The Express. — London, England, 1859-04-20 00:00:00

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We bad beard boasts of unpre cedented subscriptions to as essemoas bribery fund, and we knew that clandeetias operations for influen cing the election,' had emeatimeed, under the dime- Moo of a member of the Goverasiest, bekee the so eel led Reform Hill had even base laid before Parlia moot. But we certainly did not believe that Minis ters would venture to convert the Quest's Speech itself into a hustings address. This, however, they have done. The Speech delivered yesterday to Parlia ment, in the name of theQrais,is in its esseedalpor time a transposition of the adleme of the emannot.ion of the Eicneur IR to the electors of Beek& As ia that the Memo try and freeholders, so in this the Lords and Commons, an told that it is fee her MAJESTY'S convenience and advantage that Parlia ment is now dissolved, and that new elections are to take place. tier MAJESTY is made to represent that her (audios. are in some way impaired because Lord Joan Rcestit 's Resolution obtained a majo rity of votes. The proceeding is disloyal and Inds met. It ia not true that the Crown is less powerfal beams the Homo of Commons would not have Kr. DISRARLI'S Reform BilL Ministers are dissolving Parliament because they will neither resign nor ens form to the general wish of the repreemitatives of the nation on the subject of Reform ; and they have so right to thrust forward their Boveitolee with a vulgar election card, " Your vote and interest am solicited for Mr. DISILARLI." But however the dissolution has been brought about, it offers a most important opportunity to the country for the expression of its opinion on two questions of the first order—Reform or anti-Refons at home, Peace and freedom or war and Austrian despotism abroad. These are the alternatives to which the choice of the country will be directed; and we are glad that its voice will be raised while such questions are imminent. Anti the mattered mimes with which oar Austrian hien= has taken leave of Parliaments we receive from Paris and Turin words of ma_ ciliation and pease. By coucenions on the part of Frame end Sardinia, the great obstacle to the meeting of a Congress, as it was described by Mr. D•"••"• ea Monday night, has been rimieved. The CHANCELLOR of the EICHEOCER, on that cam soon, situ stating that the proposal at first of a disarmament of Sardin is , and subsequently, when that had been rejected by England as manifestly unjust, of a general disarmament, was an Austrian invem tion, said " France has accepted the principle of a "general disarmament ; but, unfortunately, Sardinia has not accepted that principle, %itemise, as it is " understood, she has not been invited to be present "at the coofsrence of the Congress." Bach was the situation of affairs as stated by Ministers on Mon day night. We do not now stop to discuss the pro. piety of making the disarmament of Sardinia a ne cessary condition of a Congress. That has limn dens by the most eminent men in the Home of Commons with stateemanlike moderation and impartiality. Lord PALEILIETON oomeidered the demand 28 Wed on. as involving delay, as multiplying embarrass ment, and as increasing danger; Mr. GLADSTONE described it as an unnecessary propesitioc, the miry discussion of which was injuries"); and Lord bons Rue:tett demonstrated its unfairness sad irration- laity. However, in spite of its unreasonablenesa, this Awaken proposition wee adopted by our Govern mest,whieh urged France to press it upon the accept- I saw et Sardinia. The .Voisleter now tells as what I course the Emperor of the FRENCH took. Fee • France he had admitted the principle of a general disarmament, as recommended by England, ' reserving the regulation of the details to be settled in the Congress ; but when be was informed that the official adhesion of Sardinia to the same princi ple was an indispensable preliminary to the delibe rations of the Powers, the matter appeared to him as it appeared to Lord PALMOSTOK, Loci Joss 44ELL, and Mr. GLAssroes. He said : " How "can I reasonably and fairly ask Piedmont to die " arm when she has been refused a mat in the Caa gren? This is a Congress of exoeptiocal eh*- " meter, held to prevent, not to terminate a was. " Ai in ordinary Congresses, actual, so in this, pro . 'retire belligerents meet. If Sardinia is a pro '. *pectic, belligerent she has a claim to sit with the .‘ other Power'; if she is not, she eannot be asked "to disarm." Nevertheless, the Moeilcur tells r, England having strongly insisted that France shield secure the acquiescence of Piedmont in the principle of disarming, " the EMPEROR did not refuse to give this new proof of his conciliatory diepositioa, bet " on condition that Sardinia and all the other Italian " States should be invited to the Congress." This last eapression merely masks the extent of the En rttion'i concession. It is no longer proposed that Sardinia shall have a seat in the Congress with an effective voice. Her Minister will be invited to attend this Cooper, as the petty sovereigns of Italy attended that of Lay bach to learn the decisions of the Great Power.. The telegram from Turin, which we publish Ude evening, tell. the remainder of the story. UMW eonable and unfair as the Austrian proposition has been pronounced to be by every statesman in that Horne of Commons, it has been orged with the fall force of the English name, and it has succeeded t " In order to give to Europe a proof of her desire `• remove the diMcultiee which delay the meeting of " a Congress, Sardinia yields to the demand of " England and France, and accepts the principle of " disarmament, the details of which she will leave to " be discerned in the Congress." The demand of " England and France." We have seen how much France has had to do with it. France has recommended Sardinia to siva way, simply beanie Lord DERBY chose to make her armaments an excuse for the refusal of Austri► to enter the Congress. We congratulate Lord DER', TEE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY In the presence of such resolute and unamipttions efforts as the Tories are making, when they have rabeffibed an enormous fund to influence tai alee tione, there ought to be but one isms raised...Retro grunion or Progrees. Lord Palmerston's coterie, how seer, interposes a policy—neither of Itesistanee nee of Adeanoe, but of Standstill; and throws the respond bility of dissension amongst Liberals an Lard John RuseelL With what truth, I rare shown.—l am, 81e., April 18. on his triumph. It u a congenial sonnies, one which he is eminently fruited to win. To he the eat's-paw of the Emperor BIANCO' lowa may suit his ambition: but has he a right to employ the moral force of England for a purpose which cannot be mentioned in the House of Commons without calling forth a protest from the most noble and most honour able men in that assembly ? We hope Lend Dallis policy may be overruled for pesos; but certainly it does not point in that direction. Hitherto he has need the influence of this country to confirm the proverbial obstinacy of Austria. The note which Count BCOL dared to ad dress to Lord Wits speaks volumes for the weak ness and subservience of our previous intercourse with the Court of Vienna. Lord BRIM' knows well that it ie not by bees oompliances that pesos is to be preserved. Concanion cannot be all on one side. Bat, seriously, the time is come for asking whether Lord DINDY can be considered as contemplating sad devising the maintenance of peace, or whether he is not alre►dy planning war. The extraordinary language he held on Monday night urgently require s explanation. What mean three threats, that Eng land, after withdrawing from her present interfer ence, will take some certain unknown " steps which "she may think fit?" Are we among those '• other ration; who will bo called on to interten ?" Lord MILT leaves us in no doubt as to the answers to thase guidons. H. forbids as to suppose we can usiataia ear neutrality; he expressly speaks of it as a thing which will last but fora time, and says " it is impossible to foresee who will be drawn into " the war." He points mysteriously to some inte rests that we ere supposed to have es the shores of the Adriatic. We are to ant, he tells as, in order to take the side of ea a the parties. To the same dint Mr. Daum spoke io the Haase of Com mas. After erageeesly stating that Trieste is a pert which belongs to the German Confederation, so that somas& ea Trieste is not an attack on Austria alone, lot deo on Germany, he said, " If war spring, " up beyond the precincts of Italy, Ragland has in "wrests not merely from those principles of civili " motion which make her look with an adverse eye "to aught which would disturb the peace of the " world, bat England may be interested from con " siderations of the most urgent character." It would be childish to affect not to see the drift of these observations. War—a war on behalf of Aus tria' —is occupying the thoughts of our Ministers. Happily, Mr. DISBAILI had no sooner alluded to the possibilities of war on Monday than two eminent Statesmen gave him, and through him the Government, a needful warn ing. Mr. OLADSTONE told him plainly that Minis ters bad better not commit the country to war with out the esecurrence of the House of Commons. Lord loot Itossw. reiterated with more force the same stemseL " I mast," said the noble lord, " express " 4 bop that Government will not enter into any " engegements which may be burdensome to the " essintry sinless Parliament shall be sitting, and " shall be a pasty to seek engagements. I think it is " not too mach, now that Parliament is about to be " separated for a considerable time, to expect that "no such engagementi may be made." This is one of the questions on which the country moat speak for itself at the hustings. Toryism means not only denial of reform at home, but sympathy with despotism abroad during peace, and at last a desire to give it active support in war. This is a policy which the constituencies will not ratify. We . - are a free and constitutional nation, but we do not indulge in a propaganda of liberalism. On the other band, we will not allow our forces, material or moral, to be employed in support of the hereditary enemies of freedom. We might, perhaps, with prn deem have played a mediator's part, bat Lord DZILIVI threats and imprecations on Monday have SOW destroyed our power to fill that rule. Hence forth ear interests demand a policy of strict neu trality ; but to enforce this upon a Tory Cabinet the voice of the people must be baud is favour of peace. THE STATE OF THE CASE. The following letter appears in the Daily News: 8111,1 speak with some degree of certainty when I say that the present division in the tipper ranks of the liberal party is not (as seems to be imagined by Mr. Bernal Osborne in some of his speeches) a creation of personal rivalry between Lord Palmerston and Lord John Russell. It is a difference, and • most substantial difference, of policy. The ques tion ia, therefore, one that does not admit (as Mr. Baena Osborne supposes) of personal accommoda tion and arrangement. It can only be settled by the piablio tithe polling booths. _ . _ _ _ The state of the ease is this :—Lord Palm/new an the subject of Parliamentary