The Express. — London, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

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TOIll WHOM THE II WIRY WIVES OF WINCNOIL Mom Phelps, 0. lietrilk. Meadow% !bona r.llaMWira t Widdlcaamb C sad L laden% lira Wotan, Kra Wiastaaley.—Aad THAWS ELUL/MD. Kr. Maadowa—Ooauatace at 7. ,11TkNWLA Tins EMMA TUB cu AND 171 YUIION or, leheclffles the Peat sad I. W. MAMMY'S lINITEATAINNUNT Dlunnia UM AND 11110THIE ANLAK —Aiel LA MADION DU SANT/ IION WAT AT LONDON BROOK TIM DAT —MOM*" 61. 7r.. ... Aftirssos, 4k Ala Taideacni—Nania& Y. 11a.... Afternoon. att. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 7. It is a serious thought that a Minister who per 'macs the political indifferentism of the times so felicitously u our present PRIME MINISTER is, in years at least, one of the most venerable of our public men. Everyone asks who among the many disciples and converts of his debonnair philosophy is to succeed in the course of nature to the supre macy of this ancient political EPICURUS. There is no lack of lassitude and love of ease among the younger men ; but it is rather the affectation of premature exhaustion, the trick of a young man who, at the mature age of four-and-twenty, has lost all his illusions, than that profound philosophy of life applied to the science of politics which be comes a second nature to a highbred gentleman who for half-a-century has sported vigorously and successfully with public affairs. The insouciance of a man like Lord P&L/Ertl-411)N, whom we all like for his failings rather than for his virtues as a Minister, is not futility ; it is a curious and carefully composed quintessence of and a kindly contempt for his fellow creatures, a manly fondness for all forms of activity, a judicious horror of strong convictions, and a smiling impatience of first principles. AU these delightful qualifica tions, tempered with the caution and confidence of long familiarity with the stage and the side-scenes of the world's theatre, make Lord PaImERSTON the idol of a generation of early Sybarites, who for get that the surprising gaietyof threescore and ten is a sickly mannerism at thirty. The number of mistaken imitators of the PIIEMIRE'S pleasant playfulness not of his indefatigable capa city for work—among the sprouting statesmen whose hereditary aptitude for office is to shine upon England a few years hence, seems to defy all the efforts of the "earnest " school. In this difficulty, for instance, between the Lords and the Commons, Lord PALMERSTON is only anxious for peace and quiet. " For goodness' sake," he would say, " let us have no sounding the gong or beating the big drum. Your first impulse may be to sound an alarum in the name of the Commons of England ; but beware of first impulses; they are generally good. The public outside don't care a jot about your rights or your privileges ; they will only laugh at you if you make a fuss; and if you quote history or talk of patriotism in connexion with Tax-Bills you may be con doned as bores in the House, but you will go down as humbugs to that contemporary posterity which consists of the readers of to morrow morning's paper." This is the sense and spirit of Lord PA immtroN's "satisfaction," when be announces that he shall be perfectly content if his Resolutions are carried, and that he has no idea of taking any steps beyond. When some zealous Radical, who has freshness enough of feeling to take the matter to heart, shows, text in hand, that our ancestors in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries—not to speak of the crucial epoch of the livcsarii—held to the inalienable and indivisible taxing powers of the Commons with a religious and unsleeping jealousy ; or when some conscientious Liberal sifts and sorts a bundle of so-called pre cedents in favour of the Lords, and finds them to he, almost without exception, as rotten and treacherous as a pack of Admiralty gunboats— trivial, irrelevant, imperfect, or contradictory; or when some Parliamentary enthusiast lifts up his voice, and appeals to the memory of great men of old—the House sits languidly gaping like • congregation of schoolboys at a sermon. At the sound of such a word as "patriot," perhaps, the young gentlemen opposite feebly laugh and faintly sneer, as they might at any other innocent vulgarity. And yet the patience of the House is proverbial ; it will leiten for a couple of hours to the grievance of a poor old Irishwoman deported from Maryle bone to her own country in the last stage of destitution and disease, by the reck less order of a couple of unpaid magistrates; its romantic sympathy, too, with Savoyard, and Kwiss 14 most interesting. But it cannot be per suaded to le in earnest about • trumpery Tax-Rill, or to be angry with the other House for relieving it of a troublesome though immemorial responsi bility. The present House of Commons, it is true, is the rare product of a crisis of reaction. It has bit upon a " mission "—the last resource of cynics and charlatans. Its mission is to in crease the power of two estates of the realm, an d to arrest the dangerous predominance of th e third. It has already put down Refonn ; it has handed over to the Lords the tales and supplies, and the privilege of cbaattelo g its Chancellor of the Exchequer ; it has tossed a• Empire to the Horse Guards, and in • seeniorable instance it has eagerly applauded a flagrant abu se of patronage. _ By sa•e;ting to Lord P*Lmansrrom's Resolutions THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY with an air of doing something very dignified and imposing, the present Houle at Commons deserves to be remembered as one of the most revolutionary Parliaments in the aanalsol leg Land. Lord Rue - - _ lIIIIIRTON is perfectly satisfied ; so is Mr. Disasimi, and his great Conservative party. A few years since there was also • great " satisfied " party in the French Chamber of Deputies —so entirely satisfied, indeed, that one fine morning it was swept away. Nothing analogous exists, we are aware, on this side of the water ; but when an English