The Express. — London, England, 1861-05-30 00:00:00

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To•A•saow —Dank& ID. 66-- Allossa6 76 L. LONDON, THURSDAT, MAY 30. non affecting to apprehend a violation of the dignity of the House of Lord', the Tory party has come to menace the House of Commons with a real degradation. All the efforts of the Opposi tion are directed to induce the House to change its resolutions on the Budget, in disregard of con siderations which have influenced its deliberate judgment. And how is this to be effected t Not by bringing new facts to light or in reimposing old arguments. No reliance whatever is placed on such means of influence. But a flagitious appeal is made to a section of the House. The Irish Members are invited to oppose the Government under an implicit promise that in return they shall be helped to " loot the Treasury." Anything more insulting than the appeal which was made yesterday to those hon. gentlemen by a Conser vative contemporary we cannot imagine. Ireland has been vary ill used by men who have been permitted to trade upon ber claims. The Galway Mail-packet subsidy has been shamefully mismanaged, as might have been expected of an arrangement which, from the first, took its phice ' among political jobs ; titter and inexcusable failure has compelled the Government, after forbearance unexampled and scarcely venial, to cancel the con tract with the Royal Atlantic Company. No- body disputes the justice and necessity of the resolution. Yet the Tories, instead of supporting the Government in maintaining an honest control over the money of the taxpayers, are stirring up the Irish members to resent the with drawal of the subsidy as a national injury. Lord Pittisrestros has said in Parliament that the Go vernment is ready to listen to any reasons which can be given for restoring the grant. But the Irish members are audaciously told by the principal organ of the Tory party that they must not be satisfied with this reasonable as surance, but that public feeling is too strong in Ireland for a single Irish member to record a vote with safety in support of the present Government, until, at least, " the subsidy has " been unconditionally restored." No baser air' peal was ever made to a set of public men. De grading as it is to those to whom it is made, it is infinitely more so to those who make it. We do not envy the honourable members of the Conser vative party—the W LPOL Mt, H Inc LILY'S, and IlesnicirrEs—ehose reputation is entangled in these infamous tactics, which, for the honour of Parliament, the Government is bound to find means to defeat. We should be way W see a piece of secondary administrative business exalted into a critical question by the arts of fac• tion, and we hope sincerely that the next general election will take place on some issue of higher importance than a mail-packet contract. But if the Tories by a corrupt compact with any section of the House compel Lord PArrsaerow to dissolve Parliament, we shall look confidently for such a vindication of public morality as will teach plotters and oontrivers a wholesome lemon, and perhaps shame the Tory managers into a little more decency than they have of late thought it neces sary to put on. Sts JOHN R•VPIDWI imitates Mr. HORNIIAN not only in flinging virulent epithets at the men who gale him office and brought him into note, but likewise in the recklessness of his tone in repudiating the principles of the party to which he recently belonged. It is not enough that he should vituperate the policy of the Govern ment as " petulant and mean," and stigmatize the calculations of the ensson.um of the EXCHICQUIR as worthy of no more reliance than the gambling guesses of some nameless speculator on the Stock Exchange. The foreign policy of the Liberal . . . . . . Administration is no doubt as hateful in the sight of the resonant member for the West Riding as that which they pursue in matters of finance ; and the allies, whose confidence and friendship it is of most importance to the people of this country to preserve, ere made the especial objects of Su• Raustunv's and Mr. Hoea rrAx's abuse. As France is the favourite aver sion of the sardonic mis-representative of Stroud, so America and her institutions are selected as the theme of the hon. baronet's affected scorn. He cannot repress the exultation felt by many of the clam to which ho is ambitions of being thought to belong, at the unhappy differences which have arisen between the Northern and Southern States. A system of free government which for more than seventy years has conferred the uninterrupted blessings of peace and prosperity on one of the greatest nations of the world, is looked upon by the political coxcombs of what calls h o w good society in this country as a huge bubble, whose bursting may be taken for granted at the first touch of internal discord, and whose dispersion into elemental anarchy would be a fit and seemly matter of rejoicing. Vehement cheers from the :sltine., section of the House of Com mons greeted the unwise and unworthy fling of the Huddersfield baronet at the people and insti tutions of America. With the ineptitude of inex pert sauciness, the Whig deserter, almost in the same breath, professed to lament from personal knowledge the commercial consequences already perceptible from American troubles, and pretended to find cause for aristocratic satisfaction in the downfall of the Republican constitution of the great commonwealth. It is no part of our duty, ear has it ever been our wont, to extol American institutions at the expense of our own. We are equally averse to invidious comparisons made for the purpose of copying what is inapplicable or of depreciating in others what does not suit ourselves. Political observations of this kind have always seemed to us i n effably silly, narrow-minded, and mischievous. To disparage our own laws because they are not faahioned in the same mode as those THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 186 L which prevail among our neighbours betrays a want of national self-respect as unpatriotic as it is unsound ; but to abuse the privilege of the Senate house to