The Express. — London, England, 1867-04-20 00:00:00

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Booth, &c. --/:rand Concert, Mr. Green, Madame Pulley, Mr. Aden's. Little Lotto, Miss hemmed, the Ll'Haßlea: Your Mar►els of Mexico. HMO WATIg A T LONDON WOOL Tots DAT —Months& ft. 641 s Affernoos, To-MosioN-111ornIng. SL 2 Aftersoco, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 20. Ir should be the destiny of regenerated Italy to become a considerable maritime Power, and in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic Seas a maritime Power " second to none." Italy will confirm and consolidate her unity and independence by resolutely living her own life, pursuing her own course, consulting her own inte rests, and developing her own strength, according to the means and resources which she possesses in herself by the bounty of nature, by her geogra phical position and configuration, by the bent of her genius, and by the opportunities of fortune. A country which produces corn, wine and oil, and silk, in almost spontaneous abundance; where forests spring up like weeds ; whose soil, where it is rich and friable, is only half reclaimed by the plough, and where it is poor and thankless on the surface teems with unex plored mineral treasures ; whose mountains are of marble, and whose morasses are rice and may be cotton fields ; whose valleys and hill-sides are vast dairy farms ; whose plains are prairies for unnum bered cattle--such a countryas this is or might be, washed by two famous inland seas, and studded with harbours ample and secure ; inhabited by a people of rare intelligence and various aptitudes —a people who twice in the history of the past have been the traders, manufacturers, merchants, venturers, soldiers, sailors, and diplomatists of the world, has an indisputable right and a clear duty to become a commercial and maritime Power of the first order in an age of industry and peace. Will Italy fulfil the promise of her natural destinies ? That is the question which many of her sincerest friends are anxiously asking at this moment. Looking at the paralysis and confusion which prevail in her domestic policy, the want of firmness and self reliance in the conduct of her foreign relations, the laxity and inefficiency in all the departments of her administration, the factions self-seeking and place-hunting of her professional politicians, the indolent, impracticable temper of the Parlia ment, the want of energy and enterprise in the middle claases, the provincial jealousies, the dis position even of the few pure and unselfish patriots who might set an example of laborious devotion to the interests of the State, to shun the sober duties and the serious discipline of public life at home, and to rush into romantic crusading adven tures abroad, while Italy is perishing piecemeal like a pauper in the midst of plenty ; look ing, we say, at all this waste, all this sterility, all this rashness, all this irritable apathy and noiry negligence, where eco nomy, labour, quiet energy, prudence, united effort and enterprise are urgently demanded to restore the damaged credit of the kingdom by at once reducing the expenditure and increasing the revenues, to open new sources of produc tion, to relieve agriculture from absurd and intolerable disabilities, to create new markets, abolish brigandage in the mountains, and find new pursuits for the populations of the cities— looking at all that is and at all that ought to be, some of the heartiest friends of Italy are sadly asking themselves whether the suddenness of her recovery from the palsy of three centuries of ser vitude, and the means by which her liberation from that long decline was effected, have not ag gravated and prolonged the perils of her precarious convalescence. No Italian pretends to deny that the liberation of the Peninsula from foreign tyrannies, and the ultimate completion of her independent nationality, are due in a very great degree to the Emperor of the FRENCH rather than to France, which regards the unity and independence of any continental neighbour as an insult and injury, and considers itself equally duped by the results of the Italian war of '59, in J LT 16 2 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVANING, APRIL 20, which it took so magnanimous a part, and of the German war of '66, in which it magnanimotislytoqk nopart at all. Whateveriu.ay have been the impulse or the motive, the Emperor of the FRENCH by the valour of his troops liberated Italy at Solferino and Magenta; and if he drew back at Villafranca, and signed the peace of Zurich, he nevertheless let the work he had begun go on to its own completion throughout Central Italy. He may have desired and even attempted diplomatically to interrupt it, but he cannot but have known that the liberation of Lombardy was the beginning of the sure and inevitable end. The EMPEROR was perhaps on the point of arresting the liberation of the Neapolitan States; but he let the BOURBONS go, and suffered a divided Italy to be welded into a single kingdom. He might have prevented the alliance of Italy and Prussia for the emancipation of Venetia; but his only intervention, after the battle of Cue tetra, was to persuade Austria to give Venetia to Italy. There can be no disputing the obligations which Italy owes to NAPOLEON 111. CAVOUR (than whom no man ever understood better the science of opportunities) counted the material cost of the French alliance, and was prepared to 1 1 pay it. It may perhaps be doubted whether that great statesman had fully calculated the moral cost of that alliance ; not only in the in definite subjection of the policy of a constitu tional kingdom to the capricious exigencies of a personal government, but in the pressure and pre dominance of the spirit and system of French Im perialism, its overgrown military establishments, its swollen budgets, its absolute centralization, its legions of functionaries, its ooncentration and ab sorption of all public life, its propensity to seek