The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF OOMMONS.—WIDREIMAT. AO= SS. The Selman took the chair at 11 o'siseite PRIVATE BUSINESS. The followiag bills were standeri. sad Wiwi lobo reed third tier : —East Who Ribmap, Medias lielliweq,New- Corporstios, etosrbrii. Obb i Imperameat, TROOPS IN THE COLOIFIEL Mr. ADDERLEY asked whether arberephild been seat out is the retrains of the North Assure esierse to raise a force of her Majesty's eaterul boss so la those solo. ales for active service, sad whether seal twos bad bra designated as a trellis legion? Sir O GREY mud that instrustler bed hese Nat some time ago artitoristag the goventon aseept sears of err. vies; but the fora so raised lad esseflily aist bra driveled a for*a bane. J U KORB BILL (IRELAND). Is ewer to Mt. Dowry, XL KEOGH stated that the Jams Bill (bread) would los_peresided with oa the tay fro which it was gyrated. .01•• unopposed ntsece were ordered. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS , BILL. Oa the evanderatise of this bill, as waded, Mr. SWART said that the best sears* would be to have the bill recommitted. He would therefore we that the Speaker do leave the chair. The hoar barfly; goes fate reasittes, some asestedments were i. 'rostrata, ass the (artier imaaideratioa of the bill was sppoisted for Monday. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Oa the 111,11..0 lon the mooed nadirg of this bill, Mr. WALPOLE as mod that it should be told a sewed tire Worm as troths. He reseeded the bore that the bill had hen eq. rod is the other house by a very large sajority, wad bad only been earned is that hoer by • small me)otic,. The reasste would materially injure— marshy, religiously, sad eseially—the domestic laterite of the country, It was an entirely new law er mum which they r re shout to lute Aar, rarest from soy that had hitherto pretreated is this country. Prom the mama dates, the prohibitioes relating to merrier had bra the e alway bse s the same ; hear it wee inersheat en those percales ae to show WM great rows for it. It was true that 90 year ego • Mange had been made I. the mods ia which wan within the prohibited degrees were so he treed. Sees to that time smith marriages were simply voidable during the lifetime or the ;waves; since 1835 rose mar. Tiers had been made ipso forgo void and sail to all labiate and purpos.s. Now It was reposed to legalise magriages with deassed wires' sisters or rem; bat all ease mar riages within re prehibited Agrees wars left ostoweited. No thought that theme of VIM WIMMMI, berm r lord Lyedrust's rt. wee a rat visa room ; but thot applied the same rule to marriages whir re law ef this cratry lied always applied to thew. sanely, that those which were illegal should remain abed still. (Hear, hear.) It was thriller reasheet ea Or oohed*, it Grape the law to she MM Mingo 'Mete figa moo tw makiag the ta riser, sad soy rso that it wee lismallidaL He de e nied that there woe s perils dental be the Sr. The beer eaglet sot to stank' the darer of a few is termed parrs fir the voice of the palls Was it called *sr by Sestioad or Inlar ? No such Org. Wirers, bore the sessittee bad declared that tbe rear was oestrar M the baler of the people. The ease was the ease is loglood. The great body of the orgy were op =se the temp ; sad the last tier the serer* woo bad dr hear me Ins theca 11,011 versa of Begird rereeldised the Qum Willi a fillwes "MIR would be se wehrealy deselasstal a tide demo& hog* ars. (Rear, bars) Frain that Begird, Imbue. sad fleetleed roe oil oppose& is such a rear. he Ilemsdal why the beer should he wiped to rake a dirge whir would be ratnry to the whir rem of tbo kw frees the earliest pearl Anse Mears attentively te the whole of the ingested, la favour of the teaser, he hued they raged trainees rase two beide ; Ist, that the 'radii restriera was SIR sedge retrial urea astral ma MEOW tarty ; sad seeeadly, thet a widowed buena woo prorated Inc. glair I. his room bully the hoot Mr roe scald be applied SO ft doer of their sersr. With shrews to the religious ret of the friers he dried that the restralat was ea rhos is torero ewe • aad as to the social Grea ser while wiebraieg Chet th e was the best pashas of the childish be toss very reefs he would set ten her Ste a rd stepretber. Meer, hear.) The right hoe. redeems Mrs ushered to the edieeted test (Lev. sviii., 92), sad eressied that the Wiener draws hoes the per mission thee gt.. was fall /toes ; for If a tar were prohi bited Iron learrreg two sisters daring tbe lifetime of the lest, might it sot be argued that he was at liberty to have as luny cites as he those who were sot sisters (" Hoar, bear," sad laughter.) It was impossible to resist this in fers,; aad therm who took the permissive view of that passer were bound to bring ha a bill next smite to legalise bigamy. (Hear) He aosteaded that, both by the law of Ged sad the law of mature, the very terms of the marriage ratter were sulkiest to trfe.filt such engagements as this bill would whoa. Of 13 eases of prohitw ion ill Scripture, sere wits relatioas by mai Hags sad six only by Wed ; beam dimity was put ow the same hustieg as consanguinity. (Neer.) If • ma could sot marry his own sister, he ought aot to marry his wife's sister, Ia Leviticus it was 'irately said that if two brothers married the ram women, " it was as abominable thing." Could there be any difrareses in the ere of two siren marrying one man? He ember& that he wield see no differ. re ; oar the otistrary, it seemed of reessity to follow that in the eves of worse the proposed law rust be no lees abomieshle. But it.. if the ease were not pat so blab, all must at least admit that may was and good seen felt doubt upon the subject of these marriages. If there were doubt upon so grave a matter, Wu he sub mitted that so step ought to be takes for in such • ease the safest wares—Mat ismilitiag the least ahaege—was the wisest and the bee% So such for the religious view of the grestar ; he would neat take the ease I. is axial esprit. It bad bra said that many MOM respestable and irreproachable puma were sow is the painful prides of Sinai; re booted invalid atarrisees, and that therefore the law ought Mhe altered. He did or dry the fact that such mar riages had bra eantrared ; he woeld admit that W isiesinioe