The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-30 00:00:00

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To obtain extra profit by the ride other binds era sometnnee reefed instead et DROWN and POLSON'S. " John Brown." "John Tolson." Is dined by the makers on each pease. Elie eViireoS• TO COI6ISIPONDENTS. Avertisements Intended for "The Express," London Evening Paper, must be at the 011os, 10, Youveriestreet, by Two o'clock on the day of publication. DRITRY LANS THIS EVENING. THE UKKAT CITY. Messrs. Warner, Mor ton, FR:James. Rouse, etc. ; 3Jewlams' Robertson, Ls Thiere, and Thompron.—To conclude with THAT RASCAL JACK. Mgrs. Rouse and Neville ; Mesdames Aliments and Thompson. HAYMARNICT. Tills EVENING. TUB THE LAMB. Mean. Chippendale. Yarren, de.; Mrs. Yltzwillisni, dc.—A WILD Crt.)oB E. Mews Mothers, Buekstone, de. Mesdames Burke. Chippendale, Hill, de.—And A KISS IN THE DARK. LYCEUM. Tnta EVE O, BAMBltattl - NO - . Mr. Fries and Miss Rate itiThop.—THE DUKE MOTTO. Mr. Yachter, Masan. Emery, We &c. ; Misses itlaworthy, Grattan, and INr lotta Lettere+ —A Grand Ballet. M. Espinosa a RM.. Sophie. .11:72,AND. Tfue EvIETI4, SWEETWEARii . AND WITEA. Mr. Bel ton' --PVIIItALIOV: 08, Tfl E STATUE VA IL Mews. Morse, Jane., Meolanses A. Efran Raynham. Harland, Johnstone, Holt, & Nefrfori.— And THE Bll beraragb, ENCH EXHIBITION. 110!..BOILN.. This VINING, MY TWIN NEXT. Mr. Edmore: Moss Poote and Lsooos—Aied SLYLY() SCUD. Messes. Neville, Bel more, Blake. VoUsire, etc. Mesdames P. Josephs, C. Ssundees, Bessie Toots, Ylddes, Laws, Sayaboad, to BirTAltlfLt. TIU Erratum. THE LiiiBlONAL. Mews. Reynolds, Howe. : Mist Jane Coveney.—CHEßßY AND FAIR STAR. Hes,'lnwood, Leslie, Elton, : Mee 8. Lane and misses Edwin, Booth, and Macarthy.—And THE DREAM OF AILEEN. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BERM !!0 Dpi —MarnlMl , 101 E blm Alltenoos, lit ngs. so-momunr—moning, lib. Ma.. -• • Aftersoos, Ob. On. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30. Tea Government is dealing with the Irish Land question in a spirit akin to that which it has exhibited on the English Reform question. It is practising on the conscious weakness, not to say the fears, of both sides of the House of Commons. It appeals to the strong feeling of party allegiance among the Tories as a means of inducing them to vote for principles which they abhor, consoling them with the whispered assurance that the principles will be inoperative. It sets up Liberal doctrines to which it does not intend to give effect, in the hope that Liberal members will either be deceived by the shallow artifice, or will be afraid of the false charge of inconsistency should they seem to oppose that which they have hitherto supported. Tenant right plays the same part in the Bill of Lord NAAS that household suffrage plays in Mr. DISRAELI'S Reform Bill. The name is there, or is allowed to be officiously used, and there is a false semblance of the thing ; but the reality is wanting. The Land Bill leaves all but an infinitesimal portion of the Irish farmers in a posi tion analogous to that in which the Reform Bill leaves the groat majority of the English borough occupiers. The Irish tenant-at-will is treated by Lord NAAS as the English compound house holder is treated by Mr. DIRRAELI. The one may console himself with the name of household suffrage, the other may simply feed his imagina tion upon the idea of compensation for improve ments effected without the consent of his land lord. But between the written law and its opera tion there is erected a barrier of forms and proce dure, which in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred will be, and is intended to be, prac tically insuperable. Liberal members, we repeat, are afraid of seeming to vote against their principles, even though those prin ciples be marred in the application of them. Tories are unwilling to vote against their party, even when it has deserted its principles ; and the Government acts upon these natural, though unworthy motives, from the motive, yet more un worthy, of maintaining itself in office. Almost all the speeches delivered last night from the Oppo sition benches betrayed, even when they did not openly express, the conviction, that the Govern ment Bill is too bad to be amended. Yet no one ventured to hint at throwing it out. The first words of Mr. Gasooav's amendment, though fol lowed by the assertion that no enactment will be satisfactory which does not contain previsions which have no place in Lord NAAR'S Bill, dis claimed prejudgment of the propriety of reading the Bill a second time, and the mover began his speech by a similar disavowal. Lord CLAUD Hamitrox protested that the simple question before the House was, should tenants receive recompense for their improvements or not, and denounced opposition to the Bill as hos tility to the principle of compensation. In so doing, he gave articulate utterance to the impres sion which the Government leas directly seeks to convey. The bitter opposition of Mr. SANDFORD, by bringing the spirit of petulance and faction into clear contrast with the comparatively respectable motives of unflinching party allegiance and personal fealty which Lord CLAUD HAMILTON displayed, was more likely, we fear, to advance than to discredit the measure he attacked. To produce nugatory schemes which Liberals cannot oppose without incurring the specious, but un founded, charge of apostasy, and Tory hos tility to which seems dictated by the wounded vanity of omitted and disappointed men, is the triumph of Mr. DISRAELI'S genius. His inspira tion, if not his hand, is traceable in the Irish Land Bill almost as clearly as in the English Reform Bill. The mechanism of the Government Bill—its array of inspectors, commissioners, applications, estimates, loans, and valuations, which must be set in motion before a tenant can venture to incur the expense of draining a bog or clearing a moun tain side of stones, is, as we have had previous occasion to point out, a fatal objection to the measure. It would make the Bill, if it passed, virtually a dead letter. No Laputan contrivance was more ridiculously in excess of or amide from its professed end. But the Bill itself ignores the real necessities of