The Express. — London, England, 1866-04-19 00:00:00

TrIIRTLE, TURTLE, TURTLE. Clear and Invalid VIRTU SOUPS ahrso sr. :Axe& ase3syrBmar, PIOCADIILY. WY. NALD, Proprbote. whenever and wherever neglect and cruelty are proved. We should, of course, hi glid io leant that six thousand poor wretches ars 'soured from workhouse ill-treatment ; but we should be still more glad to know that ill-treatment had been abo lished ; and it is difficult to understand on what principle in national ethics the greater duty should give place to the leas. 'LONDON must have H e mER and MTISIC -M-4 ROOM tor Gentlemen. —mber, we walt for you at " BYARS'," otter the Covent Ueed en end the Theatr_es the Orpreoo. runtAargr. TEM EVIMMIO, A ROMANTIC ATTACHMENT. Mann. OF and W. Fame ; Min AdsCamedish.—THE FAVORITE OF FORTUNE. Marra Backstage, Chippendale, and &Ahern ; Ms. Chippendale, eto.—And A DAuffirtlat TO MARRY. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) narrows. Tun Maim A GHOST IN SPITZ OP HIMSZLF.—Attar which THE SIZZATS OF LONDON. Maws. Vining, T. Meek D. urray, Mon and Villiers Mn. H. Marston, and Mires Z. Banat% and K. Rodgers. PAPUAN:UTAST TOPICS. A blind and prosperous age, remarks the Timm, forgets the part and is blind to the future. Before the close of the century we shall in all human probability have at least one great war, and that, when is oomes, will have to be fought more with money than men; but we must look beyond the century. In the days of our children's &Mem we are told that all the coal of these islands that lies within 4,000 feet of the surface will be exhausted, if we go on increasing our consumption at the present rate. And if this be so a thousand special arta and manufactures will fly the empty soil, and the popule tion will follow coal wherever it is to be found. Unless then this whole generation are content to cut a sorry figure in history, as men who came on a vast mine of sud den wealth, and other splendid opportunities, but wasted them most selfishly, we ought to make an effort to pay off our huge debt. We are changing the whole body politic, and it may be that the burdens and obligations of the old constituency may not pass to the new. Now or never, then, is the time to make the choice whether we will pay our lawful debts, or indulge in things we can do without. If we do not make the better choice now we never shall. A correspondent of the Times selects from some tables given in a recent pamphlet forty cities and boroughs in which the proportion of working men will be very greatly increased by the government Fran chise Bill. In a leading article the Times goes over these statements borough by borough, speculat ing on the effect which the increased constituencies would have on the character of the representation. Its conclu sion is that in all these cases much the same sort of men will be returned as at present. But this is not an argument for the bill, in the advocacy of which the Times cannot help seeing the signs of a bad animus against the middle class, against shopkeepers, against even the artisans of the more domestic, quiet, humdrum class. There is a craving for electoral units of a more natural, less sophisticated quality, which can be managed by the ordinary agency and the usual hospitalities. Therefore, although the bill does not seriously threaten the political balance in these towns, neither will it prove conducive to electoral purity and dignity. The solemn admonition of Mr. Mill was destined, the Daily News says, to sink deep into many earnest minds, and to pierce the national conscience to the quick. The anti-malt-tax agitators will hardly venture again to pro- pose an immediate sacrifice of two millions and an ultimate sacrifice of seven millions of revenue for the sake of re lieving the most flourishing class of farmers in the king dom from the ghost of a grievance, and cheapening to the extent of one farthing the beer of labourers, whose lips are innocent of the taste of meat from one Christmas to an other. Every year the case of these respectable, and, we must say, good humoured agitators becomes weaker. The institution of a beer tax, which some of them reoom• mend, would be a step backward in legislation. It is a point gained, however, that the division on this subject in their councils should have occr-red, since the only ground of reoonciliation must be the adoption of Mr. Cobden's advice, to look for the gradual remiuion of the duty in a reduction of the expenditure of the state. The Pod thinks that if the debate to be resumed this evening is to be brought to a close at any reasonable hour on Saturday morning, many members who desire to ad dress their constituents from the House of Commons must necessarily be disappointed. It may be assumed that, besides the Chancellor of the Exchequer, two cabinet ministers and the irresponsible adviser of her Majesty's government remain to be heard on one aide, while on the other there are half a dozen speakers who, from their posi tion in the house and the remarks which have been made on their conduct in the course of the discussion, are en titled to claim a hearing. This is an attractive programme for the galleries. The Herald denies that parliament is pledged to reform, though, if it adopts Lord Grosvenor's amendment, it will be bound to consider the question with a view to its set tlement,wbenever a bill dealing with the whole subject shall be laid before it by the government of the day. The Telegraph addresses itself to honourable and reason able conservatives who hold the happy privilege of render ing the majority for the bill sufficient to spare the country and the ministers an unwelcome necessity, and advances a variety of considerations for their adopting such a course. LYCEUM. THIS Emrich SIMPSON AND CO. —And THE MASTIOL OF DAYENSWOOD. Messrs. Fielder, O. Jordan, Yerin, Dnery, Widdloomb, FStspatrick, de. ; Madames Ternan, laarrorthy, Wenn, and C. Leclereq. BRITANNIA. TEM Erman, THE DARK KING OR THE BLACK MOUN TAIN& MM' Clara St. Cease, Mn. & lane—Master I Samlars —The Wines Famlly.—And THE SOGITLML CHM% Mr. James Anderson. Eta Court. -- HIGH-WATER AT LONDON-BRIDON. T o -h —Morning, Mt Um Afternoon, 6h. 7m. To-hfonaoll—Morning, 6h. SOm Afternoon, 6h. 66m. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 19. Tin friends of the sick pauper have good reason to be satisfied with the proceedings of Saturday. The influential deputation which waited on the PRESIDENT of the Poort-Law BOARD met not merely w ith conventional official courtesy, but with an outspoken sympathy for their aims, and a direct pledge that their particular scheme of reform should receive careful consideration. The statements of the Lancet Commissioners, which led to the forma tion of the Association for Improving the Condi tion of the Sick Poor, were tacitly confirmed by Mr. Vuiazas, who has recently instituted a special inspection of our metropolitan workhouse infirma ries—not, as it would seem, because he doubts any of the harrowing facts put forth, but that he may have official data on which to base his forth coming recommendations to the House of Com mom. If it be remembered that the archives of the Poor-law Board are probably crammed with documentary evidence respecting the size of existing workhouse wards, the number of medical officers and nurses employed in each, and the proportion of sick and infirm to hale in mates, and that many of the abuses publicly shud dered at now have been officially censured for years past without effect, it will be seen that the doubts expressed in some quarters lest the inspec tionnow ordered by the Pnesinzrrz should prove to be a polite mode of shelving a difficult question are more than needless. Were it thought possible, or desirable, to dispute or cavil at any of the lead ing propositions for reform, materials for doing so would be more easily procured from records already extant than they are likely to be from any supplementary and necessarily hasty inspection inaugurated now ; and we believe the public may rest assured that, so far as the Government is con cerned, no effort will be wanting to place the administration of our Poor Law on a secure and satisfactory basis. Indeed the admissions of Saturday leave the matter virtually in the hands of the public and their representatives ; and upon the expressions of opinion and the wishes of the Legislature will necessarily depend the form of action resolved upon. Mr. VILLIERS has proved his desire for comprehen sive Poor-law Legislation by his measures for the relief of the Metropolitan Homeless Poor and for extending the area of chargeability to unions. Both these Bills were framed on a similar principle to the one on which it is proposed to provide for the maintenance of the six great hospitals for the sick who are now initiates of workhouses ; both met with grievous opposition, and both conferred incalculable benefits on the community. As Mr. V muses hinted pretty plainly on Saturday, it is for members of the House of Commons to say how far a similar opposition would be quelled by the urgency of the present case, and the extent to which the public conscience has been aroused. There is no dispute as to the magnitude of existing evils ; no more doubt that our paupers are killed off annually by ill-treatment and neglect, than that our cattle die from rinderpest ; and the only point left for discussion is the means by which this shocking sacrifice of human life and systematic infliction of cruelty is to be prevented. The com mittee of the new association ask that a general hospital rate shall be levied for the whole of the metropolis, and would rest satisfied with having rescued the sick paupers from their present hard ships, while leaving the aged and infirm, the imbe cile and the very young, to reap such sparse and barren advantages as may accrue from increased house-room. It is tree that the paper signed by the leading medical authorities, giving the prin ciples on which the sick should be treated, laysdown as indispensable the providing day-rooms for the aged and infirm. But this part of their recommen dation would, so far as we understand the proposal to which the action of the committee seems limited, have little more chance of being carried out after the erection of State-hospitals than before. Paupers fortunate enough to need medical attendance, would be treated with humanity and consideration ; but those not yet starved or neglected into actual disease, would be neither better nor worse off than now. This is no stigma on the plans of the new association. Originating out of a medical inquiry, and professedly directing its energies to ameliorat ing the condition of the sick, it has, not without much deliberation and forethought, decided on confining its action to their relief. It is impossible, however, for those who feel the necessity for searching parochial reform, to close their eyes to the logical deduction to be made from the proposals and revelations of this commit tee; or to withhold their concurrence and sym pathy from the Archbishop of YORK, who insists that until some power independent of and superior to boards of guardians can compel these gentlemen to do their duty, the public will be scandalised, and the " orders" and recommendations of the central authority be flouted and despised. The committee for im proving the condition of the sick poor in work houses have done their work manfully and well ; but there can be no reason but expediency for ex cluding such cases as were cited by the Archbishop from the merciful consideration of the public. Yet, it is more than probable that neither the weakly baby laid out as dead at St. Pancras Workhouse, nor the exhausted wretch who died from neglect a few hours after his admission into that of Bethnal green, would have had their miserable fate averted, or have found place in the suggested hospitals even if they were built. Surely this is sufficient to prove the necessity of a radical change in the mode of administering our Poor-law, and controlling its officers ; a change which shell affect not merely the moiety of paupers who are ill, but shall give us proper and efficient service, a wise and humane system of relief, and definite responsibility and stern justice, PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE CONGRESS. The Times gives some account of the evidence of General Lee, which appeared some days ago in the Erpress, and deduces from it proof that the South accepts the results of the war without reserve, and is prepared to return to its former position with a resolution to perform all the duties of citizens. The rest must necessarily be • work of time, but it will be accomplished most speedily, as well as most surely, through such a policy as the Pre sident now advocates. A policy of provocation and oppres sion continued after victory, can only intensify and per petuate that very