The Express. — London, England, 1865-02-17 00:00:00

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CIRCUS aad PODROKI-71is etestyeay preaeuseed by Itte wbele at the pub& Feet le to tbe matte& tad meet oeuseay evz r A t z, b= j a z o lailhast.--itiOIINDO tad KALLOL ea tin —Gee opiates, at the pea MEMBER ! we wait Su_ ppw for you &n or lalcenbass. MUM Pail so& ghe Oroveoo. rherkenterk hawk% kr "Ilk Lanka inablz l br nut b. k Oak. 14, ftavoi•dass. to 7 air or the kr kr d pobikelise. NMI 11ILMISITIL Toms Eviimire. LL&A. Mama &dn. Hwy. Teriss. Teneag. maiwyek ; mimeos Aar lbssaac—Osudlsetor, Ardltl.—Asid THi ns ktaA) TIE 132(10021f. lllar Cotterell, hula,*R. Itattaa. —Commas at 7. _IAIIEARCIIT. Two Ivainss, DAVID DUNDRIIART KARAM AND DONE VOL. llama &Ahem Brad. Duck. Gordon; Wes lloowdos. —MSC= SIEINCITINZ. Mr. —AM TEL WOIJ AND TIN LAMA ?I!flfOliWn. . THE IVNIFIK TEL MiGICBONAL AND THU WI YAWN'S lILLNCIBL—And TAN STRAIN OF LONDON. lbwass. ITYM J. W. aim D. Misr. D. Kuhr ,, 2 1 1 . = N. FixTesior, and I. Minos ; H. Minim aid Gwynn'. ATCPUIL Me imam, 8111790 i ANDOO. Ur. isery sad Mos 11 BOAD4IOI lama Yedalsk_liorussa ilkircettly.-111 Inadkeenb. Fl UP•Mck. affalsaA__ Murceth7. , .41211 BiAIteIACID IIOOSTM. RIR. WilikllMlL 1111,1TA=L- To-Noarow 1,71177. i il7aY BEI ; ae, tin Old lady at Threadoledladdreat Madame L Mho aM N. Jacobs ; Yr. 0. Ligwood. /Irat-rais Yaotaadadais —dad TRY wOILK MILL Ol LONDON.—Casuassai aahaltisaiL MGR WATZI AT LONDON -Memos TO DAT Marti& 111. 411o.....Aftaesoca, 61k. em. %o•isoisoW Me nds& OLflimi.....Aliormoss, ft. 43m. WNDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17. Tar Report of the Royal Commission appointed to consider the forms of subscription and declara tion at present required of the established clergy has been laid before Parliament. It is a docu ment marked throughout by much reserve. The positive recommendations of the Royal Commis sioners are set forth' with all possible plainness, but there is an apparent unwillingness on the part of their authors to give a maim for anything they propose, or do more than express the bare result of their deliberation's. Whether this happens be cause the Commissioner found themselves divided in opinion, as has been stated, or because the Com missioners were willing that their recommendations should stand upon their merits, and win the sup port of persons of various opinions and for opposite reasons, can only be conjectured. Those recom mendations point to two objects—to the re duction of the number of subscriptions and declarations at present required, and to a mo dification of some of them, in order to make them less stringent. The forms of subscription now in use have grown up since the Reformation, one after another being enjoined as circumstances seemed to require ; and, considered as a collec tive body of guaranties, they have many of the defects incident to institutions of historical growth. They form a confused mites, diffi cult to reduce to intelligible principles, and abound ing in repetitions. The Royal Commission pro pose to simplify them very considerably. A clergyman at his ordination as deacon has to sub scribe to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion in the mass, and immediately afterwards to subscribe to three articles of the thirty-sixth canon relating to the same Thirty-nine Article' of Religion, to the Royal Supremacy, and the Book of Common Prayer: he has, moreover, to take the Oath of Supremacy. On his ordination as priest the same oath and sub scriptions are repeated. On being licensed to a stipendiary curacy the clergyman again subscribes and swears as before, and in addition signs a Declaration of Conformity to the Liturgy prescribed by the Act of Uniformity, besides reading the Declaration in church, and also a certificate from the Bishop stating that that Declaration has been duly made. On institution to a benefice the same oaths, declarations, and subscriptions are repeated, together with others relating to canonical oho &SIX* and simony, on which we need not dwell. The Royal Commissioners recommend, among other things, that in autareon every occasion on which a subscription or declaration shall be required to be made with reference to the Articles of Religion or the Book of Common Prayer, one form shall be used. This in itself is a great gain apart from the character of the form proposed. But, as we need hardly observe, a Royal Commission would never have been issued for the sake of merely formal improve manta. The Commissioners have had to consider bow far it is expedient to relax the stringency of the eubscriptiond at present required. Forms of subscriptions are tendered to the clergy as testa of doctrinal belief. The defenders of the practice argue that we ought to know beforehand what doctrine the clergy will teach, and it is assumed that this may be ascertained by finding out what they are willing to subscribe. The system has been esta blished now for several hundred yearn, and it is a matter of fact that when we wish to know a clergyman's opinions about the most im portant doctrines of religion, we do not once think of his subscription as if it were capable of throwing the least light on the matter. The Bishop of OXFORD and the Bishop of NAT/J, the Bishop of ExEvas and the Bishop of Rao& have all subscribed the same forms, and are all ready to subscribe them again. The Declaration prescribed by the Act of Uniformity