The Express. — London, England, 1860-06-30 00:00:00

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Tim revenue returns for the quarter ending Jun.. 30 (this day) show an increase on the grow amount of more than 300,0001. over the remipts of the corresponding quintet of last year, notwithstanding the loas of about 360,0001. on custom, owing to the operation of the new tariff. en .w there ix an increase of shout 160,000/., coneeipient on the earlier payment of dutiee un malt *nil an augmentation on hope. On stamp there is an improvement to the extent of 100,0001., &tieing from 'twee- Ilion awl legacy duties, fire insurances, &al .tamp on legal inatrementa, and alao in some degree (nen the new .tamp duties on delivery °Mere, duck warrants, ke. On assail taxes there ix an increase of about 5,101111., owing pribably to house duty. The income tax ►as improved to the extent of 3061,0110/ , caused by the additional rate. The growing Daimon of the Peet-oans is shown by the aildition of 40,0001 , proceeding trots increase, Crowe lauds, as usual, are stationary. Paler the head of Miscellaneous, the coon parnon i* 70,000/. in favour of the present return., in nemminenee of the payment of the Spaiii4h Inabilities, amounting to about 210,0001., which emu n diminished by the falling off in the vale .4 old naval and military stores. Th.. account for the year shows • ken of rather more than 250,0001. on Custom*, for the 'reason already given in stat ing thequarter's account. The gneiss fur the year is aupeented by 2,300,0001., partly from the malt credits previously alluded to, and partly from spirit*, hope, and paper. Stamps are 270,0001. better, owing to the causes almu I y assigned. A INIMIIed talc!. show an exam of 60,0001., attributable to improved aaausainenta. The increased rates of incense-tax result in as improvement at 3,100,00 W. The Post-ollme Mersin, is 130,0001. Crows Lands show a small addition-6,0001. ruder the head of Miscellaneous, notwithstanding the Spanish repayments, there still remains a de emus of 410,0001., owing principally to diminished receipt. for oil stares, kc. Thy ag..., , rrgate improvement in the revenue for the year ending June 30 is 5,700,000/. Tee privilege Committee has at length termi nated its labours, and agreed to a Report which leaves the controversy between the two Houses precisely where it was when the Committee was appointed some weeks ago. Divided amongst themselves by party predilections and personal tendencies, they have been only able to agree in shirking the duty imposed upon them of declaring what is the law of Parliament in the great and vital matter of taxa tion. The Tories could of course desire nothing better, for they want nothing done ; and hence their ready acquiescence in the amendment of Mr. WA L .11 . 4 draft Report by the elimination of t‘ery phrase that could possibly he made a pivot ..f controversy. What the Liberal mem bers .4 the committee will have to may for them selves ok - counting for their failure and defeat we shall hear in due time. For the present, how ever, our business is not with individuals or even with parties wp n.nch as with the House of COIZI I"Cin4 its elf. and th e grave responsibility tmposed on it by the conduct of the House of Lords, from the burden of which it has in no respect been relieved by the colourless and runaway report of the Committee. As to an armoury Of rusty weapons, disputant may resort to that antiquarian collection of by-gone r,...hitions, bills, and acts : but Parliament can gather from it no warning as to the peril of per mitting a new precedent to be set for aristocratic encroachment, no counsel as to the mode in which like attempts may be guarded against in future. No ; the Howe of Comnunns must defend its inherent prerogative of taxation entire and jade. feasible by its own unaided wisdom and courage, The established practice for two centuries, based on broad and definite principles—pri n . ciples thoroughly understood and universally recogn i se d b y th e community at large —cannot depend for its preservation on the texture or number of verbal precedents that may be cited in a speech or a report It is not I THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY E a thing to be played for derbwously in debate, and won or lost by a turn of the rhetorical game. For epeerseiees the people of England have submitted to no other taxing power on earth but that of their represen tatives sitting in Parliament. It is one of the chief of their liberties, and to their legally ap pointed guardians they look to defend it for them. It their representatives surrender this eldest born el their rights they will assuredly be held ac countable, collectively and individually, for their neglect. It is no question of mere punctilio between the two Houses ; it is emphatically and undeniably the all-important question as between the nation at large and an irre sponsible chamber of nobles, whether national taxation shall or shall not be subject to the arbitrary will of the latter, or whether it shall continue to be, as time out of mind it has been in England, created, limited, and revoked by the vote of the Commons, and of the Commons alone. It signifies nothing, now, whether the Paper Duty be a good or a bad tax ; it signifies nothing whether the Exchequer (odd afford to do without it this year or no. The Howe el Commons debated both questions and decided them ; and as well might the Quxxx, by resort to an obsolete prerogative, have sought to set aside that decision, as the House of Lords to constitute itself into a financial court of appeal unknown to the usage and custom of the con stitution. If the House of Commons consisted only of the representatives of trades and professions, while it claimed the right to tax alike incomes derived from industry and from land, the House of Land- Lords might fairly claim a