The Express. — London, England, 1866-03-23 00:00:00

111 111 !I i . . 1 . 1 , ,r pi 1, li 1: t i 4,.; i TURTritith TX/ RTLZ. TIIRTLIL ark sail 'maid Thing U ~IOW& At 6T. JAMIDPSZALL, ItYGENT-STRINT, PICCADILLY. W. DONALD. ?mem Mr. DINIRS—Tb• Jeassee-street, liosseflry.l&dider Melea — lireret: room es Orel fleet. The eabeerlpelge rooms eft mow eres. Teems, t este, mak LI Ile. e 1.; eiz soetle, it Cumos.-41. Sasiosimine. - - 'LONDON imam bay* a STYPPIR awls WNW Mi ROOM be ibebbma.—ltostassise, Irs taw for yea as • %TAW Mit lip *rpm f Eke OrartiSS; lIATWASZBE Mos sr NO. T OMULAND BOUTIL Mows. Chilypendals,_elid W. rum od " UN C° 7: 6 I . 7 noon. —9IIPWIWS nr TVS 11A1rIt Xmas. A Mawr sad Nem; Woo 1.. Joky Z. liotilpe. Isnraess. Tim swims, • GHOST IN SPITZ ON HINSIIN.•42IO 'tuck INT driliSTS /P LONDON. Num. Vining, T. Mal. D. Nossy. Ike% gad Mien; lbs. B. sod Minn Barnatt and N. llodpirs. LIMEY*. TETS Trwmis, THt ILLVISTRIOUS STPANGIII. ILL H. Wl4ldiumb.—And Tal ILASTII OF luvunnrooD. mom leobtse. Joeduh. Vain. fthay. Widetioosb. IncaMak Ivanks Standasess Tornon.lllmtwOmjsysas. O. Laokm. TM Se= THIBIZTOAATA P AY: ce. THE OITSAI4/1 SIGH-DDSS ILUSSASD.—CoIeW Modem. the IMO, Net sad the Sphynx.-1024 Zmma leaMo.—With TEI CASUAL WALD. REM WATER AT LONDOS-PRIDOR. IMO DAY ... Ifficolag, ea. ssia. —.Mien/a% VA 11a EGAREEAME.. Kaitalag. 71i. Km..... Afton" IL la LONDON, FRIDAY. MARCH 23. Tee last return issued by the Veterinary De partment of the Privy Council gives satisfactory evidense that throughout the country generally Binderpest is gradually attending. The Weeks whisk in the week ending February 17th had risen to a 'maximum of 13,000 oases, declined in the following weeks to 10,000, 7,300, and 6,500 in the last week. This last return, it is true, is hardly comparable with the others, as it is to some extent disturbed by the slaughtering which is carried out under the recent Act. But the pre vious weeks are unaffected thereby, for as the disease always remains dormant during the incuba five stage, which may be nine or ten days or more, it is quite clear that its natural progress would be unchecked for about a fortnight after the Act came into operation. It is becoming daily more and more apparent that the legislation which was invoked to put an end to Rinderpest, now that its provisions here been practically brought home to indivi duals, is exciting as much alarm as the spread of • tbe disease itself. Like the frogs in the fable, the stockowners loudly demanded of the Goiernment "stringent measures," without, it is to ite feared, troubling themselves much about the consequences of setting such formidable ma chinery in motion. No sooner did Parliament meet than Ministers were beset by an excited body of agriculturists, and almost threatened with ejection from power if they did not put everything else aside until the Cattle Plague was stopped by Aot of Parlia ment. Led on by the dangerous eloquence of Mr. Lows and his party, the House of Commons was deaf to the arguments of sound political eco nomy, and panio-inspired declamation forced a' reluctant Treasury bench to yield to the popular demands. It was then palpable to every impartial observer that a period of reaction would supervene, and already a storm is rapidly brewing against the despotism of the Veterinary Inspector and his poleaxe. In point of fact, every owner of cattle now feels himself entirely at the mercy of the Veterinary Inspector : if his stook be valuable, as in the case of Baron Rovuscmtu's herd, it is certain and vexatious lOU to him ; whilst the owner of poor ill-bred animals will probably not grudge their loss in view of the compensation which he obtains. The most annoying thing in the whole matter is the reflection that when it was possible to have " stamped out " the disease in its earliest infancy nothing was done, but that when the maximum of evil had been attained and the decline bad fairly set is, this pernicious slaughtering system &mid have been legalised. We have been told by the advocates of wholesale butchery that in all foreign countries where rinderpeat has existed no remedy but slaughter has ever been effioacious in putting down•the disease ; and the authority et LAMM was quoted over and over again to support that view. Moreover, we were warned that unless we adopted their doctrine we should have the plague naturalized amongst us, and that we might expect such terrible losses as were suffered during the epizootic of 1745-57, when it raged in England for twelve years unchecked. But what are the real facts f • Why that, as was shown in the letter of Dr. Fags to this journal of the 19th ult., the advice of Lamour was entirely disregarded in Italy, and that " apparently not a single head of cattle was " slaughtered in the Papal dominions whilst the " disease lasted, yet it subsided in nine months." A.nd,with regard to England, it is on authoritative record that, taking the amounts paid in compensa tion as a guide, the cattle disease of 1745-57 was sporadic only in at least eight yeses out of the twelve. Then, too, as now, "stringent measures were insisted on, amongst them " prohibition of the " movement of all cattle for a limited time;" but we are told that " the opposition to it was so strong " that it was revoked before it came into opera " lion." Compensation was paid for all animals slaughtered compulsorily, and the amounts paid in each year will show what an unfair use has been made of the example which that period affords. In the first year (1746), 13,0001.; in 1747, 70,0001.; in 1748, 62,0001.; in 1749, 7,4061.; in 1750, 13,3001.; in 1751, 23,900/4 in 1752, 6,6oo4—whence it dwindled down to 5001. in the last two years. And in the seven years l 750-57, out of a total of 44,0001., Middlesex, Chester, and Shropshire absorbed 36,0001., so that the disease could not have been a serious matter in any other of the counties. These facts entirely confirm Dr. Fun's theory that all zymotio diseases follow a certain law, which is, within given limits, capable of demonstration ; and that such law indicates the tendency of the poison to