for the pur pose of driving Puritans from the Church ac complished its immediate object, but there are more Puritans at this moment among the clergy than there were in the thirteenth year of the reign of CZAILLES 11. And yet, ineffective as the present system is for pre serving uniformity of doctrine, it is affirmed by *ow who ought to know the facts to be powerful in deterring able men from entering the ministry. The very rigidity of the terms of adhesion to the formulas of the Church, while it excludes a scru pulous few, makes subscription easy to the many. For, it is argued, words at owe so precise, so comprehensive, and so strict, cannot be taken literally, but must be capable of interpretation in a liberal practical seam. And so the Bishops are brought to the amenity of explaining away until, se an eminent Arleta dal Moos in the House •f Lords, comprehensive deeleggtion et assent Gomm to mean no *ore then that making it will use the Prayer Book and not preach against the Articles. But it is only by a certain class of minds that those explanations can be ac cepted. There are others who regard words as awed things, and cannot be persuaded that the explanation of any individual, even though he be a Bishop, can do away with the solemnity of a declaration made to the Church, and before the world. A "liberal interpretation" does not satidy them, for, as Lord AKEZELEY has well ob i served, in his pamphlet on this subject : " Accuracy, not liberality, is the end and purpose "of interpretation. It is concerned with the rig " nification which words Woolly hare, not with " that which we think they ought to have ; and, " nukes that sigoifioation is involved in some ob " acarity or some doubt, interpretation is " worse than noshes.' At present every clergyman subscribes a declaration which opens with the following words —" I, "A. 8., do hereby declare my unfeigned " anent and consent to all and everything oon " tamed and prescribed in and by the Book inti " Wed The Book of 0003M011Prayer.' " These words are the plainest and most explicit that the English language supplies, and neither need nor admit of interpretation. You may show the im possibility of such an unqualified adoption of the esetents of a large volume as is here expressed ; you may argue from that impoodbaity that a less reserved adhesion to the Book of Common Prayer ought to be accepted ; you may contend that, in spite of moral and intellectual difficulties, a person who believes that upon the whole the ministry of the Established Church is the best place for him is justified in signing the declaration. But the meaning of the words cannot be obscured or subverted. A few of the clergy no doubt sign the declaration in its literal ulnae, but a great number subscribe, as they are good enough to explain, by the aid of artifices and evasions which they are taught to regard as innocent if not laudable. The Royal Com missioners appear to be of opinion that the prac tice now authorised has lasted too long, for they propose to substitute for the very stringent decla ration set forth in the Act of Uniformity a general form expressed in much lees restrictive language. They recommend that on every occasion on which a subscription or declaration shall be required to be made in England' or Ireland, with reference to the Articles of Religion, or the Book of Common Prayer, the following form be need :—" I, A. 8., do solemnly make the fol " lowing declaration :—I meat to the Thirty-nine " Articles of Religion, and to the Book of Com " mon Prayer, and of Ordering of Bishops, " Priests, and Demons ; I believe the doctrine of " the United Church of England and Ireland, as " therein set forth, to be agreeable to the Word of " GOD • and in Public Prayer end Administration _ _ " of the Sacnunenta I will nee the form in the " said book prescribed, and none other, except so " far as shall be ordered by lawful authority." Slight as is the verbal difference between this form and the strictness of the declarations which it supersede., it gives a much greater liberty than they do to the subscriber. The simple assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Prayer Book, and the generally expressed belief in the doctrines of the Church, is a very different thing from the " assent and consent" given to every sen tence and phrase in the Book of Common Prayer. The new form of subscription is not inconsistent with that independence of judgment which the clergy as well as the laity ought to exercise upon the best of human compositions, nor with that liberty of teaching which leaders of religions thought, who can honestly use the Prayer Book in public devotion, should enjoy. That subscription, even as thus amended, will completely protect the Church from the in trusion into her ministry of men who bold reli gious truth loosely or not at all, is not what expe rience leads us to expect. But if the reforms now proposed are accepted by Parliament and the country, those who think of taking upon them• selves the office of a clergyman in the Established Church will understand that public opinion has required • modification in the forms of subscrip tion in order to make those forms more solemn and real, more truthful and fuller of meaning, than they were before. We want all the liberty which can be enjoyed consistently with the great ends which a Church has to fulfil ; to ask for more than this is to ask that the Church may