The Express. — London, England, 1865-02-15 00:00:00

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For some time past it has been obvious that events have been preparing I the way on both sides for peace ; even the false starts which foolish men have made in that ' direction being among the signs of the same general tendency. But the meeting of Mr. Liscoxst and Mr. SEW•ED with Mr. STEPHENS and Judge CAMPBELL is unlike anything that has taken place • since the war began. It is the meeting of those who can make peace, if peace be possible; ' and we may safely presume that they had well considered that point before leaving their re spective homes. It would be rash to predict the immediate conclusion of pesos as certain to follow this interview ; but circumitaeoee are favourable to that result, and in any case the Conference can hardly fail to hasten the event which it leads the public mind, both at the North and at the South, to contemplate. The cheers which went up from both armies as the Confederate Commissioners passed down the river in General WUXI'S steamer, no doubt represent truly the hearty desire of both sections for the cessation of this protracted war. There is no longer anything worth fighting for. The military experiment has been tried long enough to leave no doubt of the result, and the preservation of slavery in the South —which, by the unanimous consent of all Southern statesmen, was the cause of Secession—bas be come impossible. The great hindrances to reunion we t test falling sway. The chief obstacle to peace will no doubt be found in the personal position of Mr. DAVIS and his colleagues, and this is an element of the situation which it is very difficult to estimate. We know, however, from previous assurances that the Government of the United States is ready to do all that is possible consistent with a due regard to the safety of the Republic to make the condition of these gentlemen easy and honourable. The war has been waged by the North for the restoration of the Union, in which all the States have equal rights, and not for the subjec tion of one portion of them to others, and after reunion the position to be occupied by the leaders of the Secession would be settled by the free choice of their fellow-citizens. Peace is the hope of this last, best message from across the Atlantic ; but righteousness is its assurance. The Congress of the United States has passed the Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery throughout the Union. Slavery waaabolished in the Territories at an early stage of the war ; now it is abolished in the States, and everywhere. This is the great result of the war, not to be mentioned without feelings of gratitude to the Providence which guides and controls the course of human affairs, and ever evolves good out of evil. One more auspicious occurrence must be mentioned. The Passport System on the Canadian frontier, with all its annoyances and irritations, is at an end. As it was established under a feel ing of distrust of the Canadian Government, its abolition must be taken as a sign of the return of confidence and good feeling. Even Sir JoHN Wer.sa will probably now perceive that Lord PAL MIULSTON was right is his reserved language on Friday, and iu his disposition to trust in some measure to time and patience to remove miscon ceptions and overcome unfounded suspicions. OSBORNE, Fia. 14. Her Majesty drove out in the morning with her Royal Highness Princess Louise, and in She afternoon with Priames Beatrice and Primo Leopold. The Prince of Wales, attended by Make Teesdale, west yesterday to the exhibition of the works of the late Mr, David Roberts, R.A., at the rooms of the Arehitectural Society in Cooduit-etreet. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Ottani= Appeeyi entertained the Bari Itemell and Lady Georgina Russell, Lord Bloomfield. hie Erselimey the Spanish Meister and Madame Corm, his Breaßelay this Netiteriands Minister, his Emslimey the Saxon Minis ter, Count Bahian, the Right Hen. Sir Hamilton Seymour. Sir Chilies Lama Wylie, Court Wirepten, Prince Yens bum, Baron Masher& Mr. Arthur &mill, IL P., Be., at dinner yesterday evening at t►e Austria' Bagmen is Chan dos•stnst, Careedishaquare. The death is announced of the Hon. Catherine Harriet Maynard, third daughter of recount and Vis °mamas Maynard. TB DEATH OF CARDINA. (THIS DAY.) Cardinal Wiseman died at his town residence in Yoelnplass, Pertmaa•egeaw, this seendag at 8 o'clock. He bad ben for mew yearn suffering hoot a painful and ta• outage diary hat his labours on basalt of Ms ootamtudoe were uninterrupted, wept ♦a intervals of great pan. and Ittihad sot withdrawn hem active work until very nasally, the bet sign of his serious Blame being Ms isability to fall isie promise of lecturing at the Royal Institution. Dr. Wiseman, the son of an Irishman, settled as a men *haat la Spain, wee bars at Seville Angela 2,1802. He was adulated at Se. Cuthbert's College, Usbaw, near Durham, sod retained in mature years the atm- Noe of his youth for that seminary, composing a drama (The Hidden Gent) for its jail's in 1859. By the way, the VionPresident of Usbaw was the celebrated Dr. Lingard, of whom Dr. Wiseman spoke moat anon thealady. The young Ilegtish student was Dart sent to to the Raglan College at Rome. At the age of 18 he pub lished a Latin work out the oriental languages, and he corded off the gold medal. Next he became a