exhaust itself in like manner as a fire unropienished dies gradually out. If this view had been properly understood, we should have bad none of the ill-advised measures which are now creating so much consternation ; in place of indiscriminate slaughter we should have had quiet business-like arrangements for meeting the disease by insurance ; and owners of valuable cattle would have been left at least the option of aiding scientific men in their endeavours by ex pertinent to subdue the disease. The full fords of what has been done will, how ever, only be felt when the payment of the rate is called for. "An unfortunate accident," says the Sport, "has just =Warred to Yr. Naokessie Grieves, wan knows la tk. onotooratio airs' of Pub, sod s steward of tie Pima Joan, Oslo. As ho was sot oldie& his hone saddestly roared, sad tha girths of the .addle %raids& the saddle tuned sad the rider was Oran to the grosad ead broke his shoaldas bow." OUR Tis nu= AND MI sawn. • the Times maintains, in opposition to Mr. . Mhbeside, that the skill ad moms with width the Pemba isnipirsoy has beta thwarted by the government is fully sad geaerally acknowledged. To dump the government with omitting at the conspiracy for oftnittasortuf Poses ma hardly be doen, la waist. Tb• govern seut wore pettedly right feint pripmediag against the **aspirator, until their palms, welted sad the danger litoillain eadmialim At t br.• mistakes policy to be hasty ia *aft with inch mommeata sad to expose the executive to the charge of speemliag groundloss alarm. Had the Irealea leaders bees appreheaded last summer, before they bad thoroughly onsuritted theasselne, their 'dais would probably have had • very different rem% for that magmas, to the cos *rag whisk sow pervade, the entire edesabed ens would sot lemmas into bass. Wham the dillaultbn are wandered. the Tines is disposed rather to marvel at the *name and good fortime of the SOYallnainto 11110 . 18011 " it has only lost one prisoner out of so essay. And, after di, there is ad so very mach to lament in the serape of StoPhomo, who. whether he he now • fugitive abroad or be dill linking in seine Dubbn garret, is alawat se power isse for nimbler as if ha were al Peekemille. Whether he be caught or net, Ireland is fairly rid of him, aad his third aeaspiraey will be she bat. The Herald indorses Mr. Whiteside's strictures, and with rapid to Stephens' ease maintain, that the go verameat. with their eyes open, permitted. sad almost eompassad hi, eseaps-__ _ . . Tbs Star wowleie Kr. Whited& hes see thew& it worth hi while to submit a mot oa to the hawse eeeerw ing the goveesswet for the hatredostioe of the rioderpert. . . c;the principle that they ought to hays fortes and pro vided for such a contingency. Azoordlag to his theory • govemest is mspossibis, not only for what II does itself or anises to be dose by odes, but for the ems of the bumble al its subordinates. All parte ars aged that the snaps of Stephens through the culpable shied of some official in the prima was a calamity. brat to mart the incident • ground of attack us the government is to say the lee of ft • gross party blunder. Yr. Whiteside and Ms mileage are angry with the government bemuse tbiy vio -1 speed law—becese they did as think that the sea. Motion of area violent opinions, so long as • weak limit I was Dot erropedod, was • thing to be dealt with by despotic measure. The troth is, that their ideas of liberty bedoeg to another latitude—they derive their hapiratioo from Franco or l`ramia—perhaps, from Jamaica. _ . Referring toilet hat news from Calm* the Pat says it is iaeo•esieahle that the American government will suffer the Fesiaas rally to myth bands et armed OM, and launch armed melds from the towns sad harbours at the United States to attack and plunder the ships sod terri tories of • friendly power. As Ireland itself is perfectly tranquil, there is net even the shadow of • pretense for •allsg the Fenian movement in America • war ; and, even if • civil war were raging in Ireland, it weld be naiad all law and justice foe • power with whom we are at pace to suffer either its ow• sigmas or British subjects within its territories to commit hostile acts against us. TIM 111701111 BUZ. In the adios of Lord Grosvesor, Sir W. Hatt, Mr. Oli phant, and Mr. Singlake, the Times sem more than Impatience, and fa objection to a leap in the dark. There is the principle which is at the base of our whole constitutional system—that all that im possible as to oosieseplated legislation should be brought under simultaueous and oomparative oemaideraties. But while men of note in the Borne of Commons resolve not to be hoodwioked the domino is still in vogue in the country. The Times then proceeds to describe the meet ing at Mandrester of 40 or 50 repreeentatives of branch reform emanations as an organised hypocrisy, a theatrical fame. The man bad bees drilled by the managers of the performance into saying nothing about anything else but the government and they certainly showed much discipline, but here end there they made disclosures letting ont the of that many popnlookyillages in the north considerably larger than many southern boroughs would get very Mile by thiTIMINUTO. The Times claims the supp)rt of these plains for its own sags. mint, and arms that MIN la these parliamentary beam& whose delsgatos spoke, isolndiog Braden!. Rada; Bolton. and Leeds, wh the working ram oa the retie tar are certainly very few, the admission of a lower class would sot lead to a better reptemotatios. Mr. Bentinek, the late member for Norfolk, io a letter to-day joke the Times In attacking the government bill. Mr. Bentinek's main position is that the oounties are at present too little represented in oompariron with the towea, that this la the greatest uterus.