The Express. — London, England, 1858-03-11 00:00:00

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FOWL Tao Irwin. TWO FATAL 116l11•01 Yam Ossiolut • Me &Wait —TWOgarsAx TWO FOWL NM% BIM leads OF 01.11100 S. Sm. & W ; Mana—Onsum.• ballasl4l. NIGH WATHA AT LONDON 111111D011. an Ailimma. a. as. As Alums% N. sm. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11. Thrn is nothing like knowing the true ground as which any change in our laws is advocated. The more serious the proposed change the more desirable does this knowledge become. The real motives for urging on the Conspiracy Bill have now been avowed with a frank cynicism which is calculated to open the eyes of the least suspicious among the opponents of that attempted infringement on the constitutional liberties of Englishmen. The Pal merstonian organs in the daily press, desperate at the announced intention of the new Administration to abandon the Bill, have dropped the mark under which they were so long contented to fight. The real design of the late " English" Minister is now openly avowed, and that design was neither more nor less than so to change the laws of England am to render them oonvenient manta for the police of Franca. For the first time in our history, conspiracy—the mere inchoate design —the initiatory attempt—war to be made a felony, punishable with ten years' penal servitude. The mere charge of this ragas offence was to subject men to seizure, and their dwellings to search. In order to ensure detection, an elaborate machinery of ',image would have to be set on toot, each se this country, except foe brief intervals in the worst periods of its history, has never known. In order to ensure conviction, recourse must have been had to every description of objectionable proof : the violation of private correspondence would have become a recognised branch of duty with the emissaries of the secret police. Words, looks and gestures would be tortured into proofs of guilt; and the freedom of social intercourse, whether oral or written, world be exchanged for the caution of distrust or the silent* of fear. Once place conspiracy to commit a crime on the same level of legal guilt with the crime committed—once establish an Identity of punishment between words and deeds— the intent and the execution—sad you not only shake to the ground the strong bulwarks by which seen hays sought to protect themselves against the encroachments of judicial oppression, but you neces sarily admit a description of evidence and a mode of proof which has hitherto been for ages unknown in oar criminal jurisprudence. Let those who advocate a Conspiracy Bill for England consider the effect already produced by the Law of Public Safety in Franc*. Unless we are greatly misinformed, nothing can be more marked than the change which this new law has produced on the whole tone of coofi dentist correspondence between friends on the oppo site sides of the Channel. It could hardly be other wise. Freedom of communication is a great privilege, but a forced sojourn at Mazes, or a com pul•ory journey to Lambert, is a price which few will consent to pay for it. If this law is persisted in, the ominous silence which now broods over France is only too likely to be broken by one of those volcanic convulsions which mature their forces in the gloom of enforced secresy and under the pres sure of political obstruction. We see what repres sive laws in their maturity are doing for France ; and we resist the first step towards introducing such laws for England. We have already remarked on the argument ad terrorinn to which one of our Palmerstonian contem poraries resorted on Monday last. We have com mented on the spirit, alike un-English and un constitutional, with which the observance of our old forme of criminal procedure, with all their " delays" and " loopholes," was depre cated, as likely to be supremely displeasing to our " great ally." A hambler satellite of the late Ministry has been following, hand passaus ayssiir, in the name line. The Morning Post is excessively indignant at the report that the Conspiracy Bill is to be dropped by the new Government. The main grievance of our contemporary is that the English police are not armed with sufficient powers--that they are not yet empowered to seize suspected con. spirators as felons, and hurry them off at once to gaol with all their papers, and, whatever that may mean, " all their havings." " The law," we are assured, " is insufficient; no Minister has hitherto " dared to exceed the law tad violate the constitu " tion. Such has been the state of affairs, and such " it is to remain." We rather hope it will. We trust that the law, which we believe to be sufficient, will remain unchanged, and while it does so can see nothing to regret in the fact that no Minister can be found who will dare " to exceed the law and violate " the constitution." The more closely the thing is looked at, the more utterly hopeless and chimerical does the attempt appear to introduce any such change in oar laws as will satisfy the exigencies of the politicians of the Tuileries. Their alleged object is to protect from lawless violence the person and the dynasty of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Cordially agreeing with them in the object, we think them utterly mistaken in the means. The experience of history—an intelligent study of human nature--ought to convince all who are capable of serious conviction that a policy of repression is not, and never can be, a policy of safety. Assassination is the misgrowth of despotism. The eoereion that animates a sect or a nation with hatred arms the assassin with despair, and screens his crime from execration. To rule justly, wisely, and mercifully, is the truest safeguard of runs and the only lasting support of dynaries. LAWS of public safety, legions of spies, the police everywhere and freedom nowhere, may proclaim the fears, but cannot assure the safety, of the Sovereign. W e have THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MA,RCH 11,., 1858. no right and no wish to speculate oaths issue of ' recent legislation in France but, valuing as we' do the alliance of the Government of PAM—let litst Government be vested in whist holds it Mix— we