vilify and caricature the constitution of a free and friendly people, from no other motive than that of gratifying the impulses of pique or faction, indicates a moral and intellectual levity of character wholly inconsistent with all that should distinguish the trustworthy politician— for of statesmanship it were absurd to speak. Were the United States an unimportant or insignificant example of representative rule, it would be bad taste in any member of the British Legislature wantonly to select a moment of trouble and of peril to utter words of ridicule or insult. But looking at the greatness of the Re public as it has hitherto existed, and the place which it has held among the free and peaceful governments of the world ever since the time when the despotic and bloodthirsty sway of Grome 111. was by heroic resistance brought to ' an end, it is sheer impertinence in one who has never yet done or said anything worthy of remem brance in his own country or in any other, to chatter flippantly, as this immature Tory baronet is reported to have done the other night, about the " bursting of the great Republican bubble." In common with every right-thinking man on either aide of the Atlantic, we rejoiee to believe and know that Anglo-Saxon liberty, under whatever emblems or titles it exists, is no ephemeral or hollow phantasm. It is a solid reality, founded in goodness and truth, and cer tain to outlive the courtier jeers and sycophantic sarcasms of would-be find gentlemen of whatever degree. There was no lack of palace politicians in the days of Gaoling Caesviur., who lisped or gasped out their silly prophecies that the people of America could not form a government outside the shadow of royal patronage, and without Le help of hereditary wisdom. When the noble edifice of the Federal Union rose into sight the palace politicians of Westminster had another set of fatuous vaticinationa as to the certaiuty'of its rapid fall into utter ruin ; yet throughout the lifetime of successive generations it has remained unshaken and entire, while year by year the circuit of dominion of which it was the centre has continued steadily and splendidly to increase. And now for the first time there has come in Ame rica what has many a time occurred in England— the sad ordeal of civil strife. Everybody, ex cept Sir Jont RANNDXX and the ignorant and con ceited cliques of which ho would be thought the parliamentary mouthpiece, knows that the annals of mankind contain no instance of a greet people having wholly escaped the trials and vicissitudes of domestic war : for no great people has ever yet been formed of homogeneous elements ; and it has invariably happened as the growth of the dis crepant materials of nationality has proved un equal, that jealousy and distrust have broken forth amongst them with more or lees of suddenness and violence. What has been our own history ? What that of Spain, of France, of Italy, of the Low Countries, or of the Scandinavian Kingdoms? What is the whole history of the growth of Greece in civilization, arts, and arms; and whet the his tory of clunk Room t How should America elude the lot of humanity ? The marvel is, and the true praise of her popular institutions, that for eighty years they have satisfied the divers wants of many confluent races, whose streams of population, enterprise, and feeling have peace fully intermingled under the flag of the Union, as few such element& have ever been known to do be fore. But we no more believe that the virtue of Anglo-Saxon freedom on the other aide of the Atlantic is spent, because that freedom is today subjected toits firstgreat trial, than we believe that the practical sum of the wisdom and worth of our own Parliament would be lessened by the abstrac tion therefrom of Messrs. Holmium and and all who cheer their ungenerous, unwise, and tin-English rhodomontades. Whatever be Ca territorial issue of the struggle impending in Ame rica, the truly great, because the truly self-govern ing, portion of the States will still remain united, federally and democratically free. It is, as we have often said, and as is now made plainer than ever, the oligarchical ingredient of the slave-driving planter class that has alone created the present disturbance. The sympathies of Sir Joss Rams- DIN and of all who are like him, are with the slave driving separatists, the hereditary landowners, the leisure and wealth-Loving squirearchsof the Southern States. No doubt they imagine that their secession must, if they can effect it, inflict a fatal blow on the grandeur and security of the Union. For our part we believe nothing of the kind ; but, on the contrary, that time will speedily prove, although the mode of proof may be painful, that the principles of soli-government, of persevering industry, of liberty of opinion and of speech, will vindicate themselves throughout all that is best, richest, and noblest in the American States ; and that the Republic which Warm'xo roll, Avails, and FRANKLIN founded, will long continue to be a blessing and a boast for the race to which we belong. The Times hears the rumour that term, have been wade by which the support of the partisans of the Galway route has been secured. It is said that the snhaly is to he sentinsed fur six maths longer. "If this be true," says the Timm, " the meaning is that 36,000/. is to be paid to • priests company is order that a nmeaure of imperial polity may be carried through parliament. We trust thin is set ao. We refuse to bermes it. Better a thousand time be defeated by • narrow majority than inaugurate are mart is thins country the reign of parliamentary cor ruption. Let it once go forth that it is only by brans out of the pubis pane that • parliamostary arebrlty an be hold together, sod the foundation has been laid for a readies egaiest ear purest eonatitution far Mine serious qan eaything that has hitherto bees coolimpilia" COMICS R AID THEIR 13077011 T is seteriese after all that los bees said of the eanduet of °present. of the rate is relegate all ocespromiee, that its supporters have so aompmim to offer, that they sre at sizes sad never se to tM principle ou which one might be framed, and that at the meet by debates, is, Jobs Trelaws 's bill, they woull leave the question is the oleo ble position in which it now stands. le the Guardian of Ltd sight we real :—" We are all agreed that Sir Jobs Trelawny's Liu must be defeated, and churchmen must cot fed to mark any defaulter MI Wednesday scat. As to the sett step, we unfortunately are yet so wood. The compromise to be proposed, we bars, at • meet* of the Church Institutioe en Tuesday east, of lissitiag the rato to th. fabric, is use that will not satiety say petty in or out of tarlisment, sod we trust will sot be persisted la." Bvaerr TWA WATS.