had bees able, after diligent isquiries, reale( over a keg period of yeas, to Sad 1,660 cases in whirl rimer bad serried the sisters of their dreamt wives. Bet was that any reason why the law should be altered Could not any bus. meatier pert out many other Wastes in which the law was daily beetles? He had um heard in any other MIS bat this of • proposition for as attention of the law traded epos its violation. (Hear bees.) Net only however did be May that thezepossi alteratina n would the law put a Mop to raid obi& mow eared; be asserted„ atessear Shot it well torch evils we mew estate'. This wee a queslies mob moo Shales the female thus the male sex ; sad hamss, V rabilloa M this her& of the matter, be would rim s awn shim perpidet which hod beta wriar ern the emblem by • lay ire detiorib. d herself as" es loglitherusea. a wife, owl a aleldwr." The writer la this porphist paired at met dieilleali the aliseatire, the disande. rare to. of dismode esaldere and happlaese whir would result bees this bill If It brew law. The shear would berme the rival nth* wife, sad that (tigrish* whisk now err ed. without fear as without danger, herrem the hothead sad lie wife's si.ter, would he brought to a rid. Thee the 'Wire* of the decried wife word ter the be• slt of the pre sad actuation of the mister. This wee of the nor eon. esquenee whoa it was seasidered that tliTe bill wool/ dNt elf slaws of the ossiumaity. Re kaew that it led bees said that the pressat law was tyres aisal, sad that it reseed upss the poor nee who could aet go is the smatiaspat to sem. Bat were these marriages esagbt foe by the poorer Glasse.? He would Bite the Agents of the treaniseloa la reply to this queetioa. Oat of the invalid marriages which they foiled tad been seatracted, 1M bed bees is the higher make. 1,4001. the middle, aad 60 is the lower elmem. (Bear. beer.) Thus the how would see orbs were 1b pewees faMeeM.d in this bill, sad that they were eel of dr poorer dimie. (Hear. hear.) He waned the Urn pier t eardeoreare of Masi soy other class see that vieladas off Or kw would lead to Its alteration, sad espeelaUy he did se elm be be lieved that the eonsecreesese of that altetsidea would be mods m the rely &demotes for it would shriek 15... (Hear.) The right boa. (mamma madsdad y .sass that the essand roadie( el tee bill be pastrami Mil diet day six laestbs. TY;ATTORNIIT GENERAL said that the speech to which he had jest beamed with great aillenties bad eot attend the deep emeriellen mina be Mt AM the law es it sew steed wee • her& end transited one. The argument seed in imappert of that law wee se • Ismaili Wad. It was said that the proposed elterstio• would lead to gnat social evils ; bet Were M 1111~ to that posed be was mat by • pere argemeat which, If anceessfel, disposed of the whole matter. It was said that the question was alreed_y settled by ea antheeity from which there was so appeal. To this plat be wield therefore first address himself. The is lanhiss te which the atm of thi• bill seemed to Ma Melly to fail upper est their pendia, sod le =he oily te the cue of =wisp with a sibs rimer dealsr the mite's life. This was the ocestradica shish was base eat by the hairpin- Intim pat epos the perms" by the Hebrews thesimilyss. But it we said we were &bp ender the Christian sad to the Now Tislnsseat sad the dowries* hauled spas it we aught to leek. New, be nut call the slissdes et the hones to the any elierester of tbe Obibliss nun*, mad esposidly Is no lest that great we. dismiss was gives te obentity, sad ON sociesd sawing= soda esV be mods sada dlsputedisa, sad thin =optimum' of M aIC This Is a awns 'Must would ends= why ass dillimities were Innis aim& noes surrieess. Bet they wens always permitted by the It lass catkins 'March seder dispensed's. Now that dumb sever gess rtipasse dew to marry where the smardege wee isesetssue; dist was deeply against the seripteral law. had teasing to ge► testaat countries he food that these marries= won Pin mitt= is all deems but our ewe. Now whoa be he'd that the religious pert of the tend= was, to may the lust edit, ▪ ileastbal. be would ef this bill whet debt bad they to far Min slows uses thus she did ant hold the we ses they ? had Mee the velem her saminedad wYi this quanta did set support She to whisk hid bow built ups thes e in dis ollbsr e =the arguissais is the sodal port of the wino hued apes se hos et all, bat ware is nary Wag which it is ether bed lbws Se be die ease. sum said that this bill would had Se isest eshoppismss, sad osia Nst es As a Woad, both le ele dellakilli la ben ratio Mo V ail ..‘ll :A 41:1310 LA —we-- nth mesh warred then, ' sad Meal - - he hit *Mimi Is attaching bat little weight SS is purely- We 211 t. Bat did not sells met he= the seats.' law ? liadesbi o e s :ijr. was as ail ISIS Ualabledia , that the law Moes it wogs. . tie* beeltes. It was slid Abe sell oughais items the bemie of those wise dw b o titE did nit .leas *ma miame Li i t fell with Ma *fir Maeda' t sad &baud of =by the u rgerseisa Mas unjust sad tyrsanisal law. Them who Imes bawd with the ishearlag sad rural wWarimil kora that ills esmasmies a a visa with lles lis simear, weever, lbagstse,_and many heed la a state of sea. mho hat fee Ws law - epould base seateesesd a lawful sad imelimelle sales. It wee the duty of the legisletsre to clod will Mass attire is they heed it, mad net hoes in approbessies ef imaISMILIe estate a kw the remelts of whisk we is diessemets. The ever lowing ban the law we podelve sad enbetential ; theme urged as the other Sidi wee merely isasalarty end spowelative. It wee said this visa weimaa's emestbse ; It was a gewaisa et metbseises ablidree ; did it d ems mate me diff o ring. t its s eem seitaltar they wen bande to the foldseem or le the hal Whales of ems whom they &heady Mimed is bee. amd who regarded them with Mame • millbses halter ? (Hear. bear.) Whisk alter ed.