The Express. — London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

worioz of RIMOVAL.-11ERCULZ9 FIRE! .nd Lin CASPANY from 9 4 . combos-street, to ss. rtruLr.... LormuN. &AL BRITISH NATION (WOW FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY % CHAIIIMI and 11.101 YORKE., Inentanees effected on every desertption of property. Special risks rated acconllng Loma% Form of pnipoula may be otitalard daily oh rte. lewd. Ara. . or 70, Cannon street ',Mt Hwiay LAKE, General Itanaga. BRITISH UNION ASSURANCZ COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament, Oreakamattoot, City, London.—Capital, £250,000. TIMM& Admiral Sir Henry J. Leeks, A. 4.1.11., IL IL, Twyford, Berks. George 13ra glown, Fay., tanker. Torrington, Devon. DIRLITO.S. CUAlRMlal—Adoth.sl Sir LIINEY J. LEEKE, M P.. Chairman of the United Kingdom Elsetric Telegraph Company. NUTTY ( . 1111101C.. —FREDERICK J. raw; Zan.. U. EMIG Toweratreet, KC.. IBrectue of the London and Ermincial Marius Insurance Company. Captain the Hon. Charles E. Hobart. Wimbledon. ilnWoY• Benjamin Bullock, Esq., St. LeonarsCs-hill. NOSIlkumbollowl; and Delamere.terrace, Hyde-park. Thomas kogley. Esq. ;Messrs. LWer. Watts, and Grant , , 1. aannt.la lane, it Canters Holttaame, Tag ,^ Storey'anatn St Jamas-park LW. lair. T. Martin, M.A., Omennich, Kent ThuaLcs 11”..r5, Ent , V., Uloonnbarraquain, Taal" and Brighton. • Richard John sbepparJ, Wig:more+tree; Cavendish pacre. M. W L Strong, Eau.. At. Copthanemart, E.C. MIWICAL OTPICFAS. W. Abbotta smith, M.D.. W.O Lond. Donglily•street, Carmen Bonbons', SW.. 1.2CC.8., 2, Storey** gate, Si James's part, S. W. Bangitaa.—Tios Alliance Bank ,Linsited. London. Liverpool. and Manchester. MANAOUII AN l• ACCRITART WWI= S. Williams, Jun., P.N.S. ASsUriLDCes elezied up to £O.OOO on a single life . Far Ileffr. LIMI4 and other information apply to the manager, as above. N. —Agenta wanted. on Salary and Commission. N ORTH BRITISH and MERCANTILE INdrItASICZ OOMPAN T. Utahlimbed ISM). Fire and Life insurance Business of every description trans acted at moderate ntes. The duty paid by tha Company In 1-olimieunted to ISOM. The usual commission allowed on Ship and Foram Insurances. Insurers will receive Om mtl bement of the reduction in duty. Capital 112.400,000 Annual Income 497.533 Amain Mast hods London-11.ml °Moss E. Threadneedle-streek KC. West.llnd Mee 4 Waterliandsoe. Pall.mall. IIiSTIAILIBBID 11137. BRITANNIALIhaiIiSURARCECOMPANY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 6 Tick esp. Y. 1. Princes-street, Bank, London. Every description of LIFE ASSURANCE business transacted at the lowest ...:es of Premium cassiatent with secutity. The rations Whirs, some of which are peculiar to this Company, Maws been studioagy adapted to the requirements of every eisell ef Assurers. ANDIEW YEANCLi, Secretary LONDON and LANCASHIRE FIRE and LIFE INSVILAWCE_CO3LTANIM CAPITAL. FIRE E1.000,010 I LITE Rata for Hon" Foralgo, and Colonial Assurances on applies. Mee_ Men—ii and M. Klft Witharastreet. Loudon. W. P. CUMRHUGH, General Manager. ESTABLIBILID A.D. ISM. G REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSUBANCII SOCIETY. Ipotrred by Special Act of Partiament, 25 and 26 Via., cap. Witt HIM RV Dimacor, = 6. Cluukcollor-boase, M T. B. TANQUEILLYidas Walla WILLAITILL Bp., New Broadatrast Depetty- on Ctialrenan. This Satiety is established the tried and approved principle of Mune a., , uranee. fhe funds are accumulated for the ex cite/ye benefit of the member, under their own immediate mparinteudemos and control. TM prod's; an divided annually. 101, Cbaareide, LC. C. L. LAW/M)24. her. THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. Qou Inenranee-imilithsgh Gramichmehstresit, Lasidosi. At the AN h UAL htlitilld oldie Proprietoos. kid at LOW pool ou the ii:th October, left. MOINAULD HALL, i 8 q.. Chairman of the Company, In the Chair, The Directors' Report for the year dated : Maths fire premiums foe the your saoantad to 8101.0i.5 Being as increase over the preceding year of That Sod life sondes ware Issued for Being an increase over the preceding year of That the sew life premiums were Being an increase over the gremlins year of That the Ids income was U.,3111. And that upwards of 60 per mot. of the Win net premiums was all-il to the We fund. That the suhscribed capital was increased to That the paid up capital was lammed to 137.01•1 That &tier providing foe A outstanding dada the Sr. reserve would stead at 114,812 Illaktag the funk!. in hand, after proriaing for the divi,lentt A:dividend was decimal el fa per share. being 10 per cont. on ilia paid up capital. I. MONCRIM NYLON, General Manager. PULE E. LEYLAND. neeretary. AGmls REQUIRED. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY is prepared to entertain application. for Agenc7 Appoint menta from dentleineu having command of lire and Lite Susi- Mesa either In Loudon or the suburbs, or wherever the Com pany to not tally represented. The Royal btu alw=a been conspicuous for its liberality and promptitude to tLe settlement of Claims. its Annual Income It now over iCOO,AM And aLI Funds In handmaid ..... £l.oootooo, The parliamentary return of Insuranevduty paid to Govern ment win exhibits the Royal at the head of dl the artCIO to increase of The Royal now taunts Insurances on Stock and Implements In Trade. etc.. at halt the former charge for duty. Transfers of Policies from other Companies received without charge ter Polk", whatever the amount. Address, JOHN M. JoIINSTON, Secretary, Royal Insurance Company. Re, kenbard•street. THE LIVERPOOL aad LONDON and GLOBE 11481, RANCE COMPANY. Established laid Mess —I, Dale-street, Liverpool 20 sad Pl. Poultry: 7. Comblll and 11, Clorlegposess, Wades. ZEN - JOWL IN 1e W. The premiums Ws madam. Interest as Investasests zsen,one 210,000 100.020 Agencies are established for effecting bath Fire and Life lasaranoes, and facilitating the payment of premiums la all parts et the world. /WINTON BOULT. Secretary to the Company. JOHN ATEINIi, Resident Secretary. November. 