The Express. — London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

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But we confess that while protesting on Thursday against the attempt to con vene a diplomatic parliament, gathered from all parts of Europe,to settle the affairs of Denmark, we never dreamt that the consent of the Danish Government had not been first obtained. Lord PALMZASTON has since stated that this is the fact. We complain that Austria and Prussia will not respect the independence of Denmark. Is it likely that they will learn of us to respect it when we ourselves hold it in so little account t But important as it is that we should respect the rights of our neighbours, it is still more im portant that we should so act as to show that we respect ourselves. It cannot be said that our Government is doing so now.kAustria and Prussia, at the very moment when we are begging of them the honour of a few words about Denmark, are laughing at us. It may be doubted whether a great Power was ever so mocked to its face as Great Britain has been mocked by the Prussian reply to our ingoiries concerning the invasion of •Jutland, as related by Lord PAL MERSToN to the House of Commons on Thursday. Kolding, the Prussian Government said, had been occupied by • military force not only without orders, but against positive instructions, and the commander on the spot would be reprimanded. But, it was added, the occupation of the town, being found convenient to the Germans, would be persisted in. This, be it noted, is not the imperti• nent reply of some remote and subordinate officer, but comes directly from the Prussian Government itself—from the very Ministers who will instruct the representative of Prussia at a Congress, should it ever assemble. From this incident we may conceive in what spirit we should be met at the council table, where the German Powers would take their places strong in the possession of the Duchies, their pledge of final success, and we fortified with our excellent intentions. It is only too plain that the Government and the country estimate very differently the extent and manner in which the honour of the nation is pledged by taking part in the settlement of strictly foreign questions. We have been repeatedly told on behalf of the Government that by the Treaty of London signed in 1852 we gave no guarantee of armed assistance to Den mark, and in Parliament stress has been laid on the care we have taken not to give promises of material aid to the Danish Government since last November. But the liner sense of the nation feels that it cannot be a matter of indifference to our honour to permit settlements in which we have taken a principal part to be shattered by violence and injustice, and that we may just as effectually pledge ourselves to a neighbour by following a par ticular line of conduct as by snaking express promisee. Those who intend to accept and honourably discharge responsibilities will be careful in contracting obligations : but the readiness with which our Government places itself in a position to excite expectations, and the facility with which it renounces their fulfilment, are astounding. Disap pointed, repulsed, baffled, outwitted, one day, it presents itself the next unabashed and cheerful, and prepared to run again the same course with alacrity, as if there were something invigorating iu insult. If our statesmen would only ask themselves seriously why it was impossible for them to do other than ingloriously abandon Denmark to her fate a month ago, they would pause before undertaking with Austria and Prussia, or any foreign power, a re settlement of the atlaira of Denmark. When the question arose whether the treaty of 1852 was to be maintained, if necessary, by arms, the English people asked themselves what they knew about that instrument and the obligations supposed to result from it. And the answer was : Nothing at all. The arrangements of that treaty were devised and con cluded in secret, without the authority of the nation, and when the time came that we must up hold or sutler them to be overthrown, there was not a statesman in Parliament who dared ask the country to make sacrifices to maintain them. It is something that our statesmen have learned that pledges given without the consent of the nation will not be redeemed. But the honour of the country will not be safe until they further acknowledge th►t the way to secure the fulfilment ' of British treaties is not to make them without the conseut of the grand council of the realm. Lord THE RESS , RANTTEDAYEVENThria, FEBRUARX 27, 1864. MALMESSURY (no doubt a competent judge of poli tical incompetence)said in Parliament, est Tlttnedar, that he never saw so much ignorance displayed in the public treatment of any question as in the treatment of this question ; Parliament and the press were all wandering in hopeless error; and no wonder, sines, according to the noble lord, it is impossible to comprehend the subject without mastering all the diplomatic correspondence re specting it which has taken place between the va rious Governments for the last fourteen years. We do not for a moment dispute Lord MALMISSURY'S opinion ; but a case which it is impossible to under stand except upon such conditions is certainly not one for which a self-governing people will go to war. Lord MALMESBCRY, of course, has all the facts at his fingers' ends, and clearly perceives their bearings, and Lord PALMERSTON has recently laid claim to similar proficiency ; but these noble lords can do nothing for the Danes without the active support of their intelligent and convinced countrymen. For solid objects