diversion from domestic difficulties in foreign ex peditions and adventures. Italy has been treated by the Second Empire too much as we sometimes see selfish spendthrifts treat needy parasites ; she is already half ruined by the strain of aping her patron. And she has done this in defiance of all her own glorious traditions of self-government, in forgetfulness of her old republican municipalities. Like all attendants upon the great she has taken the bad rather than the good qualities of her patron for a modeL She has imitated the centrali zation, but not the administrative efficiency—the large military establishments, but not the econo mical military organizatioa—the swollen budgets, without the development of commerce and indus try, the expansion of credit, the successful and ornamental public works, the streets, the roads, the harbours, the docks, the rail ways, and the shipping companies. To copy the corruption without the wealth, and the extra vagance without any results to show for it except insolvency, is a deplorable infatuation ; and but for the single redeeming fact that Italy, thanks to CAVOUR and to RICASOLI, still maintains all her public liberties intact, without which no pros perity is secure or lasting, her present situation and prospects would be hopeless indeed. When all is lost but liberty, a nation need not despair ; but a nation that has everything but liberty is like the Imperial voluptuary of the East, who feasted and rioted with his courtiers and his concubines in the palace he had mined and fired for his funeral pile. our theltrfole, we hi r i , 4 i lt fortified London, anel essitly in Aarhus as we Portsmouth impressible will the effii;ts of an enemy be ooncentralled on the metropolis itself. An invader might take his choice between Leiden and Portsmouth ; if we put Portsmouth out of his reaeh, he must needs fall upon London. Does it follow, then, that after fortifying the dockyards, we should proceed to fortify London ? Hardly so. We shall have our castles of bones as well as our castles of stones, and we hope they may be at least as hard to break through. Above all, we have our line of defence in the Channel, and an enemy must consider how he will get to England as well as what he will do when he is there. rite Cart. P7II4 I DSOR CASTLE, Aran. 19. The Queen took a drive yesterday afternoon, attended by Lady Churchill. Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice walked in the Home-park. The Queen, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, and Prince Christian, and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel. The Hon. and Very Rev, the Dean of Windsor, assisted by the Rev. R. Duckworth, administered the sacrament of the Holy Communion. Sir James Clark left the Castle yesterday afternoon. WINDSOR CASTLE, APRIL 19. Her Royal Highneu the Princess Christian passed • very good night. Her royal highness and the infant prince are doing exceedingly well. (Signed) THOS. FAIREANK, M.D. The Queen of Denmark, with the Prince of Wales and the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, attended Divine ser vice yesterday morning at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Communion-service was read by the Rev. Dr. Vivian and Rev. Thos.lmore. Anthem," Thy rebuke bath broken his heart "(l3andel). Solo, Mr. Benson. Mr. Cooper presided at the organ. The sermon was preached by the Very Rev, the Dean of Westminster, from St. John, chap. 19, part of verse 13. The Duchess Dowager of Grafton left town on Thursday for Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire. The Earl de Grey, after attending the funeral of his mother, the Countess of Ripon, went to Studley Royal, Yorkshire, to meet the Countess de Grey, where the noble earl and countess intend to stay a few weeks in retirement. The Countess of Dudley has returned to Dudley House, Park-lane, from Brighton. The Earl of Dudley is in Perim. Lady Skelmersdale gave birth to a son on Wed nesday at Latbom House, Lancashire. Her ladyship and infant are going on favourably. Mr. T. B. Potter, M.P., is staying with his family at 3leurices Hotel, Paris, for the Easter vacation. Lord Warkworth's coming of age at the end of next month will be celebrated with extraordinary rejoic ings at Alnwick Castle, the ancient seat of the illustrious house of Percy. The young Lord Warkworth will attain his majority on the 29th proximo, on which day a grand entertainment will be given to upwards of 1,000 persons, tenants and others, on the extensive family pro perty in the north. The great tent, constructed by orders of the third duke expressly for the reception of Queen Victoria and the late Queen Ade laide, and the late Queen of the Belgians, calculated to accommodate upwards of 1,000 guests, is to be taken from Sion, Isleworth, to Alnwick. The marquee, one of the moat extraordinary constructions ever conceived, is to be erected on the lawn adjoining the castle, where the whole of the tenantry on the ducal estates are to be entertained. The festivities are expected to extend o►er several days. A distinguished company will be the guests of the Earl and Countess Percy during the festivities. It is feared that the venerable Duke of Northumberland, now resi dent at Torquay, will be unable, from his extreme age and consequent physical infirmities, to be present on the cocoa sion. On Thursday evening Lord William Lennox de livered an able and interesting lecture in the Priory School-room, Upper-street, Islington, on the late Prince Consort, in connexion with the efforts of Mr. Charles Webber, of Bt. John-street West, Barnsbury-park, Isling ton, to erect • building for homeless boys, at • cost of 9001. In speaking of the personal peculiarifies of the Prince Consort, his lordship said :—" The Prince had • noble presence ; his earrings was erect, his figure betokened strength and activity, and his demeanour was dignified. He had a staid, earnest, thoughtful look when he was in a grave mood, but when ho smiled his whole countenance was irradiated