The Express. — London, England, 1862-02-18 00:00:00

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AND ‘ND.:011E1).1. Mt. F. 111Atith orb airrilift —AM TIM !WARDING ACROOL Nl's. Harbert, Miss I. MaalloWt.—CnOtra:ll... st 7i. SgITA NWT 4. THU THE LAST SHILLING.—And THE KITH Or TllLZEittlie. Yts E. bias. Mews. U. 17, Wats, Newham, IM Chartrite thistly; lidtte. C. Stephan, lan W. (twined. •••• Commooe may. • wraitwAru AT LONDON rime& TIN Dall-4kestept. IR Ma.— Ai%drafts, 4% 4 1 11%. Te4l.lllo l ll—Nanfts. M - Masan, sb. AU. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 18. L ,iti, WEXTBEKV has expliiined his plan for faci litating the Transfer of Land. The subject has been so long before the public—the inconveniences of the present system art so thoroughly appre ciated by everybody who has anything to do with the sale or purchase of land—and who has not I—that the only questions which re main concern the hest plan of remedying these inconveniences, and the chance of carrying the plan which may be selected. It is not to be denied that of late years there has been a considerable change of opinion on this subject. From tho days of Lord Bat oN and Sir MATTHEW HALE until the year l 851; it seemed to be admitted that what waa called • Registry of Deeds wee the only mode in which the expense and difficulty of transferring land could be diminished. But in that year some very eminent men, and amongst others Lord WEST. scar himself, reported in favour of what was called • Registration of Title, according to which each separate state was to be registered in the name of certain persons, so as to be tranderred, like Stock in the Funds or in • Railway Company, by substituting the names of the new transferees in the place of those who were displaced. It laight have been expected that the Loan CuseituAnt would have contented himself with bringing in a Bill carrying into effect the re- corunumilitijus to which he himself was a party, and the fact that the Opposition, under the guidance of Sir lltlar (*mass, in the year 1859, were prepared to carry into effect the plan proposed by the Commissioners in their Report naturally strengthened the expectation. But it has been disappointed. The CHASCILLOR has now laid • Bill upon the table of the House of Lords materially &tiering from that Report. It would be premature to hazard a final opinion as to the merits or demerits of this measure. But it is already clear that it will have to encounter considerable difficulty, and indeed it appears that last night both Lord CILL/f• WORTH and Lord CHUAISTIPRII each laid on the table a pair of Bills for precisely the same object as that contemplated by the LORD CHANCELUM On a matter which has so long occupied the minds of both lawyers and of laymen, it would, no doubt, have been more prudent to adopt that scheme of reform which was most likely to conciliate sup port. Nor is it to be doubted that in solving so complicated a question, both the public and the lay members of both Houses would gladly rely upon the united judgment of those who were really acquainted with so technical a subject. The Report of the year 1856, to which allusion has been made, and the official con duct of Sir Actin CAIRNS, furnished powerful reasons in favour of the plans already before the public. It may be that the CIIANVIELLOS has seen reason to change his opinion, and to adopt another system. But it is to be hoped that these reasons are of the most cogent nature, and that the new plan which he now produces possesses obvious advantages ; for it is not to be denied that, unless this be the case, the measure introduced last night runs great dangers of being shipwrecked, even before it reaches the Lower House of Parliament. In every species of property, except land, the fact of possession is the ordinary proof of title to it. A table or a chair, a horse or a cow, is assumed to belong to the individual who has it in his possession, and this individual is entitled to transfer it to any other individual whom he pleases. So it is with stock in a railway company or with a ship. There is a register kept of Cie various persons to whom the stock or the ship belong, and if any individual can prevail upon the registered owner to transfer the stock or the ship into that individual's name, ho becomes the owner. It is no doubt true that these regis tered owners may not be the real owners. They may be mere trustees—they may hold for the benefit of a hundred other persons. But if the registered owners choosy to bo dishonest, and to transfer the property which stands in their name against the wishes or without the knowledge of the persons ready interested, the only result is that the real owner; Lave a remedy against those who have thus violated their duty, but nevertheless the stock itself, or the sh'.r, remains the property of tbo person to whom it has been transferred. It may of course be said that this system puts enormous power into the hands of the registered owner, and that few would be willing to so entrusttheir pro perty to the hands of another. But experience proves that such fears arc chimerical. There is probably a single family in the kingdom, from the Qcr.ls hers-1f and her children to the most ordinary professional man, in which the fortunes of the wife and the children do not depend upon the honesty- of trustees. In some came, no doubt, the confidences placed in trustees is proved to have been misplaced : the stock is sold out, the trustees aro insolvent, and the family is ruined. But upon the whole the system works admirably ; DOT is it any exaggeration to say that any material change in this system would not be listened to for • mo ment. Now, the question is, why should not land, or real property, m it is called, be assimilated to money in the funds or stock in • railway company? When would be the difficulty of having • re-, sister of the names of those entitled to deal with definite piecei of land T These persona, like the registered owners of stock, might be board by every species of obligation. They might be bound to allow • father to