and broad prin ciples nations have always been ready enough to fight, but objects and principles of that order can be made intelligible to the many in a few sentences. If the House of Commons does its duty it will insist on knowing by what title the Govez ament intends to invite the authors of this riffisnly et tack on Denmark to confer with it on the politi cal organization of that country. We have no more business to settle the terms on which Slag wigers shall live with Danes than Austria has to decide the nature of the political connexion between England and Ireland. It would be • tine thing for M. BISMARCK and Count R. !CH BERG to get England to countenance their pretensions to regulate Danish affairs by convening • Conference on the basis of that claim. No wonder they are so ready to accept our offer. But that is the only purpose for which we are wanted by the German Powers, and when we have served it we shall appear to the world what our statesmen are making us—the tools and dupes of Germany, whose projects may then be safely revived in all their enormity. Lord Paul a•sroN talks as confi dently as he has talked before of the integrity of the Danish monarchy as the basis of a Conference. But already the German Powers have decided to rend Sleawig and Holstein, once for all, from Denmark, and for ns there remains in • Confer ence nothing but • demonstration of the imbecility and contempt into which we have fallen. Tf there were in either House of Parlia ment, in or out of office, a statesman with the soul of CANNING, we should be saved from this lower depth of humiliation. It is astonishing that Earl Russel.., who has spoken so often and so eloquently against interference in the internal affairs of foreign States,should now make proposals for that very purpose tothe Powers whose meddle someness has been the curse of Denmark these sixteen years. It is quite impossible for the Danes, as it would be impossible for any people, to tolerate this incessant interference of foreigners, and they would far rather fall honourably in de fence of their country's independence than be pro tocolled into permanent subjection to the stranger. At all events, let us have nothing to do with de vices for depriving them of liberty to manage their own affairs. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on Tuesday next, the let March. Ebt Court. WLXDSOR CASTLE, Fix. 26. The Queen, attended by Viscounteea Jocelyn, drove out this morning. Major-General Seymour attended on boneback. Prisons Helens and Princess Lou.., attended by Lay Caroline Barrington and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. 1). de Hoe, went to London. The Grand Due.besi of Mecklenburg Broglie and Prince Edward and Prince Gustav of Saxe Weimar visited the Queen and remained to luncheon. The Prince of Wale§ rode yesterday morning, attended by Major Tarlac The Pruseess of Wales drove out ia the afternoon, at• tended by the Countess De Grey. Brumes Hellos and Prison. Louise visited the Prime and Princess of Wales at Marlborough hones. Lady Caro line Barrington and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon.. D. de Has attended their royal highnesses. The Prince of Wales attended the debate in the House of Lords. The Prince and Princess of Wales dined with the Duchess of Cambridge, at St. James's Palace. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colosdal-office from the Governors of the Mauritius, Gibraltar, and Canada, and from the Lord High Commienoser of the beim labia& Despatches were sent to the Governors of Malta, Hoeg Koog, Labium, the Anstraliaikolooies,and:to the Lord High CommiaMoner of the lonian Islands. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at tended by Major Teesdale, yeeterdsy afternoon visited the exhibition of Cal Werner's drawings of Jerturlsm. Bethlehem, and the holy places at the Institute of Painters in Water Colons, 53, Pail-mall- - . Her Royal Highuesa the Duchess of Cambridge gave ► grand astertainment last evening, at bet apartments in St. Jame**, Palace, to their Royal Highomsee the Prince and Princess of Wale. Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz and the Prisms Mary were also enema. The following wars invited to meet their royal highness :—The Prises and P 6401101 Edward of Saxe Weimer, Prince Gustav of Saxe Weimar, the Marchioness of Ely. the Earl and Counter of Derby, the Earl of Maltnesbnry, Lord Courtsnay, and General Peel. Later in the evening his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Earl de Grey, the Earl and Countess of Fife and Lady Ann Duff, the Countess of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Mayans, and the Earl of Sefton, joised the royal party. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augustus of Sate-Coburg. with her young family and numerous suite, an now at Claremont. The Countess Russell had a small and early party last evening at her residence's Chesham•place, which was attended by the diplomatic corps and several memben of the aristocracy. The 31arrinis and Marchioness of Salisbury en tertained at dinner Last evening, at the family mansion in Arlingt.,:irstzeet, the Earl of Carnareon, the Earl and Countess Stanhope nod Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord Llanover, Lord Stanley, M.P., Sir Hugh and Lady Cairns, Mr. Freda. Mr. Arthur Russell, &c. The private view of the Society of Female Artiste took place this day at their gallery in Pall.rnall. . . , - Herr Joachim is advertised flfl intending to pmus • part of May end the month of .Tune in England. Signor Sivori is also annoanoed. The anniversary meeting of the United Service Institute will be