The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-29 00:00:00

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LE NEVE RIOTER, Secretary. Society's House, Adelphl, W.C., May 27, 1687. gate erpreoo. TO CORB.ESPONDENTS. Awirlima:tents intended for "The Uprose." London Etening Paper. mutat be at the OM*. 10, Bouverleatreet, by Two eleioch on the dav of publication. DRURY LAY& TirtS LTIIII7O, TEAS RASCAL JACK. Messrs. Rouse and AerW• ; Mesdames Alleyne and Thompson—To conclude with TUE GREAT CITY. Mews. Warner, Morton, Fit lames, Rouse, Irving. to. ; Mesdames Robertson. Le Thieve, and lhompsou. HAYMARKST. Tm ammo, DEAF AS A POKT. Mr. Compton, &c.—A WILD GOOSE. Maws. Saban, Buckstene, Rowe, it.onses, Gor don, etc. ; Mesdames Rorke Lltippendale, 11111, UM. &C.— AAA PERFECTION. Mr. Kendal and Miss Burke. PILINCIVIST. 'has Ertnnta, ANTONY A,IF.T.I 7 :GPATRA. Antony, Mr. If . Loraine; Ennbarbus. Hr. C. Verner: Charnuan, Mos Page, and Cleopatra, KW Olyn. LYCEUM. TRW EVIOIT/10, BAMBOOZLING. Mr. Pelee sad Miss Kate Mlahop.—THE DUKE'S MOTTO. Mr. Fodder, Mess... Zenery, Widdlooinb, Jordan, Price, de. ; Miro Klaweethp, Hen nas, Grattan, and Carlotta Lackey:it. STILIND.. Nis EvestNs. WAITING ROL THE UNDERGIUM7II).—TGE LITTLE SAVAGE.—PYUILALION OE, THE STATUE FAIR. MemmThorse. lamesote. ; Mesdames awaaboresp, Raysham. Harland.Johnetone, Holt.—And THE missal EXHIBITION. ITOLDOI TRIG Evssmoo. MY TURN MET. Mr. Belmont: Mime toots sod LAIIDOX —Asd ILYI/40 SCUD. M. Novak Bah monk Po. ; Mesdames F. Josephs, C. osandars, Seale loots. /kktse. Isom% Malmsed. BRITANNIA. Tins Ernmra. Tin OF IRELAND. s. Una —AULD ROBIN GRAY. Maws 8. Kneed J. Coveney.- -And THE VOLI*NTEERS. Bigwoad and IL R. Edwin. HIGH WATER AT LONDOIC =IDOL DAY —Morning, llb 601a......Attarrioce. lob. 804 To-Kowtow—lionilum ilk. toi......Aftersooa, Ilk. Am. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. THE Archdeacon of MIDDLESEX is holding a visitation, and on Monday delivered • Charge which reads for all the world like a lecture by the Baron DE CAMIN, Or Mr. WILLIAM MURPHY, of Wolverhampton fame. So direct, persistent, and spontaneous an attack on the Church of Rome has not been made by a dignitary of the Church of England for many a day. The Archdeacon is satisfied that there never was a time when it was more necessary to keep in mind what Popery is, in respect of doctrine, worship, and morals; and upon this provocation he seta to work to " show up " the morals of the Church of Rome by extracts from its casuistical writers. The works of Sarscusz, Stunts, ST. ALPHONSO DE LIGUORI, with those of less known authors, such as HENRY HENRIQUZZ, ANTONINOS DIANA, and HERMANN BUSIIIHAUSI, are among those thus overhauled, and the process having been completed, the ARCHDEACON reaches the desirable conclusion that the Church of Rome is a corrupt communion, and its pretensions are utterly unscriptural and un tenable. If we suggest a doubt whether such an exhibition as this is altogether for the honour of the Church of England, it is not because there is any uncertainty about the casu istical propositions which Archdeacon SINCLAIR has set in so strong a light. They are, in fact, detestable. The ARCHDEACON gives evidence of an accurate knowledge of his countrymen, by placing in the foreground those maxims which attack the right of property. DIANA, it appears, commenting on the sin of theft, lays down that a man of respectability, vir honestus, to whom mendicancy would be highly painful, and who has no other means of supplying his neces sities, is at liberty to steal. He then proceeds to a very curious inquiry, what is the smallest sum a man must steal in order to be guilty of a mortal sin, and he determines that • man of opulence must " steal " about 60 Roman coins, a man of moderate fortune about 20, and a poor man about seven. Similarly, &maims ex, having laid down the maxim that "an extremely poor man may " steal what is necessary for the relief of his own " want," continues—" And what any one may " steal for himself, he may also steal for any " other extremely destitute individual." Ex pede Hen-11.km. Those who can remember the old Maynooth debates, and the speeches of the late respected Mr. SPOONER, with their quotations from Par= Dears, will have a good idea of the extracts which make up the staple of this charge. We gather from the Archdeacon's language that perversions to the communion of DIANA and BUSEMBAUM are taking place in his Archdeaconry to an extent to call for this loud note of warning. Under thesecircurnstances we should have expected that some deprecatory allusions would be made to that work of prepara tion for the Church of Rome now taking place in the Church of England. Although casuistry has 'undoubtedly attained a develop ment within the Roman Catholic Church which it has never reached elsewhere, it does not follow that that religion must always promote a casuistical habit. Casuistry seems to attach itself, like a disease, partly to na tional character, and partly to country, having flourished more in the South of Europe and among the Latin races than elsewhere. It is doubtless encouraged in many cases by the practice of auricular confession, although it really belongs to the larger practice of spiritual direction, which is not so exclusively a Roman Catholic practice as some speakers and writers assume. We have had distinguished English casuists, who never set up for confessors, men like Samosasox, Jaunty TAYLOR, and even BArres. Undoubtedly, how ever, the corruptions of the system, as Arch deacon SINCLAIR exposes them, spring from the application of the doctrine of absolution and the necessity of assigning penances. If the prac tice of confession should ever regain a footing in the Church of England, it will probably do so by the inculcation of a mystical and ascetic piety in the first instance, but its downward course towards the mechanical and servile is inevitable. The English character must lose some of its best qualities, especially its love of truth, its preference of principles and aims to rules, and the inde pendence of judgment which is so favourable to a sense of responsibility, before it can accept either the yoke or the indulgences of casuistry. Ir any of the countrymen of the Sun and Moon who, as Paris correspondents assure us, have this year crossed seas and continents to study Western civilization, should