The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-20 00:00:00

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TIT la EVININfi, TOP, }LIM. 51t...r4 nolda. Cranford, and Mr. Lane et Wad:mei Edwin and Sfacartliy. A Iter wholl TIIP: W.IrEII.IIAN. Mina Esther Jacobs.—To con. dude wit!, lIIE 1..V41 LINK OF LOVE. Masa S. Mlles. ffloll WATER AT LONDON BRIM& TRM DAY 2 / 1 . 2R. TO-Moßßow—lforning, 211. I.rn Afternumy 30. 2m. LONDON, IVt'UXE.'DAY, MARCH 20. Me. P. A. Tavern; undertook a ;painful but necessary task yesterday evening, in bringing under the notice of the House of Commons, in an dole :eel temperate statement, the recent elevation of Mr. CH RCH WA RD, of Dover, to the Commission of the Peace. That gentleman has achieved an unfortunate degree ppf notoriety. He has occupied much of the public time and atten tion. His conduct has been on two separateoccasions the subject of Parliamentary inquiry and Parlia• mentary condemnation. In 1853 a select committee of the House of Commons decided that he had been guilty of bribery at the election for Ply mouth in the previous year, by precuring offices, in return for their pledged votes, for the electors of that borough, or for persons in whom they were interested. We are sorry to find that Mr. WA L POLE o n Friday palliates' this conduct. He drew a distinction between bribery by money and bribery by pa trnage. If tho magnitude of the offence is dependent in any degree upon the value of the illegal considerations offered, we agree with Mr. TAYLOR in thinking that Mr. WALPOLE'S casuistry inverts the relative guilt of the two kinds of corruption which he compares. A provision for life is a larger and more seductive bribe than a provision for a few days, or weeks, or months, in the shape of a 51., or 101., or 1001. note. If the consequences of conduct affect its moral quality, Mr. WaLeotz's judgment is again at fault. To traffic in Government offices, and to confer them upon men certainly corrupt and pos sibly incapable, is to degrade the character and to detract from the efficiency of the public service. The good people of Plymouth may not have been aware, as the Committee of 1853 charitably assumed, that to bribe by the promise of place is illegal ; but a practised eloctioneerer like Mr. CHI7RCH N . ARD cannot have shared their error ; and his offence is not lessened by the plea that he imposed upon an ignorance in which he did not participate. Mr. CH ERCHWARD'N Plymouth exploits would probably have been forgotten long since, if the memory of them had not been revived a few years later by his appear ance at Dover in a yet more equivocal character. In 1859 a Select Committee of the House of Commons, after patient inquiry, adopted a Re port in which they recommended Parliament to annul a contract into which Mr. Cueitenwaan had entered with the Government, on the ground that ho had obtained it by the employment of "corrupt expedients." The Committee delibe rately refused, by a majority of eight to six, to substitute the milder phrase, "undue in " fluences," and the condemnatory paragraph was carried, in all its uncompromising severity, bya ma jority of nine to four. In the following year, Cap tain LEICESTER VERNON, then member for Dover, moved a resolution in the House of Commons designed to reverse the decision of the Committee, but that decision, after a long debate, was sus tained and reaffirmed by 162 votes against 117. Mr. WALPOLE explained that the LORD CH•N -czcLoß. was ignorant of these facts in appointing Mr. CHURCH WARD to the magistracy. Forgetful ness in a busy lean is natural ; still, considering the noise which the CHERCHWARD scandal made at the time—considering also that the Govern ment of Lord DERRY, in which Lord CHELMS FORD was then, as he is now, Lord Chan cellor, was involved in the reproach, and that one or two of his present colleagues were for a time under a cloud of suspicion, which has since been honourably dispelled, it is matter for surprise and for regret that a high official should not have a longer memory. But though the plea of ignorance may excuse the original error, it does not excuse persistence in it when the ignorance has been removed. The inaction of the Govern ment, now that it is reminded of the facts, impe ratively requires the action of Parliament ; which can only be set in motion by the course which Mr. TAYLOR has adopted. It is easily conceivable that members of an administration and of a party which Mr. CH URCHWARD has efficiently served, should be reluctant to be themselves the prime agents in proceedings which bring personal friendship and party relations into conflict with the paramount claims of public duty. They ought, therefore, to welcome the intervention of an Oppo sition member, as relieving them from a position of great pain and embarrassment. This is not, however, the course they have taken, nor the spirit in which they have acted. Major Dicasos, who is now, as Captain LEICESTER VERNON was in 1860, member for Dover, rose to vindicate the character of his influential consti tuent, in terms for which he was presently called to order and compelled to apologise. In compa ratively moderate and, as it seems, Parliamentary language, he intimated that Mr. TAYLOR had been made the tool and cat's-paw of a personal enemy of Mr. CRURCHWARD. The propriety of this lan guage in itself is more than open to question : its decency in the mouth of a gentleman who stands to Mr. CHURCHWARD in the relation which every member for Dover must occupy towards that local potentate is more than doubtful. But the accusation is absurd. Mr. Tstrioa's motion does j not rest on private information. It is based on the facts contained in the reports of two commit tees—one of them, and that the more important, solemnlyreaffinnedbythe Houseof Commons itself. Major DICKSON attempts, therefore, to go behind these decisions, and to prove that they are not warranted by the facts, but were dictated by per sonal and party animosity. To clear Mr. CHURI•II - he blackens the House of Commons and the Executive. It is just possible that