The Express. — London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

_ - PARIS EXHIBITION 1111243LL55 BUX EA ICIDAL, 1867, JOHN BBOGDYS. nRIGINAL GOLD CHAIN MANUFAC rrvAIDIN.TORY, Iv 16, EnenurrrAzrzast Co JOHN BROGDEN'S 18-carat GOLD JOHN BROGDEN'S GOLD GUAD.D CHAINS• 'OEM BROGDENS GOLD ALBERT CHAINS. 'MEN BROGDEN'S GOLD BROOCH CHAINS. H ENRY BREIT and Co.'s "0. b D. V." I.IIIOC BRANDY, UM. par Oallos, mommended y the smiled prof* sksa. sons for Us* caulk?facia we of ~away card: p.—Rolbone-bon. sad 30, Refoot-otreat TRELOAR'S 0000 A NUT FIBRE MATTING, WAREANTFD UNBLEACHED. List of Prices tree by pOA. Warehouse. 6f. LUDOATIZ.HI L. gite erpreosi. /WV 86/13EVENT 3 mod to forwarl.4l to Messrs. J. 5! Joirt 343 mod Suns, 3. C.tst .troet. Hnlliorn, and 3d, UaLGm garden, the spechlly oppointml Agents. HAIN ARK TT. 11. alnico*, TER BROKIDT-ORAITZD CLUB. —DAVID GARRICK. Manta Anthem. llnekatelle, 11.ngarn *a. ; and MO Renntnen.—BOX ABU cOX. Mr. Backstone and Mr. Compton. —And FAMILY JABS. Ur. Compn.n. Piti!it:Mrs. I,o4oßnow, ARR All NA ?Ont . r.. Yr. and Mn. D. Boa itult, Mr. %liltig, Mows. Dominick Murray. Neville. it iibore ; Daruett Addle.— After which ME OCTOINION. Mr. and Mrs. lioucleault. Mr. J. 3 Clarke. Mr riming, B '•tis STRAND. MounDor, OLD fI,%LT. Me w,. Emery, lieltor.l. Junes : lint hefty M oore .-1•Altli; OR, !VS LSD PSIEKE. limes. Junes, Thorne, trobson. and Senton ; Mentunos haanborottgh, Darlasid. Johnstone, Holt, etc.—And COAL AND 110LBOIth. 1, , .1 oi,n(,w, Tfl FLYNN() :CUD. Items. Atkins, Flee, 0/1 , (101, Arthur, West's:el, anl Willuntt kiss:is:nes Worlds, Lennox, sod fkiu,lent—e ,, r.chtle with vAuccrixr. AN ORSON. Wile. Mo n ntero, Little An. 11P.ITA Mle A. 17nv EVENING, A 0111.A1 D CONCHRT. Jolly Nash, the °real Mr. and Mrs. Brian, Marrs. Milburn, tant, Hier, and Annul Airasibid Madante Hassan. Mr & Mrs. Raidall, Misses Feulioulet, Itoa.dind, Garstune, Smith), du. RIOII vr.vrea AT LONDON MIDGE. Intl DAY —Morning. MA 51114—....APArnoon, 4A. Bm. 744401t1toW—Morni0g, 4L rie......Afternom, 411 404.4. Morriugßef BIRTHS, Nlksiennie., era DFATII 4 . are• motive.' •.iUIII2 o'clock for insertion gaiue evening. Price. J.. (.0. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26. THE NEW PREMIER. WI: beg pardon of our ministerial contompora- ries, but really the dithyrambic rapture of their prose-poems on the last and greatest of Mr. DlS stactfa achievements reminds us a little of the celebrated burst of oratory at a Guildhall banquet not so many years since, when the Loan MAYOR, in an agony of extempurizition, complimented a Minister of the day on having risen "from the " dregs of the people." "On n . c.tt tralti " gar par les slew." Our new Pr.einlEß nay well pray to be delivered at this moment from the eulogies of his too ardent admire,. and too in timate friends. No doubt it is very gratifying . . to youthful, and even to middle-aged, ambition to recognise in the scion of a long proscribed race the attorney's clerk, the man of letters who stormed the summits of society at the point of his pen, a h;Otimate othiprim; of British liberty and equality. our own part , . wo should he content to pay lioniuge to tbo occasional supremacy of a certain sort of - . genius over factitious ariatocruica and the prejudices and privileges of a caste. There is more than one inor.ll to this extraordinary talo,and wo are not quite sure that v o•loopo: moie would not be the moat appropriate device fur the ahiold of the new chief of the Tory party. A good poli- twat precept may not alwa;.4 I.e the solnulmt worst doctrine, but au shall not b so puritanical as to rofu*.e a tribute of re. i.ect to that rcniark.tble intellectual energy, that force of character and of temperament, that conhumniate telf-eontitterco, that dexterous use of opportunities and of instru ments, that instinctive grasp of ocatsions, that science Of expediency and c l eT nat ion, that fertility of resource in the conduct of n party and in parliamentary conflict, that capacity for living apart and alone amidst the common crowd of riv.ils and competitors, which command old societies and govern free states. Alen of all par. ties ecknowledo in Mr. DI-RAELI the only roper and poiblc successor to Lord DEMEY. That is no mean glory for the old friend and comrade of that other secret and successful despiser and disposer of his fellow creatures and believer in himself, who reigns of er the water, not by genius alone, nordilie tile new Pit Km La of England, in spite of his name, but by virtue of it. Mr. DIIMAELI, then, has touched the tom.:os-, height% of political ambition in a unstitnciona wintry and a parl i nuentary governinel. W.ll the rare qualities that have raised him to this historic elevation, the mingled suppleness and persistency of dill, the dramatic instinct which impersonates great principles, the playful noncha lance which diasembks an unbroken tlniugh not unbending purpose—will these indisput able personal qualities suffice to make a Tory administration endure, or a liberal Parliament succumb to a policy not its own ! Perhaps a previous questiou nal:el.