The Express. — London, England, 1859-04-08 00:00:00

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HIGH VAT= AT LONDON chum km. D., -veralse. ft 0 a A IA rimpappe-41•211101. • 111 •-•-•-•—•tha..m. GA- 311. LONDON. PAID/T. APRIL 6. Titu Emotive Committee of' the Ballot Society bare issued a very timely and neassary appeal to the electors of the United Kingdom, pointing out the value of the opportunity which now offers for ensuring the attainment of that great safeguard of fire represenlatime. As they well observe, the Ballot belongs inseparably to the question opoo which the constitnencies aro called by the dissolution to pronounce. This election will turn on Reform, _ _ . and of Reform the Ballot is one of the three essential elements. An attempt to introduce the use of voting papers, by limns of which the coercion of voters wouldh.tve been made 'shier than e‘er, has just been defewtd. On the other hand, an extension of the sutfrage by lowering the borough qualification is acknowledged to be inevi.aible, so that whatever evils now attend the system of open voting will be magnified a 4 the ar,a of their operation ta enlarged. Every friend of the Ballot has them new motives to exertion, and new assurances of success. Those Rho desire sod strive for the eel of the working classes mast wish that the new electors should exerci e the right of voting freely. lf, theft fore, they are not already advocates of the Ballot, it is becsow they have not duly considered the facts which prove thatproteeties i;accootoryto the TOUT. In demonstrating this troth, the Ballot Society sod its supputers hares comparatively easy task to pet fwm. Addressing fellow-reform.7ti, they boa e not to convert them to new principles, for the Ballot, indispensable se at is, is not • principle, bat an expedient, as Mr. BRIGHT has shown. Let ito atilitT and necessity then be affirmed, illustrated. and in,isted on in .town nod oat of seasms, rtad Reformm, whose aims and objcets after all are oar, will th 2. sooner perfect that communion of opinion on this subject to whi,:h they hive of late been rapidly tending. Bat the Executive Committee of the Ballot Society, besides off.eiug ariptnenta on behalf of their nsea- The ausr u er to that inquiry in tho present coos is, that M Nitiestea iLioistirs proposed to the !louse of Ceinemems a bill for asses ling the laws elating to the representation of th• peop'e is parlisment, and that the provisions and aunts of that bill were such that they were tows or leas condemned by almost every mamba who, on either ride el this tv•use, during *seven digits debate, expesesei his end me• to on the subject. There were, however, tee promlneat points of the bill which, by a resolution that was proiosed praviouly to the ~road loading of the bill, were epecially refined to re oljerticnable. The one wu the pto;earl that th owners of fitehcl to situated Utile breongh. represented in parliament should in fetus be deprived of their vote for their respective etentirr. Toe other was that no provision was made in the 61;11 fur toy unmakes of the suffrage in borughe by a reduc tion of the bc rough qualification. Thia reeolutiu hiring barn carried by a numbs r oontd tuffsg a majority of the whole House of C.mmons, the miniegets de ermined to coue:dar it so a mew* of their con duct, and t t retard it sa an iwendrd proof that they dr not possess the r inflihnce of the Hume of Commons ; and they hue to mawkish nc• dried her YU." to dissolve the m ust parlwnent, wad to recur tr the sues of her people on t!e _ . . . The queotioe, therefore, suMittad to the judgment el the electors of the Veit d Kingdom is whether the bill proposed by the govressisat was good or bad ; and whether the government wore tight in propooleg such a bill, or whether the majority of the Rules of COMMOCIAI wets right is dia. approving it. This (potion having been put to the eleeteew et the United Kingdom, I cannot d mht what their sumer mil hs. tkiak. however, AM the govaressast would have doss far bits. had It yielded to dm impressed °pinioned the Noma Of COINUMS opisiom 'spewed is debate am mew strongly sad gessrally dui by the moieties which wee ser ried. The prevent !air-Were owlet took last year the government dubs c vanity, avowing that th it sup,xe tors were a minority of the Rouse of Colons as An sdatiohtration eo circum stanced holds ofbca on the condition of shaping Its down in rooforsity with the deemed opinions of lb* coaj , .rity, anima iu a case in which th.t cosjiwity may require tooled:ling •Istla would ba forbidden by conailers ions of pub lic duty, or by • maid for the priaciplw of the coos' itutien. But on the lancet orceeion it was sot the HOW) of Commons that was eadoavontiog to tiros upon the Waists.. ► seseaure inconsistent with the setabli•heal principles of the coast to 100. On the contrary, It wee the ministers who wore pr Toeing to the bowie of Commons meanies which oven their own supporters ob. Jett sl to as illijudgad renovations span ancient ant fueda metal arrsagstseate tf our reprauntrtiva masa, and which two mesa ere of the Cabinet deemed It be so mad eleaMe that they reigned that. °Meer retie than be porgies to se Wog suet propo ale to parliament. The ratui•t is might, lulled of putting the oountry to the inoieweoiance sad aspen., of • general election, hare withdrawn their ohjectom elide bill, sad hare proposed another fumed it e mformity sib the views of the large majnrity of the WMIII3 of COMMIS"; tad there can be little doubt that such a cacumre would lava ga•sod Into law in the t meat ers•iott; and there MIMS rood rcasoa to believe that it world hare been eatiokawy to the seaway. sure, propound • rule of electoral tactics. They I say—" At tl.e coming election reject every candi. dite who is opposed to or hesitates on the Ballot." This is such a tecnintnendatioa as might have been expected from a Society formed to promote the triumph of one idea. We have no fault to find with it ; bat we may point out that its application will demand great prudence. Reform does not consist singly is the extension of the franchise, nor