—The tailwa7 departntu ut of the Board of Trade, in reportiest cie this subject, state that the iatroduction of tramways to be worked by animal power into streets of populous towns has been attended with adraatage, as they duel ice eased facilities in speed, e"aysninton, ash shorams, to cooveyiag paseetmers, and especially goods or bathe between distant points, mad particularly to or from the terminal stations of rail. which, in • large city, are generally situated at • considerable diabetes from he emir, and each other ; hat where the straits ere sorrow, tans saddest or frequent, ereesoleset• sunierem, tied the Irene large, the advantage may eat 10 mash outweigh the inevitable iaconvesienem as to seder it dedesble to permit th• easstrection of the btunetsy, or, at least, the me of it, at a rate of speed ex ceeding Met whisk vehicles as maintain on the ordinary Me/ L say awe where statutory powers are given for the ciendenetion of • tramway along the opts streets of a tows it wo ad be proper that the greatest height and depth of thetas% above or below th e surface of the read should be Naked. _ NEW RIFLE RIDGIWENT Volt THE CITY. —Her Majesty• Commissioser of Lieutenancy for th•Ot) of London bare sanctioned the formation of a 4th My cif London Ries Volunteer Regiment, end the propoitios will Le forthwith rubinitted t the Secretary of Main for Wu fee her Majesty's animal. rDt Court. OgBORNE. MAT 29. The Count of Flanders, atkoded by Major Se mll. left Osbeeas yesterday for London. Thosibseett and soul Family walked in the pose& A Cabinet Council was held ) - (*terday at the off cial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir G. Come wall Lewis, Lord John Rumen, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Sir George Grey, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Commander Blake had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India Islands and Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governor et Canada. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailea, with the Lady Jalia Camas, have arrived at the Burlington Hotel, front Waxen Cradle, Ayrshire. The Countess Frances Waldegrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., gave a grand dinner last evening in Carl- tau-gardens, to the following :—Their Royal Highnesses the Count de Paris and the Doke de Chartres, the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough, Count Platen, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, the Countess Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper, the Earl of Tankervilie, Lady Frederick Bentinck, Lord and Lady Egerton, Sir David Dundee, Mr. and Lady Hanna Wardlaw, Mr. FOIieICIIN and Mrs. Malcolm. Viscount and Viscountess Galway have arrived at Almond's 1144, Cliffordutrest, frau Berlby, Notts. Lady Emily Haukey's balls are fixed for the 18th sad 21A d June, and sot for the 3rd sad llob proximo, u previously sasouassoL Lady John Thynne and Mies Thynne have ar rived at the Qatea's Hotel, Upper Norwood. The Countess Fitzwilliarn gave her first ball this men /ant evening in Gronvenor-aquare. The Rev. C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Vicar of Don saw, is to preach at Westminster Abbey on the 30th of Jar. It is stated that the Deanery of Exeter has been offered to the Ret. Professor Ellicott. Lord Brougham has consented to preside at a public meeting which is to be held on Saturday, the Bth ci June, in St. Jame?' Hall, for the promotion of self supporting boardiogochools for the lower and middle them in °amnion with St. Nicholas College, Shoreham. Government have granted the Royal Irish Aca demy 1001. a year for the recovery of antiquities in Ireland through the agency of the constabulary. A rumour is prevalent in Dublin to the effect that the London Irish Volunteers are about to honour Ireland with a visit. Saunders lays that their visit would be welcome, and that • guard of honour selected from mesa theme officers and members who might come, would be a Wing escort for his Royal Highness the Prince ci Wales, to whose arrival the citizens of Dublin are looking hewed with oonsiderable pleasiue. The special correspondent of the Times gives the fellow* as put of :the programme of the southern states of America:" It in intended to buy up all the cotton crop width can be brought into the market at an average price, and to give bonds to the confederate dates for the amount, these bonds being, as we know, secured by the export duty on cotton. The government, with this cotton crop in its own hands, will nee it as a formidable machine of war, for cotton can do anything, from the establishment of an empire to the securing of a shirt button. It I at once king and subject, muter and servant, captain and soldier, artillery man and gun. Not one bale of cotton will be permitted to seder the northern states. It will be made an offence punishable with tremendous penalties, among which mu- Aeration of property, enormous fines, and even the penalty ot death, are enumerated, to send cotton into the free Antes. Thus Lowell and its kindred factorise will be re duced to rain, it is said, and the north to the direst distress. If Manchester can get cotton and Lowell cannot, there are good times coming fur the millotroen." The correspondence between Mr. Alcock, our minister at Yeddo, and Lord John Russell, respecting the mood difficulties in Japan, has been published. These docementa comprise a history of the diplomatic events which pew oat of the murder of the American Secretary of LepAirra. Mr. Alcock's closing despatch announces the