The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-07 00:00:00

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Lane & 31issJacolw.-1.. In-c wrth TIJK LAST LINK or UIVE. WATICR AT LONDON BRIDGE. THI9 DAT —Th.rnint:, CR Otra Afternoon, 3h. 510. TO-ROAttote—lloruing, 2lm Afterimon, aim LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7. Torus are two modes of judging of a proposed Act of Parliament. 'We may inquire as to its aim and intention, or, as we more commonly say, its principle ; or we may ask how it will work, and what will pr o bably be its effect. Mr. HARDY'S Poor Low Bill has hitherto been judged mainly by the former method, and its soundness of principle is undeniable. When its probable working comes to be analysed there is reason to fear that it will leave the fruitful teiuree of abuse and MlA management practically mit inched, and that definite responsibility and direct control are apparently as far off as ever. Let us take the representative case of TiMeerriv DALY, and see to what extent the sufferings of that wretched pauper would be ameliontted were it to Weill' in a metropolitan workhouse managed under the provisions of the measure now before the Hinge. TllO medical officer attending him will be better paid; the drugs supplied Inim will pro bably lie of sup..rior quality, and he will no longer be liable to lie with a gibbering idiot in the bed to his right, and a mall want fever case in the one to his left. The latter contingency is doubtless illiprohnble now, but the Act makes it impossible in the future, and is so far good. Further, his chances of being nursed in Wilke way are increased, RS the charge of nurses will be defrayed by the common fund, awl his workhouse bed-sores will theoretically entitle him to 1,000 feet of cubic space about his bed. Oil the other hand, doctors and nurses will be appointed by the guardians, and the latter will be if the guardian type. lit the poorer districts, relatives and friends of the people sitting en the local board will be made paid nurses, and upon these will the onus rest of curtailing all expenditure net falling on the com mon fund, mid so ensuring the re-election of their guardian patrons by keeping down the rates. Ditty's treatment will depend, therefore, practi cally upon the sante contending interests as now ; and the administration of the sick ward he lies in may he faulty as ever. Nor is his right to 1,000 instead of 500 feet of cubic space ensured by Mr. HARDY'S Bill. The Poor-law Board may order this amount, and the guardians may disobey the order, and if litigation follows, may go into court saying," We coaaut give the space asked,our work " house does not afford it, and you ask us to per " form an impossibility." It is idle to urge soundness of principle in defence of a mea sure under which such anomalies as these are possible ; and Poor-law reformers, before accepting what is admitted to be a compromise, should carefully consider how far the great bulk of the sick poor will he benefited by the change. It is upon the administration rather than the letter of the law that the real value of Mr. lIARDY . ,4 proposed alterations rests ; and directly we ask how this improvement or that reform is to be ensured, we find feebleness of purpose awl laxity of control. Mr. HARDY is ready to give up the 100/. rating as a qualification for the nominees who are to sit with and exer cise a moral influence over guardians, and will accept any other test which should seem to secure a supply of zealous and efficient men. We doubt, however, whether the realities of the nominee position have been sufficiently weighed ; and whether in practice those filling it would nut be driven to one of two things—either they would become ornamental, but useless, appendages, playing into guardian hands, or they would resign their seats in disgust at the insult and annoyance inflicted on them by their elected colleagues. It is only those who have sat through the board room discussions at such places as Bermondsey, the Strand Union, and Clerkenwell, who can realise the tone and temper ci num, inly pervading them ; but if it be remembered that personal charges of the grossest character aro among the amenities of debate, that at one of the vestries quoted " it's a lie " was fob lowed by a hand-to-hand fight between two of the local legislators, it may be well to ask how educated men are to be induced to sit on hoards where they will be constantly liable to such treatment, where they will be limn:mealy in a minority, and where they will only have the shadowy and uncertain authority of the Poor-law Board to hack them up? Some isolated beings there may be in whom the sense of duty and the instinct of combativeness are ex.nitionally strong, and who will consent to be nominated and continue to serve ; but they will be practically helpless, and administration will, it is to be feared, drift into the same condition of muddled hopelessness as now. The plain truth is that the whole of the sick poor should be taken out of the hands of the guardians ; and Mr. Haitey's measure is good to the extent to which this principle is recognised, and had in so much as it is ignored. There can be no valid reason why one class of disease should be taken out of the workhouse infirmary and another left there, for, as Mr. VILLIERS re marked the other night, to suppose that pauper inmates would simulate illness in order to serve their parish by being kept out of the common fund is attributing to them a depth of party feeling not common to their own or any other class. The broad argument