The Express. — London, England, 1858-02-13 00:00:00

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Our readers were prepared, by the detailed statement which we made yesterday, to learn that the Government measure contemplates the entire subversion of all those constitutional principles upon which the safety of that empire has been hitherto believed to depend; but they were not prepared to leant the utter incapacity of Government to make oat even a prima foci, case for destroy ing the Double Government at any time, and much lase for destroying it at a period of great popular excitement, whilst the country itself is still not by internal convulsions. It was believed that the First Minister would endeavour to show that India had been shamefully misgoverned ; that, from the weakness or the criminality of the existing l administrative agencies, have arisen the great digesters which have filled our homes with mourn ing and our hearts with fear ; that the incom petence of the existing Government to grapple with the great crisis is so conspicuous, that only by the immediate introduction of a new and eon vigorous system can tranquillity be restored to our Indian possessions, and the permanseu of our dominion secured. But the failure to adduce any argument in favour of either a present or a prospective change was so conspicuous, that when Mr. MONCHTON MILSZB, who is com monly to be found fighting in the Ministerial ranks, declared that " he had waited with considerable in " tenet to see whether, in the speech of his noble " friend,a single instance would be brought forward " to prove, to the satisfaction of any reasonable man, " that is the progress of events in India, " seensund under Providence as they had " bun, that success had been checked or " limited by the action of the ' Double Govern " ment ;' • and, after asking whether any man be lieved that, if there had been no Double Government, there would have been no mutiny, protested that, in the lamentable absence of all argument con demnatory of the existing system, it was not possible for those who in 1853 had supported the Government of the Company to abandon it at this moment,—the House, recognising the justice of the assertion, received it with loud cheers. If the Doable Government were deserving of the confidence of the country in 1853, and if it has not since forfeited that confidence, either by mat-administration tending to create the recent convulsions in India, or by inability to carry out measures for the suppression of the rebel lion, there is not a pretext for disturbing a system of Government under which has risen into life and vigour an Empire which is the wonder and the admi ration of the world. In support of a measure which we have already shown to be pregnant with danger, because subver sive of all those constitutional checks which hare hitherto been the safeguards of our Indian Empire Lord Pantragrox has nothing better to array than the merest platitudes and clap-traps. He talks largely about the advantages of ministerial respon sibility. He tells ns that it is desnedit that instead of an irresponsible Government, we should have a Government directly accountable to Parliament. " The Parliament of this " ooentry," bogeys, " has never had face to face in " this, or in the other House, men who are directly end " personally responsible to Parliament for thegovers " went of India." And again " We ought to semen " bee that we have a gniatduty to fulfil in India. I "as sure that duty will best be fulfilled if we place "the performer°. of it in the hands of men who will "be accountable to Parliament for the manner in " which it is performed,who shall be bound to acquaint " Parliament step by step with the course they are tak " ing." But is there no such responsibility now? la the Cabinet Minister, who is officially designated President of the Board of Commissioners forth. Affairs of India, and without whose sanction no measure, great or small, polities' or administrative, can be carried out in that country, not accountable to Parliament? Is not that high functionary bound to acquaint Parlia ment with the coarse that is being taken in India? Is he not aided, in the House, by a ParlleagenWy Secretary, whose duty it is, in the absence ot the President, to offer any e :planation. which may be called for by Parliament And if he has not been called to account, or if he hes aid accounted for what has been done, doss the fault lie in the system ; or in the apathy of Pen tiainent on one side, and the reticence of the Minister on the other? It is true that tutsuccesaful efforts have been made to call the Minister or the Ministers of the day to account for misdeeds committed in lode'; but no one ever pretended that these efforts failed because the Minister was not constitution ally 'mountable to Parliament for such misdeeds. They failed become Parliament wanted the firm new lacked the independence to make the Minister account for what had been done. The responsibility of the Crown Govern ment is as complete at this moment, as it sae be seder any system which the Legislature can devise for the future conduct of Indian affairs, All t h a t is required is that Parliament should under stand its power and perform its duty. If it b e apa . irregolute, or trammelled by party, It will make the responsible Ktoiabot mom ha done ; bat, in the .ease d 1111•1111 El /notelet against the sallasptiot this tail • to " irr m. tar what he real, we THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1858. there is no responsibility to Parliament be cause Parliament chooses to abdicate its right to call offending Ministers to account. If, for example, no one was made respon sible for fixing that mighty blot, the