The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-18 00:00:00

7"/°lll7 XO-6. ane rt% REP . N r R p , r fl y / • LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1867. No. 6,4:32.] [STAMPKD, ld. ADDEI2OIIL/1116] [TWOPENCE to h, heir tA I till. livrs Nii Mug , weir .;.•.35.5111.1 P.lton ),,TIMPo• Animal No. of Policy Sam Insured! Premiss. 441.411 92.:40 450,155 12,000 484,173 6,800 506,975 5.000 'Reduced Prete. now payable. ta 6 4 i 120 iti t 119 0 0 86 0 0 SS 14 0 19 16 8 710 0 4 6 4 KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES BRONCHIAL AIIX,TIONIL , ft I ESsitS. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' (of 11. lAtetwaltyard, Loudon) LINE ot STEAM and PACKET t. A —For MELBOCILN k ;Port PTUlip. 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A Critical Summary of Events. 2. rani. cal and Literary Articles. & Notices of English and 'Foreign Ika.ka.--trlnce, 24, TatistuckatreeL Cereut-garden. BUNHILL-FIELDS BURIAL GROUND Pitt3KRVATION, with Inscriptions on the Tomln. 0.11. aniaingithe Oorropoodence between the Corporation of London and the Yoclishatical COMM izaionara, and Official Ductunonta. Price Sa_ Hamilton, Adana, and Co., SS Paternoster-row. Price 3d., free by a post four stamps, Tl° AL ABOLITION PAIN in DENTAL •RGERY, as applied to Mechanical Dentistry, by Mews liahni3ll. (diploma 1815,, 56, liariey-street, Cavendish- ;: 31esn. Gabriel have been peculiarly succeastul In their new systeru .4 artificial teeth without springs, which they adapt with out the slightest pain."—lierahl. Just published, In fancy cover,t Svo. la, post free Is. , THE MUSICAL GY MN ASTICS; with trations of all the Positions. By Dr. LEWIS. With Intro duction by M. C. TYLER. London: W. Termite. 337. Strand. NEW ESSAYS ON REFORM.` Mr. Lowe's speeches have had one good conse quence. They have put the advocates of reform upon their defence. They have compelled them to re-examine their own case, in the light thrown upon it by a consummately able and unsparing antago nist, possessed by an anti-democratic passion, which, far from confusing his judgment and per ceptions, seems to quicken and elevate them by a species of mental exaltation such as often accom panies strong emotions. This reconsideration is a gain to all those who can profit by Mr. Lowe's in telligence without being spurred by his excitement into a fervour as vehement as his own. The writers of the "Essays on Reform," which are associated in the volume just published by Messrs. Mactnillan,endeavourto prove, in reply to the small body of thinkers of whom Mr. Lowe is the chief, and for the benefit of the much larger class of per eons to whom ho has vaguely communicated his apprehensions, that parliamentary reform in Eng land is not necessary only but desirable also. They wish not to impose it on the reluctant fears, but to make it welcome to the deliberate reason and true patriotism of the present depositaries of power. Though the book finds its occasion in the exigen cies of a particular crisis, and in the necessity of applying a corrective to an unhappy state of mind and temper among influential classes of the corn munity, the range of its subjects, and the method of their treatment, give it mere than a temporary value. Many of the essays are contributions of intrinsic and durable worth to a subject which, in its diverse applications, can scarcely ever be obso lete, and which, in growing communities, must be periodical. They deal with reform as an in tellectual, not less than a practical problem ; view ing it in the light of recognised principles of human nature, of society and of government, exa mining the testimony of history, both English and foreign, and trying existing institutions, and the changes which are recommended in them, by these double criteria. To transcribe the list of subjects and authors will savetrouble both toour readers and to ourselves ; and will give a sudicient idea of the scope and con tents of the volume. They are the following : (1.) " The Utilitarian Argument against Reform, as stated by Mr. Lowe," by the Hon. G. C. Bro drick, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford ; (2.) "The Political Character of the Working Classes," by R. H. Hutton, M.A. ; (3.) " On the Admission of the Working Classes as part of our Social System, and on their Recognition for all purposes as partof the Nation," by Lord Houghton, M.A., D.C.L. ; (4.) " The Balance of Classes," by Albert Venn Dicey, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford ; (5.) "On the Choice of Re prmentatives by Popular Constituencies," by Leslie Stephen, M.A., Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge (6.) " Redistribution of Seats," by John Boyd Kinnear ; (7.) "Analysis of the House of Com mons, or Indirect Rep resentation ," by Bernard Cracroft, M.A. ; (8.) On the Working of Austra lian Institutions," by C. H. Pearson, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; (9.) " The Experience of the American Commonwealth," by Goldwin Smith, M.A., Fellow of University College, Ox ford ; (10.) "The Historical Aspect of Democracy," by James Bryce, D.C.L., Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford ; (11.) "Opportunities and Shortcomings of Government in England," by A. 0. Hutson, M.A., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford ; (12.) "The House of Commons in 1830," by Sir George Young, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. • Essays on Reform London : Macmillan and Co. 1867. CORRESPONDENCE RESPECTING SERVIA. A set of papers having this title was issued on Saturday. They relate entirely to the demand of the Prince of Berrie for the withdrawal of the Mussuhnan garrison from the fortress of Belgrade ; a request which, we stated on Saturday, has been complied with. It appears that although until lately Austria opposed the measure, and England decisively refused to countenance the Servian demand, since Baron Beust became the Austrian, and Lord Stanley the English, Minister for Fo reign Affairs, all the great Powers have pressed the Turk ish government to withdraw from Belgrade, represee ing that if it delayed to do so the consequences might be moot serious. Lord Lyons went so far as to tell Aali Pasha that the real question might soon be whether the Porte should secure the advantages which would attend a timely and gracious compliance with the Servian request, or run the risk of losing the fortress, or of ceding it at last in a less creditable and advantageous manner. Aali Pasha said be saw that the Porte could expect no support from any European power in resisting the de mand of the Servians. The Turks would, he said, stand alone if they refused to give up the fortress of Belgrade ; still it would be next to impossible to yield. DEATH or JAMES D. B. Ds Bow.—Mr. James D. B. de Bow, editor of Be Bow's Reriete, died at Eliza beth, New Jersey, on Feb. 27, after a short illness. He was born in Charleston, S. C., in 1820, and graduated at Charleston College in 1843. In 1844 he became chief editor of the Southern Quarterly Reeler, published in his native city, he having previously contributed frequently to its pages. After remaining in this position about two years, he removed to New Orleans and there established his Review, which soon became the organ of the slavery interest, and attained • circulation greater than any similar Southern periodical has ever reached. In 185:1 he was appointed to the office of superintendent of the United States census, and collected and prepared for the press a large portion of the quarto edition of the census of 1850. ,He afterwards compiled a compendium of the seventh census, and • work in three volumes entitled " Industrial , Resources of the Southwest." During the war ho sympa , thiaed and acted with the South, holding an important position under Jefferson Davie. eottsoz or PRECEPTOIIB.—A meeting of the eouneil of this corporation was held on Saturday last, when Dr. Adams, Dr. Hodgson, and Dr. Skerry were elected mem bers of the council ; and the following persons were elected members of the college .—Mrs. Mills, 4 Crowland-terrace, Englefield-road, N.W. ; Mr. H. S. Price, Cook-street, Chwenham ; Mr. P. Wells, 1, Loudoun-road, St. John's wood ; Mr. T. W. Werirrick, Bitterly-court. Ludlow ; Miss E. Dempsey, Avisford, Arundel ; Mr. M. Maker, the College, Liverpool ; Rev. J. Angus, the College, Re gent's-park ; Rev. C. Hawkins, B.C.L, Christ's Hospital ; Rev. W. Haig-Brown, LLD., the Charter House, London ; Mr. H. Eaton, Classical and Commercial School, Francis. street, Crewe ; Mr. G. R. Poole, principal of Ludlow School, Salop ; Mr. R. E. Saunders, 5, Wa.Wt-place, Ken nington-road ; Mr. T. G. Laurens, Englefield-green,Staines; Mr. D. Grant, Eocleshsll College, Sheffield ; Mr. B. Wey mouth, Souderbory-road, Holloway ; Mr. H. Day, Han over House. Andover. Fox etym.—The second meeting of the Fox Club this season took place on Saturday evening at Brooks's : present the Earl of Albemarle. Col. T. C. B. Challoner, Viscount Eversley, Mr. Augustus K. Stephenson, Mr. Frederick Dundee, M.P., Lord Torphiehon, Hon- Edward 8. Russell, Hon. Fitzpatrick H. Vernon, Sir William Scott, Bart., M.P., Sir Henry Ferguson Davie, Bart., M.P., Earl of Zeeland, Lord Carew, Sir Edward M. Buller, Bart., •LP., Earl of Fife, and Viscount Sudeley. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (azirrn's nucazate.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 17. It is asserted that Austria, France, and Russia have agreed to recommend to the Porte to cede Candia to Greece. The necessary instructions have already been sent by those Powers to their ambassadors at Constantinople. The representa tions are to be made simultaneously. Several treaties are in course of negotiation between Aus tria and Roumania. The Roumanian government intends to appoint a permanent diplomatic agent at Vienna. Herr von Becke, the Austrian Minis ter of Finance, has sent a circular to the subordi nate financial authorities in Hungary, informing them that they will in future be subject to the Hungarian Ministry of Finance. Herr von Becke emphatically declares that the Hun garian functionaries will only be fulfilling their duty towards the Emperor and the State by willingly subordinating themselves to the new con stitutional authorities now established. An ar rangement concluded between the Austrian and Hungarian Ministers of Financehas been published to-day, defining their respective spheres of action- As regards the budget of expenditure, the Hunga rian Finance Minister engages to adhere to the financial law of 1867, and undertakes