restoratiou of friendly relations with the Japanese govern ment, sad his return to Yeddo. Lord John Russell es messes his satedaction with this announcement, and ap proves of the course taken by lir. Alcock. _ A letter from Vienna, of the 25th, says :—" A pamphlet has just been seised here, entitled, ' The Revival of Poked.' It is written by Y. Rometal, a person of some consideration to ultramoatane circlet The author, in this work, considers the ndablishmsnt of Poland, on the payeeint of an equivalent indemnity to Boris, as a speedy eventuality, and proposes to place at the head of this ldnadom an Austrian archduke." The - Oat-DCUUthe-POSt of Vienna an :—" M. Passer's opera of Lohosgrin h&c jut been performed here. Ms public appeared anxious to console the composer for the cheek he had remotly experienced in Paris. The house mac awed, and at the end of the overture there arms a tempsel sf applause which continued men M. Wagner advanced to the front of his box sod thanked the public foe lie Meow conferred on him.• Mgr. Beilini ban been appointed Bishop of Viterbo by the Pope. The Viterbirme have responded to this appoint ment lry • clandestine mended*, in which they remind the public that Mgr. Bedini was the man who allowed Bologna to be bombarded, and Ugo Beni to be shot in 1849. Ugo Beau was chaplain to Garibaldi's faeces at that time, sod being taken prisoner, before being shot, the skin of the palms of his bands wag torn off by the priest., because there he bad been anointed a priest, and it would have been sacrilege to have wanted a mum who had received such unction before pealing o ff the skin as described _ _ The DOW.; of today contain!' an obituary notice, by IL Bt. Marc Girard-in, of Rear• Admiral Hernoux, formerly deputy and ►idede-amp to the Priam de Join. vile. This gallant °facer has been taken away, after only three days' illness from congestion of the brain. "His sud den death (says M. Girardin) will be an addition to the afliictioos of the royal family 4 Claremont. We who were so long his compaainns in tie Chamber of Deputies are sure we express the sentiments of all his former colleagues in saying bow much he wee loved and estimened in the chamber. A warrior full of courage and intelligence, he was at the same time in parliament full of sense sad moderation ; very independent, although attached man aldeAoeamp to a prince, but to a prince, it is trtmwho i yea more Independent than his aide-de-camp." NEW WORKS. (From Wawa Lessmnan's "Notes on Books" for June.) "Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language," a New Edition, founds] on that of 1773 (the last published is Dr. Johnson's lifetime), with numerous Emendations and Additions, by R. G. Latham, N.D., F.R.S., &c., will be published in monthly parts, forming, when completed, 2 vols. 4to. A new work on the "Comparative Anatomy and Physio logy of the Vet-Wheats. Animals," by Richard Owen. F.R.S., D.C.L.. Superintendent of the Natural History Depart- Est, British Museum, Fullerian Profeoior of Physiology la the R ,yal Institution of Great. Britain, Foreign Associate of the Institute of Fiance, he., is preparing for publication. " A Treatise on the Law of Nations," by Travers Twiss, D.C.L, Regius noleseor of Civil Law In the University of Oxford, and one of her Majesty's Counsel, is in the press, to foes Two Parte, in Svo. Part L, treating more especially of the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of peace, is now in the prey, end will appear early in Juoe. Part the Second, completing the work, will comprise the Rights and Duties of Nations in time of war. " Memoir. of the Life of Sir Mare Bombard Brunel, tun g n omes', V.P., Correspondiog Member of the Institute of France, he.," by Richard Beataish, F.R.S., are preparing for publication, in 1 vol., Sea. "The Life of Robert btepheoson, y. 11,8,, late preament of the Institution of Civil Engineer.," by John Cordy Jedrisson, barrister.as-kw ; and William Pole, member of preparing for publics ties.the Institution of civil Engisinn, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ITALY. NAPLIM MAT 29, Zymase. The brlpnds who attacked the city of flora were commanded by Chiavone. Oa being pursued by the Relish forces, they re crossed the Roman frontier, after burning the village of Caatelluccio. K di San Martino had; inaugurated his govern ment with firmness. He has dispatched orders to the provinces to suspend the execution of the bri gands who had been condemned. The trial of Duke Cajanello is drawing to a close. He is treated with great kindness. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MAY O. The Cormpondeneia A utografa of to-day says : .. .... . . _ " There is no fear of war with Morocco. The government has decided not to undertake a war on the question of indemnity." SYRIA. PARIS, MAT 29, Evsznita. According to Megrims received here to-day from Constantinople, the international conference, in ita third sitting, accepted the proposition of France, that Syria should be governed by a single Christian chief. 1 The Marquis de Lavalette, the French ambassa dor at Constantinople, is expected in Paris at the end of June. GREECE. AMR" MAT 29. Several officers of high rank and some subalterns have been arrested. The ministers have been sum moned to meet in council. Domiciliary visits have taken place. The motives for this measure are un known. Public order prevails, but great uneasiness exists among the people. eutiliiiir, not being accustomed to such execution., got 001,01111, and felt his arm tremble just as be was about to raise the sword. He offered money to different persons to replace him, but no one had the ooxusge to accept. He struck twice, and at the second blow the head fell. Imme diately the spectators, and even the executioner and his assistants, harried round the body, and, tearing the blood. stained presents into shreds, carried off the pieces as relies. Shortly after another French missionary, H. Venard, fell into the bands of the mandarins, was put in &ADS, oonfined in a cage, and condemned to death. He is now waiting with joy the moment of sacrifice : perhaps even he ha. already been executed, and the church of