war in Afghanistan, on our national history, was it because Lord Psi-neuron and his sasociates were not re sponsible for the crime, or because Parliament would not bring them to trial ? The responsibility of a Minister is just what Parliament chooses to make it ; and the government of India, we repeat, by the East India Gaispany and the Board of Control is to the full as responsible a Government as any which can be devised by the most ingenious constitution monger who ever framed a system of government in Utopia or in Whitehall. And yet, weak as is this clap-trap of " responsi " bility"—weak in the mouth of any man, doubly weak in that of Lord PALMERSTON— it is absolutely the strong point of the Minister's speech. He talked, it is true, about the delays incident upon the present system of check and counter-check—" the 0 previous communications and subsequent oommu " nications, the despatches referred by each from " one part of the town to the other, by which " • despatch that ought to go to-morrow " might not go for a month, when it is " too late to mend it." But the fact is, that when there is a necessity for promptitude of action, when despatch is of more importance than deliberation,the business is done with as much rapidity of execution as if there were no distinct establishments at dif ferent ends of the town. There has during the last eventful six months been an almost continual neces. sty for the prompt despatch of troops to India. If there had been no such establishment as the India House, is it to be supposed that a single Teasel would have been taken up or a angle man embarked a day worm for the East P What is our experience of single de partments in this matter of the despatch, the equip ment, and the provision of troops? Do things go better under the " direct" superintendence of a Minister of War? The machinery of the Double Government may, by reason of its cheeks and counterchecks, be somewhat cumbrous and over burdened with forms; and it is possible that some improvements might be introduced into the existing mode of transacting business; but the delays of which Lord PALMERSTON speeke are almost wholly confined to matters where no emergency exists to render deliberation subordinate to despatch. The Court at Directors of the East India Company is a delibera tive body, and there is immense advantage in its , deliberations. But in cases of emergency forms and procures are diminished, and the wheels go round as rapidly as in any single department et the State. This Is the second ministerial clap trap ; and with it the defence of the new BM is exhausted. And it is on such grounds as these that a Government out of the existence of which have arisen the most marvellous political and admi nistrative results is to be demolished at a blow. Never was so great a revolution based upon such a slender foundation of reason. The most im portant measure ever recommended to Par liament in our time has been incubated in haste, in ignorance, in confusion ; and instead of solid and substantial facts and weighty argu ments, the propounier of this dangerous sad de structive scheme crows out a couple of flatulent clap-traps, and thinks that he has convinced the na tion of the wisdom of his perilous design. IT is a proud thing for an English citizen to live under the protecting tegis of a thoroughly English Minister—not Austrian, mark, not Russian, not French, but English in every principle of his policy and in every impulse of his heart. It is still a popular sentiment, it was once a national belief, that the British empire hes secured such a Minister in Lord PALMERSTON. Lord CLARENDON, accord ing to the nine judgment, is in this respect scarcely his inferior. According to the superstitions of the market-place, the PRIME MINISTER and the POISSON SECRETARY are the CASTOR and POLLUX of British freedom. To calmer judgments this always appeared a singular description of hero worship, • triumph of faith and hope over plain facts and sad experiences. People who could ob serve for themselves—people who had watched the great revolutionary storms of 1848—the shipwreck of nationalities inflated by false hopes up to the in surrection point, and then calmly abandoned to their fate—could never quite sympathise with this idolatry for the English Minister. They thought of arcsasia--they thought of Sicily—they thought of Hungary, and were content to stand aside, and let others worship after their own fashion this &vim of the nations not yet rand, And Europe's liberator still analarad. _ But these things didn't come home to the hearts of the English people ; deserted nationalities and be trayed revolutions were topics too remote and abstract to stir strongly the sympathies of an insular and self centred race. Here and there a stump orator made political capital out of them for a time, but the facts were too little known and the order of ideas too un familiar to excite more than a transient emotion of incredulity and surprise. It is different with this case of the English Engi neers at Salerno. Here are two of our own country men who, literally for no fault of their own, bat simply in consequence of armed violence which they were powerless to resist, have been ever since the end of last Jane subjected to the grossest in dignities, to the harshest imprisonment, and are now undergoing a trial which is • mere mockery of all the forms of justice. These two men, who, as engineers of the vessel, bad no more power of guiding her course than though they bad been themselves • part of her machinery— these two men who, with loaded pistols pointed at their heads, were compelled, under menace of instant death, to continue at their post in the engine-room, are arraigned upon an act of