Reform, hea peded from 1831, while Lord John Russell hes &d -emised from 1831. And the question which the liberal party have to decide on the hustings is, whe ther they will stand still with Lord Palmerston, or advance randomly but finely with Lord John Russell. No one that I know of calls on Lord Palmeeston to give way in his views on reform to Lord John. But you constantly hear ex-cabinet ministers insist on the necessity of Lord John yielding to Lord Palmer ston, abandoning his large and comprehensive opt. Dion., and accepting the slender " notions" of Lewd Palmerston. Now this course would be one of de- struction to Lord John, and of no permanent MIS whatever u an estoppel to the dimension or p of reform. Far from it; such a concession 4 ° M John would throw the advocacy of reform and the guidance of the question into hands far lees eon 'ejections and much lees safe. Lord Palmerston is very differently situated. He could accept without sacrifice or reproach, nay with general applause, those moderate terms from which Lord John canoot recede without d'agram to himself and injury to reform. And if Lard Palmerston did so, there would be no personal dillemlties to impede the re-union of the liberal party. It is the fashion to say that the old whip adhere to Lord Palmerston, and have deserted Lord John. To a certain extent, no doubt, this is the owe; but to an equal extent it constitutes Lord John's strength and Lord Palmerston's weakness; for Lord Palmer ston's adherents and Lord John's deemtmayire exactly the people who have hitherto made liberal govern ments odious, by amociatiag them with greediness and selfishness. The desertions are, cone+ quently,• great relief to Lard John—a serious incambranos to Lord Palmerston. Bat this is correct to a limited extent only. 'There Me few keener-scented whigs than Sir C. Wood; and he, notwithstanding his connexions with Lord Grey, shows which way the wind is setting by accepting at Halifax Lord John's outline of a reform bill. Sir June Graham, returning to his first love, associates himself, not with Lord Palmerston, but with Lord John. Mr. Sidney Herbert, now a confirmed and assured liberal, turns mote to Lord John than to Lord Palmerston. Bo also Mr. Cardwell. Lord Lincoln, the eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle, adheres to Lord John's project. Mr. Bright, too, in his recent admirable speeches, has emphatically announced his wish to co-operate with Lord John; and at the City meeting last week, whose name was received with a tithe of the applause that Mr. Bright's received? Lastly, the Committee of City Liberals, one of the most important bodies in the kingdom, composed of all shades of refeneers, have declared Lord John to be " the acknowledged leader of the liberal party." If, then, Lord Palmerston and a select ceteras of aristocratic Liberals, of which Lewd Shaftesbury I the alpha, and Lord Clanricarde the omega, Amu to stand still on a subject on which the met of the world is determined to move, Lord John Rama will not be without as able coadjutors as the cosatry Oil afford. Int Court. WINDSOR, Aran 19. Then was no addition to her Majesty's dinner PitaQesea old Pekes Omisort walked In the Home Park tbk morralag, mod visited the Dachas of Eat at Frog- MOM The Cosmos of Gainsbarougb boa aatcodad Lady Clanzohill as Lady in Waiting to fur brajasty. Viscount Strain* Ilan and Lientenant-Donal Mr Fred*. •ick Morin ban anocoadid Lord Batsman and Liautanant- Coke& F. Cavandiala ma Lord and Groom in Waiting. The Queue will hold a Privy Council., ca faterdey sat, the 23rd await; •t Windsor Castle. The Marquis d'Azegtto had ea Interview at* the Pea of Derby yeleseday at his Meal readsace ia Margar ita*. Me lea el lieberkery kit leeks reksisy kt Wind- If Castle. Daydream von roostral M the Orlaral-Mato mormay from rho Gowan of Oyler, Noes Hoag, Ile North Amarkea Proviso, Nondmik mil NalM mil from tat Lord High Cww=lwilower et the halm lelatads. Deeptehes were seat to the Newsom et Calm and Hoag Lag. (mom LU? wvert's Quartz.) BUCKINGHAM PALACS. APRIL llL—ilar Mik= Is Conseil, epos a npromstodos et this Lards of the mitts of Cowell sa ere thi day pleated to &owlet the Bev. Prederlok ILA., Doan awl ISkr of Tidally Case, Ozked, Is as el her Mafesly's Arts tent laspettors el Ilaboels; sad obis to eppotet Joss wee dy lso., to to cos of Ilejrakto Aesfeteat laspecton at ficotlead. BUCKINGHAM PALACE,. Ann lA—This day had asthma. of bee : Monalows Touseshst sad Moorisur ' Sadist. &sops and Itisdstess im = tfavy he. Hayti, to 11=1011110 War Ilisjesty the of that ropublic, to deliver their sedisiUsh • T. IBIS& they were introdnotd by . the Right How the bet of May, her Majesty's Pnal Sitareewy of stab o n Poisks Afars ; and conda la sa lt s ereeneral the Hon. Sir NE ' ward Cast, K.O H., bar WNW Sea Curanoalso. INDIA-OFFICE, APRIL 1 —Th. QINISII has bon graciously plowed to amid Lioaleasat.Colosel Sir Henry Creswicke liawlinson, to likleer Manoty's Envoy Extraordinary sad Waits Plialpeeastary to the Shah of -- Sr. JolliZeil-PALACZ, APRIL lik—The Chian has binpaned to special Dr. Wißion Daly, P.ll 8., to be Physician Eitrecediaery to bee WHITEHALL, Aram 15.nrQosiii has been erto great tbe gen of one of th e Lords of Uri= in ,l, to Clarke bias, Esq., bee Majost 'e Advocate for Boatload, in the rem cd Sir ken d Murray, de( wind. WinTEPLALL. AP= 16.—The Qom has been attend to peat lb. eine of hor llfeiesty's Advocate for Deothuld toDevidldare,E2 i rlotrrolintor-Oeeeral for &Joined in the sena lag appointed a Lord of Besoion. _ _ _ WHITEHALL, APPAL 19....CONCINTIATION OF THI Corset or Law.