The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-18 00:00:00

TO OUR READERS• Tun Newspaper Stamp Abolition Aet has received the Royal Assent. sod will oene into operation on 1 the 30th inst. The price of the Express (lu:stamped) will be then :educed to 2d. Consequent upon the change, this Paper will re ceive the full benefit of the arrangements of the Daily News, and will, from its own resources, seek to be distinguished as unequalled among Evening Papers. It will be published in time for the afternoon trains, and can be supplied to any distance within 70 miles of London by an early hour in the evening. bay think they may with hapnaity raise a shout when wanton insult is dined to a sea who has con- tributed more in his time to the isatrnetion and le proyement of governors as well as governed thaL I their whole tribe put together P It is hi ply to th k ti credit of Mr. LABOUCEUS, by w the cappmMt meet in gateau was Dade, the *should not itel I defend it as specifically unotiessable, bat that ine! Amid have emphatically declared the satisfaction b. I c ontinued to feel at having h ad it in his p ower to recognise the claims of one so distinguished's& writer.' But it may be, perhaps, as well to state shortly the true history of this curiously misrepresented ease. The statistical department of the Board of Trade was originally formed under the direction of Mr. DEACON Hume, and places( under the superintendence of the late Mr. PORTE& Sir B. NOSTINOTE is lavish tibia praise of the constitution and the working of the do patment so formed ; but he forgets, in his eagerems to render the civil service a close and exclusive pi. feesion, to state that Mr. Pones was himself refil -1 sally engaged in mercantile pursuits, and that he wee 1 token from them to aid in the conduct of an execs 1, tire department. But this, it will perhaps he aside was done by the Whigs. There is I curious incident in the History of the Board of Inds under Peelite management, which it is I still more edifying to find that the hon. hareset has forgotten. From being private secretary to Mr. GLADSTONE, he was himself promoted to be assistant. secretary in the Board of Trade, an office whir& began and ended with his, for upon his retirement it was found to be superfluous, and was consequently abolished. We do not assert that during his sojourn is the department, Sir S. NORTHCOTE may not have contrived to find useful and honourable occupation; but we submit that under the cireum. stances. be is about the last man who ought to raise a cry of prejadiu against what he is pleased to term " strangers • being imported into a particular branch of the service. We are far from wishing to under value the results of Mr. PORTER'S labours as a stela titian. Noe do we think it necessary to argue that other and higher posts might have been more appropriately offered to a man of the diversi fied experience and information of Mr. FONSLANQUE. But common justice requires, es the question has been raised, that a judgment should be expressed upon the comparative merits of the official works' formerly published by the Board of Trade, and those' , of more recent date. There is not, we believe, a man who hes had frequent occasion to consult, for 1 purposes of study, the undigested compilations of ten years ago, relative to trade and navigation, and the admirable digests lately issued by the statistioal de partment, who will hesitate as to which deserve the preference. Mr. Fonnunotre would be the lest mu, we are satisfied, who would seek to appro priate the undivided credit of the works last mo tioned. much of which is unquestionably due to Me. VALET and other gentlemen who act under him. Bat , when invidious comparisons are rashly and recklessly instituted, the public will insist on seeing both &idea, and happily, in this instance, the individual assailed is not likely to be injured by full inquiry. We frankly own, indeed, that Mr. FONBLANQUE is open to two great charges. He is not connected with the aristocracy, and he has often let the world hear hiss laugh at the pedantry and pretensions of Puseyite and halite politicians. In mitigation of the former offence we have nothing to say. We have no doubt that had he been a man of family, like the Hoe. FRANCIS LawLET for example, he would have bees deemed qualified by right divine for any executive office in the State; he might have been able to point to nothing previously done worth mentioning as a warrant of his capacity or as a claim of merit; but if his father hadbeen a peer, or if he himself happened to be member foe a rotten borough, he might readily have secured at six and twenty something very different in tank and profit from the post which is now grudged to him. As to the latter mime, that of exercising the right of private judg ment in a public way, and of chastising the follies sad errors of public men, in the best English, with the keenest wit, we confess our inability to say more within the bounds of temper and forbearance than vs have already done.—Doily News. THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES ACT AND ITS RESULTS. Tax Commission appointed last year to into the working of the Encumbered ideates Act in Ireland has honed a Report which contains some in teresting fasts, and some suggestions of no little im portance. We shall glance at thee separately. •__ ' - The results of the experiment, begun in 1849, of selling laud subject to incumbrances with the novel recommendation of what is called a parliamentary title, may be thus summed up. In the course of some what above five years, there have been sold under decrees of the tribunal specially constituted to admi nister the act, 565,000 acres of land. This gross acreage comprises much that is of inferior quality, and a considerable portion that falls under the designation of mountain and unreolaien' ed bog. This is what might have been anticipated, when it is remembered that the remoter