* maid say dying mother theses hr her &Urea ? The game law ereimA real sad seateatial evils. mad vasemd apishly* psi 110 wee kberostin these The Ilmie was eases is menage it hem the stelae' heel'. To dew who deemed those marriages to be woes, s drags of law woald be no to) try ; to those who deemed this sight the resent law was an Machina& tyranny. In the while history at legislation there was nothing stranger them the way la whirls this law got tato the statute book. Twenty year. we times sweeps were not void, but void able, sad that way is the lifetimes of the parties; and for many rests there bad sever bees u attempt to disturb ens of then. At length • soble duke eselimelail one, and as it was hared a aroma sad vest estates might be too great • noble and tagealit e m lizies Istraed lord istrodneed a Se all such apes s certain date. While Si. est was them\ the other Hoses et Palliasses; the EsslMp ilzsessiseesdneed a class% malting all future seseriegee veld sad aet voidable only. The set was worthy of the mode of its latredasilea. The e r os hos. goattessaa wake segesssed • whit that be stopW • aotitieg bat sumo maid tie sleep giesden Or a asessure'la whisk the beeginses mad imeseemie el imealdeg went se deeply eavelved. He gave his mese am elt support to the essi - median of db. bin. Valens argesesats were urged by Mr. Thews, Mr. Nanny, sad Mr. IC Swum against the bill, and by Mr. Cottle', Mr. M. Muss., sad Mr. T. Cuaxeine, is Its defense. lb. WHITESIDE opposed the bill, and was still speak lag whoa the clock pointed to a quarter to six, and the debate stood Adjourned. The Allrastiose Bill (Scotland) was read a third time sad passed. CHURCH RATES. Sir W. CLAY brought in his bill for the abolition of *bunk rates. The other adore of the day were then disposed of. sad the bow adjoursed at ten misuses to sig. DEBATE ON THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TO 11l EDITOR 07 701 DLU.T MM.. Brz,-1; your report of the debate es the Cam bridge 17alverelty Bill, lest alpht, you repellent ate as sag pass Lord Netherton as ow of the eemaisleners. This is a mistake. The name I propeeod was that of Lord Lythilun—l finals, year °bulks: sernat, Webb., April 26. POWIEL expreifi* • TO43ORRESTOINDIENTS. /...Lam......smb 000'''110 10110610,"101010. 1100 1 110011100 8 4 ". M . ViTily, OEM 10, Ors by. Two welt ea Me Isi 01' MGR WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam balr liondag. eh. 40a . Attersoca. 10k. Nu. Teallslimr.-ilitabg, Ose.......llharases. Um. LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 26. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EWING, APRIL 26, 1865: s elooieM in happy to explais. The only assist I realmd was that my letter bad been re ferred to the Inspector-General of Fortifleatioas. Bien that date, the 12th March, I have heard nothing further." Now Colonel PAELDeB proposition at least bears so much upon the lase of it, namely, that had his plan been adopted, the soldiernthem salves would have been taught how to build strong walls, which would have been both fin and water proof, and this, too, at a very small oost to the country. But no, the object of Government seems to havebeen to expend _ _ _ as much money es possible, without giving either the army or the country any equivalent benefit therefrom. Aldenhott camp will, -as we said a few days ago, add but one more to our long list of recent military blunders. When the intention of forming an encampment was first made known, more than one firm in this country sent in estimates and proposals to Government, regarding the erection of huts. One el these propositions was for buildings which coal be put up in an hour, and taken to pieces in half that time; and this at an expense of lees than one half what the huts now building at Aldershott will cost. But, like Colonel PABLEY, the proposers of this plan could only get for answer that their letters were "under consideration." In the mean time the camp mow electing was begun, and when finished it will not bear a favourable comparison with what might have been done in the days of Queen Amin, when the greet Duke of Menus°Rol mender-in-Chief of the English Army. wu Com- Is all this to be wondered at? The camp has been erected under the directions of the Board of Ordnance. Who compose that Board? The Master General of the Ordnance is Lord RAGLAN, now absent in the Wu.« xv. Lordship's sawn mums i. G....a air /AIM DALRYMPLE Roes, of the Artillery, as offi cer of fifty years' service. The office of Surveyor General of the Ordnance is vaunt at present. The Clerk of the Ordnance is Mr. MoNsau., a civtlum. The Principal Storekeeper is Captain Sir THOMAS thermos, a Post Lientaus us the Royal Navy. The Secretary to the Board is Mr. imam Woos, dasolar estmliaa. And by these gentlemen must all matters connected with the Ordnance Department be decidedupon. Here all wonder ceases that blunders should occur or that public money should be wasted. We want but the addition of a Bishop to the Booed to make it perfect. Were it an object of consequence to make all connected with the service useless to England and as ridiculous as possible to other nations, that ob ject would be pretty well gained by so important a board as that of the Ordnance being made np of one elderly engineer, two civilians, and a sailor. In a romance such a tale would certainly not be believed ; and yet here we have it as an undoubted fact, in the Tear of Grace 1865. So snob for cause and effect. And yet there are some few who have the hardihood to assert that no reforms are required in the administration of army drain. Fortunately the nation at large is of another opinion. Before many weeks are over some determined motion on this subject must come before Parliament—until then let us have patience and wait to see what will be done in the matter. The country has endured much patiently, but now begins to look for other men than have yet appeared to deliver us from our troubles. War we agree to—its expenses we pay for cheerfully— but when to these are added a reckless waste of life, and when our is army being made the laughing-stock of Europe, even English apathy turns round and de clares that JOHN BULL will "stand it no longer." Let Parliament take warning in time, and not mis take the present sullen silence of the nation for approval of, or even indifference to, the manner in which money and lite have been wasted during the last twelve months. The Aldershott camp is but another count in the indictment against every thing connected with our military system. That system has already been condemned by the jury of , public opinion, and woe be to its judges if they do not pus a sufficiently severe sentence upon it. No half measures will now content the country—nothing short of an entire and total change in the whole army administration can save us from the loss of our position in the seals of nations. Whoever now brings forward a proper bill fora thorough reform in military matters, will be the most popular man England has seen foe the last quarter of a century.