to defray all public expenses anticipated in the budget of 1867 for Hungary and Transylvania, and to transfer any surplus to the central treasury of state. In cute the taxes collected should prove insufficient, the central treasury will advance to the Hunga rian minister the amount required to cover the deficiency. Both ministers will keep current ac counts of their financial transactions, and draw up a balance-sheet at the end of every year. A complete understanding upon all points exists between them. An Imperial decree has been published to-day, convoking the Diets of Bohemi a and Carniola. CROATIA. FIUME, Id %RCA 16. M. Matkovich was set at liberty to-day. The populace, to show their enthusiasm at his release, unharnessed the horses from the carriage in which he was seated, and drew it themselves in triumph. Cries were raised of " Long live the King and Queen ! " " Long live the Hungarian ministry, Deak, and Hungary ! " RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Rises 16. The provisions of the Paris International Tele graph Convention will be extended to Siberia. BT. PETERSBURG, MARca 17. _ _ The Journal de SC Peterebourg of to-day, in an article on the speech delivered by M. 011ivier in the French Legislative Chamber, says :—" Friend ship between Germany and France has nothing alarming for us ; on the contrary, we honestly wish it to exist, and no Russian wishes it to be dis turbed. But though Germany may be proud of the courtesies with which she is treated by French orators, she will as little as Russia believe that her relations have become less friendly towardasthis country, which was always friendly to Germany and has been her ally in time of danger." AMERICA. (in ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, MARCH 15, 5 P.Y.• Several detachments of British troops have been sent to the Canadian frontier, a Fenian raid being apprehended. Closing prices:—Gold, 134. Sterling exchange on London, 109. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1091; Illinois, 1151 ; Erie, GO. NEW YORK, MARCH 16, Noox. The Virginia Senate has offered to co-operate with General Schofield, who commands the Virginia district under the bill for the military government of the South. The Senate of Louisiana have made an appro priation to test the constitutionality of the military bill. Opening prices :—Gold, 1344. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1094; Illinois, 1154 ; Erie, 69. NEW YORK, MARCR 16, 5 P.M. The Senate has appointed a committee to examine into the affairs of the Treasury printing bureau. Closing prices :—Gold, 134 i. Sterling exchange on London, 109. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1091. Illinois, 1151 ; Erie, 59. Cotton, mid dling Upland, 32. The North German Lloyd's steamer Union, and the Hamburg and American Company's steamer Hammonia, arrived out yesterday. • Received in London at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 16. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Douro, Captain Beres, with the above mails, arrived at Southampton yesterday morning. She brings 21 pabsengers ; specie, value 877,068 dollars ; also 135 Berens indigo, 93 serous jalap, 23 cases cigars, 89 Barons cochineal, 105 bags and 22 tierces coffee, 137 bales bark, 40 bales cotton, 966 bags cocoa, and 166 packages sundries. The Douro loft Peter Island on the 3rd • on the 7th, lat. 36.53 N., lon. 45.0 W., she exchan signals with the English barque Bellona. Dates by this arrival are town, 16th Feb.; Jamaican, 25th ; Demerara, 25th ; Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27th ; Colon, 22nd ; St. Vincent, 26th ; French Island, 28th ; Antigua, St. Kitt's, and Nevis, Ist March ; and St. Thomas, 3rd. . _ From Jamaica the only news of interest is the introduction of a bill in the Legislative Council, imposing a license tax upon trades, professions, &c., which has led to considerable discussion. REPRESENTATION OF BRDFORD. —A second Con servative meeting was held at the George Hotel, Bedford, on Friday evening last, Mr. Bingham Newland in the chair ; on which occasion Captain Polhill-Turner was pre sent, and declared his acceptance of the invitation of the previous meeting to come forward as a candidate at the next election. It was further announced that a requisition was in course of signature to Mr. James Howard, of the Britannia Iron Works, to come forward as a colleague with Captain Turner ; and the secretary of the association stated that though the requisition was not completed, it had at present received a larger number of signatures than an like requisition in the town of Bedford. THIEARL OF DERBY AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL Anaocismog.—The Constitutional Association has for. warded to us the following letter, received by the execu tive committee of the association, in reply to one sent to Lord Derby on the 13th inst. enclosing a copy of the reso lutions passed at the meeting in the Corn Exchange on the 2fith ult. :—"10, Downing-street, Whitehall, March 14, 1867. Gentlemen ' —I am desired by the Earl of Derby to acknowledge your letter of the 13th inst. toge ther with its enclosure, and to return his best thanks to the Constitutional Association forthe resolutions passed at . • meeting held on the 26th ult. Robert S. Bowler, Req., Q.C. in the chair, which express confidence in her Ma. jesty's government for their policy on the question of par liamentary reform, and deprecate the factions opposition with which they are threatened.