Irish agricul ture. The tenant-at-will, when he has proved THE: .iXPRSS, his case to the Inspector of the Board of Works and received the sanction of the Commis sioner, may make improvements without the consent of his landlord. But since he cannot retain his holding without the consent of his landlord, the liberty given amounts to nothing more than the privilege of improving himself out of his farm. If he escapes this fate—if notice of improvement is not followed by service of ejectment, his prospects will not necessarily be much brighter. As each improvement is made and valued year by year, it will be in the landlord's power to raise the occu pier's rent year by year to precisely the same I extent ; so that, as the O'CONOR Dos argued in his closely-reasoned speech, the tenant-at-will, though he may be secured from loss, will have no certainty of profiting by his investments, and he will scarcely go through all the labour imposed upon him by Lord NAAS'S Bill in order to leave matters precisely where they were before. The remedy is to be found, where Mr. GREGORY'S amendment looks for it, in the promo- tion of leases. It is matter for regret that Mr. GREGORY was not more explicit as to the means by which he would attain this end. Ile left the question unanswered how landlords who do not want to give leases—who prefer a dependent and unimproving tenantry to tenants who, though they may pay higher rents, will be in a position to call their votes their own—can be brought into a different state of mind. Lord NAAS'S Bill will certainly not contribute to their conversion. A tenant-at-will, who improves without his land-' lord's consent, can be summarily dealt with. But a tenant with a lease, who calls in the Inspector and the Commissioner, and gains their sanction for works which his lease does not contemplate, and which his landlord may disapprove, will stand in a very different position. To avoid this intervention of Government officials with his property, the landlord, in most cases, will refuse to give leases at all. If this indirect but certain consequence of Lord Nsaa's measure was contemplated by its framers, they may reasonably have considered Mr. GREGORY'S amendment as hos tile to it. To give the farmer the protection of the law for the investments of his industry and capital is one thing ; to make him and his trade subject to a Department is another. The true prin ciple would be to leave the tenant to improve as , the exigencies of his business and his own skill Eng- I gest, and to give him on ejection a title to the' value of his improvements, so far as he has not re couped himself for them during his occupancy.' This system once established would lead the Irish landlords to exercise more discretion than they now often exhibit in the choice of tenants ; would check arbitrary ejectment", since they might I , be followed by an inconvenient money payment, and would possibly lead to the granting of leases on conditions admitting preliminary adjustment; and for a term of years sufficient to enable the tenant to repay himself in the shape of returns to his investments. Lord Nsas'a Bill, in its prac tical operation, will concede no present boon, and will shut the gate on future improvement. the partifd mutiny wilitessed last night, 'The bill was happily characterised as a feeble bid for popularity. The strongest charge brought against it by those best qualified to discuss it was, however, that it would stop leasing altogether, and consequently place the tenants in a worse position than before. The Star also condemns the bill. Mr. Disraeli thinks to conciliate the Irish people by dangling before them a sordid money boon, and be is enabled to do so cheaply : first, because he knows the measure will not pus ; and secondly, because if it did, it would only be practically available to persons who do not want it. A grant of money ought to be the very last expedient resorted to for the relief of an ill-governed country. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE LONDON coNreanrcz. Receiving with satisfaction Lord Stanley's state ment last night, and proceeding to notice the position of the two rivals, the nails has no difficulty in apportion ing all the blame of the first pert of the business to France. A bargain and sale behind the beck of the gar rison power, and, when all was done, a summons to march out since Luxemburg had become, by the complaisance of the Dutch King, a French department, was an offhand way of doing things in which Prussia could not be expected to acquiesce, and it is wonderful that a man of the experience and tact of Napoleon should have thought that a powerful state would allow itself to be so treated. Prussian resistance has been suc cessful so far as to oblige France to recede from her claim to incorporate Luxemburg. One ought not to be surprised at the hesitation of Prussia in the matter, for the Germans know that French statesmen have openly advocated a war of conquest to obtain possession of the Rhine. They re member the demands of last year, they remember the Auxerre speech, which preceded them. But in yielding Luxemburg under the conditions proposed Germany does not really suffer any loss. If the territory be neutralised and the fortress rased, the new confederation will bo really stronger than if it held the mightiest fortifications beyond its own limits. The Daily News remarks that its own confident belief respecting the groundlesanesi of the reports that England had condemned the conduct of Prussia, has been com pletely verified by Lord Stanley's statement. Sincerely trusting his lordship's hopes as to the fruitfulness of the labours of the conference may be realised, it adds that neither France nor Germany desires war. The French Emperor now finds he does not want the fortress of Luxemburg, and Germany, it is hoped, is uow strong enough to do without it. If this should be the conviction of the German governments, the destruc tion of the fortress of Luxemburg would contribute more to the peace of Germany than its maintenance has ever done. It is quite another thing, however, to suggest that the London Conference should repair the treaties of 1815, with which it has no power to deal, and for which duty it would be