—will Mr. the PREMI , ; has Loy: secured and put away beyond the reach of fur tune or of envy the highest prize of a bold and adventurous career—will he care to huger on those perilous heights, and to breathe in pain that difficult air i T!:at is a question, per haps, as much for his followers as for luuuelt, if we may suppose him to he animated with de sires that transcend personal ambition—desires that laise the clear spirit above the momentary combinations and expedients of party politics, be may yet aspire to other and more ennobling conquests than those of place and lower. It has been his amazing destiny—who could have anti cipated it tive-and-twenty years ago I—to leave his f,tent parliamentary antagonist in the cold shade of opposition while the dazzling splendours of the central sun of the political firmament beam neon that patient yet eager brow which defied the contemptuous indifference of Pam.. The race is not always for the swift, but there is a future beyond the victories of the hour for the strong. Will this future belong to the PAE11131: of to-day I Will the great body of hi s followers submit to a furthyr proses of edu cation in the principles of their reirersaries, ee will he care to carry on their education now that they have so triumphantly completed his own 4 The time approaches when Mr. D:sitszu must choose between leading his parts in the way they would rather rut go, or being left behind with them, the last festoon of one epoch, the fast of another! He will doubtless endeavour at once to strengthen the administration which soap% him for he chief. The retirement of Lord tlimmisronn and the secession Lo r a °mans to the Woolsack would invigorate the Oebinet in debate and perhaps iu =lnca But will this or say other probias modification 01 THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY Lord DZIMIT'S government make the. only policrj which his party in the House or in the oountcy will acct at the hands of Mr. Dtenseu a cceptable to the constituencies to which he has I given birth 1 OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) NO, THE NEW MINISTRY. -...--..e.L -- • The government wheal Wt. Disraeli ham under. I taken to form will be lika the bet administration ' The Queen dro. of Lord Russell—a continuation ministry ; and the members of Lord Derby's cabinet, with one or two r,ulPsaled by Pthl°l exceptions, will compose Mr. Disraales ministry.: ' °""""' It is believed that Mr. Disraeli will fill the offices The Queen drove out this morning, aooompanied by of First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Prince Leopold. Exchequer. Lord Stanley is expected to lead the : The Prince of Wales, attended by Lientenant-Colonel House of Lords, while continuing to hold the seals . Keppa left Marlborough-house yesterday morning, on of the Foreign-office. Lord Chelmsford will retire, a visit to the Date and Duchene of Beaufort, at Bad and Lord Cairns take his place in the ministry. ndaton. According to other expectations, Mr. Disraeli will The Print of Wales drove out, attended by the Conn find the duties of ministerial presidency sufficiently teas G eal de rey. engraining. and Sir Stafford Northcote or Mr. i Count Vitstinim arrived at Frogmore, on Monday, on Hunt will be transferred to the Exchequer, ladle Colonel Wilson Patten will go to the India-oflioe. i a viii The royal eommissioners appointed to inquire into the ' The House of Commons stands adjourned until I Coinageq uestion of establishing an international glisten, of Friday, and may possibly be again adjourned until ' held their tint meeting yesterday at No. 6, Old Tuesday. The duty of re-enacting the Habeas i ° ma-yard, Westminster. The commissioners present Corpus Suspension Bill requires that the Lords Pal I were—Viscount Halifax, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, should sit to-morrow, but they will meet for this I the Right. Hon. Stephen CRS*, M.P., the Right single , and AL other business will be de- 1"" Hon. J. Wilson Patten, M.P., the Right Hon. W. Long forted y them also until Friday afternoon. field, Sir John Lubbock, Bart., Thomas Bering, Beg , The Times observes that fortune is kind to Mr. Baron L. N. de Rothschild, DIP., J. B. Smith, Disraeli. A condemned parliament is sitting, and ! ” .... 16IP '' M.P., Thomson liaokey, K q., ALP., the Governor yet while any House of Commons elected after this of the Bank, the Astronomer Royal, and the Master of the year would be chosen by new and enlarged coned - 1 1 mkt. Mr. Rivers Wilson, the secretary, attended the tuemcies, a general election during the current twelvemonth would be an appeal to the old elec tors. It may be assumed, therefore, that no generai election will be held before next January. According to the Owl, General Grey, who arrived in London on Monday from Osborne, was the bearer of her Majesty's autograph letter to Mr. Disraeli communicating her command that, Lord Derby having resigned the Premiership, he should become her First Minister, and " submit what alterations in the Cabinet his experience vig gelded." A clause of the Reform Act of last rear will ob viate the necessity for the re-electio n of any pre sent minister in the House of Commo n s on Ids changing one office for another. RL'ITY . FIT OF !ME XL/ESTI' TO WINDSOIL—AE cording to present arrangements her Majesty the Queen, with the junior members of the royal family and suite, is expected to leave Osborne on or about Tuesday next for Windsor Castle. A special 'eye! train will be provided by the directors of the London and South Western Rail way for the use of her Majesty, who will, on landing from tho Isle of Wight, proceed, rid Gasped and Winchester, to Basingstoke, and thence by the Great Western line to Windsor. Preparations have been commenced at Windsor Castle for the reception of the Queen and royal family. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will preside at the ensuing anniversary festival of St. Patrick's Benevolent Society, which is to be held at Iran's Rooms on the 17th of March. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary and the Prince of Tees have returned to Kensington Palace from visiting their Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar, at Holcombe, Sussex. The Earl and Countess Granville arrived in town on Monday from spending several days on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton. Had the Chief Secretary for Ireland had an opportunity yesterday (Tuesday) evening of presenting to parliament an expo.ition of the Irish Miniaterial policy, the Ow believes there is little doubt that among other re solves he would have announced the desire of the cabinet that a charter should be granted to the Catholic Univer sity of Ireland, without any reference to Trinity College or the Queen 'e College'. _ _ _ We (Owl) hear that the late government of Lord Derby inten.led to infroduce a bill into the House of Lords to amend the law relating to railways. The bill, we hear, would not have been objected to by the railway interest, as it would not have interfered materially with the re sponsibilities of the railway authorities, or have con fined on the Board of Trade large or excessive powers. The lion. Seymour Egerton is composing an opera foe which Mr. Whyte Melville has consented to write the libretto, and in which Madame Titiena and Madlle. Nilsson will appear. _ _ The thrl states that Mr. Vernon Harcourt, Q.C., has consented to act as arbitrator in the referred ease of the Countess d'Alteyrao r. Lord Willoughby De Eresby. Willi►m Alexander, at first selected, found that he could not accept the office, and Earl Granville, to whom it was also offered, pleaded indisposition and previous en gagemsntt Thirty-one years ago, a contemporary relates, the young Benjamin Disraeli, when asked by Lord Mel bourne, upon his introduction to that nobleman, what position he expected to achieve, replied that he meant to be Pri:ne Minister of England. The Brand Testimonial Dinner, at Willie's Rooms, at which over 200 members of the Houses of Lords and Commons are likely to be present, will have for its chairman Mr. Gladstone. The day at present named is the 7th March. On going into committee of supply, Mr. Bmollett intends to call the attention of the house " to the very unsatisfactory manner in which certain joint stock com panies have for the List eight years performed the fur °- dons entrusted to them of supplying irrigation to public lands in India from their own funds, so far as the pecu niary results of their operations have been communicated to parliament : and to move, that the system adopted by the late Secretary of State for India, Lord Halifax, and continued by the present Secretary of State for India, of supporting in their present position these companies of adventurers in enterprises nnsustaineri by private credit through me ins of enormous grants of public looney drawn from the Indian Treasury is impolitic and should be dis continued." Saunders's Nevis-Latex mentions that the peti tion which originated with the senior and junior fellows of Trinity College. praying for the maintenance of the protestant character of the university, has received 6,632 signatures ; of these 4,235 are the signatures of graduates, the remaining 2,399 being those of non-graduates. Amongst the signatures are thaw of 17 noblemen and noblemen's sons, 31 baronets and knights, 34 church dignitaries, 17 Queen's counsel, 2,079 clergymen, 113 lieutenants and deputy-lieutenants of counties, 767 magistrates, 345 physicians and surgeons, and 320 barristers and solicitors. The authors of the petition deny that they wish to bar gain a chnrter for the catholic university against non interference with Trinity College. On February 11 the effects of the late Sir Frede rick Bruce were sold by auction in 'Washington. A large crowd was in attendance, and the articles brought fair prime. Many persons purchased articles as souvenirs of Sir Frederick's stay in Washington, and it is understood that a considerable portion of the most desirable furni ture was bought for Mr. Thornton. The death of Mr. William Cory, well known in the coal trade of London for his experience and connexions as a coal and shipowner, has been sIAIIOUXIOII4. It was mainly through the exertions of Mr. Cory, by the establish- , meat of the large floating derricks on the river, and the erection of extensive hydraulic machinery at the Victori a Docks for quick despatch in the delivery of coal at a low ant, that the trade in coal by sea has of late years been at all enabled to compete with that by railway. It is said that of the whole quantity yearly arriving in London by ssa—viz. 3,000,000 tons—at least 1,000,000 tons passed through ;he hands of his firm. During the fine weather in the beginning of the week the Belgian royal family were often seen driving about Brussels. This Queen is particularly fond of hones, and her Maisety shows her talent in managing two beau- Uhl assapsiaa poise, a present from the Emperor of Laski& -- Alumna AND BRIBURY.—in committee on Election Petitions and Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, Mr. Robertson (Berwiskshirs) intends to are the follow ing clause :—" On members coining to the table of the house to be sworn, after taking the usual oaths, to make else the following declaration A. 8., hereby declare that I have not directly or indirectly given any money or equivalent for money, or thing of any kind, or the pro mime of any such, or authorised or sanctioned others to do so, to any person or persons whomsoever in connexion with the election, under which I am now about to take my seat in this house, other than what is allowed by law, and as each given in to the election auditor, or will I hereafter do so, or be any party directly or indirectly to is being done, and to the beet of my knowledge and belief no other pesos or perms& whom soever have directly or indirectly done so on my behalf, or to hansom said election in my favour. Further, I hereby declare, that if it hereafter come to my knowledge that any person or persons whomsoever have directly or indi redly given any money or equivalent for money, or thing of any kind, or promise of any seek, to influence mid elec tion in my favour,other than acenedng telaw, I shall imme diately make the mine known to this house. I hereby make this deolantion unequivocally and unreservedly, on my word of tumour as a gentleman, and as • member of this hour." The same hoe. gentleman in committee on Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill will move " that the piessmion at a residanes within the county shell form • meonsely part of the county franchise." The Rev. Newman Hall delivers his lecture ea Americo to-night at lit Jemm'rk•R. Pieeadilly. Ns. Height Sakes the elan at eight Vase. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS LAST NIGHT. IN the House of Commons last night Ireland was to have been the great—the sole—topic of dis cussion. Mr. Maounts was to have opened with a motion on the "state of Ireland." The hon. member for Cork intended to invite the house to resolve itself into a committee, with a view of taking the con dition and circumstances of Ireland into immediate consideration. Once launched on the narrow but turbulent Irish Sea of Mr. Maornot's motion, the house was to have been propelled by a series of amendments on Mr. Maocines resolution into the wide and agitated Atlantic of Fenisnism, Church establishments, and land tenures. Lord ARTIIIM CLINTON was prepared to start after Mr. MAGUIEK on the wide-circle sailing principle, to judge from the extensive and latitudinarian terms of his motion. Mr. Nitaxe - . craft, which stood No. 3in the order of going, with the words " impracticable "resolutions" and "extravagant and impossible re " mediae" flying at the masthead, looked as though it intended to run foul of the barks that preecded it. The wording of Mr. NIATL'S motion gives it very much the rig of a vessel of tie Alabama class ; and the fact that the hon. member for Oxford is in the habit of launching craft on his own account renders it the more probable that his resolution on the state of Ireland was intended for privateering purposes. No. 4, which is rigged by Sir F. Haroare, would most assuredly have foundered amongst the rocks that form the " connexion be " tween the present laws and institutions of " Ireland and the disaffection, outrages, and " murders of the last two years." The vessel' looked neat and trim, and were no doubt well found ; the skippers were at their posts ready to weigh anchor and spread sail. " The state of " Ireland " repented four times in the notice paper indicated pretty clearly what the character and e:Aent of the debate last night would have been. But unfortunately one of those untoward acci dents which sometimes disturb the most perfect arrangements changed the time of starting from the present to the paulo-post-future. Lord DERBY had resigned, and the vessels of which we have been speaking became no better than " painted " ships upon a painted ocean." Coticithwit venti : there was not breere enough to carry one of them out of harbour. There was, however, a goof attendance of mem bers even at the early hour uf 4. The Irish section was remarkably strong, and " Ireland's only " Duke" was in the Peers box. They did not come to listen to what seemed chietty to occupy the mind of Mr. TRE:'..3Y, who. was conducting with much animation an argument against the second reading of the 'reign Valley Railway. But this private bill served, as well as a more important subject wonkl, to keep the house occupied till the ministerial announcement that was expected, and that evidently engaged the conversation of members, was made. During this vot &he.. e also several members had an oppor tunity of congratulating Mr. Bezzaroao Hoe. on his return to the house as member for the Univer sity of Cambridge. The House of Commons in its aggregate capa city becomes, like other collections of mankind, excited when something unusual is about to take place, and its members are unwilling that any other bus; nen should interpose between the inte resting or inipm tent statement which they ex pect. So it was last night. At half-past 4, when the hour for giving notices of motion arrived, some hon. gentleman interposed with an audible whis per, "Cut it short." These being disposed of, • ' Lord STAN:Ay rose to make the announcement d his father's resignation. His voice was at first low and somewhat tremulous, as was natu- ral under the circumstances. As Mr. GLADITONN remarked, it was aut unusual incident that a son should have to comm•.tnicnte his tether's resigna tion of the Premierahip to the House of Commons, and when 1w afterwards, in few but piquant words, alluded to the :44 cause of that resignation, the noble lord bowed his head to conceal his emotion. The House would at once have separated had not Mr. Ma..t . itta, with what we cannot avoid calling a curious infelicity, interposed with a request that . _ tae government would name a day on which he would be periuitted to introduce his motion on the state of Ireland, But on being reminded by some of his frien.;4 that Friday—to which day the house was to be ad o:trtied— would be the proper time for asking that question. he did nut press for an answer, but deferred his question. On the Bows 'rising, Mr. GIADSToNE walked out with Lord SraNLE', nu doubt making inquiry as to the state of Lord DERttlr , health. Other members broke up into small groups, discussing the incident of Lord DERB4 . 4 resignation and of Mr. DICRARLI'S promotion to the Premiership, which was assumed to be certain. The new Premier is entitled to look back with some pride to the confident self-reliance which prompted him to exclaim on his early failure in the House of Commons, " The day will come •• when you shall hest. me.- Tile uncertainty in the deliver• of messages is not the worst evil connected with our telegraphic communication with India. No merchant can count with certainty either upon the intelligence or the fidelity of the native operators. Informa tion has its price like any other commodity in the East, and common report says that commercial and other messages are not unfrequently " worked" for the advantage of others besides their senders. The whole experience of telegraphy is in favour of European management, and those versed in the subject point to a remarkable instance of its suc cess on a long foreign line now leased from the crown, but which was formerly left in native hands. Last summer a proposal was laid before Sir STAFFORD NOT.THCOTE. the basis of which TM direct transmission from England to India and the employment of European otlicials throughout the line. It was further offered to relieve the crown of the subsidy Dow paid on acccount of the defunct Red Sea cable