be destroyed, • result which might easily be brought about even while unusual care was being taken to main tain its administrative organization and perfect its outward aspect. Ax extension of the area of rating, so far as applies to unions, will probably be one of the lead ing features of the new Poor-law Bill to be laid before Parliament this evening. The present system, with its hamlets filled with labourers, and its parishes without a single poor man dwelling within their precincts, is obviously responsible for many of the painful ►nomalies which come to light from time to time. The squires and landowners who, acting in concert with neighbours of their own station, decline to have a single cottage on their estates, and whose ground is consequently tilled by labourers residing at some miles distance from their daily work, virtually shift the duty of providing for their poor on to other shoulders than their own. This, combined with the dread of being sent book ignominiously to their native parish in the event of breaking down from mis chance or ill-health, prevents many a struggling labourer from seeking employment elsewhere than in the immediate vicinity of his birthplace. The poor have as deeply-rooted a horror of being handed back to the workhouse of their own neigh bourhood when misfortune overtakes them as some of the rich have of seeing cottages on their land. Though a summary clearance of these objectionable dwellings is comparatively rare, a tacit under standing between master and steward that they shall under no circumstances be repaired is not un common. Thus by degrees they fall into ruin, and are finally swept away with other rubbish, leaving their late tenants to house themselves as beat they may, in parishes where labourers' cot tages are still tolerated. The fact of the num ber of houses of this character having decreased throughout the country in inverse proportion to the increase of population, is advanced in rapport of this statement, and certainly points to the 1 crying necessity for change. It is thought, them , fore, that by equalizing the rating of all the parishes within each union, and by, at the same time, extending the area of settlement to a similar extent, both ratepayers and paupers will be prac tically benefited. When the landowner has to pay his quota towards relieving the pauperism of say I fifteen parishes, it will be no longer his interest to thrust those likely to become chargeable over the boundary line within which his estate is situate. Raving to assist the poor in the distant hamlet in rangy the mote impend= as the poor welling siateil at his peek-gate., the Ineonvenissen t el ass ploy ill-horsed biboltreres who hart to walk sem mike to anifrom their fiat'a work, withecome Itiongly appatent, and the panbable revolt will be • withdrawal of the present Psobibitions, and as a natural cone/minims the erection of a better ohms of labourers' cottages throughout the country. This is in itself a strong argument in favour of the Bill, and it is to be regretted that the particular im provement to which it points cannot be shared in by the metropolis. Neither equalisation of rating nor extension of settlement will in themselves have nisi affect on the dwellings of the London poor, and we must content ourselves with the know ledge that some approach to • fairer system of levying poor rates is likely to be introduced. The ninety-eight parishes composing the City of London Union, for example, will have to bear the burden of their poor collectively instead of separately ; and the Bank of England—forming, as we believe it does, almost an entire parish in itself—will pro bably be charged at a higher rate than now, while its poor and populous fellow parishes will be bene fited in a proportionate degree. Other and mate rial modifications of the existing law will not improbably be submitted to the Howe, but the clauses making the ratepayers of different districts op-equal in responsibility, and which are designed to indirectly benefit the labourer as fully sa they will protect the interests of the pauper, will be readily reoognised as important efforts towards the solution of one of the hardest social problems of the day. THE, EXPRESS, FRIDAY CP ff. ur t . OSBORNE, Fa. 16. Ides Majesty walked sad drove yesterday, &Magid by tie Dowager Duchess of Athol. Pidscose Helms sad Prisms Loabie drove oat. Prime LelaLege& arrived at Osborne yesterday. Tin Prises aad Prisons at Wales dised with the Duke of Chnbridis lan evens& Their Royal Hishasres was attesded by the Hos. Mn. Storm and Major Teesdale. Lieut.-Colonel Ohatterton of Coburg, Canada, had the honour of submitting tood:Ila of improvements in railway carriers to the Priam of Wales yesterday. A deputation represering the Forth and Clyde Casa! Navigation, and acesitisg of Mr. Crum Ewing, M.P., Hr. Habeas, Kr. Riadmen, sad Mama. Made sad Byrne, had ea Interview with the Right Hos. T. Mau Gibson, at the alas of the Board of Trade, yesterday, upon the subject of the Bridge of Forth HU Despatches were received yesterday at the Coleak' Mee from the Oeverson of New Zeeland, Melte, the Nara haseriewa previous, sad Bermode. Despatches von not to the Gemmel of the West ladle Islands, British Oolosids, sad Canada. Tan Col:arr.