The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-31 00:00:00

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Carai,lbaberl, and Bomar.--Commeakt: .4t, halt past 7. MIT.% Till ZWIDOWB. TUE PRI\ CI. AND TOE 1f;11,K. Mews. PM, Pam, Jena I.4mjs. RM.). an., Newham Wilk I . Weplast. Itles A. Ilhowayt. Mrs. W. Hanford.—And A W L+MMi E VRaM TUE Wit. Morn. Aelisukti sad Saistbsou . Mrs. Yanaull 1101 RATA/ AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tllll DAT —Marsh% sh. I 1 M .. A It.. rDOnt), sR ?NIL iv-11411DOW—Moralia Wat. Alteruooa, th. Ift. LONDON, THURt4DAY, J.I.V. 31. TIM Metropolitan Board are resolved to dime gall public opinion, and to persevere with their encroaching Mill. indifferent to the reclamation* so generally raised against their further absorp tion .4 the rights and revenues of the local belies of the capital, and apparently bent only upon aggrandizing their own central power and huportatice, they are preparing to make an early attempt to carry in the coming Session the mea sure they were battled in their efforts to obtain during the last. It was stated at the last meeting of the Board that a deputation had recently sought an interview with the Hnui. Sri RkT.IMV, with the view of endeavouring to engage the favourable emend...ration of the I iovernment ; and the story of their interview was told in such a way as to convey the impression that every facility would be afforded in that quarter. It is a curious and characteristic fact, however, that in the pub lished account of what took place on the occasion, no mention whatever appears of the matters moat notably in controversy between the ratepayers at large and their would-be taxing masters. A parade of minor amendments of the existiii.r law, and a profession 14 anxiety to in crease the administrative powers of vestries and shstret boards, are substituted for • declaration of the real dnft and purpose of the Bill. Nut a word is said of the design to usurp under the sanction of law the right of parochial taxation, and of substituting for locally appointed, locally paid, mod locally responsible officers, the centralized staff of the Board. Compared with this funda mental change all other questions involved in the measure are as nothing in the estimation of its authors ; and that, we suppose, is the reason why nothing is said about it, and why • cloud of dust is raised in other directions to distract attention and occupy time, until, it is hoped, the House of Commons may be caught in • listless mood, and cajoled into reading the Bill a second time. That step once gained, we shall be told that Parliament having approved the principle of the Bill, any modifications that may he thought desirable can be introduced in connuitteu ; and should a committee of country gentlemen fail to discern the true scope and ten dency of the project, we shall then bo told that it has been carefully examined in all its details by the proper tribunal, and that nothing remains but to huddle it through a third reading some fine night about two o'clock, when four-fifths of the House are gone home to bed, or some fine day at a morning sitting, when the said four-fifths are at home at breakfast And a very shrewd speculation it is, by no means unlikely to be realised, if the devoted ratepayers of the metropolis do not bestir themselves in the course of the next fortnight. A majority of the House of Commons have no prejudice one way or other in the matter ; they are uninformed regarding it, and therefore liable to be misled. Their natural indisposi tion to wade through a dense mass of legis lative print on a subject to which they are strangers is no doubt appreciated by the gentlemen who last session presented them with a re pulsive-looking folio containing some hun dred and thirteen lumbering clauses, and told them that without making themselves masters of all that they contained, it was impossible to understand the real merits of the question. Gallant young members yearning for another day with the foxhounds ; indolent old members who have been advised not to read a line more than they can help, on account of their weakened sight, are exceedingly apt to arrive in silence at cue and the same conclusion ;—not to read a word of the unattractive Bill, and for fear of making any mistake, not to vote upon it,—a de vice which conscientious incompetence too often accepts as the best compromise between duties neglected and responsibilities shirked. It is perhaps the inevitable consequence of the respectable sys tem by which two such assemblies as the Lords and COIIII3IOIII of the United Kingdom are required to give their collective sanction to everything that is called a " whether its object be to reform the temvvralities of the Church, the taxation of the Stier), the highest jurisdictions of the realm, or the trumpery details of local regulation regarding ash-pits, numbering of houses in a street, traps on drains in back alleys, and the premium to be given to informers who shall scent out and hunt down delinquents in such matters. Messrs. Tura amp TILWAITES well know that their best chance of carrying what the; really want is to meMo it up in a wrapping so thick of technical and local details as to deter fastidious and lazy students of legislative litera ture from entertaining the subject at all ; and the policy of those who would save the inhabitants of London from the fatal mistake of suffering the measure to pass must be to make those who won't read understand what is really designed, and to prove to them that the feelings of the community in general are strongly arrayed against it. since last we adverted to this topic a series of proceediogs have taken place in different parts of the met' opolig, not wholly undeserving of atten tion• Several of the vestries of the largest parishes bare been occupied with investigations, conducted fur the most part with good temper and decorum, into charges of inaccuracy in the taxation accounts of the Metropolitan Board, which its members and officials have endeavoured to explain. We have nointeniio; of entering into th•. particular ipicsCons in issue, or to intimate in any way the conclusion at which these local bodies aro likely to arrive. ilia it iiill.cates