occupy the Mud during his life, to allow curtain sums of money to be raised for the widow or for the children, and then to allow the series of sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters to occupy the laud thus settled. With thew obligations and restrictions, however, a purchaser need have nothing whatever to do. His business would be with the persons on the register, so that as aeon as they transferred the estate to him he would be secure in its possession, whilst the trustees Might remain liable to those whom they had practically deprived of their property. The present system, however, rests upon very diffe rent principles. According to that system no pur chaser can be certain that he has obtained the estate which fo has bought until be has examined the whole series of transactions which have taken place with respect to that estate for the last sixty years. As has boon said, if you buy stock or railway shares, the purchase is completed and the money paid within a few hours ; or, to take another instance from the case of ships—in five minute', and at an expense of less than tire shilling', you may make a contract for and actually transfer such a ship as the Himalaya or the Great Eastern. Bait if you buy land at an auction, or enter into a contract for the purchase of an estate, it by no means follows that you can get into possession. The deeds connected with such property for the last sixty years must be abstracted; this abstract must be compared with the original documents. There must be searches for incum 'seances ; objc:tiotui must be made ; these objections must be answered ; disputes must arise, defects must be cured—in short, the difficulties of clearing up the complicated history of more than half a century must be overcome, or the contract must be aban doned. Nor is this all. The same tedious and expensive process must be repeated upon every omission on which the estate is to be dealt with, either by selling it or borrowing money upon it. The very same questions may have been examined twenty times. Every new dealing involves a re petition of the same investigation ; nor is it un usual to find that the same title is submitted to the same counsel by the same solicitor a dozen times. Now, the great question is, whether this tedious and vain repetition cannot be avoided t Is there no means by which a single investigation can be made conclusive t If this can be done, enormous trouble and a vast amount of money will be saved ; 6o that in point of fact the price of every acre of land in the kingdom will be considerably increased. The remedy for this evil is not difficult, and it is' important to observe that it is a remedy as to which Lord Chancellor Wrocrsuity agrees with all those who have considered the subject. Henceforth the ne comity for this elaborate investigation is to be got rid of once for all by an official inquiry before the Registrar, assisted if necessary by the Judges of the Court of Chancery. Following the analogy of the Encumbered Estates Court in Ireland, the owners of land are to be provided, as the CHAN cru.os says, with " a clean title"—the owner's name is to be written upon a piece of paper, the effect of which will be to start him anew with a statutory title good against all the world, and this will relieve him from the necessity of any retro spective investigation. If this were the only provision of the CILLNCELLORN Bill, it would confer a very great benefit, without doing the slightest injury to any individual. The experience of the Encumbered Estates Court has placed this matter beyond doubt. Properties to the value of twenty millions—one-seventh of the whole area of Ireland—have passed through that court, and yet, ma the CHANCIILLOR declared, repeating the statement of Sir lition CAIkNs, not • single cars has been proved of injury to any individual by the granting of indefeasible titles. There is no reason, therefore, to suppose that this part of the scheme will meet with any serious opposition, more especially as proprietors aro not to be compelled to obtain a Parliamentary title, and as the Court of Chancery is in the first instance to be charged with the same duties which are now discharged in Ireland by the Landed Estates Court. But, besides this, the Bill of the Czar cILLOS contains provisions the object of which is to supply the means of recording and preserving all the transactions which may take place with reference to the same land. It is obvious that the purchaser who has got a statutory title will, in all probability, deal with the land thus secured to him. After a few years, therefore, the title must become obscured by a number of subsequent transactions, and therefore some means is required to keep up the record, and preserve the proof of ' those subsequent transactions, so that at any time the exact state of the title to the estate may be ascertained, reduced into proper form, and given to the individual to enable him to dispose of his property. This object is to be accomplished by a system of registration. The details of such a system are necessarily complicated ; and it is im possible to express any definite opinion as to whether they will effect the proposed object. They demand careful consideration. But even should they prove ineffectual, the value to landed pro prietors of being able from time to time, by means of the CH mgcsuka's Bill, to get rid of the neosenity of a constantly recurring investigation by obtaining a statutory title, cannot be exaggerated. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1862. QC court. A deputation from theAtlantie Royal Mail Steam Packet Company consisting of Mr. John Chapman (chair. man), Captain Mangles (depnty.chairman), •nd Mr. Ed warda, director, and Mr. Henry Valiance, solicitor, had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. A deputation respecting the Zollvemin had yesterday an interview with the Hight. Hon. T. Milner Gibson and the Right Hon. William Hutt, at the Mice of the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Mr. Henry Ashworth, Preeident of the Manchester Chamber of Commeree ; Mr. Thomas Healey, M.P., Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. J. A. Turner, M s P.,Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. Edward Potter, Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce ; 31r. Pilkingion, M.P., Director of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce; Mr. John Stagg, Director of the thinchester Chamber of Commerce ; Mr. H. J. Leppoc, Director of the Manchester Chamber of Conuneree; anclMi Hugh Fleming, sew'• _ _ _ . A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com- Weldon for the Exhibition et 1861 was held yesterday, at the Privy Council-office. There were present—Earl Grau will° (chairman), the Right lion. 8.. Lowe, M.P., Sir A. Spearman, Bart., Sir C. W. Bilks, But., Mr. T. F. Gibson, and Mr. Edgar Bowting, C.B. (Secretary). It has been intimated to her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1862 that a sab•committee hu been ap- pointed in Hoghold, with the view of collecting for enhi bitiou productions of Italian art, cousisting of the following gentlemen:—The Marquis d'Azeglio, President; J. C. Ito- Eaq., M. Digby Wyatt, Esq., R. Redgrave, Fsq., E. Outfield, Eaq., D. Colns;;lii, Req., J. B. Heath, EN., Cansul-General far Italy ; the Baron Idarochetti, the Ceunt Corti, and the Prime Setae. The Jwlici►l Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day. An appeal from New South wales, " Lang r. Puma and others," me commeoced. The Lords present were— Lord Kinpdown, the Master of the Rolla, and Sir J. Coleridge. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Prim:cern Mary have &nivel at St. James's Palace from Kew. The Duke of Newcastle has taken the Countess at CaWon's mansion on Carlton House-terrace for the SMOG. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort intend to leave Gibraltar early in the ensuing month on their return home, it being the intention of his grace to close the hunt ing season at Badminton. The health of the noble duke has materially improved by his sojourn during the winter at " the Rock." His grace's hounds have afforded good sport to the officers of the garrison. The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and family purpose to kayo Blenheim Palace, near Woodstock, to-day, for town, for the season. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn have left Chesterfield House for Brocket Hall, Herta. The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury left town on Saturday for Paris, on • visit to the Berl and Countess Cowley. The noble marquis and marchioness are expected in tows at the latter end of this weea. The Earl and Countess of Bective have arrived at Thoma►'s Hotel, Berkeley-square, from the Lodge, Vir ginia Water. Frances Countess WaMegrims arrived at her residence is Carlton-gardens, yesterday, from Dadbrook House, Eases. Lord Lyndhurst has quite recovered from his matt illness, and is only suffering from a slight weakness consequent on his indisposition. A marriage is arranged to take place shortly between the lady Mary &chews, wooed daughter of the Earl and Countess of Goeford, and the Hon. Leopold W. H. Powys, second son of the late Lord Li ford. It is stated that the Governorship of the Presi dency of Bombay has been offered to Lord Dufferin, and declined by that nobleman. Mr. Collier on Friday will ask if her Majesty's government intend to Introduce say IDOSAUII3 altering the law on the subject of iognisiticas of lunacy. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will not appear at Druzydane Theatre during the remainder of this week, in consequence of the death of Mrs. Bradshaw, tinter of Mrs. Kean. Mn. Bradshaw warn the original Clari at Covent Garden, and la that character sang for the first time the celebrated " Home, sweet home." She married Mr. Bradshaw ' M.P. hit Canterbury, who died 13 years ego. Of this m erriege one daughter waa the result, and that young lady is married to Mr. Langley, late of the 2nd Life Guards. To Liberia belongs the honour of being first in the field at the Great Exhibition, for on Saturday her mow' iment of goods was delivered at the building sad stowed away pro tem. in the Preach court. It was a modest beginning of the future glories of the great show, inasmuch es thin first portion of it only consisted of oar. Min grew boxes filled with palm and other vegetable oils, some lop of bard and dye woods, and other rough samples of raw colonial produce. Today a general delivery from various plans begins, including Russia, Norway, Belgium, Austria, and from serial town of the United The arrangements which have been made by the Exhibition Commissioners with Messrs. Morrisis and Saunders are, that there is to be a third-claw dinner at Bd., a superior third-claw dinner at Is. fld., a second-elms dinner at 2a. 6d., and ► ant-elar at 15e. The sightpenny dinner will, of course, only consist of a substantial meal of bread and cold meat. That at Is. 6d. will be cold mate, with hot vegetables, salad, bread and cheese, and beer. The half-crown repast will consist of a choice of two soup% with meats, lobster salad, hot vegetables, bread, cheese, beer, sod sweets ; while that for be. will be a regular dinner of three courses, entries, dessert, kn. As a matter of course, all these charges will be exclusive of wines or spirits of any kind. In addition to all these dining facilities, visitors I may lunch or dine st /a carte, or order party dinners in the private dining-rooms, at any expense they please. The Emperor Napoleon, on Saturday, paid a visit to the Zoological Garden is the Bois de Bonlogne. The aquarium, and the fine collection of camellias in flower in the greenhouses, particularly excited his Majesty's ad miration. Hs also viewed with great satisfaction the different foreign animals which are being there acclimatised. A letter from Cassel of the 10th says :—" The Elector la still obliged to keep his bed the greater part of the day (in ooneequenee of the fall already mentioned). The dignitaries all daily at the palace, but are not admitted to we him. The