The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-12 00:00:00

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Two MGM Tat =lalt& Wawa J. Ileyanata S. Itidan, and Aka : I4a t Trish—lArL CLIVIORD. Wks* Dn. Down Mary sad rice : Drug. Lure, Dn. W. CrinterilL Ylr 121.a.—Aarl DINO /ONO WILL HMI WATIII AT LONDON BUDGE. Tim NT —Me. . 71k. Atlmesooa, k 6. 17m. T. , zoarww—Manis Ationoos, vb. 37n. LONDON. TUVIDAY, JUNE 12. Tin solemn hush of the House last night, when Loed Jolts Ri . aseu. moved that the order for going into Committee on the Representation of the People Bill be discharged, was a significant contrast to the strife of tongues which had assailed the Bill at every step of its passage from the second reading into committee. Whether this rapt and anxious silence was a tit of penitence or a sensation of relief, a suppressed joy or a vague foreboding, we must leave to the consciences of honourable members and to the curiosity of their constituencies to determine. None could be sur prised at the ministerial announcement. It was time that the curtain should descend on the gloomy comedy, and though Lord JOHN Remaxt assures us it is only an act-drop, we fancy it will rise next time on a very different performance, to be played before a more exacting public. The unenfranchised " numbers" who have still to wait for a pittance of political justice will no doubt understand to whom their thanks are due. Lord Join was not the man to haul down his colours while he had • deck to fight upon, but here was an enemy that would neither fight nor run away, and friends on board who would rather scuttle the ship than work the guns. To whom then does the responsibility of "sat night's announcement belong ? Not to the Govern ment, as even the Tories avow, but to that great constitutional and Conservative party which would, and would not, reject the Bill, but, at any rate, would not endure its fair discussion. Let the Conservative party have all the credit that is due to them fur throwing off the thin dis guise they wore for one session so awkwardly, and figuring once more in their aboriginal simplicity as systematic deniers of popular rights. Not that Mr. DISRAELI, " notwithstanding "the Quarterly Iterieir," is even now quite willing that his party should return., as they say at Epsom, to its old " form." By • dexterous confusion of cause with effect he generously acquits the Opposition of having achieved • triumph, and charges " public business " with the honour of arresting the progress of Reform. As if the (7E4 its the Movrie.re, the BENTINIICS, and the rest of the heavies who filled up the Tory trench with their bodies for Whig re negades to pass over at the general assault, hail been transacting " public business" from February to Whitsuntide ! Perhaps they have Len transacting • public business not dreamed of in their philosophy : perhaps they have unwittingly been laying the foundation of • Reform Bill to which the Bill of 1860 will have been but the sketch of • scaffolding. Mr. Di.a.itti, however, is correct in repudiating on beit.ilf of the Opposition the entire glory of the slow murder el the Bill. Two-thin]. of the amendments proceeded from the ministerial side of the House ; and the Tories, but for thu rash ness of a few ...Am:. on the beck benches and below the gangway, might safely have left Reform to the tender. niercias of professing fr ie nd s . We are not now referring to the member for Rye : there is nothing remark able in a Tory pervert clueing his career us Whig apostate. But the member for Marylebone, who was so eloquent last night on the serious responsibility which the Government had incurred by the withdrawal of the Bill—wu he not the brat ..ut •.1 the pure benevolence of his heart—to gib,• the enemy a cue of which they did not fail to take advantage, and to denounce the doto upon which the Hill was founded 1 And that other Arcadia] member fur 3larylebone, and repreeesta. tire of the linings of the sister island, what help 11141 be give to the Bill during its brief and troubled existence ! He is not a Repealer, we believe; but he is at least as zealous a Repealer la Re- former. And the Stoic of Liskeard, who bewailed the fate of the Bill and denounced its murderers last night, how did he employ his gift of tongue while the Bell was yet alive I In defending the rights of the Ku,g of Nat•tas, and informing against the Il•aiusioi sulecriptiots. So much for the... , Liberals lOW, ROW that the Reform Bill is ilea.' and boned, begin to cckbrate its virtues and to deplore its untimely And all with one consent begin to male ex, use. All protest "sin " cerity ;" all regret " sincerely ;" all desired "sincerely." Like liners who write away their passion, these " sincere " Reformers do protest their " sincerity too much. The word grates unpleasantly on honest ears. We wonder if these Reformers v. 1111 g.. into fashionable mourn ing for the Bill they bullied to death, almost before the breath is out of its body, meet each other in the lobby without laughing. Mr. HORAMAN is one of tic few members on either tide of the House who have a right to keep their couute hatsee. The member for Stroud is not an anti- Reformer; ho is simply an Anglicised copy of one of those poor old French doc trinaires who, having lost power by grudging The Hones, then, has got rid of Reform for this year. But will it lay the ghost of the departed Bill? Its own recorded acts, its own irrevocable words, its min accusing silence, remain wit nesses at the bar of the nation, and by this accu mulated testimony it remains to be condemned. It is for the constituencies to bring their representatives to a strict account. The Reform Societies may do good service by the publica tion of such statistics as will assist