with pleasure, and there was • joyous sound and a heartiness about his laugh which was perfectly de lightful." At the close of the lecture an enthusiastic vote of thanks was accorded to his lordship. Lord Strathnairn, as chairman of the Committee on Army Organisation, has (nye the Army and Nary Gazette) sent • series of 9uestions to officers of di/Haddon ; so we may gather there ts to be a supplementary report, or that the report sent in encounters opposition at the War-office. Mr. Corry, the First Lord of the Admiralty, will (according to the Army and Nary Gau Us) proceed to visit Plymouth, Guernsey, and Jersey, before his return to the Admiralty, where he is not expected until the end of next week. To-morrow (Easter-day) the sermon at the 12 o'clock service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, will be pin ched by the Lord Bishop of Oxford. At the Chapel Roy al, Whitehall, the sermon at the 11 o'clock service wil be preached by the Dean of Emly, and at the 3 p.m. service the Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys, M.A., will deliver the sermon. At the morning salvia at St. Paul's Cathedral, commencing at a quarter to 10, the sermon will be preached by the Very Rev. Dr. Milman, the Dean of St. Paul's, and at the special evening service, at 7 o'clock, the Rev. Henry Twelb, M.A.,will be the preacher. The Very Bev. the Dean of Westminster will preach in the Abbey both morning and afternoon. The morning service commences at 10 o'clock, and the afternoon at 3. The new communion-table and the new reredos in the Abbey will be opened for the first time. The Bishop of Rochester, it is said, contemplates having his palace at Danbury sold, in consequence of the great expense of keeping it up and its inconvenient situa tion in the diocese, and obtaining a permanent residence la Loudon. _ _ ----- SALE OP LORD CHANCELLOR'S LIVINGS.—EIeven more of the church livinp in the gift of the Lord Chan cellor have been sold under Lod Westbury's act—namely, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, worth, according to the Clergy Lid, 1201. a year ; Melling , Lancashire, worth 1351. a year; Minehead, Somerset, worth 2001. • year; Wickhammarket, Suffolk, worth 2081. a year ; Rowington, Warwickshire, worth 116/. a year ; Ludlow, Shropshire, worth 1601. • year ; West Stoke, Sussex, worth 2301. • year ; and Chil lenden, Kent, worth 1301. • year. These eight livings have been sold for 11,9501. Three other livings have been sold for 11,7001.—namely, Montgomery, worth 3471. • year ; Weasenham, worth about 4001. a year ; and Kegidog, worth 3001. a year. Ma. WHALLEY, M.P., AND RETORY.--Some commotion ham been ceased at Peterborough by the vote given by Mr. Whalley on Mr. Gladstone's amendment, he having gone with the ministers. A public meeting has been called for to discuss the propriety of this vote. Goon FRIDAY WRESTLINO SPORTS. —Good Fri day, although it was observed with the usual solemnities in many quarters, waa in others devoted to certain sports which have for as many years as one can well remember been associated in the public mind with the great fast day of the church. In former times the men of West moreland and Cumberland were accustomed to try their skill and strength by wrestling in Lord's cricket ground on Good Friday, and very cruel sport it not uncommonly was, as many could testify who received severe throws or hard kicks in their struggles for victory. Thousands of per sons were in the habit of witnessing these periodical con fficts, and the two counties specially concerned took a deep interest in the successes of their representatives. During the last few years these annual trials have taken place, not et Lord's, but at the Agricultural Hall, Isling ton, and yesterday there was a large assemblage there, composed not only of Cumberland and Westmoreland men, but of the promoters of sport. of various kinds, who entered into them with much zeal. COMMENCEMENT OP THE EXCURSION SEASON.— The sgreetble weather yesterday had the effect of draw ing thousands of people out of doors, and large numbers were ettiscted to Sydenham and other places of popular retort, Notwithstanding the inducements offered by the several railway companies for person s to visit D o ver, th e responses to the announcement, "To Brighton and back, 35.," were numerous ; and from the London Bridge termi nus alone three excursion trains were despatched, con veying nearly 400 additional passengers compared with the corresponding period of last year. The truffle from Victoria and Kensington to Brighton was also equally in excess of last year. The cheap trains from London Bridge to Portimouth, Hastings, St. Leonards, &a, were also well patronised. From a quarter-past 7 till 8 o'clock yesterday morning the booking-office at Ludz4 4 l 4 h i i , lpresented•busy soene,andtheexcunnontrainsfor ,Ranregate,Dover, ac., were crowded. Many excursionist. also travelled rid the South Eastern line to Margate, Remote, Folkestone, Dover, &tr. ; and there was a good deal of traffic on the South Western, Great Eastern, North Western, Great Western, and other lines. The steamboats on the river, destined for Gravesend, Greenwich, Kew, and other favourite places of resort, were also well freighted. The Crystal Palace—with the announcement that Mr. Sbns ' Reeves would sing i n • sacred concert—attracted alarge num ber of persons from the London-bridge terminus, at which station alone upwards of fourteen thousand admissions to the palace were disposed of by four o'clock, and at that hour hundreds were booking for Sydenham- As showing the favour in which the High Level line is held, we may state that up to half-paid two nineteen trains had left Ludgate-bill, and • special was then being made up. An excursion train was despatched from the new Dorking station, in connexion with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, conveying nearly 400 visitors to Sydenham. 