The Express. — London, England, 1867-01-24 00:00:00

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Tit lt interpretation we put upon the confused despatches brought by the Atlantic Telegraph a fortnight ago is borne out in every particular by the detailed intelligence now received. The resolu tion passed by the House of Representatives, and represented as one "distinctly impeaching the •• remnant.," was, SS we stated to be our belief at the time, the one of which Mr. ASHLEY, of Ohio, had taken charge before the Christmas recess. It was Mr. ASHLEY'S intention to take the first step towards the impeachment of Mr. Jon/c -aw:, but that step was not likely to be one for the actual preparation of articles of impeachment, but for the fullest inquiry into the grounds on which such an impeachment must rest. The course taken by the House has been exactly that which we anticipated, and which we ventured to describe as the only one which was not open to the charge of unconstitutional interference with the functions of a co-ordinate branch of the Government. The House believes that the conduct of the PRESIDENT has rendered needful an inquiry into his administration of the Government, and into the use he has made of his position and power. But it can only make this inquiry by virtue of its constitutional function as the impeaching body, and the resolution, which was pa.ssed by 107 to 38 votes, was one framed in accordance with this necessity of its constitu tional position. It instructed the Standing Com iiiittee on the Judiciary to inquire if any and what grounds existed for the impeachment of the PRE- S) I , IiNT. This important and able Committee has, therefore, full power to inquire into the whole of Mr. JOHNr.t.N . Y> public conduct, and to report to the House whether an impeachment could be sustained or not. On that report, and on that alone, the House will act. There is not the least likelihood that any further action has been taken or will be taken during the progress of the inquiry that is now proceeding. No " articles of impeach " lit" can be drawn up till the Committee have made their report, nor is there the least proba bility that the House, as such, has given any indi cation, such as the telegraph has spoken of, either of willingness to abandon the impeachment, or of resolve to press it. Nor has the absurd statement, so confidently made here, that the House resolved on the impeachment as an act of pessionate retaliationfor the veto of the District Negro Suffrage Bill, any basis of fact on which to rest. Abuse of the veto is one of the charges made in the resolution of Mr. ASHLEY, but it was so well known that the PRESIDENT would veto the bill for coloured men's enfranchisement, that the House was entirely pre pared fur it, and the bill was at once passed into law by a two-thirds vote of both branches of the Legislature. Nor is there the slightest sign of that haste which has been attributed to the House. Considerable discussion, and then patient inquiry, precede any decisive step, and the exact position of affairs at this moment is that a full inquiry into Mr. JOHNSON'S conduct is being conducted by the proper authority and in a strictly constitutional way. There is, indeed, no necessity for haste. The new House, which meets in March, will take up and carry on the work of its predecessor, and the large vote by which the present House determined on inquiry will not be diminished if it should be obliged to leave to its successor either the con tinued prosecution of the inquiry itself, or further action on the information the inquiry elicits. Mr. JoHNSON has nothing to hope, nor has the House anything to fear from delay ; and though all legi timate speed will be made, it is not likely that any time or labour will be grudged which may be found needful for a complete and exhaustive scru tiny of his official career. It is Mr. JoussoN's own fault if that scrutiny is made by hostile eyes. He has sought in every way to bring on a strife be tween himself and Congress, and cannot complain if " a fair field and no favour" is all that is offered him now. Whether the impeachment will proceed or not depends now on no political combinations and on no efforts that may be made to induce the House to relinquish it. If the inquiry now being made should result in showing that there are good grounds for it, the impeachment will proceed; but if the grounds are not sufficient to justify the expectation of convic tion, no mere political vindictiveness will preventits relinquishment. It is no mere movement of the " Radicals." All sections of the Republican party voted for the inquiry, and we believe the feeling is almost or quite unanimous among the Republicans in and out of the House that the conviction and removal of Mr. Jonxsox is the reediest way out of the difficulties he has created, if it can be legitimately and constitutionally obtained. That he deserves to be removed nobody doubts—and the only question is whether he has rendered himself legally liable to that constitutional penalty, the infliction of which no power in the Union would attempt to withstand, and no considerable party in the loyal States would in the least regret. It is instructive to remark the gradual aliena tion of Mr. JoincsoN from all his supporters and friends. His policy has been so entirely his own that he has not retained the unanimous support even of the peeled and wasted renoulut of the Democratic party. Perhaps it has been f, rgotten that Mr. Julfxsos belonged to that section of ;.. THIP- l EXPR ‘ RS§, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1867. Southern society which is called btlheenntemt tuous appellation of " mean iliites.