Prance possesses a martyr the more. N. Neron belonged to the diocese of St. Claude, and N. Venard to that of Poitiers; both were members of the Congregation des Missions-Etre:mires. THE POST • OFFICE AND THE GALWAY STEAMERS. This morning a return was made to an order of the Howe of Commons, of a letter from the Postmaster- Gene& to the Lords Commissioner of her Italeety's Tree- miry, dated the 11th day of May, 1861, propane g to terminate the contract with the Atlantic Royal Nail Steam Navigation Company, and of a copy of the Treasury minute thereon. The followings tho letter of the Pcetmaster•Geaeral the Treasury : "General Peet Office, May 11,1861. _ . _ . - " My Lords, —With reference to my letter of January ai last, transmitting copies of an agreement which, under the authority oouveyed to me in your letter of the 19th November previous, I had required the Atlantic Royal , Mail Steam Navigation Company to enter into, as the sole condition upon which I would relieve them from the penal ties already incuned, and would consent to a temporary suspension of the mail service under their contract, I have the honour to inform your lordships, that owing to the company having only one vessel ready for survey by the time fixed for the recommencement of the service, and owing to that vessel being seriously damaged, and rendered unseaworthy, while proceeding from Southampton to Galway, to take up her Ostia; the company were unable to convey the mails on the appointed day, and it was therefore in my power at once to have declared the contract at an end. Under the cir cumstances, however, I refrained from doing so, and allowed the recommencement of the service to be postponed uctil the 9th of April. The mails were accord. ingly despatched on that day, and on the 73rd April another approved vessel was provided by the company, and took her departure. The third packet from Galway should have sailed on the 7th inst., but the company have failed in offer ing on this ocnision any efficient vessel for the service, and! have been under the necessity, therefore, of announcing at the last moment that no despatch of mile could take place. As it is now quite evident that the company are not in a position to fulfil their engagements, I have caused a letter to be prepared terminating the contract ; but before send ing that letter, I submit a draft of it for the:approval of your lordshipa—l have, &c., (Signed) "Sumer or Amaral% "The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury." The letter referred to is as follows : " To A. Boats, Fest., Atlantic Royal Mall Steam Navigation " Sir,—The failure of the Attic Royal Nail Steam Navigation Company to provide an efficient steam vessel for the American mails of the 7th instant, has rendered itne- canary that the Postmaster-General should again consider the obligatioos of the company under their ambient, the manner in which those obligations have been fulfilled, and the means possessed by the company for continuing the mail service. In acquainting you with the determination at which his lordship has arrived, I am desired briefly to advert to the lengthened correspondence which ben taken place between the Atlantic Company end this department since the commencement of the contract, such nor espon deuce having been almost wholly occasioned by the inability of thecompaey to abide by the conditions to which they had bound themselves, and on which alone their offer to perform thenutil service had been accepted. By the terms of theoon town, the company undertook to provide a sufficient number of yowls which should not only be approved of when com plete, but of which the designs and plans had bees pre 'Mealy approved of ; nevertheleas, when in June lest, the ties, fixed for the commencement of the service, had arrived, they had only one such ship, the Connaught, ready, and even the attempt with this ship to perform the first voyage under the contract was fruitless. Under these circumstances the Postmaster-General would have been authorised to put an end to the contract, but he forebore from doing so, and allowed a vessel (the Pommel, which did not come within the stipulations of the 006$1•04 to be despatched in place of the Connaught. In the second and sixth voyage the Connaught was employed, but in the latter she took fire and was lost, and the company were then without a single ship built, surveyed, and accepted in the terms of the contract. _ Between these_ latter voyages, the Postmaster•Geneml had permitted three voyages to be made by ships not in accordance with the contract, although his lordship was more than epee assured that the application for such an irregularity was made for the last tune. From the commencement of the contract in Jane last, to the present time, only ore complete voyage has been performed by a vessel built for the purpose u contemplated by the contract! When the Postmaster. would no longer accept ships which did not asi;mthe secessary qualifications, the company applied enniesios to forego several voyages, and not only was this permission granted, but the heavy penalties to which they rendered themselves liable for not providing a packet on the appointed day, were wholly remitted. At length, and after great delay on the part of the company in complying with the conditions upon which alone the Postmaster•Oeueral could pant such a further concession, they were allowed, temporarily, to suspend the service alto gether. By the agreement executed in January last the company undertook to recommence the service on the Wth March, and thenceforth to perform it in strict conformity with the conditions of their contract, which the Postmaster-General was em powered to terminate if those conditions were not observed. The company were warmed that, in such case the Post muter•Generars power would certainly be ozonised. The date for the recommencement of the service was, never- thaw. extended to the 9th April. in consequenee of the damage sustained by the vessel which was to have taken the int mail while on her way to Galway. Since the egreemwt by which the company undertook to recommence the eenbe m March last was executed, the company have provided three