Parliament deserts old Keglish principles for expediency's sake, it is well to be reminded that " gigantic innovation " is a game that two can play at. Bu•r for the debates of the last two nights we might not have learned before it was too late how urgently it was necessary that the unconsti tutional action of the Lords should be noted and repelled by the Commons. The right of the nation to be taxed only by its repre sentatives, that precious and unchangeable prin ciple which has been the vital air of our political life, is denied and denounced as a vain and foolish dream. The Commons settle the supplies re quired for the service of the Crown, and the Lords add to it more than • million of their own authority. This, rejecting narrow technicalities, is the literal history of recent events. The Lords have undertaken to aasess the obligations of the nation, to declare the supplies granted by its representatives too small, and to increase them without reference to the Com mons. It makes not the slightest difference that to perpetrate this huge aggression they made use of a legal right. The uncon stitutionality of their act consists in this, that of their own authority they have fixed a burden on the nation which the representatives of the nation have not voted. Again, we say, the fact that they did so by refusing their assent to the repeal of a tax, makes not the slightest difference to the real character of their act. Nor can it be main tained, as Lord PALXIMITON attempted to show that the Paper Duty Repeal Bill was complicated , as other money bills rejected by the Lords have been, with questions of policy, which gave scope for that ordinary legislative partnership which they exercise unquestioned. That ground was definitively rejected in the discussion on Lord Hotrrasout's motion, and it was expressly affirmed that the Bill was thrown out because their lordships thought the Commons had not ade quately provided for the wants of the public service. There is thus no escape from the naked, staring fact that the Lords have imposed on the people the obligation of paying taxes which should never be anything but the free gift and grant of their representatives. Lord Psurzaarott hied his best on Thursday to reconcile this act with the right he claimed for the House of Com mons, "the exclusive right to determine matters " in connexion with taxation '." but he was com pelled to give up the task. Why, if the Lords had amended the pettiest turnpike bill sent up to them this session, the modifications they introduced would have come back to the Commons for consideration. But they have changed the main features of the Budget, and the Commons, reputed to have exclusive power in matters of taxation, have not even the remodelled financial scheme officially brought to their know ledg- The manner in which this aggression has been brought about should be a warning. 'Phis is no accidental collision. The right of the House of Lords to control the House of Commons and to revise and amend its decisions in mitten; of taxa tion is now exultingly proclaimed as a doctrine. We are solemnly told by the prophete of reaction that the Lords have taught a wholesome and necessary lesion to the House of Commons " and the constituencies." Pens which lauded the " coronation of democratic " liberty," when Louie NAPOLZON set up his throne on the ruins of freedom in France, are at work to justify and extol the Lords for " defending " the country against itself." The public, which . , 'watches over the conduct of its representatives, and has means so ready to rectify their errors, is insulted with the assumption that it will purchase a financial rectification with a piece of the consti tution ; that it will consent to see an essential privilege of the essential authority in the State made dependent on the approval of s privileged and artificial assembly. This debate will show that those dreams will not be euily realised. If it is true, as Mr. GrAnsroirs demonstrated, that the Lords, during the last two hundred years, have not once abandoned their pretensions, but have kept their claims ready for assertion at a favourable moment, it is equally true that the House of Commons is as able as ever to assert its rights against all who may presume to invade them. And should this House prove less publ'o-spirited than its predecessors, should its will to uphold the rights of its constituents be less than its ability, the nation would still find a way to secure the continued enjoyment of representative and respon sible government. DIVISION LAST NIGHT. Tax Bills.—Order read, for resuming adjourned debate on question frith July), "That the right of granting aids and supplies to the crown is in the Commons alone, as an es sential part of their constitution ; and the limitation of all such grants as to the matter, manner, measure, and time, is only in them." (Viscount Palmerston). Ques tion arain proposed—debate resumed. Question put, and 2. ar to. e j l on made, and question proposed, "That, although the Lords have exercised the power of rejecting bills of several descriptions relating to taxation by new tiring the whole, yet the exercise of that power by them his sot been frequent, and is 'justly regsirded by this house with peculiar jealousy, as affectieg tbe right of the Commons to grant the supplies and to provide the ways and meson fur the service of the year." (Viscount Palmerston.) Amendment proporied, after the word " relating," to insert the words "amongst other matte's." (Yr. Mellor.) Question fireweed, " That those wo r d s b e there inserted . " Debate arising ; motion made, and question put:—" That the debate be n ow adjourned." Mr. Whalley.) The house divided :-- Aram SS ; DOSS, M. Question put, " That those words be there lastrted." The house divided : Ares, 5 2; wws, 369 - A Yrs. Akvck. T. Tenney, Lord Pease, H. A W. L Forster. C. !VW 1 ,, Goldustlit tar F. H. sed.Er g ib i stw Darter, W. L Greene, J. Wt. Titus ilAshry, T. Hammer, PIT J. Really, V. Beale, S. Kershaw. J. Seymour, W. D. Ileuverie. P.P. Lesion, W. !Shelley. ADJ. V. O h m I. Lratham, R. A, Rasitts, J. B. Collier, I. P. IltkeEvey, E. IbmeryttleJlirW. M. Crater& IL H. hiltalion, P. Tomer, J. A. =.. F. Herlihy, J. P. , Vivian. H. H. IL Mellor, JP. Weethead, J. P. Hannan, O. Menem, W. J. Whalley, O.K. Desk J. D. Noble, J W. Wyk, J. = L L Mr C. ritionorrhue, The Heelner, 0. TiLLISS. limrods_, J. nehrerne. B. B. James, & Swart. w• Part C. Locke, J. Swing, IL 1 Parton, RD J. Yr. Gieniskee, Mr. IL Gibson, sod Lord J, Rumen voted wad the voi emeadeetat ; Mr. Bright, Yr. Wardell, he., abelebei tram la& Wurramam., JoLt 4. —The Queen has been =to appoint James Vaughan, Esq., Thome Irwin , Esq., and Franklin Luehington. Esq., to be Com enheirsen for the purpose of making inquiry into the ex istence of bribery at the Iset election for the town of Ber eriek-upen—ae:ette. Lesson •or Hottom—Memorandum.