the Rev. Albert Moe". Anthem, " Hear my aryls's," J. Tana Baas by Messrs. B. Itarnby, H. Cumodap, end Wien. Mr. Cooper presided at the mac. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop al Carlisle, from St. Matthew, eh. v. 28. The Duchess of Cambridge sod Princess Mary attended the service. A deputation from Ceylon, consisting of Sir James Et. phinstone, Bart., Mr. Welkin, M.P., Sir Arthur Bullek, Bart., M.P., Mr. Shand, Mr. Dyers, and Mr. Biecheff, bad an interview with the Right Bon. Edward Cardwell at the Ooloaial-olike, on Saturday, to present a petition to the Queen. Despatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial' ace to the GOVIIIICIC of Canada. Her Majesty the Queen has presented to the British Museum one of the Roolill tombs recently dim_ covered upon the crown property at Old Windsor. The other tomb her Mejesty has presented to the town of Windsor, and it is to be deposited in the contemplated local museum in connexion with the Literary and Soientifie In stitntion of the borough, for the accommodation of which a new building, to be called the Albert lostitation, is to be erected on the Bachelor's Acre, a vacant site in the centre of Windsor. Oar Windsor correspondent writes :—" Her Majesty the Queen was deeply affected on receiving telegraphic istelli geoce at eight o'clock on Saturday morning of the death of Colonel the Hen. 13;r C. 11. Phipps, keeper of her Majesty's privy porta, which melaneholy event took platy at half past five o'clock that morning, at bis residence in St. Janse's Palace. The deceased gentleman was attacked by bronchitis on Tuesday moi.riog, and gradually sank de spite the skill of his medical attendant. The Queen having determined to pay • Celt of condolence to Lady Phipps, an express was forwarded from the Castle t r the odicirls of the Great Western Railway at the Pad dington terminus for • special train of the Queen's carriagen to be sent to Windsor as early as possible, and at half-past 12 o'clock her Majesty, accompanied by the Prinoesaes Helena and Louise, sad attended by the Duchess of Rot berghe and General Grey, left for town. Her Majesty remained with Lady Phipps half-an-hour, and then left on her return to Windsor, arriving at the Castle at half-past two o'clock in tb afternoon." The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, MY., had a rrliamentary dinner at his residence at Grosveoor. gate on Saturday eveniog. The following members of the Home of Common. were present :—Viawnist Holmes' dale, the Right Hoe. General Poll, Lord Bingham, Hon. Charles Lindsay, Sir Charles Russell, Sir John Nand, Colonel Leslie, Mr. Du Fri, M.. A. Beresford How, Mr. Neville Granville, Colonel Hogg, Colonel Dyett, Mr. Sago, Mr. Freehand, Mr. fiehmobar, Mr. Fleming, and Mr. FitAdes. We learn from the Court Journal that his Royal Highness the Priam of Wales iatends laying out about 6,0001. in the improvement of the Royal Lodge, Windsor Greet Parkin order to adapt that residence to the re. quiremeets of hi establishment. Tl e Earl and Countess de Grey entertained a eel !c circle at dinner on Saturday evening at their real ism in Caslton•gardena. Later in the evening the countess had an assembly, which was numerously at tended. The Duchess of Marlborough has fixed the Bth of the emieniog month for bar next dance. The Rev. Dr. Miller, of Birmingham, has been appointed to the vicarage of Greenwich. On Friday, Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Construc tor of the Navy, prooeede i to Paris on a visit to the Preach School of Naval Ambito:tare. He will be &beset about a week. The Archaeological Congress will be held in Lon don in July, under the honorary presidency of the Prince of Wales. The proceedings will include an historical ac count of Westminster Abbey, by Dean Shipley, while the structure will be described by Mr. Gilbert Scott, and the monuments by Mr. Westaiacott, professor of sculpture to the Royal Academy. Mr. Hepworth Dixon will give an historical account of the Tower of London. Ou Saturday Professor Westmaoott concluded a short course of six lectures, at the Royal Institutioa, or the subject of "Art F.ducatiou, sad how Works of Art should be viewed.' A deputation from the Council of the Social Science Association waited on Mr. Vilest Gibson, President of the Boar.l of Trade, on Saturday to call his attentive to the great loss of property and life by shipwreck ; to the great probability, or rather eortaiety, that this was sassed by the want of edoestios and training on the part of the men ; end they desired that an inquiry might be made late the matter by