* it is by the prejudices which are peculiar to this class that he now permits himself to be guided. His veto of the Bill enacting impartial suffrage in the district of Columbia begins with an objection to the jurisdiction of Congress as the Legislature of the district of Columbia, though that jurisdiction is conferred expressly by the con stitution, of which Mr. JOHNSON professes to be the guardian and friend. " The people " of the district are opposed, he further pleads, to the sharing of their political privileges with the negroes, though by the whole spirit of its later legislation Congress is bound to regard the term " the people " as inclusive equally of black and white. Another argument against the Bills the large numbers of the blacks now in the district, and the great increase which their numbers will undergo when it becomes known in other States that in the district of Columbia coloured men can vote. Other objections are equally dictated by the prejudices of a Southern white. To enfran chise the blacks, he says, will " engender a feeling "of opposition and hatred between the two " races "—hatred, that is, on the part of the " mean whites," who will resent the elevation of the negro to political equality with themselves. The example, too, is a bad one. To enfranchise the blacks of the district of Columbia will create discontent in other States where political rights are denied them ; and Congress must therefore not attempt an act of justice lest it should be needful for Mr. Joinisom's Southern friends to follow its example. Here are Mr. JOHNSON'S prejudices in full action. His last veto is but an echo of his early days, when as a " mean white" he looked down on the negro as an inferior being. From that feeling he cannot free himself. Power has only developed it, and antagonism intensified it, and it is evident that Mr. JOHNSON will be what he now is to the end of his Administration. He has fallen back upon himself, and represents only his own personal prejudices and policy, and his re moval, should it be prosecuted, would give only a slight and temporary shock to the institutions of the country. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) back for a period 441 nearly 7044 rears is a bad. and mis chievous law, saolltese which Keiscreditehit. to us as as sivilieed and enlightened peMe." It is to be hoped that' the legislature will at once intervene, and plan the doe- trine of prescriptive right upon a sounder footing. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ' SPAIN. On the 17th Queen Isabella replied to a pro vincial deputation, which presented her with as address, as follows : I receive with the most lively satisfaction the ex pression of the sentiments of fidelity which animate you towards the illustrious family and line of which God has been pleased to make me the representative. My satisfaction will be great if this heroic nation is truly persuaded that its prosperity and glory are the object of my most sincere wishes. I believe that the realisation of such noble hopes cannot be effected if peace ia not secured on solid and durable bases. I reckon en your energetic co-operation to secure, as far as you can, under the law, this end. I know the extent of your duties as provincial deputies, and I believe with you that those classes who have no other capital than their bands deserve to be regarded with solicitude and with preferential consideration. You will always find me animated by these sentiments, in which, by the help of God, I hope to persevere. With this assurance, receive also that of my gratitude for the respectful devotion which yon show for my person, for my very dear husband, and my well-beloved son the Prince of the Asturias, as well as for all the royal family. After finishing this address her Majesty pre sented her hand to be kissed by the deputies. GERMANY. The VoMicAifung of Berlin publishes a letter from Herr Jacobi, declining to become a candidate for a seat in the parliament of the Confederation of the North. The reason assigned by Jacobi for this resolution is that the aim of this parliament is the formation of a northern Sonderbund under the military domination of Prussia ; and it was his conviction that the formation of any such Sonder bond would be as prejudicial to the unity as it would be to the liberty of Germany. Herren Waldeck, Unruh, Overbeck, and Wirchow have also declined to become candidates. (asuria's TELZORAMS.) AUSTRIA. VIENNA, JAN. 34. The Emperor received yesterday at noon the deputation charged to present to his Majesty the address of tho Hungarian Diet relative to the imperial patent upon the organisation of the army. The Emperor, in replying to the speech of the spokesman of the deputation, said he hoped that an imperial rescript to be promulgated shortly would remove all the apprehensions expressed in the address. The Emperor added that he was ready to give satisfac tion to the wishes of Hungary as soon as mutual confidence should render it possible to remove the difficulties still opposing the formation of a respon sible ministry. The Empress of Austria left yesterday afternoon for Zurich on a visit to her sister the Countess Trani. ROUMANIA. BUCHAREST, JAN. 23. The Finance Commission have made their report on the Oppenheim Loan, which is declared to be illegal They propose that the Rouma nian agent who was entrusted with the negotiation of the loan should be tried in a court of justice, and that the Chamber should pass a vote of want of confidence upon Prince Ohika for having exceeded his powers. This proposition will be discussed in the next sitting of the Chamber. Prince Hohenzollern, father of the Hoapodar, who was recently naturalised as a Roumanian citizen, has been elocted deputy in the town of Tingoveat. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. CALLS, J. 17. The Benaree, from China, arrived on the 14th Mat., and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day. The Candi", leaves for Suez to-day. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. The statement issued by Reuter's Company, to Ait effect that no Uleifisges have been received by the Akliqatic cable from New York since the 21st, may give title to unnecessary anxiety. The delay is solely owing to the stoppage of the communication between New foundland and New York, the land lines having been injured by heavy storms. Numerous messages are waiting at Newfoundland to be forwarded to various parts of the American continent. There has not been the slightest suspension of the Atlantic cable communication since it was first effected. Great efforts are being made to repair the damage to the land lines, and it is expected that the through communication with New York will speedily be resumed. THE GOVERNMENT AND REFORM. Repeating the rumour that the government in tends to question the house as to its wishes about reform, and observing that at any rate the vote should be taken by ballot, the Times proceeds