legislative veto on Taxing Bills; for they might with justice argue that an undue share of the general burdens might otherwise be laid on them. But confessedly there is not a colourable pretence for any such demand in the existing condition of things. More than two-fifths of the House of Commons are members for counties ; and Lord DZILBY himself, not very long ago, declared that if he were told the acreage of the family estates in any given shire, he could with certainty designate the particular shade of the landed interest that commanded its representation. Beside the county members there are at least one hundred relatives or connexions of peers who sit for small boroughs, and the result is, as everybody knows, that far more than half the members of the Lower Howie are identi fied by blood, marriage, rank, and property with the hereditary aristocracy. And this is wholly irrespective of party distinction or preponderance. The Whip are, and have ever been, as anxious as their hereditary rivals to thrust the cadets of their great houses into the representation of counties and towns. It is not a matter of party or of opinion ; it is one of social instinct, and of class. Instead of too little, the landed interest have too much power in the House of Commons ; yet the people have never yet raised the invidious question, or sought to have that preponderance limited. When they recently asked for Reform in the Representation, they did not deny the right of the Peers to consult and vote on the details of the change proposed. And why f Be cause they felt that the House of Commons, as the taxing power of the State, ought to be so consti tuted as to represent landed property as well as commercial, manufacturing, and professional gains; and because they had no desire to give just cause of jealousy to the great interest with which the Peers are supposed to be specially identified. But if the House of Lords, sitting apart, acting irresponsibly, and consisting exclusively of ens smell section of a single clean of the naiion, are to have the power to overhaul the Budget, and to vote the imposition or forbid the repeal of what taxes they please, then in all conscience their sons and brothers end nominees ought to be excluded from the Howe of Commons. They cannot in common fairness or decency pretend that they have a right first to vote with other orders of the community through the medium of their representatives in the Cower House, and then that they have a right afterwards to vote separately and exclusively in the Upper House. No question more pregnant with consequences has ever been raised in our constitutional history.. Who will lead the Com mons on this great occasion 1 We know who ought and who are expected to do so—the Liberal Ministers of the Crown ; and great and deep would be our regret for the sake of those Ministers if they hesitated or wavered in the performance of so manifest a duty. MATZ or Ms. BIOVONTON, LAT! ONI 01 11112 Igettnernatta o► 11-sittgnomm Potter Coon.—This day ieformatio• wait received by Mr. Hammill, at Marylelane Polies Court, of the lamented death of Mr. Robert Edwards late one of thentagistratee of Marylehone Police took place bat night about 5 o'clock at his riaidenee in Donetaquare. tin Wednesday last be wee iret eased with an attack of paralysis. Ag graystaii symptoms came oc, which led to Ire holm of Ida recovery. and he gradually sank and aspired at the time above stated. Mr. Bought on WIN for ease years on. of the magistrates of Worship.street Polies Court, and upon the death of Mr. RawlinatChe was appointed to this mart, where he remained up to about • mouth ago, when he rangned his magisterial office, refusing • pension. He was, it ia believed, upwards of eighty years of age, and was universally respected. Ties Hsvisw IN HYDZ-PARIL—The Army and Nary Gazette of this day ears that in the hurry of pre paring the returns the numbers of the volunteers reviewed by her Majesty were mis•statel, and, that the total, instead of being only a little above 18,000, was within • fraction of 21,000. The aggro fate was, according to the Name authority, made up &s lob lowa rind I>illielol2. —Mounted, 143 ; 'Honourable Artil. lay Compan y ' s A Enfiaiete and Volunteer Guards, ; Brigade, 1,250 ; Ist Brigade, 2,722 ; 2nd ditto. 1 ,.,17 ; 3rd ditto, 2 . 624 ; 4th ditto, 2,127. Second Division.—let brigade. 2,417; 2nd ditto, 2,368; 21d ditto. 2.:M0; 4th ditto, 1,486. Thus there was • grand toted of 20". Onuse NORTHERN Houma L. —Tb e annual dinner alf this institution will shortly take place. The hospital is not perhaps an well known to the benevolent a. it deserves to be, and has accordingly not received from the charitable politic that amount of support to which it is entitled. It is situated in the Vork•rued, K t immediately ad- i e u t i r o o gghe Great Northern Railway Terminus and the Mae Cattle Market, in the heart of one of the poorest and most densely populated districts of the metro. polls. In addition to the casualties which are constantly arising from these two great c e n t res o f b ug l oss' , mane] aid is given to the destitute sick of the neighbourhood without any letter of recommendation or delay. Upwards a a thosnand out-patienta weekly avail themselves of the beiseflte of the institution, end a limited number of in =are under treatment. The expenditure, we are be far exceeds the reeeipts, and unions a large sum en be promptly raised in aid of the exhausted treasury, it Ir I. be feared that the sphere of its usefulness must be estatnictect. It is hoped that the result of the forthcoming festival, at which Sir Morton Peto is to preside, will be oath ea to relieve the committee of management from anxiety as to the future the hospital. WHITEHALL, JUNI 28. —The Queen has been .leased to present the Rev. Philip Jacob, M.A., to tie arcladeacoury of Winchester, void by the promotion of the High Rev. Father in God Dr. Joseph Cotton Wigram to the see of Rochester.