The Express. — London, England, 1864-04-12 00:00:00

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Dr2l6ON tesperAbill) intones the nobility and gentry that the above advetablished business has hewn REMOVED to "136," where, In future, all orders are refloated tote aildronsetl. 135. Word-street. TN what Happy Laud eaa I see you after the -opaftr 1.4 know nt one "Happy Land" In which a gentleman may enp—EVAS3I I , Lk:went-garden. my deer Inlog GARIBALDIS GARLAND. —PIESSE and N...A LU BIN have wade a special BOUQUET—Britannia's tribute to the brave. LABORATORY 0? nowaas. 2, NEW BOND-STREET. the enireoo. TO_ COBJLIAPONDKNIS. Levertbutoorao intab ' dili . for TiO — klyteas London trosdog PAW. MUSS he M the .)Inee, 10, Wouvertostrwit, bp Two o'ock on the day of pudgiest/ow. IiATUA LIGET. Tnrs ER/MlO, 07.11 27171rIZAN Corms. steam fsothern and Ruckatonn ; Maws Angel, Harris, Snowdon. —VENUS AND ADONIS. Ileum Compton. Farren : Slims Keeley. nnowdon, N. Moore, Rogers, HILL—And TURNING Tin TABLES. raiNcns:& Evimr.va. PAM; i11aa... " Mears. Vining. Notion, Fidler: Ileedaines Unravel sad Kate Saviltd—Tki II COSI !WV OF F.E.R011.9. Ileum Nelson, and the Bendeere Webb. —And DILAWINGROUX, FaIOUND FLOOR, LND LYCKI33L 'MY STUB°. A DAY At TER THE lAI IL Mr. Wlddloorob and !dims J 4 Lemma —And BILL D 1114.0110. Born. P. Morton, Brougham, risen, Moreland, Charles, and Jordau Mama Terry, Lamely mad ILMeceilty, sad Mn. Lem eitru N xi A. ..... Inn Iwo& THE LEMHANDED MARRIAGE. Mrs. & Lane and all the Company.-111E GREAT ORGST EFFECT. —THE SPOILED cHILD Master Percy Rcselle.—And CILAILLOTtE COEDAY.—Commence at el. wATAK 2 II LONDON BILIDOL SOY DAY Morn's& Oh. 4W. —Afbrowse. Weo6uoW-- Atonsw. 6h. Am .A/OrieWere. 6h. &Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 12. A GOOD fifth of the population of this vast city went out yesterday to bid welcome to one of the simplest and poorest of men. No princely retinue of guards and courtiers attending on his steps— no pomp and circumstance of sovereignty en circling him, GARIBALDI came, saw, and conquered London with a smile. Something, perhaps, of the vanity latent in all human things lurks in the pride and pleasure with which a great nation I receives its illustrious guests—something akin to that "vanity of giving" which the French ' moralist discovers in charity itself. Doubt less the eye of a morbid anatomist of public celebrations might have detected some grains of coarseness and frivolity in the popular 1 rejoicing ; and next Saturday, we dareeay, some I fastidious tine gentleman will point his little sneer at the dingy glories of the procession, and tell his readers how ho held his nose when he sniffed the British public from the corner of Pall-mall. Nevertheless, the aspect of London streets yes terday, from Vauxhall to Westminster, and from Westminster to Pall-mall, will not easily be forgotten by those who witnessed it. It was no mere mob of idlers and sightseers, gap ing at the majestic and padded figure of a Czar, or peering through the half-closed carriage win dows at some modern Cover, who might have been a modern Catiline. Yesterday it was not only from clubs and hotels and private houses, from shops and offices and counting-houses, that the thousands upon thousands poured forth ; it was the hardest-working citizens of the most hard-working capital in the world, men worn and wan, begrimed and seething with toil, that came out to give Gain BALDI welcome. That was the pageant yesterday. Half a million of the British people moved as one man by one com mon, vehement impulse of admiration and affection for a good man of GoD's own making. Never was an immense and eager multitude so patient, so good tempered, so orderly, so sympathetic—never was an act of public homage to true greatness so spontaneous and universal. There was scarce a man, woman, or child in all that crowd that was not familiar with the story of GARIBALDI'S life, with the sweet austere gentle ness of his looks, and the easy grace and pic turesqueness of his dress. They had all read and heard of him, and known him, so to speak, in his habit as he lived. Six long hours they waited yesterday without murmuring to see with their own eyes the actual living hero of all those marvellous exploits and adventures by land and sea—the man who bad compered and given away a kingdom, who had deliberately preferred a pea sant's home to a palace, poverty to wealth, humi lity to power. Brave as a lion, gentle as a lamb ; inflexible, incorruptible, unalterably loyal ; GARI BALDI'S soul they read like an open tablet in his eyes; and the people looked upon him yesterday not as a stranger, but as some dear familiar friend returning home. Naples itself could hardly in her moat delirious moments greet her deliverer with a more loving enthusiaam. And GARIBALDI knows the difference between the suppressed intensity and habitual reti cence of English feeling, and the fickle incontinence of Southern passion. Heaven smiled kindly on this happy meeting ! AU rent well ; and if that respectable weakness in English society which the great humourist we have lately lost so happily depicted, has been propitiated by the fact that GARIBALDI is the guest of a Duke, on the other hand the Duke deserves well of the country for doing honour to his own house and order, in entertaining a guest whose visit marks an epoch in the histories of England and Italy. Tee question which Mr. HOXSMAN put to Lord PALM EUTON last night deserved a better answer than it received. The hon. gentleman wished to know whether, if it were the result of the Conference that engagements were entered into in the name of England, Ministers would submit those engagements to the consideration of Parliament