radically unfit. The new changes require no ratification in London or Paris. This is no time for affec tation, diplom►tic or otherwise. The nations of the con tinent are seeking their natural basis and their natural beads, and they will find them, any amount of polite bebblement over green tables notwithstanding. The Standard is sure that the humane and sagacious exertions of the Foreign Secretary will be warmly and " gratefully" appreciated in Germany. The Mae remarks that Lord Stanley distinctly disclaimed the measures which all the Paris and some of the London papers attributed to him, and on which his well-meaning but incautious followers founded their special panegyric. But the journals which applauded Lord Stanley for doing what he has so sensibly and properly repudiated on the first opportunity, will doubtless have little difficulty in applaud ing him now for not having done it. The beet hope for the future lies in the fact that France seems to have really withdrawn all her claims upon Luxemburg. Prussia never from the beginning had any wish for war. IRISH TEN %NT BIGHT. The Time,, in dealing with Ireland, would have us as sume that Irish discontent is not to be eradicated by any definite act of legislation, and that our only right and politic course is to treat the sister island as we would our own, maintaining a strict regard for the rights of indivi duals and sound economical principles. If, however, a short cut to reconciliation is to be attempted, and parlia ment interferes at all, it would prefer to the government bill one which should relate to the encouragement of leases. The measure of the government for assisting the Irish tenantry with money is certainly a proof of the marvellous revolution in opinion which may be caused by the posses sion of office. In the meantime parliament may be as. mired that any tampering with the right■ of property in Ireland can only tend to hinder the Row of capital into the country, and will thus prolong its weakness and poverty. The Post thinks the bill of the Irish Secretary, with snme slight modifications, is calculated to effect • satis factory settlement of the long vexed question of tenant right. It is awkward, says the Telegraph, to assert in opposi tion principles which must be dropped when you find yourself sewed on the Treasury Bench. Last year Lord Naas tried to defeat Mr. Fortescue's Land Bill by pro posing a resolution which condemned all compensation for any improvements effected without the landlord's consent ; this year be introduces a bill enacting that for certain kinds of improvements the tonant is to receive compensation, even when they are executed without the landlord's assent. This will afford some explanation of M MELIA:4EOI.7s TOPICS. The Times replies to Mr. Baines, who, in his letter to Mr. Crawford, desires some measure that shall restore Mr. Gladstone to the post of leadership, that the vital preliminary is some process by which Mr. Gladstone can be restored to a good position as a parliamentary reformer. At the commencement of this session Mr. Gladstone assumed this position by promising to do his best to make this a good bill. Mr. Baines says he did this con- trary to his own opinion, and simply because his party left him no choice but to do so. But the promise, once made, had to be fulfilled. Mr. Baines thinks the promise unwise, because, indeed, impossible of execution, the bill being, in his opinion, utterly and incurably bad. But upon this point h 2 is at issue with a decided majority of the house, and, as the Times fully believes, with the public opinion of the country. If " some measure" can be is vented for the restoration of Mr. Gladstone and his party, it must be one which carries out the original undertaking of this session —viz., the construction of a reform bill more of lesson the lines of the bill before the house. The Post invites attention to an important judgment which was pronounced in the Court of Queen's Bench a day or two ago. The question raised was whether a per son convicted of several offences at one and the same time could be sentenced by the magistrates to several consecu tive terms of imprisonment, or whether such terms ought to be deemed in law as being concurrent and expiring together. The decision of the court was to affirm the sentence of consecutive penalties ; but it must be con fessed that the statute in the case is so worded that it is only by some degree of technical and professional straining that the law is prevented from being reduced to a nullity and absurdity. The Herald looks upon the disclosures in the London and Brighton case as among the most damaging that have ever been published with reference to railway matters. The directors began the course which has brought them to their present .trait when there was nothing at all to excuse their reticence. The fact that the board may have 'meant well " will neither meet contractors' bills nor provide for the permanent way, nor keep the rolling stock in order. They may have improvidently contracted personally, but that cars impose no obligation on the shareholders to adopt obligations incurred ultra rires. The course of the share holders, if they really desire to save their property, is per fectly plain. They ought at once and decisively to refuse their sanction to any scheme for making them the owners of the Surrey and Sussex, the Chichester and Alidharst, and the West Sussex Junction lines. The Day, commenting upon the proposed Pan-Anglican synod, asks, on the supposition that 100 bishops are as sembled under the mild presidency of Dr. Longley, how many will be able to advise us as to the peculiar wants of our own community? The African bishops may tell us what is good for the Cape, or for Natal—although they seem to be by no means agreed upon that. The American bishops may have strong views on slavery and the right of negro voting, but how can they advise us as to the diffi culties of our overgrown parishes ? How, in short, can • body—the majority of which is placed under circum- Signas widely different from our own—advise us for their credit and our own benefit? The Day heartily endorses Dr. Lee's expression—" We hope that the Synod will not attempt to do more than deliberate ;" and would be quite as well pleased if it did not do that. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Area, 29 . - - The Queen and Princess Louise rode on ponies in the grounds this corning. Prince Leopold went out walking, attended by Mr. Legg, and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park. The Prince of Leiningen visited the Queen and Prince and Princess Christian this morning, and remained to luncheon. The Duke of Buckingham has left the Castle for Lou don. Miss Helps has also left the Castle. Sir James Clark arrived at the Castle this morning. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Edin burgh, and attended by Captain Ellis, rode out yesterday. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Moat Honourable Privy Cuuacil sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were Lord Robert Montagu and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A deputation from the paper manufacturers of Great Britain, consisting of Mews. James Wiegley and Son, Grosvenor, Chater, and Co., John Dickinson and Co., Hol- lingsworth, Hook, Tallia, and Co., W. Tod and Son, the Kennet Paper Making Company, Simpson, McMurray, Joynaon, Thomas Stephens, Monckton, Smith, Hayes, Macey and Rives, Ibbetson, J. B. Green, Richd. Batt, H. G. Richardson, Thos. Tait and Son, Evans and Adlard, Henry Wheeler, and Henry Annan, had an interview with the Right lion. Spencer H. Walpole, at the Home-office, yesterday. A deputation from the iron and tin plata trade of England, introduced by the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., and consisting of the Right Hon. C. B. Adderley, M.P., the Right Hon. T. E. Headlam, M.P., Mr. W. 0. Foster, M.P., Mr. H. W. Foley. M.P., Mr. J. Cowen, M.P., the Hon. E. F. Leveson Gower, M.P., Mr. H. R. Grenfell, M.P., Mr. L L. Dillwyn, M.P., Mr. G. S. Beecroft, M.P.. Mr. H. F. Beaumont, M.P., Colonel Bun combe, M.P., Mr. C. F. Surtees, M.P., Mr. F. A. Milbank, M.P., Mr. W. S. Allen, M.P., Mr. T. M. Wc guelin, M.P., Messrs. W. Barrows (Chairman South Staf fordshire Iron Masters' Association), W. Williams, Jun. (Hon. Secretary South Staffordshire Iron Muter.' Asso ciation), Bragge (Chairman North Staffordshire Iron Muter.' Association), W. Hopkins (Chairman North of England Iron Muter.' Association), Woodruffe (Chair man Tin Plate Trade), Conway, W. Matthews, F. Smith, Udall, R. Heath, I. S. N. Alleyne, F. Kitson, Butler, W. Sparrow, J. P. Hunt, John Hartley, F. E. Horton, Geo. Barker, and Flower, had an interview with the Hight Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, at the Home-office, yesterday, on the subject of the F►ctories Act Extension Bill. Tho Duke of Bedford has forwarded to Mrs. Gladstone a donation of 500 f. towards the fund for the Convalescent Homes. Last night Mr. Labouchere took tho oath and his seat for the county of Middlesex, in the room of Mr. C. Banbury, deceased. The hon. member was introduced by Mr. C. Foster and Mr. G. G. Glyn. Mr. Beadlam has given notice of his intention to ask on Thursday whether the attention of government has been direred to the presentment of the grand jury in the cases of Colonel Nelson and Lieutenant Brand. _ _ Mr. Maguire, on Friday next, on going into supply, will call the attention of the Secretary for Ireland to the statements which bad been published in the news papers respecting the harsh treatment inflicted on persons who were undergoing punishment for political offences in Ireland ; and ask him whether any inquiry bad been made, or whether he bad given instructions for inquiring into such allegations. _ _ Mr. Laing intends, in the committee on the Re distribution of Seats Bill, to move as an amendment that no borough containing less than 10,000 population by the last census should return more than one member to par liament, but that instead there should be given a third member to boroughs, other than metropolitan, which bad a population of over ro,ono. He proposes also to give a second member to boroughs whose population exceeds 50,000. Leave of absence will be asked in the House of Commons this afternoon to Mr. Edwanl Craufurd, a fort- night, on account of domestic affliction ; to Mr. Buxton, one week, on acoount of illness ; and to Viscount Cran. borne, one week, on account of domestic affliction. PATENT O►►IUE MUREUII, SOUTH KENNINGTON.— Number of visitors for the week ending April 27, 5,004.1 ; total number since the opening of the Museum, free daily (May 12, 1858), 1,134,693. tr. TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, FASHIONS FOR MAY. (From Le Polk.) Although up to the present time we have seen but few spring dresses worn, our readers will doubtless already have found that there are many beautiful mate rials prepared. Some of the foulards are really charming, especially those with a brilliant white ground, worked in coloured silk, or trimmed with wide ribbons of a dead silk, called armure, in beautiful shades—Persian lilac, maize, pink, pale green, Empress blue, do. Stripes will continue to be fashionable, we believe, as the dresses are still gored. The short costume continues in favour, for walking. dream. Some modify it somewhat, by making the upper skirt long, and looping it up, either by tirettea or by tying it loosely an each side, or at the back. Usually the skirts are of the same material, the trimmings being of two different colours or shades. The fashion of wearing merely a ceinture and bowie so as to imitate a masque, for paying visits, has revived— the body of the dress serving for the (masque. Indeed, the ceinture takes quite an important place in " La Mode" just now; it is so elaborately trimmed, and variously shaped. It forms a very elegant finish to the dress. Those intruded for out-door wear should be rather longer, scal loped, or plain ; the latter, perhaps, rather preferable, but always, of course, trimmed. This style will scarcely be come lunch adopted until the summer weather has fairly set in. Even now it is worn by some ladies for making ceremonial calls ; but, as we think, there are few Mice who will feel inclined to follow this fashion just yet in our changeable climate, we must call their attention to the beautiful Indian cashmeres which are so much ad. mired and worn by many