the electors and the non-electors in their search after the principles of honourable members. Let us hope that the great working population of this country may look at least as indulgently upon the conduct of the House of Commons as the House of Com mons has looked upon the claim of Englishmen to be admitted within the pale of the constitution. THE case of "Nottidge v. Prince," after five days' hearing before Vice-Chancellor STUART, is still sub judice, and we have no warrant to anti cipate the decision of the court. But the case is not confined to a point of equity or to • question of personal rights and claims. It has a moral bearing which it belongs to public opinion to examine independently of those circumstances and considerations to which alone the attention of the Judge is properly directed. The facts of the cue, divested of extraneous and irrelevant matter, are few and simple. A maiden lady, aged 44, was induced some twelve years since to transfer into the name of Mr. HENZE JAMES Panics a sum of 5,7281. 7a. 2d. New Three per Cent. Annuities. This lady died in 1858, and it is her brother and ad ministrator who now seeks to remover this sum from Mr. Palms, on the ground that it was part of his sister's personal estate, and that it had been transferred by her into Mr. Paixea's name by the.exereise on his part of " undue influence," when she was under his " spiritual ascendancy, " and in a state of religious delusion with respect " to him." The first feeling in the mind of any member of a family in which there is such a thing as " personal estate" to dispose of must be one of unmitigated sympathy with the plain tiff. The second feeling will probably be one of curiosity concerning the defendant. It is a bitter thing at any time for a near relation to see money going out of the family into the hands of strangers, through caprice, or anger, or weakness. There are points of view from which even charitable bequests are not absolutely delightful to contemplate, and magnificent gifts to religious foundations sometimes look better at • distance than at home. But in England one is apt to imagine that though testators are not debarred from the privilege of that sort of practical joking after death which consists in doing a great public good at the cost of a great private wrong, at any rate we are safe from the grip of the priest. In • Protestant land estates are not settled in trust to pay for the via' to the final passport ; in a Protestant land we may do what we like with our own, and who is to say where spiritual ascendancy begins and ends—who shall define " undue influence," or prescribe the limits of " religious delusion"l The lady in the present case, sister of the plaintiff, became in December 1846 a disciple of Mr. Panics, "who then and now " declared himself to be • servant of the LORD." Three of her sisters were already his disciples. Who and what then is Mr. Panics 1 Mr. Panics was a clergyman of the Church of England, whose extraordinary zeal as a curate in Somersetahire and Suffolk had got him into trouble with two bishops. This precarious situation, as an erratic curate of excessive seal, Mr. Puttee managed by some miraculous process to convert into the com fortable and awful position of the founder of a new and final "dispensation," "opener" of a new and final " covenant," and proprietor of an establish ment described as the Agapemone, or Abode of Love, where the " day of grace " is concluded and the day of judgment "introduced," the "dispensation of " the Spirit closed," the last "covenant with flesh" entered into, and the best of board and lodging pro- vided. To this Abode of Love it seems that Mr. Psisee, the sometime curate, had in the first place carried his rector, his rector's wife, and income. " Brothers " and "Sisters " from time to time joined the "dispensation," and gave up their worldly guodsto the Tabernacle, and, among the rest, three of the sisters of Miss Louisa JANE NOTTIDGE, These three ladies were prevailed upon by succes sive " revelations " to marry three " brothers," and in each case the question of a settlement was overruled, in obedience to the declared " purposes "of Goo." Miss LOUISA JANE NOTTIDOZ, the fourth sister, at the perilous age of 41, went to reside in the neighbourhood of her sisters, and became subject to Mr. Panics'a influence, but was taken away by her brother to reside with her mother, and shortly afterwards, upon medical cer tificates, placed in a lunatic asylum, because she had expressed her belief "that Mr. Pantos was "Cop ALIADHITY, and that he had the lower of " conferring immortality upon her." Two years in an asylum having failed to shake her belief in Mr. Paisce, she was released by order of the Commissioners, in consideration of her bodily health beginning to fail. On the day of her release she met her brother-in-law, also a "disciple," and with him went to London to transfer the Three per Cent stock standing in her name into that of Mr. Panic,. On her return to the Agapemone she procured a power of attorney, and actually com pleted the transfer a fortnight after her release from the asylum. It is alleged by Mr. Peeves that this transfer of stock was made without any solicits Lion on his part, and without his knowledge. It was obviously the duty of counsel for the plaintiff to paint the Agapemone very black. It is not denied that at least the female disciples of Brother Paley' regard him as the tabernacle of Gob upon this earth ; but it is only fair to Brother PRINCE to add that his female disciples appear to be ladies who have reached that safe yet suaceptilbi period of life, hovering between the age of hope and the age of despair, which is glad enough to get a new " dispensation " at any price, and ready to accept