—Her Majesty and the royal fatally will !says Wawa* (weather permitting) this afterasos, shoat 3 o'clock, sad, sword* to the armaments =ado, will mica at Windsor about 6 o'clock. Ths usual moan. time @visit saddest will b. takes, and a pilot sagiaa will preside the royal train by 10 missies - His Hopi themes the Duke of Cambridge was honoured by the preemies of their Royal Ifighamies the Priam and Princess of Wales at dimmer last evening at Glowester Hoeft Her Royal Highness the Dasher of Cambridge, attended by Lady Gerablias tieenerest, arrived early. The Prince and Primus of Wales, attended by Major Teesdale sad the Hon. Mrs. Moser, srrived shortly Mien 8, mid were received by the Duke of Cambeidge and Coined the Hos. Jams Maoloseld. Amass the guests invited to meet their royal bighorns wen the Earl of Clareedu, Lord Colville, and Colossi the Hoe. Percy reildbeg. The Prises and Princess of Wales left at har ped 11 on their return to Marlberoagh Hum The Earl and Counted Russell received at din ner yesterday events& it their reelassee In Cheishem-plece, his Ereelleney the Belgium Masker, Lord Hanley, Lord Dahlia, the Dam of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley, the Hoe. James Kenneth Howard, Lady Louis Ho ward and His Howard, Sir James and Lady Mary Wilde, Mr. George Lefure, M.P., Mr. John Romllly, Mr. Lewd, H.P., &a. The Rev. Dr. Goodford, Provost of Eton, sod Hrs. Goodford, gave s uteri mudded entertaiasesat is the collage dieing-hell yederday eves*. Of the 400 invita tions 300 were accepted. Several of the principal 10311d011 vocalists were engaged. After the conclusion of the concert the company retired is two sections to the floe old Election Hall, which was brilliantly lighted up, and at the bottom et the hall was displayed the beantifal silver-gilt model of the eollep promoted to the provost and fellows by Wil liam IV. The supper served here comprised every &li mey. In the House of Lords, on Monday, Lord Lyve doe will ask her Majesty's Ministers " what they have done or intend to do noon the reports of Colossi Jorvoie on the defences of Conad► W. In the House of Commons on the 10th of next month, Mr. W. Bwart will call the attention of the govern ment to the publics advantage which would malt, and the raving whirls would aortae, from the publication of an abridgment, or digest, to be Wind from time to time, of all the Parliamentary Bine Books, and similar documents, on the same plan as that of the "fitatiatkal Abstract' Lewd by the Board of Trade sins, the year 1854. Mr. Clifford, on an early day, will bring forward a bill to repeal the provisions is vslioss sots of parlisawat fawning flew far mowstteodssioe at a place of worship on Baaday. It is annonnoed at Chatham garrison that a elianp will shortly be made in the staff at the Royal Roemer Department, Horse Gum& The poet of Deputy AdjutaatAileaszsl, aow held by Colonel F. R. Obegimae, 0.8., will be filled, it is naderstood, by Col. J. L. A. Simmons, 0.8., imminsading Royal Engineer, at Aldershot& ; while Llitat..oolowel. the Hoe. H. F. Keane, motet. adjt,gen., will probably be enomeded by Lient.-Ooh .7. F. M. Browne, 0.8., now doing duty at head-quartere, Chatham. . . The Attorney-General for Ireland hag appointed Mr. John Adys Curran to the Sector Crown Proseantor ships for the *males of Heath sad Carlow, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Loftus H. Blood, Q.C. General fil'Olgillan is expected to arrive in Rome hi • few days. The general has been hafted by the eels. bested American sculptor, Mr. Story, to spend some time al his residence in the Berberini palace. Mn. Story is • elongation of the geosrel, her sister haviog married Dr. M•Ciellao, of Philadelphia. The Moscow Gazette mentions an innovation in- Seediest into the Nobles' Club at Odeon by the admission of ladies ea members. They have to nadirs. the nand ballot, Mos nonsbers of the male ass. Accounts frost Vienna of the 13th show that the whiter continue with great severlqy in Anskia. In the capital the snow bad fallen for Wes days, and the streets were quite blocked up. The swine on many of the rail ways was partially suspended. A stone has base aging with such violates between Trieste sad Laybaolt that not only have trees and telegraph poste been carried away, but near the Ober-Leeson station a goods train was forced off the rails, two trucks upset, and three others blown down an embankment. Fortunately no Byes were last. A letter trots Naples says :—" Rietori has made her usual summer in Giuditta, by Gisocamiti. Flotow'm Martha, coldly received at first, is now vary popular— thanks mostly to Madams Pirelli and M. de Bimini, for the mule in mouldered fittest forfora senator theatre that Ban Carlo. Gaiety is in the simindsot just now ; the pre feat's receptiose want the warmth sod life no pleura at the balls at the 17mion Club, Duchess Sim Arpin°, ha. Rime Humbert attends all mos► flatteringly. The mart bell on Monday was spleedid ;3,000 were peenint, leolusive of the Prince and Moans Canino Biuniumaii i and moo) of the noisily Morbid Meads of Frees& It" COLLIAZ HOSPIT (L. —Ati amateur dra ma* performance, ander the patronage of her Reyal ThAmme the Daiwa et Cambridge, the Dochem Dointger of lateen gad , mad hi Royal Highness the Dal MP Om& bridge, will ineglyea 1 of the feeds et La& Cams lissPils l ea Willstils7 *realm Feta Zt, the Royal Bijou ramie, Haymarket. The ealetiatament will me als et the dramas et Plot and PdISPOIN with the fame et gamut is &wok if Biaartf; sad as urgent reall-kaiewa amateurs bane nauseated Sc appear, it it to be hoped Ras litaillte ill cordially roped to what mud be, is the esti maim et iY, a meat pesieeearthy madeseallog. Tickets may he hod of Moppell mad 00., 60, Now Bomi•etreet. 