the Select Committee of 1859, the House of Commons and the Government of Lord PeemEssroN, may have been mistaken ; but while the condemnation of Mr. Cif URCHWAttIi is on record, and unreversed, it must be considered valid against him. The Govern ment of the day, whatever the private opinion of its members, has no business to ignore a thrice confirmed decision ; least of all, a Govern ment which was involved, though hum cently involved, in the proceedings called in ques tion. Sir STAFFORD NORTHCOTE, who, as Secre tary of the Treasury, represented the Ministry of 18$9 in these transactions, refuses, with mistaken chivalry, to accept the discrimination of the Committee in his favour. Ho protests that, if Mr. CHI RCHWARD was guilty, he was guilty too. But, in so speaking, he probably intends to do no more than to give strong rhetorical expression to his conviction of Mr. CHERCHWARD'S inno cence. Upon this subject he is not, perhaps, the oust impartial of judges. If he considered him self to be practically labouring under the same stigma as that which has been imposed on Mr. CHURCHWARD, he would certainly hold himself disqualified for the high office which he fills, or for any post under the Crown. He has no busi ness to accept the judgment of the Committee by halves—to avail himself of his own acquittal, and to dispute Mr. Cur Romano's condemnation. The spectacle of a Loan CHANCELLOR and a Sun RETARY of STATE practically setting at nought the mire versed decision of Parliament is a scandalous one. The duty of the present Government is clear. If they think that Mr. CitracuwAan has been un justly condemned, let them institute a new in quiry. While the present decision stands, the appointment of Mr. CHI:RC/MARI, to the magis tracy is disrespectful to the House of Commons, and a slur upon the administration of justice. Mr. TAYLOR was very foolishly censured for singling out Mr. CHURCHWARD for special attack ; and for not generalizing the terms of his motion, after the manner of the amendment proposed by Mr. BENrisex. But, as Mr. GeeorroNE pointed out, the case is peculiar. Mr. CHURcHWARD has been condemned, both by an authority far higher than that of an Election Committee or Commis sion, and for an offence far graver than ordinary bribery. But, independently of this difference, Mr. TAYLOR very properly and naturally takes the occasion, as it arises, for asserting a princi ple, which, established in one case, will be a precedent for all others. It is clear, how ever, that the supporters of Mr. CHURCHWARD be lieve less in his innocence than in the veniality of the offences with which he Is charged. The un retracted action of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the palliatory language of the Home SYAMETARY, the ill-timed jocularity of the CHANCELLOR of the ExcnEeurit, and the demeanour of many members of the House, show a lamentable laxity of sentiment. Mr. CHURCHWARD, Major DICKSON said, is held in great honour at Dover ; ho is an officer of volunteers, and we know not what beside. The fact that ho is so only shows the necessity of correcting, by the action of the authorities, an uninformed and perverted state of the public conscience and feeling, with respect to some of the gravest offences against political morality that can be committed. If it is unsatis factory to find that a majority of the House of Commons has declined to accept a motion for Mr. CHURCHWARD'S removal from the com mission of peace, it is a consolatory cir cumstance that they have not ventured to do more than try and shelter him amid a mul titude of similar though minor offenders ; and that there has been a sentiment in the House strong enough to hold them as a reality to the general condemnation, which they accepted as a trick, and only for the purpose of evading a par ticular censure. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) ~~_ THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1867. tained, and that when they are abandinted the bill will, in all probability, go with them, and the ministry with the bill. The whole question will then have to be reopened again under wiser management, and with the advantage of past experience. The flovad says the conservatives have given up some thing, but they may even give up more. They have never regarded the dual vote as a mere arithmetical equipoise to the enfranchisement of numbers, and the Herald does not believe that a revolution will follow even though we ad mitted all the rated householders to the franchise. The conservatives have no more reason to be afraid of them than their opponents, and if it is the desire of the country that household suffrage shall be the basis of the new Reform Bill, without any direct increase of the influence of property, the ministry are bound to yield to this extent, even although their submission may cost theist a few of their supporters. The Standard counsels liberal members to support the second reading, and in committee improve the rate paying clauses, and if they like reject the dual vote. Without the clause of the double vote, the bill is still the hest yet offered or likely to be offered. The Standard dwells a great deal on what it considers the intemperance and bitter partisanship of Mr. Gladstone. The Telegraph says the liberal party ought to meet the motion that the bill be read a second time with an em phatic negative. To the Star it seems that there are certain conditions on which, and on which alone, the liberal party may fairly allow the bill to get into committee. These conditions are, that the government abandon the dual vote, the ex clusion of compound householders, the ratepaying clause, and the doubled term of residence ; that they de clare the fancy franchises and the amount of the county qualification nut vital ; and that they either post. pone or thoroughly reconstruct their scheme of distribution. It may be that Mr. Disraeli has the agreeable surprise of some such announcement in store for the house on Monday night. .Mr. Disraeli is evidently anxious to drag the house a little further to committing itself, and the liberal members must be all the more determined to know exactly what the government really mean to do before they allow the bill to make one further step of progress. inte Court. BVCKINGHA3I PALACE, MARCH 19. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, arrived at Buckingham Edam shortly after 12 o'clock from Windsor Castle. Her Majesty travelled by special train to Paddington, and drove thence in a carriage and four, and escorted by a detachment of the 14th Hussars, to Buckingham Palace. In attendance were the Countess of Caledon, Major- General Hon. A. N. Hood, Colonel Hon. A. Hardinge, and Mr. Legg. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, an ived at the Palace from Greenwich-park. The Earl of Derby and the Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at the Palace, and had audiences of the Queen. The Queen held a council to-day at Buckingham Palace at half-past 12 o'clock, at which were present the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of Brad ford, and the Earl of Derby. Lord Robert Montagu and Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert were introduced and sworn in as members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their seats at the board accordingly. Mr. Dlinund Harrison was Clerk of the Council. Previous to the Council the Duke of Marlborough had an audience of her Majesty, and delivered up hie wand of office as Lord Steward, which her Majesty afterwards conferred upon the Earl of Tanker.ille. The Earl of Tankerville had an audience of her Majesty and delivered up his badge of office as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen•at-Arms, which her Majesty conferred upon the Marquis of Exeter. The Marini' of Exeter bad an audience of her Majesty and delivered up his wand of office as Treasurer of her Majesty's Household, which her Majesty conferred upon Colonel the Hon. Percy Herbert. The Marquis of Exeter then delivered up to her Ma jolty the insignia of the Order of the Garter worn by his father. Her Majesty afterwards entered the Audience-room, ac companied by Princess Louise. The Duke of Beaufort was then introduced by the Lord Chamberlain—Sir Charles Young (Garter King-at-Arms) being present—and her Majesty invested the Duke of Beaufort with the riband and Image of the Order a the Garter. Lord Crofton (Lord in Waiting), Lieutenant-f'.olonel W. IL F. Cavendish (Groom in Waiting), and Major-General Hon. A. N. Hood (Equerry in Waiting) were in attendance. Her Majesty left Buckingham Palace at half past four o'clock, accompanied by Princes. Louise, and visited the Queen of Denmark and the Prince and Princess of Wales at Marlborough-house. Her Majesty drove from thence to the Paddington rail way station, escorted by &detachment of the 14th Hussars. The Countess of Caledon, Major-General the Hon. A. N. Hood, and Colonel the Hon. A. Hardinge wero in attendance. Prince Leopold, attended by Mr. Legg, met her Majesty at Paddington, and travelled in the same train to Windsor. Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinatonc, left the Palace for Greenwich-park. Mr. Henry A. Isaacs (Chairman of the Coal, Corn, and Finance Committee of the Corporation of the City of Lon don), and Mr. Corrie (Remembrancer), had an interview with Lord John Manners, at the office of her Majesty's Works, Whitehall-place, yesterday. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, upon matters relating to the cattle plague. The ►ords present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond, and Lord Robert Montagu. Mr. Harrison and Dr. A. Williams attended the committer. A deputation, consisting of the Marquis of Downshire, Mr. Innes, M.P., Mr. Vance, M.P., the Right Hon. W. H. F. Cogan, M.P., Mr. Whitworth, M.P., Sir James Power, Bart., M.P., Sir Patrick O'Brien. Bart., 31.1'., Mr. M'Evoy, Major Knox, M.P., Mr. E. W. Verner, M.P., Mr. D. C. Brady, and Mr. Plunkett (secretary), had an interview with Mr. Ward Hunt, M.P., at the Treasury, Whitehall, yesterday, respecting the Newry Navigation Company. LORD CHAMBERLAIteI4 OFFICE, MARCH 18.— Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's birthday will be kept on Saturday, the 25th of May next. Her Majesty the Queen, through Sir Thomas Riddulph, K.C.8., has forwarded her usual liberal annual subscription of 501. to the National Lifeboat Institution. The Earl Grosvenor has been confined to the house during the last week by a sharp attack of influenza from which be to now recovering. Last night the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress entertained the Earl of Carnarvon and a dis tinguished company at a banquet, which was served in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House. _ _ A marriage is arranged to take place between the Duke of St. Albans and Miss Sybil Mary Grey, eldest daughter of General the Hon. Charles Grey, C.B. It is said that the wedding will take place in June. The Owl states that Mr. Spencer Walpole has been appointed inspector of Ileheries in succession to the late Mr. Ffennell. Mr. E. A. Perceval has been appointed private secretary to the Bight Hon. S. Walpole. The Duke of Buckingham has appointed Mr. H. S. Bryant, of the Privy Council Office, to be his private secretary. A mar riage is arranged between Captain Burnt, aide-decamp to Lord Strathnairn, and the Hon. Evelyn Browne, youngest d►ughter of Lord and Lady Ellin:tine. The Rev. Sir Christopher Bellew, Bart., one of the Jesuit Fathers, died on Monday evening at their house in Gardiner•street, Dublin. Tho Right Hon. Mr. Corry, First Lord of tho Admiralty, was re-elected for the county Tyrone yesterday without opposition. . . Colonel Fano, M.P. for South Hants, is in Rome. An influential meeting, convened by the com mittee formed to secure for schools and charitable insti tutions generally continued exemption from rating, was held yesterday at Willis's Rooms, to forward the objects of the committee. The Earl of Shaftesbury presided, and among the speakers were the Earl of Harrowby, Arch bishop Manning, the Hon. and Rev. Grantham Yorke, rector of