—Tin. Quasi bs beds plassed to direst letters pleat to bs pired, sad* ths Chest Deal, appoint*: the Right Hos. 19a Jolla Tsytor Dart," Rat. Sir William Page Wood, IP., s Vise-Chsaiteller ; the Right Rea. Ste George Corsis low* Bart.; ths Right fig ht Willis= Samuel, Barra I/piked ; Robsrt LL.D.; sad John Yong, Req.; Is be her Majesty's Com sdelkaws to inquire into thee expedissey of to gether, into sas place or asighboarbood, all the r Ossib d Low sati d W i tths Probate sad Divorce Cowls, of sod the Court A , sad do Pelops <Moss baker lag to ths sus, sad Ws masa which exist, or any be ejt alis. eprovidlaig s sr ekes, sad for ores** wit for swepag out Ws object. TUB Uwe AND CUSTOM OF JZIRET.—The QOM kw boss cad to direct Wars psiat to be pond wader tits Great Sal, sppialiag Sir Jobs Wither Malty, It , u t i lts ch 2lA d* wt. - Wink= Reginald, Boat of I, Esq., liarrister-at-kw, be leMsty's COMMIS4IIIIIIIII to into sad rapid se the eke, mud deal, ad ..el.daalbal laws sod endow tow is fares la Jersey. SALE OF EXCDLLILI LIQUORS fif SCOTLAND,— The Qum has bees phased >b by lettere pet est to be pored war the Sri appointed by the Treaty of lJnis• t w o be kept NM Imes re el In pieced the Great Sri if Scot- MA snorer the Right Son. Sir Grego Clot, Bert, of Prienik, In the runty of Edinburgh; Jerre e Esq., of Crater, fa the county of Ayr Alsziader an = licateir, Esq., advocate. dart' of the tarty of Fife; Archibald Campbell firluten, Er., the yourre, of Ma rergture, ht the meaty of Barri* lid ',tor of Civil law in the University of Edinbh ; William Leslie, Isl., of Warthill, in the county of Ase ; Alexander Maclean, of Arigour, in the county of Argyll; and Foster I Alleyse McCieschy, Er , of Sheehy, in the county of ; to be her Majesty's Couunimioners to 'Noire into the laws regulating the sale; and consumption of excisable, liquors in Soutland. The reigning Deka of Saxe Coboo►g and Gotha arrived at Brussis on Monday, end wet leave to-morrow foe England, by way of Cada The Duke and Danboro of Marlborough, accom panied by the llamas of Manama sad Lord Randolph Churchill, left et. lanes'.-egaare yesterday for Blenholin Palace, near Woodstock._ - The Duchess of Duceleach has left town for Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh. The noble duke joins the duchess and family to Scotlrod at the close of the reek. The Doke Ma Duohese of Wellington leave Apakty House in a few days, to pass the holidays at Stnth• &Ways, Hants. _ _ . The Maroktionons of Salisbury will leave Arling ierstisot io-secerow, for Sukhumi Park, Sussex, on a obit to the Earl mai Oosatoot Dolowan. Field Marshal Viscount sad Viscountess Comber- aim expected to 'grin Belgravrequare on Widnes dq ast, kr the sewn. Lady Chelmsford leaves Eaton-square tomorrow, at Torgway. The Lard Chancellor will be unable to leave town with bar ladyship, owing to publk Wanes. Lord sad Lady 'John &Well and the Miens Ruled' left Cbeekeen-plano on Monday, for Pembroke Lodge, Mammal Pork. The Lord Advocate and family have arrived at the Queen's asiel, Upper Norwood, from town. The Dean of *Neater and Ma. Peel have arrived et Twertoe's Hotel, Helper* from the Dessery, Woreast tr. The Wolverhampton Chronicle says :—" The Hon, Captain Anson, at the 7th Rum% arrived at Sbaghbo rough, In this meaty, the seat of his brother, the BRA of Lichfield, on Friday last. This gallant young °Meer has been en ware service h the time he omens tM rimy, tint la the Crimes, and afterwards on the waff of his node, the Ham. General Anson, late Commander-In-Chief In WM; sad ice the death of ilenerel Anson, Captite MKS in; WM through the Indies veer, on the staff of Omni lihr Ewe Great Qa an long to hear that he baa readied We native easnary in good Itevith" Ths Biibp si Lambe his mods arrangements for onskirdses is the Costisest this year. Bishop Spencer le now as a aimarmation tour in FTUION Belgium, Ice., and will visit the following places —Brussels, Ghost, Bruges, tlintw.rp, Boss. Camps, Coblents, Wisbaden, Frankfort- Reidalberg—porsibly also Lille, Bordeaux, and , P▪ au. Bishop Traver will, if n'obiag pmeast, bold confirm mimes is the stammer at the following places, and also, If re quired, In Russia .—vis, Amsterdam, Bettie, Drente'', Hamburg, Moore,. Copealtagen, Christiania, Goscuburg, sad Stockholm. It is said that the Rev. J. Flavelle, rector of Loseleall, and formerly tutor to the late Ilsrqois of Water kid, Is to be appointed t o the garish of Ifultateack, astral b the meignation of Lord Jobs Borialard, now Marquis of Walmixd. Tim committee formed to receive tontribal ix the Millet the Neapolitan exile*, taped a farther Het et isterriptioes, Iticaudiss the following .—Par the Mayor of Utak, 1114. 13e.; Marl Fitaviiiien, 1001.; A. M. W.,1004; Proprietors of the 601.; Anonymous, 601; Fisk- wagers , Compaq (pc tie Recorder of Loudon), 6 . 21. 10e; Cork Feed, Were et (per lie Boron Poerio), 3014 Lord Mad, WM.; Red nother, 214 ; Lord Fibrilar-40, 151.; tie LW et licathrek, 25L; the Id& Roe. E. Rorsose, 2W; Mile Ithethee Nightlesele, W.; Rd. Dark, RN., 201.; W. 1. °deaths Eel , Bet , 1714 Spero le Doe, W. lie.; Zed Cerw, 101 ; Sir Mortoa Petty Rat , 101. 10..; J. Ivatt Waft, Zig., M.P., 104 Sir T. B. Culebrokr, Bart.,lol.loe; lad Oman, 101.10 e.; Rai at Clikawilliaos. 