held in the lecture theatre of the insti tution, on Saturday, Much Z. The chair will be taken by Sir Edward Coat. The president of the Royal Society has issued invitations for nonrerpa:i , ni, to be bald at Burlington House on the 12th of March and 30th of April. The lieutenant-governorship of the Royal Mili tary College at Sandhurst will become vacant immediately by the promotion of Colonel Rochfort Scott to be Major. General. We nit, and Nary Gautte) understand that Mr. Whitworth will be prepared to deliver at the Wool. each Anemia, about the middle of March, the guns which be has manufactured to compete with those already delivered by Sir William A:nutmeg ; cooesqtwotly, the important trial which is to take place between the principles of these two eminent artillerists will, in all probability, eonr shortly after Foster. it LATEST INTELLIGENOK t _ . THE POSITION IN JUTLAND. No change has yet taken place in the positioi of the Austro-Prussians in Jutland. The Pruasians still occupy Holding. That small town with a population of 20,000 souls, is situated at about three miles from the frontier of Sleswig, on the road to Fredericia The town is defended by well constructed fieldworks, but the Danes, feeling the impossibility of seriously resisting on that point, against the efforts of the allied army, evacuated it in order to concentrate themselves on Fredericia, where they have considerable means of defence. This last-named town in fact com mands, bythe Little Belt, the passage to the island of Fiouia. Like Duppel, Fredericia possesses the great advantage of being in direct communication with the sea by means cf the fleet, and of thus being able without difficulty to receive supplies of provisions and military stores. The town is sur rounded by a bastioned wall. In front, at a distance of from half a mile to a mile, are seven large redoubts and &strong fort erected on a rising gromuL That fort can contain from 30 to 35 guns, and is united to the town by a covered way. The place may accom modate a garrison of from 20,000 to 23,000 men, and thus support with advantage the chances of a regular siege. It is easy to conceive the importance of the strategical position occupied by the allied army at Holding, which is only about 7 miles from Fredericia by a good road. This occupation is a perpetual threat for the Danes. The allied army, thus placed between Duppel and Fredericia, the most important refuge of the Danes on the main land, may await events, and iu case of need remove their means of attack from one point to the other. arrieed at that port. A proc?rne►bal has been draws up, and legal piessedings are being takes. I believe that the steamer did not come to dis charge its cargo in Spain. She carried two 12- pounders, munitions of war, and an armament of a special kind. These arms, the list of which I shall leave on the table, were without doubt intended for naval warfare, and it also believed that the vessel itself was intended to be armed, since the ports were new. She had on board, besides Con greve rockets, boarding hatchets and sailors, clothing. It is not strange that the cargo should be destined for Italy. This is all the government knows about the matter." concluded with the compliments which Greco never ceased to pay to him. The counsel for the defence had no course to take in face of the confessions of the prisoners, and the overwhelming evidence against them, but to endeavour to enlist the sympathy of the jury in favour of their antecedents, and to plead for ex tenuating circumstances. This task was performed with great ability and eloquence by all four of the advocates. BL Anon (for Greco) said that when an advocate was alone in a prison cell with a prisoner about to be tried for life or liberty, the feeling of pity gradually expanded into one of sympathy. He would defend Greco seriously, completely, and he was sure, honestly. Greco was born at Pizzi, in the Neapolitan states—not at Pavia, as stated by mistake. His father had saved King Murat's life at the risk of hi, own. Young Greco had been educated in a seminary —not, as had been in sinuated, on account of any religious vocation— but because no secular education was to be had in the neighbourhood. It was not true, therefore, that he had at any time been actel upon by super stitious feelings. He had studied music with some success, and had begun to study medicine. But a time came when there were in Italy neither advocates, physicians, nor mnsirians —in 1859 everybody was a soldier ; everybody was inspired with the idea of Italian unity, and it was not to be denied that Mazzini was in Italian eyes a great representative of a nations sentiment. Greco had suffered his magical in fluence. The upshot is that Greco and Trabucco are transported for life ; and Imperatori and Scaglioni are sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. THE PIRACY BY CONFEDERATES NEAR MATAMORAS. LIVERPOOL, FIIDAT. -- • --- - To-day the police-court was crowded, owing to the three men Quinces, Kelly, and Fans. alias Clements, charged with piracy in acionexico with the American ship Joseph L. Gerrity, being brought before the magistrates. The piracy has already been described, and is familiar to our readers. Captain Nicholas, of the Joseph Gerrity. de posed that on the 16th Nov. but he sailed from Matamoros for New York, with • cargo of cotton. Before leaving Melanoma six passengers came on board, and everything went well until about half-past 12 o'clock on the night of the 17th, when he was seized, while on deck, by one of the passengers named Brown, and Kelly. together with two other pusengere named Wilson and O'Brien, who