The Express. — London, England, 1867-05-24 00:00:00

MAPPIN BROTHERS. —Establuhea A. D. 1810. CIIESTfiof SILVER PLATE fur theCOLONliiii. CUTLERY and SILVER PLATE for FURNISHING. Mtn IN BROTHERS, LONDON-BRIDGE. MAPPIN BROTHICRS, 223, REGENT MUM. BROWN and POLSON'S OORN FLOUR for CRILDILIIN'S DIRT. Zo obtain extra wont by the We other kinds am amens* admen Instead of BROW., and rousowe. "John Brown." “Julan 4 Poteen." la signed * the makers on sob piobet. Bite eVPreOO• TO CORRESPONDENTS. Stlseituensents intended for " The Express," !modes Evenine :s e m u ss u us t t ie be u e v t of th s z b ree, n lo, Bouverie.street, by Two DRURY LAN I. T/114 ETltalinn, THAT RASCAL JACK. Messrs. tinuivi and ievflle . Mesdarnivi Alleyne and Thompson—To enntlitile with THE GREAT CITY. ileum Warner, Morton, Fitzjouniw, &mar, Irving. 8 Mesdames Robertson, Le Thkre, and I hunipauti. HAYMARKET. TRH ESMaina, DEAffAHA7.IjI4i: Masan. Compton and Farren, tc. ; Mrs. Fitzwlllbun, Ac.—A WILD GOLISE. Istsern So Bern, Buckstene, Howe, Mogen, (lonlon, Ac.; Mt , darnes llillV.Lllippendalr, Hill, Laws, te.—And FAMILY JAH:4, PEIRCIPWR. THIN EVMSTaIa ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA. A.tony, Mr. Lorasue, Mobartnau, Mr. %cruel.. Clirrukian, Miss hage tle.patra, Mies Olyn. LYCEUM. TEM IMMO. BAMBOOZLING. Mr. Prior mid Wu State Slahop.—TlGl DUKES MOTTO. Mr. Pechter. 11vcll. Erne; y. Wklfllcorab, Jordan, Price. etc. ; Mtas fils•rorthy. II en rade, GrstlsA, and Culotte Leclarcq. erkAND. Ting ETsmia, WA ITINIIPOR THE f N DERCK°, I, —T II E LITTLE SAV eI.:MALI. 0N ; Mt. THE STA ME 1 , .% I I:. Meurs.Thoree, Jamey. R M..oaltunt a agruabornugh, Raynhant. Elarland,Jobnatanir, Hula —And kit I.NCII EAllibli .HOLBORN, TailMeCso, MY Tf,iis .41. KT. Mr. Itelmore Muses Vota end t.,nu, +E.—And FLYING SCUD. Mews. Nerille, more, Make. VoUalre..te. ; Mee,lssues F. Jompl.s, C. brundere, EMllid Foote. Flddes, Lemma, Maywood. ste. BRITANNtA. Nis Emma. SIIAMKIK K .IF IBA:LAND NITs. S. Wine —IIIF. \ .11 I. TEF:K.S. ‘lr. alt.! ‘11.4 R. Edwin —Arid Tif E OLD MAID IN THE WINDINC-SIIEET. WW2 S. & J oveiley. IG if WATER AT LON DON BRIDOK. TUX DAT —Morning. r,‘. 22 re Afternoon, nh 40ra, 10-110a1041—Morning. bR Im.._ Attenicam, 4.12. 24m. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 24. Ir seems impossible to ascertain what is the exact position of affairs in Mexico. Since the final withdrawal of the French troops the link which connected the struggling Empire with the public interest of Europe we= to have been broken ; and as it is no longer needful to supply the French people with the Imperial version of current events, we are left for nearly all our information to Re publican sources, which are scarcely more trust worthy. Although it is by no means impossible, it . is, to say the least, improbable either that the EM PEROR has tied, that the Imperial forces have been entirely dispersed, or that the Juarist, or Liberal section of the national republican force is in possession of the capital. But though all these details are extremely doubtful, one or two points of established certainty may be discovered among the man of shifting reports and bragging assertions which constitute the staple of Mexican intelli gence. The brave determination of the EMPIROR to continue his struggle for empire after the French had withdrawn has not succeeded in rallying any sufficient force to his standard. The Empire has succumbed to the fatalities of its origin. Popular hostility or indifference and the strong disfavour of the United States have rendered the Imperial cause entirely hopeless, notwithstanding the favour with which the Church party had again begun to regard it. The EMPEROR is no longer fighting for a throne, but for his honour and his life. His object now is, or was, merely to save the lives and fortunes of his adherents by making terms for them, and to withdraw with credit from a gallant but most disastrous struggle. That fears even for his personal safety have been entertained is proved by the action of the Austrian and American Governments ; but it is so much the interest of JEARRE to heed the appeal which Mr. Szwaan has made, that we may conclude that the only personal danger to the EMPEROR is that which he incurs as necessarily incidental to warfare. The sympathy naturally extended to a brave man struggling with misfortune is reviving in some quarters a line of comment only explicable by the forgetfulness of its authors. The Emperor MAXI MILIAN having failed, as all who were capable of taking a calm view of the facts three years ago foresaw and prtxlicted he would fail, an at tempt is made to make some one responsible for that result. Sometimes the American Govern ment and sometimes the French people are blamed. It is quite forgotten that the Empire was broken down by its own weight. The published despatches of M. DEOITIN DE Lxuvs prove this. The French army did all that an army could do. It conquered and held its conquests. But Maxi mum( could not establish his government. He plunged enormously into debt, exhausted his credit, and was at last obliged to call the general of the French army to advance money to him out of the military chest. The French people bore with marvellous patience the Mexican drain upon their resources ; but at last the Emmes was compelled to acknowledge that it would be wrong to call upon them to make further sacrifices for the sake of the Mexican Empire. The American Government, which had from the first warned that of France that it could not establish a European Prince ess the throne of Mexico, at the same time imter:ered, but merely to secure that result to which the public opinion of France was pointing. MAXIMILIAN was only adding the horrors of foreign war to thew of intestine anarchy, and he had in troduced the barbarous practice of shooting iu cold blood prisoners taken in regular war. No responsibility is incurred by putting an end to his interference in the affairsof a country which he might afflict with new curses, but which he was powerless to benefit. As far as the prospect of a re establishment of peace and good government are concerned, Mexico remains pretty nearly where it was before the French expedition. The causes of its disorders lie too deep to be removed by