The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-17 00:00:00

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The change is decidedly for the better, and we trust there will be no relapse. A serious prat- I t.cal conversation among half a dozen business-like awl experienced men on dockyard expenditure and naval efficiency is to our thinking worth an im- Biome amount of loose declamation on the "cradle" 1 of the House of Savoy. If Count C•vocit rubs his hands at his own bargain, it is almost tits* for us to cease to fret or fume about the transaction. There are more ways than one of discussing foreign politics as they affect ourselvea, and perhaps the most pew...cal mode of regarding our relations with the Continent is to consider them in their bearing upon our Naval Intimates. A debate on the condition of the Navy is, in point of fact, a de bate on foreign affairs, for it is through our Navy that we are still one of the great Powers of Europe ; and it is through her Navy that England's voice is heard, and the weight of her arm most feared. Other Powers may stretch their natural boundaries by fraud or force beyond rivers or mountains, but far as the waves can bear, is the only natural bbindary of England. When we speak of " mari time supremacy," we arrogate no arbitrary or exclusive sway ; we do but signify the vital condition of. the greatest colonial and commercial empire the world has ever seen. Other Powers may add ship to ship, and gun to gun, to minister to a vainglorious ambition, a rankling jealousy, or a lust of domination ; the duty and right of Eng land is to carry high the flag of her own ancient freedom, and to keep her beacon light burning clear on the broad highway of the seas. In all this there is no boastfulness or insolent !mete iisio:i ; it is our ineradicable British instiuct, our second nature, our national religion, and it is this profound and ardent faith in the destiny of our race that raises the condition of the Navy ques tion far above the heats and mists of faction, and endows the moat inveterate landsman in the House with a marvellous aptitude for discnwin,g the quality of timber and even the al/Arun mysteries of "rudder pieces" anti " Mem puma. " It was a general re"s.:4c that the second half of tlw. !session had begun very tamely, and, we dare say, to strangers in search of a sensation the aspect of the House was dull. To our thinking the House of Commons was looking its best last night. If we wanted to impress • foreign visitor with a sense of the substantial worth and faculty of Parliament, and of the solid and serious patriotism that beats under all that vulgar broadcloth, we would put him in the Speaker's gallery , 41 • night when a batch of admirals, a great shipowner or two, a shrewd county member, me! perl..ips a yachtsman, are having a little plain and quit:, though somewhat discursive chat, about the supply of timber to the dockyards, the price of anchors, the pay of petty officers, the coat of repairs, and the moral , : of the Channel fleet. Our foreign friend would, we are persuaded, come away with a far higher opinion of parliamentary government than even if he had enjoyed the singular good fortune of assisting at the most brilliant skirmish of " interpeUations." He would come away with something like an adepiate conception of • free Legislature and • respon Uhl. Administration. 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IS 0 1 16 0 10 0 10 0 17 0 10 : .... 601601 6 0 40 66 THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY MEOWING, APRIL 17, cumion on naval affairs was ID several respects unusually interesting and improving. 'We cannot expect Sir CIRRUS NAPIER to WEIR always emine i aims now to say on so old a subject, but we con i.e. we can make large allowances tor iteration go fix court ;0' l''...- • 4. WINDSOR CA*E, An= X ` The Quilln accompotietl hyPrigotei Alice wanted end thee"' the Horesspirk this otembi; art rhited the Duals., of ii , as, at Frnitnore. I : • the theme of how the money goes in the dock yards, on the conversion of sailing ships, the alteration of bows and items, the use of green timber, the want of petty officers and youngsters in the fleet, the means of preserving discipline without flogging. The importance of paying petty officers well, and of improving their position in the service, can hardly be exaggerated, for it is the petty officers who keep up disci pline among the men. Then as to punish ment, what do the recent mutinous out breaks teach us 1 Certainly not that existing disci pline is too strict, still less that punishment can be dispensed with ; but rather that punishment should in no case be capricious, bat that wherever deserved, it should be certain and severe. The bounty system haa, we fear, in some degree demoralised the service ; the men are beginning to put a bounty vase on their services, and the disposition to make things pleasant is not un attended with disadvantages is a Channel squadron in time of peace. The want of midshipmen is another difficulty just now ; why not meet it by throwing open the service to competition t At present the most national of our services is as close' as the rottenest borough ; there- would be no Lek of candidates for naval cadetships if, the spirited lads in England who take is the MS as naturally as chocklingeto a pond, were permitted to compete for the howlers of her Mituserr's quarter-deck. The case of the post-captains on the reserved list, brought forward by Sir J. ELIVINSTONE again last night, is, we fear, a diffi culty always lately to recur, but it is one which the country would desire to see solved at all times in the most generous spirit. From officer* and men to anchors is one of those sant transitions