--Oareffe. Voir rrain ZIA'. —We regret to learn that there has bees a terrible falliag atlas week, is **attendance at drill, on the part of some of the Volunteer Rite Corgs. In more than one of the sestrepeliten Loess the members attending muster have not bona seereibes ono-third of that of the preceding week, and we have reeneed erre& similar is the aosvYgiss th t its pre emnymbin:n::::gundmit...HnntntbietiginiEtymbetelie.b...siewmtur.o72:dayereaccausirl We shall fergiva our civil an ' have , demister may WWI have se rams esosplaiets on the altbeeole it wee a Iromear for the hmsiga iset. d.sult a TerrZ b d "eek, f or rr bi d . O.ll, rapine were WWI mid arieedet - Per mum, ere !Mire Use — Need Bored', gilt &eat. The Prince Jules and Prince John of &hies wig•Holatein Gallobbourg visited her Map* yesterday paskinglaat Palace. The Preach Imperial Band of the Guides hod the honour al stteadiag yesterday at Buckingham Palace, mad perform. leg Is 1v Grand Hall during the Queen's luncheon the following pieces : Ihotalele—Mobe Onvortare de Zampa Herold. OuvorOmo de lialliamems Priather Welts ner. Cantina, La Dame gs AD Verb, Cam Pellm—mssolli pair IL Om limb ems Ilesimorm. ammo, rocesslon de Y assrfame de to Mlememt Zoysia frank term God Sam the Queen. Partant pour la Syria The Queen, accompanied by the Prince's Alice and Prince Arthur, aael attended by the Hou. Caroline Cavendish, took a drive in a carriage sad four in the afternoon ; Lord Alfred Part and Major-General the Hon. C. Grey attended en bonsoback. The Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the Count of Flanders rode on horseback, attended by the Equerries in Waiting. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening at Bucking ham Palace. The company included the King of the Bel gians, the Princess Alice, the Prince of Wales, the Count of Flanders, the Duke of Saxe Cobourg, the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, the Belgian Minister, Madame and Mademoiselle Van de Weyer ; the Prussian Minister, Vis count Palmerston, Major. General Wylde, Major-General the Hon. R. Bruce, Colonel Count de Moerkerke, Dr. Koepl, Major Burnell, and Baron de Hochwaecbter. The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance, awl played during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards performed in the drawing-room. A deputation of paper makers had an interview with Viscount Palmerston yesterday. A deputation on the subject of the Metropolis Gas Bill had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis yesterday, at the Horne•ofdice. A deputation as to Wine License Bill (Scotland) bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his °Blend residence in Downing-street. The Judical Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day. An appeal from Bengal, " Rarogothal ldookerjee r. Hamill( and Kenny," part heard, was concluded. Despatches (mini the Governor of the Falkland Islands were received yesterday at the Colonial-Ake. Despatches were sent to the Governors of the North American pro vinces. The King of the Belgians and the Count de Flux lies and mite will take leave of her Majesty and the Prince Consort, and the younger members of the royal family, sod leave Buckingham•paLce early in the forenoon to-day for Ostend, where his Majesty sod the Count de Flandres purpose to sleep to-night. Lord and Lady Saltounleft town yesterday for Philorth Haase, Abordeesahire. A marriage is arranged to take place between Lord Conyers and Miss Curteia, daughter of Mrs. Fitzroy Campbell and step-daughter of Colonel Fitzroy Campbell. His lordship, who is the eldest sop of Mr. Rockville Walter Laos Fox, by the only demister of the sixth Dab of Leeds, obtained his barmy, it will be remembered, lest year upon the death of the late Duke of Leeds. Sir Alexander Cockburn's ball, which stood for Tuesday, the 3rd of July, cannot now take place, in conse quence of the death of a user relative. Visoountean Boyne gave a grand concert last main at her reaidence in Bahrain-square. Mr. James White, late M.P. for Plymouth, is spoken of as a candidate for the seat for Brighton, left viesat by the death of the late Sir George Nebel]. His Dram the Duke of Somerset, Rear-Admiral Pelham, C. 8., Mr. Whitbread, M.P., and Captain Moore, C. 8., Private Secretary to the First Lord, visited the Greenwich Hospital Schools yesterday, to distribute the prim giros annually prior to the Kidstinuner vacatioa. PASHIONS FOR JULY. (Pram Le Pellet.) By degrees, flounces' appear to be regaining the position which, for a time, they had partially lost. For dresses of thin texture, they certainly form the prettiest and most suitable ornament. On basis' eor tarlatans, piano or bouillonne may be used effectively. For summer toilet, large open sleeves will be generally adopte'L We cannot say that they show any novelty or peat difference from those worn last year : pagoda or cluck shreves, more or lees open, varying in width, and trimmed with revers or jockeys. Tight sleeves are still worn with negligee dress of thicker material. Bodies are worn low, or high and buttoned up. In the former case, pelerines or &boa are indiapensable. That more in fashion just now is the square pelerine, formed entirely of narrow frills, and fastened in front by • triple bow of ribbon. Small pupae pelerines of guipure are exceedingly pretty. They are made just sufficiently deep to meet the top of the drew. The Marie Antoinette fichu is not discarded. It is made with a hem, surmounted by • rich embroidery, and Valenciennes insertions- • garland of exquisite simplicity ; bat behind it is enlarged, and forms • bouquet. A broad Valenciennes round the hem completes this elegant fichu. Although not much oppressed by the beat of the weather at present, shawls and mantles of muslin and lace