The Express. — London, England, 1867-03-06 00:00:00

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TO cORRE•4I•ON Atre,tiarlr.elts intetaled for " the London Fvenhlit Pawr, must be at the Mice, 10. liouvetie-street, 17 Two o'cic on the dew of publication. DRURY LANC. M-sr..w, THE s 4 I looL iel)U • t!.. DAL Mr. Phelps. 11,:srs. :Mini...urn, B. ninlivan. Mesdames 11. Vesln, Van. dvnl.on. and Isalsi Adapm—And MIMBER NIP OR, HARLE QUIN AM./ THE ONOM K OV E GIANT MOUNTAIN. of GOLD. I will this time be taken to mean what they say, and to commit themselves to what they may propose. We trust that they will not con sider that they are so rigidly bound by the statement which fell from Mr. Disnsw on Monday last, that they " had recurred to their " original policy," as to feel precluded from taking an nmemh;u•rassed view of the requirements of the country. It would he peculiarly unfortunate if, through an adherence to crotchets which found a place in the earlier plan of the Government, but which have been energetically repudiated by public opinion as often as they have been pro pounded., the Ministerial scheme of Reform were to be wrecked, and the whole question thrown upon the lutists of a new Government in the middle of a session. Mr. DisusKti cannot he unaware that dual and plural voting have never found fivoiir in this country, where it is regarded as asserting the inequality of the elector in its most offensive form. It must be possible to construct a C. qiscrvative Reform Bill without this invidious feature, and we trust the Oovenunent will take this view of its duty ; if not, Ministers moat look for the most unemnpromising opposition from the Liberal side of the House of Commons. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) at the impressions produced on all who have opportunities of seeing the mischief which drunkenness really works, nor can we wonder at their wishing to cut the evil sheet by luminary proceedings. But such proceeding are rarely very practicable, and it would certainly be safer to rely upon means of improvement to which nobody would object, aml which are immediately within reach. If Irishmen have been led into temperance, why should we assume that Englishmen must needs be driven The Post condemns the proposed prohibition of sale. It says that at most it would be a doubtful benefit to drunk ards, while it would be an undoubted injury to sober people. Our Sundays are &heady more dull and depress ing than these of any other nation on the face of the earth —Scotland only excepted--and we may fairly ask that, if they are to be interfered with at all, it should be in the sense of making them less, and not more, painful. The Herold thinks the great mistake of our modern temperance advocates is their proneness to trust too much to parliament and too little to persuasion ; their incline. tion to despair of their =Mkt if it does not succeed at once and forthwith to abandon their mission as moral teachers for the infinitely lower r4le of eoneoctors of hills of pains and penalties, not unfrequently thus raising up a spirit of antagonism, alike to themselves and to the cause they de sire to promote. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(THIS DAY.) It being Ash-Wednesday, the house met at 2 o'clock. FENIAN RISINC, IN IRELAND. In reply to Mr. 3lossri.L, Lord NAAS stated that he had a short time ago received a telegram from Sir Thomas Lamm stating that the telegraphic wires between Dublin and Cork, Limerick and Cork, and between Dublin and Limerick, had been cut, and the rails torn up for some miles. Communication, therefore, between Dublin, Cork, Limerick, and Tipperary was suspended, and they were altogether in ignorance of what had taken place. There had been a rising and an attack made in Drogheda, but the attack was repulsed. The numbers were variously estimated at from 1,000 to 4,000. There was no serious attack against person or property. Kilmainharn goal and another position near Dublin had been attacked, but the assailants were beaten off. News had been received from Caatlemartyr thatan attack had been made ; one man, supposed to be an American, was shot, and several wounded and arrested. He had only to add that the best disposition was made of the troops, so that they were prepared for any eventuality. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear !") PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MAncs 5. SALE AM) PURCHASE OF MARES RILL. Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on amendment proposed to question, •• That the bill be now read a ” second time ; and which amendment was, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months"—(Mr. Fildes). Question again proposed, •• That the word `now' stand part of the question." Debate resumed—Question put. The house divided—Ayes, 86; noes, 41. AYES. Akroyd, E. Graves, S. R. Pease, J. W, Allen, W. S. Griffith, C. I). Peel, A. W. liiiill, C. burney, R. m. J. Bailey, C. Hadneld, G. Pollard-Urquhart, Karnes, l'. Hardy, J. W. Barrow, W. H. Hartley. J. Read, C. S. itantelot, Col. Henderson, J. Repton, Si. W. Beach, Sir M. Ileneage. K Robertson, P. F. Brecroft, G. S. Herbert, H. A. seholcheld, W. ilintinck, G. C. Holden, I. Selwyn, H. J. Blake, J. A. Hotham, Lcrd Sheridan, H. B. Bowen, J. B. Hurst. R. H. Sherrill. A. C. Bridges, Sir B. Ingham, It. Stacpole, W. Bromley, W. D. Johnstone, Sir J. stlrans-Ntaxwell, Buxton, air T. Kavanagh, A. Sir W. Capper, C. Unpin, C. Stoat, U. Care, T. Leathern, W. H. Stopford, S. C. Cavendish, Lord E. 111• Kenna, J. S. Stuart, Lt...CoL Childers, H. C. M'Lagan, P. Sullivan, K (lay, J. Wlaren, D. Sorters. F. Dent, J. Ilaiuwaring, T. nurtees, H. E. Dodson, J. G. Marlin, t'. W. Traiy, C. B. Edwards. Sir H. Martin, P. W. Vanderbyl, P. Ewing, H. Crum. Milbank. F. A. Wegnelln, T. H. Eykya. R. Miller, W. Woodd, B. T. Fawcett, 11. Mills. J. R. Wyndham, P. Forster, W. E. Mortis, W. Gilpin, C. Morrison, W. TELLERS. Gladstone, W. IL Neale, C. Leeman, C. Goldney, G. oshonie, R. B. WaldetTime.Leidle, Goodson, J. Padmore, B. G. NULYI. Ayrton, A. S. Goschen, G. J. Totter, E. Baggailey, R. tirverw, E. Potter, T. B. Barnet, 11. Hardy, a. Kelt, Sir J. Baba, A. Hodgson K. D. Sldomons, Aid. EMS. M. T. James, E. Seely, C. Bright, J. Karslake, Sir J. gel m li . li t t WYS l: C , E. S.. j w il.. Candlish, J. Karsake, E. K. litre, 8. Lusk, .UP I. Chatterton, H. E. Moffatt, G. White, J. Disraeli, B. Alontgoinery, Sir 0. Yorke, J. IL Eiierton, E. C. flowbray, .1. R. Young, R. Ferguson, Slr 0. Naas, Lord Finlay, A. S. Noel U. J. MUSE Preshileld, C. K. Northinte, Sir S. Fades, J. Unison, T. M. Philips, R. N. Crawford, R. W. TRADES' UNION CONFERENCE.