priest and professor in the Roman catholic University, and rector of the English College at Rome. He preached sermons is Faglish is 1827, by desire of Lee XIL, before all thsoolleges and religiose communities of Raglan in the Clausen of Gest E Maria, sod in the same year travelled in Italy, weeding Vona= and Elsa. The youthful priest then returned to England and delivered lectures on the doctrines of the church of Rome in the Sardinian Chapel, Lincoln's inn-fields. At the election of Gregory XVL he wee present in Rome, and that Pope, who had hem prefect of the Propeganda, had rosined the proob of a wan written in Italian by oommand of his habitue Usforkeinatitly the else. tics of Gregory XVL was the signal for en insurrection to Bologna, and the attempted mime of Fort St. Angelo. At Dr: Wham's instigation Gregory XVL Wormed the number of vimn apostolic in England, and the doctor him gaff was made coadjutor to Dr. Wash, of Its Midland din trick and Presides; of Oscan College. la 1847 and 1848 the doctor was at Rome seas. He was next appointed pro-vicar apostolic, subsequently coadjutor to Dr. Wald in the London district, and in 1849 succeeded Dr. Walsh, calling himself " Bishop of Malipoterens." It was in 1858 that the event occurred which, while &leg high rank in the Papal court to Dr. Wiseman, sensed an excitement in England which will not soon be forgotten. Amosgst his works are " &nays on various subject." (3 volume', 1853), "Fabriola" (1855), "The Perception of Natural Beauty by !the Ancients" (1856), "The Influence a Wards oe Thought and Civilisation" (1856), "The Hake Gem" (a drama written for the jubilee at Casa (1889), " Points of Contact between Science and Art" (1863), " Architecture in London" (1864). PROM THE "OWL." The Owl of to-day oontaini the following purr ItsOn : His Royal Highness Primo, Leopold is deputed by her Majesty to invest hie Serene Highness the Grand Duke of Hesse with the Order of the Garter. "Earl Cowper is commissioned by her Majesty in like manner to bear the Garter to him M►jsty the King of Den mark. He will be accompanied by the Hon. Evelyn Judi ley, the Hon. J. F. Stuart Wortley, Lieutenant-Colonel Tower, Coldstream Guards, and the Hon. E. Scott Gifford, of the Foreign-office. " The Earl of Sefton will convey the same illustrious order to his Majesty the King of Portugal, and will most likely take with him Colonel Lord Henry Percy, C. 8., V.C., Lieutenant-Colonel Dad* Carleton, Coldstream Guards. and Mr. Abbott, of the Foreign-office. " Another Garter has lately been placed at the disposal of her Majesty by the death of the Duke of NorthumberlaneL " There will shortly be a vacancy at the Board of Admi ralty, by the appointment of I:ear-Admiral Frederick to the command at Cork. The mat at the board bun been offered to Captain Hewlett, C. 8., bat we regret to under- stand that it has bean refused by that officer on the ground of ill health. "we have mach plosion is stating that there is every probability that Captain Colin Campbell. R.N., late of the Bombay, who exhibited so conspicuously the qualities of a pliant sailor on the occasion of the late destruction of his ship, will be appointed to the annessad of the Nair:igen; about to replace the Bombay on the Brazilian station. " CALPTAIN SHERLILD 036031 Alto THE NORTH POLL Ta• above named pliant oMeer is going oat to Bombay to manage the Great Indian Peninsula Hallway. " The odious of the Guards are to give • performance at the Bijou Theatre on the 25th and 27th inst. The playa chosen are respectively • Comfortable Lodgings,' with the Critic,' and • A Scrap of Paper,' with ' Tom Noddy's Secret.' The east will include the Hon. Spencer and the Hon. Frederick Poasonby. Mrs. C. Mathews will be found in the list of actresses." MAY-VOOTH COLLEGE. -o This morning was issued the report of the visitors of Maynootb College, these being the Duke of Leinster, Archbishop Cullen, Sir Robert Peel, and Lord Chief Baron Pigott, C.B. The superiors and professors at the diae of the visitation, the 23rd of November last, were 20 in number. The number of students actually in residence was 517, the number on the books 535. Seventy candi dates out of 82 who presented themselves in the present year have been admitted to a matriculation. Within the tut three years 188 students have been ordained to the priesthood. The visitors again draw attention to the inadequacy of the public ball and of the college chapel, and of the poverty of the fittings of the latter. With this exception, and an expression of regret that the new infirmary remains unoccupied for want of funds to provide the nemasary furniture, the visitors say the result of their visit has bean satisfactory. We (Pont) are requested by Baron Waligoraki and Count Oarowe►i de Wesele to state, with reference to oar 1111110=1:41111410t in the fashionable intelligence of yester day, that their presence in this country is not connected with aay political mission whatnots?. At a meeting of the Court of Aldermen yester day the late burglary on Corniull wee discuued. Mr. Welker, whose shop was broken into, wished to be heard by counsel in reply to statements which had been made by the Chief Commissioner of the City Police. This wee not allowed, however. Subsequently the report of Colonel Fraser was read. It charged Mr. Walker with carelessness in the securing of his premises. A warm discussion fol lowed, ending in the report being referred to the General Purposes Committee. REFORMATORIES AND INDURTRIAL SCHOOLS.