in the more equal distribution of seats, nor yet in the adop- tion of Vote by Ballot to the exclusion of the other two measure., but in the whole of thee. together. The importance of the several branches of Reform will be felt variously by different reformers, according to the variety or their experience and of their oppor tunities of ohsevvation. A householder in Finsbury wiil naturally be struck with the anomaly of a system which gives to a osastitneacy of 20,000 registered electors no more representatives in the Sorb a emote weald have her; Le seemniance with that which th•y surresefully pummel lee• year in vessel to the India Bill ; and no vo.iitl norm has la.es assigned by them for sot odop:iag it on tie prevent.. oocs.lon. Her Mattery's ministers, however, have stated that is their opinion their &otos lay berwtes advising a dissolution of parliareeit end tendering to her *dimly the migration of their oily • ; and that owe reason why tatty chose the Ant el them site. natives was dad they deemed their oratlauesee is calm ersestbal so the PROMO album negotiations 's which the (refill is sow envied wok a view to the preeesvatias of the pease of Europe. But the worst wttieli they Live punned is evidently ealoalated to weaken their hands in regard to those negut'at one. A government of this ommtry, to be li.tened to with defe rence abroad, ought to hare strength and etetality et home, and foreign powers ought to see in the irobability of its durarton a security for the 00TititIUSDCO 411 the policy use which, am repreentiog the Bei cr twat, ilia antisg. But their vent adennaisitathes exhibits Well to Europe ►t the out-et t,f .n approaching congers. as having an Ina essicilable digtreoce with laden:omit, of whom imaktonce it will have deprivel itself during what may be a critical mild of the so go' bdiss, whit that madame of the country, which, so loss se lie expressios of public opinion was alted for, might have bees gemmed to mito, may poseltly, by the et tutt of the clutiess, be proved no. t e belong to the pee•est Boise of Commons than are allowed to the 350 electors of liontingdoo. A tenant-at-will of Sir Hater, DRYDIM. the Northamptonshire baronet, who bouts that he " comes down upon" the occupier of his farm who presumes to call his vote his ewe, ie equally struck with the importance and iirgemoy of the Ballot. And again, the industrious artless, who helps on the progress of the age by his skill and morality, but has given too many hostages to suety to afford a 101. house or pusess his county freehold, thinks the first want of the time is a reduction of the electoral qualification. Now it is too much to hope that all these aims can be attained at once, while it is certain that each one, as it is gained, will help on the other. Ao extension cf the suffrage would inevitably hasten on the enaetm.nt of the Ballot, and the Ballot would as certainly lead to a fairer re-allot ment of Parliamentary scats. Bat will the progrim of Reform be accelerated if constituencies disintegrate the question, and, raising one of its elements into ex clusive importance, deprive the country of the services of men wheats render great aid tothe common cause? We are seru'ithst the able and zealous Chairman of the Executive Committee would instantly answer, No. We heartily egret with what we be believe tobe the inten tion of the Committee, because, cateria paribau, can didate who is right as all points will make a better re presentative than one who is only right upon two, but we should consider their advice most pernicious could we believe that they were countenancing a policy of proscription to be enforced against tried and veteran reformers. It is not thus that great causes are to be won in the fans of an unscrupulous and compact opposition; and we will not do the Ballot Society the ifiju. ice of supposing that they would abet the senseless eatery which has been raised against emi nent Liberal watesmen, because their opinions on this one subject are lea. advanced than that of the great body of the party which they strengthen and adorn. To the cast majority, however, of the candidates who will appear at the bustiogs soliciting Liberal voter, the Ballot Society's test may be applied with wholesome tit ct,ani without the least danger that it will exclude either great ability or signal patriotism. Aspiring young candidates omit commence by emu lating the virtues, not by copying the mistakes, of their seniors ; and electors may reasonably distrust the qualifications of men who, without the excuse of traditional feeling and confirmed habits of thought, lack the disownment to see the fact which eves Sir GILUIAN admits—the fact that the Baliut is the most earnest and progressive political demand of the time. We take leave to echo the exhortation of the Committee—By every vegans in your power, aid us to gain the Ballet Muses sled ter ever. Tbe course, tter.f as, which ter Dl.jert)'n gererment have determin4 to pursue dove n swat to be berme est by any of tae meow which hare Leee put (emu] f r its juradeation.-1 bete the brow to be, aettkakee, your obediect sad dereted rennet, PALMERSTON. 91, Piccadilly, April 7, 1869. Ymterday a magnificent data ornament, emu. t•••• 1, Aire ty of arrrli•n•o f t►e drat satire sit of /costa lowa, woe seicaitted t public oospetities ar the soles r 116besbats, Store. aced Sea, ii.ser-atzerie, rudra. Th. jeltri4 were seamed l• soli as • aia..ru•e I dirt .134 ot.toschsr, a•d wen ori`i•ally pre ern•.•l by I .131. XIV. to • disttalryiah•d imotesbtr of his voot. Att.( • libee•l ^ Vilipsfiths the bums fall at 1,0004, sod the lot yea .1-cleis.l erdd. LORD PALMARSTON'S ADDJB4I. to . mokeouraelitie WO' sequoias& we haves:wino the re. minden of earneadyneeonamtndia. to yam, contbanod stop- TO THE 1111.11CTOR3 OF TIT IigTON. 