to observe that, failing the latter protection, the great majority would declare for • bill this very session, and by the simple force of that vote would declare also • want of substantial confidence in the government. In matter of fact there is no scheme of reform in the parliamentary mind, and the house will look out for some one who will sot shrink from the initiative. A parliament without a constitutional leader is a con vention and nothing more. An invitation to the house to take a matter entirely into its own hands is an invitation to everybody to take a course of his own. The numerous propositions which , under the usual parliamentary prac. tice, have to perform the very subordinate part of amend. ments to something or other actually before the house will assume the rank of substantive projects, and will have to be discussed each on its own merits. We shall not, however, come to this. There can hardly be a doubt that, even if this ill-advised proposal is made, the house will insist on the speedy settlement of reform, in the manner prescribed by the great precedent of lsll-2. As to the lavish offers of purely legislative and administrative reforms, which are to reconcile the public to a yea?* delay, those who desire re form will be unable to see on what grounds confessed arrears and accumulated evils should not be left to the care of a reformed parliament, better qualified, on their principles, to cope with these evils, and make these required improve. ments. HR. DISRAELI'S SPEECHES. All that is wanting, observes the Daily Newt, now that Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and Mr. Disraeli have repub lished their speeches on reform, to complete the repre sentative literature of the gantlets, is an edition of the speeches of Mr. Lowe—the recognised head of the party of simple resistance and pure obstruction. In the matter of the form and contents of the three publications, while Mr. Gladstone restricts himself to speeehes delivered during a single half-year, and Mr. Bright reprints only his platform orations, Mr. Disraeli comes forward in much greater state, delegating, as if unaccustomed to carry works through the press, the revision of his speeches to a faithful admirer, and select ing addresses which extend over a period of 18 years. The statement of his editor that all the leading country gentle. men of the time are openly or esoterically disciples in Mr. Disraeli's school is a bold and perhaps • questionable proposition. But still it is clear that the pre sent government is pledged on all essential points to Mr. Disraeli's doctrine. The publication of these speeches at the present time throws, perhaps, son.e doubt on the generally credited rumour that the cabinet of Lord Derby will decline dealing with the subject of reform. Otherwise, they are au elaborate introduction to nothing ; a stately and ornate portico without any building behind it. If they represent the unanimous opinion of the con servative party, which nevertheless shrinks front giving them legislative embodiment, this reluctance must proceed from • misgiving that the nation dissents from the party, and the Daily News is persuaded that this is the case. The scheme of class representation which Mr. Disraeli has persuaded the conservative party to adopt is a contrivance for conferring upon an oligarchy conscious of not possessing intrinsic superiority, an artificial ascendency which real superiority could dispense with. Parliament and the na tion have already pronounced judgment on these indirect devices; and, however dexterously party divisions and personal jealousies may be manipulated, we have little fear that the judgment will be reversed on appeal. ANCIENT FEES AND PRESCRIPTIVE It was yesterday decided in the Court of Queen's Bench by a majority of three to one that the Rector of Horton, in Buckinghamshire, has no right to a marriage fee of 13.., although a similar fee has been paid since 1808— the objection being that the amount was too great for the custom to have existed from time immemorial. The Times remarks that this decision will not only deprive the rev. gentleman concerned of any legal right to marriage fees, but all clergymen, except in oases where there may be • special enactment. Nor are clergymen the only victims. This case was immediately followed by another in which a claim was a➢eged to the customary toll or due of a shilling for every cartload of vegetables brought into Cheltenham market. The evidence was of the same character, and the case was, of course, similarly decided. Carts will be able to enter Cheltenham market for the future without paying • shilling. Here, too, the same rule will apply to many similar cases, and numberless customary tolls are deprived of any legal right. Mr. Justice Blackburn seems to doubt whether the corporation of the city of London will be able to main tain its duties upon corn, coal, and oysters. Until re cently many payments in courts of justice depended solely on the presumption that they were ancient fees, and some such payments probably exist still. It follows that they had no legal sanction ; and if any such still exist, they are now deprived of legal authority. These are certainly (as Mr. Justice Blackburn described them) startling results, and it is difficult to see how far they may extend. The present law of England is that, with certain special exceptions, no prescription is legally valid, unless it dates from the reign of Richard 1., though, in the more im portant circumstances, the law has always been rendered practically innocuous by legislation. Mr. Justice Black burn, the dissentient judge, admitted it to be im possible that such a payment could have been made for marriages in the reign of Richard 1., but he thought it might be enough if it , was made out that the custom was for a rea sonable fee; but the other judges said that the pre sumption of a particular custom could not be made in the /Ace of an absolute impossibility. There are few who will not share the opinion of the Chief Justice, that a law which thus " requires prescription or custom to be curried MIISCELLANHOUS TOPICS. In the case of the Overend and Gurney shareholder'', the Herald, without pretending to the gift of prophecy, will venture pretty confidently, it says, to anticipate a judgment adverse to the Defence