The Express. — London, England, 1864-03-23 00:00:00

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ArrER the general elections last summer, when Paris returned the entire list of Opposition can didates, some official writers angrily asserted that Paris was not France ; that France was to be found in the breasts of an uncorrupted peasantry, not in the capital, or in the large towns that fol lowed the example of the capital. Yet, as none better than these oftivial wr:•ers know, never was Paris more emphatically the orain, the will, and the nerve of France than 1. , ..7, N 10.11 by steeps and the electric wires, the piessaii: in the remotest province is brought witi.iu earshot of the capital. It is, we are inclined to think therefore, as members of the Provisional Government of '4B that political sympathies in Paris have rallied to the names of MM. Calmer and GARNIER Pairs. No set of men were ever more savagely abused than the members of that un fortunate Government. To steer the State through a perilous crisis; to save it from national bank ruptcy ; these devoted men risked life, fortune, ! happiness, reputation, worked day and night like slaves, amidst a storm of calumnies, and at length gave up to the National Assembly they had convoked, the power they had exercised, humbly enough, in behalf of the public safety, and rejoined their fellow-citizens poor and broken in health and spirit, and pursued by odious insults, but proudly and silently conscious of having injured no man and of having preserved all. Now, a great nation is never long ungrateful or unjust ; and many an elector of Paris may have reflected that when an Imperial Minister of Finance was recommending national bankruptcy, M. GARNIER PAGES resisted the advice, and that when the adherents of the present Ruler of France were organizing that terrible insurrection of June, which was destined to destroy the Republic, M. CARNOT, retired from power, was serving the cause of liberty and s.,rder in the N aliens] Assem bly as a simple citizen. Thus is Truth vindicated at last in the justice done to honest men. For, without disrespect to the choice of the electors of Paris, it is, we presume, as emphatizally honest mess, much more than as men of any remarkable capacity, that MM. Cam Nor and GARNIER PAGES have been sent to the Corps lAgislatif. There are times and conditions iu the political life of nations when mere honesty, unattended by any other special qualities, is an Opposition in itself. There were other candidates as high and pure as either M. CARNOT or M. GARNIRR PAGES, and who, as belonging to a later generation, or as being new at least to public life, would (it seems to liberal observers at a distancejbe capable of more effectual working service in the cause of reviving liberty in France than men whose political ideas and programme belong to an epoch for ever past. Such a candidate, for instance, as M. LASOULAYE, the eloquent professor and admirable essayist, may be said to represent all the highest and justest aspirations of the liberal, as distin guished from the revolutionary, party. His pre sence iu the Corps ligislatif would add grace and dignity to the Opposition, and challenge the respect of M. De BIOENY. Nor could the election of M. LASOCLAYE be fairly regarded by the Government but as an acknowledgment on the part of the electors of the capacity of the Second Empire for liberty—that is, as an act of constitu tional opposition. Not s), of course, can the elec tion of two members of the Provisional Government be regarded, though it is true that the Second Empire owes its being to the Revolution of '4B. MM. CARNOT and G • NUR PAGLA have for twelve years declined to tske the oath of allegiance demanded of every candidate ; and it is excusable that a sometime Repas ii:an l'resident should suspect them of taking the oath at last in some non-natural sense, or with some mental reserva tion. Yet their answer is plain enough. "We " declined to take the oath so long as abstention " was the moral law of the whole liberal party ; "hut when the liberal party resolved to take a " part in public affairs car allegiance was due to " the electors." The I ar , erial Government has itself to thank if candidates are selected to represent the great cent: es of wealth, industry, and intellect, not so much on account of their will ingness and capacity t 3 serve in the ranks of a constitutional Opposition, as because their names are signs, and warnings, and manifestoes of resistance to arbitrary power. It has to thank its own agents for such gross blunders as the violation of a Liberal candidate's d -micile by an imposing force of police agents, to disperse a private gather ing of a few of Lis pol,•.ical friends and sup porters ; and as the aile:tation of respect for the memory of Cati N-r in requesting the municipal authorities of 3la.;deburgh not to disturb his remains, fifteen years after General C.tvaD:Nr o ' bad decreed that the body of CARNCYT should be brought back to France. M. GARNIER writes to the electors reyiesting them not to call at his apartments to learn the state of the poll, and M. C kn:o.l . to the , e, inquiring how it happened that the I I , erial Government had become so suddenly snud respectfully anxious about his father's men: iry and remains. How, then, could the populsti.