—l have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedientservant,Eamtiecrrow.—ToJames Taylor,and Y. H.Chadwick,Eipqrs.—MaiscArater Guamhaw. FRANCE. (raox ocra OWN coaassroxourr.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. At the sitting of the Corps Legialatif it was announced that Marshal Niel, Minister at War, is appointed by the Emperor a government commis sary, to support the reorganisation of the army bill. This is a very important practical instance of the working of the new principle that ministers may be sent to defend their acts before the elected of universal suffrage. It was also publicly stated that the bureaux have refused to allow M. Picard's interpellations on the Senates Cuesultem which most seriously curtails the rights of the Chamber. This is a result which I led you to expect. That the interpellatiorui on a subject of such vital importance should have been disallowed is conclusive proof that the majority is entirely in the hands of the executive power, ut terly devoid of public spirit, and prepared tamely to submit to the doctrine, which there is nothing to prevent being carried to most extreme lengths, that the Senate, with the connivance of the Empe ror, who has appointed all the senators, may do anytlimg, and that the Chamber of Representatives only exists by the tolerance of the two other powers. M. Piareksucceeded in getting the opinion of him self add hit friends upon the Senates Consultunt re corded in the Munittur, and that was all he ever hoped for. M. Emile de Girardin remorselessly and auda ciously carries on the war which he declared on the evening of March 6, when he said that his con demnation by the Correctional Police classed him among the systematic opponents of the government. It will bo remembered by those who closely ' watch the course of French politics that M. Berryer lately objected in the Corps Legislatif that the yellow book did not contain the Italian despatch alluded to by M. Rouher in May, 1866, which he said contained an undertaking (etujegetneut) not to attack Austria. M. Rouher, in answering M. Ber ryer, at once promised to produce; that despatch. In so doing the minister yielded to necessity, for the substance of the document in question has already appeared in the Italian green book. It is thus worded : The minister of the King of Italy in Paris to the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Florence. 1 Paris, May 4 , 1866 (received May 6). . , After the receipt of the telegram which your excellency sent me yesterday morning, I announced to M. Drouyn de Lhuys that I was authorised to declare that the King's government did not intend to take the initiative of a war against Austria. I stated that I was not speaking of any undertaking (0 1 9aMentent), nothing of the knid havin g been asked of us, but only a spontaneous declaration of our past intentions and of our present intentions up to the present day. I added that this declaration consti tuted; no new fact of a nature to change the situation, which remained as before, namely, that Italy had only armed because Austria had armed tirst.—Accept, M. Rouher will have a hard task to make out that this despatch, which expressly excludes any "engagement," and only speaks of in tentions, with the curious reserve that they are peat and present (not future) intentions, bears out the description he gave of it. M. Thiess wound up his great speech on Thursday by saying that no one blunder which could by pos sibility have been committed by the French go vernment remained to be committed. M. Rouher, in his reply to-day, took direct issue with these words, and a ffi rmed that the French government had " not committed a single fault." In answer to M. Thies' taunt that France had no allies, he said that she had no enemies, and was regarded throughout the world with deference and sympathy. THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867. (FROM OUR sermil CORMEIPONDINT. After struggling through the mud of the park, and over the packing-cases and through the hay and straw which encumber the Exhibition build ing—after taking as calm a survey as is compatible with personal safety of the main avenue that leads from the Pont de Jena to the princi pa l entrance to the building—it is hardly possible to realise the still undisputed fact that the Exhibition of 1867 is to be opened on the Ist of next month. The mud must give any of our soldiers who are here a keen recollection of the Crimea. I have just returned home from an Ex hibition campaign. I, too, have seen wheels half buried in mud, and stood hopeless fora few mo menta with a yellow slough before and behind me. It moves one's pity to see the picturesque hooded workmen from Egypt at their work in the east wind of this most uncompromising March, and painting their temple hard by, where French work men are raising a Calvary. The Germans take it coolly, for they have their German beer house in their space, where they may smoke, and where sausage and brown bread are to be had at reasonable prices. It is true they have blocked the railway once or twice ; it