make ac quaintance with our English Newspapers, THE EXPRESS, , WEDNZSD4X they might infer front their temporary complexion that we were nation wholly given over to gambling. For once hone-racing has taken precedence of every other topic, and horse racing has now come to mean winning and losing money by bets. Our principal streets are blocked up by crowds of petty bookmakers and their customers, and our journals are full of the details of racing triumphs and disasters. It is the topic of the week, and no wonder. Three men, we are told, have won between them a quarter of a million of money. A jockey, by one lucky race, is enabled to put by as much money as would be deemed a sufficient provision for a great scholar or scien tific discoverer, and much more than some of our most eminent men can hope ever to possess. Then, again, the losses that have been sus tained are prodigious, and not more remark able for their magnitude than for the freedom and fulness of detail with which they are dis cussed. A certain Marquis has been " hit " for 100,0001.—how will he pay it T He can never pay it—he certainly will—the money was ready yesterday—it has been paid to-day. So the daily record has run, and it would not be surprising if we learned to-morrow on what security the sum was raised, and and at what rate of interest. The incidents of these transactions are sometimes notable. A nobleman, who was unfortunate a few years back, and has since, through the indulgence of his creditors, been enabled to partially recover his position, has resolved to devote the whole of his winnings, which amount to 5,0001., to the entire liquidation of every claim upon him. " Conduct like this," observes the admiring chronicler," speaks for itself, and requires no corn " went." None except this, that before the noble man in question could either win or lose by the Derby, he must have been playing with money which did not belong to him. We are far, how ever, from suggesting that that is so rare a case as to provoke comment. There ia one request we will venture to make, not in our own name, of course, but on behalf of the public, which we are sure will readily endorse the sugges tion. It is, that the prophets and diarists of the turf would abstain from dragging illustrious names into their records and dissertations. On Saturday we were told that the Prince of WALLS had won on Hermit, and on Monday that he had " dropped a lot of money " on Achievement ; the writer heightening the effect of his communication by telling us how he looked, and even how he felt. These are details which the public could very well spare. The character of our Royal Princes is a public possession, and the caterers for popular curiosity, who must draw the line somewhere, should learn to respect the rights of the public, if they have none for the reputation of those with whose names they have lately made so free. It is very unlikely that the Paiivez has shown his book to any literary genius of the turf, and in ferences drawn from the expression of his counte nance as Hippie rushed past the post might be left to take their chance among the unwritten tra ditions of the stable mind. THE Charge of the LORD Curar JUSTICE of ENGLAND to the Grand Jury at the Central Cri minal Court in the case of the " Qualm against " Natsos and BRAND" has just been published (at RIDGWAY'S), edited by Mr. FREDERICK COCKBURN, of the Crown-office. The report has been prepared from the shorthand writer's notes taken at the trial, and has been revised and corrected by the Loan CHIEN' JUSTICE himself, with the addition of legal and historical notes. It will be remembered that the Grand Jury on ignoring the indictment made a formal presentment strongly recommernung that Martial Law should be more clearly defined by legislative enactment. The Loan Carer Jusvica could not directly endorse this suggestion con sistently with the opinions he had expressed In charge ; but he is led by it to make some very decisive remarks on the necessity of settling the whole subject of Martial Law by legislation. He observes : lam reluctant to take leave of the subject without protesting, no far as in me lies, andwith whatever of weight andauthority belongs to the office I have the honour to bold, against the exercise of martial law in the form in which it has lately been put in force. Thrice in little more than half a century—to say nothing of the horrors perpetrated in putting down the insurrection in Jamaica in 1760—in Ire land, in Demerara, in Jamaica, has martial law been car ried into execution under circumstances of the most pain ful character. A man must be dead to all sentiments of humanity—must have banished mercy from the catalogue of human virtues—who can read the history of the Irish re bellion at the close of the last century, the history of the slave insurrection in Demerara in 1823, and of the punish merits then inflicted under martial law, as detailed in Mr. Martin's history of the colonic', under the head of British Guiana, or the account of the execution. and scotuwings after the recent outbreak in Jamaica, as shown by the report of the royal commissioners, without shuddering to think what human nature is capable of, when, stimulated by the tierce passions engendered by recent amflict, or by the sense of present, or recollection of past, fear, vengeanos is let loose in the shape of martial law, to be exercised by a dominant clue on an inferior and despised rue. Having reviewed the circumstances of the out break in Jamaica, pointing out that the insurrec tion was put down in a single day, and that after that had been done 1,000 persona suffered either death or torture, he proceeds : Assuming thelegalityof what was thus done under mar tial law—as to which I purposely abstain from expressing any opinion, lest any further judicial proceedings should take place—reserving to myself in such an event the exercise of &free andunfettered judgment on future discussion—l advert to the events in Jamaica only as 'bowing the neces sity for legislation if martial law is ever again to be put in force. Assuming, in like manner, that credit is to be given to the governor and the military authorities for perfect in tegrity of purpose In declaring and continuing martial law, and for baring been actuated in so doing by no other motive than an honest desire to do what was best for the safety of the island, it