— It seems from a parliamentary return tuned this morning that on tie 30th of September last the reformatories to England and Wales, some 40 in number, captained is all 2,586 boys and 666 girls. Of these 183 boys and 51 girls were orphans ; 519 boys and 133 girls bad lost a father only, and 418 boys and 122 girls had lost a mother oily. The fathers of 202 boys sad of 74 girl, had remarried, and the mothers of lin boys and 35 girls had remarried. 95 boys and 43 girls were illegitimate. At the same date the aertilied industrial schools contained 638 boys and 212 girls. 50 boys and 29 girls were orphans. 185 boys sod 66 girls had lost father only ; 68 boys and 33 girls bad lost mother only. In the case of 28 boys and 9 girls the father had remarried ; is the ease of 48 boys and 12 girls the mother had remarried. 38 boy. and 13 girls were illegitimate. THE LATE DUKE OF NORTHIMBEELAND.—We understand that the funeral of the late Duke of Northum berland is to take place on Saturday, the 25th instant. It is arranged that be will be lying is state for two days at Aluwick Castle, on Monday and Tuesday next, and on the following day (Wednesday) his remains will be brought to Northumberland House, where on Thursday and Friday there will be a lying in state. The first day will be appro priated to his personal friend,, and the next to his taunts and tradespeople. Oo the following day (Saturday) the remains will be deposited in the family vault in Wert abater Abbey. _ _ - FORNION-OYFICS, Fora. It—The Queen has been towpro.. of Mr. Friedrich Wilber r Corral a$ for his Majery the Kin of Preemie. ice TeZZios aloe boom pleased to approve el Mr. David Timmer r Corral at Toronto. Caarta, for the limited Males ef Ammorke.--Geomete. FOR=On-omcn, Firs. 4.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to apostles Martin Crofton florrtssa, wow her Majesty's Omani at Tangehow, to be h Majesty's Consul at Kiu-Kiang. The Qtesso has ales been ~radoael? pleased to appoint Robert Swishoe, Esq., now Vice-Consul at Taiwan, to be her Majesty's Consul at TlaWllll.—Gaxtte. ~s~'~~ I (10012101 Tlzaawes.) OEPTION OF MGR. OHIGI BY THE EMPEROR. PARIS. P. 14. Mgr. Chigi, the Papal nuncio, has had an audience of the Emperor. His eminence expressed his regret st the publicity given to the private letters addressed by him to the Bishops of Orleans and Poitiers. He assured his Majesty that he was fully sensible of the duties imposed upon him by the diplomatic character of his mission, and had never any intention of failing in respect to the rules of international law. The Emperor graciously received the explanation of Mgr. Chigi. ADDRESS TO KING VICTOR EMANUEL. TURIN, Fa. 15. The King ham received the Municipal Council of Turin at St. Restore. His Majesty accepted the address of the council and expressed sentiments of the utmost goodwill towards the population of Turin. AMERICA. The Royal Mail steamship Canada, from Boston and Halifax, arrived at Queenstown at 5.10 a.m. to-day (15th inst.), with 117 passengers, and 163,394 dollass in specie. She landed two passengers and 127 sacks of mails, and proceeded for Liverpool at 5.30 a.m. All well. The Cattail' experienced severe easterly weather throughout the passage. THE BRAZIL MAIL. CAPTURE OF PAYSANDU. (By Tolograpb from Liaboo,) RIO DB JANEIRO, JAN. Z. The city of Paysandu was taken by the Brazilian army at 8 a.m. on the 2nd of January. Exchange on London, 26* to 26* ; on Paris, 370 to 375. Coffee, good first, 6,600 to 6,800 rein Shipments since the departure of the last mail, 63,092 bags, including 23,408 for the Channel. Sales, 62,131 bags. Stock, 50,000 bags. Freights, 45 to 50. _ . _ BAHIA. JA9. 29. Exchange on London, 24 to 261. Sugar : Whites, 2,500 to 2,900 reis ; browns, 1,850 to 2,300 reia. Cotton, 24,000 rein. . . . PER.NAMBUOO, Fes. 1. Exchange on London, 27k to 27i. Sugar, 3,000 rein. Cotton, 29,500 reia. The Oneida arrived at Pernambuco on the 29th January, and sailed on the evening of the same day. LISBON. FEL 13. The /imageries Impsiriales steamer Guieens, with the Brazil mails, arrived here at 6 o'clock this evening. THE MAURITIUS MAIL. MARSELLES, Frs. 15. The Menageries Impdriales steamer Said arrived here this morning with the Mauritius mails. \t"o f N( EXPRESS FROM PARIS (nom °oft OWN coalmen/tom.) PARIS, TMCIDAT EVINING.. The Franc.. pretends to know that the forth coming yellow book will show that France under stands the choice of Florence as the capital of Italy to be final, although "parliamentary neces sities" led to explanations in the Turin I Chamber, which " vainly attempted " to give ' another aspect to the convention. This journal affirms that guarantees of the moat " pre cise" kind have been taken to secure the "political independence of the head of the church." Senator ' Gueronnibre means by this the temporal power, of which he is a supporter, at all events, and how ever badly the Pope may continue to govern. The following phrase in his article of to-day is painfully significant : The Emperor's government, while maintaining intact its dignity and prerogatives* in Paris, has no said to abandon the interests it represents at Rome ; for those interests ars permanent, and permanent interests am not to be sacrificed to temporary cootliets. Such a cold Valentine's-day as this I never saw in Paris before. The thermometer is only 3or 4 degrees below