deeply regret that the Marimba has fit to inaugurate a system of high-handed repression which seems more biely than any thing else to array against him the public feeling of a high-epirited, an intelligent, and • nano trot people. But if this policy must be re garded as of doubtful success in Fnueoe, what can be expected from the endeavour to extend its in fluence elsewhere ? If a Law of Public Safety is but a hazardeas experiment on the other side of the thannel, what element of safety could have been hand in the enactment of a oouspieacy Bill here P Supposing the eountry had not risen against the saenre-:-cruppese Lord Pautxmon's Bill had, without stodifieatioo, become the law of the land— what wield have been the result in the way of in creased safety to the Emperor Of the French? The law, if passed, would have had to be worked in British courts, before British juries, according to the rules of British evidence and procedure. Spies might have got up the case, nnaifted testi mony might have passed for proof before the police magistrate, but when once arraigned at the tar of our criminal courts, with an English .edge to preside, English advocates to defend, and twelve good men and true to make deliverance on their oaths, the matter would bare assumed a dif ferent aspect. There would have been " delays ; " there would have been " loopholes." Suspicions would have had to give place to facts—every state ment would have been tested, every eircumstance weighed ; illegal or insufficient evidence would have been rejected; the eager detective and the hireling spy would have shrunk up withered and bleated under the searching fire of crone-examinatice ; and the charge,which in the Imperial tribunals would have infallibly consigned the accused to the hulks or to Algeria, would have ended in the English Courts in the signal and ignominious defeat of the prosecutor. The letter of the law is one thing ; the spirit in which the law is worked out is quite another thing. No British jury would be found to convict, except on the clearest and most irresistible evidence, when the offence charged was not an actual crime committed or abetted, but an alleged conspiracy to commit one. But could this be understood, or would it be allowed for, in France? Would TROPLONO, or Dc MORN Y, be satisfied with a law the working of which only led to results so abortive ? Would they not find in it a fresh ground for remonstrance—the material far new demands—an unanswerable reason for further con cessions ? Our firm conviction is that unless we were prepared to change not only the text of our laws relating to conspiracy, but all our rules of evidence, all our methods of procedure, and the entire spirit of oar criminal administration, we should utterly fail to satidy the authors of the new' Lol de Sureti Pubiies. The pending trial of BERNARD stands on a dif ferent footing ; the charge against him relates to acts done with a view to the perpetration of a crime actually committed. Whatever the verdict of the jury may ultimately be—and it could be wished that certain Ministers and Journalists would have the decorum to abstain from pronouncing him guilty till the jury have decided—they will at all events have tangible facts to grapple with, supported by tangible proof. The case of mere conspiracy which has sever eventuated in acts comes obviously under quite another category. It is this latter offence for which the Palmerstonian organs are so urgent that specific provision should be made, and it is to the impolicy, the uselternese, and the danger of attempting to make any such provision that our remarks are in tended to apply. Let those whom it concerns be well assured that the country will have nothing to do with a Conspiracy Bill. “ SOLIDARITY.” (THANOLATZD 7/LOY TN3 The English journals tell us that the Invalids Buss. is scolding England, because she persists in not quitting those ancient foundations upon which bar strength and glory have been raised, and because she means to judge foreigners of all nations, sojourn ing as her guests, by her " common law," and not according to the instructions of any police or the denunciations of spies in the pay of the governments they represent. What, then, is this opinion? Is it that of the Rand= government, or merely that of the Inralide In the latter case, it concerns us very little, although we think it indecorous thus to prostitute the name of Russia, by making it serve incessantly to give an extra momentum for every blow of the axe, and serve as a makeweight to tighten the hang man's rope. We have not yet quite forgotten the passionate tenderness, the touching perseverance, with which Nicholas demanded of Turkey the extra dition of Kossuth and his companions. But if it be the opinion of Oortchakoff's cabinet, we cannot forbear remarking that we regard it as unworthy of the present state of affairs in Russia. Cannot you desist then from this incessant putting yourself forward, and showing your sympathy with all savage power, all violence, all contempt of right, and bonds of every kind? Let us wean the West from its habit of pronouncing the name of Russia, together with the knout, in one and the same breath. What interest urges you on ? Is it possible you do not comprehend that a state . just entering upon a new era, full of youth and vitality, cannot share all the vices of nations in their decline? England has set a great example of morality and governmental strength. England is the only coun try where justice is found. And you presume to give her advice, to express to her your discontent— you, who have neither rights nor laws !—you, who cannot succeed in preventing your judges from being thieves, or your nobles from taking the rod as their standard, or your police from striking the people in the open streets ! Take rather England for your pattern, and mind your own business. ISCANDER. [From the Itobkol, of March 1, 1858, a Russian journal, pnatad and pablishod in London every fortnight.] PROPOSED ExHismoN IN 1881.—A special meet ing of the Council of the Society of Arts was held yesterday (Wednesday) evening, fur the consideration of this subject. The discoidal occupied the whole evening, and was ad journed to Wednesday, the 24th inst. TAE Aaciirracrs' BENZFOLENT SOCIETY.