614 Mr. Jar tier Wller.ll/. is,; W. Maas; Esq., 11.1'., 61.; Sir G. eirlddis., But., 64; Thome Osage Been, Rig., M.P., 21. is., b. INING, APRIL 20, 1859. LATEST INTELLII SARDINIA. FENCE. We have received the following telegram : TURIN, TriIIDALT. At a Council of Ministers held early this corning, at which the King vu present, it was That in order to give to Europe a proof of the desire of Sardinia to remove the difficulties which delay the meeting of a congress, Sardinia yields to the demand of England and France, and tempts the principle of disarmament, the details of which she will leave to be discussed in the congress. (71011 001 ORS NAPLES, APPIL lb. There Call be no doubt that very shortly we shall have asolution of the position of this kingdom through a change of sovereigns, for the King is now in such a hopeless state that his death is expected from one moment to another. .. The accession of Francis IL most necessarily bring on a thorough change of ministers and of the principal functionaries, who are deplorably compro mised. I believe, too, that important administrative • . and governmental mOdilloatie;te most take place. A person who may be depended on ea a man of honour, and who will probably play an important part under the new reign, said, a few days since, that he believed he could state that the first Lot of the new reign would be to proclaim a general amnesty without any restrictions, and that the police would be restrained within just bounds. These would be great measures certainly as holding out the promise of others of a more important character, bat in themselves a mere " drop." It does not do, however, to calculate upon uncertainties. There is a report (how far to be depended on I cannot say) that two steamers filled with arms and refugees have left Genoa with the view of disembarking on the coast& of Sicily or of Calabria. The question first is, is the report tree ? Secondly, if it be tree, it must be regarded u a very foolish and criminal act at the present crisis, when the meeting of megrim is pending, and a new reign hourly ex pected in the Two Sicilies. Wait to see the result would be the counsel of every sober mind. If any move meat is made at the present meanest, it may be fairly attributed to that wild and unprincipled party who have so often compromised the affairs of Italy. The country is perfectly tranquil, but not indif ferent or inattentive. People wait events with great anxiety—especially the death of the King. With him a system dies—a government dies; disorder will ensue. What powerful spirit is there whieh,olit of the element' of confusion that exist in Naples, will create .anything like order ? People speak of the restora tion of the constitution. It is very doubtful; bat you know my opinion—entil it be restcced, there will be no guarantee for personal liberty, for the good administration of the government, for any pro gress:whatever. Niatakee—follies—willbe committed in the initiation of a new system, but never such enormities u have been committed within the last ten years. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (room ova owl' PARIS, TueSDAY EYININO. The great discrepancies between the ministerial explanations and the article in this morning's Aiwa fear will have been extensively commented upon in London before this letter reaches you. The French government waited till they knew by telegraph what had been said in parliament, and then sent the article to the printing-office, in order to contrast the "inexhaustible moderation" of the Emperor with the bad fellowship with which the French press will be instructed to reproach the English government, and in order, by holding out hopes of peace wrapped up in ambiguous language, to attenuate the effect of Lord Derby's speech, which shows beyond a doubt that the Queen's government feels that it has hem trifled with. Upon the question of a moral disarmament the bad faith of the official article is patent when we come to collate the studied language used with known fats. The government of the Emperor we are told, having ►dmitted the principle of a disarmament, could have no objection as to the moment which might be judged meet opportune for carrying it out ; and if the powers thought fit to proceed to the mea sureeven before the meeting of the congrese,it would, foe its part, have " no motive for not conforming to this desire." This statement will doubtless be ao oepted by many people who have not closely watched the course of events, as a promise on the part of France to disarm whenever Austria oonsenta to do so. But the public knows from the semi-official journals that France means to deny that she hes been arming, and to say, there fore, that the project of a disarmament cannot pos sibly apply to her. By "conforming to the desires of the other powers," the Nowifeter therefore means to say, according to the interpretation to be here after given to the words need, that France has not the least objection to the other powers disr , ming, as soon as they can agree to do so among themselvet. It will, in fact, be quite open to her to say, that even Ragland, who has nothing to do with the quarrel. most, in case of an agreement for a general diearma. meat, discontinue working in her dockyards. The most earprisiog part of the article of the Moniteser is the announcement that the French government (not the Austrian, as was thought in Paris last night) proposes that all the Italian states shall be admitted to the congress. This arrange ment it might be thought would give a certain ma jority to Austria, because the petty states in Italy are under her influence. I was, however, greatly asto nished to hear it asserted to-day by a personage connected with the government that France feels assured that all the Italian states, whatever they may have said hitherto, would, if admitted to the congress, ♦ote with Piedmont. I believe this to be a piece of false news ventilated with a purpose. The Patric has an article this evening in which it undertakes to interpret the Ifosiiteur, and from this interpretation it follows that the " magnanimous" and plausible offer