accusation which alleges as a proof of guilt " the grave circumstance that " Warr, being the chief machinist, would have " directed the course of the vessel to Tunis, and not " Ponta, bad he not been in perfect accord with " PARK and all the other conspirators ;" and which declares " that there is no proof of violence of which "they can avail themselves es a shield." It is difficult to say whether the absurdity of the one allegation or the falsehood of the'other is more glaring. Warr, inhis engine-room, was of course absolutely powerless over the course of the vesseL All on board of her concur in declaring that two hours after the ship sailed from Genoa the insurgents rose on them, compelled them to go below, put guards over them, and threat ened to blow their brains out. Directly the insur gents had landed, and the compulsion was removed, the ship sailed far Naples, and on her way thither on a friendly errand was captured on the high seas. From first to last, as far u the seizure of the ship, the crew, and the two English engineers was concerned, there has not been the shadow of a shade of legality in the proceedings of the Neapolitan Government. This seizure took place at the end of June ; we are now in the middle of February. Nearly eight months have elapsed since these two nnoffending Englishmen were carried captive into Salerno in a sort of barbarous triumph; chained like felons; stripped stark naked; throat into a wretched cell, where for four months and a half they were kept, contrary even to such semblance of law as still exists in Naplee, without being permitted to see so much as the British Consul; starved on black lamed and noisome prison broth, and, worse than all, with a maddening sense of neglect and abandon- I sent eating into the very core of their manly English hearts. For these two engi neers, low people as they were, had, strange to say, a dim sense that after all they were English men, that they were being foully punished though they bad done no wrong, and that they were basely deserted by the great country of which they gloried in being natives. They had no blue blood in their mina, but they felt those things almost as acutely as a Right Honourable. They came of a stalwart race, they were denizens of that stout northern town where even the humblest have been accustomed to hear, if not to use, strong language about the rights of free men and the oppression of the despots. These two Newesatle men, though only engineers, actually felt it an addition to their degradation that they were in the gripe of FERDINAND the FALSE; that they were thrust into prison without crime, were kept there without law, and were going to be tried without justice. It may be a low quality, but there is some thing in the average English temperament which makes fiat injustice more loathsome even than the harshest severity ; and these men, besides the burn ing resentment which this sense of wrong kept alive in their rade minds, had to bear also the burden of the thought that they were forgotten by their coun trymen, and abandoned by their Government. These things have produced their natural effect. Warr has been driven mad. His answers are rambling and incoherent. He sees figures, and hears strange expressions in court, which none either see or hear. Finally, he has refused to appear before the tribunal. When our correspondent's last letter left, he was under examination of a medical commission to aecer tain whether his trial could be proceeded with. The next thing we hear of him will probably be that be is shut up for life in a Neapolitan lunatic asylum. Are these things to be tolerated--are they to be explained away, or sneered away, or joked away ? This man Warr has been seized without law, impri soned without law, tried without law, and is now driven mad by a course of persecution, every step in which has been a scandalous violation of interna tional right, and a foul disgrace to the honour of England. And what during these eight months have my Lords PALMERSTON and CLARENDON been doing for these unhappy men—what are they doing even now? The FOREIGN SECRETART, in the Upper House, when last the case was mentioned, simpered out a self-complacent hope that the two prisoners would in due course be honourably ac quitted, and gave vent to a feeble joke or two as to their being not wane treated than Neapolitan pri soners. The Parma Munirrzs, in the Commons, vouchsafed the information that the Law Officers of the Crown would proceed to consider the points as to the legality of the seizure, rand by the Sardinian Government;points on which Count CAVOIII has long since terminated inquiry and proceeded to action. And these are the high-spirited English Ministers— thew) are the Dioscuat of British freedom—these are the men who are to strike blind the despots of the earth by waving over the meanest of English subjects the protecting tegis of Britannia. Faugh ! It is a considerable title to the gratitude of Loma NAPOLEON to have introdnoed a Conspiracy Bill ; it is a still more gratifying offering of the same kind to our faithful ally of Austria to have tamely allowed this unoffending Englishman to be tortured into madness by the lawless oppression of FERDIXAMD the FALSE. The House of Commons, which ensures the triumph of the one act, may mare the indemnity of the other—but the People of England will forget neither. OUT of six hundred and fifty-four members, who constitute the House of Commons, two hundred have determined to allow the French Bill, for the better protection of the French EMPEROR, to be discussed. These two hundred are Ws than one-third of those who are supposed to represent the opinions of some 27,000,000. No fewer than 258 of those whose duty it is to