first =what of the court haa ordered the domestics of the p►laoe to preserve silence on all that takes place in the palace, under pain of dismiasal." The Grand Duke Constantine, who has been for the last two years abeeet from Russia, successively staying in Germany, Franca, Portugal, Italy, and England, is ex pected immediately at St. Petersburg. It is much remarked that at the sitting of the Assembly of Nobles at St. Petersburg there is always a numerous suditory,consistiug principally of ladies and mem bers of the diplomatic corps. Lord Napier, the English ambassador, is generally amongst the latter, and is attended by a short-hand writer and translator, whose reports are forwarded to England. The Conrrier de la Gironde relates the following singular incident :—An actor named Baguet was singing at the theatre of Bordeaux the part of Bartholo in the Barbie►, when, finding the blood suddenly rise to his head iu a way so as almost to stile him, he said to the leader of the orchestra, " I moot proceed, I am choking... The commissary of police on duty thought this remark an infraction of the regulations, and drew up a prods-m. 604 which brought the singer before the Correctional Pollee. The tribunal, however, viewed the case in a different light, and dismissed the charge, accompanying its Judgment with a flattering compliment to the artiste. Marshal Randoo, French Minister of War, gave, _ _ . on Saturday night, a second grand ball, which surpanied in magnificence all its predecinecns. " Everywhere," says Gatignani, " exotic dowels of all countries, and trophies of arms of all periods, attracted attention. A panoply of Persian arms of great richness was much admired, a. also, in the rime saloon, the colossal beads of two superb lions a the Atlas, appearing to lame from a collection of tropical pinata, His excellency had caused to be fitted up in one of the roonw an Arab cafe, with all the draperies and utensils of the cesoitry, and .sewed by a young negro in ap propriate eanense. No one fatted to Mete the mocha pre pored in the Orionis] manner, although the punch and ober• bete soma to be generally preferred." PENLIIIROin YARD.—Orden have been received here to dew the name of the iron•plated steam-screw vend Triumph to that of the Prince Consort. The Triumph wig origina ll y intended to be g ankh.. limed. Tr gip. THE NAVAL ESTIMATES FOR 1862-63. The Navy Estimates for the year 1862-63 amount in all to 11,794,3061., being a net decrease on the estimates for 1861-62 of 846,2834 The vote for het year, however, includes a supplementary esti mate for iron ships, dra, amounting to 250,0001. ; ' and the amount just sanctioned by parliament re quired for the excess of expenditure in the year ending March 31 next, viz., 364,338/. The items which show au increase in the esti mates for 1862-63 are—Victuals for seamen and marines, an increase of 33,8341. ; Admi ralty-office, 9,675/. ; Coast-guard service, the Royal Naval Coast Volunteers, and Royal Naval Reserve, 44,1801. ; scientific branch, 14,1941. ; her Majesty's establishments at home, 3,6771. ; wages to artificers employed in her Majesty's establishments at home, 35,552/. • miscel laneous services, 8,1981.; half-pay, 18,2931.; civil pensions and allowances, 13,8851. The chief decrease is in the sums required be the Storekeeper-General of the Navy and the Controller of the Navy (which last year included the estimate for iron ships), the amount this year showing a reduction of 541,7321. There is a decrease of 44,4591. in the vote for wages to seamen and marines • of 1,0271. in wages to artificers abroad ; of 2,4401. in the vote foe new works, repairs in the yards, &e. ; of 5,394!. In the sum required for military pensions and allowances ; and of 58,3501. in the sum needed for the conveyance of troops. CODI or EDLCATION..—Thin morn ing printed copies were presented to parliament, by her Illejesty's command, of the Privy Contend Educational hisete establishing a revised code of regulations. The code of Is6o is reprinted, with the proposed alteration', painted es Wee paw. issariad between the leaven. VOLUNTAZY COMIOTAIION 0? COVI4II RATII6.—• • bin jest introduced isle the House of CCUITOOOI by Mr. Aber& end Hr. Zeus proposes that the Cbefity Comer domes, es berries seenrod to than a yearly surd stialenout for minima of trimness properly payable out a &arch rates of any parish or district. tally declare that no Church arts shall be sired. LATVAST Ili TELLIUSNOS. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 12th publish an address to Queen Isabella by the Archbishop of Santiago, complaining of the great license of 'the press on matters of religion. The Epees, in reply, declares that the Spanish bench of bishops, if they consider themselves aggrieves!, can apply for retirees to the courts of law. A letter from Madrid of the 12th says : There is in this city a theatre, called the &meta, where pieces are played and snug which are only • parody on the French Opera Comigne. In this house, where some persons deceive themselves in thinking they will hear some passable music, a piece is performed called El hijt. de Son Jose, in which a lieutenant of in fantry is made to enact a ludicrous part. After the Bret re . presentation sonic officers of the garrison called on the author of the piece and the director of the theatre, and de manded that modifications should be made in the part which they considered insulting to the army. Their applica tion was attended to, but the civil governor, on hearing that a change bad been made without his consent, fined the director, and had the original part replaced. The eve ning before last about 100 officers attended ; General Don Enrique O'Donnell, iu the full uniform of Captain-General of Madrid, and the civil governor, also in full official ow tome, 11),9ng also present. From the eminent that the actors appeared on the stage, the civilians applauded and the officers hissed, and during the whole performance there was • tremen dons noise. The officers threw at the actors certain vegetables not precisely expressive of