'lrmaAlma Nimes wain.) • • - CANADA. 4:tumult', to. 3. On Wednesday last the Hon. John. A. Mao donald brought before the Legislative Assembly his Alien Bill, entituled " An act Mir the prevention and repression of outrages in violation of the pesos on the frontier of this province, and for other pur poses." It ws read last evening for the third time, and passed with comparatively slight opposition, the votes on the division being—Yeas, 107 ; WIN 7. The bill consists of three portions--let, The per expulsion law, chiefly copied from the Impe rial act of 1848, by which the government is em powered to remove from this country such aliens who by their conduct should render themselves unworthy of asylum. 2ndly. Preventive clauses adopted from an ac‘ of congress of the United States, passed in 1838, for the prevention of incur sions into Canada. 3rdly. The foreign aggres sion law against the local preparation of munitions of war, to be used in hostilities against the United States, adapted from the United States Act in such casei provided. In proposing the measure, Mr. Macdonald stated that before introducing the bill the Canadian go vernment took counsel with the imperial authori ties, and that the British Alien Aot of 1848 was die tinctly indicated es most proper to be put in opera tion in this country. He also stated that the measure had been initiated entirely at the sug gestion of the Canadian government, and not from any dictation, or even expression of desire on the the part of the United States government to have such legislation. The following is a luminary of the act : 1. hay wrktsi bismuth* attested by the Avatars and sante ol the WWII sad seat either to the °overact , General or the Proviocial Sectretery, enables the Governor- General to order the departure from the provisoes within • limited time of the alien represented am plotting against, the traited States government. 2. The alien is to be notified throngh the Canada Gazette alone, ao persoual notification being mammary. 3. 1/Isobedimos to such order eulogies the immediate errors and imprisonment under the personal warrant of the Oovernor-Getteral, without WI or maiming ol the alien, until be be dually departed from the country. This die obedieem is punishable by imprisonment (for • term not exosedleg 12 mouths) in the oommou goat. 4. The Governer may, from the clues to one mouth after the °peeing of the utilisation of the S. Lawmen, detain such slim is prime. 5 Upon as alien not being am:minted of misderceasour, the Genre*, in Ocamil may allow the •Use's excuse or memo gives by him for his disobedience, or may great lIIMOSiOII of the time given for expulsion ; but so each pri vilege is grunted should the alien be omitted of mis demeamer. S. Th. °overeat is authorised to furnish the alias with the nature of the eharges brought what him. but be is rwraired to give the man el the isforseer. 7. Aliens may adduce evidence wen tea, and "ladae witnesses before the °evacuee. is Omani is esppni of any allured mon for disobedience. 8. A writ of habeas oorpse may be pealed by a judge, bed only to relieve the slims wben wrested sad Imprisoned for disobedience to the Goversor's warned. On Wedneeday last the Hon. Sir Z. P. Tech. gave notice that this evening he would move the following motion in the Legislative Council : To resolve,—That as lonsiale alarms ha promoted her Majesty, praying that she may be graciously pinned to ease • raeasare to be submitted to the impalal p•rlismeat for the pupae of uniting the oolc•is of Garde, Nova Scot* New Brunswick, New foundland, and Priam Edward's 1 eland in Gee goverament, with provisions based ripen resolutions adopted at a roofer mos of delegates from the said Woo ise held at the city of Quebec we Oet. 10, MM. Owing to a demand being made by the United States government, the Canadian executive pro poses to appropriate the sum of 60,000 dole. in gold towards indemnifying the St. Albans banks. Judge Coursol is suspended pending a statutory commission of inquiry into his conduct in dismiss ing the Vermont raiders. It is rumoured that the Canadian government have obtained the opinion of the English Attorney-General, which is adverse to Judge Coursol's decision. It is said that owing to the friendly relations ex isting between the Canadian and the United States government, the passport system lately in troduced is to be speedily abolished, so far as Canada is concerned. A force of 2,000 militia is now in active ser vice on the frontiers, entailing an annual expense of 1,000,000 dollars. FEBRUARIN 1r 100; THE BANK OF FRANCE. PAHL% Fn. 16. The following is the return of the Bank of Franc's for the week euding to-day, together with the cor responding figures of the previous account : Feb. IS. Feb. 9. e. Capital of the Bonk /*meta in addition to capital (Art. Ikeeirre H of the law of B Juankne 9, sad ) tie . 7,012,250 9 7,007,20 24 branches lissom tn lauded property Notes In circultUon Bank notes to orderand receipts payable al alibi Treasury accounts—eurrent or dttor B 7: 040 2 eOO 22 re.oes,:si id ___ _ CoMakac"T'!..• ?arb 14117.1ii I 1,111.101 V/ Ditto bnul eh b — eilke Dividends payable Disoounts and sundry Intenste 5,211,301 15 4,126,815 eg itadlacennted the hat nix _ menthe . 