that rates for sickness should be general and not local, because the poorest districts THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1867. are the most over-crowded and unhealthy, aud every extra penny raised for the sick tends to turn the struggling classes into paupers, is in* not to be gainsaid, and Mr. II ARM' seemed to re cognise its justice when introducing his Bill. It is not, therefore, for bodies like the Workhouse Infirmary Association, or for other Poor-law re formers, to bolster up what is faulty in the new measure by admitting its expediency. Their func tion is to press for the amendment of the Bill in eommittue, until the proper treatment of the sick poor is assured by an extension of the common fund principle, and by a system of management which shall be directly responsible to the Poor-law Board and to Parliament. Self-governing bodies, leavened by amateur nominees, will leave us exposed to a repetition of the old evils, the old squabbling, the old and terrible gap between theory and practice. To illustrate the effect of classification as it will continue under Mr. HARDY'S Bill, we may quote the case of an old female pauper who is at this moment bed-ridden in a London workhouse. She has been a communicant fur years, and iS devout, respectable, and orderly. Suftering from a bad leg, she has been placed, according to regulations, in the " foul case ward," and is in constant proxi mity to and daily and nightly association with the lowest prostitutes, and exposed to their oaths and bad language in consequence. It is understood that Lord Gitosveson has undertaken, on behalf of the Workhouse Infirmary Association, to press for an increased controlling staff, and fir the placing the new buildings and syphilitic and cancer cases upon the common fund ; but the public may rest satisfied that until all paupers who are really sick, decrepid, or infirm, are placed under properly responsible management, it will be periodically startled by a recurrence of the shock ing scandals which Mr. HANDY'S Poor Law Bill is brought in to prevent. the "oppressed nationalities" in the Levant. An halo. Greek legion, ovesieging of font companies, and (tom. manded by Garibalain officers, is already mustering on the Thessilian frontier. Something like fate teams to impel Garibaldi to this desperate course, and. his Eastern scheme so visibly engrosses his atten tion that he professes himself willing to leave erect the Roman question to the solution of "peaceful means." Should the Turk escape his enemies, who is to save him from his friends ? Their advice is to give in to all demands, to fall back at all poinsti, to acknowledge defeat before battle. That the Turk will die hard no man in Europe can doubt, and it is precisely the stubbornness and tenacity of the Ottoman race which precludes every possibility of a " little sou" in the East, and gives so ominous an impor tance to the Oriental question. The Deily Nettrs judges from a number of indications that France is at present undergoing a revulsion from the confident self-complacency which possessed it a few years hence. An immense undeceiving is going on which has been waited and watched for by the few who obstinately prefer the modest virtues of free insti tutions to the magnificent achievements of personal government. The Emperor has entered upon an uncom fortable phase of his varied experience, and France has discovered, at the cost of thousands of lives and mil lions of treasure, what it is to be at the discretion of one man's, perhaps of one woman's, caprices. Frenchmen find that the Second Empire is not the greatest military power in Europe, while in all that constitutes the moral life of a free people, they are immeasurably below even the smallest of their neighbours. the !Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH G. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday afternoon in a carriage and four, at tended by the Duchess of Rozburghe. l'rince Leopold also drove out. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, MARCH Her Majesty left Windsor Castle at half-past 3 o'clock this afternoon for London, accompanied by Princess Chris tian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, and Prince lfenry of Prussia, and attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lady Susan Melville, Lady Caroline Bar rington, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Florence Seymour, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel lion. A. Hanlinge, Mr. Legg, Captain Von Schroetter, and Mr. Sahl. The royal party left Windsor by a special train of the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, and escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars, drove from Paddington to Marlborough House, and visited the Prince and Princess of Wales. Her 3lajesty Princes Louise :Aerates& drove to Buckingham Palace, attended by the Ducheu of Rox burghe, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge. The lion. Carolina Cavendish Las aucceeded the lion. Flora Macdonald as blaid of Honour in Waiting. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Louise, visited the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday afternoon. Mr. Dickinson, of New Bond-street, had the honour to submit yesterday to the Prince of Wales the enamel of the Queen, which has been just completed by Mr. Tilt. A Cabinet Council was held esterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, Lord Stanley, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord J. Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. At the Privy Council•office yesterday the kir! of Coins borough took the oath as Lord Lieutenant of the county of Rutland. in the presence of a committee of the lonls of the council, consisting of the Lord l'resident, the Lord Steward!, and the Right Hon. H. Corry. A deputation from the County Court Registrars' Associa tion, consisting of Mr. Anson (Birkenhead), Mr. Barnes (Colchester), and Mr. Howard (Portsmouth), had an in terview with the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcutt., at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on the subject of the Admiralty Jurisdiction mu. THE SERIOUS FENIAN RISING IN IRELAND. (FROM OUR ow 001111160NDINT.) WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Last night a regular attempt at insurrection was made by the Fenian, which called for the imme diate action of the military under Lord Stnithnairn. It appears that a gathering of men of the lower orders began to take place about seven o'clock last evening about the Crumlin Round Tower and Itath mines roads, leading to Tallaght. Information was sent by the police to Portobello Barracks, and a troop of the Scots Greys and a detachment of the 92nd Highlanders were immediately sent out against them. Inspector Skelly, in command at Kilmainham, sent to the Royal Barracks, from which the 9th Lancers and the 52nd Regiment were despatched. The police arrested a number of stragglers, while a larger force under Inspector Skelly and Captain Chadwick arrested 25 others. At half-past 9 o'clock about 500 men were seen at Temple-road, near the Palmerstown-fields. The cap ture of some of them was made, and several hundred others furtively retraced their steps towards the city. Some of those taken unawares had loaded re volvers, daggers, and rough dirks made of common sheet steel, stamped withthe name of a firm in Dub lin. On some were found American officers' swords, while others were armed with shoemakers' knives. Near the police barracks at Kilmainham the police seized a butcher's cart freighted with daggers and knives, and in the bottom of which five or six persons were secreted, and were arrested. On one was found a green flag, with a harp in the centre. Lord Strathnairn and the military under his command have been out all night in pursuit of the insurgents, and have captured many prisoners. The insurgent rabble have gone off towards the Wicklow mountains, pursued by the military. Between ono and two o'clock this morning a body of armed Fenians made their appearance before the police barrack at Stepside. They chal lenged the police to surrender, which they refused to do. They thereupon fired into the barrack and broke the windows, and also applied fired straw to one of the lower windows. The police, finding that they could not defend themselves against the superior numbers of their assailants, surrendered. The Fenians took possession of their firearms and marched the police prisoners towards the Scalp. The insurgents were about to turn towards Bray, when they heard that preparations had been made to receive them there ; whereupon they proceeded to Glencullen and attacked the police barrack there, firing at the police. The police returned their fire, and defended themselves for some time. Finding that they could not defend themselves, the Fenians took possession of their anus and ac coutrements and marched them away. On the road it was proposed to shoot the prisoners. A ser geant of police said it was not cus tomary to shoot prisoners who had surrendered. Sonic of the fellows said " Yes " to this, and eventually they let the police go ; and those belonging to Stepside returned to their barracks this morning about ten o'clock. In the course of their march the insurrectionary rabble came to Golden Ball, where they took a large quantity of bread from a bakery. At Tallaght, about seven miles from Dublin, one thousand Fenians were encountered last night by a small body of police, under Sub-Inspector Burke. The Fenians answered the challenge to sur render with a volley of about eighty shots, but the police had gone down on their knees ready to re turn the fire, and did so. The tire of the Fenians passed over theirheads, but the constabulary bullets took effect on several, and the remainder ran away as hard as they ctfuld, throwing away their anus. The police were not numerous enough to pursue, but in the course of the night and morning they captured over seventy prisoners. One elderly man, named Donoghue, a solicitor's clerk, was struck under the left shoulder, and died this morn ing ; another, a young man, named Byrne, was shot in the log, but not dangerously. A man who attempted to cut down a policeman with his sword was stabbed in the abdomen, dangerously, with a sword bayonet. To-day a man named Nowlan, a bootmaker, of Ross-lane, was found lying in a ditch, where he had crawled, having two bullet wounds in the leg. It is believed that all the bullets of the con stabulary took effect, as they fired low into a thick crowd. The military did not arrive till early this ril ing, when very few were visible. More than 200 persons who were taken in arms were arrested in Tallaght, and are now in Mountjoy, Richmond, and Kilmainham prisons. There was a riot in Drogheda to-day. The Fenian fired on the police, who returned the tire, and arrested 40 persons. All is now quiet at Drogheda. LIMERICK, WZDNICSDAY, 1.30 p.m. The city is tranquil up to the present, but much excitement prevails. Fighting is going on at Kul mallock, where the police barrack has been attacked, and the manager of the Union Bank shot. While