The Express. — London, England, 1866-05-18 00:00:00

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HIGH•WATER AT LONDON.BRIDOK. THT DAT A —Morning, 4h. Dint titernoon, .111. 51m. To•Moasow—Morning, 511. 15m Afternoon, sh. 40m. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 18. Tits statements made in Parliament by the Duke of Somalis= and Mr. LAYARD show that if the withdrawal of Admiral DENMAN from before Valparaiso when that city was threatened with bombardment was a fault, the party to be blamed is the British Government. Thu policy of neu trality between Spain and Chili which Ministers deliberately adopted is a fair subject of discussion ; but it is anything but fair to censure a high minded officer for a strict and intelligent obedience to the orders which he had received. A naval officer on a foreign station who is suddenly called upon to act in doubt' uland unforeseen circumstances ought to be able to reckon on a generous and liberal appreciation of his conduct on the part of his countrymen; but he would deserve the strongest censure who should disregard his instructions in the very case for which they were intended to provide. Trite and obvious as is this maxim, it is ignored by some of our countrymen, who, it seems, would have been glad to hear that Admiral DEN melt had taken the liberty of setting aside his in structions, and of acting upon his own view of what the honour and interests of his country required. If our officers should ever come to think thus of their duty, and never suffer any wrong to be done which they had the physical means of pre venting, we should have almost as many foreign policies as admirals on foreign stations, and should never know when we were at peace. We see a picture of the officer who is ready to " take all " the responsibility " of his action in the report of Commodore ROORRA, the American naval com mander at Valparaiso, to his official superior. This officer has been much praised in England, as well as by some of our countrymen at Valparaiso, at the expense of Admiral DENMAN. It is on record that Commodore ROO ERN was ordered by his Government to observe a strict neutrality; but he states in his letter that he was ready to sink the Spanish flag-ship in order to prevent the bombard ment of Valparaiso, if Admiral DENMAN would co operate with him. We may safely presume he would not have done so without the consent of General Kurirsicx, the United States Minister to Chili, who, however, does not seem to have contemplated taking any part beyond protesting against the bombardment. Admiral Daxst.sx, in hie official report, negatives the assertion that he declined the co-operation of Commodore ROGERS, and, with all respect to the latter officer, we prefer to rely on the accuracy of our own countryman. But there is no reason why Commodore Reuss should not draw his own portrait, and here it is : In offering to go beyond the letter of my instructions to observe a strict neutrality I acted upon the supposition that neutrality among the nations did not preclude all well directed efforts to keep the peace among them ; that as a peaceable citizen is not obliged to standby inert while another is suffering from the unlawful violence of a third person, but may justly interfere with force to pre vent an infraction of the laws—a murder, for ex ample—so a nation, witnessing the like disturbance among her sister nations, need not rest absolutely im passive, but with sincere neutrality might interfere with force if necessary to keep the operation of belligerents at least within the law for the protection of neutral persons and neutral property. I considered that Spain had lost her colonies under a stringent colonial policy and religious intolerance. In the course of time, encouraged by the more liberal laws of a state of freedom, foreigner's had been induced to settle in the country, and to embark their capi tal in commerce and other industrial pursuits. Towns bad sprung up along the coast, railroads had been built, and other material interests developed. Ideas as well as manufactures had been introduced, the wealth and intel. ligence meanwhile remaining with the foreigners. At last Chili had reached the goal in human progress, marked by the establishment of religious toleration, and now Spain, on a point of etiquette rather than from any great political end as I believe, proposes to burn the property and destroy the towns along the sea-coast as far as she sees At. Is it right that she should thus exercise her power of destruction, unrestrained, along the shores of this conti nent ? The mode of warfare which Spain proposes is terri ble, but it seems to me such as will provoke private ani mosity rather than coerce national will, and, therefore, that it is not directed to its l egi ti ma t e en d , and, moss quently, that such warfare might be resisted. It is reported that when TALLEYRAND was Am bassador at this Court a lady having asked him the meaning of non-interventionrhe rliffislis 4 `MactaultS " non-intervention eat un mot diplomatique et enig " matique, qui signifie a peu pres la meme chose " qu'intervention ;" and Commodore Roozas ap pears to have been of the Frenchman's opinion. Neutrality in his view was consistent with de ciding that one of the belligerents was in the wrong, and thereupon attacking him. If a nation professing neutrality may interfere by force, and sink, burn, and destroy the ships of one of the par ties to a war—what more remains to be done after a declaration of hostilities ? These political admirals and generals—who know better than the PRESI DENT, or the Secretary of State, or the Senate what the country ought to do, and are ready to do it, trusting to the people to " endorse" their action—have in times past been one of the greatest curses of the United States, and we must protest against any attempt to set them up as examples for our officers. For the sake of justice it should be clearly understood that in no case can the inactivity of the British fleet, when outrages such as the born bardment of Valparaiso are perpetrated, in the least degree lessen the responsibility of the perpe trators. It is not to be supposed that Great Britain sanctions every wrongful act which she could, but does not, prevent. Independent nations must answer for their own deeds and take all their con sequences. The whole and undivided infamy of this business rests upon the Government of Spain. At the same time we believe that the English public is getting to think that something ought to be done by the combined action of the great maritime Powers to put an end to these repeated and unwarrantable Spanish expeditions, which are becoming a general nuisance. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) T]IE thaTEd THE HUM{ LAND QUESTION. The Daily News observes that the opposition offered last night by a person of Mr. Lowe's eminence and ability to the bill introduced by the government for the better adjustment of the relations between landlord and tenant in Ireland, is a proof which an inferior man could not have so forcibly given of the obstinate insularity of the British mind. The case of tenants in England and Scotland, where landlords make all the permanent improve melds, and that of the tenant in Ireland, where they do not, differ in all essential points ; but Mr. Lowe, misled by obstinate prepossessions, would have the law ignore this diversity, simply advocating notions derived, as Mr. Mill pointed out in his admirable speech, in the most em pirical way from English routine. The case of England, with its capitalist tenants intermediate between the owners and the cultivators of the soil, is, as the member for Westminster showed, quite exceptional; that of Ire land follows the general rule. The government bill in flicts no injury upon the landlord except so far as it wounds his prepossessions in regard to a fancied abstract right. The measure, though it might now and then be evaded would give the sanction of the law to morals, and would soon create a public opinion strong enough to prevent its being set aside, and which, extending in time to the land lord class, would in the end remove any disposition to over-ride it. The Post approves of the government bill which is con sistent with natural justice. The objections taken to it by Lord Naas would, if endorsed by the I rouse of Commons, have the effect of depriving the bill of the only value it possesses, and render it as nugatory as those which pre e.sded it. The Herald describes Mr. Mill as defending a scheme of confiscation, and insists that to dispense with the consent of the landlord to improvements as a condition precedent of all claims for compensation is almost to ou4 him from his estate, and leave him a mere incumbrancer, in receipt of a chief rent. On the whole, Mr. Mill's speech has done good service, by showing that the idea of gradual confisca• tion is at the root of all tenant-right agitation. Byconstitutinghimself the mouthpiece of the inarticulate Irish landlord, Mr. Lowe, the Star says, has taken another step in his downward course. By degrees we are gathering materials for a new Adullamite Guide ; we are acquiring by instalments an idea of those liberal-conservative or Clarendon Club sentiments which are to unite and animate the new party of which Mr. Lowe is the only intelligible member. The ideal condition of Ireland, ac cording to this doctrinaire politician, is a hopelessly sta tionary one, since the appropriation of a tenant's improve ments is certain to be an utterly prohibitory penalty. Mr. Fortescue and his colleagues must, however, have been more consoled when Mr. Mill paid their bill the tribute of his high admiration, assigning it a place above even the Emancipation Bill as a remedial and cmciliatory act of THI GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL. The Times regards as one of the most striking parts of Mr. Disraeli's speech on the Redistribution Bil!—that in which he repudiated the argument on behalf of increased representation of counties ; and it devotes the greater por tion of a leading article to a consideration of his remarks on that head. Tae Times continues to accept the bill as moderate, impartial, and conciliatory, but never theless foresees that its logical result would be, not the present House of Commons, but one made up of county members and members for large boroughs ; and there must be something vicious in a method of legislation which would lead to such an end. If the small boroughs are to be abolished, and we recognise the fact that they must with more or less rapidity disappear from our electoral system, some compensatory reform ought to be devised Unfortunately, whatever be the nature of such a reform, it must, from the necessity of the case, be somewhat of a novelty, and the very classes who are most deeply inte rested in the adoption of such an expedient are those who shrink most from contemplating it. The Herald contests the right of Mr. Gladstone to band over to Scotland the vote+ of seven English constituencies. Why should our national influence be weakened in the imperial legislature ? How has it been misused! Where are the complaints! and what is the advantage to be looked for? According to the Telegraph, politicians generally are comin; to the belief that the Franchise Bill offers the conservatives an uncommonly good bargain. The nunilasr of English borough members is to bo diminished, and that of county members increased, so that that. will be • net gain to the latter of sixty votes. This result is a mere matter of arithmetic, and therefore beyond the region of controversy. The country party have been complaining for years, with per fect truth, that they are inadequately represented ; the ' grievance is now remedied to an extent far greater than Lord Derby ventured to propose by his bill of IKV.). Hence the conservatives may be temptedlto swallow the bitter pill of an extended suffrage, for the sake of the franchise sweetmeat that accompanies it. Some of the extreme reformers are already dissatisfied with the extent of the sacrifices demanded at their hands ; if the patience of these restive followers of the government be too severely tried, they will be tempted to recall their assent to the proffered compromise. The Star counsels the liberal party that all Mr. Disraeli amendments in oommittee will require to be watched with great care. He has studied this question of redistribution closely enough, and studied it with the view of transmu• ting a measure of reform to the disadvantage of the liberals. As he cannot effect his purpose by direct attacks he will try what he can accomplish by sapping and mining. 