* in our represents- i tive system, and that the government bill, could it be made law, would, by introducing, among other thinp, a new urban element Into county ooestituencies, make bad worse. In the bourse of his biter Mr. Bentinck deseribse the aim of reoeut legislation to be " to legalise financial plunder," re ferring apparently boar modern frestradepolicy. The Timm realise the letter the text of an article, and the ameba for again observing that the bill so loug delayed was, attar all, virty imperfectly considered, adding that, though this fragmentary meaaars might be an easy maps from divided mums* it was as idle thought to believe that it mold receive the approval of the legislature. The Daily New remarks that the new Reform Bill is li bitted for its author'. asks, sod its defeat desired chiefly es • means of destroying the ministry. The hos tility began at Lord Palmerston's death, and ever aim* is one form or soother, either by vitaperatios, compassion, or prophecy, the ministry has bees pursued by the three or four officials who have beset left ant of the ministerial arrangements, and their friends, the sopper heads of the liberal party, with noosesiog aelivity. They may gain over • weak and timid lord or a deluded room mar, but to believe that they will meet with say con siderable saucer would be dishonourable to commas mass sad hoesety. The seminal leader of the seteeeten hat not been ill chose.. Lord Grosys•or is the belt to • marquis's caresst, and to mare than prissily wealth. He is at the brad of the titled plutocracy of the esnotry—for the weed arida:say seems out of place is ooltoaxioo with • great family which hes sever produced a mingle great ma, and whose records are • positive blank is the political awake of the enstry. The epprehensiotts of ;territorial magnates may be represented la the donne which Leal GrorveLr has taken ; but ►is ashistorio name eon well be spared from the roll of the supporters of a rotate, which enlists the old whit homage of Caveadieli, and Seymour, and Boma The notion that the government may swept the resointion framed against itself is the shallowest of delusions, sad betrays an impaired muse of political sad eves of personal hamar. The difficulties of the ministry have arisen from the temporising insincerity cf their arida:tenon, and they ma retrieve the consequences of former errors only by adhering to the whim sad more bon•st course which they have adopted. If they fall they will fall honourably ; sad their very defeat will tend to heal the demorali motion and strengthen the organisation of the liberal party. The tories would be pledged by the very terms of the reso lution whisk they have eseepted to attempt to pew a satis factory bill, and they are estiele to fail in it. In any case, the task will 00=0 link once more to the present govern went, who are little likely to repeat the error of endeavour. leg to conciliate saanies with the certainty of damping the earnestnees of friends. The present bill sew, or a moo/ larger ass a short time hence, is the alternative before parliament and the country. The H.sid declares that the House of Commas feels itself Lasalle& by the government proposal, and so no evening passes without notice of a new and hostile amendment. The house fade as the oouotry doss, that the riddance of the question on whisk it is resolved is an iatesms relief. The rejection of the bill can only be regarded as a declaration of no confidence, bat the lenient followers of Lord Rumen may yet supply him with =tuts for remaining in a posi tion which is nominally one of power. The Poet to-day again refers to the " approaching down fall" of the administration es an west which admits of no isosrialaty, sad ansiseests apse it indeed as though it had already bappesed. The opinion of the Poe is that the present stets of public opinion will not seeder it Is eam►ant on the new ministry to meddle with reform. When that question is ripe it will be reenived, •et by the will of a government, bat by lb. °pinks to whisk all go- ; veremeets are more or lase =Nest The Star, °burring that the ...anent and the country have now a forkaight'l interval to prams for a frustration of Use tory oewspiracy, of wide& Lan Grosvenor hu aorneshod to Weems the Melee. monk expresees oonfideatly the °vision list the meet is determined is do is duty the people have . a duty to perform. During the intorail before parlirammet nests spin, lei the moats" show by meetings held *my where that it will sot submit to be ruled by the 'misdate of • lordly bongo. There is ample time within a fortnight to make the voles of every great coestitneacy beard is the neighbourhood of Weetadeeter Palms. The reirproal dwells epos the lon and honourable sorrier of Earl liumeU, sad quotes ashy no mesas a healthy symptom in oar body politic, the faitialesenees of Earl Grammer, the aasgre mai of liberalism. It also shows, from a farther analysis of the returns, that sven if mile representation existed in the utmost extent of whisk thi eireamstances admit, it is quite certain that wider the new bill workman's represealagives would be only a mall salty of the House of Commoss. The addition to the number of artisan sliders would be somewhat leas than 150,000—• per aster of the working claws assay the same as in 1d33. The borough mimeo sow proposed far less elsoncimaile than that which existed before the Reform Asia, sod for some yams subsequeutly, to the lima when the freeman sad easiest-right electors bad so lama power in their heeds, while the iscreamd gemee„ would raider the present clam far better quailed to emerelee the privilege. TOPICS. The Deily lbws lauds the extreme moderation of Mr. Ourper's bill far the pneer►atioa of commese in the vicinity of the isegropelb, which, if it becomes low. will pee►ee" the gaislosere Oommiasiosers adjudicating mos the eons moss sod epee spaces within Aileen miles of Loados. Fi►e unpaid commissioners will be appoistsd, to whom any pro pene for the improvement of a suburbs. summon, whether by a lewd of the manor or the 00611201111111, will be referred; sad ►y whom a eskers will h. salisequeutly prepared, which shell respect and observe all caddier rights. The nese mime obstacle to improvement is our sionuncine is the vagueness of the rights both of commoners and lords of moors; sad it hu been objected to the measure under discussion that it does not effectually grapple with the