the sword of conquest, and will probably last until the time has come for the introduction of a new po pulation of a nobler race than that which now en grosses a country it is unable to develop, and which seems incapable of founding any stable order of society. TEE Reform Bill was a little further im proved last night by an amendment upon the fourth clause relating to the county fran chise. Mr. H. VIVIAN proposed that the right of voting should be conferred on per sons having a leasehold interest of the clear yearly value of five pounds, in houses or Linda, under a lease of not JIM than sixty years. The CH AN. rELLOI: of the Ext.:tit:l 4 u Lit agreed to this amendment. Sir E. COLEBROOK E subsequently moved another, for the purpose of attaching the new franchise in counties to dwelling-houses occupied separately or jointly with land, the ob ject being to prevent the creation of faggot votes, which would be easy if land without houses gave votes. This proposal was resisted by the Govern ment, but on a division was carried by a ma jority of three. .. second division, however, was necessary, andthe supporters of the Government were very sharply whipped up, and the ptvvions decision was reversed by a majority, also of three. The clause was now iu hopeless confusion, and the country gentlemen got excited. Mr. lluotaxxi, however, did not seem inclined to give as much importance to faggot votes as they had in the eyes of his bucolic followers, and the Government consented to a motion for reporting progress. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) THE toll Hol "Eliol.DEß NOT TO CE Al:o11 , 1111 , 1/TER AI.I---IHE GOVEMMENT CLAl'sts. Anticipating that Mr. Disraeli's suggestion as to the day sittings between 2 in the afternoon and 7 will meet with the approval of the House, the Timex would feel increased regret if it should appear that the advantage thus gained is to be dissipated by fresh demands upon the time of parliament. Such, however, may prove to be the case. The compound householder clauses which the 'ban cellor of the Exchequer laid last night on the table of the house are likely to produce fresh complications, for in stead of decreeing that the practice of compound house holders in parliamentaryboroughs shall cease, they provide that whenever landlords and tenants :igree fur that purpose the tenant maycoutinue to be a compound householder, and so cease to be a voter. Such clauses will satisfy no one. If the tenant of a house be the slave of his landlord, it can make no difference whether the landlord he enabled to stipulate at the commencement of a tenancy that his tenant shall not apply to be rated, or to stipulate that he shall annually sign an agreement declining to be rated. In either case, according to the theory of those who appear to hold a tenant to be a serf, the landlord is master of his tenant's political rights, the power of vestries will con tinue practically unabated, the inequality of enfran chisement will remain as considerable as ever. I:efore the committee resumes its deliberations on Mon day the Times trusts these clauses will be re-considered. What the House of Commons desires, and the country is prepared to support, is the complete and unqualified abolition of the practice of compounding in parliamentary boroughs. There must be no loophole of escape, no pro viso by which the compounder once expelled may return to his old nest. The way to secure this happy end is easy. The first and second enactments of the new clauses, with the sub-provisions meeting the case of current contracts, will accomplish everything that is wanted ; and the Tinges trusts to hear on Monday that ministers, emboldened by the support of parliament, are still bent on their original design, and will drop the third and fourth enactments, so as to extinguish the compound householder once and for ever. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1867. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. DIVIsION LABT NIGHT. (In the committee).—Clause 4 :—Amendsnant proposed, in" page 2, line t 2, to leave out the words " monism of wxy tenure," in order to insert the words " a dwelling-house or othci building :"--(Sir Edward Colebrooke :1 — Amendment proposed to the said proposed amendment to leave out the words "or other building :--(Mr. Ellice :)—Question, " That the words ' or other build ing' stand part of the Mill proposed amendment," put and negatived. Amendment again proposes!, to leave out the words " m -111112411 of any tenure," in order to insert the words • a dwelling-house :"—Question put, " That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the clause : ' The .rominitte.s! —Ayes, 193 ; noes, 196. ATILS. AdoPricy, C. R. Gore, W. R. North, Col. Bottaßey, B. Greensll, G. Northcote, Sir S. Bailey, Sir J. It. Grey, T. de O'Neill, E. Millie, 11. J. Guinness, Sir B Parke, C. W lia-lug, I'. Gurney, R. I 800 n,,. W. 11. Gajn, 11. llititt H n.:4r .1. liateson. Sir T. Hamilton, GI. (laud Palk, it L. Inithoine, A. A. Hardy, G. Parker, II ajoi Beach, Sir M 11. Hanky, J. Patten, Cul. 13eeemft, G. S. Harvey, It. It. Pennant, G. D. Bourne, Col. Ike, sir J. Percy. Major. G . Sir G. Heatheute, Sir W. Powell, F. S. Brett, W. B. MuleY, S. W. Pugh, U. Bridges, Sir it. Herbert, Col. Read, C. S Bromley, W. li litigate. Sir F. Reerden, U. J. Browne. Lord 3. Hong 1.t.•C01. Region, G. W Bruce, Mr 11. ii. Holmesdale, Vied. Ridley, Sir M. Bruen, 11. hood, Sir A. Robertson, P P. Euekley, 11. Hope, A.. 1. atilt, Sir J. Bulkeley, Sir R. 11..niliy, W. H. Sammie, J. D'A. Burrell, Sir I'. Honda% T. B. Sandford, G. M. Butler•Joluistone, II Huhbard..l. G. Si:blether, C. Capper, C. Iludilleston, J. W. Sclater-Booh. 0. Cartwright, Col. 'hue, G. W. Seuurfleld, J. 11. Cave, S. .11TVIS, Major Hearin. 11. J. Cecil, bail 3ollifte, H. 11. Selwyn, C. J. Cole, H. ronesi, D. Sererne, J. E. Cole, J. L. Kerslake, Sir J. Seymour, (1. 11. I ioni,lly, T. Kerslake, E. K. Simonds, W. IL Corry, H. L. Kavanagh, A. Smolkott, P. B. Comborue, Vitct. Kekewich, S. T. Stanhope. J. B. Cubitt, G. Kelk, J . Stanley, Lord l'iirzoti, Vied. Kendall, N. Stanley, F. Dick, F. King, J. K. Stopfonl, S. G Dicknn, Majoi K lug, J. G. Strange, Sir J. Dimeditle, R. Knight, F. W. Stuart, Lt.