The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-14 00:00:00

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Boartdog, Mtn W. Cranford. SIGH WATFJt AT LONDON BRIDGE. TI DAT —Morning. tA. 44e3 Alterman, AL ARM TO4ieLlow—Murumg, h. Liu Memos. LONDON, THURSDAY, PED. 14. Tne withdrawal by Mr. Dicer SEYMOUR of his proposed motion for extending the Borough Franchise leaves the The clear for the hon. bleinle , r for Leeds. The Bill which Mr. BAINES proposes to introduce is of the simplest possible description, dealing only with the Borough Fran chise, and the one existing species of qualification : it provides for an extension of the suffrage to all occupiers of houses at a yearly rental of six pounds. While thus simple, however, Mr. BAINES'S measure is neither petty nor delusive. It embodies a real and substantive reform—the gist of the whole question, indeed, so far as the suffrage is concerned. Rejecting all comprehen sive principles and fanciful details, Mr. BAUM{ goes straight to the practical point of an extended Borough Franchise, which all genuine Reformers have most at heart. In the present position of the subject, and the present temper of the HOUR of Cont emns, this is the wisest and most useful course that could be pursued. If any measure of Parliamen tary Reform has a chance in Lord DIRER'S Par liament this has. If the simplest measure of Reform cannot be carried in a House elected ex pressly for that purpose, let it be clearly known on whirs heads the responsibility of the failure rests. Last session this responsibility was bandied about from one side of the House to the other, Issither party having she courage or honesty di-' redly to oppose the mewl,. both secr e tly con spired to destroy. Mr. BAINLIeM measure will put an end to this discreditable shuffling and cowardly confusion. As the Bill of an independent member nobody of course is hound to support it, none are asked to do so unless they heartily sympathise wills its provisions. No attempt is made to win back the faithless swains who after publicly flirting with Reform have secretly found another mistress. Concealment is no longer necessary. Let each fickle lover confess his frailty like a man, avow his changed affection, and openly celebrate the Conservative reaction that is soon to command devoted majorities, and he shall be upbraided no more. All who do not want Reform in any shape—sod their number in the present Parlia ment is, we know, considerable—will now have an opportunity of saying so in the most direct and emphatic manner. Last year the position of many nominally liberal members was one of painful perplexity. They were distracted by the conflicting claims of duty and inclination ; the duty of publicly supporting a measure they hated in their heart of hearts, and desired above all things to destroy. Many compromised the matter by stabbing it in the dark. These were the more saturnine and determined amongst the secret enemies of the Bill. Others of lighter temperament masqueraded in sentiments not their own, wore the mask of the hypocrite, or used the double tongue of the slanderer. They were reduced to these ignominious shifts plainly from the fact that the hated Reform was proposed by the Government to which they owed a nominal allegiance. New they are wholly free from this embarrassing obligation. The official patron age of Reform being at an end, they may speak their minds, and we earnestly hope they will do so. They are to be heartily congratulated, indeed, on their improved parliamentary position —a position so much more favourable to the vir tues of sincerity and straightforwardness than the one from which they have just escaped. Neither Mr. BAIN YA nor anybody else wishes for a moment to lead them back into the Egypt of dissimulation and hypocrisy from which they have been so re cently delivered. An honest way of parliamentary life is at length open to them, and we trust they will embrace it. They really think Reform an evil : let them say so. They are at heart opposed to any extension of the suffrage : let them by all means avow it. Mr. BAINES'S measure will give them the opportunity of doing this, and we hope that every anti-reformer in the House will cast off, once for all, the old ADAM of dissimulation, and make a clean breast of it. On the other hand, this is precisely the measure which all genuine Itefonners can without hesitation unite in supporting. It goes at once to the point on ' which they are all agreed—the extension of the borough franchise—and it secures this in so direct and nnincumbered a form that no room is left for hesitation or delay. The objections that might be honestly urged against a larger measure by fasti dious and speculative Reformers cannot apply to this. We are told, for example, that this is not the time for comprehensive measures of Reform. Mr. BAINEeI Bill meets this objection. It is of the simplest possible description. This is not the time, it is said again, for trying experi ments on the constitution, by introducing new and diverse qualifications for the enjoyment of the suffrage. The Member for Leeds, avoiding all fancy franchises, advances on the well-trodden path of house rental and occupation. He has avoided all the questionable details that, however valuable in themselves, might have afforded scope for discussion and difference of opinion amongst the friends of Reform; and he has secured in its simplest form the one point about which there is and can be no question—the very kernel of the whole matter, in fact. What he proposes is a pure good, to be secured in the purest manner. No room whatever a left for opposition on the part of those who really desire Reform. Mr. BAINZSmay therefore confidently reckon on the support of all genuine Reformers, and the public will watch with no small interest the working of the decisive test of sincerity in the emus which his Bill supplies. The country will not, however, be may be sure, be satisfied to remain a silent spectator of this parliamentary trial, in which it has so deep an interest. The people's voice may ARMONIUMS—NZW MODZL. MAXIM. BIWA sod oat. itapopeartsa CABINET and CPHOLSTERY FURNITURE the beet tienalty.