Association, and this mainly because the law has been settled in advance by a concurrence of authorities. To allow people whose names appear on the register of the shareholders of a company of their own free will to escape the consequences of their voluntary acts whenever they happen to become un pleasant, would be to defeat the entire purpose of the legislature, and to introduce an element of uncertainty into the dealings of these companies which would prac tically render it impossible for them to carry on their business. The announcement of Bavarian policy which Prince Robenlobe has just made decides, says the Dail, Nero, the future of South Germany; for a southern league with• out Bavaria is simply impossible. The Bavarians do not want to become Prussians, but rather than live under the foreign protectorate to which the Emperor Napoleon would have reduced them, they are ready to increase their army and place it under the command of the King of Prwuria. Thus an insidious attempt to frustrate the work of German unity seems likely to end by advancing it. The Herald does not believe that the minister's declara tions of Bavarian policy represent any real consent on the part of the smaller state to be absorbed by the larger one. In reality Bavaria wishes to preseve her independence and autonomy, and she thinks that her beat chance of preserv ing them is by making up to Prussia. the Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 23. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, attended by the Dowager Duchess of Athole and Lady Waterpark ; and her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise and Prince Arthur, walked in the grounds this morning. Prince and Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice went out also. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trea sury, in Downing -street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Wal pole, Lord Stanley, General Peel, Viscount Cran borne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Pakington, Sir S. Northcote, Lord John Manners, the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, and Lord Naas. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President, the Hight Hon. Sir S. Northcote, and the Hight Hon. H. Corry. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A deputation from Oxford, consisting of Colonel North, M.P., Mr. Chillingworth (chairman of Oxford Cattle Plague Association), Mr. Hutt (the chairman), Mr. New ton, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. H. Gale, had an interview with the Lord President of the Oouncil and the Right Hon. H. Corry, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague. A deputation from Wakefield, introduced by Sir J. C. D. Hay, Bart., M.P., and Mr. W. H. Leatham, H.P., and consisting of Mr. T. G. Wright, M.D., Mr. D. B. Kendall, M. 8., Mr. R. B. Mackie, and Mr. J. L Edwards (over. nors of the Wakefield charities), Mr. W. Walker, Mr. Alderman Rhodes, Mr. Alderman Holdsworth, and Mr. Councillor Lamb (members of the corporation of Wake field), had an interview with the Lord President of the Council and the Right Hon. H. Cony, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday, on the subject of the cattle plague. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, N►tal, and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the governors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur has passed a highly satisfactory examination before the Council of Military Education, and will join the Royal Military Academy in February. _ His Excellency the Count Apponyi, the Austrian ambassador, is expected at the embassy in Belgrare.square, at the end of the month, from his seat in Hungary. The Duchess of Somerset is expected to arrive this week on a visit to Sir John and Lady Gwendolin Ramsden, at Byram, Yorkshire. The Right Hon. Seymour Fitzgerald has arrived at the United Hotel. Charles•street, St. Jamee's•aquare, previous to taking hia departure to assume the government of the Bombay presidency. Sir John and Lady Gwendolin Hamden are entertaining at Byram, their seat in Yorkshire, Viscount Pollington, Lord and Lady G. Quin, the Right Hon. Edward /format, M.P., and Mrs. Horsman, Hon. Mrs. Ramadan and Mum Dundas, Mr.. Lane Fox and Miss Lane Fox, Mr. C. Sykes, M.P., Mr. and Lady Jane Lindsay, and the Hon. Henry Fitswilliam. We are happy to be able to state (says the Dublin Erening Mail) that the health of Sir Robert Gore Booth had improved so much as to warrant his physician in pronouncing him out of danger yesterday. The Queen has approved the appointment of Colonel Chapman, C. 8., of the Royal Engineers, to the Governorship of Bermuda. On Thursday next a dinner is to be given to Mr. F. Moulton, M.P., at the Horns Tavern. The hon. secre taries are Messrs. Cullen, Murphy, and G. Taylor. _ _ Two lectures on " The Political History of England" arc about to be delivered by Goldwin Smith, M.A., in the small concert room, St. George's Hall, Liver pool ; one on Saturday evening, the subject, " Pym," and the chair to be taken by H. Yates Thompson, Es'q. ; and the second on the evening of Feb. 1, the subject, " Crom well," and the chair to be taken by Joseph Christopher Ewart, Es q. A s•ery singular accident (remarks the Eastira Counties Herald) has occurred in Sir Tattoo Sykes's park at Elledmere, on the Yorkshire Wolds. The large pond was frozen over, and snow was upon the ice. One beast got upon the ice and was immersed. The bellowing of the drowning beast attracted the others to the spot, and they one by one followed to the place, and were gradually immersed by the breaking of the ice and every one drowned. " Queen Christina," says the LidEpoulance, " is said to have written a letter to her daughter, Queen Isabella, blaming severely the policy of the Narvaez cabinet." One of the leaden of the Cretan insurrection has addressed the following letter to the consuls of England and Russia :—" Omaha:, Jan. 3.