The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-20 00:00:00

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As a principle of pore iistance and obstruction, Toryism has pro ..):y seen its best and its worst days. t.• for the irregular leadership of a political : Mier of fortune it has discarded its old name , 01 has taken a new ono which means anything nothing. Mr. DISRAELI'S "educated" follou( is themselves "constitutionalists," in contrAdis' action, it should seem, to some iemqcracy of the future, which, by a tr incongruity, is to be the off spring a Tory Reform Bill. For the present, 1,3 Tory when in power and in office is like one (.. those birds or beast* which by a long Fromm o. eomestication, and inekr changed cli mactic other conditions, ham insensibly become, in coars. of time, a new species. Something of the 1.1 the cQlour, and the habits re mahis, bw. a skilful and observant naturalist easily (Us. re the gradual assimilation to a new type. Ti pn:cess is nut always in tho sense of ame!iorat •• ; sometimes it is rather deterioration and dt..;t ..!rtaccnce. Occasionally a higher type is reac, or at any rate ono more adapted to the mestic uses of a civilised society ; onnii,inin: perhaps, the vigour and ;zrace of the old wild :aure with the serviceable utility of the lIXOW " organization. \Vithuui• the slightest disrespect, we take the t....iicovor in tho now career of Lord CRAW son,:i: a:. instance of this curious and interesting proec s, :.r•1 we may add a most favourable and hopeful i; .tauce. It seems but the other day that this c aii it and accomplished man was making himn If a 'lane in the House and in the country by the i. 141 i and daring of his scornful and defiant a- sAults upon the Liberal Government and the I ;bend party. No matter shat the bill, or the or the antagonist, he was always in the fel ut, spurring hard and home into the very thick of tho tight, unsparing, unrelenting, master of all weapons, of sarcasm, personality, reasoniii6 denunciation, giving no quarter and ace, piing no retreat. There was no pretence of strategy or of tactics in his way of wa:l ire. To the very eve of his accepting a seat in t h..• Cabinet ho spoke like one with no en gagement:, in the past, and with no responsibilities in the future. A week later he re-appeared in the house, on the Treasury Bench, Minister for India, and already one of those rare ministers who excite the generous envyof their habitual adversaries more than the a•iluiration of their habitual allies ; a minis. ter superior to his party and sure to survive it. The eapa-ity at once brilliant and sincere which he display( d in presenting at ten days' notice his Indian Budget, was not more remarkable than the gracious c mirtesy with which he acknowledged the 'services and assistance of his predecessors. The fiery party leader, the uncompromising assailant, had disapjkiared, and in his stead was found a calm, considerate, anxious, and thoughtful statesman. After the recess which produced the Reform Bill it is not too much to say that Lord Causeless reappeared in the House in possession of a consider able administrative reputation. That he would have justified and increased it had he remained in office was beyond dispute. How or why he sud denly seceded from the Cabinet and left Mr. DISR %ELI to " educate " his party is matter of history. Whether he might have remained in the Cabinet without loss of dignity or self respect is a question upon which political casuists may differ but which only one man could decide. What is certain is that in abandoning office and separating himself from his party connexion he served the interests of his order, if not of his country, better than by submitting to be " edu " cated" into compliance with a policy from which his conscience revolted. Intellect and conscience are not so commonly found together in public men that we can afford to take no note of the conjunction when we find it. Consci ence without intellect often succeeds only in making a public man impracticable and, as the French say, impossible. Intellect without conscience may make the brilliant and successful leader of a bewildered party. Both together help to form a statesman not incapable of reconciling progress with stability and great hopes with great tradi tions. If Lord CRANBORNI will restrain and conquer a certain besetting irritability and fastidiousness, which belong rather to the literary thanthepolitical temperament, and if he will pursue the path on which he entered last evening—a path of prudent conciliation rather than of careless compromise, of a just discernment of exigencies rather than of infidelity to convictions or indifference to prin ciples, he will achieve a distinction which is not always compat►ble with place and power. His rebuke to the " all or nothing " school of blind resistance and precipitate flight, his confesaion of a tendency on the part of his political associates to " pursue for many years a steady obstruction, and " then give away to an unreasoning panic," his frank avowal of the folly of "no surrender," in dicate an open and candid mind, disciplined by ealtascrifice, and awakened to tholiaditiat of time and change. V ir - 7 1 r. " — 4—e THE BULGARIAN VlPlSelifie t 4 ' J . Tan cry of " Wolf 1 " has been so often raised in vain in connection with the Eastern question, that one is inclined to receive with incredulity any flush alarm with respect to the speedy outbreak of hostilitiei in European Turkey. Yet it cannot be denied that affairs on the banks of the Danube are at the present moment in anything but a tranquil state, and that a degree of sghation exists there which might lead to serious em broilments. Recent accounts from the East represent Bulgaria as ripe for an insurrection, and it is