ladies of fashion, and which are more beautiful than ever this year. The paletZt "Breton" is a very pretty little coat for the present season, and likely to be worn at the sea-side or for travelling. It is made of white or ponomu cloth, and worked with coloured embroidery (cashmere style) either in wool or silk. Some are finished with buttons and chains across the front and on the sleeves. Woollen lace is becoming much used as a trimming, especially suitable fur petticoats, although employed in various other ways. One reason for its success is doubtless that, as well as being firm and durable, its made in different colours, sometimes of two shades mingled. Novelties in lingerie are very abundant. The high white body cut square, or slightly open in front, Is much in vogue ; and is generally worn with the small Swiss body or ceinture. Black tulle bodies, bouillonnes, with bands of 1 insertion sparkling with jet are extremely pretty. Young ladies can have them !Mille of jaconet or linos for morning wear. We cannot but suppose that it is probable, as the summer advances, jet will be less worn than it has been lately ; though certainly it still is a very favourite trim ming. The ceinture of jet is much liked, both with black and coloured dresses. There is also a trimming made of satin cord, mingled with jet or quite plain. Very wide jet fringes are used tot ceinture.bseques. We must not omit to mention the very wide ribbons for sashes tied behind. For black dresses there are black ribbons, the ends embroidered in field flowers ; others in gold. The Iris ribbon is made for white or ppale coloured dresses. These wide sashes will be • y needed to weir with the basque worn to imitate • essaque. Now that Easter is passed velvet will no longer be em ployed as the material for bonnets—or toquets, as they may more justly be termed—but must give place to straw, crape, tulle, and blonde ; but, as satin will be worn as trimming for dresses and paletfits during the summer, that, at least, will be retained. Berries and bronzed leaves are much worn on straw. A charming novelty is the jonquil, made of rice paper. Then there are nar cissus, green olives, primroses, all of which may be also used for the spring bonnets. A very charming " Fenella " was made of pink crape botfillone, with rouleaux of black satin worked with jet, trimmed with the jonquils already spoken of, and brides of black lace fastened under the chin with a jet ornament. Another, of pink crape, had a mantilla of black lace crossing under the chin ; and a third elegant toquet of grey satin and tulle was trimmed with a wreath of phea sant's feathers. _ . _ A bonnet of white tulle, forming a diadem in front, was trimmed round with cochettes of satin beads. Above the beads a wreath of small green leaves of different shade', put on quite flat. This wreath falls in a long spray at the back, over which am placed bathes of white tulle, worked with beads. At the left side was a tuft of small feathers, in the middle of which was placed a butterfly. Another model was of pink crape, bound with satin, and covered with lillies of the valley with crystal drops. The strings were of very narrow pink ribbon, but a voiletce of blonde formed barbs at the sides and a eatalane at the back. The opal trimmings, which are softer and therefore more becoming than crystal, are much used with the bonnet. made of rice straw mixed with tulle, crape, or ta ff etas. Thus a small round of crape bouillone edged with rice draw had an opal fringe, above which was a small wreath of daisies ; strings of jardiniere ribbon. A fancy straw bonnet, as oval shape, trimmed round with a double row of very small bouclettes of green velvet. On one aide a bouquet of small grapes with tinted leaves. MR. GLADSTONE AND THE LIBERAL PARTY. LEITER FROM MR. BAINES. Mr. E. Baines, M.P., has addressed a letter of some length to Mr. Crawford on the general question of Mr. Gladstone's relation, to the liberal party. He appeals to Mr. Crawford for the initiation of some measure cal culated to bring back Mr. Gladstone to the position of leader. Without this the party will be paralysed, and "the mighty interests of the constitution will be abandoned to the tender mercies of anti-reformers." Mr. Gladstone has been accessible to opinions from every quarter, and has deferred to the judgment of a minority for the common cause. If he has committed any fault it has been by yielding too much, not too little. True independent members must decide on their course for themselves, but if they detach themselves from the body of the reformers the inevitable consequence will be the surrender of our representative system into the hands of the tories to model it according to their will. Mr. Baines declares his alarm at the position of the re form question. "The bill of the government," he says, " is so bad from beginning to end that I have no hope of its being made worthy of the acceptance of parliament or the country. The county franchise is not adequately ex tended. The borough franchise is constructed to beguile the radicals, yet to satisfy the tories ; and either the one party or the other will he horribly cheated by it. It will entail upon us con fl ict in our parishes and corruption at our elections. In ionic boroughs it will admit the very lowest class of householders, while in the vast majority of boroughs, as in my own, it will exclude th e skilled, educated, and well-pod artisans. The principle of the dual vote hes been universally condemned in the house and the country. The proposed plan of voting by polling-papers is open to endless fraud and the exercise of undue influence to an unlimited extent. The two years' residence is a great in justice to the new voters as compared with the old. The fancy franchises are liable to gross abuse. The absence of a lodger franchise will make the bill inoperative in the metropolis. The redistribution of seats is ridiculously is adequate to redress the anomalies of the electoral map. Such are some of the objectionable features of the bill, and it is an additional cause of alarm that it is to be con ducted through the committee by • minister of whom it is needless to say more than that he is the author of the measure. Unless the reformers