1867. ` LATEf3T . -ft... =TOE. THE LUXEMfitnEiG QUESTION. The following motion was submitted on the 14th inst. to the Diet of Brunswick by Herr Aronheim Resolved,—The preservation of Luxemburg to Germany, --considering the latter, not in its present form, but in am. tional sense—is for theGennan nation a question of honour and existence at all times, but especially at the moment of its political reconstruction. The Diet declared itself ready at any moment to place at the disposition of the Grand Ducal government all possible means of obtaining its object, in common with its confederates. _ . In support of his motion, Herr Aronheim said— It did not signify desired or not to remain united with Germany, for she must be made ► part of it in spite of herself. The motion was taken into consideration on the 16th, and adopted unanimously, with a remark from Herr von Lichtenstein that there was not the least intention of provoking the French nation. Referring to this motion the Paris Ltherth of to-day makes the following comment : On the 20th July, 1292, Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, issued a famous manifesto on enter ing France. On the 25th of July in the same year, the Duke of Brunswick was defeated at Vslmy by Damon ries. These two dates ought to make Herr Aronheim and his colleagues reflect, and prevent them, too, from issuing • Brunswick manifesto. According to the LiberM, Herr von Beuct pro posed simultaneously at Berlin and at Paris the following as a settlement of the Luxemburg ques tion : The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, with the fortress, to be ceded to Belgium, France receiving a small strip of Belgian territory to the south of Namur included between the Sambre and Meuse,and commanded by the for tress of Marienburg. To this Count Bismarck is said to have replied that the King of Prussia could not give an answer till he had received the opinion of the powers who signed the treaties of 1839. The working mechanics of Berlin have addressed the Paris workmen as follows : We detest all war, and we believe that in particular a war between France and Germany would be equally injurious to the interests of civilisation and liberty. We know that both peoples have in their vast and fine territory sufficient space to live happily and in peace by the side of each other, and that the excitations of those who have an interest in making force triumphant over right and liberty, could alone seek to create reciprocal envy and hatred. We are convinced that the working men have nothing to do with the laurels of war, for these laurels grow on battle fields fattened with the bones of workmen ; they are watered with the tears of widows and orphans, and bent with the maledictions of hungry workers. We look upon competition in labour as the only rivalry worthy our civilisation, and the common struggle of all nations for liberty as the only struggle that is worthy of us. in these sentiments we send to our brethren of Paris our pacific salutation. INDIA AND anars MAIM - ALEXANDRIA, Aram ]9. The Pera left at 5 a.m. and the Syria at 9 cm. to-day. The former may be expected at Marseilles on the 25th instant and the latter at Southampton about the 2nd May. OUTWARD CALCUTTA AND BOMBAY MAILS OF APRIL-ii■IFS.:- SUEZ, APRIL 19. The Mongolia, for Calcutta, and the Northam extra steamer, for Bombay, sailed at 9 a. m. to-day. THE WEST COAST OF AFRIOA LIVERPOOL, APRIL 20. The royal mail steamer Athenian, with the above mails has arrived here. Her dates are, Fernando Po, March 16 ; Old Calabar, 18; Bonny, 20 ; Lagos, 23 ; Accra, 25 ; Jonah, Coffee, and Quitta, 24; Cape Palmas, 28 ; Sierra Leone, April 2 ; Teneriffe, 10 ; and Madeira, 12. The Athenian brings a full cargo and five passengers. The royal mail steamer Lagos was at Lagos on the 22nd ult., and the Bristol at Sit.rra Leone on the 16th. The royal mail steamer Mandingo left Toneriffe on the Ist inst. for the West Coast. Her Majesty's ship Zebra was at Madeira, as were also the French frigates Pomona and Intrepid, with troops from Mexico. The general news from the West Coast of Africa is unimportant. AMERICA. (Per Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, Aril!. 18, 5.30 P.M. The Senate has again extended its session until the 20th inst. The Great Eastern left last evening. The Scotia has arrived. NEW YORK, APRIL 19, 5.30 P.Y. This day was kept as a holiday by the Stock Board, but a few Street operations are quoted. The Hibernia has arrived out. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Gold, 1381. Exchange, 104. —Times, second edition. THE EASTER MONDAY VOLUNTEER REVIEW. DEPARTURE OF VOLUNTEERS FOR DOVER. (THIS DAY.) This (Saturday) morning large numbers of the volunteers left the metropolis for Dover, for the double purpose of being present at the great rifle meeting which is being held at Folkestone to-day, and of taking part in the grand display of Monday next. They went by the " volunteer" trains leaving the VictorMstation at 9 o'clock and Blackfriars at the same hour, and consisted of members of the following regiments :—London Rifle Brigade, Victoria Rifles ' 19th Middlesex (Working Men's College), Harrow Rifles, West Middlesex 21st Middlesex (Civil Service)Rifles, the Queen's (Westm inster), 22nd Middlesex, North West Middlesex, Tower Hamlets Rifles, South Middlesex, North Middlesex, Inns of Court, and her Majesty's Customs Volunteers, kc. On their arrival at Dover most of the volunteers will take up their quarters at the hotels and private houses provided for the use of their regiments, as, for instance, the Civil Ser vice at the Lord Warden Hotel, the London Rifle Brigade at Wellesley-oreseent, the London Scottish at Waterloo. crescent, and the St. George's Rifles at the Clarence Inn, Council-house-street. Numbers of volunteers also left by the South Eastern Railway. WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.) SAI'VADAY, APRIL SO, 8 A.M. OUR CONTEMPORARIES. (THIS DAY.) The amendment thrust upon the House of Com mons by Mr. Gladstone, and urged for adoption by him with all the ardour of an impressible