—Sir,—You have been good enough to send a vessel to take away some unhappy Cretan families, who without that aid would have perished from hunger and cold in the mountains. The whole Crest' nation is thankful to you for that ►ct of humanity, and the captains of the country have charged me to express their gratitude. They hope from the generous nation which you represent the continuation of that assistance. The inhuman war waged against us has deprived of all resource numerous families, who are wandering about in the midst of the snow without shelter, clothes, or food. We hope you will send and take them away. Aocept, Ztusaxgsms, commander of four departments of Canea." The comminion charged with the revision of the penal code at Zurich has just pronounced in favour of the abolition of the punishment of death. The members of the Lewes Liberal Registration Society and their friends were honoured on Thursday evening last by the presence of Professor Fawcett, M.P., who had acceded tett)e invitation of the council of the asso ciation to deliver a lecture. The particular subject chosen by the learned professor was " National Education." The meeting was of a highly influential character, comprising most of the leading liberals of the borough. The Right Hon. Henry Brand, Lord Pelham, and Mr. J. G. D o d son were also amongst those present. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.—REFORMATORY, 300, EUSTON-ROAD, N.W.—Subscriptions received:—Mr. Liddiard, 5/. ; Anon, 55. ; A. S., 2a. 6d. ; Mr. Thompson, If. • E. M. 8., 2/. ; A Former Inmate, 45.; W. R.. 2s. 6d. ; AnOn Bishop's Stortford, ;B. H., 10s. ; Mr. Goddard, 5/. •,14. S. ' la. ; Penrith, Is. ; E. W. S., 21. 6d. ; W. H., 1/. Is. ; E. M., 1/. Is. ; M. C., U. ; and Mr. Christy, 21. 2s. Help for the work of 1 , 367, solicited.—E. W. THOLAa. Secretary. OUTWARD MAIL OF OCT. 20-26. The Avoca reached Melbourne on the 16th, aad Sydney on the 19th December. [This vessel left Calle two days late.] OUTWARD MAIL OF DEC. 4-10. The Nubia arrived at Galle January 6. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. POINT DE GALLE, J. 12. The Messageriea Imperiales steamer Donnai left here to-day for Suez, with the homeward India, China, and Japan mails. She has 100 passengers on board and a full cargo of silk. THE ATLANTIC CABLE. -NO MESSAGES RECEIVED. Up to noon to-day (Thursday) nothing has been received from New York by the Atlantic cable of later date than 21st January. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nON OUR OWN CORRISEONDEIT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Bourse opened (with very great heaviness. Confidence in the new ministerial combinations is utterly wanting. Route was quoted at one moment as low as 68f r. 75c. There was a recovery to a certain extent for the close, and the last prices were Mgr. 90c. for cash, and 08fr. 95c. for account, showing still a fall from yesterday of 25c. and 20c. The comparatively higher closing prices were attri buted to a rumour that the Muniteur will to morrow endeavour to dispel the impression that M. Rouher's administration of the finance department is likely to be marked by loans and extravagance. There was a ministerial council to-day, at which no doubt the unpleasing impressions of the Bourse were con sidered. Mobilier fell 2fr. 50c., and Credit Foncier 3fr. I do not know whether the crowning of the edifice of liberty in France will involve the demo lition such ugly excrescences as the seizure in the Post-office of any foreign journal whose strictures upon French affairs may be unpleaaing, but I do know that my Deify News has not come to hand for three days, and yet there are no obstructions on the railways now. A rapid thaw set in last night, and we have now a southerly wind and a temperature 10 deg. above zero (Chevalier). The Emperor Napoleon has addressed a letter, of which the following is a translation, to Lord Hood : " Palace of the Tuileries. Jan. 20, 1867.—Sir,—I learn with regret from your letter, that the tombs of the English officers killed at the battle of Toulouse are in a state of decay. Soldiers who fall on a foreign land belong to that land, and it ie the duty of all to honour their memory. I shall talcs upon myself the expense of repairing these tombs. Receive the assurance of my sentiments. —NAPOLZON." DEATH OF THE EARL OF KINORTON. —The death is announced this morning of Robert, fourth Earl of Kingston, in the 70th year of his age. He was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1818, being second class in classics. He appears in the honour list as Viscount Kingsborough. He is enooeeded in his title and estates by his brother, the Hon. James Kingston, who was born in 1800, and was called to the bar by the Hon. Society of Lincoln's.inn in 1827. The first Lord Kingston was so created by Charles IL ; his title, however, expired on the fourth possessor. It was revived in the person of his brother's grandson ; the second earl of the new creation was father of the first viscount. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—The steamer Chicago, from New York, has arrived here. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OP THE FRENCH AND THEIR MINISTERS. We read in the Paris correspondence of the Times :—" The cabinet council that was to meet on Wednesday was postponed, in consequence of the court ball, to Thursday, and on that day, before any other business was entered upon, the Emperor quietly drew from his pocket a sheet of paper, read to his ministers the draught of his project, informed them that as be had defini tively made up his mind upon it he would not trouble them for any observations, and requested them to proceed forthwith to the ordinary business of the day. The minis ters received the gracious communication with respect ; not without surprise, but they said nothing. On Saturday the council of ministers met again, and, the Emperor having settled in his own mind what to do with them, they were allowed to have their say. The Empress was present and took part in the conference. There can be no indelicacy in alluding to this illustrious lady, who is, to all intents and purposes, a political personage. Her Ma jesty has over and over again presided at cabinet councils : she almost always takes a share in the proceedings, and sometimes signs decrees and ordinances. In the present instance it is related that her Majesty was pleased to ex prese herself not over satisfied with the concessions granted by the Emperor, as they gave rather too much latitude to the opposition, and too much disarmed authority. IL Chasseloup Laubat (Marine) inclined to more liberal views, and, perhaps, took some exceptions to the