no confidence to spare on the part of the vestries of the Icadin4 parishes in the financial infallibility of the body that is sealing to over-ride them, that they should have THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1861. devoted to much of their time to these ' financial inquiries. We must repeat that our only wish is to keep the gentlemen who meet in Greek-street to what we believe to be their only legitimate function—that of a Com mission of Sewers. The more we look into the subject the more we are convinced that to carry out the great undertakings in which they have em barked for the main drainage of London, as such an undertaking ought to be carried out, their undivided attention will hardly suffice. By grasping at other powers and objects, they are only likely to incur the old reproach of un wise ambition, and eventually to overreach them selves. The name of a "Board of Works" was a false title they should never have borne ; and the sooner they get rid of it the better. After five years' boasting and blundering it is painfully obvious that they have not the faculty, as they have not the time, to devise or execute the local improvements requisite in our public ways. Less progress has, in fact, been made towards ame• liorating the condition of our thoroughfares during the last five years than in any five years preced ing that we can call to mind. What we want is an efficient Metropolitan Board of Drains ; and for the rest a good practical, well-digested Act, enabling the parochial and municipal authorities to execute separately, or conjointly with one another or with private persons, works of lin- provemcnt. I t the thrit E SECRETARY would undertake to frame and carry such an Act, he would confer upon three millions of her MAJzsrv's subjects an inestimable boon. But whatever happens, we trust that he and his colleagues will not be misled into taking part against the public by supporting Mr. TITE'S Bill. Mr. Dca,y, the Irish Attorney-General, has been appointed to the vacant suit in the Irish Court of I.:chequer. By this appointment a vacancy will occur in the representation of the county of Cork. The Solicitor-General will succeed to the office of Attorney-General, and Mr. 1.41611011 will become Solicitor-General. €be Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Jas. 30. Her Malady's dinner party yesterday included the Princess Alice, the Connten Cowley and Lady Teo ri'ro Wellesley, Lord 111 4 Lady Ebury, Major-C..neral Hoe. C. Grey, the Ikon of Windoor and the Hon. Mn. Welk.ley, the floe. Mary flußavi, and Major Kahndone, RE., also the Duke of Newcastle, the Earl of Shelburne, and Colonel Seymour (Se...te fusilier (Weals), who strived on a riait iu the afternoon. Th.. Land of do Royal 11.,rse thiards pkyed during dinner the Pas itidnidip totorturr. gyp•" lima& Nat.,. Our tturunteisra" "Oration.. Warm" Quadrille, .tasass" Fahrioach. Her Majesty's private bead afterwants performed in the drawing-room the i,i enure, "Der Beherember dor Oehler Welwr sem,,e .1a Duel. - Las Hummada" Nit.) erbeer a.le‘ Nm, - I,' , Namara & la Coaroane" Man ti. •. A brall.tm ^ lllobeitio The queen, with Princes Alice, walked in the grounds of the Castle this momiol ; afterwards her Majesty, accom• pealed by Prioress Alh and Primmer Helena., attended by the Hos. Horatio Stopf.vd and Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, honoured Sir James and lady Clark with a visit at Bsgehot•park. The Prince Como* attended by Colonel Poosonhy, rode out on horseback, and joined her Majesty at Bagshot. The Duke of Newcastle, the Counters Cowley and Lady Feedore Wellesley, and Lord acid Lady nstiy, have left the Castle. ♦ Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the °Okla] residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Tie ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir G. Coniewall Lewis Lord John Runesll, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charing Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. Thomas Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, Sir George Grey, and the Hight Hon. Edward Cardwell. The Rer. Philip Haim and Mr. Charles R. Capeman, aecompaoied by Mr. Thos. Barney of the Liverpool-office, had an interview with Sir George Cornewall Lewis yesterday at the Home-office, onneeruing the cane of Robert Stephen son, at ?cermet confined on board the reformatory frigate Akber, in the river Mersey. A deputation on the sabject of the Thames Embankment and Railway, consisting of Lientenant-l:enenal Sir J. M. Frederick Smith, K. 11., Mr. J. W. Presley, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Fowler, Mr. Fuller, and Mr. M. Spofforth, had an interview with the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper yesterday, at the office of Works, Whitehall-place. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com mission for the Exhibition of 11451 was held yesterday, at the Privy Council-office. There were present the Right Hon. It. Lowe, M.P., Hit Alexander Spearman, Bart., Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. C. W. Mke. Mr. T. F. G i bson, and Mr. Edgar Bowring (secretary). Mr. H. R. Williams, financial officer, attended. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of Cainula. The Duke and Duchene of Richmond are inn rounded by • family circle et Moteomb. Among the guests are Mr. Algernon (ireville, Miss C. Greville, Major Ore villa, Mr. Algernon Cos, and Sir James Elphimtone, M.P. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough and Lady Sophia Pelham are jimloogieg their stay at the Bedford Hotel, Brighton. Lady ifulesworth has left town, on a visit to Sir Anthony and Lady Rothschild, in Buckinghamshire. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli have left Grosvenor-gate, fur Mentmore, Bucks, on a visit to Barna and Baroness Mavertie Bothschihl. The Rev. P. H. de Lora lin% been instituted by the Lord Dialler/ of Gloucester and Bri.tol to the rectory at Luckington, Nllts, vacant by the re-ignation of the Bev. W. S. Birch. Patron., Win. Fredk. J. Turner, M.D., and others. DEATH OF THE EARL OF GUILTORD.