Birmingham, Mr. Baines, SIP., Mr. Tite, and Mr. Barclay, M.P. Resolutions to the effect that it is impolitic and unjust to subject hospitels and dispen saries to the payment of rates, and that the recent deci sion of the courts of law rendering schools and charitable institutions generally liable to the payment of rates, is contrary to the spirit of the law, and tends to discourage educational effort, were passed. A deputation was ap pointed to wait on the Premier. Dr. Mary Walker lectured in Southampton on Monday night to an attentive and respectful audience. The marriage of the youngest son of King Victor Emmanuel, the Prince Amedeus of Savoy, with Millie. de la Cisterns, is fixed to take place on the 19th of this month. It will be celebrated with no great solemnity in the chapel of the Palids Royal. The nuptial benediction will be pronounced by Mgr. Casablanca, the new Arch bishop of Milan. King Victor Emmanuel has just con ferred upon the young „ion*, as well as her mother, the title of highness. The marriage of the Count of Flanders with the Primer of Hohenzollern is to be celebrated on the 23th of April at Berlin. The political agent at Zanzibar writes :—" I have personally made inquiries among the traders of Keelwa Koinga, and have gathered information there which tends to throw discredit on the statement of the Johanna men, who allege that they saw their leader dead. The evidence of the Nyasa& traders strengthens the sus picion that these men abandoned the traveller when he was about to traverse ► Maaite-haunted district, and for aught they know to the contrary Dr. Livingstone may yet be alive. I purpose sending details by the next mail." Count de Slunchausen, formerly minister for Hanover, finding himself hurt by certain expressions of Count de Bismarck in the German parliament, demanded an explanation, which the latter refused, averring that he had no recollection of having used any words calculated to give offence. Reference was then made to the stenogra• pbic report of the sitting, and it was admitted that the language of the first minister applied to a part of the Hanoverian press ; on which Count de Munchausen de clared himself sati+fied. A royal ordinance, published at Berlin on the 14th inst., fixes the allowance to the members of the North German Parlisunent at 15fr. per day. They are also to be paid the cost of tirst•class places in the trains to Berlin going sad returaing. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. RIOTS AT NEW YORK A telegram from New York, dated. Monday,print e d by the Tina. s, says: " Several riots have taken place, and collisi.ms between the Irish and the police have occurred. Many persons have been injured." (IMUTER . A TELe(RANI:.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, St Atli( 21). The contract for the fanning of the tobacco ~,,,, poly has been concluded for tire years. HUNGARY. PESTI!, MARCH 19, EVENING. The Deak party have agreed to accept the pro. portal made by the committee of '67 upon the future relations between Hungary and Austria, the Hun garian ministry having declared their intention of resigning unless these proposals are adopted by tho Diet. The party of the Left intend to propos e ms adjournment of the question. Yesterday and to day the Hungarian Ministers met in council, Baron Von Beust will return to-day to Vienna. The Emperor and Empress will be crowned at the same time as King and Queen of Hungary. Herr Liszt has composed the coronation mass. SERVIA. r.ELGRADE, MARCH 19. Prince Michael of Servia will set out on Monday next for Constantinople. TURKEY AND CANDIA. (via M►rseilles.) CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 11 Further Turkish reinforcements are being sent to Crete under the command of Hussein Pacha i who has received orders to strike a decisive blow at the insurgents. THE BOMBAY MAIL. MARSEILLE4. DlAncn 20. The Ripon arrived at 1 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for Londun at 11.30 a.m. BOMBAY (EXTRA) MAIL. SITU. MARCH P. The Malta, from Bombay March 6, arrived at 10 p.m. to-day (Monday). ' p THE REFORM DILL. The text of the Reform Bill, given in yesterday's Erpress, affords to our contemporaries fresh matter for comment. If it were compelled to regard the scheme in this shape as the ultimatum of the ministry the Times would despair of a settlement this year, but previous experience 'bows that the question for the rest of the week is rather whether the measure is not capable of satisfactory mani pulation. With regard to the personal payment of rates, it is s►id that the result of the ministerial proposals would be a W. rating franchise where the Small Tenements Act was adopted, and a household suffrage elsewhere. If this be true, the proper means of amending the bill would not be found in abolishing the necessity of the ratepaying qualification. Personal responsibility should still be essen. tial in the voter, and it might be secured by reducing the limit of the Small Tenements Act, and making its opera tion universal. The Times does not anticipate any serious objection to the educational franchise or in respect to that of the possession of SOL in the savings banks or the public funds, but thinks it evident after Mr. Gladstone's criticism, that the taxpaying franchise must be reconsidered, and looks upon the dual vote as certain to be abandoned. No doubt could exist upon this point after the debate on Monday, and Mr. Disraeli's reply to Mr Bright last night was sufficiently significant. As to the distribution of seats too, it is incumbent upon parliament to force a bolder policy upon the government. Of the other provisions the Times generally approves, though where so much is open to debate, it regards the breaking up of the ministry and the abandonment of the bill as a too probable event. In another article, the Times dwells in humorous lan guage on the position of the lodger in our social system, concluding that his total omission from the present omni vorous measure can only be explained by the rapidity of execution necessary under the present circumstances. We were promised principles instead of expediency, and if principle is to decide the question it must be in favour of the lodger, whatever the practical difficulties of his case. The question whether, if dual voting were given up, it would be possible to make out of the remains a measure acceptable to the country, is one, says the Daily Noes, which is not to be answered off hand. The difficulties are immense, for practically what is necessary is that the liberal opposition should reconstruct the policy of the eon. 