The Express. — London, England, 1861-04-23 00:00:00

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Wu ‘r can bo the meaning or object of the extraordinary scene enacted by the Conservatives in the I louse of Commons last night 1 Were they I for six weary hours the sport of some malignant fiend, who compelled them, in spite of themselves, to parade all the party weakness and littleness, the puerile logic, bitter but impotent spleen, and balled animosity, which common prudence under ordinary circumstances would carefully conceal However this may be, the House has rarely wit nessed a party movement whose progress presented such a miserable anti-climax, and which led to such a lame and impotent conclusion. The 'elven' intimation of a Ceuservative contemporary that an amendment to the Budget would be moved by Mr. T. BARI se, drew • crowd of distin guished visitors to the House. Before five o'clock the benches and galleries were filled, and the House had the animated and expectant look which usually heralds a debate of unusual im portance. The strangers' gallery, the Speaker's gallery, the Members' gallery, and the Peers' gallery, were all filled. There was not • vacant seat below, and • crowd of Members stood to gether in the vacant space below the gangway. It was evident that • great party fight was ex pected. About five o'clock Mr. T. BARING roes, and proceeded amidst the silence of the House to a solemn criticism of Mr. GLeogrente'm proposals. Hie toue was from the outset that of one who not only felt bound to oppose the Budget, but who entertained a confident expectation of success. But the hon. gentleman displayed • considerable spirit of moderation in his anticipated triumph. His rejoiced to know that we live in days when a Budget might be withdrawn and remodelled, if the House in the exercise of its grave judgment rejected a portion of it, without necessarily implying a want of confidence in the Govern ment or involving • change of Ministry. Then was, moreover, the formal profession of an unwillingness to disturb the Govern ment which usually precedes • hostile motion. The body of the hon. gentleman's speech did not belie the promise of an adverse motion suggested by its opening sentences. He proceeded to inquire into the wisdom and policy of the Budget, stating that his object was "to show " that the scheme now proposed with regard to the " national finances was neither safe, wise, nor " politic." It is wholly needless to follow in de tail the familiar assumptions, speculations, and reasonings which the speaker adopted in support of this position. They contained nothing either very forcible or very direct, and brought out no point of special novelty or interest. His address was largely made up of those solemn misgivings, gloomy anticipations, vague notes of alarm, and dismal prophecies of coming evil, which constitute the usual staple of Opposition speeches on Mr. Gueieniee's Budgets. This sort of opposition is, however, fain becoming stale and wearisome, from the fact that the Conservatives never meet their prophetic bills when they become due. They always renew them for another year. Like some celebrated prophets of another order, they continually shift and move forward the date of the national ruin which the CHAScELLoa of the Exemsoum, in their view, is always on the eve of accomplishing. Mr. Beano endeavoured, as usual, to show that the deficit which was promised last year would certainly be realised next year. He attempted to discredit Mr. GLADSTONCH sur plus, on the ground that the right hon. gentleman had made too sanguine an estimate of the revenue for the coming year. But Mr. DODSON pointed out, by an analysis of its various items, that the estimate is extremely moderate ; so much so, that many of the most competent judges consider the probable revenue to be understated rather than at all exaggerated. Next, Mr. BAKING doubted whether the anticipated portion of the China indemnity would really be obtained during the year; but the only alleged ground of this doubt was • mistaken quo tation from Lord LAIN'S despatches, which, when rightly understood, is in fact the best guarantee that the money will be promptly and regularly paid. However, with or without any intelligible or adequate ground, Mr. Itsaise, in common with his party, professes to believe that the anticipated surplus will not be realised. But supposing there is a surplus, Mr. BASING protests strongly against its proposed application. His first recommenda tion is to keep it in hand. "He would much " rather see • pause in the remission 44 taxation, "or in the removal of any duty which was not " of a character to make up for that remission." But if the money must be used, he would prefer the reduction of the tax on tea to the renewal of the duty on paper. That, of course, is an intelligible opinion enough, but what followed was not quite so intelligible. Mr. Beano intimates that the reduction of the tax on tea would meet with his approval. It would be • wise and safe course. But the abolition of the paper duty, a loss to the revenue less in amount than the proposed reduc tion of the duty on tea, he regards as an unwise and dangerous measure— on what grounds it would be extremely difficult to say. Ho con cluded, however, by emphatically •tfirming that the proposals of the Government are neither wise, safe, nor even, he ventured to add, honest- It was most natural, therefore, to expect that Mr. 11‘iliNG would follow up this elaborate attack on the Budget by moving an amendment. Nothing of the sort, however, happened. No motion of any r THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 23, 1861. kind was made. The House rapidly emptied, and the aimless debate fell into the hands of the juvenile members of the Opposition, such as Lord ROBERT MONTAGU, who did ample