—Lieut.- Caked Cliarles Renry Muria, CB., hes received her N. re. !loyal benne and permeate* to accept and weer the snub Clue of the Order of the Legion of Homer, and lest the Ftfth Class as dated in the Loudon o•,7ette of Toe•day. the sth alt:—Glazette. Ebt Court. OfIBORNI, JULY 6. Prince and Princess Leiningen and Prince Wil liam of Baden visited her Majesty yerterday, and remained to luncheon. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince Consort drove to Hyde in an open carriage and four, accom panied by the Duke of Saxe Cobourg and Princess Alice. The Countess of Caledon, the Hon. Os:aline Cavendish, and Major-General Grey were in attendance. The Queen's dinner party included the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, Prince sad Princess Leiningen, Prince William of Baden, Baron Hoch weeehter, and the Indies and gentlemen In waiting. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of Canada and the Bahamas. Lady Aveland gave a grand ball last evening at the family mansion in Belgrave-equare. His Serene High - nese the Sovereign Prince of Lichtenstein honoured the rfersion with his presents. The Baroness Brunnow has issued cards for a grand ball at Chesham House on Wedneeday, the 18th instant. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Marquis of Bowmont, and Lady Charlotte Inner Ker hare loft the Clarendon Hotel for Paris. The Duke and Docheea of Atholl have left the Bt. George's Hotel for Dunkeld House, Blair Atholl, N.B. The Viscountess Strangford is suffering from a severe attack of raasalea. The second subscription night of Alma's, on Thursday, witnessed one of the fullest and most aristocratic balls which has taken place fora long period. Nearly 600 were present, and the Countess of Hinnoul and the Countess of !glint= having obligingly reassembled the ladies and gentlemen who bad sustained their fancy quadrilles at the recent Caledonian ball, the brilliancy of the meeting was much enhanced. The nest and final subscription night is fixed for Thursday, the 12th inst. Miss Coate gave a grand entertainment last even ing to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Missy. The following were invited to meet their royal highnesses :—The Duke of Newcastle, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Normanby, the Earl and Countess of Hopetoun, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Red alit% and the Hon, Miss Canning, Viscount and Viscountess Falmouth, Viscount and Viscountess Lsgestre, Lced Ole wag, Lord Dufferin, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, 11. P., sad lady Paldngtoa, Lady Fitzwygram and Miss Fitswygrans, air Harry and Lady Smith, Sir J.Ray Sind- Haworth, air Coatis Lindsay, General and Ira. Malcolm, Dr. and His. Holley, Mr. and His. Floyer, Mrs. Browne, Mae Glegg, and Mr. °report, M.P. Colonel Home Purves and Lady Geraldine Somerset were in waiting on their royal highnesses. Mr. Jones (of Pant);Us), M.P., and Mn. Jones entertained at dinner yesterday evening the Earl of Shrews bury and Talbot and lady Gertrude Talbot, Earl of Leven and Melville and lady Emily Leslie. Earl of Canarvon, Lord and lady Proby, Lady Rolle, Sir James and lady Edith Ferguswon, Lady Abinger, Sir Laurence Palk, M.P., and lady Palk, Sir Richard Laving., ILP., Mr. Du Cane, LP., and Mr. Vivian. The President of the College of Physicians has issued cards for so evening reception on Wednesday next. The great toxophilite gathering, which has been held at Bath during the present week, and was brought to • close yesterday (Friday) evening, has been, taken alto gether, one of the most successful and satisfactory yet held by the National Society. The weather has been splendid ; the assemblage of ambers, both ladies and gentlemen, the largest yet known ; and though the shooting has not, especially with the "celebrities," bees up to the average, it has exhibited on the part of the " middle people" an amount of precision which will make the " dons" look anxiously to their laurels. Nearly every leading archery club the kiagdom has been well represented at this mooting. Captain Lynch, of the Indian navy, and Mr. J. Drummond Hay, brother of the British consul at Tangier, both of whom are perfectly oonvenant with Arabic, accom panied the Moorish Embassy to Woolwich yesterday, and acted as the medium of conversation between the authorities and the Moorish visitors, the whole of whom, with one ex ception, are totally unacquainted with a syllable of our language. While examining the Armstrong gun factory, in consequence of his Excellency's too near approach to the dripping metal, a portion of his rich garment, evidently of • moot inflammable nature, suddenly took fire, and was seriously damaged. The late Mr. Joseph Mayer, of Hanley, Stafford shire, whose death took place last week, has left upwards of 200,000/. His nearest relatives are cousins. Mr. Mayer has lett handsome legacies to several public institutions, namely. to the British and Foreign Bible Society, 5,000/. ; to the London Missionary and Church Missionary Societies, 2,5001. each ;to Gray's Inn-lane Free Hospital, 1,0001. ;to the Brampton Hospital for the Cure of Consumption, 500/.; and to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, LOCO/. The