701 ZION Arnim. The Tines has heard of a scheme projected by the King of Prussia which has not been mentioned, so far as we are aware, in the oontinental press ; it is to the effect that hie Majesty has commissioned the rural police to pick out every one of them two labourers and working men, who are to form an assemblage and be addressed by the King, who will put straight to them the question of peace or war. Not being able to find the pure element which he requires in his existing chamber, he is going out into the fields to col lect it as he would a bouquet of wild flowers or a handful of simples. The Emperor Napoleon has no need to go to the villages and lanes, for the simple reason that this is the very quarter from which he comes by the happy mode of his election. Re has only to reduce occasionally within proper limits the opinions of the educated classes, and this he has been doing lately by giving a second warning to a ..-°* ". LATEST iItTELLIGENCE. THE IMPENDING CRISIS. LETTER OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. General Garibaldi has replied in the following terms to the letter of the Minister of War, offering to him the command of the Italian volunteer force • Caprera, May 11,1866. I accept with sincere gratitude the arrangements you have made, and which his Majesty has sanctioned, with respect to the corps of volunteers. I am thankful fox the confidence which you repose in me by giving me the command. Be my interpreter to the King, and express to him my feelings. I hope soon to participate with our glorious army in accomplishing the destiny of the country. I thank you for the courtesy you have shown to me in your communication. G. GARIBALDI. In addition to the foregoing Garibaldi is said to have written another letter to the minister inform ing him that he should retain in his own hands the appointment of the colonels of the 10 regiments of volunteers, and that he did not wish a second general should be appointed, conditions which were readily complied with. It is conjectured that amongst the colonels to be appointed M. Morto will have the command of the Genoese Carbineers, Nicotera, Corte, and Cairoli those of Milan. His eldest son blenotti will command the University corps. - - The Florence correspondent of the Dikes writes as follows on the 15th inst. : We are in the midst of reports of a congress, and of mysterious negotiations which disquiet the public mind, and are beginning to irritate it. This period of indecision cannot long endure without great danger. In official quarters great, very great, illusion exists on this point. It is thought that the extraordinary condition in which we have been since the 19th of April can be easily pro. longed. Yet there is reason to believe that the week will not pass over without some decisive step being taken. In the existing state of things and of men's minds Italy cannot avoid going to war unless Austria cedes Venetia. This necessity is so evident and palpable, that it is no longer even discussed. A promise has been obtained from Garibaldi that he would not leave Caprera till he got the signal, but the party of action, which has now rallied to the war, is pressing the enrolment of volunteers who are presenting themselves on all Bides. Garibaldi is expected in Florence on the 20th. It is supposed that by that time the negotiations relative to the Congress will have been concluded. The Pope has permitted, or at least has not prevented, the passage by railway of the Italian troops across the Roman territory. He has shut his eyes and let the thing be done. In a letter from Bologna to the Osserratore Ro wow we read : We live here in the midst of great excitement. Bologna has become the centre of military operations. The head quarters will be fixed at San Michele. We are concen tratingio,ooo men in the fortifications of the city, and in the surrounding forts. Troops, artillery, and munitions are constantly arriving. Bologna is like a great en trenched camp. There is scarcely a family that has not sent a son to the war. The churches in the faubourgs are occupied by soldiers. In addition to others, the church of San Paolo di Ravona has been taken for this purpose and the church of Sim I:6idi.s is also to be occupied. A large number of soldiers are lodged in the etvrini of the surround. ing country. Italy, it is said, will have an army of 590,000 men, and Ido not think the number is exaggerated, consi dering the extraordinary numbers that are being enrolled. Enthusiastic meetings take place in order to keep up the public spirit and to encourage the young men. Offices for the enrolment of volunteers have been opened, and the working classes are hurrying to give in their names. Ad vices f rom Minden announce that some troubles had broken out on several points of the province of Westphalia, and that at Bielefeld, the principal seat of the fabrication of linen in Prussia, the workmen designated to form part of the landwelu ; of the ith corps, in formation at Munster, have refused to juin. Half a battalion of the 53rd Regiment was sent 41 the place, but the other workmen, to the number of fifteen hundred, took the part of their comrades, and tho commander of L the troops, before going to extremities, believed it his duty to make a report to his superiors, who referred the case to Berlin. , ►FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1.866. Paris image ' for Pub/1 116 S an ginkgo of M. Prevost Paradol ea the trestles of 1815 and the Emperor's Auxerre speech, an