justice to the straggling and unmeaning character it now as sumed. It was clear there was to be no light after all. There was, in fact, nothing before the House. Still, through some inexplicable mismanagement, though the leaden of the opposition were afraid to strike, the most incapable and insignificant of its members were allowed to display their will ingness to wound. Lord ROBERT MoNTAGu was permitted to gratify his childish passion for puerile and empty chatter, and Mr. I..co.FIELti to luxuriate in that rich vein of Milesian elo.luenee which, in accent and illus tration, unmistakably recalls the Groves of Blarney. Again, we ask, what was the meaning of this extraordinary demonstration ? As a party move ment it was below contempt. If the Conser vatives really entertain the opinions on the Budget expressed last night, they are bound in common decency and self-respect to oppose it. It was denounced by various speakers as rash and impolitic, as dangerous and revolutionary, as dis honest and immoral. But those who really believe all this are bound to oppose the scheme at all hazards in the most direct and decisive manner possible. The Opposition, however, shrank from this simple test of their sincerity. As a mere expression of adverse feeling and opinion, the debate was weak and damaging. It was, in fact, little better than an impotent demon stration of antipathy to the CHANCELLOR of the EXcHZQUaIt and his proposals, unsupported by reasoning on the one hand, or action on the other. And no kind of demonstration could be more injurious and humiliating, none more certainly defeats itself. While it exhibits his opponents in the worst possible light, this perverse and undignified opposition will only enhance Mr. 41 r. trisrosz's triumph. This miserable oppo sition affords the right hon. gentleman a noble opportunity of vindicating his scheme, which he is sure not to lose. Irbe Court. A deputation of manufacturers from Watford on the sallied of the owl duties had an interriew with Hr G. Commall Lewis yesterday at the Hoene-office. The depu tation consisted of Mews. T. IL *!hate, I Tideombe, and J. aad J. G. South. Visastet Bury, M.P., and Mr. Hundss, M.P., transacted business with the Right Hoe. T. Milner Gibson, at the °face of the Hoard et Trade yesterday, on the lathiest of Kirkwall Harbour Extension. Lord Bury had as iateryit7W with the Right Hoo. T. Ildoer Gibees, with regard to the Harbour of Refuge at Wiek. A deputation of licensed vietwillers had an interview yes terday with the Chancellor of the &chequer at his otiloial ruddeace in Downing street. A deputation from Birmingham, in reference to the pro. posed bischar,;ed Prinmers Aid Bill, bed an interview with tie Right Hoa. Mir Cornewall Lewis yesterday at the Honne-offl ee. Her lfajesty's Commi.sioners for tho International Exhi. bilious of lini2 held a meeting .t their offices in the Strand yesterday. The Building Committee held a meeting at South K en . slegtoo Yesterday. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Woods. Despatches were seat to the Governors of Canada Dad Newfoundland. We ue requested to state that the Countess de • party,whieh was to hare taken place at Coventry Been en the 25th last., is unavoidably postponed on sc um* eke, ladyship's continued iadispaition. The Dule and Duchess of Manchester are ex pelled in town in a few days trues Knobolton Castle, ifistingdonshire, for the season. The Earl au! Cuuntcaa of Donoughmore hive arrived at their maiden*, in South Audlepetreet from Ireland for the term Lord and Lady Woreley have arrived at their rosiiisse is Portiors-oqou• for the moos. Lord James sad lady Rachel Butler have ar rived at their residence in Ecclaeton•gaare from Dram. combs Dint* Ireland. Lady Call's first dance will take place on Friday, May 10. _ _ The Hon. C. 8. Vomiter bee arrived in town tom Myths. Sir deorge Broke Middleton an:l Lady Middleton ban arrived at Southern, on their way to Paris We (Tines) are requested to contradict, on autho rity, the rumour which has been circulated to the effect that the Bishop at &whin has seceded to the church of Reran At a meeting held on Saturday hat the Bishop of Oxford announced that the Right Rev. Dr. James Chap ama, Bishop of Colombo, had resigned that see, and would return to England as soon as his successor is nominated. The bishopric consists of the island of Ceylon, comprising 24,44 A square miles, and a population of 1,730,000. There ars about 50 clergymen of the church of England in the Weed. The eft is worth 2,0001. a year, payable from the Wound Bishopric Fund. The publications of the Arundel Society for the current year consist of • chromo-lithograpb, from a water-colour drawing by Signor Mariannecci, after the fresco by Domenico Gbirlaudajo in the Church of Stma. Triniti, at Florence ; also a " Memoir of Ohitiandajo," by Mr. Lisped ; a chromolithograph of Use head' of • bishop and a prime from the above-named fresco; two wood en gravings of the " Ascension" sod the "Dement of the Holy Spirit," concluding the aeries from the &moms by Giotto la the Arena Chapel, Padua ; also the third sad concluding part of the " Notice of Giotto and his Works in Padua," explanatory of the wood eogravings published from the seventh to the twelfth year (1655-1860) inclusive, by Mr. J. Ituakie. A Dublin letter of Montlay says :—" It is now He 22nd of the month, and we hare not been favoured with a mingle April shower' yet. The ground is baked, and the roads are covered with duet." Mr. Hume intends, iu the event of Mr. Henry Berkeley's motion for leave to bring in a bill to authorise vetiog by ballot at elections of members to serve in par liament being carrial s to move "That the provisions of tie bill be estoodeil to the taking of votes in this house." It is said in official circles that a new Belgian treaty et