ject. There is some uncertainty as to how Mar shal Hendon expressed himself on this particular subject, though there were none as to what be thought of the pro ject for the organisation of the army. IL Lavalette, strange to say, took rather a liberal view, though he might not completely disapprove the plan. M. Fould did not conceal his opinion that it could hardly he looked upon as serious. He would cordially support any well-considered serious measure that would enlarge the circle of public liberty, and at the same time maintain the proper autho rity of the executive ; but he did not think that the one in question had that character. After hearing with his wonted serenity and patience all the ministers had to say, his Majesty was pleased to notify to his ministers that he had made up his mind, and he invited' them to resign en masse. The invitation' was at once accepted." LIFEBOAT SERVICES. TEIG/sIIOUTH, DEVON, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Shortly after midnight this morning (states Mr. G. P. H. Rowell) a telegram was received here stating that a large vessel was on shore near Dawlish, and desiring that the lifeboat China, belonging to the National Life boat Institution, might be sent to her assistance. The crew were at once roused, and the boat launched with all possible speed. The wind had been blowing all day from the S.E., and there was a heavy sea running. After pro ceeding along the coast for about an hour the lifeboat die covered the vessel between Dawlish and Langston Point. She was anchored in the broken sea, close to the shore, in a very dangerous positioe, and rolling very heavily. She was the brig Thomas, of Milford, bound from Dieppe to the Bristol Channel in ballast. The crew of the lifeboat advised the master not to leave his vessel, and afterwards put two of their number on board with the view of getting her off shore. She had both anchors down, but there was a tremendous strain on them, and she rolled to such an extent that the hawse-pipes and part of her stem were carried away. The lifeboat re mained by the vessel some time until the wind veered to the south-west, when sail was made and the brig stood out to sea. Should the wind increase, the lifeboat men on board will take her into Exmouth. The lifeboat then re turned to her station, which was reached about 8 o'clock this morning. WINCHELSEA, WEDNINDAY NIGHT. This morning the French barque Marie Amelie, of Quimper, stranded off this place (reports Henry Barra, Esq.). The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution on this station was at once launched to her assistance. She took the ship's anchor out to seaward, thereby pre venting her drifting further ashore with the tide, and the Rye harbour steam-tug has since towed the ream! off. Fortunately no lives have been lost. HOWTH, DUBLIN BAY, IT AN. 22. A vessel was seen in the offing yesterday with a signal of distress flying (says Staff Commander Id. D. Burney, R.N.), she was drifting fast to the shore. It had been blowing a gale from the eastward and there was a heavy sea running. The Howth lifeboat, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution, was thereupon at onoe launched and found her to be the schooner Fanny Hill bury, of London, bound from Liverpool to Sierra Leone, with a general cargo. The master stated that he had lost both anchors and that she had struck on the Kish Bank. The weather having moderated and a pilot having been taken on board the vessel was fortunately enabled to dispense with the services of the lifeboat. The traffic on the North British Railway, be tween Edinburgh and Carlisle, was suspended from 9on Tuesday night till noon yesterday by snow. Between Hayrick and Riccarton the snowdrifts blocked the line for 13 miles, and five goods trains were snowed up all night. The traffic is now resumed. The Home for Gentlewomen in Reduced Cir cumstances, 25, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, has received • timely addition to its funds from the Goldsmiths' Com pany, who have a second time sent the committee a dona tion of 25/. The Marquis of Cholmondeley has also for warded a handsome present of game to the lady Inmates. UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.—Professor De Morgan has formally announced his intention of resigning the pa. feasorship of mathematics in the University of London, and the council have decided that they will receive appli cations up to Thursday, the 4th of April. Mr. De Morgan took the B.A. delat Cambridge in 1827, being 4th wrangler. On leav ing Cambridge he entered at Lincoln's inn, and commenced studies for the bar, but abandoned them on obtaining in Pei the professorship of mathe matics in the newly-founded University of London. LORD STANLEY ON THE FRANCH BE. —Lord Stanley has written the following letter in reference to en invitation to attend • meeting of the Huddersfield Working Men 'a (Conservative) Association, which was held last night :—" Foreign-ollice, Jan. 4, 18b7.—Sir,—I havetaken a day to think over your letter, which reached me yester day, and it is with real regret that I find myself unable to accept an invitation so flattering in itself, and conveyed in language so expressive of such cordial good feeling. But the premiere of business here has compelled me to de cline, for the present, all requests to attend public meet ings in the provinces, and I cannot well break through the rule which I have laid down for myself in one case without doing so in others. I see with great pleasure the growth of conservative associations among working men. The more we have of them the better. Every body, as far as I know, desires that the beat of the working class should be admitted to the franchise ; and it is the interest of these, quite as much as it is that of capi talists or landowners, that the right of voting should not he rendered practically valueless in their hands by being extended to others who, from (perhaps) inevitable ignorance, are unfitted for so grave and responsible a trust.—Sincerely reciprocating your good wishes. I remain your obedient servant, STANLEY.— W. Garner, Esq."