before advising their ratification by the Crown. As we have not heard that such a course has been proposed by the Government we may suppose that Mr. HOESMAN wished to recommend it to the notice of Parliament, and to the adoption of the Government. To propose to ask the pre vious assent of the country by its represen tatives to the engagements which are to be contracted in its name, is no more than to re cognise as applicable to our diplomacy the same principles that are acknowledged as constitutional In oar domestic affairs. The management of our relations with foreign courts, so far as concerns TIT EX ; PitE4Bi givEl3 , ,aky EYENNG, APRIL 12,- temporary co-operation and acts of friendship, may no doubt require at times a certain amount of re serve in order that our negotiations may be con ducted to a successful termination, and this is the only excuse for the exceptional secrecy of diplo macy. We have a light to have our affairs administered by men to whom we may extend as much confidence as is implied in this confidential exercise of power. But with respect to permanent engagements which are to serve as the source and record of our duties to our neighbours, there is no reason why the country should not be— there is every reason why it should be—fully con sulted before they are assumed in its name. In dealing with Mr. Hoasmis's question, Lord PAL trxiihroN limited himself to a statement of the ex isting practice. He observed that ours is a mixed constitution, in which different functions are assigned to the various bodies of the State. The making of treaties with foreign Powers is a function of the Crown, performed under the advice of responsible Ministers, and it is not the practice of the Crown to consult Parlia ment as to the advice on which it may think pro per to act. Such is the practice, and Lord Par.- :enterers" says that the course suggested by Mr. Humr el! would be contrary to the principle of the constitution. In reality, however, this is a much simpler matter than would appear from Lord PiLuratsrox's statement. The acts of the Crown are the acts of the Ministers of the day, who alone are responsible for them to the country, and Lord PALMERSTON, in standing up for the present system, is merely defending the custom of exempting a large and most important sphere of the acts of a Government from the con trol of Parliament. So far from its being contrary to the principle of the constitution to consult Par liament before committing the country to engage mental with foreign Powers, the spirit of the con stitution requires that that course should be followed, and the present practice is grossly anoma lous. If the Government makes mistakes in its home legislation and administration it may repair them with comparative ease. But if it commits the country to an engagement with foreign Powers it parts with its liberty. The ill conse quences of its acts may not be immediately apparent. Those who discern them and point them out, can obtain no heed to their warnings : everybody is so glad that any settlement at all has been achieved. Perhaps years roll ou, and the case arises for the fulfilment of the pledges given, and thus the aye tem is brought to a trial. The people with their rude common sense judge that they are not bound to make enormous sacrifices, per haps the greatest of all sacrifices, that of peace, in order to carry out a treaty on which they were never consulted. The nation will not be moved by strong appeals to its pride. And then—unless the Government itself has for some reason ceased to take an interest in the fulfilment of its foreign engagements—is seen in national schism the fruit of that irresponsible action of Ministers which our statesmen are desirous of keeping up by hacknied theories of the separate functions of the Crown and Parliament. Under cover of the Royal name Ministers make treaties which at the critical moment the country, formerly neglected but now mighty in its passive obstructiveness, calmly de clines to endorse. It would seem that of all parties in the State the Crown has the chief inte rest in putting an end to such a system. THIS evening will, we doubt not, witness the performance of an act of justice. How far a large and distant dependency can be considered as au addition to the strength of the mother country, or how far it is an advantage to an em pire to embrace a territory upon which the sun can never set, may be, perhaps, an open question. But one thing at least is plain. The greater the empire, the more essential is it that its government should be con ducted upon fair and liberal principles. The more numerous and important its dependencies, the more needful it is that to none of them should be given just cause of discontent. The case that is to come before the House of Commons to-night is just one of those to which a wise and liberal statesman will give his fullest attention. The sic Colo sic jubeo of a despotic power reeks little of the individual hardships that may follow the execu ' Con of its commands. It looks simply to the immediate end in view, and is in so far more powerful, as its total disregard of all incidental suffering enables it to advance to that end by a more direct and simple road. With a constitu tional government it is otherwise. Existing only by consent of the governed, and for the express purpose of promoting to the utmost their well-being, it is part of its very principle to be careful, not only of the end, but of the means. It is not enough that in any measure the maximum of general advantage should be ob tained; they must see, also, that the minimum of inconvenience is incurred in its execution. A case is now before us in which a great public benefit has been obtained at