seems to me that, the more the honesty of their conduct is insisted on, the more important it becomes to place restraints on the exercise of so despotic and dangerous • power, lest sudden panic, or undue fear, or unreflecting zeal should again lead to its immoderate use, and to the unnecessary sacrifice of human life, or indiction of human suffering. And the fact that among the educated classes of this highly civilised community persona can be found to uphold and applaud such proceedings—though I believe verj few per sons who do so have taken the trouble to read the report of the commissioners, or the evidence taken by them, or to make themselves acquainted with the facts—seems to me to render the necessity for legislation to prevent such barbarities in future only the more apparent. But of 'till greater importance Is it that, if martial law is to be put in force, rules should be fixed for the procedure to be fol lowed on trials under it. Above all, that where • case turns upon circumstantial evidence, time and opportunity shall he afforded to the accused to meet the charge. Speaking of GORDON'S trial, he says : No one, I think, who him the faintest idea of what the administration of justice involves could deem the proceed ings on this trial consistent with justice, or, to use a homely phrase, with that fair play which is the right of the commonest criminal. All I can say is, that If, on mar tial law being proclaimed, a man can lawfully be thus tried,condemced, and sacrificed, such a state of things is a scandal and a reproach to the institutions of this great and free country ; and as a minister of justice, profoundly im hued with a sense of what is due to the find and greatest of earthly obligations, I enter my solemn and emphatic protest against the lives of men being thus dealt with in the time to come. OUR OONTEMPORARIEL (THIS DAY.) • EVENING, MA rt.MILL'S PROPOSALS AS TO TH4WIIIZIC OF ELECTIONS. ' Thwfoflowing is the form in which Mr. J. ISs..- Mill's propositions with regard to the method of Toil' at elections, now stand in the order-book of the House of Commons : " In committee as Representation of the People Bill : Mr. Mill—Clause 9, line 27, leave out all after ' From and after the,' and insert pawing of the present bill, every loos] constituency shall, subject to the provisions herein after contained, return one member for every quota of its registered electors actually voting at that election, such quota being a number equal to the quotient obtained by dividing by six hundred and fifty-eight the total number of votes polled throughout the kingdom at the same elec tion, and if such quotient be fractional, the integral num ber next less ; provided always, that where the number of votes given by the constituency shall not be equal to such quota, the quota may be completed by means of votes given by persons duly qualified as electors in any other part of the United Kingdom ; and the candidate who shall have obtained such quota may notwithstanding be re turned sa member for the said constituency it he shall have obtained a majority of the votes given therein as herein after mentioned. " (Elector to vote orally or by voting paper—voting paper may state a succession of names in case those named in priority have obtained the quota.) "2. Every elector shall vote at his appointed polling place, either orally as heretofore or by a voting paper, and may on such voting paper state in numerical order the names of any of the candidates at such general election to one of whom, taken in regular succession, the vote shall be given in case those named first or in priority on such voting paper shall, before it comes to be appropriated, have ob tained the quota ; but no vote given orally shall be taken for more than one candidate, and no vote given on a voting paper .ball be counted for more than one candidate—pro vided that nothing herein contained shall prevent the transmission of voting papers under the act of the 24th and 2.lth years of Victori►, chap. 53. " (What candidates are to be returned as members.) _ _ " 3. The candidates returned u members shall be all those respectively for whom a quota of votes shall have been polled, whether in one or more then one consti tuency ; and if less than 658 candidates have such quota, then those for whom the next greater number of votes have been polled, until the number of 658 shall have been completed ; and such of the 658 candidates chosen as afore said sa have the majority or greater number of votes in any local constituency shall be returned as members for such constituency. " (Vacated seats to be filled up by the voters who returned the last member.) "4. Any seat vacated by the acceptance of office, pro. motion to the peerage, or death of a member, shall be filled by election by the body or majority of the body of voters by whose actual votes he was returned. " (Speaker to lay before parliament rules for ascertaining the number of votes polled, of the quota, and for regu - lating form of voting papers and declaring the names of the Members.) - - " 5. The Speaker of the House of Commons shall cause to be framed and shall lay before parliament such rules as may be necessary for ascertaining and for certifying to the returning officers the total number of votes polled, and the number of the quota, for regulating the form of the voting papers, and the record, collection, and disposition thereof, and the appropriation of the Name in the order of the names on each paper, the method to be observed in deter. mining and declaring the 658 members who have raven- tively obtained the quota or number of votes nearest to the quote ; and for carrying the provisions of this act into effect in any matter not otherwise provided for ; and such rules shall, if the house shall so resolve, be entered on the journal., and the same, when so entered, with any amend ment or amendments thereof, ►t any time adopted by the resolution of the house, shall be observed and performed at all future elections by all officers and persons to whose duties respectively the same relate." Mr. Thomas Hughes—lf Mr. Mill's amendments to clause 9 are not earned, to move, "At every contested election for a minty or borough now returning, or which shall, under the pro.isions of this act, return three or more members, each elector shall be entitled to give as many votes as there are members to be elected, and shall be at liberty either to give all his votes to any one candi date or to distribute them among any two or more candi dates in such proportions as he may think fit" Earl Derby has deferred fixing a day for receiving the deputation of Irish peers and members of parliament, with reference to the proposed State purchase of the lines of railway in Ireland, until the Chancellor of the Exche quer and the Lord-Lieutenant's chief secretary can arrange to be present at the interview. " Sic IN Oslo."