are those principally made. The most usual lace shawl Is that in • simple point, of rich design. The double shawl, with • trM, is too luxurious an article to bs very frequently sow. The mantles have the foundation of them very small, bat are trimmed with three broad frills (or Bounces, we Roy call them), so wide that they completely envelop the drew. Muslin shawls are simply embroidered on the upper point, but the long point is always trimmed with a wide embroidered frill. Muslin mantelets are only worn by young girls. They are distinguished by an absence of embroidery, and have for ornament simply bullionnles, in which a ribbon, of ► shade suitable to the rest of the toilet, is run. Barre summer shawls have been made of black cashmere, embroidered and trimmed with ► wide frill of guipure or Chantilly. The pelisse has nearly dethroned the paletot of silk ; but the latter will still be worn. especially at the am side, as nothing is more commodious for country or travelling dress. The abbe pelisse, with pelerine of guipure, and shawls, are, however, more strictly the vogue now. The red flannel casaque is • novelty patronised by some who like comfort and elegance combined : it has the double advantage of being a suitable dress for borne wear, and com modious for negligee in the country, at the chew, or for the 'maim, when the weather is cool. Ruches are much used for trimmings for barite, grena dine, or other thin material. The " flounced ruche' is a novelty, and is made to match any pattern—in plain words tide is • narrow flounce with a niche at the head. There is also the niche on each side of a plaiting Ila vieills. Na,. row ribbons am also made into trimmings for narrow licences. - li - uimps is made in elegant patterns—one, for example. of butterflies, white and mauve, for a drossy' white and mauve checked taffetas antique. has a very died ng& appearance. The Zoesive, although at times so muck ornamented, is not useewarily ea 'army to simplicity. They are very pretty whew ef the same material as the dress, and bordwed with a band at • coa colour. w ainaibw band should thin be placed round the skirt and sleeves. It greatly proves the appearance if a wide bordered &It, tied at the Ma, is we. with it. Vr e y ro m% silk dress are m es e ade withla n n t e t zlaits, and net buttoned, trimmed ail t wais t. down the front with bows of bodies p ribbon or one. seats of pane Sleeves wide, lined with white and bor. dorsi with a little white ruche. Thin materials are trimmed with a number of little &anew. These sometimes cover the whole of the skirt, but more frequently only reach up to sheet the height of aineteen to twenty.four inches moves or Nine is the number more generally in vogue. The bodies are still made with bands and wide sashes, tied either at the front or side. - Bososta7lai:l;;el;em;sre still made with double skirts— the lower one trimmed with eight houillonnis, the upper with two only ; and on each a bow of ribbon or bouquet of flowers may be placed. For summer balls, this is • very pretty, simple style. They also trim tarlatan.' with flounce. Placed on each breadth and crossed over like a fichu, and held toter by • group of flowers. eta preserve the lame form they had at the begin. nip( of the Deanne—that is to say, pointed in front and reaching far over the forehead. Although we never could admire the extremely small bonnets that have been worn, yet we shall regret to see an exaggeration in the other di ms:tic's, for an overlarge bonnet is far more unbecoming sad ungneeful than a ridiculously small one. We mast hems that the good Mates of our modistes will prewar,* to Ira tie kopprzewliom. Lilo" Mock crinoline mixed with strew, and phis sad hu7 stases, re dill much worn for morning bonnets. ING, JUNE 30, "WIC A bloataria with.siraw stars all over, tridhed with • large bow of kitak ribbon at the side, from *ris4W of which falls •lam straw tassel. A bandeau of dhow Mom, and black Abbot' scrolls the forehead, black stria. em broidered with atraweis very recherché. Or • Adis crinelbse. with • border of Leghorn, trimmed with • cabled elsaw-coloured silk rolled over • quilling of black lace, and falling in ends over the black Ilk curtain. The cap of black lace, trimmed with • silk cable and large crimson poppy, with • gold centre. Black ribbon string*. A Leghorn bonnet, trimmed simply with • large straw cable twisted round the crown, and ending under two keg white marabout feathers spotted with straw. Blonde cap, with diadem of white daisies with straw centres. White and straw-coloured ribbou.stringa. Rice-straw bonnets are much in favour this season. Some are very simply trimmed. Tulle and crape bonnet. am made in almost endless variety. THE PRIVILEGE QUESTION. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. The report of the Select Committee on Tax Bills was issued this morning. The committee have searched for precedent; in the journals from the year 1628 to the present time, in order that they might ascertain and report on the practice pur sued by either house with regard to the several descriptions of bills imposing ►od repealing taxes. The practice and the mode of prooedure is somewhat different according to the character and object of those bills. The committee have, therefore, for the sake of clearness, classified the same chiefly under one or the other of the following heads : 1. Bills of supply and tax bills. 2. Bills for appropriating supplies. 