which occur in naval discusiona, and Mr. LIMIAT did good Berries by exposing the- differeme of prices paid by the Navy and the Merchant set , vice. It is not is anchors alone that this differ ence is manifest. In engines, for instance, and in the wear and tear of machinery, to compare the great expenditure of mercantile companies with that of the Navy would be instrustive and startling. Another very sera* menial of nasal expenditure was started by Mr. linistar in one of those admirably complete and enhaustim state ments which always give us an idea of a model member of Parliament, as• idea not even to be conceived in any other country then our own. Mr. Ham* addressed himself to the question of the supply and quality of timber in the dockgrards, and, fortified with an array of care fully studied figures, he proved to demonstration., with an easy power which the oldest Sea Lori might envy, that the amply of timber deemed sufficient by the Admiralty is grossly inadequate even to the ordinary demand. of the service, and that the finality of the imber employed in the yards is so unseasoned that it en tails an monsions and incoming expeeditere to keep eras the ships in ordinary in a taus* sound state of proserration. Mr. Bata= hes, we believe, laid his finger on the trim seat of that de vouring malady of consumption which preys on the vitals of our naval strength. How is if that France, which forty years ago had scarcely any fleet at all, and which within the present century has almost despaired of ever being a naval power again, iu 1800 is foetid to have transformed one fleet of lira-of-battle ships and created another—not to speak of frigates, of gunboats, of transport% of non-plated steam rams—and all with resocirese immeasurably inferior to ours, at less than half our cost ? France, no doubt, is pm-eminent '-;strative genius, and in her capacity for A deputation from Manchester, consisting of Mr. Thomas Baxley, M.P., Mr. Jas. Aspinall Turner, M.P., Mr. Mannar' Potter (president of the Manchester Chamber at Com merce), Mr. Malcolm Roes (viee.prcsßent), Mr. John Cheetham, Mr. Henry Ashworth, and Mr. John render, had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gases yesterday, at the ogles of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cobden was present at the interview. A deputation from the Birmingham Chamber of Com merce had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson. The deputation consisted of Mr. &thole held, M.P., Mr. W. G. Foster, M.P., Mr. G. A. Everitt, and Mr. C. H. Wagner. Mr. Cobden was present at the Interview. A deputation from the Leeda Chamber of Commerce, oon slating of Mr. Darnton Lupton.. president ; Mr. John °c hains Butler, irimmairter engmeer ; Mr. Junes Kitson, lronmaster and engineer; Mr. Thomas Lawson, flax machine maker; Mr. Edward urtsburg, woollen cloth merchant; and Mr. John Wilkinson, jun., felt manufacturer, had an interview yestenlav with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Cobden was pm lent at the interview. A deputation from Sheffield had aa interview with the Right Bon. T. !Clime Moon yesterday. The deputation sr minted of Mr. J. Jobeoe Smith, president of the Clamber of Commerce ; Mr. Robert Jack.on, mealier cutler ; Mr. W.F. Dixon, J.P.; Mr. Thomas Jeri% Alderman W. A. Mat. thews, and tkunimllor B. J. Eyre. Mr. Cobden wee Foment at the interview. Viscount Palxneraton arrived in town yesterday from Beseket Hall. Despatches were received et the Cdonial•oftioe yesterday from the Governors of the North American Provinces, Heitgelandousti the settlements on the West Coast of • Africa. wise sent to the Governors of the West Indies and British Columbia. His Zxeellene► the Sardinian mines; to town to-day, from visiting Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston at Btocket Hall. The Duke and Duchene of Hamilton and family win rater! to Hamilton Home to-morrow, from Paris. The Marquis of Salisbury came t& town yester day from Liverpool, and left in the afternoon for Hatfield. Her ladyship will return to London on Thunelay. from wading the Earl and Counteao Delawarr at Buckhurst lark, Sussex. The Earl and Couuteaa of Dalkeitla are expected in town on Thunday, Crum Boughton House, Northamp tonshire. The Couotees of Kiunonl's soirfes ciamowades will tate► plata on licaulay, the 30t,1t instaat, and sa Monday, the-nit et May. The Earl and Counteaa of Eglinton have returned to Gritlittio Clans(lea Hotel, Albemarle-otreot. Viecount and Viscountess Emlyn have left Gol den Grove,. South Wales, ter Werlesley, Huntingdonshire, oa a visit to the Hors Octavins and lady Caroline Dun iombs. ' Lord laveneworth and family have arrived at his lordship's residence, Percy -.-nos, Fufascre, from Ravens worth Guide. The Raw Mr. and Mrs. Francis Stoner arrived in Hortfoodrtreet, yesitenisy, fur the moor, from Weser Pans, Oxfordshire. Sir William and Lady Joni& arrived at their residence o Stsattsdratzeat, yesterday, froai Metatiaam Rome, Reigate, for the seamen. Lady Ntre gave birth to a daughter at ST, Port land-place at Sunday. Vice-Admiral H. W. Bruce, at Portsineuth, with Major-General S. R. Wesley, Deputy Adjutant-General of the Marine Reyes, yesterday con cluded their inquiry relative to the late disturbance on board the Edgar, at tipitheed. The report of the inquiry will be forwarded to the Admiralty. i-Chief Yesterday week their Royal Hig!memos the Prince de Joinerlle and the Due d'Aemale prided over • stunptwoun breakfast given by them at Esher, to the far mer. who have permitted them to hunt over their grounds daring the season. Fifty sat down to the repast, and the health of their royal highnesses was proposed sad drunk in ski Beeish style, with them times three. They returned thanks