The Express. — London, England, 1860-05-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, ELI TURDAT. MAY 26. Tee short debate in the House of Commons last night on Lord Pakumurroe's motion for a Comieittee to inquire into precedents as to the con trol of Money Bills will tend to reassure those who had begun to fear that both the House and the Government were disposed to treat a great con stitutional question in a .careless and per. functory manner. That this feeling existed and wee daily becoming more deep and general, is unquestionable. The petitions Mr. Ballow pre sented last !Light from several places in Lancashire illustrate the rising wave of popular dismatiafao tion and alarm at the apparent apathy of the Commons. The prayer of these petitions is, "that " the House will preserve its privilege and prero " satire of determining the taxation of the " country." No such petitions as these have been presented to Parliament in our time, or in that of our forefathers for many generations. Indeed there has rarely been any necessity to quickea the zeal of the House on such a point. It has usually shown itself keenly alive to its privileges, and prompt and energetic in defending them. Any appearance of lukewarrmiess, there fore, on such a vital question of privilege as the right of taxation would naturally tend to rouse the watchful jealousy of the country. There is no doubt that this feeling would have been spread far more generally bad not the two questions raised by the vote of the Lords on Monday night, been especially at first very much mixed up and confounded in the public mind. The mere financial question involved in that vote is of comparatively email importance. Whether the paper duty shall he repealed this year or next is a question not of principle but of exped►ency. AU are agreed that it is a bad tax which ought to be abolished at the earliest moment ; but many differ as to whether that moment is now or twelve months hence. This question is of limited and temporary interest, and how ever ardently we may desire to have the duty removed at once, it would be quite impossible to raise the country, or create any great excitement on the point. The case is very different, however, with regard to the constitutional question raised by the vote of Monday night. That is of the very utniost gravity and importance. The right of the representatives of th e p ee . phi to determine absolutely the taxation of the country is the very bulwark of our national freedom. Any attempted invasion of this sacred right is not a question of limited or temporary moment. It touches the essence of the con stitution, and may affect not only the present generation but the whole future fortunes of England. As soon as this is clearly seen, as soon as the constitutional question is dis entangled from the financial one, the gravity of the proceedings in the House of Lords on Monday evening becomes at once apparent. At first, as we have said, there was some slight confusion, but the country is already awake to the true bearings of the case, and as these are more clearly perceived, the popular voice will be raised in unano--- of Protest against the establishnu any dangerous or unconstitutional precedent. The House of Commons, too, last night showed itself fully alive to the gravity of the con stitutional question at aurae. At the beginning of the debate, indeed, some younger opposition members seemed disposed to treat the subject in • light and trivial spirit, attempting to laugh at Mr. Dusi - iiuse, and "Oh, oh" Mr. Below?. But these unbecoming symptoms soon disappeared, and both sides of the Moues displayed a gravity and earnestness befitting the occasion. The tone taken, ton, was the right one. Almost every speaker agreed in throwing out of account the mere financial question of the paper duty, and in concentrating the attentieu of the House on the far more important point of parliamentary privilege and constitntional right. Mr. Amour kit the tense of the House, and put the matter in its trims light :—" In 6 / considering thi s ques ti on I " bare not at heart the &lightent regard to the " particular tax which it was proposed to repeal. " If it bad been a proposal to levy an additional " tax of the excise duty on paper, and it had gone " up to the Home of Loots with the assent of " this House, and it had been rejected se this " Bill has been, I believe I should have been one " of those who would have insisted with all those " with whom I sit in this House to protest against " the interference of the other House of Parlia " went ; and though I confess I have for many " years felt a warm and growing interest in the " abolition of the paper duty, since that division " has taken place that particular question has " (Wien into insignificance in my sight compared " with the far greater question which the House "of Lords has opened to the consideration of " Parliament and the country." Lord Jaw THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 26, Ron= recognised even more emphatically the gravity of the oonstitutional question at issue. The noble lord, indeed, spoke throughout with the calm and judicial earnestness inspired by an ardent love of the constitution, and a profound desire to maintain intact the privileges of Parlia ment. Every sentence breathed not only a deep sense of official and personal responsibility, but a firm determination to discharge faithfully the duties It imposed. The noble lord said at the outset,— " It certainly appears to me that there has not "been within my memory a question of greater " importance. It is a question which undoubt " edly affects the most essential rights and privi " loges of the House of Commons; but for that " reaaon, and especially bearing in mind the ob " serration which the hon. member for Birmingham " made, that there is no reason to suppose that " say portion or section of the members of this " House are either indifferent or lukewarm in the " maintenance of its most sacred privileges, I " would