-(THIS DAY.) The conference resumed its sittings at St. Mar tin's Hall, at 10 o'clock this morning, Kr. G. Port= in the chair. The SECRETARY read the minutes of the previous day, which were confirmed. A report was then brought up from the business ann. mittee, recommending that the subject of the commiwion of inquiry be discussed by the conference before the ques tion of the legality of trades' unions. This course having been agreed upon, Mr. hi'Dosami moved the following resolution : " That the meeting write to Sir W. Erie, the chairman of the conunission of inquiry, requesting him to receive a deputation from the conference to consult on the arrange ments to be made for conducting the inquiry before that commission." His object in moving the resolution was that he bad understood that there was an intention of conducting the inquiry with closed doors. A DELEnare seconded the resolution. Mr. HOLM' moved as an amendment —" That the secretary write to Mr. Walpole requesting him to receive a deputation from the conference in relation to the com mission of inquiry." He was in favour of going to the fountain head. Mr. ActrriN, Sheffield, seconded the amendment. Mr. DROMFIELD, secretary of the Sheffield trades, ex plained the proceedings taken by the trades of Sheffield m reference toe government inquiry into the alleged trade outrages in that town. He was strongly opposed to the indemnity proposed to be given by the bill to any of the perpetrators of these outrages, for the man who would commit an outrage of the description referred to would not hesitate to swear falsely before the commission. (Hear.) He thought the conference should require an alteration on this point. So far as the inquiry itself was concerned, the trades of Sheffield were anxious for it, feeling convinced they would come out of the inquiry free and blameless. (Hear.) He was mu c h lamina.' to see the result of the efforts of the working men of London in getting Mr. Harrison placed on the cow mission. Mr. AUSTIN (Sheffield) complained of the inquiry being extended beyond five years. He hoped the inquiry would be conducted in a public manner. Several other delegates having spoken, the resolutions were pet to the meeting, and the amendment was carried by a large majority. A messenger wad at once sent off to the Home Secretary with a letter requesting him to receive a deputation from the conference. bIr.CoNNoLLY (mason) then moved—" That this meeting of trades delegates is of opinion that the various trades we represent desire to offer no objection to the fullest and must searching inquiry being instituted by the Royal Couunission appointed by the government int o th e work ings of trades unions. We are further of opinion that in order to ensure the confidence of the working-classes of this country that the inquiry shall be a fair and im partial one, a committee of seven wo r km en s h ou ld b e ap pointed by this conference, to sit concurrently with the commission of inquiry, to bear and prepare such evidence to be given before that commission, as will place tho trades' unions in their proper light before the public generally." Mr. UPSHALL (joiner) seconded the resolution. If such a committee were not appointed, be had but little hope of • fair inquiry being gone into. Mr. LEICEATER (ghustuaker) was afraid that several members of the oonimission had a foregon" conclusion that trade"' unions were an evil, having been inoculated with the fallacies of the Times. Mr. C. WILLIAMS (Liverpool) said the Master Builders' Association were actively getting up evidence for the commission against the operative builders ; and, there fore, it was highly necessary for the working men to be up and stirring in the matter. . . . . . Mr. M'llTittaut supported the resolution. They should not ask any favour from the Home Secretary, or the com mission. They should claim as a right for their com mittee to be present during the oommission, and act as they thought bait in the interest of the trades' societies. If this request was not complied with, his advice would be for the trades to have nothing whatever to do with the commission. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Kane (Gateshead), Mr. Swan (Glasgow), Mr. Garner (Leicester), Mr. Wilson (shipwright), Mr. Holly (tailor), Mr. Lee (compositor), Mr. Donna (bookbinder), and several other delegates, having supported the resolution, it was put to the meeting and carried unanimously with loud cheers. HAYMARKET. Movi mw, A LEMON 6 7.1 FE. Messrs. Sothers, O'er., Clark, Comptn. Re. Mra Chippendale, Nllsres 11111, Wriald. —DI ANI Ik 4 Alillll EA RT. M.•—r.. Chippendale, Duren, A... Nlex.lanies Burke, Moore, Re MRS. WHITE. LIMY. T. , NI. •no m, THE TWO POLTM. Mr. Widdloomb.—And ROUGE Kr VI/IR. Messrs. Yachter, Emery, .I..nlatn. Moreland, Intapatrlek. Daftml, Reynolds, Lomas, Andrews, Price, de.: Lin. L. Murray, and Mimes Ilatirade, Grattan, and C. Lucleraq. ryft#l4D, MARRIEII6.IIIIIITERM ANT) VOI'NG 111N r.As Thorn.% - tlatut Huvlitm, Newt. 111, Wraberhs, A , ..—nud A SUIT t/le HOLBORN. Moon .w. MY TI EN NEXT. Mr. Eelmore: Mires Foote and Lennox FLYING SCUD. Messrs. Neville, Del more, hlake, Yoilalre, kc. ; Meld:ones Y. doeeptu, C. Sounders, &mkt Foote. Yeldee, Lennox, Eamon& Be. BRITANNIA. TAI9 EVENT‘O. a Grand % ir.% I. slot IN TRI Al FNTA t cos. ( - EAT. NteNsrs. 11. 1.14.0. %I'anle. F. Ev:mo. A. %wool. Milattie, D' A nhalol and sO sters,Mtvolsoo-, LsDffrin....t,,n. Bryan, 1f. , 3.1u.41. dc.—Dogwar.-11... Fool. %lane s of Nlesico. MOD WATKR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ting DAy —Morninz. !h. tea.... „Afternoon, 211. 3081. TO•slol.loW—Morning, 211., 49m Afternoon. 31. 5114. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH G. IT is said, with some truth, that Lord DERBY has now his first c;utnee of logißlating successfully MI Parliamentary Reform. It is inure important for him to remember that his present chance must be Ins last. The PREMIER began the session by appealing to his opponents, on the assumption that his chief difficulty would be found in their readiness to exhibit impatience of temper and en uncomplying disposition. If they would only rise above the spirit of party all would go well, but this, he hinted, was almost more than he had reason to expect. The experience of a month has shown that if he underestimated their forbear ance, he also unduly presumed on the wisdom, union, and constancy of his own followers. At the very time when he addressed his needlessly soloun admonitions to Earl Russ Etc he must have known that he had not been able to produce a measure of Reform capable of satisfying even his own colleagues in the Government. The Administrati which was to succeed where all its predecessors failed, and conduct the work of Reform to a satisfactory issue, was destined to be itself plagued with the disease it undertook to cure, to be vexed and torn with divisions just as Parliament had been, and, finally, to be weakened by open secession before it could attain to unity, courage, and decision of councils. The difficulties which are commonly supposed to be inseparable from the Reform of Parliament, such as they are, have been well nigh forgotten by the public in view of those with which the singular mismanagement of Lerd DERBY has anrroundedthis question. If the PREMIER could have turned aside for a moment from pleasing illusions, he might easily have ascertained in time that he was not the leader of the united party. How far he is now from taking a plain, simple, and straight forward view of the work which the country is expecting to be done, and of the causes which are investing it with importance and urgency, may be seen from the extraordinary observation which fell from him last Monday, that his Government " were " agreed last Novemberas to theprinciples and main " provisions of the Bill, and that the on/yquestion " remaining for decision was ask) the extent towhich " the franchise should be enlarged." Thisisindeedto take a highly parliamentary view of the question. The key to the secret which was so admirably kept before the meeting of l'arliament is here. The mystification practised by Mr. DISRAELI on the 18th February was a daring expedient to conceal this want of purpose. Not in the memory of this generation has Parliament been so played with by any Government as during the present session. Nothing that has been said by irresponsible speakers at popular meetings has been half so calculated to lower the House of Commons in the eyes of the world as the conduct of Ministers in proposing, in deference to three Ministers, a Bill which they did not care to pass, upon which they were not agreed, and which, as Lord CARMARVON tells us, was not acceptable even to the minority of the Cabinet, in deference to whose views the original policy of the Government was abandoned. The resolution of Lord Des.sv to part with his dissentient colleagues, and try once more to do something for the nation, is now the only ground on which he can claim, we do not say the confi dence, but the toleration of Parliament and the country. His long experience and high personal qualities have not guaranteed us against failures prejudicial alike to the English character and the institution of Parliamentary Government. We have seen what comes of seeking a policy in the opinion of the House of Commons. Lord DERBY began the session by announcing through Mr. DISRAELI that he did not intend to stand or fall by the Lite of his Reform measure. These tactics have not saved the Ministryfrom disaolution,while they have demoralised and disorganized the Conser vative party. Responsibility is the appropriate guardian of public honour. Thewholeconrse of the Ministry since the sth of February has been so amusingly odd, while the penalty paid by its leaders is so heavy, that the public is indulgently inclined to give them one more trial, which Ministers themselves must feel will be the last. Next Monday week Mr. DISRAELI is to introduce the Ministerial Reform Bill, and make the third statement of the Minis terial policy to which the House of Commons has listened this session. It will then be just a month since he foreshadowed the Resolutions which were subsequently cast aside for a measure which has in turn bee., discarded. It now appears that the red use which those resolutions were destined to serve was not the development of Parliamentary opinion, nor the conciliation of Parliamentary opposition, but the expurgation of an obstructive element from the organization of the Government. That operation having been ellected. the country, which has hitherto looked on with marvellous pati , ncP, will ilrmand that the subject shall now be tre;l:ed Kith d.;::ision and energy. Ministers MINI , TERTAL EXPLANATION.% Deprecating debates which are simply piquant from their oratorical merits or from personal recrimina tions, the Timis trusts that such evenings as that of yesterday will now give way to more practical work. The picture given by the retiring ministers, by which it appears that the appearance of unity was only maintained by doing nothing, gives rise to painful reflections. It is not creditable to any one that vital questions should be thus bandied about, at the very time that parliament was amused with a show of action ; and the good-nature which prompted Lord Derby to give up the plan of reform he thought best for the country in order to preserve his colleagues was criminal weakness. It is by such good -nature that continents are lost :old kingdoms reduced to the verge of civil war. The mischief, however, has been done, and it is useless to dwell upon it. Last night's debate sets only instructive as fore shadowing the discussion which any reform bill must cause. If we arc to accept the doctrine of Mr. Lowe that the reduction of the franchise is the beginning of the end, we should indeed be in I melancholy position. The Times does not be lieve that most educated Englishmen will share the contempt which both Mr. Lowe and Mr. Bright feel fur the compensating machinery. Artificial checks on the power of the majority would indeed be of no avail, but there are natural methods of protecting the representation of all classes un which reliance may be placed. Such safeguards as would give certain favoured voters, or classes of voters, electoral power in excess of those given to others must fail ; but on the other hand if we nuke no distinction between voters, but simply give to each liberty to do as he likes with the electoral privi leges he can exercise, we offend no prejudice and we raise a permanent defence for the free expression of each form of opinion. At all events, let the ministerial policy be frankness, and let the design of each branch of the frame work of the Reiman Bill is fairly avowed at the outset. It was leas Mr. Disraeli's meagre narrative than the ex planations of his two retiring colleagues, says the Daily News, from which we gain the new illumination as to the workings of the cabinet. Lord Derby and his ministry de serve credit so far as political sagacity is concerned ; but at this point their statesmanship and their concord seem to have ceased. Lord Cmnborne's knowledge of the meaning of the resolutions