commerce with France was signed yesterday at Paris. By the mail of yesterday evening a letter was forwarded by the Lord Mayor to the British Ambeswidor at Paris, appealing through his Excellency to the British community at Paris and in other parts of France on behalf of our suffering fellow subjects in India. Similar applies. tams will be made tithe British communities at other places cm the Coatitiest, and at Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria. In a letter from Naples of the 18th we read : " Father Cavan's Sunday evening meetings, • sort of sembreligious, sami.pohtieal reunions, at which man at the English attend, besides a numerous Italian audience, have attracted the notice of the police, who, if I am correctly in. !avowal, have warned the rev. gentleman that, however much the law may permit of religious polemics, it does not choose to liana, or rather Signor Silvio Spavents dais not choose, any politiad controversy to be mingled up with the preaching. To defies the niceties of the law in its datinctioas between public discussion of political subjects and private ainveration. upon such subjects is sot very eaay. Mazy persons in Napes, it would appear, are living under the delusion that, so long as they do not diamagnete treason, they may discuss polities both publicly and privately in any =nom they please. It appears, how ever, they are mistaken, and the sensitiverien of the police most not be hurt, Certain it is that Father Gavazzi's goariteligious meetings would, if put a stop to, be a great lots to those who object to spend their Sunday evenings at tie theatres. AtOtllliN: they are with the eloquent preacher's litpeed of the fallacies of the Romish church at one mo tae followed afterwards bya cloak of polities at :woodier." LORD MACA MAY. —The admirers of Lord Mac aider will be ratified to learn that the original autograph of ths whole ci the fifth and hat volume of his History a wised boa been &write: in the manuscript department of the Bikini' itomaim awl • portion of it placed to a glass atm he pubis impessioa. —Notes cad games. LATEST INTELLIGEN C E. THE PAPAL QUESTION. The ItuUpeodonce Beige of yesterday evening states positively that the negotiations between the courts of Paris and Turin for opening the gates of Rome to the Italians are approaching a favourable conclusion. Count Vimercati proceeded lately to Turin, bearing the conditions upon which the Emperor Napoleon is disposed to recall his troops. The Emperor will consent to the substitution of Italian troops for the French, provided the title of occupation rests absolutely the same. King Victor Emmanuel must pledge himself conse quently to respect the present territory and the sovereignty of the Pope, to defend them against every attack, and not to change the title of the oc cupation but with the Holy Father's con sent. These conditions, it is said, have been agreed to at Turin ; but nothing is said as to their acceptance at Rome. With the Italian troops in the capital, the abdication by the Pope of his temporal power is regarded as easier of attain ment. Nevertheless, there are formidable difficul ties in the way. "If it be true," observes the indipewlance, "that certain cardinals understand the necessities of the situation sufficiently to be dispoaed to seek the safety of the spiritual papacy in the sacrifice of a temporal sovereignty which it is impossible to preserve, it must not on the other hand be forgotten that the ma jority of the Pope's councillors are resolved to com promise all rather than consent to this necessary renunciation. A proof of this may be seen in the act by which the Pope has already appointed his provisional successor (Cardinal Wiseman) iu cer tain definite eventualities—an act which was men tioned in our Paris letter yesterday, and the exis tence of which is positively confirmed to-day." The indtpendance has on this latter subject a communication from Paris, in which we read : " One of my colleagues has given you some account of a decision of the Holy Father, approved of by twenty-one cardinals, constituting Cardinal Wiseman, the primate of England, the representa tive of the papacy in the case of the death, or the forced or voluntary abdication of the present sovereign pontiff: My own information entirely agrees with this, and I am enabled to give you further details. It is not Cardinal Antonelli who would be entrusted, as might have been thought, with the details relative to this decision, but Cardinal Alfieri, who, in the event of the Pope's death, would convoke the conclave. The number of supporters of this arrangement was much more than twenty-one, and amongst the hesitating and dissentient there were not more than five or six cardinals." superior officers, the majority of whorl) were in favour of accepting the policy of Count Cavour. "The friends of Garibaldi hope that he also Will now adhere to that policy." that she is a " moral prisoner" of the Jasuits, who have shaved her head preparatory to her becoming a nun professed, and he speaks of two Jesuit priests who abused the Bluth family and the French judges. I must say, however, upon M. Bluth's own showing, that whatever may have been the misdeeds of the Jesuits at the first, his sister does not now seem to be under any sort of con straint or mental incapacity. She is of full age, is living in free England, and deliberately tells her brother that she will not go back to her family. It may be a said case, but Ido not see how it can be treated as a public grievance. If the prosecution of the Duke d'Aumale's pamphlet should be proceeded with, of which there is some doubt, it is said that M. Jules Favre will defend the publisher, M. Dumineray. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A letter from Venice, of April 17, in the Sodinella Breseiaisa, mays :—" Yesterday the Duke of Modena arrived at Verona with 1,500 Modenese soldiers. This morning General Benedek passed a grand review at Porta Nuova. Four new forts are traced out in the neighbourhood of Verona, and workmen are already breaking up the ground for their formation." HUNGARY. The Independente of Naples, of April 18, says : —"Three hundred Hungarians have amved at Galats to join the Hungarian legion. A chemist of Constantinople, a native of Hungary, paid the expenses of their journey, amounting to 43,000 fr., out of his own pocket. When a private indi vidual makes such sacrifices, what may be ex pected from a whole nation r FRANCE AND POLAND. (11.111Tri a tn,mtars.l PARIS. TOVIDAT. The Moniteur of to-day contains the following article :—" The late events at Warsaw have been unanimously commented upon by the French press with the traditional sympathy which the cause of Poland has always excited in the west of Europe. But these expressions of interest would ill serve the Polish cause if they had the effect of misleading public opinion, by allowing it to be supposed that the Emperor of the French encourages hopes which he could not satisfy. The generous ideas displayed by the Emperor Alexander since his ascending the throne, especially in the great measure of the emancipation of the peasants, are a certain token of his desire to likewise realise the amelio rations admitted by the state of things in Poland. It is only to be wished that he may not be pre vented from so doing by manifestations of such a nature as to place the dignity of the political interests of the Russian Empire in antagonism with the tendencies of its sovereign." The Moniteur also says :—" The Emperor will bold a review of a division of the cavalry reserve at Longchampe on Thursday next." LEITER FROM GENERAL CIALDINI TO GARIBALDI. TURIN, TUESDAY. The Turin Gazette of to-day publishes a letter from General Cialdini to Garibaldi, recalling the friendship and admiration he had always possessed for him, but declaring that his last acts painfully Affected him. General Cialdini continues thus : " All my affection for you has disappeared, and I have become your political adversary. We are not disposed to bear your tyranny. You are re proached with having given orders to Col. Tripoli to receive us with musket shots in the Abruzzi. I have heard your words, and those of General Sir tori, in the Italian parliament, and following them up to their conclusion, I arrive at the secret idea of your party, which aims at rendering itself master of the army and the country, threatening us, if unsuccessful, with civil war. I do not know what the country thinks of this, but I can assure you that the army fears not your threats. It is only afraid of your government. You have reason to boast of your great and marvellous enterprise, but you ' exaggerate its results. When we arrived you were at the Volturno, in • very bad condition. The fall of Capita, Gaeta, Messina, and Civitella del Tronto, was not brought about by your operations. Fifty-six thousand Bourbon soldiers were beaten and dispersed by us. It is therefore incorrect to say that you have delivered the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Our army and fleet took some part in the work of destroying more than half the Neapolitan army, and also took four fortresses. believe I know the army sufficiently well to be sere that it shares the feelings of disgust and grief which the intemperance displayed by you and your party have raised in my mind." The Chamber of Deputies, in its sitting of yes terday, agreed by a largo majority to take into consideration the project of Garibaldi in reference to the arming of the country. The ministry voted in favour of the resolution. Garibaldi was not present in the &amber. It is asserted that he left Turin yesterday evening. TURIN, Aram 251. The Lombardo says :—" Yesterday Garibaldi held a conference with his former lieutenants and SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th are chiefly occu pied with details of and comments ou the procla mation by the Dominicans of annexation to Spain. It appears that a General Santana is at the head of the movement, and that he has issued a series of decrees and proclamations "in the name of her Majesty Queen Dona Isabella II." It further ap pears that the Captain-General of Cuba, though he had entered into communication with the annexe tiouists, had expressly reserved to the home go vernment the power of sanctioning or repudiating their act. MADRID, Aram 23. The Empress of Austria is shortly expected at Cadiz, on her return from Madeira. In yesterday's sitting of the Cortes, the Ministry, in replying to an interpellation, said :—" We have not permitted the publication of the pamphlet of the Duke d'Aumsle in Spain, as we dehire to remain on good terms with a friendly country." The Duke of Montpensier has renounced his intended voyage to England. MONTENEGRO. VIENNA, Ann 22. The consuls of the different European powers re, sident at Mostar have, in pursuance of instructions from Constantinople, summoned the Montenegrins and insurgents to raise the siege of Niksiki. This town, which contains a population of 4,000, is reduced to the last extremity, and fears are en tertained that cruelties may be exercised upon the inhabitants. JAPAN. We understand that letters have been received in London, stating that the Government at Yeddo have given to the Foreign Consuls the requisite assurances of safety, and that they will forthwith return to the capital. THE BOMBAY MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, TUZsDAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pera, Captain Jamieson, with the heavy portion of the Bombay mail, has arrived. She brings 144 passengers, and 3001. in specie. On the 19th inst. she spoke the steamer Olympus. The Ellora left Gibraltar for Alexandria on the 16th inst. At Gibraltar., exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted 50k. Paris, Marseilles, and Genoa, 5.31. Freight to outports in the United Kingdom, Mexico, and Havannah, unaltered. PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, Tursear. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, with the Peninsular mails, from Lisbon on the 17th inst., arrived off the Needles at 9.20 a.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom OUR OWN PARL% MONDAY EVEIGNO. The Moniker, in its "bulletin"—which, though not official and for the most part made up of scraps of intelligence derived from ordinary sources, now and then contains original information--states that the Sardinian troops have lately occupied the town of Melfi in the Basilicata, where "a certain num ber of the soldiers of Francis 11. had congre gated." This is news ; for it was not, I believe, generally known that Francis 11. had any soldiers. There has been for some time a talk of a Bourbon rising to take place on the 24th—that is, the day after to-morrow. The projected movement is said to be patronised by tho courts of Rome and Vienna, and the object of it is to create a diversion in the south of Italy ; and, by drawing off the Italian troops in that direction, to leave Benedek plenty of elbow room on the Po, the Mincio, or the Adige. Perhaps the Duke of Modena's appearance in arms at Verona may have some connexion with this notable scheme. The Debate calls attention to a letter from a cor respondent in the corn trade, criticising the pro- visions " otherwise excellent" of the bill for the abolition of the eliding scale, which, with a view to protect the French mercantile marine, proposes dif ferential duties between grain imported in French and foreign bottoms. The difference is immense 50c. per 100 kilogrammes in the one case and lfr. 50c. in the other. This correspondent observes that the notorious insufficiency of French shipping is especially felt in regard to vessels capable of making long voyages. It is only in times of extra ordinary scarcity that France would import grain,' and where, he asks, are the French ships which could fetch any considerable quantities from the Baltic, the Black Sea, and America 1 He therefore condemns the law as one that must necessarily be suspended whenever France stands in need of corn. Another clausein the bill,which makes a difference in the duty according to the port in which the grain may be shipped, is also censured. There is to be • higher duty upon corn shipped at " entrepots" than if shipped directly from the country of production. The consequence of this rule will be that the small French vessels which cannot go to America or the Baltic, but which might very well run over to England or Belgium to get a cargo of corn, will, in given cir cumstances, be deprived of the only work they could do. The Debate apprehends that the owners of this kind of craft will not thank the government for its "protection." The evening papers are instructed to contradict • report that K de Lavalette, the French Ambas sador at Constantinople, is about to be superseded by M. Pichon, now minister of France in Persia. The Bourse continues to rise. Although the upward movement is unaccounted for by any politi cal news, and speculators are very doubtful whether it can be kept up till the settlement day, more business was done than we have seen for a very long while. The Bente rose 25c. for cash and 20c. for account, closing at 68fr. 55c. and 68fr. 500. Mobilier rose sfr. Bank of France shares fell 10fr. Railway shares were only a very little higher. At Auxerre a priest named AbbsS Boucays has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for writing au anonymous letter falsely and calum niously accusing a citizen of the town of being a receiver of stolen goods. The proof against him 'wee otsuiplete, and although he denied his guilt before the judge of instruction he was constrained to admit it in open court. At Sainte. an arrest warrant has been issued against the under-master of the Boole des Freres, one Adolphe Charbonneau, called in religion Brother Cesarius, who is accused of practices for which several of his brethren are now in prison. The president of the Israelite Alliance communi cates to the Opinion Nationale • long account, written by 11d. Ad. Bluth, of a fruitless journey to Loudon, undertaken in the hope of bringing back his sister Sophie Therese to her family. He found her at the house of a Mr. Scoles, No. 8, Oakley square, London, and bad three or four inter views with her. He complains in bitter terms ITALY. (raox out own coaszsrosnzirr.) TURIN, APRIL 18. General Bixio has returned from Paris, and has visited both Count Cavour and Garibaldi. Gari baldi should listen to the advice of Bixio and Medici, whose tried valour and fidelity be knows so well, rather than to that of some other friends of his who enjoy a higher reputation as intriguers than as warriors, and are suspected of desiring re volution in the hope of something turning up for themselves. If he had only listened to these generals and to another as distinguished and sagacious—l mean Cosenz—he would have had no need to say and to unsay, and to set up ministries once a week in Sicily and Naples, and we should not have suf fered the lamentable schism which has shown itself just now. However, the Mazzini faction has seen fit to do its utmost to discredit his beet generals ; and only a few days ago the Unita Italia,w , Mazzini's especial organ, denounced them to Garibaldi as sold and traitors! This party is playing—it cannot be too often repeated—the game of those it declares its enemies. It professes to be hostile to Napoleonic influence in Italy, but by endeavouring to lessen by every mewls in its power the strength