competent officers of the royal mart, sad that it be referred to the Children's Employment Commis sion to inquire into the best means of • securing proper training and discirliee for boys destined for the mercantile navy. Lord Houghton, Sir Edward Belethea, and others at tended, and urged these matters on the President. Yr, Gibson gave the answer customary is all sash oases—that be would consider the matter. The report of the West Worthing Investment Company states that the constrectien of tbe terrace sad parade, together with the Horse Hotel, has thus far been attended with satisfactory results, and that the esplaoadis, roads, sitaisage sad waterworks, and baths, are all in active progress; likewise that a premium of lOW. has bees offered for the test plea for laying out the main estate. Meanwhile a bill fora direct railway is before parliament, which will bring the era easel at Wotthiag within 54 mi'es of the City, and statue the performance of the journey in so boor and a quarter. The Monsieur states that M. Busehmann, Royal Librarian. and member of the Berlia Scientific Academy, has presented the original manoscript of Alexander de Humboldt's "Cosmos" to the Emperor Napoleon, who linui been pleased to accept this splendid gift. The autograph ccosists of fi.e ponderous volumes ie quarto, containing the corrected sheet+ from which the first edition of the work was struck at Baroo George, de Colic's printing-offices at Stattgardt. The gre.t savant employed IL Boschinaen to write out the work from hie rough coke. He read, nor rooted, and enlarged the text so that each sheet is litsnily covered by the cramped writing of Humboldt himself. • which in any places is so illegible that Y. Basehmean was compelled to copy the whole for the priation's sea. M. Beecham carefully preserved the arigisale d each eopied page, and thus possessed the five manuscript volumes with which he has presented the Emperor. His Mafeety does sot omissive that so valuable a gift ought to rem►in is his private adlectiee of literary writers, and has therefore set the maasseript to the Imperial library. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AMERICA. MR. BANCROFT ON THE POLICY OF ENGLAND TOWARDS AMERICA. On the 12th inst. in the American Rouse of Representatives the Hon. George Bancroft de livered a long address on the life and character of Abraham Lincoln. The President, the Chief Justice, the heads of departments, the officers of the army and navy, and the diplomatic corps were present by invitation. Describing the effect in Europe of the American rebellion, Mr. Bancroft thus alluded to England ; I referring to the aristocracy he said : That aristocracy had gazed with terror on the growth of a commonwealth where freehold@ seined by the mg line, and religion was not in bootlegs to the state ; and now they could not repeal their joy at its porn,. They had not a word of sympathy for the kind-hearted posy man's sou whom America had chosen for her chief ; they jeered at his large bands, and long feet. sad ungainly stature; and the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made haste to seed word through the palaces of Europe that the Great Republic was in its agony, that the republic was no more, that a head stone wee all that remained due by the law of nations to "the late Mike." But it Is written, " Let the deed bury their deed ;" they may sot bury the living. Let the dead bury their dead : let • bill of reform remove the worn-out government of a class, and infuse new life into the British Constitution by oontlchn' g rightful power to the people. But while the vitality of America is indestructible, the British Government hutried to do what 'aver before bad been done by Obsistisn Powers —what was in direct conflict with its own exposition of pub lto law in the time of our strogglefor independence. Though the insurgent Steles had not a ship or an open harbour, it invested them with ell the rights of a belligereat, even on the ocean; sad this, too, when the rebellion was mot only directed against the gentlest and most beneficent government on earth, without a shadow of justifiable cause, but when the rebellion was directed against human nature itself for the perpetual 0111111•11- meat of a race. And the effect of this recogeition was that acts in themselves piratical found shelter in British courts of law. The resources of British capitalists, their workshops, their armories, the'r private arsenals, their shipyards, were in league with the insurgents, end every British harbour in the wide world became a safe port for British!ships, manned by British