public attention was attracted elsewhere, • gunsmith's shop was entered, and 14 stand of anus were carried off. The police station at Ardagh, in the west of this county, was attacked last night, and a surrender was demanded, which being refused, an entrance was attempted. The police opened tire upon the assailants, and repulsed them with some loss. Reports from Clam announce that the coastguard station at Kilbaha, near Kilrush, was attacked last night, and the arms taken. One man was wounded. The insurgent party marched to Kilrush. A report from Tipperary states that a skirmish occurred at a place called Crokehill last night, and Ir.o armed Fenian passed Orman police station. Eleven pikes were captured, and one man was taken prisoner. Mr. Massey, J.P., of Kingswell-house, was taken out of his residenceby therebels, but allowed to return again unmolested. The rails were lifted last night near Knocklong, and again near Thurles, on the Great Southern and Western Railway. The up night mail train was thrown off the line at both places. The mails and passengers, however, reached Dublin at ten a.m. No one was hurt. DROGHEDA, TrEAt, %v. Early this morning about 1,000 Fenians &swim_ bled and took possession of the market-house, and fired on the police, who returned the fire, wound ing several, and causing them to retreat in confu sion. The insurgents aro said to have been headed by an American colonel. Upwards of 40 prisoners are taken and a large quantity of ammunition and Greek fire. Immense excitement prevailed. Troops have since arrived, and all is now quiet. The telegraph wires were cut northwards, but have been repaired. DUBLIN, WISLISESDAY No further disturbance has taken place in the county of Dublin, and all is quiet in the city. It appears that the attack on the police barrack at Kilmallock lasted several hours, terminating in the retreat of the insurgents, who left three of their body shot dead, several wounded, and a number of prisoners. One policeman only was wounded ; amongst the Fenian killed was a Dr. Cleary. The manager of the Union Bank is said to be dead. It is reported that houses have been sacked in Tipperary. A magistrate of Tipperary was attacked on Tuesday night on the road ; but he tired at and wounded his assailant. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE FENIAN INSURRECTION. The Fenian outbreak ill Ireland is treated of by each of our contemporaries to-day. By none of them is any doubt expressed of the complete ability of the com mander-in-chief to suppress it wherever it shows itself. It would be wrong, however, remarks the Fiona, to disregard its sinister features. The movement has evidently been con certed, and in the south-west, where the Fenian conspiracy has grown up, there is a considerable amount of disaffec tion. The social calamities which will be entailed upon Ireland are the most serious consideration. It can hardly be otherwise than that the constant fear of disturbance and outrage, the discouragement to industry and to the introduction of capital, and the stimulus to absenteeism must deeply affect the prosperity of the country. For this reason, if for no other, it is to be hoped that the sup presaion of the present disturbances will not only be speedy and complete, but that such condign punishment may be inflicted on the leaders as to convince even the most ignorant that rebellion Is not the safe and pleasant vocation it has long been conaidred in Ireland. Though the most important that has yet occurred, the movement, the Daily News says, in a military point of view is altogether contemptible. The simultaneousness shows • considerable powerof organisation, but the rest of the evi dence indicates how slender are the resources which the Fe nian' wield. Their aimless proceedings show that Fenian. ism is a curse to Ireland, by the general sense of insecurity which it diffuses. It is now the duty of the executive to restore to Ireland by the sharpest, must rapid, and meet effectual means, that tranquillity without which the operations of industry and the intercourse of society are alike impossible. Rebels engaged in resistance to actual authority or taken with arms in their hands must be dealt with as the military exigencies of the moment may dictate. For others the slower but not necessarily tenderer mer cies of the l►w will remain. When the ditty of the execu tive is done, the evil social arrangements which afford knaves their opportunity must be redressed, unless the imperial parliament is content to be unconsciously the ac complier of the Fenian senate. The Herald also protests against any more " sentimen talism or indecision" in the treatment of the prisoners. The time for forbearance, it says, is last, and "humanitarians" and Jamaica committees will do well to stand out of the way. "The kid-glove and rosewater interest must rest in abeyance for a while." The Trkgropk thinks that in mercy to the rebels in heart who have rot yet committed themselves, and who are too numerous to be hanged, even if blood-thirstiness were our beat policy, the goyim nment cannot be too sudden or too energetic in its blows at every overt act of rebellion. While deeply deploring the event, the Star feels at the same time a certain consolation in the thought that so pal pable and undisguised a peril as that which now agitates Ireland will do something to convince our conservative go verning classes of the necessity that some attempt shall be made to content the Irish masses and estrange them from rebellious temptation. THE. GOVERNMENT AND REFORM. The Times returns to the recent