if a moderate guarantee were given to the new Indian line, such guarantee to be depen ' dent, however, upon its successfnl laying. This offer was refused. Like the proverbial burnt ahild who dreads the tire, the government remem bared the fate of its Red Sea guarantee, and refused to entertain the pleas of state usefulness and imperial advantage. It should be remembered, however, that the causes of the failure of the Red Sea cable are tolerably well known to the telegraphic world and that a direct line to India does not present half the &Semitici which apparently beset the laying of a wide to America. At present a large sum is paid annually by tho country for a failure, and commu nisation remains miserably imperfect. THE NEW PREMIER. The Tinos says Mr. Disraeli could not have accepted a lower place than the premiership without a loss of dignity which would have been unworthy of him self and discreditable to his party, but he has achieved the dlstinction spite of every disadvantage of birth, of educa tion, and of position, and in spite, above all. of the great, and at one time, apparently miuti tigated distrust of the party now accepting him as their leader. Apart from the con sideration that as a necessary consequence of the practical obstacles to a general election, the ministry cannot be effectively challenged on questions involving new schemes of action, the House of Commons will weigh with candour the conduct and pretensions of Mr. Disraeli's ministry. Mr. Disraeli is known and admired by the house, and members willingly entertain the proposals of one who so manifestly defer to its authority. In another article the Times rebukes those of its contemporaries who criticiaed its farewell eulogy, a week ago, of Lord Derby, and proceeds to cuter upon anther elaborate estimate of his career. Observing that this is not the time to discuss the morality of Mr. Disraeli's career, and that whatever blame may attach to him belongs in an equal degree to the tory party, the Daily News adds that the right hon. gentle man's premiership at over sixty is more wonderful than Mr. Pitt's premiership at twenty-five, for it involves a victory over greater difficulties. A strong ministry seems ' out of the question ; but a ministry equal to finishing the work of 1867 need not be deiptirod of—and after that the general election. As a conservative journal, the Herald is rejoiced that the man who has fought for twenty years, with such un tiring energy, and such inexhanstive power, the battle of conservative principles, should now distinctly aasumi the lead of the party. As Englishmen —may we add as jour naliste?—we are delighted to see a man who has been the maker of his own fortunes, who in his day, as but twelve months ago he told the House of Commons, hes been a journalist, in the very highest position to which any Englishman can rise—in the very highest position. we my it with all confidence, to which any man, whatever his nationality and whatever the institutions of his country, can aspire. The Standard fears it is beyond doubt that the govern ment, already weaker than when it was first formed, has lost a great element of strength in Lord Derby's retire ment ; and as some reconstruction must take place, the opportunity is as excellent as the necessity is apparent for an endeavour to strengthen and consolidate the adminb• tration by the inclusion of all the best talent and highest reputations of the conservative party. Whether it will be the force of contrast, or a feeling that something has occurred which jars with the universal fitness of things, it would be difficult to say ; but, adds the Post, most men will certainly feel a peculiar twinge on finding that Mr. Disraeli has replaced the Earl of Derby as Prime Minister of England. Mr. Disraeli may make as able a premier as his predecessor, but unfortu nately it is only a small minority who * could now be found to express that belief. Whatever other claims Mr. Disraeli may advance to the admiration of his countrymen. he has unquestionably failed to inspire that confidence which, to my the least, it is desirable should be reposed in a prime minister. His sagacity manifests itself by outwitting friends and foes, but his experience is more varied than that of any other statesman, and his administrative skill has been Wed and proved. The Star says it is really an important step in the pro gress of England towards good government and true free. dom when we find that the ablest man of a party can be. come the head of a government merely because be is the ablest man, and although he has not birth, connexions, or wealth to help him:to moons c but the Star wishes the triumph won by Mr. Disraeli had been more thoroughly a legitimate success, and bad been earned by the inaugura- tion of great political measures rather than by clever triumphs over political opponents. 41.,CEJ.I.ANEOUS TOPIC'. The T. ni(s fully approves of the action of the relief committee in suspending their grants in east London until the truth of the statement made by Messrs. Pontifecx and Wood be ascertained. There is too much reason foe believing that the incident is only another illustration of agencies which have been at work in the district for some time past. The distress in east London has originated principally in the paralysis of the chief industry of the district, the shipbuilding trade. It is became ships are no longer built on the Thames that the population is suffering, and the lemon why ships are no longer built is because employers and workmen cannot agree about wages. It is but the other day that an order was offend, from motives of pure beneveknee, for the construction of two ships in the Isle of Dogs —a job which would have given earnings and comfortable subsistence to hundreds of families. This offer, after some hesitation, was refused, though the men wbo refused it must be now living either on union allowance or public. or parochial alms. The Deity Nm believes it may be anticipated with