The Express. — London, England, 1867-07-06 00:00:00

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I riff and ‘..41 Urw , , tole : Mr. and Mrs. M'llaffis —And the Threc Acts of MACBETH. Mr. Reynolds. HIGH WATKE AT LONDON ARMOR. TED DAT SA. Mtn Afternoon, sh. tooduluww—Moruusg. 51t —• Aliaruoca. tin 200. L9NDON, SATURDAY, JULY 6. Ir Mr. Lown has succeeded in nothing else, he 1 ! has suctmeded in. raising a very interesting discus- I aion on the subject of cu mu l a ti ve vo ti ng . I n t h e adjourned debate of last night Mr. Bitionr, Mr. MILL, Mr. FAWCETT, Lord CRANBORNE, Mr. HEN. ter, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and the mover of the amendment, to say nothing of mem bers of less note, were conspicuous. Parties were strangely divided, and individuals curiously asso ciated. The democratic theories of Mr. MILL and Mr. Favvecrr, and the terror-stricken fore bodings of Mr. Lows and Lord CRANDORNE, made them allies in argument and com panions in the lobby. Mr. Baninr, on the other hand, found himself fighting against the members for Westminster and Brighton, with Mr. HENLEY and Mr. Disarm.' for his comrades. Mr. NEWDE CATE and Mr. ADOERLEY, the Tory member for Warwickshire, and the Tory member for Staffordshire, were directly at variance. The HOME SECRETARY and the Seidel roa-GENenst of the late Liberal Government voted and spoke in mutual contradic tion. The younger Liberals were just as little of one mind as their elders or their opponents. In Mr. Lerevss's view, the adoption of cumulative voting would destroy the worth of the Reform Bill ; in Mr. kloaamort's, it would unspeakably increase it. The division lists will probably show even stranger unions and separations. A question which makes a man's foes those of his own poli tical household, and which brings inveterate enemies under the same standard, cannot be deeply steeped in party feeling. The debate of last night was a freofight, with every man for his own hand. The decision of the Committee affirmed by a majority of nearly two to one the existing system of representation ; and although we know too well the history of great questions in the British Parliament to lay niuch stress on the first reception of a new theory in the House of Commons, we believe that in this instance the vote was based on a sound appreciation of the merits of the case. Mr. Bah:ices dislike of new-fangled schemes is perhaps excessive, though his jealousy of any de parture from the old paths of the constitution is compatible with the disposition to advance great lengths in those paths. He objects only to cutting across the country, and prefers to keep on the main road. But the person who is least fearful cf novelties is at liberty, and is bound, before adopt ing them, to ask whether the existing machinery dues not perform efficiently the work for which the new contrivances are recommended. Before exhibiting the remedy, it is desirable to be certain that the disease is teal. The cumulative vote, though Mr. Lows recommends it on grounds of abstract justice, is simply a means to an end. That end is the representation of mino rities. Are minorities insufficiently represented in England ? Mr. Fswrsrr described the sup posititious case of a constituency of twenty thou sand electors returning three members by the vote of a Liberal majority of eleven thousand, leaving the Conservative minority of nine thou sand without any voice or power in Parliament. The case is • possible one, but it is not pro bable. By reference to the actual facts of our elec toral system Mr. LEvevits showed very clearly that minorities even now secure as nearly as possible the same amount of representation that the general adoption f Mr. Lowa's scheme would give them. The need of introducing an artificial machinery for accomplishing an end which is accomplished with out it is not apparent. Mr. Pawl-area rather wild language about trampling on and despising the minority has no relation whatsoever to facts. It is a rhetorical extravagance, based on d priori possi bilities, which in England at least are not likely to become actual. If the cumulative vote is simply a means to an end—namely, the representation of minorities— this end is itself a means to an ulterior object the introduction into the Legislature of a class of persons whom it is desirable Si; have there, but whom it is thought, under th e new suffrage, wo shall not be able to obtzi. Th y o le t r i (gt of millionaires by the mob is the goal towards which, in the gloomy view of Mr. Lows, we are fast travelling. Men of intelligence and cultiva tion, unrecommended by great wealth, will be unable, it is alleged, to bear the expense of con tests for popular constituencies, or to obtain the favour of the multitude. Unless, therefore, they can rely upon the accumulated votes of • mino rity, they have no chance of election. Here, again, the facts do not harmonize with the theory. The class to whom, it is said, great constituen cies will be fatal have, when freely elected, found their way into Parliament hitherto almost exclu sively by the means of such constituencies. The late Mr. COBDEN, Mr. MILL, Mr. FAw ...a.. HUGHES, and Mr. RoEsue•, are examples of eminence recognized by large communities without the adventitious recom mendations assumed to be essential. The effect of csuuulative voting would, we believe, be just the reverse of what is anticipated. It would establish the counterparts of small borougha with all their evils in the large constituencies, one of whose chief merits it is to be free from these abuses. A man with three votes to sell to a single candidate would be much better worth purchasing than a man with only one