sad expressed a hope that they should all meet in the mese tray next year. At one o'clock the deer was turned out at Little Heath, and some good sport was obtained. The deer was taken to Harbrook Farm. There ins a great num , beard people at the meet. - - construction and organisation; but how is it that, not being exclusively a naval power, she has over taken and almost left the greatest naval power in the world in the lurch 1 These are net questions to be asked in any invidiouaor hostile spirit. We may honestly admire the energy and spirit of the naval administration of our mighbours, but what are we to think of our own 1 Sir Hugh Cairn, in committee on Bleaching and Dyeing Web Bill, will more amendments exempting from the operation of the bill works in which the occupation of bleaching or dyeing linen, yarn, and cambric only is car ried mt. Mr. Selwyn, on the motion for the second reading of Ecelesiaatical Commission, &c., Ha, will moose that it be reed a second time upon this day six months. In Committee on Representation of the People Bill Mr. Ingram intends to move a those to the following effect:—" Every male person of fall re, and not subject to any legal incapacity, having been a resident for three year; or upwards within a city or borough returning a member r members to serve in parliament shall, if duly registered, be entitled to rota in the election at a member or member' bo serve in parliament for such city or borough : provided always, that so such person shall be so registered in any year unless be shall have so resided for twelve calendar mouths test previous to the last day of July in such year." Ors Parliamentary report records that last night Mr. %Livia's, the member for Salford, gave , notice that, after the second reading of the Re- • form Bill, he should move that the meamre be referred to • Select Committee. Mr. MASSZY, who described himself in a recent debate as a iaan who likes to feel his way in politica, has doubtless not resolved to invite the House of Commons to refuse to legislate on Reform this session—for that and nothing less is the meaning of his motion—with out satisfying himself as to the extent of support he may expect. We are called, therefore, to regard him now as the volunteer leader of more or fewer reactionary members of the Liberal party. The hon. member for Salford has a very intimate acquaintance with the forms of Parliamentary pro cedure, and he has selected that one which unites the greatest power of obstruction with the least show of antagonism. Nevertheless no one will mis understand the true character of his proposition. If amendment, and not resistance, to the Reform Bill were desired, how easy it would be to propose specific improvements in the course of the discus sion•of that measure. The subject which it is pro posed to shelve by consigning it to a Select ( ommittee is the very one on which every mem ber having a seat in the House of Commons was first questioned by his constituency—the very ono which lies at the root of the distinction of parties —the one on which, if on no other, every intelligent man in the kingdom has formed his ol3ti on . T o hiii :Jr iiancling oiler to s iielect Committee a demand which has sprung out of the self-con sciousness of the nation, and which rests on the broadest considerations of constitutional policy, is a mark of political effeminacy and degeneration not to be thought of without concern. If the Government Reform Bill is unnecessary and mis chievous, let those who think so have the honesty to say it, and vote accordingly. If to admit one artisan in ten to the exercise of the elective franchise will ruin the constitution, let it be vigo• rowdy opposed. That is a course which would command respect. If honourable members whose return was a protest against the inadequacy of the Reform Bill of the late Govern ment have changed their minds, and now perceive that Reform is not wanted by the country, let them not conceal their new light, but frankly acknowledge their mistake. But, by the respect which hon. members owe to the Liberal constituencies which have returned them and to the non-electors who have trusted in them, we beg of honourable members that we may hare no more playing fast and loose on the most important business that can occupy the attention of a Legislature. INSTALLATION OP MR. GLADSTONE AT EDINBURGE. The installation of Mr. Gladatone m rector of the Edinburgh University, took place yesterday in the Music Hall of that city with considerable ceremony, and in presence of a large body of students, together with sash of the general public as were fortunate enough to secure tiokets of admission. Vice-Chancellor and Principal Sir David Brewster, by virtue of his office, presided on the occasion, and the Divinity Professor opened the proceed. iop by prayer. _ In accordance with a resolution agreed to by the Senates, the honorary degree of LLD. wee then conferred on the following men distinguished in science and literature :—The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. the Lord Justice-General, the Hon. Lord Meares, the Solicitor-Gene ral, the Very Rev. Dean Ramsay, Principal Forbes, and the Rev. H. L Hansel, Professor of Moral nod Metsphy ideal Philosophy, Orford. Mr. David HA, who represented the students, then for mally preeented the uewly installed rector to the Vice. Chancellor. These rfaliminarioe e , "!fict through, the right hon. genilentin tdoutintand his inaugural widens. lie com menced by stating that he meant to speak to the assembled students of the work of the university as a great organ of preparation for after life, with the view of assist ing them in arming themselves for the efforts and trials of their future career. It was, he said, a