—The =mud genets' meeting of the supporter, of this institution, ' which was established to benefit those engaged profiessionally ht all branches connected with architecture, their widows sad children, was held yesterday in the board-room of the Royal Inatittulon of 13ntish Architects, 16, Grosvenor-Mame. Mr. Sidney Smirks, president of the society, occupied the chair. Mr. Terser, the secretary, read the minutes of the pie - Mous meeting es dm the general an d fi na ncial report, which showed that tileilenstimessead annual subscriptions had mete. really exoseded Shoes et the previous year, though the number of subscribers was Mill small compared with the number =- pied in tbs prehrks. Alter the report hod been agreed te, the seembary read the auditor'. repast, which showed that the neelpts of th a e=year—inelufieg - previous balance of 501. 6e. 2d. ; the 1261. M . ; donations, 761. 11s. 7d. ; and dividends, & i re: 104.--sessunted to 3291. 19e. Id. ; from whieh refirdned hassles et 631. lb. ; there wee 7861. 6e. 3.1. in thihmds, sad subscriptamm duc amounting to 671. 114. 3d. Mons wen sleeted for the en wieg year, eat Menke voted to the president and council, the hon. see., end the chairman at the meeting. Tug KINIINOTON 0011‘ EITAT/L—The total expeditors en the Kaseigess sew awe is pia a ro tas to the Hewes of Ceemeses tweet yeetnedes sant is 312.0001. of which 296,0001., wee bid ad try Ohs Ceeemiesioners. and the remainder by the *ems mat of this, 206,01101. men vets' psdlasissi sa = m t u' oaakrioss. The principal item et" par to hare been, for purchase of rtes sdeleiV ftr um. * 4 is not the whole sum that will have to he rid) ; laying sat the grounds, 15,000!.; museum, 16,0001. gbc troun. oiliD 4 01„ Kama* 10. Her 1140ty and Use Royal walked 111, the cree.eiavgaieriay. . 4 :Ms PA.* d Wales visited Mace AU* i ilverlaa The Quaa's &ttor party hicludel Ma Poe of Wa ft , Virecatat eydesy, Mx Jams Clark sal Mr. Gibbs. The se of VIM= bed ink iniseriew with the Zwl Derby yesterday at Isis Whig noldesca Dornag-earset. A deputation, otnialing of the calms of the = Week Ham, had eAtetervlew with theßight Wm. T. Beicourt yesterday et the tan of the Pearl or Beard. • &paw ion on street-walking, isight-homme, and brothals, had anlaterview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Hemp °face. The deputation, erldah was Introduced by the following members of whammed, is., Mr. Bonet Ban bury, Mr. D. Nicoll, and Mr De Lew Boos, coseined of— Prom the 'Wonky of St. Alia Be Raw. I. B. Knape, MA., Bettor, the H 2 :4g, Masms. Ganda, Mistress, Coop" Crane (oharchwardttee ll =wariten), Beams vp. e ta, Stroud (vestry alert), sod M. (seriatim' vestry clerk) ; from the vestry of Chaises, . Watkins ; frees the vestry of IL Mr. Mould end Mr. Edwards; boa the vestry of i rg= and Bloomsbury, Messrs. Cowie and Osamu •; from the =St. Munn, the Rev. Mr. Humphrey (vie= (churchwarden), and Mr. Deagerield miry • ; from the vestry of St. Mweetass, Bev. T. (rector of Trinity), Sir lames Mtn Himefton (down church warden), and Kr. W. B. Greenwdl (vestry dirk); from the vestry of Paddington, Means. Shaw end Dicimentie; from the vestry of St. Pancras, Mr. Wyatt (chweetrawket), Mr. Cameron, the Rev. R. Eckert, and Mr. G. W. F. Cook (entry clerk). Dispatchem from the Governors of the North Amarken Provinces wen received yeeterday at the Colostal-office. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge bed a dinner party, last evening, at her residence in the Ambusador's Court, Bt. James's Palace. The Prinoses Mary, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minieter, Visoonnt Canterbury, Lord sad Lady Rokeby, Lord John Manners, MaJor-Gasseml and Lady Alice Peal, Lady Georgians Bathurst, Baron Enseabeck, Colonel the Hon. Cecil W. Forester, Mr. H. Grevilis, tc., were of the drain The Countess of Derby had a reception last night at the noble Premises residence in St. Jamstersquare. Their Royal Highnesses the Daiwa of Cambridge and the Prisms Mac, attended by Lady Georgians Bathurst and Myer Hesse Purees, honoured her ladyship by their oom pay, shortly after sierra o'clock. His Royal Highness the Dub of Cambridge else attended the reaction. Previously to her ladyship's reception the noble earl and =Was en tertained at dinar the Marquis and Merchiosess of Salis bury, the Bari of Malmesbury, the Bal of Carnaaca, Irimonatam Lugar% Yiecotmt Chelsea, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsford, and Hon. Min Meager, the Right Hon. Benjamin and Mrs. Disraeli, Hon. P. Lycra, Colonel Wilbraham, Mr. airborne Hardy, M.P., Mr. Cayley, M.P., sad Mr. George John Caylsy, &o. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland arrived at Nardunnbariand Home yesterday eftentooe, from Stan- Irk& Park, Yorkshire, for House, mason. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have issued weds for a geoid dinner, on the 17th inst., to their Royal Ingimmess the Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess Mazy, aft Stafford Hones. The Marchioness of Salisbury will have an ammnbly this 'maim at the Gunny mansion in Arlington skint. The Earl of Carlisle will arrive in town this swain& from Dublin. The noble earl will stay with the Duke sad Duchene of Sutherland daring his sojourn la loos. The Earl of Eglinton will leave London by gnaw train this morning for Holyhead, en route to Dublin, to OWE ea his duties as Lord Lieutenant of Ire land. The Countess of Jersey'. party for to-morrow main, Is postpcsted, on account of the death of a near relation. The Bari and Countess of Bradford and Miss Mesas s hays arrived in Halgravrequare, from Weatan Hall, BtallirBelane. Lady Onsrstone will have an assembly to-morrow weals& at dm family madam in Carlton-gardens. The Right Hon. Edward eardwell,M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell bad a dinner party lest evoking at their =aim in Eaten-equars._ We are informed that a marriage is about to be sohnunited very shortly between the Hon. Richard ChM wynd, eldest son of Viscount Chstwynd, and Miss Campbell, Most daughter of Mrs. Welts'. Campbell. DEATH OP LADY Gunton PAOET.