•:i Paris, with its sharp ened hunger for persmal liberty and its poignant perception of the ridicti"- , .F, be expected to vote after such incidents as these ? Besides, under a Government that permits only one legislative debate a year on its policy, and a general election on - e in seven years (the next general election w ill be when the Parece ImesaisAt comes of age), Lind which having all but completed the span of every French dynasty slice 1;89, is still so uneasy in conscience as to fear to face the free opinion of mankind in public meetiog, or in the ress—all political vitality is necessarily concentrated in these fitful and spasmodic attempts to wile a lesson to the Go vernment in the face of E :rope. Yecterday the elector, of the ward of Bassishaw met in wardmote, under the ~,,ideney of the Loot M.yor, to choose an alderman fur the ward in mom of Mr. Alder man Cooler, who retires from ii:-health and advanced years. The choice fell noaniummle -•a Mr. David Henry Stone. Mr. Stone is a nephew of tte ',ate Mr. Allettrua Kumcon..b. THE WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1864. ebt COWL LATEST INTELLIUENCE. WINDSOR CASTLE, Maus 22. (agorm'a Tzr.aanits.) AMERICA. Yesterday afternoon the Queen drove out in a c arriage arid four. To atteadanee were the Counter of ezledoo and the How. Mrs. Brace. Lord Charles Fitzroy Weeded on horseback. The Bremen passed Queenstown at 3.30 a.m. She brings 9 passengers for Southampton, 13 for Havre, and 85 for Bremen, and 1,760 &As. in specie for Bremen. (Per the Bremen via Reche's Point.) NEW YORK, MARCH 11, EVIIIING. General Sherman's return to Vicksburg is con firmed. He penetrated thirty-five miles beyond Meridian, destroying all railroads. He lost 500 men. Her Majesty vi s ited the Windsor Union Poor Hoax, and inspected the establishment. The Hon. and Vary Rev, the Dean of Windsor and Mrs. Wellesley, and the Rev. J. Mum, Vicar of Old Windsor, met the Queen, and conducted her Majesty over the buildL•g. The Orand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strati, atiendod by Lady Caroline Coat and Lient..Colonel Clifton, arrived at the Lkietle yesterday afternoon on a visit to her Majesty, and returned to London to-day. Viscount Sydney also arrived, and had the honour of dining with the Queen, the King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family. No important military movements have taken place. An amendment to the gold bill has been passed is the Senate, authorising Secretary Chase to sell the surplus gold in the treasury. The amendment will have to pass the }louse of Representatives before becoming law. The Prince of Wiles rode on horseback yesterday morn ing, attended by Lieut.. Colonel KeppeL The Prioress of Wake, attended by Count/me de Grey, took a carriage drive in the afternoon. Prince John of Glocksburg, attended by Baron Gulden. crone, took leave of the Prince and Princess of Wales yesterday evening, and left Marlborough-house for the continent by the South Eastern Ramey. The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel, accompanied Prince John to the railway station. Mr. Henry Weigel] has been honoured with sittings for his portrait of the Princess of Wales. Despatches were received yesterday at the ColimialOfflos, from the Governors of British Colombia and Malta, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES TO THE QUZEN.-(THIS DAY.) Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor, left Marl borough House this morning on • visit to the Queen ►t Windsor Castle. On this 0001116011 their royal highnesses, who will remain at Windsor for about a week, will reside in a splendid suite of apartments on the south side of the Coale, situated between the Edward 111. and Lan caster Towers, and near the apartments occupied by the King of the Belgians, who is at present residing in the York Tower. The Earl and Comatose of Wilton will entertain a large circled victors during the Crortoth Park race meeting. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston will return to-day from visiting her Majesty at Windsor Castle, and will thee go to Broadlanda, Haat., for the parliamentary ream Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Granville Vernon re ceived at dinner, Let eveping, at their residence in Bel grave-inure, hi Excellency the Minister for the Nether lands, Viscount and Viscountess Neville, Lady Price, Sir Roderick Murchison, Hoe. Mr.. Towline, Mr. and Mrs. Whitbread, Mr. and Mrs. Roberta, Mr. Martinau. SIR ROWLAND MILL AND THE TREASURY. THE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The following telegram from Vienna appears in the second edition of the Tunes: The following is the copy of a letter and memo " Vienna, March V, 10.50 a.m. random from Sir Rowland Hill, K.C.8., to the Commis• . sinners of the Treasury, with reference to their lordships' " The conference proposed by England, without minute granting him a special superannuation allowance: detailed basin or armistice, has been accepted by "Hampstead, March 17. Austria and Prussia. "My Lords,—The Postmaster-General, as requested by " The territorial integrity of the Danish monarchy under the present dynasty will be maintained. " The conference is to meet at once." your lordships, has dote me the favour to furnish me with a copy of your minute of 11th instant, granting me a special raperantraation allowance oo retiring from my office as seas tory to th e Post-office, and conveying to me this very favour able opinion, which your lordships are pleased to express, of the mower in which I have discharged my duties. "It cannot be nomessary to assure your lordships of the deep gratificaiion with which I have received so handsome and elaborate a recognition of my merle's. I have only to beg that you wil; be pleased to accept my mast respectful thanks. "In a document so highly complimentary, I hesitate to cones what would appear to be an admission, inadvertently made, to the effect ant the adoption of the uniform peony postage was urged by , Alters before the development of my plans. This, I assure :raur lordships, is an error ; and, as uniformity of ode oonsti totes the main feature of my plan, I am naturally anxious to place before you the real fade of the case. I trust, therefore, you will pardon me if I request attention to the e nclosed memorandum on the subject. " I need scarcely add that , should the expectations of my medical friends, of imihroved health from rest, be realised, and any occasion arias in which it may appear to your lordships that my asaistanc it or advice in further postal improvements may be of advent& re. I shall feel bosomed by being permitted to place them at your disposal.— I have, ks., (Signed) " ROWLAND HILL. "The Right Hon. the Lords Com misnames of her Majesty's Treasury, .tc." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE ELECTIONS. (mom OUR OWN coamarconmorr.) PARIS, TONBDAT EVE,ILVC. It is impossible not to admire the intelligence and steadiness with which the electors of the Ist and sth circumscriptions of Paris have kept in view the main chance in the elections just terminated. The grand thing was to confirm the triumph of May last, and not only to return, but to return by an overwhelming majority, and on the first ballot, men whose names represent " Liberty." This object has been gloriously achieved. And it has been achieved in the face of a variety of circum stances calculated to breed disunion among the electors. In the first place the democratic com mittee, whose list was carried last year, quarrelled among themselves and dissolved some weeks ago. Then, instead of the three journals, the Neck, Prtsse, and ()pinion Nationals, being agreed to recommend MM. Carnot and Gamier Pages, the Presse opposed both of them, and the Opinion Nationale started M. Th. Bac against Gamier Pages. The Temps exhibited a neutrality with a decidedly hostile leaning, and the Debats and Courrier du Dimanche sup ported MM. Laboulaye and F. Morin. The government, while professing not to have any ' 1 candidates of its own, worked might and main to foment divisions among the liberal party, and in an underhand way cureassed for MM. Levy and Pinard. Half a hundred friends who met at M. Gamier Pages' rooms to concert measures for his election were turned out by the police as constitut ing an illegal public meeting ; notice was given that no electoral meetings whatever would be per mitted ; and to strike terror a ferocious paragraph in the Moniteur announced that "prosecutions" were ordered against those who had broken the " law "by holding meetings. And now we see the result. In the Ist circumscription the figures stand : "Bizmouirocr. " A low and uniform rate of postage .forms tho most essen tial feature of my plan of postal reform, and I have no hesitation in stating that its conoeptioe originated wholly with myself. To guard against future er 'or, I ask permis sion to place on record a brief statement o facts. "The principle of uniformity of rate, now that it has been in successful operation for nearly • quarter of a century, appears, perhaps, simple and o;rrious ; but so far from its having been, as it is sometimes sup posed, the happy thought of a mon lent, it was the result of most laborious inveatigati to on my part. Indeed, a slight consideration will show that its conception necessarily involved a previous discovery, that the odd per letter of mere transit within the limits of the United Kingdom was practically ioappreciable, or, at least, that it was not dependent mainly on dietetics, being in fact quite as much dependent on the number of letters contained in the particular mail, as on the diskmce that mail was carried. Indeed, it was shown from careful investigation, that the cost of mere conveyance, even for so great a distance am from London to Edinburgh, was only the 3Gth part of • penny per letter. From this and other facts it followed that a uniform rate was more just than one varying according to distance. The convenience of uniformity was obvious. " I may add that when I first entered on the investiga tions preparatory to the construction of my plan, I myself had no conception of the practicability of a uniform rate ; and that the discovery referred to above was as startling to myself, as it proved when announced to the public at large. Carnot . Pinarti In the sth : Gamier Pagi.a Levy 6,191 ....... 13,554 4,979 The government is beaten by nearly three to one, and aU the other candidates are nowhere. M. Laboulaye, a most estimable luau, and a liberal whose election at some future time is much to be desired, obtained only 913 votes, because the con stituency felt that his name was not sufficiently known, and that votes fur him would be thrown away. " In reference to my original pamphlet, a copy of which is, i presume, still in your lordships' possession, or to my evidence before the select committee of 18.38, appointed to inquire into the practicability of my plans, will show the various steps by which 1 arrived at the conclusion that a uniform penny rate was at once just and practicable. " There is but one other person, so far as I am aware, to whom the suggestion of a uniform peony rate has, with even the slightest planability, even been assigned-1 refer to the late Mr. Wallace, formerly member for Greenock, and chair man of the select committee on postage in 1838 ; but though Mr. Wallace frequently urged, among other useful reforms, a great reduction in the postal charges, I can say from personal knowledge that he had no idea whatever of a uni form rate until after the publication of my pamphlet. In • deed, this sufllaiently appears from his speech in parliament in July 1836, the last 000111111011 on which, before the publi ' cation of my pamphlet, he referred to the rates of postage. The following is an extract from Hansard (vol. 3.5, 3rd swim, p. 42r) : " ' At the same time the rates of postage ought to be re. duced. It would be proper not to charge more than 3d. for any letter sent a distance of 50 miles ; for 100 miles, Id. ; 200 miles, 6d. ; and the highest rate of postage ought not to be more than 84. or 9d. at most.'" M. Tolain, the mirricr about whom so many leading articles have been written, but who I told you from the first bad not the ghost of a chance, polled only 424—scarcely the number of his diffe rent committees. I warn you against accepting the theory of the Su;ck that the vote means war. That is the opinion of M. Haviu, who has all along been for war on behalf of Poland. I am persuaded that the question of peace or war was quite absent from the minds of the majority of the electors on this occasion : the one thing they thought of was more liberty. M. Emile 011ivier has been elected reporter on the bill on coalitions ; this in the first time that the Corps Legislatif has allowed a member of the minority to occupy such a position. The fact is an indication of the irresistible progress of liberal opinion. " Further evidence upon this point is also in my posses. lion, which cnn be submitted should it be deemed necessary. (Signed) " ROWLAND HILL. " Hampstead, }larch 17, 1864." WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WLDNIEDAY, MAhCH U, 8 1-7/1. THE ALLEGED RECRUITING IR IRELAND FOR THE UNITED STATES. B. S. D. M. Y. Q. 11. 