any " covenant with flesh," or to take refuge in any "Tabernacle." M•HOMIT COD/01W the old woman who had doubts of a place in his Paradise by the Promise that "the old women would be made young again ;" but Mr. PR/NCE'S dispensation, which is a final and complete one, has no need of any such assurance. The transfer of the Three per Cent. Stock is a transaction to be judged on its own merit•, without importing into the case, so far as the public are concerned, prejudices against Mr. Puica's doctrines. We shall not be I suspected of any secret propensity to Agapemon ism if we inquire what interest society has in forcibly preventing old maids from investing their Istock in a now "dispensation" 1 We may assume that it is not the office of a Court of Chancery to lay down the limits of religious enthusiasm, or to decide at what point a " development" of doe „c4rr I trine - tes into blasphemy. One need not enter the establishment at Spliaton to led the most orthodox female imaginations possessed wills an almost illi mitable belief in curates ; to listen to an unintelli gible jargon, to behold faith in a frenzy, and repentance in convulsions. Religion, whether established or una3stablished, has its excesses and its eccentricities of manifestation, and perhaps if we were to analyse severely all the utterances et all the pulpits, we should be puzzled to select from so many ” dispensations." Brother Perscz is an extreme " development," no doubt ; but from Cardinal WISMIAB to Brother Panics inclu sive, there are, as Dr. Crmmixo can tell us, Dis pensations, and Tabernacles, and Great Tribula- Item, and Prophets without number, and the " spiritual sacendancy" they represent would buy up the Three per Cents. But in an age and a country tolerant of diversities of faith, and braced by the contests of opinion, the law leaves the refutation of false doctrine to reason, and the failure of false prophets to time, and declines to step in to save silly women from the " undue influence" of any " spiritual amen " dancy" they may prefer. " Spiritual amen " dancy" is often hard upon families and cruel to individuals ; but so long as it respects the laws, pays taxes, and acknowledges the State, it is visited with those social disabilities only which any form of eccentricity provokes, and which new re ligions call " martyrdom." Brother Panscs's dispensation, however extravagant in theory and on paper, has many sensible advantages over moat of its competitors in practice. It combines, as pro spectuses say, all the comforts of a first-rate home with the pleasing recreations of • fashionable boarding-house. It brings together able clergy men and susceptible females who might have died of spiritual starvation, or languished as religious novelists, or as district visitors in obscure paro chial enthusiasm. It marries, and gives in marriage, on a sound Malthusian basis ; invests the common stock in the name of one, but disburses it for the benefit of all; it makes a club of a " Tabernacle," • church of a club, a perpetual picnic of a final " dispense " tion "—rides, drives, dines, sings hymns and anthems, and plays hockey. Surely, in an age of muscular theology, ladies of fifty and upwards may be pardoned for putting their faith in such a dispensation as this. When Brother Parsee de clares that it is all "for the glory of Gen," and Brother Temma writes that it was " quite un " expectedly brought before him," that Sister AONZI4 should not have a settlement of her pro perty on herself, we fancy we have met with Brother PRINCI and Brother Teoxas before, and we apprehend we shall often meet with them 'NE to Ur Hoag, Ceylon, Lamas, the Lord off 'axiom Wanda mod the Go- Tora of Gibraltar . ? maks im a yei t=re had an inirirbrw with the Duke Noweartle yat the Colonial•oddce. Ws are officially informed that her Mairarr has been pleased to intimate her intention to re view the Volunteer Corps in and about London in Hyde Park, on Saturday, the 23rd instant, at 4 p.m. As some applications have been received at the War-office from Volunteer Corps formed beyond the Metropolitan district to be permitted to attend the Review at their own expense, is has been decided that such applications shall be taken into consideration with a view to the ad mission, so far as space and numbers will allow, of such corps as may be at an easy distance from London, provided their applications are rox;ved at the War-office on or before Monday, the 18th instant, immediately after which each corps will be informed whether it will be possible to accept the offer. The Floral Hall, Covent-garden, will be opened dter the opera this evening, and her Majesty has signified bur intention of honouring both the Bower show and the opera with her presence. Lady Sondes gave her first ball this season last evades at the family mansion in Grosvenor-sqoara. Mr. Leigh and the Misses Leigh gave a concert last evening at their residence in Grosvenor-place. The programme included the names of several eminent artistes, among whom were Madame Borghi-Mamo, Madame Lem -. MNlimum CU Court. Her Majesty held au investiture of the Moe) Honourable Order of the Bath, yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The following Knights Grand Cross of the Order wore severally introduced into the presence of the Sovereign between Sir John Pakington and Sir William Gomm, two junior IKoights Grand Cross present, when the Queen, sedated by the Prince Consort, Great Master of the order, Invested them with the Wend, Badge, and Star of the military division of the first class of the order, vie. :—Ad. mire! of the Fleet Sir John West, Admiral Sir William Hall Gage, General Sir George Sewell, General Lord Downes, Admiral Sir Thomas John Cochrane, Admiral Sir George Francis Seymour, General