and lees fertile districts were those on which the calamities of 1847 fell with the moat crushing weight, and that it was with estates in the less perfectly cul tivated portions of the country that the new jurisdic tion wee at first chiefly called upon to deal When, therefore, we learn that these 555,000 acres of all desoriptkma realised in the aggregate a sum of 15,239,5704, we can entertain no reasonable doubt that in the main a fair and adequate price has been obtained in the compulsory market thus instituted. Great sacrifices were unquestionably made at the outset, owing principally to the unparalleled deprecia tion in 1849 of agricultural property and enterprise in Ireland. But with the disappearance of blight, and the diminution ot peasant-pauperism, there arose a demand for the produce in which Ireland has always been most proliflthsuch as has not been known during the present generation ; and,without assuming that the high prices of last season and of the present are likely to be perma nently sustained, we are justified in believing that we shall not again see the selling value of land fall in Ireland below the average indicated by the figures above cited. That great good, economical, social, and political, will be insured by the continuance of the system thus begun, nobody, we presume, is disposed to question. At the same time it is clear from a candid examination of the foots bakes us, that ideas, in many respects erroneous, have become preva lent regarding the transfer of landed property is the sister island. A useful and equitable method of bringing about a change of proprietors is in program ; bat the rate of that progress has ob viously been absurdly exaggerated. What say the figures? When we read that 111,000 sores of all kinds, arable, upland, and waste, have been sold in each of the last Ave years, it seems a great deal ; bat we must recollect what proportion this extent of ' acreage bears to that of the entire country. The latter may in round numbers be stated at 20,000,000 ; so that making allowance for some diminution in !stare years of the quantity brought into the eta . paling market, yeast hardly reckon upon more than a two-hundredth part of the entire superlicies of the soil changing hands annually in the time to cone. tte exangOO• TO CORRESPONDENTS. 11toordormal• Wooded ler " Tho Lwow" Loads& Imams ywpw, mot be at tb• 01100. 10, boawriwowoo. by Two *VD* Ur cw dag et patesiska. MOB WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taos Dot—Morals& 4k. Illa -Aftemo" 416 Va. it proaa ow—Maraiag. 4k.645 AftleilhOOß. 416 LONDON, MONDAY, JDNB 18. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. Jinn 15. Priam Gortehakoff writes : " On the I Ith and 12th the are of the allies before Sebastopol was weak, and the loam of the Russians very trifling. The allies have formed no new works in the fielinghinak and Volhynia redoubts on the east of Queening Bay but they have re-constructed the Kamtschatka (Marnelos) lunette. —Doily News. Juki 12. The Journal de St. Peter*frowsy coetaios an article upon the circular in which Count Walewski reviewed the late conferences and announced their elms. Although the official writer controverts the Count's polities, his tone is, upon the whole, pesosable, and he gives it to be understood that further negotiations far pesos may possibly ensue. A letter from St. Petersburg, of the 6th, in the Non of Hamburg, says " The Synod of St. Peters ber has presented an address to the Emperor, eareestly regime him to chew himself more disposed towed@ on/mese= of peace, in so far se the poli tical interests of the state would permit. It is not known how the Emperor has received this address."—Daily News. THE BALTIC. BIEL, Joxii 17. Admiral Baynes's squadron hu arrived, and pro ceeds on Tuesday. The French frigate Iris ham sailed.—Daily News. COPENHAGEN, Jorqs 16. The Riog has signed the ministerial draft of a constitution for the collective ministry. The Diet le convoked for Jane 26.—Deily Non. FROM MERIT. is one of the most distill- guished writers of our time. He is one of the few men who have shown that they possessed the originality of thought requisite to form a peculiar and distinctive style, with the flexibility of attention and sympathy indispensable for the useful treatment of every-day affairs. Unrivalled in the power of epigram, his mind seems instinctively to seek out the portion of every subject which, practically, most needs to be lighted up by sparkling anecdote or humour. And yet a sense of grave responsibility is ever present to him; and his varied faculties of illus tration and sarcasm are habitually held sub ordinate to the Axed and earnest purpose of a man who loves the truth, and woo through life has ever been as ready to do battle for it when unpopular, as in the noon-tide of success and recognition. In a word Mr. FONBLANQUE is a man of genuine worth as well as of genuine wit. He has been the consistent and courageous advocate of nearly every great measure of popular good for which a serious struggle has been waged in this country during the last thirty years; and the chief cause why it is not easy to designate the value of the services he has rendered to the public, lies in the versatility of the talents that have been in turn devoted to every object on the attainment of which the people have set their hearts. And this is the man whose appointment to an aloe of 8001. a year our administrative doctrinaires of the 01.criterottz and Tnavni.vart school would Bogle out u an instance of what needs reformation in our civil service! "The abilities of Mr. Fox- Mancturt," Paid Sir S. NoarnooTs in Friday night's debate, "I do not deny; but, being a total stranger to the department into which he ma imported in 1847, his nomination may be taken u an example of the' thoroughly vicious' system on which our public offices ate constituted." Had a dictum so ineffably presumptuous sad absurd fallen from