2.710.414 6 2,711.4411 _5 Sundries years or* raga and those whisk are sow la a 4 needles under my orders testify • misleat solicitude fee the sasederatios sad of Ibrialferesi bramble el the palitieel armel. Miss If the Mate, •10 tar es morbid', and la the min merited out by my will. The right el lattiative Is the axiom portions of this work of gradual verbatim belmlll solely to me, end le iadiseolubly bound up with Its autocratic power 'insisted to me by God. In the sight of my faithful subject* the pest shoal& be a guarentes for the futons. It is act permitted to any mom them to melodies my iessmest efforts for the welfare of Russia, am to satielpate the Mimics et Mastless Marisa the (miasmata priaelpim of the lestitutioes of the State. No as. elm bee legally the right of meads. la the same el the other obese Nobody is privileged to istemerie with me la favour of the passel iatereste and asemities of the MM. Ruch devia- Sam from the order established by the legbiatios in vigour ass ;My Mehl' the ameatiou of the plass I have trued out fro myself. Is so me will they be able to at. We the objects towards whiek they my be di mated. I subertain the arm 110111AlliOR that I shall not herseefortb ersomaisr shams obetecke apes the pert of the Barden Minty, whom SIIIMUt services roasted to the Mom sad the arwsky alms; presset to my memory, sad in whom my soulideetee has always beers, and remains, aueltemble. I Beim you will osarramioste this reseript to all the goverser•mersls and goversors of the govermants in whisk merablise of the Dobbs Mt, or la whielt provincial menblias ought to meet. --I roman your affectiosat• ALZWDZIL THE TILILES ELECTION. DUBLIN, TIII3IIIDAY Nwi. The O'Donoghne has been returned for Tratee by a eieJoeffty a/ 31, the numbers eh the eine et the poll bang :—The OTiosodras. 114 ; Kr. 1111[424,4, O. Gust exiitualet. No :Wog. Tad ORSAT ROBBERIES IN THE CITY. At the nuns tints that a man luta been arrested oe the change el robbing the penises of Ma. Winger Is suet sr in le efasteo who is aespeoled to *re been seenwesi In Ye robbery el *see of Mr. Johnson, Jeweller, I. Tbaidasedle.etneti, to July last, though at prom* be *ads charged with a differs* stoic.. The robbery at tbe *op el Mr. Job's= wee, possible, awe deli* *ea that la Geenhal, be* la it. memption mad the eiannee is width it was billested. It took place is the bomb el the city Cl Load*, is • great public thorough. faro. and oder the very dads, of the Beak of Beg kid. There Is ma sa *Where. tee, that it wee own. milted at midday in a Sudsy, and wee attended with seek an menet of sheer viebeeen after ell Giber meats bad faded, as ought to have atentied the attention of the E on duty, had they *a gredietaily vigilant. The thieves actually tore away by main lame the hearlaga of • Meow door, after having in *a atimapted to piek h ey mashed and to cat through passim mooed with hoe ; they mashed to atoms Urge minor , nearly half aa lack thick, and thee, haring in that way eras ea miteanee into a pleos lighted with pa and *Die by *erten. in the shutters from without. they sessaoked enobeenud sad endietarbed, of jewellery watches, tereeeenitees el the valet at not lie thsn'4,Cool. is ell. Tbat dose, they walked tato Threadasedleetreet, tarrying the whole of their booty eashallearged by a deals end* thh day, althoug , h mere than ail a.s bees elsped. they me et large. An the tresente shim wee of die most easily id*, be* telviskally sad la psi* el wealoneasittp. It inalegled, meet other arndie. gewrinp, the Pet prise of whisk was upwards of 3701.; **shoe. 4.101.; bracelets, 4201.; look*, 3904; signet-zings.ls6l.; steded3l3r.i psudi. =1C01.; ear.ri_lllol.; sad sheet 1. worth ot el lewsnery belosiOg to eostemen, be which Mr. Jaime wee serirerebie. It eget Mae, tosivaver, about 1501. to repair*. damp do* done to Ms pregame by the robbery, in addition to the low el property woe* 4,0001. WEATHKR ItZPORT.-{THIS DAY.) tuDat Maim 11. • La. . Naha•.' .17111 A`terftee 29.69 22 UM l7 29 Ardraraa . __ . pill 22 Gressoasll2 l7 10 SalwAy Vaisalis Ass 12 C 268 a i sissla L ue r g" esi 'sh — .tt — 34 Wilma 1 M I O 96 Pladirsits &NM W.W.W. &W. &N.E. USW. air. w. resamos .. U Biwa ..... 7 SUS A L'Oduk.... Maim taphole", U 27.60 M ° 776 161 LL 21.4411 3 Poetaasomik U. 42 al lastea 29.0 Dever Y —awn& tt9.10 is ' Soirboraked 29.17 101 mow 2llOllO 11•11,71aa — N.N.R. W.I.W. N.W. M.N.W. WIC W. N. W. W.N.W. N. W. W.N.W. wimr. tilt LI:. 11.1 W LW. T ig A L 17 its 1 wiw;o7 1 I L E W. OA - S I X 17 I i. :w 17.ii , ;:iii gi FiF7571 . 1 . 60 1,671,417,1116 41 1,63J,921,11167 It Fib. 16. CILIDITOIL Fr. s. Cub la band and in branch __ ..__ . Iteb. & Pr. C. - 111%k: -- ass,srs,ies 4 5za,244,444 4 Comisessial bills overdo' Commercbil bills discounted, _. _ ___ ._ - Votpeiras ----. ne.sai,rts a 1101,1157.706 40 Ditto Munch banks Advances ou deposits of bullion 11,976,931 65 16.470,41 66 Ditto branch banks 3.955,000 0 1.218,310 0 Advances on trench public se curities 11,1101.900 0 14,554,100 0 Ditto branch banks Admire on railway shams and debentures Ditto branch banks 10,849,e30 0 17,573,750 0 Advances on Credit Fourier — Bonds - - --- 130,500 0 541, , 00 0 Ditto branch banks ....... 