certainty that the estimates of the English government for 1848-9 will set a good example to Europe in the dimi nation of public expenditure under the head of arma ments. The navy estimates will, it is stated, while pro viding for an addition to our iron-dad naval squadron in the next financial year, show a large pecuniary reduction. In the case of Mr. Eyre, the Standard hopes that Pk Thomas Henry, considering all the alreamstanoes, will feel justified in refusing to issue his warrant, and to re-open • question which, months ago, was settled, not only judi cially, but to the manifest satlafaction of the community. The individuals who are endeavouring to revive the ex ploded calumnies against the ex-Governor of Jamaica are only doing so in order to harem hint ; because they know, as well as we do, that tbeir prosecution will fail. A royal commission has been appointed to inquire into the system of courts-martlal, their powers and practice, and into the nature of mllit►ry punishments generally the oommindonen being instructed to sunset sub improvements u they my think desirable. One of the attractions of M. Alexandre Dumaa's *weal LArtapwes is a heilletea, entitled "Madame Benoit," the produsakm of Mae. liarie-Aliszandre I Dams, the &ethic's davgheer. FEBRUARY v 26, IFO-11, 4 4t NEWS. (THIS DAY.) OSBORNE, 711. 25. yesterday afternoon, ao s, and attended by Yrs. B. , THE DANUBIAN BORDER-LANDS. The alleged agitation and preparation for insur rection in the countries bordering the Danube con tinue to assume the most prominent place in the columns of the press of Vienna and Paris. The France repeats the assertion that Prince Charles of Roumania intends to proclaim his independence of the Ottoman government, but it postpones the date of this declaration to the 14th of May, the anniversary of the Prince's entrance into Bucha rest ; and adds that the mission of Prince Canta cuzene to St. Petersburg is for the purpose of obtaining the adhesion of Russia to this project. The Patrie corroborates the in formation of La France as to the participa tion of the Roumain government in the prepara tions which are going on with a view to hostilities against Turkey. The Constitatitnusei affirms as " a notorious fact" the existence of a Sclave committee in Bucharest, which has been preparing, during the last year, an insurrection in Bulgaria. The Bulletin International affirms with undoubting con fidence that the Ronmain government is encou raging the formation of bands on the Moldo- Wallachian territory. Matters have coute to this pass, it says, that a rupture is imminent, and there call of the French and Austrian consuls is probable. The alarm felt at Constantinople at these hostile manoeuvres fiads an echo in the North Eastern Cor respondence of Vienna. On the other hand the Vidondan of Belgrade denies both for Servia and Roumania the statements of the French press with regard to any hostile proceedings against Turkey being in contemplation, much less in course of exe cution. "Perfect order," that journal declares, "pre vails throughout Berrie, and at Bucharest the case is the same ; that circumstance sufficiently proves that the French press pursues mere phantoms. At Belgrade, at Bucharest, the real interests of the country are too well known to admit of any deviation from them in consequence of the language of the French press, and the more so that those interests constitute the best guarantee for the maintenance of peace in Servia." A telegram from Bucharest, dated yesterday, mentions that "A vote of want of confidence against the ministry has been passed in tits Senate by a majority of three." (asunal TELIGIUMS.) TURKEY. VIENNA, Fre. 26. The Debatte of to-day publishes the following telegram from Constantinople, dated 24th instant, asserting that Omar Pacha, having been expressly ordered by the Sultan to hasten his journey to take the supreme command of the army of the Danube, has left Constantinople for Rustehnk. Asli Pacha returns to Constantinople on Friday. AMERICA. (Per the Hibernia, via Greencastle.) NEW YORK. FEB. 15, Es ENING. General Grant has appointed General Sheridan to the temporary command of the department of Missouri, the President having prohibited the ap pointment of auy permanent commander. It is reported that General Sherman has declined his nomination as general by brevet. The New York papers publish intelligence from Havannah to the 14th, stating that the revolution in Hayti was general. The principal towns were in arms against General Salnave, and General I Soloman had been proclaimed president. THE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON. (ET ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. THROUGH MR. REUTER'3 AGENCT.) WASHINGTON, FEB. 25, Evxsutu. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens and Mr. Kingham, the two members appointed by the House of Represen tatives for the purpose, formally impeached Pre sident Johnson to-day at the bar of the Senate. The Senate ordered the appointment of a select committee to consider the subject. NEW YORK, FEB. 25. 500,000 duls. in specie were shipped on board the steamers that left for Europe to-day. Closing Prices. --Gold. 142 fr. Sterling exchange on London, 1101. 