sailors, and armed with British guns, to prey on our peace ful commerce; even on oar ships coming from British ports, freighted with British product', or that bad carried gifts of grain to the English poor. The Prime Moister is the House of Commons, sustained by thews, scoffed at the thought that their laws could be amended at our requ-A, so se to pry serve real centrality; and to remonstrances, now owned to have been just, their scerstery answered that they rorld not change their laws ad infinituat. The people of Amerios then wished, as they always have wished, as they still wish, friendly relations with England ; and no man in England or America can de- sire it mare strongly than L This country has always yearned for good relations with Eng'and. Thrice only in all its history has that yearning been fairly met ; in the days of Hampden and Cromwell, again in the first ministry of the elder Pitt, and owe again in the mi nistry of Shelburne. Not that there have not at a ll times been just men among the peers of Great Britain—like Halifax in the days of James IL. or a Granville, an A roll, or a Houghton in ours ; and we cannot be iod.ffereat to a country that produces statesmen like Cobden and Bright ; but the best bower anchor of peace was the working class of England, who suffered most from our civil war, bat who, while they broke their diminished bread is, sorrow, always encouraged as to persevere. THE REVOLUTION IN THE PRINCI PALITIES. A Paris correspondent of the hickspendance Beige, writing on Saturday, says :—" The great subject of the day is naturally the revolution which has taken place so euddebly in the Principalities. The event, though sudden, was not entirely unforeseen. Some time ago a secret deputation of Moldo-Wal 'schisms came to Paris to consult Prince Napoleon with reference to the eventuality of the succession to Prince Couza, which these envoys, as it ap pears not without cause, considered already open. As the parties of whom they were the organ de sired that the Principalities should not be dis turbed by the disorders of an interregnum, the object was to have beforehand a new sovereign ready to succeed the condemned Hospodar. Prince Napoleon was not at all impressed by these offers. You ought to know better than we whether the Count of Flanders is disposed to accept the proposals made to him. I have heard this event attributed to Pruseo-Hussian intrigues ; it appears more likely that it is the result exclusively of the will of the Itoumain people. Prince Cones had some time before resorted to violent and illegal measures." BHOOTAN. The following telegram has been received by the Secretary of State for India : " The Viceroy to the Secretary of State. " Feb. 25, 10.12 a.m. " The guns lost at Dewangiri have been restored to our officers by the Bbootan Chief. " The invading force will now return." BELGIUM. The project of electoral reform announced by the government has been laid before the Chamber. One of its features is the extension of the suffrage. The Chamber of Representatives has unani mously voted its approval of the treaty of com merce which has been concluded between Belgium and China. (sinrriz's Tzuniuma.) FRLNC& PARIS. Pim 26. The Meniteur of this morning says : "Certain papers announce that a society has been formed at Rome, having for object the de velopment of the resouroes of the Papal govern ment, and that this society is placed under the direction of M. Vuillefroy, a member of the French Senate. " The latter portion of this statement is entirely without foundation." THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, Pls. 26. Prince Cot= has received permission to leave the country. THE LI7XEMBURO GARDENS. The Moniker of yesterday soot aloe a plan of the Luxemburg garden', 'bowleg th position of the sites marked oat for building. They lie to the right anti left of the Grand Avenue, and comprise ea area of 58,156 metros. It would appear by this plan that the ornstnental garden immediately genii gimes to tee palace is not to be interfered with. THE STICK fit THE PONTIFICAL AEKT.—The user boos of the anti.eleriesi joansabi that the French @oldies' who take service le the Pops's legion will be liable to be beaten with sticky bare produced the following paragraph in the Monitenr :—" Inquiries having been made by the French ambassador of the Secretary of Stets at Rome, hie wins''' dee•ared that the peniahment of the baptism& does sot exist Is the Pontifical army." By the Panama mall route to Ziew Zealand "boat to be established the course of poet will be shout 119 dem instead of 135 days, as at present. The vane of the exports frotn the Piji Islands, in the South Bee, asseented to 13,0931. is 1862, to 13.0724 in 1863, and to 27,0001. in Mt The increase is 186405 e owing to the eulavation of °Woe In the islands. T. Southampton and Netley Abbey Railway will be opened as the bek prezine. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) VIZ ItIVOLUTION II The Daily News thinks the telegrams of to-day from the Principalities 'apply a sraident explanation of the siltation which it has been is the habit of bestowing spoor the political affairs of the Roumanians. At first sight this military coup d'Ytat appears like au act of poetical , justice, visit.ng one who by his army had changed the mu atitution of the state, but it must be remembered 1 that the selfish and obstractive resistance of the leaders of the &est vratio party to popular Inc, sures of social reform wrs pie - ded by the Priam in 1. 4 v Public apologies. It is rather, however, in its foreign aspects, and in the contingencies that may grow out of it, , that this nocturnal military revolution at Bucharest solicits the considerstioa of English readers. Already we bear of a great and general movement of the Madan army towards the Bessarabian frostier—a movement which twelve yesrs ago might have caused us alarm, but which, now that we are all persuaded of one another's perfectly peaceful disposi. Hoes, everybody must understand is only ocessioned by a sort of traditional instinct. The Times and the Poet state that the Count de Flanders has refused the position of Hospodar, tendered to him by the Danubian principalities. The Post reminds its readers that the Eastern question was always considered by Lord Palmerston to be the special trouble and danger of modern polities, and can hardly picture to itself anything more uncomfortable then the state of mied of Lord Ciarendoe and Y. Dronyn de Lhuys on perusing the telegrams which it brings before the public. Either statesman has given his best mug/ to the solution of this vexed questroe and through argument, doubt, conoession, and final determination. imagined he had found it. Yet, here is all the work to be done over again. Russian bayonets ate already gleaming along the Prude, and their engineers are preparing their pontoons ; but by the treaty of 1856 the position of the Best of Europe is balsa full acd joint oopisstios of by the great powers; and we canard suppose that Russia wi't attempt any movement without the consent of the other powers signatarirs of that treaty. The Principalities are now part of Turkey, in the sense that any attempt to sonar them on the part of another Power would be an attempt on the integrity sod ',depend saes of Turkey. The Herald ooesidets the Russian army of which we bear so much to be merely that old army of observation which Russia his always been keeping in Bessarabia, and which no doubt hes been more or lees placed in some fit seen for military operations in view of any demoor..tic ex cesses in Bucharest inviting a military iaterventioo. As to the disguised emissaries who are deferib-i as contempora neomly travelling through Bemis sad the Hemegovine, to smite insurrection against the Turkish authorities, they only offer us the =Duel doll from these regions. Bo posies away, exii•iras the Star, one of the creations of the Congress of Paris sad the Crimean war. As to the offer to the Count of Flanders, if he has say of his father's wisdom, he will decline it. THE LIIEEtICIAI GOTZPWItINT LID TH2 THINUNIS. The Tina oossiders that Mr. Gladstone, who exhibited so particular reticence himself on the subject, wee mistaken in his ma mmption that American Fenian ism was not a suitable subject for discussion in parliament, and differs with him in his assertion that the Noise attempts in the States do not suffl_ ciently contravene the laws of the Union to justify remark. Describing the character of the provisions of the Neutrality Act in the United Stares, the Tina meads to contend that the evidence used by the government at the Fenian trials in Ireland wee of a character to convict the chiefs of the brotherhood in America of as offence against the neu trality of the Caton. There is no reason to say that to call the attention of the executive of the Federal government to the subject would be to accuse it of sepleeneen, and it is an Mho suggestion that it would meet say lepresset aloe by remiedieg as of iskr national obligations broken or neglected by England during their own civil war. There never was any mallice of prin ciples on this subject between this government and that o: she Usited Stake during the war ; the only