8. — I -- I- ..... 03 33 2 B.W. 2 1 4,ch , 0.10 , 1 Aberdeen '2 . 144 3; 3 S.W. 3 4I is oh 0.11 3 Leith •30.0041 3L. 0• 3 10 • o 1 Ardroisan 1 1.03 40 2 8.8. W. 3 4 32 me Oreeossatle 30.05 it 2 N.N 1 4 4 i c;0.0 • 1 Galway 13r.0843 2 N.N.E. 3 4 I I ' cl 1 2 Valenti' '30.0344 3 N.N.K. 3 4. 4 0 Cape Clear 170.01 45 1 N.E. 4 4 8 j c,— 2 Queetudown 8.44 1 YE. 3 1 4. c 1— 2 Llrerpool • -'3 0 • 03 37 3 N. ' 32 oh I 1 ' Holyhead ,2'5 .3943 O I N.Y.. 40, 4 c—l 2 Pembroke 41 3 , 1 3 I b I 1 Penzance . tki it 3 , E.N.E. 61 0 1 4 1 oj— 4 and ,29.7 445 4 I N.E. 4 5, 4 0 4 COsitint .129.65 T.l 3 , N. 3 4 • 2 cb —1 2 gochefort 23.57 LO N.N.E 54 24 to j 2 Plymouth 43 2 N.N E. 4 2' 14 co —1 3 Weymouth 67 40' 2 N.E. 4' 4 4 co 4 Portsmouth 12.0.04 40 2 , E.N.E. 4 4 8 o 3 London ,29 90 27 .. 45 1 Y.C. 6 • eo I Dover °3.5441;' 1 N.E 4I 4 1 4 m —I 3 Yarmouth 114.08 33 2 E. Y. E. 4.51 6 I 0 S rizarborough 30.00 40' 4 E.N.E. 11 3 8 0— Shields - 4 Heligoland 43.5734 1, N. 3 4 I 4 cb 2 PROBABLE. ON SORTERS/ ratiltSnAT. Tams S.W. to SE. moderate COASTS. h. b. to S.W., to fresh, some rain in moderate, al places. era. N. N.E. to E.S. E., fresh, WTSTiltes. E.N.E to S.S.E., fresh, generally tine. generally line. N. to E., moderate to SoIMISIti. N.E. to ILK, fresh, strong, fine. line. As nest above. EA•TERS. As next above. fresh to few show. Northeru=Seotland. Westarn=lreland, Wales. and ad jacencies. Southern=English Channel and Biscay By. Eastern =Eastward England and Heligoland. The Lord Chancellor has declined to put on the commission of the peace for Bradford • gentleman who carried on • brewery. ills occupation disqualified him, though it is asserted that brewers "nerve the pease" in other districts. The precedency contest has cost the Dublin cor poration 5711., including 2411. for fees to counsel, 911. for law costs to its solicitor, and 141. for telegams ; about which some 'malcontent members of the council expressed their dissatisfaction. A letter from Tarbes (Nantes-Pyren6es) men tions the arrival in that town of the eldest son of Queen accompanied by a number of ecclesiastic, of the diocese of Aucb, to whom his education has been confided. The young Prince visited the Museum and other public establishments, hut what most attracted his attention was the long chain of the PyrOli'es covered with snow. The prince, whale age is' 0, is said to be of a kindly disposition, and to poems great intelligence. A Berlin letter states that the erection of a na tional gallery in that city has been decided on. This reso lution has been taken in consequence of the late M. Wagner, the principal of the large banking firm of Anhalt and Wagner, of Berlin, having bequeathed his valuable collec• Mon of paintings to the King of Prussia. The paintings are for the present depoeited in the rooms of the Academy of Arta. The site selected for the projected gallery is in the neighbourhood of the new museum, and the plans have already received the King's approbation. THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION PETITION.—The fol i lowing is an extract from a letter from Mr. T. Lloyd, M.P., to a friend :—" I shall defend myself against every allege- Hon contained in the petition. I shall compel the pai -1 tiouers to prove every allegation, or to acknowledge them frivolous and vexatious. I shall allow none of my friends in Barnstaple to suffer, and I shall defend my seat as far as ; 20.000/. will go."— Western Illorniny News. THE BEPRFAENTATION OF LANCASTER.—There are two candidates already in the field for the vacancy in i the representation of this town, which will be caused by the retirement of Mr. Garnett, M. P., at the next general election, and rumour speaks of a third. The two gentle r men who have already come forward are Mr. W. A. 9. Saunders. of Virennington Hall, in the conservative interest, and Mr. E. M. Fenwick, of Barrow Hall, who advocates liberal principles. The third name mentioned is that of Mr. Schneider, of Ulverston, who was once member for Noe wick. This morning the official correspondence respect ing the enlistment of British seamen at Queenstown on board the United States ship of war Kenner was issued. The captain of the latter vessel states that the men in question concealed themselves on board the ship prior to her departure from Queenstown, in expectation of being enlisted after the vessel had ptoceeded to sea, but found their mistake." Various discrepan cies between statements on the subject made by the captain and by the United States consul at Queenstown are referred to by Earl Russell in • despatch to Mr. Adams. These discrepancies, his lordship says, " will not fail to attract your attention, and will doubtless suggest to you the propriety of making still further inquiry from your own consul as to the part taken by him in the enlistment of these men." Mr. Adams says that whatever may have been done in the way of enlisting the men " seems to have been carried on without his [the commander's] know ledge, and when he discovered it he took prompt measures to rectify the error by returning to port and landingthe men." Another return, which was issued this morning moped ing recruitment in Ireland, shoes that the Irish govern. meat, the Home Secretary, and the Foreign Minister have been in communication on the subject of an alleged breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act by a Mr. Patrick Finney, who arrived in Ireland at the close of last year with the professed object of procuring able-bodied men as railway labourers in America. The papers in this case wars laid before the law office!' of the crown in Ireland, who decided that the evidence would not be sufficient to sustain a prosecution. The return also in cludes a letter from the Colonial Land and Emigration Com missioners respecting the amount of emigration last