article in which were Wended at once Europe and France, order, prosperity, education, and law. If the French official organs have no better explanation to give than they have given of the speech referred to, it Is easily to be understood why the Emperor would rather have to deal with the simple and loyal peasantry of Auxerre than with an educated capital. Even as a pro phecy, here is something to give us all uneasiness. War is to raze the surface of Europe to a dead political level—a mere crowd of nations and battle-field of armies. Fron tiers are to be swept away by the incessant passage of armed pyramids. Napoleon is to look on. At length suffering humanity will raise to heaven one great, simul taneous cry. Napoleon 111. will then present himself, like Achilles from his long retirement. He will appear and set things to rights. lie will restore the Golden Age, of what date we are not told. We are only told emphatically that it is to be one innocent of the treaty of 1815. The Herald cannot profess any sure confidence in the pretensions of a general conference to secure the mainte nance of peace. The last two attempts were not so satis factory as to lead us to expect much from the present proposal. In 1859, just when the proposition of a congress had met with general acceptance, it was anticipated by an outbreak of war between Austria and Italy. In 1864 the congress for the settlement of the Danish question carried on its futile discussions over the green table while the Dannewerke was being turned, and the last hope of Den. mark was besieged at Duppel. When men have fairly made up their minds to fight it is of little use asking them to sit down and talk it over. At the present moment the armaments continue, and the outbreak of war on the Venetian or Silesian frontier seems now to be a question of days or even hours. The Post describes the complication of affairs as unpa ralleled since the days when Napoleon I. made it impos sible for the politician to anticipate the events of the future. At the very moment when the whole of Italy is armed for war purposes, and the heart of the nation is panting for a struggle that the Italian soil may be freed from the occu pation of the stranger, a powerful peace movement has sprung up which would leave her alone with the sword drawn. A few days will show the result. Eke Erfurt. WINDSOR CASTLE, MAY 17. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon, and again this morning, attended by Lady Augusta Stanley. The Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. Princess Beatrice took a carriage drive. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley arrived at the Castle yesterday, and bad the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family. The Dowager Duchess of Atholl has succeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to the Queen. The Prince of Wales went to the House of Lords yester day afternoon. . . His Royal Highness afterwards rode on horseback, attended by Major Teesdale. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, attended by the Hon. Mrs. A. Harslinge. In the evening their Royal Highnesses, accompanied by Prince Alfred, went to Her Majebty's Theatre. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Earl Russell, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hun. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, the Marquis of Hartington, the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hun. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, and the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers. A deputation consisting of Sir Thomas Burke, Bart., Mr. Cullen, Mr. Aungier, Mr..Vertion, and Mr. Gibbons. had an interview with Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. G. J. Goachen, and the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on the subject of the re. strictions imposed on the cattle trade. Colonel Harness attended the interview. The deputation was introduced by the following members of the House of Commons : Mr. Horsfall, Mr. Graves, Mr. Greenall, Colonel W. Gray, Major O'Reilly, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Platt, Mr. Chaa. Moore, Mr. Chas. Turner, Sir John Gray, the O'Conor Don, the O'Donoghue, Mr. Cheetham, Mr. Cogan, Mr. Morris, Mr. Serjeant Armstrong, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, and Mr. Pim. A deputation from Cheshire, consisting of representa tives from Stockport, Macclesfield, Hyde, Dukinfie Sta. leybridge, Congleton, Birkenhead, and Great Boughton, had an interview with the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey at the Home-office yesterday, on the subject of the Cattle Plague Act, and suggesting the adoption of the principle of ge: e nil rating, as in the Irish act. A meeting of the finance committee of the Royal Com mission for the Exhibition of 1:451 was held yesterday at the Privy Council-office. There were present the Earl cf Derby, Earl Granville, the Right Hen. H. A. Bruce, M.P., Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Thring, and Mr. Edgar Bovrring, C. B. (secretary). Mr. John Laird, M.P., had an interview with the Rigl t Hon. C. P. Villiers, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yeaterday. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY.—The Lord Chan cellor has issued an order that the offices of the Court of Chancery be closed on Saturday, the 26th instant, which day has been appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birthday. The Queen was born on the 24th May, 1619. It has been arranged that Prince Alfred will visit Liverpool to deliver the prizes on board the School Frigate Conway, and to open the new entrances to the Birkenhead Docks on the 23rd, and not the 25th June as previously announced. His Excellency the Ambassador of France will leave Albert-gate House on Saturday for Windsor, on a visit to her Majesty. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon received at dinner last evening, at their residence in Grosvenor. crescent, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and Madame and Male. Blusurus, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, the Earl and Countess of Cork, the Countess of Newborough, Viscount and Viscountess Halifax, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hammond, Mr. Hayward, Sc. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon will leave town on Saturday, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor C►stle. Lady Molesworth received at dinner last evening, at her residence in Eaton-place, Lord and Lady Egerton of Tatton, his Excellency the Italian Minister, the Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beanclerk, \ lee Ault Falk land, the Marquis of Sligo, Frances Countess Waldegra‘e. Lord William Hay, the Earl Somers, Lorl Delamere, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Mr. Conrtenay, Mr.Alfreditotnc• child, Lady Otho Fitzgerald, Lady Susan Vane Tempest, Viscountess Holineadale, Mr. Richard Oswald, Sc. Later in the evening her ladyship had an assembly, which was numerously and fashionably attended. The Marquis Balbi has returned to the Italian Legation from Italy, to resume his official duties. Sir Thomas and Lady Cochrane entertained at dinner Last night, at their residence in Belgmre-square, his Excellency the French Ambassador, his Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff and the Countess Theresa 13ern.storff, his Excellency the Nether lands Minister, the Marquis de Tamisier, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lori Henley, M.P., Lord Llanover, Lord and Lady Aveland and Ron. Miss Heathcote, Lady Margaret Bourke, Lord and Lady Carew, Lord and Lady Colchester, the Count Maffei, and Mr. Bane Cochrane, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Cochrane. The marriage of the Hon. Atholl Charles John Liddell, youngest son of Lord Ravensworth, late of the ekth Rifles, with Miss Caroline, daughter of the Hon. George Edgecumbe, was solemnised yesterday at All Saints' Church, Fulham, in the presence of a numerous circle of friends and relatives of the families. ABEHDEENAHIRE ELECTION.—We learn by elec tric telegraph that at the clone of the poll yesterday the numbers were as follows Fordyce (liberal), 2,175 ; Elphinstone (conservative), 1,088 ; being a majority of 1,087 in favour of the liberal candidate. There was considerable excitement, but good order was not disturbed. The Times' telegram says :—" Mr. For dyce is the first liberal whn has ever been re turned for Aberdeenshire ; and, while his political princi ples have been popular with the farming interest, there is no doubt that his views as a free churchman have tended in no small degree towell the present great awl unexpected majority." LORD CHEMSFORD'S SUNDAY BILL. DIVISION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS LAST NIGHT. Lord Redesdale's amendment last evening, for the purpose of prohibiting the male between the hours of 10 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon of any articles except medicines, and which amendment was carried by 54 to 40 votes, was supported by the following peers : Lord Cranworth (Lord Chancellor). Dukes—Manchester, Saint Albans, and Somerset. Marquises—Lansdowne and Normanby. Earls—Albemarle, Camperdown, Cathcart, Chichester, De Grey, Doncaster, Dude, Fitzwilliam, Granville, Grey, Harrowby (teller), Leven and Mel ville, Manvers, Minto, Morley, Russell, Spencer, Strad broke, Verulam, and Zetland. Viscounts—Clancarty, Everaley, Powerscourt, and Sydney. Bishop—St. David's. Lords—Abinger, Bolton, Boyle, Camoys, De Tabley, Fe versham, Foley, Granard, Houghton, Hunsdon, Llanover, Litman, Lyveden, Minster, Mostyn, Panmure, Redeadale (teller), Stanley of Alderley, Stratheden, Taunton, Teyn ham, Vaux of liarrowdeft, and Wodehouse. The peers who voted against the amendment were Duke—Richmond. Marquis—Westmeath. Earls—Am herst, Bandon, Belmore, Cadogan, Derby, For fescue, Huntingdon, Lonedale, Lucan, Morton, Nelson, Powis, Romney, and Sommers. Viscounts—De Vogel, Hardinge, Hawarden, and Stratford de Radcliffe. Bishops—Bangor, Gloucester and Bristol, Lincoln, Peter borough, Ripon, and St. Asaph. Lords—Berners, Blan tyre, Castlemaine, Chelmsford (teller), Crewe, Denman, Egerton, Rilmaine, Overstone, Portman (teller), Salters_ ford, Sheffield, Sherborne, and Sundridge. A letter from Berlin in the Cologne Gazette says From all quarters we receive news of riots and disorders, more or less serious, which have been occasioned by the calling out of men for soldiers, and to put down which it has in many places been necessary to employ the military. This is to be regretted, but it is certain that a general mobilisation which is not supported by the warlike enthu siasm of the people is a calamity for the country. Absence of enthusiasm is the very mildest form of expression for the feeling Which prevails in the capital and in the provinces. One may say, without exaggeration, that the prevalent sentiment in Berlin is sombre and sorrowful. The rumours of a total change in the policy of the Ministry which are circulating, signify merely that the people believe what they desire. " The Poles of Gallicia," says a Vienna letter, " have obtained permission from the Austrian Government to form a corps of hulans, 12,000 strong, which they will send into the field fully equipped, and will maintain at their own expense. Those volunteers will be commanded by Count Kaczynski, formerly in the Austrian army, who will contribute towards the formation and support of the corps to the extent of 2:10,000fr. a year. The count has just issued an appeal to the inhabitants, in which he urges them either to enrol themselves or to con tribute to the general equipment." " We learn from Vienna, " says the Patrie, " that the Archduke Ferdinand, brother of the Emperor, has been named commander of all the reserves of the Austrian army, and that Count do Mensdorff, brother of the Minister, is organising at his own coat a corps of volunteers, to be called the Alpine Sharpshooters." According to the Neue Freie Prase of Vienna, Austria has made the following reply to