3. Public bill., which are not strictly bills of supply or tax bills, but which operate u a tax or charge on the pet). pie ; and 4. Bills for altering or repeal i ng tete which relate to supply, taxes, or charges. The committee have thought it necessary to cell the esteatiim of the house to those cases only in which the Lords have Mu:tiered. _ _ _ La the of the first suction—relating to bills of supply and tax bills—the committee state "the funda mental rale" to be be that "the Commons grant, the Lords 'assent." It illustrates this principle by the gent examples of 1407 and 1628 ; and by the usage of the House of Common', as exemplified in the preambles of money bills, and in their return from the Upper Home for pre sentation to the Sovereign by the Speaker. It shows that when the Lords have attempted amendments to bills of this nature, the Commons have assented only in clues where the amendment we. immaterial. It justifies the limitation of research to the year 1626, by the fact that the usage of parliament was virtually settled at that period, and that earlier precedents are abundantly exhibited in the reasons urged by the Commons in their con ferences of 1671. In those conferences it was expressly laid down that the "matter, measure, and tune" of any tax or imposition are all and entirely under the control of the Commons. The report shows, under the lame head, that so jealous were the Commons over these privileges, that they disallowed amendments which effected only an abatement in the amount, or an alteration in the mode of collecting, the tax voted. In April, 1700, they dimallowed amendments to the Land - tax and Irish Forfeiture Bill, though those amendments did not relate to aid and supply, resols;ng that, "as all aids and supplies begin with the Commons ; so it is the undoubted and sole right of the Commons, to direct, limit, and appoint in such bills, the ends and pur poses, considerations, limitations, and qualifications of such peat", which ought not to be changed or altered by your lordship." It was further ra.olved, that, " This is well known to be such a fundamental right of the Commons, that to give remains for it has been esteemed by our ancestors to be a weakening of that right." Under the second head of inquiry there is nothing to report, the Lords having invariably assented to " bills teethe appropriation of supply." But in the third class of cases—that of " public bills, which are not strictly bills of supply or tax bills, but which operate as a tax or charge I upon the people," the report . presents some curious I jest/ones of the zealous guardianship the Commons ex. *raised over what they describe in one resolution ea ' their " undoubted right to appoint pecuniary mulcts and their distribution." They would not gaffer the Lords ti originate a bill or insert • clause imposing bridge tolls or paying rates or fines for divers police offences. Of late years they have relaxed their usages in this respect. They were careful to assert their ancient " and undoubted pri vileges " in the resolutions which so lately as 16.31 and 1619 they added to the standing orders • permitting the Lords to propose or alter charges so s trictly local and exceptional that they could not be construed into a tax on the people or a supply t the crown. Lastly, the re port deals with bills fur - altering and repealing acts which relate to supplies, taxes, or charges." On this class of bills the committee observe that they ought to originate in the Commons, and that they are not allowed to be amended. It appears, however, that in 1711 the Lords rejected a bill for relisv rag merchants from part of the duties dee on tobacco and wine; and that iu the next year the same bill trumpet up again, and was again rejected. In 1767 • bill to allow free importation of—that in, to suspend or repeal the duties upon—salted meat and batter, was postponed to a day after the prorogation. In 1741 a bill for reducing the duties on salt used for manure was, in like manner, defeated by postponement. There are several other preoedena which go to a similar extent. The most important, however, is a resolution of the whole house repealing the existing c oal duties and granting other duties in lien thereof. The bus of this bill occurred in 1808. . . . In concluding this report the committee refrain from offering any opinion and from making any comments upon that pnctica, except to illustrate and explain ; and they i have abstained from any statement of the practice of each house, "except in so tar as such practice appears from the entries in the journals." The draft report by Mr. Bright is nearly as long as that of the committee. The 4 ollowing paragraphs with which it concludes would have been added to Mr. Walpole's report, but for the casting vote of Sir James Graham : The committee, re% iewing this testimony, derived from the records of parliament, and from the settled nachos of the House of Commons, Lave asked themselves this question. What is the principle involved in the prece dent of the 9th of Henry VII., and what the right of the Commons of England, which, Mr. Pro declared, in the year 1640, had been 'not shaken be one precedent for these 300 years!" Is it merely that the House of Com mons shall been all bills of taxation and supply ; or that the Lords shall not, by amendment in any bill, raise or diminish, by one penny, any charge imposed on the people! Is it one or both of these things only which formed the staple of the right for which the Commons have contended during so many centuries? The com mittee cannot doubt that the nght which the Commons have contended for and have maintained, is nothing less than an absolute control in determining the ex penditure necessary for the service of the crown, and the mode and the amount of the taxation which shall be imposed upon the people. If the Lords cannot begin a tax, if they cannot increase or abate • tax, vet if they may prolong • tax by re fining their assent to its repeal when that repeal has been voted by the House of Commons, then it appears to the Committee that the ' fundamentel and inherent right' of the House of Commons to an absolute control over taxation and supply is not tnly menaced, but de stroyed. " - The committee cannot conclude their report with out reminding the home, that, if henceforth, which they will not believe to be possible, no tax, hurtful to trade and grievous to the people, can be re mitted unless the Lords be pleased to remit it, or can be even recommended by the crown to he coushiered by the Commons with a view to its remis sion, with that foil assurance which has heretofore ex isted that such a tax will be remitted ; not only will the powers of the House of Commons be impaired, but the foundation of the ancient freedom of England will be nuderndued ; for where she)d that ancient freedom be found when the right to determine the mode and the sum of taxation is divorced from the representative branch of the legislature !" TUE GREAT SoCIAL EV7L.