nature, was, says the Times, supported by the mass of his followers simply as a party manceuvre. That it would, if sucoessful, have got rid of the Reform Bill was nothing, although it is true that this would have made reform impossible thin year, and next year, and, indeed, until an indefinite period. It is also true that its supporters were irreconcilably divided upon the scheme of any alternative measure, but this was • trifling con sider►tion. The important point was that it might have got rid of the government. This was the avowed object of Lord Cranborue, his " Batavian ancient," and body guard of four. As for the motives of the rank and file of the opposition, let us take Mr. Bass's testimony. ' Every ►iber,d member he has talked with who voted with Mr. Gladstone has, with one exception, expressed his delight that his side was outvoted. The exception is sig nificant. It was an ex-official who frankly told the mem ber for Derby. " Baas, you ought to be ashamed of your self." The Times believes the country will bear with much equanimity the indignation of that ex-official. The Times returns to the subject of trades' unions to. day by • reference to the strikes which are taking place in America, and mays that a special commissioner of revenue has received instructions from the United States govern. meat to visit Europe, and see what he can discover touch ing the labour and wages question, the relations of em ployers and employed, the operation of protective duties, and so forth. This envoy, who has to report to Congress before the conclusion of the year, will arrive at a moat opportune moment, for the revelations of our Trades' Unions Commission will be ready for his notice and con sideration. The rule for the masters, according to the doctrine of trades' unions, should be made by the masters, who must look after their own affairs. If the men take are of themselves, that is enough for them. Tho Times thinks that this rule is purely one-aided, and that it must be balanced by some other organisation if trade is to go on, and the public to get their due. It then refers to the evidence of the Secret►ry of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, which spent 40,0004 on the great strike of 1862, who expresses "his belief that all strikes are • complete waste of money, not only in relation to the workmen but to the employers." Looking at trades' unions, says the Telegraph, from a business point of view, the state can only say to the members of them, " Combine as much as you please, demand what wages you like, and work for as few hours as you choose ; but do not ask the community to tax itself in order that these privileges may be maintained ; do sot ask it for weapons with which you are to fight itself—do not, therefore, ask it to guard those funds with which the fight is to be waged. let us believe, says the Herald, only half of the codes. lion of the witnesses before the Trades' Unions Commission, ►nd it helps us a long way towards a just appreciation of the usefulness to the public at least of these associations "in the interest of trade." A good deal, of coarse, is kept back ; but the truth trickling out before the Royal Com mission will ultimately suffice, no doubt, for the foundation of a judgment upon the whole question —a condemnatory one in the opinion of the Referring to a report that the Elintur'h Redo' , for April would contain an article by the Crown Prince of Prussia on the late campaign, the Daily News says that the article on that subject in the lut number of the Review is certainly not written by the Crown Prince, since it contains references and com parisons in which that illustrious personage would not permit himself to indulge, but, nevertheless, presenting his case, and supplying a number of statements which must be exceedingly gratifying to his friend.. After analysing the article in question, the Daily News says that after its perusal the general impression is left that it was fortunate for Prussia, and for whatever other interest was to be served by Prussian victory, that the Crown Prince was in command of an army on the critical day of Sedum The Daily News remark, that every mail from the United States brings additional evidence of the determination of the Southern people to reorganise their States under the late legislation of Congress. The wiser Southerners already see that the interest of the coloured population will be their interest also, and that by cordially accepting MVO suffrage, and proceeding as rapidly as possible in the reor. ganisation of their governments on the basis of universal citizenship, they may not only save themselves from further humiliation, but may win back a great part of their old influence and weight in the Federal government. On the supposition of an invading army entering the country, the Tines remarks that though we have fortified THE WEEKLY PRESS. The momentary triumph of last week cannot, nays the Examener, blind ministers to the insecurity of their I position. They were saved by a majority of twenty-one ; but who gave them that majority? Not General Peel and Mr. Sandford, snatched somehow at the last moment as brands from the burning : not Lords Grosvenor and El,:ho with their half-score inmates of the Cave long since deserted by Messrs. Herman, Laing, and Lowe. Neither of these contingents, nor both together, would have sufficed. The principle of personal rating and payment of rates on which issue was distinctly joined would not have been re-affirmed by the House of Commons had not thirteen friends of household suffrage, sooner than risk the fate of a bill embodying that principle, voted as under other circumstances they probably would not have done ; and bad not an equal number of the soundest and truest liberals in parliament abstained from voting avowedly for the same reason. The forty-two members of various shades of opposition that voted with ministers on Friday night were neither collectively nor individually identical with the Forty-Eight Remonstrants of