have an opinion hung back because, we pre sume, they have as yet no opinion at all. The sub ject for consideration is both novel and difficult. There is, therefore, something to be said for the step which has been taken. In order to allow time for deliberation it may, perhaps, be reasonable to permit the introduction of this new Alien Bill. To some it may seem more decorous, and more dignified, to give the matter full discussion. But if this be the opinion of those who supported the Government on Tuesday last, or who declined to give an opinion, it is obviously their duty now seriously to consider the question, and to understand clearly the effect of the Bill now on the table of the House. The House of Commons may rest soured of this, that if they are blind to the momentous consequences of this new piece of legislation, the people out of doors are not so eager to be deceived. Consider for • moment what Lord Patinas/vs proposes to do. As the law at present stands say two or more men—whether British subjects or foreigners—conspiring, or, in other words, forming the design to commit murder, are guilty of a usdemeaa or. U, therefore, several persons meet together in their own lodging;, or in a chop-house, and come to the resolution of murdering a foreign Potentate; or if inch persona write letters to each other, and thus arrange to perpetrate such a crime ; they may, if the facts be proved, be found guilty of a misde meanor. Legal jargon is not very intelligible to laymen ; but the effect of the present law is this : the conspirators--those who are suppoeed to hays formed this murderous design—may be summoned before a magistrate, and may be bound to appear to stand their trial ; but before trial they cannot be put into prison. If convicted by a jury, these con spirators may be compelled to pay a considerable fine, and may then be punished by being imprisoned i but until that verdict of a jury is delivered they are comparatively at their nee. No malt c n layliande on an alleged conspirator until he has beet duly sum- ' mooed and has refused to obey the summons. No officerrof justice can obtain access to his letters or corre spondence; for no warrant for that purpose can be obtained. This is now the common law of England, and it has been the common law for centuries. That law is the foundation of our liberty. It is the source of that respect for personal liberty which forms the noblest chapter in our legal history. The right of personal freedom bas always been guarded with the utmost jealousy. It is almost a constitutional super stition. In striot acurdanos with this inveterate idea the English law has always recognised the dis tinction between words and acts—between a design in contemplation and a design in execution. Mo ralists will tell you that the man who has the inten tion to murder another is just as guilty as the man wbo has the dagger in his hand to execute his design. Suppose four persona dining at Claremont should form the project of dethroning the French EMPLIIOI, moralists will tall you that they are just as wicked as four men who provide themselves with some explosive matter and launoh it from a window at the imperial car riage. But jurists and lawyers are of a difluent opinion. They say one is a mere design, the other ' is an accomplished Ibct. They allow time for re pentance. They see the danger to which innocent men would be exposed by confounding a design eviclenoed, by conversation and letters, and a design evidenced by acts and deeds. They say it is very right when a man is attacked that those who see the outrage committed should at once seize the culprit. It is very right when a man has been robbed or murdered, and grave suspicion attaches to some indi vidual, that search-warrants should be granted, and that the rooms, the drawers, the most secret corners of the suspected man's house, should be examined. But this cannot be tolerated in a case of mere criminal intention. No doubt it is very bad to hear a party of men at a dinner-table expressing a desire to put Louts NAPOLEON to death and concocting means for the purpose ; but it would never do to allow the butler to call upon the footman to join him on the instant, and to collar his master and his guests. Words are too easily misunderstood —the dangers of mistake are too serious—to allow anything of the sort. At present, all that could be done in such a case would be to obtain a summons from a magistrate, calling upon the master to answer for his criminal design, for, as we have already ex plained, he would be guilty of a misdemeanor only. But Lord PALMERt3TON proposes to convert this misdemeanor into a felony. In other words, he pro poses to allow any gentleman's butler who thinks that words uttered at table amount to a design to murder any man abroad—the Emperor of FRANCE or the King of NAPLES—to arrest his master at the head of his own table. Lord Patuzasroar proposes to allow any spy of the French Govern ment to obtain search-warrants, so that the drawers, the desks, and secret repositories of every citizen, will be liable to be overhauled, and every line found there to be read and scrutinised. The is the simple effectof converting a conspiracy, which is now a mis demeanor, into a felony. Now, are the people of this country prepared for this P Are they willing to alter the fundamental principles of our criminal law ? Are French spies to be invested with powers which we have hitherto denied to our own officers ? Is the distinction between words and ace so long held sacred by English lawyers to be obliterated P We are told to believe that every Englishman's house is his castle. Where will this axiom find a place, if every house of every English citizen, and of every foreign