Military Organisation Committee met again yesterday for the further consideration of their report. "From all we hear," says the Army and Nary aerate, " there is not likely to be a unanimous decision respecting the larger questions upon which the recommendations of the committee are naught ; but we believe that a clear defi nition will be given of what ought to be the respective duties of the Secretary of State for War and the Com mauder-in-Chief, as well es their relative position towards each other. At present the commission of the Secretary of State excepts from his jurisdiction the discipline and patron age of the army, and we are inclined to anticipate that this exception will not be permitted to continue. The effect of this will be to make the Commander-in-Chief formally and virtually the subordinate of the Minister responsible for the conduct of the department." The Cork Herald announces that a case calculated to create a good deal of general and local interest is set down for trial in the present after sittings of the court at Westminster. It is an action at the suit of Mr. John George MacCarthy against Mr. John Pope Hennessy, M.P. It will be recollected that Mr. MacCarthy acted as conduct ing agent for Lord Campden at the recent contest for the county, on the retainer of Mr. Hennessy. His lordship has, it appears, repudiated the agency of the hon. member, and Mr. MacCarthy is now compelled to proceed against Mr. Hennessy for the recovery of the large sums he most nears. eerily have spent in his onerous capacity as conducting agent. _ _ _ A letter from Haden-Baden states that that place still remains the residence ot a great number of Ger man sovereigns and princes. The Grand Duke and Otand Duchess of Baden gave a tea party a few evenings sines at which the King of Bavaria, the Crown Prince et Barony, the Prince of Hohenzollern, the Princess Mary of Baden (the Duchess of Hamilton), and the Princess of Furstenburg were present. The Prince Regent of Prussia arrived in the evening. Mulame i ßietori will epend the winter in Rum* and on her returning to Paris next spring, it is said she will adventure a part in French, in • tragedy, by IL Legouve, which is about to be produced at the Odeon theatre. The American clipper and the Utile steamer, just released by the Neapolitan government, arrived at Porto- Fermin on the 3rd, with all their passengers on board. Thb following "communicated note" is pub lished in the Moititeete de rArnie :—" After the cempaign of Italy an anonymous letter was received by the Minister of War against an officer who was accused of not having done his duty during the battle of Solferino, where he fell into the power of the enemy. An inquiry took place, and another officer was proved to have written this cow ardly denunciation, for the purpose of securing to himself a favour which he feared might be disputed by his com rade. He has been defuiitively exeloded from the ranks of the army for this diahmonrable ecedoct." Downso-essoatr Jrol.—The Queen hoe been plowed to appoint Wlllia' Heavy Adams, Foil., to be Chief Justice for the colony of Ho%Monj.—Gentee. FOREIGN-Orrice, JULY 1. —TIER Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Joseph Archer Crowe, Esq., to be her Majesty's consulleseral in the kingdom of Sexoey.—Garette. Tue Tows--Lord de Be., the High Constable of the Tower of London, has been making greet improve ments there by cultivating the ditch mid other available =Colonel Palmer, of Naaing-park, has seat his lout cutting from the vine planted by the great Napoleon, at St. Helena, shortly before his death. and brought to Eng lend soon after. The original vine Colonel Palmer. a few months Inc., gave to the Governor of the Hotel Imperial des issididee, at Paris, having previously had some oat ' tings struck from it. EVENING, JULY 7, 1860. and that in the ease of such persons, simple im - prisonmant shah be substituted. The supreme court held that the fact of the prisoner having re fused to stela his age when interrogated, made no difference, and that evidence was admissible after judgment to show what his age really was. The man will now be tried again by another court, and will, of course, run the risk of capital punishment. THE CENSOR AMONG THE FEUILLETONS. The French Minister of the Interior has ad dressed the following circular to the prefers: " Monsieur le Prtfet,—lt is not only for the maintenance of order that the administration has received 'peewit powers the from the law respecting the press ; it is for t. , defence of public morality as - well. The feuilleton romance which in the lower columns of • journal offends against respectable sentiments, does as much and possibly more harm than the political exhortations which in the upper columns may tend to agitate men's minds. This facile literature looking for its rooms, only to the imprudence of its pictures, the immo rality of its intrigues, the strange perversity of its heroes, has in our day reached a deplorable and dangerous stage of development. Invading nearly all periodical publications, taking advantage of their periodicity to keep the public curiosity in suspense from day to day and incessantly eager, it spreads forth in profusion the inexhaustible fancies of the moat ill-regulated imagination. The serious journals have ' permitted themselves to give it an asylum ; it penetrates with them the privacy of the domestic hearths, and once thus admitted into the family neither youth nor innocence are secure from its contagion. "But this is not all. By the side of the political sheets, lending it their publicity in exchange for the subscriptions which they fancy they shall get or keep by it, we have seen ' rise up • crowd of small publications entirely devoted to the diffusion of this unwholesome literature, and sold every week at a low price, and by the hundred thousand copies, to greedy readers. To any one who still retains any respect for decency and good taste such an inundation is de plorable ; it is more than time to put • stop to it. The in. Went of the people has • ri gh