—Daily A nos. MUSIC. SOCIETY. ml third cootert took place at Easter Hall last madam The persons was ss follows : NEW ►SIT I. - Ovular% " mope ChowliaL Gnarl Ilphipaisey t D mime, No. fy with wpa did* dam es "Ode to Joy" Daghowis. PAK U. _ - . Overture. " Kmaer If lila Drab* Xemdelasoliw diesedem bent " Paradise Lee Dr. Wilde. Cormarto b 0 Law, plamolorte. Water Joba Berea Aria, Spar Deltoid Wear. Overture, N Dco Quixote" Mastarres. Combater, Dr. Wylde. This eoscert was injudiciously arranged. It was a sir take to plass Beethovea's choral sysphoey in the first part. The sleet was that of as anti-climax. After the gigantic power mad greadear of that mighty work everything appeared weak and trivial. The overture to Nam, which began the concert, is sot sae of Cherubim?' masterpieces. It is a pretty amen piece, a good deal in the style of Mozart, bat wholly desti tute of dramatis character. It sight serve as a prelude to a light comic opera, but has nothing in ecaseca with the terrible tale of the magician of Calcium. Beethoven's sym phony was the only great feature of the concert. It was, oa the whole, wall and steadily performed. The times of the sovessents were correctly takes by the comdaetor, and the escudos was geaerally clear and satiefeetbry. The solo seal parts, too. were remarkably well sung by Madame Clara Novelly, BM Beichert, sad Blear Belletti. But the performance lacked Are, the ammo were sot flair eleutly observed, and the effect waa somewhat heavy and inowrionose. It failed, at all events, to Oiritil the andienoe ; but this night have happened at any rate, for this great work does apt appeal at onto to the popular ear. It must be efts. sad attentively heard before the intricacies of lte owtetrnstion saa be penetrated, before its designs sea be understood, sad before its battikes sae be felt sad appre ciated. Of Dr. Wylds's mosis to Paradise Lose we have had cc. aisles to speak as • whole. It is a work of great merit; bat we think that the composer hes attempted to add music to poetry which does not admit of such an additios, for the poetry of the Parasites lost has aothiag of a lyrioal cha racter. There art, however, some beautiful things in Dr. Wylds's auk, and the air sang last night by Madame Clara Novella, "For spirits when they please ea:. either sea rams," is one of them. Nothing as he leas fitted foe made than the words ; and yet the melody Is very graceful, and adorned with ingenious and happy instramentatius. Madame Novelle sang it admirably, and it was euesred with more vehement applause than woe bestowed on anything else daring the whole evening. Master John Barnett is a boy of fine talents, who, if he go on as he has began, will be a great performer. He played Meadelmoha's °escort° beautifully ; with clear, brilliant, pearly ezeeution, and much taste and ezpreedes. His phrasing was exceedially graceful, and his use of the tomportiboto wee elegant, and quite free from saaggeratios. He has sot as yet the streusels of hand requisite to bring out the full tone of the isetrament in so vast a piece; but that, of eouse,he will gain in good time. He was warmly sad meet deservedly applauded. The hall was well filled, and the eoneertdeebtlew will be profitable to the charitable isetitatioe, the Hospital !or Cesenalptica at Broceptes, which is to receive the baulk el its reseed& BF. MARK'S NATIONAL AND INFANT SCHOOLS, BT. Joss-sun= 10AD, ISLlBOTol.—Aeoasert, 1. aid of eke funds of be above charity, took plum os Tuesday eves. io Ike Bebool-rooms, Rawstente-street. The artistes who kindly seamed were: Mimes Btabbeeh, Fanny Red den. Laura Baxter, Linn Dyer, Bigoall, R.A.M., Palmer, and fledlitask, of the Loyal Opere i _Drory Leas; Maim Miriade, Ba th es, Champlos, George Tedder. Freak Forma Welter Bohm. R A.M., and Adiiegtee Wallwords. lestrementalete:—Planohrte M . Francesco Berger, Form, sad F Kiiipbury ; viol* Mr.Vtotti Collins. Tin pro gramme was of a varied sad popelez eaten, sad tM soeent Passed off nuessefully. The room was very fall, .ad the object of the toeusittee was doubtless served. The compsay of literary gentkasea who lately pea a dramatis npresestation at the Olympia Theatre, ta rid of a toolbar anther, are to appear oa Friday, the 11th of May (a fortnight afresorrow). at the Drury lase Thaw's, by the desire of ler Majesty. The piths for presentation is Mr. ranches • &mastic Idea," to be followed by the peatesinte. The proceeds of the eveathg will be added to the fads of the Welliagton Cone's. The patinae' Na palm the amateur compsay, who all belong to the Gat ti* sad Fielding Clubs, hare not authorised the annosath. meet of their appearthos epos say other theasisa than the owe Just stated. fjoisitousz.—Tbs preparatims at this plea for the great Gael ezhibitiaa of the Hertionitaral Scrim, ea the 16th of May, are la a Mate of swish Mirky. The royal eimusissleams are throwiag down walls, removiag maightly l eWeets, sad getting the serf late geed ode; so that the grew& of Grom-hones sad Gam hems sow farm am beaatifal laws, iatarspersed with noble trees, .rod admira bly adapted to the pumas, of a herticalteral rommado. The ecatmetcn for Unsay reads to Bromptes am proem& iag with all pewdble dimes* end evarythlag that ma reedit the smashes mere essantodises is is mane of rapid szesetim. Tho Hartisaltasal &els% ea its part, Ms began to pitsb its enormous Mats, and to make its ether mammals. The beselmastees of Ms military bands that are engaged have summed the Fogad wkish Shay an to osespy, sad everything premises that the iambs floral ez hibilisa will be sae of the main atasetive that has yet hoes MU Ma is the aslghbearbeed of limdcm 0 LATEST FROM ABROAD, (31' ILllOl'llO TILBOILAPK.) OP TIM DAILY ) PARIS, WIDSIIIDLT 3,1.110. A Marseilles despatch, of yesterday, says : " General Bisot was not killed, but he received a eons wound in the neck. (rllOll TIN "1,200 French, who were digging a trench before the Mast Battery, had to sustain four furious Rus sian