refugee, is liable to be invaded by police-officers armed with search-warrants, whenever Lorne NAPOLEON or FERDINAND of Naples may see fit? Let not the public imagine that the distinction between a misdemeanor and a felony is merely verbal. It is substantial. If I see a man commit a misdemeanor, I cannot arrest him. If I see a man commit a felony I can. If I commit a felony, a police-officer, with his search warrant, may enter my house, break open my drawers, and read all my papers. He may do this again and again. In short, he may by never-ceasing interfer ence torture me out of the country. If I commit a misdemeanor lam subject to no interference of the sort. Hall those men driven by the storms of State to these hospitable shores are henceforth to submit to this sort of persecution, they mast henceforth be content to forego all the blessings of English inde pendence and the happiness of an English home. THE LONDON PETER HOSPITAL. Yesterday afternoon the annual meeting of the above institution was IseMit the Freammons' Tavern ; Mr. Dety COILNIT ocenplearthe choir. Dr. 13012TEROOD 8111TH reed the Annual Medical Report, which set forth that fever had been lees prevalsat in London than in the three preceding years. The adatimicem had amounted to 901, the daily somber in the hospital being 70. Typhus was ommiSmably mom pevalsat gum said fever, 12 per cent. ; among domestic servants it was 10 per oat., less than one-half of the mortality of the poorest demo gene rally attacked with typhus. The mortality steadily in creased with advancing age, and the gland expe rience of the hospital showed that the risk of life from this formidable malady was twice u great at the age of 31 se it wee at 11, nearly twice as great at 41 sat 21, four times ma great at 61 as at 11, sad nearly four times as great above 65 as at 21. It therefore was evident that when the disease attacked the heads of families it necessarily caused a great deal of dietrees. The peculiar usefulness of the hospital wee, that it checked the progress of this disease, by preventing its spread through the crowded and unventilated courts, amyl, and narrow and filthy streets ef the metropolis. The report concluded by stating that the doors of the hospital were open at all hours of the day and night to destitute wpm; sick of fever, and to all domestio marvants, on payment of a small sum. Tim financial etatienist showed that, including the balance of the previous year of 931. 195., the total receipt. had been 2,8231. 4.. id., and that a balance remained of 6791.65. 4id. The report having been unanimously adopted, thanks were awarded to Dr. Southwood Smith, es also to Lord Monteagle, the President, with a request that he would con tinue to act as president ; and to the physicians, for their ef fective services, as well as to the gentlemen who bad afforded religions completion to the inmates. The present Lord Bishop of London (in the room of the late Bishop Blomfield) and the Hon. and Right Rev. Bishop of Carlisle, and the Bishop of Ripon, were added to the list of vice-presidents. P. R. Hoare, Brq., having been re-elected fissure?, and other °Mows appointed, the proceedings terminated with the customary thanU to the chairman. COURT OP ALDIRMEN. THE CITY POLICE REOULATIONIL—At the Gov't of Aldermen, yesterday, a communication was reoeived from the Commissioner of Pollee, referring to an account of • transaction which appeared M one of our contemporaries, under the head of A Detective's Little Bill." It was there stated that Mr. Henry Forrester bad been despatched to New York in pursuit of • Nottingham trader who had absconded with considerable property, and that having re turned with his man and 3601., he had brought in • bill for 622.1. The Commissioner said .—Upon former occasions have noticed the working of this irresponsible system, and more directly alluded to it in the evident), I gave before the Royal Commission to inquire into the Corporation of the City of London ; and sines the establishment of our detm tire force the subject and its serious ocessequeoces havertill more pressed upon my attention. The ezietence of what is here termed " The eminent City Arm," whom head-quarters are at the Mansion-house of this City, presents ea anomaly in the administration of justice to be found no where slie r and I cannot doubt, when the subject receives the attention of the magistrates of the City, such arrangements will be made respecting item to removealloacasionforsimilar representations. Alderman Sidney said the subject bad occupied much of the attention of the court. There was no doubt among the oommittee that the system of police regu/ation at potent existing required great alteration. The letter referred to a son of one of the Forrester., who had proceeded to a forei6.l country, and though not • sworn constable, had taken a L",:into custody under the name and authority of the Lord ';°: and the City. He moved that the matter be referred to the general purposes committee. Alderman Finnis se conded-the motion, which was carried unanimously. WIIITECROI3II-872EZTPHISON.