t to better nourishment, and we ought no more to allow hearts to be corrupted than we allow minds to be perverted. " I beg, then, to call your most vigilant attention to this point. Against the political sheets the decree of 1852, against the others the law respecting the distribution and colportage of printed matter, furnish every means of effectual repression. Besides, for journals which have any sense of self-respect and of their obligations towards public morality, the advice you will give them will be sufficient, I am sure. As to those—if there are any—who, through love of an easy source of profit, or inability to raise their tone, shall persist in such publications, use towards them the utmost rigour of the law ; and bearing in mind that, if necessary, there are penal laws for the protection of public morality, hand them, by means of these, to the justice of the tribunals. `The Minister of the Interior, 131maour." LATEST INTELLIGENCE. CHINA AND AUSTRALIA. OALLE, Jam 10. Lord Elgin and Baron Gros have proceeded on to China. Only 92 boxes of specie have been recovered from the wreck of the Malabar. ttnry Ward hoe been appointed Governor of . SYDNEY, Mar 18. The commercial crisis is over. Disastrous floods have taken place. MELBOURNE, MAT 19. The rebellion in New Zealand is extending. The departure of gold ships since the last mail are the Agincourt, with 43,608 oz. ; and the British Trident, with 27,000 ox. Business at Adelaide is flat. Rain plentiful. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Jur.: 4. The Bishop of Faenza was yesterday condemned to three years' imprisonment, and a fine of 4,000 fr., for contempt of the royal authority. The Bishop of Piacenza was to be tried on the 6th. It was positively stated that representations had been made from Paris to Turin, urging moderation in regard to the clergy. SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 6. A royal decree prorogues the session of the Cortex. The Official Galette announces that au exhibition of the fine arts will be held at Madrid at the end of October. NAPLES. BADEN. Jou 6. Notwithstanding the denials given by some newspapers, it is certain that the Prince Regent during the late conference here drew the attention of the other sovereigns to the state of things in Italy. The King of Naples bad directed the Marquis d'Antonini, the Neapolitan ambassador at Paris, who is well known to the Prince, to request his royal highness to defend in the conference the monarchical interests threatened in Sicily. The Prince Regent, in reply, gave the marquis to understand that he acceded to his request, and his royal highness not only remarked during the conference upon the state of affairs in Italy, but also caused an exchange of views on that question to take place between the powers in the ordinary diplomatic course. BOMBAY AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. The Delta, with the heavy portion of the above mail, left Malta at midnight on the 2nd init., and may accordingly be expected at Southampton about the 11th bet. The Nepaul, from Mauritius, and Bemires, from Aut. tag* reached Sues on the 27th and 28th of June respec tively. . . . _ . The Nepsul brought the Bombay mails and passengers from Aden, the Northern remaining there for a new shaft. JULY 6. The Bombay and Australian mails have arrived here. The dates are Sydney, May 14 ; Melbourne, MaylB ; Mauritius, June 7 ; and Bombay, June 7. BOMBAY, Jun 7. General Outeam's protest against amalgamation of the two amnias has been anonymously published. Disturbance; have taken plate at Bauman". OUTWARD MAILS. The Malta, with the London mail of the 12th to the 19th March, arrived at Melbourne on the 6th May. The Ripon, from Southampton on the 20th June, arrived at Malta on the 30th June, and sailed for Alexandria at midnight. The Vectia, from Nosedive on the 29th June, reached Malta at 10 p.m. on the lit July, and left for Alexandria at midnight. THE UNITED STATES. QUEENSTOWN, JULY 6. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Vigo, Captain Jellard, with dates from New York to the 23rd at., has arrived. She states that the surveying steamer Walker had sunk from a collision off Aberoorn Light. Twenty persons were drowned. - - NEW YORK, JUNE 23. Exchange, 1091 to 109 j. The epode engagements per Vigo and Arago amount to 1,500,000 dole. NEW ORLEANS, Jcifx 22. Cotton - dull ; middling, 101 c. to 111 c. Sales of the week, 11,000 bales. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom OUR owat PARIS, FIIDAT EVENINa. There is no reliable news this evenings either from Naples or Sicily. There is a sinister paragraph in this evening's Pattie suggesting that, although Francis 11. has promised the constitution of 1848, it must be re collected that the French charter of 1830 was the model of that constitution when it was granted, and that it was quite natural that the King, acting under M. Brenier's advice, should now remodel that constitution so as to bring it into harmony with the existing regime of France. So you see that all modern improvements in the art of democratic go vernment are likely to be engrafted upon the new-born liberalism of the Neapolitan Bourbons. I am told that the Emperor and Empress will set out on July 16 for Nioe, Savoy, Corsica, and Algiers ; that the tour will not occupy more than twenty or twenty-five days, and that immediately on their return they will take up their residence at Biarritz for the autumn. The sci-diaaat religious journals avail themselves largely of the newly-accorded permission to publish the bishops' pastoral letters. The Bishop of Nimes, in a long address, the first part of which only is as yet published, complains of " publicists invested with a certain authority [meaning the Emperor's own pamphlet], eminent functionaries, sad renowned orators [meaning MM. Baroche and Dupin], who, by their writings and speeches, evi dently attempt to brand the foreheads of the episcopacy." The Bourse opened with much animation, and the Rente advanced 20c. upon the rise of yes terday, but it ultimately closed without