evident, notwithstanding the denials from St. Petersburg, that Russian agents are at work fo menting the disaffection of the people. We in the West are too apt to pass over with entire indiffe rence the vast regions lying to the south-east of the Austrian empire, and to forget that a large, and to a great extent a homogeneous population is striving to develope a new country in what has been called " the border lands of the " Christian and the Turk." The Slaves of European Turkey number from ten to twelve millions, and, although they are divided among different principalities with distinct names, they are held together by a common feeling of nationality. They designate themselves "South Slavonians," and under this title keep friendly relations with their northern congeners, the Slaves of Austria. But it is to Russia, rather than to Austria, that the Servians and Bulgarians lean. The majority are members of the Greek church, and in their estimation the Czars has almost a sacred character. The two chief provinces of the Slavonic part of European Turkey are Servia and Bulgaria, and it is here that the ten dency to insurri ion is at present most strongly developed. In Servia there is less occasion for this than in Bulgaria ; for the former province has enjoyed a quasi independence for several years, while the latter is still subjected (with cer tain modifications), to the alien rule of theOsmanli. The inhabitants of both provinces, however, pine for a distinctly recognised nationality, and for emancipation from the control, or even suzerainty, of Mahommedans. They do not forgot the days of their prosperity in the early Christian centuries, when they formed independent kingdoms of considerable power and wealth, which the Greek Emperors were glad to have for allies, under pretence of " protecting " them. l Bulgaria, indeed, felt itself so strong in the year 1 1185, that the then King renounced any further dependence on his patron at Constantinople, saying that the Greek Emperors needed prat action a great deal more than ho did. At all times Bulgaria has been the best cultivated part of Turkey, and it is so to this day. A largo quantity of corn is grown there ; flax, hemp, and tobacco are amongst the articles of export ; and the extensive forests which cover portions of the Balkan range yield timber, which is floated down the rivers for transmission to the towns on the Danube. Travellers in that part of Europe speak highly of the industry of the Bulgarian peasants, of the comfortable charts-1 ter of their dwellings, and of the neat cultivation of their fields and gardens, which contrast very I favourably with tho rudeness and poverty observ able in Wallachia. It is painful to think that a country so circumstanced may be on the eve of a desolating struggle ; and it is questionable whether such a struggle would result in any good. By the necessity of her situation, Turkey has been obliged of late years to exhibit a conciliatory disposition towards her Christian populations ; and unless the South Slavonians are possessed of a very decided capacity for self-government (which is somewhat doubtful), their emancipation from Turkey would probably end in subjection to Russia, and that could hardly be a gain to anyone. Wurxx the exploits of the Alabama nave ." brought the relations between two of the , greatest countries in the world to such a point , that it requires tact and forbearance to pre vent a disagreeable quarrel, the captain of the cruiser, the redoubtable Mr. SEMMES, not only lives at his ease in the South, but seizes such oppor- ' tunities as pass for reminding the American people of the obligations they are under to him. Thus in the New York Times, of the Ist, we find him publishing what is called in America " a card," in which ho describes with pride the methods he followed when he "struck sturdy and heavy blows at the com " merce of the enemy, as was my duty." He refers with edifying indignation to the cam paign of General SHILIIMAN and "other Vandals" of the land. "It is time," adds the gallant captain, " that all this senseless clamour about " the piracies of the Alabama had ceased. Her " commission was as legitimate as that of General " Las, and no one but an ass will seek to draw " any distinction. A slanderous Northern press " has poisoned the public mind as to the career of " my ship, and believing in the fairness of the " American people, I design at ray leisure, and as " opportunity may offer, to present to my country " men the facts—those stubborn things at which " all the radical pack, Blanche, Tray, and Sweet " heart, may bark in chorus, but not one tittle "of which can they alter." The spectacle of the commander of the Alabama boasting of her career in the midst of those who suffered from it, is, taken with the international dif ficulties with which it is surrounded, a novelty in I the history of nations, and could only be afforded in a country where the theoretic freedom of the philosopher is realised. WE learn to-day, with more regret than imr prise, from our Paris correspondent, that at last M. SCHNILIDIR, the President of the Corps Lifgis latif, has completely lost his voice. The press debates have been too much for it ; the wonder is he has preserved it so long. M. SOKNZIDES taxes his vocal organ more than all the talking ministers put together. Be the speaker Imperialist or Oppoaitionist, the case is rare in which the hon. Pam:omit does not see an occasion for a word. Sometimes it is a running accompaniment ; at others an angry rebuke; and; not unfrequently, a sarcastic interpallation. The Moniteues reports are diversified by M. &arm- Dilefl epigrams. The SPXLIZIt of the House of Commons has hardly the fate of IL Smarriums to fear, unless like one mentioned by DANTE, he grows house from long silence. The Nord gives a curious calculation as to the proportion in which rewards were distributed to the ex hibitors of Fran" England, Belgium, Austria, and Buda at the Universal Exhibition. Frame had 115,025 exhi bitors, of whom 9,122 were &diminished either by medals or honourably mentioned—that is 60 per asst. ; Great Belida, 6,176 exhibitors, 1,096 received rewards pre. portion, ES per oust. ; Austria, 2,094 exhibitors, 916 nomi nated, &o. —that is 43 per emit. ; Primed, 2,949 exhibitors, 486 nominated-21 per end. ; end Wean, 10,216 !Atkin, 11040 of orison raceivol _ per seat. on the okolo ; thanolora Sokinal, for ohs taiga of her industrial productions, took Moo awed Plita. 