difficulty implied. But at all ousts it aims at preeerviag thine as they are and preventing commoos from being eselosed with impunity. This is just the owe where local manage ment and local isthmus are in►aluable, and where the in habitants of each district might be safely left to protect their own. Voluntary effort, or a mall load rate, would in Duey every instance be found sufficient for all purpose@ of mathiremest end control ; sad Mr. Cowper'. bill gives facilities for this, and eneoareges all propositions Ice the benefit of the public which do not ievelve alteration or esclosure. The Herald ventures to hope front the chilling reception accorded to Lord Grey's prolix away on the state of Ira land that the days are gone, or vee7 fast goisg, in wbidi disquisitions of this sort, lubricated by a liberal masa plisaties of patronege on the spot, were 'opposed to be the pausal* for Irish difficulties. What we want from this time forward la—Ord, the firm and strong government which gives security ; then the capita), which will flow in readily enough, when once the disturbed part of Ireland umierstanda that it is no longer coaled, tantalised, and humbugged, but firmly and definitely governed. The Post contends that the debate on the abolition of ' Oxford teats has added nothieg trash to car previous know. ledge of the subject, nor furnished a angle new inmost in favour of a measure which only a powerful imagination can regard as even plausibly fair. the house chooses to mauls:la, the university it tan do so, bat the country must, in thit Ogle, no longer look for the fruit which hitherto has grown in that great garden of sound learning and religious education. The reciprocity Meaty of 1854 between Canada and the trailed States expired on the 17th, and the Daily News fears that this rash proceeding as the part of a small group of cougrembmal politicises—this summery extinction of an arrangement by which two osuntrier were benefited, sad sot sn iodividnal in either injured in the smallest degree. most hove many painful, and may have some dis astrous consequences. Bat the doers of the mischief are few in comparison with those who are slackly protesting midst it ; and the Fres-trade League, and the merchants, aid the fishing interest, and the Western farmers will, let us hope, ere long, overrule the protectionists and the narrow-minded "patriots" who imagine that to defy foreigners is to exalt their own country. The practical point for us is, to carry on the enlightenment of the pro visos in commercial theory and practice, and encourage them in a temper of patience sad hope till the false step of their neighbours is repaired, and the trade is again thrown op at. BERKZAMPSTEAD COMMOM-MR. AUGUSTUS smiTH AND EARL BROWNLOW. Mr. Stanford, of Charing-areas, has published in pamphlet farm a " statement" by Mr. Augustus Smith, of . . . - /ushlres Hall, Gnat relative to the pro- tending' recently taken to prevent Lord Browalow's alleged meditated esolosure of Berlihampotead-common. Mr. Smith states that he and his brothers are, after his lordship, the next principal proprietors in the parish. The part of the pamphlet bearing urea the removal of the fences is ea fol lows s " The course which has bees toned epos me in mese gums of Lord Brownlow's proceedings, and still more by the manner and spirit in which they have from first to last been carried into •secutioe, met sow be apparent. I observe it is characterised as • bold experiment—es a high handed step—as rather taking the law into „tone's own bands, leading therefore to an intersects that my pert bad tem rather hasty, enueosesarily aggressive, as well as disc courteous sad offside,. But in feet so far from berg offend,* it was dotard's ; as for courtesy that is • quality Lord Brownlow's inanerre clearly do sot under stand, even when they experienced it at my hoods, as I submit from the very first was the ores. Even before the frees was removed notice was given (sod what notice of say sort was ever combs lied to me ?) that it by a certain day an uedsrtaking was not received that the fence would be removed by those whepot it up, steps must be taken to effect that purpose. No stover was received within the time tamed, bet • letter which came to hand • day or two after, stated • communication on the subject of our notice would be node le the course of a few days. This evidently was blended only to gala time, and to draw on • diplo mat:lasi correqemdeme, which with the WI of people we had to meet—judging from their previous treatment of similar applications—could lead to DO good re. welts. The best legal advice having been taken on the sub pet, it was clearly aeoertained that the removal of the fern was absolutely neereary, as the oily certain and effectual asses by which the question could be brought to a legal issue. The removal then being imperative, that it should be dos quickly and thoroughly was co *very arrest desirable, and by such • force as would effectually prevent any intesfereoce, end thereby gnarl smelt any breach of the peace. Special directives were at the SIM time gives, that the removal should be effected with as little injury as possible to the fence itself, though under the circorasteara and provocation its being smashed to Mims would have been quite justifiable. Its present cmdition, as anyone may ',certain by iospeolion, Is quite as well as might be 's paded after Bush • delivery, and the fern for the greater part may he replaced where it was—if the law gives per miedon—or be transferred to be pat up in some other locality. Whether I rave beer justified in this asssrtioc of what I believe t be my undoubted rights as a priest ['divides!, and of theme to which I am equally entided as es* of the public, the law will now have to decide ; but I trust whether right sr wrong in this, my conduct in the badness has at best been such as ought to govern all adjoining moors of paddi property in their transactions with me another, and whir that courtesy and fair dealing which it is still !more insumbeat Oa all neighbours to cultivate. As re- spects the main question, it