—We lament to sanoonce the premature demise of this actoompllshed lady, who attired yesterday, a taw boors after her aooouchement, to the inszpremitie grief of her husband and s wide circle at Meads. Lady George wee the daughter of the We efr Arthur Peg*, formerly Governor of Chelsea Hospital, and wag married to her cousin, Lord George Paget, only in 1104. RR; BRINUIT RICHARDS' CONCIRT. Mr. Richards has commenced a series of Soirees for the perforommee of demical pianoforte maaita the Ent of which win given last weaning, at the Beethoven Rooms in Hariey-etreet. The fallowing programme will show that the anesrminmeat ens precisely what it peofeesed to be. • - - - PAR, I. am& In V. 'lmpanel, and violin, Mr. Illobarde and la. H. Swan Beetho ven. ' kV." Vied. wri'ltiiipii Wiwi * iiiiiiii___ ....i. — ' . ..- : lasndet (10/1 Vumils la 0 Wiwi Maas AbrAnnO • nbiNs Xt. Itlolludd Olonentl. Pm If. Tile Is L flu. No. I. pimat t ykgin. Yidaseetki.. Mmes """'" ariehirt. lionft ii viii: shoe Wor teta yook . Plianforte—Mr. The two parts of the concert were each begun with an early work of Beethoven _; both of them beautifully clear, crisply sad ernmetrical, but marked with the bold eiteets and traits of individuality which marked the great master's style from the very outset of his career. They were admirably played both by Mr. Richards and his two ooadjutors—Mr. Blasters and M. Pape. Mr. Richards's great achievement woe Clementirs grand sonata far the piano alone. This sonata is Clemente, chef ir retort, and shows that, when he wrote it, he was far in advance of his sge. It is emßed a "soma begins," end is an attempt to paint the stem of extending passions in the brass* of the forsakes QOM' of Carthage. It is a surprising effort of genius, not unworthy of Beethoven himself, whose most modem music it resembles, not only in its originality and boldness, bat in its wild and passionate expression. Mr. Richards trium pisently OVIWORMO its immense difficulties, and showed him self to be a performer of the first class. The two vocal pieces were beautifully sung by Miss Meant. Mandars air is one of the gems which have been recently dug from the mins of his forgotten Italian operas. Mr. Richards's sacred sang, "The Pilgrim's Path," is con ' tabbed M the very elegant petbliostion which has recently , appeared, entitled "Brinley Rkhards's New Vocal Album." It is a Sas composition, in which Heber's solemn and affect ing thoughts are clothed with congenial melody. Miss Masent gave toll (act to its character and expression, and her performance was warmly encored. The rooms were crowded to the doors with elegant company. DRAMA. ADELPHI. An Hour in Sevilk, the playing of which, how ever, occupied nearly two in the Strand, is the title of an exceedingly elaborate and smartly written sketch, in which Mr. Selby finds place for the display of all the grsoes and all the talents of Mrs. Barney Williams. As Miss Constantin Flitterly she ham captivated a Mr. Pyefinch, but that gentle man, cooling in his ardour, bests a retreat, sad sets off on the tom , of Europe. The audience are introduced to him in Seville, whither his inamorata has followed image., deter mined to recover him by a snot onion of hot and cold applica tions, the effect of which is at 'set to make him fly into the srms of his first love with an intense sense of relief. As Mr. Whifiletan Whiffles, an English West-end man of the fastest variety, she extinguishes him by her high ton and her eloquent disquisitions on beer, end then, as an Italian prima donna, she awakens in his breed a new passion by her gram and her melody. She frightens him as the Donna's husband, and when be is Just recovering Sow this scrape, again entraps him se a Spanish Ballerina, in which character she gives a capital imitation of the dewing of Peres Nona. Sabseqttently she re-appears as a Matador furious with Jealousy, and Mr. Pyefinch is once awe thrown into a paroxysm of fear and perplexity. Finally she returns to her original Yankee personality, and bar lover is glad to get rid of all his troubles by returning to his allegiance. The whole burthen of the piece rested upon Mrs. Barney Williams, but that lady proved herself folly equal to the task of sustaining it. Her acting was admirable throughout, end the rapidity with which she changed her dries, end with it her whole manner, end even voice, was something wonderful. She wee tremendously applauded mad celled before the contain at the end of the piece. The scathe also was honoured with a call, and had the gratifica tion of announcing his piece for every evening until further notice, amid the general sociamations of the audience. I LATESI IN fELLIuENCE. REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN I FRANCE. Off lIIIIMMLINII AND 1111TIJI TIIL101A1i•) (MOM 001 QWW OORIZIPONDIirrj PARIS, TaxrasDAY. The Moniteur of this day states that on the 24th ult. arrests were simultaneously made in 1 , ions parts of France, which defeated culpable projects, and led to the discovery and the seizure of arms, ammunition, and compromising correspon denoe. The arrests, however, have been exagge rated. They are limited to fifty principal ring leaders at Paris, twenty at Lyons, twelve at Marseilles, and four on an average in forty departments. In spite of this precaution a gathering took place at Paris on the night of the 6th of March. Firm and vigilant measures caused it to prove abortive, and led to twenty new arrests. The affray at Chalonr, says the Mositsur, is in disputably part of a plan of systematic agitation. THB 4TL4NTIC TBLBOB4PH. The general programme of the second attempt to submerge this gigantic line of electrical communication lit tween the New and Old Worlds 1., we believe, decided on, and all the preparations necessary to seam a successful plan of operations are rapidly advancing towards completion. The machines at Glare and Elliot's manufactory have com pleted the 400 additional miles of cable ordered before List Christine& and intended to replace the 384 miles which were submerged end lost last autumn off Valenti'. The last miles of it were shipped hot night on board the Adonis screw etsimer for conveyance to Plymouth, where it will arrive on Monday next. In the dockyard there, st Keyhant, the main bulk of the cable has been stowed away in gigantic coils during the winter, and • full staff of electricians, under the directions of Mr. White house, have been engaged in working menages throughout Its entire length, and generally proving the electrical fitness of the cable to the fullest extent. The result of these expe riments, we are informed, has been in the highest degree satisfactory. Five words per minute can now be sent through the 2,200 miles of cable at present at Keyluiro, and it is fully expected that before the time corns@ for its second submergement eight words will be transmitted with sue and certainty. When the Adonis, with the 400 recently oompleted miles arrives at Plymouth on Monday next the additional length will be Immediately landed and joined on to the coil already at Keyham. 