—Francis Earl of Guilford died on Tuesday at Walderehare Park, Kest. The deceased earl, the Rev. Francis North, sixth earl, was born in 1772: married, fast, the daughter of the Rev. J. Harrison, and, secoodly, the daughter of Sir H. Wards. His second title was lad North. The peerage was created in 1152, the first peer being a judge. The deceased. who, it will be seen, was in his eighty ninth year, was • censervative in polities, but had ceased for some time to take en active part in public life. " The history of his conuexion with St. Cross," says the Poet, " w.,uld require many columns of our paper, but all the world DOW knows how that noble institution was for forty years laundered by its appointed guardian. It may, however, he mentioned that the duties of chaplain to the hospital were delegated by the master to a clew , mesa named Williams, who had to perform the Jail se which the salary was NO /. and the maste r house, but he was compelled, in respect of the large garden attached to the house, to pay rent to the ureter! Proceedings were, at the instance of the Rev. H. Holloway, taken against Lord Guilford, to recover the whole of the vast sums he had received from the hospital, including fines of very many thousands of pounds at a thee —no one ever could get at the reel income--on the ground that St. Crass was not only an hospital, but also a parish, and that his lordship bad not been canonically inducted as rector of the imt Oh. It i, well known that after repeated ouslaughts on him in parliament and in the courts of law, Lord tonlford resigned all his preferments in It.io, having realised from them sufficient mossy to pay elf all the mort. son his ancestral iota. near Dover. Since that time he has lived in retirement at Walderahare." Et.I97TION OF THE /IMHOF OVWORCESTF:R.— WORCESTCR, ViCONINDAT.—To4Iair the lfean and Chapter of Worceeter assembled at the Chspterhoose, in the college precinct, for the purpose of proceeding ppr►eectinct , to the election of • bishop of the diocese, in the room of the late bishop, Ur Pella. The V , /kle tetiitY directing the chapter to proceed in the election recommended u the successor of the late bishop the Rev. Dr. Henry Philpott, tenon of Norwich, Master of flt. l'atherine's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Prince Comport, nod he has accordingly been formally elected to.cley. The usual formalities of election haying been gone through, the certificates of such election were made under seal, sod forwarded to her Mainly, the Arch. bishop of Caoterbury, sod th. , bishop elect. Th e p eeeee di ngs then terminated. The new bishop will not, according to the art coortituting the bishopric of Maechester, be en. titled to a eat in the House of Lode until a vacancy arises ins vs...ther than Canterbury, York, London, Durham, or Winchester. THE UNITED STATES. We have received New York papers to the 19th inst. They are, of course, filled with matter re lating to the existing disunion. The Senate had accepted Mr. Holt as Secretary of War. On the 18th, the Georgia Convention adopted a resolution similar to that adopted by the Florida Convention, declaring the right and duty of the state to secede, and appointing a special committee to prepare an ordinance of secession. These mea sures were carried by 165 votes against 130. Great demonstrations of rejoicing at Milledgeville fol lowed this vote. On the 18th the programme for Louisiana's se cession was agreed upon by the leading members of the Convention. Arrangements were being perfected among the seceding states for holding a general Convention at Montgomery, on the 20th of Feb ruary, to devise the plan of the new Confederacy, to adopt the Federal Constitution, claim title, and ask recognition by the European Powers, and the United States. The !President's message was strongly animad verted on as his weakest production, deploring the condition of the country without assuming any po sition. Forts Jackson and St. Philip were to be largely reinforced for the defence of the mouths of the Mississippi. It was contemplated to fit out pri vateers should coercion be attempted by the North. South Carolina was making military prepara tions. A telegram dated Charleston, Jan. 17, says : In the Senate, to-day, the Military Committee report in favour of raising four companies of artillery; declare that the exigencies of the times demand South Carolina to be on a war footing to meet opposers from any quarter ; the state should have a permanent military establishment and fortifications. The committee further recommend that the troops consist of a regiment of infantry and a battalion of artillery, four companies. It will form a nucleus around which the militia and volunteers can rally, and besides be a peace establishment, or furnish South Carolina's quota in the army of the Southern Confederacy. The Senate went into secret session on the propositions to lay a submarine telegraph between Charleston and Morris Island, Fort Moultrie, Fort Johnson, and Castle Pinckney. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. --*-- INQUEST ON DR. BALY.-(THIS DAY.) This morning at half-past 10 o'clock Mr. W. Carter, coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, opened an inquiry at the White Hart lan, Merton, am to the death of Dr. William Baly, M.D., of No. 43, Queen Anne,treet, Cavendish4quare. Mr. Bedford, of the Broad Sanctuary, Westminster attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of the friend of the deceased. Mr. Dalrymple, of the firm of Buchanan, Dalrymple, and Drake, represented the South Western Railway Company. Several of the directors of the company were also present; amongst them Captain Mangles (chairman), Serjeant fiaze lee, and Mr. Crombie (secretary). Mr. John Fletcher having been appointed foreman, Mr. Carter desired to remind the jury that they must not listen to any reports they might have heard. He bad made application to the Beard of Trade that some one should be instructed to inspect the carriages and engine, and the board having acceded to the re quest, the jury would no doubt have the valuable aid ►nd information of Colonel Yolland, the govern ment inspector. He was not anticipating anything, but thought that an early inspection of the materials and I the line might tend to elucidate the MUMS of the accident. He then stated the course he