broad and universal canon that every generation of men, as they traversed the vale of life, accumulated new treasure. for the race. No small part of that treasure was stored, and no small part of that work was performed by university men, who had been entitled to rank among the greater lights and the glories of Christendom. He described the work of the university as covering the whole field of knowledge, human and divine ; the whole field of nature and of it. powers ; the whole field of time in binding together successive generations as they passed in the pro- secution of the common destiny, aiding each to sow its seed, and to reap its proper harvest from what proper been sown before, storing up, into its own treasure house, the spoils of every new venture in the domain of mental enterprise, and ever binding the present to pay over to the future at least an acknowledgment of the debt. The universities were to knowledge and mental freedom what the castle was to the feudal larva—what the guild was to the infant middle classes. Universities were a great mediating power between the high and the low, the old and the Dew, between the specu lative and active, between authority and freedom. In countries which enjoy political liberty, the universities were usually firm supports of the established order of things • but in countries under absolute government, th e y acquired a bias towards innovation. After some remarks on the proper work of universities, Mr. Gladstone noticed the dicilties attending the question how far endowments for education were desirable, urging upon students and teachers the duty of bestirring themselves in their own persons to refute the charge that endowments or univer sities gravitated towards torpor as their natural termini'. tion. He then impressed upon the students the im. portance odic he acquisition of knowledge whnh The ceremony of laying the foundation atone of would be tly serviceable to them in their several • new church at Maidatoue, about to be erected by the I professions, and the value and the study of ancient liters. Earl of Roam . e, in the /tote :ark tuck Saturday Sere as affording the moat intellectual training. As to the Lot.t Amongt y those pr.t were , t place nobi. earl, Loaf u ta t =l i sd r. ai o m in which n th etu ezt t ud b ents should pur e suedi e rr i. Mt...slum, the Ladies Marrhani, sad the Hon. Robert up-ra the am use ,ty, and myrt l e r his Uat e ..:m rl ul loud u. n h eht . th e Rev atr liasend.de, and the architect, Mr. and general app he address having lasted nearly an illardford. hour and s half in the delivery. LAiST INTELLIGENCE. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. (nost ocnt OWN con*aeeosntir.► NAPLIK Aram 10. intelligence alleged to have arrived here yes terday states that the fighting continued on Sunday night outside the gates of Palermo with great vigour, and that Bagaria, Murreak, and Coils were the principal points of action. Letters Iwere said to have beak found compromising some of the first families of Sicily, and a great deal of money, it is said, had fallen into the hands of ' government. A gentleman, however, whts arrived last Friday, considers that the affair is nearly over, that it had been premature, and had been urged on by the police, whilst the more respectable and sounder-thinking portion of the community had been averse to any movement, on the ground of its being certain to fail. We must look, however, to facts rather than to opinions. According to this gen tleman there had been hard fighting near the monas tery in the Piazza Mariana and the Palazzo Zka. Four monks fell fighting, and twenty were taken out and shot in front. He says he saw an abbess and a nun dragged through the streets by soldiers, who urged them on with their bayonets. They ' were in a fainting state, and had been guilty of giving refuge to one of the compromised. The Argus was at Palermo. The Orion left Naples yesterday for Malta. She was under sail. The Papal steamer the Immaoolata is in port. All the stemma are taken up by the go vernment, so that the post does not leave to-day, and I do not know when this will reach London. Since writing the above, the French steamer from Malta and Messina has arrived. I have scarcely time to communicate the intelligence. Messina rose on Sunday, the Bth instant ; but the insur gents had all taken to the country, or were driven outside the walls. Sunday night passed quietly ; the intention was to renew the fight on Monday morning, but as the news got abroad that the Palermo affair had been checked, the intention was given up. All the youth of the city turned out, and almost all are compromised. Many persons amongst the soldiery, gendar mery, and citizens have been either killed or wounded, but the numbers were not known. The aspect of the city was as tins' te as it could well be, and the population were in a state of consternation. I believe that the whole of Sicily is heaving, and that though the Neapolitans, who show themselves a nation of " Canaglia," have not uttered even a cry, they are not less impatient of the oppression from which they have been so long suffering. I have just passed the Arsenal, where the greatest activity prevails. Great quantities of forage were being taken in, and artillery and troops are being sent cell r (antra's TZLEGRAIL " woe room • MARSEILLES. TIIIGISDAY. tj The' direct steamer from Naples arrived itbis evening, and brings advices from that city.to the 14th instant. It is asserted that on Thursday last a large bomb was thrown before the palace. The explosion shattered all the windows. No person was injured. The revolutionary attempt of the Bth at Messina commenced by the killing of two sentinels. The movement was less serious than reported by the passengers of the Meaudre, which remained a great distance off the spot where the combat took place. Flying columns were pursuing the bands of insur gents, who had taken refuge in the mountains. 