zero, but a thick atmosphere, threat ening more snow, and a bitter east wind, make it next to impossible to get warm. Job's comforters mention a year, reoorded by Arago, in which a frost, beginning in the middle of February, lasted for 27 days. Mathew de la Drome prophesied that the birds would not pair this year till Feb. 25, but this prediction I can state from personal observation has not come true, for at an early hour this morn. ng I was awakened by a congress of sparrows in an apple-tree under my bedroom window. I saw at least a score of them, the frost and snow notwith standing, in hot discussion about partnership for the season ; and after much pecking and flutter ing they made their choice and paired off. Later in the day I noticed several pairs in trees and on the roofs of houses. Madame Ratazzi, in consequence of her new novel reflecting on the imperial family, has for the second time been prohibited from entering France, and the pension which the Emperor granted her three years ago has been withdrawn. The Bourse is inactive, and quotations Lave scarcely varied from yesterday. The Emperor's speech is waited for, and speculators seem dis inclined to discount it in either one sense or another. Money is unusually cheap and plentiful, but capitalists are extremely timid about investments. The saloons of the English embassy at St. Peters burg have bees Lately closed oa account of a death in Sir a Bnchanan's family, but they ern now about to be opeoed• The small evening parties of Lady Buchanan on Mondays have been well attended. VICTOR EMMANUEL AT THE THEATRE.—The Ration of Florence says that it would be impossible to give an idea of the enthuissm with which Victor Emmanuel was received when he visited the Puha= • few evenings sines. A sort of joyous convulsion agitated the audience, and the cheering wu repeated so often that the King was compelled to rice fully ten times in order to respond to it. A ballot was *pad, in the last scene of which Venice ap pears weeping and in chains, her fetters being afterwards struck off by the free provinces. "At this point," adds the Redone, " the applause burst forth without restraint, and with as earnestness of feeling that would have drawn tears from the eyes of the coldest spectator. We have wielted to mention these demonstrations, because they afford • splendid proof of the sentiments of our population." THE BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS.-SOUTH- Aires, Fan. 14.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's steamship Ceylon, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has strived hers with 37 passes gen, 1,5381. in spade, and • general cargo, including raw silk to the value of 150,0001. The British steamer Alba Ora* sad the English schooner Deerfoot came into oollision in the Straits of Gibraltar, and both vessels foundered almost immediately. WHITEHALL, FEB. IL—The Queen has been pleased to direct lettere palest to be parted moder the great ssd ipeattop t ► a dignity at a knight el the United Kipple& el Great Britain and belted unto Alexander Taylor, Neg., doctor of mediehmt—Gazette. . . DOWNINO-AITILIET, Fla IL The Queen bee bees to ratify and weft= the appaietmeat of James W ie se . yr .a lli'Dowell, Fest to be • member of the legislative roman of the island ol.Janalea.—Gezeue. FEBRit.4 EDIT" EXPRESS OFFICE, Wednesday, 4.30 p.m. OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. (THIS DAY.) SPEECH OF THE EMPEROR. • IARIS. WEDNESDAY. The French Chambers were opened to-day at 1 o'clock, by the Emperor, who delivered the fol- lowing speech : M61481111:111.8 SINATOP.B ; MEIBI3IIIIB At the time of our last meeting together, I hoped to see the difficulties which threatened the repose of Europe removed by a Congress. It has been otherwise. I regret it, for the sword often severs questions without solving them, and the only basis of a durable peace is the satisfaction given by the agreement of the sovereigns with the true interests of the people. In the presence of the conflict which arose on the borders of the Baltic, my government, divided between its sympathies for Denmark and its goodwill for Germany, observed the strictest neutrality. Called, in a conference, to give its opinion, it confined iteelf to en forcing the principle of nationalities, and the right of populations to be consulted as to their lot. Our language, oonformably with the reserved attitude which we intended to preserve, has been moderate and friendly towards both parties. In the south of Europe the action of France has been exerted more resolutely. I have wished to render possible the solution of a difficult problem. The Convention of the 15th of September, freed from passionate interpre tations, consecrates two great principles, the establishment of the new kingdom of Italy, and the independence of the Holy See. The provisional and precarious state which aroused so much alarm is about to disappear. It is not the case now of the scattered members of the Italian country seeking to connect themselves with feeble ties to a little state situated at the foot of the Alps ; it is a great coun try which has risen above loc►l prejudices, and, despising unreflecting excitement, transports bohlly into the heart of the peninsula its capital, and places it in the midst of the Apennines as in an impregnable citadel. By this act of patriotism Italy constitutes itself definitively, and reconciles itself