'port, Lonl Jobs Hamoll, Baron Railssetsild, Mr Jams Dyke Gyritaxelv,—Her Majesty's minivan laving i sm, Icy/. cravat, Esq." assonaned that parliament le about to be dimadvel, I beg to solicit a ear insane@ of that en:diatom with whic4, daring aK rueertedve perliamento, you hove bees pl:rtral to honour me; and the voles of which has bass touch 'sham) , 1 by that pereosal kindness of shah I have had the hal:min.'s to re ceive from you so many and such pro , ifying proof*. When a Horse of Commons, of only two pan' mantling, Is to b 3 suddenly dissolved I. an tarty put of a meoion, and Wore all tha supplies of the par have been voted, the in vide, sisonrstly arima,—What Is the imp art int goeation on shiett bee Majwty's ministers sat the Home of Commons) ne dig: to 1 , on I upon which the ministers inoen 1 t ) appeal from th • dertrion t f that house ti that of the elation of the tralei Kind, ° Cbe Court. Hcr Majesty the Queen guise a javeoile ball yea terday (.be birthday of Prince Leopold), at Buckingham Palace. _ The juveniles honoured with invitations were between as ant 14 years old, sod spewed is fumy drams. The parents accemp toying the children were in evening deem. The c imprny began to arrive at half-past 8 o'clock ; the hall commencing at nine. The invititionr amounted to 234. The Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace atteradtd by Leidy Sus in Melville and Sir George Cooper. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Caw bridg , , elm arrived sho r tly before 9 o'clock. The mambas of the royal family, upon their arrival, wen conducted to the White Drawing-room where the Qum an 4 Prince Consort receive l their i ll oatiiona guests. Rs Majmity was accompanied by Prince Arthur, Prince Leo pold, the Prbic.mee Alice, Relent, end Lo • end elm by the Priem and Prince:. Augustus of Sam Co , Peiaos Plappe, Prince Augustus, the Primeseas Ciotti& and AaMla of Sae Coteurg, the Duke and Dubois of Aumale sad the Prince of Condi. The uvenile visitors and their ',lettuce were conducted to the - Picture Gallery, through which her Majesty and the royal circle primed about nine o'clock to the Banquetting Room, which was prepared for dancing, and in which was stationed her Majesty's private bind. ... The Prisons Bekaa and the Primes Lodes wore the connote of pelmets of the centnt of Bern.. Drees of gvw Lka rlk edged with *band of owlet velvet, the b;d7 trimmed with bunk velvet end steel ornaments; chenneette end sleeve. to whits cambric, black velvet round the throat with steel ornaments ; !lack lace mittens ; head dreg% hair dons In long plaits with red ribbons, a attaw hat trimmed with red roes. ............ Pinson Attar sod Peace leo_pild wore the costume of the I eons of Henry the Felltal of Sineand . white satin tank, i with • light blue velvet err, in points, trimmed on the right i side with gold braid; the lett with tiler braid; the tunic I trimmed to catespood ; flours de lin on the ride with slyer; one &hoe in blue satin trimmed with silver; the other white, ! with gold; white silk hose; blue velvet bonnet trimmed with silver and a gold triage. Prime Philippe of late Cobearg were the uniform of a &non Greasdier of the 18th antroy. i Prince Augustan of Ben Coboarg, the uniform of is: Austrian Breather of the l&h osatury. Prisons Clotelde of Saxe Coboarg wore the costume of in B peasant. ls= Amalie al Saxe Cobalt', the costume of a Can- Mare from the opera La Fah du Regiment. I The Prince of Condi wore the uniform of a Servant In the Cowie Infantry, 1746. r= coonsineed antandistaly at titer the entrance of the Queen the idasteloa. party. We have antheni to stag that, is addition to the Drew tag-seam auweoed for the lab inst., the Queen will hold enatter presentation Drawing-roam before the one to bo held he bower of Me Mejenty's blethdity. The raise date will be asarienoed LW. Has Ileifecty will hold a Privy Council on Tuesday, the 12th inst., at Buckingham-palace. The Duchess of Kent visited the Quietly eiterday at Buck.. inchantisalaor The Prince Coaaort, !attended by Captain Da Flo, nest yesterday maniacs to the New Palace at Westminster. The Prince and Princess Ananias of Sane Cobourg visited the Bakibidon of the Frank Halsey, to Pal-mall. His =Whams paid a visit to the Hake of Cambridge, at his la St. lama'si-palaon The Dachas of Cambridge and the Princess Mary visited the Prioress Augustus of &le Coboarg. The Princes Alba and the Priam and Feiner. Augustus of Saul Coboarg visited the Dachau of Kent on %Veda-day at Clarence-house, ft-. James's. Colmel Baker had ea beterview with the Earl of Derby yesterday. 84r Fiterey Katy had also as lat4rviee a i.h the safe sal et his omelet residence to Downino-etreet. Moot 140 members of the Bosse of Common* 11‘,1 a meeting yesterday ebb the Karl of Derby at his aleia residence in Dowsing-street. Despa•ches were received yesterday at do Colonial-dire fact the °oversaw of Heligoland. It is believed (says the Plymouth Journal) that W Royal Rithares Prism Albert will be tresest at the sprain of the Royal Albert Bridge, on the Comma Ra mey, ea Iffeaday, the led of May, and that, after the epee ist, tram for the public sill run between Plymouth and It. Germans. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding in Chief, held a laves yoAerday, at the Iltr.s Guards, which was very numerously 'wended. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warring ton hays arrived in WA-street, from 13radgate l'erk t Leber lanthire, for the ettesen. The Hon. Philip and Mrs. Pierepoint toot pol emics of their residence in Scaraorrplaca yesterday, fur 101111011. M. A. de Varnhagen, Minister Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of 'ha Brazils at Madrid, has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jormyn-street, en routc for Bb Janeiro. The Earl and Countess of EgUnto= leave Dublin MI **day text for London, whore 'hey purpose remelting Ike a few weeks. A rend full diem ball will take place is the St. Jaime. Hall, on Witless.ley next, is aid of the If‘apol.tan aim. The IsAiss patrosetest are—Ha Gest e the Dueller of Montrose, the Right Hon. Counter of Yarborough, Lady Kim Lady Maclaine. Lady Pantos, Mrs. foam of Pant ewe, Mts. Wilmer Gibson, Mrs. Bishop Culpeper, Mrs. Maus. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. Lut Tuesday was "eaudiag-la day" at the Royal ♦ademy, sad gowip makes already free with the exhibition. The subject, of Kr. Millais' two picture, are known. Mr. Frith'. potrait of Mr. Mahn Dickens la excellent. Mr. Aerostat, Bag ►as a picture this year, the subject al wide& is "Cromwell before the Battle of Naseby." Them& the loopel•up side of his tent the Poet us leader barren !meal fag, eagagsd In prayer, his face upturned, end his halide clasped In earneatnese. Before him an open bible rests upon his mad. ♦ strong lamplight prevails in the tent, con treating with the rays of • fall moon which light up the rat mundlng plan and show the other tents where He Crom wslPe in dark reqcf. Xe. O'Neill pressats • companion picture to his N Seethe d, Ho!" entitled "The Rehire." Of the new mat the illestreded Timm says The concerti n is array goad, the sentiment equally healthy and touching (Iseitheit i d too 'War). Here Is the old ship back at lest! beck, lying se Orsvemod, and down her side, Instead of tearful WORMS awl ehildrea, 011014tbe rettunei soldiers—some woondei, some triumphant, some anxious, some despairing. See how tenderly the crippled Ulcer, with his swathed and bandaged legs, with hie large yellow beard end moustecheand with the tees metals swinging from his emaciated chest, is be teg bonded iD , O the shore-boat by the sturdy sail v! Seethe young Ind h. If swinging bye rest e, who trSurophently holdsout his Victoria cross to his father, the old Chelsea pensioner, who dismissed him with his bl toeing ht the former picture, end wits sow wares him a salute with feeble joy I See this red-bearded Pont, bendieg forward with hurried eagerness, and looking ILO the girl's ere almost with ferocity to read whether she sill loves him, or whether aught has 'Apposed M home! An elderly men with grizzled hair and beard, round whose neck a young girl In deep 021111111itUr hasten enlaciog arm. has an epee r fn his hand from which be terns with puckered lips and watery eyes; it does not need much amen, to read that history. The mass's wife, the girl's mo her, has died during hie absence; this is her 1610181 hr, traced with ambling band, and this is his welcome home. Me grief I. probably rot more poignant than that of the poor ghl la the Maw-bonnet with the faded gr. es riband, in the left-heal comer of the pleturs, who is giving sarestrained way is her ecerow, end seems but little comfortA by the well-meant consolation of the mark sailor, who is patting ber shoulder, and bidding bee ' sheer cep r Those are a few episodes in this glorious picture—a Ocean which really ma best be described in the wards used by tap-room orators, se doing • equal credit to Kr. O'Nrilre heal and heart;' meet sweetly eoneeirel aid inset admira bly executed." lb. Eobmm, who two yeses ego painted ea admirable platers called Widths; for the Verdict," now sends in • oampanion, "The Acquittal." Theater:a Is the same—the outer-room is the smise-court. la the centre of a group of figures Is the sewirsoquitted ran. elating his wife to his heart with ens ens, while he deviates the other to his yousgest child, who is being held out for his caresses. Be lied hies Meade his old father, with shamming eyes, cleepies ties bead of the barrister who has brought his son eddy throttle the trial ; the elder boy is is the left-band cow bdeg dressed by the wife' s young sister; and the has; mead shows ea awe side two terrine re chewing—em the ether, poop of emery emle threatening a wham for the prasseefe. . . . . . . dir. Philip his only one picture, a quarrel botwass tea Spade lovers In a grove sear Seville. Mr. @flag Cooper has three Vetures, two of kris dr. Plta seihjasts are " A Sonny Mormon is Autumn." "Daisy Term In the Marshes," and "An Effitut at &wet." LATEST INTELLIGEN OE, THE ITALIAN QUESTION,-MEMORANDUM OF THE SARDINIAN GOVERNMENT. The Word of to-day and the Morning Post pub lish the memorandum presente d by the Sardinian . government to that of her Britannic Majesty, on the condition of Italy. It would appear that some time prior to the Ist of last March our own government requested the cabinet of Sardinia to state in express terms what were the par dealers of the general complaint against Austria it respect of Italy. Count Caveat, responding to the invitation, shows first that Austria abuses bar power within the territories which she i. acknowledged to hold legally by treaty i sad secondly, that she exercises an encroaching, =due, and dangerous domination in other States within which she has no legal right. Piedmont acknowledges the title of Austria to Venetian Lom bardy, but she asserts that the treaties which are the foundation of that title are bad, since they contain no provision for the good government of Ans i trio,. They hand over a great part of Northern Italy to a great German Power, I without security or stipulation. This unconditional possession of absolute power has resulted in an exaggerated form of bad government and "has led to a state of things which has no analogy in modern history." It is added : This spectacle would, however, becoose lees afflictinx, and the sate of the Lombardo-Venetians more tolerable, If Austria would show herself faithful to the promieee which she made to the Italians when, In 1814, she excited them to rise against French domination, and if, in oteformity with the proclamation of the commander-in-thief cif bar manes, deneral Bellagarde, sbe were to establish beyond the Alps, if not a; government, at least an administra tion entirely national, with a active army quartered In Italy and comtosaded by Italian ofecerr, and institutions on the raprotentative prineipl% This would be a palliative which would inspire a feeling of patience in the minds of people accustomed to suffer and Toulon, to a distanoe the dangers which now Do Justly excite the attention of public opinion in Europe - In passing to the second question, as to the effects of Austrian policy is Central Italy, Sardinia claims the right to point out the illegal acts of Austria, and will demand of Europe the fulfilment of Austria's broken pledgee, and the execution of the measures necessary to remedy the evils which have been the consequence of their