change at 68fr. 96c. Mobilier fell 6fr. Vic. The Orleans Railway rose 131 r. 75a, Eastern, 6fr., and the other lines left off with little alteration. The weekly receipts have improved. It will be remembered that the President of the Imperial Court of Toulouse was shot at last month while leaving the bench, and that the assassin, a disappointed suitor named Ouilhem, was then and there tried by the Wit under a special article of the code, and sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for life. The judges admitted in his favour " attenuating circumstances," in order to relieve themselves from the necessity of pronouncing a sentence of death. The Court of Caseation yester day quashed this conviction on the ground that the prisoner being 60 years old, was entitled to the benefit of the law of May, 1864, which prescribes that " hard labour" shall in no case whatever be inflicted upon persons of that age and upwards, THE UNITED STATES. The United States mail steam packet Arago arrived at Southampton yesterday, with dates fmm New York to the 23rd ult. The freight on board comprised specie for England, value 150,000 dole. The leading fea tures of the intelligence have been anticipated. Congress was sected to adjourn in a day or two. A Washington despatch of June 22 to the New York Tines say. The Post-office Deficiency and Poet Route Bills are the only ones of a general public character now pending between the two houses, with the exception of the tariff. All the Pennsylvania representatives present, ex cept Mr. Dimmick, voted against the Loan Bill, and three democrats only recorded their names in the negative, namely. Messrs. Cobb, Florence, and Morris, of Illinois. The affirmative was • mixed vote of all parties. The Senate weed the bill within ten minutes after it left the house. Congress has changed the title of Purser to that of Paymaster in the Navy. The British navy adopted the title some years ego." The New York Herald says :—" There is no doubt from rmimt appearances but that there will be six candidates for the Presidency in the coming contest—more by one, we believe, than ever before publicly aspired to that dis tinguished station in the same campaign. Before the middle of next week we shall have :—Black republican, Abraham Lincoln, of 111. ; northern democracy, Stephen A. Douglas, of Ill.; southern secession democracy, • independent democracy, Sam. Houston, of Texas ; national union, John Bell, of Tenn. ; John Brown abolition, Gerrit Smith, of New York." . . . . . The following is a brief statement from the Nero York riNes of the monetary and commercial affairs on June 22. : —" There was again • strong and advancing market for stocks yesterday, and speculation evinced as much spirit for tho rise as it did last week for the fall. No change in money or foreign bills. An active business was reported in flour, wheat, and corn, at firmer prices. Provisions, sugars, coffee, naval stores and whisky, attracted more attention. Candles, metals, fish, fruit, hops, oils, rice, laths, salt and tobacco were moderately inquired for. Cotton, hemp, seeds and molasses were quiet. The movements in other branches of trade were productive of no important changes." NAVAL AND MILITARY. (nom Len Ntairr's (men's.) WAR-OFFICE, JULY 6. Honourable Artillery Company of London—Sergeant Henry Davislo be lieutenant; S erg eant Fletcher Carioca Norton to be ensign. ADMIRALTY, JUNE 26. Corps of Rovsl Marines.—Gentlemen Cadets Charles Cooper King, Walter Miller Lambert, Charles Henry Hullett, Henry Dixon, William Albert Rutherford, Thomas Everard Hungerford, Orlando Robert William Wood, Edward William Sampson, and Henry Commins, to be second lieutenants. ADDISZALTY, JULY 6.—PROMOTIONS AND AP POINTNiNTS.—Second Masten G. J. Tomlin, to the St. Jean &Acre ; W. J. Atkinson, to the Nile ; and B. J. Bar rett, to the Victory. Paymasters J. PEON to be additional to the Victory and G. Grandidier, to be secretary to Reer-Admind Stopford. Assistant-Paymaster F. H. Chown, to be secretary's clerk to Rear-Admiral Stopford. Acting Assistant-Surgeons T. Cann, to the Geyser; C. E. Farr to the Nagicienne ; J. B. MUM, to the Centurion ; G. IL B lee, to the Agamemnon ; H. Rickard, to the ha- Pros ;and J. Mockridge, additional to the Chesapeake. e u:-class Amistant-Engineer H. C. Jones, to the St. George. WOOLWICH, Jun' 6. The whole of the available troops at this garrison, consisting of the Royal Horse Artillery, fi eld batteries, and fort artillery, Royal Marine Light Infantry, Hussars, and Norfolk Artillery Militia, assembled on the common at 11 o'clock this morning, by order of the commandant, to carry out the evolutions of a field day and sham fight. The whole of the troops were under the command of Major- Oeneral Sir R. Daeres, commandant of the garrison, and the proceedings occupied about three hours. CHATHAM, Jutir 6. The reinforcements for Ma(lran left this garrison this morning, and embarked at Gravesend on board the Marlborough, Captain Toynbee. ROYAL NAVAL UNIFORM. In pursuance of her Majesty's commands some changes have taken place in the uniform of officers of the Royal Navy. This her been rendered necessary by the in creased rank assigned to the medical branch of the service. The matter now decided has led to many questions being asked in the House of Commons on the sub ject ‘luring the past twelve menthe The Right Honour able the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have done wisely in adhering to the old uniform, for its quiet beauty has elicited much commendation. We find that in our impression of 20th September, 1856, our cor respondent, in writing from Moscow on the occasion of the coronation of the present Emperor of Russia, said, " The British naval uniform in particular elicited admiration—it is hardly to be surpassed in its quiet richness, and that I am nut einguLir in that opinion may be inferred from the fact of its having been taken asu model by rill naval nations." The new instructions are too don ' for us to print, but the courtesy of Messrs. Gillett, of the Strand, who have for