at the same time with catholicity. It engages to respect the independence of the Holy See, to protect the frontiers of the Roman states, and thus permits us to withdraw our troops. The pontifical territory, efficaciously guaranteed, finds itself placed under the safeguard of a treaty which solemnly binds together the two go vernments. The convention is not, then, a weapon of war, but a work of peace and concilia tion. In Mexico the new throne is consolidating itself, the country is becoming peaceful, its immense resources are developing themselves—a happy result of the valour of our soldiers, of the good sense of the Mexican popula tion, of the intelligence and energy of the sovereign. In Japan our fleet, united to that of England, Holland, and the United States, has given a new proof of what it can accomplish. In Africa a sudden insurrection has arisen to disturb the security of our possessions and to show how ignorant certain tribes still are both of our force and of our friendly intentions. This has taken place at a moment when by a spirit of generous justice France secures the property in the soil to the Arab population, when, by liberal measures, we try to make that mistaken people understand that, far from oppressing them, we wish to call them to the benefits of civilisation—it is at this moment, I repeat, that, misled by religions fanaticism, the Arabs bordering on the desert raised the standard of revolt. In spite of the difficulties of the localities and the severity of the season, our army, commanded with skill, has overcome the insurrection, and after the struggle no bloody repression, no useless severity, has saddened the victory. The zeal of the experienced chief placed at the head of Algeria, the unity of the command re established, the proving of the generous de signs of France, will all concur, I hope, to pre vent the return of similar disorders. Thus all our expeditions are approaching their close. Our land troops have evacuated China ; the navy is sufficient to maintain our establishments at Cochin China ; our African army is about to be reduced ; that of Mexico is already returning to France ; the garrison of Rome will soon return and, closing the Temple of War, we shall be able with pride to inscribe upon a new Arc de Triomphe these words :—"To the glory of the French armies for victories gained in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America." Let us give ourselves without anxiety to the works of peace. The interval between the sittings is employed in seeking the means of increasing the moral and material well being of the people, and every useful and true idea is sure of being received by me and adopted by you. Let ns examine, then, together the fit measures for increasing the prosperity of the empire. Religion and public instruction are the objects of my constant care. All forms of worship enjoy an equal liberty. The catholic clergy exercises even out side its ministry a legitimate influence. By the law of instruction it concurs in the education of the young ; by the electoral law it can enter the public councils; by the constitution it sits in the Senate. But the more we surround it with consideration and deference the more we expect from it that it will re spect the fundamental laws of the State. It is my , duty to maintain intact the rights of the civil power, , which no sovereign of France since St. Louis has ever abandoned. The development of public instruction merits your solicitude. In the country of universal suffrage every citizen ought to know how to read and write. A bill will be presented to you for the still greater extension of primary instruction. Since the law upon coalitions voted last year, those who work like those who have employed them have learnt to settle the differences between them without always relying upon the intervention of the go vernment, powerless to regulate the variable rela tions between supply and demand. New projects will now have for their object to leave greater liberty to commercial associations and to remove the responsibility, always illusory, of the administra tion. I have striven to destroy all the obstacles which oppose the creation of societies intended to ameliorate the condition of the working. classes. In promising the establishment of those societies without abandoning the gua• tr (... - 5 - , 1.35: &tali of public seesiity we shall facilitate It wield experirisint The Council of State hlllv4asetally considered a law which tends to give to municipal and general Bonne is larger functions. The communes and departments will be thus called upon to transact themselves their affairs, which, decided on the spot, will be more promptly settled. This reform will complete the whole of the regulations adopted to simplify or suppress minute arrangements which useleady complicate the machinery of the administration. The commercial liberty inaugurated by the I treaty with England has become extended to our relations with Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom of Sweden and Norway. The same principles should naturally be applied to commercial navigation, and a law is being prepared to establish at sea the competition which alone excites progress. Finally, the rapid comple tion of our railways, our canals, oar roads, is the necessary complement of the ameliorations which have been commenced. We shall this year accom plish a part of our task by provoking private