4, It is positive that no preparation had been Rude to pass the Roman frontier unless an attack were made against Rome by Piedmont. Intelligence from Rome adds that the Pope had resolved to take no initiative in a war in the Romagna, and that General Lamoricibre would only concentrate a corps in Umbria, between Rome and Ancona. NAPLES (rid Gm*, APRIL 12. Aocording to advicee from Sicily, the revolution sul, movement is increasing in the country, which is full of armed men. The Royal Intendant, Celeste, has made common cause with the revolutionists. The 14th and 15th Regiments are being de spatolied from Naples to Sicily. Artillery and other troops have been sent to the citadel of Messina. A popular demonstration has taken place at Arena in favour of Victor Emmanuel, in conse quence of which the town has been declared in a state of siege. Arrests have been made at Naples. RESULT OF THE VOTING AT NICE. The Moniteur of dila morning gives the follow ing as the definitive result of the voting in the city of Nice : Yes No ll SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 16. it is asserted that the sentence of death against General Ortega will be executed this evening. Universal tranquillity prevails, The Moorish Plenipotentiaries are expected at Tetuan. The civil war in the interior of Morocoo has prevented them from setting out at an earlier period. The Emperor of Morocco has been obliged to pursue the pretender. SWITZERLAND AND SAVOY. PARIS, TVPDAY. iun Congitutiotinel denies the existence of direct negotiations between France and Switzerland on the question of the neutralised distr►ct of Savoy, and adds that the negotiations are only between the powers who signed the treaties of Vienna. BERNE, APRIL 16. England and Prussia have replied to the Swiss note of the sth of April, relative to the assembling of a Conference, by consenting to the demand of the Federal Council. GENEVA, Aram 16. M. Thouvenel having stated in a despatch of the 13th of March to M. Tilos, French Chargd d'Affaires at Berne, that the Federal Council had proposed a secret treaty for a partition of Savoy, the Federal Council has given an official denial to the state ment of M. Thouvenel. Russia has replied in a favourable manner to the note of the Federal Council of the 19th of March. SARDINIA. TURIN, Aram 16. The Persereranza publishes the text of the letters of King Victor Emmanuel to the Pope dated Feb. 8 and March 20, and the reply of his Holiness thereto The same paper also publishes the letter of Count Cavour to Car di nal Antonelli, and the reply of the cardinal, which is dated the 2nd of April. The archives of the Legations of Russia and England have been transferred from Florence to Turin. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Amu. 16. According to reliable information, the total amount subscribed to the new loan is about 76,000,000 florins. The quotation on the Exchange is 93.50. Rumours of ministerial changes are circulating. EXPRZSS FROM PARIS. -.. (non OUR 07111 COEIRISPONDENT. - PARIS, MONDAY Evanno. The Censtitationne/ speaks of the last Swiss note in the most angry terms, and indeed in language which, if taken as authoritative, would almost imply that France was on the point of breakiag off diplomatic relations with Switzerland. The Opinion Nation - es iiirees with the Coesti %Hensel that the Swiss note would " justify " the French government in taking offence. The notion that the Emperor can possibly think of exercising any undue pressure upon the free exercise of universal suffrage is dwelt upon by the govern ment prints as fearfully offensive. General de Beaufort d'Hautpoul has been ap pointed Chief Commissioner for France for settling the new frontier line of Savoy and Nice. The work will be commenced immediately on the com pletion of the " formalities" for accomplishing the annexation. A communication from Rome of the 11th, in the Gazette de Lyon, says :—" The Pope last evening gave an audience to M. do 1* Rochefoucault, Duke de Bisaccia. This young nobleman, who is a widower, has confided his two children to his family in France, and come to Rome to propose to the Holy Father to serve as a volunteer in the Pontifical army, and to place at the disposal of the Holy See three years of his income, amounting to 500,000 fr. a year." The Bourse has been calm, with but little varia tion. The Relate, after having attained the extreme , point of 70fr. 40c., left off at yesterday's price, 70fr. 20c. for account. For cash there wan a fall of 5c., the last price being 70fr. 20c. Mobilier closed without change. The Eastern railway fell 2fr. 50s. and Southern lfr. 25c., hut the other lines were a shade higher. SWISS MEMORANDUM TO THE POWERS, The Swiss Government have sent the following memorandum to the Powers that have guaranteed the treaty of Vienna : NOTE ciscus.Ansz. Bear% APRIL 11, 1880. From trustworthy and agreeing reports the vote opm the annexation of Savoy to France has been fixed for the 22nd April inst. The question is to be put as follows: "An natation to France ; yes or no." The voting will take place by commune. The Swiss Federal Council cannot accept in silence the' 'new phasic into which the pending question is entering. They have already had the honour to set forth, in the note circulaire of the 19th March, from what point of view they think it right to estimate in a general way the resulted such a vote. They have already expressed an opinion that the existing rights of the neutralised provinces of Savoy, rights so solemnly guaranteed by