3V.,160 0 331,150 0 Advances to the State (woven- Goa 10th June, 19671 Government stock reserve 11,600,7.50 14 12,980,750 14 Ditto disposable 99140,797 M 110,60,797 91 Nantes immobillska (law toad June, 1837) Hotel and furniture of 360 bank& landed properq,bracehe4 4,444645 0 4404664 0 Zxpeaset of managuaset Illuackries 1,17%417.116 61 1.281,811,537 81 8 1 4P 8 d) itoruitv, Senator. Governor et the Bank ol Francs. RESCRIPT OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Fn. 12. The following reeeript of the Emperor to the Minister of the Interior has just been issued : Paul Aleseadrovitcb,—The coaxmary eiscßoes which I took plea I. the gevenmeat of Ilaisem at the men meneemeat of January have sot bees smasedaL The directing &nate baring remittent the irregularity of the desiolose of the amerelly d marshals and depatiee tometeg the right of parlielpatien by some at the whim la the affair' of the amiebly of go varararit, all the eels of that arm* dose up to the time of its clone hare last their legal salsa. Ima nevertheless net mammy that, in the coarse of it. cleilberatiorm the amerehly of nobles is the government of MOSCOW his sabered upon the examination of arbda gasetiren ant within fts competesea, and that it hes Michell awn 'abject' iamb* the modifiestion of the smential and Me damealid prineipiee of the isatitationeollimempareef Pm aia, The Manes happily aosaisplihid loft Pr tau W.N.W. & W. N.W. SAIVIDAT t LIII. S.W. LW. 13 team at wha WI WON. I.2OBMISA. ON NOITIUMMI gmAr. N.Lia. - iriza,.w., --za,, - .. Lw. z - Tiv. and in* to me gas, with backdr o p s squally, mow MON. museNistl. W.S.W. to NSf.W., WE= I. 3.W. to LW., stroulL stray Marais, .ow a mow labs ha phases, rMa scow or Min. or W. to N. sod back, 601721111111. As amt Moat Moss.m. M msetlid. N. to m 15. W.. fresh to Lases. LW. to N. sad back, strong. some snow. Wrong, squally. Nadiacasketland. Wasiernedraisnd„ Wain - and a lla mado'. Southern .Zustlah Channel and By of Iltscay. Unarm ereatward England and North Sea. Houtz or CHARITL—The animal winter meeting of the Maids acid supporters of this iasßadical took place lad evesiag at No. 1, Greekeimet, Soho.equare. The meeting, coos Bering the inclement state of the weather, was well attended. Among those present we ebaseved Lady Cavendish, Mrs. Gladstone, Mims Gledstoae, lady Burrell, Lady Henrietta Ogilvy, Ma. Mn. Stuart Wortley, Mies Mary Stuart Wortley, Miss Prime, Mae Hoare, Mks Twining, Mrs. Glyn, Miss Cotton, Sir Stephen R. Glysae, Be►. Henry Gip's', the Queen's Advocate, Rev. W. Q. Coteau, Rev. A. B. (lotto% E. Drummond, Esq., Rev. Nugent Wade, ko. The Warden seated that during the Aurae of the year there bad been admitted 651 inmates, of whom 110 caly failed to be Femmes* beuefited by their reimplios. The RASA*e of the tecaitatioa had been re. dated to 3,0001., with every prospect of further dimiantioa, sad if sight more bed■ were provided the ocataeil would be able to receive 70 iomstes at am time. The tasethig was addreseed by the Queen's Advocate, Dr. Mauro, Mr. W. O. Oats and the Rev. Nugent Wade, and the moosedialP THZ TRIAL FOR MIIILDIZ lit IRILLND.—The trlil of Richard Murphy for the murder of his Mater Elks M BaHybrid:p..lms (we leers by EMMA° Tsleipaph) brought to a eonclasien yesterday by a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoner, however. was sot dieebsupd, as be has yet to he tried for the murder of hie other sister, Aane, which will probably commence to-sky. ADKIBBION OF CLZZOTIIHN TO THE BAH. —The Bombers of Ligroin's-Ms have adopted by a bugs majo r ity the *aim of the smell majority of tbs stroms from the four Ines of Court In Lamar of admitting to the bee =Des who ham (as far se they ma) abandoaed the profasioa. 'miring it to the bishops to take wok stem es they may think fit, by rademi of lissom or WM taboo, to prevent sleds persons reiuming their alerted foietiose. ZOOLOGICAL Sect &Tr.—At the monthly general meeting held yesterday at th e society's house, Haeoveo &nem Mr. Robert Radom, F.H.8., is the chair, Mum L. V. Pluton, &shard Jefferson, J. Park 8 I Robert Ow, sad George Blaeksami, wen elected Tot ti :r s e at the society, sed Hose. Adolphe Howard, of Paris, wee elected a corresponding member of the society. Twenty new candidates were propoied for the fellowship, Lod ordered to be belletted for at the next meeting. THE STRIKES IN rag NORTH STATFORDAIIIIIH IBM THUM —BrEIasOHAH, Fur. I6.—A very numerously attended meeting of protium usage& in lie iron trade was held at the Royal Hotel ben to-day 'to coosider what step should be taken to returnee to the strike co the part of the paddlers in North Staffordshire. Mr. W. 0. Feeler, ILP., presided ; sad there we deputations present hen I most of the iron prodeciag dintriots b the north. Attu a beg dleetuoloo the following resolution we usantnionsly peered :—"lt having been officially sausaced that the strike of the puddles in North Staffordshire bas been dl. noted by the executive of the Peddles' Union, and It having been escertairred that tumid, sonbibatine are reoderlr Wing levied and paid by the use in ether &Webb la support of the AMU we, the signed, do hereby agree that we wit give fourteen days' mike on Saturday next, _the lath feelut, to Non our works unless the men in North Itaffordshire shall before the expiration of that ecoties has Mauna to work at the are reduction in wages as bee hem acrepted by the um is other districts." In pmenanos of the above, nohow will be ate.. as /3starday, sad the works dam' as the 4th of . Th. warthog senshithm war eitend aIY "me" sad sesettag ems add te be the largest and empt We. wad et the boa bads that bee we amenthind in the aid kini dietrish_ _ _ I CsieriPAuca.