the offer of mediation by Russia : His Majesty the Emperor is animated by the liveliest and most sincere desire to spare his people and his German allies the necessity of a war ; and for this reason he adheres with the more readiness to the proposition for a Congress. The Emperor is disposed to make to France and Italy all possible concessions, even unexpected ones ; but, as regards the Duchies, he is immoveable in his resolution to uphold Federal rights, and will, under no circumstances, consent to their annexation. A correspondence from Vienna of the 14th May says _ _ No one here believes in a pacific solution of the difficulty. Even in the opinion of the optimists it is arms that will decide the question. General Benedek is here, and is the object of marked attention on the part of the Archdukes and other high personages. He is the hero of the day, and people have the greatest reliance on him. He has visited all the military establishments here, and is preparing to start for Pardubits, his head-quarters. He is himself confident of success, and is always repeating that in the event of war he will go to Berlin. This appears to be his fixed resolution. In his long con ferences with the Emperor he is always recommending that no concession should be made, and it certainly will not be his fault if Austria does not resist. (ILICTIIea TILEGRAX9.) PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, M 17, EVINING. The negotiations which have been carried on between Count von Bismarck and Count Karolyi havo led to no result since Count von Bismarck claims, on behalf of Prussia, the military and di plomatic representation of the whole of Northern Germany. The Emperor of Russia has addressed another autograph letter to the King of Prussia. BERLIN, It ---- 8, Th e }imagism government intends to carry on s co u m ppo pre it he to nsi the ve m ciaas eaaures of smau for traders affordin: y pe cun i irythe "tab. lishment of popular banks of advances, a s wee done in 1848. VIENNA., KAT it Field-marshal von Benedek, k, Con Chief of the Northern army, has just issued. first order of the day to the soldiers under • command. The order is dated the 12th inst. from temp o . nary head-quarters in this capital. In fermi words the field-marshal expresses his confiden ce j e the army and in the justice of the Austri an cause. The order bears throughout a decid e d ly defensive tone. No time is mentioned for th e commencement of war, but the order says that th e army has been got ready fur defence and to co m b at every enemy who threatens the Emperor sad the country. 4t4- THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND. PROFESSOR FERGUSON'S REPORT. To THE UNDER SECBET.ULY, DUBLIN CAMEL May 17, 1866. SlR,—The annexed copy of a communication re ceived this day is strongly suggestive of the most probable manner in which cattle plague infection has been introduced into Ireland, although there is no evidence of the farms in County Down, where cattle plague recently made its ap pearance, having been visited either by drovers or cattle dealers. I am preparing a full report relative to the occurenees at Drennan, which shall be furnished to you when coin. pleteted. In the meantime I beg to correct an erroneous conclusion arrived at by many stockowners, who consider their interests depreciated by credence being given to the statement made by me that the cattle plague had made its appearance in Ireland. It is argued by them that the cases of death which occurred in the locality during the month of April not having presented the recognised symptoms of cattle plague, it is improbable that the animals I pronounced to be affected with that disease were really suffering from it, when I had them slaughtered and buried. Some state the affection to be an aggravated form of lung distemper, which is not probably the case, as that dis ease, when uncomplicated, very seldom kills in so short a time as 24 hours, and, when it does prove fatal, the lungs are invariably found in a state easily recognised even by an ordinary butcher as significant of the disease. A cow that died, one of the earliest cases, was opened by a butcher, who states that its lungs were quite sound. That case and some others I am disposed to believe were not cattle plague, but cases of a terribly fatal disease of the circulation which has of late been very prevalent in ' "- Ireland It is common on the European continent. In France it is known as maladie de tang, but ix there more „ frequent among sheep than horned cattle. It, however, not unfrequently attacks cows after calving, but is quite different from puerperal fever, which is a very common disease among horned cattle in Ireland, and generally renders the animal, in bad cases, quickly paralytic in the hind extremities. Of the former class of disease may have been souse of the cases that died at Drennan before there was any report mad. , to the government, but the two cases particularly pointed out to mo by Mr. Jenks, and which had been, with others, reported by Mr. Morrow, were most unmistakably cattle plague, and, as such, by my orders, treated accordingly. The law admits of post-mortem examination to decide doubtful or suspicious cues ; but, as I had no doubt what ever relative to the nature of the malady, I would periait no increase of danger of the disease spreading, as a result of snaking post-mortem examination—particularly as a great number of persons,evidently of the farming class, bad assembled on the spot to watch the proceedings, and might become infection-carriers to other holdings, and even re mote localities, particularly as some important neighbour ing fairs and markets were on the eve of being head—the market of Lisburn on the next day. Should any society or committee feel desirous of making investigations relative b, future cattle plague reports on their own account, every facility shall be afforded to them for lasing so. lone ‘ , 4 it dues not interfere with the duties entrusted to moo by the government —T have the h.mone to be, sir, your most obedient