1864. Esiablished letl& VICTORIA and LEGAL and COMMERCIAL LITZ ASSIMANCE COMPANY, 18, King William-street, THOMAS NESBITT, Ley., Chairman. (VB. B. WOOLSEY, raw Deputy-Chairman. Charles Baidvrin Sri. I AMOR OoMudd, Key. Georr w Leun d Emu . John Jones, Yds. J. C. Meaburn Stsniland, Nag.. M.P. Walter Charles Yenning, Fag. Robert Ella Kea. I William White, Esq. leery damnation of life amitrasee business is transacted. Advanom are made on of freehold property, life end reversionary interests, de., sad also to meurers on personal WILLIAM RATBAY, Actuary. ALBERT INSURANCE COMPANY (LlMled). (TM and MARINE.) Premiums charged gettsated by the Indhldnal risk the ntraeat Ither.dity maintained In every trams:dee. Agents wanced. (Ala% 8. litnch.lans, and 7. Waterfoo-plare, PallquaLl. 110 BELL THEOBALD, ] wager Flre Department. NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION, ()men!Felt street, London. FitmbWLad Mcambrr, 1& THE lint' D11,1410N of mom 4t; the 20th Noy., 1282. KI:TUAL ANWILANCY wrruorr I bIVIDUAL LIABILITY. DIRWITONA. CserlaSeS--BANUFJ, HAYHURST LUCAS, Seq. DILPUTT Ctietartes—ROßlßT INOHAM, Esq., N.P. John tiredhury,Eq Joseph Freeman, Fag Beaty Wk Oqatle, Zip. Charles 011 pin, Peg., H.P. Thome& Chambers, laq Q.C. Charles Reed, req., F.S.A. Joseph Fell Christy, Req. Jotiathan Thorp, EN Henry Constable, Req. Charles Whether's, Gat. INDICLL OFFICTJtS. Thomas Hodgkin, Eon , N.D. I John Oay, Esq., F.E.C.B. Communion AcrusitT—Cbartee Ansel, Zsq. Amount of profit of the live years ending leth November, IM2, wee. Making the total melt divided £1.247,368 6 Dtereamis OF EXDUCIIONS IN FLEXIONS. •Rum Original Pre n n l um I lieductioa Date of Pollcy. Age. Assured. Pr/minis 1 payable. i Per cent --- 1 L L. Ld. .i.: a Q. Ocinber ..1318 49 1,000 43 11 8 1 0 7 1 00 March —DWI 48 182 810 4 1 1 19 rr January 1820 30 . 1,000 lo 10 0 1 10 12 04 Decemlier 1850 68 . 2.000 120 0 0 04 8 49 Janus:y..lBW 36 IN 14 11 8 i 9 2 r e l January..lB69 44 3,000 132 00. 96 7 1 The following are a few teelemcee wherein the P become extinct, and Annuities for the neat the in addition : Dab a Polley. Art AZIt. 1810 LOSS April lt 0 AOl O5 U 56 1,605 t ll_, 0 Warela l6O 61 Amount of claims pad Gross animal income Accumulated fund The prospectus and every information may be had on appll. nation. OZOILGE NORMS, Secretary. January. NM HEALTH, DOMESTIC and PERSONAL PURITY. secured by naaceut or ozonic miss as con- Sabsed in ooNDrx PATENT MANNED WATER for the Bath and Tdle~and other sanitary preparations. Sold by ID drst dam Chemical Works, Battersea, &W. f PI% THE -ga t Pßgss, TJESD4Y prEkarif4:.l VFA8414.4 1 ,4r/ :7, -105. Lnrzßowr SZAVICES.—Darhit the stoma at the pad lOW, thin the bethe et She satesel Meath Institution eared theale SW ww" iffil l e r ealL The Institution Inn Ida Id in rise With es he Woven es seditte es semeeei h 1.60 en riss he mpg perthee pae =le Mande and ether meth. The et the 1 eessally AMA& to the DINIS the AssetrAns. to thethe thus to meet the coationedhethy 6theends on th e leetitatkee. the abbot blitherente. Oothribetti etha es ath received by Were. W end Os., 111111461 No Co. Codes and Co, sad by all _the 1401110 S and ethistry Mann. and by the lierothary, Rithart lonia. Bod., at the L• Attalla.. 14. Jobsraireet. AislohL DIINT'I3 ONSONOMETEII.B, WATCHES mg CLOCK& M. 7. DINT. Wadi. Clink old Clugoosotor Hiker by at to boo MOM SAG goon. owl to tho Ws- VllCooVrait Europe. I. DINT IS sad SA CIOSS. LONDON. r. CHARING- TORN BROODIN'S PARIS lIRST CLAS S add LONDON MIZE MZDALL—Woodaddea b aj.d i t elettddirecd, Cdvadriarded, Load" W.C. mu Ii dosed al mid as Idlssows as 1 dais*. MESSRS. HOWELL, JLKES, &ad Co. hays the bower to •8110111100 lid. la antdolpation of an early spring season, Ow have ',shingled their c sla !STOCK to . thorough revision, and kw the purpose of prier to the receipt f their new ra•d•• en sow arcing sow as • great dinainutiow in prim ........5.4 Werra 11.. J. and Co. Wells wnotel attention to a large pur chase of wetly Lyons silks, both Light and dark odours. which are included In the rale. 6. 7. ik ILEOZiaddritiZT, INLLL-likiL fERFCTME of the MISLITOE.—Has it any perfume Why, certainly, the mod insinusting. pene trating, egyravating of all perfumes? What, then, is It 11'hy, the perfume so popular enthapt yoths thlled YI:QUICK. , by PEAS and LUPIN. FIELD'S oolebrated UNITED SERVICE SOAP TABU'S, W. sad ed. sacs, sold by all chandlers and througboat the kingdom ; Ist the Wine skald sib rie w lrel v illand see that Me sagas of J. C. and J. YIELD Is on salt et, boz, end tablet. wholesale sad teessportatlat the oda. I7PPIa MARSH, WARMTH. LONDON, ...whore also may be obtataed their Pelee Medal rlllkaMS Candles TURKEY and INDIAN OARPNTS O by wAYsmo,V gi rgs, aM Co. Carpet usootodoron to lor_llakiabr, is sad Sit. OW DoNwerszsr. THE PALL MALL GAZETTE, An EVENING IiKVISPAPHIt sad RZTIBW. Na 1 In THIS DAY published. pries Twopsaos.-01Sok 14, SalLimy street, Strand, W.C. PRICE'S GREAT SPANISH CIRCUS and EMPODROIII, at the AGRICULTUIAL HALL, WIRY RV/NINO at Seven. DAY PLR VORMANCIS, TLLQIDAYS, THURSDAYS, and SATURDAYS, at two. !MAIMING APINGUNCHMANT.