hostility which it is intended to ex tinguish. The Tdegrapk sees nothing but disaster in prospect. With open war between the Congress and the President, the passage of even the ordinary appropriation bills necessary I for paying the interest on the public debt, for supplying the wants of the army and navy, for the thousand ramifies ! tions of public service in a country of such vast and varied I interests, becomes difficult, and may become impracticable. Every day accumulates fresh evidence that we Englishmen have been too ready to believe in the prompt restoration of orderly and peaceful government in the United States, after the terrible and bloody conflict of the last four or I five years. The Star does not doubt that the backbone of the nation will sustain the cause of freedom in the grave crisis which has now arisen at Washington. The Civil Rights Bill does not propose to confer the suffrage upon • single negro ; it gives him civil equality before the law ; enables him to make and enforce contracts ; to sue and be sued ; and to give evidence in the courts of law ; to purchase, to hold, and to convey pro perty like all the citizens of the state ; and generally to exercise the fame civil rights as those who happen to have been born with • more fortunate complexion. This is the sum and substance of this much-abused measure. The simple question is, whether four millions of human beings are to be handed over without protection, and with no power even to guard the fruits of their own labour, to the tender mercies of as cruel a rase of task masters as ever cursed the earth and those who till it, President Johnson declares that this shall be done. Con gress, on the other hand, is equally inflexible in its deter mination that it shall not be. With all his stubborness of will, the Star does not think that the President is the man to seek to accomplish his end by illegitimate means. THE 'EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 14866. ••11 111110 the Amen* would acid" ofainls whose services G eneelders 'animus. Further, the house has proceeded to appropriate Gi slim gained by its retrenchments for public works. and this the Governor reside en the ground. which the Daily News considers a valid one, that the Assembly has no right to initiate public expenditure. It is an essential part of the oonstitutional system that every grant of money shall be recommended by the crown before it is voted. Were it not so, there would be no real and individual responsibility for the management of the public finances. It seems, however, that on re ceipt of the Governor's protest the Assembly pealed resolutions, among other things, refusing compensation to the officials whose salaries had been abolished, and mart ing its right to originate and increase money grants. Every fresh advice from Germany is to the Post so much fresh evidence that Prussia wants the Duchies with the view of becoming the leading power in Germany, and that if she can carry out her purpose by force or diplomacy she will do so. Europe looks on with no little cariosity to lei on which horn of the dilemma he bas made Count von Bismarck will have the temerity to impale himself—for • either alternative involves almost equal temerity—to strike the first blow and plunge Germany in war, or to recede from his position and confess himself beaten. LATES' lENCE. NAVAL ARMAMENTS IN ITALY• OSBORNE, APRIL 18. The Mosistatto of Genoa says : We learn that the Minister of Marine has just issued orders which indicate extraordinary activity. Admiral Persano has been appointed commander of the united squadrons of evolution, and Vice-Admiral Albini has been appointed second in command. The armaments of the navy are pushed on with great activity. Amongst other orders issued is one for hastening the naval levee. The Italia of Naples says that the naval esta blishment there has received orders to prepare for the armament of the disposable vessels of war. The men in the arsenal are actively employed in the manufacture of war material. In addition to the Garibaldi and the Castelfidardo, the Count Csvonr and other vessels will be immediately put in commission. The Queen walked in the grounds yesterday morning, accompanied by Princess Louise, and drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended by the Countess of Caledon. Major-General the Hon. A. Hood was in attendance upon horseback. Prince Leopold drove out, attended by Lieutenant Stirling. Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein rode, attended by Colonel Du Plat. THE COST OF WAR IN MEXICO. Letters received from the city of Mexico state that, according to a calculation made from the official despatches which have been published in the papers of that city from time to time, there took place during the first seven months following the arrival of Maximilian in Mexico—viz., from June to December, 1864, between the liberal and im perial forces, engagements to the number of 122, In which the number reported as wounded was 1,300, and the killed 3,277 ; and that during the year 1865 there have taken place 322 encounters of arms, with 1,279 reported as wounded, and 5,674 reported as killed. This is an average of nearly one battle per day during the last year. The total during Maximilian's brief residence of nineteen months, to Ist of January last, is 2,000 wounded and 8,951 killed. From the small number re ported as wounded, compared with the killed, it would almost appear that no quarter was given to the wounded. It also ap pears from this calculation, made up purely from official despatches published in the city of Mexico, that while the number of engagements be tween the opposing forces during the first part of the above term was only from 15 to 17 per month, the number had risen in December last to 34. The loss of life by executions under courts-martial, under Maximilian's decree of the 3rd of October last, is reported to be even greater than that in battle. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honour. able Privy Council sat yesterday in the Council Chamber. Whitehall, upon the subject of the Southport Incorpora. tion. The lords present were—the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Chelmsford, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan. The Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General also were pre sent. Mr. Helps (the Clerk of the Council), and Mr Harrison (the Deputy Clerk) attended. A Committee of the Lords of the Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the Cattle Plague. Present—the Lord President and th e Right Hon. Sir George Grey. Mr. Helps and Mr. Harrison attended the committee. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial. office from the Governors of the Australian Colonies, Hong Kong, and Labuan. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Malta. (RIOTER% TILLGRAMEL) POPULAR MEETINGS IN PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 19. CABINET COLIICIL.—Last evening summonses were issued for a Cabinet Council on Saturday next, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence in Downing-street, Last night Mrs. Gladstone had a reception at the familyresidence onCarlton-house-terrace. Previously tothe reception, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad stone received at dinner his Excellency the Russian Am bassador, the Duchess of Cleveland, the Earl Cowper, the Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the Right Hon. C. Forrescue, Lord Clarence Paget, the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, Mr. and Mrs. Majori banks, kc. Later in the evening a numerous company responded to Mrs. Gladstone's invitations. Among the members of the Corps Diplomatique were—His Excellency the Turkish Ambassadorand Madameand Madlle. Minutes, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi and Countess Helene Apponyi, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister, his Excellency the Spanish Am bassador and the Marchioness de Moline, his Excellency the Netherlands Minister, his Excellency the United States Minister and Mrs. and Kim Adams, his Excellency the Hanseatic Minister, his Excellency the Prussian Ambas sador, M. E. Musurus, M. I'. Musurus, the Marquis de Tamisier, Baron Rosenkrantz, Princess Soltykoff, Count Maffei, Prince Michael Gortchacow, and Mr. Andre Kokhanowsky. The Earl and Countess Russell received at dinner last evening, at their residence in Chesham-Place, the Dean of St. Paul's and Mrs. Milman, Lord Henley, M.P., Hon. Charles Howard, Hon. Charles Wood, Viscount and Vis countess Amberley, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, Miss Lister, Mr. John Romilly, !cc. On the previous evening the dinner party consisted of his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi and Countess Helene Apponyi, the Duke of Leinster, the Earl and Countess of Mine, the Marquis de Tamissier, Viscount and Viscountess Amberley, Lord and Lady Taunton, Lady Georgina Russell, and Hun. Lyulph Stanley. His Excellency the Ambassador of France enter tained at dinner last evening, at the residence of the Em bassy, Albert-gate Home, his Excellency the Italian Mi nister, his Excellency the Spanish Minister and the Mar chioness de Molina, his Excellency the Hanseatic Minister, the Earl and Countess de Grey and Ripon, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord and Lady Egerton and the Hon. Mils Egerton, Lord and Lady Lyvelen, Mr. Alfred de Rothschild, Baron de Bantle, the Marquis de Tamimier, Mr. Seydoux, Viscount d'Espinelles, and Viscount de Virel. Sir John and Lady Johnstone received at dinner last evening, at their residence in Beigrave-square, the Archbishop of York and MIS. Thomson, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, Lord Eliot, Viscount and Vis countess Nevill, the Right Hon. Hamilton Seymour, Lady and Miss Seymour, Mr. Christopher Sykes, Mr. William Harcourt. he. Mrs. W. E. Gladstone's next assembly is fixed to take place on Wednesday, May 2. The Countess of Derby has of late greatly im proved in health. On Tuesday and yesterday the countess took carriage airings. Miss Burdett Coutts and Mrs. Brown have ar rived in Stratton-street, from Torquay, where they have been passing the recess. THE MAY MEETINEs.—The following arrange ments have been made for the meetings of the principal re ligious societies known as the " May meetings," although some of them are held in April, and some in May. The name of the chairman is annexed :—April 20, Home Teaching for the Blind, Willis's-rooms, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; April 23, Lord's Day Society, St. James's-hall, Sir Brook Bridges, M.P. ; April 24, Chu.•ch of England Scripture Readers, Hanover-square Rooms, the Archbishop of Armagh ; Irish Baptist Missions, Bloomsbury Chapel. Sir S. M. Peto, M.P. ; April 26, Baptist Missionary Society , Exeter-hall, Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P. ; Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel, St. James's-hall, Archbishop of Canterbury ; April 28, Association in Aid of Deaf and Dumb, Willis's Rooms, Sir John Pakington. M.P. ; April 30, Wesleyan Missionary, Exeter-hall, Mr. John Fernley ; Home and Colonial School, Gray's - inn - road , the Earl of Chichester ; Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, St. James's-hall, the Archbishop of Canterbury ; National Temperance League, Exeter-hall, Mr. Samuel Bowley ; May 1, Church Missionary Society, the Earl of Chiches ter ; May 2, British and Foreign Bible Society, Exeter hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Systematic Beneficence , Exeter-hall, Mr. R. C. Hanbury, M.P. ; May 3, London City Mission, Exeter-ha ll , the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Church Past oral Aid, St. James's-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Evangelical Alliance, Freemason's-hall, Mr. It. C. Hanbury, M.P. May 4, London Society for the Jews, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Religions Tract Society, Exeter-hall, Sir F. Crossley, M.P. ; Reform and Refuge Union, Willis's-rooms, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; May 5, Royal Naval Female School, United Service Institution, the Earl of Shrews bury ; May 7, British and Foreign School, Borough-road, Earl Russell • Christian Vernacular Education, Will's's rooms, the E arl of Shaftesbury ; Protestant Reformation, WiLlis's-roorns, Admiral Vernon Harcourt ; Rimmed School Union, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Irish Evan gelical, Poultry Chapel, Mr. Charles Read ; May 8, Con gregational Union, Weigh-house Chapel, Rev. Newman Hail, L.L.B. •, Irish Church Mations, St. James's-hall, Mr. J. C. Colqulionn ; British Society for Jews Hanover square Rooms, chairman, doubtful ; Home Jews, Poultry Chapel, Yr. Morley, M.P. ; May 9, Church Home Mission, Hanover-square Rooms, Bishop of Carlisle ; Colonial and Continental Church , St. James's-hall, Marquis of Cholmoadeley ; May 10, London Infirmary, Exeter-hall, the Earl of Shaftesbury ; Operative Jewish Converts, Lon don Tavern, Hon. W. Ashley ,• May 11, Missions to Sea men, Willis's-rooms, Archbishop of York ; May 14, Co lonial Missionary, Poultry Chapel, Mr. J. Spicer • Foreign Aid Hanover-square Rooms, the Marquis of Cholzirondeley; Turkish Missions Aid, Willis's-rooms, the Earl of Shaftes bury ; Primitive Methodist Missionary, Metropolitan Tabernacle, the Lord Mayor of York ; May 16, Army Scripture Readers, Willis's-rooms, chairman doubtful ; May 17, Evangelical Continental, Exeter-hall, Mr. Cheet ham, M.P.; Peace Society, Finsbury Chapel, Mr. Joseph Pease •, June 12, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, St. Paul's estbedral: June 13, Friends of Clergy tion, Millis's-rooms, Marquis of Salisbury ; June li?l, 3 a xirfr rie thin Community, London Tavern, Sir S. M. Pete M.P. There are to be sermons in various churches and chapels is connexion with them and other eecardies. A meeting of the electors oftie first electoral district of Berlin was held here yesterday, when the following resolution, supported by several of the Prussian deputies, was adopted :—" That a war for the annexation of the Duchies was unjusti fiable, and that the Federal Diet was as little com petent as Count Bismarck to guard the interests of Germany, and to ward off danger. Only a Prussian government possessing the confidence of the people would be strong enough to solve both the question of the Duchies and also that of a reform of the Federal constitution." Popular meetings have been held both at Duren and Treves, at which the same feeling of opposition to the war was expressed. THE NEW NATIONAL BANK. BARCELONA, APRIL 19. An address, signed by upwards of a thousand of the principal inhabitants of this city, has been for warded to the Spanish Minister of Finance, con gratulating him on the formation of the new National Bank. INDIA, CHINA, AND JAPAN MAILS. POINT DE GALLE, APRIL 12. The Measageries Imperiales steamer Cambodge left here on the 10th inst., with the inward India, China, and Japan mails. She had on board 200 passengers, 600 bales of silk, and 1,670 packages of sundries. The Tigre, with the outward mails of the 19th ult., left here to-day. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Aram 18. The Pera, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived at 9 p.m. yesterday, and left at 7 a.m. to day for Alexandria. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 19. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen arrived here this morning with 292 passengers and 160,337 dollars in specie for England. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (moat ouu OWN coaararommerr.) PARIS, WIDNERDAY EVENING. The Bourse, after a feverish opening and many fluctuations, closed at an improvement, on the strength of a rise in Vienna and a report that M. de Bismarck had made a conciliatory proposal to Austria, and suggested a simultaneous dis armament. I am persuaded that this latter story will turn out to be a bottle of smoke. It is probably only founded upon an inaccurate telegraphic resume of Bismarck's despatch to Baron Werther, dated Berlin, April 15. We have the text of this despatch in the evening papers, and nothing can be more bitter, quarrelsome, or un yielding than it is. It gives the lie direct to the Austrian government, and throws upon it the initiative of a disarmament. However, the Bourse reports of the day say that " Germans have been buying." The rise at the close of business was general. Rente rose 20c. for cash, and 37c. for account, closing at 67fr. 15e. in each case. Mobilier rose llfr. 25c. ; Credit Foncier, sfr. ; and Italian, 25c. The Northern Railway rose 12fr. 50c. ; Southern, llfr. 25c. ; Lyons, 6fr. 25c. ; and Orleans, sfr. Western fell 2fr. 50c. On taking the chair in the Corps Legislatif this afternoon Count Walewski read an imperial decree prolonging the session till June 21 inclusively. The Patric treats as a mistake of the English press the representation that France was negotiating with Madagascar only for a treaty with the most favoured nation clause. France asks for much more ; she claims besides certain special privileges which she conceives due to her peculiar position, and there is good hope that she will obtain them. A thanksgiving service for the preservation of the life of the Emperor of Russia from the hand of an assassin was performed to-day in the Russian church of the Faubourg du Roule, and very nume rously attended. Baron de Budberg, with all the members of his legation, was present, and Baron d'Andri, a director in the Foreign-office, repre sented M. Drouyn de Lhuys. The Archbishop of Paris is about to go to Rome in order to fulfil the vow which every bishop takes on his consecration to perform a pilgrimage an ad titaina apostolarient. Circumstances prevented Mgr. Darboy from undertaking this journey while he was Bishop of Nancy. M. Emile Offivier's career as an editor is likely to be short. It is positively stated that M. Mires has bought up most of the shares of the P,regge, and that he intends to make it a government journal, with M. Cucheval Olarigny for redacteur en dui. THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILLUNITE AND THE A. It is already known that the American Senate on the 6th pushed the Civil Rights Bill over the President's 'vie by a vote of 33 to 15. The bill originally passed the Senate on Feb. 2 by a vote of 33 to 12, five members being absent. It passed the House of Representatives on March 13, the vote being 111 in favour to 38 against (not quite two-thirds) with 34 members not voting. Before the vote wee taken, Mr. Saulsbury, a demo cratic senator from Delaware, took the floor and said, " I rise to say, air, that in my judgment the weep of this bill is an inauguration of revolution. It is well, sir, that the American people should take warning and set their house in order, for it is impossible that the people will patiently submit to it. Heaven knows that we have bad enough of bloodshed, enough of mourning in every house hold. There are too many new-made graves for anyone to wish to see more. Attempt to exe cute this law within any State of this Union and in my judgment this country will again be plunged into all the horrors of civil war. In my own State, an humble state in point of numbers, bat a