to admit all the Italian states to the congress rests upon a quibble. The Pattie thinks that they "cannot all be admitted on the name footing." Piedmont mast be admitted with a right to vote, and the other powers with a right only to be heard. Thus ex plained, the pretended conciliatory offer is merely one which it is perfectly well known beforehand I that Austria will certainly not accept The Pays is lost in admiration of the magnanimity, which has always characterised the acts of Napoleon' 111., bat will not risk a single observation on the English ministers' speeches until a fall report arrives. The Press. (not an official journal) sees in the ifowitur a concession which Lord Malmeskury was not aware of, and construes the article as implying that "Franca does not consider herself exempt from the operation of a general disarmament." Al I have already intimated, I believe this construction will not be supported. All the cavalry regiments going to Africa have been ordered to kayo their hones behind them, and to supply themselves with others in Algeria. Several clerks belonging to the thaws ministry have been sent to Turin, to aid the Sardinian go vernment in keeping the accounts of the army. The Bourse was in a state of great indecision. The article in the Moniteur, taken by itself, was thought rearming; but the effect of it wu neutralised by Lord Derby's speech. The Rents rose 64. for cub, and fell 6c. for account, closing at 67fr. 60e. and 67fr. Mc. Mobilier fell 6fr. There was scarcely any change in railways. The Press, says in its weekly commercial review : Ws have now reached a period of the year when under mdinary cirotunMances badness to very active, and this SSIII3II bad been meth:easily reckoned upon to campmate for the long stagnation of 1868. Bat the melange& uncer tainty of the political situation, and the fear of war, prevent any important operation from being undertaken. All spurn lathe business and all large replenishments of stooks On sus pended. People are buying nothing beyond what they want for immediate consumption. INDIA. INDIA OFFICE TELEGRAM. INDIA•UFPICE, Area 19, 1.40 r.w. The following telegram has been reostved via Marseilles: From H. L. Anderson, Esq., Secretary to Govern ment, Bombay, to J. Coamo Mehill, Esq., India cMor, London. CENTRAL INDIA. The rebels are scattered in three parties—one with Ferree Shah, not far from Burned, on the Agra and Bombay road ; another with the Rao Sahib, in the Shahghur district ; and the third with Untie Topes, who is said to be at present in the Chumbul and Parone jungle. Mann Singh is near him. The fol lowing rebels have surrendered :—Dithun Lall, Bhsema Naik, Abdool Suter Khan, styled " Nuwab of Powrah," and Nuwab Khan Ali Khan of Danmia ; the latter has given himself up to the Rajah of Bikaneer. NIZAM'S DOMINIONS.—HYDRRABAD. An attempt wu made by a Hindostanee armed with a carbine on the life of the Resident when vs. turning from the Darber on the 16th inst. (March) The ball wounded one of the Ministers who was walking with Colonel Davidson. The assassin was immediately cut down. The Resident believes that there were no accomplices in the attempt. Bombay Presidency quiet. H. L. ANDERSON, Secretary to Government. Bombay Castle, March 26. ITALY. -.- SARDINIA. (11CM OUR OWN TURIN, Aram 16. Though all here are in a condition of extreme t:trand agitation, public order has not been dis ill the slightest degree, and we at least enjoy the quiet of ordinary and regular times. A tew journals speak of grave differences between Count Cavour and General La Marmots, but I ant able to assure Tou that their statement is not true. The accusations also that have been levelled against that military officer of want of activity and skill in his conduct of preparations for the field are equally baseless. Man y of these preparations, it Is true, have been retarded by the immense difficulty of obtaining cloth, leather, orses and the like ; every govern ment wants them for home use, and our contractors . . bare acoordingly preferred forfeiting their deposits toruining themselves by actually supplying the articles required. It must be confessed that Austria appears to have been more provident, for at this moment all her armaments are thoroughly and efficiently completed. Pavia has been changed into a stronghold of no mean pretensions, and holds a garrison stronger than it really requires. And it is to be observed that all her new fortifications are contrived to resist not only her enemies without, bat the citizens within. The Archduke Maximilian has been suddenly summoned to Vienna, and a variety of conjectures are afloat respecting the object of so sudden an event. Does it mean instant war P Do they intend leaving Lom bardo-Venetia entirely in the hands of the military authorities? Or has the Prince been called to discuss with his brother the Emperor and the Aulic Council some new system of government for the Italian provinces? In the two &whim, in Tusceny and the Ro magna', the administrations no longer possess any energy, and the only reason why anarchy does not gain the ascendant is that the people now obey with strict discipline their liberal chiefs. These feel it their solemn duty to preserve order and not to mar by excesses the progress of the national cause. At Parma there is a committee for Galati:4 volunteers to emigrate from their own duchy, or from Modena and the Romagna,. It spends about two thousand francs a day ; and a large sum it is for so small a oounbry. They have struck a medal there in honour of Victor Emmanuel, and it bean this inscription: "The inhabitant& of Parma, in warm ing the wish of 1848." Yon remember that the wish