endeavour in our present proceedings to "do that which would most enlighten the House " without prematurely coming to anything in the " nature of a decision." Mr. Dusiroatinex amendment was finally lost, in fact, because it did not sufficiently recognise the constitutional question which the House is called upon to discuss and decide. The member for Finsbury proposed, rather innocently for so old a member, that the decision of the Home of Lords to postpone the Paper Duty Bill for six months should be literally interpreted by the House of Commons ; and that, accordingly, an opportunity should be afforded the Upper House of reconsidering their verdict in the month of November next. This would clearly give the constitutional question the "go-by" altogether. The Lower House has to discuss what the Upper House has already done, not what it may possibly do hereafter. As Mr. CLAY justly said, the real question is whether the House of Lords had or had not trenched upon the preroga tive of the Commons. Mr. Dt-Ncomer's motion loses sight of this question, besides being exposed, as Lord Jolts Rcxsar r pointed out, to other objections almost equally serious ; and it was, therefore, very properly withdrawn. The Committee of Inquiry proposed by Lord PatantavroN, though at first sight rather a formal and tedious machinery, is probably, after all, the best method of dealing with the subject. It is certainly more in keeping with the importance of the question, as well es with tho respect which the House owes both to itself and the Upper Chamber, than the immediate and hasty action which several members seemed at first disposed to recommend. Now that the importance of the question raised is fully recognised both in Parliament and out of doors, there is no danger of its being dealt with in a one-sided, careless, or inefficient manner. It rather befits the dignity and power of the House of Commons to deal with a question affecting its own rights and privileges in the most methodical and deliberate manner. We quite agree, therefore, with the declaration of Lord Joins Rosanna, which the House unanimously cheered last night. "Now " I think it would be wise for this House to furnish " itself with every kind of information, to enlighten " itself in reference to these historical precedents. " There can be no harm in so doing, f or our " powers are very great. lam not one of those "who think that the powers and privileges of the " House of Commons are about to succumb to the " great authority of the House of Lords. I be " here that our privileges will be maintained, and " I believe that by taking time to consider the sub " ject, and by taking care that we walk in the "paths of the constitution, we shall at last arrive " at a right decision upon the question." The appointment of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, the well-known rector of Eversley, to the profemorship of modem history will (says the Cambridge Independent) be perfectly satisfactory to a limited number only ; but still it is likely to evoke no particular or appreciable amount of opposition or comment, and in general it will be accepted with far mom of hope than doubt. If we may judge from bis writings on other subjects, his teaching wfl be cha racterised by the enunciation of decidedly liberal views ; and, as a member of the governing body of the university, we shall require the aid of a stirring and active advocate of as education suitable to the requirements of the age is which we live. The darn/rim states that the amount promised as a guarantee food for the Exhibition of 1862 amounted yesterday to 312,7001. The council of the Society of Arts hare applied to the commissioners of 1851 for a lime fur a term of sixteen acres of the land purchased by the coin minsiowers with the surplus of 1831, as the council propose ea this occasion to erect a portion of the building of a per using character. Lords Derby and Palmerston met in the paddock at Epsom os Wedneeday. After cordially shaking hands, sad passing the onlinary compliments (says Dews Life), Lind Palmerston asked Lord Derby if he expected to wia to-day with Cape Flyaway, to which Lord Derby replied in Use negative, adding that he " had done pretty well lately, having won Ave times out of six." To this Lord Pahnenstou rejoined :—" yes , sad you aanot expect to win en Wonders and Wednesdays too !" Lord Derby—" No, but I suspect you would rather win on the Wednesday!" The two elevens--a list of which we gave last week—meet on Monday and Tuesday as Lord's. Thursday sad Friday will be rather busy days, as the M. C. C. and Orem& play the University at Oxford ; Berrey contrasts eases at the Oval, and the Household Brigade plays the Quidnunc:a at Lord's. On Wednesday the Royal Thames Yacht Club bass a mil* match with their smaller elase yachts round t. Fan from Erith. Thursday is appointed for the Royal Massey flub trip ; and the Prince of Wales Yacht Club else ma their club yachts of twelve tons and under, and eistrwassill lasts of eight tow and under, from Erith to Asmara ad back, far the vine commodore's and the club prim - /MTN or JOHN HOUMA, EAQ., or COTHAII.— Ow obituary of this der records the departure of another ef the loot! of Bristol worthies, in the demise of Jobe Hopes,.. Cotharri, whose munificeoce was o f a character litt e thought of by timee who knew his quiet and eneeteatatious life. Living the greater part of his daps in this ear. although not a Native, he. during his long life, distributed his means with so scanty hand, to many of our local charities .and also towards the erection of smarms pleas of worship. both national and nonconformist, as well as to 7 .11 ... and to innumerable other more private objecltt: gin his lifetime a large portion o f a ' l7;aTia ' amaanting to lath, lees than 140,0001. Mr. Holmes, w trams, although speechless for the day preceding his death, was conscious to almost the last mama the eausificent donations we remember having bees gl A tin him were 5, 0 00 1 . to the Rev. Mr. Bpurgoon sew chap. 3,0001. to Mr. Deeideey's church, at liednninster ; about 4,0001. to Gide., chapel, Newfousdleadaneet: neer 2,300 f. to Arley e= a l :realm/0406d and MU each to the Hospital. We believe, too, it will b:= l abe that the Orphan House on Ashley n 0,.. has melded by his liberality to the extent of several thoomads, and est Easy other pious and benevolent societies ham /*seised smaller gifts from him.