some ooet of individual hardship. We have no doubt but th►t once fairly under stood, that hardship will be promptly remedied. The case is to come on for adjudication this even ing, and as we, in common with all friends of pro gress, are interested in the issue, we have no hesitation in once more laying before our readers a brief statement of the question. The Acta of Parliament which transferred the administration of Indian affairs from the Com pany to the Government at home, and provided for the amalgamation of the army of India with that of England, expressly stipulated against any in fringement of the rights and privileges of those whose allegiance was thus transferred. Among the most cherished privileges of the officers of the Company's army was that which secured their pro motion in regular sequence of seniority. On this understanding their entire system was founded, and one of its most important results was the establishment of a fund which facilitated the re tirement of the higher ranks, and thus secured the more rapid promotion of those below them. In amalgamating the forces it was found expedient to create a special corps, called the Staff Corps, consisting of officers from all branches of the service. Into the intrinsic merits of this arrangement we are not now concerned to enter. But granting to the full the advantages claimed for it by its supporters, we still maintain that in carrying oat the new plan it is incumbent on the country to take care that no injustice is done to the service at large. Unwittingly, no doubt, the arrangements at first proposed with this object did unquestionably involve no inconsiderable hardship on a very large proportion of Indian officers. The privileges granted to members of the Staff Corps placed those whom accident or circumstance had excluded from it in a position of disadvantage in respect of promotion and its contingent benefits altogether at variance with the provisions of the Acta by which their ancient privileges were secured to them. A complaint of this led to the institu tion of a Royal Commission of Inquiry, and the report of this Commission bears out in all essential points the position of the complainants. The report of the Commission is to oonte this evening before the House of Commons, and it will be foe it to decide what remedy shall be granted. To our own mind it appears sufficiently simple. All the peti tioners ask is to be placed again, as they have always hitherto been, upon a footing of equality with their brother officers. We have no hesitation in avowing our conviction that the request is just and moderate. We would even go further than this. We would remind the House of Commons, and with it the country at large, that these petitioners are the men to whose gallantry and devotion they owe in no small degree the very existence of the mighty empire with whose interests they are now to deal. If India be really of value to England, if Indian cotton has preserved us from the consequences of the terrible struggle now raging on the other aide of the Atlantic, and placed it in our power to aid, at least by abstinence, the noble fight against des potism and slavery ; if Indian fertility is to pro vide our future wealth, and Indian commerce be our future safeguard against the insolent encroach ments of the Slave Power of the South ; let us at least not forget that all this would have been lost but for the cool valour and steady endurance of those who now ask from us in return only the recognition of their own just and lawful rights. We cannot doubt but that that prayer will be fully granted, and we confidently look to the debate of this evening to render to the Indian army that measure of justice which it is, in truth, no has our interest than our duty to accord. GENERAL GARIBALDeII VISIT TO THE OPERA. — According to the official announcement, General Garibaldi will visit the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, on Thursday evening next. The opera selected for the occasion is Norma, and, in addition, the second and third acts of Masaniello, the latter, of course, in compliment to the illustrious visitor. The entrance and reception are to be by the Floral Hall, which is to be htted up for the purpose, and the box to be occupied by the General is near the stage on the left hand. There will be a moat brilliant assemblage of she aristocracy, and the occasion cannot fail to be most flattering and gratifying to the Italian patriot. Cbt Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Aran.ll. The Queen, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley, walked in the grounds this morning. The King of the Belgians, attended by General Count de Moerkerke, went to Claremont and visited the Queen Marie Amrlie. In correction of the description of the dress worn by the Queen at the Court on Saturday last, it is to be stated that her Majesty ware disown& only in the cap, and an opal brooch set is 6antonds. A deputation of rum raisers had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, yesterday. The deputation consisted of Mr. Fairrie, Mr. Gadsden. Mr. Fingal, of Bristol ; Mr. Wirle, of Liverpool ; Mr. Robert M'Fie, of Glasgow ; Mr. Lucas, Mr. Ricks, and Mr. layer, of Manchester. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Primer Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset, arrived at Windsor Garde yesterday on a visit to the Q{looo. Their royal highnesses will probably remain the guests of her Majesty for a day or two. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland intend to leave Alowick Ciudle on the 26th instant for linrthamberland Honer for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone will have a dinner and evening party on Wednesday, the 20th inst., for General Garibaldi His excellency the Lord-Lieutenant left Ireland yesterday for London, where he will remain for some days. . . Mr, Percy Windham intends, on the 29th, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if it is the intention of her Majesty's government to kiss in a bill this session to amend the Salmon Fisheries Act (1861). Colonel Barttelot, on going into Committee of Ways and Means, will move, "That the consideration of the duties upon sugar be postponed urtil the hones shall have had the opportunity of considering the expediency of the reduction of the duty upon malt." Mr. Alderman Salomon intends, on Thursday, to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department. if he has yet approved the proposed bye-laws for the City of London, and especially if be intends to sanction bye-law Na 12, " which virtually proposes to withhold the common kw right of way through the principal streets of the City from dealers in fruit, fish, and vegetables." Mr. ficholefield, on Thursday, in committee of the whole house, will move for leave to bring in a bill to amend the law of partnership. "It to understood," says the Times, "that the arrangement between Memos. Jones Loyd and Co. and the London and Westminster Bank has thus far resulted in about three-fourths of the country connexion of Nam. Jones Loyd and Co. having joined the London and West minster, and aboo a large majority of the London accounts." - . Mention is requested by Mr. A. L. Elder that he has retired from the direction of the Imperial Beak in con @squirms of his dissatisfaction with the procesdinp of the bank in conneaion with the circular to the customers of Mews. Jones Loyd and Co., to which reference was made on the 6th inst. THE PRESENTATION OE THE FREEDOM OF THE CHT TO GARIBALDL This afternoon the General Purposes Committee of the Corporation met at Guildhall for the pur pose of definitively settling the prelimin►ry arrange ments with reference to the presentation of the freedom to General Garibaldi. Wednesday, the 20th, having been named to the City Chamberlain by the General as a convenient day for him to receive the tribute, that day, at 2 o'clock, was fixed upon, the Lord Mayor having consented to call a special court for the purpose. It was then, after some discussion, decided that the presentation should take place in the Court of Common Council, at the Guildhall. GARIBALDI'S Calinteoft.--Sitting with General Garibaldi yesterday, in hie carriage, were the two eons of the morel, Mr. Seely, M.P., and Mr. Henry Negretti. A TELEGRAM TOR GLEIRALDL—At Stafford House last evening General Garibaldi found a telegram in the Italian language &welting him, the translation of which is as follow' :—" Milan, Aprillo.—Welowne to you, honour able co-worker! All thanks to the great Englieh nation for its demonstrations of sympathy with our dear Italy.—Ten Arrisncm. Bomar or Prowrzse." CAPITAL CoxvlLTions. —This morning a parlia mentary return was Waled, showing the number of minas capitally convicted in the United Kingdom far each of the last five years, from the Ist day of January, 1&59, to the Ist day of January, 1864. In Ireland there were 21 oapital convictions, but only 11 executions, the sentence in the other mace being commuted to penal servitude. In England sad Wales during the 5 years there were 308 convictions and 73 executions. In Scotland 11 persona were capitally convicted, but only two, in the five years, executed, the capital sentences being remitted in the other came sad penal servitude for life substituted. The Oat-Deutsche Post announces that the French miaow M Vienna ham received and forwarded to Paris a splendid litingarian ocetnaw intended for the Empress o the French. It casuiste of a violet velvet doses richly em broidered with silver, a dolman with large Riker buttes., and a small Hungarian hat. PAMIR RACII.—The spring meeting at Long champs cancotimed yesterday (Sunday), sad, the weather being Sas, an Mum= amber of 'pedalos were as the ground. The Empress was present, and the ladies' blades and the parterre et the Claud Stand presented the usual array of brilliant toilettes. Some altemtioos have been made since last year, to afford additional i eecomodatioa. The further Ode-stand his loom d eluded in the plead, and a sew one has bees greeted beyond it ; while a third storey be added to the plat form as the tensor above the cadre' pavilions. The pro rsmss contained loon noes, is which three-yea:4d bores were aimed, and lode were estertsiaed of obtain ing some doe to the probable wissers of the peat events of the prowat 1111111011. The reselt, however, ceded some diespgrointment ; for although is three came the admen were three-year olds. woe of them are eagsged is either the Great Pavia Trim the near& Diary, or the ado. The horses entered for those roses which did *ppm pgoved to P be of very inftrioe qualll7.-61/4thgeast. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE SLESWIG INVASION. A temporary auxiliary—rain—has come to the assistance of the Danes. The Prussians who work at the second parallel are at present knee-deep in mud. A tremendous storm burst over the siege works, extending to some distance. The last accounts received state that the Danish fortifica tions have suffered but little from the fire of the Prussian artillery, which displays extraordinary precision. Nearly every ball, however, sinks into the earthwork, and causes no further damage. The Danes continue to strengthen their defences. They have received from Copenhagen several other batteries of 24-pounder ritled cannon, the range of which is as long as that of the Prussian guns, so that the besieged will now be able to fight with equal weapons. Unfortunately their small nume rical strength does not allow them to make frequent sorties. The besiegers take advantage of that circumstance to push on their works of approach ; the fire of the place is not sufficient to check them, and those who understand such matters are able to foresee the moment of the assault, and think that this time it will take place under circum stances favourable to the besiegers. The Prussian columns will only have a distance of 30 paces to pass before they come hand to band with the de fenders. The Danes fight with extraordinary bravery, but they are one against ten, and the enemy's forces can be reinforced indefinitely. A number of Swedes and Norwegians have arrived to enter the ranks of the Danish army. Among them are a certain number of officers who still wear their national uniform. They were received with open anus. In the north the Danes have commenced a guerilla warfare, one of surprises and coups-de main, which seems to succeed well. They even appear to have one occasion nearly carried the town of Apenrade, situated between the two head quarters of Folding and of Flensburg. There have been some skirmishes on the Horsens road and near Constant* and two or three encounters be tween the Danish and Austrian patrols in the neighbourhood of Fredericia, but they have not been serious, the results being only a few men kilted or wounded and some horses captured. (ILEUTZWB 172.1:GRAMS.) SLES WIG. FLENSBURG, Ana 12. A rescript of the Civil Commissioners prohibits all public officers in Sleewig, under penalty of im mediate dismissal, from affixing their signatures to any resolutions or addresses having reference to the Loudon conference. THE BOMBARDMENT OF DUFFEL. COPENHAGEN, Aran., 11. L 56, a.m. A violent fire was uninterruptedly kept up by the enemy until 7 p.m., yesterday. Twenty of our men were wounded. The windmill on Duppel hill has been burnt down. THE FRENCH BUDGET. PARIS, Aram 12, 11.7 A.M. The Budget stipulates that the stamp duty, levied in accordance with the law of 13th May, 1863, on recites, loans, and public securities of foreign go verninents, shall be raised from 50 centimes to 1 franc. This measure is to take effect from the Ist July, 1864. WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, APIUL 12. The Royal Mail steam-ship Seine, with the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 150 passengers, 2,661,693 dole. in specie, and 821 packages of general cargo. She left St. Thomas on the 29th ult., and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. Diplomatic negotiations between Chile and Bolivia had been broken off. The quarrel is prin cipally about the Mejillones Islands and their de posits of guano. Peru and the minister of the United States had offered their intervention. Electioneering was progressing. It was antici pated that the results would be favourable to the liberals. A disastrous fire bad occurred in Valparaiso and property to the value of 400,000 dole. had been destroyed. The fire originated in the best part of the city. Messrs. Huth, Grunning, and Co., and Masan. Green, Nicholson, and Co., English firms, have been completely burnt out. A better tone prevailed in general business. Con siderable sales had been made. Foreign arrivals were numerous. Home charters had declined. Her Majesty's corvette Alert left Valparaiso on the 20th ult., for Vancouver's Island. At Valparaiso Exchange was quoted 44d. to 440. Bar silver, per marc fine, 10 dole. 75 cents. The general news from Peru is unimportant. A measure had emanated from the government to put down gambling houses and punish gamblers. The experiments made in Guatemala for growing cotton had been successful. In Honduras, General Joee Maria Medina had been elected President, and General Florencio Xatruch Vice-President. Alvarez, the opposition candidate, had left the country and taken refuge in the island of Roatan. The Constitutional Assembly in Salvador was holding session. Several laws had been passed, and a commission appointed for reforming the constitution. In Nicaragua President Martin had tendered his resignation, which the Congress had declined to accept. The cotton crop was better than had been ex pected. It was calculated that it would amount to 20,000 quintals. Extensive preparations were making for the next crop. Large tracts of land had been cleared for cultivation. Trade was reported dull at Greytown. The new channel to the harbour was completely closed up. The weather was fine at Jamaica. The cotton cultivation was engaging attention and being ex tended. The sugar crop was backward. Coffee was scarce and prices advancing. Freights were plentiful for Europe. Exchange, 90 days, i per cent. At Demerara the weather was fine, and the ea tatee were busy. Produce was arriving freely at the market. Freights unchanged. E.:change, 90 daps, 470 dollars. Barbadoes was suffering from was* of rain. Sugar reaping and the general yield was unsatisfac tory. The young canes were healthy. Trade dull. Exchange, 4137 i dollars. From St. Domingo nothing important. The in surgents were said to be disheartened. THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. BOUTHAIUTON. Ana 12. The Peninsular and Oriental °Dwane& steamer Syria, with the above mail a, has arrived here. She brings 118 peneengers, a general cargo, and 1201. in specie. - She left Gibraltar on the 7th inst., and on the Bth spoke the steamer Ceylon. Gibraltar : Exchange on London, 90 days, 50k ; on Park, sfr. 300. ; Kamilla', 6h. 31c. Freight& unchanged. lIIDNVIDAY. OX NoadSMat IMIMIDAT. W. to N. and bark COAXES. W. to N. sad L,, mo fresh to moderate, donate, doe. amerally enc. W. to N. and L. mode. WITITX.X. N.W. to N. I. and B.L, pate, ftne. moderate, ans. N. to L. moderate to 8001111111. 