easels. One of than, the Oolumbia, owing to doubts as to her strength, was accepted by the Poirtmaster-Generalfortrovoyagee only. By intelligence just received, it appean that this easel put into Halifax on the fifteenth day after leaving Galway short of coals, and there is reason to believe from other dream/tam:es, so that • far thee survey may be necessary even before she could be per mitted to perform • second voyage.t Another vessel, the Hibernia, while on her way from Southampton to Galway, six weeks ago, is reported by the Lords of the Admiralty to have been injured in such • way as to indicate a deficiency in strength, and to render her unsea worthy. This leaves the company only one effi cient vessel for the performance of their contract. It is evident, therefore, that the company are not now, and never have been in a position efficiently to perform the sti pulations of their contract. Calor these circum and on • review of the whole case, the Postmaster-Gemm el feels that in the discharge of his public duty, he has no alternative but to exercise the power reserved to him, and to declare the contract at an end. lam desired, accordingly, to transmit to you the accompanying notice to that effect: "Copy of Treasury Minute, dated 14th May, 1861. " Write to the Postroaster-Gencral that my lords approve of the letter which his lordship proposes to address to tbe direeton of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Com pany, terminating the contract with that company." • Only two complete double Tome i hate been perforated by vessels built for the purpose, as contemplated by the contaact. . . t By • communication received this day from theoompany, it appears that on her first voyage out, the wheels of this yams' have been seriously damaged by ice on the coast of Newfoundland, so that a further survey would be 'neosesary oven before she could be permitted to perfects a woad voyage. A FRlts.tH WATER SPRING AT SEA..--MT. W. A. Booth, the russet pilot of the revenue cutter Harriet Lane, reports the discovery, of a boiling fresh water spring at sea, off the east of Florida. He rya the spring is situated twelve miles north-by-east from St. Augustine, Florida, and eight miles off share. It boils up with great force, sod ran be descried at a distance of two miles. When !hut ems it has the appearance of a breaker, and is generally avoided ; but there is no danger in the vicinity, as there are Are fathoms of water between it and the shore. Ten fathoms of water are found to the seaward, but no bottom ran be reached with the deer sea lead and thirty fathoms of line at the spring itself. The water in the spring is fresh, and is by no means unpalaterible. One peculiarity about river this phenomenon is, that when the St. J o h n ' s is high, it hoils up from six to eight feet above the level of the sea, and presents rather a forbidding appearance. This spring bas doubtless deceived hundreds, who have hastily put about from, as they thought, imminent danger, and re ported seeing a " rock with water breaking over it." The Harriet Lane has passed through it several times, and water has been drawn from it by a bucket thrown over the ride, awl when drank, no unpleasant testa or smell has been found. The following distinguished persons have lately visited the Great Globe in Leirester.sgvare. Lady Qweline Turner, Lady Fit/ray. Lady Dunbar, Lord Loraine, Countess of 14111i4/41. Decker of Sutherland, Lady Lamson Gower, Hon. Mrs. Pltsherbert, Lord Bingham, Mrs. Castlevitti, Mr. Painter, Mr. Griffithsand family, Mr. Brown and family. Mra Adair, Mrs. Charlton, Mrs. Jennings, and Mrs. Carlthorne. LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) THE SUMMER CIRCUITS. The learned judges met this morning, and arrange d fur the summer circuits in the followleg eider: Nourom Cracu r. Lord Chief Justice Erie mod Mr. Justice Wightman. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. 'satin Willes. Holm Comm Mr. Justice Williams and Mr. Justice Blackburn. Oxman Cracurr. Mr. Justice Hill and Mr. Justice Beating. WIESIZELM Ciacurr. Mr. Baron Channell and Mr. Justice Byles. Noarumuz Ciacuir. Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Baron Wilde. Norm Wu.sa CHICUJT. Mr. Baron Bramwell. SOUTH Watts Czacutr. Mr. Justice Crompton. Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, who is suffering from a sprained bers. foot, remains in town and will attend to wafters tt wafters at cham COI7RT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Baoco.—(Beiore Lord Chief Justin Cockburn, end Justices Wightnian, Crompton, and Blackburn.) ENGLAND V. WIGOLII4WORTH AND WIFE. A rule had been granted in this case, on the application of Mr. Gibbons, to discharge Lucretia Wigglesworth from custody. The action was brought to recover 321. lent by the plaintiff to the female defendant before her Mr. Wigglesworth, when the action was commenced, ma ir= himself of the Insolvent Debtors Act, and was ordered to be discharged on the 10th of May. Upon that day Mrs Wigglesworth was arrested on a on. es. at the suit of the plaintiff while in attendance at the court in kortugal street Mr. Baron Wilde, on being applied to at chain. ben, refused to discharge her out of custody' on the ground that it was not shown she had no separate property. The rule was granted on affidavits, which stated that she had oo separate maintenanos, wee in a state of destitution, and had no other support for herself and several children but what she obtained from her husband. Mr. Milward showed cause against the rule, and read se veral affidavits in answer to those of the female defendant. The Lord Chief Justice said the case was a verry suspicions one. and het ht it would be better to MU', it to the Muter to aseen if the wife had a separate amintemance. It was very Me a came of sham transfer of property. Mr. Gibbons hoped that as this win a ore* in which per. Donal liberty was involved the court would not delay the ap pheant's discharge. The court ultimately referred the case to the Master for his report. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings In Bann.