state of gallant sons, your law will never be observed by the judiciary of that State, most of them of the republican party. There is not, I say, a republican judge, we never had a judge so dead to the teachings of the great luminaries of the law as to attempt to enforce such a flagrantly unconstitutional law or act as this. I shall not again enter upon the con stitutionality or unconstitutionality of the act. But, sir, if it be not grossly, palpably, flagrantly, unconstitutional, then five and twenty years of some diligent study of the law have availed me nothing." In conclusion Mr. Seals. bury predicted that the passage of this bill would lead to bloodshed, war, and diaunion. " Now came the thrilling moments," says one account " which were to witness the decision of the Senate upon the question before them. Every one, as if Impressed with the solemnity and gravity of the occasion, was hushed into • portentous ellencewhile the President made the announce ment, ' Shall the bill be passed, the objections of the President of the United States to the contrary not withstanding The roll was called, and each senator boldly answered in accordance with his convictions. When the name of Senator Morgan was given and he replied in the affirmative there was great sensation and clapping of hands both on the floor and in the galleries. When the result of the vote and the passage of the bill was stated by the President there was an outburst of applause, especially in the galle ries, only suppressed by a voluntary dispersion of the crowd. In this portion of the chamber the negroes were particularly moved, and gave vent to their feeling by cheers. This completed the excited deliberations upon one of the most important actions which has yet emanated from the Congress of the United States since the close of the rebellion." On the motion of Mr. Trumbull, the Secretary of the Senate was ordered to communicate to the House a oopy of the veto message, together with the result of the veto, above given. The Boston Advertiser of the 7th, commenting upon the vote, says :—" The occasional glimpses which are obtained as time goes on of the history of what Mr. Johnson has termed the ' warfare' between himself and Congress, do not exhibit the President as the party attacked. Mr. Trumbull, for instance, in his speech on the Civil Bights Bill the other day, gave a scrap of its history which shows that the friends of the measure were desirous of anything rather than an issue with the President. The bill was prepared in conformity with what were supposed to be his views, it was privately shown to him before action was taken upon it, and he was invited by those with whom ho had long been acting in political harmony, to statejany objections which he might have to it. It is well known also that the Freedmen's Bureau Bill was shown to him before action was taken upon it, and that in that case too his conduct was such as to imply assent. In both cases the gentlemen who dealt with the President might perhaps be accused of subservience to the executive will, for which the condition of the country could be the only justification ; it might be said that they lowered the dignity of their own branch of the government by this anxious consultation with another ; but they are at all events en tirely cleared from the charge of courting an issue with the President. A few words said in private by him would probably in both instances have prevented the final collision ; and the responsibility for what happened, the suspicion of desiring that it should happen, must rest upon him who omitted to say those few words, andnotupon those who gave him the opportunity. Whatever may finally prove to be the motives which led the President to enter upon this warfare, a grievous miscalculation of his own strength will unquestionably be found to have been one of his prin cipal mistakes. Nothing can be more significant than the dead failure of the movement which began on the 22nd of February. That amazing despatch which said among other things that the President's speech was trium phant,' and the country was happy,' would not have seemed quite so flat had a little real success justified its complacency. But for the hundredth time it has proved that it is one thing to get up a meeting at Cooper Institute with all the New York world for officers, and quite another to exercise the popular influence which such an array of names seems to imply. AU that was done then was so little towards consolidat ing a strong support for the President in his war fare, that it could not save Connecticut for him, it could not even keep those who were then his supporters firm against the Civil Rights Bill, and it could not prevent the country from giving its sympathy unmistakably to the ma jority in the Senate who took their stand upon that bill against his veto. So far then the warfare which started on • mistaken trust in the sanguine assurances of New York politicians, and the movement which has never assumed anything more than the dimensions of a New York diver sion, have been dead failures, so far as concerns any positive effect in the restoration of the Southern States. Negative influence for evil they have had, no doubt, in abundance. They have retarded the work of reorganisation which might otherwise have been set upon a secure basis before this, and have postponed the day when all the States shall be represented in Congress ; but Achievements of this sort need not be felt as any great en couragement to Mr. Johnson to persevere in the ill-ad vised enterprise which he has undertaken." A letter from Kingston, of the 27th ult. : , says " The two commissioners, Hr. Gurney and Mr. Houle, will return by the next mail steamer, leaving Sir Henry Storks in the double capacity of governor and commander-in chief. Colonel Whitmore will also return, to enter on the duties of his new appointment at the Horse Guards." An Irish western paper says that " not a single day passes by without witnessing batches of emigrants from every direction leaving for America. Many able bodied young men are also going to England, and labour has in consequence become uncommonly scarce and expensive." ; Large numbers of emigrants still continue to embark at Cork for the United States. New peace meetings have heen held at Troves, Bockolt, Gnevenbroich, Witten, Elbing, Berlin, Konigs berg, Duren, Nenmunster, Offenbach, Frankfort, and a good many other places both in