question which arm was whether on a certain occasion our action was slothful or diligent—culpably neglecting or carefully ful filling intonational obligations upon which both sides were agreed. We have always protest that we were sincerely active and seergetio In doing orr duty, and we ought not, therefore, to hesitate to ask the American government to do theirs; and they could not decline to fulfil any inter national obligation because a dispute bad once arisen as to our activity on a similar occasion. There is, however, no parallelism between the two oases. The Herald thinks it scarcely possible that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer or his colleagues can estimate the 'Disable} his most unfortunate speech is likely to produce oe the minds of the sitsrp-witted Irish peasantry, or the powerfel argument it may prove in the hinds of their' tempters to induce them to enrol themselves in the ranks of dissffeatioe. They will easily be persuaded, when they find the ministry, ies'ead of protesting against the toleration swords 1 to their brethren by the Yankee government, at elotely defendlne its eon duct, that they r•e either fools who may be humbugged with success, or cowards who can be bullied with im punity ; and when, fo addition, they see (as may probably be the ease) that many of their fellow conspirators now in prison will be released on the demand of Mr. Adam as citizens of the States, it will not be difficr`t so convince them that the braggart boasting about British power is but a sham, and that their own ultimate triumph is little abort of an assured certainty. The Fe/wept says that the general acquiescence of the House of Commons in the suggestion from the Treasury beech is a faithful reflex of the feeling out of doors, very little exercise of ingenuity le needed to suggest various reasons why ministers may be perfectly well informed of the intentions and purposes of the Washington cabinet, and yet deem it unwise to disclose the grounds of the satisfsetloa which the knowledge inspire/. The Tekgrapla them premeds to quote a statement in the latest American journals to the effect that semi-Olds' communications have pissed between Lord Clarendon and Mr. Adams, in which the latter has sawed our govererneat that the Deemer, steps will soon be taken to prevent any further open coospirscy against Feglend. The Star remark, that ?optimism in the States can joys not a grain mom liberty than the propaganda of the Boothere Confederacy enjoyed in Canada. Tbres-fourths of the rebellions which succeed or fail on the Contin•ut are organised is Losdoo ; and, although we may be morally sod even physically convinced of the fact, we tsks no legal steps to prevent them, and we should resent any eaalpleints urged on mesh a ground. We may feel satisfied, with Mr. Gladstone, that the United States will faithfully fulfil their inter national obligations in our regard. TRADE AID JIIANCZ. The ~MOW development of modern commerce with out any oorreepocdion adaptation cf our n.oselary system to meet the new patties of affairs, is the came, states the Daily News, why fnmessat and violent fluctuations Is the money market are now the rule. After Ave month. CITY ELECTION.-(THIS -.._ RETURN OF MR. GOSCHIN. This day the election of a member of parlise mst to fill the vacancy occasioned by th e appoiatmeet 4 Goschen to the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of i m m ter, took place at the Guildhall. As there Ira, eo oth eay. didate than Mr. Goalies, and as hi s was therefore regarded as • matter or the procesdiegs excited but very little im am. and few of the citizens—electors or nos•owess... were preeirat. At 12 o'clock, the boar appetites face commencement of the proored , up, Me. &eft %M ums and Mr. Sheriff Figgie', with the 17 ader-Shari6 i , i n h ed the Guildhall, aoccinpaged by Mr. Crawford, lus., Gassiott, Ur. James, IE.P., Mr. A/dentrea MeeM it t . Hodgson, M.P., ke. Kr. Sheriff GIBBONS mid that they were amembhg she important purpose of electing a member for the and he hoped that they would give every pence a fir an impartial heariog. . The writ having been met t p he iain li fi r. rs i of 11 :tl e m ries e ur b: ii ptioc a7 " peare be l i r t:i .d it be rsoo P fore " j ibe d . m, thal ßs sed umir tli t ipmult ra always been oa the winniog aide, he had so mon nab before them with more certainty of a kind ntegth a e st on the present occasion, when be had to Teem* friend Mr. Goeshea. (Cheers.) When Mr, Nubs. I l i appeared before them it was sail that he ans apaw man and a foreigner, but since 1863 Mr. Genes. hadl ei4 some