other lips in any other place, we should not have deemed it deserving of notice. But, apart from the circumstances to which we s about to refer, we perceive without wooder but Dot %rithout regret, that the folly and injustice of the sentiments dues expressed, met with as mach of an approving response when uttered, as the attesoated condition of the Bosse during the boa. Baronet's speech could well afford. The Widgets of resentment and aversion towards one who, as a literary tribune of the people, has often lashed the short-comings of oligarchy, both in ibis sad in Parliament, may possibly be thought eel, Wend. But we venture to suggest to the gentlemen who joined by their cheers in the attack thus made upon the rightful claims of men of letters to a share in the Administration, that it would be men prudent in them to adhere to the retrace of fib play, and not needlessly to exasperate those baling" of hostility that are daily growing up botulism Parliament and the Press. Is it not enough that these hereditary monopolists of power, and dignity, and pay ribald hays systematically ignored, with by and rare exceptions, the civil miaow, of the elms who more than any other in the sow amity govern opinion and iallesnes pulls Adze P Or b it because, as edam, mend letters have newt asearbd in this 'country tbe sewn of their political rights, that whipsters at quality and Treasury books sad the whole rank sad file of job- • • _ it lo 1 I i I; 1' • E • i ,• 1 i i I 1 1 , I ; 1. I '1 , . , 1 i 1 11 1 ~ .. , 1 • I THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1855. Without any *injectors' debilities we ma that the malt of the first flash of salielidar the y neem Betties Court has, in ties wane of Ive ears, been a Ouster ite ms three orlru per sebt=silbole o f •kingdoes. Agaio, is dig, alisect *mis should yids formed respecting WU' limber and description id purchasers. Vagua and aufe t uidedelieas hays bean eirealated he various purposed, ditch we need not here inquire into re garding what is termed a general re-eAjetwoes dI the Celtic soil. The late' Str ROBliffit Fait of a New Plantatioi of COansiglit ea Dual, in some idle brains ; and there are politielems saC &satin who do not scruple to rest their argueedeel in favour of sundry questionable measures upon the assumed notoriety of the wholesale chugs which they wish us to believe is taking place in that direc tion. But we find from the Report already quoted that of 6,893 purchasers under the new tribunal, 6,676 have been natives of the country, while only 220 persons have gone from England and Scotland to buy. Another misconception which needs being tor need, is that the Court, as now constituted, of three 1 1 Commissioners, has been able to maintain the same rapidity of procedure in the sale of property and die- , tribution of parches-money, which marked its earlier efforts. For ourselves we cannot my we ever shared in the extravagant belief entertained by the Quixotes of law reform, that any juris diction could be created which could despatch an accumulated mass and variety of business with John Gilpin speed, and yet with due regard to equity as , between man and man. Experience may be con sidered as having done much to explode the ignorant impatience of the empiric we refer to. It now ap- 1 pears that the work has long since oven taken the fresh energy of the new tribunal, which, as now com posed, is hardly able to keep down the growing tendency to arrear of business claiming its attention. On an average, petitions for sales now take three years before they are finally adjudicated on. We do not mention this fact in any spirit of cavil or censure ; but rather to poineout the necessity of making more efficient provision for the future administration of so salutary a law. The need of some alteration mums to have forced itself upon the Com missioners of Inquiry, who have recommended the permanent adoption of the Encumbered Estates Court as a department of Chancery. With this view it is seggested that the existing exceptional tribunal should cease, its functions being transferred to one of two Vice-Chancellors whom it is proposed to appoint in Ireland, the latter to perform the duties of the Masters in Chancery, whose offices are to be abolished. A Bill embodying these recommendations is, we understand, about to be introduced by the Govern ment in the course of a few days. As one essentially consisting of numberless small details, it will not come within the scope of general criticism. But may take the present opportr we hope that the English r about to be followed of Masters in Chanoery to I carefully considered before withstanding the assiduity business of these Judges is penance and ability brought amount of work to be don , them, and expense and dually becoming mice founded complaint. if, through any motive Chancery in Ireland • We do not undertake business heretofore performed the court may be fitly but we are quite sure charged with the whole performed by the our Dr. LONOTIELD, and more than enough arrangement proceeds, aeons principle. It would Court of Chancery generally vested in the Incumbered - than to confine them to a court; and thus to exchange for another. By dealing more t. _ _- sub ject, there would be greater facilities for improving the subordinate Chancery offices, and greater cer tainty of bringing these new principles of dealing with lead under the constant surveillance of the *-- —Daily News. M. Crosnier, lumber of the Corps Legislafif, has resigned his post as !manager of the Paris Opera, because the Minister of State has engaged Madame Alban' without cossetting him. Kelm. Alboni's performances will own autos next week, sad there will be five opera nights a week instead of three. Alboni will sing every Saturday at the Pretest of the Seine's concert at the Hotel de Ville. The Paris censor eat out some passages in Verdi's new pile, the Sicilia's Veepers," in which the words " ty rants " and " liberty " were injudiciously used. A few weeks ago the Univers thought proper to publish • feria of virulent attacks upon the miserable Wronger, accusing him of having invariably plastid his pea at the Daniell of the worst passions, and contendiag that hi. reputation as a poet far exceeded hie genius. ♦ sculptor, to whom it occurred that the Parisians would be glad of an opportunity to protest against these libels on their favourite bard, designed • masa but of him, of which he mold plaster costs at 6 rose a plasm. The idea has met with immense neeme, no hos then 10,000 busts of 13Eranger hating been sold is the spate of a fortnight. A Paris physician hes just published a pamphlet with the title of " The Physical and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race canoed by Vaccination." The startling theory that inner, who for more than half a century has enjoyed the reputation of one of the greatest benefactors of humanity that over existed, was in fact the principal author of cholera sad a hat of modern disgust, has been broached before, but without easiting meek attention. Now, however, the Imperial Andes) , or Madicies has placed the subject on their paper for dismasios. A series of eureka in the open air has been or ganised by the clergy of Birmingham. Mr. Francis Boult, of Liverpool, has received a reply from Prince Csartoryski to the address lately adopted at a public meeting held in that town. The Prince states that be is convinced " that so much real sympathy and ma tured nears shown now is Ragland for the Polish cease must aid, sooner or law, is as effective interference in her favour." A proposal for a general and permanent encamp ment on Salisbury Plata has been addressed to Lord Pea. mare. On the occasion of Mr. Buckstone's benefit on the 211th, a sew faros, entitled Mr. Bookatono's Atiotoblon with • Polish Primus, will be produced at the Haymarket. A new piece, to be called Welping Hands, by Mr. Tom Taylor, will he produced at the Adeiplii on Wednesday night, the night of Madame Celeste's benefit. Biz hundred pounds is, it is understood, the price paid for Mr. Millais's Reams. The Order of Meow, ex hibited lest year, was sold to the same purchaser for three hundred guises'. The Princess de Hohenlohe has arrived at Bent sen, sesospenied by her two daughters. The Communal Council of Liege has unanimously voted s mum of 60,000 fr. towards the ersetion is that eity of en hospital foe lunatics. The Cberrt Journal says that this swoon many members of slie Hesse of Casinos' will make en excursion to the Crimes, is lies of s tour ism Switzerland or Italy. A cosoputadoc, originating at Vienna, places the suntan of the Allied armies saw Sebastopol at 160,000, via., 100,000 Fres* 90,000 ilaglish, 16,000 Ilartislase, 1 26,000 Turks (without ladading rho troops as Bepoloals NA is =NM as Balaklava). ~.:, tint .iL 0I ..- k: _ laje COUri• . Thu Clews went 011 Saturday afternoon to tho Comae Aidleaaott. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, ao eonspaaled bribe Disko of Camsbrioge. left Buckingham I Palace at Forest mi e l iag r i s isio stesbefore 3 o'clock, attended by the Dubow of W Kaior 0 I the flea. Charles Grey, and Cassels*. e. Dudley de 800, and proceeded to Oro prie sts MOM at Nine Elms, travelled to Farn borough • opeelal traia on the Bouth•Western Railway, and aherwarda prooseded from the itation to the encamp ment. ' Her Mae Tttarati. to Jhunitasheel Palm at to klisibeilie ore 7 o'clock. I The Prince of Wilkie sad • ?linos Alfred. attended by Colonel the Has. U. B. Phippe and Mr. Gibbe, elided the Crystal Palace at Cyclorama ea Saturday. Prince Leopold took • drive in a oarriage•asd-four. Yesterday her Majesty and Prince Albert, with t - As Prince of Weise, the Prima Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Prisms Alice, asd else the ladies sal gentlemen et the Collet and the domestic household, attended Divine service to the private chapel, in Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The Dreams d'Aemale, and the Princess de Salerno, visited the Dasher of Rent on Friday, at Clarence-house, St. Jame's. The Duchies of Kent, attended be Lady Anna Maria Damon, visited the Countess do Bimini on Sstarday, at olansaat. The Duchess of Beat Tleited the Michela of Gloseeeter yestarday, at Gloseeeter-boogie. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-Aloe, Downinrstrest, on Saturday afternoon. The Ministers present were: Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor. the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey. the Earl of Clarendon, Lord John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Moleaworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowhy. The Council sat two hours and a half. The annual parades of her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, coder the command of the lieutenant and the inspection of the Right Hon. the Cap tale, have taken place in the gardens of St. James's Palace. The Standard Bearer and the Clerk of the Cheque and Ad journ attended. Lientenant-Coloneh Nevin and Cooke, the sub•oflieers, were on duty with the corps. A deputation from the factory occupiers of Lancashire, consisting of Mr. E. H. Greg, Mr. Thomas Cooke, of Man chester, and Mr. Edmund Ashworth, of Bolton, kad an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home office. The deputation was accompanied and introduced by Mr. John Cheatham, 111. P., end Mr. James Heywood, M.P. The Turkish Minister transacted heehaw, on 13aturday, at the Foreign•office. A deputation on the subject of smallpox and vaccination had an interview, on Saturday, with Sir George Grey. The deputation consisted of Dr. Babingtou, President of the Epidemiological Society, Dr. WV/Miami, Dr. W. Leiria. Mr. Marron, Mr. Tucker, Dr. Seaton, and Mr. Brady, M.P. A deputation from Shereditch had an interview, on Saturday, with the President of the General Board of Health, at hie ease, Whitehall. The deputation con sisted of Messrs. Long, Southgate, Davis (clerk), Higgs (surveyor), and Dltehman (inspector), The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday. Present : Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, the Chancellor of the Dueby of Cornwall, and Sir J. Patteson. The appeal from British Guiana, " The Board of Orphans v. Ktosselins " (part heard), wee con cluded, and an appeal from British Guiana, " Simeon v. Daly." commenced. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-office on Saturday to the Governors of the West ladia Islands. His Excellency the Marquis d'Aseglio has left town for ten days on a visit to his relatives, at present at the mineral waters of Vichy. nt opportunity of saying that i s: iglish precedent which ppears A transferriog the woe of the to the Equity Judges. ybe *fore it be adopted. r, not- iduity with which the her pert ges is performed, ant ex- nought to its pert , the done already pressesl upon ad delay to the suit* gra- ntee more matters 01 well- It would be a gretOsistake re of tales economy, thileourt of were re-organised ingilleiently. re to say how far the • ary erformed by the four re of y left to one Vice- nor; ore that if the oth be hole of the judicial now ammisoners Baron na, l Mr. HASOREAVE, have to do. Indeed the ted dm, u we think, u erro • rould be better to coot' the onerally the enlarged powers now tiered Estates Commilrather L to a special depart of that =hinge one exceptionallkibtmal ding more broadly with the sub- VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOTT. On Saturday, her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge, paid a visit of inspec• ties to the newly formed camp at hldenhott. Her Majesty examined the hats of the encampment with much interest. The two battalions of Foot Guards, which have moistly ar rived in the camp, together with the five regiments of Militia, including the 6th West Lancashire. th • let Sauey (Royals), the Royal Middlesex, the West Kent, received her Majesty with the usual military honours. The troops, drawn up to receive her Majesty, presented a floe soldier-like appearance, and, the inspection having terminated, her Majesty returned to Buckiegbant Palace by the London and South Western Railway. The visit of ber Majesty being perisetty unex pected, there was no addition to the ordinary number of visitor, at the camp. The royal visit was of a strictly private ohmmeter, and was unattended b any of those outward demoostratione which, on the occas ion of some of the royal visits to Chobbam, marked her Majesty's progress. Her Majesty gives a second state concert on Wedafeday. A matrimonial alliance is about to take place be tween the Hon. Ws. H. Portman, M.P., eldest son of Lotd Pertain, and the lion. Miss Fitswilliam, daughter of Selina Viscountess Milton, and grand-daughter of the Earl Fits wilUatn. _ ---- Admiral Fremantle, the enoemmeor to Admiral' Borer, is prevented by his appointment from presiding at the dinner by the Navy Club to the First Lord of the Admi ralty, filed for the 28th. Earl Spencer will take the chair. Lord and Lady Overetone have left town for the 102nd/tent. His Excellency the Marquis d'Azeglio has left town for ten days, on a visit to his relatives, at present at the Mineral Waters of 'fishy. We regret to learn Lady Georgians Cathcart, widow of the gallant Sir George Cathcart, who fell glori ously at the head of his troops at Inkerummt, has eestaiasd another domestic bereavement by the premature death of her second daughter. Sir William and Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner, on Saturday, the Earl and Countess Spencer, Visoonnt and Viscountess Sydney, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount Grey de Wilton, Lady Defferin, the Bishop of Oxford, Viscount Castlewood*, M.P., Lord Forester, the Hon. Mrs. I Dyes Sombre, Mr. Knightley, M.P., the Right Hon. Henry Cony, M.P., the Hon. Mn. Norton, ColonalTyrwhitt, . . I The compan y at a literary ant musical soiree given a few evenings since by Lady Morgan, included Lord Wrotteeley, Sir David Brewster, Sir Gardner Wilkinson,' Bir Roderick Kw:bison, Professor Tullogh (Principal of St. Andrew's), the Marchioness of Hastings, Earl and Countess of Laaasborengh, Earl sad Countess of Whalen and the Ladies Leeson, Hon. E. Phipps, Sir F. Kelly, Capt. Inglefleld, Mr. Butt, M.P., Lady Chantey, tkc. The choice of the trustees of the living of Christ church, Hampstead, has fallen on the Rev. E. H. Blokes- Guth, rector of Hinton, in Dorsetshire, son of the late Rev. Edward Bickersteth, rector of Watton, Herts. Mr. Charles Braham hos returned to Eogland, alter ea absence of six years is Italy._ Lieutenant Augustan C. Murray, R.N., has accepted the cc and of a troop of horse artillery in the Turkish contingent Woe. The Roo. Secretary of the Officers' Widow and Orphan Permanent Fund, states that the recent failure of Messrs. fltrahan, Paul, and Co. (the society's beaker.), has deprived the society of almost all It pommel for tie prom anti= of its benevolent enterprise. A grand ball will be given by the Earl of Eglin toss at Thursday. The last lasso of the season takes place on the 27th. Mr. Sims Rowse takes a benefit at the Haymarket Theatre on Satarday. _ _ _ - - - On Thursday the annual cricket match between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge will take pleas at Lord's. The Elevens for this =anal match have been thus seleeted:—Ozford—R. L. Bateman, R. Colley. W. Fellows, O. Faller, B. Hankey, C. D. Marshals, A. Payee, A. F. Payne, W. W. Parker, B. M. Randolph, and H. Vein*. Cambridge—B. Birch, 1. Bary, Cesley, A. Dal Can., J. Hales, 0. Hammond, G. R. Johnson, W. Hemp sou, J. Marshall, F. Stacey, and W. Wingfield. _ _ _ _ The Log of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto, with their usual suite, wont es Friday to Bt. Oennain to shoot to the preserves of the crown. They nturned to the Tuileries at