violation. By that violation Piedmont finds herself everywhere surrounded by Austrian influence and Austrian armies. Not only does Austria command her whole eastern frontier, but her domination in the adjacent states of Parma and Modena give her other advantages inconsistent withthe safety of Sardinia, and make it necessary for her to maintain her army on a war footing at an expense that is fast ruining the nation. The duchies have become mere fiefs of Austria. The Emperor is frequently making conventions with them unfavourable to Piedmont. These states are so bound to Austri► that they can always mecum the usistance of her troops to maintain their govern ment, while in return they afford to the Austrian army several most important strategical positions. Nor is the occupation of the Papal states less an evil to Italy. The presence of foreign troops in them is the chief bar to those reforms which would establish the happiness of the people. In short, I every way, the intervention of Austria in all the concerns of Italy hu become of so permanent a character that Italian independence is altogether destroyed. With regard to the cure, the danger of a war or revolution would, in the opinion of the Sardinian government. be warded off, and the Italian question, at keg temporarily, solved by the following changes : By obtaining from Auttria—not In virtue of treaties, but In the name of the principles of humanity and of eternal justice—a national and separate government for Lombardy and Venetia. By requiring, in contyreally with the letter and spirit of the Treaty of Virus., that the domination of Mattis over the States of Central Italy eliould cease, and, conseonently, that the &teased forts constructed °Weide the walla of Pla centia should be destroyed ; that the Convention of the 24th of December, 1847, should be annulled ; that the occupation tithe Romagna should as e; end that the principle of non. intern aims should be procliireed and relented. By inviting the Cakes of Modena and Parma to give to their people innitutiets similar to those °sieving in Pied moot, and that the Grand Duke of Tuscany should re eatatAi•h the constitution to which he had freely cemented In 1848. By obtaining from the kl.ivereign Pontiff the adminis traUve stuaration of the provinces beyond the Appenines, in conformity with the proposittens communicated in 1866 to the cabinets of London end Park. Kay England obtain the realisation of these conditions! Italy, rolkvod and pacified, will bless h- r ; and Sardinia, who hu es often invoked her 00-operation and assistance in favour of her unfortunate fellow-countrymen, will vow lobar an imperishable gratitude. ~;. THE EIrREBB, FRIDAY , EVENING; APRIL 8, U 59.. THE CITY OP LOSDON ELECTION. The following is a copy of the requisition to Lord Stanley, which la in course of slgna' tor —" We, the ader elgtr.-d electors of the c:ty of Lemluo, beg, on the prseeet Important occasion, to express our e .ruset desire flat yes will permit yourself to be pat in itemisation es a malidate to reverent the city of Loafers in the Common Howse of Parliament at the approallaing electiem. We itel mound the, from your lorlebile'd stek and swims performance of white duty, you will not only coder a greet benefit on the comeneres of London, ba• wit also promote the several M utests of the community at lap ai roonec e I with our lad Indies p.siessions.—We bare the honour to subscribe auvelres," to. TM reqabition ti Mr. T. B.r:eg, M.P., le is roll .w.p. : We, the esdertigeed &ems of the city at Losdon, beg, es tie resat important *cession, to express mar r &meat darn that you will permit yourself to D 3 put In boraluetion r acemlidata ti repreust the city of Lraelon la the C HO MO& HOW* of Parliament, at the spproachim; elemioo. Pastry wend that you will receive a err powerful cop poet Irma the elect wr, we Dave the h 'n um to wareribe cur • eche.," ite. Th; committee of 1114 liberal electors of Loader have pat out en sickest, signed by Jim Ingram Travers (chairman), W. I. Hall (deputy chairman), Sidney Smith Omer ary), and 0. Ledger (arratent a tuatara), in which they my: "Sy what roarer of at,tion are the cattier of Leedom moat likely ti secure the enactment of a weern of partia -1 marry ref .rm that will be at once a-n, rooted on the limn of the conditolion, effectual In worry • full and fair re peereatatket of the people, and permanent in berg no radical sad thorough ea to cheats the necrinity fur furthee eh ageP Clearly by emeriti oar attention in the choice of members to the single plat of their fkoeas to "effort that one mgrs. The time for determining the other qualitationis of ardidates bas act yet arrived. Should the am parliament year • refrm art, than mast be again • diaaulatioa, t rat& glee aswly eafraschised elector to mercies tier inaction in the choice of retrievals- I trot. TM one question sow it, what candidates will mars an to early an efficient to' , rat set? We ere threatened with • costal. The anamieeof all :ern ere Seraldabla, vp end doing. The trimmer. who Toad pare a reactionary ouenteileit, r if it were mein* morels end eatriachimutte, are real, aids thc . r cehali.ffc terms. and their noxious aintrusaa. Our only &doylies to modern. promptlude, sad the carnal calm of wriermora The mamas who coral the ant Rates 1:611, sad who bas irmika'od the outlines of re frond masers, le a man date for your eettregeo. The policy foreahalowd by Lord Jobe Russell, sad wager erd by oar other merabera, confers en moonlit etpovrir on the people, which will place entirely le their own heads the serum of any further Improvement, of which the priciest wisdom of the nation Ditty deem the respective enemies ineentlble; tad ra e metal review of nye whole post . ion, sad diode eththethth with %e state of politic opinion, end et the tit:Minnie, wit► wh h we hay, :mile it one barium THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Moniteur of this day (we learn by one of Mr. Renter'. telegrams) contains the following: "The conference of the great powers assembled yes terday to discuss the questions arising out of the