appears to have been derived from the parliamentary speeches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. He attributes his want of informa tion to the fact that he did not form a member of that cabinet within the cabinet to which the initiative of great questions of policy was referred, but the explanation is insufficient, for a cabinet minister, I whatever his standing among his colleagues, ought nut to I learn their designs from their parliamentary speeches. It is evident that the resolutions were really as ambiguous to ministers as to everybody else. The alternative scheme pre sented to the house as embodying the common convic tions of a united cabinet, and based on a profound political principle is described by the Daily News as a hurriedly vamped up compromise. The revived policy is assumed to include household suffrage in boroughs, checked by plural voting, and though the Daily News believes, with Mr. Lowe, Lord Cranborne, and General Peel, that this would presently be household suffrage without the accompaniments, it condemns the scheme as establishing invidious distinctions, and as certain to produce constant irritation and feuds between classes. The project which ministers now entertain will not satisfy a single section of the liberal party. A measure which falls short of household suffrage, but which is plain and simple in its provisions, will please even the advocates of house hold suffrage better than one which concedes that fran chise in name, but which loads it with conditions which would neutralise it in fact. The Standard regrets that yeatenlay's explanations were not offered on Monday, for there was nothing to conceal, and the story is creditable to the ministers who remain in and to those who go out. Reviewing the explanations of the night, the Standard says that Mr. Bright spoke with great force and singular moderation. The conviction of an ap proaching victory seems to have inspired the honourable gentleman with a certain calmness, fairness, and concilia tion which, could he have shown them before, would pro bably have brought him the victory long ago. The Herald does not expect anything like justice or fair play from any recognised section of the liberal party, but it hopes if the house rejects the government bill, that Lord Derby will not fail to appeal to the country. The Star cannot suppose that the conservative party, having sacrificed and borne so much far the sake of keep. ing reform in Lord Derby's hands, will think it necessary either to insist upon " securities " which will ensure their defeat, or to exchange the simple basis which Lord Derby has spiritedly chosen for one which, however liberal and comprehensive, must be less permanent and less distinc tively defensible on principle. As for the cumulative voting, why are we favoured with no such plan for the divisions of the /louse of Commons ? Shut%) your elec toral arrangements as you will, the result comes at last to be settled by a vote in that house ; and why is there to be no plan for preventing • bare majority of free traders from cruelly reducing to nothing the votes of a respectable minority of protectionists? If Mr. Disraeli has any idea of adopting the advice of Laputa, he is only preparing for himself a ludicrous and ig nom i n i ous fall. Putting Lord Derby's explanations into plain English, the TdeorapA says it means that he sacrificed what be deemed essential for the country in order that be might be able to bold offios • little longer, and to keep the secession of three important ministers from the knowledge of the outside world. Is it not a farce to affect implicit trust in the statesman who could thus postpone England to • batch of political friends, and to a political difficulty ? The Times finds in the speech of Colonel Dunoombe, the new for the North Riding of Yorkshire, evidence of the fact that opinion among the independent conserva tives has gone ahead of the government. The gallant colonel said he would give to every respectable house holder who regularly paid his rates, and who had been resident for two or three years, • vote for his borough. This the Times takes to be a sign that the conservatives who would oppose Lord Derby's more liberal plan would be a small and powerless action. In another article the Times thanks Mr. J. S. Mill for indirectly showing the danger of following theory alone, by his declaration that if theory is good for anything, it is good for enfranchis ing all women as well as all men. The question to be asked about this and a dozen other projects is what would be the good of it and would our laws be the better of it RUMMY CIMINO or PUBLIC•NOUBX& Commenting upon the Guildhall meeting on Monday, and dwelling particularly on Archbishop Manning's ad dress, the Times says that the doctrine openly maintained is that the to the whole community would amply compen sate for the general arbitrariness of the proposed legislation, and in this argument the legislator will recognise only an old and difficult question. We have to balance good against harm, and to take many an incident into consider ation before we can dvcide. We are certainly not surprised THE MOVEMENT FUR MORE BISHOPS. It is observed by the Daily News that it is at the very time when bishops are adding to the church's embarrass ments that a small and active party in the church is agi tating for an increase of the episcopate, the demand taking a different form according to circumstances. A sub-diet. 'ion of dioceses would not give us a younger and more Active race of bishops, and the appointment of suffragans is open to serious objections. Instead of this it would be better to make such a distribution of episcopal revenues as would provide a decent retiring fund fora bishop nolonger able to perform the duties of his office, so as to allow of his replacement by a more vigorous successor. Those duties would, however, be made much easier if some of them were devolved, ss they might be, on the archdeacons. It is in the parish churches of dioceses in which the bishops display the greatest personal activity of superintendence that unprote-tant doctrines and practices most prevail. There are many things which the church of England wants—more, and more suitable, candidates for orders, more curates, more means of increasing their remunera tion, an augmentation of poor benefices, and the like, all tending to increase the efficiency of the working parochial clergy--and when something has been done to supply these requirements it will be time to speak of making more bishops. the dant. WINDSOR CASTLE, MARCH 5. The Queen, Kith tho Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice, drove out yesterday afternoon in carriage and four. Her Majesty walked and drove this morning, accom panied by the Princess Christian. The Princess Louise and Princess Beatrice rode in the Home-park, and Prince Leopold drove, attended by Mr. Legg. Prince Christi= left the Castle last evening for the Continent, on a visit to his parents, having received intelligence of the alarming illness of his mother, the Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Augustenburg. His Royal Highness was attended by Lieutenant-Colonel George Gordon, who accompanied him to Calais. His Royal Highness is expected to return in about a fortnight or three weeks. The Marquis of Boennont and Mr. and Lady Charlotte Russell arrived at the Castle yesterday. Lady Charlotte Russell and the Marquis of Bowmont had the honour of dining with the Queen and tho royal family in the evening. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant• Colonel Heppe], bunted with her Majesty's stag bounds near Stoke, yesterday. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council, consisting of the Lord President, the Marquis of Salisbury, Earl Granville, the Right Hoe. Spencer Walpole, and the Right Hon. Sir Georg.. Grey, eat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall. Mr Harrison attended the committee. A Committee of tho Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council- Wilco, on matters relating to the cattle plague. The Lords present were—The Lord President, the Right Hon. H. Corry, and the Right Hon. Stephen. Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. A deputation introduced by the Marquis of Dowiuhire, and consisting of the Earl of Dartrey, the Earl of Hills borough, Lord Lifford, Lord Cremorne, H.P., Lord John Hay, Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., Lord Edwin Hill Trevor. M.P., Hon. Maior Knox, M.P., Viscount Hamil ton, M.P., Lord Claude John Hamilton, M.P., Sir W. Verner, M.P., Captain Dawson, M.P., Sir F. W. Hey gate, Bart., M.P., Sir H. H. Bruce, Bart., M.P., Sir J. E. Tennent, Bart., Mr. Vance, M.P., Mr. J. Innis, M.P., Mr. F. W. Russell, M.P., Admiral Seymour, M.P., Mr. Edw. O'Neill, M.P., 111 r. J. T. Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Charles Lanyon, M.P., Mr. S. G. Getty, M.P., Hon. Colonel Cole, 111. P., Mr. J. Archdall, M.P., Mr. B. Guin ness, 11. P., Colonel Adair, Rev. D. Wilson, D.D. (mode rator of Irish General Assembly), Rev. John Rogers (ex. moderator), Rev. Henry Henderson, Rev. N. M. Brown, Rev. Dr. Bryson, Rev. Robert Black, and Rev. Charles I. Morel, h.. 3 an interview with the Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downing-street, yesterday. A deputation introduced by Mr. 11.vrow, M.P., Mr, Briscoe, M.P., Mr. C. D. Surtees, M.l'., and Mr. Pease, M.P., and consisting of Mr. Richard B. Gibbs, Dr. Charles J. Pearce, Dr. Epps, Dr. Spencer T. Hall, Mr. John Skelton,ll M.R.C.S., Dr. Caplin, Captain C. U. Tucker, Mr. Charles Rose (Dorking), Mr. Job Caudwell, Mr. J. Morison, Mr. F. W. Crick (Bedford), Mr. G. Brown (Plum stead), Mr. Moore, Mr. Wb idden, Mr. Stephens, Mr. D. Kil patrick, Mr. Horsnall, Mr. Thus. Bourne, Mr. nethewin and Mr. Bain, had nu interview with the Lord President of the Council, the Right Hon. H. Cony, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave, at the Privy Council-office, yesterday, on the subject of the vaccination laws. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Bahamas. Tim Cot:RT.—This afternoon, at 3 o'clock, her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Ifighneues the Primus Christian, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold and Prince Henry of Prussia, will leave Windsor Castle for Buckingham Palace by special train on the Great Western Railway. Her Majesty, with the royal family, will return to Windsor Castle on Satur- day next. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Lord Suffield, Lord Royston, Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, and suite, honoured the perforinancts at the Adslphi Theatre last evening. The Princess of \Vales is going on very favoura bly towards recovery. The Duke of Rutland will entertain a distin guished company towards the end of the month, at Belvoir Castle, for the Croxton Park races. The Duke of Bum!ouch has left Montagu Rouse, Whitehall, to join the duchess and family at Bowhill, Sel kirkahire. The Earl and Countess do Grey, who have been spending a few days at Brighton, return to town either to day or to-morrow for the season, Tho Earl and Countess of Wilton intend to re main at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, till the first week in the ensuing month, when they come to town for the season. The Earl of Lauderdale, the tieobrman is in formed, will be the new Scottish repreoentatire peer, in the room of the late Lord Grsy. Wo understand that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has fixed Tuesday, the 18th of Juno, for the first annual meeting on behalf of the Curates• Augmenta tion Fund. _ — A meeting of the Oaths Inquiry Commissioners was held yesterday ; present, Duke of Riclunontl. Bishop of Oxford, Lord Lyveden, Sir W. Stirling Maxwell, Bart., Right Hon. Russell Gurney, QC., M.P. Righ t Hon. Hon. Robert Lowe, MP., Mr. A. M. Dunlop, M.P., Mr. IL W. O'Reilly, 14. P., Very Rev. the Dean of St. Paul's, and the secretary of the commission. A meeting of the Schools Inquiry Commission was held on Tuesday. Present—Lord Taunton, the chair man; Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr. Temple, M r . Forster, M.P., and Dr. Storrar. The Secretary, Mr. Roby, attended the meeting. Fonsmx-orrtca, MARCH 2.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. James Stuart Day ay consul in the Isle of Wight, to reside at Cowes, fur his Majesty the King of the Netherlands.—Caufte. (The meeting adjourned at 1 o'clock for refreshment.] THE Mixorrnv.—The Duke of Richmond, we understand, has accepted the appointment of President of the Board of Trade, in the place of Sir Stafford North. cote. The Right Hon. Stephen Cave will retain his pre- sent position.—Post. MR. DISRAELI AND MR. BRIGHT.—The Or/ states that Mr. Disraeli has been "in communication" with Mr. Bright as to the details of the proposed reform bill. The Cunard ocean mail contract will soon ter minate in onler to reduce the expense for conveying letters to the United States. Thu India mail contract will soon terminate for the purpose of wronging a weekly mail com munication with Bombay. In 1870 the Dover and Calais and Cape of Good Hope mail contracts will terminate if 12 months' notice is given. In 1869 the West India mail contract, in Ino the Brazilian contract, and in 1872 the Pacific contract will terminate after 24 months' notice is given. , le. I Extreme. . , Sea. 18. T. l W. in0...