Sir Frederick Stevie, General S;r James Ferguson, Lieutenant-Genera Sir John 8011. Sir Janus Ferguson also received from the Queen the honours of Knighthood with the Sword of State. The following Knights Commanders were then severally introduced, received the honour of Knighthood, and were invested by her Majesty with the Insignia of the rerpective Division's in the Second-Claes of the Order, to which they bad been appointed. Military :—Colonel Alfred Hastiugs Hanford, late Rifie Brigade • Lieuteuant-General Philip Bainbridge, Lieutenant-General Thonu Erskiue Napier, Lieutenant-General the Hon. Charles Gore, Lieutenant. General Samuel Borden Ellis, Vice-Admiral Provo William P.m , Wallis, Lieutenent-General George Judd Harding. Civil —Mr. Rowland Hill, Mr. Frederic James Halliday, Sir Robert North Collie Hamilton, Bart., Colonel Peter Melvin Melvin, Lieutenant-t'olonel Herbert Benjamin Ed wards', Mr. Charles Lennox Wyke. After which the undermentioned Compniaas of the cedar were severally introduced end received from the sore • their respective decorations in the military and civil divisions of the third doe, of the order, via. :—Military— Lieutenaat-Coloriel John Archibald Ballard, Benda) seers • Lieutenant-Colooel Arthur Scustimare, 14th 'Light Dragons ; Colenel ;eorger La Grand Jacob, sth Born lay Light Infantry ; Colonel Maurice Griffin Dennis, lifith Rifles; Lieutenant-Colouel Will am Payn, R 53rd Regiment ; Lieu teaut-Colonel Edward Hecker, oyal Manses. Civil— Mr. James Ranahl Martin, Examining Physician to the Secretary of State for India in Council; Mr. Thomas &raki,). May, Clerk Assistant of the House of e'onintons ; Colossal Stephen John Hill, Governor of Sierra Leone ; Mr. Darold Friell Mgeoll, Bengal Civil Service Financial Conned...loner, Punjaub ; Mr. Edward Thornton, Bengal Civil Service Commissioner of the Jhelum Division, Punjsub ; Mr. Henry Cane Tucker, Ben gel Civil Service Commissioner, Berens; Mr. Robert Alexerider, Bengal Civil Service Comrunasouer, Rabileund ; Mr. Robert Heury Dunlop, Bengal Civil Servi ce Magistrate of Meerut; Mr. William Aehburuer Forbes, Bengal Civil Serviee, Deputy Commissioner, Oude ; Mr. George Henry Mildmay Ricketta, Bengal Civil Service, Deputy Commis siouer, Loodianab ; Mr. Herwidd Craufurd Wske, Bengal Civil Kerrie., Magistrate of Shabalsiel ; Colonel George St. Patrick Lawrence, Bengal Cavalry Agent to her Majesty'', Viceroy Niel Governr.General of India in Rajpootana. Liaut.-I'olonel Frederick Carleton klanden, late Bengal Army Deputy t'ommussiorier, Ferteepore ; Major John Reid Becher, Demos' Engineers, Deputy Commie...icier, Hamra; Major Helen' Charles Laurence, Bengal Infantry, COM mandit,g the Lahore Police and Cashniere Condiment. The Queen and Prince Consort, iicrompianed by the Prinvese Alice sod the Count of Plunders, rode on horse back yesterday morning, attended by the Hon. Mary Belted, Major-General Seymour, the Hon. M. Seckville West, end Lieut. -Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe. Ti:, Prince and Princess Frederick of the Netherland', aersimpaniod by the Princess Marie, visited the queen yes terday at Buckingham Prince. Their royul highnesses were received at the grand entrance by the Prince Consort, and were conducted to the Bow-ropm, where her Majesty, ac companied by the Prim...is Alice, re,viveil her illustrious visitors. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in at tendance. Prince Leopold took a carriage drive. The Queen, accompanied by the Princesses Alice and Louise, and Mended by the Hon. Lucy Kerr, took a drive in a carriage and four in the afternoon, Major•deneral Key mour and Lord Charles Fitzroy attended on horseback. The Prince Consort rode on horseback in the afternoon, attended by Lieutenaut•Colonel the Hon. D. de Roe. Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The company included the King ,of the Belgians, the Princess Alice, the Count of Flanders, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and the Princess Marie, Prince Julius and Prince John of Holstein Glucksharg. A deputation on the subject of Religious Instruction in Prisons had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis yesterday at the Homemdlice. A deputation oo the subject of the Indostrial Schools Act had also an interview with Sir. G. C. Lewis yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Cokatial Pike (met the Governors of the North Americium provinces, the Governors of the settlements oo the Weet Comet of Africa, the Lord High Conimissioaer of the Theis Islaads, and the Oovernora of BMWs sad Vamooses's Despatches ware mut host the Colonial-office yesterday and M. Jules L;fork The Earl of Pembroke ha s arrived in town from Paris. Viscountess Combermere has cards out for two parties, the first on Thursday next and the second on the 21st inst. Lady Isabella Schuster has issued cards for an as sembly on the 23th kit, Lady Louisa Cator's ball is fixed for the 2nd of July. _ _ Mrs. J. H. Vivian's ball will take place on Tues day, the 19th, instead of the 25th inst. The adjourned meeting of Old Weetminetera will be held in the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, to-morrow, at 12 o'clock. The discussion relating to the removal of the school wal then be resumed. The Old Westminster Dinner will take place at the Thatched House Tavern on the male day. The Earl of Pdalmesbury disputes the correctness of the report which attributed to him a statement that Genoa was bombanled in 1849 by Garibaldi. The report which be rye L correct, describes him to have said, " In the year 1849, hie brother sovereign, Victor Emmanuel, bombanled Genoa, Men invaded in the same manner, and tp the same sae, Garibaldi." This assertion, however, is as incorrect r the former