of the regular army and the moral influence of the government, it places one more obstacle in the way of Italy, and pro tante renders French support necessary to her. It is a question of existence with us. Victor Em manuel and Count Cavour would be only too happy to do without French aid, but these men, and those who play the same game, are acting, intentionally or ignorantly, in the very way to make that aid indispensable. Count Ottaviano Vimercati, who returned the other day from Paris, has just left again for that city with despatches for the French government. At a little before two o'clock this afternoon Geri- Ibaldi came to the Chamber. The crowd that bad assembled outside the building gave him an ova- Ition. He was accompanied by two deputies of the left, both men of extreme opinions. He looked a picturesque figureenough in his red tunic with& grey cloak worn loosely over it. He took the oaths, and then set himself to listen most attentively to the speeches. Baron Ricasoli put some sensible and conciliatory interpellations to the Minister of War, which the latter answered at great length. Then Garibaldi spoke, but one of his unfortunate and in considerate remarks, accusing the ministryof having opposed the volunteers and driven the country into civil war, raised an indescribable tumult and tre mendous cries of " Order !" Count Cavour rose and said—" I protest loudly against this accusation." The ministers and deputies rose from their seats, and the president put on his hat. When the debate was resumed, the president, who was reproached for not having prevented the speaker's wandering from his subject into such unendurable imputations, reproved General Garibaldi for the expressions he had used, whereupon Garibaldi expressed his re gret for having used them. General Bixio spoke next, making a touching appeal in behalf of concord : he begged Garibaldi and Cavour to forget what had passed, seeing that they had both served their country immensely, and that love for their country demanded that there should be agreement between them. Im mense applause followed these words. Count Cavour proved by facts that he had been the first to sum mon Garibaldi and entrust the volunteers to him. He even went so far as to use language one would scarcely have expected from him in his eager desire for conciliation. Garibaldi was evidently moved, but he had bad counsellors near him. For all that, though, he thanked Count Cavour for what he did for him in 1858, but he in fused a tone of reproach even into his thanks, although his manner was respectful and courteous. Count Cavour set forth the facts in a style so clear, and the facts themselves were so indisputable, that Garibaldi himself could not help seeing his mistake. Even one of the most rabid members of the left, Signor Crispi, felt it necessary to express his approval of west General Bixio had said, and thus the sitting ended, quietly, if not amicably, leaving some hopes of ultimate recon ciliation, unless Garibaldi's mischievous advisers succeed once more in warping his simple and noble mind to their own perverse purposes. We have never had so striking and dramatic a sitting in our Chamber. We shall not soon forget it ; and should the loog-desired concord between the chief actors ensue from it, we shall have cause to bless as well as to remember it. THE ITALIAN P, A Turin correspondent of the Prase, who ap pears to be a member of the Italian parliament, gives some particulars respecting the most remark able members of that body : Only one deputy appears in the chamber with a nightcap es, and he is my excellent friend M. Hemline. M. Crispi has the most thundering voice in the chamber ; when he rises to speak, anyone would think he was going to draw • brace of revolvers from his pocket. I have heard M. Mingbetti, the minister, tell him that he (the Minister) was really afraid of him. M. Mirabelli, • judge in the disguise of an advocate, is all smiles as he leans forward to speak. His very nose blushes with satisfaction. He never speaks except to approve of what the ministers have said or done. The most imperturbable spa ch-reader is my neighbour, M. Turati. The president remarks that what M. Tur•ti de mands has been already decided, but M. Turati quietly con tinues ; he is assailed by questions and exclamations, but nevertheless he reads on ; a glass of sugar and water is set before him, but M. Tonal declines to drink, and still holds en his course. M. Turati would read even if the place was on fire, and if his only audience was the benches, the inkstands, and M. Poerio. Of all the honourable members of the right, M. Proto is the one who listens with meet apparent rapture to the speeches of Count Cavour. Count Cavour is the most logical orator in the parliament ; M. Boucompagni is the most inter minable ; M. Ferrari, the most paradoxical ; M. crOndes Regio, the moat doctrinaire ; M. Brofferw, the most lively; M. Massari, the most courteous, the most verbose, and often the most unmeaning ; M. Chieves, the least lawyerlike of lawyers ; M. de Bleeds, the most tedious ; M. Mingbetti, the most elegant in the Italian style ; the most inaccurate, most aggressive, and fullest of facts, is H. Means., my neighbour. The Emperor Napoleon hex just completed his 53rd year, having been born on the 20th April, 1808. _ _ _ . . A Malaga journal announces that the police has just "discovered in that town an association of protestants formed for the promulgation of their faith, and that nine persons connected with it had been arrested." _ _ _ _ It is stated in some of the German journals that the late King of Prussia has left the manuscript of an im portant work entitled "History of the Evangelical Church sad of its Developments," and that Professor Richter is charged to publish it. A letter from St. Petersburg states that the Emperor is about to proceed to lifoseow, accompanied by the Empress and the Hereditiu7 Grand Duke. This journey will enable the Czar to fudge from personal observation of the good impression produced in the country by the abolition of serfdom. NNW SOUTH Watia.