charges. • " Ia all the Russians were repulsed. "The French loss in the affair was 160 men put hors do combat, and General Bisot and two Con• minders wounded. m There had been no serious engagement slow. Th, l aw of the Auto. fawn tha fir. of the place averaged 100 per day. " The front of the Quarantine Battery was de stroyed, and all the other fortifloatioas were da maged. _ _ . " The enemy repaired by night part only of this damage. The continued wet makes working difficult foe all. We had great trouble to dig the fourth parallel. It was an admirable and sudeciona achievement. " There was a rumour on tho 14th, that Omer Pasha and General Bonnet were going to operate spinet Liprandi. " A despatch in the Conattletionnel, dated Konigs berg, April 23, states that Bessarabia, the government of Kiew Bodolia, and the government of Kerma are placed order military jurisdiction. " The command of the Army of the South has been given to General Leiden. " General Annenkoff is recalled, and goes on a minion extraordinary to Turk." THE BALTIC A ecesalar notification h been made at Memel that the blockade of Liken oommeneed on the 17th inst. The blockade of the ports between Lib's and Rip oornmenced on the 19th. A tilegraphie despatch from our own correspond ent informs us that the following vessels arrived at Elsinore yesterday : Magicians', Geyser, Snap, Snapper, Cuckoo, Gleaner, Pelter, and Princess Alice. The latter broke her connecting-rod while on the voyage. The Cuckoo proceeded.—Daily NOM. ALDERSHOTT CAMP. IN organising a Camp of Instruction as the Go vernment have done at Alderahott, three objects should have been kept in view. In the first place, a Commandant who had experience in actual warfare ought to have been appointed to superintend the instruction of the troops to be quartered there. In the w coed, materials should have been provided wherewith to teach these troops how to prot. ct them selves against the weather. And, in the third place, inducements should have been held out to such re spectable firms in England as build iron, wooden, and other houses, to enable them to show what means modern science has invented, by which buildings could be constructed capable of holding soldiers, and able to be either put together, or taken to pieces, at the shortest notice. What has been done towards carry. lug out these Weft P Nothing whatever. The officer appointed to command the camp is a gentleman of sixty years of age, who for forty years of his life saw no service beyond parade d4ye in Hyde-park or guard mounting at St. James's Palace. The huts for the troops are constructed and ready for thins. Bad as is the manner in which they are built, and defective as will be the protection they can afford against the weather, the soldiers who are to be encamped at Aldershott will learn nothing whatever in the way of sheltering themselves from the rain and cold. Thome buildings are in point of fact simply very bad bones. The regiments that occupy them might— so far as gaining any practical knowledge of the I duties of butting themselves is concerned just as well be quartered at any military barracks in Dublin, Weedon, or London. As to the third requisite— that of making the camp a means of figs& ing out the best style of huts which makes invention can construct foe field purposes—it km Man also entirely ignored. Had this latter idea been serried eat—had the many iron, wooden, and other portable hems-buildiog firms been invited to test their various plans in the camp—the whole of the troops mimed to Aldershott might have been hutted in foe next to nothing, instead of the camp costing, as It will do, an immense cam to the country. What says the Builder—a professional journal on such matters regarding the huts at Aldershott P " The arrangement of the huts is not good. In fact, we should not be honest if we did net say that it seems to us to be very bad. A flat ceiling is formed with boarding at the level of the underside of the debating ; and l ir windows, hinged at the top to make the matter erne, are placed low in on the sides of the hut, not more than 4 feet 6 inches from the hinges to the floor. The room has the aspect of a large egg-box; with a quarter of a hundred men sleeping in it, the atmosphere will become poisonous." And in another part ot the same article we Sod this paper saying— " Nothing will be gained, we suppose, bymoustomiag the men to get ill and be cured. They will not be any better prepared thereby to stand unavoidable uowhole . _ some 'intimates when the time of real struggle arrives." On questiocs like that of building huts, the Builder may be considered an undoubted authority ; and much is its j.dgment on what may with truth be termed "the gigantic blunder at Aldarshott." What can be the result of such an undertaking? What benefit an accrue to the young regiments sent there to learn the duties they will be celled upon to fill when sent into the field P Provision to teach them the practical work of hutting themselves during a campaign, there is none whatever. Colonel Panay, a diactoriishad dicer of the Indian army, whose letter appeared in our yesterday's issue, says in that communication- I 'l beg to remark, that in the beginning d last month I made a coo anniestioa to Mr. Moweal.t., of the Board et' Ordnance, propesiog that walls of rammed earth should be adopted (for the Aldenhott amp); and that I' had an improved frame for that purpose, EMANCIPATION OF THE PRESS. “In the first plane, however, be would have every writer sign his name. In the neat Owe we sublime. be would have sU the leadion articles written in that peculiar style whit& may he desaribed u a oar btnation of buffoonery with slander.”