one. Sir J. Elphinntone has given notice of a bill to establish a test for anchors and chain cables for the mer. shut service. The peer who voted with Lord Denman last night against the third raiding of the Refreshment House and Wine Licenses Bill, was the Earl of Remington._ Mr. Fairbairn's appeal on behalf of Garibaldi has been well responded to m the Manchester district, and a ram of 4501. has been passed into his hands. The sum is made up of large aad small contributions alike, and many offers, Mr. Fairbairn says, have been made to enlist in the canoe of Garibaldi, provided the recruits are sent free of cost. To-morrow evening the money will be forwarded to the Italian chieftain by the means which Mr. Fairbairn has at present at his command. Mr. Rota. Chambers has sent 51. to the Glasgow committee. We (York Herald) understand that Dr. Briggs (the Roman Catholic Bishop of Beverley) has had a second attack of paralysis, and that although his life is not in immediate danger, he is not likely ever again to rename his ecclesiastical functions. As at present arranged, the Prince Regent will arrive at Baden-Baden on the 15th inst., where he will re main until the beginning of July, when, accompanied by the Princess of Prussia, his royal highness will pass through Weimar, on his return to Berlin, and in August will proceed to Ostend for the beueilt of sea-bathing. Prayers fur the safe accouchemeut of the Princess Frederick Wdliain were offered up in the churches of Berlin on Sunday. On the 31at of May the chaplain of the Irish battalion and one of its offices were robbed on the road between Loretto and M►cerate. The stun taken from them was 1.800 equal, and it is oven said that the robbers stripped them to the skin. The Wanderer of Vienna publishes a letter from Ancona, dated the 6th, which says :—" The Irish yesterday had a fight among themsel►es, and wounded some of the gend►rmes who interfered to separate them. The delegate has hitherto treated the Irish like princes, and their pre tensions are, in consequence, unbounded. Every soldier insists on having his own room, table, &c. It is to be feared that, after all, the Pontifical government will be under the necessity of requesting the Irish to go home again." The Giornale di Roma of the 4th publishes a decree by Mgr. Ferrari, Minister of Finance, prorogo;ng the close of the subscription to the loan to the 15th of July neat. A new journal of Palermo, L'Unita Italia, cornea out with the following motto at the haul of item programme : "One country—ltaly. One king—Victor Emmanuel. One hero—Uaribaldi." MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL. Yesterday being the Feast of St. Barnabaa com pleted the 299th scholastic year of this admirableschoid, on which anniversary the President and Senior Fellows of St. John's, Oxford 07 Fellowships at which are appropriated to the Merchant Taylors' School), appeared at Me wheel to select the most deserving madiclatee to till vacancies in their body. In the evening the annual dinner took place at the Mer chant Taylors' splendid hall, at which the Muter sal Wardens of the corporation entertained • most 0 4 1- tinguithed company of guests to dinner. To the toast of the "Sister services," General Sir John Burgoyne replied for the army, and the Earl of Hardwieke for the nay/. The toasts of " the President and Fellows of St. oho's, Oxford," "the lion. members of the Corporation," &c., were next given and acknowledged. The Duke of Man chatter in 14 few wont' replied for the House of Lent., while the Bishop of Oxford spoke for the Church, and (lief Justice Erie for her Majesty's Judges. In reply to "the health of the House ofrommons," coupled with the name of Lord Stanl e y, Lord STANLEY said—He rose with great pleasure to return thanks on the part of the House of Commons, of which he hail been for nearly twelve years a member. It was a duty which he always willingly undertook, and it was a duty certainly not lege agreeable, and no less appropriate on the resent ocassine, when withiu the last few hours they hail Peen informed that it was the intention of the government of the day—prompted, as he believed they bad been, and supported as he was sure they would be, by public opinion, to grant them a new—it might not lie a protracted lease — but still, for the present, to grant them a new lease of life, constituted as their house was then. Certainly no rational man hail ever denied that the House of Commune 11.0INeR4e11 many theoretical defects and some prac tical faults ; but be those faults or defects what they might, it was not the less a duty of every Englishman , who looked with respect upon the past or with hope to the future, to regard the Howe of Commove he would not say with resiset only, but even with veneration. For the House of l'ommone had been the origin, as it wee still the centre, of all free representative institutions. It had the weight and the authority which alone hail saved them from the fate of those countries in which despotism bad only been controlled by revolution. It had been the moot powerful, as it must jbee henceforth the most emi nent of thole public amemblies which had ever influ enced the destinies of nations. It was not his duty to enter there into the causes which had given to the House of Commons the influence and the power it pee seise& Those causes, however, really resolved themselves into this it had the support of the country because of the deep sense of Personal end conscientious responsibility which at all times the members had brought to the con- , sidenstion of public affairs, and it had the trust of the country became, of the independence it had always shown— an iadependeuce, on the one hand, to check the power and influence of the crown, and au independence, on