'I hie will rides the entire length of cable already manufactured 'o nearly 2,660 miles, or some 150 miles or thereabouts woe than the entire length with which the expedition started last autumn. It has also ban determined to manufacture an additional 800 miles of cable, TeLi additional quantity will be commenced at Glasse and Blliot's works on Fri&iy next, and will be completed in • month or so, and forwarded to Keyless* to be joined to the main coil, which will then nesesure nearly 3,000 miles in length. The Niagara and Agsammeen ere again to be the vessels employed in tbe attempt of this year. The former was to leave New York, we believe, on the let of tine month, and is expected at Plymonth about the I2th or 13th. On her arrival at that poet aka will instantly wet. menus taking on board her shire eithe immense wire, which this time will amount in length to 1,600 miles, Instead of 1,200 as on the last occasion. On board the Agamemnon the cable will not be coiled away in one prodigious mass amidships, but be distributed equally on the lore, midship, and after part of the rased, in three coils of about 600 mike each. By this arrangement, of course the weight of the wire is equally distributed and the ship ;veil trimmed. The attempt (says the Tines) to lay down the cable will be made this year at a much earlier period than on the last ea melon. As soon as the colls, with all the nroessmy appro. tits and appointmenta are stewed away on board th e = ream= and Niagara (which will be about the of May), both vessels will leave for a short trip Into deep water, when a number of experiments will be made with the paying oat machinery, and to ascertain practically Il e a r i g iL e Madties exist in the proposed plan for sub the wire from the centre of the Atlantic , . These experiments will be brought to an end in a few days, and any alterations which their results may suggest in the machinery or manner of paying out the wire having been adopted as soon as possible, the expedition will finally start about the beginning of June. The line will be joined and laid from the centre of the ocean, the Niagara bringing her end to England and the Aga memnon conveying hers to America. Communication by electric signal will, of muss, If the wire holds, be kept up between the two vessels the whole way. In the paying -out machinery a new sielf-ecting break has been devised which is said to be paint. MIL H. BROWll.—Extensive preparations were made by the admirer. of Mr. Humphrey Browwn,q hawker bury, to celebrate his acquittal, whieh was ooa6Bectlp anti cipated. As it weer known that the trial of the British Beak directors would be brought to a conclusion on Saturday week, the ringers were ordered to held th emse l ves i n readi ness to give a merry peal to celebrate the "vindication of Mr. Brown's innocence," and there was to be a distribution of strong ale sad other good things. The telegraph. how• ever, did not bring the anticipated intelligence that a verdict of not aunty had been returned; and Mr. Brown's friends, after waiting anxiously till Monday morning, ware astonished and disappointed to find that their late representa tive had become an Inmate of the Queen's Bench Prism— Bath Meek& TuE BILLETING S TBTEIL—The licensed victulless of Uverpool are about to be relieved of s greet by the arrangements which goversoserat have e= : 14. 10 for the purchase of Rupert House, Bvertos, which is to be Converted hate a barracks for the reception of Meld* LYCEUM. Mr. J. L. Toole's benefit took place here last night, when the antertainmente comprised four pieces, in each of which he sustained a prominent part. We have from time to time recorded the progress of this clever and painstaking actor since ha' comparatively recent deidt on the London stage, and are glad to god that his merits have so speedily secured him the position of an " established favourite." If any doubts had existed on this point, they must have been dispelled by the manner in which Mr. Toole was greeted last night, on his first entrance, by an audience which crowded every portion of the house immediately after the opening of the doors. No one of our most favourite comedians could have met a warmer welcome. The evening commenced with a drama called The Artist of Ploresoo, founded on the same French original which tarnished the materials for a piece under a similar title pro duced some years since. In the version of last night Cler mont, an artist (Mr. Chem Dillon), in reliance on his in oreasing fame, has been exceeding his 1:111161B, in order to live In a style befitting his young and well-born wife (Mrs. Mellon), whose beauty attracts the visite of a sai-dieaysl friend and patron of the artist, the Viscount de Soreuil (Mr. J .G. Shore). A discovery of them motives rouses the hus band's jealousy, but theViaoount retaliates nobly by canoe ling a bond for a large amount in which Clermont is indebted to him. Commissions crowd on the artist, and wealth appears . . . to be within hie reach, whin be Is eaddenly struck with blindness. In this state his wife's society becomes his only consolation, but very soon she begins to absent herself on various pretexts ; and the discovery through a foolish servsnt, Augustus (Mr. Toole), of a renewal of the Viscount's visits, drives the unfortunate husband to frenzy. When in the act at committing suicide Clermont is saved by his servitor, who rushes in frantioally to announce that, having been to the Opera, he has nude the discovery that the new prima donna, who has achieved a