-Col. Disraeli, B. la ..v., sir E. Stocky. Sir G. r Du t tine, C Mini, J. Surtees, C. F. ' Dunne, (tot. [waggon, W. G. Surtoes, H. K. Du Pee, C. G. Lauyon, C. S) kis, l'. itj le, W. H. Lirteelles, E. W. Talbot, C. R. Dyott, Col. Leader. N. P. Thrm, Lord II Eaton, It, W. Lechmere, Sir E. Tollernache..l. Eckeniley, N. Leith, Major C. Torrent. R. Edwords, Sir 11 Lennox, Lord G. Tottenham, 11.• col. Egerton. A. P. Uddell, 11. G. Treeliy, J. W. Egerton, E. C. Lindsay. Cut C. Inollupe, Sir J. Eigerton, W. Lindsay, Col. R. Towner, C. Elclio, Lord lop*. Sir M. Verner, Sir W. Pane, Col. Lowther. J. Walcott, Adm Feilden, J. M'Kenna, J. N. Walker. Major Pellowet, F.. Mackinnon, Capt. Watrond, J. W Ferglusson, Sir J. Manners, Lord 3 Walsh, A. ?beer, J. Manners. Lord (3 . ..1. Wabili. Sir J Forester, Gen. Metier. Cul. Waterhouse. S. Fort, R. Monteri, Lord R. Welty, W. E. IPreshfield, C. K. Slontgomerb Sir G. Whitmore. 11. Galway, V tact. Mordaunt. sir C. Willi .ma, F. M. Garth, IL Morgan, O. Wise, If. C. Gagelee, Serpent Morgan, Moine WOU(III, B. 'r. Haskell. J. Al. 31tovioray, J. E. Wyndham, P. Getty. S. G. Naas, Lord Goddard, A. L. Neeld, sir J. MUMS. Ottliiney. G. N.-Wilk-Grenville, R. Taylor. Col. Gooch, Sir U. Newdegete, C. N. Noel, G. J. Goodwin, J. N ewport, ['bet. . _ NOK& Aeland, T. D. Foster, W. 0. O'Beirne, J. Is Adair, ii. E. Fortescue, C. P. &Brien, Sir P. Adam, W. P. Gavin, Major &Donoghue, The 4ardiMiii, L G. Gilpin, C. Akro)il, E. I Oliphant, L. Gladstone, W. E. &Reidy. M. W. Amberley, Vlsct, Glyn, G. O. Osborne, R. B. Armstrong, it. lioldsmid, Mir F. Padmore. IL Ayrnal, A. S. Ciollandil, J. Palmer. Sir R Aytoun. R. S. Gaschen, IL J. Pony. 'r. Baines, it. Cray, Sir J. Pease. J. R'. Barclay. A. C. Oradell, H. r... Peel, sir R. Barry, A. H. Grey, Sir G. Peel, A. W. Baer, A. Gridley, Capt. I'eto, Sir S. H. Baxter, W. R. Grosvenor. Capt. Philips, B. N. Barley, T. Grove, T. F. Pim, J. Beaumont. H. Y. Hadfield, O. Platt, J. Berkeley, H. F. !WTI., J. D. Portman, W. 11. Itiddalph. M Hay, Lord W. Potter, R. Blake..l. A. Dayter, A. D. Potter, T. R. Bonham-Carter, J. Headlara, T. E. Power, BUJ. Brous', 11. Henderson. J. Price, IL G. Bright, J. Heneage, IL Rehear J. 0. Briscoe, J. I. Herbert, U. A. Roberts*, T. J. Brave, Lord C. llibbert, J. T. Robertson, D. Bruce, 11. A. Higigkinson, G. Roebuck, J. A. Buller. Sir E. Holden. I. Rothschild,lieoron M Butler, C. S. Howard, C. W. Rothschild, N. M. Buxton, Sir T. F. Hughes, T. Rumen, A. Caliaaft, J. H. Hurst, IL H. Russell, H. Candi/M1..1. Ingham, R. St. Aubyn, J. Cardwell, E. Jardine, R. Sal onions, Ald. Cave, T. Jerroise, Mr J. Samuelson, B. Cavendish, Lord E. Kennedy, T. Saunderson, E. Cavendish, Lord F. liinglake, J. A. Scott, Sir W. Lnvenilieh, Lord G. IC Momenta, Col Sherrill, t. C. Cheetham..l. Knatchboll - liuges- Simeon, Sir .1. Childers, 11. r. *en. 1.:. Smith, J. Cholmeley, Sir M. Labonchere, 11. Smith, J. A. Clay, J. Laing, S. Stsepoole, W. Clinton, Lord Z. Layard, A. H. Stansfeld, J. Collier, sir R. Lawrence, W. Mock, 0. Colthurst, !MC. Lawson. J. A. Stone, W. 11. Colvile, C. R. Latham, W. H. Stuart, Col. C. Cowen, J. Lee, W. Sullivan, K Cowper, H. F. Leteme, 0. J. Synan, R. J. Cowper, W. F. Lewis. H. Taylor. P. A. Cranford, K. H. Locke, J. Torrents W. T. Croieley Mr F. Lusk A. Trevelyan, G. 0. Davie, Sir H. It. Mackie, J. Vanderbyl, P. De La Pier, E. M•Laren, D. Villiers, C. P. Hering. Sir E. Maguire, J. F. Vivian, 11. H. Dermas. R. J. klarjoribanks, Sir D. Vivian, Capt. Dillwyn, L la Martin, C. W. Wattle, K W. Molten, F. Martin, P. W. Weguelin, T. M. Duff, R. W. Matheson, A. Western, Sir T. It, Hondas, F. Merry. J. Whalley, G. H. Edwards, C. Milbank. F. A. Whitman, J. Filler, E. Mill, .1. S. White, Capt. Enfield. Vied. Miller, W. White, J. Esmonde, J. Mills. J. R. Wlllnunson, Sir H. Evans. T. W. Mitchell, A. Wyld, J. Swart, W. Monk, C. J. Wyvill, 11. Swing, H. F. Moore, C. Young, R. Fawcett, H. More, R. 3. Fitspataielt, J. W. Neste, C. =LIAM Forster, C. Nicol, J. D. Colebrooke, Str T. Punter. W. E. Norwood. C. Si. King, P. J. L It will be seen by referring to our summary of the de bate, that the opposition having carried their amendment, that the words in the government clause be left out, then proposed that the wools "a dwelling house" be in serted, but that this motion was lost by 212 to 209 ; so that at present the blank remains. The government were reinforced in the second division by Captain Archdafl, Visount Barrington, Mr. Benyon, Captain Beresford, Lord Bingham, Lord Ernest Bruce, Mr. Baillic Cochrane, Lord Courtenay, Mr. Cooper, CoL Gilpin, Mr. J. It. Gore, Lord R. Grosvenor. Mr. O. Heath cote, Mr. Henniker, Mr. Hildyard, Mr. Mefferd, Mr. Pritchard. Sir C. Russell, Lord Trevor, and Mr. Wynn. The opposition were reinforced by a less number, namely Viscount Andover, Sir R. Blennerbasset, Dr. Brady, Vice-Admiral Erskine, the Hon. D. F.Forteecue, Mr. W. H. Gladstone, Mr. Graham, Mr. Hankey, Sir J. Johnstone, Sir J. Matheson, Lord Proby, Mr. Scholiffield, and the Hon. W. Stanley. Mr. Ouldemid intends to propose to leave out chum 21 in the government Reform Bill, and insert a clause providing for the use of voting papers at the elections for the University of London. Mr. Gregory, as an amendment to Mr. Poulett Serape's proposed proviso, will move " that the landlord shall pay half rates on all tenements under 41." On the second reading of Metropolitan Improve ments Bill, Mr. M'Cullsgh Torrens will move—" That, while this boon is of opinion that if increased taxation for the purposes of permanent metropolitan improvements should be found to be indispensable the burden ought not to fall exclusively upon the occupiers, but ought, as pro posed by the bill, to be borne in part by the owners of property, this house deems it expedient to postpone the consideration of the measures required to carry out this principle until the proposals before the house for the re constitution of metropolitan local government, and of the board to whom such powers of taxation would be delegated, shall have been dealt with." In the House of Commons last night, at a late hour, Mr. 0. Stanley said that the country gentlemen had become excited, and time ought to be given them to be come calm. He had to call attention to a scene which had taken place at the door behind