year, It seems that the emigration to the United States of shies men was about 10,000 more than the experience of the three years preceding 1862 would have led us to expect. "This," ways Sir F. Rogers, writing on behalf of the Duke of Newcastle, "furnishes a faint ground for conjecturing that recruitment may have gone on to about that extent." Mr. Murdoch, writing on behalf of the Emigration Board, says that the increase is " not to such an extent as to justify the as sumption that any great effect is attributable to the temp ratio's' offered to recruits. It is more probable that the high wages now prevailing in the United States, as con treated with the distress existing in Ireland, is the induce ment which has led so many emigrants from that country to America. The number of Irish who have gone to other countries is 21,914, but the largeness of the number to the United States, as compared with the number to all other countries, is to be accounted for by the large remittances sent home by Irish emigrants already settled in the States to assist their friends at home, and the consequent facility in reaching that country as compared with other countries." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON ♦ND THE LATE DEBATES LN TEE Horse or COMMONS.—I have reason to know that the Emperor has been greatly touched by the manifestati•ro of public feeling in England, both in the press Rod the parliament, on the Martini affair. He has read with much interest the whole of the debates, as well as the articles in the leading journals, on the painful question lately before the house, and feels gratified that his sentiments and his conduct towards Eng land have been so cordially acknowledged. I am sum he disbelieves quite as much as any sane prison here or elsewhere, any complicity on the part of the member for Halifax in the Greco plot ; and perhape be does not, after all, regret that the Procureut-Giniral alluded to him, as it has been themes= of eliciting feelings so friendly towards himself and to this country. Indeed, it bas all but healed in hie mind whatever soreness the re. jeetioe of his propnaition about the congress may have left behind. He would willingly see revived the cordial nyder standing between the governments which misted some time ago, for the maintenance of the alliance with Eng land is for him, as for us, a matter of the very lest im portance.—Paris eorteepoodest of the Times. TSB OXFORD DECLARATION. The proposers of the above declaration have obtained the following opinion u to its legality from the Attorney-General and Sir H. Cairns : " orz lON. " We understand that theqestious put tom relate merely to the legality of the declaration drawn up at the meeting held at Oxford on the 23th of February, 1864, and do sot invite us to express any opinion oe the expediency of pro posing or subscribing such • declaration. " We are clearly of opinion that the lit and 37th articles referred to in the 36th canon simply affirm the proposition that the cognisance and determination of all canoes ' sale tiastical and temporal, belong to the sovereign, and to the courts established and allowed by the sovereign ; and that no other tribunal for this pupae" ought to be acknow ledged either in or out of the realm. ' The observance of these articles will of course involve, among other things, obedience and respect to any judg ment, that is, to any sentence which the 'overawe may pronounce in an ecclesiastical Mule on the recommendation of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, but this is wholly distinct from an smut to or acquiescence in the rea soning or statements pursued or advanced by members of the Judicial Committee as the grounds of their nommen ' dation to her Majesty. " It is to be observed that the Judicial Committee menet under any obligation that we 'snow of to state to the public - what are the reasons for their recommendation to the sovereign in any particular case. The reasons may be inadequate to justify the recommendation ; different mem bers of the committee may express or act upon different resume. The communee may in one case base their re commendation on reasons widely differing from the reasons on which they have previously based their recommendation in • case precisely similar. The sovereign may proceed upon the recommendation given without concurring in the reasons assigned, it, indeed, remain ere assigned in the report or recommendation to the sovereign. But it is not necessary, or even, as we believe, usual, to assign reason in the report or recommendation to the sovereign; it is to the sentence of the sovereign, and to that alone, that the subjects of the sovereign, both lay and clerical. have to look ; and it is the sentence which those who are affected by it have to obey. The sentence in the can of Wilson v. Feodall is not before us, but we understand it to be simply a sentence reversing a decree of the Court of Arches, which had suspended the appellant on a charge of heretical teaching or writing. ",We believe that these observations answer in substance all the questions put to us ; but we add, by way of specific reply to question 4, that we are clearly of opinion that it is not in any way unlawful for clergymen, either singly or together, in their preaching or otherwise, to affirm that the Church of England and Ireland maintains, without re serve or qualilicatioc, the inspiration and divine authority of the whole canonical scriptures, as not only containing but being the Word of God ; and further, in the words of our blessed Lord, that the punishment of the cursed, equally with the hie of the righteous, is everisating. " ROCNDSLL PALMER. " li. M. CAWS. " March 12, 1864." • 3 and 4 WM. IV., C. 41. requires the nature of the report or recommendation to be stated in open coon. GARIBALDI. TO TRII EDITOR OP TRII EXPRLSR. Six, —Already a committee is in existence to give to the illustrious here of Italy, Garibaldi, a hearty welcome to our shores ; it is the same committee that car ried out so sncceesfully the great Garibaldi Meeting at the London Tavern, and afterwards resolved itself into the " Garibaldi Reception Committee," to which I have the honour of beicg honorary secretary. Any gentlemen desirous of aiding in a national demon stration to the emancipator of Italy will oblige by sending in their names at once, that they may be summoned to at tend a meeting to be held at an early date, of the Garibaldi City Reception Committee, to make arrangements for a grand demonstration in honour of we of the meat disinte rested patriots of modern times. —I am, Ice., JOHN RICHARDSON, Member of the Court of Common Council, City of London. 