servant, (Signed) HUGH FERGUSON, H.M.V.S. On the second reading of the Compulsory Church Rate Abolition Rill, Lord J. Manners will move that it be read a second time upon that day six months. In committee on the Representation of the People Bill, Mr. Yorke will move that the a borough franchise shall not apply to borough constituencies where the population does not reach 20,000. . . Next Friday Mr. James will ask the Secretary for the Home Department whether it is the intention of the government to introduce, during the present session, any bill for altering the law relating to the licensing of public-houses and beer-houses, and placing them upon an equal footing. Mr. Blake, on the Bth of next month, will call attention to the defeats in the law relative to charitable donations and bequests in Ireland, and move, " That it is the opinion of this house that government ought to take immediate steps to amend the same." The s...leet committee on the metropolitan gas bills report that they have found the illuminating power greater and the quality of the gas better in Manchester, Birmingham, Dlinburrh, Plymouth, Brighton, and other large towns, than in the metropolis, and the price cheaper to the consumer* : that the purification of the metro politan gas is imperfect, leaving an exoess of sulphur, which is most injurious to health, pictures, metals, &c. : that every company now realises a dividend of 10 per cent., and that many have in addition paid large sums for back dividends and laid up reserve funds. The report suggests many improvements as to tests, district arrange ments, and other matters, and recommends that the legal minimum illuminating power should be increased and the maximum price reduced. The amount standing to the credit of the Post office Savings Banks Fund in the books of the commis sioners for the reduction of the National Debt on the 31st December, was 6,582,329/. lls. 7d. POPULATION, REVENUE, AND REPRESENTATION. This morning a parliamentary return, moved for by Mr. Wiesen, was issued, giving the estimated population of England, Scotland, and Ireland at the middle of the pre sent year, 1866 ; the amount of revenue derived from taxation in the two years ending December last ; and the number of representatives which each of the divisions of the United Kingdom would have under certain cir cumstances. Proportionately to the estimated popula tion at the present time, England would have 467 members instead of 500 ; Scotland, 69 instead of 53 ; and Ireland, 122 instead of 105. Proportionately to the amount of revenue in the two years ending last December, England would have 508 members, Scotland 86, and Ire. land 64. Proportionately to the mean of the foregoing tables, England would have4B7 members, Scotland 78, and Ireland 93. THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATION OF CONVICTS. This miming was issued a parliamentary return, obtained by Lord E. H3ward, giving the religious denomination of the prisoners in certain Lon ton prison.. Of 5,120 prisoners committed to the House of Correction, Westminster, during last year, :1,113 are described as being of the church of England ; 2,247 Roman catholics ; 21 Wesleyan' ; 15 Presbyterians ; 16 baptists ; 2 independents ; and 6 Jews. The number in custody on the 15th ult. was 622, of whom 416 wore church of England, 201 Roman catholics, 1 Wesleyan, 2 presbyterimis, 1 independent, and 1 Jew. At Coldbath.fields there were committed during the year 7,645 church of England, 2,390 Roman catholics, 41 Jews, 35 Presbyterians, 21 Mahometans, 12 baptists, 23 Wesleyan, 5 independents, 3 Lutherans, and 1 unitarian. Of 1,616 prisoners in this year on the 20th of last month, 321 were Roman catholics. At the Middlesex House of Detention, Clerkenwell, the prisoners last year were divided into 6,686 church of England, 1,957 Roman catholics, 62 " dissenters," 16 presbyterians, 4.5 Jews, and 11 "of other denominations." On the 15th of last month there were 129 members of the Church of England in the prison, and 56 Roman catholic, at the City of London prison, Holloway. There were committed during 1865, 1,315 Church of England, 613 Roman cstho lice, 22 Jews, 13 presbyterians,l3 Wesleyan, 6 baptists, 2 independents, and 3of "no religion." On the 15th of last month the 28.3 prisoners in confinement at this prison consisted of 237 Church of England, 32 Roman catholic', 5 Jews, 1 presbyterian, 4 Wesleyans, 2 baptists, and 2 of " no religion." ITALY. FLORENCE, Mar 11, The Opinione of to-day publishes an arti c l e, which says :—" The future of the German nati on depends upon the Liberal party. The deplor a bl e constitutional conflict in Prussia should not nag e us forget that it is the vital and traditional bite rest of Germany to eliminate the heterogeas ai a influences of the Austrian empire. Despite G a mistakes of the Prussian government, despite the liberal attitude occasionally assumed by Austria, th e Liberals ought to embrace the sole opport un i ty offered by the Power that representa the future d Germany, and whose policy is necessarily pr ove* ing, while the Hapsburg policy was necessarily actionary. It is the surest means to bring G oat the advent of liberty. The cause of Italy is ides. tical with that of nationality and liberty. Gem ini should follow the example of Italy, which did ha hesitate to rally round the House of Savoy, whoa mission in Italy was identical with that of Penu r y , in Germany." THE SPANISH CORTES. MADRID, Mu 18. The Cortes held an extraordinary sitting last R ot for the discussion of the financial bill lately intro duced by Marshal O'Donnell. Extra sittings Eyre been held during the week for the same purple. OUTWARD BOMBAY MAIL. GIBRALTAR, Ye C. The Syria, from Southampton on the 12th inst., arrived to-day at 7 a.m., and leaves at maim Alexandria. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. (THIS DAY.) An extraordinary general meeting of the dm. holders of this company was held at the King'sata station this day, to consider and approve, or °thanks al upon, a number of bills now pending in parliament Colonel PACKE occupied the chair. He said Am were 26 bills on the list to be submitted to them. This was requisite under the Whitish& standing order, but there were only firs a an of the bills which were the bills of the company. Mr. HUGHES asked the solicitor whether he had el. "mined into the borrowing powers given to them by parliament, and whether the company had exceeded them, or whether they had exceeded the authority given tithe" by the proprietors. He had no suspicion that they kid daw so, but it was necessary for the interests of the Maze holders that an authoritative declaration should be by the solicitor. Mr. LEECH said at the request of the board be mode close examination into the borrowing powers and hoe far they had been exercised two or three years ago, ant found that they had not been exceeded. The hernial powers in the bills passed since were as usual tette amount of one-third of the capital. Mr. HUGHES said that was no answer. _ _ The SOLICITOR said he could not answer the mustier to what bad been done since he made the examination. The Swansea said he could state from his own tees- ledge that neither the borrowing powers given by paths ment, nor the po wers given by the shareholders hid err been exceeded— indeed they were within their beim* powers. The CHAIRMAN said he could assure the hon. propriete that the greatest care was taken in this regret. The SOLICITOR then read the heads of the first bill which was to confer additional powers on the undertake to obtain additional land and enlarge the line near Hello way and additional land at or near several stations, tie share capital to be authorised for these pmpones be* 810,0001., with the natal borrowing powers. Dr. JARDINE wished to caution the shareholders lags* increasing their capital. Mr. HUGHES said he had had no confidence is th. directors since the retirement of Mr. Denison bens they were pursuing a system which was condemned bylir Denison, who said these branch railways would never pay If this system continued this railway would become like the Great Western. But he could only protest, because In knew that by the proxy system the directors could do as they pleased. The CHAIRMAN said this bill was absolutely necessary for their traffic. The new line to be made was only the doubling of the tunnel at Holloway. The motion that the bill be approved was then put, sod carried by 8 to 6. The second bill, which was to abandon the short thee to Barnet, power to obtain which was received two pars ago, was then approved. The next was a bill which was for making • railway the West Riding of Yorkshire from Bradford throagh hccleshill to Idle. The CHAIRMAN said this railway was three miles sarl half long, and the parties in the locality hail subscribed third of the capital. The capital was 65,0001., with * usual borrowing powers. The bill was approved. The next bill was to vest the undertaking of the Rai Riding and Grimsby Railway in the Great Northern sea Manchester, She ffi eld, and Linnilnahire Railway jointly. Each company to subscribe 200,0001. to construct* Althorpe-on-Trent and Lincoln line. The CHAIRMAN said the line would shorten the dist* , from the West Riding to London by seven miles. 7 7... . The bill was appro;ed by 12 to (C. The next bill was a bill for constituting the Go'lt Northern and Midland Railway Company joint owners the railway authorised by the Manchester, Sheffield. la Lincolnshire Railway (extension to Liverpool) Act, 1965 , The CHAIRMAN said this was a new railway DOT OW structing. It was considered advisable that the compel should have an independent line to Liverpool. This a third line between Liverpool and Manchester, and *a t° be vested in the Manchester and Sheffield, the Midlsca. and this company. This company's proportion of tb S authorised capital was 250,00 W., with the usual born:not powers. . a . r _ The bill was approved by 9 to 4. The next bill wan to enable certain branches to he role from the last-mentioned railway, at a cost of 40,001• soh scribed by each of the three companies, and usual borrow* powers. This bill was likewise approved. The seventh bill was a bill for empowering the cheater. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company to nuke s central station and railways in Manchester, and far °the! purposes. This bill, it was explained. required no car tal, and was for the carrying out of working arrallges ea9- It was approved after some discussion. The eighth bill, which is to vest the Liverpool mita station in the three companies, and for which no adh' tional capital is required, was approved unanimously. The next bill is to complete the Chester lines, an& enable the three companies to make a line seven •1 . , long, from Chester to the West Cheshire Hoc. The caps ! to be raised by this company for this line is 93,0001. sh o capital and the usual borrowing powers. The bill was approved by 10 to 4. Three bills, authorising the use of the Cheshire licit and for w'aich no capital is required, were also approved. Other bills for making a railway from '.‘lacalesEeld to Knutsford and Warrington, to authorise Hatfield Chow Working and Improvement Company to mike railways. t 1 confer further powers upon the Hemel-Hempstead Coe piny ; to make a railway from Louth to the Five-tou!: house Station of the Great Northern Railway %Ai's bills are promoted by other companies, and to which 0 , company subscribes no capital—were approved with 64 opposition. Bills to confer additional powers on the 3letropal* tan Railway, and for entering into agreements bettro• the two companies were agreed to; to authorise tis Great Eastern Company to make certain railway s fr e t their system to the Alexandra Palace, forming a luncl with this company's li ne at Wood-green ; to authorise t Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway Company extend their railway to Barnet. were also appnwed. The total capital authorised by these bills, it was state. is 1,415,0001., with borrowing powers t o one-third OW amount. 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