years been their lordships advisers on the question of uni form, enables us to give the following condensed informa tion. It is the medical officers who are chiefly affected by the change. The single-breasted coat and arrangement of buttons thereon by threes is retained ; subject to this, the Director General of the Medical Department will wear the uniform of rear-admirals ; Inspectors-General —Thatof commodores of the first clam ; Deputy Inspectors-General—The uniform of captains of three year s standing ; Staff Surgeons—The uniform of captains ; Surgeons—The uniform of commanders; Assistant-Surgeons of six years' standing—The uniform of lieutenants; and Junior Assistant-Surgeons—The uniform of mates. Full dress is only to be worn on state occasions. The un dress coat, with epaulettes, cocked bat, and sword, are to be worn at courts-martial. On all other occasions, such as medical surveys, &c., the frock-coat, with cap and sword, is to be considered sufficient dress. With a view to distinguish the executive from the civil branches, when wearing the frock or great coat the em broidery on the peaks of the cape of the fanner will consist of a wreath of oak-leaves, the civil branches retaining the present style of embroidery. [A faU description of the new uniforms appears in yesterday's London Goulte.] RiraroßAnox ro THZ Saavica —A lieutenant colonel, who has lately appeared before the public in a case of considerable importance, and who has subsequently quitted the service, is about (it is said) to be rest to his rank, and again to appear in our army list as a lieutenant colonel of militia.—(T aited Serrirt Gazette. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAT.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Mingo at Nisi Prius—(Before Mr. Justice Hill and Common Juries) _ . ZDWAEDIS r. mivT—NEWSPAPER ENGAGEMENT& This was an action for the wrongful dismissal of tho plaintiff as musical critic of the Daily Telegraph, of which the defindaut is the proprietor. The defendant pleaded not guilty and a justification. Mr. Hawkins and Mr. Matthews were counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Edwin Jamisi and Mr. Mundell represented the defendant. The plaintiff had been engaged under a written contract on the 17th March last for a year as the musical critic of the Daily Telegraph at a salary of 31. Is. per week. The de fendant wished him to call at the office daily for instructions but it was arranged that the plaintiff should not do so be cause it would have interfered with his other duties, and also because such • course was unusual in his profession. It was arranged that on Easter Monday last the plaintiff should attend Drury-lane Opera. He had been in the country and arrived at the office of the paper about a quarter to eight o'clock. He saw the defendant in his room in the presence of three of the editorial staff, and apologised for being late in consequence of having misses" the train. The defendant said, " You will not be in time to abuse the performances," and witness asked for an ex. planation, and added that he was in the habit of writing the truth about performances, whereas the defendant was only influenced by advertisements. ' The defendant ordered him to leave the room, when plaintiff said he would do so when he had said all he had to say, and that he was ready to notice the perfotmance. The defendant again desired him to leave the room, which he did. He had afterwards written to the defendant that he was prepared to perform his contract, but be refused to make any sinology as asked, because he did not think he had done anything to demand it. In his cross-examination the plaintiff said that almost every time he saw Mr. Levy, the latter used to say that he wished he could call oftener at the office„ for although the Telegraph was very little to witness, it was everything to him. On the occas i on to which he referred, the opera was announced (or half-past 7, but did not in reality commence until 8. Mr. Levy said to him—" You wont ' have time to abase the opera," speaking ironically, as witness under. stood, in reference to a critique which he had written, abusing • concert, and which bad been suppressed. Witness asked the defendant to explain what he meant. when he replied " You know as well as I do." Witness afterwards said to the defendant that he abused the theatre in a shameful manner because they would not advertise, and immediately he got the advertisements he praised. Covent. garden did not advertise now, but the prospectua under Dr. Pech's management was advertised. Mr. Levy did not say to him in a very polite manner that he had better leave the room and call again to-morrow. He was most offensive in his manner. He said " 1 wish to have nothing more to say to you," and witness replied it would be no great loss. He-examined—Witness had Dever received a hint from any other newspaper for which he wrote, nor had any din agreement with the management. Witness told Mr. Levy that he (witness) based his obseratioas on the merits of the opera, but that Mr. Levy's opinions were guided by adver. tisementa. The concert which witness hadabused had been largely advertised in the Telegraph. It was a very lad concert. Two letters from the plaintiff to the defendant were them put in ; they were to the effect that the plaintiff was pre pared to fulfil his part of the engagement, The defendant 111 his reply stated that his deciaiou dismissing the plaintiff was final and referring him for any further communicatioes to his solicitors. . . . . The defence was, that the defendant had put an end to the contract by neglect of his duties ; and secondly, by insolence and insubordination, which, if submitted to, would have prevented M r. Levy from maintaining his position as proprietor of the paper with any effect. The defendant deposed that on the evening in question the plaintiff mine to the office about o'clock, muffled up to the chin, with a cloak on and a carpet bag in his hand, which was an unusual style of costume foe the opera. He told the plaintiff that he did