—Beised Afriverp, AllailallorTanon or THB Duns! OF YONS.— Al lot week briefly announced that the lamer consected wi dr &emery of York had been cemeiderably augmented. The emengemeut took place at a court Mid at Buckingham Pair, es the 10th day of May instant—preemst, the queen Coueell -when the Eoclesiastioal , MlillaoollTO for England and Wales rerauseeded sad scheme, that there be paid by than so proposed Dam of the Cathedral Church of BR Peter, at York, and to hie sucemems, deans of Vas same church, melt a MI as shall (tomtits/ with the meets which ue"e lequiry sad adonis/4m shall appear to Monne der la oath year to the deaa of the eaH ehturl. Lod out of the enrpocate revenues thereof) he walkient to make up the Meow of the dean, for each year, to the sum of two thou sand polish.. Her Majesty in Council was pleased to &move and ratify lb. said NIMINIO, sad is order sad dr at tt the rime shall be saline' to M(taco and after the thee of Na mildimiletrin tie Leeds* aid that a copy of enelt eider he milithee di r e theuVruar et the arm of Ts& The prisfiris amp we bailed le VOL pot coos—led Area Cbt Court. OSIPORNI. MAT N. RU HATINTTS BIRTHDAY. The band of the Royal Marine played a matinale at T a.m. The Queen, the Prince Consort, the Prince el Wales, and the junior members of the Royal Family, afterwards walked in the grounds. In the afternoon, at balf•past Are o'elock, her Majesity and the Prince Consort drove in a char-a-beau, with four horses, accompanied by the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, and the Printer of Leiaingen. The Princesses He lena and Louise, Prince Arthur, and the Lodies in Waiting followed in a second carriage. Colonel Ponsonby, Equerry in Waiting, was on horseback. The Dncliees of Kent also took a carriage airing, mea n. panied by her Royal Highness's Lady-in-Waiting. Her Majesty's dinner party in the evening included Um Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, the Prince.. of Leiningen, the Prince of Leiningen, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, Major-General the Hon. C. Grey, Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, Sir George Couper, the Equerry to the Prince of Wales, Sir Jamas Clark, and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell. The hind of the Royal Marines played during dinner. In the evening Mr. Coot* and band had the honour of attending. Her Nejeley, with the root of the royal party and suite, aimed the Conned-chamber at ten o'clock, when dan c i ng arenaenced, which was kept up until twelve. Captain the Hon. J. and Mrs. Denman had the honour of being invited. Meetinp of the Cambridge lJniversity Commissioners were held at 8, Adelphi-terrace, on Tuesday, the 22nd, end Thumday, the 24th inst. The commissioners present were the Rielt Hoe. Lent, Stanley, M.P., the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, and Mr. Homtio Waddiegton. Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofike yesterday from the Governors of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, Bt. Helena, and Natal. ea were sent to the Governors of Canada and Newf (FROM LAST molten ciArrrre.) WHITEHALL, MAY 24.—The Queen ban been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of • Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto William Mar tin, Fitt: Chief Justice of New Z ea l an d ; F ranc i s Bi ady, ~ Chief Justice of Newf o undl an d ; J ames Hurtle Fu ße%, President of the Legislative Council, South Austral; ; Christoffel Joseph= Brand, Esq., Speaker of the Roues of Assembly of the Cape of Cool Hope Priedh Mnrph , Esq., Speaker of the Home of Assembly of Victoria ; Barry, Em., Senior Puisue Judge of Victoria ; Thomas Maclear, Eeq.„ Astronomer Royal at the Cape of Good Hop; Walter Currie, Esq., Corriman dent of the Armed Mounted Polio. at the Cape of Good Hope. Dowxnro-snumr, MAY 24.—The Queen hen b een earto appoint Malor•General Pringle Taylor, K.H. to Y d of ember the Privy Conseil of the Island of Jamaica. Her Majesty hoe also been pleased to appoint Patrick Kough, Jelin HcpMt, and Robert Kent, Emits, to be Hem hen of the I,egiafative Gamma of the Island of Newfound land ; and Jeremiah Simpson, Eel., to be • Member of the Oossall of the Island of Prince Edward. ' t. JAM Bee Patrca, Mar.—The Queen has been *and to appoint Captain William Berton (late 96th Re giment), Lion of her Majesty's Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, vice Captain Morton Herbert, " Vt d moN-onficr., MAY 23.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Hamer Gideon as Con sul at St. Helena, for his Majesty the King of Portugal. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, at traded by his governor and equerry (Major-C.(o(Tel the lies. Robert Bruce and Major Teesdale), landed in the Southampton dock yesterday afternoon from the royal yacht Fairy, the Hon. Captain Denman, on his return from a visit to her Majesty at Osborne, and left by the 3 o'clock train for Basingstoke, en mute to Oxford. The Prince was received on landing by Mr. P. Hedger and Mr. J. Levy, to whom his royal highness expressed his Sank, for their attention. The Marchioness of Ely and family have left town for Ireland. The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma Manley leave town today for Knowsley Park, Lancashire, for a few days. The Countess Cowper's first ball will take plane oa the 15th of June, at her mansion in St. Jamee'sequare, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston learn town to-day far Broadlands, for a few days. Lord and Lady John Russell and the Misses Russell leave town today for Richmond. _ _ The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate for Hughenden Manor, Bucks. - . _ _ _ The Earl and Counteea of Derby gave a grand entertainment last evening to their Royal Highneeses the Duchess of Cambridge and the ?enema Mary. The follow ing were invited to meet their royal highnesses :—The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, his Excellency the Prussian minister and the Countess de Berustorff, Viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscount Chelsea, Viscount Elmley, Viscount Royston, Lord John Manners, Lord Skelmersdale. Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, Colonel Home Purves, sad Lady Geraldine Somerset were in waiting on their royal highnesses. Later in the evening her ladyship had an amannbly. Earl Cowley entertained at dinner on Thursday evening a select party of Eng lish gentlemen, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday. The following are the mums of the gusts:—Hon. W. Grey, Hon. J. A. Ellis, Mr. Adams, Mr. Falconer Agee, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Egerton, Mr. Clay, Colonel Claremont, Sir Joseph 011iffe, Mr. Consul Pickford, Rev. Mr. Swale. General Lord Howden, Lord Gray, Hon. S. Cowper, Horn. F. Baring, Hon. H. Howard, Sir T. Wyss, Mr. Atlee, Captain Lynch, Major Kemball, Mr. Otway, (LB., her Ma jesty's Consul•Oeneral at Milan; Captain Bobbins, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Ogilvie, and Mr. Mallet. In consequence of indisposition the Marquis of Hertford was tumble to be present. The hotel of the embassy was brilliantly illu minated at night. Yesterday evening the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, in accordance with • time-honoured eustoni, entertained her Majesty's judges, with the leading member• of the bar and the °Moan of the corporation, at • banquet in the Egyptian Hall. Corers were laid for about 150 guests. _ The officers of the Hon. Artillery Company en tertained at dinner hat evening the officers of the Royal London Militia, Lieut,Col. Palmer, West Essex Yeomanry Cavalry ; the officers of the let Surrey Rites, Colonel Filer, 12th Lancers; Major Lamle, late 11th Hussars; Captains Ritherdon (Madras Army), Robinson, &c. The Captain-General and Colonel of the corps, his Royal High ness the Prince Consort, seat a fine haunch of venison to the mesa. The A rmy Gazette says it is highly probable that Colonel Studholme Browning, C. 8., now Deputy Adjutant General in Ireland, will succeed Major General Forster u Deputy Adjutant General at the Hone Guards, on the latter succeeding Sir Charles Yorke as Military Secretary. Sir Charles resigns his dice on the Lt of July. Colonel Daubeney, inspector-general of army clothing, is at present in Paris on an oMcial visit, in order to investigate the system and economy of the clothing de partansate of the French army. We (United Service Gazette) much regret to hear that Admiral Sir James Gordon, Governor of Greenwich Hospital, is seriously ill. Hs wee reported slightly better yesterday, but his state of health is considered very pre carious. Part of the Channel fleet passed Dover on Thurs day stbersone, under the command of Admiral Elliott, eapisia of the fleet, and is now lying in the Downs. There are seven lineof•battle ships and two frigates, vis. : Abatddr, Centurion, Conqueror, Algiers, Trafalgar, Mars, Daerspl, sad Diadem and Mersey. The weather was beau. allay ins as the Beet passed, and a vast number of per seas on the parade. Marl De Grey and Ripon will preside at the annesl dinner of the Geographical Society, to be held on Monday at the Freemasons' Tavern. Mr. Watson has been unanimously elected secre tary to the Society of Antiquaries. On Thursday evening the Academicians met in Trafakarequare to elect a full member of their body. The choice fell upon Mr. Augustus Sesg. The students of St. Martin's School of Art will hold their manual rearerearione on Thursday evening next. . _ We hear, says the Derbyshire Courier, that it is highly probable that the Newetend estate, including the Abbey will be purchased by the Duke of Portland. The Werify Register of to-day announces addi tional eabecriptious to the Papal Food, includhag 3001. from the Due of Norfolk, 1001. 6u Lent Ifteurkin, he. The war paper states that the Roma catholic diocese of Liverpool hes forwarded to Some T,2201. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. GARIBALDI'S EXPEDITION. A telegram direct from Palermo, dated at 10 o'clock on the night of the 23rd, and proceeding from the best possible souroe, has been received in Paria. It announces that the troops of Garibaldi were up to that date still in posi tion at no great distance from Palermo, that 20,000 Neapolitan troops occupied the heights com manding the city, and at two miles from it, and that the/ were in hourly expectation of being attacked by the troops of Garibaldi. Nothing more recent than this despatch (which has oome by Cagliari) has been received. The Patric publishes s despatch from Sicily, dated the. 23rd but., which states that Garibaldi had been joined by some of his officers, and par ticular!, by Colonel Medici, with considerable reinforcements. He was menacing Monreale, the surrender of which would lead to the fall of Palermo. TURIN, MAY 25. The Official Gazette contains a despatch, dated 24th inst., which confirms the encounter of Gari baldi at San Martino with Bavarians in the service of the King of Naples. Garibaldi had approached nearer to Palermo, the heights round which were occupied by the insurgents. An attack was immi nent. General Lanza had demanded an armistice of Garibaldi without effect. An Austrian flotilla, composed of three vessels, arrived at Naples on the 21st. A despatch from Masdna, dated 21st instant, states that an insurrection had broken out at Paterno, Aderno, and Branco-Villa. NAPLEI4, NAY 22. The despatch of troops to Sicily continues. The city is tranquil, and the police are ready to repress any popular movement. SARDINIA. TURIN, FIWAT, MAT 