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(r 1.7.7 Upwards of a hundred pastors from the various eonsistorion of the deportmenn have come to Paris for the purpose of holding an assembly, in which a deohiratioa of principle is to be proposed and adopted. This step has bees readered memory by the schism which has taken Otos more the Prince proesseaets, in oonesomenos of cortain doctrines propounded by N. Osquersi, the younger, sod which show a leaning towards those of IL Rama, as sapwood in his work " La Vie cis Mos." The Leemkg 'Jerald offsfaroh 30 publishes a full report al the proceedings at a banquet gives the previous Dot by the British community of Oomeleatisople to eel owe Bk Henry Weer an his return to Ormetratimude after ea shwa of some mouth. la Leedom sad Paris. Thu rasa delivered by the embroider was as expeeitioa of the present corditea and prespesti of Turkey, and • ate ems% of British policy is Bart brvrraglog ro G . GaItIBLLDI TO VIVI Para.—At • special gesesol emoting of the town council of Perth, held ea Saturday, it wee resolved unanimously to Write Goland Garibaldi to visit Perth, end to precut him with the freedom of the city.—Edinburgh Courant. Tai PitOPOKIED RKVIVAL Or TUN Wismar BANK. —On Saturday, the following Latter wee mosived by the chairmen of the committee ri the " Western Beak of flooltind ( ) "from the Leeds of the Timmy. A meeting of the provisional committee his, we andieetand, been called to etreeider the letter :—'• Treasury Chambers. April 7, 1814.—Sir,—The Lords Coenatimioame of her Majesty's Treasury have bed before them the memorial from the Provisimal Continitties of the Western Beak of Scotland (Limited) addressed to the Chaneellor of the Exchequer, and their lordships have directed me to acquaint you that they have eked stated to the shareh olde rs of the Western Beak at is answer to a preview me. moral out their behalf, that my lords were unable to recognise any shim on the pert of the eherelsoldere to onr ticapate is say profit whisk may arise from any legisla tive measure for sa additional Sillello4oll of scam in Scot land in subetitatioa of the lapsed knee of WI WesMru Hank Soothed;of sad their lordships ass oily add, is sassier to the prompt sausseriel, that, sot from wait of sym pathy with parties who have suffered lam. hat so t s tive grenade of pablie policy, they amid mot recommend parlienteat to say claim es behalf of the pro posed' Week.% Bank at Soothed (Lialitedr to privileges in respect of hew which here bees forfeited by the former bssk.—l am, sir, your abediat servant, P. Pm. The Mantissa of the Provisiomil Committee of Western Bank of Soothed."—Edinburg k Courant. SHOCKING Dien! THEOVOH LoclJAw.—On Sun day eherticiou • shocking death throagh lockjaw took place at Gay's Hospital. It appeen that about tea days or • yours tout nand Jahn Henry Bawkise, re edit' et 8, Hemsworthatrest, Hosts, was in the sot of breaking • piers ot wood lie which was • rusty will) woes hie knee, musing • ht wound, of which the deemed took no notice. On Friday last Dr. Childs, of Finsbury, was celled is, who ordered his imme diate removal to the hosPtsl. Lockjaw havieg set in, he expired in great agony on Sudsy Assam. 1864. EXPRESS FROM PARIS (now ova ows Conn:poxDun%) PARIS. MONDAY Evanto. K O'Quin's report on the budget was distributed to the deputies to-day, and it is thought that the day for beginning the debate upon it will now be fixed forthwith. The report is a large volume, containing upwards of two hundred pages. The principal modification proposed by the committee is that a credit destined to provide for the obliga tions which the government has contracted with the railway companies to facilitate the creation of certain new lines shall be opened at once, instead of being deferred as the government contemplated. The guarantee given to the Eastern Company began to run on Jan. 1, 1864, and, although I the exact sum to be paid cannot be ascertained until the end of the first quarter of next year, the company will be entitled to call for payments on account before it would be possible to obtain a vote in the ensuing session. Under these circum stances the committee thinks it desirable to take the credit now, and it fixes the amount, for 1863, at the lowest estimate at 13,500,000 fr. The com mittee provides for this surcharge by certain aug mentations in the estimates of receipts, and by the reduction of ten millions in the expenditure, most of which is taken from the "extraordinary" budget. After these chauges, and some augmen tations under the head of public worship and I primary instruction, the two budgets (ordinary and extraordinary) are made to balance with a surplus , of a million and a half of francs. The committee observes that the budget thus regulated provides for every charge which it is possible to foresee, and it is confident that it will be wound up eventually without adding to the mass of deficit. But the report adds : Our hopes would be fatally deceived if, owing to rash impatience, the events which at this moment preoccupy the political world were to lead to a European medic& France, which steadfastly desires the maintenance of peace, is assuredly not afraid of war, and if the day come, when in order to sustain her honour er interest, the government should be constrained to call upon her for fresh samifioss, she will accept them without a murmur. But, thank God, the appreciations of the government, as to the existing situation, do not hold out to us any necessity of this sort. Confident in its strength, as in the exalted wisdom of the sovereign to whose hands she has remitted her destinies, the country can osatemplate the future