ministerial explanations to again condemn, in the severest language, the perilous levity by which the object of carrying a permanent reform bill was made subordinate to that of preserving har mony in the ministerial counsels. Even as to the fu ture, Lord Derby's language is such as to increase the miagivinvi suggested by his premium' vacillation. The terms he uses seem to imply the idea of a provisional compromise, to be effected, as it were, behind the back of the country, by mutual arrangement, in the House of Commons, and he explicitly declares that in his opinion a reform parliament will neither be more representative nor more successful in legislation. If a proposed reform bill would make very little difference the demand for it ought never to have been encouraged. It is the reasonable pro spect that a broader and deeper system of representation would help to impart unity and vigour to our national life that makes the demand for it justifiable. The Standard entreats Mr. Glacistone's followers se riously to consider their position. If they reject now the compensation which accompanies the government scheme they reject it for ever ; and household suffrage, when it does come in, will mean the absolute rule of the working classes. Does the liberal party agree with Mr. Gladstone in abjuring not only the plural but also the cumulative vote ; that is, in permitting a majority of artisan voters not only to share but to monopolise the representation of the great centres of commerce and manufactures? The Star strongly condemns the new aceoinpaniments which are to be found in the government bill. The English people are to be invited to create a new aris tocracy possessing two votes or three votes, so that one of the persons who, in the eye of the law as settled for ages, belongs simply to the estate of the co. 1111 l ons, entitled to unite with his neighbours in sending a representative to the house dedicated to the people, shall have double or triple the political weight which his equally worthy but less wealthy neighbour would possess. If the system be adopted of giving plurality of votes, not to special classes, but to special localities, the effect would be still more offensive. If any measure should he passed for the purpose of placing the unpopular candidate at the beta of the poll, for that is really what the representation of minorities amounts to, it is easy to see that elections would bring the community to the verge of civil war. If the ministers persist in attaching any plurality dodges to the concession of household suffrage, it would be better for them if they had quietly slipped out of office with their three recalci trant colleagues. FOREIGN AFFATRY. The spring, observes the Times, comes early on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean ; but it will this year scarcely respond to the impatience with which it is awaited. Troubles in the tut are confidently expected to break out with the first budding of the new leaves, and, whatever may be the issue, it is but too probable that the Ottoman empire may have to prepare for a hard trial. Were General Garibaldi's present electioneering excursion to give the upper hand to the party of action, the Italian Kingdom would soon be committed to the chance of a philhellenic crusade, and if more moderate councils prevail, nothing would be more likely than that the hero of Caprera, with many of his red-abirted be lievers, would undertake a private venture in behalf of HER MAJESTY'S COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Her Majesty the Queen held a Court to-day at Buckingham Palace, the reception-rooms of which have been fitted up with great magnificence. When the courts were announced sonic weeks since an immense number of applications for the honour of attending them were sent in, and the selections hail to be made, doubtless to the disappointment of vast numbers who were anxious to pay their respects to the Queen. It was decided that the number of ladies and gentlemen attending each court should be limited to 260, and that number was consequently not exceeded to-day. This num ber included the holies and gentlemen presented to her Majesty for the first tune, the number being not more than 100. With regard to these courts the regulation is dispensed with that the lady or gentleman must attend the court at which they propose to make presentations to her Majesty. The Earl of Bradford, the Lord Chamberlain, mused the state apartments to be opened for the reception of company an hour before the court. It is announcer) that a court will he held on Thursday the 14th of March, Satur. day the 23rd of March, and Tuesday the 2nd of April. A court will also be held on one day in the month of June, to be hereafter specilioL Her Majesty the Queen has appointed half-past 12 o'clock on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, to receive the address of congratulation of the corporation of the City of London on the safe delivery of her Royal High ness the Princess of Wales, and the birth of a princess. Thu Earl of Zetland arrived at his residence in Arlington•street, on Monday, from Asko Hall, Yorkshire. Tho Countess of Mahneslmiry, according to the sooeunte received from Heron Court less evening, con• tinues extremely ill. lord Stanley of Alderley will have receptions on the 20th and 27th inst. at the family mansion in Dover street. The Bishop of St. David's has left Maiiriay's Hotel for Abergwili Palace, Carmarthen. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bniwer Lytton have arrived at the Alexandre Hotel, Hydelm:lc-corner, from Lisbon. Mr. Herbert, M.P., and the Hon. Mrs. Herbert have arrived in Eccleaton-aquare, for the seamen, from llockrosa Abbey, Killarney, It was announced at the meeting of the Liver pool Town Council yesterday, that the Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., had offered to lend on trust to the Liverpool corporation, for five or seven years, his collection of ceramic ware, now in the Kensington Museum. The collection will be placed in the Liverpool Museum. We read in the Dublin papers :—" Their Excel lencies the Lord Lieutenant and the DLuchioness of Aber. corn will give a full-dress ball at the Castle on Monday evening, March 18. The ladies to wear feathers and lap pets—no trains. The Knights of St. Patrick to wear their ribbons and stars." A third volumo of " Dissertations and Dis cussions," by Mr. John Stuart W.ll, M.l'. for West minster, is nearly ready for publication, by Messrs. Longman. The volume will comprise the following essays:—Thoughts on parliamentary r e f orm ; R ecen t Writers on Reform; -Psych o l og y ; A F ew W or d s on Non-Intervention; The Contest in America; Austin on Jurisprudence ; Plato. i A volume of Essays by Archbishop Manning, to be entitled " England and Christendom," snd preceded by a general preface " On the Tendencies of Religion in England and the Catholic Practice of Prayer for the ' Restoration of Christian Nations to the Unity of the Church," is nearly ready for publication ; and a second series of " Essays on Religion and Literature," edited by the Archbishop, is in preparation. The list of these essays is as follows:-1. The Opening Die. course for the Session 1866-7, Archbishop Manning, 2. The Relation of Intellectual Power to Man's True Per fection, W. G. Ward, Ph.D. 3. The Mission and Pros. poets of the Catholic Church in England, F. Oakeley, M.A. 4. Christianity in relation to Civil Society, E. Lucas. 5. The Philosophy of Christianity, Albany J. Christie, M.A. 6. The more Remote Preparatory Causes of the English Reformation, H. W. Wilberforce, M.A. 7. The Inspiration of Holy S,ripture, Archbishop Man ning. R. Church and State, Edmund Sheridan Purcell. V. Certain Sacrificial Words used by St. Paul, Monsignor Patterson, ALL LATkST Ir 4 TELLIGENCE. FRANCE. TRIAL OF M. K. DE GIRARDIN. THE SENTENCE.-(THIS DAY.) In our front page will be found an interesting narrative, by our Paris correspondent, of the pro ceedings in the trial of M. de Girardin for a political libel. We learn by a telegram sent us this afternoon by our correspondent, that judgment was delivered to-day, M. Girardin being sentenced to pay a fine of 5,000 francs, without imprisonment. The printer, M. Serriere, was sentenced to pay a fine of 100 francs. According to the Ind!petulance Bel9e, on the evening the incriminated article appeared, the Emperor sent for MM. Rouher, Baroche, and Lavalette. The former, who had not yet seen the article, was requested to read it aloud. The Em peror appeared greatly excited and agitated. It appeared from the language used that he began to regret the liberal course on which he had entered, and it was feared that he would withdraw the bills relating to the press and the right of meet ing. The conversation which subsequently took place between him and his advisers had the effect of making the Emperor more tranquil. He received with favour the remark of M. Rouher, which was enforced by his two colleagues, that a retreat before an isolated fact—however grave that fact might be—would produce a bad impression on the country. It was simply decided that the article in La Liberti should be brought under the notice of a court of law. When M. de Girardin was on Saturday brought before M. de Gonet, the juge (liastrac tian, it was expected at the Tuileries that he would have offered such explanations as would have made it unnecessary to proceed with the matter any fur ther, and the Emperor is reported to have said to Prince Napoleon, " I do not want to make a victim of M. de Girardin." But when he found that M. de Girardin offered no explanation, he gave way to his passion, and directed the prosecution to continue. THE EASTERN QUESTION. The Jultriutl de St. Petersbuttry, referring to a cir cular in which the Ottoman government claims the same right of dealing with Candia that Russia has exercised towards Poland, says : We need not declare that we do not admit the least analogy between the Christian movement in the East and the insurrection in Poland. The complaints of the Poles were the mere pretexts of revolutionists. Those of the Christians in the East are powerful realities admitted byall and by Turkey herself in 1856. But we shall say no more on this comparison which, however ill-founded, may be used to the disadvantage of Russia by her enemies, although it can in no way be favourable to the Porte. As there are unjust dominations, there are justifiable insurrections. After having trampled under foot all her engagements in favour of the Christians, brutal force, it appears, is now the only instrument which Turkey is determined to em ploy in keeping her Christian subjects in the miserable condition out of which she had promised to raise them. May the responsibility for the blood which will be shed fall upon those whose oppression shall have caused horrible massacres. God will pro tect the just cause and give his all-powerful aid to those who in their misery raise their supplicating hands to him, and adjure him nut to allow their martyr dom to be prolonged under the oppression of a race who will not treat as brethren the faithful followers of Jesus Christ. We