Aso, sad In the evening west to the French Opera to witness the second representation of the Vdpres Si n: His Wiliness Moatapha Bey arrived at Bir niaghaai an Friday, and devotsd that day and Saturday to cisiiiag the principal manufactories. He was accompanied by the mayor and town clerk, by Mr. B.athboae, of Alex andria, sad his Highness's private amatory. The following distinguished persona visited the Great Glob*, in Leienter mums last week : —The Marl of Listowell, Hake d Bueslesek and party, Sir J. Birch, Lady Birch and Lady Charles Alford sad party, Lord and Lad party sad party, Bishops of Rochester, Salisbury, and Bath ma Welk Lord Jaws and Lady Murray, Duchess of Beaufeet sad Nally, Drawls of Graft's, Primo Lades &esparto, lady Butos, Lard Bananas * file J. Bareeywi his Bzeclistay the French Aattorsador sad alto, sat 84 Charles sad Lady Nary Wood. The One Hundred and First Anniversary Dinner of the Seamy of Arta in to bo bold at as Crystal Podia on Tossoloy t tloo ard of July. whoa hie Grow the Doke ot Azpia • 74 put& .8. 1 will FRANCE. CFIOK TH3 CORRISPONDINT OP 1111 DAILY tows.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. There has been a co nsiderable fluctuation at h e Boerse. The Rents opened well, notwithstanding billet lin Consols, under an impression that good news had been received from the Crimes, which would be published in to-morrow's Moniteur. A rise of 15c. was effected, the Route being quoted at 69. But in_thesaftsraoon it was reported that the Empe ror, Marshal Magian, sod Marshal VaiSant, had met in the course of the day to consider despatches from General Pelissier, and that the news was bad. What ever may have been the reason, the fact is that a sudden and extraordinary fall took place towards the close of haleness. The last quotation was 68.30 being a fall of 700. from the highest price of the day, and 55 from yesterday. The railways did not gi v e way to the downward movement. The settlement is these securities went off very favourably, and almost all the lines closed with an improvement. Rotten rose 15f., and Western 20f. The treaty oosceding the Pyrenean line to M. de Rothschild is said to be signed. A company has offered to construct at its own oat a line between Macon and Never., with a branch to Roanse. This line would form the first section of a still more important railway now under examination, and which would form the great transversal line from the east to the west, from Switzerland to the Atlantic. An imperial decree promotes General of Brigade de Martimprey to the rank of general of division ; and Colonels Salle, Dupral de Larroquette, Monique, Latrille de Lorencer, and Sender, to the rank of generals of brigade. The caves of the non-arrival yesterday of the Madrid mail is that the malle-poste was attacked by a Carlist band between Btiviesea and Borges, and all the letters and journals opened and destroyed, and the vehicle itself burnt. M. Bignon, the bearer of despatches to the French government from the Mar quis de Target, the ambassador of France at Madrid, was amongst the passengers, and on his appealing to the assailants aid declaring who he was, and that all persons would doubtless feel inclined to respect the law of nations in such a case, and spare the ambassa dor's letters, received a violent blow in the face from one of the hostile party, and had a pistol presented at him by another. It was with difficulty that the leader of the band succeeded in saving M. Bignon 's life. One of the insurgents also, on hearing M. Bignon assert his quality of a Frenchman, said: — "The French government is in no great favour with • us, for France is making war on Russia, and the I r Reagan, are our friends, our supporters." The Intel • ligence of this act of violence reached Bayonne by electric telegraph, and has come to us from that place. Last night the long expected English dramatic company commenced their representations at the Theatre Italian (or Salle Ventadour, as it is more commonly called) with a farce, a divertissement, and Macbeth. We have had no English plays in Paris since Macreedy and Miss Faucit made a successful campaign here many years ago. The present under taking, directed by Mr. James Wallack, has every prospect of success. The number of Frenchmen over 40 who understand English is incredibly small, but within the last quarter of a century the language has been extensively taught to children, and there 111 now a new generation delighted with an opportunity of testing their knowledge. Mr. Wallack's company has the advantage of the prettiest, the most com- 1 modious, the best ventilated, and one of the largest theatres in Paris. Moreover, the im mense success of Madame Ristori has taught the public to bend their steps towards the Salle Vents dour, which has often been inexplicably deserted is spite of great attractions. I will not attempt to write a critique on last night's performance at, Macbeth, because I feel that my own opinion would 1 be little to the purpose. An old play-goer who re members all the Macbeths in London from Kean and Young downwards, has preconceived notions, possibly very erroneous, which render him captions. A play of Shskspeare's here is to me as " the Lord's song in a strange land," and I should witness with de light any respectable attempt to represent one. I cannot therefore but be pleased with a performance which was much more than respectable, although I will not pretend to judge of its precise merit. I shall let you know uext week what the French critics think of it when the fettilktonistee, who were present in great force, publish their weekly theatrical reviews. It is not in Paris as in London, where a man goes to bed from Drury-lane and finds an elaborate review of the play on his 'table as soon as he wakes in the morning. The au thorised critic speaks only once a week, and no writer in any newspaper ventures to forestall his judgment. The banquet scene was very