—The Committee on Public Pe titions continue to be extremely vigilant in their inspec tion of the defects in orthography, grammar, &c., of the petitions which they select for reproduction in their ap pendix. Every error they detect is held up to public notice by means of an asterisk, corresponding with a note at the foot of the page, "sic is orig." It seems, however, that the committee themselves need wine assistance or super vision. Thus, in the appendix to the 26th report, issued to-day, to the word " retired," in the following commence- went of a petition presented by Mr. Otway, "the peti tion of the undersigned general officers on the retired of her Majesty's Indian army," Lc., are added the extra ordinary words "sic is °Tao." Curious as it may seem, the foregoing is "sic is o►ip." DOCKYARD BALLasr ItioN.—The following is a oopy of the report of Dr. Percy relative to the quality or value of the iron ballast laid down as paving in her Majesty's dockyards :—" Dr. Percy to the Secretary of the Admiralty.—May 8, 1867. Sir,—lf I remember correctly, it was in the autumn of last year that I had an interview with Admiral Sir John Hay at the Admiralty, respecting the dockyard ballast iron, which has excited so mach attention. I then expressed my opinion to Sir John Hay that the appearance of the broken surface, or as it is com monly termed the fracture of certain specimens of that iron, indicated its suitableness for the Palliser shot ; and I suggested that an application should be made to the proper authority at the Arsenal at Woolwich to Mat the correct ness or otherwise of my opinion. My suggestion was adopted, and after the lapse of considerable time a report on the subject from the Arsenal was presented to the Admiralty. I have read and maturely considered that report, and I main- Min now, as I did at first, that the trial at the Arsenal was wholly inconclusive, nay, even useless. It might rea sonably have been expected that the trial would have con sisted in actually casting a shot or two of the metal in question, when decisive results would have been obtained; but no such trial wee made. Some of the ballast iron is 'strong mottled,' and closely resembles in appearance the variety of pig-iron which is used in the manufacture of Palliaer shot at Woolwich. If some of the ballast iron be too white for the purpose, it might be rendered suitable by melting it in admixture with a due proportion of grey iron. I venture to predict that hereafter much cheaper pig-iron than is now purchased at the Arsenal for the Pal liser shot will be found equally good for the purpose ; and this is a pecuniary question in which, I presume, the Ad miralty is deeply interested. The analytical results ob tained by Mr. Weston demonstrate that much of the bal last iron is adapted for the manufacture of bar iron of good quality.—l have, &c., Jens PEICY, M.D., F.R.S.—The Secretary to the Admiralty." The rinses describes the sentence of treason as the most barbarous and the meet impotent instrument I that was ever devised by tyranny to terrify mankind into obedience. "It seems incredible that until the year 1814 the law of this land should have been that every person convicted of treason should be hung, but not until be was dead ; that he should be cut down alive, six turns of the rope being the usual period allowed ; that his heart and bowels should be taken out and burnt before his face ; that he should be beheaded and quartered, and his head and quarters exposed. The sen tence now rues that the prisoner shall be hung till he is dead, that his head shall be stricken off and his body qu►rteml. The former was the sentence pronounced against Wallace, Sir Thomas More, Lord Essex, the Earl of Strafford, Lord Russell, Algernon Sidney, and the rebels of 1715 and 1745. A curious adjunct of it was the dispensing power of the crown. It was the practise in the case of prisoners of superior rank for the King to pardon the criminal all the sentence except the beheading ; and this practice is retained in modern days, it being usual to remit the quartering, though the beheading was retained in the cams of Brandreth, the Luddite leader, and the Cato-street conspirators," At Cork, John Kearns, lately employed in one of the lead newspaper offloes, wee yesterday found guilty of treason felony. lig`r . "rt - 4- ---- , • ',,lt*e Court. BALMORAL, MAT 26. Yesterday being the anniversary of Princess Christian's birth, when her Royal Highness completed her 21st year, the Crethie Choir 'ling some pieces of music under the Princess's window at 7 o'clock in the morning. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian, drove out yesterday morning. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Princess Beatrice attended by the Duchess Dowager of Athole, drove anl rode on ponies. The Right Hon. Spencer Walpole arrived at the Castle as Minister in attendance upon her Majesty. The Rev. Dr. M`Leod also arrived at the Castle. MAT 27. The Queen attended Divine Service in the parish church of Crathie yesterday. Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Prince Christian accompanied her Majesty; the Duchess Dowager of Athole and Lord C. Fitzroy were in attendance. The Rev. Norman M'Leod officiated, and in the evening dined with the Queen and royal family, as did also Mr. Walpole. The group of statuary by Mr. William Theed, represent ing the Queen and Prince Consort, which had been placed in the principal corridor of Windsor Castle, was uncovered on Monday, the 20th inst., in the presence' of her Majesty, who was pleased to express her entire approval and admi ration of it. The group consists of figures of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, the size of life, in the Saxon costume of the oth century, which lends itself favourably to the conditions of sculpture. Her Majesty wears a light and graceful diadem and a rich mantle. The Prince has also a mantle, and his dress, in which reminiscences of the antique are discernible, displays his figure to great ad vantage. The position of the two figures readily tells fie tale of deep affection, and present earthly separation. They stand aide by aide—her Majesty looking up at her husband with an expression in which grief and hope are combined, her right hand over his left shoulder, and her left hand grasped in his left. The Prince is looking down at the Queen with tender solemnity, with his right hand I raised, and pointing upwards. The heads and hands are portraits, conceived with admirable feeling. Round the left arm of the Queen is an armlet inscribed with the name " Albert." Round the right arm of the Prince is one in scribed " Victoria." The details and ornaments of the costumes are very rich and elaborate. The fiat em broidery of her Majesty's mantle, consisting of bunches of rose, shamrock and thistle, is of a peculiarly rich and graceful description. The execution of all these objects is a model of the most delicate and finished workmanship, well accounting for the five years which Mr. Theed has devoted to this remarkable work. The figures are of the purest Carrara marble ; the pedestal of the precious marble called " Marino African," wrought from an antique fragment found in Rome. On the pedestal is the line from Goldsmith's " Deserted Village :" " Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way." The Prince of Wales rode out yesterday, attended by Major Teesdale. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President and the Duke of Richmond. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. HER MAJZSTVII Lievaa.--(Tara Dar.)—By com mand of the Queen a levee was held to-day, at St. James's Palace, by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on behalf of bee Majesty. His royal highness, attended by his gentlemen in waiting, and escorted by a detachment of the Royal Horse Guards, was received at the palace by the great officers of state of the royal household. There were many presentations, which by the Queen's pleasure are to be considered sa equivalent to presentations to her Majesty. Yesterday the annexed bulletin was issued for the information of the extremely numerous visitors at Kensington Palace, amounting to some hundreds :—" Ken sington Palace, May 28.—Her royal highness the Printer Mary has passed another good night, and is going on quite well. The infant princess is also weII.—ARTHUR FARM. M. D." The Duchess of Cambridge, the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits,and the Prince de Tart dined with the Earl and Countess Vane hat evening at Holderness House, Park-lane. There were also present the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough and Lady Cornelia Churchill, tke Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Earl of Powis, the Earl of March, the Countess (Dowager) of Sefton and Lady Cecilia Molyneux, Viscount Downe, Viscount ►nd Viscountess Powereoourt, Viscount Hill, Hon. Charles Barington and Lady Caroline Cast, in attendance on the Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits. Later in the evening his Royal Highness the Prince of Wake, attended by Colonel Keppel, honoured the Countess Vane by attend ing the select evening party invited to meet the royal visitors. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe entertained at dinner lest evening, at their residence in Carson-stmt, Mayfair, the Duke of Rutland, the Marchioness of Ely, the Earl and Countess Spencer, the Earl of Tankerrille, Lord Can terbury, Lord Claud Hamilton, Lord Frederick Paulet, Baron and Baroness Blome, Mr. and Lady Dorothy Morrill, Captain Lone Fox, Lc. Lord and Lady Rendlesham entertained Maria Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Leicester and Lady Anne Coke, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Rad cliffe, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscountess Ingestre, Lord Proby, Lord Usury G. Lennox, Hon. Charles Montagu, &c., at dinner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor•square. Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald entertained the Duke of Leinater, the Earl of Dudley, the Earl and Countess Stanhope and Lady Mary Stanhope, the Earl of Stredbroke, the Earl of Camperdown, Lord and Lady Edwin Hill Trevor, Lord and Lady Foley, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Baring, Sir Ivor Guest, Admiral and Hon. Barbara Yelverton, and Mr. Smith Barry, at dinner last evening, at their residence on Carlton House•terrace. Lord and Lady Grey de Wilton and the Marquis of Hastings have arrived at the Hotel Bristol, Paris, from England. Yesterday, at 55, Portland-place, theidarchioneas of Bath gave birth to twins, a son and a daughter. A marriage is arranged between Miss Weetenra, cousin of Lord Roesmore, and Lord Hastings, eldest son of the Earl of Huntingdon. The Czatrewitch and his bride intend visiting London during the ensuing month. The King of Greece will also be in London at the same time. Forty-two Irish conservative members held a con ference yesterday afternoon in the " Tea Room " of the House of Commons—General Dunne presiding—mid dis cussed the probabilities of the ooming Reform Bill for Ireland. A general feeling was expressed in opposition to any lowering of the franchise either in counties or bo roughs, while the extension of the boundaries of small boroughs was advocated in preference to the anticipated plan of grouping with other towns. It was resolved that, in furtherance of these views, a deputation should com municate with Lord Naas and have an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The government are, we (Owl) understand, again going to obtain statistic relative to agriculture, not only @bowing the amount of land under cultivation, but slim giving the number of live stock. Th e Owl states that Dr. Howson, at present the bead of the Collegiate College at Liverpool, and examining chaplain to the Bishop of Ely, has been appointed Dean of Chester, to succeed the late Dean Anson. An advertisement solicits aid from the mercantile and nautical public for Captain W. D. Evans, the inventor of coloured lights for preventing collisions at sea, who, at 78 years of sae, has been reduced to poverty from unfore- seen circumstances. THE Couar ar Batmonm..