in question wu to be united with Piedmont, so as to form one state. To-morrow (Sunday) we ex pect the arrival here, from the Duchy of Carrara, of a petition, or rather a declaration, signed by the people es mane, to the effect that they ale* wish to form a part of Piedmont, and that they do not mean to pay taxes any longer to the Dake of Modena. In the Romagna, the volunteers are leaving by hundreds ; the inhabi tants of the towns accompany them with bands of music and cheers, and the waving of tricolour ban ners- All this must prove to the world the possibi lity of withdrawing the foreign troops from the , Pontifical State.. As soon as these volunteers arrive in Tuscany, without passports, of coarse, each man is furnished with a ticket, signed by the Piedmontese minister, Cavaliers Boncompagni, and so they reach Leghorn, where they embark. At this same seaport seven hundred Tuscan volunteers have been lrat on board by Vincenzo Malenchini, who ooks well to their comforts; and the expense of their passage is to be defrayed by the municipality. The government sees all this, and keeps silent. The correspondent of a celebrated contemporary of yours backs Austria's assertion that all this has been brought about by Piedmontese management, and that Count flavour is playing the game of the revolutionary party. We laugh at these somewhat clumsy falsehoods. The Sardinian government is itself amazed at the efflux of volun teers, who by the end of the month will very possi bly amount to twenty thousand. The were so little expected that it causes no slight em ent to arm and clothe them. Piedmont and Cavour are revolutionary alone in this, that for ten long years they bays talked of Italy', slavery, and of the neces sity of remedying her state of suffering. Za Franco Castrate announces that in cue of a war the Mad the French army will be orropond as fol lows :—The Emperor, Commrndor•ia-cbiet; General Can rebut, )[ajar-Ganeral; General Neil, General de Service; Omura Leboalf, Commissioner of the Artillery ; General de Mertlmprey, Chief of the B•sf. The following anecdote appears in the French newspapers. A gamma having telom an opportunity of upraising to the Emplace a hope that he might be em ployed in the coming campaign, hie Merety replied, " Never fear, general-11 war breaki ont there will be oceemeade far everybody--evenLir me.• THE UNITED STATES. (YZOM OUR OWN NRW YORK, Ann. 6. Sickles is at last on his trial, and the °Wart expects to occupy four or five days in impannelling a jury. The rule that no one is competent to sem on a jury who has already formed any opinion on the merits of the sass, whatever be his ability to keep it in abey ance while hearing the evidence, is enforced in moat of the States with great rigour, and often with very troublesome runts. In this State the mere fact of a man's having read the newspaper reports, and formed an opinion therefrom u to the prisoner's guilt or innocence, let it be ever so vague or indefi nite, is good cause for a challenge. Whet incon venience this creates in the trial of notorious cues and in a community where everyone reads the news papers, may be imagined. In fact it places in the prisoner's hands en unlimited number of challenges, and enables him finally to aft the penal in such wise that none but the most stupid and ignorant, or in other words those who never read the newspapers, shall try him. The result, in this State at least, is that juries disagree constantly in the plainest cues, and when they find verdicts at all, find absurd ones. In Sickles' case, owing to the sensation it has made, and the strong feeling it has excited on both sides, this difficulty ii, of course, peculiarly great. The community is divided into two great parties on the morality of the deed, and, in addition to this, the affair has unhappily assumed somewhat of a political aspect, from a remark attributed to Key, and which he is said to have made some time pre vious to the catastrophe. A friend remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his attentions to Mrs. Sickles, and warned him that it would come to her husband's knowledge, and misehief would follow. The reply wee, it is said, " that Sickles was a d—d Yankee, and would do nothing if he did find it out." Your readers ere, perhaps, aware that the pen:sable habits of the Northerners, and their dislike to violence, have long been the subject of Southern sneers, as at the South a brutal readiness to shed blood on Email provocation is one of the marks of rintlemanhood. It is this circumstance that gave point to Key's coarse allusion, if he ever made it, and unfortunately it constitutes in the eyes of many people who would otherwise condemn Sickles a jus tification of the inter's conduct. No doubt is enter tained by anybody's to the result of the trial; and in tsetse far as the affair has gone,the prisoner'shienda have arranged to make it an ovation for him. The competition for the notoriety attendant on acting as his counsel was immense, and all his old political Mends of the legal profession in New York him with proffers of their services. They are not, I should add, however, of a very high standing at the bar. Amongst them fi gures your old acquaintance, Thomas Francis Meagher, who, the telegraph in forms us this morning, occupies the onerous and somewhat curious position of "consulting counsel" to the illustrious culprit. lam half inclined to be lieve, however, that this dignity his been conferred on him by some wag, inasmuch es Mr. Meagher's legal attainments are of a very diminutive order, and whatever service he might render in expending an oration on the jury, his opinion on points of law would not