—(Before Um Lord Chief Baron, and Barons Martin, Bramwell, and Channelll.) THE REV. MR. HATCH'S CASE. . HATCH V. LIMB AND !..11W18. This wen an •Ciior.br;Tuggi bytgErev. Mr. Hatch against the defendants, Mesas. Lewis and lOW* of Ely-place, Holborn, to recover damages for alleged negligence in the conduct of hts defence on his trial at the Central Criminal Court for an indecent as sault on two young children, Eugenia and Stephanie Plummer, who had been confided to his care for education, during the period when he was chaplain of the Wandsworth House of Correction. Mr. Hatch was convicted and sen tenced to imprisoument for four years, but subsequently having succeeded in convicting Eugenia Plummer of per. jury Le received the royal pardon. Ho then brought his action ag•inst the defendants for negligence, and it was tried before the Lard Chief Baron, at the @Stier after LA term, when the jury found a verdict fur the plaintiff, with 40a. Mr. H. in the present term, moved far a rule calling on the defendants to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and • new trial had, when their lordships took tame to consider. The Lord Chief Baron now delivered the judgment of the court. He said that in this use there had been a verdict for the plaintiff, with 40s. damage ; and a rule nisi had been moved for • new trial on three grounds—namely, mi•direction, the improper rejection of evidence, and the ,inadequacy of tU damages. If the judge had misdirected the jury, which, however, the court did not think he had, still as the jury had found for the plaintiff, the alleged misdirection did not prevail. With regard to the rejection of evidence, the court were unanimously of opinion that the evidence was properly rejected, while, as regarded the inadequacy of the damages, there was room for very great difference of opinion, but as the court could not any the verdict was wrong, there would be no rule. Judgment accordingly. POLAND. THORN, MAY 29. General Merchelewicz, Military Governor of Warsaw, has been entrusted with the supreme con trol of the civil administration. The health of Prince Gortchakoff has somewhat improved. It is said that he has received leave of absence for one year. It is also asserted that M.M. Platanoff and liar nicki have been relieved of their functions. The latter has left with his wife for him estate in Lithuania. THORN, MAT 29. Yesterday and the previous day conflicts be tween the police and the people took place before the Carmelite church at Warsaw, occasioned by the former taking down the names of those who sung the national hymn. Gendarmes were despatched to the scene of the disturbances and re-establishad order. A proclamation, signed by the governor's deputy, has been posted up at the corners of the streets, exhorting the people to beep the peace, otherwise, it says, severe measures will be taken. FRANCE. PARIS, MAT 39, Emma. In to-day's sitting of the Corps Ltislatif the bill for the modification of the import duties on grain, flour, and other alimentary commodities was agreed to by 228 against 12 votes. The members of the different Aoadimies of the Institut de France assembled to-day, and, by 90 against 50 votes, confirmed the choice of M. Thies for the Emperor's prize of 20,000 f. for his " His tory of the Consulate and the Empire." EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PROW on ow, PARIS, WZD/fLaDAT EVINIIIO. It is asserted on semi-official authority that nego- Mations between Paris and Turin, and Paris and Roam with a view to the withdrawal of the French army of occupation, are still actively going on, and that in consequence of them K de Cirammont, who was about to leave Rome for Vichy, has been ordered to remain at his post till the 10th or 15th of June. Although the evening papers are in structed to say that there is "for the moment" no truth in the diplomatic change announced by the Indipelbalance Belye, yet they admit that K de lavalette (who, it is supposed, will be the French ambassador to the King of Italy) is wining home from Constantinople in June or July. The litho graphed correspondence notices a rumour that Prince de Carignan may be expected at Fontaine , blew during the Emperor's stay there. If this news be true, the contradiction of the former state ment that Count Cavour was coming to Paris be comes unimportant. ' The new law on the press will be presented to the Corps Lsgislatif to-morrow. There is no doubt that tie swim, which, according to an existing eissrea would expire on June 4, will be further prolonged. I think the "black man" must have been round to the journals to tell them to hold their tongues about Freemasonry ; the only intelligence to be found to-day on this topic, which but yesterday was so exciting, is the reproduction, without com ment, of the letter from Prince Napoleon's secre tary, conveying the intimation that his imperial highness wishes his name to be dissevered from masonic quarrels for the future. One of the last works published by Domiteray before his " administrative" extinction, was a capital " handy book " on electoral law, by M. de Sunnier, an advocate. As the object of the author is to instruct the electors as to their rights--a sub ject on which their profound iguoranoe is noto rious—l suppose his treatise is considered an act of . opposition by the government. M. de Bonnier points out very clearly not only what electors and candidates may and can do, but what prefects and mayors ought not to do, and what are the legal remedies against them when they violate the secrecy of the ballot and intimidate the consti tuencies. This information is most opportune now that a general election of councillors-general is at hand. M. Carnot has just published an interesting memoir of his father, the celebrated republican Minister at War. It in rumoured that M. Guixot and his son have turned Roman catholic% ; and, moreover, that M. Guizot, jun., means to solicit the votes of an eminently catholic constituency in the south of France at the next general election of the Corps Legislatif. The Bourse, which it is now said was alarmed yesterday by the fear of the Sultan's death, was calmer to-day. The Rente rose 100. both for cash and account, cloning at 69fr. 25c. Mobilier rose 2fr. 