great enthusiasm. Several ladies feinted, and the majority left the house fearing • fight between the civilians and the officers, but the pies was at length brought to an end without any interference on the pert of the police. The subject of military prapoo. &ranoe has lately been spoken of both in the Senate and the Deputies, and many of the journals have spoken warmly against the rigime of the sabre. lAfter the above representation at the arenas, a warm discussion took place at the Casino, between several ! members of the pees and some superior officers. Colonel Alaminos, of the Albueran Chessman, made use of some violent expressions against journalists, when M. Alvarado, director of the Coletcmp,raiteo, said that he was • jourealist, and called on the officer to retract. This was refused, and • duel with swords was the consequence. Colonel Alsaninos received a wound in the forehead and another in the wrist, Lis opponent escaping unhurt. (REUTER'S MADRID, Fza 17. Senor Mon is expected to arrive in Madrid this evening. FRANCE. PARIS. FM 18. The debate on the address will commence in the Senate on Thursday next. PORTUGAL LIMON. F. 17, Evccno. In the Upper House to-day the proposition to e-establish the censorship of books and other pub mations was rejected by 36 against 34 votes. THE BRAZILS. LISBON, FEB. 16. The Messageries Imperisles Company's steamer Quienne, from the Brazils, arrived here yesterday at 4 p.m. Rio Jvianto, JAN. 25.—Exchange on London, 251 ; Paris, 380. Coffee, 7,600 to 8,500 rein ; ship ments since the departure of the last steamer, 77,050 bags ; stock, 350,000 bags. BAHIA, JAW. 29.—Exchange, 25/. Sugar, 2,200 to 2,400 rein. PNRNANIIIICO, JAN. 31.—Exchange, 25/. Sugar, 2,200 to 2,800 rein; brown, 2,100 rein; cotton, 12,200 dollars. The Royal Mail steamer Oneida, with the out ward mail of the 9th ult., arrived at Bahia on the evening of the 28th. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN IN. FEB. 18. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived. She brings 74 passengers and 2,076 packages of cargo. _ _ On the 7th inst. she spoke the British barque Lord Seaton off tishant, and the British barque Melbourne, from Table Bay, off the Eddystone. From Alexandria to Malta the Ceylon encoun tered strong north-westerly gales and a head see, thence to Finisterre and up the Channel, southerly winds with heavy rain. The Tuscarora left Gibraltar on the 13th inst. for the Spanish waters of Algesirsa. The Sumter was still in harbour. H.M. storeship Supply arrived out at Gibraltar on the 11th. Intelligence from Tangiers states that disturb ances had taken place in the interior of the country, near Rabat. A provincial governor and all his family had been assassinated by the insurgents. The brother of the Emperor had proceeded with a strong force to crush the revolt against the Sultan's authority. At Gibraltar, exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 491; Paris, sfr. 24c. ; Marseilles, Ur. 25c. ; Madrid, I prem. Freights unaltered. The Ceylon struck the cliff at Portland last night, and sustained considerable damage. Her bowsprit, figure-head, and cutwater were carried away. " In the diplomatic world," sar4 a Paris letter in the Journal do Havre, "it is reported that M. Mon is shortly I. marry the ooly daughter of the Duke de Soto Mayor, which would elevate him to the rank of grandee of the first class—wives, according to the terms of the Spanish laws, conferring nobility on their huslimulq. M. Mon is not, it is true, in the prime of youth, but ladies on the other side of the Pyrenees are not accustomed to look at the age of the husband whim a high position is concerned." General Garibaldi is stated to enjoy perfect health, and to be entirely given to agriculture. Thirty four peewits have been sent over to him, who are engaged in ploughing a large tract of land along the coed ; and if this continues, the Island of Caprera will be soon corn. pletely trandormed. The general constantly receives ad dresses and moats from his friends. lie passes his even ings in reading the }carnal*. The Prussian government has testified its grati tude to Abdel-Hader for his conduct on behalf of the Christians is July, 1860, by conferring on him the insignia of the order of the Red Eagle, first clams. M. Herford, the Prussian consul, waited on the Emir in fall uniform, and presented the decoration to him. Austria will, it Is thought, accord him a distinction of the same kind. The result of a novel experiment is given in the Moniker de rAgrieuiture. A fanner planted four potato. in April last, in two of which he inserted a bean, and pea in each of the other two. The peas and beans pro duced a good mop, and the potatoes were free from disease. One of the potatoes produced 58 tubers, the second 30, the third 29, and the fourth 26. The farmer is determined to repeat the experiment os a larger scale. According to the Amour Gazette, French and English missionaries have made their appearance at Urge, in Mongolia, with the intention, doubtless, of iostametieg the natives iu the tenets ot the Christian religion. The priests of the Dalai Lama offer a strenuous oppositiou to the new corners, notwithataoding that the latter are, to a °twine extent, nusetioned by the provisions of the List treaties with China. The death is anuounced of Count Lanakoy, for many years Minister of the Interior in Reim* and co-ope rator with the Emperor a ties work al. emenelpelies of the peasants. He was replaced by IL Beloiew about ten months stem, and was then created a count. The Emperor visited hie old minister sc►rcely 24 hours before his demi% had W the rick chamber in deep grief. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. ADDRESS OF THE SENATE TO THE EMPEROR. (IRON OUR OWN 001 PARIS. MONDAY Bynum. The Senate met this afternoon, and the following draft of an address to the Emperor was read by the President, M. Troplong Sire,—The session opens under auspices generally favour. able, which call for our congratulations. The words pro nounced from the throne contain precious guerantees for peace with foreign nations, for the stability of our institu tions, and for economy in the public expenditure. After the memorable reform accomplished only a few day. ago under the intinenco of your initiative, the task of the legidatnre of 1862 is clearly traced out ; it is called upon to oomplste the scnatus ronstaturn of December 28, by consequential laws, mod to show that the constitution of 1852 is second to none other in the powerol securing to the country a control over the budget, and justice in taxation. In other times, taxes incompatible with the principles of property, equality, and civil liberty, ydeped income tax, or progressive tax, have raised their heads amidst the storms of liberty. Such errors aro nolonger to be feared ; they aro foreign to the spirit of your government, the character of our in stitutions, and the interests of the public fortune. Nevertheless, And in spite of thetas satiafsctory symptoms, circumstances over which France has no control have checked the hitherto onward march of her indostrisl and commercial movement. The civil war which divided America has reacted upon our market' and manufactures, and a portion of the workbag clans is afflicted by sufferings the end of which is not yet. Your government, sire, ban shown anxiety about this state of things, and the Senate cannot be indifferent on the sub. jest. The Senate agrees with your Majesty that the friendly relations of France with the United States dictated to the French cabinet a policy of neutrality in regard to the sub. feet-matter of this lamentable different,. ; and it also thinks that the struggle is likely to be of shorter duration if it shall not be complicated by foreign interference. But, at the sane time, the Senate has noticed your active vigilance in the internal measures taken to prevent our working man from suffering too great injury by the want of employment. From communications made by the minis ters without portfolios, we learn that wherever necessity requires profitable public works have been undertaken, and that a very large expenditure, devoted it priori to the gene ral interest, will at the same time afford succour to those who are in distress'. And, moreover, private charity, ever so ingenious in its efforts, will, in its own way, second the administration. There is, therefore, every reason to hope that this crisis will be got over with the least possible ill, and, at all e►ents, with orstrage and resignation. Mors than one augury of this has already bees given us by the good feeling of the population. The deficient harvest found the people confident in the Emperor ; instead of those complaints which are usually made in trying times, the people has raised its voice ill 6140811t11 of gratitude to the prince who watches over them. This is a very sweet consolation to your Majesty's heart. You, the chief of a dynasty emanating from the suffrage of the nation, are strong in and by the affection of the people, and that affection, far from being weakened by trials, derives new strength from them. It is to this natio•al sentiment that we appeal to lighten your Majesty's regret at the necessity under which you are laid to propose those financial changes, which must in many instances lead to an increase of taxation. On the one hand, your Majesty hopes that such of theme augmentations as affect the most numerous clown will only be temporary. Expenses destined to complete our pest lines of communication have no permanent character, and the taxes required to meet them can only bo called for so long as may be justified by the public interest. On the other hand, the augmentation of revenue which must infallibly remit from ibis expenditure will facilitate the Emperor's intention to put an end to these sacrifloce, which will be convected into amelioration. The Emperor will thus be enabled to throw down a happy defiance to that old opinion, too often justified before this time, that when once a to is imposed in France, it can never be got rid of. And the people will see no cause to repent of having paid its tribute to those immense enterprises which honour France and benefit all dames. Then are other expenses annually going on, which, though lees vest, attract attention In the most remote localities. After having spent in two yens more than 13 millions for edifices devoted to public worship; after having, in 1839, raised the dotation of vicinal roads to nearly 89 millions, the administration does not yet think its task finished; it calculates what yet remains to be done, and is preparing for the coming exercise to pat forth all the more activity in ooesequence of the industrial and commensal crone, which calls for more employment of labour. We =not too much encourage the government in this coarse. It will be seconded by the enlightened co-opera tions of the otxuseils.generaL For these assemblies never at any time used the double authority conferred upon them with more intelligence than now ; and the Senate is happy to take this opportunity to compliment that institution— one of the bent of our administrative regime. While maintaining the vital parts of the old municipali ties, the councils;-general here banished their narrow. minded routine. They have inspired themselves with those large views of the oentralising spirit which have contributed in Frames to so many grand and durable creations. It is in part owing to their waistline.