4l boom st 603:40 world. ‘s r i." zee' 'REM4.Y EVEI b?.hkio RAI .AbOit z ion DID Weditetoky l llit llastv March. A select committee has been appointeg" to con sider whether any alteration can be made in the arrange ments of the House of Commons, so as to suable a greater samba of members to hear and take part in the proceed ings ; and to consider the arrangement of the several rooms and offices attached to the house, and the means of mess to the same, with a view to the greater convenience of members in the discharge of their duties ; and how better acoommodation can be provided within the precincts of the house for the transaction of departmental business, during the sittings of the house, by members holding offices in the government." A select committee on standing orders have issued the following notice :—" Parliamentary agents are required, in all cases where statements are to be delivered in at the meeting of the select committee on standing orders, to leave copies of the same with each member of the committee, at his residence, not later than three o'clock in the afternoon of the day before the day on which the committee is appointed to meet." Mr. Neste has given notice that he will move to-morrow " That the constant recurrence of Impractical resolutions and the proposal or suggestion of extravagant and impossible remedies are the great obstacles to the restoration of peace in Ireland, and to the prosperity of the Irish people." Next Monday Mr. Candlish will auk the Secre tary of State for the Home Department whether, during the present session, be intends to introduce a bill to pre vent tbo pollution of rivers ; or, if he does not intend to legislate on the whole subject, if ho will introduce a bill to prevent solids being deposited in rivers. Mr. Sheridan proposes on Tuesday week to more a resolution relating to the reduction of the fire insurance duty. The Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill was issued this morning. It is divided into three parts, the first relating to franchises, the second to the distribu tion of seats, and the third to supplemental provisions relative to incidents of the franchise. The bill, as printed, covers twenty-one pages, and there are appended to it eleven schedules. LETTERS OF CORRESPONDENTS. The Daily News this morning contains letters from its correspondents at &lurid up to Feb. 2. The state of the roads, the scenery, the sports, and the commissariat arrangements, supply a con• siderable portion of material for the letters. The Daily News " special " representative expecte that Theodore will stand a siege, but looks for a speedy termination of the expedition, the King surrendering the prisoners. There were at Senabf nearly a regiment and a half of Euro- peans, two regiments of native cavalry, one of native infantry, and two mountain batteries. Another correspondent, however, anticipates that . _ Theodore, after a short stay at Magclala, will take the prisoners into the Gallas country. "Should ho do so, the pursuit would not be a cliff- cult matter ; for with an army, a cumbrous piece of ordnance, and a number of valuable prisoners to drag along with him, his progress would be but slow. There is, of course, the risk that, madman as ho is at certain moments, he may in a drunken fit vent his fury on the captives, and provide for his own safety by flight ; or the rains, about the times and seasons of which nobody knows anything definite, may come upon us, and compel the cessa tion of all operations for a few months—a contingency the result of which we can only dimly conjecture." Major Grant had been received by the Prince of Tigrd with as much parade as the manners and customs of the people would allow. Mr. Blandford, the geologist, who has been actively engaged in exploring the pass between the Upper Sooroo and Rara Guddy, has found traces of water in various places, so that if the wells now in use run short—of which, however, there seems at pre sent no probability—the force will have others to fall back upon. The following extracts occur in either the letters of the Times or Daily News : THE FATAL ACCIDENT TO COLONEL mnnw. I found Senate on my arrival yesterday (January 2), fell of a terrible tragedy which has cut a gloom over all the camp. One of the most popular and promising officers attached to the Abyssinian force, Colonel Dunn, of the 33rd Regiment, had two days before acct. dentally shot himself. He had gone out with his rifle after game, and from the account of his native servant, who was the only person with bins when the accident happened, it seems that sa be was stooping forward over a ditch to get some water both barrels suddenly went off, and lodged their contents in his left aide. His death must have been instrintancons. He was just able to say, "Run fora doctor," and then dropped dead. There is not an officer of the same rank in this force whose loss would have been more severely felt, Indeed, the whole army has sustained a heavy lose in the death of Colonel Dann. He was the youngest colonel in it, and his career bad already gives sufficient promise of