—Mr. PIKS bey nape= fully to announce that he has succeeded In engaged, at a very great expense, the services et the renoweed RIM DIN, the Hess ad Wagers. for SIX NIGHTS ONLY, previotui to his Sea de frost Ragland. if. will have the honour of appearing ratters from and during the week, in his marvelloue testa on the 111011 HOPS. as performed by him at the Crys tal Palace : he wtil Moo appear at sash Day Performance. SWUM' sad MALLOL. the celebrated Spanish &Mita, in their eitraoMnary Gate on the Trapev, 'eremites all that has ever been seen In this country, In maJanetion with the whole of the taleuted troupe of aide and female acting of this vast eetab lisluseat. selected from the Cirques of Spain, Portugal, St. Petersburg, Berlin, and the Hippodrome of Parts. Trench. Ger man, ltalian. Spanish, and duel= Clowns. Mr. Oeerye New comb, the Li= Tam= with the wonderful group of per arming tioes. The largest awl best stud of highly trained school bones. fighting ponies and educated mules In Europe.—The free list and season tide= entirely =upended daring Hicadites sno meet, the public press excepted. THE OXFORD.-oRPHKIE AUX ENFIRB and MASANIILLO, 1. whisk the succeestal Irmask Team, Malabar Wisdom from the Theatre Lyrlquo, Parlu will make slorsalswes. Rlrira. Was Russell, supported by the whole operatic compauy of the establidimcnt.—Director, Mr. 7. Jonah. um= —THLS RTININO. THE LONDON PAVILION.—The DON.— The wonderful DON PATIOS, the otte-legged Dancer and only rival to Donato, IV=lf ILVFICING . la conjunotion with the admired Vance, Arthur Lloyd. he Brothers Mills, Operatic Selections, and every description of talent. 1 EMEMBER ! we wait Sapper for you after IA the Pantomime, at WATS . Tail sot. ght Orsreoo. To 0011.1111SPONDWNTS. ldveetleemente Wooded toe The Reyeeee" Lowden Emits* Paper, must be at the Othee, 10, lleaverle•atreet, by Two ou the day el pubileattoo. RIR MAJICITY'S. Tern tranns, LANA. Marc lira, Newsy, Forbes, 'remit, awnwlek , Mama Lanka PRA OaWren, lower.—Coadaciar, ArdILL —Mad THY LION AND THE UNICORN. Yiseea Copses!{, lartado L Butice.—Oalaseaoa at 7. NATMANNIT. TVS Intro, DAVID GAAJLICE.—L3ND DI:NDRIAILY WARMED AND DONS FOIL Norm &Ahern. Braid. Hark dom. Oar6o• : Mir Baowdos.—PAINCIMI eiPKINGFINZ. Mr. Comptea.—And TIM WULF AND THE LAM 4. 1.111N011111%., Tl 5 Driormi, THI MACCrieIoRSITAND THE lc! MAIDEN PILINCS9II.-601 VIZ STAZIEB 01 LUNDOX. Mom V Ray. 0. ILltar. D. Mar= 2= H. lorrest•r, &al N. Mellon : Stn. H.H . Kintaa. awl Gnaw. LYCEUM. Tin Immo, 8111280 - ITiiioo. Mr. Emery aml M 1 Elsworthy —TEE ROAD•EIDL INN. Mews. Yachter, Harwell, Widdicomb, IFllemserkt. Gerdea, Maywood LM Ilsworthy. AL%&-lAC&D LILINIKTUAL Yr. Wl44llcemb. 11111TANNI.A. rum tvrertall, LITTLI BUSY 818 : or, the Old Lady of ilusedasedle.eleart. lleadamae I. laws, W. Crautord, and E, Jambs Mr. G. algerold. Ntzei-rata Psataratmhaa —And VII W022.012L8 OP LONDOle.—Cosueeae• at hilt-put O. RION WATII AT LONDON-SUDO& nos DAr:7111;;b1 Oh. Oa amoszow lloodag, na.....ifiersoca Ob. Ha LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7. Timm is an unusual interest about the opening of the Session which begins to-day. It does not very often happen that a Parliament sits in full view of the people, awaiting its end. It does not often happen that the public can observe how its representatives feel, and how they boar themselves, when the day draws near for their settlement of accounts with their constituents. On this occasion, thee, when the present House of Commons has nearly finished ita term, it is not surprising that every group of its members is looked at in the street with the sort of interest with which persons about to undergo a trial or to meet death are re garded. These gentlemen have not always found it easy to render their regular autumnal account to their supporters, though, on those occasions, they could arrange the procedure and choose their topic pretty much as they liked. Much more serious is it to meet the day which is at hand, when they must not take the lead, but fol low it, and when they must not only present their own course in the most favourable way, but see it brought to the ultimate test, and stand or fall by it. They will have something more to do than to account for their votes on half -a-dozen questions of the preceding session ; they must treat of the whole period of the parliament, and face the ques tions which are almost too large to belong to a single melon, but which must be fully discussed by every candidate for re-election. As they will M a few hours enter their House, they will be ob served, MO by one, by both comrades and strangers, with a kind of speculation about what they will say on those unsatisfactory and perplexing great questionswhen the day of reckoning comes; and how they sire now planning in regard to that day. Are they in any dread of the difficultyof reconciling their constituents by their conduct in this closing session? or are they sager for its opportunities of recover ing the old ground, and regenerating the hopes with which they were sent to Parliament ? It is to be hoped that they feel, to a man, that in this session there can be no shirking of troublesome questions, as in ordinary years. All must take some part—must commit themselves to some prin ciple in each case, if they wish to appear in the House again. It is no nee saying that it cannot be a practical session because it is the last of the Parliament. It must, on the contrary, be an eminently practical one, because it must be one of general committal on all great questions ; and especially on the greatest of all--the question whether we are to have a Ooveranzent with a policy. If It is ever true that "the constitution " is in danger," it is true now, when, for a *Grim Of years, the Goventment has been backing put of its functions and