—At the meeting referred to, the Earl of Dartmouth said be was certain that whatever measures Lord Derby might decide upon bringing forward for the amendment of the representation, they would be based upon well matured counsels. Major Waterhouse, M.P., said he hoped the government would shortly intro duce • measure which would command the approbation of the country at large, and he should be deeply disappointed if the government were inactive in the matter. At the same dinner Mr. W. E. Ferran.' proposed " Her Majesty's Ministers," and he was "warmly rec e i ve d." Referring to Mr. Bright, be said that that member had charged Lord Grosvenor, Lord Elcho, and Mr. Lowe with being dirty conspirators • there were not I three more honourable men in Eng land. (Applause.) He had charged Mr. Garth with going through dirt to dignities." He (Mr. Ferrand) held in his hand statements which substantiated almost entirely every word uttered by Mr. Garth, but, it was lei. possible to take up their time by *adieg them ou that occasion. The other day Mr. Bright delibe ately wrote that he (Mr. Ferrand) was the greatest ruffian that bail appeared in the House of Commons during the last 50 years. (Loud laughter.) He made that charge on the pretended statement of a man who had been dead 20 years ; and he said that gentleman had made the remark to Mr. Cobden, who had also been dead some time. This was a libel on the dead. Not • man in England believed it, and the man who believed it least was Mr. Bright him self. The toast was acknowledged by Mr. F. S. Powell, M. P. --- - SINGULAR FATAL Accintrr.—A fatal accident of a very painful character occurred at 'Winton on Wednes day. Dirs. Petherbridge, wife of a respectable farmer of Marldon, finding her husband late on his return from Newton market, feared that something had happened to him. She directed the man-servant to put the horse in the trap, and drove off with him in the direction of Newton. She bad not proceeded above a couple of miles when she met her husband on horseback. The hones, knowing each other, stopped suddenly, and Mr. Petber , bridge being, as it is supposed, drowsy, and not on the alert, was pitched over the head of the horse by the sudden and unexpected stoppage, and killed on the apot.—Sher borne Journal. DEATH OP THE PROVOST OP TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.-( THIS DAY.) V.ZCTRIC TILIOBAPH.) DUBLIN, THVR,DAY. Dr. Macdonnell, Provost of Trinity College, died early this morning. Hs was 80 years of age, CONSOLIDATED BANK (LIMITED).-(THIS DI g,l The half-yearly meeting was held at noon, at the London Tavern ; Mr. J. A. TURNER in the chair. The report and accounts, which were previously i mei t having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN, in moving their adoption, erpr esi d his regret that in the absence of the chairman oi the board (Mr. J. P. Heywood) it had M aw ., his duty to take the chair. He was glad to ay that he then met the shareholders under much happier cit. cumstanoes than he did some time ago in London and /tie. cheater. On a former occasion the shareholders we, asked to assent to the reorganisation of the blank. Th., did so, and he thought they all now s towed that they did so. One condition of the temp. nisation was the issuing of 50,000 new shares. Th.„,, shares bad been allotted • 2/. had been called up and the remaining 2/. would be ca lled up in dee time. The pry posal made to the creditors was also assented to, sad they were now well satisfied with the arrangement. Th e payments agreed upon had been duly made, and the bow were enabled to offer payments in advance. They vase now ready to pay off all the rums due in June heti, deducting only the Bank rata of interest at this d a y. They had virtually paid their debts, for it would h e the fault of every cr edi tor if he did not have his money to morrow morning. At the last meeting held in Maneb nte he was enabled to announce that the caps,' of the bank was intact, that the reserve fund m s also intact, and that the board proposed to pay at ma the extraordinary expenses connected with the autp m . soon of the bank ; and considering the heavy clu ism which had had to be borne, it was, he p m . mired, very satisfactory that there remained a net divisible profit of 32,116/. Under theme circumstances a t shareholders were entitled to their interest. The bed was now resuscitated ; it was gradually getting back K. counts which were unavoidably 11)4 sod obtaining note, connected with the Bank of London and otb ss concerns ; and he congratulated the meeting that it migite now look forward to a prosperous career. (Cheer) report was adopted and a dividend at the rate of i per cent. per annum having been declared, the peeee t d. tugs terminated in the usual manner. THE REFORM LEAGUE AND THEIR PROPOSED DEMONSTRATION. Last night upwards of 150 delegates from metro politan trade, friendly, temperance, and other wirers met at Eadley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, at then. elation of the president and executive of the Reform League, for the purpose of oonsidering the arragenienta made by that body for their proposed demonstration on the 11th February. Mr. EDMOND BLUES presided. After a few opening remarks from the chairman a plan for the general and district organisation prepare. tory to the holding of the demonstration, and which has already been published in these columns, was read and unanimously adopted. The Chairman said the executive and the provisional committees appointed b 7 trade and other societies had decided upon having not only • procession, but a great evening meeting in the Agicultural-ball on the same day ; and in order that the working men should be put to as little inconvenience u possible, and that they might be enabled to have a half day's work, they proposed that the procession should meet at Trafalgar-square at 1 o'clock, converging from the four points on a plan of a military character prepared by Lieut.