The Press. — London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

lal restoration is an earnest of a coming state of grace that will convert Belgium into a modern Palestine. Neither were these benevolent fathers wanting in agricultural dexterity to produce, in order to relieve by charity the miseries of the poor and aged. The vine and the olive were objects of their peculiar care. Vineyards and olive groves surrounded the venerable walls of the Temple. The vines of Closvergeot, Chambertin, Epernay, St. Pertly, klraumberger, Steinberger, Johannisberger, owe their culture and the excellence of their wines to these true friends of humanity. Yet the monasteries of old were rich in corn, wine, and oil, garne•ed and kept sacred for the use of the poor. These days of beatitude are gone, and the holy men have been set aside and replaced by four thousand academical robbers ( voleurs), accursed teachers of materialism, and enemies of Jesus Christ and the Saints. And this is called progress. Look around and see the effects in this town. Public worth is ostracised, the Catholic Minister is faithless, the financier pilfers, the merchant is uxorious, the wife goes astray, the com• placent husband wastes his substance at the " Bach," or the " Circle ;" even the wine is adulterated, the lam beer is not good, and the brandy-shop is the temple of this age of progress. Alas, this is the day of false prophets and a corrupt Bible; love to heretic Albion. Anathema, mars natha. But retribution has followed the destruction of the monastries by the infidel Henry VIIL of England, and that doomed country, according to the law of divine justice, is being gradually swallowed up—Crown, Parlia ment, and people—in the avenging vortex of a national debt. No hope—down, down in the bottomless nit of ruin. And all the evils of modern times, prisons, lunatic asylums, gin-shops, and Parliaments, have been estab lished in exchange for holy convents, where the sorrowful in spirit were comforted, and the hungry were fed. Pray, therefore, earnestly and devoutly for the return of these pious saints; return gentlemen and ladies (messieurs et mesdames) to the ways of your forefathers, of the middle and happier ages. Use, 0, ye sweetly-favoured fair ones of Belgium, your seductive graces in aid of minutest estab. lishments, and these pious fathers, in their turn, will bless, will embrace you, and bid St. Peter open wide for you the blessed portals of eternal bliss. Messieurs et mesdames, je vous seine, a demain. The peroration was somewhat short and familiar. As these sermons were expressly preached for poli tical ends, at the instigation of the Ultramontanes, having for object a practical and proximate result, a fragment, strictly literal, has been given to show the temper and the state of the ultra-Roman party. C. A. H. foreign 310 Colonial 3ntelligentr. FRANCE. The Corps Legislatif will be opened on Monday next by the Emperor Napoleon in person. The fifoniteur of yesterday announces that Count Morny remains at St. Petersburg as Ambassador Extraordinary. M. Schneider, the Vice President of the Legislative Assembly, will act as l'resident during tie session. Mr. Disraeli's statement in the House of Commons on Tuesday last, regarding the secret treaty with Austria, has created a great sensation in Paris. The Journal des Di•bata reproves Lord Palmerston for applying the epithets "extravagant" and "romance" to the hon. member's assertion, which, "it could not be denied, rested upon sufficient foundation to war rant dr. Disraeli in bringing the matter before the house." The article in the Monitcur last week upon the union of the Principalities has excited the liveliest discussicn in Paris. Baron Hubner is reported to have had a lengthened interview with M. Walewski upon the subject. M. Fould has been absent in the south of France (luring the week on a special mission, to investigate the causes of the rise of prices in the necessaries of life. The visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Paris is expected to take place in April next. The Emperor presided at the usual Council of Ministers on Wednesday. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. The Emperor and Empress will prolong their stay in Milan till March. A general and unconditional amnesty for the empire is spoken of, as well as great reforms in the judicial administration. Sir Hamilton Seymour's official congratulation of the N'ienila Cabinet upon the Emperor's late clemency hail excited some notice at Vienna. The Austrian troops in Parma finally evacuated that oily on the Bth inst. At Turin, the bill on the reorganisation of the iniperior administration of public instruction has been alopted by a majority of 75 to 55. PRUSSIA AND SWITZF.ItLAND. The statement in THE PRF.ss of last week, that Paris has been chosen for the seat of the approaching conferences, is confirmed. Diplomatic negotiations It.we not yet been