is true that the southern part of the park, which has been given up to Prussia, is abroad expanse of muddotted with the half-finished timber skeletons of buildings planted here and there. The German is not to be driven forward. The alert and vigorous Swedes have set up their handsome timber Gustavus Wasa house, and set it about becomingly with pines and shrubs, so that it is a pretty characteristic picture to look upon now, and is a relief to the eye, in the midst of the surrounding confusion of workmen and waggons and struggling teams and goods trains moving round the building. The Russians, too, show an example to their neighbours. Their hand some timber buildings are finished, and are delightfully fantastic. The Austrians' ambi tious work in the park is growing apace to completeness. Tho English agricultural shed is hniahed, and most of the important con tributions are in it. Hornsby and Son, of Grantham, are quite ready ; the St. Pancras Ironwork Company have set up their highly finished model stables ; and a host of others lave arranged their bright blue and red implements ready for the opening day. But the remaining English buildings in the park are sadly backward, if we except the testing-house opposite the Em peror's pavilion, which looks like a suburban builder'sfolly, but is mean to be an exhibition in itself of English building materials and appliances and fittings, from the chimney pots to the kitchen ranges. It represents not less than 140 exhibitors. Our backwardness in the park la an injustice to the Imperial Commissioners. We occupy the right line of the main avenue, along which the procession of kings and princes will pass to the opening cere mony, and now it is the muddiest and wildest part of the scene. Not that this part of the park can ever be made park-like. The buildings lie about as thick as the leaves of Vallombrosa. The eye lights on harsh-coloured buildings and low red-tiled roofs on the French side, and on ugly square buildings on the British side. But for deliberate, and it must be intentional, ugliness— for ugliness that is aggravated by the rich variety of the oriental buildings in which it is set—nu structure in all the park can compare with the methodist order of architecture displayed in the meeting-house of the protestant missions. Our zealots who are coming laden with cheap or gra tuitous Bibles, or fragments of Bibles, to carry for ward the work of waste they opened by the road side of South Kensington in 1862, will not, we trust, convert the heathen (and they are set in the very midst of them) to their way of building. The British department in the building is in a forward state, and compares advantageously with every other nation. I have no doubt that it will be quite ready . at the appointed time, if the railway authorities will cease to make London as far from Paris as St. Petersburg. The Newhaven and Dieppe transit authority (M. A. D. Bossou) deserves credit, nay honour, for the efficiency with which he, the father and present animating soul of this route, has forwarded goods, to the disgrace of the so called shorter mute. It matters not where the fault lies on the short route. The facts are patent and incontrovertible. Monstrous delays have oc curred, to the confusion of the British section, and possibly to the loss of honours by some of the ex hibitor. It will interest your readers to learn that Letts and Co. (of the Diaries) were the tint Eng , lish exhibitors who were ready for the opening. Their good example has been followed by many others by this time. The booksellers' cases are in the building. The Huddersfield manufacturers are quite prepared to spread their fabrics on their imposing row of cases. Mr. Cronmire's case is not only ready, but his mathematical instruments are arrayed in it. The Science and Art Depart ment are forward with their illustrations of an in ternational system of reproduction of works of art for the use of schools of art. Gillows are on the ground. Jenner and Knewatub have set up a hand some case. The lettering bureau is in full activity. everywhere English workmen, who look sober and serious amid the gangs of light-hearted official exhi bition porters, are adjusting cases, unpacking goods, putting chandeliers together, screwing, saw ing, driving, and planing; and the sappers are doing their part of the labour bravely and intelli gently, as usual. An antelope is the only living creature who could move comfortably about amid the frames and boxes and gangs of porters carrying loads. The pictures are being got in rapidly, and, I fancied,a little carelessly—when I saw porters carrying them through the confusion, totally un protected, to the art gallery. Over the entrances from without, to the British department, Rue d'Angleterro and Rue des Indes are painted. Benson's great clock—no Exhibition would be complete without that—is up, and waits, carefully shielded under a sky-blue case, for the opening day. Harry Emanuel is ready. Best and Hob son, of Birmingham, are hanging their chandeliers to a light and effective pagoda-like construction. Tho Winfield', of Birmingham, are also hanging their chandeliers ; but their framework looks rough and heavy beside that of their neighbours. The Indian court—for it is a court of black cases, albeit the British authorities