enter prises or by appropriating to public works the state resources, without compromising the good economy of our finances, and without baring recourse to credit. The facility of the communications in the interior, as abroad, accelerates exchanges, stimulates indnetry,and prevents too great scarcity and too great abundance of products, the effects of which are in jurious in turn to the consumer and the producer. The more extension our marine merchandise ob• tains—the more transports are facilitated, the less complaint will there be of sudden changes in the pries of provisions of the first necessity. Thus we shall be able to meet the partial incon venience suffered by agriculture. Some attribute the momentary suffering to the suppression of the sliding scale ; they forget that in 1851, when it was in existence, the depreciation in the prim of cereals was far mom considerable, and that this very year the export of wheat far exceeds the import. It is, on the contrary. due to a liberal legisla tion, to the impulse given to all the elements of national wealth, that our foreign commerce, which amounted in 1851 to two milliards 814 millions francs, has now risen to the prodigious sum of upwards of seven milliards. New bills will be laid before you in another direction with the object of increasing the guar antees of individual liberty. The first authorises the provisional release, with or without bail, even in criminal cases ; the second suppresses personal arrest in civil and commercial matters—an inno vation, however, which is nothing but the re enactment of a very ancient principle. From the earliest ages of Rome, it had been determined that the property and not the person of the debtor was responsible for the debt. Let us therefore continue to follow the course marked out. Let us live abroad in peace with the different Powers, and let us not cause the voice of France to be heard save for law and justice ; at home let us protect religions ideas without ceding aught of the civil power ; let us spread education throughout all classes of society; let us simplify without destroying our admirable administrative system ; let us give the commies and the department a more independent existence ; let us arouse individual initiative and the spirit of association. Lastly, let ns elevate the soul and strengthen the body of the nation. But, while making our selves the ardent promoters of useful reforms, let us firmly maintain the bases of the constitution ; let us oppose the exaggerated tendencies of those who provoke changes with the sole object of sapping that which we have founded. Utopia is to welfare that which illusion is to truth, and progress is not the realisation of a more or lose ingenious theory, but the application of the results of experience consecrated by time and accepted by public opinion. The melancholy intelligence of the death of the Duke of Northumberland bevies been telegraphed to the Dowager D.ichess of Atholl, In attendance upon the Queen et Osborne, a message from her Majesty remised Abswick Castle on Monday, condoling and sympathielag with the Duchess of Northumberland in her deep al:duties, and expressing the Queen's great solicitude for the health of the duchess under the trying circumstances of bar bereavement. . . The roll of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal for the present session includes in all 434 membets. His Royal Highness the Prime of Wales is, of coarse, Ent on the list. The last is Lord Houghton. The Duke de Pentbievre, son of Prince de Join- Till% has meetly left Lisbon for Brasil, as a volunteer ottioer in the Portuguees squadron._ The children of the late Mr. Loogfield have been made wards of Chancery. His estates in tbe ononty of Cork, worth 12,0001. a year, bane been plead ender a receiver. Mr. French, a sentlernas of property in the minty, has been appriotad to the office, on the room- mendatieu of Mrs. Lonifleld, mother of the minors. Mr. Cardwell, to-morrow, will bring forward a bill to provide for the anoexation of the territory of Midi Koff raria to the Cape Colour. Mr. Watkin intends on Friday to ask the Under &watery of State for Foreign Affairs whether Mr. Barsky Rome is still is charge of the Embassy at Weshingtos, and, if so, when her Majesty's Ambessador, Lord Lyons, may be expected to resume his ditties. On the 10th of March Mr. Arthur Mills pro poses to call the attention of the House of Commons to the state of affairs in New Zealand. and to more an address to the Crown on the @object of t►e war in that colony. CAPITAL Pl:unman= CONIIIBBION. —A meeting of the Capital Paalahcoset Coemiasieciers was held plater- day, at which the Duke of Richmond, Lord Stanley, Mr. Joshes O'Hapn, Mr. H. Waddiogtes, Mr. John Bright., M,P., Mr. W. Evart, /LP., Mr. G. Noah, ILP., Mr. G. Ward Bunt, M.P., and Mr. Gotham Hardy, M.P., at tended. The secretary (Mr. J. H. Naimoli) was also present. THE WHAM= AND THE PASHA—The weather during the last 24 hours has been somewhat variable. From 9 o'clock mail 12 on Monday night there wen every appearance of a rapid thaw settiegin, the thermometer key ing roe, up to 40. bet abortlyafter midoight the thermometer fell to 5 degrees below freeziog point, at which it remained during the night. At noon yesterday it stood at 30, the freezing point, with • cold north-easterly wind. At dusk , the wind considerably moderated, the thermometer re maining, however, at the above point, and continued so at a late hour hat night. The round pond in Kamiogton-ear. done and the ornamental water. in the parks were esthete frusta over, and a large number of persons. despite the warnings of the icemen, ventured mum it in the early part of I the day, several of whom paid the penalty of immersion for ' their temerity, though no serious aceideot occurred. There was oo lee whatever on the Serpentine, sad the water in St. James's Park enclosure was only partially frossa over. At the west mid several persons ventured upon it, and t a t ir i : ems • dozen n on brute th Tbs rong io h l bn in t w lu ere tim. speedli s y m eggeugd visisgia by I /Wm was tolerably fins and swum and a pest umber of ' nonimis were upon it daring the day without any 0001111104 having occurred. THUM 07 A Lanai LlFlRDAT.