without anxiety. At the Bourse some purchases were made on the strength of the archduke's departure for Mexico with the title of Emperor, but there is no change of importance in quotations. Rents only rose 5c., and Mobilier but sfr. The fear of a general war seems to have vanished, but many financial people apprehend a monetary crisis. The France says, in reference to various rumours about the mission to Miramar of K Herbet, councillor of state, that he was only sent there in order to obtain from the archduke, in his character of Emperor, his signature to various documents which he could only sign provisionally in Paris, and that it is not true, as pretended byl certain journals, that he was instructed to propose to the new sovereign any different arrangements from those which he concluded personally with the Emperor when in this capital. I am not aware hew the project of an amalga mated Shakespeare banquet, broached at the meet_ ing at the embassy, is getting on. But I am told that preparations for a banquet under French 1 management, and which I rather think will be entirely independent of the English committee, are in a very advanced state. It is proposed that this dinner shall be given at the Hotel du Louvre at the moderate cost of 10fr. per head. K Victor Hugo, as the head of the " romantic" school, is to be called the honorary president, but as he does not choose to set foot on French soil, he will of course not be there. Special invitations have been sent to MM. Guizot, Villemain, Lamartine, Alex. Dummy sen., F. V. Hugo, Berryer, Jules Fevre, Jules Janin, Auguste Barbier, Th. de Banville, and the publishers, MM. Lacroix and Pagneere. Among the members of the committee are Madame George Sand and MM. Theophile Gautier, Legonvi, Michelet, Eugene Pelletan, E. Arago, Louis Ulbach, Hector Berlioz, and Regnier (of the Theatre Francais). M. Michelet lately gave a fancy ball, at which many of his friends, to pay him a delicate compli ment, appeared in costumes representing the titles of, or characters in, his works. Madame Sand ap peared as a sorceress ; K Renan as a horsefly, and there were " birds " and "insects " innumerable, and even the "Sea " itself. The Countess de Mon temerli represented "Italy Enfranchised," and her sister " Venice Delivered." K Gustave Dori was the "Sun." M. Michelet himself was habited as " Franklin," and Madame Michelet as the " His tory of France." WEATHER REPORT. -(THIS DAY.) Ib®•T, Allti It, t A.X. 18. i i. 1). W. .Z. 171. L S. L , i Noire I 29.9548. W.N.W. 1111 Ibe 1 W. 15 rb -. 2 Leltb ,30.01 67, W. 96 1 els 2 Ardromen 10.0643 N. 32 1 o 4 Oropocestie 30.1116 W.B. W. 16 es 4.01 2 °slow 3O 1960 50 W. IA • -- I Valentla 30.1644 N. N be 11 Cape Clear INAS 49 Z. IS be I Queenstown ? 10.04 61 LILL 18 e 2 Uverpool Belybeed '30.09 48 M.N.M. 22 4 2 Pembroke 30.1546 N. N.B. I b .- 2 PIIIIMICIS . VAS 40 1911.11. I b 3 Brest iIRIS 50 &N.B. 4 lb 4 L'Orimss . . - 2 Itecbefort 130.00 48 .1.11. 4/ eb I Krum* 00.12 48 ft.w. 18 . b 1 Weymouth '30.10 49 N.Z. 14 roc 3 Portsmouth Lemke X20.1144 N. L 10 !ob - Dover IWO 61 N.N.Z. NI 1 et 1 T_ .anioalli —l4ll 03 N.N.L 4 ma I 3emboroogb 18510 46 W.N.W. U . b I UMW 15.19 45 LW. 21 Ibc 2 THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY. (THIS DAY.) The forty-sixth quarterly meeting took p!v:s this day at the alone in Norfolkatreet, Strand, GRIMM= baring road the advertisement coevenint th e meeting, the chairman (Viscount RANICLAGII) read the sub joined report of the executive committee : eiecittive committee, to subutittiog this their forty-sixth quarterly report, have the satuf , cttoe of placing blarethe shareholders the followiog grAtify ins return.; of the results for the two first quarte rs o f the twelfth finaLciAl year : Rhin* i Mare* Quarters ending In I CW. T..tal P.c.ril t. I prove's.' pleted. Shares. Dec. 41,1563.. . ILAreht.l, Bxll-year ending Lady. day. 1864 Totals to Sept. 70,1867 Grand totals to lady day, 1416 IN II 118 67 207 120 16,677 14171 15,11114 4,1104 SS! I 15.32.1:i 7 ISt 11;.371 II 437 32. CA 1; c 12,711 !701,14., 11 7 Ivms M'4l 14 I '• It will be sees front the shove table that the large number of 20,14 S shares of 501. each have been hou,d oleos the forivatiou of the society, represoutimr n sulacri; e d capital of 1,007,4001., the actual cash receipts from all sources having bees Dearly 734,0001. The returns of the register of the Order of Rights are as follow :--Cunniet- e l. 5,244 ; drawn, 3,234 ; maiority,ll,7o6 ; total.lo.ls4. Deduct rights exercised on estates. km, 7,681. Caexercised 2,503. The last share number on the register by seniority it No. 14,813: and the last share issued up to Lady-dav, I 44, was No. 20,14 A. The total sale of deed to Lady.diy, emanate to 336,1184 3s. Id. The total withdrawals mote the formation of the society to Lady-d.iy, are 21,,0 r 10r . 17s. Sd. The allotments for the half-year 'Live been as yet chiefly confined to estates purchased at former periods; for instance, the agreement entered into with the Tottenham and Kentish-town Railway Company Dec.. Bated the issue of a sew plan. The Ipswich estate has bees presented in a novel sad advantageous manner in a fresh mapping of the land. The disposal of the niensim on the Wanstead estate affordel the opportunity of submitting additional building land for sale. On the 16th of March, the committee were enabled to allot the second and rad portion of the Colchester estate, reserving a plot thereon for the erection of a church. Advantage was taken of the same allotment to offer an eligible building property at Bishop Stortford. The sale of the important y recently acquired in Batters..., situated in rorg t h t -lane, will be commenced on the 6th of April. the the result