may he doubtful after I what hes manned, whether the commoners should moat to iihs enclamre of their common upon say terms, and it may be worth their soesibration whether some Immures 'Blest "Abe adopted as would moose the preservation of this noble waste is Nelda soculorris is all its integrity as it aowezrts. ; This preservation of so wide a bad of wfld rosary as an l adjunct to Aehridge, real good bate would regard safer more Important than its appropriation by enclesure to form pert pt that estate, sad the lords,/ the manor would do well joie in securing that remit, as an ormaneet above pries 4 to a brit of sylvan beauty mooed to soft in the klagelone, and as the most suitable apology that could be offered for his ressetontrageons proesediaga" WII4DSOIt CASTLE, Winn 23. . oat yesterday attesnOon, iat -od by Miro Mason of Ely. His Serene Mania the Prism of Hoenelialso Leases boerg, wont to Lapdog. The Queen with the Prisons Belem. Pawnee Lavabo s Primula Snider, Moos Leopold, and flat °rued Mood Rashness the Prinome Hohenlobe Lasgenbourg, lilt the Casale this morning at ten minutes baleen one °Week. ed. Medea by the Marehicame of Ely, Major-General T. H. Seymour, Colonel H. Pormonby, and Sir John COM& Her /Wert, travelled by • apeoial train, and was ..noted by • &Malignant of the 14th Human, from Paddington to Booldegbean robes. Priam Alfred strived at the Pelage from Marlborough Hour, 'Amami by Lieutenant Haig. The Coast aid 00W2111111 of Paris visited the Qu' in the afternoon. The Earl of Clarendon had an iodinate of the ()sees. The Queen, swamps:de& by Prinesse Hama sad PAWNS Leans, attended by the Marchioness of Ely, honoured Mr. Bell by a visit to his studio. list Itajaity afterwards visits& the Prime sad Prisms. of Wales at Marlborough House. The ligaseties ia Weide( attended on born:4mb. lies Majesty will hold a eenasil at Buidagbam Pales* at half past eleven ceeleek la the tarmacs to-morrow (Bs turelsy). • The Prises and Princess of Wales, aoconspented by Prime Alfred and Prime of Robenlohe, rode on horeebsek yesterday. la the evening their royal highnesses bad a dinner party. The osenpany iecladed :—The Duke and Duchseed'Awnale. the Duke and Deschess of Mseibereegh, the Duchess of 8L j Alba's, Viscount Falkland sod Lady Dion► Bearaelerk. the Spanish Minister and Marquise de Molina, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires (Baron Back-Prat), Earl Oadogan, Earl and Countess of Cork, Lord and Lady Alfred Paget, Lord and Lady Foley, Boa. Mrs. F. Steer, the Chancellor of the Exchequer end Mrs. Gladstone, Hon. T. de Grey, Hoe. O. B. Oaringtoe, Mr. G. Toecaps's, Mr. Fisher, Lieut.- General Koollya, and Lieut.-Colonel Koppel. The band of the aeons Fumilier Guards, conducted by Mr. C. Godfrey, was in attendasee, sod played a selection of music. The Prisms at Wales visited the Loudon Surgical Home at Notting-hill on Wedecaboy. A deputation from • number of boroughs not hasl•g separate cootie of quarter •eaioos bad an t•tersiew with the Sight Hon. Sir George Grey at the Rome.offloe yester day, on the subject of the Oattle Thesases Prevention Act, 1866, and particularly with smpeot to the mode of raising the expenses and compensation coder and for the porpoise of that act. A deputation from Mariebeater and Salford, oonsistlng of Mr. Mark Price, Mr. Henry Parkinson, Mr. Matthew Bedmayne, Mr. James Swoon, end Mr. William Gray, bad as interview with the Right Hoe. Sir Georp Grey at the Home-olio* yesterday with relerenos to the opening el the Salford Cattle Market for the ode of beasts imported direct from Ireland, and to the removal of them to the liosweed slaughter.hosees of Manchester end Salford for immediate slaughter. Despatches were received yesterday at the Oolonial•oftles from the govemersef Gibraltar, Malte h Oeylos, Hoeg Sang, and the Australian Colonies. The Queen will reoeive the address from the eoeeeeat➢os et the province of Oanterbary tomorrow at Buokingham Palace. The bishops will meet at the Bounty Office at 11 o'clock. The Deems of Cambridge and the Princess Mari honoured Sir Ralph and Lady Howard with their compapy at dinner last evening at their residence in Helsm...quire. His Excellency the Ambeseades of France, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countries Apponyi, the Duke of St. Albans, Viscount arid Vermonter Sydney, Lord and Lady Cecilia Bingham, Mr. George and Lady Charlotte Remelt, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, and Lord Frederick Paulin were also present. Dr. Quin, Carmel Homo Panes, arid Lady Caroline Cost ware in atteedanco on their royal high. [ name. A West party assembled alter dhow. _ Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary visited Mr. Paul's show at the South Kansiegton Gardens yesterday morning, and expressed their great satisfaction at the beautiful display. - We are glad to learn that the Countess of Derby's health is improving. The attalk has bean of • very serious character, and for some hours caused very great acuity amongst her ladyship 'a friends. But within the last tare days • considerable change for the better bee taken place., The attack of inflammation of the lungs, from which the countess was suffering, had its origin in the exposure and fatigue attendant upon her ladyship's re ception of her numerous &moats on Saturday evening. The Earl and Countess Stanhope had • dinner party last riming at their residence in Grosvenor-place. There were present the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland sad the Hon. Mir Primrose, the Earl and Counter of Aiello, the Earl of Morley, Viscount and Visoonnteas Cranborne, the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, the lion. Henry Cowper, Mr. Henry Calera% ice. Later in the ernieg her ladyship received a small party of friends. The Esrl and Countess of Yarborough have left Arlington-street for Nice for about six weeks. The Bishop of London was rather better hat erasing. His indisposition is not so serious as to azaito say alarm to his family. At s meeting of the Court of Common Council yesterday, the Lord Mayor in the