-11. H. eIIAPPIN, el bola. taroKt) TIMM duet to the Mame. Theatte. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1861. be heard within the walls of Parliament, not simply through the few representatives who remain faithful to their cause, but directly through their own petitions. Now is the very time for them to speak. it is true indeed that the conduct of the present Parliament on this subject has so alienated and disgusted the industrious classes, that they have become comparatively indifferent to ita proceedings. They scarcely care to employ the only direct means of influence they possess, from the settled feeling that at present it is no use what ever, as nothing will be done. This want of interest in the proceeding% of such a House of Conunorui as the present, though natural enough, may however be carried to an injurious extreme. And now is the very time for the friends of Reform throughout the country to bestir themselves and give a generous support to the independent members who are hithful to the cause. Mr. BAINEM has come for ward as the Parliamentary champion of the classes who are at present excluded from the enjoyment of the franchise, and we are sure he will receive their earnest support. This must now be given in the only available form—by numerous and numerously-signed petitions. We hope that the active friends of Reform will take the initiative in this good work without delay, so that by the time Mr. Hai sm's motion comes on for discussion peti tions may be presented to the House in its favour from all the thief towns in the kingdom. NEW ZEALAND. A despatch from the Secretary of State has been received at Auckland, expressing her Majesty's entire ap. proval of the course Governor Gore Brown has pursued ; and, in reference to the statement of the Bishop of Welling ton and Archdeacon Hadfield on the origin and nature of the hostilities with the natives, the Secretary of State sends word to the Governor, that he thinks it has been shown that the bishop and archdeacon have been inaccurately in formed on some points, that they have taken an incomplete view of others, and that he finds no reason to withdraw the confidence of her Majesty in Governor Brown's administra tion. Public confidence has been restored in the province of Auckland, and the financial difficulties which threatened have been entirely overcome. The head-quarters, under Sir James Alexander, arrived at Auckland on the 28th No vember? after • Fuego of 22 days from Queenstown ; there were eight deaths on board, chiefly children, and four births. The Thames Oty arrived at Auckland on the sth No vember, after a parry of 100 days from Gravesend. Cap tain Williams, of the barque Rosetta, bound to Monte Video from Hong Kong, died at Reseal, where the ship put in for supplies. The ship Mermaid, from the Downs, arrived at Auckland on the 22nd of November. The Rob Roy, from London, arrived at Auckland on the 24th November—the passengers all in sound health. Upon the ►rrival of the 14th Regiment at Auckland, the detachment of the 65th Regiment, 340 strong, under command of Lieut. Colonel Young, was sent back to Taranaki, per her Majesty's ship Niger. Two of General Gold's daughters were married on the 28th of November. eft froun. Tim Prince Consort rode on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieutenant• Colonel the Hon. 1) de Roe. The Princesses Alice and Helena rode in the ridiog•house of Buckingham Palace. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official 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. Cornewall Lewis, Lord John Ruaaell, the Duke of New castle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell The Commissioners for the Exhibition of 110;2 met yes. tenlay at the Council-offlos. Present : Eel Granville, the Marquis of Cbsodos, Mr. Baring, M.P., Mr. C. W. bilke, and Mr. Thomas Fairhairn. 11;o1Nshop .4 Mauritius had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle on Tuesday at the Colonial-office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yester• day. Judgmenta were given in the following app eal, from tie Hi g h Court ,1 Admiralty :—" Maud v. hoes, the Julia, bLord Kimpdown ; •' North Gemisn Lloyds 4team Ship Pto, v. Rider and others;" "'the Schwalbe," by Lord Clehnsford; "Kagan and others,. Alexander and others ;" "The Emit Lothian," by Lord Chelmsford. An appeal WY heard, " Glllllll3 v. Meek end others," Vice-Adnuralty Court of Lower Canada, ship Margaret. The lord. pre sent were Lords K g. owsi and Chelmsford, the Right lila. Dr. Leshisgtoo, and tiir K. Ryan. IMO received yesterday at the Colonial-dike frous i lt ilase Gewarams of Ike West Cbeet of Africa, New Zealand, Aweirabs, Ceylon, and Hoeg Kong. Dtspstclies were sent te the tievrenier of Ghee& Hint WILAIRreII Flan Laves ems SwooN.— The alieneas ler Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Priam Consort, left Buckingham Palace, at. tended by the Lords and Ladies in Waiting, with an escort of Herm Guanbi, and proceeded to St. James's Palace, when bar Majesty held the first levee of the season. The laves was moat numerously attended, and her Majesty loudly cheered on her way to the palace. Her Majesty the Queen, in appreciation of the important and philanthropic character of the work of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, has signified her in tention to become an annual subscriber of Wf. to its Nada. The National Zeitutay mays :—`•AooonlHaii; to re port, the queen of Prowls, with the Crown Prince sad Crows Princess, will, towards the end of May, visit the English Coen at Balmoral, where, on the 24th of the math , the birthday of Queen Victoria will be celebrated." The Countexa de Peraigny will leave Albert-gate House oo or about the Mb inst. for Paris. Maria Marchionexa of Ailesburyantettained at dinner on Tuesday evening, at her residence, in Hertford street, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. their Serene Highnesses the Prineeand Princess Edward of Saxe. Weimar, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Westmoreland, the FAA and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Evelyn Stanhope, Viscount and viscouatssaNewport, Colonel the Hon. James and Mrs. Mao&meld, and Captain Falbe. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have arrived k town from Brighton. The Earl and Countess of Roeebery are expected in town shortly from Dalmeny Park, N. B. Lord Henley has taken a residence in Chesham place for the scams. The following preachers have been nominated by the Lard mop of Loodoa for the special services at St Pees :—Sunday, Feb. 17, the Lord Bishop of Cork ; Feb. VS, the Lord Bishop of Carlisle ; sod March 3, the Bee. Thomas Dale, cation of 81. Faure Arrangements are on foot for the restoration of the Chaptsr•house of Westminster Abbey, which is justly regarded as one of the finest examples of early English architecture. In his fourth lecture at the Royal Institution, ea Tuesday, Professor Owen entered on the masideratiou of the earliest known forms of fishes. A requisition (says the Buth Chroniek) is being got op to Mr. W. H. P. G. langton, who formerly sat for the Western Divisios of Sonsenetaltim to oome forward in the room of Mr. C. A. Moody, who retires when the pre sent palm:test dissolves. Mr. Alexander Stewart Mellen has been appointed Recorder of the city of Loodonderry in the room of the late Recorder, Mr. Leathern. Commander J. E. Bingham and Lieutenant E R. J. Balfour have been appointed naval mail agents on the Southampton station. The Emperor Napoleon's lite concession to Bri tish subjects is respect of passports being restricted to per sons arriving in France direct from England, Englishmen entering Feline, from Italy require a French rise. At Civits Vecchia no Englishman going to Marseilles is received on board a French or Italian steamer unless his passport has been ridd bens, or bears a French visa, ton poor on an, the term of which is not yet expired. A letter from Ate:andAs of the 2wl sayA:—" The Viceroy's little son Tongues Pacha, shortly before his father's departure, underwent at Chao the rite of circum cision. The ceremony was performed without any of the display customary on such occasions, but it was followed a few days afterwards by a military fete and banquet. The little Ynnoe, having now attained the mature age of seven years, eaten upon the enjoyment of • separate establish ment of his own. Towards its formation be has already been presented with a couple of Circassian female slaves, while the English nurse under whose charge he has hitherto been is about to be discharged." A letter from Gaeta, in the A ugshurg Gazette, baa the following :—" The King and Queen inhabit three low and damp rooms in the ruminates, arrived at by • sorrow staircase terminated by • kind of ante-chamber, in which it is necessary to keep • lamp burning all day. Ad joining is another room rather larger, in which no furniture is to be seen but a writing table, two beds, anti some arm chairs. This is now the residence of a sovereign who only • short tune ago possessed the most splendid palaces in the world. The streets of Gaeta almost resemble newly ploughed fields. As to walking in them, it most not be thought of. The Queen visits the hospitals at least once a day ; @be goes from bed to bed, takes a memorandum of the moons of the wounded and dying; arises the stu glow i s applying bandages, and if perchance a shell bursts near, she pays not the slightest attention to it." Godard, the aeronaut, made a balloon ascent the day before yesterday, as Marseille& After floating soros time over the city, ha shot up to a great height, but finding before long that tie wind was likely to carry him out to sea, he effected • dread close to the town. This ascension is the Sent be has nada LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The following telegrams hare been received at Mr. Reuter's office : CAPITULATION OF GAETA. NOLA VI GAETA, Feß. 13, EVVIISO. Gaeta ham capitulated. General Cialdini will to-morrow occupy the Monte Orlando and all the other fortifications. Francis 11. and the Queen, with their whole family, are now embarking. After their departure General Cialdini's troops will occupy the town. The garrison remain prisoners of war until the surrender of Msessina and Civitella del Tronto. NAPLES, Fee. 13. The French corvette Mouette has left for Gaeta in order to receive Francis 11. and his family. TURIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The bombardment of Gaeta by the Sardinians has blown up another powder-magazine in the fortress. The whole of the Transylvania bastion has been destroyed. In consequence of these events the negotiations for the surrender of the place, which remained yes terday without result, have been again taken up. General Cisldini maintains all the honourable conditions which he offered before having obtained these recent sumesses. General Ritucci, who had written a letter in dis courteous Units to General Cialdini, has been deprived of his command, and has been replaced by General Milon. THE EAST. CONSTANTINOPLE, FE& G. The Porte has replied to the Russian note, re asserting the truth of the Grand Vizier's report. Sir Henry Bulwer takes the part of the Porte. The Montenegrins have made an attack on Niekisch, but have been repulsed. The Rodifs are to be embodied in the spring. PRUSSIA. Fourteen members of the Right Centre have thought it necessary to publish an explanation why they voted in favour of