distinction to justify the belief of his friends that the highest military appointments were within his reach. In the over•momorsble charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava he won the Victoria Cross, having it conferred upon him by the unanimous vote of the comrades who saw bis gallant bearing in the peril which they shared with him; and partly in consequence of this achievement, but more as a reward for the great share which be took in raising the 100th Regiment in Canada, when the India., mutiny broke out, he obtained his promotion so earl,. Though a strict disciplinarian, he was greatly beloved by his soldiers and all under him. The servant with him when the accident occurred—one of a race which rare allows itself to be betrayed into the outward display of any violent emotion—war so overcomo that in the first frenzy of grief he broke to pieces the rifle which had killed his master, and even those who did not know Col. Dunn well enough to appreciate his good qualities cannot but feel a keen pang of regret at the thought that so gallant a soldier, in the prime of manhood and with fresh hopes of distinction just dawning upon him, should have died so inglorious a death. ILLEPHLWP SHOOTING. Conversation now runs a little upon elephant shooting, • surgeon of the Belanai." Regiment having lately killed three, one in the set of charging. Mr. Fitzroy, of the Artillery, has also begged two, They are represented u much more difficult to shoot than the Asiatic members of the family, as the brain is more completely pro tected by bone. The last chase took plane yesterday, Mr. Edwardes, of the Beloooheee, and Major Berlin forming the party. They found • herd, and for some time pursued it without finding an opportunity of delivering an effective shot; at length Mr. Edwardes, getting impatient, fired into an elephant whose tall was turned towards him, at a distance of about 20 yards. The elephant whoeled round and charged. Mr. Edwards., owing to the sloping ground and • heavy rifle, could not bring up his piece sufficiently quick, fired without covering, and missed. Tho elephant put his trunk round the bunter's body, threw him to the earth, and tried to pierce him with his tusks, bat thanks to the roughness of the spot on which be lay failed, he then attempted to put his foot on his enemy's body, but while thus changing his tactics he received two bullets from Major Seville's rife, which made him fly. Mr. Edward., hes been conveyed to Sooroo ; he has two or three ribs broken and is seriously hurt, but is prozreedng favourably. Mg ROBERT NANO. A more energetic and übiquitous conamander-in-chid it would be difficult to find, and I am glad to say that he preserve' kis health marvellously committed's( all the [•tlgues he has had to encounter. Always on horseback before 7 a.m., herd at work all day either writing or in specting details, he supervises every department personally and wherever he has been the effects of his presence are plainly visible. If the results of the war in Abyadnia are only in accordance with the real and ability of the leader of this unprecedentedly difecultexpediMon,the British will indeed have little cause for complaint. Money, much money, it has cost, will cost, and must cost, but every farthing expended by the advise of General Napier you may depend upon it will have been well laid out, LINO TICIODOZZ. The stories about his proceeding am ac strange as ever —too strange sham{ for invention. He is still carrying out with a vengeance his last theory, that he hes • mis sion from God to scourge the wicked nation which refused to let itself be reformed under his gentle guidance. He sumramed his chief followers around him the other day, told them that they had better destroy him, es otherwise he should destroy them, and then Lunched hie spear through the body of the nearest. The rest, eaye the story, threw themselves down and kissed the ground. He doss not spare even his own picked soldiers, and if a tithe of what is told of him be tree, he is almost without • preoe dent in history, Other tyrants have made the nobles, the people, and the soldiery by tame their victims ; but Theo dors make, war upon thaw all at ones, end Is bated only lama then he is feared.' to cover the in gold. Signor ' in gold of all _jut distinction. Minister of Finance, • order of the day the adoption of the proposal of Signor Ferraris would ruin Italian credit abroad. Count Cembray-Digny refused to accept a pro posal made by Signor Fosse to suspend the discus sion of the question, declaring that such an ad journment would have an equally injurious effect. Signori Sella, blinghetti, and Finzi condemned the proposal of Signor Ferraris as contrary to the national good faith. The close of the discussion , was then proposed, but not put to the vote, the chamber not forming a quorum. Signor Ferraris will reply to-morrow. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Fn. 20. The Crown Prince is about to leave in a few days upon a visit to England. _ _ The Copenhagen papers state that H. H. H. the Princess of Wales has been invited to be present at the inauguration of a monument at Nice, in me mory of the late Czarewitch, but has been unable to accept the invitation. .. , . . INENINGI,. FEBRUARY 20 HMO 20, . . .. - kil OR , , ; ' N N IKW S nu odditional Iret#ei 20, i , • ,000 fi re lostN . cstalued by Iplyin , abroad in _ • S DAY.) 4 _,_ v Tefisris oPpoded the - 'ant abroad -1---- - " --.