the Monday pre ceding ; and it is important that the absence of such identity should be understood and remembered. For what does it prove ? Incontestably this—that more than eighty members of the liber►l party are averse from any course of policy which, for the sake of changing the ad ministration, would defer the settlement of the reform question until next year or the year following ; but incontestably this also—that the existence of minister and of their bill is dependent upon the caprice of no small section or fragment of the opposition, but upon the calm judgment and moral courage of a great and importantbody of liberals, bound together by no hidden tic of clique or cabal, but borne together in fluctuating force by the outer wave of public opinion. If officials that are, and officials that are likely to be, are wise, they will ponder these things. Duly weighed, they afford as little cause for exaltation or w►ywardnes on the part of ministers as for disappointment or despondency on the part of their rivals. A great necessity, deemed by the nation paramount for the hour to all personal or party considerations, is upon us,and every attempt to ignore the fact is certain to prove unfor tunate and futile. If ministers, after the generosity shown them, do not yield frank and full justice to compound householders and to lodgers, they are doomed ; and the disinterested forbearance hitherto shown them will be but as wale of fire upon their heads. The division of last week, says the Saturday Rerier, settled two things, and two things only. It settled th►t a Reform Bill shall be carried, if possible, by the present government in the present session, and it settled that household suffrage, in some form or other, shall be the basis of the borough franchise. Neither decision Is to be regretted, although full justice ought to be .lone to those who on both points held a different opinion. Within a few hours after his defeat, the Saturday Reriew continues, Mr. Gladstone wrote a letter to some obscure country association, in which he gave vent to the feelings which had been awakened in him by finding that his party would not follow him. A prudent man would not have written this letter; a cold reserved man would not have let all the world know what pangs of bitter mortification he was enduring. But imprudence sometimes has a success of its own, and mankind sometimes lean to those who are not the heroes of psalms of life, and who, when they suffer, are not so particularly strong. If Mr. Glad stone openly mourns that he cannot lead his party, it is time to say openly the truth about his leadership. He is not a good party leader ; he does not understand how to manage men, when to be firm and when to be pliant ; he is fierce and impulsive, and be is under the mastery of his own feelings, and is often the slave of his own rhetoric. But when all this is said, how little, how very little is said against him in comparison with that which can be said for him ! If he l not to lead the liberals, who is to lead them ? Is it seriously meant that he is to be placed under a worn-oat whig peer, who is to "coach" him, and show him the secrets of whig art? Let us hope that at least this state of political decrepitude is over, and that the Reform Bill, if it does nothing else, will make such an absurdity impossible. Not only is there no rival to him in the liberal party, there is not even a ' second to him. And in many respects he is one of the very chief of liberal leaders. No English statesman since Fox has had so much of the popular fibre. No living statesman can, in his best moments, strike out words that breathe and thoughts that burn so vividly in the heart of the nation. The Spectator is of opinion that apart altogether from the effect of defeat, which is always considerable, the ten dency to side with the strong being an instinct with poli ticians e@ with the rest of mankind, the division immensely increases the difficulty of making any alterations whatever in the Reform Bill. Unless the leader of opposition finds in his own genius come new and unexpected resource, or Mr. Disraeli refuses to concede some point on which liberals dare not break their pledges, or some great per sonal incident occurs, such as the death of some very im portant personage, it is, the Spectator gravely fears, pos sible that the bill may pass without serious alter►tion. Mr. Disnali's superbly unscrupulous strategy will succeed, and the House of Commons will pass • bill to which everyone of the three groat parties is the state entertain almost vital objections. The tortes say they dislike extension of the suffrage, and they will have a bill under which every householder can, if he pleases, vote ; the liberals say they dislike inequality of rights, and they will have a bill under which a ten ponder can vote without trouble, and a five-pounder only with it; the thoughtful liberals want the good workmen put in, and the bad workmen kept out, and they will have a bill under which, while Birmingham, with its hosts of skilled artisans, is not enfranchised, Thetford, with its agricultural labourers, is. The simple truth is that Mr. Diemen, single-heeded, has thrashed us all, Lord Crain ' borne, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bright, and the Spectator, all together, and the single great doubt is whether he bas not thrashed the people of England too. For the fast time for many years, remarks the Chronicle, the liberal party has sustained a decisive defeat on an issue of primary and vital importance. Throughout the last two months the Opposition has trifled with itself, with its leaden, and with the great question of which it had virtually the charge. It has shrunk [with childish timidity from every course which could possibly involve a determined adherence to principle. It has preached peace where peace could only mean surrender, and advocated compromise where compro miss could only imply that those who proposed it had not r the courage to fight. It has now reaped the