—Alderman Sidney boht up • report on the subject of the rad of debtors in te erces-street Prison. the repot that the of testators for the relief of debtor: 4 =V be employed b r !s -eining such prisoners as were anxious at once to appear before the oourt, and not in relieving " troublesome old stagers." The report was unanimously agreed to. The court then proceeded to the election of a governor of Whitecross-atreet Prieon,when Mr. Colwell and Captain Hicks having been selected out of Ave candidate% a show of bands wee taken, and there ap =lo for Mr. Colwell and 10 for Captain Hicks. The Mayor gave the casting vote for the litter gentleman. CONVOCATION. The two houses of the Convocation of the clergy of the province of Canterbury amicable& train yesterday. In the Upper Home, mom other pani®a premented, was one by the Bishop of London, from a large body of claw and laity, who prayed that home to take steps to bring the clergy and laity into more intimate with each other, for the general benefit of the eLmab, by the revival of rarideconal synods throughout the province. The Bishop, without committing himself to an particular mode of action, spoke strongly of the ty of effect ing the co-operation of the laity with the elaz i The Archbishop of Canterbury said he might mention synodical meetings, ouch as those prayed for la the petitions, had taken place more than once in the moat important part of his diocese--namely. Kent. Those meetings had been conducted very serviceably, the persons who bad root the cl the churchwardens of the different parishes, bat note with others. In Kent a greet number of the gentry were churchwardens in their dawdles parishes, and [t was not, therefore, necessary that the laity should be e lected merely from the churchwardens. The genteel plan was for the archdeacon to select a °errata number of &ro man as the clerical part of the amembly, mid they, with the laymen, formed themselves into a synod. They had consi dered matters of great importance, and the meettags had been reported to him as being of a most harmo nious and cordial character, giving greet promise of me fulness. These mmeeestinnnggse took plaos every mix months. Their lordahipe afterwards agreed to a report in favour of the adoption of a system of reoognieed resignation of their beldam by incumbents who are no longer able to give their fall energise to the WOOL of the ministry, end to whom pensions should be maligned from the Innelloa for their natural lives. To effect this a careful and th orou gh revision of the various enactments relating to simony wouldbe needed. The prolocutor of the Lower House having been again sum moned, Convocation was formally prorogued by a schedule read by Mr. Bart Dyke, her Majesty's proctor, until August next.—la the Lower Home no business of impatience was transacted. A proposal to establish theological colleges, @operate from the universities, and in connexion with cathedra/a, was negatived. The Rev. Jamie Anderson hen resigned the oflioe at preether of Lincoln's-fan. The office bin the gift of the sixty barbers who compose the corporation. The candi dates at the lest elation were Kr. Randall, motor of Brigid, and now Arehdemon of Berkshire, Archdrixer and Mr. Anderson, who catered It by a mesh majority of votes, =lady by the inter= of the Queen Dowager. The Leader thinks it would have been no more then decent "if Lord Clersadon. when Y. Lam Rollin was publicly attacked in the Howe of Lords, had Warmed Count Waleweld that this statism= had card to take his trial before • British jury. M. Ledrn Boffin has been rated by spies in the imperial pay, who have sonata him to join in plots of aserainathm, but he has smiled than her his house, although upon the sat ocoasioa, should Lord Palmenaca's bill become law, he might give into custody the agent of the Frisch secret police, die him bdore • court, and hand him over to pond servitude. Probably, the writ& might mike a clean braid of it, and contribute towards a history of the prowler by which Prance has been governed since isia." The Nord of Brussels reduces the report of flohanlyre ambition le Evade to its roper psorertker. That chided& to dm me•gmeed, although a ormlieratie poetics at the plats al TeholOhnia has bee; thawed by the littrigas of the seantrames, end is occupied by Brim columns. Mare, socompanied by the monstrance, who odd cling to his hangar, bee retired to the inanithia r ants beyond the above phda. PIESENT FROM PIM= FREDERICK WILLIAM.— We have Jut ern a aeries gold snuff-box, proniated be Ur. B. T. Way, the seporioneadeat of the BoWe-lisitan railway at Dover, by Prime Preariek WM= of Prods, sad nweird by Xr. Way thireggit dr Pranks from the Ores ountry of his Boyd &se: of the war destga sad berg brood fatly orhoirofaa ell sides, while wen the beaches of rare sad thagetrorole richale %V is porosted bgr i 1= as s tolgia ei Ide Boyd s sere el the gad attrition with width arrow bird bent ia Yr. Way's iligarrogat WWI 2111 Inbar hose 6i t i Royal Hieni has pored W'o Dever.—Dever Cheswick. The Conspiracy Bill of Lard Palmerston moms likely to meet with delorminect redden°, la Werldlnsid. • *Me resting is aided for Monday ~keg art, at the Fronarese Tarr, to which have bola lathed arra' nfinsathd gentlersea sad el the serian who arid *plan this etterapt to rider hides distation. We bear of nusereas goat to be add fa th erm ports of the omentry to pethier apdast the bld. DTA= or Lotto SIIIMIXT.—We regret to an aounce the death al Lord ilaidazussammhithrord Himnes y lost, at p, who wee fa lieltr a lynor lrk 'wr the en of M. John jb a b e cp„,i na kielt. 11141.1Mft He monied Deo. ddi I the Has Ithatistla nomma y, Tracy, only pe ddld Hoch sal irtVieeser Tro at the onp of reporerniTairkerszy is the Hoene d Cor a= dim 1811 1837, _nod la dr delleernot year he wee assini by Timm. Nalbermarra ,amore a per. He essamsdtheasms Dag diseemnsal Ass the deals elide Mir 4a4ow. la lie ha was appalled Lord Ideate , and et Ileimellenhie. Na Is mosseded In the dually boneme and sins by Ns Med scat, the Hem. Thomas OWN Iliskeryftur,llNFs is VAIL sad ranted is 1831 0 Ulm Pomo; semi datiPir d Xt. George Hay Dew- gbe Court. The Queen and the Prince Consort, with the Princess Alice. attended by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Honda Stopford, Major-General Buckley and Colonel P. H. Seymour, visited the Photographic Gilkey in the South KmadogGin Mnaeum, yesterday morainic. The Primo Consort afterwards rode on horseback with the Prince of Wales, attended by his Equerry in Waiting. The Queen, with the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, attended by the Durham of Wallington, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Lord Byron, and MajorHeneral Buckley, honoured the Adelphl Thurso with her presence in the TheSrinoe Consort, attended by Lord George Lennox, se!! Coloael F. H. Seymour, went to the Royal Institution, Albeenarte-eireet, last ti'veniue. The Prime of Leiniugsa arrived at Clarence House, St. James's, the residence of the Duchess of Kent, yastarday, from Portsmouth. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat day. An appeal, " Unide &dab Tencatapermal Bas v. Pemmasamy V. Naidoo" (Madras ), part heard, was con tinued. Present—Sir C. Cromwell, the Right Hon. T. Pem berton Leigh, Dr. Lushington, end Bir B. Ryan. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Paaland Islands. Despatches were sant yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of Canada. His Serene Highness Prince Victor of Hohenlohe has left Howells's Hotel, St. Jimis's-street, for Ports mouth. His Excellency the Ambassador of Franoe left hThert-gete House, yesterday morning, for Paris. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter left town yesterday, for Barghley Hall, Stamford. The Countess of Desert has left town for Desert House, county Billow. The Earl and Countess of Warwick have arrived at Howohia's Hotel. . _ The Vicomte Cheverie hu arrived at the Bruns wick Hotel, St. James's, from Paris. Lord Claude Hamilton arrived in town, last even ing, from Aldershot, Sir Clifford and Lady Constable and Miss Chiehester have left Claridge's Hotel, for Burton Constable, Yorkshire. The Austrian minister of commerce, Chevalier de Toggenburg, has 'eft Virtue for the Tyrol, where he is about to merry the sister of his first wife, the Counter flaratharn. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge had a select Mole to dinner last evening at her apartments in St. Zsineas Pala. Then war present, In addition to the Princess Mary, the following pinonages of distino dos : his Excellesey the Belgian Minister and Madams Von de Weyn, the Earl end Countess Delman and Lady Are bale West, the Bed of Bardwicks, the Earl Cowper, Lord Deana, Lead Frederick Paniet and Lady Candi= Soarer set, sad Baron Insfebsok, of the royal duchess's household. Her royal highness received a small circle of hinds len in the ening, the Mins including the Countess Pasigny, hi. Excelleney the Saran= Minister, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Eseelkinoy the Portuguese Minister, and the Countess Lanai°, his Excellency the Russian Minister sad the Counsel Chantowitch, his Excellency the Menes lands Minister, Count Chotek, the Marquis sad Merniems of Absecon sad the Ladies Raman, Merin ilerniness of Alleamay, the led sad Comers of the led end Countess of Sbalbante, Viscount Chelsea, Sm. P. Bing, Lint.-Ontersi the Hat. W. Ashburnham, Coned and Mr. Biddulph, de. Lord Loraine is on a visit to his father, the Earl of Beverley, at Warboro', Torquay. The Dowager Mar chioness of Conyngham, the Countess of Albemarle, and Lady Caroline Cud, are also among the latest arrivals. Among the arrivals at St. Leotards are the Countess of Clarendon, Centres of Chesterfield, Lady McMinn., Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Lady Constance Villiers, Lord Enniskillen and family, he. WlLLs.—The will of Sir Francis Beaufort, C. 8., wm proved tuner 18,00 W. personalty. Ths executers were L. P. Wilson, Esq., the Rev. D. A. Beaufort (the son), and t he Rm. W. Palmer. By a codicil he bequeaths his library to hi. children recommending than to assemble and divide the same, each to select a work of tee sr mon volumes, beginning with the eldest, and then the next In age, and so in rotation, to the youngest, continuing the mime course the whole is disposed of. Rio portfolio of charts, ntanuorlpla of survey, end surveying notes, may be disposed of or divided in like manner.—The will of William Swordsr, Eeq., of Hats, was proved under 00,0001. ; that of Alfred Rymer, Esq., of Nessaa-street, 10,0001.—David Lewis, BK., of llanolester, 210,00W.—Bisuirettat /mks New,, Captain Owego A. Halsted, secretary at Lloyd'se Las acoapted the rothanaant of 18a. a-day, and has so oordhagly beet removed hos the actin het,— paned Styria I Baum. LATEST INTELLIGENCE, FRANCE. (stn AND 11117811 TRI.ZOILAPI4 PARIS, SATURDAY MORNING. The Moniteur states in an article this morning, that the measures recently taken to defend and con solidate the constitution were determined upon some time ago. The attack upon the Emperor has neither inspired nor aggravated these measures; they are addressed to but one category of criminals clearly defined. France, which has just witnessed the Em press's courage, knows that in the event of misfor tune, she would find in her another Blanche of Castile, ready to defend the rights of her son, and make of him a prince after God's heart. INDIA. TRIESTE, FBA. 12, 9.30 ♦.r. MR. R. SIMSON, UNDER-SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, TO THE HON. THE SECRET COMMITTEE, EAST INDIA HOUSE. CALCUTTA, JAN. 9. The Commander-in-Chief, having marched to. wards Futtehghur, was opposed by the rebels a the bridge over the Kalee Nnddee ; he attacked and de feated them, on the 2nd of January, with heavy lose, capturing seven guns—two of them 18-pounders. Futtehghur was occupied without opposition on the 4th of January ; the enemy have now evacuated it, after their defeat on the 2nd, taking with them three guns. The heavy guns were found in position. Much property belonging