biding with its ilia, ' ley *win no policy which can nowt Hasid epd ismer, general recognition. If it be true, as the Conservatives allege, that democratic principles and ideas are endangering the constitutional balance, the most fetal of all weaknesses is to give away, with out even a demand for a surrender, the preroga tive of a Government of forming a policy, and the dignity of inviting its support from the nation. For some years the personal feelings of an aged Pauiza ►ave been allowed, almost without pro test, to swamp the duties and honours of the Administration by looking no further than the passing year, and leaving the future to take care of itself under the changes of the personnel of the Government after the old men of the present have given their work into younger hands. The coun try has been under a merely provisional rule too long ; and the proper time to assert the neces sity of an enlightened, far-reaching, consistent policy is this very session, when the most import ant branch of the Government is on the point of being renewed. It is true the Conservatives have evidently no inch scheme to propose ; and if the Liberal Administration has not either, the country will show by the coming elections and otherwise that this paltering with the function and honours of Government can be borne with no ' longer. If in the midst of avowed alarms at the increasing weakness of government, the task of government is imposed on the country, the country will respond—not by proffering de mands in detail to a waiting set of officials, but by requiring that the powers of government shall be consigned to statesmen who will undertake to do what the State needs and will be the better for, and will unite their powers in a strenuous mom- mendation and pursuit of a definite policy. The coming session may be used to better purpose than many preceding, if the House gives Ministers due warning that there must be an end of their provisional method, and intimates what are the leading points to be considered in the institution once more of a government worthy of its place and time. _ Of those leading points, the first is, u we need hardly say, that of an extended representation of the people. The vigour with which this great question has been recently treated by some of the most important constituencies is • sufficient security to the reforming ministers of the future that their work is ready to their hand, and that the country will support them in its fulfilment. At the moment, the proximate certainty is that the pledges under which the present Parliament was elected will be dealt with, in one v. ay or another, at its dose. Honest reformers will not listen, more or ➢ess, to the treacherous allegation that nothing can be done about reform in the last ses sion of the Parliament, and that therefore the less that is said the better. They know well that next to the session which shall extend the fran chise must rank that which shall bring home to the country and its representatives the fact that every party in the State, and every conspicuous member of the (:overnment in all its branches, has admitted that an extension of the suffrage was reasonable, desirable, and even necessary. Now is the time for calling up every member of either House who countenanced reform at the time of the last election, or has done so since, to avow and stand by his declared opinion. We shall not get a Reform Bill this session, but we may secure one early in the next Parliament by disposing of the shifts and excuses and dispelling the silence by which it has been put off. No new difficulties have arisen since the pledges were given ; and instead of any disclosure of mistakes in the estimate of the fitness of the unrepresented citizens, every new light, for years past, has shown • greater fitness and a constantly improving quality in the higher order of working men. The Parliament could in no other way so dignify its end as by a final testimony that the pledges on which the House of Commons was elected are justified by all the experience of the character and intelligence of the unrepresented class which has since accrued. Another great point is our financial policy, and the present session may serve as well as any other, not only for particular retrenchments, but for indicating to the next House the principles on which our chief retrenchments must proceed. The modes and measures of national defence must be decided on before long, and they must be carried out through an effectual organization of the War office and the Naval Administration, as the grand sources of waste and misrule, and of other depart. manta in turn. We must have a distinct policy of law reform, and of public improvements which are beyond the reach of any other power than that of Government, such as the railway system, and that I vital national interest—the total drainage of the country. The greatest immediate benefactor of his ()wintry would be the minister who should pro pose and carry a reform of the river systems of Great Britain and Ireland. By no other means can so much death and sickness be precluded, so much waste cured, and so much wealth created ; and the first really great minister we shall have will be the statesman who shall accomplish this. In all these provinces of action, the coming session may do something ; and in many more. By their treatment of questions as they arise, and of mea sures as they are brought in, the members of the Commons will show infallibly what they think, how much they understand, what may be expected of them if they return, and whether it will be beet that they should return or yield their place to others. Thus, the