chair, Mr. Harris, pursuant to notice, moved a resolution to the effect that his Royal Highoese Prince Alfred be re quested to take upon himself the freedom of the City of Landes, to which he is entitled by patrimony; and that a copy of the freedom be presented to him in a gold box of the value of 100 guinesa. The motion was 'nomad by Mr. Alderman Gil boa., one of the sheriff, of London, who ex pressed the great satisfaction he felt in doing so. The motion was carried, and at the instance of Mr. Low man Taylor it was resolved that the Lord Mayor should wait upon his royal higheas with the resolution of the court, and ascertain when it would best snit his Aare. nieuce to attend at the Guildhall and accept the proffered compliment. At the name meeting a report was brought up from the City Lands Committee, to whom it had been referred to consider how the court could best testify tern respect for the memory of the late Viscount Palmerston, recommending that a marble bud of the dew seed Ades man be placed in the Council-chamber, at a cart of not more than 2501. It appears from the parliamentary papers issued , this moraine that Mr. Kinglike &Li not jive notice of his motion until last /noting. It is to the effect that on the • notion for going into committee on the Representation e/ the People Bill, he will move " that it is not expedient to go into committee on the said till until this house shall I I have before it the expected bill foe the redistribution el ' nests." To-sight be wiliest theChaimellor of the Exchequer whether, in the 07IITOS of the &otos'r recess, therm:nosed will take into consideration the expediency of proceeding by resointions towards a settlement of the cpmetions :sloth's to the representation of the people. The committee on the Testa Abolition (Oxford) Bill Yee been deferred from Wednesday, Mk Yap, MU I Wednesday, 13th June. Mr. Bovill intends on Civil Servioe Estimates, I after Elder, to call attention to the present state of the Patent-office and the Patsot Museum, end to submit a t motion, with a view to the improvement of the efficiency and imefulaens of thine establishments, and of seourieig the applicatios for thews purposes of the fees paid by patentees Mr. Knight will move, after Easter, that, in the opinion of this house, it is expedient that al items of poor law expenditure throughoat the United Kingdom, net beim is-e aintenenee or outlelief, or otherwise alder the immediate onkel and direction of boards of guardians or parish aims, shall become a national charge. In committee on Thames Navigation Bill Mr. ' Biddulph ietends to move the introduction of a clause prat!. biting the waters at the Thames be&d, and the streams which are tributaries of the Thames, from, being diverted from their owe enteral watershed in the valley of the Thames. On the day after the re-assembling of parliament Ifarjeent Armstrong will bring forward a bill to amend the law relating to mixed inarriegm in Leaked. On the 10th of April Mr. Waldegrawe-Leelle will ask the First Commissioner of Works whether there is any intentios of cawing the enclosers in Leiersternenate to be tuned into a garden or ornamestal ground, under the m easles at the Gardens is Timis Pleherlita Aek len MARCtit 2$ :; 6 • {LATEST The Vienna Prue says : WXLIGENCE. RELATIONS BETWKICN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. The quietism at issue now is that of a second or • mooed J•7l/1. Whatever happens we attack peat im portance to Austria's keep*/ on the defensive, and await hag the attack of Prude. If the &inseam of Pima should be checked by diplomacy Austria would be sow teat, but the oriels in the Doubles should be definitively settled in accords's'', with German fedesal law. If Pte min should ham mesas' to war, there eon be lees beeitatle• on the part of Austria,aud the goverment may mmidently reckon that the nation will shriek front no saorilim is &- hem of the bosom of the empire. But thou the war an marcely be restricted to the solution of the Bibs Deshler However, should it assume wider prepartiass, It must bring about, as an inevitable necendly, the solution of the German question. A letter in the Augsburg Gone* dated Berlin, March 19, says : _ _ The order for the mobilisation of the troops my, I undmetaasi, be booed from one meanest to audible. The fortesesee of Saxony tindSilasia am beteg pat on a war foot ing. Tod* tie railway competes have bees informed that they must be ready to =owl troops end war useteetale to Saxony sad &Isle Priam Frectegkik-Okagigo, if he hag not been actually appointed ormanaander-in.chief, bee bees named for that post. andel 6 oblosic in the melee of the day before yeaterday be laterapbed tar the ssou commanding the Rhenish provinces, Saxony and Med% to , meet him. The %rest: Zeituna of the 20th says : We dated yesterday kW the arromments of Almeida and Barmy romanced the situation mom grave. and we are not now in a panties to withdraw oar sesertises. Several }env nabs date that the Austrian troops are la swum. and the Medd cegan of Defeats, says that the mobilisadon of trove has sot been fuspesded Balmy. The Prussian goverment* is therefore aboastely oo•stni•ed to make preparation oa their side is ender to be able to meet with effect hostile measures of this triad. 81111 11 by no mamas follows that we are on the eve of we:. A war between the two great German Powers would be h Each as esormity ; would. whatever meg be the rwl►. draw after it so sissy eilemities, that so prime er statesman would lightly wage i• such a straggle. The Prussian government has of late years ormelnatly shown the strongest desire to remain in &Mame with Aus tria, and thereby to prevent kedge pewees from interiering in the &obits of German questions. We desire sad hops that our government may persist in this policy. For a ors. Jain time Austria adopted a similar policy, bet the diploma tists who at present direct the affairs of Ailirill see things Irma • MENEM pallet of view. They everywhere show thaassivse hostile to Pramele, and seek for allies outside of Germany. Dees the Amities empire really desire to counomee • war spinet Prison? We should deeply regret snob • detarrainsdioa, bat we are prepared far any ese•toality. Woe to him who sounds the trumpet 'for the ruin of Germany. In some way or other his lose is condo. ; • •. .: , illtpass, '' . lrm • .1 . e. .. , . ..G CONTEMPS: It .: i. , A 1 7 16 g • • ' tt , t . • ~.. 