set their faces against courts—is finished, and some of the delicate work of the East is spread in them. Peeping into the British-Art Gallery (from which public and press are rigorously excluded), I saw "W. Mulready, R.A.," painted ingold letters upon the wall above the picture line. I presume Mulready is not to enjoy this posthumous honour alone. Poor New South Wales is driven into a corner of the ma chinery gallery, with her skeletons of wombats and over stuffed birds, which an lying about fully ex posed. In the machinery gallery, British section, the exhibitors are very forward, and many of the heavy engines and machines an in their places. The carriages also are in position, and are under going a careful final polishing. Moreover, three of the gallery windows are already filled with illustra tions of the progress of machinery, notwithstand ing the concessionnaire M. Ber, who claims an in demnity of 50i. for every window so occupied. A LIFEBOAT AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. —The National Lifeboat Institution tent on Friday, on the sire -6111 invitation of the commissioners, • tine lifeboat, 3.3 feet long, fully equipped, and mounted on a transport ing e, to the Paris Universal Exhibition. A com modious t•house is being prepared on the banks of the river Seine for the reception of the lifeboat, /to., and the whole establishment is expected to be a correct represen tation of a lifeboat station, like what is now happily seen in connexion with the institution on overly every dan gerous point of the coast of the United Kingdom. THE 'DEBATER IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER. PARIS, MABC/1 16. To-day in the legislative body the debate upon M. Thiers' interpellation upon the foreign policy of the government was continued. After a speech from M. Latour, M. Rouher addressed the house. He commenced by examining the course pursued by the government during the late occurrences in Germany. Ile pointed out that the unity of Italy did not involve any danger for France, and declared that the government entertained no regret for what had taken place in the Italian peninsula. Danger, be added, could only ensue from revolution or violent reaction. Then, reverting to the affairs in Ger many, be said:—" The conflict in Denmark was only a pretext for the events which subsequently occurred. The battle of Sadowa filled our hearts with patriotic anguish, but we thought fit to have recourse neither to sullen inertness nor to war, but accepted the task of media. Lion--a labour which was not without difficulty nor without glory. In presence of the partial realisation of the unity of Germany what ie our duty? We must be firm and precise ; there must be no hesitation and no compro mise. If it be thought that France has lost a single centi metre of her height we must draw the sword. I prefer the solemn storms of war to a morbid disquietude, in which our strength and prosperity would gradually be ex. tinguished. France ought not to be alarmed at the events in Germany, for the Holy Alliance is shattered and the Confederation is dead." M. Rouher proceeded to refute the assertion of M. Thiers that France had no allies. " The day," he declared, "that Prussia threatens the equilibrium of Europe, France and England will make her comprehend that the age of ambitious follies is past. Russia would also encounter the Western Powers united if she should wish to realise the views in the East which are attributed to her. No, no danger threatens France from without. It little matters that France has not grown in bulk if she grow in height ; and our sovereign has just opened up to her activity new horizons of liberty." In conclusion, M. Rouher said, "The coalition is extinct, and will not revive under the sceptre of a Napoleon." M. Rouber's speech was received with applause. AL Jules Ferro, who then spoke, maintained that France could have prevented the proceedings of Prussia and Austria in the Danish question if she had wished. "The events," . he said, " which ensued would not then have occasioned the feelings of anguish to which M. Rouher has alluded." M. Thiers subsequently proposed the adjournment of the debate until Monday, which was agreed to. M. Picard's demand for leave to interpellate the government relative to the late senatus-consultum, which he alleges constitutes an attack upon universal suffrage, has been rejected by nine of the bureaux of the legislative body. PARIS, MAsce 17. The following are some additional details of the speech delivered yesterday by M. Rouher, in the legis lative body :—He refuted the opinion that Prussia would not be satisfied with the limits fixed by the treaty of Nikolsburg, but would attempt to advance to the Zuyder Zee. " Prussia," he declared, " has given France the most absolute guarantees in this respect. Had we not possessed these guarantees we should not have ',offered such acts of ambition, for France does not accept unbridled ambition or unlimited pretensions." M. Rouher did not believe th►t Russia harboured the ambitious and perilous design of advancing to Constantinople. " If," he added, "she were to make renewed attempts for that object, she would encounter in the West, Powers having th e same interests, the same strength, the same will." Prussia, he farther asserted, had no interest in facilitating the alleged designs of Russia. He declared that the r elations of France with foreign Powers were of the most f riendly character, and said, as regards Russia, "Our r elations have never been more sincere, more loyal, nor did they ever bear the impress of greater cordiality than at the present time." THE EASTER VOLUNTEER Revizw.