-- Offiktre of . : debts withold Count Cambrai- 0 km, the MinistA TUE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. the chamber to pass to the ord —o—. on this question, and said that the (he (curt. OSEORNE, Fn. 19. The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Princess Louise. Her Majesty went out this morning with Princess Louise. The Prince of Wales presided yesterday at a meeting of the governors of Wellington College, held in the Palace of Westminster. The governors present wore :—The Duke of Cambridge, LG., the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., Earl Stanhope, the Earl of Ellenborougb, G.C.8., Viscount Rvereley, the Lord Bishop of Oxford, Lord Redesdale, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, M.P., Sir J. W. Hogg, But., Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., John Walter, Eq., Henry R. Cox. Esq., the Rev. G. R. Gleig. M.A., and Mr. George Chance, secretary. Dr. Benson, the head muter of the college, was in attendance. The governors met at 11 o'clock and set until half-put one. The Prince and Princess of Wales went to the Prince of I Wales's Theatre in the evening, attended by the Countess of Morton and Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel. Prince and Princess Christian, Prince Christian Victor, and Princess Henrietta of Schleswig-Holstein arrived et Frogmore from Osborne on Tuesday evening. Despatches were sent yesteriay from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Gibraltar, Malta, Ceylon, 'long Kong, Labium, the Straits Settlements, the Mauritius, the Aus tralian Colonies, and to the Governor-General of Canada. Tat Parwca or Weiss vita Hen MA.Tzsrr's 9TMS ROUNDB.—The run with her Majesty's stag hounds on Tuesday, and in which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales took part, was of an extraordinary character and the most celebrated this season. The deer, Yateley, was turned out shortly before noon, and after a rattling run of two hours and forty.five minutes, taken about four miles beyond Trips, a distance of some thirty miles from the meet at Iver Heath. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, with some few others of the field, were in at the finish, the deer taking refuge in as outbuilding of a farm hone., where the Prince was hospitably entertained. He afterwards returned to London by train. Mr. Harry King, the Queen's huntsman, with the hones and dogs, put up at Tring for the night and yesterday returned to the kennels, reaching Windsor about hall-past 3 o'clock in the after noon. The deer Yateley, which afforded this famous run, was brought back to the royal demesne at the same time. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prince's Christian, accompanied by the Princess Henrietta, left Windsor for London this morning at 10.20, and arrived 1 about 11 o'clock. MATE or SIR WILLUX BULL—The following appeared in oar Second Edition (yesterday :—We regret to announce the death of Sir William Shee, one of the judges of the Court of Queen's Bench, who died at a quarter past eight o'clock yesterday morning, at his residenoe in Sussex-place, Hyde-park-gardens. His lord ship was the eldest son of Mr. Thomas Shoe, of Thomas. town County Kilkenny, by the daughter of Mr. John Dwell, of Seeing Castle, Kent. He was born in 1804, and married, in 1837, Kira Gordon, daughter of Sir J. Gordon, Bart., of Gordonstown. The learned judge, who was educated at Ushaw Roman Catholic College, was called to the bar in 18%, and went the home circuit, of which be ultimately became the leader. He was created 661 cent-et-law in 1840, and became Queen's serjeant in 1845. In 1864 he was appointed a judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, on which occa- sion he was knighted. At the general election in 1847 he was an unsuccessfal candidate for Marylebone. In 1852 he was returned to the Howe of Commons for Kilkenny, which he represented till 1857, and unsuccess fully contested at the general election in that per. We are informed the learned judge was taken ill on Saturday, the Bth inst., having the day previouly attended to his duties in the Court of Queen's Bench. Since then he had gradually declined in strength, and within the last few days his condition had been °outdated hopeless. I The Right Hon. W. R. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone reoeived a *elect party at dinner last eVea. l leg at their home on Carlton-house-terrace. Her Majesty has been pleased, upon the recom mendation of the government, to appoint the fellow. ing royal ocumbeionere to examine and report ups the proceedings and recommendations of the in timations& ocaferesse held in Paris last per, under the swim of the Free& government, relative to the artablishment of a universal system of international coinage :—Vbeount Halifax (cheirman),Bight Hon. O. P. M.P., Bight Hu. Stephen Cave, M.P., Bight Hon. J.Wileon Patten, ILP., Right Hon. M. LenshiM, Sir John Lubbock, Barra L. de Rothschild, the Guenter of the Bank, Mr. T. Berle& M.P., Mr. Thomson Hanby, M.P., Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., Mr. Hubbard, M.P., the Astronomer /loyal, the Master of the Mint. Mr. Rims Wilson, of the Treasury, who was deputed with the Muter of the Mint to attend the Paris conference, will lot es secretary of the um:Madan. Tarn Irma Puss Paosictrnores. Husinf, WEDNESDAY WHlM—After deliberating for two haws and a ball, the pry found Mr. Pigott guilty on ell the counted the indictment except that referring to the am. Bement " 98, 48,8&" He catered into his own reoapi. seism to appear ca Friday for judgment. The case aphid, the proosedankile will be tried to-morrow. CamSanrnis UwivmrrT ZLECTION.