ex coition of the convention organising the union of Moldavia and Wallachia." AUSTRIA. The Ott Deutatie Post replies u follows to the statement made by the Dresden Journal that the five great powers are in accord on the preliminaries of the coogrooe : Notwithstanding the pains we bees taken to secartain whetter the preliminary conditious laid down by Austria had been accepted by the court of the Tuileries, we are not yet able t t enlighten our readers on the subject, as the reply how Paris has not yet arrived tetra. The two mediating power., who in the end place made ass of all their eloquence to (educe Austria to take part In a congress. most now cam ties their to to lead France to swept the preliminary eanditioes put forward by Austria. Austell: has sent a reply to the declaration of the Federal Council relative to the neutrality of Swit zerland, and expresses satisfaction at the intention of that country to maintain her rights, and uphold existing treaties. Austria, for her part, will respect most scrupulously neutrality as long as it is observed by Switzerland. It is stated in advice, from Milan, received by Mr. Reuter, that the following order of the day has been posted up in the barracks of that town : " Austrian soldiers! The Emperor calls you round his banners to beat down for the third time the pride of Piedmont, to expel from their dens those Mastics who destroy the tranquillity of Europe. Advance against the enemies, who have always fled before you. Remember the victories of 1848 and 1849. Remember Novara, when your foes were dispersed and annihilated. Let your watchword be: " Viva it Emperatore! Oar rights for ever." TUSCANY. Intelligence from Leghorn states that several of the young nobler, and particularly Count Casanova, nephew of Prince Orsini, left Florence two days before to enter the Piedmontese army as volunteers. A great crowd accompanied them with acclamations, and immediately after a proclamation was circulated, expressive of the good wishes and sympathy of the population towards these young men. 4; 41,111' EXPRESS FROM PARIS, Cram ous OWN PARIS, THURSDAY EVININO. All the news to-day is excessively warlike. It announced that the Budget Committee of the Corps Legialatif was to-day summoned to the Tuileries, where it had a long conference with the Emperor, in the presence of the Ministers of War and Marine. M. Laffitte, the director of the Sar dinian railways, had a long interview with the Emperor to-day, for the purpose, it is thought, of discussing arrangements for transporting French troops to Sardinia. There is a rumour that the National Gaud of Paris is likely to be increased from 30,000 to 150,000 men, in order that a portion of the garrison duty may be confided to this force, while the regular army is occupied in Italy. The Boone was much discolcerted by a rumour to which I alluded yesterday, that the Emperor is shortly going to visit the army of Lyons, which was reviewed by Marshal Castellano two days ago. It is said that a third battalion of the thirties de Paris is about to be formed. There is a report, which I by no means guarantee, that the English squadron at Malta has been ordered to the Adriatic. The Bourse, after opening with much weakness and scarcely any business doing, was seized with something like a panic in the afternoon. The Rente fell 300. both for cult and account, closing at 68fr. and 67fr. 930. Mebilier fell 18fr. 75c. The rail ways were all from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. lower, but busi ness was quite insignificant. The Paris Conference met to-day, pursuant to the announcement already made, at the Ministry far Foreign Affairs. It is announced that M. Felix Solar, the new pre prietor of the Press*, is a candidate for the vacant seat in the Gironde, where his rallying cry will be " peace." The government candidate is Bum David, who, though a staunch Napoleonist, got into disgrace by starting on his own account on the last occasion. From the fact of this election having been ordered to take place with such unusual huts after the death of the late member, M. Roquet, it is to be inferred that the Emperor desires to provoke a popular manifestation by universal suffrage through the ballot box. Some little time ago there was fl great discussion in Judge Cresswell'e court as to ~ e meaning of the word " condonation; " and, if I remember right! j, it wu decided, under particular circumstances, UAL a husband was not conclusively bound by some hasty expressions intimating forgiveness spoken in the presence of the wife's relations, who were supposed to have laid a sort of trap for him. But the Im perial Court of Paris, in a much litigated cue, has just gone infinitely farther than this, and bas sanc tioned what I cannot bat think the monstrous doc trine that • man may legally have his wife for al mistress. A rich farmer in the neighbourhood or Reims married, in 1849, a very beautiful girl be longing to a good family in the neighbourhood. A daughter was born of the marriage, and they lived together for eight yeses. At the end of that period differences arose ; the wife instituted • suit for a separation on the ground of cruelty, which was met by a cross suit charging the wife with adultery. The wife', complaint was dismissed, while the husband's was established, and a judicial I separation was duly pronounced accordingly. The wife, who had left the husband before the com mencement of the litigation between them, had sought an asylum with her relations, with whom she lived in a country-house not a quarter of an hour's walk from the conjugal domicile. Shortly after the judgment of separation, the husband and wife assumed the lower character of lover and con cubine He promised, she says, to take her back publicly at Martinmas, but when the time came he broke his word; an allegation, not mate rial to the law of the case, is that the husband's object in playing the Lothario to his wife was to prevent her from lodging an appeal against the decree of separation within the time allowed by law. Under these circumstances the Court of Reims, on the snit of