'creative party. Only the most compliant disposition on the part of the government could make this practicable, for the alterations required are extensive, and ministers are not in a compliant mood. Some of the secondary fran chises must go the way of the dual veto. The proposal to recognise deposits in savings banks and posses sion of a small sum in the public funds as quali fications for the electoral franchise opens a prospect of the wholesale manufacture of votes from which the House of Commons must surely recoil. A lodger franchise is also absolutely requisite if the artisans of the large towns are to participate in the suffrage, and after that there would still remain the difficulty of the compound householder. There is no absolute reason why in these particulars the bill should not be amended. All depends on the disposition of the government and its fol. lowers. If they are really anxious td have the honour of settling this great question, they must make large con cessions to the emphatic and unanimously expressed I opinion of the public, and make them quickly. The Daily News thinks that the counterpoises of personal payment at rates and duality of voting cannot be main- MAGISTRATES ANT) BRIBERS. The Daily Ne ars refers to last night's debate on the Churchward case as betokening a lamentable laxity of sentiment on the subject of bribery, but it is a consnlatory circumstance that there was sufficient proper feeling in the house to hold Mr. Churchward's supporters to general condemnation, which they accepted as a trick, and only for the purpose of evading a parliamentary censure in a p►rticular case, as a reality. The Arra hi rejoices in the results of last night's debate and division, inasmuch as it concludes that the question, as far as Mr.Churchward is concerned, is "happily at an end." The Stan , lard has similar remarks, leading to the con clusion that the articles in both papers were written after the division in Mr. Churchward'a case, but before the adoption of Mr. Bentinck's amendment which included hat case. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-MARCII 19. THE CHURCHWARD CASE. Motion made, and question proposed, " That an bumble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to give directions for the removal of Mr. Churchward from the com mission of the peace for the borough of Dover :" (Mr. Taylor)—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words " removal or to the end of the question ! in order to add the words " all persona in the commissions of the peace of any county, city, or borough who have been found, either by committee. of this house or by royal Colllll2alSiollll guilty of, or privy or assenting to, corrupt practices at parliamentary elections :" (Mr. Dentinck.) Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." Tho house divided— Ayes, 14l ; noes, 161. _ . . AYES. Adair, H. E. Forster, C. lifonsell. W. Adam, W. P. Forster, W. E. Moore, C. Amberley, Visct. Yortescue, D. F. Morrison, W. Anstruther, bit B. Gavin, Major Murphy, N. D. Antrubus, E. Gibson, T. M. O'Brien, Slr I. Banies, T. Gladstone, W. E. trConor Don, The Barry, A. H. Gladstone, W. IL ISlAbogliue, The Barry, C. R. Glyn, G. G. t FLoolilen, Sir C. Bias, M. T. Goldmild, Sir F. Onslikr, G. Ricklulph.CoL °when, 0..1. O'Reilly, M. W. Bonham-Carter, J. Gray, Sir J. titway, A. J. Brand, H. Grey, Sir G. Palmer, X. Brute, Lurd C. Grove. T. F. Palmer. .oar IL Bryan, G. L. Gurney, S. Pease, J. W. Bollix, Sir E. Hadfield, G. Pelham, Lord Buxton, Sir T. Hamilton, E. W. Mm. J. Cakraft, .1. H. Hardeastle, J. A. Pollen!-Urquhart, candUsii, J. Harris, J. D. W. Cardwell, E. Harlington, Marg. of Potter, E. Carnegie, C. Htiderbin, J. Power, sir J. Cave, I'. Herbert, 11. A. Robertson, U. Cavendish, Lord G. Hodgkinson, G. Rothschild, Baron Cheetham, J. Holden, I. Rothschild, N. M.& Childers, U. C. Howard, C. W. sainuelson. B. Clay, .1. Hughes, T. lichulelleld, W. Clement, W. J. Ingham, IL Sherrill. A. C. Clire, G. Jervulse, Sir J. Moron. Sir J. Cogan, W. H. Johnstime, Sir J. Smith, J. Collier, Sir R. Kinglake, J. A. Speirs. A. A. Colville, C. X. Kingscote, Col. Stacpoole, W. Cowen, J. Kiunaird, A. F. titansfekt, J. Cowper, H. F. Wan!. A. H. Sullivan, E. Crawford, R. W. Lamont, J. Ilium, K.l. Crossley, Sir F. Lawson, J. A. Tracy. C. It. De La Poer, E. Witham, W. H. Treveiyan, G. 0. Dent, J. D. Lefevre, G. J. Villiers, l'. P. Dillwyn, L. 1.. Locke, J. %Clubman, J. Duff, X. W. Lowe, IL White. Captain Dunlop, A. C. Lusk, A. White, J. Edwards, C. Mackie, J. Whitworth, R. Erskine. Vice-Adm. Mackinnon, Captain Wilikuneon, Sir H. Evans, T. W. II 'Laren, D. Woods, H. Ewing, H. IL Ilarjorilianks, D. C. Wyvlll, M. Eykyn. It. Merry, J. IL Fawcett, H. Milbank. F. A. Young, Pilafs, .1. Mill, J. S. TZLIXREI. tit/Gerald, Lord 0. Mills, J. It. Taylor, P. A. Fitywllliani, C. W. Milton. Visct. Cranford, E. 11. Fuljambe. F. J. Moffatt. G. NOES. , Col. Goldney, U. Nam, Lord A M lr e lialal ie t Capt. Gore, J. R. Neat., C. IMRIM, W. Gore. W. R. Need, Mr J. Halley, Sir J. thirst, J. E. Neville-Greurille, R. Harnett, 11. Crud, A. Newdegate, C. N, Barrington, Via. Graves, 8. R. Newport, Visa. Barrow, W. H. (Deena, G. Noel, G. J. Ilarttelot, Col. Greene, E. North, Col. Hateson, Sir T. Grey, T. de Northeme, Sir S. Itathurst, A. A. Grilllth, C. D. trlteinie, .1. L Beach, Sir M. Gurney, It. (XNeill. E. /leach, W. W. Hamilton, Li. Claud Paget, R. If. Beemoft, 0. 