vote. In the same way, a dependent, who could be made to count as three on the poll-list, would be in greater danger of in timidation than a man who counted only as one. A premium would he put on corruption and coercion. They would spread to places which have hitherto been free from them. To bribe the number of elec tors sufficient to secure a candidate the requisite minority would be easier than to bribe for the at tainment of a majority. The minorities, thus tempted, would become the plague-spots of the constituencies. The members whom they would return would belong to the class of the newly rich whom Mr. MILL and Mr. Lowe have con ; cowed in describing in terms very uncomplimen tary. To be chosen by the cumulative vote would usually be the sign of a purchased election, and I of the absence of any of those personal qualities which are capable of rousing general respect or I enthusiasm. Mr. Banurr urged that, if the representation of minorities had existed in the United States during the late war, the suppression of the rebellion would have been impossible ; and Mr. MILL, with his usual candour, admitted the force of this argu ment. He contended, however, that laws are made for ordinary times, and that in great revo lutionary crises it may be necessary to suspend them. This seems to us very dangerous doctrine. The system of representation, as it exists in Eng land, by the ordinary working of human uni tive* and social forces, gives to minorities in quiet times a substantial share of power. But in times of revolution or of external danger, when it is necessary that a single spirit should animate the nation, it allows the majority to put forward the overwhelming power which the necessity of the case calls for, without that departure from the limits of the law and the constitution which Mr. MILL admits might be necessary if minorities were directly re presented, and of the possibility of which he ap pears to us to think too lightly. On the whole, it seems that cumulative voting would magnify the worst evils of our present electoral system. It would introduce them into constituencies where they are nut now found. It would bring to Par liament the very men whom its advocates desire to exclude, and would not introduce the men to whom they wish to open its doors ; and it would incur the risk of all these calamities in order to attain an end which as a matter of fact is already sufficiently secured without it. Mr. Lowes argument that all electors ought to have an equal voice in the choice of political re presentative' tends directly to the establishment of equal electoral districts. When these exist, there will be more reason in the demand for cumu lative voting than there is now. Tits Review in Hyde-park having been put off, the question is raised whether it is worth while to hold it at all. It is said, and truly, that the force which we can assemble for such a purpose makes but a poor show at best ; that a military spectacle brings out the " roughs ;" and that the principle on which the use of the parks is denied to Mr. BEALE'S and his followers requires that they should not be used for military displays. On the other hand it may be said that if these sights gratify a large number of people—and that they do is shown by the rapid absorption of tickets— we need not be disconsolate although larger anuies are reviewed in foreign capitals ; that if our police force is not sufficient to restrain a disorderly population, which may choose its own time for coming out, it should be made so ; and I finally, that the ordinary appropriation of the parks for recreation is consistent with their u se I for more public purposes on extraordinary occa sions. The question, however, should not be dis posed of without some reference to the origin of the proposed review. There is neither error nor impropriety, we believe, in assuming that the display which has been postponed was kindly projected by the Quite in response to the general desire that her Id AJ envy should devise more frequent opportunities of meeting her people. If the crowds who had prepared to be present in Hyde park yesterday had wanted merely to see the men and horses and guns, nothing would have been easier than to allow some veteran general to hold the review in the QuEMeti stead, when her MAJESTY'S attendance became impossible ; but this would have been an eminently unsatisfactory arrange ment. Although in Lord CRANBOENZ'S opinion monarchy is dead, the people are still sincerely glad to see the QUEEN, and would turn out in large numbers to meet her. We must add, that it is somewhat ungracious first to complain pub licly that the QUEEN does not show herself on public occasions, and then, immediately upon I I her Mummies compliance and the appointment of a review, to criticise severely arrangements which have been accepted on every former occa sion without cavil, declaring that the pleasure to be afforded is less than the inconvenience which the review would entail. We must express the hope that the QUEEN will take her own view of the case, and form her own judgment of the People's wishes. CAIIINET Cor ?ult.