—Yesterday, at mid night, the committee held a meeting at the Lecture Hell, Easton-road, near the Hampstead-road, which was ex• trimly well attended. The circulars cif invitation were only Weed a short time before the hoer of meeting, sod at least 100 unfortunate girls attended. The cards were dis tributed by missionaries,who paraded the principal thorough fares of the district, and the large hall was nearly filled by midnight. Refreshments were provided on a similar scale to those at St. James's Hall ; the whole of the tables were surrounded by these unfortunate creatures, and their couutenences betrayed great wonderment as to what they were invited to do or hear. A large number of clergy men and gentlemen attended, and amongst them were the - Rev. W. Bueke, of Auldington, and preacher at the Mag dalen Hospital; the Rev. H. A. Baumgartner, of Camber berwell ; the Rev. Mr. Dove curate of Christ Church ; the Rev. Mr. Thomas ; Mr. Theilphilus Smith, Mr. Hornibro ok, Mr. Stable, Mr. Fortescoe, lcc. The nroceedinp commenced with singing the beautiful hymn, " Rock of ages! cleft for me." The poor girls sang with as much fervour as if they were in a church. The Rev. Mr. Burke then delivered an effective address, which was attentively listened to by the women — at the conclusion of which the Evening Hymn was sung and the benediction pronounced. The success of the meeting wee very marked, several having determined to go to the different homes; and altogether it was such as to cause the committee to determine upon bolding several other district meetings. The number who have accepted the offers of reclamation from the different meetings has been so great that the committee have had to provide additional homes, and it is said that a perfectly independent one is to be founded. This, of couree, will necessitate an augmentation of the funds placed at the disposal of the committee, and, consequently, they appeal for =reseed aid. An interesting use arose out of the last midaight meeting : a fine young girl had been seduced by a gentleman's butler, and a chM wee born. The girl was neglected, and she attended at one of the homes. The seducer wee sent for, and he promised to marry the girl by banns, but the committee thought time would not let the bird slip through their bands, and imme diately obtained a license, with which the pair were united without any delay. LANES INTELLIGENCE. - _ NAPLES IN A STATE OF SUM. POPULAR EXCITEMENT. PARIS, Jews 30. A private telegram from Naples, dated Thursday evening, states that on Wednesday some disturbers of the public peace assaulted and wounded the Minister of France. On the 28th inst. the commissariats of the 12 districts of the city were simultaneously ransacked and pillaged. The archives were burnt and the agents murdered. Naples had been proclaimed in a state of siege, and any assembling in the streets had been pro hibited. NAPLES, Ran 28, EVENING. This evening riotous assemblages took place in the Strada di Toledo. A grand gala was held to-day to celebrate the inauguration of the constitutional flag. TURIN, Jove 29. The Ne►politan government has ordered the restitution of the two captured vessels and the re lease of the crew and passengers. The state of things at Naples inspires great fears of anarchy and of conflicts between the lazzaroni and the remainder of the population. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. MESSINA. Jut!' 24. Since yesterday we are in a state of the utmost excitement, for it is rumoured that two columns of Garibaldi's troops have left Palermo and are march ing hitherwards. One of these columns is said to be commanded by Colonel Turr. This news suffi ciently explains the concentration of Neapolitan forces here. Six more vessels bringing troops ar rived this morning. We must now have in our forts something like 25,000 men. It is impossible that you can form an ides of the forlorn state of this place. Almost all the inhabitants have fled and taken their valuables with them. One meets nothing but soldiery in the streets. Strong patrols of artillery and cavalry march about the town all night long. The guns are pointed on the Rue Fer dinanda, which commands the road from Molars°. We are looking for a general engagement every moment. The consuls who yet remain at Messina will be very lucky if they get time to escape on board the ships in the port, for the soldiers make no attempt to conceal the fact that as soon as Garibaldi's columns approach the forts will open a terrible fire upon the town. Meanwhile, deser tion from the royal forces goes on swimmingly. A whole company, which was on duty at an advanced post, has just gone over to the insurgents with arms and baggage. You may shortly expect to receive most serious news. It is impossible that things can remain as they are much longer. The bent informed people think that Garibaldi's march upon Messina is a feint, and that although he may perhaps even go so far as to commence an attack upon the town, his main object is to draw the royal forces here in order that he may pounce down upon the Calabriaa, where all is ready for his reception. At Catania the populace has thrown down the statues of Francis I. and