8. Hamilton, I. Parker, Major Benyon, R. Steamer , Sir J. Powell, F. 8. Bernard, Col. Hartley, J. Read, C. 8. Ilingluuu, Lord Bertram, R. B. Meson, G. W. Bourne, Col. Hay, Mr J. Ridley, Sir IL Bowen, J. D. Henniker-Major, J. Robertson, P. P. Bowyer, Sir 0. Herbert, Col. Russell, sir C. Bridge., Sir B. Ileaketh, Mir T. Schreiber, C. Bromley, W. D. Hiblyani, T. B. Sclater-Booth, 0. Bruce, Sir H. Hodgson, W. N. Sole in, H. .1. Cartwright, Col. How, Lt.-Col. B elwro, C. J. Cave, 8. Idulniewiale, Viact. Severna, .1. K Chatterton, H. E. Mudd's...tam, J. W. Sheridan, H. B. Clinton. Lord A. Hunt, G. W. Simonds, W. E. Clive, Capt. limes, A. C. Smith, A. cobbold, J. C. Joiliffe. H. H. Stanhope, J. B. Cole, U. Kanlake, Mir .1. Stanley, Lord Coln, J. I. Karslake, N. K. littrling-llaxwell, Corrance, F 8.. Kavanagh, A. Sir W. Courtenas', Lord Kelk, J. Stoptoni, 8. 0. Cooper, E. H. Kendall, N. Stuart, Lt.-CoL Cut, W. T. King, .1. 0 Harlem, F. Dick, F. Knightley, Sir R. Surtees, H. E. Dickson, Major Knox, Major Taylor, CoL Disraeli. B. Lamm, Sir E. Milne, Ln! Dowdeswell, W. E. Laird, J. Tollemaehe, J. 1M Cane, C. Leader, N. P. Turner, C Dyke, W. H. Lennox, Lord G. Vance, J. Dyott, Col.' Lennox, Lord H. Vandeleur, rol. Earle, R. A. Lindsay, CtiL C. Verner, K W. Eaton, H. W. Lindsay, Col. IL Walker, Major Edwards, Sir H. MacEvoy, K. Walpole M. H. Egerton, E. C. M'Kenos, J. N. Walsh Mar J. Morton. W. Id 'Logan, P. Waterhouse, S. Vane, CoL Mainwaring, T. Whalley. G. H. Yellowes, E. Malcolm, .1. W. Whitmore. H. Fergusson, Ski. Manners, Lord J. Wise, H. C. Moyer, J. Hileheli, A. Wuudd, B. T. Forester. Oen. Montgomery, Sir G. Wyld, J. Yreahtleld, C. K. Mordauut, SD C. Wyndham, P. Gallwey, Sir W. Morgan, G. TILLI.I9, Gilpin, Col. Morgan, Major Bentlnek, G. C. Goddard, A. 1.. Mowbray, J. R. Lowther, J. The house, after the above division, adopted the follow ing resolution :—" Resolved—That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be gra ciously pleased to give directions for the removal of all persons in the commission of the peace of any county, city, or borough who have been found, either by committees of this house or by royal commissions guilty of, or privy or assenting to, corrupt practices at parliamentary elections.** In the division by which Mr. Sheridan's Fire Insurance motion was rejected by a majority of 59, the minority consisted almost exclusively of liberal members. The few exceptions included Mr. Beecroft, Mr. Albert Grant, Mr. Darby Griffith, Hon. H. Jolliffe, Sir B. Lacon, Lord G. Lennox, and one or two others. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Milner Gibson, Sir G. Grey, the Marquis of Harlington, Mr. Goachen, and a few other liberals of the late govern- ment voted with the majority, together with Mr. T. Hughes, Mr. T. Potter, Viscount Amberley, Mr. Ayrton, Sto. THE REFORM BILL IN P. The questions which Mr. Gladstone proposes to put to the government to-morrow are given by the Order book as follows : "To auk the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the conditions of voting in boroughs, so far as they are affected by the bill of the government, are to be the same for oc cupiers of the value of 10/. and upwards as for occupiers under 10/. ; or, if not, in what respects they differ ? Whether it is intended by the bill that the occupying fran chise in boroughs, which now depends upon the occupation of any house, warehouse, countinghouse, shop, or other building,' is henceforward to depend upon the occu pation or dwelling houses exclusively? Whether the total number of male occupiers stated by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer in his speech on Monday madded exclusively of the occupiers of dwelling-houses ? Whether her Majesty's government will lay upon the table their estimates of the numbers of voters to be enfran chised under the several clauses of the bill, together with the data, so far as they think fit, upon which such esti mates are framed ; anal whether an occupier claiming to be registered under clause 34, when a composition or other reduced rate on the premises has been duly paid by his landlord must, in order to be registered, pay the differ ence between such reduced rate and the rate which would have been chargeable upon him if directly rated. Notice has been given by Mr. W. M. Torrens of the following amendment, to supply the omission of a lodger franchise. At the end of Clause 3, which enfranchises all ratepayers in borceighs, irre spective of the value of their houses, to add these worts: "or who shall have occupied separately for the period aforesaid as tenant paying a rent not less in the whole than 10/. a year, any por tion of any house within the said borough. " In Lord Derby's bill of 18,50 it was proposed to enfranchise all lodgers who paid rent at Bs. a week, or 20/. a year. In Mr. Gladstone's bill of 180 G the qualifying rent was fixed at 41, a week or 10/. a year. The latter is the stun proposed to be adopted in committee by Mr. Torrens. Mr. Hussey Vivian, on the same occasion, will ask whether a forty shilling freeholder, residing on his own freehold within a borough, and paying rates, would not become a borough voter, and thereby lose his county quali fication under the proposed Reform Bill. Assuming that household suffrage is henceforth in evitable. Mr. G. Poulett Scrope, M.P., revives his propo sition to exempt the lowest rented class of houses from load taxation altogether, and to make the franchise ter minate where the payment of rates terminates. Thus, he thinks, would be eliminated from the electoral body that class of the extremely poor and uneducated which borders upon pauperism, and cm hardly be with safety admitted to an equality of political power with the educated and propertied classes. At a meeting of the Birmingham Liberal Association, held yesterday, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, in the chair, it was unanimously resolved : " That this meeting, having considered the provisions of the government reform bill, accepts with great satis faction the recognition of household suffrage as the basis for the franchise in boroughs ; but is of opinion— " Ist. That the condition which limits the right of voting in boroughs to those who pay the local rates directly would neutralise the advantages which would other wise result from the proposition. 