° that the provinces have shown homogeneity, and that from the chief town to the extremities of every department progress has gone on with order and regularity. In the midst of so many things which follow that path, it is desirable that Algeria should participate with equal vigour in the general impetus. Without doubt prosperity is far from being stationary, and every year increases the ansount of it. Roads are opened ; ports are improved ; • rainy will soon be in operation ; drainage is being effected, and internal security is complete. Ooloeisation, however, is of slow growth ; aepitel is re luctant to show Smelt ; end private enterprises do not nom- pete to the requisite extent with those of the state. Doubtkas, if the government of Algeria were aided by more stability in the institution', it would extract from . . the system of decentmlisation which it has boon charged to inaugurate results lees expected sad more numerous. _ . Them amaiderationa have struck us, sod we have com. muoicatei them to your mioister-comminelouers. We have had the satisfaction of learning from their lips that a project of constitution for Algeria is being prepared by order of your Majesty, and that it will be pre sented at no distant period. The Senate can but applaud that design of your government, always animated with such n lively solicitude for our important colony. We could wish, also, that the state of our finances might permit your government to add to the benefits of the law which is being prepared on literary property greater encouragement for letters and for fine arts, which, side by side with the flight truly taken by material interests, cherish the study of the beautiful and the taste for intellectual enjoyments. Letters and arts associate themselves spontaneously with glorious reigns —ell great things unite. . . . . . Ia hke manner the members of the educational bodies, although now tre►ted more liberally than in past times, deserve the designs of amelioration which engage your Minister of Public Instruction. The establishment of free dom in instruction has but animated their zeal, and the progress of studies owes to their devotion results worthy of attention. Lady, we wish it were poesible to secure for the minis trant of religiou, towards whom the hand of your Majesty yea extended at the commencement of your reign, a treat went more in accordance with the duties of their functions. Whilst abundant private liberality seeks out religious °aggregations, the parochial clergy remain in their poverty, under the weight of their labour and of their duties towards the world. As the Emperor has mid, the church should render to Cesar the things which are °wears. But it would be desirable, and the Emperor would experience gratification thereat, that the faculties of the State might one day permit him to pant to the worthy priests on whom repose. more especially the care of souls, whet their mo desty does not dare to ask, but what is claimed by their wants and their dignity. (Movement of approbation.) Sire, with respect to foreign cabinets, your relations aro friendly and confident ; among us everything breathes pesos, everything tends to undertakings at once useful and pro ductive, which war oould not but compromise. This it Is that must have struck the august guests whose visits have attested their cordiality ; this it is that appears from all the internal movements in which our activity is dia -1 played. France and her chief only require to be nem ckeely to be judged in their loyal love of concord. Thu we have only difeculties pending with distant barbarism, which rebel against the law of ustous. ()Le land and sea forces have caused China and the extreme AA to repent. Mexico, in its turn, will ere long experience the castigatio n deserved by its unworthy proceedings. May the expedition concerted with Spainand England bs energetically i•nale,uted by the common accord of the three powers, and pr.a.ure full satisfaction to justice, our countrymen, and nur '- tined interests. Noarer home, in that land of Italy delivered by our arms from the foreign yoke, continues to reign a painful comiezt, which divides men's min& and disturbs their ounecietiors. The diplomatic documents communicated on the subject to the great bodies of the state have proved how legitimate and seasonable wee the confidence the senate ban plteral in your Majesty. Your government, while making allowances for interna tional requirements, bas not hat eight of the tuteresta ut catholicism; and your Majesty has practised with eq.tal loyalty and prudence the policy openly proclaimed by yen, end which, in the address of IStil, received from tl , e Sea.-te so full an adhesion. You will persist, sire, in your work of protection and can. ciliation, as we will persevere in our confidence awl renvic• time. No doubt you feel the regret we deeply experience, still to meet on the one hand with impulsiveness and nu. moderate pretensions, on the other with resistance awl immobility. But your counsels are those of wisdom, and we must not weary here to repeat in its name that the greatest undertakings cannot be founded without cslmness and moderation, and that the justest causes are claina4.4 by extreme refusals, inconsistent with the good management of human anise. Sire, your Majesty, who so nobly falai the part of mall• &tor abroad, has a right to invoke at home the conciliation of minds. Let the clamours of parties be silant, then, before the confidence of the nation ; let the policy of legitimate interests remain victorious over what still remains of the policy of passions. The first, which is yours, leads the country from progress to pro gress. The second, which has but too much reigned in past time, could not but weaken and retard us. It is not the latter which the Senate will ever take as its guide ; and we will never forget that if liberty is never real but with independence, it is lasting only when accompanied with moderation. (Very good, vary good !) At the Bourse the Reute was very heavy, and fell 15c., but several of the railways ruse consider ably, THE MEXICAN EXPEDITION. VERA CRUZ, J. 9. The squadron under Commodore Dunlop arrived here with the royal marine force of 700:men, representing the English contingent in the affair, on the; th of January, and two days afterwards the French squadron, under Ad miral Jurien de la amine, arrived with 2,500 men. We found on our arrival that the Spaniards, to the amount of 6,000 men, had forestalled us, and, after giving the people of Vera Cruz 36 hours' notice to vacate the place, had disem• barked and established a military government in the town. The fan step of the Spanish general was to insist on being named president of the town council, which the town council resisted, and