't • wed .4 ' t + ..4 Mills DAY.) . - Thatlarl : 1 bee not elighteet '5 1 3 E - '''s .."" , wteediate • tory pasty sad a ntnepde AN . say eo n - ' w —o—l The Queen drove ponies el phis cc princdple. Meanwhile, if the gcvare- ._., ~. 5‘... „ rtrommunewo AIWA NMI. 1.11.•11•1 IRMA la defiewedeed to do he duty the people have likewise 1 ten ded `'"°'''" The Provincial Corrapondence of the 214 nye : If Austria said her sappOsed Meads are making hostile preps:Moss agenst Prawn the Prussian goverment is bound to tales are that they me sot takes samara by • military surprise. The unlit's°. of 1856 and its evil Goa sigmas should not be mewed. The same journal denies that General von Kan teuffel bad been charged with a mission to Vienna, and that England has addressed any offer of media tion to the Prussian government. The evening edition of the Vienna Gazette of the 21st denies that Austria is taking any steps which would indicate an intention on her part of begin ning an offensive war. It felicitates Prussia that she is not menaced by auy other danger than that which an aggression by Austria may cause her. The internal and financial situation of Austria forbids her from making warlike feints, and in case of deplorable events taking place the public opinion of Europe will decide between the party who attacks and the party who merely defends. The same journal adds : It is positi-vely stated to-day that General Governer the military agent of Piedmont, has arrived in Beau. By a correspondence from Florence, addressed to the Waroderer, as the Ifstb, it appears that a conned if UM was held at which Sins Victor Emmanuel presided, Generals La Marmara, Onoblari, Oialliai, Monahan'. and Daraodo ware preenst. Tba correspondent has rumen to behave that it was decided in oase of a serious war batmen Austria and Prussia that an army of 45,000 men under the command of Cialdini should be mat to the Po, and that another of 30,000 should be plased ender the orders of Durando for the purpose of threaten* Austria and profit' Log by smears. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. ALLEGED MEDIATION OF ENGLAND AND FRANCIC. The Paris correspondent of the Indipendanu Beige says that in a few days it will be officially announced that France and England, and probably Russia, have agreed to offer their mediation for the settlement of the dispute between Austria and Prussia. CINOTER'S ritanass. CENTRAL AMA. BRUSEIKLS, YasCE 22, Evunra. The Nord publishes telegraphic intelligence from St. Petersburg, announcing that the inhabitants of Taschkend bad abolished slavery out of deference to the Emperor of Russia. All the slaves, mostly of Persian origin, had been set at liberty. General Tobernisief had notified to the Emir of Bokbara that be should march into and occupy his territory if he did not release the Russian envoy whom he bad imprisoned. THE CAPE MAIL. PLYKOUTE4 Mimi 23. The mail steamship Briton arrived here this morning with the above mail, 103 passengers, and a cargo consisting of 360 bales of wool, 100 bales of skins, 750 bales hides, 350 bales cotton, 180 OWNS indigo, 160 tons copper ore, and a new importation consisting of 2 tons of fine grapes, packed in cotton wadding in tin cases, surrounded by layers of Lim The Britain left the Cape on the 14th ult., St. Helena 22nd, and Ascension 26th. She has bees delayed by the unusual lightness of the south-seat trade winds. She experienced a week's calm at the Equator, and subsequently heavy north-east gales. At the Cape the drought had fortunately at length broken up, and fine rains had fallen through out the country districts, which had suffered so long. Farming prospects had consequently mate. rially improved. The rainfall at Cape Town had been greater than for many yews peak Nearly three inches fell in a single day. The war between the Free State and the Basuto, exhibited little 'change. The Basuto' had recently attacked the town of Bethlehem, but were repulsed by the Boss with some loss. The natives in the colony con tinned peaceable. The governor bad modified his demands for the deposition of the head men among the Tsmbookies. By this mail plans, specifications, and working drawings of the three contemplated lines of railway are forwarded to the agents-general for tbe Crown colonies, upon which tenders for the con ' strnotion and working of the lines will be invited. A committee has been formed to mourn a proper representation of the colony at the Paris Exhibi tion of 1867. Copper mining was attracting great attention at the Cape. Very valuable de posits of that metal and Asti of lead, extremely rich in silver ore, bad been dimmers:l, particularly in Namaqualand. The eeribines of excesamunicatio had been read in the sathedrel at on Dr. Oolmmo _ on January the fith, and in the evening the dean and the Rey. Mr. Robertson appeared in V., 11. Abadan .. Leek . .. Ardmore.. Grammies Uverme VLSI U LK IY.MU, ILL mu a, L 19.45 le Z. uu Y B.s.w .uu 44 1 I. fOA7IO 41. Z Brost Viiiii stli4i M. SIG 48 . , I. U. 84 48 8. 80.08 N I Z. hsa . 19.71 a l 8. 28.81 45 8. 19.4 41' S.S.W.. 8. 41 1 , 8.8.W8.8.W OM 36 &&W . 0.77 $6 8. .74881 imr.• --1 -; Plymouth = ll Teroudb Scarborough SSW& Hades Law . ILL TULL Y.. Tr ;1.1 'U w '~ *. r- , !"..It3 IIIOSAIILL SaTORoAT. OW NoWNIZIN OWlllit V•rying, trait to • • COUTO Vadlot vela IR gale, awns rain or oil oink low now. dtillo. &LW. to W.N. VI., a WIG'S. S.W. to N.W. ai gale to strong, rots at beck, said oda thaw. to nalsrste. Boothotly to 'tar o k Sort=ll. Ai out *WC • ps• to shower& 11 . 