5-20 United States Bonds, 1882, 111 k ; ditto, 1885, 109 ; 10-40 Bonds, 1041. Illinois, 138 ; Erie, 69. Cotton : Middling Upland, 22k. Petroleum, standard white, 26i. Flour, extra State, 10 dole. 30c. ; corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 26c. OUR PARIS LETTER. (FROM OUR OWN CORRINPONDINT.) PARIS. TUINDAT EVENING. The Corps legislatif yesterday broke up with an extraordinary row. M. Ravin got into the tribune to read the verdict of the jury of honour acquitting him and M. Gueroult of the charges brought against them by Viscount de Kerveguen. Baron Jerome David, who was in the chair, interrupted him to say that the chamber had nothing to do with the matter. M. Ravin pleaded very reasonably that inasmuch se the charge has been publicly preferred in that chamber against two of its members, it was just, and moreover in perfect conformity with parlia mentary usages, that the conclusive denial should receive a like publicity. To this argument Baron David only replied by declaring the house up, and suddenly leaving the chair. Thereupon several opposition members in their rage cried " Vice la Gauche! Down with the majority ! " The new vice-president ordered the gas to be put out, and left the disorderly and discomfited contemners of his authority to vociferate in the dark. To-day the Sack dares to speak in the following very irreverent terms of Baron Weld : Is his ocaden4 to be attributed solely to want of know ledge of redisnesatery wages ? We °Kiwi tell. It is certain, however, that be did not not without deliberation, bemuse Y. Ravin pve his none, of his intention to read the judgment of the jury of honour in the tribune. In leaviag the chair while Y. }Lavin was speaking the vim president equally offended propriety and the regulations of the chamber. The Opinion Nationale calls attention to the contrast between the patience with which M. Schneider listened to Viscount de Kerveguen's accusation - and the short way in which Baron David put a stop to the refutation. Having thus narrated the grievance, and a real grievance it is no doubt, of MM. Ravin and One roult, I must say that Baron David's defence does not seem to me difficult. When Viscount de Ker veguen brought forward the charge he was speak ing in the course of a debate and entitled to the fullest latitude. There was no question whatever before the house when X Ravin got into the tribune. It of the essence of the imperial consti tution that deputies have no initiative. Unless in the rue cases where interpellations are authorised, they can make no motion, and ask no question. Before they invoke parliamentary usages they mart get a free parliament. Baron David had no lawful power to hear M. Havin's speech. The Opinion Nationale says that Viscount de Kerveguen at the last moment telegraphed to Id Itatami, to implore him to say whether he had not bribed the Atecte and Opi,thm NaCamtle. M. Rstazzi replied by telegraph:—" I might very well refuse to answer, but, si my silence might be misinterpreted I declare that I never gave any money to the Opinion Nationale or any of its directors or writers." The Bourse continues flat. Renter closed at 69.37, or 3c. lower than yesterday. NATAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, PILL Z. The Waterwitch, 2, iron hydraulic gunboat, Commander P. R. Sharpe, seems to hove had a sorry time of it on her voyage to Plymouth last week. She left Spithead on Wednesday morning about 10 o'clock, and was ordered to test her qualities as a sea-going ship bef ore entering Plymouth Sound. On leaving Spithead a huh breeze was blowing from the westward, which increased as the day advanced to a moderate gale. The wind then veered round to N.N.W., which WSJ then a smooth water breeze, and the ship set her fort and aft sails. She bad not, however, got far beyond the Needles, when the sea made a complete breach over her, and she had to put back fur shelter, and anchored in y anr . mouth roads about half-past 3 o'clock in the afternooe. On Thursday morning the wind lulled, and the Water. witch again got under weigh, and arrived alt Portlami about noon ; but the weather being then fine the em u . minder conthued his course down ChanneL In the &for. noon the wind again freshened, and during th e night increased to a moderate gale. The resul t is described as having been something fright. ful, and fears were entertained for the ship's safety. Her hatches were battened down ; she loet one of bee quarter-boats, and some of her shot got adrift. The engineers and stokets were almost suffocated by the eaten e heat ennead by the battening down of the hatches and the consequent want of ventilation. The ship did not at rive at Plymouth uotil 4 o'clock on Friday afternoon, and it is said that the crew plainly intimated their unwillin g . nese to go to sea in her again. Since the last naval fellow at Spithead, on the occasion of the Sultan'a visit to Eng. land, the Waterwitch bas been lying idle in Portsmouth Harbour or undergoing alterations ; but her ezmirience iii a moderate gale of wind has proved her unseaworthiness, aced I the probability is that if no harbour service duty con ; found for her, she will be paid out of comlllission. ... .. .. ... The guns of the Valiant, 2i, iron screw ship, &r exchanged for guns of heavier calibre. ADMIRALTY, FIE. 25.—APPOINTMENT..—Co nt . m►nder Hamilton E. 0. E►rle, to the Canopus; ChM Engineer Joseph B. Jtßard to the Eudytnion ; Acting Second Clam Assistant-Engineer James Malin to the Royal Oak ; and Naval Cadet, nominated, Charles . PownalL _ _ It is reported, says the Hants Telegraph, that in the course of six weeks—the exact date is spoken of w the 6th or 7th of April—the entire Channel feet of iron-clads will assemble at Spithead, under the coiont.,oil of Rear-Admiral Frederick Warden, C. 8., who will have his deg on board the Minotaur, 34, screw, Captain ,lam , s G. Goodenough. The number of the ships to bona ti... :lees is put down at 10 or 12. WCATHIB, REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) WRIMEADAY, FEBRUARY Vt. 8 LW w. ✓..1 Wryer& Jo. W. 1 to 22; r. • D. I • 2. • 3 W. N.W. 1 2 W.V.W. ho 6 i 8 B.W Nairn . 10.79115; ' . W.N.W. Aberdeen - - Si tast.l Leith Ardramst /30111 . onseastialso.iot 48: W.R.W. Valenta 40.32 491 W. Ceps Ciaar,30.321,40 R. o.he's Pt I 30.Sti 1148: W. Liverpool '3o.3llAe RW. klob head— cs Pcnsan 10.41:111 W. Omit 30.4;150 N. Rochefort —.30.47 f'49: Z. Plymouth oo.4ar Weymouth 30.45f 40 W.N.W. Pentemosta. 90 43f 14 e N. W. London —130.371148' W. Verramtb.... 30.28 flB W.Y. W. Scarboroogb,3o.l6r47 W. sh:elm 130.001,50 N. W. Holder 302 '431 W.B W. 30.38 4 1: BW. Parts 30.47 1 W. Mrs:Mourn 0121 W. Lyons 130. M 148 1 b. W. liearreCon :30.25f 61 0.5.8. E i;11* 4 1 6 W. n. t. 01 '2 Y; 3 %%.9. W. n;ic otr: 4 4 W. 11,, 2 3 WS. W. I I s;4 W.RW. 3' . S 3 , N.W. ; , .11c. 4 1 1 N. u - 3 2 N.W - Y 3 N.W ! - 3 6 W. ..b1 - 3 5 ; W. : 6 6 ; N.W. I 1.. - - I 1 1 - I 8.5.