Europe, cannot be can celled by a simple cession nor by a popular vote. As to the voting itself, the Federal Counid have thought It well to express their views quite frankly and repeatedly, and have formally reserved their rights on the subject, Immediately after the well-known proclamations of the governors of Annecy and of Chambery of the Bth and 10th , March, the Federal Council instructed their representatives at Paris and at Turin to protest against any voting until an understanding had been come to with Switzerland. They formally declared that they could not consider as bindirg a vote taken without a preview understanding--• vote in which Switzerland and her legitimate pretensioiss would be passed over. The Federal Council have maintained this point of view' in a most absolute manner in their fresh protestation of the' 27th March, when they asked that Switzerland should be consulted upon the mode of voting in the neutralised pro - •111088, and that nothing in this respect should be clone without her consent. The Federal Council have had the honour to give information about this to the powers guaran teeing the European treaties in a note dated the same day, in which they added that they must insist upon the abso lute maintenance of the state quo, until the proposed un derstanding with the powers, and with Switzerland herself, should be case to. theahir7e-n:Mtioned projected voting—all them re quests, all these just and equitable demands of Switzerland are passed over. A most important political and moral act is to be proceeded with without the concurrence of one of the principal parties interested, and without any previous understanding with the powers, whose participation, le concert with Switzerland, has been positively solicited by the note of the sth WA. liciiiiiire;abOeof this fact,. showing as open contempt of their • ts, the Federal Council feel anxious to declare positivy that they cannot look upon the result of the coming vote as demsive, and that they must explicitly pro test against any inference that will be drawn from this act to invalidate the rights of Switzerland. The Federal Council can 'lithe law admit the validity of the voting that whilst on the one hand the free expression of the will of the people of North Savoy, which has been constantly asked for, is not immured, on the other, the voting will bs proceeded with without previous under stending with Switzerland. Finally, the Federal Council have no means to control the voting, whilst it is notorious that French agents, having Seemator laity at their head, are at work in Savoy in the interest of Frame. The Federal Council find themselves thus in the position of renewing, in the face of all Europe, their protestations to the powers guaranteeing the European treaties. They earnestly recommend to them to deliberate seriously and impartially upon the present reclamation, and also to take into due consideration the rights of Switzerland, and to take prompt steps to maintain the *tutu quo. In the name of the Swiss Federal Council. (Signatures.) FRANCE AND GERMANY. A confidential despatch, addressed by M. Thou venel to the agents of the Emperor of the French in Germany, has been mentioned frequently in the Saturday, A letter in the Indepersdame Beige of Saturday, dated from Frankfort, gives the text of that despatch as follows : Tar* March 15, 1860. Monsievx, —I observe that in the German josirtials an extreme importance, and a meaning which is not the true one, is attached to a word which occurs in the discourse of the Emperor—namely, rerendleation, which his Majesty made nee of in speaking of the question of Savoy. Some see in the use of this word an intention of reverting to the ancient melon consented to by Sardinia in 1796 ; others en tertain the idea that our demand is founded on the difference between the treaty of 1814 and that of 1815. The government of the Emperor owes it to itself to pro- test against an interpretation essentially erroneous of a word of which a natural explanation can be given. His Majesty, in pointing out with so much correctness the terri toruil changes going on in Italy, which would place us in worse position on our side of the tips than we are in ac cording to the terms of the treaty of 1815, if they were not modified, Eaid that those changes gave him the right to demand of the King of Sardinia a modification j'utified by existing circumstances, and by the conditions which it then becomes incumbent on Frame to demand. That which we ask in the name of a tight which we believe we pores in not that which is called in French a rereadication ; and u for the explanations into which the Emperor entered, they do not clearly indicate the only titles on which that ramification was based. It was, I repeat, the new fact of a considerable aggrandisement of Piedmont affecting thelposition which res ted to no from the treaties, and not any idea of referring to previous acts or events. According to the engagement entered into, explanations must be given to the powers—an engagement fulfilled by the communica tion of which I had the honour to send you a copy attached to my preceding despatch. Does not this suffice to exclude even the suspicion of such a thought? We believe we can in that respect appeal with all confidence to the equity and the good sense of cabinets. You are authorised to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of , and to make use of it to rectify mi false appreciations which may be prodtt o ced uvEN UO Tl. Und you. THEFT OP MILITARY EXAMINATION PAPER& We are sorry to learn that the rumours are well founded which have been for some time in circulation. to the effect that the examination papers proposed to candidates for mili tary appointments