proposed to pursue ; they would view the body, and then take the evidence of the superintendent who started the train, the driver, the stoker, a police-constable (in consequence of something found on the deceased), then they would take the identity of the body, and next the evidence as to how he was found under the carriage. Mr. Dalrymple, on behalf of the company, said his clients wished to offer every facility in the conduct of the inquiry, and would bring forward every servant of the company that was requisite to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion as to the cause of the accident. Mr. Bedford, for the friends of the deceased, applied for an adjournment of the proceedings after the identification and viewing the body, in order to allow counsel to be instructed. In fact, the only male member of Dr. Baly's family was not in England. The Coroner said the witnesses could be recalled, but he should first take the evidence as he had suggested. The convenience of the court must be studied. Mr. Bedford persisted in his application, but the coroner would not allow the adjournment. Mr. Bedford said the deceased's friends had been deeply pained by the statement made by the company's servant., that deceased had jumped out of the carriage. Captain Mangles thought the minds of the jury should not be influenced by such remarks. Mr. Bedford said that the statement of the company's servants was more likely to influence the minds of the jury. The jury then proceeded to view the body, and on their return, The learned Coroner said he considered the course he had originally suggested was the best to pursue, and he then proceeded to call the following evidence : George Smith—l am inspector of the traffic department at Waterloo-bridge station. My duty is to see the signals in proper order for the train to start. On /1013* I day, the 28th, I started a passenger train at 5.10 in the afternoon. It was express to Guildford, and going to Portsmouth. There were ton carriages. I know the engine driver, who is named Cooke. Ido not know the fireman. Next the tender was a second class, then two first class, then a guard's van, which is the break, then a mixed (first and second), then two seconds, two first, and a second. The engine was called the St. George. The carriages are put in this way, because on her arrival part of the train is detached. Juror—Where is the train detached° Witness—At Haslemere. James Harris, police-constable 14 V— I heard of the accident, and went down the line on the evening of Monday, 28th. It was near the Epsom junction. I went to the Wimbledon station and down the line ; on arriving there I saw a male person dead. He wu lying on the six-foot way on the door of a first-class carriage. 1 took charge of the body and brought him here. I searched him and found a gold ring, a penknife, a purse with a Ils. 6d. in it, a surgical instrument, two pocket handkerchiefs marked " W. IL," a first-clams return ticket from Waterloo to Guildford, dated the 28th of January ; and also took charge of a shirt collar marked " W. Italy, No. 5, 1850." Dr. Wyld, the physician, asked whether a cotton pocket. handkerchief had been found? The witness replied in the negative. Richard Maisey—l was the coachman of the deceased, and have known him four years and a half. I could not identify the person of the deeeased, but 1 should know the clothing. I believe him to be William Rely. He was a physickui in practice. I but saw him on Monday evening, a few minutes last five o'clock, at the Waterloo station. He was going to Guildford by train. I had driven him to the South Western terminus. I did not see him again alive. Walter Chapman—l am a surgeon in practice at Tooting, and was called to see him in the coffee-room at this house yesterday morning. I made a kind of examination into the nature of the injuries he had sustained. The whole of the front part of the skull was completely fractured and knocked in.. The globe of the right eye was nip. tared or burst. The right cheek bone was fractured, and the lower jaw was completely fractured. I believe the whole of the rile were fractured, the whole cheat iu fact was driven in. The right thigh bone war frac- tured in two places. There were marks of injury, coma• sinus, and abrasions, all over the body. In my judge., ut the injuries were sufficient to cause instantaneous death, and would be caused by compression from some heavy body. The fracture of the skull was quite sufficient to account for death. Coroner—Did you know it to be Dr. Italy Witness—l heard it was Dr. Rely who was dead or Ido not think I should have known him. I wish further to state that in my opinion those injuries must have been caused while he was on the ground, from the immense quantity of dirt and gravel found in all the wounds. This is important to show that he did not die in the railway carriage. By Mr. Bedford-1)o I understand the dirt was in all the wounds—that all of them ware caused while on the ground! Witness—Jo; I am not positive as to that. By Mr. Dalrymple—l see nothing to chow to the contrary but that all the wounla might have been tanked by a rail. way carriage falling upon him after he was on the ground. . . . Fredetieic Huller—ilive at 6, Brighton-terrace, Kingaaa. I left London by the 5.15 train togotaiingston. We ran down to the part of the line between the two danger signals worked from the Epsom junction. My attention was c died to the wreck by the prolonged whistling of the en gine of the train I was travelling in. Our teelu was brought to a dead standstill quite close to the second danger light, which was up at the time. I heard a man say there was a frightful accident, and I jumped out of the carriage, and ran down just past the points at the junction. I went with two of the porters, an.l on getting to one of the ear ria;•ce one of them said, " Good Gad! here's a man nailer the carriage!" Ile was under the third compartment of a firat-clam carriage, and at that time on the sic-feet way. The whole of hit person was covered IT the carriage, and he had the weight of the carriage on him. The carriage was on its side. The person had his face on the gravel. I noticed the dear of the second compartment was wrenched off, and the do