triumphant smells, is no other than the blind artist's wife, who has devoted her musiosl talents, by the disinterested aid of the friendly Viscount, to the nears- Man of her husband's fortunes. Nothing is now wanting but the recovery of the artist's sight, and this being acoom plished by the aid of a celebrated oculist, all ends couleur de tea. Mr. Dillon as the enthusiastic artist, and Mrs. Mellow se the devoted win!, played with great force end fasliag; while Mr• Toole's Impersonation of the servitor afforded an agreeable relief to the serious ioterest of the drama. His grotesque humour while standing as • mustachioed and holosetted insight for owe of his master's pictures, was azosedingly amusing; nor lees so was his frantic description of the scene at the Opera, where his public recognition of his mistress leads him into a series of encounters. Mr. J. G. Shore must Wad , be noticed as an exceedingly gentlemanlike Viscount, and Miss Elias Webb as • capital chattering watt- Mg maid. Atter the drama a new three or (as It yea called) a domestic sketch," was produced, under the title ot The Birthplace of Podgers. Tom Crankey (Mr. Tools) is a working man, whose lodging is Weeded during his dinner hour by various visitors who have learned, through a news paper, that his habitation was the birthplace of the immortal Podgers, a poet of renown. The nephew of Tom's employer Edmund Earlybird (Mr. J G. Shore), is secretly enamoured ale young lady whose papa, Mr. Entanua Mamma (Mr. Benoit), is one of the moat sostatic smokers after else poet's birth- pleas. Tom is pressed into a plot by which the lover to made to appear to the young lady'• father as a descendant of the admired post, and thus gains a cosaent which would other wise have been sithhald. Of course, when too late, it is dioovered that Tom's lodging has no literary association connected with it—the name of his landlord, an illiterate sot, being identical with that of the celebrity. The materials, alight se they are, are well adapted to bring out the peculiar hawse dYr. Tools, whose make-up and action as the Wad heavy labourer, were admirably studied. The piece arms sumesueed bar repetition amidst considerable (but not animal) applause; and its success would doub , leas have bass sere decided had it been more condensed, especially towards the close, where the principal actor is placed too much in the background by superfluous talk on the part of subordinates. The remainder of the evening was occupied by the farce of Double Donny and the comic drama of Our Clerks. DISTRICT or TIIE TOWER.—Tn consequence of the resignation of William John Han,victorom house Quay), Mr. FIIMICIS Budd Penny, noensW ller, of Postern-row, Little Tower-hill, has been unanimously elsoled by the load vestry u their representative member at the Whitechapal District Board of Works for the district or pmeinot of the Tower of London. Mr. Henry Animas Wieland as clerk to the vestry on the occasion A oordial vete of thanks was and ordered to be transmitted to Mr. Mall for his wlhl services to the district. THE REPUBLICAN OUTBREAK AT CHALONS. The Paris Petrie of last evening oontains the fol lowing additional parficulars relative to the above event: "We have received from Chalons-stir-Saone some new details relative to the revolutionary attempt of which that city was the scene on the evening of the 6th. " Favored by the darkness and by a heavy fall of avow, the rioters, preceded by some individuals of an inoffensive appearance, proceeded first to a small infantry post in the Rue de Beaune.. At some dis tance off the majority of the mob halted ; those who formed a sort of advance guard went up to the sen tinel, who was instantly surrounded and disarmed in spite of his resistance, while one of the assailants put his hand on his mouth to prevent his raising an alarm. After this Brat success the remainder of the rioters rapidly advanced on the guard. The soldiers, half asleep, could not prevent the seizure of the arms which were placed in the gun-rack near the door, but the sergeant in command had time to draw bis sword and seize a few of the muskets, which he distributed amongst his men, ordering them to load immediately. The rioters, who had possessed themselves of arms, then left the post, and went to the railway station, where, as the Moniteur announotd, they were ener getically repulsed. "Meanwhile the officers of the garrison had re ceived information in a cafe where they were accustomed to assemble of what was going on. They went forthwith to the sub-prefecture, in order to take forcible possession, if necessary, of the repre sentative of authority. Seeing that everything was tranquil there, they went to their bar rack., situated on the other side of the river, taking with them some soldiers whom they bad met strolling about ; but on arriving at the bridge the rioters disputed their passage. There upon the officers and soldiers' sword and bayonet in hand, cut their way through, not without wounding several of those who attempted to oppose them. On the other side of the bridge appeared almost imme diately the military commander at the head of a strong detschment coming from the barracks. At sight of these soldiers the rioters fled in all direc tions, while the soldiers occupied the Hotel de Ville, the sub-prefecture, and the approaches to the bridge. "As a peculiar incident of this affray, it was noticed that some of those who took part in it wore tin plate cuirasses beneath their clothes. The greater part of the insurgents were arrested, and the rat no doubt will soon be in the hands of justice." . FRENCH DEMANDS UPON SWITZERLAND. The following is a translation of the threatening despatch addressed by Count Walewski to the Federal Council of Switzerland : " PARIS, Sex. 20, ISM. "TO M. COUNT DE SALIONAC FENELON, MINISTER OF FRANC! AT 311,241. " M. le Comte,—ln the despatches which I had the honour to address to you on the ith of August, 28th of November, and the 12th of December last, I directed you to acquaint the Federal Council of the manceuvres in whichthe refugees in Switzerland, especially those in the canton of Geneva, notoriously engage ; and to demand their removal from our fron tier. In spite of your zeal and activity in