placed revolvers to his head and said, "If you shout you ate a dead man." At shim time the watch had gone below, sod he was keeping • look out while one of the crew bad gone aloft to look at the jib boom. He could not make any resistance, and was conveyed to the forecastle, where he was locked up. Shortly after this one of the boy, offered some resistance, and was brought into the forecastle with • wound upon his head. Witness then beard s shot fired, and immediately afterwards the mate was also brought to the forecastle. The passengers then took complete command of the ship, and Major Hogg, one of their number, and the commander of the party, asked witness for • paper to show the Federal cruisers that the cotton was northern property. Witness eaid be had no paper, and Major Hogg thee raid. "If I S h t i. c: an deceiving me, I will plc. ten or eleven of chain round your neck and throw you over board." Clemente told witness that he ought to be glad that he bad fallen into their hands, for if he had fallen into the hands of other persons who were at Mammou be would have been murdered. When off Cape Yucatan Captain Nicholas and his men were placed in the ship's boat with three days' provisions, and after they had been knocking about for seven days they ultimately reached Oistriche, the prisoners and their companions in the meantime going to Belize, where they sold the vessel and her cargo, Inspector Carlisle stated that when he apprehended Clements the prisoner said that Captain Wilma and Major Hogg, of the Confederate army. had engaged them to go on Ward the Joseph L. o ta as passengers, end to take the ship and cargo, and to the captain - adrift. Major Hogg served them with revolver, and showed them a document, signed b General Bee, and issued by Jeff. Davis. One of the pr stated to an eating-hones keeper that he bad been engaged in the slave trade on his own account, end that, having been captured with 800 slue', he was sent to Fort Lafayette for four years. At the °occlusion of the evidence, Mr. Raffles, the stipendiary magistrate, rid:—This case is one of grave Importance, and I mud not give • hasty decide°. I shall remand these men for seven days, and in the meantime I shall take such steps as ate beet calculated in my *lucent to aid me in arriving at • right conclusion. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) BATCRDAT, Fl2lOBlB St 8 Li& IL Nabs 99.32 291 abettors I 29.92 30 Leith 129.92 36, Ardromen 29.87321 Greencastle.— 29.81 36, Galway VeleulM - 0440 7 tia Cape Clear 29.89 401 ieumustoiva IVA* 40 Liverpool ,M.11 7 -19 Holyhead 99.78 37, Yembroke 9.81191 Pesammo 99.79491 Brest 19.7 3 ,43. MINA ;Z1.61115, tocholort '.73148' Pt) mouth 38 Weymouth '29.77139: Portsmaith _499.7939! Ueda 49.9431. Dover ,5 1 .8490 Yarmouth 19.81114 3carberouBh 19 90 38 Molds 2l hi 12 Hellgolaml 19.94,33 8. 18.8.11. 3. e.[. &3.W. N.K. N.N. M. , W.N.W. F. I. :'1 1;2 1 1 4 IT° 20 12 le U 1 I be W I hat oc 100 o - e I.so ' 10.24 2 40.08 1 10.22 0.00 • -It 1 - I 0.42 -1 ANOTHER PRETENDER. The Co/ogrie Ga:.4—tie mentions the rumour of a project which is at the present moment gaining consistency in Germany, but which would meet with many difficulties in its realisation. Count de Biamark, it says, appears to be ite accord with Austria to exclude the Prince of Augustenburg from the sovereignty of Sleswig Holstein, and those states would be given to the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, who iu return would cede the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg to Prussia. THE AFFAIR AT DUFFEL. PRUSSIAN ACCOUNT. The Prussian official G ft. of Thursday pub lishes the following particulars of the affair of the 22nd inst: : Reports have been received from the beed•quarten of the royal combined army corps at Graveostein concernin g the reconnaissance of the 21ad before Duppel ; they relate that at daybreak a great reconnaiss►nce of the Duppel entrenchment. took place. At 7 in the morning the Canatein brigade, consisting (after furnishing the outpost. and detaching a Gpouuder battery), of four battalioes, one 12-poundrir battery, and one Ciliounder battery, and one squadron of huhuis, moved from Smol in the direction of Wielhoi. At the same hour the Roeder Brigade-4 battalions, 1 12-pounder battery, 1 **adroit balsas—marched to Stew damp with 3 battalion; and with 1 battalion moved alma the road. Major-General von Roeder was ill, and Colonel von Kamienski led this brigade. The Goebert Brigade made a simultaneous movement, with 4 battalions, 1 12-pounder battery, 2G-pounder guns, and a detachment of dragooos, by way of Satrap, upon ItakehilL The Schmidt Brigade was stationed u a reserve at Ulderup, the advanced guard at Fisehbeck. It was in tended to take the Baffalkoppe: by a comprehensive move ment, to force back thikenemy into his entrenchments, to reconnoitre them closely, and ►t the same time to do the enemy all the harm possible. The first part of the plan was carried out ; the hostile troops (four battalions of the kith and 220 d regiments) were everywhere driven in after a short resistance, losing, besides many killed and wounded, 253 prisoners, including two officers. Somejatunnetir flags (small flags used to mark distances) were taken, as well as a great quantity of arms and war material.. The troops behaved capitally under fire ; they at last, especially the column of the left wing (Goeben) had to support a violent fire of shell and grape from the walls, opened upon them so soon as the hostile infantry had got back to their intrench meats. A dose reconnaissance of the works could not be effected by rue= of the great fall of snow. The retreat of the troops was, therefore, immediately ordered, and carried oat. Our loss :-4 wounded officers (411 of the 3rd company of t►e 6th Westphalian Infantry Regiment No. 53, only slightly wounded), 6 dead, and about 21 wounded men. Major• General von Goeben's horse was wounded under him. that of General 4 Wiuttingerode's orderly officer likewise, and Captain Dcruberg, on the general staff of the 13th Division, had his horse killed under him. A fifth officer of the 53th Regiment, reported wounded, is not hart. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Field liar. steal von Wrangel were present daring the whole of the reemensisaaece, and under the fire of the hoary guns in the intremehments. (arum's rtuaiuma.) DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, FEB. W. 7.40 P.M. The Minister of War has proposed to the King to diamisi General de Meza from the army. The enemy was yesterday at Kolding, and his outposts in a more northerly direction. It has been noticed here that the Pleesberger Zeitung publishes its Copenhagen news under the head of foreign intelligence. ADDRESS OF THE RIGSDAG TO THE RING. COPENHAGEN, FEB. 26, 10.20 r.m. ... An addres% to the King has just been adopted almost unanimously by both Houses of the Rigsdag. It concludes as follows : "Our consolation in this moat serious time is that the King will uphold our liberty and inde pendence, and not allow Denmark to be weakened by dissolving our union with Bleswig. The people reckon on the declaration of the government that the war shall be energetically prosecuted, and they trust that the King will convince the nations of Europe that the Danes are willing to make any sacrifice to preserve their nationality and their right to govern themselves." (vvm'B F.IPI/J28.) SPAIN. MINISTERIAL DECLARATION RELATIVE TO THE STEAMER PRINCESS. MADRID, FEB. 23. The Minister of the Interior yesterday replied as follows to a question of Senor Gorcoerrotea rela tive to the seizure of the English steamer Princess, at Malaga : •`On the 13th of this month the Princess, of Newcastle, arrived at Malaga, her captain stating that he had come from Loudon. His manner, however, excited suspicion, and ou the first visit three large canes of arms were found. The governor of the province put himself in communication with the rnglish consul, in whose presence and with whose consent a search was made. This led to the discovery of a quantity of arms and effects, and munitions of war. The declarations of the captain and crew were taken. All said they were going to Ancona to deliver the arms, and added that the armourer was a M. Felix, whose address they gave, and who was stated to be staying in Paris. Inquiries were made at Perm but M. Felix was not there. He had gone to Marseilles, and from there had inquired of Malaga whether the Priam, had EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS. (mom OUR OWN CORRISPOIDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Eviornro. At the opening of the assize court to-day Greco protested against what he called the calumnious statements of Imperatori. It was false, he said, that be had taken advantage of Imperatori's drunkenness to make him write the letter to Maz zini. All three of his accomplice' had joined him quite spontaneously. It is true that when they got to Paris Imperatori seemed to hesitate a little, and he had told him so, but Imperatorireplied, "Depend upon it when the moment of action oomes I shall be as firm as anybody." Imperatori had never in words appeared to hesitate ; it was only from his manner that he doubted him. He had never pre vented him from going to the Swiss legation. M. Procureur General Cordouen then made his speech for the prosecution. He began by saying that the universal horror inspired by Orsini's crime in 1858 had led to the hope that such pitiless deeds, which to satiate one political ven geance shrunk not from the slaughter of any number of victims against whom no enmity was entertained, would not be repeated. But now they saw the same weapons, the same men (Italians), the same means of action, and the same prompter. The reason was that there was a perpetual conflict between the spirit of order and the spirit of the revolution. Italy was the prin cipal centre of anarchical ideas, while ideas of order, glory, and social peace reposed upon one ;head glorious above all others. The sovereign who was the representative of these ideas had been reproached in another place with being too powerful and pre ponderant. Might Heaven long preserve this pre ponderance and this force, for it was only used to protect oppressed nationalities, and to propagate ideas of truth, justice, and true democracy. But factions in Italy saw in the sovereign of France the main obstacle to their ambitious projects. These factions were represented by two men equally fatal to the prosperity of Italy—Garibaldi and Mazzini. The one, however, did not shrink from exposing his life like the humblest volunteer ; but the other did nothing but direct secret societies, and meditate and contrive plots and crimes. Secure iu London he abused English hospitality ; when one plot failed he organised another; and, to use his own language in a letter which he wrote to Tibaldi, he is "always ready to begin again." The present plot was imagined at a period as far back as the gathering of the Garibaldi volunteers at Aspromoute. At that time the Turin correspondent of the Jourital 41es Debuts wrote: "The Mazzinist party is pre paring a grand coal)." Greeo was mixed up in all the agitation in Italy, and was one of the most trusted, active, and intelligent agents of Mazzini. In 180, Mazzini resolved to