—The poll at 4.26 yesterday afternoon was as follows :—Mr. Besse. ford Hope, 724: Mr. Cleaeby, 207. COUNT HIMPEZO LED TIM HONVIDS. The New Prof Prise of Vienna says :—" We barn hos Pm& that the Neipping affair has been amicably smogs& bp , Baron von Woukheim, who was requested by tie to mediarnshetwsenthepardee. Themesednef play, Gabled Beet/hi, and Word Wails millel=p7L Udvaraold, the President of the Heaved Amemillak and I pissed in his bands a doormat which stated A* aswai Nippon raver mut to insult the Homed limedieldop that be river applied the word mandabms' IS thigh the ezpeerion he moil with reforms' to the pest Wag been Vat it wee' painfuL` " The Paris papers announce that the fisittiege of the Drawee de Moray with Marquis 41 0111 4 Ii ii h pulp 111 d Akdie :AO ,~ ~ THE ELECTIONS IN BAVARIA. "The elections in Bavaria," says the Prase, "are exactly as we had 'omen. Count de Bismarck has met with • cheek at Munich for which the devotedness of the Cabinet of Carlaruhe will not give him a full oompensa tion. The result, says a letter from the Ba ♦arian capital, is that not • single deputy will dare to vote for the enemas of the swanky into the Confederation of the North. The Prima= Prints Minister will find souse thirty meshes for the Southern Kingdom mons his most implacable adversaries in the Oustoses' Parlisseent." ...). ....... (s'um's amts.) ITALY. NORM% 7121. 19, Z,nws. The Chamber of Deputies continued to-day the disonmeion of the estimeMe of the Ministry of nottnoe-Vlbe mearter of .theomunittee nroometk AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Fn. 20. A circular has been issued by Dr. Giskra, the Minister of the Interior, to the provincial governors of Upper Austria and Styria. The minister calls attention to the agitation fomented by the clergy in the above-named dis tricts against the new constitution, and instructs the governors to warn them against encouraging intrigues. They aro desired to inform the bishops that the government has no intention of inter fering with the clergy in the execution of their spiritual ditties, but that it also demands that they should not consider themselves as above the laws. In case of non-compliance the government will be compelled to bring the disturbers of the public peace before the tribunals. THE COLENSO CONTROVERSY. (via Plymonth.)__ NATAL, JAN. 13. Judgment has been declared in the suit of Bishop Colonic. against Doan Green. The Supreme Court has set aside the judgment of the Privy Council, and declares that Natal was a crown colony when tho plaintiffs patent was issued, that Dr. Colenso is therefore trusteo of the buildings, and has eccle siastical jurisdiction. The judgment further ejects Dean Green from the deanery, and prohibits him from officiating in any of Dr. Colenso's churches. The friends Of tho dean have since held a meet ing, at which it was resolved not to appeal against the judgment, but to erect or biro temporary churches, and that Dean Green should at once proceed to England. OUR PARIS LETTER. (fox OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNEsDAT EVENING. M. Schneider, who has been suffering from a sore throat, completely lost his voice to-day, and was unable to take tho chair in tho Corps Legis latif. Baron Jenime David presides for the first time since his appointment as • vice-president. The Patric is authorised to say "it is not true that the Italian government has called the attention of the French government to the intrigues now going on in the Farnese Palace in Rome." But the terms of the Patrie's denial admit tho existence of tho intrigues in question, admit that Italy is uneasy at the pretensions of the deposed Bing of Naples to get back his kingdom, and allege that the French government has taken some sort of action on the subject. "General Menabrea," says the Patric, " is not ignorant that the French government has never ceased to dis courage hopes and ambitions which recent events may have awakened in the entourage of Francis IL, or to represent to the government of the Holy Father that it ought carefully to prevent in his Holiness' dominions all enterprises and manumvres hostile to Italy." There waathen, it appears, aneces sityfor these representations to the Pope. As for the idea of the imperial government lending itself to tho restoration of a Bourbon in Naples, a verdict of acquittal may be confidently pronounced. There are other candidates who would be more fasoured in the event of a break up of the kingdom of Italy. M. Haentjens, a deputy who sometimes supports liberal propositions, has instituted • prosecution against the Meleager de is Scull's for having stated that the reason why he proposed an amendment recommending that all the provincial journals should be supplied gratuitously with the analytical reports of the debates, was that he is largely in terested in the Moniteur du Soir, in whose office this report is printed. It is recounted that at the Minister of Justice's weekly reception yesterday, the judges present, more especially the younger ones, spoke very warmly about M. Berryer's recent speech imply ing the possibility that a court packed by the public prosecutor might not always be strictly im partial in political cases. Some of them wanted to give great publicity to a protest, but before the close of the evening the judicious M. Ilaroche "calmed their susceptibilities," and persuaded them that the less said about the matter the better. ~ The Bourse was extremely firm. Rente rose 174 fr. for cash, and 12ifr. for account, closing at 69fr. and 69fr. %lc.; Mobilier rose 12fr. 50c.; Credit Fonder, 15fr.; and Italian, 20c. It was stated from Havre that the rise in the price of cotton has nothing to do with the Alabama question, as was supposed yesterday, but is owing to large demands in the English manufacturing districts. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Union Company's steamer Saxon arrived at Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Her dates are— Port Natal 13th ult. ' • Algoa Bay, 17th ; Table Bay, 20th ; Bt. Helen a, 28th ; Ascension, 31st. The Saxon experienced light S.B. trade winds and calms to the equator, which she crossed on the I 3rd February. She encountered a northerly gale on the 18th, and lost quarter-boat and sails. She brings 127 paasengers, 48 sacks of mails, and 1,200 bales of wooL The rest of her cargo consists of ivory, bides, feathers, wine, aloes, and sundries. The mortality rate at Cape Town from fever still continued very high. Exertions were being made to suppress the disease. The harvest had proved • bounteous one, though les favourable than was anticipated. From a return just published marked improvement was shown in the colonial finances and government revenue, and the extent and pros pests of general trade were more favourable than for pCs ar r s even bef u ce s e: m the 14. tre were sury a e t n t t l a i r e t c=ol ci th a present year. It had been resolved to delay th: 264 e t the docks in Table Bay, in order to , vti cre cl ot the.inn:fr dock ore to • unifor fields m depth found in Port Natal, and the promisees were still further brightening. Gold quarts and nug gets had also bean discovered in the Transdaal country, and a large party was in cows of organi sation to explore the neighbourhood. -4,,e The Caps Town Theatre has been totally ANtcled'br fie..;.ar THE BOMBAY MAIL, By the arrival of the Bombay mail we have advice. from Bombay to Jan. 29 ; Calcutta, Jan. 23; Madras, Jan. 23, &c. Official despatches had arrived in Bombay from Sir Pez:bert barber anti Zelt;;;;;: .Y.aowetkri l Colonel Merewether had reconnoitred as fir ai Attegerat, 37 miles in advance of BenafB, am reports that the route is wall supplied with water and forage. Transports were still being despatched from Bombay almost daily to Annesley Bay with stores, &c. The second batch of elephants were slung on board the Hahnemann on the ' 13th Jan., and sailed for Annesley Bay on the 15th, The 3rd brigade of the Abyssinian Field Form, I consisting of her Majesty's 45th Regiment, the 2nd Native Infantry (Grenadiers), a n d t h e 18th Native Infantry, embarked from Bombay a the 15th, 16th, and 17th January. , In the Madras Athenteum 4 of the Bth January it was mentioned that the Madras government had ordered steps to be taken to ascertain the prob s . bilitiea of a famine in Madras, North Arcot, and Nellore. The first reports touching this subjKS have been received, and the Athonossm says they unfortunately represent the state of affairs as bei ng very unsatisfactory, to say the least of it. The worst accounts have been, as yet, received from North Arcot. MR. GLADSTONE ON PUBLIC ACCOUNTS In the course of tho discussion which followed the reading of the paper, by Major-General BALFut n, ob " The Comparative Merits of French and Eat st Budgets," before the Statistical Society, on Tuesday even. Mg, Mr. W. E. GLAIATONE, who presided, said he believed that the French have a very great administrative genius, and that not merely as account takers but as alai. nistretors they are very decidedly superior to ourselves, and he did not doubt that we have a great deal to Ica; from them. The question that had attracted great notice that night—the valuation of stock—well ono of great it. portanoe, and one upon wticb in all likelihood at the nia. meat he was speaking the House of Commons wasenga-ed, His friend, Mr. Seely, a gentleman of great intenietce. who had distinguished himself by very great csre and ability exercised in the examination of these dry act emit. tractive questions, was then upon the subject of nary se. counts, and with reference especially to tlii.. crania al stock taking. He (Mr. Gladstone) thought it w, cs qu it e obvious that there was a very meat gap in cor system which ought undoubtedly to be filled. For maniple, a sort of counterpart to the question of stock taking was to be found in an accurate statement of all liabilities inenrold. even although they have not yet grown to a state of et: penditure. He could conceive it quite possible that that feature which General Balfour had mentioned, Witt reference to the balance in the bands of public so countanta—that these should all be conuiden .1 ai one part, and eliectually made part of one balaneceitbi na tion—was a good system, and would be on improvement upon our own. There were other defects in .uir system of a more glaring and palpable kind, because that was baapl) a question of the form of keeping accounts. Hahn , : q. freely upon the defects which he knew to etist, or u'aii he believed might exist, in our system of accounts, be very greatcomfort iu thinking that these defects w. i e likely to be remedied, and that there will be a gradual ~: p rove mation to a system as good as we can desire. Bit I • tek our system with all its faults, and ventured for the purpose of establishing a practical connect.,:. the duties and comforts of the represent, ie.. of the people and the expenditure of the public un,cy, ear. sy,•,:e , was the best that ever existed on tho face rut ' political purposes, it is as near perfection as it 1. , be. The receipt and expenditure of this country far as the head offices ore concerned—within o margin of error, a moderate margin of error—it 7.1. n.. i.ti • general result—are known every SatunLy at :out o'clock to the finance minister. He did not belie, e then was another country in the world that could soy as ucch. It had been his fate on the 4th of April to protieie to the House of Commons all the financial arrangetui ate for Co. year, beginning on the Ist of April, and to present toll err at the same time the receipt and expenditete o: tin country up to the 31st of March. In a scientific 1.41t0t view ho should be juetly told that that woo a em,;. matter, that you did not take cognizonee time, that what you wanted was precision a. perfect clearness, and an absolute correctness ci classification. That might be, but that was net the first consideration fur the representatives of the people. The first consideration for them was that should keep up their control over the executive go,:, mcnt : and for that control there were two things a; lutely vital, and, if secured, absolutely sufficient. te.