—On Sunday the Queen attended divine ureic, in the Church of Cmthie. Her Majesty was accompanied by Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise, and Prince Arthur, and at tended by the ladies and gentlemen of the court. The Rev. Dr. Norman Nlacleod, of the Barony parish, Glasgow, preached a very impressive discourse, from Mathew iv., 1-12. There were few strangers present. The weather is still extremely cold and nogenial. Lochnagar and the higher peaks of the Grampians are thickly eorered with snow, and the nights are generally frosty, by which vege tation has been greatly chocked . —Edinfourph Courant. The name of the hon. member for Newark is a complete stumbling-block to our Parise contem , who spell it in various ways. Th e Sircir, whit rather prides itself on a knowledge of English, calls him " M. Hodykuson." THE lATIBT STAGER OF THE REFORM BILL. Observing that the despatch of yesterday after noon was shown in the summary excision of clauses, the Times suggests that the house may have been led by its desire to get through the work, to reject additions to the bill which might have been accepted had the time avail &ale for discussion been unlimited. Half regretting the rejection of Mr. Scrape's proviso, and reminding its readers that the fancy franchises had been abandoned, out of de• ference to prejudice rather than reason, the Times concludes by urging the Chancellor of the Exchequer to a bolder plan of redistribution. The enfranchisement bestowed by the bill u ample and generous ; let the redistribution of seats ►nd the reform of our electoral machinery be as statesmanlike, and the bill of 1867 will settle the problem of reform for a far longer period than did its famous prede cessor of 1832. The rapid progress of the measure, the Daily News says, shows lees Mr. Disraeli's command over the House of Com mons than the command of the House of Commons over Mr. Disraeli. He does not manage and control it. It manages and controls him. It insists, and he gives way. The process which is called passing the measure is really the proems of transforming it. It is ncdergoing day by day • metamorphosis as extraordinary as that which has eon verged the tory party into radical reformers of a deeper dye than Mr. Bright himself. Almost everything that the government originally proposed is gone ; almost all that the opposition has insisted on has been adopted. The fancy franchises the Daily Newsregerds as superfluous, and Mr. Serope's amendment would have placed a premium on the building of houses below the limit of 41. rating, thus imposing the worst kind of restriction upon house hold suffrage. The Post assumes that there is no question of principle involved in the redistribution of seats, and therefore the rejection of the government scheme, if it take place, will not in any way jeopardise the bill. The Standard insists that the forcible enfranchisement of the compound householder is solely due to the oppo sition, and it is on them that the displeasure of those who will suffer by the abolition of a cheap and convenient system of collection should in common justice be visited. Their ultimate object, no doubt, is to get rid of the direct rating principle by making its operation burdensome and oppreasive ; but in this it, the Standard, is assured they will fell While rejoicing to record the wholesale conversion of the ferias, justice demands from the Telegrapk the statement that the bill now before parliament is the pro - luet of un faltering liberal exertions, while the conservative share in the measure is limited to an unexpectedly intelligent acquiescence. We have not heard, however, the last of rating. When the government deals with the intricate question of compounding, and tries to overcome all the obstacles that will beset the path, it will probably find that there is no practicable way out of the difficulties save by abolishing the personal payment clause. TAE EX-EMPEROR The Timms considers the correctness of the intelligence that J uarez hits ordered Maximilian and his officers to bo shot but too probable. This Mexican enterprise was not only wholly French but imperial ; and was, from first to last, the conception of the Emperor Napoleon. His Majesty was greatly influenced by the supposed collapse of the American Union, and the Federal', perceiving this, and taking it as • warning of the diminished importance of their country should they acquiesce in secession, were impelled to carry on the war even more 'trent'. ously. The weakness of the unfortunate prince in accepting the office of • vassal of France, in such a country, is inconceivable ; yet it must be admitted that he has acted nobly in his position. Front the departure of the French, however, the issue could not be doubtful. The Mexican empire is at an end, and nothing remains but for the successful chief to reorganise the government, or to let the country gradually sink under the power of the United States. The Daily News cannot at present believe the solitar► newspaper report that the ex-Emperor is to be shot. It is not so very long since that Maximilian, presuming upon delusive appearances of success, ordered the execution of all who might thenceforth be found in arms for the inde pendence of their country ; and immediately afterwards General Artega, a true patriot and a man of unblemished probity, was shot in cold blood, with several republican colonels. It maybe hoped that a milder policy will actuate President Juarez, who has never been accused of inhu manity, and that Maximilian may be restored to recount to his European friends the incidents of one of the most foolish enterprises into which unsuspecting simplicity was ever betrayed by craft. THE SENTENCE OF TREASON. After pointing out the many differences between the procedure in the case of treason and that in other crimes, and commenting on the barbarous and grotesque sentence, the Times recommends that the old law of treason, to con ciliate prejudices, be left in its present state for historical illustration, and that we turn our attention solely to the law of treaaon•felony for use. A simple addition to the act, m►king treason•felony punishable with death, would effect all that is required. We should gain greatly by the change. The prisoner guilty of treason would be tried like any other culprit. No special t.... l, eieslities would impede the course of justice, no arbitrary rules obstruct the proofs. No