M. de Vincke'a amendment on the Italian question. In this explanation they state that they voted for the amendment, not because they were opposed to the explanations given by the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the policy of the government, but, on tho contrary, because they approved them. They looked upon a positive decla ration of the Chamber on the most important ques tion that agitates Europe as indispensable on account of its gravity and of the dignity of the National Parliament. They consider the principle of non-intervention in Italian affairs as necessary, because they desire that this principle shall be respected by foreign Powers in German affairs. They believe that a strong Italy, independent of all foreign influence, will be advantageous to the interests of Germany and of the whole of Europe. They wish to remove the supposition that Prussia assumed an attitude unfavourable to the consti tution of Italy, because in the cotitrary case Italy would be thrown into the arms of France, whose power would be thus increased. It was their wish that the adopted resolution should strengthen the position of the government on this question without prejudice to ulterior com binations and decisions, should they be called for by events touching the interests of Prussia and of Germany by the overthrow of the balance of power in Europe or from any other cause. AUSTRIA. ICARLSBURG, WEDNEMDAY. The conference of Karlsburg have resolved upon expressing their wishes in an address to the govern ment containing three clauses, namely : 1. Execution of the laws of ISM 2. A now electoral law. 3. Establishment of & separate constitution and representation of Transylvania in a special diet. The project for the union of Transylvania with Hungary was violently opposed. FIUME, Fn. 13. The city of Fiume and the surrounding district has been doclarod in a state of siege. HUNGARY. PESTH, FEs. 13. The assembly of the Comitat of Odanburg haa resolved to pay the taxes as heretofore, until the Diet shall have taken its resolution. PORTUGAL (no& ova owl comissroenzirr.) LISBON, Fn. 7. There has lately been a largo importation of sugar from England. As all this produce is grown in our colonies and is raised by free labour, the fact speaks volumes for the results which may be achieved by improvements in machineryand proper expenditure of capital. Delimit some change takes place the Brazilian sugars will be completely abut out of the Portuguese markets, and our West India produce taken instead. The accounts received from all parts of the wine districts are unanimous in stating that the quality of the wine produced by the last vintage is very inferior. I believe that the ports are especially de ficient in body and Savour. The greatest evil which could have befallen Portugal is the loss of the wine crop ; and nothing of hite years has tended more to impoverish the country than the continuance of the vine disease. The produce of his vineyards has usually been the reliable wealth of the farmer, and he has generally depended upon it for the payment of his rent and taxes. Now, however, vineyards, which formerly produced 100 pipes, only yield some 20, and the loss in money throughout the country is enormous. The quarantine establishment at Belem still continues to obstruct as much as possible the despatch of business. The Tyne, from the Brazils, arrived on Friday last, at 8 p.m., but the director of the Health-office would only allow the mails to be fumigated the next morning, whereby there occurred a delay of about nineteen hours in the delivery of the letters. Her Majesty's ships Algiers, Trafalgar, Ed gar , Diadem, and St. Jean d'Acre are lying in the Tagus ; the four former vessels occupied a long time in their voyage out, as they were delayed in sailing and steaming exercises. Since the departure of the last packet there has been a fair business in foreign exchanges. The rates are—Loudon, 30 days' sight, 534 to 54 ; ditto 90 days' date, 54j to 54i ; Paris, 527 ; Hamburg, 48 ; Genoa, 624. But small amounts were taken at the lower exchange on London, and paper could still be had at the higher quotation. M. Bonanarte-Paterson has been unanimously chosen a member of the Paris Jockey Club. In Hungarian journals are found an address from the Comitat of Honth to Count Teleky, and the reply of the latter. The address expresses the indignation the count's arrest had caused, not only throughout Hungary, but through every civilised country. "Since the e►istence of a free opinion and a free prese—that power which realise peoples and shakes thrones—they have never spoken more unanimously their sentenm of condemnation than at this last heavy outrage upon national rights." Count Telekv replies, expressing his gratitude and pride at the universal tertinacnials of sympathy he has received, and declares that he awaits impatiently the moment when his pledged word of honour will no longer hinder him from taking a part in the struggles of his native land, and repaying her confidence with practical service. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (TROY OUR OWN PARIS, WEDNISDAY EVENLNG. The news that Gaeta is at the last extre mity, must capitulate, is confirmed on all sides. The Pays says that Francis 11. has accepted the pro positions of Cialdini. A Turin telegram of this day's date affirms that Cialdini and the command ant of the place have actually appointed a mixed commission to negotiate the terms of surrender, but as this despatch adds that "the fire is not sus pended," its entire accuracy may be doubted. It is difficult to conceive a mixed commission discussing conditions of peace with cannon balls Hying over their heads. However, the Patrie repeats that the King has offered to capitulate, and adds that his ammunition is exhausted. The King of Sardinia will make the conditions of the capitulation as honourable as possible for the vanquished party. " The " pamphlet has not yet made its appear ance, but the Patric announces it positively for the day after to-morrow, and states that it will be signed by its author, M. de la Guerronnikre. From another source I learn that the proof sheets have been revised by the Emperor. The exact title does not seem to be yet settled. Some say it will be " Napoleon HI. and Rome," and others "La France, Rome, et l'ltalie." I hear that M. Billault will represent the govern ment in the debate on the address, and will pro dace several new diplomatic papers relative to negotiations with Roane. The bureaux of the Corps Legislatif are busy to-day choosing members to draw up the address, but it is not thought that they will settle the hat till to-morrow, and the debate will scarcely come on before the 23rd or 24th. Apropos of M. Billault, a good mot is in circula tion which people attribute to M. Dupin. What do the ministers, without portfolios, represent in the chamber ? Answer—The throne and the altar —le trona et Canted (rhotel !) Upwards of 300 infantry, destined to reinforce the French army of Rome, embarked at Marseilles on the 11th for Civita Vecchia. On board the same vessel (the Quirinal) were General Ulloa, going to Genoa, and Baron de Jochmus, with Austrian despatches for the court of Rome. The Bourse was comparatively lively at the opening, but after the first half-hour became very flat. It was reported that the new measure inter dicting the middlemen, called trmisiers, which it was hoped would have been thought better of, is really to be carried out. The heaviness of the market is the more remarked, because this is the time of the year when business is generally the most active. The Rente fell 20c. for cash and 15c. for account, closing at 68fr. 35c. and 68fr. 40c. Mo biller fell ifr. 50c. The Lyons Railway rose lfr. 25c. ; but all the other lines were lower. Or leans fell 3fr. isc., and Western sfr. Spanish Passive was again better, and rose A M. Kerrigan has just published a work in two volumes, entitled " England as it is," the result, as he tells the world in his preface, of his observa tions daring a sixteen years' residence in that country. I extract from a highly favourable re view of his performance in the Gazette de France the following specimen of the accuracy of this gen tleman's observation : The administration of justice in England is the worst in the world. The judges, generally ignorant men, are always liable to dismissal ; they are dependent at once upon the chances of election and the caprice of power. . . After bringing to light this gem, I think it quite unnecessary to notice the abuse of English institu tions in general which recommends the author to the Gazette de France, and I leave his "magisterial lucidity " and "communicative indignation" to the admiration of the disciples of that journal. An architect writes to the Opinion Nationale that the month's notice given by the Minister of State for the production of the designs for a new opera house recently exhibited was infinitely too short for the study of such a subject, and proposes that a new competition shall be opened, with six mouths' time for preparation. THE INUNDATIONS IN HOLLAND. 4111011 • CONIZIPOIDEIT.) AMSTERDAM, Fee. 11. Thank God the frightful desolation of our inun dated districts begins to abate, and the waters are returning to their natural channels. But what scenes of distress, agony, and penury do they !cave behind them ! Some villages are entirely de stroyed ; not a vestige of a habitation remains to show that they were the dwelling-place of man. Nearly 40,000 acres of cultivated land have been submerged, and their cultivators been driven from their dwellings to seek shelter in schools and churches, and to eat the bread of charity. The number of cattle drowned or killed it is impossible to state with accuracy, but it is said to amount to several thousand. This, however, is a slight calamity compared with the loss of human life, which, not withstanding every effort made by the authorities to render assistance, hu swollen to a Ugh figure. Whea the dyke broke at Leeuwen the waters rushed through with such fearful violence as to carry all before them ; houses, barns, and trees tumbled down at their approach ; how, then, could the labourers on the dyke and their families resist the crushing strength of the flood and the ice masses I The descriptions sent me from the scene of desolation are really shocking. What the poor creatures, whose homely dwellings but recently afforded them a comfortable shelter, have bad to encounter in the form of cold, naked ness, and starvation, is almost incredible. Truth, indeed, in this case is stranger, much than fiction. One family of eight has e st nTary e disappeared—carried away by the flood, after enduring all the horrors with which frost and hunger are always accompanied. Among all the survivors there is mourning, lamentation, and woo, not only on account of desolated homes, but on account of parents, children, and friends whom this fearful plague of waters ban wrenched from their embrace. Never, perhaps, has the spirit of charity and love been so diffused among a people as it is now among the Dutch, as they listen to the tales of sorrow of the bereaved and the deso late. In unstiuted measure they wive of their abundance through the length and breadth of the land. The King, attended by other members of the royal family, has just returned from a visit to the inundated districts, where lie won for himself the affection of his smitten subjects by his bounty and sympathy. In a letter to the Minister of the Interior he has decreed that, on the 19th instant (his birthday), a collection shall be made through the whole country, from door to door, for the benefit of the survivors of this fearful visitation, and, in addition to the 20,000 guilders he has already