have been surreptitiously obtained by some of the candidates in anticipation of the examination. Whether the infamy of tempting the subonlinates employed in printing these papers rests with the class of pretended military agents, or with other persons who are base enough to lend themselves to such chsgraneful means of enhancing the value of their own teaching, remains to be proved ; but this at least is certain, that the French questions in the examination for direct commissions now in progress have been obtained by some person, who has reprinted them and then sold them to such of the candidates as desired to avail themselves of information so dishonourably purchased. The result has been that the whole examination has been vitiated by this discovery, that the exercises of the candidates have been cancelled, and that a uew examination will at once begin. We have reason to believe that the Council of Mili tary Education have taken great precautions to guard against such a disgraceful breach of confidence as this exposure reveals, but it is evident that their efforts have not met with full success. We trust that the General Commanding-in-Clnef will ewe neither trouble nor ex pense to bring those persona to justice who hare first stolen and then sold what may be fairly regarded as the p ice of a commission in her Majesty's service.—Tirsea POLITICAL MOVEMENT IN GERMANY, (mom • ooi BONN, Aren. 10. For some time peat the English public has had its attention turned entirely towards Italy, while nearer home a movement is taking place, which very shortly will shake European euciet to its basis : I refer to- the discontented state of the peoples of the thirty-five goyern mee i s of Germany. lVe have seen how for a time Austria . twistett . :rsuzne - her fingere the little principalities and dechies in Italy ; and if Prussia does not quickly and energetically exert herself, Louis Napoleon will soon take a lead in German affairs. The Germanic Confederation (" Bund ") represents thirty-five states—kingdoms, principalities, grand duchies, duchies, and repute Jim-- There is one empire —Austria; and five king. dome—Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Hanover. There are nine principalities—Hesse Cassel, Liechtenstein, Lippe Detmold, Lippe Schaumberg, Reuse, Schwartzburg RudoLstadt, Schwartzburg Sonderhausen, Waldeck • seventeen rand duchies and duchies--Anhalt Dessau, Anhalt Bemberg, Hesse Darmstadt, Hesse Homburg, Baden, Holstein, Lauenburg, Luxemburg, Lim burg, Mechlenburg-Schwerm, Idechlenburg-Stre litz, NOBBIIII, Oldenburg, Attenburg, Coburg Gotha, Meiningeu, Weimar. There are four republics,— Hamburg, Frankfort, Bremen, Lubeck. The nine principalities together have about a million of in habitants. The largest has about 700,000; the smallest has 6,000 ; the average of the nine being 100,000 inhabitants each. One of these princes has an army of 60, including .4;icers. Three of these Finces between them have an army of eleven soldiers ; so four princes jointly can muster an army of seventy-one men, including officers, nearly all of whom are highly de corated, as each of the four has the right of decora tion. The 17 duchice together have about five millions of inhabitants. The largest duchy has 1,300,000, the smallest 24,000, making the average of inhabitants to each duchy 300,000. Six of these duchies have jointly 1,600 soldiers, and the average of soldiers to each is 250. The 17 duchies are profuse in titles and decorations to themselves and nine princi palities, and sire vend. The four republics have jointly 500,000 inhabitants. During Napoleon's time, the Confederation of the Rhine furnished him with a certain uota of troops for the Russian w ar . The Princess of Lippe Bucheburg was • great ad mirer of Napoleon : she addressed her troops must energetically before their departure. Her speech was received by the troops with cheers. They con elated of four men—one corporal and three soldiers. Nut long since the Prince of Hohenzollern sold himself, his rights, and his people to the King of Prussia, as the Prince of Monaco will sell him self to Louis Napoleon. Exclusive of the courts of Austria and the kiugdoms, there are in Germany 25 other courts, with 26 masters of ceremonies, innumerable chamberlains and ladies of the bed chamber, and all the court paraphernalia, as in Austria and Prussia. The expenses of the nice princes and seventeen dukes amounts annually to. 3,500,0001., representing the annual loss to their subjects of keeping up this ridiculous old feudal system. Each of these feudal chiefs has the power of life and death. In 1848, 21 out of the 25 either started for England or had their luggage ready packed for a trip thither. Now, however, they shut their eyes to the storm which is impending over them. Already have the people of Baden rejected the concordat accepted by their govern ment. The publication of the unchristian and ridi culous excommunication has not only produced a schism in the Roman catholic church of Germany, but has increased the already strong political feeling against ecclesiastical domination and the divine right of kings and princes. Prince George Galitzin arrived at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, yesterday, from Alexandria, es route to London. Prince George came to Eagland in the Agia SAL DILATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL BRIM:IRMA-N.