c.n re-unite under a re cognised leader, it is evident that every attempt to check the rapid progress of the bill, or to change its character, will utterly fail. The liberal majority will bec o m e a routed minority ; and we ought gravely to consider how we shall be able to justify ourselves to our constituents and the country for permitting the ruin of the reform cause when we had actually the means in our bands of insuring its triumph. There seems to me no possible means of averting this disa. , ter and disgrace but by appealing to Mr. Glad stone again to take the initiative." Mr. Gregory's amendment last night, by which it was proposed to insert in the Tenants' Improvement (Ireland) Bill the words, "Without prejudging the second reading of this bill, the house is of opinion that no enactment for the settlement of the land lord and tenant question can be deemed satisfactory which does not provide for the encouragement of leases in that country," was supported by the Irish liberal mem bers en ewer, including even Lord Dunkellin, and by the English liberals, who represent the principal constituen cies In the majority against the amendment are the names of Mr. Dodson, Earl Grosvenor, and Mr. Lowe ; the remainder are all nominally conservatives. REPRESENTATION OF EAST CORNWALL.—MT. T. J. A. Rohartes, for many years the liberal member for the eastern division of Cornwall, has intimated that be has finally resolved not to offer himself for re-election. He feels that his health will not permit of his giving that close attention to parliamentary duties which the duties of a representative require, and he has therefore fully made up his mind to withdraw from the position he has so long maintained to the satisfaction of his constituents. Sir Colman Rashleigh, Sir C. G. P. Simla, Sir John Trelawny, and Lord Elliot are each and all n►med for the seat which will become vacant by Mr. Robartes's retirement, and it is almost certain that the liberal party will select one of these gentlemen. CONSERVATIVE UNION Soctery.—A meeting of representatives from " constitutional associations " of all the principal cities and towns in England was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, yesterday after noon, to promote the formation of a Conservative Union. The object of the society is to constitute a centre of union for conservative associations, all of whom will be expected to subscribe to it, and will be entitled to send representa tives to each general meeting. ~' 1867. LAMM INTELLIGENCE. LUXEMBURG. It was ststed by the Marquis de Moustier that the first proposal respecting the sale of Luxem burg came from the Dutch government. At the sitting of the Dutch Chambers, on the 26th inst., M. van Zuylen van Nyevelt, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, made the following statement : " There is one important point which requires ex planation. M. van Swinderen has said that the government of Holland was the first to move in this matter in reference to a foreign government. I must give the most formal denial to that allega tion." (arum's micaama.) FRANCE AND THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION. PARIS, APRIL 30. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol lowing :—" At the time when the late incidents relative to Luxemburg gave rise to certain appre hensions for the maintenance of peace, the French army, in consequence of the reductions effected in 1865, had fallen below, its normal effective.. a on the other hand, the.corps of occupation in 4 Mexico had left in America 7,000 horses, 3,000 of [these being draught horses which it was indispensable to replace. It was therefore the duty of the government to take precautionary measures. These have consisted in raising the regi menta to their effective strength, in purchasing a certain number of horses, and placing the frontier fortresses in a state of defence. The pacific intelli gence which has transpired within the last few days has determined the Emperor to take no further measure, in order not to furnish any pretext for agitating the public mind, and not to discourage the hopes of peace. Thus the number of horses to be bought will be limited to what is strictly necessary, and the soldiers on furlough, who were to be ordered to rejoin their regiments, will be allowed to remain in their homes." THE WAR M . THE BRAZILS. ARRIVAL OF THE SEINE. LISBON, APRIL 30. The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship Seine has arrived here from Brazil, ck.c., and will leave at 8 a.m. to-day for Southampton with 104 passengers, specie 52,4561., 1,546 bags of coffee, 677 rolls of tobacco, 40 barrels tapioca, 50 packages of ipecacuanha, and 164 packages of sundries. The Shannon, with the outward mail of the 9th inst., has arrived at St. Vincent (Cape de Verds). RIO DE JANEIRO, APRIL 8. The mission of the United States Minister to the camps of General Lopez and Marshal Caxias with the object of promoting peace between the belligerents has led to no result. No fresh opera tions have taken place at the seat of war. RIO, APRIL R. Exchange on London, 231 to 24 ; on Paris, 392 to 398. Coffee, good first, 7.200 to 8.500 reis. Total export since the departure of the last mail, 114,466 bags, of which 11,491 were for the Channel, 23,033 for the North of Europe, 11,161 for the Medi terranean, and 2,228 for the Baltic. Sales, 99,200 bags. Stock, 80,000. Freights, 42a. 6d. to 475. 6cL BAHIA, Aram 13. Exchange on London, 241 to 24i. Sugar, whites, 2.600 to 3.400 reis ; browns, 2.100 to 2.200 reis. Cotton, 13.500 to 14.500 reis. PERNAMBUCO, APRIL 16. Exchange on London, 24f. Sugar, whites, 4.300 to 4.500 reis ; browns, 2.250 to 2.700 reis. Cotton, 13.800 to 14.000 reis. BUENOS AYRRS, liLtacu 27. Exchange on London, 49 to 491. Dry hides, 44. Wool, 45 to 90. Lumber, 38 to 42. INDIA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS. GIBRALTAR, APRIL 29. The Syria will leave during the night. She may be expected at Southampton on the 4th May. OUTWARD MAIL OF APRIL 12-20. SUEZ, APRIL 29. The Madras left for Bombay at 7 a.m. to-day. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF BOSTON. NEW YORK, APRIL 20. Tho Mississippi petition for an injunction to stay the execution of the Reconstruction Act, being so amended as to pray for an injunction against Secretary Stanton and Generals Grant and Ord, was presented to the Supreme Court on Thursday last, and allowed to be filed notwithstanding a motion from the Attorney-General that the bill should be dismissed on the ground that the case was beyond the jurisdiction of the court. The case will be heard on the 2tith inst. General Schofield baa announced that former conscripts of the rebel army are not necessarily to be disfranchised. A republican state convention met at Richmond on Thursday. Several white and nerro radicals spoke on the occasion, and resolutions were passed thanking Congress and endorsing the action of that body in adopting the platform of the republican party. The resolutions also advocated political equality and general education irrespec tive of colour. Radical meetings have been held by the whites and negroes in Winston, Mobile, and North Carolina, at which resolutions were adopted in favour of affiliating with the Radical party in the North, purging congress, and confis cating the property of the rebels. Numerous conservative meetings of whites and negroes have been held at Petersburg (Savannah) and other places, at which conservative principles were avowed , but at the same time submission to the Reconstruction Act was advocated. The collector of Customs at New Orleans has seized the French steam ship Darien in consequence of an alleged attempt by the officers of the vessel to defraud the Customs. The investigation into the alleged extensive enlistments in Cuba for the army of the Emperor Maximilian proves that very few men had enlisted, and those without the knowledge of the authorities of the Island. Advice, from Belize (Honduras) to the 2nd April state that the Indian war was at an end, and that martial law had been suspended. MEXICO. NEW YORK, APRIL 20. Republican advice, from Matamoros to the 13th inst. reiterate the news of the capture of Puebla by the Repub licans, and of the offer made by Maximilian to capitulate, and the terms of which had been refused by Juarez. The defeat of Escobedo was denied. Yellow fever bad appeared at Vera Cruz. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPI4.) NEW YORK, Arum 29, f, P.M. Closing prices :—Gold opened at 134 i, but afterwards rallied, closing at 136. Sterling exchange on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 111 ; Illinois, 114 ; Brie, 60. Cotton: Middling Upland, 30. Petroleum, refined, 26. The Cambria and the City of Cork have arrived out. The coronation of the King of Hungary is now fixed for June 2. A journal of Pomerania announces that Count de Bismarck recently purchased for 2,062,600 fr, the domain of Barrio, situated in the circle of &hien, and composed of five large estates. According to the Pivimmitese Gazette Garibaldi has renounced altogether his intention of sitting in the Italian Parliament at present. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM 001 OWN CORRESPONDIN7.) PARIS, 310NDar E‘EstsG. - _ _ The terrible weather, relentless, remorseless, always wet and always cold, put a stop to the ant of the a/ fresco fêtes in the Exhibition park, which was announced for yesterday evening. All Paris is now mud and slush, not only on the Mac adamised Boulevards but in the paved streets. The military bands which for a few moments played yesterday in the reserved horticultural gardens of the Champs de Mars were speedily driven to seek shelter. A place was found for them in the pavil lion of weights, measures, and coins, where a good many people crowded in to listen. A new adjunct of the Exhibition called the Salle Suffren, destined for international concerts, was inaugurated yester day by a performance of "American minstrels." The visit of Theresa to Marseilles has proved anything but a success to the director of the Alcazar cafe-concert. His attempt to charge 20fr., 10fr., and sfr., for what any Paris workman could have with a glass of beer for fifteen sous, excited quite a storm of indignation in the city. So few persons were present on the day fixed, that the con cert was postponed until the next evening ; and even then only about fifty persons had taken tickets ; but a crowd of about 2,000 assembled be fore the entrance, hissing and hooting. Stones were thrown at the lamps outside, and the stands on which they were placed were thrown down and broken. A drove of donkeys happening to be passing by, the crowd opened • passage for them towards the hall, exclaiming, in Marseilles patois—" Make way for the donkeys." " Let the donkeys go and KO Thdrdsa." The police and gendarmes endeavoured to restore order, but without avail ; and at length the administration, finding that the concert could not proceed in the midst of the disorder, was obliged to return the money and close the build ing. Thdrdsa, on her side, has since written to one of the local journals, to say that she consented to sing at the solicitation of the director, but had nothing to do with fixing the prices. The inten tion was to give subsequent concerts at a lower rate of admission for the people. The journal sarcasti cally remarks that it was really a pity that the intention so intimated had not been made known before. The King of Prussia's speech was not known till after Bourse hours. Had it been placarded there it would not, I think, have affected quotations. It seems to be carefully so worded as not to preju dice the conference one way or the other. The highest quotations of the day were not maintained, and no business was done at such high rates as on the " little bourse " on the Boulevards yesterday. Bente, after being quoted at 68fr. 20c. for cash and 68fr. sc. for account, and going down to 67fr. 45c. and 67fr. 40c., closed at Saturday's prices-67fr. 50c. Credit Foncier rose Mr. ; Mo biller fell Bfr. 75c., and Italian 30c. OUTSIDE THE PARIS EXHIBITION. The Exhibition correspondent of the Times writes ;—" The great novelty of the Exhibition is to be found outside the Palace, in the surrounding park, where the splendours of the day will be followed by the still more attractive brilliance of the night. Nothing like what is now in preparation has yet been seen ; the fame of it when it is ready will ring across