Ferdinand. SARDINIA AND NAPLES. All the journals of Turin declare that an alliance between Sardinia and Naples is impossible. The Opinions says :—" After the insurrection of Sicily and the capitulation of Palermo, Piedmont could not adhere to an alliance with Naples which would have for its basis a guarantee of territories which King Francis IL has lost. Pied mont cannot advise the Sicilians to take a step opposed to their moat ardent desires. By acting thus she would compromise her future, and the Sicilians, moreover, would leave the advice unheeded." TURIN, Jolts 29. The Chamber of Deputies has voted for the new loan by 215 against 3. Baron Poerio and Signor Mancini made inter pellatious relative to the state of affairs at Naples. Ruth speakers opposed any arrangement with the Bourbons. The Minister Farini replied in a manner favour able to the idea of national unity, but with reserve. ROME. ROME, Jun 29. Reports are current that the Papal government is about to grant reforms. THE CARLIST RETRACTATION. The following is said to be the text of the re tractation of Couut de Montemoliu : DON CARLON DI BOURDON Cr LIN BRAGANCIAI Considering that the act of Tortosa of the 23rd of April of the present year, 1860, is the result of exceptional and extraordinary circumstances ; that, meditated in a prison and signed at ► moment in which all communication was forbidden us, it does not fulfil any of the con ditions necessary to its validity ; that conse quently it is null, illegal, and will not be ratified ; that the rights of which it treats can only belong to persons who hold them from the fundamental law whence they emanate, and who are called by the said law to exercise them according to their sta tion, and in their time ; seeing the advice of competent jurisconsulta whom we have consulted, and the disapprobation which our best followers have several times expressed :—We have retracted, and do re tract the said act of Tortes* of the 23rd of April of the present year, 1860, and we declare it of no effect, and utterly cancelled. CARLOS DR BOURDON LT DC BRAGANCR, COWL DR MONTLVOLIN. Done at Cologne, June 15, 1880. The Infant Dun Ferdinand has retracted iu the same terms. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Joie 29. By order of the Sultan the Finance Commission has been transformed into a Council of Control, with extended powers. Mehemid Ruacbdi Pacha has been appointed President of the New Council. THE ATTACK ON THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR. _ PARIS, Julia 29. The King of Naples has instructed the Marquis d'Antonini to express to the French government his most sincere regret on account of the cowardly insult offered to Baron Brenier, and to promise severe retribution upon the guilt parties, who, however, wore not yet discovered, having suc ceeded in escaping immediately after committing the assault. PARIS. dvas 29. It is stated in the Paris journals that Baron Brenier is not dangerously hurt. THE EUROPEAN CONFERENCE. VIENNA. Jun 29. It is stated that Lord Loftus hae informed the Austrian government that England is prepared to take part in a conference with the other powers who signed the final act of Vienna, in order to settle the differences pending between France and Switzerland. Lord Loftus having also been instructed to ascer tain the dispositions of Austria in reference to an [ immediate assembling of the conference, Count Rechberg is said to have replied, that u M. Thou venel, in his last despatch of the 21st inet. , ac espied in the name of lus government the conference as claimed by Switzerland, Austria does not object to being represented therein. Count Rechberg added, that Austria recognises that Switzerland (whose interests are es pe cially concerned by these i discussions ) has a righ t to take part in this con ference. She persists, however, in maintaining that Sardinia can show no title for being represented therein, Count Cavour having himself stated that, in consequence of the treaty of the 24th March, Sardinia would henceforth remain a stranger to all questions in reference to Savoy. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rßox on ova cormaroximarr.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. From the circumstance that the Moniteur says nothing of the attempt to assassinate M. Brenier at Naples, it has been doubted, in the course of the day, whether the news is true. The Momiteur, however, does not by any deans make a point of giving the earliest intelligence even of events of the highest interest ; there can be no doubt of the attempt upon M Brenier's life. Nothing what ever has transpired to show what course the French government intends to take in consequence of this sinister event. The last despatches repeat that M. Brenier is in no danger. The lying in state of Prince Jerome commenced to-day ; but only the great bodies of the state, functionaries, and deputations from the army and National Guard were admitted. The public will have an opportunity of seeing the deceased prince to-morrow and the two following days. lam told that the mice en scene is very splendid. Five galle ries hung with black are passed through before the chamber which contains the body is reached. The deceased is lying on a state bed, dressed in his field marshal's uniform, and westing all his orders. The crown of Westphalia is placed at the foot of the bed. The Opinion► Nationale has heard an important piece of news which it publishes without warrant ing, viz., that a treaty of alliance has either been, or is on the point of being signed between Prussia and Austria, in pursuance of which the former power guarantees to the latter her German posses sions, but not Venice. This would be a very ra tional treaty', if connected with a thorough reform in Hungary. I hope the news may be true. The Bourse opened with great languor, and al though prices were