hope, for the honour of the Ottoman govern. meat, that the circular is apocryphal, but if it he genuine it is impossible to foresee the extent of the immediate evils it may produce. The blood of Christians may be shed in abundance, but that of the Mussulmans will not flow less abundantly. If it is to come to an exterminating struggle, we must despair of the energy of the forces of modern civilisation, if the consolidation of the Ottoman power come out of the desperate venture which it will have hazarded in the barbarian madness of its fanatical intoxication. It is stated in the foreign journals that the Russian troops in Poland have been ordered to call in their men on furlough by the Ist of April. It is expected that a southward movement of the force will take place about that time. (uuTaa•s irriaitsms4 AUSTRIA. VIENNA, MARCH 7. Count Taafe will assume the portfolio of Minister of the Interior to-morrow. The Emperor has sanctioned the proposal for a second Austrian naval expedition to the East for scientific purposes. RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. ST. PETERBBI7RO, MAncit 7. Russia has declined to adhere to an international monetary treaty. The Austrian government has declared that it will take the subject into consideration. TURKEY. MARSEILLES, DlARcit 7. Advice, received here from Constantinople assert that the Porte has formally agreed to the concessions to Servia and that certain fresh con cessions will also be made to Egypt. A rumour had reached Constantinople of a san guinary engagement between the Turkish troops and the insurgents in Thessaly. The latter had entrenched themselves on the plain of Orta, where they repulsed the Turks, who lost 300 men. SPAIN. MADRID, MARcii 6, Evrcum. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has addressed a circular to the Spanish representatives abroad, complaining of the calumnious attacks of foreign journals upon Spanish institutions. The minister says that Spain is ton noble to reply to such attacks, and will not give importance to their authors by prosecuting them before the courts of law. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SUEZ, MARCH 4. The 21 - te,itt arrived at 1 p.m. to-day. AMERICA. (DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, M.utcH 5. 5 P.M. Gold, 1361. Sterling exchange on London, 108. Five-Twenty United States Bonds, 1091 ; Illinois, 116 ; Erie, Cotton : Middling Upland, 32c. Stocks depressed. The I' remdentlatt of Vienna relates a melancholy occurrence at Weeely, near Pardubitz, in Bohemia. The lighted end of a cigar thrown on to the ground in a dancing saloon set on fire the dresses of three young women, one of whom has since died of the injuries received, and the others are lying in a dangerous state. The Portuguese government has proposed the abolition of the penalty of death for a commutation into that of hard labour for life. The Council of State has signified its approval of the bill granting to M. le Lemartine a sum of 400,000 francs as a national recompense. The report was drawn up by M. l'liospital. The Independence, remarking on the proposed measure, says :—" The sum is either too much or too little ; too much if the intention is to pay the debts incurred by the prodigality of the poet ; and too little if a gift is made, in the way of a national re compense, to the ea-member of the provisional govern ment." A police barrack at Dromore has been burned. Groups of young men left Cork last night and met in a suburb of the city, marching northwards, and tearing up the rails of the Great Southern Rail way, at ltathduff, on their way. This party was supposed to be marching on the Mallow junction. At two o'clock this morning insurgents attacked the police barracks at Middleton, county Cork, and were repulsed. They then proceeded to Castlemartyr, and on their way met !four policemen. They shot a constable dead and wounded another severely in the knee; the other two were compelled to accompany the insurgents, but they ultimately escaped. On reaching Castlemartyr the rebels attacked the police in their barracks, and were repulsed, leaving their leader dead on the They then marched towards Mallow, burning several farm homesteads on their way. A police-station at Burnfoot, between Blarney and Mallow, was sacked and burnt. One hundred and fifty young men have clibap peered from drapers' shops in Dublin. LATEST PARTICULARS. The Dublin &citing Mail of last night believes that the manager of the Union Bank at K ilmal lock, who was wounded in the neck by the Fenians, isnot dead. The insurgents did not succeed in carrying off the moneys of the bank, which are safe. With regard to the future disposal of the 208 prisoners taken yesterday near Dublin, the officer in command of the military detachment having made an information that ho found the prisoners in armed insurrection against her Majesty's go vernment, Colonel Lake, C. 8., in his capacity of magistrate, formally remanded them on a charge of high treason. It is stated to be the intention of the govern ment to bring General Massey to trial for high treason with as little delay as possible. It is also stated that he formerly held a commission as lieutenant in her Majesty's service. In consequence of the Fenian outbreak, the armour-plated screw steamship Caledonia, 30, Captain the Hon. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flag of Admiral Yelverton, is under orders to leave Ha moaze this afternoon for the Sound, where she will embark detachments of Royal Marines for convey ance to Ireland. The gunboats Eaniest, Hind, and Rainbow will probably follow. THE LATE ARTEMUS WARD. We learn front our Southampton correspondent that the remains of Artemus Ward will be conveyed to London this evening preparatory to • temporary interment in Kemal-green Cemetery, in which place a monument will be erected to his memory. l'ltimatcly his remains will be conveyed to the United States. REPORTED DEATH OF DR. LIVINGSTONE. The araistant secretary of the Royal (teo , graphical Society ILA received the following letter limo Dr. Kirk, the former companion of Dr. Livingstone, and now vice- consul at Zanzibar: "Zanzibar, Dec. 26, 11466. " My dear Bates,—l have written fully to Sir Ro derick three weeks ago, via the Cape of Good Hope and St. Helena, again via Mauritius and Suez, with all inform►tion we yet have got regarding poor Livingstone. As I am going to Kilwa and Blikindany for a few days to see if anything is there known of the sad story, and to seek for any letters which may have been sent by Dr. Livingstone before crossing Lake Nyassa, I write a note to you that may go by any ship passing here while I am a bsent. Oa the sth of December nine Johanna men of the party which accompanied Dr. Livingstone came to Zanzibar, reporting that on the we'd of Nyasa% some time between the end of July and September. they were suddenly attacked by a band of Mazite, and that Dr. Livingstone, with half his party, were mur dered. Those who returned escaped, as they say. through being behind and unseen, and they all depose to having helped to bury the dead body of their leader the seine evening. Although in the details and in other things the accounts of the various men ditfer,they all agree that they saw the body, and that it land one wound. that of an axe on the back of the neck. One man saw the fatal blow given. The attack was sudden, anal Dr. Living. stone had time to overpower those who faced him, and was struggling to re-load when cut down from behind. I fear the story is true, and that we shall never know more of its details. Full statements have gone home, but this may mach Men by an American vessel during any ab sence. You will see, it this arrives firm, that we have sad news for the society on the way.—l remain, yours, "J. Kim," The Blazite are a branch of the Catf cc race who were de• scribed by Dr. Livingstone in his last boot. of travels. The nine Johanna men who escaped, and ue who,e deuce alone we at present have to rely, are natl.:3 of the Comoro Islands. THE BISHOP AND CLERGYMEN OF MANCHESTER ON RimiLls.ll. At a meeting of the clergy of the ancient parish of Manchester, held in the Mayor'■ Parlour, January 7, a memorial to the Toni Bishop of the 4liocr,e against the practice of excessive ritualism leas unanimously iiilopteil, and its completion anul presentation were entrustol to a commitke. The bishops reply is now puimlishcd. It follows " MauMeth Hall, Manchester, Fel, 2::. 1 ,4 ;7. " Reverend and dear brethren—l must a p o lii4ise fur the delay which has taken place in acknowledging your memo rial. My own health and my engagements plead the excuse. I was also desirous to .iseertaiii the espression of opinion which I had reason to sums.... might lie made by the bishops in convocation in the province of I 'anterhury. With that opinion. " that no altenition (non the long sanctioned and usual ritual ought to In made in our churches until the sanction of the bidiop of tho diocese has been obtained tlieryinitiC I heartily and entirely concur. But I consider the bishop of the diocese as under the obligation, in all cases, to grant the utmost liberty of interpretation which lie can conscientiously allow, and not to substitute his own individual tastes or predilections as an arbitrary rule of right. The statement of your feelings as regards the ritualistic developments which have, so unhappily, been manifested in sem° portions of our church calls for an iissurance of my full concurrence and sympathy in the alarm and pain w ith which you have witnessed a revisal of ss alike alien to what we believe to be the Leaelling of oar church and its sole rule of faith I lily ripture. I acknowledge with deep gratitude to I:A that little of this serious error hit, been sunered to appear in this lio cese. A revival of antiquuteil and 1. ing•ilisti -is I eel eiiii adds, more closely verging on those practices tending to mate rialise the blessed sacraments. against which our ancestors so firmly and sucoesafully protested at the Reformation, is every way to be deprecated. Faith is by tl,••u rind , led less pure and genuine, epirittial 4 1.iilerl into material, and the pure aspinitious, whirl, shooed ascend to God alone, lowered to the level of the thing , of earth. The difference is doubtless a wide riiii• ls•tivis n the omission of things the disvaitinuance of alien has boon tacitly permitted by long usage. and the intiodoetion er revival of novelties savouring of anti ,retest:, rividencies. But a strict and literal observance of the roll ech o au f•ar ae practicable, in undoubtedly to he i.ll in pre ference to the indulgence of private tastes or iiidgments as to the expediency of alterations or a giving way to disused and obsolete practices calculated to impair thi• single purity purity of the established formularies of catholic s..riptiiral worship. In the full trust that Alioight:. God sill maintain this truth, and the fervent prayer that we ?owl be guided and strengthened in our united ...leas. , to vindicate soil diffuse it. I sin, meet end awl .r brethren, your faithful friend and brother a. r. NA?. 111:-TLIC " To the Itevesesal Canon E. Birch, and others." • i ,