the Speaker's chair where a strong and powerful man,the Secretary for the Treasury, and the hon. and gallant member for Dublin had used forcible means to withdraw an hon. member from the aide with which he was going. No further notice, however, appears to have been taken of the complaint. Yesterday Field-Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, Commanding•in-Chief, visited Aldershot, and reviewed the troops in garrison there. The Long Valley was almost unbearable. In consequence of the piercing north wind that prevailed the dust was driven in great clouds, so dense at times as to utterly obscure the lines at a few hundred yards' distance. Notwithstanding this discomfort, there WWI a large number of visitors, among whom were the Belgian Ambassador and party, Lady Scarlett, Lord Camp bell, lee. At the conclusion of the movements his royal highness and the staff left the ground for Sir James Scar• lett', at Farnborough, returning to town by an afternoon teL A company has been formed at Poole, in Dorset shire. for deep see fishing between the Isle of Purbeck aad the Isle of Wight. REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE BILL. The following are the amendment. to Clause 34 of the Reform Bill which the Chancellor of the Exchequer placed upon the table of the House of Commons bat night, and the object of which is to carry into effect the proviso lately moved by hi,. Hodgkinson to the 4th clause, with the view of abolishing the compound household system in parliamentary boroughs : Clause 34, page 11, line 29. After " Where" omit to the end of the clause, and insert : The owner is rated at the time of the paring of this act to the poor-rate instead of the occupier in respect of a dwelling house or other tenement situate in a pariah wholly or partly in a borough, his liability to be rated in any future poor-rate shall cease, and the following enactments shall take effect with respect to rating in all boroughs : I. After the passing of this act no owner of any dwelling house or other tenement situate iu a pariah either wholly or in part within a borough dull be rated to the poor rate instead of the occupier, except as hereinafter mentioned. 9. The full rateable value of every dwelling-house or other separate tenement, and the full rate in the pound payable by the occupier, and the name of the occupier shall be entered in the rate-book. 3. With the joint consent of the owner and occupier given in the form marked in the schedule hereto, the overseers or other authority empowered by law to make the poor rate shall rate the owner instead of the occupier. and may compound with the owner for the rates, in conformity with the provisions of any statute for rating the owners instead of the occupiers in force in the parish at the time of the passing of this act, or in conformity with the provisions of the act of the session of the I:ith and 14th years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An act for the better assessing and collecting the poor rates and highway rates in respect of small tenements," where the same shall Lave already been or may hereafter be adopted by the vestry ; but no occupier of any dwelling-house or other tenement the owner of which is rated with the consent of such occupier as aforesaid shall be entitled to be registered as a voter for any borough. 4. Any arrangement made in pursuance of this section for rating the owner or compounding with him with such consent as aforesaid shall determine on the 19th day of July in every year, but may be renewed with such consent as aforesaid ; nevertheless the determination of such arrangement shall not affect the recovery of any rate made previously to the determination thereof. Provided as follows : 1. That nothing in this act contained shall affect any composition existing at the time of the pestling of this act, so nevertheless that no such composition shall remain in force beyond the period of twelve months from the time of passing of this act. 2. That nothing herein contained shall affect any rate made previously to the passing of this act, or any such ex isting composition entered into as last aforesaid, and the powers conferred by any subsisting act for the purpose of collecting and recovering a poor rate shell remain and con tinue iu force for the collection and recovery of any such rate or composition. 3. That where the occupier under a tenancy subsisting at the time of the passing of this act of any dwelling-house or other tenement,'wMch has been let to him free from rates, is rated and has paid rates in pursuance of this act, he may deduct from any rent due or accruing due from him in respect of the said dwelling-house or other tenement any amount paid by him on account of the rates to which he may be rendered liable by this act. Nothing in this section contained shall affect the liability of any owner to be rated instead of the occupier under any act in respect of any dwellinthowie wholly let out in separate apartments or in lodgings. Mr. Ayrton—As an amendment to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's amendment to clause 34, to insert at the end of paragraph 2, " and shall be rated ran ordinary oc cupier." Leave out paragraphs 3 and 4, and insert : Where the dwelling-house or other tenement shall be let to an occupier for a shorter period than for • year, the owner as well as the occupier shall be rated in respect thereof, but the liability of the occupier to pay the rate shall not be thereby affected, and in case the occupier shall not pay the rate within two months after the same shall have been demanded of him, as hereinafter pro vided the owner shall pay such rate. The Chancellor of the Exchequer— Schedule ( .) Notice of consent that the owner is to be rated. To the overseers (or other rating authority) of the parish of • We, the undersigned, being the owner and occupier of the dwelling house or tenement hereunder described, here by give you notice that we have consented that the owner shall be rated to all rates to be made before the day of next for the relief of the poor of the said pariah in respect of such premises ; and you may compound with the owner for such rates. Dated this day of Signature of Occupier. Number In Bate Book. ,18 . `•lgnature of Owner. DEVIILIPTION OP PROPZITT. Derwrlp- Name of Street, Rol of Home' Place, ,tc., artier. of Name Name or other Property la eltnate Tem. and 'Number of I Owner. meet. If any. 1 ' 1 i tits Caurt. The Duke of Edinburgh presided at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Central Hall of Arts and Menses yesterday. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by Mr. Haig and the Hon. Eliot Yorke, left Clarenoe•house for Parts em reek to Marseilles, and from thence, in command of her Majesty's ship Galatea, to the Australian colonies, via.' Gibraltar, Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope. The Prince of Wales accompanied the Duke of Edin burgh to the railway station. Messrs. C. F. Hancock, Sun, and Co., of Bruton-street, have had the honour of submitting to the inspection of the Queen at Windsor Castle the " Beaufort Cup," lately run for at the Bath races, and won by Lord littematis horse, Moulsey. A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Ho nourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council °Mae, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The Lords present were the Lord President, the Duke of Richmond, Lord John Manners, Lord Robert Montagu, the Right Hon. Gethorne Hardy, and the Right Hon. Stephen Cave. Mr. Harrison and Dr. Alexander Williams attended the committee. Sir John Thwaitos (chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works) had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yes terday. A deputation, introduced by Colonel Sykes, M.P., and oonsiating of the Duke of Buccleuch, Mr. Cumming Bruce, M.P., Sir John Ogilvy, Bart., M.P., Mr. D. Fordyce, M.P., Mr. Grant Duff, M.P., Sir H. F. Davie, Bart., iLP., Captain Mackinnon, M.P., R.N., Mr. W. Miller, M.P., Mr. Neste, M.P., Mr. Barley, M.P., Mr. R. W. Duff, M.P., Mr. Oliphant, M.P., Admiral Erskine, M.P., and Mr. Robertson (of Ladykirk), M.P., had an interview with the Duke of Richmond, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday, on tho subject of storm warnings. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor-General of Canada. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the Settlements on the West Coast of Africa, and to the Governor-General of Canada. HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND. ABERDEEN, THMIRDAY NIOVIT. Her Majesty, the royal family, and suite reached Aberdeen at 10 minutes to 12 this forenoon, and were received by Bull' ie William Henderson, acting chief magis trate, Sheriff Thompson, &c. After a short stay, during which the train was shunted on to the Decide Railway, the royal party resumed their journey, accompanied by several of the directors and Messrs. Milne ani Ferguson, manager and secretary of the line. Aboyne was made within the hour, and thence her Majesty, fond of the highland scenery, which here begins to be manifested in all its rugged beauty, posted to Balmoral. The suite pro ceeded to Ballater, eleven miles further on, by rail. Shortly before 3 o'clock the royal party arrived at the Castle of Balmoral. Weather cold, and alight showers of hail fall ing. Lookagar still clad in wow. - THE STATE o► IRELAND. Reviewing the debate last evening on the state of Ire land, the Daily N,r•vi observes that Lord Nasues indignant denial of the imputation of dallying with and fomenting conspiracy, and of allowing insurrection to gather to a head and to break forth, in order more effectually to crush it, bore the plain marks of sincerity. Such a course, he truly says, would have been in the highest degree scandal ous and wicked. We hope Mr. Roebuck is grateful for this acknowledgment of his hxpothetical vindication of her Majesty's government, Ile thinks them capable of, because he sees no harm in, acts which they themselves stigmatise as involving the extremity of disgrace. Mr. Roebuck happily stands alone in his views of what political expediency dictates, and political honour allows. Rxperience forbids us to hope that these exceptional powers can safely cease so long as Ireland is governed on the principles of territorial and ecclesiastical ascendancy. I Until Irish wrongs are redressed we cannot have the as surance of a lasting peace with America. It would be a great mistake to suppoee that Mr. Roebuck speaks the sense of the English nation. Were it so, chronic rebellion in Ireland would be natural, inevitable, and almost pisti -1 Sable. The Tines complains of a vagueness in the remedial legislation recommended by Mr. Maguire, Mr. Bright, and others, and contends that the speeches delivered show bow little injustice Ireland has to apprehend from the British House of Commons. Putting aside Mr. Roebuck's defence of the Irish church as falling to the ground on a slight examination, the Times argues that the questions of the Irish church and of the tenure of land may be settled in a single session as soon as the passing of the Reform Bill clears the way. When this is done we shall be the better able to despise the plots of traitors at home or the threats of enemies abroad. The Herald pins itself to the speech of Mr. Roebuck, who told the whole truth, it says, about Ireland with such force and conciseness. The Pad hopes that the session even now will not come to a close without some other and more acoeptable Irish measure than tho suwpension of the Habeas Corpus, re ceiving the assent of the legislature. The Star contrasto the liberal measures which the oppo sition are desirous to press upon parliament with regard to the land question and the Irish church, with the merely negative policy of the government. The Teleyreph corrects itself in baring said the other day that toryism was dead. It still exists in Ireland, and its defender in England is the once r►dical member for Bath and the preseut tory member for Sheffield. Poor Mr. Roe buck seems now to exist, as a political entity, simply to oontradict himself. Fake to the faith of his youth and his manhood, Mr. Roebuck offers a painful example of ripe unwiedom, and those who are interested in the wel fare of a people too long persecuted and misused cannot listen to a more dangerous adviser than the misrepresen tative of enlightened and liberal Sbellielit Of Mr. Roebuck, the Daily .Netca observes : " The rudeness and vio'ence of his language, and the evident desire by which he is animated to inflict as much gratuitous pain SS be can upon individuals and communi ties—the only thing in the course of his political life in which be has ever succeeded —make him a public mis chief. Benefits conferred in the spirit which be be. trays would embitter rather than conciliate. To say that be fights with poisoned arrows is to my too little. He poisons the surgeon's knife." THE Trennomen BaamtareY.