2nd. That the introduction of dual voting is an unwise inno vation on the constitutional usages of the country, and, being calculated to make invidious distinc tions between different classes of society, would create permanent ill-feeling in the nation. 3rd. That by naming a higher qualification in the counties than was adopted by the House of Commons last session, the government have shown an inclination to oppose the just demands of the people. 4th. That the redistribution of seats proposed by the bill is totally inadequate to rectify the existing anomalies in the law, or to assimilate, in any important degree, the representation to the population, intelligecce, or wealth of the nation." A town's meeting of the inhabitants of the borough, called by the Mayor, will be held on Friday neat, in the Town-hall. FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENTS OF RAILWAYS. Mr. Edwards intends to-morrow to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer in parliament, whether his attention has been called to the serious financial embar rassments in which many of the railway companies of this country am at present involved, in consequence of the re cent decision as to the validity of debentures as a security ; whether any applications have been made to the govern ment for relief, and with what result ; and, whether ha will state to the house the nature of any such application, the extent of the relief sought, and the terms proposed by the company or companies who have applied for such relief ? - - MEETING OF THE LIBERAL PARTY. A circular has been issued by Mr. Gladstone, in viting the members of the liberal party in the House of Commons to a meeting at his house to-morrow, Thursday, at halt-peat 2 o'clock. The select committee appointed to inquire into the local government and local taxation of the metropolis, have reported the following resolution to the house:— "That, pending the general inquiry referred to this own. mittee, it is inexpedient to empower the corporation of London or any local authority within the metropolitan districts, except the Metropolitan Mani of Works, to levy a rate upon the owners of property for the purpose of making improvements in the metropolis." Mr. Ayrton has reported from the select com mittee on metropolitan local government, &c., to whom the London City Improvement Rates Bill was committed —"That they bad examined the allegations contained in the preamble of the bill, but the same had not been proved to their satisfaction." Mr. Bermford Hope will, on the second reading of the Metropolitan Improvements Bill, move that it be read a second time upon that day six months. Mr. Neste intends to move, on the second read ing of the Public Schools Bill, that it be read a second time upon that day six months. Lord Henry Lennox moves the navy estimates in committee of supply to-morrow night. On Friday Mr. O'Reilly will call attention to the circumstances under which a pension was granted to Mr. RcThert Young, " agricultural and historical poet." The aitordian of this day states that the Dean of Emly (the Very Rev. W. Alexander), is to be added to the list of candidates for the Poetry Professorship at Ox. ford. Dean Alexander obt.sined the prize for sacred verse in IMO, and was the author of the ode recited in the Shel donian Theatre, at Lord Derby's installation. THE SPECIAL COMMIK.OON FOR DUBLIN.—The date at which the Special Commission for Dublin will be opened must largely depend upon the state of the prepara tions made by the crown for the trials of the accused. At present it is improbable that any day earlier than the Rth of April will be selected.—Thildin Erenitto Mail. DEATH of Man. SAtoNorTs.—The death is an nounced this morning of Mrs. Salomon', the wife of Mr. Alderman Salmons, M.P. She was the daughter of Mr. Solomon Cohen of Grove House, Canonbury. DEATH OF MIL CHARLES HARDY.—MT. Charles Hardy, second eon of the late Mr. John Hardy, M.7'. for Bradford, and brother to Mr. John Hardy, M.P., and Mr. Gathorne Hardy. M.P., died on Saturday evening, at his residence, Chilham Castle, Kent. Mr. Hardy was the chief partner in the Low Moor Company. He was an able and active West Riding magistrate, and a gentleman of large benevolence and generous sympathies, especially as manifested amongst his poorer neighbours at Low Moor. until recently he resided at Odsal House. He was the president of the Bradford Free Church Building Society, and his name has for many years been conspicuously iden tified with every church-building effort in the district around Bradford. Indeed, independently of their share in other efforts, he and his family were no doubt the chief contributors to the building of not fewer than four churches immediately around Low Moor. Mr. Hardy was little more than 50 years of age, and leaves &large family.— Yorkshire Post. DEATH OF AN EMINENT AORICULTURIAT.-011 the 13th inst., at Landport, near Lewes, died, aged 80. Mr. John Ellman. • well-known and highly-esteemed agricul turist. Mr. =limn was the son of the introducer of the improved Southdown sheep, and was himself an authority on agricultural 'affairs. He was highly respected, and was for many years • magistrate and deputy lieutenant of the county. He was married on the 25th of February, 1811, to Catherine Springate, the third daughter of John and Mary Boys, of Betehanger, Kent, by whom he had eight children. of whom fire sons and two daughters are now living. He survived his wife but eight months.