—Yeetaretilt7 the largest self-rightiog lifeboat ever built is this for the National Lifeboat Institution, bad her harbour trial is the Regent's Canal Doak, Lintehouso, la the presence of some others of the navy sod army, sad gamy other pence& The lifeboat, which is 40 feet long, was swami by means of some tackling attached ban hydraulic mane. She im mediately self-righted, and the water the brought beck with her was selfahoted in half • minute. Various other es perhseets were rabosirtently made with the beat, and they sII Traduced en waft satbfaelory Ths boa s h eddied the " Van Kook," after Mr. R. W. Cooky, MA, F.R.E4., the diellagoished marls, artist, who, handing Ids own liberal centztbation of 9001., bee collected nearly the whole motel Mas boat. isesoleting M 4001. Ilhe le fa be stationed at North Deal, in the neighbourhood of the Goodwin Ikeda, and leaves to-day for box station ia 'barge of some at her am.. DEATHS OP CMILDIXV pstrosftra. 0011DNIWS An inquiry was held blir lMlL lsmicastar at g o Vioesalrehrara. Lbaspastmed. hot AMY el the IllegliMase ado add .f d a y s 1 1.11.11 ,t h t ley, • deems* aerveat. Jim lama Ilmallog. Wtedeeesseg Charlotto Watboney was a serml la he Wards, wermiog Saws ehe She ma • is ti letleasibrlai glel Oa e , as r i e r Mew. molog she tweed rat all Cull* M • lb* oddis" w. 4 1. l It la tha Malt ia mei, •••6 4 ... Nr. W. Smell, 1.1.0.5.. odd thet he pelsommiaila Mod the dasi a* tho is the gaides. Mose h lad bees mum. it se • MU& well eveaspoL The 111111.1 VIM It WY imprint, to slats the and mime ~ le them was a. 111011•111 wtl tb ald Medd ast ben gm I • soadhal mW bat lama h adoedmse. The ler, Mod that Ihe OM Medd he adjemssy the meased was pent to miss stalmead la kaggir ii • The presmilags was D a . unmoor then = 4 : 6 . Z:27Ttlis tayses, Nagraliag the &ft dew, Mild st Mba Oseeldne Novae. . add Ike gai Neville Waa woe fi lial lerl • t ilt s s.... yews el egai had lived wilh him ea eadelost la bh limp (a taw, is sow years met Oa Tetley wars* bo w e ed as ail rem deer. wad as *NO was we meet lo was la had. wad is "rid that all MS very 111. a, „ ed his sae lo tar. The mat he Maid Not a tab ea aided ha MA Muhl la bar h r. Bo had hei as sospisim el he ag i , he Dr. I. Labs odd OM • phi. al Me mss W ha* room& the mak el the laisat. Them wes a sal Who the loft aide el tho ask. TM Me maw he., twisted ohm' MN are Mb as has Uk be 111 adios adds et the Sagan es tho am se Y had boss tightemi. He Mid the maw as ea•TW I The etild bad bseallwL Dials mews hut Masa% sad, sal Mar Pelimesseiablt ia rm i tTayiar. 311 N.. Mt rat Irma bdo Min Novidee seam asd •••• amodoe• ar e lemi • samdedesdl el babes Mass. ft en urea her why she did awl tell way mom Willie dam alas .My Med. The Orreaer meld UM be matt Ohara lids me al le the adowleme lha yeaag mum his the mid in Moms& MUM OP LIBEL 40.1111? TEI WM? MM. At s it; ostreet_ es , sad Ydshirdii MEI Nair Di tie peklimees, sad lllRissa Sim Fiske el lie Asthma Taus eiespeper, wipsiar i maws INNIMISsee• eletigleg Mum =lens Jemmy, mad_ pis se lee Irarwy, es* deammtary nag es Ns. Seassi Rale& lie ersebey d Sow& Imam Railway. Ir. Serasall lanestiae. baniotal by Kr. Freassia, dueled tie prommilee. The dolembals appetred la mess. It seem the 6 • Mt Hamilles. • easekbader la row Ream Oempsey. asseessbly dimpprome a the aim of the diseeten a the msmmy. awl eialoally • Mr. diefies. Ka bra ea several emeasee male yss le*wi.~ Whisk have boss immortal is the Mara/ Far s edvsemeste. and as sae easier be apolegimi d W ants of preeseftp Wadi bed len tam spas ow seems{ el elms ride. La*, beweves. lam Tara apeassed. mimesis Mr. m Mai " peemitimi mo s &lamas perjary," sod wills MOW. ash* it roped to tits male al • mead gala aie Rosa* sel these Imam Isaias artistes were slam Mr. Ditgar, am, mad that at ass tine he leartal blot& be bad is spades Mat Kr. lamilies its cam to this easel. that the easemis WOO Odd.