natural fruit of its own impolicy. It has found out that for an opposi. Lion to be strong it must be respected, and that a party which holds loosely by the articles of its creed will have little claim on the allegiance of its members. To some men it may seem that this blow is broken because it comes in part from nominal friends, and that the enemy is some how less formidable because his troops have been reinforced by deserters. But consolations of this sort spring from a complete failure to comprehend the real bearings of the case. The liberal party has flattered itself long enough with vague assurances of its overwhelming parliamentary strength. It is time for it to open its eyes to the truth that, in the House of Commons at all events, it cannot even hold its own. Its position there is just the reverse of that which it has been accustomed complacently to as sume. It is the position of a minority confronted by powerful foes, weakened by disaffeced friends, with an assured hope indeed of ultimata victory, but with the eon sciousness of a crushing reverse in the immediate past, and the certainty of hard fighting in the immediate future. THE Ngw PALACE OP Wrirrmlworge.. —Two more fresooes by C. W. Cope, Sao., MA., are now being placed in the •' Peers' Corridor." The subjects are—" The Setting out of Train Rands from London to raise the Siege of Monosater," and " Speaker Lenthal asserting the Privileges of the Commons against Charles the First when the attempt was made to seize the Five Members." These two complete the *aria of frescoes for the Peen' Corridor. THE PARIS PRESS ON THE ICING OF PRUSSIA'S SPEECH. The King of Prusaia's speech in closing the Reichstag is commented on by the Paris journals in a very diversified manner, some considering its language quite insignificant, others as favourable to peace, and a third clams as positively hostile to France, from the word " conciliation" never ap pearing from one end of the allocution to the other. In the first category is to be placed the Debate, which merely says : The King's language presents nothing particularly remarkable. The speech is sufficiently colourless, and has, properly speaking, no political signification. The Union is of precisely the same opinion, its language running thus: The speech pronounced by King William is quite colour less ; but it is intentionally so, continuing in • calculated vagueness on pending questions. Count de Bismarck knew well that the moment was not one for risking any imprudent word. Ile is always there, organising and watching everything. _. _ The Eteutiand looks on the King's language as most pacific : Europe (the writer observes) takes notice of these words from their loyal dignity and calm firmness. Peace, de fended by respect for the rights of all—is not that in effect the unanimous wish of the civilised world ? Wil liam I. twice expressed with as much grandeur as energy that the German country, free in its confederation, strong enough to make its rights respected and to respect those of other peoples, ie a serious gage for peace. If Germany ever forgot the principles proclaimed by the King of Prussia, history would cover the trophies of 1866 with a mourning-crape. The Patric inclines to the opinion of the King intending to maintain peace: _ . This speech (it says) grave in form and somewhat nebul ous in expression, reproduces the phraseology of the mystic patriotism habitual to King William ; but on one point, that which ought the most to excite our interest, it arrives at • position which we cannot but point out. Twice the King of Prussia declares that the organisation of the German country ought to have for result the maintenance of peace. All Germany, says the King, her governments as well as her peoples, agree in declaring that the national power, which has just been achieved, is to be consolidated by safeguarding the benefits of pesos. - . The Opinion Nationale is not so favourable in its views of the document, its observations being the following : What has been above all sought for in this document is an indication of the feeling and resolve of the Prussian government relative to the Luxemburg question, as affecting the preservation of peace. We have no doubt— we never had any—that peace is desired in Ger many, for what people inglithellirworld does not prefer a fruitful peace to war with all its disasters! But the question is to know to what conditions King William subjects his sympathies for peace, and his speech main tain' a profound silence on that subject. The word " con ciliation " was not even pronounced. We think, conse quently, that there is not, as respects the most important point in the situation, the slightest conclusion to be drawn from the language of the King of Prussia. His attitude is that of a soldier who stands motionless with shouldered ems. The Presse and the Gazette de Prance take pretty much the same view of the speech. The Liberli sees the German (empire in King William's words, as well as hostility to France : The empire of Germany (it says) which the policy of France had for centuries aimed at destroying, is re established in fact, and will soon be officially restored. It is revived by means of France, who witriMe word might have prevented the war between Austria and Prussia in 1866. It ia restored through France, who, by allying her self with Germany, might prevent its re-establishment. It is renewed, thar.ks to France, who facilitated the work of Count de Bismarck, by making, after Badowa„terri. torial demands before which tall .thasensions have dis appeared. (REUTSIOII TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 20. All the rumours which have lately jcirculated respecting Prussian armaments are authoritatively declared to be pure inventions. Up to the present time no real warlike prepara tions have taken place. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. GALLE, ArsiL 16. The Rangoon, from China, arrived yesterday, and the Geelong, from Australia, to-day. The Simla will probably leave for Suez to morrow. OUTWARD MAIL OF JANUARY 20-26. The Avoca reached Melbourne on 16th and Sydney on the 19th March. 