—There will be s Cabinet Council thia afternoon, at four o'clock, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official residence, in Down ing-atreet. Greenwich Hospital, its management, its income, and its constitution are again to furnish employment for a committee, and we (Army and Nary Gazette) understand that on Monday, Mr. Du Cane, M.P. (a civil Lord of the Admiralty), Sir Charles Trevolyan, Captain Frederick Campbell, R.N., late private secretary to the Duke of &menet, Mr. Mugfnrd, secretary to the Patr.otic Fund, and Mr. Gladstone, of the City, will assemble for the pur pose of seeing how far the alterations made by the last government have worked beneficially for the institution, ■nd with a teas of momisining if further improvements can be made. AHREMT OY ANOTHER FENIAN LEADER. —DUBLIN, FEWAT General Halpin, who in the trial. at the special eommiuion was discribeil as one of the chief Feniet leader■, wan arrested on 641.1 the outward bound !omen ateetnor, at ltueeostown, en Thunelloy. N r :tion, the informer, was taken on bonril, and pointed Halpin out. The villas at the same time arreaW4 Neil Breslin, also an active Fenian. Sixteen Fenian convlcta were removed to England today. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1867. done which cannot be undone, and which is la Itself really valuable. We can only hope that the government may now be able to exercise the influence that has been want ing, and that all parties will concur in getting the bill through as soon as possible. CUMULATIVE VOTING. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION YERTERDAY. Mr. Lowe's clause yesterday, giving voters in cities or boroughs represented by more than two members the power to give three votes to one candidate or to dis tribute them as they may think fit, was supported by 97 liberals and 76 conservatives. The liberals were as fol lows :—Mr. H. E. Adair, Viscount Amberley, Mr. Aytouu, Mr. A. A. Baring, Mr. Barry, Mr. A. Bass, Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Biddulph, Sir R. Blennerhaasett, Mr. Bonham-Carter, Mr. E. P. Bouverle, Sir G. Bowyer, Lord C. Bruce, Sir T. F. Buxton, Mr. C►lthorpe, Mr. Cardwell. Lord E. Cavendish, Lord F. Cavendish, Lord G. Caven dish, Mr. Childers, Lord E. Clinton, Mr. Clive, Mr. Cogan, Sir T. ('olebrooke, Mr. Coleridge, Mr. H. Cowper, Mr. W. F. Cowper, Mr. Dent, Sir E. Bering, Mr. Dillwyn, Mr. R. Duff, Mr. Edwards, Mr. Ellice, Viscount Enfield, Mr. Evans, Mr. Eykyn, Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Finlay,Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Foley, Mr. Foljambe, Mr. Fordyce, Mr. C. Fortescue, Mr. J. Goldamid, Mr. Gregory, Sir G. Grey, Earl Grosve nor, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord J. Hay, Mr. Hayter, Mr. H. A. Herbert, Mr. Holland, Mr. T. Hughes, Sir W. Hutt, Sir J. Jervoise, Sir J. Johnstone, Mr. Laing, Mr. Lamont. Mr. Lowe, Mr. Mainwaring, Sir D. Marjoribanks, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Morrison, Mr. Nicholson, the O'Conor Don, Sir J. Ogilvy, Mr. Oliphant, Sir C. O'Loghlen, Mr. A. Peel, Lord Pelham, Mr. Pim, Mr. Pollard-Urquhart, Mr. W. Port man, Lord Proby, Sir H. Itawlinson, Mr. Rebow, Mr. Robartes, Mr. A. Russell, Mr. F. W. Russell, Sir W. Russell, Mr. Scrape, Mr. A. Seymour, Mr. H. D. Sey mour, Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr. Spain, CoL Stuart, Mr. C. Tracy, Mr. Waring, Mr. Warner, Sir T. Weston, Mr. Wbatman, Capt. White, Mr. Whitworth, Sir H. William 'son, Sir T. Winnington, Mr. H. Woods, and Mr. Wyvill. The tellers for the clause were also liberal members, viz., Mr. B. Kn►tchbull-Hugessen, and Mr. J. S. Mills The conservatives voting for the clause were H. Annesley, Capt. M. Archdall, Mr. H. J. Baillie, Mr. H. B. Baring, Mr. A. A. Bathurst, Sir M. Beach, Mr. W. W. Beach, Mr. G. C. Bentinok, Capt. D. Beresford, Mr. J. B. Bowen, Mr. K. Brooks, Major C. Bruce, I Mr. H. Butler-Johnstone, Mr. A. H. Campbell, Lord E. Cecil, Mr. H. Cole, Mr. J. L Cole, Viscount Cranborne, Mr. R. Bimodal°, Admiral Bun combe, Colonel Buncombe, Col. R. Dyott, Mr. R. A. Earle, General Forester, Sir W. P. Gallwey, Mr. J. M. Geekell, Colonel Gilpin, Mr. G. Goldney, Mr. J. E. Gorst, Mr. G. Greenall, Mr. T. de Grey. Mr. C. D. Griffith, Sir B. L Guinness, Mr. R. Gurney, Lord C. J. Hamilton, Viset. Hamilton, Mr. J. Hardy, Sir W. Heathoote, Mr. R. S. Holford, Sir A. Hood, Mr. A. B. Hope, Lord Ho them, Mr. E. Howes, Mr. J. G. Hubbard, Mr. A. Ka. vanab, Sir R. Knightley, Col. Knox, Sir E. Lechinere, Mr. C. P. Leslie, Mr. H. G. Liddell, Col. Lowther, Mr. J. Lowther, Col. Mellor, Sir J. Neeld, Mr. C. Newdegate, Mr. R. H. Paget, General Peel, Mr. G. W. Repton, Mr. P. F. Robertson, Mr. 0. M. Sandford, Mr. C. Schreiber, Mr. J. H. Scourfield, Mr. Abel Smith, Mr. J. B. Stanhope, Lieut.-Colonel Sturt, Mr. H. E. Surtees, Sir J. H. Tho rold, Lord H. F. Tbynne, Mr. J. Vance, Mr. IL W. Verner, Major Walker, Mr. J. W. Walrond, Mr. 5- Waterhouse, Mr. C. W. Wynn, Mr. W. R. Wynne, Mr. J. R. Yorke. The 314 members who opposed the clause consisted of 164 liberals, and 150 conservatives. Among the liberals who voted against the clause were Mr. Gladstone, Mr. T. M. Gibson, Mr. Goschen, the Marquis of Hartington, Mr. Villiers, and other members of the late government. On the same side were Mr. Ayrton, Mr. Baines, Mr. M. Bass, Mr. Baxter. Mr. Bright, Mr. Clay, Mr. W. E. Forster, Mr. Locke King, Sir R. Palmer, Sir R. Peel, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Sealy, Mr. Stansfeld, Mr. Disraeli was joined in the lobby against the clause by Mr. Adderley, Mr. Cave, Mr. Du Cane, Mr. G. Hardy, Sir John Hay, Mr. Henley, Mr. Hunt, Sir J. Kerslake, Lord J. Manners, Lord R. Montagu, Lord Naas, Sir S. Northcote, Sir J. Pakington, Colonel Patten, Sir J. Holt, Sir J. Trollope, Mr. Walpole, Ice. the Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jun . 5. Her Majesty and the Queen of Prussia, accom panied by Princess Louise, drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon. Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, drove in the Home Park this morning. The Queen of Prussia went out walking. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Duke of Sutherland, and attended by Captain Ellis, and the Hon. Oliver Montagu, arrived early at Marlborough House yes terday morning from Paris. The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Prince Louis of limas, rode out, attended by Captain Ellis. A deputation of the Markets Committee of the Metro politan Cattle Market, had an interview with the Lord President of the Council, at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, yesterday. A deputation from the Guardians of the Poor of the Rochdale Union had an interview with the Earl of Devon, at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall, yesterday. THE VICEROY or FAlYPY.—Aocording to present arniugements his Highness the Viceroy is expected to ar rive at Charing-cross station this evening Sy the 7.20 train from Paris. His Highness will be accompanied by all the officers of his suite who have attended him to P►ris. The Prince of Wales will be at the station to receive him. A guard of honour will be in attendance, and an escort of cavalry will accompany the carriages of his Highness's onlige to Dudley House, which has been so hospitably placed at his disposaL No time has yet been positively fixed for the arrival of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan. The Queen has been graciously pleased to notify to the executive committee of the National Exhibition of Works of Art, to be held at Leeds next year, that she has given instructions for a selection hom the works of art in the royal collections to be sent to the above-named exhi bition. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster Entertained the following select party at dinner last even ing at Grosvenor House:—The Earl and Countess Cawdor, Lord and Lady Wenlock, Lord and Lady Aveland, Lord Overstone, Hon. N. Grosvenor, Sir Anthony Rothschild, Mr. and Mrs. Legh (of Lyne), Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Russell, Mr. ►nd Mrs. G. G. Glyn, Mr. Albert Brakes, Mr. Cockerel], kc. The members of the United Service Club have invited the Viceroy of Egypt to a banquet at their magni ficent house, and his Highness has accepted the invitation. Among the public proceedings set down for the entertainment of the Sultan will be the naval review on the 17th, and be will possibly be present at the hall in the Agricultural Hall on the 18th. The rifle shooting at Wimbledon-common, which will commence on the Bth, will probably challenge a visit ; and the postponement of the review in Hyde-park for a fortnight seems to render that spectacle also available. For the banquet in the City the most active preparations are already going for ward ; and it is said that the managers of the Crystal Palace will offer his Majesty a public reception. A letter from Hong Kong states that four of her Majesty's ■hips have struck on rocks or been ashore very recently in the China seas. The Salamis, which struck on the Dido rock, was very seriously damaged, and some danger to those on board was at one time feared. She is now in dock at Whsmpoa. Some anxiety was felt at the the non-arrival of her Majesty's ship Urgent, 112 days out from England. Then; are now about 400 military invalids in the Royal Victoria Hospital, at Netley, in Hants, and nearly 500 invalids arc on their way to the hospital from India. The building will accommodate 1,500 patients, and at one time last year there were upwards of 1,000 invalids in it. The entrance hall has been converted into a museum of natural history. A separate building for lunatic patients is rapidly progressing towards completion. Three kinds of religious service are pert rmed in the hospital chapel, viz., the episcopal, Roman catholic, and presbyterian. When the Roman catholic service is performed the ap pearance of the altar is slightly altered. John Gray, probably the last survivor of the revolutionary army of 1776, is living in Noble county, Ohio. He is nearly 101 years old. OU It CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The Tires is reconciled to the rejection of Mr. Duwe's proposal to adopt the cumulative vote by the fact that with the single exception of Mr. Shaw Lefevre, the younger members who spoke, to whatever party or section of a party they belonged, spoke in support of the proposal. The magnitude of the minority yesterday is an earnest of a future majority. In other articles the Times treats of the ceremonies at Rome, the Privy Council system of education, and our military administration. To the Daily News it seems that the cumulative voting would increase the worst evils of our present elec toral system. To be chosen by the cumulative vote would usually be the sign of a purchased election. The Daily News observes that the infamous Miramon and the bloodthirsty Marquez, who have suffered the doom of traitors to their country, are the very men whose outrages and atrocities the original expedition of the three powers was sent out to punish. Against the govern. ment of Juarez, as distinguished from that of his prede cessors, the European powers had not • grievance to allege. It is very much the fashion with English society to have two weights and two measures for their political judgments. A monarchy may slaughter scores of rebels in cold blood, as Austria did in '4B-'49, in Hungary, in Italy ; as Prussia did in Baden ; as the Second Empire did in December, But a republican government may not even defend itself against invasion and overthrow by a foreign army, and while no quarter is given to its soldiers is bound to pardon all who are taken in arms against it on pain of being branded as a government of sassasins. Indian half breds in what was a Spanish colony are expected to be as humane as a Narvaez ! Inasmuch as we did not recall our envoy from Mexico on account of the