barbarous and disgusting sentence would excite sympathy on behalf of a great criminal, or shock the feelings of a fastidious and sentimental age. Instead of striving to find punishments more dreadful than death, our ingenuity would be better directed in seeking some farm of seclusion suited to the case of those whose offences have only just fallen short of the point at which that penalty should be inflicted. It is not fitting that such persons should be treated as mere temporary inmates of a prison. There would be more solemnity, more terror, and, perhaps, less inhumanity were solitude, not solitary confinement, the immediate consequence of the sentence, and if the criminal ware to disappear almost as completely from among his fellow men as one already numbered with the dead. UNIVERSITY REFORM. Liberal members of the House of Commons will be glad to be reminded that Mr. Fawcett's Bill for enabling the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge to admit to fellowships persons who are not mem bers of the Established Church comes on for dis cussion this afternoon. An important division is expected. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday afternoon at the Horse Guards. Upwards of 180 officers attended. The third reading of the Testa Abolition (Oxford and Cambridge) Bill is deferred from Tuesday 4th till Tues day, 18th June. In committee on the Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill, Mr. Daiglish will move that the Universi• ties of St. Andrew's, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Aberdeen shall return ono member ; Mr. Baxter—That the counties of Selkirk and Peebles be united and return one member. That the counties of Roes and Cromarty and Sutherland be united and return one member ; and Mr. Robertson (Ber wickshire)—That the possession of a residence within the county shall form a necessary part of the county franchise• "COUNTING Our."—On the house re-assembling at 9 o'clock last evening an hon. member moved that the house be counted. At this time there were the following members of the government on the Treasury bench :—The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hunt, the Attorney- General, Lord J. Manners, Lord R. Montagu, Lord Naas, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Cave. The front opposition bench wanted its usual occupants. The Speaker, having counted the house, declared 37 members to be pre sent. His decision was challenged, and he counted again. During these proceedings much anxiety seemed to prevail on the ministeriarbench, and when the Speaker announced that only 38 members were present a feeling of regret was manifested in that quarter. While the Speaker was coun ting, Colonel French went to the door, and unsuccessfully endeavoured to induce some members who were outside to come in, and on his return he said in a loud voice, "They are keeping them out." The moment the numbers were announced by the Speaker several members who had been watching outside entered the house. The members pre sent afterwards gathered into groups, apparently convers ing upon the occurrence, and gradually retired.—Tisza. LATEST INTELL IG ENCE, (REUTER'S TELZOILAIIB.) FRANCE. PARIS, ILiy The fete last night at the Austrian &ale 29. y 1.4 splendid. The Emp eror , th e Empress, the % on Prince, and Crown Princess of Pruesia ee the Duke of Leuchtenberg were present. RUSSIA. BT. PETERSBURG, IL4r V. The Emperor and Empress of Russia, with th e i, suite, left Zarsko-Selo by special train for Wan a y , en route for Paris to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 2 , ), Several newspapers discuss to-day the posi ti ,,, in which Spain is placed by the recent decree the Emperor of the Brazils in reference to da m, and announce that Senator Pastor will bung i n , bill proposing the abolition of slavery in t h e Spanish colonies. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, L 21, The North German Lloyd's steamer Union, 6 4 New York, passed the Needles at 10 a.m. to-day. GREAT HESTIA° OP THE OPERATIVE' TAILORS.-(THIS DAY.) - - This morning a great meeting of the operara c tailors was held at the Alhambra Palace, Leicester.s tsars summoned by the central committee of the le a d, Tailors' Protective Association, for the can oe 4 enabling the journeymen to refute the mama. nary statements made by the muter, at th ec . meeting on Saturday last. The meeting was tema k a of in and out-door workers, unionists and noel. and about 7,000 men were present. There were also a number of females scattered over the hall. Os as central committee making their appearance ca the pia. form they were received with loud cheering. Mr. Dot: trr, the president of the Tailors , tion, on rising, commenced by reading a circular iota by the Loudon Working Men's Association, cal* c delegate meeting of the London trades in support c c t h e strike. He next read a letter from the Manchester Typo. graphical Society which stated they bad voted W for tie tailors' strike. After alluding to the number present it the meeting not being quite so large as that held on Fan Monday last, he said this arose from two causes, a lug number of men on strike had gone into the eons. try to work, and those men employed at the shops not on strike had been recommended not to lose the half day, but to menses the ark, and pay the money as en extra levy on &tong next. (Hear.) The masters, finding they midi out overcome and subdue the men, bad resorted to dna, the central committee and himself in particular. At ice meeting of the masters, the numbers present had hat largely swelled by the presence of clerics, cashien, shopmen. He had applied at the first meeting of the masters for admission to that meeting on the cart of the men, but had been unanimously refused. (Her.) Now the men had acted very differently. To tie present meeting they bad invited the whole of the amen committee. (Hear.) He would now refer to the ineensc on Saturday last—{hear)—and proceeded to comment npot the various speeches made upon that occasion. The * port of the masters' committee read at that natio stated distinctly that the men had been forted into a strike by the influence and coercion of the read committee and leaden of the ultimo. (Shea 4 " No, no.") The whole burden of the =dee speeches were in the same spirit. It would It for the great meeting he saw before him to its opinions upon