given, has headed the national subscription with a contribution of 40,000 guilders. No wonder that on his return yesterday from his mission of mercy he was bailed, wherever lie passed, with those acclamations which burst forth only from a nation's love and admira tion. It is annonnoed that one of the first parliamen tary bills to be presented to the Corps Legislatif will be one for opening to the public the railway round Paris (Chemin de Fer de Ceirtture). It was approved last Wed nesday by the Cousultatise Committee of Roads and Bridges, and it will be submitted as an extraordinary ex pense to the approbation of the Corps LeghUatif. M. Pierre Leroux and his family, who for some years hare bees raiding at Jersey,have returned to France. THE LATE HEAVY GALES. LOSS OF TWO STEAMF.RS. The weather continues to be unsettled along the coast, and heavy north-east gales, with snow and sleet, appear to have prevailed since Monday evening. By the returns made by Lloyd's agent up to last evening the num ber of losses and casualties that occurred during the recent storm amounted to 210. In addition to those already re ported, we have to announce the wreck of two steamers and the loss of a large ship bound to Calcutta with a ergo valued at upwards of 100,000/. There has also been a shocking shipwreck on the Arklow Bank. One of the unfortunate steamers was the London and Jersey iron screw steamer Metropolis, Captain Coker, a fine vessel of MO tons burden. She was on her return passage from the Thames, and yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, on making the island, unfortunately struck upon the Rondiere Rock off Elizabeth Castle, and all effort failed in getting her off. She subsequently filled and settled down and sank, the crew escaping in the boats. By the last accounts it appeared inevitable that she would become a total wreck. Part of her deck cargo was washed ashore. The ship and cargo are insured at Lloyd's. The other steamer was the Syria, belonging to Londonderry, GOO tons burden. A telegram from Fleetwood yesterday announced that while she was on a voyage from Belfast to Moreounb she went ashore at Shell Wharf, where she filled, and it was rood dered very• doubtful whether she would be saved. The crew and passengers were safely landed. Another steamer is also reported to have been wrecked. A telegraphic despatch was received yesterday from Otranto, stating that the English steamer William Cory• had gone ashore nine miles north of that place. This ship was also covered by an in surance at Lloyd's. While the gale was at ita height on Saturday morning, her Majesty's steamer Sea Mew, on her passage to Kings town, saw a ship in distress on the Arklow Bank. It was at first supposed that she was a steamer, but since the storm had abated, the ill-fated vessel has turned out to be the Tonquin, Captain Batchelor. bound to Santos, from the Clyde. After striking on the bank, the heavy seas carried her off into deep water, and she foundered, all on board-11 men and a woman—perishing. The heaviest loss, as far as regards sacrifice of property was that of the wreck of the iron•built ship City of Luckoow, belonging to Mr. Smith, of Glasgow, bound to Calcutta, with a very valuable cargo. The ship, which is nearly 1,200 tons burden, only sailed from the Clyde on the day previous to that of her loss, and on arriving off the Bay of Bangor, near Belfast, she drove ashore and became a wreck. The crew and five passengers, with the exception of a sailor named Nelson, were saved. The ship and cargo are insured to the extant., it is reported, of 120,0001., in London, Glasgow, and Liverpool. Amongst other losses during the gale are that of the brig Luna, Captain M'Mullin. of Wnekingthn, and the brig Neptune, FlllllllllO, master, of the same port, which foun dered with all hands. The names of the ill-fated ships seen to founder on the .oath-eut coast have not as vet been aseertained. THE PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE. This morning was issued to the House of Com mons a return of the gross public income and expenditure in the year ended the 30th day of September, 1860, and also in the year ended the 31at day of December. The total re venue of the year ended the 30th of September was 70,809,976/. 3s. 9d. ; the total expenditure we. 72,145,002/. ss. Ad. ; showing an excess of expenditure over income of 1,333,856/. lc Ild. In the year ended the 31st of December last, the total income was 71,967,4941. 14s. Bd. ; the total expenditure was 72,578,6 U/. 6e. 6d. ; showing an excess of expendi ture o►er income of 611,1371. 11a. 10d. The balances in the exchequer on the 314 of December were, at the Bank of England, 4,125,4551. 11s. 10d. ; at the Bank of Ireland, 1,124,W351. 19s. STRIKE OF WEAVERS AT BLACKBURN. In acconlanco with the resolution passed at the monster meeting of operative weavers, held in a field at the Mother Redcap Public-house, on Sunday. deputations front each mill have this week—some on Monday, others on Tues day, but the greater part yesterday—waited on the masters, to again press upon them the adoption of short time in preference to a reduction of wages. The general result has been • refund on the part of the masters to accede to the demands of their operatives. The inter views have been very friendly, but the masters exhibited great firmness, and a:premed their determination to shut up if they may not decide for themselves whether their machinery shall work full time or short time. The notices for the five per cent. reduction expire this week ; some expired yesterday, some will to-slay, and others will to-morrow. At Messrs. Lewis Brothers' the half of the notices expired yesterday at noon, when the operatives whose notices were then up left work, and refused to work to the end of their cuts. At Mr. Fish's mills, Livesey, the notices expired yesterday afternoon, and the operatives refused