• was that the account of receipt and expenditure should I rendered with the utmost possible speed after the close the fi nancial year ; and the seller thut the arrangel.., for the next financial year ehail la preccuted to par.;. as a whole. He was quite sure that everyone rkle. u.. practically conversant with onredoirswould know that u those two things were done, it was the fault of the r, 'en natives of the people, and therefore the fault of O._ • •.;.h , themselves, if the people themselves and the natio were not the judges and the masters of the public c'.l an. diture. DIIATEI OF THE BADEN PREMILF. —The Presi dent of the State Ministry at Carlaruhe, M. Ch. 31.0 who has just died, and been replaced by Dr. Jolly, 1.a. - led, aooording ro the German papers, a very chequered life. Originally in government employ, be became at exile in 1836. Recalled to his country by the een•ditte eau at Constance, he roes a few years pro ioua to Isis tc the rank of a leader of the opposition. Suer, hoarier while still keeping up big connexion with Ailaei yid Itistein. Basset-mann, Wikker, and others, he shoe, d at intention of coming to terms with the Roden Court, one some suspicion arose against him. In consequent, of he personal attacks against ileraocracy, be was called out bt Karl Blind, then a member of the " Young Gernaty paxty, whose tenets otherwise excluded the practice ol single combat ; bet Slatby refused, and endeavoured tc obtain the expulsion of his antagonist. In the overcall of the revolution, M. Mathy arrested with his oe n Lad his former friend and associate, Jeceph Fickler, thus ineia ing a great blow on the democratic cause, sad B aring the grand ducal government. Appointed a state councillor. and afterwards an envoy of the central government at Frankfort, he endeavoured to bring about the etecutioe of Gustav Struve and Kari Blind, the captured huien of the popular rising. In the subsequent revolutith 1849, he had himself to fly from the country. After the restoration of Grand Duke Leopold by the Floridan arms be obtained no re-appointment. the nltraconsereative part, having then the upper band. In 1862 he was restored to an official position, at first as President of the Board of Trade, and then as Premier. His death has occashaed a thorough re-organisation of the Baden ministry, the Ministers of War and of Justice, General Ludwig and IL Stahel. being replacedby new men. CHARGE OF " RECEIVING " 7,000 STAMP:.--II the Manchester Police-court, yesterday, John Boma, provision dealer, Cross-street, was charged with receivng, from errand boys and junior clerk' in venous Manchester offices, a large number of stamp. in payment for bread and cheese, he well knowing the said stamps to have bees stolen. Inspector Shandley said he searched the prisoner) premises, and in a drawer d he2lo found 4,800 penny the stato to !sI P, 810 twopeany stamps, an, receipt stami number being 7,820, and the value 35L 191. 21. The majontj of them were new stamps—that is to say, they badnot tees stuck upon lettere, but a certain portion of them — and these the officer found done up a packet by themseli , had the appearance of havinf l been fixed upon letters a,d taken off again, the edges be slightly jagged and the " sticking stuff " lookig g it resh. In fact, the dual Wind *eorigina ted in a letter being so tam pered with. W ° 3ls er ter, St. Ann's-square, suspecting some thing amiss in the posting of a letter containing 0" , halves of Si. notes—the letter not having been bead el—had asked Inspector Shandley to make inquiries. The result was that the errand-boy confessed b e bad kept back the letter for the sake of the penny stamp Rhea ith which he bought a bun at the prisoner's shop), and w he found, on tearing the letter in two, that it was a money letter, he became frightened at what be had done, and he tasked the letter and the enclosed half poke between the bra of a " grid " in Red Lionetreet, where, indeed, the dim found them. The stipendiary magistrate Olt Fowler) thought that a moot important case, and be re• minded the prisoner for a week to embl i Ir e v t s Shandley to make the most searching inquiry CONTAGIOUS DlSRAMlS.—Yeaterdayameet in g held at the homes of Mr. Xitford, M.P., Cavenditheeal" , of gentlemen who have formed an association. it c p r. maxims with which are many distinguished members 0 , the church, the army, the navy, the medical prcfr gi t: and the local authorities of many large towns, 10 r . t .; purpose of obtaining the public easent and pi:Realm sanction to means fey preventing the spread of daZi ons contagious diseases. Mr. Milord, M.P., Ira , to the chair, and among those propene were Sir Lama &Roar , Gamma gle Hal V . . Waring, 11.17M 4 the Intpector-Geseral of the Royal biary, vio : Mum= Kr. _Smut Hartarienlieintress, Mr. ter die MAN Mr. Derma, Dr. Til Fox, lir. A. Ur! o=aisana Getarlle), Mr. James ) . Cham"" to the Priam of Wake ; Mr. e nd , don and Mr. Berkeley Rill, the hon. s. C la isanne of emaversation it was stated by the fl i rt mad elibor se ria perment that the great dif6 hued la Ike public assent sad intered in apPil . , Rag la Ike pspalation of the Toiled Sinercm. Dimas. Let of 1806 was the general ter esr it hal tos Ida. regarded ma rres and as the is " amliagatal • smarm" Mill A 7.1" bees band thrh so misidisa Inca be even _ A t° thig h , syskrat. Bales ware sad • report was r , "". rut Na ambers' Me Itt= to members of the legs."' mat and Mew Dallis no. Wises woe read from nukes twerna to o. Ike Magi= egessking of the sur a : l l4 ns la lit asiallem la the Aid tetras of thr ag N 121