30. Bishopsgste-street Without. GENERAL GAT.IBALDI AND ITALIAN RESIDENTS IN LONDON.—The Italians resident in Loadco are greatly interested in the approaching visit of General Gari baldi, and a committee of influential men, including C. Galli. 1:. Ponzini, .1. Barelli, H. Negretti, and others, is being formed for the purpose of fining upon and arranging the best means of te.tifying their esteem and admiration for the illustrious visitor. General Garibaldi has written to his friend, Mr. Joseph Cowen, of Slay,lon-on-Tyne, to say that doting his visit to England he shall make it • point to see his friends in Newcastle. Their Excellencies Rainandriandraina and Raini feriogia, on a special mission to this country (tom Mada gascar, yesterday visited Woolwich and inspected the various ships under constraction and repair in the dockyard. They dosed their visit to the Royal Arsenal by a lengthened inspection of the gun (*Aerie', in which they appeared to take greet interest. They made, however, very few re marks. The Rev. R. A. Bathurst, A.M., has been ineti toted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the vicarage of Brockworth, near Gloucester, vacant by the cession of the Raw. George Watts. Patron, J. Davis, Esq., of Cranbrook Park, Essex. The Rev. F. B. Sidebottoni, A. 8., bas been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to the rectory of Yatton Keynell, Wilts, vacant by the cession of the Rev. li. K. Boldero. Patron, Sir John Neeld, of Grittleton House, Bart. The Rev. WIG. Kerry, M.A., has been licensed to the perpetual curacy of St. Jude, Bristol. vacant by the resignation of the Rev. A. 0. WeDated. Patron for this turn, the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol. CHANTAL PALACE. ONE SHILLING DAT, TI.:EADAY, MARCH 22.—Aciminioni 90 payment, 772 ; ditto by mason tickets, ; total, 1,361. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK, hbAcit 11, EvianNo. A decline has taken place in gold in consequence of the congressional legislation. It is now quoted 62d percent. premium. Exchange on London—Bankers' bills, 178 ;on Paris, 3.121 1 . Stocks steady—New York Centrals, 137 ; Illinois, 136 ; Erie, 124 ; Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 112. Cotton depressed—Middling Upland, 78c. Flour and corn in good inquiry. Wheat dull. Provisions and coffee very firm. Sugar and molasses steady. Petroleum dull ; crude, 29c. to 30c. ; re ined, 48c. to 49c. NEW YORK, NARai 12, Mot-Ingo. The bombardment of Fort Powell, Mobile, was continued on the 25th ult. Au impression pre vailed that Farragut's fleet was not sufficiently numerous to make an effective demonstration against Mobile, the defences having been found very strong. Suffolk, in Virginia, has been occupied by Butler's forces. The Confederates continue to make demonstra tions against Suffolk and Portsmouth, and have driven in the Federal cavalry and two coloured regiment.. The Richmond Press is strongly incensed at in structions found upon Daldgren directing Kil patrick's men to sack Richmond and kill President Davis. The Press urges that the severest treatment should be exercised towards the prisoners of Kilpatrick's command. The Northern press declare that the orders said to have been found upon Dahlgren were forgeries. There is a doubtful report from North Carolina that 23 North Carolinians, captured from the Federal army, were hung by the Confederate General Pickett. President Lincoln has presented Geneial Grant with the commission of lieutenant-general in the presence of the whole cabinet. Grant, after visiting the army of the Potomac, returned with Meade to Washington, and left immediately for the west. The New York ii orid asserts that Grant has recommended the concentration of forces for the capture of Richmond. In the Congress Senator Pomeroy has advocated the claims of Secretary Chase foe Presidential nomination, stating his platform to be emancira tiou, confiscation, and the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine. Secretary Chase has written a letter urging that his name should not be considered in connexion with the presidency. Fremont's friends are more active in advocating his claims for the presidency. The Judge of the Court of Appeals at St. John's has delivered judgment, releasing the Chesapeake pirates. _ . The steamer Donegal has arrived at Havannah with 1,000 bales of cotton. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, !lawn 12, blows - ma. Money easy. Gold, 62/ per cent. premium. Stocks steady ; Illiuoi. , 136 k ; Erie, 126/. THE EMBARKATION OF GENERAL GARIBALDI. TURIN, ItsEctt 22, EVENINg. The Stampa isf this evening says :—" Yesterday morning at 11 o'clock Garibaldi and eight other gentlemen, among whom were his sons Rtcciotti and Menotti, embarked on board the English steamer Vale:ta. Her course is unknown, as it is doubtful whether she will touch at Malta, or steer direct for Gibraltar. Gari baldi's destination is believed to be London, the object of his journey, as is supposed by some persons, being to consult a celebrated English surgeon, while others imagine that he wishes to excite the public mind in England in favour of Italy." The Stamp(' considers it hardly probable that an understanding should exist between Garibaldi and Mazzini, especially as the latter is reported to have returned to Lugano. GENOA, MARCH 22, EvENING. An Englishman, Colonel Chambers, is one of the companions of Garibaldi on his journey to England. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 22, 8.3 I A.Y. The King and the Minister of War left for the army today. No news of any importance has arrived from the seat of war. THE PRINCIPALITIES. BUCHAREST, hfsacti 22. The Chambers have voted the bill on communal organisation. The government will shortly submit to the Chambers a bill emancipating the peasants, and establishing their relations with the landed pro prietors. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 22, EVENING. The Madrid journals of to-day state that it is calculated that the ministry will obtain a majority of 100 votes for their bill to abolish the reforms of the constitution of 1845, introduced in 1857. The adoption of the ministerial proposition would in volve the abolition of a hereditary Senate. SIC. DOMINGO. ST. DOMINGO, Matzen 2(.L Cadiz). The Spanish are preparing au expedition for Mouteebristi. The pacification of the southern part of the island makes progreis, but the pacification of Cibao is beset with difficulties. HUNGARY. ARRESTS AT PESTEI. Accounts from Peath state that fourteen persouA in that city have been :waited, belonging, for the most part, to the upper classes of society, and in cluding several officers of Konveds. Moreover, M. Bela, formerly a deputy, has been arrested on his property at Besige. It was intended alto to arrest M. Bxlmanisky, formerly Vice-President of the Hungarian Diet, bnt he was absent from home. Fifteen hundred arms of different kinds have been seized at Ranissa. It is stated also that arms in troduced by contraband have been found at Stuhl , weissenbourg. TIM NATIONAL BANX.-(THL 11.4 E) A special general meeting of the shareholder, was held at 1 o'clock at the offices in Old Broad-street, Mr. JOet:Ple Nuts M'KENNA in the chair, for the purpose of increasing the capital of the bank. A series of resolutions for this purpose was read by the SlEcerfaitY (Mr. Power) at the commencement of the meeting. The first of these resolutions was to the effect that the capital of the bank, being 1,000,000/., divided into 20.000 shares of :AN. each, be increased by the creation 20,000 new shares of 50t, each, 5/. per share to be paid on allotment and •27. , . by instalments. By another resolution it was provided that the new shares should in the tint instance be offered to the present proprietors at a premium of 2:. 1 . per share in the proportion of one new for each old share, and that any shares not accepted by proprietors should be offered to other persons at a premium of Ail. ; and by subsequent resolutions it was provided—" That such premiums shall be added to the reserved fund of the society to the extent of 254 per share, and that the excess of premiums to the extent of 5/. per share beyond 2:1. per share obtainable on shares not taken up as aforesaid by the pro prietors, shall be payable to the shareholders who decline or omit to take up such shares, in the ratio of 5/. for every share not taken up." The CHAlliltaN, in moving the adoption of the resole. tious, dwelt on the increasing prosperity of the hauk, Thirteen years ago, he observed, the market value of the shares was about ;10,000!. ; at pre ' sent it was 1,00,00 //. The circulation of the bank was one of the beet indications of the general char...ter of its business. Since the passing of Sir Robert f'eel's Car rem, Act the general circulation of the Irish banks had diminished ; whereas in the case of that bank the average circulation had increased from 852,000/. is I+4i to ijal,uuoi., according to the bat published returns. Mr. F. NZWSAM thought the board was proceeding too feat. He should prefer a call of A//. being made on the existing shares. He suggested that, instead of what was proposed, 1,000 new shareeshould be issued to the existing shareholders without a premium. After some discussion the resolutions were adopted. THE MURDER AT HENNOR, NEAR LEOMINSTER. CONFESSION OF THE PRISONER. At the — Hereford Assizes, yesterday, Thomas Watkins, 27, was arraigned on the charge of wilfully mur dering Mary Ann Watkins, his wife, at the out-parish of Leominster, on the lath of January. The prisoner's appearance was either improved since his confinement. He looks more robust than when before the magistrates at Leominster. On his arraignment he pleaded, in a subdued tone, "Guilty." His Lordship inquired of the prisoner if he understood the effect of his plea? Prisoner—l am guilty. The Judge asked tbs prisoner if he had ally counsel em. ployed to defend him. Prisoner—No, I am guilty. His Lordship—Would you like to be defended by counsel Prisoner (with tears in his eyes)—l leave it in your hands ; which you pleue. Mr. Justice Pigott—Would you wish me to assign you counsel ? _ Prisooer—l should. Mr. Weightman (interposing) said he wu mime I to de fend the prisoner. The Judge (to prisoner)—Have you engaged counsel' Mr. Weight/nen—l have been retained by the attorney (Mr. Whatley, as we understood), to defend the prisoner, at the request of the prisoner's amber. There was at first a difficulty in finding money to defray the costs of the de fence; and the poor woman had spoken to two other counsel before I wu requested, and consented to undertake it. His lordship informed the governor of the gaol (Captain Cowtoo) that the mother of the prisoner was to have access to him, so as to arrange whether he was willing to accept the counsel she bad retained, or whether the prisoner would leave it to his lordship to assign him counsel, so as to make preparation before 7 o'clock to-night. DEATH OF THE. EARL OF ABERDEEN. —A BER BERS, TUESDAY EVENING.—George Hamilton Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, died at the family seat, Redder House, Aber &mashies, a few minutes peat 12 this morning. His lordstiip had been unwell for a cossiderable period, the principal ailment, it is understood, being diabetes. De ceased was burn in 1616, and bad consequently only retched his 48th year. He married in 1810 Lady Mary Baillie of Jerviswoode, who survives him, with • family of three eons and three daughters. As Lord Haddo, the late nobleman represented the cuuoty of Aberdeen in parliament for • number of years, and succeeded his father in the earldom in 1660. Lord Haddo, the new peer, who has entered his gird year, is at present on • visit to his uncle, the Hoc. Arthur Gordon, Governor of New Brunswick. FRENCH REVOLUTION'S - T.