25. The discussion upon the treaty of the 24th of March was opened to-day. The following is a summary of the speech of Signor Guerazzi on the subject :—" The people of Italy had hoped for the protection of Piedmont. France in return for the annexation of Central Italy to Piedmont wished to possess Savoy and Nice, and the existing ministry had been compelled to accept the annexation of these provinces to France. Since then the Italian question had much fallen, it has been thrown from the Capitol, and has become an affair of stock jobbing. The ministry showed itself very timid towards France, and ceded Savoy and Nice, in order not to be obligea to maintain the autonomy of Tuscany. A treaty of mistrust has been made, and the Emperor bad shown that he suspected us. If Italy had been all to the Italians it would have been possible to remove the barrier, which separated two great families, but with Austria in the heart of our country can we have sufficient con fidence 1 It will be neceeary to transport the capital and parliament elsewhere. We have opened our doors, we have failed in our obligations to Savoy and Nice ; and the "Emilia and Tuscany will tremble for the same fate. You have not sub mitted to the law of necessity, but have performed such acts as reduced us to a necessity which did not exist." Signor Guerazzi then mentioned the events which took place during the voting, and con cluded thus :—" I do not believe that this cession is worth the possession of Central Italy to us. We are constrained by command of the Emperor to go no further. We must advance alone. We have Garibaldi and a people numbering 11 millions, and have no need of foreign aid." Signor Guerazzi voted against the treaty. Different orators spoke for and against the treaty. Signor Carutti demonstrated in his speech that, as Sardinia was to disappear as a special power, in order to become an Italian kingdom, she was obliged to give up Savoy and Nice. This discourse was warmly applauded. The discussion will be continued to-morrow. THE PAPAL STATES. ANCONA, MAT 21. It is rumoured that General Lamoriciere intends tendering his resignation. ANS IN THE TURKISH EMPIRK The Joenial de St. Petersbourg of the 25th instant publishes a telegram communicated by the Minister of Turkey announcing that the Ottoman govern ment is sending three commissions into the pro vinces of the north and south of the Empire, Roumelia, and Syria. These commissions will institute a regular inquiry with regard to the com plaints of the Christians, under the presidency of the members of the Council. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, BATIIIIOBL The Ambassador of France and the Marquise de Mouldier will to-day be officially presented to the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Princess Charlotte. SPAIN. MADRID, MAT 25. The Cortex were opened to-day by the Queen in person. The royal speech recalls the war with Morooco, which it says has ended in a glorious peace, and in • treaty oompensating as much as possible for the expenses of the treasury. The relations of Spain with all the powers are satisfactory. The convention with Rome will tranquillise the conscience and facilitate progress. The Pope has thus received • token of the attachment of the Queen and the nation. The Queen deplores the Carlist attempt, but the danger being removed, is happy to record an amnesty. The Chamber will shortly receive the budget and political and administrative projects of law. The Queen, in conclusion, reckons upon the union of the nation, which will ensure stability to the throne and happiness to the country. THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company have received the following telegram : . _ " NARBFJLLER, SATURDAY Mortanro. "The Vedic, with the above mile, arrived at limousines at 8 ii.nr. this day. "The mails leiore for London at 10 a.m. "The Ripon, with the heavy portion of the mails, was to Lave Malta on the morning of the 24th, and may none. quently be expected at Southampton about the 2nd or 3rd of June. "The Colombo arrived at Sues on the 18th with 120 first elan and 104 other paneogers. "OUTWARD MAILS. " The Indus, from Southampton, the 12th, and the Valetta, from Marseilles, the 90th, reached Malta oa the 22nd, sod continued their voyage to Alexandria the lame evening. " 7'he Caad* with the London roads of 4th-10th of April, arrived at Mlle oa the 6th of May TNDLA AND CHINA. CANTON, Arun. 14 (vu. Taizerr). The Chinese reply to the ultimatum has been received ; it is rumoured to be unsatisfactory. The rebels in the provinces oontinue to be suc cessful ; the silk villages are threatened. SHANGHAI, Aran, 7 (via TarrxrE). Hangchow has b een re t a k en f ro m the rebels. The silk districts are still in a disturbed state. CALCUTTA, Aram T 1 (vu Tamar). Ryot disturbances continue to take place. (ammes rEassams.).__ POINT DE OALLF., MAT I. Cholera is prevalent throughout India. THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. SOUTHAMPTON. ParDAY. The North German Lloyd's steamer New York, Captain van &akar, with deice from New York to the 12th instant, has arrived. She brings 280,470 dollars for France, 20,000 dollars for Hamburg, 1,250 for Bremen, but no specie for Englund ; passengers in all, of which 29 are for Southampton, the remainder for France, Hamburg, and Bremen. She spoke the Fulton a few hours' sail from New York. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rim ova mint coinsponmer.