a rely remarkable Eogliahman, for the iaa his rise is politionl life was almost amanitas& (s hear.) They knew from the past what Yr. Naha wesil b e i n th e future, and that se a member of the Oahe* hi would support those same primiplas of Mom, MTN", resent, and free trade which bad gained the op, rural of the citizens of Loudon. (Cheers.) Mr. Ommuarr samoded the nomination. Mr. GOneingit then came forward and said that far A s third time he 'eked them to entrust to him the high phi, lep of returning him to parliament. They se a pm that he had accepted office under the eewti and it wee for those who elected him to IN whether that aaceptanoe of office was seep% with his duties to them as electors of the City of Leek s . (Hear, hear.) The duties of the appointment ha wipe( might be small, but he did not expect the pleasures of a ea r m i s s. B e d Russell, when he had appointed hie, whit intended to get work out of him. (Hear, hew.) taken as credit.end unless he f alfilled hisoblipticas,bekese. that political bankruptcy stared him in the feta (Sol All be could eel wee that if returned by thew be We( do all in his power to redeem his soppenede. dangers of 'Allied life were great, ter poi had become lukewarm os subjects where they i s t been before ardent, and ardent on subjects en Mit they had bees lukewarm. White the Alt waters had bees supposed to be deep and calm they Igut quicksands and shallows. There was a time she isM government was regarded as the bulwark of thee leek bat now government was cherged with pm*, too little. With reprd to refot m be was too ese aka to be able to pick his way gracefully sad siN ea Mena. They knew it was the duty of ministate Wit divulge the secrets of the isabilet With. meager witAtiq had been occuridering had bees fully mature sad reedynig laid before the country. It was the duty of the goveseelle attend to material reforms and to do all that it we la power of goverment to do to promote the welfare el ill people. The question of education in &NOW aid Neils of Ireland would require the sedation at f a.., went. Education in England bad bele wield by religious differences, and the state of Ireland as eat stoned to a great extent from a dmilar came. Hs tiseel it was unworthy of churchmen to be frightens&tf ttl removal of religious grievauret and restrictions epe others. (Loud cheers.) With regard to the tattle piper Y thought that the government acted with peat lbw* towards the owners of cattle, and when it wea mid tides government had been dilatory because they had act heath mos methods to stamp oat the cattle plague winch hod rem adopted by Frown, he begged to reeled Wen del such methods would not be tolerated is 144 With regard to Ireland and Len inism it was ieposibhie England to do anything for that country nabs Wiwi el ns half way. (Hear, hear.) At the same time it write dely of England to give that country the same laws is knead powwow& making all due allowanes for the Wired peek liarities sad dieticotione which existed in Wiwi (Ha,, hear.) With regard to Jamaica all he eb odd ay wee, VA whilst the government had not prejudged Ocoee, Ere et, the black population of that island, they bet aeciwiedyle sending out a commission to investigate themes% sessli which had taken plans their. With retied to the tralt ad: commie** of the country he need nut say that he thealide all that lay in his power to promote and develop them 1111; farther. (Hear, beer.) Is reply to Mr. flareszt.L. who asked whether the hon. gentleman woe'd support a lodger franchise `NI new reform bill, GONOM said the question way a very proper web be asked, but under the circumstiumea it would be lap. for him to answer It. (Laughter.) There being no other candidate, Mr. Sheriff GIBBONS declared Mr. Gashes to be 104 elected. Mr. GOSOBRI returned thanks. A reboot thanks to the Sheriffs terminated the pee* MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--(THI8 DAY.) The marriage of the Marquis of Quel and Miss Sybil Montgomery , reseed dmghter iir• Montgomery, sad grand.daughter of Lord LecosfirK solemnised this morning at St. George's Church, limegfit square, in the presence of a very numerous couspreP Br church was filled with friends of both (snub. N spectators on the oamsion. The bride Iris &timid to the altar by ten youthful ladies stab{ 111 bridesmaids. The bride wee gives sway by tee felber- Tire Hors. end Rev. Grasithsm Nantes Trek, Mlle d ib. Philip's, Birmingham, officiated at the orremellf• the commie) , present at the church were the 1101 1101111 of Queeosbeny end Lelia Gertrude sad Flamm Dess% the Duchess of Marlborough