—The name of libusqui—Louis Auguste Blanchi—one of the most persistent revolutionists in Frame, is just now once more before the public. The poor man, whose life has been one alternation of plotting and punishment, has just been removed from priest to hospital, from which place it is thought be will never passim:it alive. It is only in France that one can find such au individual. His career reads like • romance. When he left college he began to con spire, and seems to have always been one of those curious reasons" who conclude that whatever ie, in the shape of • government, is bad. He was wounded in the affair of the Rue St. Denis, where be received his baptism of fire in 1827. He fought in the days of July and was decorated ; he wee immediately again in opposition, and was condemned and imprisoned. As soon as he was Gee be made gunpowder for a purpose and was implicated in the conspiracy of the Rue de Lourcine. He wee con demned to death in 1840. In 1818 he was liberated by the revolution, and returned to Paris to conspire agaitist the provisional government ; then came ten years imprison ment—thee liberty—then • conspiracy against the Empire --end then the present imprisonment—hospital--death OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RACKET MATCHES. — The single match was played yesterday at Prince's Club, Hans-place, Mr. Daniel, of Trinity. representing Cambridge, and Mr. Walker, of Brasencee, Oxford. The tint game was well contested up to 12, when Mr. Daniel went in and finished it. The wooed game was won without difficulty by Mr. Daniel, Mr. Walker obtaining only 3. In the third game Mr. Walker could not get more than 6. and Mr. Daniel thus won all three games and the match. Mr. Daniel played throughout in very good style, his sharp hitting and unerring eye gaining him great applause. Till: PRESS AND THE JOCKEY CM:B.—The stewards of the Jockey Club, an the case stands, have inflicted • gross Moult upon the English press We can confidently appeal to the sympathy of our contemporaries and the public. We assert the freedom of public opinion. and deny that we can be controlled, and censored, and puoislied by the arbitrary dictators of the stewards of the Jockey Club. Were we to do otherwise we should betray our calling. On the conditions tendered by the stewards, were they enforced by other authorities, a reporter could never report, • writer could never comment on any public event unties in compliance with the dictation of the occupiers of the place which he happened to enter. We should thus abandon all right to cnticise magistrates, theatres, railways, companies, public meetings, and the whole circle of general deeds and actions. The absurdity is too great. The meaner in which the press exercises its functions is obvious and well known, and we think we are warranted in saying, both for our contem poraries and ourselves, that we have not merited the gra tuitous outrage which has been inflicted on English jour nalism in the person of " Argns."—Mornino Pool. DERBY SPRING Cnemse FAIR.—TLESDAY.—AL this annual fair, held to-day, there was • tolerable pitch of eheese, the show consisting of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and Leiontershite dairies. There was a good attendance of buyers, and a brisk demand eras experienced at prices rather in favour of the seller. The show of Stilton, was moderate. and sales took place readily at extreme rates. The best dairies made 735. to 78e.; seconders, SAL to 725.; thirds, 60s. to 635. per cwt. Stiltoes realised 9,1. to lld. per lb. RAILWAY •ND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN PAELLA argtrr.—A committee, consisting of Lord Stanley (chairman), Mr. Ingham, Mr. Cobbett. and Sir E. Kemson, has been appointed to commence its sittings immediately after the Easter recess, to investigate the merits of the various new schemes for railway oommunicatiou in the metropolis. Ori ginally the number of schemes proposed for this purpose amnunted to 16, but since the decisions rejecting several of them, on the report of the joint committee of both bowie of parliament, appeared they have become reduced to the still formidable following number of 25, which will now form the subject matter of inquiry —viz., Charing cross Railway, East London Railcar, Great Eastern imectinel), Great Eastern (Metropolitan Station and Railways), Great Northern and Victoria Station, Great Northern iNo. 1, Barnet branch), Hampstead, Midland. North Western. and Charing-moss Junction, London and Blackwell Railway, London, Brighton, and South Oran (additional powers), London, Brighton, and South Coen (new lines at Batterreal, London, Chatham, and Dover (No. I), London, Chatham, and Dover (2 new lines), L' , 04011 Low Level Mecropo titan (additional powers). Metropolitan (Notting-tin sad Brampton Extension), Metropolitan (Trinity.equare Extension), Metropolitan and St. John's Wood. Metropolitan District, Metropolitan Greed Union, Midland (St. Pater,' Branch). North London (additional powers), North Loudon (Kingsland and Tottenham), North and South Loodou (High Level Janctiou), Tooting, Merton, and Wirubledou Extension, Waltharnstoc. Clanton, and City. 31 cet:ugs and conferences of the principal promoters, solicitors, and engineers have recently been held with this view of comic; to some arrangements, inter Pe, in accordance with the su..- gestioas attained in the report of the ism-liar:watery committee, and with a view to facilitate the inquiries of the forthcoming committee. A committee, consisting of Mr. Scholefield (chairman), Messrs. Ferrer, Lord .1. Brovme, Mr. Handley, and Colette' Maxwell, will also meet to con sider aodckcide upon the merits of the Alton, Alreeforl. s1:1 Winchester, Farnham, APlershott, awl Woking, lab of Pur beck. London and South Western (additional work.?. London end South Western (Chertsev Extension). 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