--,--...... W.: B. 1! I 112 T. D. 1 I ....-........-- -..—.--,—.....--.... -- Nairn lOl7 41, N.E. 1 6 1 N.E. o 0.04 2 Aberdeen 30.13 39 N . E. 1 3 N.E. rc 0.03 2 Leith 80.06 41 - 11.N.L 3 2 ' N.E. oc 1 - 3 Ardrossan 80.0741 E.N.E. 4 4 I ENE.c - I 3 Greencastle 30.09 43 E.N.B. 1 1 E. cI- I 1 Valentin_ 1- -I - - - ... Liverpool.. 20.90 311' E. N. E. 1 1 N.E. c i - ' 1 Holyhead 29.94 41 E.N.E. 5 6 1 N.N.E. c.- . 4 rename...- 91 29. TJ N.B. 2 6 L NIL u, - 3 Brest 29.6080 N.E. 3 3 N.E. or '- ' 6 Lorieut 20.7686; N.E. 4 6 N.B. bo - 3 Rochefort 29.09 34 N.N.E. 41 4 N.E. b - i III Plymouth ,79.92 39 Z. 2 4 L cr 1 - : 2 Weymouth 29.8977 N.B. 3 5 N.N.E. u -I 3 Portsmouth 29.8637 N.E. 4; 6 8.N.8. c 0.01 3 London 29.87 35 N.N.E. 4 5 Y.E. Sc 001 ' - Yarmouth 28.8448 N.E. 8 8 E.N.E. o, - G Scarborough 10.0140' E.Y.E. , 5 N.E. be 0.05 4 Shields 80.0941 DLL 4 2 N.E. re 0.03 3 Helder - - - NURDER OP A BOY BY SYSTEMATIC STARVATION AND ILL-TREATMENT. INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This 'spiriting Mr. Richards, Deputy CormitT, resumed, at the Dart of Ellesmere Tavern, Bromley, the inquiry respecting the death, under very shocking Limo s stances. of William Conde, aged 12 years. Since the adjournment of this case on WielnewLiv last, the biome wherein the father and stepmother of the deceased boy lived in Upper North-street, Brod,. y was attacked by a mob and nut only the glass. but the woad. work of the windows was broken. So great was the pepitlar feeling of indignation against the two penswie suppo-n1 to have been guilty of cruelty to the deceased, that they had to leave their house and secrete themselves. The mob openly threatened to Lynch them at the first opportunity. This morning large crowds assembled around the place when the jury assembled, and a considerable body of police hail to he kept on the spot to maintain proper eider. The boy's death took place at No. 7, lfpper Nort Bromley, on Saturday fortnight. The body, as seen 11 the jury, pnweuted a most horrible appearance of emacia tion. Dr. Kernott found the weight to be only 2011 i. the girth round the chest was hut 17 inches, that round the abdomen 14 inches, and that of the thigh The father endeavoured to account for the size of the ;Judy by swearing that the deceased was only a years, lint he ultimately bad to admit that the real age was 12. The father also admitted that the deceased hat, not been out of the house for six mouths, nor out of the room for eight weeks before his death ; but he maintained that the boy ate more than three of the other children. Lavinia Hies, the wife of An engineer, said that she lodged at No. 7, Upper Northwtreet for some seven or eight morithapast. The first she saw of the decui,d boy was a week after Christmaa, when at ti o'clock one morn ing he slipped into her room, and asked her fur a hit of bread. He stared about with a frightened ail, and wit nesa would have been terrified but that sire remembered having heard something about a boy being kept in one of the rooms. She cave him a bit of bread, and then he asked her to take bun to live with her, because his mother beat him so. Witness was quite confused by the sudden appearance of the boy, and she told him to go upstairs at once, for fear he would be missed by his parents. She never saw him again till be wax dying. She often beard some child beaten. The landhuly of the house Aida that she was the wife of a commercial traveller. The Conde family came to lodge with her about one year and eight mouths ago. She never saw the deceased until eight months ago, ant not again till he was dying. The way she first heard about bier was this —About eight months ago she asked John Conde for her rent. He abused her and pushed her. The other lodgers were most indignant at his I striking her in the condition she was in at the time; there was a great disturbance, and an inspector of police, finding a mob in the street, rode up to the door ; then some one said to Conde " What have you been doing with your poor idiot boy? Rring him down and show him to the inspector." The deceived was brought down and his arms, ire., were shown, but ho was not then so thin as when witness saw him on Saturday fortnight. The inspector said nothing, but rode away. Witness often h ea rd the cry of some child that Mrs. Conde was beating, but she could not tell which child it was. It was a weak cry, awl used to get weaker and weaker. There were four children in all. She did not think the boy was an idiot. Mrs. Murray, another lodger, gave similar evidence. She only saw the child once during several months. He stole some fish once out of her cupboard and ate it.. The boy was very thin about the anus ; but when she saw hint again he was much worse. "He had no face, only the skin over the bones." She used to he*r some child cry when beaten. It was " a fatal cry like." Mrs. Rios, recalled, said that the cry which she used to hear war very peculiar ; she heard it no more lime the boy died. It was a wading, weak cry, aml she had no doubt it crunefrom the deceased. Theelandlady said that she remembered that she had seen the deceased three times altogether. On limb occa sion he asked her for bread ; she gave him some and ho ate it ravenously. He also asked for water. He appeared very frightened, and he ate the bread up as if starved. The cry she used to hear ass generally loud at first, as if from a blow, and then it would grow faint and weak. The Coroner asked all these witnesses why they had not taken any steps to save the child, by reporting to the police, &c. ; but no clear explanation was given. The land lady said that she was generally out, and that once, when a policeman did call, she was at h e r business in town ; and when the horse patrol, or inspector, was told about the matter he did nothing. She also a dded that she sAv the deceased beaten but once, last Good Friday, when he ate the full out of Mrs. Hurray's cupboard. Hu stepmother beat him severely with a cane. Mrs. Mutray put him under a bed to save him. Mrs. Murray said that it was the stepmother of the de ceased that asked her whether she had missed any fish out of her cupboard. When witness replied that she hail lost some, Mrs. Conde beat the boy unmercifully three dif ferent times, witness trying to save him. A month before the boy's death he was most shamefully beaten. There was sometimes a fall when the beatings were going on. Witness had not heard those beatings and the faint mien since the boy died. Dr. Kernott, of Poplar, said that he was called in to the deoessed when he was dying. He died almost imme diately. There were bruises on the body and ann, as if from being beaten. The post mortem examination showed extraonlinary emaciation. The body, whh.li was 41 inches long, weighed only 2Ulloo. 