Prussia and the Federal States. The resolutions adopted all concur in condemning civil war and predicting the most terrible circumstances therefrom. The restoration of Notre-Dame is rapidly ap proaching its termination. All the 'Mined Mass windows have been completed and placed in the ogive openings ; the northern portico is finished, as are the chapels surrounding the nave. By the end of this year the old cathedral will once more appear in its pristine beauty. To almost every place abroad letters are now charged uniformly according to half ounces. This method make/ a difference of 2s. in the postage of • single letter to places on the south-wed smut of America. A letter for those places weighing a fraction over the ounce was formerly charged Be. ; it is now only 6e. The chief places for which letters are charged according to the old method are Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Singapore, and Ceylon. ETON COLLZOIL The Easter vacation termi nated yesterday with the return of the lower boys. The fifth form return to-day and the sixth to-morrow, when the whole of the scholars will have assembled. A Naw Por.rricm. CLUB.—We a are informed that a number of gentlemen , prof liberal consery tism, are engaged in organising a club, fn order that their interests may be consolidated and advanced, sad due vigi lance exercised over the impending changes in oar electo ral system. We hear that a dm* committee will shortly be announced, end that excellent premises have been secured. It is stated that the name decided en for the new eh* is the " Clarendon." ICS TOPICS. The Tim% approves of the recommendation of the par liamentary committee, given in last night's Express, of a general measure to correct the present defects in the law and to establish an effective superintendence over the whole street traffic of London. Until Parliament can be induced to act on the principle that our metropolis is one great town, of which the City is simply the moat ancient and cen tral part, we shall never get this, or other nuisances of the same kind, effectually abated. It would be possible to prevent the delivery of merchandise in certain localities except before and after certain hours ; to appoint certain streets for heavy through traffic and others for light through traffic ; to confine vehicles of a certain class or vehicles moving at a foot's pace to the side of the street, as on London-bridge, instead of allowing them to crawl along three or four feet from the kerb-stone ; and, above all, to put some check on the breaking up of streets. We all know perfectly well that a remedy is within our reach, but just because it savours of " centralisation" we have been perversely content to put up with the evil, as if it were incurable. The Daily News gives an account of a difficulty which has arisen between the Governor and the House of Assembly of Vancouver's Island, proceeding from a dif femme as to the best method of practising economy, which the circumstances of the colony have rendered imperative. The Governor would cut down estimates for useful objects, ils I t Ii ELECTION COMMITTEES.-(THIS DAY.) HORSHAM. On the reassembling of the committee this morn. tog, Mr. C. W. Williams Wynn in the *hair, Mr. Cooke, Q.C., stated that since the committee mpa. rated on the previous day he had with his learned brethree (Kr. Revelry Hill and W. George Browne) am am the remaining cases, and in consequence of th g e unexpect e d decision et which the committee arrived hi one ar two instances , they had thought it their duty, in the exercise of their discretion, to ad vi se Mr. Fitagmald not to proms* further with the petition, and they therefore beg ge d is retire from the case. Mr. Keane, Q.C., on behalf of the sitting member, mid that, w ithout o ff ering any opinion on the propriety of pres e nt. ing the petition, he had no complaint to make of the wag in which the case had been conducted on the other side, and be thought the bad now taken a very proper mans. The Chairman—l believe Mr. Hurst remains at want in a majority. Mr. Keane—Yes, in a majority of 2. Mr. Cooke said it would be the duty of the committee is report that the names of the three poisons whose rotes they had disallowed should be removed from the poll, en d that Mr. Hurst was duly elected. He believed it was she usual in such a case to report that corrupt practices had not prevailed at the election. The committee then declared Mr. Hurst to be doh elected, and the proceedings closed. BRIDGWATER. This committee met again this morning, when the en. dance in favour of the ntting member was procceled the first witness called being Mr. Edward Lilly, a land agent and sucticese of Bridgwater, who stated that he took as end % part in the late election in favour of Mr. W as a private friend, not as a paid gent.• He 1,1 14 : 4 Z paid for committee rooms, and no charge had bees mode against Mr. Westropp for them. That gentleman bad nothing whatever to do with the formation of the ess. mittee of which the witness was a member. The wheel produced a circular, to which the name of Mr. Gage Vesey was attached as secretary. but that 'gentlemen bat nothing whatever to do with the issue of that cinch& He never gave instructions to Mr. Veasy, or beard fres him that he had bribed, or attempted to bribe, the ales. tors, nor was he appointed in the presence of 11r. WI N to do anything with respect to the election,but he gin kik instructions to attend the committce-room. Not a feting was given by the committee to Mr. Vesey, or any set person for disbursements during the election. Mr. Vag may have been present during Mr. Wseenn but be had no recollection of seeing y eases except upon one mission. Witness sou never men any meeting of Mr. Westropp 's friends v qty discussion took place as to the advisability o f tick gentleman going to the poll; there was as lads meeting. In am-examination by Mr. Powell, the witness staid that be took • very active part in Mr. Westrapp's dee* and had given orders for several bills and circuhm rat ing to the election, but he had no particular render tion of doing so. Stroud was on the committee, sad frequently attended at the comraittee.rom, ea ale did Mr. Pimm, the landlord of the Golden Lea. Never saw Mr. Westropp there. He did e a know whether Mr. James Harwood was a member el the committee, but would not swear he was not. He Ned* the following letter from that gentleman:—" Mr. Lily,— Dear Bir,—l promised