--ONE SULLEN{ DAY. —TIMM MAT; 1 1 13. 16.—Adrobsices es 8112; ditio by moot Maser OS; Wig sill n. 1,351. LAW INTELI (TlllB D QUITY 0 wan VEieraraosnar MO V. Pt( This was s suit to resirde tier bade mark masiliag cd arrows V deserlbleg whim imported by ibali the plastid% err I.AICV mble re amble ns Tim, am taw tilia. Th. deka Pereepl whir we Ea the habil el wham MAIN OW NOM* prelim, ha dbaist hams as " leshed* crews sad the ward " Seceer w The Viee.olmareder was el p was wet =Mild to OM sea a is At the mate Mar he wee eadilei " amber Is Illipese el wises se dieing. Bet ia vein the same anaust di set to had pa were the pisialifd The b oss to the madded tam. COURT OP QUM/ Attar Tars Nisi Priam littlas Lord Chief Juries Cookbar moo= (=ma) v. in This ease was Named this ■ day ol the trial. The arse leaned eriesarl a tram d_eye el UN trial. Mr. Maori Brie depose 69, Upper Tbrassresst, sal arra 4 Jar Ransil aad Co., was ia I know eufr ia d hil lfe in ogled Kr. civil my lead sad are Mr. hamar Ta kW* 1111111 Yes. Noah Ana the Darr* Cool Nto ads Mos Treascol Mr. Err sailed ea ask sad same harried. af doer sari sad irked his Myra I intro Orr to hrs. We Maar* am seer d IBM Mr. Danr acid whilst Mr. Kisses woe ia from bias, doted 13th April, g ; aad that a lisr :el= . tbe prat fresh tk bmit be aka, ad re sle sompd be u dose. aira y losi Smith Ward. I had irervi rola= sad doey west tun, shay had der sad does ia Bsrs form • orepaay, sad I int be Weed at Mr. Land dike, i peered by Mk Maras that hi al re repay. po whoa I lasi saw it, The aad Smith sad Mr. Wool had • es lia earls Wt nape= ho Mar I eltrodlie pest. mad t attomprd raid bar bass to boohoos I Vika to me Views. (lAl A llar im:sh ee ter. 44 library part ( Woad geias firsestate 7 Nipen, was rat asslimes bra formed re it . cie6 Mr. D sad Mr. Warr peat= I rig ho r. d ao bawls* Agar the o I hoard Gas to .lard... arigrally at Mr tin • the dirtiest pork Is irk 1 savor his thee& that Walesa% was Helmer . wee lir rand ism 1 bat had-s polinsa4 Uptonsod bim, Memo= to J rind re errors without no "ally orris& I was awan • roes r sot aria milkiest tura sod it wee is eseesehrelloo to e say ersatiok I was a party 22ed ad Ally ter erred* dm wise draws up I eastiargly sv W orapasy. I how amfirg ab raw or the law proosedinp wh war taking sprat the arra; Mr. Waksheld, and Mr. Norh• dim:hoed the petioles for Woos for esiisorbilies did Is Siereaster, 1963, di d Mr. Snares sad I had 'request Moister. He was vary kind rgar with hisk (lasighter.) I leek sal est with my oars is Vraler the river, and the u abed the Mr of Mu* 18843, I :dared say admirer that might as Baton that I sad Mr. Soars Never costamplated taking pro: tag out the eoursay. I belie prospers' to loe lase. We ono 10 per wet. profit. Apr boat cleared MOO& is or of the compsay was wed stated is the prospect= It 40,0001. had bass =paired upo Mr. Boom hams paid months say time for the hat year ad a I breasts ol the awapeay. My poweetligge are settled we ea cam es it. cowpony. and will he nitanied. The ( osaneweed with only one developed *felt. that with all ban:bras evidead. It has boar, ad a lager ourober of was taboo as to the propriety a the cosepasy la the mom Beedllos. _ _ _ Cresrommlasd by Yr. Ha mosey was refused to several called use a swindler, sod I poi I bath ao vii or istsalka to to Yr. Waft I as powered court, sad vflit kismet. I in Amiga* Idl3. In April, 1 ply to hi. letter to Yr. Bi adopt sack prosesdisp as he a aware this Ns. Doesksos su •failure hes the mot of =boa oossideral it should be wound a would bath bees lathe, sad it discard= at the bard. bat I a west biro espilsl-1,800 abort The bowed errassi pot sere relative to the 4,0001., annual gothraarat wbes sin ships *WI The Lag tl there would bath ben so dime the Deaths, and thaw they von 4,0001. No one dall doubt it. [Thee was proceed 00IIRT OP PROBATJ (Wan tato Judge Ordiw - 0. HAMM This svisqpatitiOn iro;cliei posed of Me wide', adultery we Xr. Oewsei. Q.C.. aod Mr. the petllimer ; •Dr. *Mks for Mow Chambers, Q,0., wed Kr. caosignadeat. The p Mr. Ovaread the are. • printer sod at lbaseht mar that Clay, rad that he meat 1863. la Amp* timid veer bad hod pavolearly es Megitis *tor'.balbead, Mr. Ramsey, ban of Slat Mild, At ti MO And was living with Tide esrawory wisely irritate =ma panels with by wit sad =violemo. sad wee seer to by the pea wife fled • peaks far a plead 41 her baiesd's erne Men bat no decree es the hed is the mem • diverse aa the 'mad et adult Evidence wee gloss ea to tb4 which won shawl to have tab if ill made is lisaeboser. Me ore wee proceeding COURT OF BA (Bsien lb....oaasmisi II BZ JONATRAN TLS described as • jot at Padding** widens mime on Ste trial TWIN sob Os fee make ••••••14. penpapedi bp Mr. Pay supssdiuss Is swami as n o purses Sig s beakrip tey Tim mem& et 300/. to whieh . the Menke he whisks he make i " I csaider that I a entitled, tis roommts of 3004 Shred for t at tis malksser et tli• late Wm illseudias which led to seeli resalmier wt sad rowarde pas • Mr. Ihmagb, tor tho &edemas, had Om the go-by io the sal] dins reisseas 4 1004 keh— .w persimally. Notwitb steadies tl is apse was advised that M es • 3004, sod silk ended k sb. laalempre mash On the 28th of January 1•1 WI" hod wskiss Se tbs swiss sirsaled is pay lb. reward of 11 MISS! infirmic Application hed tar mai mem or other, saheb SgAb ts enkert, a ur pernek assignees Ass wh Ohs laisksopt's lastest wet As b.