1•2 oz. There was no fat what ever in the system. There was no disease to account for death. There was some slight disease of the lungs, but not sufficient to cause death. The cause of death was st.u-va. tion. The organs in general, the brain, he., were in a healthy condition. Syncope from want of nourishment was the immediate cause of death. No doubt exposure and general hardships would tend also to prothice the fatal HHenry Peters, K, deposed Vett five years ago the Conde family used to live at his house. No. Te 4, Willes street, Bromley. The boy was a very tine child indeed when he first came. Conde wan living with the woman now present, but witness did not think he was married to her. The boy was then about six years of age ; he was a stout, fat child, and was very intelligent. He was not an idiot or anything of the kind. Witness believed that the reason they ill-treated him was that he was too wide awake for them. Laughter.) Witness slid not see him ill-used while at his house, but he gave the father notice to quit in consequence of 1101.10 information given to him by the relieving-officer about the child. . . Mr. Win. B. Foster, relieving officer, said that he bad an entry in his book for June, 18 , 63, showing that he had visited Conde at 5, Orchard-street, Bromley, in come l m nee of a complaint that the boy was ill treated. He found the boy differently clad from the others, but there 1,11.4 no mark of ill usage eiimpt • grasp on the arm. Ho cautioned the reirents, and he believed the boy was then better treate d ; he was let out in the street, instead of being kept upst.tirs. Witness bad some recollection of seeing the List witness some years ago about the boy. Witness believed that Conde had quite sufficient to keep his family in very fair condition. Caroline J. Brown, 72, Willis-street, Bromley, aid that her attention was drawn to the deceased Seetll. nee or six years ago. She turd to notice the shutter. of mo. room in the house where Mr.. Conde lived. When at length the shutters were taken down in the hot weather she used to see the little boy like a ghost. standing perpetually apart from the other children and the mother. (Mee he crawled round towards his father, and the stepmother struck him tremendous blow with her nst in the face. and sent him to the part of the room in which he used to stand. The father did not interfere. She never saw him get my food until after she (witness) went to the station-house. It was clear that the boy wi‘s being slowly starved. John Conde said that there were no shotters to the room. _ _ _ Mrs. Brown said that the window wets certainly covered tp with boards. Peters, the landlord, said that he was echloni at home, and he never went upstairs until after the complaint w.: ; made, and he then got rid of the family. Eliza Hawke, 17, Ellesmere-street, Rrorriley, the wife of en engineditter, said that she knew the deceased f.., year awl nine month.. :eh,. formerly lodged at No. 7. Upper North-street. The child had asked her for bread and water. lie Kul the a pp..,eince of being started, and used to eat anything she g..re hen lavenously. She saw the stepmother hest him set erely when he took some Ifi.di front Mee. Murray'. cupboanl us. Good Friday last. Mary Woods, ..2, Rundellettrect, said that she kin tin deceased for four years back. He was gredually during that time. Conde lived in the nest row t.) witne4 at Itundell.street. Witnese used to ccc bile kept continually in a corner of the room. He was 1., in the corner by TFICAU , of a rail, or part a A bedstead ; he was hemmed off from the rest. The dee. used to be generally locked. hut twiec :he heard him groaning. and she went into the room ;nil saw hie, ha', .1 on the floor behind the rail. lie was not tied ur f... seemed too weak to nand. Tie told her his wine Billy Conde, and that he was hungry. Wittieso ea, a bit of bread and butter, but before he had it eiz‘ stepmother came in and hat him fur taking it. pia.. came into witness' room awl blew her up for gis tug lam the bread and butter, and the father, Jelei Cued.. threatened to throw her downstairs. The Coroner briefly summed up the care, and said th.:t the evidence seemed to point clearly to the omelinten that the boy was deprived of life by systematic st I rv:awn. and the case was therefore one of murder. The jury unanimously returned a verdict of "Wilf' ,l murder against John Conde and Miiry hi. wif. The Coroner then issued his warrant for the c eainett.d of the father and stepmother of the deceased to N.w.4.itr. itrio,amwianal Court. itthe ir trial at the ensuing 11431110114 of the etre! When the two accused persons were bri . .* moved to prison considerable uproar took ''• The mob, which was composed principally of u • ' • made a determined effort to get at the,— the groans and yells were soinethin: f t Ightfu I. The police escorted the man and Lia wife towards •• which had been procured. but the crowd. ei•i}l:.: • seemed bent on tearing the supposed culprits to 1. -• Conde struck out savagely at the women, and wit. ;1 e assistance of the police. he kept thew at toy and so' off pretty wel! ; but his wife was not fortunate, tor bon net and clothes were turn. and the police bof I. -tmr gle hard to cave her. With gnat difficulty tF. proo.cts were got into the Cab, and driven off to Newg..te. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. WAR RUMOURS. We read the following in the Dibuts of to-day : We quoted yesterday the words pronounced by the Grand Duke Nicholas, at a banquet in favour of the Greek volunteers. The speech has been the object of commentaries iu most of the Paris newspapers. We com bined it with a violent article in the dl attire Ort:We. The Temps sees in it a confirmation of information given by the A Ivshurg Ga:efle. According to the German journal the military authorities in Poland and in the Baltic provinces have received orders to hold them selves in readiness for a campaign in the spring, about the middle of April, so that we may see the Russians once more on the march towards the Truth. We (the 1) tints) do not know what credit is to be given to this news, but the diplomatic documents contained in the "Yellowllook" hold out but little hope to Turkey that France and England would now draw the sword in her defence. THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. It seems certain (says La LiberfE) that the par liament of North Germany, as soon as it is consti tuted, will offer the title of Emperor of Germany to the King of Prussia. (*LUTES'S ITLIGILLYS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, limn G. Both the conservative fractions of the North German Parliament have determined that the draft of the federal constitution shall be discussed in full sitting. A portion of the liberal fraction has adopted a similar resolution. M. Sorret, the Secretary of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs at Paris, has arrived in this capi tal with despatches, and proceeds to Warsaw and St. Petersburg. Numerous despatches have recently been ex changed between the cabinets of Paris and St. Petersburg. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Masai 6. Herr Louyai, the Hungarian Minister of Finance, who has arrived here, has taken part in the discus sions of the Cabinet of Ministers relative to the farming of the tobacco monopoly. Contradictory reports are current upon the result of the ministerial deliberations. The Emperor and Empress intend making a tour in July next through all the Hungarian comitata. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. MALTA, MARCH 3. The Delta, from Southampton Feb. 20, arrived yesterday at 8 a.m., and left at 3 p.m. for Alexandria. The Ceylon, from Marseilles Feb. 28, arrived at 10 p.m. yesterday, and left at 4 a.m. to-day for Alexandria. GIBRALTAR, MARCH 4. The Ripon, from Southampton on tho 27th February, arrived to-day at 7 a.m., and left at noon for Alexandria. Tho Masailia left for Southampton on the 2nd mat, at 10 a.m. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WEDNESDAY, MAWS 6, 8 8..1L REMARKS. Since yestenlay morning the prausur decreased uniformly over the British 1 over Scotland. The winds continue n and temperatures hare altered but litth ou the east coast. The sky 4 cloudy or of the aG ?here has Isles, and Is sail greatest liorth -easterly, moderate le. Some rain has fallen c overcast. The .1 ugsburg Gautte relates that anti-Austrian demonstrations continue in Southern Tyrol notwithstand ing the proclamation of martial law. Arrests also still continue, especially at Trent and Roveredo. At LII7211111& some young men carried off the Austrian eagle and burnt it whilst chaunting a requiem. A CURIOUtILY-SPELT PETITION.—It may not be known to some of our readers that the committee on pub lic petitions, in printing those petitions which they select for their appendix, scrupulously follow both the spelling and the punctuation of the original document. When errors occur an asterisk is used, and at the foot of the column are the explanatory wonla." sic in orig." A peculiarly unfor tunate specimen of defective orthography occurs in the report issued to-day. The petition referred to prays for the opening of the British Museum three evenings in the week, and it proceeds from a public meeting held at the Lambeth Baths on the 27th ult. The document starts with a mistake, to which the first remorseless asterisk is added. " Sheweth " is spelt " shewith." Then we have the following slips :—" Intellectund ; " " their " for th ere ; " organised " spelt "laced ; " " where " for " were ; " " centure " for " centre ; " prey_ ing spelt with an "e " before " ing ;" " dought " for " doubt ; " " givened " for " given ; " " trea surers" for " treasures ;" " wether" (twice) " facilties ;" " buldings ;" "sufficent ;" " inooured theirby ;" " desire ability •," and " reelect." The petition was signed on behalf of the meeting by the Earl of Shaftesbury, chairman ; but it need not be inferred that his lordship was either its author or its reviser. THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.--(THIS DAY.)—Very few persons maw much or indeed anything of the solar eclipse which took place this morning, and which had been the subject of conversation in scientific circles for many weeks lost. It was, to use the technical phrase, visible at Greenwich, and if astronomers he correct in their calcula. I lions , which there is not the slightest reason to doubt, it was visible also throughout Europe. At Greenwich the eclipse began at 8.17, at which time large numbers of persons had assembled with telescopes and glames, but the atmosphere was dull and heavy. and scarcely any suu was to be seen. In the London parks people took their stand in the best positions, but their patience was not rewarded. Perhaps the most distinct view of it was obtained at about twenty minutes to 9, when rather more than one-eighth of the obscuration was distinctly seen for two or three minutes. The (lark segment was then very marked, and the fact of au eclipseplaced beyond the doubt of the moat sceptical. About 9 It became darker than it had been during the previous two hours. At 9.32 about three-fourtbe of the sun's diameter was covered. The magnitude of the eclipse then gradually diminished until 10.52 a.m., when the dark body of the moon left the sun on the left hand in a position nearly corresponding to that of the first contact on the opposite limb. Almost to the annoyance of disappointed gazers, immediately after the eclipse terminated the sun shone out for some minutes almost brilliantly. DR. Puser IN LONDON. —This morning there was, perhaps, the large.t congregation which ever assem bled at a L ondon parish church, to hear Dr. Pusey, who wax announced to prtach the first Lent sermon, :it All Saints' Church, Margaret-street. The buihling itself was densely packed half an hour before the time appointed for the commencement, and hundreds of persons were patient enough to stand out iu the passages and street, in the vain hope of obtaining admission. There WWI litany with the comminution service (peculiar to Ash Wednesday). After which the rev. doctor, habited in a surplice and purple stole, ascended the pulpit and preached from the words of St. Paul's Epistle to the Co rinthians, " Other foundations can no man lay." His leading topic was the judgment to come, on which he spoke with much earnestness for nearly en hour. LIVERPOOL AND THE REFORM QUESTION.—The Liverpool Liberal Aasociation yesterday decided to hold • public demonstration shortly, and to propose resolu tions in favour of household suffrage in boroughs, and a 10/. county suffrage, a comprehensive redistribution of seats, and to urge a stringent enactment against bribery. Confidence was e: reseed in Mr. Gladstone as the liberal leader. Mr. J. C. Ewart is to be invited to preside at the meeting. 1 . 0,r i 1 D 01 by a% luso t.,;; 1;p (L' tior