the wife for a restitution of conjugal rights, de cided that the adultery was condoned by the re sumption of marital relations between the parties, and ordered the husband to receive her back to his home. An appeal against this decision was made to the Imperial Court of Paris, and, after a long argument, the judges declared themselves equally divided in opinion. The consequence of thisportage (u it is called) was that the case was set down foe re-hearing before the same court with three addi tional judges called in. M. Devienne, the First President of the Imperial Court, exercising an option belonging to him in virtue of a law of 1808, volunteered to preside at the re-hearing. The judgment, which was prononnoed on Tuesday last, draws a distinction between the "reconciliation" mentioned in one article of the code which may bar a prosecution for adultery and the " consent to take back the wife" which, according to another article, may abrogate a judicial separation pronounced by reason of adultery. The court held that in the latter case nothing less than an open and " public " resumption of conjugal relations will work a con donation, and it reversed the judgment of the Tribunal of Reims. This decision is the more extra ordinary because it is admitted on all hands that the facts proved would, as in all reason they ought, deprive the husband of the right given by the Code Napoleon to repudiate the issue of his wife born after the judicial separation. ITALY. SARDINIA. (1111011 001 01131 Col TURIN, APRIL 4. Three days have elapsed since Count Cavonr returned. It Is therefore time for me to relate all that I know, or have . good ground for believing, with respect to his vi to the Emperor of the French. And first, let me confirm what I said to you in my last letter, that the chief object of their meeting was to discuss by , word of mouth the pro positions to be made by France at the future Con gress. Of these you have, so to speak, a programme in the answer sent by Count Cavoar to Count Buol; in that part of it, I mean, where be details the chief wrongs of Piedmont and Italy at the hands of Austria. France and Russia, lam assured, will not hesitate to impart to the representatives of Austria their opinion how much more profitable for her it would be to abandon the Italian provinces and receive compensation, than to main tain them by open force with constant disturbance in Italy and danger to the peace of Europe. Austria will not only reject this advice, but down to this very moment thinks she can exclude the mere penal bility of the question being even mooted in a con gress in any shape whatever. Nay, it is one of the conditions she lays down, that it shall not be dis cussed, before she will give her consent to the con vocation of a Congress. For all that, one thing is certain, and this is that Francs and Russia will de mand the absolute cessation of Austria's right, the pretended right, she has set up, to interfere in those provinces of the Peninsula that were declared sove reign and independent by the treaty of Vienna. It seems your diplomacy will not refuse its vote to a proposition of this kind, and indeed were the case otherwise it would appear to be in too mani feet • contradiction with Ralf, seeing that Great Britain has uniformly upheld the doe- trine of non-intervention. When Lord Castlereagh presided over your foreign policy the doctrine in question prevailed in your cabinet, though the oppo site principle triumphed at Lubiana and Verona. Prussia's vote appears to be certain in the same sense, she being too glad to humiliate her rival without compromising the interests of Germany. But it is very doubtful, and still improbable, whether Vienna can make op her mind to accept a solution that for her most be a complete moral defeat. Her journals convey to the world what her intentions are, and the public feeling in Germany gives her courage. Count Cavour is loud in his praise of the noble and loyal sentiments spoken to him at Paris by the minister of Berlin, and has gathered the conviction from them that although Prussia recognises the tri gre4t sh w:onr prum pli a rretlited har t y It a ly reist by Aar the ex eitement produced so skilfully in Germany by Austrian diplomacy, and it cannot be denied that within the last thirty years public opinion in Ger many has acquired great strength. The result of all this is, that should the bases of a treaty to be con , eluded in a Congress be not sufficiently laid down before it meets, the chances are that it will not meet at all; and, on the other hand, should the powers be satisfied with preliminary arrangements sufficiently ample, though vague, the chances are again that the Congress will come to nothing. The only thing that would induce, and indeed compel, Austria to yield would be to see herself threatened with isolation by Prussia and England. Such a threat has not been made ye t , or, if it has , its sincerity has not been be lieved in. There is another subject of discussion about which four of the powers appear to be agreed, and that is the necessity of re forming the Pope's dominions. It appears likely that the Congress will adopt the practical conclusions proposed by Count Cum in the memorandum he presented to the Congress at Paris in 1856. Looking at the whole case in all its bearings, the fair inference is, that war is still far more probable than peace. It is nearly impossible for any Con pees to untie knots so numerous and puzzling. Napoleon 111. cannot recede, and although he accepts in rod faith the efforts to be made by a Congress, he is bound to expect from them some positive benefit to Italy. Now, any good procured for her by this means would be turned into evil, if Austria by her interventions shall be able to prevent the Italian princes from introducing and establishing reforms. Let us suppose that the Congress may succeed in an nulling the right of intervention by Austria— the usurped right of course. What would ensue P Why this aesuredly, that in a very short time Tuscany, the Duchies, and the Itomagnas, pertaps Naples also, will desire to have radical