successful, and elicited loud applause, in which Madame Riatori, who atten ti% ely watched the performance from herbox, cordially joined. The old stager, Mr. George Bennett, who seems endowed with perpetual youth, "shook his gory locks" to perfection as the Ghost of Banquo. A ludicrous mishap occurred in the incantation scene. So much real brimstone was put into the witches' cauldron, that the odour penetrated the whole house and half suffocated the audience. Several ladies were obliged to leave the boxes for a few minutes. The completeness of Mr. Wallack's company shows the spirit with which the enterprise has been undertaken. Dr. Arne's music was performed in a very effective manner, and was greatly admired. There was a full complement of witches—as many as in a first-rate London theatre, and they were all represented by English actors. Mr. Wallack and his wife (who played Lady Macbeth) were pertinaciously called for at the fall of the curtain, and, after a modest hesita tion, they appeared and made their bowsef acknow ledgment. PARIS SUNDAY ETININO. The Emperor is unwell. The rumour of his ill ness produced a serious effect on the Little Bourse on the Boulevard this morning. The Rente was done as low as 67fr. 10c., being a fall of a franc and a half from yesterday's lowest price. About one o'clock, in consequence of a report that his Majesty was doing well, there was a reaction, and the last quotation was 67fr. 50c. It is beyond doubt that the Emperor is indisposed, but to what extent it is difficult to say, as of course, should his illness be serious, the truth would not be allowed to transpire. He has been bled at least once this morning. Some people say twice. He is in bed and has suffered from very violent colic. This I know for certain. An uneasy feeling in the head is spoken of—but of this I Gan say nothing on any good authority. The Empress, it is said, passed the whole of the night by his bedside. His Majesty wits bled by Dr. Conneau, after a consultation. The Empress (unless the arrangement should be altered by the state of the Emperor's health) will leave Paris for the Eaux Bonnes on Thursday next. The Emperor does not propose to accompany her Majesty, but will go, it is said, very moon to the Camp of Boulogne. The Kiog of Portugal leaves on Wednesday. I understand that the day officially fixed for Queen Victoria's visit to Paris is August 13. This con firms what I have always thought probable, that her Majesty would come for the Fête Napoleon (August 16) and not sooner. The rumours which were prevalent at the close of the Bourse yesterday of a check in the Crimea con. tinue to circulate to-day. I can say nothing farther about them, but this is positive, that very important despatches have been received, I cannot say of what nature. It is reported on good authority that the Russian troops which were echeloned on the Austrian frontier have lift for the Crimea. SPAIN. MADRID, Jens 16. The faction of Navarre has entirely disappeared. The Hon. Mr. Dodge has this day prrontad to the Queen his letters of credenos u insister for the United States at Madrid. ITALY. —,..JENT OF THE DAILY NEWS.) NAPLES, Juan 9. I must again direct sotice to the tate of th e political prisoners at Montefusco. Whilst Nap's' has been incensing the name of its adored and absolute master, Poerio and his fellow-suf. ferers have again been changing their prison, f rom Montefusco to Montesarchio. The event even by the authorities must have been deemed important from the display of military force on the occasion, and th e i r knowledge of the sympathy so generally felt is abundantly attested by the minute precaution; whi c h were taken. There wi.sa strong detachment of ed. diers on duty on the c cession. carriages were ordered off the road, people were ordered to make no sign ee 1 ip addedveettihhavewr yi texpressionnahbnneyoithomfets secured l y et id: sympathy, tm,dnbhe details tneh , ar passengers behind n osd ta d mlhn i tea j dc : to n e us secret ihhdc. e eer y ed e Ate s ss u prisonerswi prisoners. ryne e ed, r t e e ,b i lulit a hto glancin gwaoudadelvti o salving them I shall send them. Montesarchio i sm elevated mountain, 23 miles distant from Naples, and 1 1 eight from Montefusco. At the foot, or on th e ascent, is the town, which by some is considered t o stand on the site of the ancient Candium, whilst on the summit is a med , teval tower recently converted by his Majesty into a cellular prison. The system of solitary confinement is not, however, I believe, to on th e co be ntr p a rac ry, tisedin the prisoners regnerpareillt instance; l beplaced five in a room. The situation is healthy, but pla te d at this elevation, even beyond the hum of voices in the little town beneath, and with a higher range of Apennines in the distance, it is a very solitude. When I say healthy, I mean to say that there is no. thing like malaria in the neighbourhood; but the ale is so swills as to menace the worst consequences to those who are affected with any malady of the chest. Besides the prisoners of Montefusco I underlined that those confined for political offences in other places have been sent also to Montesarchio, so that this ancient tower now stands a cynosure to neigh. booting eyes of as much cruelty and injustice as hes been perpetrated in modern times. It was whilst this latest scene in a political tragedy was being enacted that the farce of the fete on occasion of the name-day of the king was played in Naples. His Ma• jesty was not here, and is to be presumed to have been ignorant of the details. Since that day of which I have already spoken at large, many incidents have come to light showing the oppressions exercised by the police, who, like so many cattle drivers, not content with coma pelting their flocks in this or that direction, descend even to beating them. Of one case at least I have heard—et ex ono diace ontnes—where a poor fellow proffered his piastre as his contribution to the 0 Voluntary Illumination" Fund, and was insulted and arrested, and compelled to more than quadruple his subscription. lam conscion‘ that I describe things which must be received at times with incris. I dnlity, but in the search of truth I try to divest my. self of all party feeling; and yet such facts 'recce. stantly reported to me from fitly quarters. Of the request or order left by inspectors of police at the several houses in some quarters I have spoken ; I know it most assuredly, because the "requests was sent up during the night to some English families ; in one case the reason being assigned that the Royal Family were going on the sea that night, whereas none knew better than the inspector that the Royal Family had been at Gaeta for two days. In fact, the Director of Police controls Naples. 