ceased was lying under the doa . of the third and fourth compartment. The &reseed was lying with his feet up towards London on the metals. His legs were embedded 111 the grand, and a medical gentlentan present felt hit head, and said death moat have been instantaneous. He was re moved on a door with a cushion. The party I have -etre dead is the same person I saw as I have described to yen. As it lay the carriage was on lit riff side. It hail left the rails and lay Roses. There was a carriage off the metabr, but not upset. The carriage was the only one meet, although others were off the metals. The carriage that was upon the decestaed was the only one on the six feet ; the others were on the other aide. George Wyld —I am a physitian. I live at 12, Great Cumberlaudastreet. Ou the afternoon of Monday, the 281:4 I was a passenger by the 5.10 train to Guildfonl. I went intothe middle compartineet of a first-class carriage to Guild forth I took my scat at the right-hand corner, with toy bark to the engine. The carriage was about the middle of the train, rather in front than other. wise. I did not notice the guard-van then, but I can state that after the accident I saw nu guard van behind the car riage I had been in. There were two gentlemen in the carriage ; one took the seat at my right haul in the center, the other taking the diagonal corner opposite the second gentleman who got into the corner. I ob.erved that the third gentleman, on taking his seat, was of dark court. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office : VIENNA, TBURBDAT. The semi-official Donau Zeitusg gives a denial to the news published by some Belgian journals that France had declared that she would consider any aid given to Austria by German Federal troops in a war with Piedmont as a violation of the principle of non-intervention. The comitat of Gomor demands that the abdi cation of the late King Ferdinand should be com municated to Hungary before the coronation of Francis Joseph, as King of Hungary, is decided upon, and declares that the King must reside in Hungary. PESTH, JAW. 30. Placards have been posted up here to-day order ing the return of all men belonging to the military reserve by the 10th of February at the latest. Those who may not have appeared on that day will be treated as deserters. The Comitat Samogz, in its address, expreesod a hope that permission to return will be granted to the refugees, and declared that the Comitat will neither prevent nor support the levying of taxes, and will abstain from making any change in the judicial administration, and from offering any re sistance which might cause the employment of material force. ITALY. ROME. JAS. 30. On Monday last 2,000 Sardinians, with cavalry and artillery, attacked the reactionary troops at Canto. The fight hotel] seven hours. Tho Pied inostese and Neapolitans afterwards evacuated the pontifical territory. TURIN, JAN. 31. The Opinion of to-day says : "Signor Jacini, Minister of Public Works, has tendered his resignation." The same journal also says : "General Goyon has addressed a despatch to the Intendente of Riuti, declaring that ho bad not been aware of the movement of Pontifical troops towards the frontiers at Correse, and that the government of the Pope had given orders for the recall of these troops." VENICE. According to accounts from Vienna, published by the Paris paper', the Emperor has decided on giving to Venetia a constitution which will pre serve to that province its entire autonomy. The government of the country will be left to the Italians, and Venice will be the seat of it. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, WIDNEADAT EVILNING. To-day the King sent his reply to the address of the rust Chamber. In this reply his Majesty ex presses his thanks for the manifestations of deep grief at the less of the late King, and for the de votion to his own person testified in the address of the Chamber. The King then continues : "I have openly and distinctly explained the principles of my government on assuming the Regency, and have stated what I wish to aecom plish. I will not break with the past, but I intend, when my convictions urge it upon me, to make improvements in the institutions of the country as my father, of glorious memory, did in 1808, and as my late brother was also induced to do by the events in his epoch. I have marked out before me the limit to which I can go, and I will strictly follow the course upon which I have decided. We must not conceal from one another that we are, perhaps, approaching troublous times. In view of this pro bability everything depends upon the country being, through its representatives, united to me. I hope, I desire, and I expect this. It is thus only that we shall be strong, both in the interior and abroad, and be able to await the future with confidence." BERLLN,WIDNILADAT EVECING. In to-day's sitting of the Clamber of Deputies, the proposed address in reply to the speech of the King was read. The following is a summary : "The Chamber has learnt with /satisfaction that preparations are being made for the conclusion of a commercial treaty between Franco and the Zoll verein, whereby, among other advantages, the cheering prospect is opened of two great nations finding a better opportunity to compote for the prize in works of peace." The address expresses a hope that, by the ener getic employment of all proper means, the govern ment may succeed in re-establishing the consti tutional state of things in Hesse Electorele. It acknowledges it to be a national duty of Prussia to bring about, in common with the other German Federal States, a satisfactory solution of the ques tion of the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, and considers it certain that in case of Federal execu tion in Holstein the right of Germany iu reference to Schleswig will be reserved. THE UNITED STATES. SOUTH:MPTON, WEDNESDAY. The North German Lloyd's steamer Bremen, Captain Wessels, from New York on the 19th inst., has arrived. She brings 62 passengers for Bremen, 18 for Havre, and 4 for England. The Bremen also brings 23,121 dot. in specie, of which 21,121 dole. are for England, and the remainder for Bremen. The steamship Anis arrived out on the 18th inst. On the 20th inst. the Bremen spoke two mastod steamers, bound west ; and on the 21st the Ham burg and American Company's steamer Teutonia. The Bremen made her passage within 11 days (10 days 18 hours), remarkably quick fur this season of the year. LIVERPOOL, THINUMAY. The Cunard screw-steamer Palestine, Captain Martyn, from New York on the 18th inst., ban arrived hero. Her news has been anticipated by the Bremen. LIVERPOOL, WYDXDWAT. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com pany's steamer City of Baltimore, which Bailed to• day for New York, took 34,0001. in specie. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, with the above mails, arrived off the Needles at 12.5 p.m. We (Gali!tatani) learn that the Emperor has pur chased the property of Malinaison from Queen Christina, sad some land near it, particularly what belongs to M. Lierre. His Majesty's intention is said to ho to unite these new purchases to the chestnut wood of La Jonchire, above Bougival, where upwards of 200 work men are now employed in improvements. There was some idea of buying Boispram, belonging to H. Rodrigues. In that manner the residence of Malmaison would communicate with Villeneuve.l'Etang and St. Cloud. According to thel:ozette Mltsicate Bas-Rhin there were in Europe at the end of 1880, 18,140 actors or male singers, 21,000 actresses or female singers, and 1,733 directors of theatres. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (fox OUR OWN PARIS, WILDNISDAT Evainta. A severe and extraordinary measure against the press, taken by M. de Persigny, has excited great astonishment. The Cuurrier du Dimond's has not only received a warning, but its editor, M. Gregory GIIIIO6CO, is suddenly expelled the country, under the law which allows the government to send away any foreigner without cause assigned. M. Ganesco was a Wallachian, but he had lived many years in France, spoke French like a native, was associated with French literary men, and altogether in heart and habits a Frenchman. He was the proprietor as well as the editor of the Cowries. du Dimaneht, and a part proprietor of Figaro. He received but a few hours' notice to leave, and is already on his way out of the country. The measure is to him one of utter ruin. The article incriminated passed unnoticed in Paris, and I am quite at a loss to say what passage or passages M. Persigny con siders " insulting to the government." He gives no reasons. At the Bourse there was a heavy fall, for which there is no sufficient explanation. The Rento fell 45c. for cash and 40c. for account, closing at 67fr. 65c. Mobilier fell 12fr. 25c. The Orleans Railway declined 12fr. 50c., and the other lines were from 2fr. 50c. to Mr. lower. To•day's Muniteur announces that a first warn ing has been given to the Courtier du Dintauchc. It also publishes the following letter of Count Persigny to the Councillor of State charged with the general direction of the press. Monsieur le Conciliar d'Etat,—l have just read In • weekly journal, the Coup rier du Donanda, an article that is an insult to our institutions. Till now, convinced that liberty of discussing the acts of government is as useful to thegovernmont as to the public, and confirmed in that con viction by the attitude of the press itself during the last two months. I have not ceased, as you know, in conformity with the principles set forth in my circular of Dec. 7, to overcome the obstacles which might tend in prac tice to restrain that liberty. But I should be guilty towards the state to tolerate for an instant that the principle of the government should be discussed, still more No should I per mit it to be outraged. I beg you, therefore, to prepare im mediately • warning against that journal. I learn, more over, that the author of that article, M. Gregory Genesee, is not a Frenchman. I am astonished that a foreigner should permit himself to come here and insult the institutions of our country ; and consequently I charge the Prefect of Police to expel him from France, by the application of Art. 72, the law of Dec. 11, 1849.—Receive, F. DI PERSIONT. The Motilvir also publiihes tho following deci sion of the committee for examining the senators conorltrim on publishing reports of the sittings of the Senate and Legislative Body : Art. 42 of the constitution is modified as follows : The debates of the sittings of the Senate and Legisla tive Body are reproduced in short hand and inserted in extras° in the official journal of the following deg. Besides, reports of these sittings, drawn up by secretary reporters, under the authority of the president of etch assembly, are placed at the disposal of all the journals. Reports of the sittings of the Senate and Legislative Body by the journals or any other means of pub lication shall consist clay of a reproduction of the debates inserted in extent° in the official journal, or of the report drawn up under the president's authority, in accordance with the preceding paragraphs. Nevertheless, when several measures or petitions shall have been discussed in one sitting, it shall be pulsated to reproduce the debate by itself relating to one of such mea sures, or one of such petitions, provided that it be in no case abridged. The Senate, on the demand of five members, shall have the power of deciding that it go into secret committee. Art. 13 of the /snafus consultant of Dec. 25, 1852, is repealed. GENERAL LA 3IARMORA'S MISSION TO BERLIN. On the 2Gth Gen. La Marmora arrived at Berlin on a special mission to the King of Prussia, and on the following day the general was presente d to his Majesty. MM. d'Anorswald and de Schleinitz were present at the interview. The Cologne arzette says : The King of Sardinia has sent to Berlin the most con servative statesman, the most renowned general, the creator of the Sardinian army, in a word the moat eminent man Sardinia possesses, to congratulate his Majesty King William I. on his accession to the throne, and doubtless to make an attempt to re-establish between Prussia and Sar dinia the good understanding for which the court of Turin has made up to the present time such serious and per severing, but fruitless efforts. The very day on which Victor Emmanners confidential envoy arrived at Berlin the