—At a meet ing of metropolitan commanding volunteer officers, held on Saturday at the rooms of the National Rifle Asso ciation, it was announced that it had been officially de. cided that the forthcoming review shoule. be held at Dover. The Newspaper Press Fund anniversary dinner is fixed for Saturday the 29th of June, and even thus early there are indications that the Right Hon. W. R. Glad stone, who has accepted the chairmanship, will be sup ported by a larger number of members of both homes of the legislature, the bar, and the literary world generally, Mr. Henry William Burnett, Master, R.N., has than perhaps has ever amvmbled to support the funds of been appointed amid mail neat an the Southampton an excellent benevolent institution, station. Drama. ADELPHI. Mr. Watts Phillips's long buried drama, Lust ix London, which from a variety of causes has been rehearsed and withdrawn many times during the last seven or eight years, was at last produced at the Adelphi Theatre on Saturday night, but not with Mr. Benjamin Webster in the principal character. Mr. Webster is suffering from illness, and the part specially written for him has been transferred to Mr. Henry Neville, of the Olympic com pany, who undertook it, and made himself perfect in it at a very short notice. Mr. Neville's forcible acting has much to do with the success of the pieos, and the author may consider himself lucky in obtaining so good and careful an actor in the place of Mr. Webster. It would be hardly fair to Mr. Phillips to criticise Lost in London as if it were a drama hot from the anvil. Seven years —so the natural philosophers tell us—is a period during which all the atone of the human frame undergo an entire change; and even with so stagnant and conservative an in stitution as the stage, a period of equal length rarely passes by without witnessing some little alteration, disturbance, or progress. The so-called " sensation drama " has been introduced, has flourished, has shown symptoms of Aleut deuce, and has partially recovered its waning popularity, since Lost in London was written. While Mr. Phillips% ' drama was quietly reposing in a dusty pigeon-hole of Mr. Webster's room, Mr. Boucicault, with his Colleen Bairn and his improved stage -management, has had triumphant possession of the Adelphi stage ; Miss Bateman, the well advertised rival of Siddona, has come and gone ; Mr. Jef ferson, with his Rip Von Winkle and intensely natural acting, has appeared and disappeared ; soil glfeakaek has had • short comic opera innings. If Mr. Watts Phillips had written Lost is London recently we believe he would have planned his drama so as to have avoided a number of tedious " carpenter's scenes " that are only kept alive by very conventional low comedy. His main plot is very clear and simple, and is worked out by four characters. Job Armroyd, a middle-aged miner, has married a young wife, an orphan, who was left in his charge on the death of her father. This girl, caring very little for her husband, is flattered by the attentions of • mine-owner ruuned Gilbert Featherstone, and she is half persuaded, half forced to leave her Lome and fly with this man to London. Job and • female friend named Tidily Drag. glethorpe follow the fugitives, and, after a time, discover them at a villa near Regent's-park. The erring wife, re. pentant and broken-hearted, leaves her seducer and dies at • cottage in the neighbourhood of London. This is not a very cheerful story for the mere amusement seekers of the theatre, and au attempt has therefore been made to enliven it by introducing a comic tiger, who deals freely in malapropisms, a mis-aspirating footman, and a lady's maid of the same type. Tidily Dragglethorpe is a serio comic character, one of those good, kind, gushing, blub bering, sturdy women, who appear to be the exclusive property of Mrs. Alfred Mellon. There is no novelty in the plot or characters. The villain is conventionally bad; the poor people are conventionally good, and en dowed with a delicacy of thought, speech, and feeling that is very far from being a copy of nature. The mining cha racter of the drama disappears after the first act, and has no more to do with the plot than the coal mine had to do with the play of Shadow Tree Shaft in which it was intro duced. Change the wicked coal owner of Lost is London into a gay squire, the mining hand into a farmer, and the mining hand's young wife into • village late, and we should then have the familiar materials of that "domestic drama' . which has so long been popular at our minor theatres. The literary excellence of Mr. Watts Phillips's dialogue, and the skill with which he has arranged the ending of his first and second acts, alone raise Lost is London above this level. The part of Job Armroyd, idmirably played by Mr. H. Neville, gives ample scope for passionate acting, and it cannot fail to increase the reputation of the performer. Nelly, the wife, in