not think it would be of any use his going to the opera at that hour ' when the plaintiff replied he had many times heard the I opera, and could therefore write on it. Witness said it was the first night of anew orchestra, and that the plaintiff could not fairly criticise theperforinances without hearing theover. ture,howeverbadthe execution might be. The plaintiff then in an insolent tone said that he was not like the defendant in the habit of praising the performances because they gave him advertisements. The defendant asked the plaintiff how he dared to make such an assertion, as he was the last man against whom such an allegation could be made, when the plaintiff replied that the defendant knew he was in the habit of doing it with reference to Mr. Gye, on which he the requestedthe plaintiff to leave the room and to following day. The plaintiff then opened the door, and said that if the defendant wanted him to do anything he would know where to find him, and he muttered in an undertone " that it did not much matter and he did not care much about it." The plaintiff's manner was most offensive and insolent. In consequence of the plaintiff's absence them was no critique of the Drury-lane performances of that or tin subsequent night in the Dail TelegrtipA. On the following day, expecting to hear from the plaintiff, he remained at the office till 2 o'clock in the day, and returned at 7 in the evening, when he received a note from the plaintiff re questing to be informed by bearer what he was to do, but there was no one waiting to receive an answer. The defendant, in his cross-examination, denied positively that he was influenced in his critiques by advertisements. He was only antagonistic to Covent-garden on the question whether it was possible to have two good opera houses at the same time in London, and not to Mr. Gye personally. Further evidence having been adduced in support of the defendant's case, Mr. Justice Hill said that the plea of justification could not be wholly entertained. Occasional neglect would not justify a discharge without notice, although habitual neg lect would. There was no evidence of the latter. One act of insubordination, which would justify the dismissal of a person in the position of the plaintiff, must be incompatible with that position . He would, however, if the learned counsel wished, amend the _plea. The plea was then amended. The learned counsel on both sides having addressed the jul ais Lordship summed up, and The jury found, in answer to questions put to them by the learned judge, that the plaintiff was ready and willing to perform his contract, that he was not guilty of insolent or insubordinate conduct, and that his contract bad not been rescinded by mutual consent. They returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages 401. THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) MANSION.HOUSE. AN ISWUDILNT THIET. John Banks, a lacy-looking young fellow, was charged 1 with attempting to pick the p ocket of a gentleman, un known, in Uracechurch-street. Police-constable 57e, said he was in Gracechurch-street, yesterday afternoon, when he saw the prisoner and another young fellow lurking about the omnibus stand, and as he ew them both to be suspicious characters, he made towards them ; but the prisoner happening just then to turn round, saw witness, and with his companion directly walked away, and witness lost sight of them. Soon after, how. ever, he again saw them near the same spot, following an elderly lady and gentleman, the latter of whom appeared to be nearly blind, and a minute or two later the prisoner went dose to the gentleman, lifted his omit tail with one hand and felt his pocket with the other, but whether he got any thing out or not witness could not my, since the pi isoaer and his companion both caught sight of him at the same moment, and rap off as fast as they could. In following them he lost Night of the gentleman, and was some tune before he could secure the prisoner, when he overtook him, and in the end, owing to his violence, was compelled to get the assistance of a brother officer, to convey him to the station, his companion getting safely away. Mr. Alderman Hale—Will, prisoner, what have you to iI say to this ? Prisoner—Why, if you please, my lord, it's a big a lie u ever was told. (Laughter.) There ant a word of truth in what the fellow says. Mr. Alderman Hale—l'm afraid I must believe him in preference to you. Prisoner—Oh! of course you will; hut still it's all lies. I was not along with no other young feller ; and I wasn't near the gentleman at all. Mr. Alderman Hale—Then what made you run away? Prisoner--Why he did, fur as soon as I was a standing quietly doing of oothink, lie comes up behind, and gives me a kick that sent ine about three yards. So I looks round, and sees who it is, and off I goes for fear I should get ano- ther. (Roars of laughter.) Mr. !sideman Hale sent him to prison and bard labour for fourteen days. WORSHIP-STREET. WOMAN . I4 PORBRAKANCY- Robert Brown, a thick-set labouring MAU, was charged be. fore Mr. D'Eyncourt with assaulting Hannah, his wife. The complainant, a pretty-featured young woman, got into the witness-box with an infant in her arms, and j said,—l don't want to mend him to pri aan, but can't live upon the trine he sometimes gives me. Last night he came home, and when I told him that three shillings in a fortnight would nut support us, he struck me in the bosom, turned me out of doors with the baby, anal would not let me in, so I was compelled to give him into custody ; but now I don't want bins to gp to prison. Mr. D'Eyncourt —So you lava told me. Has he ill-used you before? Complainant—Oh, yes ; he has beaten me with a strap nail I have been scored like pork. Mr. D'Eyncourt—What was that for? Complainant—One night lie brought a strange drunken man home, who afterwards fell down and cut his face. MI husband wanted me to get up from my bed and wash the tipsy man's face, and when I refused he beat me as I have described. Mr. D'Eyncourt—Why did you not bring him here for that! J I