Prwesitin Gazelle published at the head of its columns an article hostile to Italy, which even surpassed in violence the article in the Weekly News paper. Such is the reoeption aocorded at Berlin to General Marmara. - . - - After analysing and refuting the effusions of the ministerial paper, the Cofugue Clcette proceeds : The article in the Prussian Gazette deserves no attention but for the earnestness it displays in denying the existence at Berlin of any hostility towanls Italy or of any warlike aspirations. This is really too bad ! For years the Gazette has not published an article about Italy that was not levelled against Hely. The r:oretfe goes so far as to deny the fact of warlike demonstrations at Berlin ; yet no further back than yesterday it spoke like the god of war, and aspersed those who refused to join in its foolish clamours and senseless appeals. To-day it is all for peace, and does not remember its warlike demonstrations. We will remind the Prussian GaMte that the recent de monstrations at Berlin have excited the attention of the entire European press, and have been disapproved in every country by all parties, often in terms that could not de corously be quoted. There is nothing to be surprised at in this. Two yeas ago, when the Emperor of the French made an allusion, most moderate in its form, to the com plications that might eventually spring out of the negotiations then pending a cry of indignation resounded throughout Europe. And tightly too, for those thretta of war could sot facilitate the negotiations, but, on the contrary, would serve to augment the discontent of the cabinets. With so much the more reason have the Prussian demonstrations necessarily Occasioned surmise and dissatisfaction. It is a strange thing to hear simultaneously the speech from the throne and the semi-official press assuring us that the rela tions of Prussia with the Powers are assuming every day a more pacific character, and to read in the same journals only warlike news. Let no oue he surprised that Europe is di. pleased at these demonstrations, for no one can en dure luiviug the sword flashed constantly in his eyes. For the rest we record the pacific assurances of this day. No one dreams of attacking Germany, and we have still fewer motives for troubling the repro of Europe. General La Mariners will certainly be received with all the attention due to a power that has always shown itself pacific and friendly towards us. He will at the same thee have an opportunity of convincing himself that the Prussian pile wish Prussia to take in the rational tendencies of Maly the same benevolent interest that England dues. DENMARK. - A letter from Copenhagen, dated 23rd instant, says : The government continues to receive patriotic addresses from every part of the monarchy, encouraging A to persist in its resistance to the preteusious of Germany. Public opinion approves in every point the energetic measures of defence which the ministry has ordered by laud and sm. A fact worthy of observation is, that captains of the merchant marine of Holstein and Schleswig have notified to the Minister of Marine that they were at his disposal, in conoquence of the appeal addressed to the captains of the merchant service to serve as auxiliary officers on board the men of war. This willingness shows that the national ani mosity which has been reported to prevail generally in the duchies against Denmark is not so great as the organs of the German press endeavour to make Europe believe. To be quite prepared for every eventuality the govern• meat has now invited all medical men and sanitary officer* to place themselves at its disposal should hostilities be commented by the German Confederation. The greatest activity is visible in the naval department. Guubn•ts drawing very little water are under construction for the purpose of running up the rivets of Germany, so as to cut off all communication by sea. The last despatch which Baron do Schleiniti has thought fit to address to Count liernstorif, the Prussian Minister at London, has not exercised the 'lightest influence on the po licy of our government towards Germany ; it is, more over, difficult to make out exactly what could have in duced the Berlin cabinet to give so groat • publicity to that despatch at the German courts. The Prussian government must know that Denmark has arrived at the last limits of concessions, and that by its condescension it only perhaps too notch encouraged the pressure which, from time immemorial, Germany has always endeavoured to exercise on the Danish nation. BRITISH SYRIAN RELIEF FUND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS. 811,—Will you kindly give publicity to the fol lowing letter received this day from his Excellency the Governor-General of India?-1 am, be., CYRUS R. EDMONDS, Secretary. 12, York-buildings, Adelphi, Jan. 30. " Camp, Benams, Dec. 9. " Sir,—Your letter of the 10th of October, and the papers accompanying it, did not reach me until three or four days ago, 1 will take steps immediately towards acting upon the appeal made in it. Very soon after the first news of the massacres and atrocities perpetrated upon the Syrian Christians readied Calcutta, a subscription for the relief of the sufferers W. 04 set on foot in Calcutta by Mr. Fitzwilliam the manager of the Mercantile Bank in that city. Ido no t know the parti. cedars of the subscription, whether it has been local or general, and whether collections still continue to be made, ion' at the distance at which lam from Calcutta it would take some time to obtain this information, but I believe that Mr. Fifer/Slim has remitted about eight hundred pounds to the Ottoman Bank at Beyrout for dignbution through the Anglo-American Relief Committee. - - - - - " I will write to Sir Bartle Frere, the President of the Council in Calcutta, who will readily communicate with Mr. Fitswilliatn, and you shall be informed hereafter of the measures which it may seem advisable to take in reply to your appeal It is one which needed no apology, remem bering, as we in India do, the prompt and large generosity with which our distresses three years ago were met tint versally.—l am, Sic., "CANNLYG. "To Sir Culling Eardley, Bart., Syrian Relief Fund, London." FATAL STEAM SHIP COLLISION.