the other hand—he did not say--(;od forbid lie should say, of public opinion, but an independence of public clamour, and the cry of those who only misrepresented and distorted the public opinion of the day. (Cheers.) Before any legislative body could possees power they must also poe.eu and show that they possessed independence, because 130 body of men would be respected unless they had proved first that they respected themselves ; and if the stature in its collective capacity could show itself independent, the public would place confidence is the individual indepenilenee of those who composed its component parts. (Hear, hear.) He believed that the influence of the House of Commons in England was in a great nieseure due to the fact that those who sat in it had not been mere delegates returned to repre sent the opinions, or, it might be, the prejudices of any set of men whatever, but that tney met as the representatives of the whole constituencies and to represent the wants and requirements; of the empire at large. (Cheers.) CALLS TO THE Bas.- - kite ronowing calla to the bar were made on Wednesday :—lnner Temple : Henry Peter Pisani, EVA 1. B. A. (certiAcitte of honour of the drat claw) ; John Wm. Mellor, Eaq., M.A. ; James TisdallWood rode, Eaq., B.A. ; Robert William Kirby Martin, Esq.; Julian Robins, Esq. ; Arthur Paul Stone, Esq. ; William Richard Woolrveh, Esq. ; Richard Temple Rennie, Esq. ; John Alfred Burideyoung, ELI.; Robert Henry Bullock Marsham, Faq., M.A.; Francis Thomas Platt, Erg., M.A.; awl Henry O'Hara Moore, Faq., M.A. Middle Temple: Frederick Adolphus Philbrick, Esq., of 3, Essea.court, RA., Loodow University (holder of the studentaliip nwiirtled by the Onuscil of Lege' Education); Freak Cockburn, of 40, Hertford-Ars* May Fair, Faq.; Etienne Pellereau, of Maori Sm.; Jcseph Deakin, of 5, Prick-oourt, Esq.; Edward of MO, Clemiland-square, Hyde-pat, Esq.: sad Edward Sickness Idastwiek, of Merton College, Oxford. Lq.. ken Ilairety's fdeardari of Legation at Tabora& 12, 1880. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE EAST. The Nord of to-day publishes the following cir oular, which has been addressed by Prince Gort chakoff to the Russian Legations abroad : St Petersburg, May 26_1860. The attention which the discussions upon the condition of the East have excited throughout Europe makes us desirous of freeing from all error and false or exaggerated interpre• tation the part which the imperial cabinet has taken, and the object which it proposes to itself in this matter. For more than a year the official reports of our agents in Turkey have made us acquainted with the increasingly serious condition of the Christian provinces under the rul of the Porte, and especially of Bosnia,Merzgovina, and Bul pria. This condition does not date from to-day ; but far from getting better, as was hoped, it has become worse during the last few years. The Christian subjects of his Majesty the Sultan received with confidence and gratitude the positive promises of reforms, but they are yet wait ing the practical realisation of • hope which the solemn action of the Sovereign and the adhesion of Europe had doubly consecrated. Popular passions and hatreds, far from becoming appeased, have acquired new animosity ; acts of violence, the sufferings of the populations, and finally the events which have occurred in the west of Europe, and which have resounded throughout the east as an encouragement and • hope, have ended in producing agitation. It is clear that such a state of things cannot be prolonged without peril to the Ottoman empire and to the general peace. In this conviction, after having on the tone hand vainly sought to enlighten the Turkish government on the gravity of the circumetances, by communicating to it successively all ,the accounts which have made known to us the abuses committed by local authorities, and after having on the other hand exhausted all means of persuasion that we could use among the Christians in order to induce them to patience, we have frankly and loyally addressed ourselves to the cabinets of the great powers of Europe. We have explained to them the circumstances, as described in the reports of our agents ; the imminence of a crisis ; our con viction that isolated representations, sterile or palliative promises, will no longer suffice as a preventive ; and also the necessity of an understanding of the great powers amongst themselves and with the Porte, that they will consult together as to the measures which can alone put an end to this dangerous state of things. We have not made absolute propositions as to the course to be adopted. We have confined ourselves to showing the urgency and indicating the object. As to the lint, we have not concealed the fact that it appears to us to admit of no doubt and to allow of no delay. As to the second, it seems to us to present two distinct phases. First of all, an immediate local inquiry, with the partici pation of imperial delegates, in order to verify the reality of the facts ; next, an understanding which it is reserved for the great powers to establish with each other and with the Porte, in order to engage it tosdopt the neoessaryorgiunc measures for bringing about, in its relations with the Chris tian populations of the empire, a real, serious, and dura ble amelioration. . . There is nothing here, then, in the shape of an inter ference, wounding to the dignity of the Porte. We do not suspect its intentions ; it is the power moat interested in a departure from the present situation. Be it the result of blindness, tolerance, or feebleness, the concurrence of Europe cannot but be useful to the Porte, whether to en lighten its judgment or to fortify its action. There can no loner be a question of an