to the gun and clothing agencies has been saved. A quantity of gold and silver plate and other pro perty belonging to the Nana has been captured near Bithoor. The insurgents at Puttia were attacked and dis persed by Colonel Seaton's column on the 17th of December. Twelve guns were captured and 300 rebels killed. We lost one man only. The enemy were also defeated at Mynpooree by Colonel Seaton's column on the 27th of December ; all their guns (six) taken, and 230 killed ; none re ported killed on our aide. Sir James Ontram, on the 22nd of December, attacked and dispersed the rebels, who had ap proached his camp in force. The loss on our side was trifling ; we captured four guns and several ammunition waggons. This defeat has dispirited the enemy and given confidence to the villagers, who are beginning to bring supplies into our camp. Brigadier Campbell crossed the Ganges at Alla• habad, and ou the sth of January attacked and de• fasted a rebel Nazim, near Secundra, killing 330 men. Our loss was one man killed, and one (pm?). The frontier Tuhseels were attacked, and sore buildings burnt. The defeat of the rebels at Secundra will restore tranquillity in this quarter. Nothing new from Azimghar. The Goruckpore rebels were attacked and de. feated by Rowcroft's column on the 26th of Decem• ber at Sohumpore, losing three guns and all their ammunition, baggage, and one casualty on our side. Brigadier-General M'Gregor writes that Mahe. rajah Jung Bahadoor's force was at Pudravna. On the lit of January the rebels retired to Capin Gunge. The Ohoorks army has been most orderly and well conducted, and the villagers flock to the camp in numbers with supplies. The force was expected to reach Goruckpore en the Bth of January. Ooruckpore was taken on the 6th by the force under Maharajah Jung Bahadoor. The enemy bad entrenched themselves strongly, but made a feeble resistance. Seven guns were taken, and 200 mu killed. Our loss was only two Ghoorkas killed and seven wounded. The country is very friendly, and supplies &bon. dant. Captain Osborne, with the troops of the &well Rajah, took the city of Myhere by storm on the 28th Dec., capturing two guns. The fort of Myhere was also taken on the 3rd of January. The direct route to Bombay has been re-opened. Nothing new from Indore. The Maharajah of Owalior has come to Agra ot a visit. _ The Dacca mutineers crossed the Teed& river, and made way through dense jungles into Nepaul. A Ghoorka regiment has been sent against thee by Jung Bahadoor, and it is supposed they will fall back spin to the eastward. Abrynle is keeping a sharp look-out for them. The Chittagong mutineers are wandering about in the Bacillar jungles ; many have been killed and captured by the Bylhet Light Infantry and tis Lookiss. All quiet at Julpigoree. A portion of the ladies and wounded of the LA MM garrison arrived in Calcutta on the 9th d January. RAVEN. Trieste, Feb. 12, 9.16 a.m. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAIL We have been favoured by the Peninsular Kai Oriental Steam Navigation Company with the M lowing telegram : "The steam-ship Equine, with the India ani China mails, arrived at Marseilles last evening. " The mails left for London at 10 p.m." ARMY ESTIMATES 702 Homo. This morning ware Maned the army estimate' d dilettve and non-ellioare services from Apra 1, 1858, it March 31, 1850. The had keen la bents( an 130,135, being ea kens at 3,32. over *ems at bist yen. The items in the alien service' are me Mows :—lmmed Ann pay, and mamma 3,681,0271., bah* a detanse dr/SPOOL ; ditto admedbmsso charges, 615,6611., Wag ma Inman of 62,6001.; wheal Watts, 160,0004 a &MOM of 50,0001. • yel'l's.. anti 88,3001., ma inane of 37,7185. Civil Betablishami Deportammte of the anatary d State for War, and d dt Gana CocanamdiTin-Clief. 182,0774, a dimes d 1,93214 reenehorerlas estahlielizents, ener keepers, beret-asieturs, ledginse—reorey, re* ht., 349,0001., a decrease of 27,2381.; wept sedan, labourers, dc., 538,3174, an lame* 106,4491. Sappho' : Clothing and neemaries, On" ea Incresee of 270,8901.; proviakee, hesp, 40E11,6244 ea hones of 125,7241. ; warlike dere 0 0 lad end -• servios, 844,7271., ma berme of Web and buildings : --fortifications, 190,18014 twee µ997; civil luddinge, 168,7801.; bearrob, 855,3111.1 showing an faunae oa the two Hoes of 134 11111 liducatioael and scientific breaches, 163,2871.; a denewei 10,4574 The total elective services ere 9,299,3191. ednii s 9,291,3804 ha year. In the now eirodve nervier the ems to be voted ere follows :—ltewerds for military Nevi" 25,3301, • door of 9761. Pay cd general elm, 59,51114 dlowar, 11,4181. Pay of reduced sad Naked else., 521.1371.; dregs" 37,4991. Widows' peraleas r empeduesis alknro" 908,1321.; *mesa% 17,7541. Pewees sad ellowearee wounded Where, 51,24314 hew" 3,3801. In-peasher 31,3721.; &mese, 58W. Oat-paseion, 1,2006314 fir eneas, 33,1761. Supersanuatioa 'Dowsers, 130,4101.; tr creme, 8,4101. The total nevaeotive who mount * MIAOW Aphid 2,2 21 , 1766 111 t 7vog. hr voted T11.186863"1eadia1"1859"1e1ivL746711"v5171;b16511"1".• flit inataebe of 96,1141. E... urna H er t ai or TRI. The Bank a Justice Court of As mil pl the re which d, now KITS oocupied indict= will dou The Itslf-pao of the pi Wu coy gentian!, entirely and the indicate military solely al eppear.o the ben] Abaco Into coo bout of them be very lit demo= atatema than an There the late litunph Macleod Hauled bias C Valiant Cochnu Worm' cdence, him= time fo elate. One requ ground Mte7 radioed The John Willie Joust! maa P Witha ifsetit Tonlm Biala Bevan Media ton Pi Olen I Eadail Willis The Bon a Brow fendai For . Idr. 13 Attor Kam Re g ot Coleri For Cotter cltore Kr the 1r the !:4 Bli said he 0( delay whle poI • till