executions which took place pursuant to the decree of October, 186.5, it would follow that we saw no great objection to them. If an American adventurer had gone to Hungary, waged war against the Austrian government, and ul , imately bees taken and executed, should we have recalled our ambas sador from Vienna The Paid is opposed to the cumulative vote under the circumstances proposed by Mr. Lowe. If the system of three-cornered constituencies be good, it should be univer sally applied. Referring to the law as to members of parliament who have been declared bankrupt, the Post reminds its readers of what took place in the case of the hon. member who formerly oat for Greenwich. On the 15th of June, 185 ft, a eopy of the record of adjudication of bankruptcy against Mr. John Townsend, a member, which bad been ordered and presented, was read by the clerk•at the table. The acts applying to such persons were also read, and a mem ber having moved " that the said Mr. John Townsend do withdraw from this house until this bankruptcy shall have been superseded or annulled, or until his credi tors proving their debts shall have been paid or satisfied to the full amount of their debts ;" and it having been noticed further that Mr. Townsend had since his bank ruptcy voted in several divisions, it was ordered that the said Mr. Townsend do withdraw, which he did accordingly and that " the votes given by him since his adjudication of bankruptcy be disallowed.* This precedent the Post presumes will be followed in the case of Sir Morton Peto, a case of misfortune which the public cannot fail to view with respect and sympathy. The Ifrrald approves of the vote of the majority in the case of Mr. Lowe's proposition, but is very angry that Mr. Bright should be on its side. The Standard, on the other hand, says the rejection of the clause was undoubt edly rather a radical than a conservative triumph, and its loss must be accepted as another sacrifice to an unreason ing prejudice ag.iinst novelty. The replies which were made to Mr. Disraeli, the Standard thinks, were con clusive. The Telegraph pays a tribute to Mr. Disraeli for standing his ground so manfully throughout the discussion. The Star chiefly addresses itself to answering Mr. Mill. THE WEEKLY PRESS. The Examiner, having from first to last denounced the buccaneering plot against Mexico, is glad at Maxi niilian's fall, though it laments his death. Still it were mere hypocrisy to blink the fact which will outweigh in his tory's judgment all parallels and analogies, the terrible fact, that just a year and a half ago, in October,lB6s,Maximilian issued a decree, whereby he declared that, from and after its date, he would execute as a criminal any man who was found in arms against him. Under that decree five gallant gen'lemen, Generals Arteaga and Salazar, with three of their staff holding the rank of colonel in the republican army, were taken prisoners and put to death by order of the alien Emperor. Is it not written, " they that take the sword shall perish by the sword!" A fearful thing is this poetic retribution, but a thing which it can serve no honest or pious purpose to deny or to ignore. Let us put the ass to ourselves. What would be our feelings, what our words—may we not add, what our acts and deeds— if a French or German adventurer, of high descent, were to land in Munster with a foreign army, and fortifying his s -If in a few southern towns near the coast, were recog nised there as King by half the governments of Europe, and, after months or years of bloodshed and exaction, were he to fall into our hands! Will the bill get through ? says the Erasaiaer. If at the end of July the House of Lords should refuse to enter upon • deliberate consideration of the measure, not brought up to them till then, upon the ground that the legislative days of the year are primed, and that their duties as sportsmen must not be neglected because the duties of others as statesmen have been ill-performed, the reproach of factious frustration will inevitably be laid at the door of those who have wasted the time that might have been saved, ministers will have a fair excuse for ad journing the measure until February next, when the whole discussion will have to begin again. The day is (sat ap proaching when it will behove sincere and thoughtful men to show that they can stand together, and insist on the completion of the work now so nearly done. The Speetoror trusts now that the anti-corruption dames and the cumulative vote are lost, that the liberals will abstain, as Mr. Gladstone does, from further opposition. There is nothing worth having to be get, for, as we have explained elsewhere, to force a dissolution would be suicidal, ►nd petty amendments only enable the tories to say that the liberals fear enfranchisement. If serious opposition ceases, as it probably will, the bill ought to reach the third reading next week, and pass the house on the Monday following. The Spectator would warn both sides, en passant, to look sharply to the clause fixing the time for registration. If they try to give themselves another year's enjoyment of their seats, there will be a cry from the new constituencies against laws passed by a "sentenced parliament" such as they will not care to face. Cannot they see that the year will be all in favour of new men? Speculating on the effect which the fate of Maximilian will have upon France, the Spedator says the belief in the Emperor, still almost immovable among the peasantry, will be sadly shaken, and that strange Nemesis which follows the unjustifiable use of power will, we believe, hurry him on to enterprises yet more dangerous than the one which has so conspicuously