—The quantity of gold delivered by the escorts from the gold fields of this colony during the month of January boa been 36,949 ounces. For the corresponding month of 1860 the receipts amounted to 20,639 ounces. There is therefore an increase of 16,390 ounces, or nearly 80 per cent. on the mouth.—Aegratian Oa:ettc. THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ISLINGTOH. A short, thin young man, named Frederick Strugnell, about 18 years of age, was brought up yesterday at the Clerkenwell Police-court, charged with being con cerned, with others not in custody, in stealing au nos cheat containing M., belonging to Mr. George Higgi ns , butcher, of 47, Chapel-street, Islington, and also with murderously assaulting a woman named Mary Ana Itedki. SOIL Mr. George Higgins was the first witness examined. lie said—l am a butcher, carrying on business at 47, Chapel. street, lalington. I have known the prisoner fur about three years. He was in my service about two years and a half s ince, and worked for me about a month at Christmas. 1 saw hi m last about five weeks lime, when he came and asked me to give him a character to get another ~ituat wo, which I consented to do. Last night about 10 o'clock I returned home, and found an immense 'hub in front of my house. I went inside and found tbat'inv vent, Mary Ann Redkisoo, bad been wounded on the bead, nose, arms, and hands. She was immediately taken to the hospitaL On the bed at the hospital she stated to me that the prisoner had been in the house, and had injured her. I gave information to the polkie, and they took the prisoner into custody. I have mired a cheat, with a cask-box, coo. Lining 1061, besides a number of nogg and other articles of some value, as well as a bank book. All the things stolen were kept in the first-floor front. From what I have heard I believe that the prisoner is concerned with others in committing the felony, and wounding the woman. I bars not seen the prisoner since I gave him the character, but he was seen at my house three weeks ago. The prisoner said he did not wish to ask the witness any questions, but he should like to make a statement to e x cul. pate himself from this charge. Mr. Barker cautioned the prisoner that what he did say would be taken down in writing, and might be used against him at his trial. The prisoner, who treated the matter with the greatest indifference, said—l shall make a statement. About three weeks ago I met this young woman, and she amked me to come and see her some Sunday. Well, I went last evening to see her, and stayed there some time talking to her in the back kitchen. I then went and fetched a drop of gin. We stayed talking in the back kitchen after this for about half an hour, when she said she beard some one talking in the street , and thought the street door must be open. We went to see, and the door was wide open. She said some one was in the house. We went upstairs to see, sad we could plainly see that some one had been there. We then came down stain, and she said she was going for a policeman. Before we got to the bottom of the stairs some one came running down, and that person was a man. That man struck her, and I ran out of the house frightcued. That is all I have to say. the Mr. Higgins—Perhaps you will say how you got o u t o f house The Prisoner—From the front door. As I was frightened I do nut know what it was that the girl was struck with. I ran home and got my clean clothes, and went back to my place, where I remained until I was apprehended this morning. Police-constable Tornkins, 315 N, said—l received infor. mation of this robbery and outrage, and I went to the mi. loners master's in Buinghalletreet. I told the prisoner the charge, and cautioned him. I said I have come about the robbery at Mr. Higgins's, in Chapel-street, and I asked him if he had been there, and he said, " No, I have not been there." I asked him if he was positive, and he said, " Yes, I have not bees there." I then asked to look at the things be had on, but I found no marks of blood on them. I then took him to the police-station, and going along he said he wan never near the place. He knew nothing about it, for he was at the time with his mother, and bad been so since he left his master's in Basinghall-street until a quarter past nine, when he returned back to his place. On being put into the cell he said, " I did not remain at home, forl took a walk for an hour or so round Highbnry." I said, " Well, remember, you have contradicted yourself. Are you positive " and he said " No." After some further evidence, Mr. Barker, the magistrate, Mr. Mould, the chief clerk, and Mr. Baylis, the chief usher, and the prisoner, proceeded to the Royal Free Hospital. The unfortunate woman gave her evidence with great clearness and precision. The only portion of her face visible was her mouth, the other portion being enveloped in cur bandages. Having been sworn, she stated as follows-- My name is Mary Ann Redkison. lam wounded, but Ido lot know what it was done with. I only saw the knife that Fred kad in his hand. Mr. Mould—Who do you mean by Fred? Witness—l mean that young lad who used to live with oz. He lived with us just before Christmas. He came to see me last night, a little before 8, but I am not quite cer tain. He came to me and said, " Might I come in?" I said, "Yee, there is no one at home, but I expect mis tress's mother home immediately from church." He said, "We will some into the kitchen and sit down for a minute or so." When we bad been there a short time he said ho was thirsty, and be would