James Rogers to be made right, He belongs to the North Ward. A plumper for Westrepp. —Yours truly, Jima; HARWOOD." He would not em that Mr. T. H. Boys was not on the committee, bat id not remember seeing him there. In re-examination the witness, on being premed as h tin source from which he received the letter, mid item from the offices of Read and Co., solicitor s, who wele the interest of the liberals. The Chairman and the committee attached no import. awe to this letter. The witness, in reply to the committee, said the mmy he vent was entirely out of his own pocket. Mr. William Vesey, solicitor, Bridgwater, ssid that shortly before the election he applied to Mr. Smith, se., to be engaged in it, but that gentleman dadaist, saying that he had not had experience enough. Xs. Smith had generally acted for the conservatives. Wiese was asked on one omission by Mr. Westropp, whom hs art in the street where Mr. Osborne lived, and be &mad " Oh, it's no good going there, he's • regular liberal." Hs never accompanied Mr. Westropp on his canvass, sal never dined with him before the election. The cheeks produced bearing his name as secretary, he never maw d it was now shown him ; but be heard that he was s to a committee. Never offered money t o an y voter. ll= home on Sunday evening with two young ladies sari Osborne, and had some converNation on different subbed with their father, who said that 2 ,0001 . would not bills him, though • neighbour of his would no doubt take 11 The daughters jokingly said that 10f. would boy them s new dress. (Laughter.) Witness made no de of money to him. Met Frederick Jones, • marled the night before the election, and also his brother Isaac, who asked him if he could do myth* for Fred. Witness replied, "No, we have no money, eel besides be is sure to go on the same side as Isis employee He went with Fred. Jones to Harwood's. Jones said h could not vote against his employers, Ringlike sal Shelley, and witness' said, " Of course you net." [Left sitting.] MAIDSTONE. The committee resumed their inquiry at 11 o'clock; the Hon. Mr. Howard in the chair. Mr. Price, Q.C., Mr. Cooke, Q.C., and Mr. 8. tt pared for the petitioner ; Mr. rierrant Ballantine, Q.C4 Mr. Davidson, and Mr. H. James' appeared. fwtti sitting members, Messrs. Lee and Wharton. The following additional evidence was given: Thomas Bishop deposal that before the election a It Newport canvassed him to vote for the blues. Bd refused, saying he was " going tory." After the arra Mr. Day told witness he could have got him 15/. for ha vote. Cross-examined—l am one of Kishy's flock. William Gandy deposed that he was canvassed by 1. Lee for hie vote. Witness said he had not mods 7 0 1d e mind. Mr. Strange, who was with him, mkt, " Gandy, if there is anything you want let me know it shall be done." Cross-exa m ined—l wa l n ot holding out to be bola. I wanted a situation. voted for Wardle , and Ssi I have got a situation as const.die, but not for my vela Some further evidence was givt I' in support of the PO' tioa and the case closed. Mr. Serjeant Belthatine maid he would not trouble ff h a committee with the speeches, but would in the first stance go into evidence. Mr. Whatman, M.P., was exami ned, and stated gel there was no truth whatever in the statemeet made by Chambers that he had offered him 30f. or 40/., Or 0 1 ,2, 1 ! whatever. There was not, to his knowledge, one spent improperly or illegally in reference to the elect's by his agents or by &melt. [Left sitting.] SUICIDE THROUOH GRIEF AT THE DEATH OS A WIFE. INQUET.—(THIS DAY.) This morning, an inquiry was held by /4r• Biel* aids, deputy-coroner, at the Union Tavel'', t, Shoreditch, touching the death, by banes& e Woker, aged 58 years. Sarah Woker, 18, Union-street, Shoredita,all6 deceased was her father, awl he was a waiver Her mother died a week ago from a st, s ad b e !IN, took his loss very much to heart. He aged to el room moody and silent, and would not talk to WM", Her mother was to have been buried on Monday lack M` witness went into her father's room, where he used to le " 11 alone, on that morning. She foun d him hanIMA b/ 1M neck to the bedpost, and apparently quite IWO% gave an alarm and the police and a doctor camo.isr, cut him down. Witness had no do ubt that the committed suicide, while out of his m ind, from Pm the death of his wife. Dr. Brown said that he was called in to the doessMA and found that he had been hanging for wen d lent !I , had suspended himself by means of a piece I doubled round his neck, and his death m alted &II strangulation. The Coroner, having remarked upon the sad eat s the case, The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide epic state of unsound mind." --- --- The ordnance survey is proceeding in the WWI. of Surrey, Kent, and Hampshire, and a large Wel' di I t veyors is employed in London in comp leting the On" the metropolis. Tess " Pool' Pores."—" On Sunday last," W rit. the Roman correspondent of the Independasct, "Ow went in great state to the Church of the Minerva to Mr brute the festival of the annunciation. Strange:Owl° witnessed the brilliant procession must have been mills astonieed at seeing the Sovereign Pontiff piston s° carriage all covered with gold, surrounded by noble dragoon guards and gendannee, sad di s P le j jog all the pomp of • sump tuous court. Dbxkl the simple people who read the clerical papers, that the Pope is suffering persecution, that is ream to privation and distress, and is ready to ta b reful tit the Catacombs. On the contrail , he is a monarch vv. an exhibit all the evidences of wealth sod power- AT! the ceremony, which was celebrated with great pociP.'" Pope permitted a number of persons—Priests and hitt' to kiss his feet. Amongst those who enjoyed the privd. were 12 young girls selected from the 846, who, this 7 0 s received from the PiciusSocietyuf the Annu nciate • doll or which will either enable them to obtain husbands pay for their admission into a co nvent. The Pops A received with demonstrations of love and respect' at' of ' Long live the Pope-King , ' were r aised by the AO of the American College, which is next the ehurele_ also showered roses on the carriage of the sovezeiffs from the windows as it passed beneath." a5......."'"" .. " .• ISA %War taj:2l4 31r. 0161116 last sn ills tp the jar 1•"' was ft , hear field*, di sl morel rw • n direati° ll. —.4. Buis s ipSl4. 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