resumed between the two coun t ics. A Berlin letter in the German Journal of Frank fort says :—" The preparations for the conference which is to terminate the Neufchatel question ate pi oceeding very slowly, and replies have not yet been ii.coived from all the, power; to the note in which humus declared that by the liberation of the pri- THE PRESS. soners she was enabled to enter into negotiations for the definitive regulation of the question. The Prussian Government has profited by the last few weeks to collect various documents which support her claims." RUSSIA. The Nord denies that the Russian Government will admit British consuls to the ports of the Black Sea until the British fleet shall have quitted the Turkish waters, which has not yet taken place, the English fleet being still in the Bosphorus. The Nord adds, that this resolution is most wise ; for, as long as the British fleet remains in the Bosphorus, the straits are not closed and the treaty of Paris not executed, and there is nothing to prevent the English Govern ment from sending their fleet again into the Black Sea. A letter from St. Petersburg seems to confirm what has been stated with respect to the instructions given to M. de Kokockine, Russian M inister at Naples. to the effect of insisting on the necessity of a modification being introduced into the internal policy of the kingdom. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Accounts from Bucharest of the 2nd state that the Austrian troops in the neighbourhood were making preparations to depart, but that for the moment no idea of moving could he entertained, as the cold was intense, whist the high grounds were too deeply covered with snow to permit without a heavy loss the transport of Artillery and baggage. The Austrian Govertunent had officially notified to the Porte that the evacuation of the Principalities would be completed on the 24th of March. Turkish troops were to enter them afterwards. Constantinople letters of February 2nd state that M. de Koller, the Austrian Commissioner for the Principalities, had left for Trieste and Vienna. The Prussian and Russian Commissioners, MM. Rich. toffen and Basile, had also left for Berlin and St. Petersburg respectively. Sir Henry Bulwer and M. de Talleyrand, remain at Constantinople. It was known at Constantinople on the 29th, that the Moldo-Wallachian Divans would propose the union of the two Principalities into one, by a con siderable majority. It was expected that the Porte would altogether relinquish its resistance to the scheme, and content itself with stipulating that no foreign prince should become the sovereign of the new State. The Porte had declared all orders of expulsion issued by the Hospodars illegal, and had thus re opened the Principalities to political exiles. The firmans of Convocation were to be forwarded at once. The Porte is about to take official possession of the delta formed by the months of the Danube. SPAIN. The journey of the Queen to th 6 south is post poned. The Conservatives have triumphed in the Madrid municipal elections. _ M. Gonzales Bravo has fallen ill ; his departure for England is hence delgyed. AMERICA. Intelligence to the Ist states that Congress, with but little debate, and without a syllable being uttered with reference to the slavery question, had passed bills providing for the admission of Oregon and Minnesota into the Confederation as sovereign States. The Hon. Preston R. Brooks, well known as the assailant of Mr. Sumner, died on the 27th ult. from an attack of croup. In the House of Representatives, the Submarine (European and American) Telegraph Bill had been referred to a committee of ways and means. Walker had evacuated Rivas, and was at St. George's, surrounded by the allies, who had offered him terms of surrender; and, as he was cut off from his supplies, it was hourly expected he would sur render. The Governments of Nicaragua and Costa Rica have come to an understanding relative to their die pitted boundary. The new line is the San Juan River, the entire south bank of which, with Punta Arenas and the Tranit Company's station, are added to Costa Rica. Under the joint rights con ferred by this arrangement a new grant of the transit route becomes necessary, under the joint action of the two Governments. AUSTRALIA. Intelligence from Melbourne and Sydney to Nov. 11th have been receive(l. No news of importance. The diggings still continue as productive as ever. STREET RAILWAYS were ably discussed on Wednes- day, at the weekly meeting of the Society of Arts, by Mr. W. B. Adams, who read a paper upon the application of rails for horse traffic. Mr. Adams pointed out the immense advantages of such a system in London, and entered at length into details show ing that the present cost of the London omnibuses amounted to 800,0001. per annum, while, after an outlay of 140,0001., an enormous rail traffic through the metropolis could be maintained under a cost of 30,0001. a year. SATURDAY, 6ourt anb tagion. HER Majesty and the Court left Windsor ou Thursday afternoon, and arrived at Buckingham Palace at four p.m. The Speaker's first parliamentary dinner will take place this evening. Mr. R. S. Holford, M.P., and Mrs. Holford have left Holford-house, for their seat, Westotibirt, near Tetbury, in Gloucestershire. Sir Charles Wood gave a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers on Wednesday evening, at his residence in the Admiralty. All the Ministers were present except Lord Panmure. _ Viscountess Palmerston will have another assembly this evening at Cambridge•house. Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., entertained et dinner on Wednesday a select party, among whom were his Excellency the American Minister, Lord Burghley, M.P., Lord Robert Cecil, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, th . e Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, Sir Francis Doyle, Bart., Sir Henry Rawlinson, Mr. Cumming Bruce, M.P., Mr. Baillie C,chrane, M.P., Mr. Warren, M.l'., and Mr. Drummond Wolfe. Volittrai. THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS for 1857 consists of the Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Bart., the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Colonel Patten, Robert Palmer, Esq., W. Deedes, Esq., and C. S. Fortescue, Esq. THE EAST INDIA DIRECTION have published their letter addressed to the Governor-General on the 10th December, 1850, relative to the assumption of the government of Oude, and the introduction into that country of a system of administration superin tended by British officers. The letter congratulates the Governor-General that " nn expanse of territory embracing an area of nearly 25,000 square miles. and containing 5,000,000 of inhabitants, has passed from its native) prince to the Queen of England without the expenditure of a drop of blood, and almost with out a murmur." The directors also notice the cir cumstances attending the King's refusal to accept the new treaty, consider the question of his future stipend, arrange it at 120,0001. a year, suggest that the young princes should be well educated, and con elude with a complimentary acknowledgment of the able manner in which General Outram conducted the little affair. THE ELECTORS OF MARYLEBONE held a meeting on Monday to pass a resolution condemning the language lately used on one or two occasions by Mr. Nicholay against Sir Benjamin Hall, and to express admiration of Sir Benjamin's conduct. The meeting was crowded, the resolution was put, and met by an amendment claiming the privilege of any elector to pass his opinion upon the elected, and declaring that on the present occasion it was not necessary to ex press any opinion upon the conduct of Sir B. Hall. The amendment was carried, and Sir Benjamin's friends beaten by a large majority. Mu. HUMPHREY BROWN was drawn in triumph in a one-horse " shay" into Tewkesbury last week. Mr. Brown's friends are about to give him a dinner, when revelations will be made of the British Bank, and explanations given of the 70,000 good reasons which it is said by evil-disposed persons induced Mr. Brown to remain a director of that famous bank. MR. J. M'GREaou, M.P. for Glasgow, was some weeks since addressed by the electors of the second ward asking for explanations relative to the British Bank. The electors are reported to have ob served : In a havty note written by you some time ago, you promised to give an explanation of your share in these occurrences. We think if you were fully aware of tho opprobrium that is daily heaped upon the electors of Glasgow, your sense of justice would induce you no longer to delay giving such explanation, or of adopting such other alternative as would free the citizens of Glas gow from these reflections, which are buth painful and dis creditable. Mr. ]'Gregor has taken no notice of the letter. AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE LAW AMENDMENT SOCIETY, Mr. Howell read a paper on the law of partnership; and in considering the points ofdifference which now engage the public attention on this subject, pointed out that there are only three sorts of part nerships—namely, first, the ordinary partnerships in which participation of profit renders every partner (ab hoe) wholly liable ; secondly, the partnership in which the liability of every shareholder is limited ; thirdly, partnership in which both of the above prin ciples are conjointly in operation, some of the proprie tors being under the first rule, others under the second. These distinctions were at once recognised in the Code Napoleon, and in his ( Mr. Howell's) judgment no law could practically succeed unless they were avowedly and carefully preserved. Mr. Howell concluded by laying upon the table suggestions for an Act of Parliament in reference to partnerships on the commandite principle, and also a literal copy