failed. What Moscow was to the First Empire, Mexico may yet prove to the Second. The whole scheme of conservative belief, the Saturday Rerine says, is shaken to the foundation. Things which a short time ago were accounted very diefrlful are now spoken of as tho most natural and innocent things in the world. Men like Mr. Bright, who were deemed a pest to decent society, are now flattered and courted, and hold themselves out successfully as the kind patrons of the government. There is scarcely any political opinion held so etedfastly in England that we cannot now easily con ceive it fading away, and there is no man of anything like real intellectual force whose career we can anticipate. Changes in the relations of the governed to their governor., in the relations of the poor and the rich, in the relations of the church to the state and to modern thought changes that a short tin.e ago seemed quite chimerical—now float before every. one as entering the range, not only of possibility, but of a not very remote probability. The effect of all this has been to relax in sonic slight measure the pressure for a Reform Bill. The house goes bungling sad dawdling or, not only because it has broken loose front ita leaders, but also because, as the discussion of details proceeds, it secs difficulties where everything owe seemed smooth, and it is not kept up quite as much as it was to the pninful t al: of setting rid of these difficulties by boldly cutting the knots it is sure to find. The progress of the bill has cense quentlf been rather slow, and the chief cause of wonder is that it has not been slower, and that so much has b een lATI-ST INTELLIGENCE. THE FATE OF MAXIMILIAN. WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE I According to the IndEperuloace Belye, the French governinent are preparing the publication of docu ments in order to prove that the clerical party in Mexico are really responsible for the fate of Maximilian. We find the following in the Cur respnularu•e Bullier : When the French were about to leave Mexico, Maxi milian was at Chopukepic, on his way to Orizaba, at tended by 600 horse. His baggage was already at Vera Cruz, where be was to embark. At this time, which was at the end of March or beginning of April, Maximilian 'ap peared to have decided on abandoning the struggle, and two Austrian vessels were anchored in the roadstead of Vera Cruz to receive him and his escort. So strong was the belief that be was on the point of quitting Mexico I that a court officer was sent to Gibraltar to receive the I fallen Emperor. But • cruel destiny decided otherwise. When Maximilian approached Orizaba on his way to Vera Cruz, he was met by the Rev. Father Fisher, who seems to have communicated information of such importance as to induce him to alter his intention. The clerical party in Mexico, the bishops, and their lay supporters. offered to the Emperor through Father Fisher, a sum of 20,000,000 piastres and an army. Father Fisher seems to have represented the situation in the most favourable colours. Maximilian yielded to the temptation, returned to the capital and organised the means of continuing the struggle. He was supported by litirarcon and Marquez, the generals of the clerical party. It was arranged that Miramon should advance to meet the Joarists coming from the east ; Marques was to defend Puebla from Porferio Diaz, and the Emperor with 10,000 , men, proceed to attack &oohed°. In face of the I superior numbers of the Juarista this was a most rash attempt. Besides, the clericals did not keep their promises, and the 20,000,000 piastres were not forth coming. It is clear from these circumstances that the Emperor took a sound view of the situation in the first instance, and that he only changed his resolution to quit Mexico through the pernicious influ ence of that party who make even princes their instru ments. Those who find invited Maximilian to Mexico, retained him there; and, as they deceived him when they said that the whole country awaited him as its saviour, they likewise deceived him when, at the last moment, they persuaded him that he might hold the country by force of arms, although the French themselves admitted that this was impossible. THE CZAR'S AMNESTY TO THE POLES. An extract of a letter from Warsaw to the Postn Journal, dated July 2, says : The Csar's so-called act of clemency to the Poles is a dead letter, having no real or definite object. The arrival of the Emperor here was illustrated in a perfectly special and original manner; for, at the moment the silent monarch was making his entry into Warsaw, siz vehicles filled with victims for Siberia were leaving the prison walls. We had another proof of the clemency of our august master and a new surprise the day before yesterday. The police Dave again commenced their operations by aerating in the public streets women who are dressed in black. After having been taken before the commis sioner of police these poor women have been condemned to pay a heavy fine in spite of their remonstrances and assurances that the gloomy colour of their dresses was not intended as political mourning or as a political manifestation. (REUTC2 . II nascuma.) THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. VIENNA, JULY 6. The Official Gazette of to-day contains an auto graph letter from the Emperor decreeing that, in grateful memory of the distinguished services ren dered to the Imperial fleet by the deceased Emperor of Mexico, a solemn funeral service shall be held throughout the Austrian navy. All ships in commission shall also have their topmast flags veiled with crape for a period of seven weeks. FRANCS. PARIS, JULY G. The Moeit o zr of to-day