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. I don't delight in playing the part of an alarmist, but I will never take upon myself the responsibility of suppressing the truth from the fear of being taken for one. It is within my knowledge that one of the Emperor's most intimate councillors lately said, in the hearing of several people, these words : "We are on the point of twisting the neck of England on the Oriental question !" What this very stretched metaphor may mean exactly I do not pretend to say. But this Ido well remember that, so long ago as the peace of Villafranca, which the English press denounced with a severity entirely justified by the now recognised event of its utter failure, the unavowed organs of the French govern ment were continually hinting that revenge would be taken on England in the East. This idea has lately been ventilated with a renewed impetus. Everybody expects that the text of M. de Lava lette's speech to the Sultan, which must come out within a few hours, will be alarming, and will disclose a policy concerted with Russia such as England cannot, in all likelihood, approve of. lam far from saying that a castes beUi is likely to arise. On the contrary, I think that every move of the imperial policy with regard to Eng land is nicely calculated with a view not to over step the bounds of her patience. To thwart, to check, and if possible to humiliate England, but at the same time to presume upon our undoubted love of peace, and our especial desire to be friendly with the French nation, and to bring every ques tion to this issue :—ls it worth your while to make war about it t—such are the tactics which have been going on for years, and will continue to go on, so that the onus of declaring war, if ever such an ex tremity should arise, may always be thrown upon us. At the present moment, I have good reason to believe that Russia and France are agreed about certain schemes in the East, to an extent little dreamt of by many politicians. My informants go so far as to say, but of course I cannot repeat such serious news without reserve, that France and Russia have made up their minds to a partition of Turkey ; that they mean to offer England a share, and that if she refuses what is offered upon their terms, they will, in the French phrase, passer mare, i.e., go on in their own way without her. I may possibly have fallen to-day upon an exaggerated vein of information, but I make no doubt that in one form or other the "East ern question" will very speedily eclipse the Italian one. I hear that the new pamphlet on Hungary, ex tracts of which have been published in London, was purchased by the government for 10,000 fr., and that it is considered expedient to suspend the pub lication for the moment. General Bazaine's division is to make a triumphal entry into Paris on its return from Italy on June L One of the regiments, the 33rd, arrived at Charenton from Toulon this morning. These troops will march along the Boulevards, and defile before the Emperor on the Place Vendome. The spectacle will be on a small scale, a repetition of the grand military display of last summer. There is a remarkable absence of anything like authentic news from Sicily. lam told that the government has heard nothing within the last twenty-four hours. The probability is that Gari baldi is in some part of Palermo, but that the royal troops hold out in the citadel, debating whether they shall make a sally upon a hostile population, or embark for Naples. - The fluctuation at the Bourse was considerable. The Rente, after opening with a rise at 69fr. 55c., fell to 69fr. 20c. for cash and 69fr. 10c. for aooount, with a fall of 20c. and 30c. Mobilier fell 6fr. 25c. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 75c., and Eastern 2fr. 50c. The other lines were lfr. 25c. higher. At Montpellier, a few days ago, at a banquet given on the oceasion of an agricultural show, M. Michel Chevalier delivered an address on the subject of the commer cial treaty between France and England, in the course of which he said :—" In France, as was the case in England in 1824, the government abstains with good faith from speak ing of free trade. It contents itself with removing prohi. bilious, aa the Engl i sh then did, and as they did also, sub etitntes • duty which is 30 per cent. ►t the maximum. Let events follow their cowls ; experience, u I believe, will infallibly and very soon pronounce in favour of a more sweeping reform, and one day, by the force of things, free trade will be proclaimed amidst the applause of the whole public, as was the came in Greet Britain." A letter from Beyrout of the 4th says :—" In the plains about Beyrout, every man, woman, and child is engaged with the silk worms. To-morrow or next day the worm' begin to spin, and if the hot winds hold off • few days longer there will be a very excellent crop—far above the average. Prices, too, are good, contracts having been made at 50 percent. higher prices than those at the opening of last Damon. There has been a very good stimulus given to the silk reeler' in Syria, no fewer than ten new reeling factories being set on foot this year in Lebanon and the plains. As • matter of course all this brings • great deal of money into the country, •md will o•use • large increase in our exports from England and elsewhere. The change of reeling to the French instead of the Arab manner, which is being made all o►er the province, will increase the value of the silk crop by 30 per cent., and go where one will young mulberries are being everywhere planted. I have just re turned from • week's tour in Lebanon, and the peasants are all busy with their silk worms." Tun Wivi's Rive:Nos.—lt may be in the memory ot our readers that 'murder was committed in Pens about eight months ago by • Bulgarian and a Greek, whose victim was also • Greek. Fortunately in this instance the guilty parties fell into the hands of justice, and, after a tedious judicial process at the Zaptish, they were, about a mouth ago, Rally condemned and sentenced to death—unless (as mwerulman law permits) the relatives of the murdered man consented to accept " blood money," in which case the punishment would be commuted for ten years in the bagnio. In this case the widow of the victim is inexorable, and refuses to listen to any pecuniary compro mise that can be offered, insisting on nothing short of the lives of her of her husband's murderers. On Saturday last, the leading members of the Greek community met in Pere, arid called the woman before them, but after nearly two hours of expostulation, entreaty, threat, and ever; other form of influence that could be employed to shalt., her resolution, she remained firm in her purpose. When told that owing to the difficulty of finding an executioner the sentence could not be carried out, and that she might as well therefore make • virtue of necessity sod consent to forego her right, she answered with an energy that would be heroic if it were not savage—" Not find an exe cutioner ! I myself will slay them, if no other avenger can be found." Priestly coercion, peninurion, money, and everything else, failed to move her, and the executions will therefore take plans.