—The following ap pears in the Tim , " . -" Sir,—Your impression of Tuesday lad contained an advertisement of the birth of a son to Sir Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne, Bart. As eerie. setting the infant baronet, Sir Henry Alfred Joseph Doughty Tithborne (only child of the late Sir Alfred Tich borne), will you allow us to say that the guardians of the person and estate of the infant appointed by the Court of Chancery utterly deny the right of the person calling him self Sir Roger Charles Doughty Ticbborne to bear the name and title he has unwarrantably assumed, and that, should he venture to put forward any claim in a tangible shape, the guardians will be prepared to prove it wholly without foundation!—We have the honour to be, sir, your obedient servants, Doninsom and GEARL-57, Linooln's inn-fields, May Z." _ THE ABYSSINIAN CAPTlYES.—lntelligence has been received from the captives in Abyssinia up to the 2nd of ApriL They were still prisoners, and in chains, in the fort of Msgdala. There had been no change in their treat ment by King Theodora', and no sign whatever that he in tended to liberate them. In fact, they are now fully per suaded that nothing but force will secure their liberation, and are ready to take the risk which coercive measures would entail upon themselves. One of them writes:— "Her Majesty's government are fully aware of our posi tion, and it must now be clear to them that our release by conciliatory measures is quite out of the question. They must either resort to force or leave no to perish. Mean , while, the country generally appears to be in a state o f . complete anarchy, and almost every province is in rebel ' lion. The road from Magdala to Debra Tabor, where the King still resides, is unsafe for all travellers unless ac companied by a strong escort. Five more Europeans have recently been added to the number of the captives—viz. Wee Germans, Messrs. Steiger, Brandeis, and Schiller ; Eisler, a Hungarian, and Makeni, a Frenchman. These bad volunteered to enter the King's service when the other captives were sent to Magdala, but getting tired of their position they devised a plan to escape. The evening before putting their plan into execution they were be trayed by Bardel, who had agreed to escape with them. They were, in consequence immediately seized and chained hand and foot. They are at present confined is a dungeon as Dabs* Tabor. DEATH OF SIR ARCHIBALD ALMON. We learn with regret, though without surprise, that Sir Archibald Alison died last night at Glasgow. His condflioft for some tiny reeiously precluded all hope of recovery. The deceased baronet was born at the parsonage house of Henley, in Shropshire, in 1792, his father being a clergy man and author of " Essays on Taste.' The deceased studied at the University of Edinburgh under Pro /neon Dugald Stewart, Playfair, ani Leslie, and other celebrated men of the day ; and he carried off the highest prizes in the mathematics and Greek. He became a member of the Scotch bar in P 414, and in the succeeding eight years travelled much on the Continent. In 1834 he was appointed Sheriff of the county of Lanark, one of the highest judicial otiose in Scotland. Shortly before this he published two works, which became standard ones on Scotch law, one being " The Principles of the Criminal Law," and the other " The Practice of the Criminal Law." At that period he was already engaged in preparing his " History of Modern Europe from the commencement of the French Revolution to the Battle of Waterloo "—a work which is exceedingly voluminous and full of details that could not have been collected without remarkable industry, but which is marred by at. excess of comment and reflection often causing weariness to the reader, so that the abridg ment isnowgenerally preferred to the formidable whole. In 1845 the deceased was elected Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen ; in 18.51 he was chosen to 511 the same position in the 1112i vanity of Glasgow. In 1832 the Earl of Derby. being at the head of the government, conferred upon him a baronetcy, and in the following year the University of Oxford awarded to the deceased baronet, now in the ,enith of his fame as an historian, the degree of D.C.L. The great effort of the deceased's life, his history of Europe from the tint French Revolution, has been con tinued up to a later period, the design of the author being to extend it up to the accession of Napoleon 111. to the throne. A portion of this supplementary his tory was long since presented to the public. The literary labours of the deceased included "The Life of the Duke of Marlborough," and the " Principles of Population ;" and he also found time to devote himself to a biography of Lord Castlereagh, and published extensively on the vexed cur rency question, in which he deemed himself an autho rity. In politics the deceased was throughout life a tory of the old school, being apparently quite unaffected by the fact that he was almost always the representative of a losing cause. His predilections and prejudices are constantly exhibited in his "History of Europe." As an author he was wanting in force and impression, and in that artistic use of materials which is necessary to command the attention of the mass of readers. In industry, however, and in the painstaking investigation of facts, he has had few equals. He is succeeded in the title by !damn Colonel Alison, com mander of the 72nd Highlanders, who served with distinc tion under Lord Clyde during the Indian mutiny. We are authorised to state that her Royal High ness the Princess Louis of Hesse (Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland) will hold drawing rooms on the Queen's behalf at St. James's Palace on Saturdays, June the Bth and State