011011 tau RUSSIA. socs " that The ralkf Wring thO e other who f or loci (TROY • CORRESPONDENT OP THE DAILT SHWA) ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 5. By an order of the day published in the journals, the Emperor, after a second minute inspection of eel fortifications of Cronstadt, has declared himself per. featly contented with the defences of the place, sad especially mentions the new lunettes, the batteries of Lisy-Nose, the " tongue of land" of Croostadt, and Fort Paul, which he considers impregnable. In consequence of his impaired state of health, the artillery general Yermaloff has resigned his appoint. ment as commander-in-chief of the newly organised militia of the empire, and the resignation has bees accepted by an order of the day published tc.day. Lieutenant-General Count Stroganow, hitherto head of the militia of the province of Nischegorod, is ap pointed to the vacancy. General Bevouder, lately commander of the did division of the Guards at Revel, has arrived in this city, after having given up the command of the divi sion to his successor. He was received to-day by the Emperor in a private audience, and will proceed im mediately to Poland, to assume the command of the second army corps. The Imperial ukase decreeing the formation of the Cossack militia may be considered as the creation of a germ from which the intended mobilisation of the Cossack races may eventually spring. The prom sional Reiman of the Cossacks, Kbomuloff. is said to be actively engaged in organising the Tschetmoir and Don Cossacks, so as to place these irregular bat serviceable light cavalry corps in such a state of dis cipline that they may be, by-and-bye, incorporated with the regular heavy cavalry in the south. These men may be said to be born in the saddle, and u they have been accustomed all their lives to settle their disputes on horseback, these wild tribes, sons of the extensive steppes between the Caucasus and the River Dniester, will probably at some future time be reclaimed from their hitherto perfect bar barism, and taught the blessings of a comparative civilisation. According to a general order, published by the Minister of the Interior, the exportation of beans and buckwheat from Poland is also prohibited, so that the only descriptions of grain that may be legally exported to Austria are now rapeseed, millet, hemp, and linseed. The Holy Synod (the highest ecclesiastical colla tive authority) has just petitioned the Emperor to turn a more favourable ear to the negotiations for peace. It is not yet known what answer the Cur has returned, but the tact is significant. The Council of Administration of the Kingdom of Poland has again published the names of a fresh batch of Poles proscribed and their property confis cated to the use of the state. They are accused of having tairen part in the troubles of 1848, and left Poland to assist the Hungarians and help to °resinse the democratic clubs. Every movement of the French and British ships off Cronstadt is carefully noted down and telegraphed to the Emperor. It is said that a short time ago Admirals Derides and Seymour had a very WM! escape of being made prisoners. They had landed a an uninhabited rock near Sweaborg to reconnoitre. This being perceived from the fortress, a steamer sod a gunboat were sent out to capture them, and might have done so, if they had been more cleverly manes cred. As it was, however, they just same too late, and the British commanders had re-embarked. ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 6 . The last poet has brought us the London newel* pen, with the patriotic speech of E.a.l Grey in the House of Lords, which, of course, created a favour able sensation among the Russians, and is allowed to circulate both in the original and in translations ill the newspapers of this city. Indeed, I feel convinced that were his lordship to come over here he would be received with open arms, and be the object of a gene . ral ovation, besides being decorated with at least hag a dozen Russian orders. Freedom of speech in other countries, and under certain circumstances, is coast dered here a very delectable thing, though not exactly adapted for imitation in Russia. I need scarcely re form your readers that the speeches of the other lords in answer to Earl Grey were blackened over and tea dared illegible. Notwithstanding the close proximity of the hostil e fleets, the more affluent of the inhabitants of this city have as usual gone out of town to escape 0 6 great heat of the summer, and taken up their rest denoe at their Datscbis, or villas on the coattail th e way down to Isoborak, Oranienbaum, and Peterhof. The new batteries that have lately been erected ea Lissy's Nose—the point of the coast on the mainland nearest to the island of Cronetadt—are said to fill qv the hiatus in the line of coast defences, nd are armed with guns of very heav y calibre. A large camp is ordered tobe formed on the eat bank of the river Narva, near Ivangorod, and nearly opposite that fortress. The command is given to General Sievers. From the reports of General Wrangel, with ledir• n~ I. C ~,'