-Colonel Dickson. The pro cession having been formed, they would leave Trafalgar. square at 2 o'clock and proceed through Pall-malt, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, Regent-street, and Oxfunb street, and then proceed by the best route to the Agricul tural-hall. They calculated that the procession would occupy three hours in reaching the hall. The event; meeting would be held at 7 o'clock, and they should ta. deavour to have the attendance of Mr. Bright, Mr. Ernest Jones, The O'Donoghue, and other gentlemen of lima. nem* in the reform movement. The intended to dam threepence for admission to the hall, as tlty would have to pay • large sum to the prune occupiers to be permitted to hold the anise meeting, at which it was computed they could give sitting accommodation to 18,000 persons. At the last reform meeting held at the Agricultural-hall the proceeding were nothing more than mere dumb show, but owiag to recent alterations, including the putting up of sambas. boards, it was believed that if quietude was preserved tie speakers would be audible at the remotest corner of the building. They had decided not to meet in Hyde-par:, and he would give the reasons which induced thew is adopt that resolution. The first was that 14 did not consider the present • suitable time of lea for holding out-of-door meetings, either in Hyde-pat or anywhere else, and the other reason—and the more is• patent one—was that there were legal difficulties ineolvel in the question as to the use of Hyde-park for pubis meeting. Under what were called the " Household Act: the management of Hyde-park was vested in the Comae sioners of Woods and Public Buildings, subject to the directions of the Treasury, both bodies being respoutibk to parliament for the control and authority they exercised in respect to the use of it. Parliament was therefore, se to speak, the court to which they would have to appeal in case they disputed the point with the Treasury and the Commissioners of Woods and Public Buildings, so that they had no ground for hope, being thrown upon the judgment and interposition of a tribunal which had al ready shown its disposition to prefer the recreation and amusement of the wealthier classes as regarded Hyde park, to the wishes and desires of the people, however reasonable. They wished to attain their ends by moral and righteous means, and it would be the fault of an un wise, an unjust, and a violent resistance upon the part of others if they were at any time or under any circumatanos compelled to deviate from that line of conduct. Mr. Bradlaugh moved, and Mr. Mantle seconded, a resolution expressive of the sanction of the meeting to the arrange. menta proposed by the chairmen. Mr. 4'..bk thought that, notwithstanding whet the asimat hail said, they should meet in Hyde-park. He thouJil the working men should not be bound by Mr. Bales' compromises; and he would move that Hide park be chosen as the place of meeting. The motion foiled no seconder, and was accordingly lost. Mr. Lucraft umed an amendment, to the effect that, the meeting in the Age cultural-hall be held at 1 o'clock on the day named, and at its close a procession be formed to escort the bearers of petitions in favour of manhood suffrage and the ballot to Trafalgar-square the petitioners then to proceed is Westminster-ball, and place the petitions in the hands of those members who would present them to the house. In the course of the disco sion which followed the moving of the amendment, the propositions contained in which being condemned n wanting feasibility, and if carried out calculated to leftist the rough element into the proceedings, owing to de lateness of the hour of meeting in Trafalgarequare, Mr. Bales said the plan of petitioning proposed by Mr. Langley could not be conveniently earned out. and the gentlemen who, it was stated, would present them, had been previously consulted on the subject, and were mow orlessopposed to the plan suggested. Petitions if pre. ntel to the house should be on the tloorof the house at 4 ticlotl. so that Mr. Lucraft's proposition could not be carried on The resolution was then put and carried era. dia Guedalla moved a resolution to the effect, that the resolm tion of the League in reference to Hyde.park ahould art be considered decisive or prejudicial to them on any future occasion. The resolution was agreed to and the aradings terminated. The Lord Chancellor has, it is said, given 31r. P. H. Welch, the registrar of the Leeds Court. slu absent from duty on account of bankruptcy, two :..on:h4' further leave of absence. The duties of the office in the meanwhile will continue to be discharged by 31 1 '.. 1 - Winder, the acting registrar. MANCHESTER REFORM CLUB. —A nee' Mona Club in Manchester has been organised by a unailsr leading reformers in the district, with the object of brine' ing together the liberals of all sections iu the county. T ti have taken temporary offices in Spring-ganleus. T . elected Mr. I. N. Philips, M.P., president. The cloth to be formally opened on the Ith February. Mr. t:oldsin Smith and Mr. J. S. Mill have accepted invitations to s luncheon on the occasion. As the association will nut lit confined to nny particular Section of the literal I"rtY• re political test will be applied as a condition of mender• ship beyond the general profession of liberal opinions. Seventy-two deaths occurred in the two Dulls workhouses between Saturday morning last and Moe a? among those admitted within a few days before, after e • treme suffering from sold and want of food. k MURDER or A %OVATE AT ROME.—The gives an account of a murder in Rome. A Pontiticd Zouave, a Frenchman, named Gazer, was cria-ing Square Santa Maria, in Trastevere, on his way to the Benedictine monastery, where some of the conijorcts of that corps are quartered, when a mire tiro behind stealthily, and seizing him around the 1.7, plunged a poignanl into his throat. The ram?' artery was severed, and he expired iiiiiiinfid‘ ll after. The crime was, however. witnesiad 1' patrol of soldiers, and the murderer arrested. He era , man of herculean strength and still covered with the blood of the victim. He showed no fortitude .mote` tr after the murder, falling on his knees when arteste'l " 1 ' bewailing his fate. "He was removed," says the M.'''. " half dead with fear by the troops, and a perqui.i' l made at his residence showed that he was an instrtunts t of the party of action. A certain emotion reigns in the corps of Zouaves—not of surprise at the cowardice of then enemies, but at their inability to avenge their conirn.k. The name of the assassin is Aquila, a native of :Cie"; This murder is the first thing to disturb the peace " ng Rome has enjoyed since the departure of the Inn: troops." Th (hi'. •e Ike i•he o he h he I he h ne f • e ' .they vor lain .f tl ere! 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