01"TWARD MAIL OF 4-11 MARCH. The Nubia arrived at Galle on April 3. r. l 3brireme. , In, P. I I L D. w. ••••• --• Notre l9OO 46 W. 111 1 , LW. et 623 1 Abortion 29.03 49 8. 3 , &W. b :80 I.elth 29.08 69 W. 4 3 W. or 0.10. Ardromen 29.0768 LW. 5I 6 B.W. o ,0.36: 4 Greencastle 29.07 4d N.W. 316 &W. to 0.116 ValenUa.. 29.3664 N.W. 4 6 8.8.8. to II 13 - I - liverpool 29.22 50 &L 16 !2 ' 8.8. b '6o6' Holyhead 79.16 40 &LW. 3, 0 8.8. W. 0 0.08, 3 Peuxamos 20.22 63 &W. 7 & re 0.17, 6 Brest 20.33 62 &W. 5 7 &W. fr 0.16 6 Eeriest 29.37 67 8. 6I 7 I M. or 0.16 5 Rocludort 29.49 67 LM. 6I 1 1 V. c —: 2 Plymouth 29.26 62 6.LW. 2 6' 8.8.6 to 0.32.3 Weymouth 29.62 62 66 I 8. o 0.04 4 Portsmouth_ 19.3663 8.8. W. 6 8.8.W. fr 0.02 3 London 29.36 66 LW. 4 7 • B.W. brc - Yartoooth 26.41 SA LW. 3 0 1 W. co Ihmrhemea. 29.26 81 W. 8.10. 3 1 8. Ibr 0.08 3 Shields 29az 52 2 2 I &W. c —, 2 Helder REMARKS. Barometrical preuure has deaeased since Thursday, partici. larly In the north and emit but is now Increasing at Valentin. The wind& are principally sosth-westerly, and have lactessed in strength : but en the west of Ireland hare veered to northwest. The weather has been rainy, bet is now generally overcast. From a parliamentary return, issued this morn ing, it appears that the number of bushels of malt charged with duty and the amount of duty charged, in the year 1866, in England, Scotland, and Ireland, was as fol lows —England, number of bushels, 47,263,665; amount charged, 6,410,1341. Bs. 110. Scotland, number of bushels, 2,554,288 ; amount charged, 345,182!. 19s. 31d. Ireland, number of bushels, 2,463,269 ; amount charged. 333,9.301. 6s. Mr. Siam&ld, M.P. (says the Leeds liferentry)was yesterday asked by a deputation from the Halifax branch of the Reform League to address a meeting of that body on Wednesday evening. He had, however, been previously asked to address the meeting to Ise held in Lida on Tues- day night ; and as be could not undertake both engage ments, he decided, with the consent of the deputation, to give up the proposed meeting at Halifax in favour of that to be held in Leeds. In order to give a fair trial to the system of re cruiting the army by the aid of the pensioners (observes the Army and Nary Gav ite), Sir John Pakington has directed that in the three districts of Bristol, Leeds, :aid Liverpool, the whole of the recruiting shall for the next twelve months be confided to the staff officers of pen6oners under this ropervision of the inspecting field officers; a line recruiting parties being withdrawn. At the same time the mode of remunerating the pensioners recruiting in these districts has been changed, and, instead of being paid on a sliding scale at the end of each year according to the number of recruits raised up to a maximum of six, the pensioners are to receive a reward of B. for each approved recruit whatever number may be obtained. We trust that this liberal arrangement may induce the pensioners to exert themselves to the utmost, and, if posvible, afford a favourable solution of the recruiting difficulty, it twig • theory held by many of those well capable of judging tliat, with proper eneouragement, the non-effectives of the ser• vice are quite capable of meeting all the wants of the Army in the matter of recruits. ----- THE ACCIDENT TO THE DCCHESS OF RONEURGEE AND Lean CHARLES INNIS KER.—Both the duchess ~rid Lady Charles are programing favourably. The duchess has received no external hurt, but she has been much injured internally, but not so serious as to cause Slane. Lady Charles is much scratched about the face, end she has a cut on the forehead, being dragged along the ground some distance. Both are confined to bed and are attended by Dr. Mackenzie.—Edinburgh Courant. SHOCKING ATTEMPT TO MURDER A Huset'ifl, AT LZAWINGTOII.—ShortIy before seven o'clock on Thurs day evening, a labourer, named Samuel Hmllel. Who resides in John-street, Lesmington, on returning home from his work in the evening, found that his wife bad hem drinking during the afternoon, that she was then under the influence of drink, and that his tea was not meal- Some wrangling followed, and the woman seized a keel and drew it across her husband's throat, inflicting • gash several inches in length. The wounded man was taken to Dr. Horniblow, who found that the cut had just mimed the principal arteries in the neck, and that he hat narrowly escaped instantaneoes death. Dr. Horniblow dressed the wound, and although Hadley is still in a very weak state, it is hoped he will eventually recover. The woman made no attempt to escape after baring committal the act. She has only one arm, so that there could hardly have berm any struggling, and the wound was probably given sud denly and without any previous threat. THE ENGINE DRIFERN' STRIKE ON THE NORTH EASTERN RAlLWAT.—Besides the ordinal!, sen4re yester day, the North-Eastern Company ran from Lids three special pame•ger trains to Hull, and one to Harrogate and Ripon. The directors of the North-Buten' Railway do not seem disposed, from the statements which Live been made, to isdent the suowcst‘on of gown , ' n.ent arbiration with • view to settle the differences between them and the men on st rike. They, having got so well supplied with labour to fill up the vacuum made by the strike, decline to acknowledge the old hands at aO, and se there is txultlie rent* there can be nothing now upon which to arhitlite• On the other hand, it is alleged that it is really to me temptation to call out the whole of the engine driven sad firemen on the Great Northem,London and NortliWe'tems Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Midland lines of railway and thus stop the through tra ffi c between the Thames an o the Tweed. This, no doubt, would prove a calamity to the country, but it is argued that such a step would be Inn more disastrous to the men who might adopt such a mum.% —Leeds Mercury.