* es forth. Bat with reespese le the Wow XL baba l e& easpk ose ed. a he wears"' easetaatly dopiesed bed li,esd did m as aps* ia the el bleba for the eiateelar at Mr. Salsa Inge he as to by the ••111Abar M the esespeey, legeidftr Ht Mashes, who aped the Wawa, see Mr. d Veelaer, ke at mom replied I. the eilnestivq sd .hub received ibis massoose theoshl he see stn ailed spa to give evidases. Kr. /kraut Baleaties said lid It Mt. I la bass be from reasieles aessed boa Wag _pis surprise, be was ash s. Rai so patsies Med it him from that lb. Mew said he did sot regret ea Irmas soma lb did sot Wok mural meld have boss at say adsomap h him. If the magistrate thought that Ise bed boas aii sell walla the ma= a the kw, he gem MINN a elitekr his warship's desiam. Yr. rawer said he them& ea as as hams 11111116 dedly Kr. Smassi Balsaiime said be had se wish be pa is dasedsais M ea/ leeeesesiesee a tbe muter et 14 s was sespeted that they WA bees Wawa by emir ;la asstd. likeel ask tel megatiste as Wed thew sow Is their own lose ose of 1601. sash le wear ali t trial at the OestralCriatisa Oesel. - 711;;;;;;sai;lasisassr - tiii - sii. It me stated thai dr ilakedrals we Isar Agra Mr. asps, In., twit se put is Os Mum MI rmusised silent throversi the ptscomilap. Fins AND ?TARIM, INCA, it.Teillerrisy ahem Am Mists§ pest 1 eleiesk • ion test piste it Gress llattsmetreet, Gessrellumd. is the ressmies d s Km Nadeau. oolftehembreper. It wpm Wars cabdriver, No. 12,140, sees peeks elms the Moth Mend lore is the besemest, and st sees sere es shim le the mooed floor se the .moll me blows mem hp lhe Moll wied Kn. Rodeos the proprietress of the Mw,wllllll her masindswee. Mort by h et basis to the 4. sed aUM farther o by Mee, wed lea, mem* See nosily for help. The fire had remind Me Mrs Ild le her emilenseut she jumped hers the widow. Ane who was standing below iamb se attempt S. Mk to but failed, red abe fell epos sod severely Wend lr Km fell, berreme, was Ms to sem Meet Isehm e rsi she received very tritium iekerise. AU this Me Net al sou was elissieg to the wiedoweill d Me hem lees she was is the Set of failing M tbe gresed,Orellestor Mfg strived with the Royal liosietfe maps. Be wee Milk cheers from the crowd, sad the women was told If its reall wait another mood she would be reseesi The In et al time had reached her am sad amble" .al led Yeti them terribly. In spite of this she kept held el MOM work al the wisdoweill. mad Om, the medester, Wig placed hi maim at the north ate el the Wig mounted the mem bed Ward the usfortmets woo fibs called ost, ' Oh. ray pm algid l" This MI Oho sm duster is Imagism Mt the Shill bed hem Ws Me in. and leotard of entryise Mrs. Redeye dm the WM Ms put her rote the canvas boggles MI esesedei time rt the mood floor, although Mire wee mess r., the make ao dense as to Missida AGM lb lamp. lie saw • white object is the mem whirl' be sib for. Upos rimless however, be lima thee it wm et , • settee quilt. NH t. Wads( NM the gbi hell hiss he behind, be repaired towards the Mk num tad le itee bl nearly laladids life, for Is tryies per the smoke aid Gams be Mile( es mesh ii .b r i t heated vapour that Mime he meld mesh Me is' escape to set Men be was enema with skims st window. A. soma my we raised by these but... Br obeeriss of the crowd .owed to she lint fresh Omen IA taking Mid of the GM el bis sees" he demened h safety. By this time the Olerheswell perish owes tel arrived, soder the direction el Br. filnyerd. sell war hL lowed by surneems seems of the bripJ• aid Neel awl and loess's bad steamers. Neel. the totem* of WSW River Osinpes Miss perrieedthey draws the me* Ore was Misty el w y, ater, bat Moss were math= Are extiessished until the premises Wray It is Mated tbe seism wee seinsered. FATAL ZIPLOSION Or OAT lir Tin Union Doess.—YeeMrdsy morn* • seder miens' of ge. sullies is the immediate death of me MA ead ervaral Mem, Mk plere at the Albert Dusk weediemes is the Liverpool Dade. Ablest • quierterged is erisl Mr. Edward Boma. wershonse4resper, of N., eel Depertssest, is the Albert wardress" • Ned rage of letildMp, Miss received • report that tat C ali b: • stems smell el sea. or foal air cosies from the ow h th• adjacent yard, drat szaallead chi, ragas at his mot, and on Mats all right there Men wt with bt% to the yard, and co applyior it I. the Iroe phis the estrum to the rower an awful espleilsawinia sos. As meow tom of e lame Mt sp to the o p f l 16 or 16 feat, sod blued for • few mw 4% plum was blows Imo fragments, me el which i b s* IfiA Bowes ea the heed. Ho fell twos his bee, .see mar tie wagwaid. wim iliaadiat ip aGri4 jared, elan skro ll it r. ' lll" tO wasi s tagshirceasidsrabi det•imps "/".... . 01 yards, and his clothes were tarn. A tarter Is r o e of Mr. Bedewed was buret shoat the faim seed tlso foam of tbeespleekoe. Thom Hellas& Jr/Myles m i n, was blows menet the mei& well el the Mak mme, without aim. Wary. Prate Lou • orirbig ratedsp mid *child aide, end the Augers el me were hurt. Jobs Bleadell wm severely shakes. TM POP most was blow. up for • &steam of silty it eleA yards, mid tr.; biomes oteartmi were 6 :2; to • ensiderablo edam. iterfateser wee readend, said Kr. Bowes and Yr. Belmsers were moneyed to the Maher. Bespilel. lob 1 . 1 former expired before he left tie deekyard. MAW It &Wawa was promptly siceled thie other mhos, sod 1 6 3 moldered la • daagerons mate. 12. Bowes bed bOOO the emplay el the Money Deis sod Harbour ltd 1846 ; be was se serried masowitbest family. Is Is • airmailing@ is sonsmios with MU fatal espieshe Mr. who lectured ea efeessisery. foL. bb ihd esuninge, hid armaged to deliver • Iseeme at eel* tl>rtlmYnsmiselmesta, Illtlamhsed. Led tbst Lirrill& is bear his dm* sairomia a Lid INmpoo, os of poololoodoot of the tomb akin as 6 bo veal give gal Is the woo d w dv respestlee isetsre. He was ID or 30 mod tM owl omit emposoo the ll his fit. Tan Oosnimnans laoiscirD aninwAss..-111 viral (lonorlylbp 01144 whisk ronsdg is r e l y Fri has pas fats Clanass isaky. SW is bowies four gem. woo of which aro h v es ig imlafb illi e Her iris plates are four lathes is thiolcoss. AVM •••• on, oro a amber of the Alabama's on.