—SIX LIVER LORI. —The particulars of a serious steam ship collision, involving the leas of a vessel and six of her crew, have been received at Uovd's. The unfortunate ship was the Magyar, Captain Beer, belonging to Exmouth, and on the afternoon of the 26th she left Hartlepool for the Ere. Between amen and eight o'clock the same evening, when off Whitby, she was run into by the Rouen screw steamer, which was on a voyage from London to the Tyne. Such was the fearful diameter of the collision that the brig immediately began to fill. A seaman named Graves, who was at the wheel at the time, succeeded in getting on board the Ronan. The jolly boat was then launched with the view of saving the crew of the sinking brig, Shut before she could be got alongside, the Magyar went down, with her Captain Beer, the master ; his mate, and c r.t/ T r n ci the crew. A lad stated to be the captain's son was picked up by the brig Mary, of Yarmouth but the state of the weather prevented his being put eels:aid the steamer. The Rouen remained near where the catastrophe had happened for some time, with a view of rendering assistance, and then Meefed on her voyage. It is stated that when the col iiecurred, Captain Beer called to his hands to jump ' on beard the steamer,butonly one succeeded in doing so. The brig is insured. BURNING or THE LILLY Dam—On Tuesday evening a despatch was received from Holyhead announc ing the destruction by fire of the ship Lilly Dale, boned from Liverpool to Bombay. The vessel left Liverpool for East India on the 21st inst., with a large general cargo ; but she must have made but little progress in getting out of the Channel, as early on Tuesday morning she was observing making for Holyhead, showing signals of distress. A stuam-tug wax sent out, when it was found that the ship was on fire, and at about nine o'clock a.m. the seams of her upper deck emitted large quanti ties of smoke. In the meantime, however, ,reparations were being made for scuttling her ,• and the tug-boat, having succeeded in getting a hawser on hoard, took the burning ship in tow, and proceeded towards the inner harbour at Holyhead. No sooner had the Lilly Dale got inside the breakwater than the tire, which had been kept below until then, burg through the decks, and enveloped the ship in flames. Happily, however, the scuttling operation had been aocompliahed, and all the hands on board transferred to the steam-tug, before the ship sank. The Lilly Dale was a fine North American built ship, of G5O tons burden, owned in St. John's, N. 8., by Mr. Anderson, and chartered for the voyage to Bombay Ly Mears. Fende Brothers, of Liver pool. The vessel and cargo are said to be fully covered by insurance. - 71;:i. ACCIDENT ON THE NORTH SEA.—SHIELDS, WEDNLBDAY.—A most fearful accident occurred off the bar of the Tyne this morning. A steam tug, the War Eagle, had proceeded round to Sunderland last night with a number of boatmen aboard, to bring a vowel round that had been stranded They eaten:led this morning, and were lying off our bar, waiting for the title to bring them into the harbour, when one of the boatmen, Job Taylor, had gone below into the engine room and fallen asleep. The engineman was unaware that he was below, and had set the engine ou. The unfortunate mon im mediately fell over amongst the machinery, and was crushed to death. Taylor was 45 years of age, and has left a faintly. THE RECENT MVILDER IN LIVERPOOL—At the Liverpool coroner's oourt yesterday (Wednesday) an inquest was held on the body of James Casday, who was killed in Johnston-street, on Saturday night last, in a street row by a man named Thomas l)ounegan, who stabbed him in the neck with a knife. From the evidence of several witnesses, it appeared that a row began in Mellor and Llewellyn's vaults, which trout IWe-street and Johnston-street, and that when those quarrelling were turned out by the police, they began fighting in the street. Dounegiui stabbed both Cessidy and his uncle, also named Doonegan, and the former diced while being conveyed to the hospital by the police. Ilonnegan escaped, and is still at large, and his uncle lies in a very precarious condition. Mr. R. Coote, surgeon at the North Dispensary, stated that he was called to the deceased about half-past twelve on Saturday night, and found him dead. He haul since made a post-mortem examivation of the body. He found an ineised wound on the left side of the neck, about an inch below the angle of the neck. The wound was abort an inch or an inch mid a half deep. The internal jugular vein was completely divided. The cause of death was loss of blood, in consequence of the jugular vein being savoy& The wound must have been inflicted by some sharp instrument. The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Thomas Donegan. THE BODY OF A CHILD IN A RAILWAY PARCEL. —A few days since nn extraordinary discovery was made at the terminus of the London and North Western Railway, which shows the facilities which railways them selves afford for the perpetration and effectual concealment of the most diabolical murders. On the 26th November last a tin box arrived at the Ettston Station from Liverpool, addressed to P. P. Williams, 60, Regent-street. The box, which from its size appeared somewhat heavy, was duly conveyed to Rogentatre-A as directed, but it was discoverwl that no such person as P. I'. Williams resided there. On being brought luck to the station it remained in the un claimed parcels mbar till Friday last. in the expectation that there would he some claimant who would describe it. It was, however, then opened by the authorities, end was discovered to contain the remains of • child coverts' with via( lime, which had so far done its work that little beside the hoses of the skeleton exist. It was taken to the detublionso of St. Pancras Infirmary, but whether the coroner will hold an inquest has not been decibel. The Ituaaiau gunboat which hew been for aome days in Southampton Water went into dock yesterday to have her screw examined. She is a large boat, and was built at Havre. She carries upwards of twenty guns, and is bound for the River Mauer. hit all. A Atm I hay Dur %emu I;odat Wedk ,aide ;13jury I.laco ptrfec