retired from the place, together with about 7,000 Mexican inhabitants. Before leaving they dis mantled Fort San Juan d'Ulloa, leaving only about eight guns, andivrithdrew all the hones and stock from the place, and have proceeded with the guns to occupy the panes on the road to Mexico. They have also driven off all supplies from the neighbourhood, and indict a penalty on anyone found supplying the place, so that there is now, so to speak, no market. The step taken by the Spaniards of disem barking before the arrival of the other forces is now owned by themselves to ben been a false step. The whole cotto ns hew been roused, and great opposition is expected on the march to Mexico. _ _ . Yesterday, the Bth, General Prim arrived, and, seeing how matters stood, made a speech to try and disarm the suspicion of the people by saying be was come on a peaceful mission to establish order, but with no hostile intentiosa, kr Re is said, at the same time, to have written to the Captain- General at Havannah for strong reinforcements, as all up pear to agree that the present force is inadequate, seeing the new turn affairs have taken. Admiral Jurien de la Gravirre intends accompanying the French force to Mexico. The English contingent, 700 men, has been sent out with out cramp equipage of any kind, or guns for the artillery, although the commanding officer solicited ft repeatedly before leaving England. The refusal was with a view to their not being employed actively, and not taking any part in the forward movement. Their enviable position appear. to be to occupy the meet pestilential place in the world, without any hope of participating in the operations in the field, and, at the same time, to hear remarks of no very !lettering character on the degrading position in which they are placed—the scavengers, as they are termed by the other two powers. This has produced great dissatisfaction among them. The English have not yet landed, ee the Spaniards who command in the town have only offered them the Convent of St. Domingo for occupation, which on inspection wee found to contain coffins with human remain. in a state of decomposition; and adjoining the convent is • yard of loathsome character, which baffles description. In one corner is • deposit of human excrement about five yards square and leveed feet thick, perfectly open and uncovered, upon which a cloud of flies have settled, which, on ap. preaching the horrible compost, rise in such a dense =as that you can scarce see through them. It has been wisely determined by the Commodore not to land the foxes until • more suitable place Is provided, as • fortnight in inch a charnel•house would lay them all up with dysentery. The day after to-morro. • meonnoissime Is to be made in the direction of the ral• way station, 15 miles on the road to Jalapa. The object of this move is to secure the railway from being broken up, and Soda place to encamp the Spanish troops. Several conferences have already taken place between the admirals and the generals and Sir Charles Wyke, who is also here from Mexico. Altogether, this expedition is considered here to have been too hastily formed, without having had proper information as to the turn things might take. Tho Mexicans are in possession of the country a short distance outside the town, where it would be dangerous to go with• out proper escort. Their new general is a man who has not hitherto mixed himself up in public affairs, living quietly on his property, but on the landing of the Spaniards ho immediately placed himself at the head of the Mexi• eras.—T :ma. Numbers of families are reduced to beggary by the inundations is the valley of the Danube, their few cattle or little flocks drowned, their winter seed washed oat of the ground, their agricultural implements floated away, and not to be recovered. Many houses and cottages have also fallen into ruins, the flood having lasted long enough to sap their foundations, and crumble the ill cemented materials of their walls. Among the curious Amidents of the inundation, it is mentioned that in some places the water subsided so suddenly that the large Danu bian fish were caught and remained on land,end the peasants went fishing in the fields. An instance is cited of a fish weighing 4611 m. having been captured in this manner. Hibernating animals have been disturbed from their winter sleep, and in a oommunication to an Hungarian paper it is stated that large snakes were seen making their way over the fields to escape the advancing wawa. Cordier," says the Chronipte Artidigue, "hos just completed for the Empress Eugenie two full length statues of Arab women for holding lights. The dra peries are in onyx, the naked parts in oxydised silver, and the ornament& in enamels and precious stones." M. Edmond About's play of Gaetano was repre sented three nights back at the theatre at Dieppe. The evening passed off very quietly, the only person hiving having been turned oat. The Epinanos du Peupk of Nantes relates the following curious incident, as having taken place in that town :—" The body of a young man had been deposited for interment in one of the side chapels of the Church of St. Laurent, when, while awaiting the arrival of the clergy, the bier was agitated violently. The coffin was immediately opened, sad the young man inside was found to have awoke hem a lethargy of sixty hours. He wu at once removed to his own house, and is doing well. He has a wife and tiro children." ------- The Monde of Path, the ultramontane journal, says that Spain, which has the happiness of enjoying ligious unity, " is perfectly right in opposing the introduc tion of heresy, which would moaned in weakening her, and would certainly hinder her from ever again taking that glorious place among aation; which she forst* °coupled- Let it be remarked that we do not defend the particular fact mentioned by the Dibsts ; we only sustain the core tietaof . right, neither do we pretend to Indicate the kind Pi Jr/pilgrim then set applicable to tha.pressot circwnstanre.; we ealy Aka that repression would be legitimate."