the hands of Miss NeiLson, becomes little more than a pretty girl with a tendency to collapse on sofas, carpets, chairs, 'Miscues, and tables. It wants an actress of more experience and with a better delivery than this young lady has at present to do it jus tice, Mrs. Alfred Mellon is, of course, powerful and successful as Tidily, but her acting might be toned down with advantage. Mr. Ashley bas a roost unthankful part as the coalowner—the villain of the piece ; and we have seen Mr. Toole to much more advantage than in the conventional fooling of Blinker, a cockney tiger. Mr. Phillips has sprinkled his drama with songs, comic and serious, the comic song being an obvious device to gain time for the setting of a scene. It is well sung by Mr. Toole, a better vocalist than Mr. Ashley, who is entrusted with the sentimental ditty. The play is well put upon the stage, one scene, representing the interior of a coal-mine in full work,bringing the whole stageof t he Adelphi —a very fine stage—into use. The only fault we have to tind with it is, that the practical shaft, up and down which the cages ascend and descend with miners, is lighted with gas instead of with the lime-light—the nearest approach to daylight. A garden and villa near Regent's-park on a winter's night is also an effective scene, and the ball room scene is also set with greater attention to details than we have lately noticed at this theatre. The drama, in spite of its dismal ending, was very successful, and Mr. Watts Phillips and all the chief actors were called before the curtain. THE THREATENED STRUM OF ENOINZ-DRIVERS AND FIRENEN.—The threatened strike of the driven and firemen of the London, Brighton, and South Comet Rail way, which it was expected would take place to-morrow, when the notices sent in to the company last week would have expired, will not, there is now ieroon to believe, occur. A deputation, consisting of seventeen drivers of the line, waited by appointment on the dinettn at the London-bridge station on Friday, and fur several hours were engaged with them discussing the requirements con tained in their memoriaL The directors t were Sir P. Arthur, Mr. Stewart, Mr. C. Child, . Cunningham, and Mr. Wishes., besides the traffic manager and superintendent. The chairman was absent. Objections were made by many of the directors to the scale of wages proposed in the memorial, and also to the ten hours asked fur, and considerable discussion took place with re ference to the latter. The men were, however, firm, and ultimately they gained this point. They will from Tues day, accordingly, work ten hours per day. It was gene rally admitted that all the requirements of the men might he granted, but the chairman of the company being ale sent, the deputation was asked whether they mould meet the board on !Monday next, the 25th inst., and in the meantime withdraw their notices. At first the men were not inclined to consent to the latter ; but on an express understanding that if at that time their v lobes were not conceded, their notices would still be in force, the request was granted, and the men having thanked the directors for the conciliation displayed towards them, with drew. The memorials of the Great Northern, Great Eastern, end South Western have not yet been answered, but it is expected that a deputation will wait on the directors of the latter company this week. Mr. Beanie, the locomotive superintendent of the South Western, received. representative of the driven on Friday, and entered fully into all their grievances. The result of the interview leaves little doubt that the confenmee of the deputation which is to wait on the directors will be satisfactory to both aides. Last evening meetings of the engine-drivers and firemen were held, and much ,itisfac tion was expressed at the result of the interviews which have already taken place. FIREox A RAILWAY.—A singular accident happened on Saturday morning on the Severn Valley (Great Western) Railway, neer Shrewsbury. This railway is down to its terminus at Hartlebury a single line, and is worked on what is known as the block system." At the Shrewsbury end, a short distance from the general station, seignal-man'sbox was erected, anti fitted up with the telegraphic apparatus necessary for the working of the line. On Saturday morning, after the passage of the first up-train, the signal-man went to his breakfast, leaving a large fire in the stove, and in the course of about a .marter of an hour the box was discovered to be on tire. The flames, aided by a sharp wind, rapidly spread, and in a very short time the place was completely burned down. The telegraph batteries were of course destroyed, and com munication with the other stations being 'revered the tragic was stopped till • pilot engine could be gut ready and sent down the line to announce all clear. Throughout Saturday and yesterday a pilot engine preoeded eachtrain, train and this precaution will continue to be adopted till the t elegraph couaulutication can be mowed. INDIA, CHINA, AND ADSTRALIAN (HEAVY) MAT/R. --GHHUI.TAE, MARCH 16.—The Ceylon left at 9 CIO. to day for Southampton ' where she may be expected early on the 21st inst. All well. On the 30th instant the Chancery vacation will commence, and terminate oa the 9th April, both days in. ~: • I I 1 , 1