session of 1865 must be a very in teresting one ; it must be • very enlightening one ; and it may be a practically useful one. Let no body say that it cannot be of any great interest or value, because it is breaking up and done with. It cannot but open glimpses into the future, which we shall one day see the importance of if we do not now ; but whoever may be blind to this, there are eyes wide awake, and judgments keen and ready, all over the country, to mark what our representatives do, in this last stage of their trial, and what they are. THE announced retirement of the veteran Sir Dr LACY Evsss from active life places the Liberal party in the constituency of Westminster under the necessity of selecting a candidate for the repre sentation of that city. We may safely assume that gentlemen eager to grasp the distinction will be found in abundance, and we may soon expect to bear of their pretensions. It may be hoped, how ever, that the preliminary choice of the electors will be made with caution, and that on their part no moves may be made inconsistent with the gravity of the business or the dignity of the con stituency. We unhesitatingly repel the Tory reproach of inferiority brought for obvious purposes against Metropolitan Members generally; but we would especially remind the electors of Westminster that it is no common honour, but an eminent position, a coveted prize, which they have to bestow. In former days men of the highest political rank have sought their suffrages ; we wish we could forget that in our times men in the lowesthave very nearly succeeded in attaining them. At pliant no great pa/Umlauts:7 notability may be available as their representative ; but if there are among our rising public men some more evidently than others fashioned to honour, it would be • wise and spirited thing to claim their services. Why should not Lord Amsramr, whose political manifesto is just now occupying public attention, be asked to fight the battle of the Liberals of Westminster ? The honour of such an invitation would not lie all on one side, and there would be a certain propriety in placing the son of Earl RITIBILL in what was once the seat of Cukaxxx Janss Fox. At all events, we may hope that in choosing their candidate the people of Westminster will rise above merely local considerations, and choose their candidate in the spirit not of householders shirting to a parochial othoe, but of citizens of a great con stituency set in the very eye of the empire. THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE PRO. TASTANT MISSIONARIES IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. In addition to the appeal made to our own govern ment in the ease of the protestant mfesio•ary opmatioos in tb.Loyalty Islands, South Paola°, and the suppression of these labours by M. ()IMAM, Governor of New OsWeak, is the month of June. 1864, the representatives of the English missionary societies, associated with the Dean of Westminster, the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and the Emboli of London, made • brief statemens of the proceedings to tha Emperor of the Enoch, accompanied by • memorial re spectfully requesting his Majesty's attention to the entire sec The Emperor has just returned • reply, of which the following is • translation : " Jas. 24, 1845. Gentlemen,—l have received the complaints which you have addressed to me relative to the recent promiedinp of the Governor of New Coledosia, in the Loyalty Islands. I have caused a letter to be written to Commandant isoadanniug any measure which might impede the free exercise of your ministry in those distant coun tries. I am certain that, far from raising difficulties in the way of the representatives of the French authonty, the protestant ails/dons, like the catholic, will aid it in spread ing amongst the aborigines of that archipelago the benefits of Christianity and civilisation. " Ramiro, gentlemen, the assurance of my distinguished sentiments. " NAPOLLON." ,-(THIS DAY.) 7, 8 LL LS.L LL W.S.W. LW. 6.1. 8.1i.5. R.N.& 8.1 f.. B.W. B. a a.w. 0... 8. ou Nornmai ?KITIMAT Oafs& 1.8.11. w && W., huh. sans rain or snow. WIDIIIIIDAT. &NIL UAL& S, .trope to moderate, some rain or snow. S.S.W. to W.N.W., warms. W.R.W. to N.N.W., fresh to moderate, moderato to fresh. rale In places. As above. A.F. to A.W. sod W. strong to moderate, with some TOAD. fto Mum. 8. W. to F fresh, some Mu. EASTOI2I. N.E. to S.W. sad N.W., varying, fresh to mo derato, some ratu. Nurthern=acollsad. Western= behind, Wallas, and anla• oracles. liouthera English Channel and Bay of Biscay. Masten] ollostward Yogland and North Bea. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, amempaaied by the Prince of Lsiniagee, honoured the Royal English Opera House with a visit last night, and witneesed the performance of the new opera, COIMIGIVA and the pantomime, in which Donato danced. Their royal highball's@ remained till the elms of the entertainment. His Excellency the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernetcalf entertained at dinner last evening, at Prussia Home, hie Excellency the Italian Minister, his Excellency the Saxon Minister, his Excellency the Hen. matte Minister, the Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires and the Batmen Biome, Moue. sad Madame de Katt*, Prince Yesnburg, Marquis de Tamisier, Berm FreideritiM, Baron Moletsie, and Mons. G. °recheck. It is understood that the Duke of Cleveland is prevented by a family &Mellott from moving the address in the House of Lords, and that Lord Houghton will fulfil that duty in the duke's stead. _ _ _ _ - - . The House of Lords will, it is understood, cons- 1 menu