be of much value. Though nominally a lawyer, he his never practised here, and devotes himself to the editing of an Irish newspaper, and delivering occasional lectures. Since the tragedy occurred, the subjecrof adultery and the proper punishment for it has undergone very lengthy disco ion in the newspapers, and the general conclusion seems to be in favour of making it a punishable offence everywhere, at least on the part of the man. The woman undergoes terrible re tribution in the mere exposure, and repudiation by the husband ; but the man suffers little injury, if he escape the husband's vengeance. In the New England states, under the old puritan theocracy, it was judged by the law of Moue, and both delin quents put to death; in moderns times • term of imprisonment has been substituted for the capital penalty ; but through the rest of the country the law takes no farther notice of it than to grant a divorce on the application of the injured party. There is a fugitive slave ease pending in Philadel phia, one of the few that occur now-a-days, and it is canna; immense excitement. A negro, who his been living peaceably and honestly in the city for seven year; supporting • large family decent, has been seized in the market place, handcuff ed, and dragged before a United States Commissioner pre paratory to his rendition into alavery in Virguna. The claimant, moreover, is a lady. Pennsylvania is one of the few Northern states now-a-days in which fugitive slaves are not protected by " a personal liberty bill; and it is probable that this occurrence may lead to the passage of one there. It has been noticed already, and made the subject of a resolution in the legislature, which is now sitting. If the South were wise it would strongly discourage its citizens from reclaiming their " property" in this way. Better pay the owners the value out of the public purse than create such exasperation at the North. The oonfiict of jurisdiction of which I spoke in my last has arisen not between the Supreme Court of the United States and that of Michigan, as I inad vertently stated, but that of Wisconsin. The sub ject has been taken up by the legislature in a series of resolutions strongly denouncing the claims put forth by the federal judges, denying their conclu sions, and =priming the most firm determination to support the state courts in deciding, absolutely and without appeal. upon the sufficiency of the return to every writ of habeas corpus they may issue. It appears from the columns of GalignaNi that in Paris the tide of sonnets Is now at the Seed. Among the number ere two Miedeoll ceneerts by Madame &weedy (the Wilbelmine Clamed Elmer days). The grand . 4 Krentrer" sonata of Beethoven; the Barman" welts and the stir!) , (he avid* the right b and never touches a white key), by the piano pest Chopin; Schumann's pleasing variations in B fiat and liedar, by Schubert, composed an excellent bill of are for the first. The second was also distinguished by the taste of the selection. It opened with the sonata (17) by Beet hoven for plane and violin, admirably executed by Madame Searvaety and Becker. Chopin was again brought forward, and again delighted the hearer under the finger of Madame &weedy, who concluded the soiree as it began with a sonata of Beethoven's (31) ; which she played with perfeotioo. M. Berlioz announces the performance of his last oratorio, "Waxes do atria, with full orchestra and chorus of 130 executaats, at the Opera Comique, Paris, on Satur day next. The principal parts sot to be sung by MM. Batten* Jourdan, Idealist, Belval, and Madams Mein*. The oratorio will be followed by a grand concert of sacred music, vocal end instrumental. To coach:We with the ..11yeene a la Preece," grand chorus oompoeed by Berlioz. The Empress of Russia has presented several or nament sof the value of 10,000 florins to the church of In genheim, in Grand Decal Reese, which her Majesty's brother, Prince Alexander, has just mused to be repaired Ina villa in that village the Emma passed part of her youth with her mother the Grand Duchess of Heim " The Pope," says a letter from Rome, " recently, in accordance with annual custom, blessed what is called the golden NW. This flower, which is made of the purest gold, and ornamented with pret l ions stones, was rubbed with balm and incensed—his Whom reciting verses explaining the mystio mecotug of the benediction ; after which be took it in Ms left hand and blessed the people. Mass was then cele brated in the Sixt;ne Chapel. The gold roses are ordinarily sent to female sovereigns, sometimes to prince., and some times, though rarely, to towns and corporations. The ate of laat year was sent to the Empress of the French, and that of the yam before to tho Queen of Spain." Mr. George Manin, the eldest son of the illus. blocs Predelent of tins R epublic of Venice, ha left Paris to take service in the Sardisian army. Re la an accomplished mathematician, and till lately was an engineer in the employ of the Western Railway Company. The Spanish Senate has adopted a bill providing for the erection of a statue to Marino, the painttv. The death of M. de Toequeville, which has been prematurely advanced, la unfortunately 000 firmed by the Debate of to-day as having taken place on Saturday, at Canna. He was 63 years of age. The Agricultural Society of Algiers has offered a p=ium of 5,000 fr., raised by Inbecriptien among the metu bast to any parson who elan discover the means of preeerving to bsoco Meals, daring their vege'ation, from the raysys of insects. A oommtssicrn appointed foe the purport+ will declare, at the end of 8- Member, 188 0 , and after trial, which remedy hie suomedoi.