comparatively firm at the close, very little business was done throughout the day. The Rente for account opened at 68fr. SOc., rose to 68fr. 60c., fell to 68fr. 45c., and closed at 68fr. 60c., with a rise of Sc. For cash there was a fall of 10c., the last price being 68fr. 55c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50e. Railways, which have for a long while only varied within the range of 2fr. SOc. to sfr., closed with scarcely any change. Please correct a clerical error inmy letter printed in the Express of June 27, which may very much mislead housekeepers as to the price of fish in Paris. I said, " a single mackerel costs 111. and a small pair of soles as much." I' meant to write two shillings, and not one. On the day that I wrote I actually paid 50 sous, or 25., for two very thin soles, not much bigger than flounders, and was at the same time asked 24. for a mackerel —rather a fine one, it is true, but by nu means a phenomenon. The most splendid and charming country mansion and park in the immediate vicinity of Paris—the chatean de Bercy—only five minutes' walk from the great wine market, has just been sold by the Nicolai for the large sum of 10,500,000 fr., besides 50,000 fr. to be distributed among the old servants of the princely house. The Lyons Railway Company and some building speculators are the purchasers. A part of the original property was sold to the Lyons company some years ago for 3,000,000 fr. The whole was bought at the beginning of this cen tury for 1,800,000 fr. A more striking instance of the rapid increase in the value of land in awl about Paris could scarcely be adduced. It is now in tended to build a long range of wine warehouses on that part of the park which borders the Seine. The post mortem examination of the body of Prince Jerome led to the discovery of a ball which had remained in his chest, after a duel which he fought in his youth with a brother of Marshal Davoust. The deceased prince, it is stated, has left memoirs, and in his will pre. scribed all the measures which are to be adopted for their publication. One of the most curious theatrical pleasures ever invented by the fertile brain of Parisian managers has just been contrived at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, in Paris. Everyone knows how the approach of hot weather empties the playhouses. In order that the shopkeepers left- in the capital may be cheated into the idea of " doing a bit of rural," a large part of the audience portion of the theatre has "been transformed," says the Gazette Muairelr, "into a plo• turesque garden, which rises in the place where the pit wan, surrounded with iron seats and arm chairs, with leather cushions. The box.lobby to the fleet tier has become • greenhouse, filled with flowers and shrubs. Three of the centre boxes have been suppressed to form a flower basket, below which is a heap of rocks covered with marine plants. From the metre of these rocks springs a cascade, which falls into a circular basin ; and betwixt the acts a jet capriciously lighted by gloams of gas, spring,. up in the midst of the basin, the banks of which are garnished with flowers, plants, and verdure." A letter from Palermo in the Sig•te says :•-• " After having pissed a week in the city, and boring obtained from the lips of the soldiers and eye-witnesses full details of the combat and bombardment, Alexander Dumas and his friends left on the lath, each with a musket on his shoulder, to accompany Colonel Turr's expedition." A Berlin paper affirms that the chateau of Rosenhofen, the summer residence of the King of Bavaria, is being prepared for the reception of Francis IL, in ems he should find it necessary to make a precipitate retreat from Naples. The independence Beige of yeaterilay evening announces with great satisfaction that the Belgian civic guards are exempted from the entranoe fee for the rifle shooting at Wimbledon, to which we (lately referred. THE WOUNDED IN SICILY.—The noble generosity of Garibaldi has encumbered him with wounded enemies, whose sufferings place them in the rank of friends. The barbarous bombardment of Palermo has added a long list of casualties, and the hurried preparations which this bold enterprise demanded have not permitted any extended sup ply of medical necessities and iestrumeata. The experience of the Crimean war demonstrates how large a stock is needed, and how direst an amount of suffering accrues from ' deficiency of medical applisnees. The greater the urgency, therefore, for speedy and immediate help. The heat of the summergaSieiliattyphus-- i ani- the ini two dent groat ~ , cou highly provocative gangrene and of the com billed armies in the Crimea and of the French troops wounded in the late Italian campaign. Opium and quinine are the two sheet-enchant of the aur„non in combating these diseases ; charcoal, chloride of lime, and the like antiseptics, are hardly kW important while Imt• strapping, old linen , and rollers are of inestimable service in all military hospitals. Some of the prineiisd firms in Lon don have promised handsome supplies. Amongst them are Messrs. Whicker and Blaise, Savory and Misire, Hinther, Bigg, Allen and Banbury. T. Evans and Sons , Ferguson and Sons, F. Walters, and Lloyd Bullock, who hare each made munificent contributions, amounting in some instanoestothe value of 501. We learn that, if forthwith collected, meats ' will be found to despatch them immediately by it sure chan nel. Subscriptions can be meat economically applied, since some very liberal carers have been made by the firms which have contributed gifts to furnish all purchased articles at prices from which the profits are deductol. It is a work of pure mercy, in which political partisanship has no place. since these supplies will be employed to soothe impartially the sufferings of captured Neapolitans and of Sicilian pas triota.—The Laecet. .1