—Vide Daily News" of April 24. - Just now, dear Editor, I saw You comment on the views Of Angel D—d, with his law For Editors sod News. I understand his double claim ; But is it, then, worth while To make each writer give his nerve If all take D--d's style ? Mischief and folly, mingled so, By critic censor summoned To prove the author whence they flow, Why need they answer, D—d ? No jester, for he lulu t►e wit; No *emu, but censorious,— How is t►e Commons' humour hit ? Whew* comes their mirth uproarious? "Fools rub where angels would not tread," Ezeeptions prove the rule ; Sometimes (it's reverently said) The Angel plays the Fool. JACK IN THE BOX. THE LOSS OF THE CRIESUS. The lees of the Crcomm, mentioned yesterday in the Doily News, warred on Tuesday morning. The ship be longed to the General Screw Company, and is the third I which they have lost within the last two months; the Mauritius having bees desttoyed by fire, and the Natal having been wrecked. The Cronus was one of the finest ships the company possessed ; she was 2,500 tons burden, sad was commanded by Capt. Hall, the commodore of the fleet. Her loss is calonland at 99,0001., bet she is insured oily for 57,0001., at Lloyd's and elsewhere. Borne of the secants received state that sin soldiers and one sailor were lost. Coact Cavour, President of the Council of Ministers, visited Genoa on the 20th, to witness the embarkation of the troops. On the evening of the 20 b. the British cfficers gave a banquet and ball on board the Jason to the officers of the Piedmontese expedition. The Scotsman, of yesterday, report, that " vegeta tion is making rapid promos, forest trees and shrubs incepted ; the buds of the earliest of thee* are only now beginning to swell ; and the corn crops are almost every where showing a vigorous braird. Field labour is now nearly ea far advanced ss is usual at this period, sowing being generally completed, and the planting of the potato in all the earlier districts fully one-half accomplished, while en occasional farms the whole planting has been finished. Grass is still extremely scanty where the fields a►e stocked with sheep." - - Further papers relating to the estimates, &c., for civil services for the year ending March 31, 1856, show that for espeasse connected with law and justice, the sum re. quind for the period named will be—Boehm& 461,9541. (being an increase over the previous year of 8,6861) ; Scot land, 124,7971. (au increase of 1,1921); and Ireland, 741,0871. (a decrease of 16,7951) The estimates for colonisi, consu lar and other foreign services are 328,3441., being s derrease as compared with 1854, of 13,1171. Field-Marshal Radetsky is at present at Florenoe. Among the strangers attracted to Genoa at the present moment, by the embarkation of troops, ars Gen. Pepe and Father Laoordeire. Rossini was daily expected. For the forthoomiog flower show in the Chip. Blysdss of the Paris Horticultural 8 misty, a large space of ground in the Carts; de l'Elysle bas been transformed into a garden to the Beglish style. Pier hothouses are to be erected for tropical plants, sad Indian and Arab tents for pleats and Gwen from those ommtries. _ . . The Post intimates that the telegraph from the camp before Sebastopol to London is complete, and that messages have passed to and fro. Head-gearters, Bala kites, are bat some few hours distant from the Wu-office, in Whitehall. On the 13th the wire-301 miles long— had been dropped between Cape Helium near Yates. and Bt. Georges monastery, bat the wire from Hainan to Yarns, a listanos of twenty miles, had not been quite com pleted. The completion of the latter line was expected in the coarse of a week, sad that dabbed, messages front the Allied head-quarters would reach Paris or , London in something lees than a second l The Crimean eoneepoodent of the Herald says that the first telegraphic massage emit from Hallam to the Moautery, was the important intelligence that ' , Corporal Somebody was sot well, and had Put takes a does of castor ell." The reply was, " Hope it may do hiss good." The Belgian Chamber of Representatives re ueseated on Tuesday, when a series of ezylanatione took Sam, both on the part of the new ministry sad on that of the representatives who had been salted upon by the King to attempt the formation of a Cabinet. I A proclamation from the Emperor of the Preach I t the array is expected to appear Laa early amber of the geositnr. THE INCREASE IN THE SPIRIT DUTIES. Tux proposal of the CHANCELLOR of the Excus WEI to increase the duties levied on spirits in Soot land and Ireland was one of the items of his Budget to which we at first felt inclined to demur. Our principal reason wu a fear that the augmented duty would have a tendency to stimulate illicit distillation. We find upon inquiry that scarcely any apprehension on this score prevails among the persons moot con , versant with and interested in the subject, and there fore our main objection to the proposed increase falls to the ground. There remain, however, some contider &dons bearing on the subject which appear to be not unworthy of attention. The question is complicated by the cireumstanos that in point of fact two different rates of duty are levied upon two different classes of home-made spirits. The rate of duty upon spirits distilled from grain is nominally the same as that upon spirits dis tilled from malt. But in the ease of the latter the duty upon malt itself operetta as an additional duty on the spirits produced from it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposes to allow a drawback of Is. 4d. per gallon on spirits distilled from malt ; but this will still leave a malt duty never lean in amount than Bd. per gallon on this ohms of spirits, in addition to the spirit duty. At prevent the duty on British malt spirits, including the malt duty, is in England 9s. 2d., in Scotland es. Bd., and in Ireland 6s. 4d. If the proposal of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is sanctioned by Parliament, the rates will be— In England, Bs. Bd.; in Scotland Be. 6d.t and in Ire land Bs. &I. The first question is, how will this affect British malt spirits in the market, in their competition with colonial spirits P The duties on colonial spirits, ac cording to the Citeeczuza's scheme, will be in England, Be. 2d.; in Soothed, fie. 2d.; and in Ire land, 13s. 4d. This leaves a difference of 4d. in favour of colonial spirits in all parts of the United Kingdom. There is no difference in the prime of the two commo- dities to warrant such a difference of duty—equiva- lent to a bounty of 4d. per gallon on colo nial spirits; for colonial spirits sell in the market a► a pries u high, or indeed higher than the home - made article. Nor is the 4d. per gallon of duty in excess the only dis advantage with which our home distillers from malt will have to contecd. The home producers--both the =Hater and distiller—are fettered