—Cereal Herald, May 16. SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN'S AND MARINERS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. The twenty-first annual meeting of this widely beneficial association was held yesterday at Willis s Rooms, under the chairmanship of his Grace the Duke of aostouots, President of the Society. There were present; Admirals the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, Sir Georges Seymour, F. Bullock, and B. C. Cam; Captains the Hon. F. Maude, R.N., C. R. Egerton, R.N., M. Petro, R.N., Hawes, R.N., Saliva's, R.N., Westbrook, R.N., Wood. roff, R.N., Ke o gh, R.N. and Bloomfield, R.N. ; Major Moors ;C. and S. Gies, ke., R.N. J. T. Foster, Esq., R.N., J. T. Cornish, Esq., R. N ., Arthur Ellis, Esq., R.N., G. Brograve, Esq., Colonels Nolloth and Gordon, William Stuart, Esq. ; Revs. T. Ray, R. Berries, J. B. Owen, and J. R. Starry ; O'Byrne, J. Viney, (inky, Long, Perrott, 8.. Lewis, A. Botefeur, Erg., &c. The Rev. Mr. Srsazy opened the proceeding with prayer; and letters were then read from Lord Henry Chohnondeley and Montague Gore, Esq., apologising fur unavoidable absence. The CHAIRMAN said it must not be supposed that the numbers in attendance at the annual meeturgs afforded an indication of the interest taken in the society. The sub scribers numbered upwards of 60,000, of whom 46,000 were seamen ; and their revenue, which in 1145 was but 2,0001, had increased to 13,0001. The objects were carried out almost wholly by voluntary efforts. The two bene volent societies which provided respectively for sue. couring the immediate distress of shipwrecked persons, and for affording preventive aid in the form of lifeboats, received aid from government. This society stepped in when continued help was wanted. Those who had been rescued from the horrors of shipwreck were relieved in their destitution, and if necessaryclotheuL These acts of mercy were extended to foreigners as well as nor own countrymen. Medals were given by the society for saving life. There was not the same objection in the case of a medal which could be urged against money rewards. A medal was a mark of some distinguished action, and was a poss~ron to be handed down from generation to generation. The coasting trade of this country was one of its most vital conditions, and an institution which aided in the welfare of that trade deserved the highest consideration at the hands of the country. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that during the last year, by means of 500 agents spread over the Coast of the United Kingdom, in conjunction with the central office in London, 6,792 shipwrecked persons had been re lieved ; and 3,562 widows, orphans, and aged parents of mariners had received benefits, making in all a total of 10,354 persons who had experienced the help of the society. The income was 13,ray. ; but an excess of expenditure to the amount of 2,5101. 10e. bil. had been aimed by the great demand' arising from severe distress among the ,shipping. It was stated that the committee intended to go on with their scheme for establishing a pension fund and a hospital for worn-out merchant seamen, supported by their own pay ments and any aid that the public might supply. Admiral Sir Groans SEYMOUR briefly moved the adoption of the report, and expressed a warm interest in the objects of the society. The Earl of ..QHREWNBURY and TALI3OT seconded the motion. lie recollected being present at the inauguration of the society twenty-one years ago. It was, he then thought, a crying evil that such an institution had not been founded before. It was difficult to say whether this or the National Lifeboat Association conferred most blessings on this maritime country, or had greater claims to public gra titude and support. He was very desirous to see the plan of a hospital and pension fund, in connexion with this society, carried out. They haul a noble inatitution--Green wich Hospital—for the royal navy, but none for the class from which the navy was made. The motion was put and carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. OWEN spoke on the question of the pro posed hospital, and moved a resolution expressive of the coecarrence of the meeting in the views of the committee. The greatness of this natiou was a naval greatness. The mercantile marine was a recruiting yard for the royal navy ; andj it might be considered that the distance from which the Londouers had to send for coals to cook their dinners and to cheer their hearths was one great cause of our supremacy on the seas. The Hon. Captain MAI;DE seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. BstNEs and other speakers addressed the meeting, and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman, who acknowledged the compliment in a speech in which he eloquently summed up the pre ceding arguments in support of tins aims with which the meeting had come together. Contributions, including a legacy of 2,0001., were an• trounced by the secretary. The Levant Herald,of May 18,says :—"M. Colas, a leading shipbuilder at Bordeaux, arrived from Marseilles on Saturday, charged with a mission from a French corn. pony who intend applying to the Sublime Porte for a con. cession of the whole lighthouses sernm of the Ottoman Empire, with a monopoly to the company of the light dues, the erection of lighthouses, and the carrying out of the whole system. It is but little probable the government accede to so extraordinary an application." SPECIAL TRAINS TOR PRIZEIPIOBTB.