attack on its rights, which we desire to see respected, or of creating complications which it is our wish to prevent. The understanding which we wish to see established between the great powers and the Turkish government must be to the Christians a proof that their fate is taken into conside ration. and that we are seriously occupied in ameliorating it. At the same time it will be to the Porte a certain pledge of the friendly intentions of the' powers which have placed the conservation of the Ottoman empire amongst the essential conditions of the European equilibrium. Thus both sides ought to see ie it a motive, the Turkish government for confidence and security, the Christians for patience and hope. Europe, on its part, rafter past experience, w:11 not, in our opinion, find elsewhere than in this moral action the guarantees which a question of first rank de ' Mande, with which its tranquillity is indissolubly con nected, and in which the interests of humanity mingle with those of policy. Our august master has never disavowed the strong sympathy with which the former inspire him. His Majesty desires not to burden his conscience with the reproach of having remained silent in the face of such sufferings, when so many voices are raised elsewhere, under circumstances much leas imperious. We are, more over, profoundly convinced that this order of ideas i►inse parable from the political interest which Russia, like all the other powers, has in the maintenance of the Ottoman empire. We trust that these views are shared by all the cabinet.. But we are al sr convinced that the time for illusions is pest ; that any hesitation--any adjournment—will have grave consequences. In combining, with all our efforts, to place the Ottoman government in a course which may avert these eventualities, we believe that we are giving it a proof of our solicitude, while at the same time we fulfil a duty to humanity. By inviting the great powers to associate themselves with us for this object, we are, we believe, removing all peal hility of exclusive views or exclusive interference. Such is the nature of the overtures which we have addrelhed to the courts of Berlin, London, Paris, and Vienna. Whatever may be the result, we are desirous that the motives which have actuated WI in this matter should be thoroughly understood. You are, therefore, authorised by the order of his Majesty the Emperor to read this despatch to the Minister of Foreign Affairs.—Receive, ice., (Wined) GORTCHANOIT. SICILY AND NAPLES. (REPTEJeI Tumours.) TURIN, Jul' 12. By ratifying an armistioe between General Lanza and Garibaldi, the King of Naples has removed the principal obstacle which prevented foreign mediation. _ _ From the moment that the King of Naples treats with the Sicilian revolutionary party as one power with another, mediation becomes possible without infringing upon diplomatic formalities. This ex plains the sending of the Commander de Martino to Paris, who is charged, ou the part of Francis 11., to submit the bases and the guarantees for the per sonal mediation repeatedly invoked by his Majesty from Napoleon 111. Although authorising the Commander de Martino to come to Paris, the Emperor of the French reserves to himself the liberty of not coming to a decision until after having received positive overtures from the Neapo litan envoy. At all eventa,the court of the Tuileries does not wish to undertake any mediation unless iu concert with England and with the other great powers. NAPLES, Jose 9 (vIA IWAIIIIIILLEs). The promulgation of a constitution framed according to that of France is expected shortly. ROME. ROME, Joss 9 (vtAMAIMISLLES). Commander Martino, the Neapolitan' minister, before leaving for Paris, had a conference with the ambassadors of France and Russia. _ M. Friggeri, a colonel of the Pontifical cavalry, has been arrested and imprisoned at AIIOOUR. The official Oiornak di Roma announces the definite fusion of the railway companies, and pro rogues until tho end of 1861 the construction of the railway to the Neapolitan frontier. The capital of the Pio Centrele Company is to remain at 175,000,000 franca. THE CESSION OF SAVOY AND NICE. The Moniker of this morning publishes an imperial decree, promulgating the treaty concluded with Sardinia for the cession of Savoy and Nice. In a report which precedes the promulgation of the treaty, M. Thouvenel explains the exceptional character of the new acquisition of France. M. Thouvenel says the imperial policy has not been directed by an ambitious thought. This acquisition has not been obtained by form, but only by the gratitude and friendship of tho Sovereign, increased by the spontaneous and unanimous enthusiasm of the population. The King of Sardinia yesterday sanctioned the law approving the cession of Savoy and Nice to France. Official possession of these provinces will be taken on Thursday next. The Mimiteur also announces that the govern- ment has withdrawn the project for a railway from GraiaaPssac to Beziers. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Jr Ne The organic statutes of the provincial diets are ready for promulgation. They only await tho approval of competent persons of the different provinces to whom they have been confidentially communicated by government. In order to satisfy the admissible wishes of the Hungarians, the Minister for the Interior has frequent conferences with the Hungarian members of the Council of the Empire. VIENNA, MONDAY. The full sittings of the enlarged Council of the Empire have been adjourned for a fortnight. In the meantime the Committee of the Reickratit will continue the discussion of general burin. The estimates relative to the direct and indirect taxation for 1861 have already been submitted to the committee. VENICE. The following proclamation hay, says the (.la, zette dts Midi, been circulated in Venetia, and may, that journal remarks, explain the military pre. cautions Austria is taking in the province : Brethren,—The signal of redemption will not be long delayed. Austria is endeavouring to crush you, but be of good heart; let your patriotic efforts be employed with great firmness in the approaching reawakening of Italy. The unfortunate men who are groaning in the prisons of Peterwardein are not only your eons and brothers, but ours ; but those who, led on by the brave Garibaldi, and animated by the lo►e of their country, have gone to deliver Sicily, are they leas your brothers than ours / If yon suffer the outrages of servitude, display the pride of martyrs. Dispersed in all the territones of Italy, the re. Japes of Venice, by sacrifices and courage, have already added to our history its most glorious page ; on the day of insurrection they will know how to add to it a second one. That day approaches! Keep alive in your hearts hatred of the abhorred enemy, and faith in the future of Italy! The magnanimous King who vanquished at Palestro bat not ceased to feel his heart beat for you. His hand still holds his sword, and that sword protects our cause ! SPAIN. MADRID, JC 1E 10. The Cortes has rejected by 200 against 26 votes the amendment proposed by the Progresista party. The digeussion of Senor °lunge's amendment will take place to-morrow. General Dulce will then give personal explanations to the Chamber. In a preliminary meeting of the political friends of General Ortega the conduct of General Duke was approved of, as having been perfectly honour. able. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, TURSDAY. The North Atlantic Company's steamer Adriatic, Captain Onnetock, from New York on the 2nd inst , arrived off the Needles at &15 cm. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. _ _ _ SOITTFIAMPIVN, TCrSDtY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ateanien Tagus, with the Peninsular mails, has arrived. She is in.:s 43 powiengers, 5,960/. in specie, precious stone@ value 1,6601., and a full cargo. She left Lisbon on the 7th inst. On the 10th she spoke the Magdalena, bound to the Brazils. Exchange at Lisbon.—London, 3 mouths, 531 ; Paris, 5.32; Amsterdam, 421; Hamburg, 474; Genoa, 5.29. Lie. bon Bank shares were quoted US ; Oporto Bank, 256 ; Mercantile Bank, 250 ; Relates, 451 to 46 ; Coupons, 441 to 45 ; Deferred, 33 to 34. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom on OWN OORBEKPONDINT.) PARIS, MONDAY EVININD. We are going to have a grand fête in Paris at a very short notice. The Council of State is this very day hard at work framing the act of annexa tion of Savoy and Nice, which will no doubt be got through the Senate to-morrow. At all events, Thursday, June 14, is appointed as a day of general rejoicing. There is to be a Te Deem at Notre Dame. The Emperor will come from Fon• tainebleau and review the National Guard. At all the theatres occasional cantatas wi'.l be sung ; and I suppose, though there is yet no announcement to this effect, that they will be open gratis.• On Friday, the day after the fate, the Emperor will go to Baden-Baden to meet the Prince Regent of Prussia, and also, as it is stated, the Kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, the Grand Duke of Hease, and the Grand Duke of Baden. Immense importance is attached to this suddenly got up meeting. Bourse politicians take it for granted that when the Emperor meets a foreign sovereign he must necessarily convert him to his own way of thinking, and the conclusion is jumped to that the meeting of Baden will at once break up auy alliance or understanding between England and. Prussia, and divert the Prince Regent from his purpose to unite the German states with a view to their common defence. M. Martino, the Neapolitan anibateador to the Holy See, who has lately visitel Naples to confer with the King, is coming to Paris on a special mission to the Emperor. This M. Martino was neglected by the late King of Naples during his life, but it is said that on his deathbed he espe cially recommended him to his son as a man whose advice should be taken on great occasions. It is taken for granted that the telegrams con tradicting the news of the English occupation of Castellamare are true ; but the evening govern ment papers still speak of the subject in hesitating terms. The note iu the Moaiteur announc lug the evacuation of Palermo is thought to imply that no part of the garrison will be allowed to go to Messina. The Opinion Nationale says that France, with the acquiescence of Piedmont, has accepted the mediation offered by Francis 11., and that the lauds of it is a separate government of Sicily under a Prince of the House of Bourbon, but with the consent of the Sicilian., to be consulted, of course, by universal suffrage. The Opiaioa hopes that they will consent to no such thing. Igo much further, and, while greatly doubting the news, express my decided belief that Garibaldi at least will be no party to such a trans action, which it would moreover be not only dis graceful, but dissatrous, fur the King of Sardinia to have any hand in. The physiognomy of the Bourse has quite changed since Saturday. The contradiction of the news of the English occupation of Caatellamare, mid the announcement of the Emperor's journey to Baden, gave au immense impulse to speculation. The Route rose 50c. for cash and 55c. fur account, doe lug at 68fr. 40c. and 68fr. 35c. Mohilier rose 13fr. 75e. The railways, though leas active than the Rents, roes about bfr. In the Corps Legislatif to-day, M. Picard, one of the members for Paris, took occasion to allude to the warning given yesterday to the ellarricr de I,