publishes an imperial decree, preceded by a report of the Minister of War, ordering the abandonment of 29 fortified positions and works and the suppression of all restrictions on houses and landed properties within the lines of fortification of 39 other fortified points, in con formity with the report of Marshal Randon, of the 23rd May, 18fiG. ITALY. FLORENCE, JULY 6. The King will go into mourning for thirty days for the Emperor Maximilian. In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, the Ecclesiastical Property Bill caine on for discus sion. Some of the members opposed the bill as contrary to liberty, justice, and the financial interests of the country. Others supported it on the ground that the clergy were hostile to Italy. Signor Rattazzi stated that the ministry consented to accept the bill as modified by the com mittee as a basis for discussion by the cham ber, reserving to themselves the right of in troducing modifications to certain clauses. Ile also said that the banking firm with whom the convention was entered into had spontaneously declared themselves willing to withdraw them and to consider the contract as abandoned, leaving to the ministry full liberty in the discussions. Signor Rattassi then gave some other explanations as to the proposed contract with M.M. Erlanger, and declared that this firm had also given their con sent to the bill of the committee being made the basis of discussion. RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, JULY 6. It is reported that the Nicolai Railway has been sold by the government to a private company for 300 millions of francs, to be paid in the course of three years. SPAIN. MADRID, JILT 5, EVENING. Lieutenant Colpeiro and two corporals of a regi ment of Chasseurs were shot yesterday at Valencia for being implicated in a military conspiracy. PORTUGAL. LISBON, Jun G. The Portuguese court will go into mourning fur 30 days for the Emperor Maximilian. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PERSIA. QUSENSToWN, JILT 6. The royal mail steamship Persia, from New York, arrived here at 5.55 to-day with 175 cabin passengers and 152,266 dole. in specie. After landing 113 sacks of mails and 46 passengers, she proceeded for Liverpool at 6.10 a.m. All well. (BY ATLANTIC TZLIG &LPN. ) SEW YORK, Juts 5, G P. Ir. Advice! received here from Mexico announce the fall of Vera Cruz. The Inman steamer Etna arrived out to-day. The steamer Manhattan arrived here on Thurs day, and the St. David and St. Andrew to-day. Closing prices :—Gold, 1:18. Sterling exchange on London, 110. 5-20 United States Bonds, 11 ; Illinois, 1211 ; Erie, 67i. Cotton : Midland Up land, 26k. Petroleum, refined, 22. [This telegram arrived in London at 4.5 a.m. to-day.] Captain Condon, retained in custody since his acquittal, has been released at the request of the Anieri. can Minister, and sailed for the United States yesterday, bound not to return. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. VICTOR HUGO IN PARIS. (soon otut owl 001111311PONDINT.) PARIS, FRIDAY Evtrisc. The news, though scarcely credible, that Victor Hugo is in Paris, seems to be true. He &vivid at Havre two days ago, in a Southampton boat, sad was seen sitting in front of the Caf6 Felix, in the Place Napoleon 111., in company with his old, friend and disciple, M. Aug. Vacquerie. He took' a train for Paris the next morning. The object of his visit is to witness the success of his play, //ernani, at the Francais. There is no reason, except his own disinclination, why Victor Yugo should not have come to Paris long ago, for he was not excepted from the general amnesty ; but an impression, greatly enouraged by himself, prevail e d that the Jersey exile would not set foot in Francs so long as Napoleon 111. reigned over it. The pale shadows of doubts which remained yes, terday in some minds as to the fate of Maximilian are dispelled by the official announcement in the Moniteer to-day that he was shot on June 19, and that the French court goes into mourning for thirty days. The rumour that M. Dano, the French minister in Mexico city, had been executed, is denied on good authority. The government feels sure that he reached Vera Cruz safe and sound, and em barked for France with all the personnel of his mission on board the Phlegeton. The ball which was to have been given to the Sultan at the Hotel de Ville is countermanded, on account of Maximilian's death. His ottoman Majesty will not, however, leave Paris sooner than he originally intended. The Viceroy of Egypt goes to England to-day by way of Cherbourg. The news of M. Rouher's granl-daughter, Count Welles de Lavalette's little girl, is somewhat better, but still far from completely re-assuring. She is described as having a mucous fever, which has entered into its second period, with a diminu tion of the serious symptoms. The Bourse was less firm than yesterday, but closed with scarcely more than a fractional change in all securities. Italian has not fallen. A hope is entertained that M. Rattazzi will devise a com bination for raising necessary funds, which M. Ferrara failed to do. LETTER FROM ONE OP THE ABYSSINIAN PRISONERS. The following is a letter from Dr. Blanc, one of Mr. Ramam's companions in the unfortunate mission for the release of Consul Cameron, to a friend who is an OriiCer in one of the regiments now serving in India. The letter (observes the Bombay Oazette, in which we End the dom. ment) is very freely written to come from a prisoner, but the allusions to the Emperor Theodore are very carefully guarded. It will be observed that Dr. Blanc, expressing no doubt the common wish of all the Emperor Theodore's captives, is himself anxious that