send him to Paris. Going through the various facts stated in the in dictment, and commenting as he went along, the Procureur-General alleged, but admitted there was no evidence of the fact, that Trabucoo, at the time of the quarrel between Cialdini and Garibaldi, bad offered to throw bombs into the parliament of Turin. When the conspirators left Lugano for Paris, minute instructions how to pro ceed were given them by Cattaneo, a friend of Mazzini's. They were told by what frontier they were to enter, what precautions they were to take about passports and the examination of luggage, by what train they were to go to Paris, and by what railway, after the accomplishment of the crime, they were .o escape to London. Once on board the English steamer at Boulogne, Cattaneo's letter said expressively, bon s"ir—meauing that they would then be safe from the French police. All these instructions had been followed to the letter. Anticipating the attempt which would be made by the prisoners' counsel to obtain the benefit of extenuating circumstances, M. Cordouen called upon the jury to be firm. Greco, knowing that his case was hopeless, tried to invest himself with the drapery of heroism and sincerity : but this theatri cal attitude ought not serve him. As to Imperatori and Scaglioni admitting that they hesitated at the last moment, their hesitation was to be attributed to craven fear and not to repentance. Admitting that Imperatori, as he said, had contemplated get ting money from the Swiss legation to go home witb, it still remained true that he would have left his accomplices with the knowledge that they were about toexecute the joint criminal design. The moral sense of all these men was annihilated, and it would be weakness to show mercy to any of them. Coming to Mazzini's participation in the plot, M. Cordouen charged him without hesitation with being the concoctor of it. He read the letters from Mazzini set out in the indictment. The ad dress at which Greco was to write to him in Lon don was, "Mr. Flower, Thurloe-square." He (51. Cordouen) did not like to mention names, but he I must avow the painful astonishment with which, I on referring to the Loudon Directory, he found that was the address of the very same member of parliament whose house had been indicated as the' one at which money was to be procured at the time of Tibaldi's plot. Interpreting one of Maz zini's letters, he said the words, " If our friend comes from the country," alluded to the Emperor, and " our friend of the Brewery," meant the 1 member of parliament in Thurlw-square. " James" was also another name for this member of parlia ment. The draft in Greco's favour, seized at the post-office after his arrest, was sent from London by Mr. Nathan, an intimate friend of Mazzini's, and a brother of Madame Roselly, whose address is mentioned in the indictment. They were both children of Sarah Nathan, a per son notoriously mixed up with Mazzini. As to Martini's letter to the Times, denying his participation in this plot, although that letter had been very generally accepted as true, not only in England, but on the Continent, it would be found on elate examination that the denial was after all only apparent. Mazzini said he had never given any bombs, &c., to Greco. That was literally true ; and Greco had said yesterday, laughing, that it was not Married in person but a friend of his who gave him the bombs. He said he had never sent money to Greco in Paris, and that was also true ; but the letter did not deny that he had given him 1,300 fr. at Lugano. The laudatory tone in which Mazziui spoke of Greco was very remarkable, and PROBAIIL. =MAT. OS NORMILAT 11011D1T. W.N.W. to 8.8. W., Comifft 8.8. W. to W.N.W., modes. Lt. to fresh, fresh, lea* rain. =- snow or rain In places settled. LN.L to S.&& and WISITiN. H. to W. and few_ to S.& W.. moderate, fresh to strong, rainy some nolo In pares. at times NAL to B.H.W. and 80071111/. As Bert above. W., moderate to fresh, rain In a few N.W. to 13.W.,_.traoh, 1t31.Z. to N.N.W., mo- ZUTW showery, unsettled. ireethernmSeetland. Weaken= Ireland. Wales, sad sd jsresselsa %nthers= Zuslisb Cheassl sad Biscay By. £. era =Zastward Ragland and fleUgolsod. • • dense, some rain in places• _ _ Mr. G. N. Taylor, of the Madras Civil Serv:ce, has been appointed previsional member of the Governor. (:e►erel'e Council in India. He will be the fleet Madras civilian who her ever had ► seat in the Governor-Generare Council. ------- The Committee of the Danish Soldiers' Relief Fund hare already forwarded 1,0001. to Copeohageo, through t►e Dula Moister in London. in furtherance of the humane object of theenbecriben to the feed. The Mulready Exhibition at South Kensington Museum will be opened to the public on Saturday, the 12th of March. The private view will take place oar the pre vie. d a y, Friday. Great liberality (says the Adverse) has bees shown by the proprietors of Mr. Mulready's works, heeded by her Majesty and his Royal Highs's' the Duke of Cambridge, in reasentiug to lead them for exhibition, and a large collection of his Mashed pictures, sketches, studies and drawinp, arranged as far as pomible in chrosological order, will be displayed on the walls of a portico of the Museum galena. Mr. Lawson intends, on the 10th of March, in committee of the whole bourns to move, "That leave be given to bring is a bill to enable owners and occupiers of property in certain districts to prevent the commie sale of intoxicating liquors withia such districts." ABDUCTION IN IRELAND.