the matter, we have, up to the present time, obtained only dilatory and evasive replies, and I find myself obliged, M. le Comte, to ask you to renew your application to the federal government. Our complaints, as you are aware, are principally directed to the presence of refugees belonging to the Italian emigration. The late events at Genoa and Leghorn have shown the violence and perversity of this fraction of European demagogues. The attempt on the 14th of this month against the life of the Emperor shows that we have only too much reason to watch the attitude and the plots of Italian refugees, and that it is amongst them that the most corrupt and docile instruments of the regicidal conspirators are found. It seems im possible to me that any honest man of the Helvetic Confederation, can have been otherwise than struck by this fact, or that he does not share our impress ikons thereupon. I dare then to flatter myself that, in renewing at Berne your former requests, you will find on the part of the federal authorities, a greater readiness to do them justice. However that may be, M. le Comte, the government of the Em peror knows not how to remain indifferent to the voice of public opinion, which, from one end of France to the other, demands how it is that neigh bouring and friendly countries protect with a com placent hospitality men who openly conspire against the life of the Emperor. " In addressing itself to the confederation, in order that these dangerous men may be expelled the can tons which touch our frontiers, and placed at more distant parts, the government of his Imperial Majesty only makes use of the law of legislative defence and invokes the principles of the rights of nations. The federal government will disregard the conditions of the Helvetic neutrality, and will deceive itself as to the nature of its privileges, if it believes it can invoke them in order to avoid giving satisfaction to our grievances. To tolerate more or less directly, even by silence and inaction, that refugees who have received an asylum upon its territory abuse that hospitality to attack a neighbouring government by their writings or their plots—that, without doubt, is not to observe neutrality; for if neutrality has its rights it also has its duties, which require above all that it shall avoid any attack upon the repose of other states. I pray yen then, M. le Comte, to insist upon it, with the President of the confederation, that measures be taken with out delay, in order that refugees notoriously known as disposed to take part in criminal enterprise', especially those organised into societies in the eau tan of Geneva, be deposited far from our frontiers. " The government of the Emperor does not see that in an affair which so nearly concerns our inter. national relation', the Federal Council can be checked by the indifference or ill-will of the can tonal authorities as has so often happened since 1852. In the event of the Helvetic government not consulting upon the means of satisfying our just requirements, it will inner a grave respon sibility, and will only have to take to itself the consequences which its determination may entail. "Be so good as to read this despatch to H. Purser and to leave - a oopy with his Exoellency. " Receive, &c., (Signed) WALEWSICI." It would seem from the following telegram pub lished by Le Nord of this day that the above des. patch has not been without result : BERNE, MAUI 9. "The Federal Commissioners demand the dissolu tion of the' Italian Society of Mutual Assistance' The foreign members will be sent back to their country or into the interior. Every French refugee will be placed at the disposal of the Federal Council in order to be sent into the interior." FRANCE. (7/011 0131 OWN ooasseroximorr.) PARIS, WEDNISDAY ETINING. The Bourse, after opening well, the Rent. having been quoted 10c. higher than yesterday, expe rienced a severe reaction, for which no reason was suggested. The opinion that the French and English governments are agreed on the refugee question continues to be entertained, although the article in the Daily News asserting that the Derby Cabinet has resolved not to go on with the Con spiracy Bill, produced considerable sensation. The Rente ultimately fell 6c. for cash and 16c. for account, closing at 89fr. 80e., in both cases. Mobilier fell Bfr. 76e. The railways were in demand at the opening, and although they became heavy in the afternoon, the fall stopped far short of the extent of the rise of yesterday. Lyons fell 7fr. 60c., and the other lines from 21r. 60c. to bfr. PROPOSED NEW SETT] CAPE. AT THE The South African Advertiser, jest received, con. dins some correspondence with respect to a plan &droned by Mr. W. J. Irons for the establishment of a new colony= the salt coast, between the Umtata and Umgari rivers, or about half way between Cape Town and Natal. Mr. lan fur " I believe it to be a most fertile region, well watered and wooded, rich in herbage, and very healthy for man and beast, abounding, In fact, with all the requisites for successful col°. niratkm. It la, in my opinion, equal to Natal for the growth of sugar, oaks, and cotton, with other tropical productions, the War having to my knowledge, been grown by two parties most successfully. The only difficulty that I an aware of at present is the shallow depth of water on the tars of the Umtata and St. John's; but this may be onermoine by strear-bosta of suitable draught of water. abide to those used in several of the Australian riven. I hops to tab an active part yet in colonising this betatiihl country, which should be oalled Greyland, inhowur of on admired and well-beloved governor, whose wisdom and @sp otty has saved the colon y from a bloody war and advanced the cause of civilisation beyond the hopes o f most lan gal I propose that this country should be oolonlied upon b:don, on the plan re com mend by Major 110 Pri Ehm on the grants and occupation of farms, in theretri ltrig:srtlig Victoria and Queen's Town • and I woulthave grants made in the colony of Greylan, to the men of all ages sod condition, ' who surrounded the hotel of Queen's Town, begging for and. Here is enough to satisfy the count less claimants of the whole colony, and thouasnda of in