1 . t• LW.. Woos. Irmo& Staniar to anion. with spas. NoothanwisoladoL Wastoroardoot. WSW. gal * esseisa Bootiwts.wasiall Cbansid mot liot d an laaters.lostward lowland 'Ed Nord Bea On the 12th of April Lord Stratheden riil mee is the Hoses of Lords that a es'ett committee be appal essmise the electoral returns laid upon the tab* a view to the cheeses dory ~et as derimble meseemil in the rights of vain; and to inquiry into the st dittoes upon which the occupation feseebise sty bikead with advantage in °natio or in boroughs of Ended ml Wales. In the dismission last night in the Home d Caw' mom, on the vote for the &dadaist/anon of the way, it was brought out that a oommieseriat ofii:er is the sap el the Omagh, being is treat of a pair at Woes sob requisition is doe form. On this a eorrepoetimer mrad. which attended over a month, sad at the lest aseseatithe bellows were still in supposition, not Wier tens this supplied I The late Mr. J. Grattan 13 ream ego last I ma of 4,5004 to the Queeab Comity Infirmary, whki sea has not sham been applied. Mrs. Grattan Bellew, comar si the Grattan estates, In the Qiuesn's Gaiety, sow n itre MPr up the money with arrears of interest, sad te IJA' of bar °wafer the erection of an hospital or veld fear velesceate aid imearables of all religious deselli o6ll, epos condition that the hospital should he lima se. care of the Sisters of Charity, with may WIWI *gain* laterferease with the religion of the patio* sal with free acorn to the deny of all penumbra Tbs moors of the iallmaary, 31 protestaats and Wee erikdso root to consider this proposal, sad it was neastited Mind a divides. A bill has just been presented to the Baltic Chamber of Rsileessetetives for °peeing • credit to PI 'ls eeet of the bimetal of Leopold 1., and the iestallaties ef hr saccessor. The items for which sums are dos ere lio lowing :—"Ocastesolies of a tempotary Aura at Lam and *peeing and doting of the tomb, 121. 1011 ; funeral ear, 40,129 fr. • melts of the road fir gap* gar of the Sirs 10.48 41 ;. ; deemstioss of the smote ea bridge at Ischee, sad Place dee Martyrs. 14, 620 fr• it_ fg the pump of the procession is the Sr dos Pala* Wok works for the restoration of the chapel , pedea b'" 42,072 fr. ; perches, of historical document , and este* Con to di ff erent nerratives of the famed, 8.53 464 aff ' passes of the insegaratios of Leopold IL, SO, h• ' dries, 14,936 fr. Total, 275,733 fr. (shoot 1L000.) The Italian artist% including Petti t F01° 11115 2, sad all the greater sad lower Mae, joked to peg"' &slat Mater of Romig daring the east week, el tki_ ~‘"P claims of which we sae promised ear t a is pima d Bow ands fragment of the Redemption. by Mori. At Primus Meiternicia's private theatrielllo Mosdey evening. the stage was erected is the great where the orchestra usually are sesame& at sal! parties. A plane replaced the bead. The piles moo" entitled Us Moesicair qui parsed la Moeda. The WO soadetted ci PASSIM de Meteersish. M. *owe* GOO Vicomte de rail" Mr. Barker, sad the Iseesseosq" , Marquis de Claus The mooed pies*, pasted iffti w " cam sad MIL pottier and Barker, wee Ls Tirferaws Avol, or Steed Singers. Hector Creaking Irno. am* precepts verses alluding to the presses, of Miaow IN t artelis. whisk wets muah applauded. These Iwo ~b° semmty-ese el the priemer's stride admitted to fhb o'7 The Bother of liksiohy. her sister-in-law Primal Sagan, Prisms Posistowska, Maslen Wawa* 3l46 Barnum A. de Rothe hi were among the throbs. the last play cos of the eaters, K. de IWO. oieft_ l 1 special leak far Timm, where be is Atteshi The late X. Clepissoa, Profe ssor of Harsoalo the Ocaservateire, Irthee e that wee sencamood is Well* day's /roma, was the author of several playa Irbigh t i t rd bed maiddetable asepses at the Tltlatie Lyricist ; ° t hi n, I W° les Thus, La Yeachoriarate, Ls PriMA he whisk Wow Oarvalhe made her deer. 011eflo eill member of the leatinate, end succeeded Bath, so ift poled seerstary dace notion ass Beast At ii ta The litdOposdenee says that as tbe retail the ifiasseast rases ea liatiday last the I is the earthen OA Maas. espeshlly et es wade, reamed some masifestation os the lababltante of the fasbesrp. The my of d ireekstitiO whisk wets to be as ealm of 1348, was eves bolsi I o desired la Christians to depart. No bod wee tho the serviass obanoel in bei the ors tathedra the bishop desired eittamd the a taken of this, and the bishop continued to m o th * had been es usuaL The bishop had meetly h ir Used a child but the dean would s e t allow of entry being made in the register. The apirm • . Court bad decided that the register tad( property. 11 . 1 teerimms sme • .1 TES BARS OF FRANCE. isummea izesan.) PIAVI. Kan The following is the return of the Beek is. 'ranee for the week ending to-day, togst wig the oorreeponding figures of the previous amount Uarch U. two a DIEM. Fr. n Ofienal et Nes Mak bolts fa addition to °Wag (Ad. I, law d Aim •, 1••r) 7"77• f 1,0m 7!s Nom at tle auk sod at breasase_ _ MINX* Is pkakal Nowa landed property Notts In otpontolion Bank notes to ortinramiroodsois payable Mlle& • rowan asooaate—smut ao ditor 110,1311,850 IS Oarrent ntoonsto, Pads 111,M4111 IS Thltobrasolt banks AISS • ■ Diadem& joilsocastei Dismosuc= sias tagualc iass dz • 3.184.411 k menthe SAWN It Ma I Sur lu s reed& 0101 Dated Isaddal 6.111:10 u 1111* p IoW4CO/11 is UlleAg, Mani IL WM% MOM & Fr. Cash in band and fn least a. k , Maks , 066,133,100 ll fitAn,lif t Coaaaterdd bala overdue Coeuersial hills dimwitted, • son yet Oa 101.416,433 711 Sk i i Dias trona banks Agleanaes en deposits al Nagai 7.463,0t0 I a, • lOW ininalt Leaks 10,613,1106 • I Absents ea Trench nubile es eurellsa MIKAN 0 rk. 4 Ditto Windt banks kW.* 0 I Kw . 4 Advances on railway shares and debentures Dttae branch banks Advllllolllll OS Craft losalar "IMMALI: I 132 I Bands DIM bran* banks .... tow kit; (iso;o1a- • gal lune, tun r ilso walloak reserve 316,4111,1310 07,737 10 l ale *AM saaa.=.4o.l4s (law 304 fra.1357) WAWA" 0 MAIN I Motel and furniture of the bank& landed property, brandies .... 1,481.331 6 41k I'l Itxpenss of alanspanand suntleNs a 4,---Y. LUSATIAN • 1.1188*,10. Clortfled b the tenstor &owner of the Beak dim* WEATHER REPORT.--Crlll3 Dn.) • PIODLY, YAMS IS, $ ILL B. T. it 66 $ 1 7 6 1 1 6 6 5 6 4 7 4 4 6 1 9 I ! Xt. 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