in their working by very stringent Excise regulations, which enhance the cost of the manufacture, and from which the colonial distiller is free. It may also be mentioned that the estimated amount of malt duty, to be charged upon every gallon of spirits distilled from that material, will prove to be in fact considerably tutder the mark. If the produce of spirits exceeds the rate of two gallons for each bushel of malt, the distiller is charged with the duty on a bushel of malt for every two gallons in exams. Thou, for example, if from a quarter of malt (eight bushels) he prolapse twenty gallons, be is obargedi the seam as if he had nod ten bushels. It is pro posed by (we believe) a majority of the malt dis tillers that a drawbacc of Is. 10d., instead et the proposed drawback of Is. 4d. per gallon, for malt duty, should be allowed upon malt spirits. This indeed would give a duty of 2d. a gallon lees on the home made spirits than on the colonial ; but as the revenue restrictions on distillation were estimated by Parlia ment, in 1848, equivalent to a difference of 4d. per gallon against the home distiller, and in favour of the colonial, this would still leave the latter an advantage amounting to 2d. per gallon. The surcharge arising from the peculiar method of charging the malt duty on spirits must also be kept in remem brance. The claim of the home distillers from malt appears, therefore, to be no more than reasonable. - There is another consideration connected with this proposal to allow a drawback for malt duty of Is. 10d. instead of Is. 4d., on every gallon of malt spirit', that deserves attention. Since 1848, •drow back of the whole duty oa malt used in making spirits has been allowed upon all malt spirits ex ported. This has called into existence a considerable export trade in spirits. But as long as a higher duty is imposed upon malt spirits entered for home con sumption than on malt spirits entered for export, • wide door is opened for frauds on the revenue, by substituting grain spirits for the malt spirits entered for exportation, and introducing malt spirits for home consumption at the rate of duty charged on grain spirits. The allowance of a 10.10 d. drawback on all malt spirits would simplify the export systole, and remove the temptation to such frauds. So far as we can learn, the objections of the Scotch and Irish spirit trades to the proposed increase of duty rest mainly on the considerations here adverted to. - A atauusuppostiluu. livwever, la threatened I to the resolution for charging the additional spirit duty on the stocks of dealers, rectifiers, 8:c. It is alleged that such a proposal is contrary to former practice. This is true; but it must also be remembered that it is made under altered circumstances. The additional duty now proposed is, with one exception, greater than any that has been made since 1819; there is, therefore, much more risk of loss to the revenue if stocks are left untouched. Great advantage was taken by dealers, when the last addition was made in 1854, by paying duty on large quantities before the increased duty came into operation. Distillers, too, are now allowed to have stacks, and might thus escape the additional duty to a considerable amount. Lastly, as the trade in spirits between England and Scotland, from dealers' stocks, is to be entirely nitre. stricted after the equalisation of the spirit duties in these two oonntries takes effect, if the additional duty is not charged on the dealers' stocks in Scotland, they may send large quantities of spirits on which only 6s. per gallon has been paid to compete with spirits upon which the English dealers have paid 711. 10d. However unpalatable it may be, the levying of the increased duty on stocks seems really no more than equitable.—Daily News. %TIN Court. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Boyd sad the Prineemes Alice, Helena, and Louisa, and sites* by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Has. dJoald, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, went to Glottos.ter-haus yesterday morning, and paid a visit of oosgratulstioa to Ms Dachas of Gloucester oa the auspicious return of ka t birthday. Prises Albert, with the Prince of Wales and P • Alfred, rods on horseback, attended by Colonel Beywww, and also paid a congratulatory visit to the royal dictum M Gloucester-house. The Duchess of Heat "kited the Queen, and afterwards. sorempanied by the Primes of liohealohe-Lingenhergeng the Prince's Adelaide, and the Prince of Leiniegeo, vent to pay a congratulatory visit to the Dueling of filoneestal in the forenoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in an ape landau end four in the afternoon, accompanied by tb s Princess of Hohenlohe•Lengeobarg and the Prhteft Ada. laide of liokenlohe. The Equerries in Waiting attended on horseback. Mr. Daniell, of Bond-street, bad the honour of submittial "the Imperial Dessert Service," manufactured for the 'French Exhibition, to the inspection of her Majesty sag Prince Albert. The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of her Majesty, The Queen and Prince Albert visited the Duchess of Gloucester in the evening, accompanied by the Prinean Royal, the Princess Alice, the Princess of Rubenlobe•ly, genburg, and the Princesses Adelaide and Feodore of th , henlobe, the Prince of Loiniugen, aad Prince Victor of liohealohe. The royal suite caulked of the Count* of Desert, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel B eyrooar. The Dashes, of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Rads Dawson and Lady Fanny Howard, /lilted the Dachas ce Gloucester at Gloucester House last evecios, The Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Rory am the Duke of Cambridge paid visits of cougratalatioa to the Doottooo of Gloucester yesterday. The Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., Sir Culling Nuc l. and Mr. Whestisy, had an Interview with Sir George Om yesterday, at the Home•office, on the subject of Sm ug catholic primate demanding acceu to all Roman cat's:dim la confinement at Brixton gaol. A meeting of the Ost,rd University Commission was bell on Tuesday, at No. 18, Great Quesa.strett, wawa's*. The rommissionen present were the Earl of Ellesmere, Ma Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Ripon, Mr. Junes Celt* rids*, the Dean of Wells, and Sir John Awdry, with the secretaries. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-ernes ta the governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the Yetwitirn THE APARTMENTS OF THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH AT WINDSOR CASTLE. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty the Queen having been graciouly pleased to command that the ►uite of &penitents unpin', by hie Imperial Msjesty Napoleon the Third sad it. Empress Eugenia during their late suspicious visit Anil be shown to the public under the saute restrictions sad me. ladies as the privets apartments of the Csatle, it =it be metal to state that no person can ol.tain admission wittuld an order from the Lord Chamberlain, which order en Its obtained only at the office of his lordship, in Landon, eat in every instance a written application must be made. Up to the present time, no day has been named for the band the Lord Chamberlain's orders, nor is it known owe lbw long a period such issue will extend. The state &penitent will remain closed against ordinary orders until due en* of their opening has appeared in the London Casette. _ . Both lines of railway, on Monday monsiog, brought on immense cumber of respectable visitors. who were under the impression that they could procure tickets for admiesion the state and imperial apartmen , s, by making application at the Winchester Tower. Laterday and tte.Cay the arrivals, for the same purpose, have been equally numerous, sad tbe greatest eagerness is evinced to vise the apartment/06.14nd by the Emperor and Empress. The propootd arrangement, with respect to the issue of tickets, is looked upon as being too exclusive. The Earl Fitzhardinge has arrived at Berkeley Howe, from Berkeley Castle. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adelina Fitzalan Howard have arrived in St. James square from ArundeL Castle. Ltrd and Lady Edward Fi , zalan Howard hate arrived at their residence at Rader& gate, Hyde park. Her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland paid a vWt yesterday on board the Bellerophon at Portsmouth, la Captain Lord George Panlet. A report of the death of the Duke of Marlborough reached Oxford yesterday afternoon. To-morrow the Earl of Shaftesbury presides ova the fourth annual meting of the Protestant Alliance, sad Sir R. Inglis ever the annual meeting of the Church id England Young Men's Society for Aiding Missions st home and abroad. The committee of the Kiog's College Hospital hate obtained Lord Palmerston as chairman at their dianerte ►e held on Wedn:sday, in celebration of the openias of the new building. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge presides over the aaniversary dinner of the Lock Halpin! and Asylum on Saturday. The Royal Botanic Society's exhibitions of plan* Aware, and fruit, this seaesn, will take place on Weds* dye, May 9, June 13, and July 4; and of American Pleats. June 18. On Monday the directors of the Crystal Palos intend issuing guinea season tickets, available to the 30th April, 1836. These tickets wi►l entitle the holders to the esclusive privilege of admission to the Palace end park at the Horticultural and Floricultural Ft tee, is be bold* Saturday, the tail June, and on the occasion of playiog the whole of the grand fountains and cascades fur the first tiara It is intended to hold a'• Grand Bazaar" in Lon• dos next month, to promote the movement now making la eztead the use of free labour in cotton goods, with a viell to the discouragement of slavery in the American Stale'. Deputations from the Wholesale spirit trade it Edinburgh and Glasgow, are about to wait upon the Chsa• cello? of the Baths quer to endeavour to prevent Owing* salon of the increased duties upon stocks in hand. _ . . A plant of the new and beautiful species of ?bode. deadron, the rhododendron Edgewnrtbi, ii now &raid( in the Experimental Osrd.li at - Edinburgh, being the find of the kiad which baa flowered in Scotlaud. It is a 'sties of the Sikkim, Himalaya mountains, whence seeds were sent to this country by Dr. Joseph Hooker in 1850, and di r. tribated by the government. There is a decrease of 52 in the number of sppli• Mises for licences under the Public-house Act in the telf of Edinburgh, this year as compared with last. Important freehold property belonging to the Marquis of Easter, and situated in the Bused, liseterelrsete Wellington-street North, Catherine-street, and Endow ,Mtge,—was sold at auction yesterday, by Aldstass Farebrother, for 51,8001. It is said to be worth curb 3,0001. a year. Captain Soobell has given notice that he intesk calling the attention of the House of Commons, to-mortei evening, to the " count-out " of Tuesday last. A Bath journal earnestly contesting the me.. resumes of an article in a local contemporary, is whisk the decline of the city is avowed, mentions a ciresessekees which it thinks is not a little eloquent on the hopeful side-- it is that ono milliner, of Milsom-strset, last week sold noir throe new bonnets / The Cheltenham Examiner mentions the departs" from that town on Monday, of numerous Mormon es re* for Liverpool, there to take ship for " the great Salt Leh City." Among them were several persons of respects the character. The vessel in which they are to sail will be the fourth which the "Sainte " have chartered from Limped since Christmas, easb vessel taking out from 600 to 70 passengers. The Mormons boast that not one of them shlie bas ever ben lost, or even disabied in a sues. The solicitors for the defendant in the late digs ma. cue of Evans v. Robinson, state that, although the difindant and Mrs. Evans were ready and willing to be" made an affidavit, denying that they had ever bad criminal intercourse together, yet, " looking at the WNW state of the criminal law, and the power of any persee• of revenge, to prefer an indictment at the Old Bag b . ' bind the back of another, and also, considering the chit* ter of the witnesses called on the trial, and the unsettle lons means used by the plaintiff to obtain them ' we eavla Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Evans not to asks the s eld a vit, sad if the blame is to be attached to any one for the to sot being made, it must be thrown upon us." I