dustrious farmers from the mother country. It is the duty of the government to take immediate steps for a sur vey and offioial report thereon to lay before comprehensive l sent when it meets, then a scheme may be =tura for the introduction of British (not Chrome) emigrants into this country. lam prepared, with the spat mos of some London friends, to introduce into British Haffraria, and the country beyond, genuine agriculturists and small Inman, from the rural districts of Englanti, on the same Latins that Messrs. Godeffroy and Co., of Rea lm,. are to introduce Germans. I ask, have the Germen realised either the energy, enterprise, and skill which . wf. -7 expected of them as settlers P Have they benefited 'Caliente In the degree which the same number of British settlers would have done, with the same advantages ? I be. • from the evidence before me, that Englishmen from either the manufanarke, streets, or fields, would have ad vanced far more rapidly, and have developed the colony to a greater azant. I mak, than, for this new colony of Gayland, British solders from the rural districts of England, the moan taiga of Wales, the highlands of Scotland, and the bog lands of Ireland ; give me a guarantee of land for settlemnts, dewy oceditione, and I will find widget, who will change the wodatmrinto a garden of cultivation. ' The tourists who crow; the Alps in the entemw when the mountain' have lost their thick covering of Mow form no idea of the dangers to which the inhabitants of thee: mountainous regions ate expsoesd when obliged to travel oat them in the winter. In order to alleviate their sufferings m much as possible, the Prefect of the Hants-Alms has put devoted the sum bequeathed to that deparincnt by Note= to I. the establishment of places of refuge for leave in the most dangeroue pastes of the mountain,. These hakes, eight in number, are inhabited during the whole yeas b y s trusty man and hie family, whom hennas it is to sweats*. Mane to travail's.' in case of danger. During movrtams signal-light is placed at the top of each house, andtwlcia dark, a bell is kept constantly eo ringing. These place* bet the name of " Refuges N The celebrated wrest a tlrpin, alias the "Terrible Savoyard," who ham been in the habit of attending Mend fairs in France to display his immense strength, has just net his death In a very sudden manner at Names where he wee exhibiting before an assemblage of from 12,000 to 16,000 spectators. When wrestling be was thrown by his adversity, and came down with such violence, that Matadi was broths, and he died almost immediately. THE GERMAN LEGION AT THE CAPE.—Desee• time from the regiments stationed on the frontier appear le be becoming more numerous every day. The hat Garth contains the names and descriptions ef five from the Genre Military Settlers, two from 11.M.'s 6th Regt., three her H.M.'s 12th Regt., and one from ll.M.'s 73rd Regt .— assist of th em being mechanics. It will be remembered that a short time ago a man named Culaick well apprehended et Stellenbosch—" where he had married end was comforable —on the information of a comrade as being a deserter fan H.M.'s 73rd Regt. He was sent up to Keiskama where the head-quarters of the regiment are stationed, sad confined in the lock-up room, from which he again broke eel on the morning of the 20th December, end is still at lap— Coff Toms Mail, Jan. 6. THE DIAMOND NECKLACE —The famous air d "the Queen's diamond necklace," which made se intekTiel just before the outbreak of the great revolutinatif ZOllls about to come on again before the courts of Palk= and representatives of Bceluner end Boraaage, the who nipped the necklace, having brought an action the Detre and representatives of Cardinal de GO Princes de Rohm, now residing in Bohemia, to P l' mast for It Ng of the cardinar estate, it having te a' tided by them to Lim. In this action, soars of th e d other creditors of the medical have intervened babel obtain mimed of what is dos to them. THE ART or Irtvewritto.—Bobble and his Oral gave general currency to the word Investment. that the straight line is the shortest did not serve= so well, in regard to ralweys, as did morel truths ag truism enforcing economy and Investment. The esesgat the reckless, the civilised I. the saying man. MO IN slating without heeding the thaw is not more sea el falling into the water then the men spending all be NM is sure of falling into want. The Bubble perwesim of ad frugal axioms consisted in preaching the duty of to in their schemes; in trafficking, like many others, ioh from Heaven, end using it to lead men atm. Tbe chief end of men, &molding to the Bubble catalthle, is to invest. According to the Bubble philosophy, 130 moral man is the man who Manta and the unmoral iamb the man who does not invest. The good father is lite* vesting father, and the good husband te the invest* bdP band. And many worthy men were caught by the i r des' trines, and found soul-esee in applying them. Krivsi. toiled hard and saved hard, end smelted gold out of thth muscles, and their brains, which they invested with tie Bubble brotherhood. Shrewd men were the dupes of BOA He had victims among men far too sagacious to invest tkok savings in nothings. Prudently investing their saviego joint-stock companies which yielded real profits, they came sleeping partner in concerns with equallj risks. When the risks came into play, they found selves engaged its I:animist which they did eat understand, and which they found were dal Wild/0 They were sleeping partners with hideous osl dreadful awakenings. Many bought shares width a Z could not sell, and made themselves liable foe ails not answer. Many sincerely wished they had limed d linelb_ ing nothing worm than leering their money, or wai i s. so agreeable as making ducks and drakes with lied= on the an. Investing they found woe giving a pounds to Bubble, s od him also the right to dada them with legal if they did not send Midi. thousand pounds more. hey had given him their lOW and the power of suing them for what they could MI /AP' pianos'. " Nowashold Were." ` I U Pat sin Tb Ea En PO of a ef 0 PIA and Cl= He and LID r dace Lore had rem( haat Der pollt to tl of. pron walk Breit The mer, Crow Snow street St. Z Meat Irra Nl*