—CABOI of abduction are becoming quite frequent is this country low. On Thursday the police mag:strate in the Oariel-street office, Dublin, committed for trial at the next commission John Collies, Mary R as a,. and Michael Kavanagh, for treads lently and by means of perjury proem dig • martian be ' twee° the latter, a mechanic sod a Roman catholio, sad Mir Bolton, a protestant and a minor, daughter of • wealthy farmer, who ram away with Kavanagh from her father'. house in the county of Wexford. On Thursday, at the Rathdowney esesioss. Queen's County. the megistratas committed for trial a young roan named Nolan, • Roman catholk, for the abduction of Mee Howard. a prollesnat miner, the daughter of a farmer at reapeotahility and ample means. The magistrate' refused to accept bail, and Holm was east to prison. THE ACCIDENT TO THE EARL Or RONLZ.—WE are happy to state that his lordship is propane( as rapidly towards recovery as could be and4aW after so very severe a shock, and we are warbled all easels of our renters will feel great gnaltkation on hearing this, not only en mosonnt of the sincere esteem and panosal regard felt towards his lordship, but for the minis loge science and society would bare unstained hued the accident unhappily proved fatal. — lisp's County C7troluck. THE FEDERAL WAR STEAMER ZERSAGE. BOULOGNE. FRIDAY. The Federal war steamer liersage arrived utl this harbour shortly after neon, from Brest, sad leaves was to-morrow for Bova. DORSZTSHIRE ELECTION.-(THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGIUPB.) DORCHESTER, SATCRDAY. The election of • representative for the county of Dorset took place this morning. Mr. Floyer was proposed by Mr. F. J. Farquharson and wooded by General Sir John Michel, and, there being no opposition, was declared duly elected. ACTION FOR SEDUCTION AND BREACH OF PROMISE OP MARRIAGE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-FRIDAY. (Before the Lord Chief Judie.. &ad a Special Jury of the county at Dublin.) THE REV. kt. fIIGCBON c. GORGES HILT; AND JCLIA CAROUSE FEIGTIbO3 r. GORGIS HILT. In the first case, an action was taken against the defen• dant, Mr. Hely, a young gentleman of large fortune in the county of Kilkenny, to mover damages, laid at 10,0001., for the seduction of the daughter of the plaintiff. The second action was taken by Miss Ferguson herself to recover damages, also laid at 10,0001., for breach of promise of marriage. The jury was sworn yesterday evening. At 1 o'clock to-day the first case was called for bearing, but the pleading were not opened till 2 o'clock, when Mr. Purcell said—Gentlemen of the jury, in this case the action is brought by the Rev. Samuel Ferguson, of Moy Glebe, in the county of Tipperary, against Mr. G. Hely, of Foulkesooart, county of Kilkenuy, to recover damages for the seduction of Julia Caroline Ferguson, his daughter. The damages are laid at 10,0001. The defendant has pleaded • denial of the seduction. Serjeant Sullivan said that, on behalf of his client, Mr. Hely, he wished to make a few observations to the court. Two actions had been brought against Mr. Hely—the fiat for the seduction of Miss Ferguson, the second for a breach of premix) of marriage. On behalf of the defendant, he was instructed to submit to a verdict being taken for the sum of 1,0001. in the case of seduction, and for 3,000/. in the other cause of action. He bad been further instructed to say that there was no imputation whatever of any other Immoral conduct made by Mr. Hely, and that he withdrew any and every such imputation. Serjsant Armstrong, on behalf of the plaintiff, said that the action had not been instituted for the purpose of ob taining heavy damages, but with the view of vindicating the character of the unhappy young lady. Having heard that no want of chastity was imputed to Miss Ferguson, he was ready, on her part, to consent to a verdict for 3,030 f. being takes in the cause of the breath of promise, arid 1,0001. in the other cause. He (Serjeaat Armstrong) was bound to express his opinion that, in acting upon the judi cious advice of Serjeant Sullivan, sod in withdrawing in that unqualified manner every charge against Miss Ferguson, the defendant had shown a very proper discretion. The isms papers were then handed to the jury, and verdicts according to the arrangement of the parties were found. _ -_ The Chief Justice mid that it was ► mattes of great =da ta-Aim that such an mrangemeut had been come to, sad that in this moiler the public exposum and the disagree able circumstances of the case had been avoided. • SOUTHAMPTON IMPERIAL HOTEL COMPANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.) The first annual general meeting of the share holders wee held at 1 o'clock, at the Loodou Tavern ; Sf J•MEN CARMICHAEL in the chair. The report stated that en arrangement had been made with the London and South Western Company for a lease for 150 years of a poetics of that company's station at Southampton, on witch It was prepared to build the hotel, and that in conesquebos of this advantageous change of site land previously secured would be disposed of. Aasoou &tithe agreement for the lases had been executed, the building of the hotel would be commenced. Under the improved pro spects of the company the directors anticipated no di= in placing such farther amount of capital as might be d requisite, in allotiag which doe preference would be gives to the present proprietary. and also to those applicable who could in any trey promote the future business of the hotel. leered would be paid to the shareholders et the rata of 5 per cent. per annum during construction lied up to the urem ia( of the hotel. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the shareholders oe the new site for the hotel, which be said was admirably adapted for such par- C' He knew no hotel in the country which was placed such as advantageous position as regarded pareagers. The motion was @greed to. and the agreement for a lease having been approved, the meeting terminated in the usual mariner. The following is one of seven resolutions intro duced into the United States Congress by Mr. 8 —" That, in addition to the guarantees stipulated7r O a rr a grass, and and as the capstan to its work of restoration and reoeocilistion, the ocestitidiou itself mast be so amended as to prohibit slavery evemwhere within the limits of the re public ; that such a prohibitice, leaving all permed claims, whether of slave or master, to the legislation of Ca mid of the States will be in itself a sacred and iov:Eb i re goarautee. repressetieg the collective will of the people of the United States, and placing universal 4101•201. patios under the sanction of the constitution, so that free dont shall be engraved on every foot of the national and be woven Into every star of the national deg, while it elevates sad inspires our whole noticed existence ; sod the cooatitutioe, so often invoked for slavery, but at last ia bar. mem with the declaration of independence, will become, awarding to the holy aspirations of its (minden, the sub lime guardian of the inalienable riOt of every hum= being to life, liberty, sod the pursuit of Nipple= ; all of which must be do= in the lame of the union, in duty to huma nity, and far the sake of permantel!t pesos. Tee IRISH Passing.—An 'Unrepresented Peer" writes to the Times:—" In the Irish papers an announce meet appeared a few days gibe) to the effect that a meebsg had been held at Lord Derby's at which it had been detidd that Lord Poweneourt should 811 the vacant representative peerage, that the claims of Lord Govt bed been ormedered and found inferior to his, but that Lord Goat should all the next vacancy. I was not honoured by an invitation to stead the meeting at Lord Derby's, and to hear the elo quent speeches which were, no doubt, delivered, and am consequently igoorant of the public grounds which rendered the claims of young Lord Powersooort superior to those of that venerable patriot. Lord Geri. Possibly a fear that if removed from the watchful eye of the tory leader he might contract some liberal teadosaise may have had something to do with it ; but whether Lord Powermoort or Lord Geri, I cameo' aecept him as my re presentative. But, sir, I wish to ester my protest egmast the whole of the preseat memo of settee= (for election it is not). The Ad of Cabs decreed that 28 peers should be ohm= to represent the body of Irish peers in parhamsot. There are about 150 Irish prem. Of these about 60 Woo* to the liberal party, and of the 28 representative peen they have not one to give utterance to their minims. Is this wording to the spirit of the Act of UM= . I wish ma= you, tar, to appeal to the arose of jostles of the tory leaders, and ioduse them to allow the voice of the minority to be occasionally beard. Ten, five, eves two would be a MOS. ful emossece from this powerful majority. Should this appeal fail, I have two suggestions to offer. Either let the Irish representative peerage ream altogether, or, as mockery and fares are distasteful to English habits, let her Majesty be invited to wafer on the Earl of Derby the power of naming 28 peers for life, whose principal qualificatioa will no doubt be unequivocal subtitled= to the authorised bark= of the party." MR. LAIRD, M.P., AND HIS RAWL --SUppolle we r ,,, h t 3 war with the United States for the sake of Mr. hie Alabareas. and his rams. that he may be enabled, by earrying on private war from an English port, to amass a colossal fortune founded on the troubles cad the difficulties of his country. Who but himself will be the richer for his profits ! What honour, what =yenta= does he offer us in exchange for a war in which. purely as a matter of boldness, he has almost involved us! Supposing he emceed@ in proving that an act of parliament is so mre lastly drawn that it fails to hit the very rem against which it ought particularly to have been pointed, is that an exploit for which be entitled to oak us to involve ourselves in a meek* with a kindred nation, and add Dew horrors to a war whisk is demlating the whole surface of the western 000- thrent!—Tincir._ THE LLTI GAS EZPLOATON AT ALDERSHOT. —The bite terrific pa explosion in the south cavalry barracks, Aldershot, has been attended with fatal results in the coos of Mrs. Theaters, wife of the merman of the Gth Dragoon Garda. The unfortunate woman, whose skull was fractured in a frightful maser, lingered for 60 boars in an unoesecieus state, and then expired. An inquest was held en Thursday, before Mr. Spencer Clarke. coroner for North Hants, at tbe Army mid Navy Hotel, Aldershot whoa the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," and wished the following to be appended to the verdict " The jury cannot emirate without expressing their opinion that a portion of the pipe connecting the meter in the passage where the explosion occurred, and the maim. was never properly fixed—in fact, never screwed at all, and they muskier the contractors for the work are to blame in the matter. They suggest also that the joints to the mains f=ly throughout the barracks should he looked to i t sialy to prevent further occident." I rx 1 Thu thlin it re Work , sbutti fur th 4 the us Pit•l? c ross .96,00 fret: p7utbou so boo .ere 101 . th ttlerti .uld leffect. uctt reedy rtal 1 utai lief. /Alija Fr aid tied ripia a With noridi itv et 2 the 3 he re ;read e.i. 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