changes in their governments, that they will form a league to expel Austria, and acquire independence. This is ens grand wish of the entire Peninsula. Well, war is at the bottom of all this; turn which way we will, war can alone cut the knot. War will spring out of the Congress, it this latter cannot disentangle the threads. But what port of war will it be? Will it be a local one, and will Russia guarantee to Eng land and Prussia that France will make no conquests on this aide of the Alps ? This is certainly the wish of Napoleon 111. and the Italians. Bat there is a serious difficulty in the way that perhaps Europe is ' notfully aware of. When Austria got the Um:esti:tare at Vienna in 1816, it was decreedthat not only should Trieste be included in the territory of the Germanic Confederation, but the Italian Tyrol likewise, con sequently Trentino, Betimes°, Cadorino, and other countries. This once known, it is clear, sir, that Austria will be invincible in Lombardy if she cannot be attacked beyond the Piave. After the lose, even of ten battles, Austria would only have to retreat to the other side of that river, when, being gradually reinforced, she would in time be able to renew her assaults. And what hope is there of ever taking Verona, a fortress of the first rank, that can hold a large army, if it cannot be surrounded on all sides, and all communication with the Austrian provinces cut off, so as to arrest the constant influx of fresh troops? lf, then, in England and Prussia, after the failure of the Congress, there should remain the just desire of circumscribing the war to 'the utmost and of regulating the consequences, it should take mea sures to obviate the serious difficulty above-men tioned, and allow all Italy to be the field of conflict.. Be that as it may, Napoleon thinks, and rightly too, that if the congress fails in attaining the end pro posed, no blame will be imputed to him, and that all France will then willingly submit to the noose- Buy of a war. It has been repeatedly declared that Russia, although favourable on the whole to Na poleon and Piedmont, is very averse to hostilities in the field. I believe I con venture to assert that Count etyma was persuaded of the contrary when at Paris, and I could write down here names and aneedotee of a most significant nature, but you will un derstand the reason of my silence. Let me newspeak to you more particularly about Piedmont. The Sardi nian government, though knowing well the design of calling together a Congress, and the proposal that would be made by Russia, only learned through a telegraphic despatch the official act of that power, its immediate acceptance by France, mid the exclu sion of Piedmont. I have not concealed from you the sad surprise it created in the Sardinian cabinet and in the breast of an august pereonage. Remon strances and protests were being prepared when ' Count Cavour was invited to repair to Paris. There he was soon assured that, if Sardinia really wished it, France and Russia would insist on her admission, and that the adhesion of Er gland and Prussia was probable. But after long and mature consideration Sardinia resolved for the present on desisting from her demand. First, she does not wish to give Austria a pretext for withdrawing her assent to the convocation of a Congress, and similarly, she does not wish the Congress itself to be a failure, this being only too probable, when the whole blame would have been laid on poor Piedmont, too much accused already of ambition and warlike impatience. For these reasons Sardinia leaves to the Emperor of the French in all freedom the task of showing to Europe that his desire for peace and harmony is sincere and constant. In the second place, Sardinia , rejoices at finding herself uopledged to Anita in any way. The condition of Italy is now so extra , ordinary, the faith of all Italians in Piedmont and Victor Emanuel so full and perfect, that Sardinian diplomacy is constrained to be most jealous of it, and not to compromise it by any pledge opposed to the hopes and expectations we all entertain of national independence. For these grave reasons Piedmont and her Kiog will make for the weal of Italy this fresh sacrifice, by no means a slight one, affectimg as it does the national dignity and importance. The singular project of Austria to have a meeting at Rome of representatives from the Italian States has found a stumblierblock in the person of the Pontiff himself, who does not intecd submitting to the authority of any European Congress whatever, or being represented in any way at such an institution. Lord Redesdale will this evening move in the House of Lords a eerie; of revolutions, for omit wag over to the new parliament the private bills now pending Wore thee lordships. The Association for promoting the erection of drinking fountains to London, will hold a public meeting at Willies Rooms, on Tooday, the Earl of Celliste in the obeli. The Hun of Shaltestxuy, S. Gurney, Esq., M.P., Merles Melly, Esq., and other gentlemen, will to present. The first public dinner in aid of the &Althorn' Benevolent Association,will take place et the Albion Tavern, on Monday neat, the Lord Mayor In the chair. An exhibition of the Industrial Work of Re formstorks. Refuges, end Industrial Schools in Great Britain and Ireland, will be held et Willis's Booms, on Tweed ay and Wedneslay met. • In the budget of the Belgian Ministry of Marine, various sums me required for repairs to steamers; among them Is one of ISo,oootr. for repairing the Diemen., Ruble, end Torze, which are engaged in carrying on poets! com munications with England. The Opinions of Turin mentions a rumour to the effect that the If srquis Massimo oi' A weglio is to be appointed Sardinian embsetador to the court of floe Tuilerits, in the place of the Marquis Pee de Villamarita. Marshal Nurser arrived at Turin on the 4th, from Milan. The committee of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies &printed to examine the charges of peculation brought sgainat IL Basslisn Collantee, the es-minister, has Modal that he ought to be impescted.