these assertions. (Hear.) IrrTr al l page had asserted that dozens of hie workmen had oil him, with taus in their eyes, that they had been compel!, to l eave their employ by the terrorism of the unreel al the coercion of the leaders. (" False.") Again Mr. Wean stated that it was the interest of the leaden to pa long the strike in order to keep on their enema salaries. Again he said, it was this mg; that could alone give the lie to those iers statements of the masters. (" We will de Having concluded his analysis of the proceediee et the masters' meeting, he went on to say that himself :of the committee threw themselves upon this meant. a if those composing it approved the action. of the central committee they would say so ; but if fay were willing to go hack to work oa the care' terms the committee would not offer the elicited opposition. (Cries of "Never.") For himself 'of his colleagues on the committee he repudiated sal scorn and disgust the calumnies heaped upon rhea by the masters at their meeting. (Cheers.) Mr. Nam . then moved the following resolution : this mating having read with surprise the 'Uterine made by the master tailors at their meeting on Snarly last at the Hanover-square rooms, that the men roe forced out against their will by the terrorism of the nen• five committee of the Union,' hereby express their lac nation at the same, and utterly repudiate thecharges ads against the executive of the Operative Tailors' Protean Ansociation." Mr. WELL said, on the part of the City branch die association, he begged to deny most emphatic-30yMA there was the slightest truth in the statements n. de masters. It was he only who instructed the committee to commence the strike, and not the committee as ordered out the men, and the vote of this magnifica meeting would tell the public and the marten that rat was the fact. (Hear, hear.) The noble support they were receiving from the trades at large would enable td union to defy the masters to put down their Ur .A. (Cheers.) They ridiculed the idea of a dozes coma ittee men being able to influence and coerce 3,000 intellamt workmen. It was an insult to those men for the manse to state such a thing. (Cheers.) Mr. Nietrotsore seconded the resolution. He dammed the conduct of the masters in endavouring to revive Me wretched call-house system, and to break draws the mile' The CHAIRMAN then read the resolution, mid bra asked whether there was any amendment, and recta* es response, he then put the resolution, which was no Mr. Anwarme, president of the Amalgamated Sevietlr moved the following resolution :—" That the questa= d a time-log having been first raised by the maitre this selves, and the operative tailors of the United Karlin itself to use all legitimate bring ingthenocesityof the this m eeting out the ei°t' able adjustment of question involving the int ereet the bade et largo." He said it was the masters Mama introduced the question of the time log, which they m' s repudiated. Mr. TAPLET seconded the resolution, which Cal Orri unanimously. Mr. MACKAY moved—" That the masters haring brake faith with the representatives of the men, sad violat6 theireagagementeontheuestion of thetimelog,horao decbued their only inten t ions to be the devitalise et union of the men by one formed amongst theinselret;n = . meeting, therefore, pledges itself to give the can-a t .. the moral and pecuniary asaistance in its power, 1 '; every possible effort may be male to defeat an since I unworthy and malignant ; and it also expremea Aida. confidence in the executive appointed by the temsho" the association for the purpose of carrying out the reit tions passed in this hall on the Z2nd April I:,it." Ile the chairman at the matters' meeting bad mid 'P . ': men in the west-end shops were earning from 34. is tx.• per week ; but he forgot to add that these wages wet ‘ 4 . 3 earned for a few weeks in the busy season of t he yetr. then bx working from 14 to hours per day. J ai Mr. PARTRIOGS seconded the resolution, .lefenaws honesty of the committee. t ‘ ,l Mr. P. Snowiness, secretary of the Autalgasna . _ ciety, supported the resolution i n a most energew This resolution was also carried with loud eheen. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to • vote of thstiks e 1109.7 his gratitude for the confidence reposed in !navel ( colleagues by this large meeting. It was the hot Lion that could be given to the slanders of the lav ) uttered at their meeting last Satunity. ( 10,3 a n t , . He apologised for the absence of the secretary ( 3l,. '- nines) from the meeting. ChAirfAl At this time a telegram was received by -- the from Manchester, announcing that the Tepee masters' meeting had aroused the whole unionbts of to north in support of the Tailors' Union. cheer' ne pre for e r th he cen ege tral thee cot term umi i t e te e e te' a l i wi ul th tli t e hree s uccesatim"° 7 l : strike. None of the masters accepted the invitala°, committee to a Mitt on the platform. but perers.„7-0. and foremen were seen seated in various p we utt of THE HOLBORN VIADECT.—The ceremony .f n ing the first stone in connexion with the Holborn 0 7 will take place on Monday next. ntthe northern e n.l off a ringdon-street. Mr. Deputy Fry will perform t he ., T. Mini part in the proceedings, assisted by the lord -`0""i;. And a number of distinguished visitors are expect"' in .a. present. The stone will be the corner one, and will the site of the first pilaster on which the large ^,:it.le". E ,J rest. The weight of the stone, which ia granite, is nine tons, having been reduce sere' tons the cutting. NORTH-EASTERN RATLWAY.—The Company have so far overcome the late strikes ds" trip season has been partially opened this I•01,on, 'dons to Whitby, Castle Howard, and other place' a p been run on Monday, and some other trips will run leg the week. The full commencement of the top son is fixed for next week, when the first exciesues Scarborough and the other watering-places via rl ice very low fares. The public hare quite regained con fl. In the drivers, and the trains are filling well to the *- 71. ing•places. 110 i The Se o'clock. On the likotlend 1 Hr. I) bill. He than 400, power to 330,000/. holders aa given the, s everal pr Union, tb the Cale& the matte Mr. HA the pa Pre - Fm ic move for Colonel matter, fa renee etOC stock. Th. bill A Novo night. 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