of which will be announced in the next quarter 4 report. The committee, however, congratulate the he.dera of rights of choice on the opportunity afforded to thew if priority of selection on ouch a valuable estate. The York. road property, which was the first Battersea allotmen!. proved a most successful investment; not only were 124,1i1y remunerative grounds rests obtained, but considerable pre mium. have been paid to the original allottees by purchasers. The Plough-lane estate, now offered, has all the advantages of close railroad and steionbmt communication, and its proximity to the Battersea.park must reader it &most eligible locality for building purposes. Many of the new railroad schemes before parliament will materially improve the society's suburban and provincial estates, such as those at Kentish-town, Wood-green, Seven Sisters, Tottenham, Rocharuptoe, Enfield, Brighton, Tan bridge-wells, d.c. The executive committee have been are. fat of the moiety's interests in those proportion through which new railways will pas. The intended erection of • chapel on the Oatlands-grange estate at Weybridge has given an impetus to building, • large quantity of land having been recently sold by the society for the erection of villas. The committee entertain the expectation that the rector of Forest-hill, the Rev. Mr. Clarke, will be able to carry out his intention of providing additional accommodation for his parish, by raising • fund to erect a church on the Brocklev hill estate, Forest-hill. The difficulties is allotting the Avenue estate, Southampton. arising out of the claim of the corporation to some common land, connecting the main frontage with the high-road, being nearly removed, the committee hope that the property may soon be offered for sale. An important allotment, consisting entirely of free hold and leasehold villas and houses belonging to the moiety at Brighton, Oxford, St. Margaret's, Putney, Enfield, North Bow, Ate., will take place in the miming month. ft will be a good opportunity to =my persons looking out for homes, either as residences or as investments, especially as the privilege of pa the purchase-money by easy instalment. will be granted. It is an esseutial element of the society's system, that it affords the cheapest and best opportunity to the provident investor to become eventually his own land lord." THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. (THIS DAY.) This morning at an extraordinary meeting of the shareholders at Kuig'stroos, presided over by Mr. Ihmison. powers were gives to mime 1,046,3001. ordleary stock. for carrying oat the arrangements under the acts of 1:162.6Zi, the stock to be allotted pro rota at the price of 1231. per 100 i. It wee stated that the amount of ordinary stock at present misting was 4,796,7311. 10a., and the preference stocks brought the amount up to 9,244,8181. 104. THE SHOCKING AND NATAL ACCIDENT TO A STATION MASTER AT CAMBERWELL STATION: INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This forenoon , Mr. W. Carter, coroner for Sur rey, opened an hciniry at the Priem of Wales Tavern, Brunswick-read, Camberwell, respecting the death of Mr. Gawp Christopher Stewart, acting stationmaster at the Can station of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, who was killed by a train on Saturday last. Walter Heals, 6, St. Mark's-thrreoe. Renitingtoo, said that last Saturday. a little after 12 o'clock, he was on the stairs of the Camberwell New-road Station of the Metro politan Extension Railway, and he was going up to the platform to see the trains go past. He saw the deceased on the platform going to meet a train coming from Dulwich and going towards the Elephant sod thistle station. Jost as the train was coming in, and while it was in motion, the dammed ran to it and caught hold of a door of a carriage with the right hand. The carriage was in the centre of the train. He tried to get on to the step of the carriage but be mimed his footing. The train wee coming in rather swiftly. He went rapidly by the aide of the carriage for an biscuit sod then he fell down. Hie leg was caught, and he was drawn under the carriage. The train went trot and left him on the gravel. He appeared to be quite dead. Joseph Matlock and that be was the guard of the train that arrived at the Camberwell station from Victoria at 11.56. Witham was in the break compartment of a pas meager carriage. Upon entering the station he saw the de ceased running on the platform by the side of the train. He had his right arm stretched out as it he was at tempting to catch bold of • door handle, and ha was looking down as if he was endeavouriag to me if he could Imp on. Suddenly he swung round, and cams with hie boa between witnem's carriage and the last one. The train stopped almost directly, and winsome ran back to him. Hs IMO lying boom the metals, and the two wheels of the carriage had pared over his back and his arms. He was quite dead, and when takes up was found to be dreadfully mutilated. His death we. mainly due to his own act Hu only loonve must have bees to ride on the step of the earrime up the platform leaned of walking. The earrings which passed over him was lit tad off the rails. The neon ell got oat of the train when deceased was kilLd. Witness had men deceased on other ocamthee jump an to a train leaving the station, to talk to a porno, but it was not his constant practice. Mr. W. Stewart, quartermaster of the 6th Brigade of Royal Artillery, identified the decreed. Mr. Sausders, the superintendent of the district in which the accident occurred, said that the deceased had been six months in the employ of the company. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of " Ascielental death." I