60c. Railways remain without change. All the obligations issued by the Bank of France have been subscribed for many times over. Paris alone makes up the figure required. The Monde, in its own peculiar manner, given the following account of the martyrdom of a French missionary iu China : A glorious piece of news, which will make all the chareh re j o i ce, h as arr i ve d from Tong• King. At Sontay. the capital of the province of that name, at the end of 1860, M. Neron, a French missionary, had his head cut off for having preached the Christian religion. This new martyr was arrested in August, and was kept for several months heavily chained in a cage. On his first interrogatory he was subjected to the torture, bat not a complaint escaped his lips. He walked to the place of execution with his eyes downcast ; and, praying fervently, the w THE POLICE COURTS. (THIS DAY.) GUILDHALL. Mt LATI COLD STEALING CASE. Chaska Nicholson, late of the Woolpark Tavern, Rom ford, and John Asks a clockmaker, were brought up before Sir Henry Muggeridge charged with stealing • child aged five years. Mr. Lewis, foe the prosecution, said this case had been several times before the magistrate and he bad now to ask that the court would hold the defendants to bail to be of good betavionr, and dismiss the charge, the prosecutiix having been ordered into the country to recruit her mental and bodily health, which had been eco terribly shaken by her crag-elm:tuna. ties in this court, and the consequent exposure, that she was utterly incapable of trievelliug so as to be in attend ance. If the court thought such a course incompatible wsth its own dignity, he would proceed with the case on a future day, if the magistrate insisted upon it. Mr. Beard, for the defendants, urged that the object of the warrant bad been obtained, and as the child was re stored to its parent, he hoped the worthy alderman would not put them to unnecessary expense by any fusilier re. mend, particularly as it was quite clear that the parties on the other side had disappeared, and had no intention of proceeding with the case. Sir H. Muggeridge said be was determined not to silos this court to be trifled with, or to be roads the 'abide for private purposes ; and if he saw the remotest prospect of securing the attendance of the prosecutrix, he would cm , tainly adjourn the case ; but as there was such a great an willingness to prosecute the defendants any further, and the officer Baker bad lost all clue to the parties, he had DO alternative hut to allow the case to take the amts.) rut seeded, but he did so with great reluctance. The defendants were accordingly held to bail and dis charged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. COMM:I_IIOMS I , Boll_ THE Dint_ Mr. Jolla Gerrard, livery-stable keeper, of 1, Piehmond mews, Westbonme.pirk, was charged with being drunk and incapable of driving his carriage end pair, snit also with damaging a cab. W. Wonnald, 78C, said—At 11 last night this gentleman was driving a carriage and pair in Prinem.street. He use drunk, and I took his carriage and homes borne. Mr. Tyrwhitt—How did you know ho was drunk Constable—Because he ran into eab. (Laughter.) Thomas Wilkinson, badge 10,489. cabdriver—Last right I was in Princes-street, when defendant mu against me with bin carriage and pair. His off-wheel got locked in mine. Mr. TyrwLitt—Were you sober?—it was the Derby-day, mind. _ Cabman—Oh, yes. I ain't a sporting character. My horse was, while the wheels were locked, going up sod down like a rocking-horse. liere's the bill of the demise. Defendant—l have no questions to ask. If I did the damage I'm not aware of it. The owner of the cab here got into the box, and said the coaehmaker had seen the cab. Tyrwhitt—l hope he is not a feabicumble coach maker. __ _ Owner—Oh, no ; he's a working one. Mr. Tyrwhitt—Now, has be not stuck it on' He has charged 3!. He has made a good thing of it. hes he not! Owner—Well, he's charged enough, air —Haughteri—V. Defendant—Oh, my gracious ! take the cab to my own coacbmaker. I bad been to the Derby, and I know I was drunk, for the gentlemen gave me too much brandy. Mr. Tyrwhitt —I shall fine you 10s. for being Ilmak and incapable of managing your hones, and the danagc quo. tion shall stand over for a week. WF:STIINSTErt. FRACAI4 AT CRZMORNIC Mr. Charles Gethrirl A Ifrai Barnes, described as lichee ing to the 2nd Dragoon Guards, sod living at Belle rus Howe, Notting.bill, was cluu-gcsl with violently moult. ing Hr. Hooey FAridge Rice, solicitor, Reward rills. This!lelerove, and Carltowchambern IRegentstreet. Mr. Rice said between 10 and 11 last night he vs. , in front of the circular bar at Cremorne having some iefreAh• mint, when he was pushed from behind very violently, and turning round, sew the defendant and several others push• ing about, and he then put up his 1140.1 and knocked a pipe out of oomplAnant's month, exclaim ing " Yon be d—d. " Complainant feeling very much annoyed at such a proceeding, said, " What do yon mean by that You have knocked my pipe out of my mouth. now pick it up again." Defendant refused to do no. and was pushed and bustled about. Complainant then left to find a policeman, and having returned to the bar, said t" the defendant again, " What do you aiv to knocking nO pipe out of my mouth!" He made the same 1, mark again, " You be —," and struck him severe blow in the eye. Complainant here produced lap handkerchief which appeared to be a red one, but which complainant said had been perfectly white when 1,8 entered th e gsnlees, and was satu ra ted with his bliss!. Complainant was very much hurt and disfigured, and, turning round said to defendant, " You've struck me," an d defendant's answer was, " Yes, and I'll do it again. t Atkins, a man at the gardens, saw the assault, but teas present. Policeman 105 V proved 'using fetched by the corn' plainant, and at the moment the assault was committed sa. nes', hat was knocked over MI eyes. The instant after, he saw complainant Weeding very much, and he took .k -fendsint into custody after omsideriblo difficulty, sera! person!' attempting to get him away. 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