& r - - - Barometer corrected and reduoed lo 32 deg. at sea level iha letter. r ;than), f (falling), ■ (steady), Indicate dimita , ) • motlonot the menntrywlthin last 14 hours. Thermometer expert In shade. kttreme force, with ita direction during Wt 24 ~or. Weather: b. - blue sky : c. - clouds (detacha)l . t - fon h.—haU; L—lightning:m.—misty (hazy) ; o.—over 5...4 (dull); r —rain B.—snow I. —thunthe. snow LT hail ,melted), during last 14 hours. &a disturbance. RE \JA!tKS. The distribution of atnin•Plierteiapressure over our o 'lnes not differ materially from thnt of yesterday mom., although a slight increase has taken place in the south districts, whilst In the west and northvi evt a d o - rear h.. occurred. Considerable difference exists between prev,onv 0 Scotland and In the south. The remliog at Salm i- nolo an inch below that at remanee. Temperatures have .liminkhed little, but the weather Is gene. ally • NIL for the was... have continued moderate from the north.tra,t. INK king to south-west at places in the northern districts. and nos southwesterly on Irish coast but from west to too, m.,t In the south of England i !dist s report.' from the volt]. , Ireland and the wed coast of France. The weather commie , cloudy. THE LATE MK. E. E. CHuWE. —We regret t•. announce the death of Mr. Eyre Evans Crowe, which took place yesterday merning, under the eohousting effects of a surgical operation. Mr. Crowe enjoyed a high awl deserved reputation as a public writer, especially on cw.. tinental affairs. From Paris, where he resided much dulls; the last few years, be maintained a correspondmicv a ith the most eminent public men of Europe, besides making frequent personal visits to the centres of political adios. He was pre-eminently a man of observation and insight, and his knowledge of the internal movements of the great courts was probably unsurpassed. He bad made special local study of the politics of the southeast of Europe, and the aid of his judgment on their affairs would hove been valuable in the crisis which appears to be le. pending. Mr. Crowe's most recent and chief literary work was his " History of France," published by Messrs. Long- MUM. --- President Johnson, in his Message, in alluding to his threatened impeachment, said :—" In such a case the President must take the high responsibilities of his officio, and save the life of the nation at all Wirth." PORTB3IOUTH, FEB. 26. —The Indian troopship Crocodile, Captain Watson, arrived here this morning. at 8 a.m., from Alexandria, with troops. THZ MURDEROUS ANSAULT UPON A Lit ERrod. MERCHANT.—The young men, David Har ri s and Juho Wilson, apprehended on the ch arge of having made a usu , throw; attack upon Mr. Adolphe Kesel, wine merchant. Towerdmildings, Water-street, on Monday momit g, brought up at the Liverpool police-court, yesterdry. Walter Ford, another youth, one of Mr. Kuser' clerk ` . was put into the dock with them, charged as an acco..sy before the fact. Mr. Kneel being so seriously injured Dud he was unable to attend the court, the prisoners were all remanded, without any evidence being gone into. A BRUTAL HUSBAND AND FATHER. —A shocking ease of brutality came before the county magistrates at Bolton on Monday, a man named Richard Barrow, a host man, of Aspill, being charged with having thrown a kettle of boiling water over his wife and two chi,dren, with in tent to do them grievous bodily harm. It appeared tha t about eleven o'clock on Saturday night the wife and chil dren were asleep in the cabin of a boat lying at Aberdeen. Blaclued,when the prisoner returned in a state of (Mold cation. He commenced quarrelling, and took a kettle of boiling water from the fire, which he [lung at his wife sod children, the contents severely scalding them about the face, arms , and other parts of the body. The YOUng eS child, aged about twelve months, was etated to bc in dangerous state, and even thould it recover it ia fearcd that it will totally lose the sight of one eye. The other child and its mother are also seriously scolded, and were unable to appear. No medical man hid been called in to attend them. The primmer was apprehended at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, and on being charged with the offence, he said, " It's dose, and I'm sorry for it. I was in drink et the time."—The magistrates remanded hint until Thursday. INTIYIDATING Wormitstr.—A CAUTION. —At the Liverpool _polies court yesterday, a man named John Webb was 'barged with having threatened and intimidated Reheat Batchelder, • " holder up "at Dtheers.Jack's might works. In January last Messrs. Jack found it Decrial to redoes the " on wages of their workmen, who have in conse uence been strike " ever since. The comp l a innt. ho came to Liverpool a few weeks since, entered into Messrs. Jack's service, and on Monday, as he was at work on Dook, hoard .the th priso e rie n a: r osh weu ip t erim to him ean , , md in , ma ths ing San u tn o ti f cdreasive epi th ets, swore that he would " have his (row trt's) life, " and that he would wait outside and a ld i nt" On the foreman making his apporinhoo th e P d. seiner ran away, but returned in about ludf an hour after words, dallied Batcheldee " knobstiek," and said b , would throw him into the dock. The feats hiving been proved in evident* Mr. Barnes (the stipendiary ruktrir' trate) said that the ' effenee with which the prisoner war wsoa very se ri ous the. People must be new I trate for themselves as to dee wages they would work I rk for., and they must not be ingsrfared with. Webb , One wsa said, mast go to gaol for six weeks, sad if any' . , brought there fora similar o ff ence, drip wthM got the mu I term K it t le resment. A person from the trades nnisa I ts w Informed the nindintn 4. that they relent:lV:Webb had deem N D ' ingoot