—SOMe cor respondence has been printed which took place last year between the government and the South-Eastern Railway Company, from which it appears that the directors, in • letter to the Home-otlice, written in consequence of an ex tract from the quarterly report of the chief constable of Kent having been forwarded to them, assured the govern ment that the train arrangements which had been com plained of were made without their knowledge or authority, and that they bad taken steps to prevent any facilities being granted in future to enable people to attend a prize fight. Six months later in the year, a magistrate repre sented that there had been a special train to Etchingham for another prim-fight (between Sayers and Rrettle), and when the police on the spot applied at the Etchingham sta tion to telegraph to other police stations in order to collect their force, they were told that the telegraph would be occupied for some home. The directors replied that the applications for tickets for the ordinary train on that morn ing were so numerous that it was necessary to divide the train into two portions, seramting into a distinct or special train those who hail taken tickets for Etchingham, but that the company must carry by their regular trains all who presented themselves ; and that, as to the telegraph., the reply given at Etchingham was, that the instrument at the time was in use between two other stations, and as soon as it was at liberty there were :i7 messages waiting to be sent off before the police inesslg,e could go. Here the cor respondence ends. • THE CHAMPIONSHIP.—The new belie are to be presented to Sayers and Heenan, at CiaMoll26-gardeDa. on Wednesday. On the day after the men will proceed to Manchester, where they have engaged the Free Trade Hall, for their exhibition on that evening, and on Friday they will appear at Liverpool. After they have completed their tour in the proeumes they will go together to the United States. GOSSIP AWENT THE DZIIHY.—BeIrs Life Says " The pace was very bad for the first half-mile, when it improved, and the time was four seconds fester than last year, which, though not first-rate, told hotels so effectually that not • single horse this year galloped into the paddock to pull up. Mr. Ten Broeck stood a ' screamer' on Umpire, but lost by every other horse in the race ext Horror. Mr. Merry, who hacks his horses very heavily when In gorses!, is reported to win between seventy aad eighty thousand pounds ; and his present triumph—the object of his ambition—will atone for the disappointments occasioned by the unacoiuntable defeat of Hobble Noble (for whom he gave the late Lord John Scott the unproar dented sum of 6,500 wines when a 2-yr-old) in Daniel O'Rourke 's year, and of Lord of the Isles more recently. After Mr. Merry, the chief winners on the race are Mr. Payne, Colonel Ouseley Higgins (who executed a portion of the stable commission), Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. Graham Smith, the latter of whom ' throws in' for ten thousand. There are few cleverer light weights than Cuatance, who hes fully warranted the confidante reposed in him by both owner and trainer on thus occasion, and to carry off the Derby at his age (19). is a feat that no other jockey has ever accomplished. It was a slim of luck, likewise, for John Sharp to tumble into such a ' good thing' after his long and harassing journey. Nuthourne broke down in the near foreleg, in the foot of which he ices pricked a fort night before the race, and way going so well at the time that a general opinion prevails that he would have won—what they say of all hones who meet with • similar fate. The ' settling' promises to be a most satisfactory one, notwithstanding the large sums that will be required to meet Mr. Merry's and other claims, as the winner, who was one of the earliest 'fancies' of the public, is generally considered a harmless hone fur the Ring." The Illustrated London News says that Thonnanby twice over jeopardised his chance by stumbling; but. his little jockey, who carried some =ix. of saddle and saddle. cloths, and never rode in a Derby before, recovered hint very cleverly. It is said that Heeunn stand to wiu 1,1001. upon Umpire ; but, like Mr. Ten Broeck,he did nut come to see him in the paddock. Toni Sayers was also in the stand, and, having now determined to cultivate the arts of peace, he has male a good beginning by joining a volunteee rifle corps. A Fautt ONE. —The followingiflatance of fenti nine deceit is causing a good deal of gossip in Cambndge we forbear, however, to mention names. Mr. —, a tradesman of Cambridge, was betrothed to a young lady, Miss S., of F—, • neighbouring village, and Tuesday week was the appointed "happy day." The cake was sent home, the furniture all supplied, the guests invited, the clergyman "spoken to," the dies for the bridal party hired, and the gentleman had sent two rings to the fair one for selection. Two days prior to the Tuesday, however, he received a letter from his lady love, stating that the marriage must be deferred for a few days, under circum stances which she would explain. On the following Wed ' neaday (the day after that fixed for the gnat event) the bridegroom expectant received the following note : "London, May.—Mrs. M. (late WAS 5.,) pre.entw her com plimenta to Mr. 8., and begs to inform him that she was married this morning (Tuesday) in Loudon. All presents will be duly returned ." This precious specimen of female delicacy finished with " Your's faithfully,' kr. It appears that the bride had been engaged for five years ; and the jilt had really been trifling with the nffeetions of a young, confiding, and worthy man. To add to the heartlessness of the affair, the husband brought to Cambridge one of 'the rings sent to have it changed for one a little smaller.-... Cambridge Independent. 1 s, I I I