their sufferings should be brought to an end, one way or the other, by the advance of a British army into Abyssinia : "_Magdala, March 31, 1867. " My dear ---,—l promised you in my note sent from here some 15 days ago, that I would on the hat occasion give you a longer account of our unfortunate expedition ; however, the very thought of it di gust" me. and if it was sot for old friendship's sake, I would throw down the pea in despair. We left hlassowah on the 15th of October, 1865, crossed the Soudan, not a very agreeable trip, the hot sun and want of water making it a very trying journey for Europeans. reached Metemma, the frontier town et Abyssinia in that direction, on the 21st of November ; we stayed at that place until the 27th of January, Pek3. Metemma, as in geographical books it will he described some day, in the capital of Galabat, a province inty bited by Takruries, • race originally from Dufour, who on their way to the coast, finding the country plea. sant, became settlers. All I can say is that if these net/rote found an earthly paradise in the unhealthy low. land of Galaba', Darfour must be a wretched place. I hope that you will never have any idea of exploring its torrid zone. These Takruries are a very nob.) , set, three or four times a week they would bawl all night, singing I believe they call it, and dance or rather jump to the mo notonous tone of a single note extracted for hours out of a kind of kettledrum. Some Laving served amongst the Egyptian troops returned to their adopted land full of ideas of disciplined armies, and at last pre vailed on their countrymen to adopt drill as a weekly re. creation. Some women would be seen on Fridays going through a series of revolutions, amazing to behold ; a bad representation of some great battle at Astley's can perhaps give you • faint idea of the military genius of Sheik Jainus, the reigning sovereign of Galabat. The drill does not seem, however, to have raised the spirit of the tribe, as they prefer paying tribute both to Egypt and Abyssinia rather than fight with one of t' em. " As I have already told you on the 27th Jaauary ere started for the highland of Abyssinia, crossed the pa vinces of Tschetga, Darbea, Tukaxiut, and finally after • month's travelling, generally through an uncultivated country amongst ruins of burnt villages, we reached the Imperial Camp close on the confines of Gaffat. Our re- caption was above our most sanguine expectation, we had all the show and dazzle of Oriental courts usually brought forward on similar occasions ; the Emperor was good enough to receive her Majesty's letter, end la order to show his friendship he ordered at once the prisoners to be set free and 'cut to us. After spending some eight days with the King, we started for Kourata, • town on the western shore of the Tana sea, to await the arrival of the liberated captives. On the 12th of March they joined us, and having nothing more to do in the county we were all anxious to leave. At last we olr tinned the royal consent, end the 13th of April WWI fixed upon as the day we would have the honour of bidding good bye to the hospitable monarch, whilst the former offender", whose sight would be painful to the good king, after all he Mod suffered at their bonds, were allowed to proceed I y &amber route, the whole party to rendezvoas at a village at the north-east extremity of the lake. " You know the rest ; how we were seized, stiipped, out property searched, made prisoner', tried, and acquittal. The other party shared the same fate, and were brought to us in chains. We all remained at Zags for some six weals Mr. Fled having been sent for presents and workmen. la the meanwhile our imprisonment was light, we could 60 out riding under the protection of a guard of honour: our kit was returned to us, when it was was found that nothing suited, the money alone being kept lack, pre. kthly by mistake. Cholera, typhus, and small-pox forced his Majesty to leave the Lake Country for the Table land. We accompanied him, and arrived at Geist on the 15th June. The rainy season was beginning, accordingly, his Majesty gave us tome huts in the neighbourhood of Gaffat, so that all the Europeans skald spend the dull season in the enjoyment of ale another . * company. Pleasant or not, after ten days his Majesty pas a stop to our intercourse with the Europeans of Gaffat, by shutting us up in a black tent all huddled together pitched in his own enclosure. A few days later this was even toe good ;on the 3rd July we were made to try the effects et a dark room es a solace to the mind ; end lastly, on the sth, we started with his Majesty, all guemeil, but no one knew for certain, where, until the morning of the 9th when an escort came from his Majesty to Der tents to convey us to the Royal Residency at Magda'. On the 12th we arrived, on the Pith we were chained, and though his Majesty has been kind enough to send us his compliments on several 000asioes, with the ex ception of a few lean cows sent on great fair days, we have been supposed by our kind friend to have lived on the pure air and limpid water of the fairy mountain. " My dear fellow, you have it all now cut end dry,since eight and a half months we are in chains, on batl grub, and with very ugly shadows in the future. My o ly wish is that, before even this reaches you, the 1.1.1%e K ng's Own will be on their way, for who could bet ter teach niggers the practical lesson between humbug and teality *:" The son and nephews of the Sultan were present the evening before last at the performance of the Bide so Bois, at the Porte St. Martin Theatre. The various fsh/ scenes appeared greatly to interest them. Boni at I Mb' him mitt info