con certi; will ta ke place at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, the 12th, and Morday, the 17th of June ; and two state balls will be given at the same Palace later in the season. " The Prince of Wales," writes a Paris e.irre spondent, "marked his stay in Paris by nue of those act of kindness which are never forgotten. His old French master, IL Bresseur, whom he has never failed to visit whenever he passed through Paris, told him that his great ambition was to possess the ribbon of the Legion d'Hon neur, but that be had not sufficient interest to make his claims known to those in power. The Prince laid his case at ones before the Emperor, and said that he did not ask for the distinction merely because he had been his master, but because he bad so honourably maintained his nation ality for many years in a difficult public position in Eng land. Needless to remark that N. Brasseur received the decoration on the evening of the day the Prince had asked for it." The Princess Mary and Prince Tock, attended by Lady Elizabeth Adeline, Mr. Adeline, and party, honoured the Prince of Wales's Theatre with their pre sence last evening. The Duke of Cambridge boa engaged to dine with the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Apponyi on Mond►y, the 3rd proximo, at the Austrian Embassy. The Earl of Derby will gives full-dreaa banquet to-morrow, to a party of 40 peers, at his lordship's official residence in Downing-street, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. After the dinner the Countess of Derby will receive a large company. The Earl and Countess of Cardigan have left town for Deene, in consequence of the sudden death of his lordship's sister, the Countess of Chichester. The latter while dining with her daughter and son-in-law, the Earl and Counters. of Darnley, at their house in Hill-street, on Tuesday last, felt suddenly unwell, and soon became in sensible. Medical assistance was quickly obtained, but the attack was at once pronounced to be one of apoplexy of the worst kind. 'and it terminated fatally about 10 o'clock on Wednesday evening. Sir Roundoll and Lady Laura Palmer entertained at dinner on Wednesday evening, at their residence in Portland-place, Lady Elizabeth Waldegrave, Hon. Mrs. Bonham-Carter, Sir Philip and Lady Pauncefort Duu combo and Miss Buncombe, Hon. Gleoree Broderick, the Rev. G. H. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Wyvill, Mr. Ilbert, Mr. C. S. Roundell, and Mr. R. C. Palmer. The Duke and Ducheaa of Wellington (the Mis tress of the Robes) will give a banquet and small evening party In honour of her Majesty's birthday, to-morrow, :it Apaley House. The state apartments of Windsor Castle, the model farm at Frogmore, and the royal gardens will be opened to the public on and after Monday nest, on the usual days, viz., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. A seaman fell off the royal mainyard of H.M.S. Dellerophon into the sea in Portland Roads, a few days since. Lieutenant James, an officer on board the ship was shocked so suddenly at the sight of the man falling, and being &filleted with heart disease, that he died within a few minutes after the accident had happened. The sailor was picked up out of the sea without having vustained any injury. According to tho Levant Herald, at a council of the Turkish Cabinet, held on the 14th inst., the title to be granted to the Pacha of Egypt was at length definitely settled. Wu highness is to be called " Khedeve," which is regarded as the Arabic equivalent of " King." The fir man conferring this title, it is remarked, " also states the other concessions made at the same time with a compre hensive looseness that leaves the sovereign power of the Pasha practically without limit. Short of refusing to pay tribute, he may now do virtually what he likes with Egypt." T z PRINCESS OF W A LEs.—The increasing Reverity of the weather has made the past week a trying one, even for those who cannot be considered invalids. Her royal highness has not escaped an attack of cold and sore-throat, a discomfort from which few persons have been exempt, bat which in her case was not particularly severe, and was unattended by rheumatism. With the exception of this ' passing ailment, the condition of the patient has continued satisfactory. Nothing has occurred to interrupt the pro ' cent of repair which tho affected joint is undergoing. The limb is necessarily still confined in a splint, kept in en extended poeition, and suspended in a cradle. No attempt at bending the knee has been made, and, indeed, the joint is still so sensitive, and susceptible of pain upon the slightest hint of motion that its preservation in a state of abeolute rent would be instinctive even if it were not made compulsory. There is nothing unsual in the case, which is similar in character to a score cue may see daily in the metropolitan hospitals. Her royal highness is in the ordinary condition of a person who has had extremely acute inflammation of all the textures of the knee joint. including its cartilages, and the time has not yet arrived at which any attempt at movement can be tritely made.— Lancet. THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM. —Last even ing the Council of the Society of Arta held a conversacione at the South Kensington Museum. It was numerously and fashionably attended, and the visitors who thronged the rooms all appeared to take ;Teat interest in the various objects of art and science which were provided for their inspection and amusement. The specious rooms, which were all thrown open. presented a novel and striking ep ee, crowded as they were by gaily dressed people. rirt l e educational department, which served as a tee• room, the band of the Royal Horse Guards enlivened the visitors with some capital music. In the north court, which was densely crowded throughout the evening, the Scot. Rather Guards played a well chosen and brilliant selection of mock. The visitors began to disperse about n o'clock. LATEt3T INTELLIOZN6. tkrum's risainuse.) FRANCE. PARIS, liar M. Brasteur, formerly professor of French as King's College, London, has been appointed a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Prince Napoleon and Princess Clothilde left Pam yesterday for Turin, to be present at the marrige of Prince Am: deus with the Princess dells. Cisterns. The Priuwian government have given 0,6 2 adhesion to the proposed code of international maritime signals. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, MA 24. The fling of the Greeks arrived here yerterds morning, and Ins left again for Copenhagen, ril Hamburg and Kiel. Herr von Person arrived here yesterday, with despatches from St. Petersburg. He had a priAte audience of the King, and was subsequently received by Prince Frederick Charles and Gums Bismarck. RUSSIA, ST. PETERSBURG, May 23, EVENitI.. The ticlavonian members of the Ethno g r a ph,, Congress of Moscow were presented to-us ) t o Prince flortchakoff, who, in reply to their address, said :—" My successors in office will defend the interests of the Sciavonian race as I do. The hos pitable reception accorded to you by the Russian people renders any intervention in that respect on the part of the government superfluous." The Sclavonian deputies requested Prince Gun chakoff. to present them to the Emperor of Rlng l y, but the Minister declined and referred them t o the Austrian Ambassador, who undertook to .nes tion their desire to the Czar. CRONSTADT, MAY 2' The navigation of the Nova was opened to-day. The steamer Neva has arrived here from Lubeck, and other steamers are in eight. ITALY, FLORMiCE, MAT The aft..ettts d'ltalia of to-day states that the an. vention relative to the ecclesiastical property, not withstanding the withdrawal of Messrs. Rothschild, is about to be signed, and will be immediately laid before the Chamber. The Italia announces that the negotiations in reference to the above convention will probably bo concluded to-morrow. SPAIN. MADRID, MAY The Corresponderieia of to-day states that the go vernment has announced to the committee on the budget that they will very shortly introduce a bill relating to the public debt. CHINA. SHANGHAE (v, A Tsmsn,), ArnlL 4. The Nienfei have appeared in great numbers north of the Tangtze, and have captured and burned several villages. It is reported that the American gunboat Aspenlol has bombarded a place in Formosa, where the crew of the American ship Rover are supposed to ham been murdered. A great fire has occurred at Pekin. Advioes from Japan state that the French Admiral had returned to Yokohama from his visit to Osaca. The Japanese showtd him great courto. The troops who were intended to act :gam Prince Choiehu have been dishanded. AMERICA. (BI ATLANTIC TILICIIAPIL) NEW YORK, MAT 23,6 rig. Tho Fenian. are preparing a new invasion d Canada. Troops are being concentrated on tbi frontier. The steamers Europe, from Brest, and Peniisit wants and Manhattan, from Liverpool, arrived bee to-day. Closing prices. —Gold, 138 2 . Sterling enchants on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bondq,lo4; Illinois, 1153 ; Erie, 60. Cotton : Middling land, 27. Petroleum, refined, 244. rho above telegram arrived in London at 5.5 is taday.l EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (ROW OOR OWN CORI PARIS, THUBSIUT Busse The 2lfonittur, from which the news was takes that Prince Oscar of Sweden had gone to Engbal for the Derby, now corrects itself (but of mem without acknowledging its former error), and ar flounces Olathe left Paris on Sunday for Latium with the intention of proceeding thence directa Stockholm. The Prince Royal of Prussia and the Princess s/4 expected in Paris this evening. Although doubts continue to be expressed whether the King of Prussia will come at all, it is reiterated that visit will take place about the 14th or 15th of June. The Emperor of Austria is to be here in •InlY circumstances permit." It will be remembered that so long ago as : 14 the Prefect of Police seized at the shop of M. *sod Levy, the publisher, all the sheets printed 3 " History of the Princes of the Royal lin!'"i Condit," by the Duke d'Aumale. The Pitied Police acted in pursuance of an a dministrative order of the Minister of the Interior, and cot any decree issued by the Prscureur linp.rial of a judge of instruction. The seizure of the pr , rertl was not, therefore, and could not be follool by any prosecution. The course taken by .4..re' ment excluded the idea of any crime or mode' meanour. The Minister of the Interior urdervi the work to be seized merely heam‘c tt " written by the Duke d'Aumale, and $ did not please him that a book of shicii of the exiled Orleans Princes was the author sh.di circulate in France. But unfortunately t , .J' no law even in the almost all embraeivg d'etat code to warrant such a proceeding. M. LI , the publisher, at first applied to the Mm; -to the Interior to restore the copies seiz,..d : fent tionary refused to do so unless upon the eor.htos that they should be taken abroad and an undo taking given not to publish them in France. Levy declined this condition and brought all actm, against the Prefect of Police. lie was iinolute4 on the ground that the act complained of ! '1.4 committed by a functionary not rcsi" l7lbl. to the ordinary tribunals, and that the only remedy, if any, was in the Council ei Sta't To the Council of State the injured ribl''her' representing a still more injured author, accord:ae, applied, and, after an unusually long delay. lt . tdr a ment has at length been given. The Council State tells M. Levy that " questions Tattive td the validity of the seizure of a book arc n 4 among the number of those which may be In.1": 1 11 into " before the Emperor himself in his eo:1 of State." In another part of the judpoent same principle is reiterated in the following ten t —" The acts complained of are political acs, &Tian &efface Bowling Bralthwal Brayshaw Brenda Browne Browne Culkeky Butler Caldwell Cane =ll aOrTe' --- Cutterlll Crawley Cita=lag Cuero us Dewleu pp. 111.311 Enron Farbroilw Yarnll fisher Gambier-4 Given Green Gruunie Grove Grover Gulliver Hall Gamma Hart Hill ims. r" -- r ove! theccfc an act von nation] arrivet] undert them t head (1 The both fo 69fr. 7' Foncie lir. 251 THEO EXAM Of Divi Hebrew Birks, 11 I%thari College. NTI urx 1 11 ;1 4 ; . ii A (U Equ Arnoinak Andrew Andrewei Arkwith Maker Marlow *grey pen Hooey Hope Huy lee Hulbert Jenkins !Outgun Joule. Jouee Junes The r Mit (lU•G ,a; ~ ~a