hearing appeals on Monday next. The list contains 61 ceases and sight peerage oases. There are nine appeals from the Court of Chancery, England ; 14 from the Ex. chequer Chamber ; two from the Divorce Court ; the ado beated cause of " Doglioni v. Crispin," the Portuguese will case, from the Court of Probate, which is expected to last for several days ; 14 from the Court of Session in Scotland, and five from the Irish Court of Chancery. The court-martial on such of the officers and crew of her Majesty's late ship Bombay as the Lords of the Admiralty may direct will assemble on board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth to-morrow at 9.30 a.m., un der the presidency of Rear-Admiral Sydney Colpoys Deems , C. 8., the commander-in-chief of the Channel fleet. The Edgar, 71, screw line-of-battle ship, Capt. Geoffrey T. B. Hornby, flagship of Rear-Admiral 8. C. Dames, C. 8., is preparing at Portsmouth for a voyage to Lisbon on special servic►, understood to be the investiture of his Majesty the King of Portugal with the insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. It is stated that the Fart of Sefton goes out to Lisbon in the Edgar as the repre sentative of her Majesty end the bearer of the Garter to the King of PortugaL The presentation to Dr. Guthrie of a sum of money exceeding 5,0001. will take place shortly at Edin burgh. A correspondent of a contemporary writes : " I suppom the city of Glasgow contains from about 300,000 to 400,000 inhabitants, and how many of these does the reader of the Star suppose are taken up yearly as drunk, or drank and disorderly, or drunk and incapable, and conveyed to the polioe-office! No lees than 27,181, being, as the Scotsman expresses it, '1 in every 14g of the population ; lin7 of the adults ; 1 in 3 of the men. It might thus appear that about every third man in Memoir had, during the year, been taken oars of by the police, as being either helplessly or riotoualy drunk ; but it is only fair, though very unpleasant, to say that a considerable portion of the total amount of the offence was perpetrated, not by the gentlemen, but by the ladies. The number of the latter taken care of when in their cups was 9,755, leaving as the number of gentlemen, each with a glue too much, 17,425. Patting aside children and youths, it would appear that in Glasgow lin every 10 women, and 1 in every 5 2-3 men are taken drunk to the police-office every year.'" We (Post) hear that the Countess Danner, the morganatic wife of the late King of Denmark, is about to marry Count Bilfwerstolpe, descendant of a very anoint Swedish family, and that the marriage will take place at Nies. Letters from Sicily mention that the eruption of Yount Etna continues without copulating any damage. Two hundred Breton peasants left St. Nat:sire last week for Suez, where they are to be employed on the works of the canal. They came chiefly from the depart ment. of Finietshe and Morbihan. Another detachment le soon to follow. The Opinion du Midi gives the following explana tion :—" Many persons may have asked why the letter written from Rome by Mgr. Pleader to the Minister of Public Worship woe headed with these words, ' Outside the Plaminian Gate.' Hare is a very simple explanation of the fact Out of respect for the jurisdiction of the Bove. nip Pontiff, every catholic' bishop who hippos, to be in the Eternal City, and who has to write in his ephieopal chis• raster, elands date hie letters from Rome itself, but it obliged to write from the gate of the city which lade to his &owe OPENING PARLIAMENT (THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. This afternoon Parliament was opened for the seventh session by royal commission, without any of those adjuncts of oeremoay and display which formerly distinguished that event in the public mind, the Sovereign being again absent. Outside the Houses of i l arliament a considerable number of persons assembled, in spite of the rain, to witness the arrival of the members of the legis lature. Shortly after 1 o'clock, forty or fifty mem bers of the House of Commons were seen scattered about the lower house exchanging salutations. Among them were Col. French, Mr. White, Mr. W. Jackson, Col. Gilpin, Mr. Vincent Scully, Sir H. Willoughby, Mr. G. P. Bentinak, Mr. Haliburtou, Sir H. Stracy, Sir James Duke, Mr. Baines, Sir J. Trelawny, Col. Edwards, Lord Robert Montague, Mr. W. R. Crawford, Mr. John Locke, Sir C. Doughts, Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Marsh, Mr. Watkin, &c. The Speaker took the chair at half-past 1, and shortly after the House was summoned with the usual forms to the House of Lords to hear the Royal Speech. The House of Lords, as already intimated, pre sented nothing whatever in the nature of spectacle. The back row of benches on the opposition aide of the house and one or two immediately in front of it were occupied by ladies in plain morning dress, and the strangers , gallery was comfortably filled ; but, up to 20 minutes to 2, only one peer, the Earl of Dal housie, was visible. When the ceremony of opening Parliament was performed there were only five or six peers besides the Commissioners, and among them were the Archbishop of York, and the Bishops of Ripon and Ely, on the Episcopal Bench. At 2 o'clock the Lord Chancellor, as the chief Royal Commissioner, took his seat on the wool sack, the other representatives of her Majesty who accompanied him and sat with him being the Duke of Somerset, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Viscount Sydney, and the Earl of St. Germans. The following Royal Speech was then read by the Lord Chancellor : "My LORDS AtD Giztrizumr, ___ "We are commanded to assure you that her Majesty has great satisfaction in recurring again to the advice and assistance of her Parliament. "The negotiations in which the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia were engaged with the King of Denmark were brought to a conclu sion by a Treaty of Peace; and the communications which her Majesty receives from foreign powers lead her to ent'rtain a well-founded hope that no renewed disturbance of the pease of Europe is to be apprehended. " The civil war in North America still unhappily continues. Her Majesty remains steadfastly neu tral between the contending parties, and would re joice at a friendly reconciliation between them. "A Japanese Daimio in rebellion against his sovereign infringed the rights accorded by treaty to Great Britain and to certain other Powers ; and the Japanese government having failed to compel him to desist from his lawless proceedings, the diplomatic agents and the naval commanders of Great Britain, France, the Netherlands, and the United States of North America, undertook a combined operation for the purpose of asserting the right, which their respective governments have obtained by treaty. That operation has been attended with complete success ; and the result has afforded security for foreign commerce and additional strength to the government of Japan, with which the relations of her Majesty are friendly. " Papers on this subject will be laid before you. " Her Majesty regrets that the conflict with some of the native tribes in New Zealand has not yet been brought to a close, but the suocessful efforts at her Majesty's regular forces, supported by those raised in the colony, have led to the submission of some of the insurgents ; and those who are still in arms have been informed of the equitable condi tions on which their submission would be accepted. "Her Majesty has had great satisfaction in giving her sanction to the meeting of a conference of delegates from her several North American pro- vinces, who, on invitation from her Majesty's Governor-General, assembled at Quebec. Those delegates adopted resolutions having for their object a closer union of those provinces under a Central Government. If those resolutions shall be approved by the provincial legislatures, a bill will be laid before you for carrying this important mea sure into effect. " Her Majesty rejoices at the general tranquillity of her Indian dominion, but her Majesty regrets that long-continued outrages on the persons and property of subjects of her Majesty, and for which no redress could be bad, have rendered it necessary to employ a force to obtain satisfaction for the past and security for the future. " Her Majesty deeply laments the calamity which has recently occasioned great loss of life and I property at Calcutta and at other places in India. Prompt assistance was rendered by the officers of the Government, and generous contributions have been made in various parts of India to relieve the sufferings which have thus been occasioned. GUTLIIIIIN or TEL Hones or Commorrs, "Her Majesty has directed the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you. " They have been prepared with every attention to economy and with due regard to the efficiency of the public service. " Mt' LORDS AND GINTIJSKIN, "Her Majesty commands us to inform you that the general condition of the country is satisfactory, and that the revenue realises its estimated amount. The distress which prevailed in some of the manu facturing districts has greatly abated ; and the act passed far the encouragement of public works in these districts him been attended with useful re sults. " Ireland during the put year has had its share in the advantage of a good harvest, and trade and manufactures are gradually extending in that part of the kingdom. " Various measures of public usefulness will be submitted for your consideration. "Bills will be laid before you for the conoentra tion of all the Courts of Law and Zquity, with their attendant dikes, in a convenient site ; a measure which her Majesty trusts will promote economy and despatch in the administration of justice. " The important work foe the revision of the Statute Law, already carried to & oonsiderable extent by recent acts of parliament, will be Dom pleted by a bill that will be laid before you. I 1.000 2 . 0009" 500 it a. 4. 63 • • 29 3 4 116 $ • 31 10 1 £950,0A0 liii 918 788 8 11176 teas have ea granted OttShad heelless Annuity DOW payable. extleeL A a. d. WEATHER REPORT. TIJI.SDLY, IfiII RIIIAIT B. T. Jain 86 115 i La.& AWNING .1.. 38 244W Gmeacaat29.77 N.N.i. Galway Valautla 18.76 81 1 B.W. Caps Mar 3977 49 B.W. rwTirp lun' oal 29.74 42 W.B. W. 99.7144 W.N.W. Piasaoos 9.91 49 W. Ind 29.0646' B.W. 19.92 45 W.N.W. Loalutort 9000 4.51 8. Plymouth 28.93 47 B.W. Weymouth 23.6747 W. Portsmouth_ 29.84 46. &W. Widow %kat 44 W.B.W. Dover — Thsmeeq karborough 29.e3 40 R. !Jai& 29.67 40 N. W. 110841014 mi — H ar majesty hope@ that this work may be a 14 towards the formation of a digest of the law. " Bills will also be submitted for your considers,, tion for the amendment of the l►ws relating t a patents for invention, and for conferring on ta °minty eourts an equitable jurisdiction in causes a t small amount. " Your assistance will also be invited to give e g g* to oertaia recommendations made to the Hams el Commons, after inquiry directed by that bog ie , h ie the operation of the laws regulating the relies q g the poor.. ___ _ _ .. _ _ "A bill will be laid before you founded on il ls report of the Commission for inquiring into Publi c Schools; and her Majesty has directed that a ce rn. mission shall be issued to inquire into endowed e a t other schools in Zugland, which have not b ees 4 . eluded in the recent inquires relating to popes education. "Her Majesty commits with confidence the gnat interests of the country to your wisdom and co n . and she fer►ently prays that the blessing c i Almighty God may attend your councils, 0 4 may guide your deliberations to the attaic raft of the object of her constant solicitude, the weltes and happiness of her people." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (arum's 'fILIORAML) AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE MORAVIAN, (via Grasacastis.) NEW YORK, JAN. 27, Errsirs. Admiral Porter reports that the navy ores*, Fort Oaswell, Bald Head,.Fort Shaw, and the earth. works on Smithrille. The Admiral says 11, each fort an Armstrong gun was found with the broad arrow upon it. The British Governaist claiming the exclusive right to use these m u , i t would be interesting to know how they came into rebel forts 1" The report further states that telegram was found from Lee, asserting that if Cas. well and Fisher were not held he would have to evacuate Richmond. Aelmiral Porter captured the blockade mum Stag and Charlotte. The total number of guns captured, including those in Fort Fisher, is 168. Wilmington papers of the 18th state that the Federal gunboats are unable to advance, u the Monitors cannot carry water enough to come up the river. The Confederates hold Fort Andrews, and have field artillery adequate to destroy the lighter draught gunboats. Beinforcementa are arriving at Wilmington. A message from Mr. Hall, a member of the Legislature, has been read in the North Carolina Senate, stating that Wilmington is not likely to I fall. The Raleigh (North Carolina) Peepers, how. ever ' reviews the situation unfavourably, and says the Confederates have fallen back within eight miles of Wilmington. General Terry had demanded the surrender of the city, giving Bragg until the 19th but to decide. The removal of public property is progressing, and much confusion prevailed. The impression was that Wilmington would surrender, the people remaining in it. President Davis is said to have arrived at Wil. mington. Northern accounts from Fort Fisher, dated tin 20th inst., state that a reconnaissance was macs on the previous day. The Confederates were found in force two miles from the extreme line of the Federal/. A skirmish ensued, and 50 prisoners were captured. The Federal/ afterwards withdrew. It is repotted from Hilton Head that the Federih had captured 2,000 prisoners and 3 guns on the Upper Broad river. Charleston despatches state that Foster's imp, 15,000 strong, advanced on Poootaligo on the 141 b, and that the Confederates, after an obstinate re sistance, retreated across the Salkahatchil river. The Charleston correspondent of the Richmond Despatch reports considerable despondency and dis satisfaction with President Davis as existing among the people of Charleston. Numbers of South Carolina refugees have arrived at Augusta. _ _ The Confederate fleet of three ironaleds and five ganbasta, under the reported command of Semmes, descended the James River on Tuesday, to destroy the Federal works at City Point. An engagement ensued with the Federal batteries. One vessel was blown up ; the remainder of the fleet withdrew under oovee of the guns of the Howlett-house bat tery. Fortress Monroe despatches state that if the Confederate ironclad' had not grounded, Grant's iron transport works at City Point would have bees destroyed. Preparations have been made at City Point in anticipation of the renewal of the attack. Simultaneously with the naval attack the Con. federates appeared on the Charles City Road, ap parently to attack the Federals on the north bank of the James. Large numbers of troops have left Nashville for New Orleans, it is believed for an expedition agaast Mobile or up the Red River. An expedition is organising at New Orleans for Ps.cagoula. It is reported that Price has captured Fort Smith, Arkansas, with a garrison of 2,000 men. A resolution of both houses of the Confederate Congress requires the President to nominate a commander of all the Confederate armies, the Senate to confirm the appointment. The Rich mond papers entertain no doubt of Lee's appoint ment if Mr. Davis does not veto the law. The papas urge Congress to remember that Lee favours the oonseription of negroes. If appointed general-in-chief without permission to enlist nairto it will be giving him stone when he asked for brad. A Charleston letter in the Richmond Despatch urges the levy and emancipation of 300,000 slaves for the invasion of the Northern States in March. It is reported that Breckenridge has been assigned to the command of the trans-Mississippi depart went. _ . President Davis has not yet accepted Mr. Sod den's resignation. General Gordon has superseded Early. The Northern peen is confident and sanguine of the early success of the Union arms. Mr. Blair has returned to Washington. Nothing reliable is known as the result of his mission to Richmond. The Sentinel says Congress has not devoted thirty minutes during the session to peace discus alone. Mr. Leach, of North Carolina, has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to offer an armistice to the Federal authority preparatal to peace negotiations. The house refused to cos eider the resolution, in secret session, and referred it to their Committee upon Foreign Alban. It is reported that changes will shortly be made embracing, more or less, the whole of the Cos federate Cabinet. It is reported that Mr. Benjamin has resigned. 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