— Ilfatkislone Journal. AMERICA. BKPT, MARCH 20. Tho'f ransatlantic Company's steam-ship Pereire, which left New York on the 9th inst., arrived here this morning with 95 passengers and U 5 million franca in specie. (BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, MARCH P.P. It is expected that the President will veto the supplement to the Reconstruction Bill, which has been adopted by both Houses •.f Congress. In this event the measure is certain to be passed over the veto. NEW YORK, MARCH 19, 5 P.A. The Legislative Council • of British Columbia have passed a vote in favour of admiasion to the Colonial Confederation. Closing prices :—Gold, 134. Sterling exchange on London, 108 f. 5-20 United States Bonds, 109; 115.1 ; Erie, 59g. Cotton : Middling Up land, 32. THE WORKMEN'S STRIKE AND RIOT AT ROUBAIX. A letter from Roubaix, written on Sunday, gives the following details of the disturbances which took plate there on the previous day, and have been already alluded to by the cif miterr :—" This town was yesterday afflicted by a mast serious riot. For some time past the prin. cipel manufacturers bad resolved, as already an. nounced, on introducing into their factories (cloth) the modification of one workman managing two weaving. machines in the making of cheap goods. MM. Delattre, father and son, had taken the initiative in this measure, which is entirely to the advantage of the workman, As it increases his wages, and is indispensable to resist English competition. The step, when adopted some days back by MM. Delattre, had already produced a certain agitation amongst the men, and had been followed by a temporary strike, after which work had been resumed as before. The greater number of the menu. factures, finding the plan a good one, came to an agreement to make it general. They decide.) that a new set of regula tions, comprising several other changes, should be posted up at the same time in the various establishments en Saturday. This simultaneous neele of proceeding was COO* aidered by many persons to be injudicious, as the work. men inferred from it that an understanding had been de. cided on to preudice their interests ; and that idea natural) cause d amongst them a much greater irri tation than they would have felt had each master acted at his own time and singly. The simultaneous character of the execution of these measures had the ire evitable effect of creating a strike in all the houses on the same day ; in other words, throwing into the streets from 12,000 to 13,000 workmen. These persons yesterday began their demonstrations by smashing the window.. of • MM. Delattre's insnufactory with stones and brick. bats. In the afternoon they nicked the house of the concierge, breaking all the furniture and throwing it out of doors. Towards the evening the die turbence, encouraged by impunity- inasmuch as we have here only a police altogether insufficient in a country where the working-class forms threemuorters of the whole population—the situation, I repeat, becaine most critical. Bands of malefactors directed their course in succession to the factories of MM. Richani Ifimousseauft, Dillies (father). Philippe Scanis, Louis ficrepel, and Henri Roussel, sacking and destroying the machines, the raw material, and the made-up tissues, attacking also the private residence of M. Philippe Scamps, which was contiguous to his working 'itemises, breaking' the furniture, tearing down the hangings, and effecting, in a word, a complete devastation. Not con tent with that, and as if the work of destruction did not go on quickly enough, they had recourse to fire. and the establishment of M. Delon isacaus was very near be coming a prey to the tames, but fortunately the fire was subdued before it could spread to any considerable extent. Lastly, at about 10 in the evening, troops arrived from Lisle, and the disorders immediately ceased, without any effusion of bloo.L The daniage done is estimated at up wards of a million of francs. Numerous arrests have been made." The Near Free Press of Vienna announces that the directors of railways, in a conference at Munich, have decided on reducing by 2.1 per cent. the fares for travellers going to the Paris Exhibition, and by 10 per cent those for societies composed of at least 300 persona. THE MARTYRS Or POLAND.—According to a manifesto called for by the representatives of Pastel is Prussia the number of Poles tent to Siberia knee January, 1863, amounts to 18,682, among whom 164 are women and 114 priests. All were transported for political delinquen cies, and, accenting to the offence imputed, are sentenced either to forced labour in the mines, ooloniisition in the villages, or mere residence in villages or towns. In addi tion to theme, 33,780 persons were banished to the stepper of the Ural, as severe a punishment as removal to Siberia, but nearer home. Furthermore, 12,556 persons, among them 218 women and 163 priests, were forcibly made to leave their homes anal accept a compulsory abode in the interior of European Russia ; 2,416 were placed in the ranks of the army, 31,500 in houses of correction ithe greater part of whom were subsequently removed to Siberia), and 620 is the churchyards of divers penitentiaries, having die.l be. fore trial. On the battlefields of the rebellion, as Residua computations show, 33,800 were buried. As 1.468 more were hung or shot by the courts-martial, and 7, 0 60 forted to meek refuge in foreign countries, the total of the maw choly list is swelled to 141,882.. Resides these, Poland has furnished 2 per cent. of her male population as recruits. NEGRoF.B VOTING IN VIRGINl4.—ColGtimd wen have voted at last in the Old Dominion. Virginia, must suffer thi, justice whether she will or not, for it is 1,11,. to argue violently against the stern logic of such hard things as events. The voting done by negroes at Alexandria yesterday was the shadow of a good thing so m uch like the substance that we scarcely are to re* cognise the difference. It is true their votes tea not to be counted in by the election commissioners. but it is nevertheless true that they had polls of their own, and voted peacefully and manfully. The fennel question has arisen as to whether these votes shall now be counted ; but the question is a Virginian one. black men have shown their perfect ability to estitneft themselves as well as their votes, anal the solution is tually reached. The 'mad jury of the country have de' I tided their perfect eligibility, anal it only remains foe them to take poesession of their ...it. We hail the event, —pew York rnbuse, Muth 6.