—We have to announce the death of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Charles Orlando Bridgeman, which took place on Satur day last, at bin residence, near Owastry. The deceased admiral was second soil of Orlando first Earl Rrhdford, by the Hon. Lucy Elizabeth BAN eldest daughter of George, fourth Viscount Torrington, and was born on the lri mr i ll t February, 1791. He married on the 2nd of Deem bar, 1819, Eliza Catherine, eldest daughter of Sir Henry Chamberlain, by whom he leaves a family, being father of Lady Londesborough and Lady Corbet, wife of Sh• Vincent Rowland Corbet. The late rear-admiral entered the navy at an early age, and obtained his commission of lieutenant on the 10th of September, 1810 ; that of commander on the 6th of May, 1814 ; captain 2nd of September, 1819 ; and rear-admiral on the 19th of January, 1852. Numerous families of rank are placed in ST. PANCRAN AND NORT In I ar VIDDLLSEX VOLUN TEER RIFLR BRlGADE—Yederday evening a special meet ing of the effective members of this brigade, which is steadily increasing in numbers, was held after drill, under the presidency of the captain commandant, Captain Ross, to consider a proposal, having for its object the immediate engagement and organisation of a paid band. Nearly 500 permits aseembled, more than half of them being in uniform. The secretary of the band committee having briefly explained the necessity of substi tuting for the temporary volunteer band which has played occasionally hitherto, a paid band well-organised and under thorough control, and entered into some details as to the probable coat of maintaining it in a pro per date, it wan revolved unanimously that in future every effective member of the corps shall be required to pay 2a. cal. half-yearly towards the support of a band. all subscriptions; to be paid in advance, and the first to become payable to-morrow week. A higher amount was first pro posed, and although the proposal was withdrawn in defer ence to the feelings of what appeared to be a considerable minority of the members, there is every reason to believe that a very large proportion of the members will cheerfully pay a voluntary subscription in addition to the compulsory one, in order to provide the funds requisite to aecure a really efficient hand. QUOIT MATCH FOR 1001. —On Saturday a gre at quoit match for 100 soya, between Gillespie of Cowden• heath, the champion player of Scotland, and Hickson, of Manchester, came off at Salford. Gillespie gave his ante gonist five at the commencement of the match, note-ill , standing which , when time was called, he had scored 61. against - Hickson's 48. Tin WALTHIFIS.—We are now full midway in April, and still the . spring seems most unwilling to c invoke forth. In vain we "Gentle Spring," for ethereal mildness" assuredly does not " come." During several days Last week the weather was cold, dull, and !cheerless, and on Friday and Saturday, though the temperature was somewhat milder, cold rain fell. On Sunday and Monday it was bright, and the sun came forth with considerable power, the wind, however, still keeping in a cold quarter. So protracted a winter and so backward a spring few von remember. It really seems ai if we should practically have no spring, and that when a change doss take place we shall suddenly find ourselves far on the way to summer. Vegetation bas made some little ad vance during the last few days, and the rains have swelled both branch and bud. Nevertheless' everything is en• tremely backwar,L This remark equally applies to agri cultural crops, which, although in the majority of instarcee they have up to a recent date taken no harm, are in sown places beginning to lose strength and look weak :e"-.l pingly." The pastures have slightly improved druid the past week, but they are wretchedly bare, and our ; farmers are suffering serious loss and inconvenience for want of keep for stock of all kinds. An agrieulturiA de • dared a day or two since. in our hearing, that he and I brother farmers were literally "starved lout." - Adrertiaer. EXTENSPIK FAILYRE. DCBLIN, SATUSPAY Evxntao.—The failure of the extensive firm of Messrs. gerson and Co., generally known as cattle aalesnuister , is announced this evening. They were likewise engaged is the corn trade, in shipping, in the manufacture of raila-ay carriages, as contractors for the army, and in farms;. Their liabilities are variously reported, but all agna . i a A very large aggregate. The proximate cause of their furs is attributed to the banks restricting their aceommoday..n. INSANITY IN SCOTLAND.—The second annual ',- port of the General Board of Commissioners in hunser for Scotland has just been issued. In commencing them . re• marks the commissioners acknowledge the difficulties w 5 ...;,•11 beset them in carrying out the provisions of the recent statute, but add that a manifest improvement was already discernible in the treatment of the insane in that pr! the kingdom. The data furnished to make up the repol ' reveals a steady and serious increase in the imnib , r insane. They show that the number of pauper alone, which, on January 1, 1858, amounted to 4.7:, , had increased to 4,980 on January 1, 1859. Of In syst/ single patients, only 27—namely, 12 men and 1' women—were reported in obedience to the require-mew... 4 the 41st section of the act. The commissioners are, hes ever, cognisant of the existence of 1,807 --namely. 041 men and 848 women ; but by far the greater prepurt:•e: these patient& are living under the care of relatives. s7J consequently, do not fall under the provisions of the B e et," alluded to. The total number of the insane in SeotLsod on the Ist of January, 1859, including private amounted to 7,878, 3,829 of whom were males. awl 4)4 4 females. Some interesting statistics of insanity are given . 3 the report, from which it appears that 1,228 sew pat!ei , . were admitted into asylums in 1859, of whom 29 car's admitted in the course of the year ; 302 recovered, 76 e . ; , * discharged not recovered, 106 died, and 772 remained .n !..! asylums at the close of the year. f s f