the world ; and it is reckoned here that throngs will come to enjoy it such as never were gathered together at any previous Exhibition. When we enter the park we find ourselves amid a confusion of structures, the purpose of which it is difficult at first to understand—temples, churches , light houses, palaces, cottages, museum., tents, windmills, aquariums, stables, dens for wild beasts, hothouses, greenhouses, summerhouses, theatres, lakes, cascades, faun taim, hustings, barracks, caves, grottoes, model farm', letter-boxes, gardens, kiosks, cutlets, statues, pante rams., restaurants numberless, clubs, shops, cloak rooms, telegraph offices, money-changing office% and an infinity of others. It is proposed that this great park should combine within itself the attractions of Cremorue, of the Zoological Gardens, of the Botanic Garden, of the Polytechnic Institution and of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham. As day dr aws to a close, the crowds who are engaged in the building will come out of it to dine in some of the restaurants. A pretty pair et turtle doves may be cooing in some sacred bower, and find their cooing rendered more musical by the growling of lions and tigers under the palace of the Bey of Tunis. Or a man may walk out of a theatre where be has been amused with all the revelry of the Parisian notion of life, and he will find another show hard by, the model of a church, where he can gloat upon the wounds of saints and martyrs in wax, and prepare himself by a momentary calmness for another rush into the whirl of pleasure ; or he moves about the circle of an open air concert, smoking a cigar, or playing with an ice, while he listens to farcical song. from the mouths of much bepainted women, and, as he quite this musical region, humming a refrain in the patois of Alsace, • grave looking gentleman will put into his hands a little blue brochure, and beg of him to smelt • copy of the Epistles to the Corinthians. There is to be an international theatre, in which per formances will be given of the dramas of all nations. Be- sides this, the Chinese are to have a theatre of their own is connexion with a Chinese place of refreshment, where we are promised tea to be served in truly celestial fashion. There is a grand ballet being organised, in which we shall see the dances of all nations. There is to be • cafe con- cert ; there are to be bands of music in different parts of the grounds ; there are to be fireworks and illuminations; here you drink beer, and there you ask for a dewieipbon of aerated water ; three paces further on a man is ready to weigh you wits French weights ; in the next alley • man is ready to tell you the exact quantity of sir which you can exhale from your kings ; of course, there is a billiard-room somewhere ; in the neighbourhood there will be • magnificent stud of wooden horses on rounds ; there are shooting saloons in great number outside the park ; if you wish for a ride on a white camel here are two at your service ; and if you prefer an eke phant, here are two white elephants. If the evening it warm here are fountain , and cascades, and cool grottoes, and elaborately prepared stalactite caves. If one wished to escape from the din of the orgies around, there is an immense lighthouse, with the electric light at the top of it, which one can for • consideration ascend, and from which one can look down calmly on the brilliant turmoil beneath. It will take some time before all these outdoor preparations will be anything like complete—fully a fort night." The church of St. Hedvige, at Berlin, where the marriage of the Count of Flanders and the Princess of Hohenzollern was celebrated on the 25th inst., is a build• ing of modest dimensions and of but little pretence. It evinces pretty clearly that the Roman catholic worship is not fashionable at Berlin, and that its devotees are by so means numerous. At the nuptial banquet of the Count of Flanders and the Princess Mary, his Majesty the King 01 Prussia drank to " the health of the King, Queen. " 4 royal family of Belgium, and to the handily.. of the bride and bridegroom." The King of the Belgians replied h 7 drinking " the health of the King, Queen, and royal family of Pruuia and of the House of Hohenzollern." Conn* Bismarck WAS present at the banquet. The Corriere /Mercantile, one of the oldest journals in Italy, asks what should be the conduct of that country in the event of hostilities betweeu I'cunx and Prussia. It says :—" The French and Prusaian evero• meats are perhaps about to engage in war ; on which 10 ° is despotism, and which liberty! If the question of nationality only is at stake, we do not see in what way it is infringed on by Prussia ; as to liberty, it do?.s not ar pear to us to be more triumphant at Paris than at Berlin. Principles are absolute things ; they may be accepted* , denied, but they cannot be severed or eluded." The cor elusion arrived at by the Corriere is that Italy should maintain a perfect neutrality. . • - Advices from Italy state that Admiral Permit° has sent challenges to an admiral and two captains wee gave evidence at his trial. COFFEE FOR AtBTRALIA.—A shipment of Costa Rica coffee has been made from ritll.llll.t to Austmlie bf the steamer Kaikoura, which sailed yesterday. As the is the fi rst lot sent to that market, it can hardly er he petted to realise its real value, but we trust it le ad to making known there the merits of the coffee of Central America which now ranks next to Java in places where it has be en already introduced. —AMMAN{ Skr. ARRIVAL OF A GOLD SHIP.—PENZANcS. APR IL tn. —The ship Australian, from Sydney on the llth Feb. scary. arrived off here this afternoon. After reporting herself she proceeded up the Channel. She broi l ,' qi bvidi but the amount was not reported. chive incur ships regar it wou news an E strick4 A sale ings, &c., Drouot, Vinci " fe 3,400 fr. ; 4.1` 1 4:1fr. ; " . o 1 smell of with the Age of complete, 17 , realise being 143, - , An A become t 5 0,000 G e Carm an diluter to that ci breweries, Papers, be lattai m a **sate is we Prate caps Cosa atorrow, a commence ial and fa issiotut cu is gilder 01 row. Ai d Pattie . committee „ c ie.tY, the rati o . h .; rational .1 Ot Au et weest ju