and Lady C. Made* kr Early in the afternoon the newly-married couple left INS for Branton-park, Essex. the rest of Mr. Du Case. We (Post) hear it is probable that either ei John O. K. 0.8 , or lisjor.Geseral Sir Thews& Biddolph, S.C. S., will be appointed to the poet tweellAt. isooseijaence of the lamented dtath of Sir Charles K. O. B. The Rev. .1. J. Stewart Perowne, clerk, Vies-Priacipal of St. David's College, Lampeter, see sit lated on Wednesday, the 21st of February, by the kirk* of St. David's, to the third cursal probend bawled ill cathedral church of St. David's. jj z hibiiiaa Intending exhibitors at the Paris should recollect that if they do tot slain spare before go end of this month they will sot be able to demand say site wards. The Lancet says it is now an established is this country males are cut off in • biffter Pg" te" , than females, and that the ratio of that WU° in tae males is nearly constant from year to year. The exploration of Kent's Cavern, near Torqgth undertaken by a committee appointed by ths British UV station for the Advancement of Sciecuet fort"' the jest of the lecture at the Royal Tostitatioe on Frldul lug, by Kr. Polarity, who is wall k n own for his Pliao• researches is Devonshire. A pay corporal of the Bth company of WO Engineer., named Tyler, stationed at Wooled* MI sueeeirdsd in fraudaleatly appropriatieg aad escaping wit about XX RMINAILIABLZ COINCIDENCL-00 Friday 1# his EcTsl lligkeem the Priam of Wel" from basthig, armed his attire and the Aiwa Hotel is Gruttliam, aocompaniod bv ", the Dein d Bathed, the Duke of Basufert. or i i : Wiltoe, sad sevaral other noblamse. It oonarred te ~ Boyall, the lancUerd of the hotel, that just 0 3 7 41 " bid : that very day, via., in the 23rd February, 1213—as patent rolls of his reign rose—Kim Jobs hekl o h c is cut 4 6l io the same room that the Pt ince of W 111011 1" This fact was dsly made knows to his royal Wine" 141 party by Mr. Boys% TES SICK Foos. —Tbe Earl of Carmarvoll commated to pamide at the meeting which is le be Willa' Saturday sort, for the purpose of foamli a g • eon* fir the improvesseat of the infirmaries of Londea incidental; The ansisty will aim be bring before the onblis asst peritonea* is the serreet session the argent aresealag the present tallrmary system s lmam tn..' bosses, and providing an improved organisation fce *NW cd the skdc poor chargeable on the rates. The huski. - .. 00Lrl ter Una Ni the Lon Vann 01 t a ngs woo n 'i dol sever e h W. Oben Eesurel fa t, " &eta The vestry k viol ai front ug hs to be re bar forge fty—slus as florereeet of roue chsar .d by e tux the Fim' • don of th l e forgeries- two month penned t, . the pais-b • ared they the obi TM I cheque • rims • • was give • forged by • •ed ; and The 00111 It was wilt • k th tlei. drew, The jury re • • t slaime CCU 'tags la BIM Tte 00ilb Obi sloes is was The plaintl sad the the 'eight t to the ulster whio led by his • • west beta work so ►of the i t o at work • joie the of had take • so be Li • fur bolt nether. He • damage d thn . it was BOW ; • precise tlff bad • they awn whether • suit or foi Yr. Jostles • •in !midi the part of • • =trial contribute • justify • sot riper the court able groan • erectly. Rule dart, I • , e TONI 9. Tbis woe • • • hi. value to 8 risk woe " W • erasion weaker and aged a state et the ship. was subsume way the vo The qessilse him bouts& " pedantic to be liable. Hr. Jostle recoverable ■ the modern, total less. t liable. The q. that . grouted' npoi Judgmeot erransvn This was al shipped on I decree, whim whether the The Court bolding fist sale fors set inermith. .' tad on the Is that the yeti accuracy ie ti to the weld° His noon bees before reached its : of the act adkulitatioo full true J froil him ; I the filing of orders, and I dismisted. ' to the time c &aniseed if rate. Hill psis Ms Is us WOO or own 'vide= be due to in debt, which believed T have no dial / the petitice ! fully inane. berldss the I which had t gensrilly hi Looktng at ratios in ILI sow to Man Another gr< that the del • bee. en a this, widiswool would be or Xr. Bagli tele. This was • adjadic • ing at Bc e last sittl • (I Bath' • • bank's' pt it • 4114 Mr. Dist deelaratio 'ter. that •• • lig him ) •ld SO “01 1 .. The Reg . witted tl . Wake* ci • likely ,Ifr. Levi t that b . : senteed tote .f 11 Mr. Davi • . od of. tilticostel • those il l Mr. W. j . e AA 2th of Apt CENT The Fehr •ad thi for, the heYs Akl • . base, V '. riff end aim The ifflsemo Use. . isms owstilsig I ahoy ins D v , diwort.4l Pietro sa , Ni LOIN ,teiz Ob.= , likitio Ilona -,,, sat limit= tkilona 4, of I:,', dill weal