fetch something, and I got up for the purpose of getting him the beer jug. He said be did not want any beer—be wanted some gin, and I then gave him the pint jug. So he went out to get it, and I shut the door after him. I came up to the door just as he turned the corner of the street. I let hint in, shut the door,and put the chopper against it, as I always do. We went into the kitchen, and be mixed the gin with some water. A little while after that he said be would go into the parlour and see the time. I did not think anything of it, for 1 had no suspicion. I forget what time he said it was. He brought down some of (knell's Bibles, and when he had been there a moment or so 1 heard some boys calling out, and I said, " The street door is open ; some one must have opened it and got in." I took the candle and went upstairs to my master's bedroom. He took the knife front the shop and came up after me. When I got upstairs I fan cied I saw master's chest was open, and the place turned topsy.turvy. I said, "I will run down and fetch the po lice," and he cut after me ; and when I was going to the door Fred got before me, but he shut it and lie cut at me with a knife. I said, "Oh, Fred, it is Mary ;do not hurt me." Ido not know any more. lam almost sure I fell. I had not got my senses after that until I was put in a cab and taken to some hospital, but I do not know which. When I went to the door to answer the knock, Fred was standing on the opposite side of the street. He creased over, and I stared and said, "Lon, Fred, who would have thought of seeing you." He told me he had knocked at the door the other Sunday night but could not see me. I told hun I was out that night. I had not asked him to call. Mr. Barker—Did you see any man at the house last night but Fred Witneet—No, Done but Fred. Mr. Barker—Did any strange man run down stairs after you? .... W3teer—No. The witness here said she was in pain, thought she should die, and expressed a wish to see her master who was stand ing by her bedside. Mr. Barker (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to ask the witness any questions . The prisoner, with the greatest ca ll ousness, said, " No," but added, "She asked me to call and see her about Ulm weeks ago." The further hearing of the case took place at the police court, when the prisoner was remanded to Tuesday uest. LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.) The unfortunate female, Mary Ann Reukison, was kit night and this morning reported to be dead ; but it was ascertained at the Royal Free Hospital that. although still in a very dangerous state, she had passed a quiet night, and was if anything a trifle better. The shop in Chapel•street at which the nssault was com mitted was last eight besieged by thousands of persuus, and this morning the street was nearly impassable. The police have not yet got any clue to the person or persons who took the cashbox, but there can be no Ulla. from the marks on the walls, that the thieves made their escape from the back of the house. DREADFUL CASE OF BURNING. On Friday night Mrs. Seaton, wife of Sergeant Seaton, of the old Regiment, was fearfully burnt by a fire which occurred in a room where she lodged near Wood-street, Bromptosi Kent. When the flames bad been got under, the woman was taken out by a cabman. She was lying under a table, and was frightfully burnt quite black. air. Burton was in immediate miteodentsi, but held out no hopes of the recovery of the sufferer, who was young woman only ZS yams of sge. Sergeant Seaton had married without leave, and his wife was not allowed to live with him io the Hut Barracks ; he wa. roused in the nifibt by tidings o! the dreadful disaster which bud befollcu young wife. When the unfortunate woman was takes up by the cabman, whose name is Skelton, her flesh came oft in his hands, her clothes haring been wholly destroral by the fire. The spectacle was fnghtful, and the sufferer calif survived the accident a few hours. _ REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF THE SOFTII EA ...TEEM' EXPREMI4 AND MAIL TRAINS.—On Friday night one of the most diabolical attempts at wholesale murder that we'll" ever known was attempted on the South-Eastern Railway between Edenbridge and Godatone. Indeed, we know of on parallel, except in the Enniskillen caw, in Ireland , where an attempt at wholesale death or destruction w.is made some few years ago. It appear , that on the night in question, juat after nine o'clock, and but a few minutes before the arrival of the np.express trait) and the nail down train, and which generally pass each other between Edenbridge and Godatone, soma person placed an irm rail across each of the lines, and bat for Gal's mercy, the most dreadful catastrophe must have occurred. As turned out., the express train cut or broke the rail into three pieces, causing a madden jerk, but nothing further. Tbe mail was as fortunate, though the result was different, as in this case, it did not remove the obstruction, but am over it. It seems really • miracle that mime part of the train was not thrown off the rails. We are grateful to Bay that, excepting the shock, very slight damage was done, so that the hellish designs of the wretch were cow pletely frustrated. The mail stopped et Eileuhrolge and the guard communicated to Mr. Gray, the station ouster. what bad occurred, and he immediately despatched DOW of the men to see what it was, and to remove it ; and some time before the last train left Godatone, parties were len t down to the spot to see that no further obstmitiei was placed on the rails. We believe that the officials have a vague suspicion of the perpetrators of this offence, and we sincerely hope that the richt party may be found out, end receive the just retribution which such a wanton act de* serves.— dams Erma. oo toto WI DO