to work more than four (lays a week, and they are now out. At Major Graham's mills, Uvesey, the notices expired last night ; the operatives refuse to work more than four days a week, and • notice has been put up that those who are not at work this morning at six o'clock will be understood to have left. The feeling in the other mills, where the notices have not yet expired, is similar on the part of both masters and operatives ; but while some of the Theaters gave the deputation which waited upoa them a decided answer, others said they would be guided by the decision of a general meeting of the trade, which was to be held on Wednesday afternoon. The meeting thus referred to took place last even. iog, at the Old Bull Hotel, and was very numerously attended. There were present, representatives of all the Blackburn firms, with very few exzeptions, and also masters from Derwen, Accrington, Church, Enfield, Hare wood, and the whole district. The feeling was unanimous as to the necessity of the reduction of five per cent., and equally unanimous as to the necessity of the masters re sisting what they regard as dietatiou on the tart of the operatives, in requiring them to work abort time so long as the reduction continues. After the - matter had been fully discuased, the following resolution was adopted, and signed by eighty firms, representing 44,000 loom.. We, the undersigned, hereby agree to reduce the wages in the weaving department five per cent., noel not to work short time until another rule of the trade admits that the opera tive dictation on this question is withdrawn." The above is exclusive of the Ai:ern:4ton masters, who were to have • meeting last night, when a similar resolution would no doubt be adopted, as all present at the Blackburn meeting expressed themselves of the same mind. SHOCKING COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—THRIE MILK A shocking accident took place at the Copperhouse Coal Mine. Hardsley, near Oldham, about half-past six o'clock on Wednesday morning, by which three men lost their lives. It seems that Jamas Wilson, of Charlestown, Ashton ; Joshua Street, of Waterhouse., collier ; and Thomas Moaned, of Waterloo, on the Oldham road, collier, each aged 20 yawn, were working in linking the pit, on Tuesday night, and as they were being wound up about half.past six o'clock on Wednesday morning, the wire rope broke in two, and they fell about sixty Finis down the shaft, sod the greater portion of the wire rope, which was more thou 300 yards in length, fell down upon them. As soon as possible the poor fellows were attended to by their fellow-workmen. Wilson was found quite dead, Street died before he could be re leased from the rope, and Holland died about eight o'clock the sense morning, as he was being conveyed home in a cart. Street was a single man, and Wilson and Hodand were married, but they have no children. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF KENSINGTON. ---•--.- Last night a public meeting of the inhabitants of Kensington and the surrounding district was held at the Vestry-room, Kensington, for the purpose of supporting the bill for the enfranchisement of Chelsea and Kensington Mr. GREENWAT, churchwarden, in the chair. The CHAIRMAN briefly stated the object for which the meeting was called, and read a letter from Mr. Whalley, M.P., expressing regret that be was not able to attend. Captain SHETTLEWORTH moved the following resolution : " That this meeting hereby records ins conviction of th e in disputable claim of this district, arising from the popula tion, extent, and large amount paid Ly it to the taxation of the state, to a direct representation iu the Commons House of Parliament." He was so sure that the resolution carried with it its own recommendation that he should do no more than simply propose it. Mr. WALRKR, chairman of the Chelsea board of guar dians, seconded the resolution. Mr. FIELD! moved the following addendum :—" That this meeting, having no confidence in her Majesty's govern. meat, la of opinion that the best way of securing two repre sentatives for the new borough is to request Mr. Bright to bring in his reform bill without delay." (Oh, oh.) Mr. PR/ENT seconded the amendment, for which only the proposer and seconder held up their hands m h . original resolution was then put and adopted nnan i- Mr. y. Witeura proposed the following resolution :—" That the meeting approves of the bill brought in by Lord Enfield for giving two members to Kensington and Chelsea." Mr. Ancueurr seconded the motion. Mr. SEARLE said be felt, as an old inhabitant of the dis trict, that he eught to say a few words on the question before them. W he n he looked at the meeting before him, which was attended by scores when it ought to be attended by thousands, he could not help feeling that the inhabitants were not doing their duty. Of course he did not blame those who performed their duty by attending ; but those who kept away. He confessed that the condition of England generally presented a very sorry spectacle at that moment. It was not to be expected, when the people ex hibited so much apathy, that the government would come forward and do for them what they seemed so little to care about themselves. (Hear, hear.) He was sure, if they showed themselves anxious for reform, that the government would be obliged to give it to them. (Hear, hear.) He hoped and believed that, if this district obtained its =flan alinement, it would prove a modellconstituency, and return members who would be an honour to the borough and to the country. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was caned unanimously. Mr. FREEMAN proposed the next resolution, which wag that a committee be appointed to carry out the object of the meeting. He believed that there was no borough in the kingdom which had an equal title to two out of the four representatives which were in abeyance. (Hear.) Mr. 131.01 th said he was not accustomed to see such large meetings in the district as the one before him, and he took that to be • sign of the interest that was felt is the subject. He was rejoiced to say that they had now a prospect of see ing their wishes accomplished. (Hear, hear.) Mr. McCutz•ce said it had been remarked that the masses of the people in the parish were not present in the room. The pop In itian of the district was about 120,000 or 130,000, and it would be very difficult for that room to hold them. But he believed the intelligence and the respectabi lity of the parish were very fairly represented there, and that fact would weigh considerably with parliament arid the government when they came to consider this question. (Hear, hear.) He believed that no town in England could compete with them in their claim for representation. What were the facts on which they relied? Putting aside the 130,000 inhabitants of the district altogether, he could make such • claim as regarded property as no honest man could refuse to acknowledge. He held in his hands a return which was made two years ago to the House of Com mons. This return contained the amount of pro perty and income rated under schedule A in the 255 boroughs and cities of the United Kingdom. He bail also the return of Mr. Laing, which contained the amount of property rated under the same schedule in Chelsea and Kensington. How many of these 255 boroughs were rated higher than Chelsea and Kensington Only 15. (Hear.) It followed as a consequence that 240 cities and towns sent members to parliament which did not equal them in wealth. (Hear.) They were rated under schedule Ato the amount of 8103,000/., and if to that they added, as he con tended they had a right to add, the property Wed under schedules B and C, they had, with a population of 130,000, a taxed propertLoS le= d. . (Hear, hear.) There was nothing In STlff or Ireland, to be compared with that. ( lia r hear) At the time of the Reform Bill, 22 towns were declared to be worthy of two seats each, and of these 22 but three had a population equal to that which they had ten years ago. There were only six towns that had crept up to the population they had ten years ago. (Hear, hear.) In fact, whether the basis of representation was to be population, property, or intelligence, or all of these combined, they bad au indisputable and undeniable claim, and he 111 no doubt that the legislathre would re cognise the claim of such property, intelligent*, and popu lation. (Loud cheers.) . . . . . The motion was pat and Cllrried unanimously, a few names being added to the committee as originally proposed. Mr. Detiruan proposed, and Mr. DELANY seconded, a reso. lotion for a ppeetition to parliament in favour of the bill foe the entrees • t of the borough of Chelsea and Kens sulks, which was carried. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the pro. ceedfap. ABERDEENSHIRE ELECTION.—The nomination of candidates for the representation of Aberdeenshire took place yesterday. The Hon. Arthur Gordon was proposed in his absence by Sir James Burnett, Bart., and seconded by Mr. Mark Ciurnbrogre, a tenant farmer. Mr. Leslie, of Warthill, the conservative candidate, was also propo , ed and seconded. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Conlon. The poll was fixed for Friday. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON Asa WEDNESDAY.--• Viscount Palmerston moved on Tuesday evening that the House of Commons, at its rising, should adjourn until two o'clock yesterday, in order (although his lordship did not say so in so many words) to enable the members to attend thyme Service in the church of St. Margaret, Westminster, the parish in which nor legislative assemblies meet for the despatch of the national business. The Speaker is supposed to go in state on Ash Wednesday to St. Margaret's Church, sod to be accompanied by some of the members of the go vernment holding seats in the lower house, as well as by essay independent representatives. Any one attending St. Margaret's church yesterday morning to witness this im posing ceremony would have been grievously disappointed. The Speaker was absent from his post, and the congregation consisted of about a dozen persons, ran tionres is ~audits raelu,but there was not a single member of the House of Gout moos among them. The morning was extremely cold and cheerless, and the service parsed off without any allusion being made to the absence of the distinguahed persons who are on such occasions expected as visitors. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and two or three members from the National Club in Whitehall-gardens attended sersice at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, where a sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Vaughan, the late bead master of Harrow School, now Vicar of Doncaster, and there were two or three present at the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace, whoa the sermon was preached "before her Majesty" be the Bishop of London. When the House of Commons aid assemble yesterday all the business on the japer was de. spatched in lees than half an hour. DEATH OF THE REV. H. S. BARTER, WARI.EN OF WINCHLsTER COLLEGE.—It is with feelings of the deepest sorrow, which are dared by every class and rank of persons in this city and neighbourhood, that we announce the death of the Rev. Robert Speckntt Barter, the Warden of Winchester College. This mehweliolv event took place at 20 minutes before 11 o'clock on Friday night. The interest that has been excited in the town ever since it SAS reported that the Warden was dangerously ill has been ex treme ; and we will venture to my that there is no pereon in Winchester, of sehatever political or religious opinion. ' who does not feel that be has lost a friend—that he and his fellow-citizens have lost one iu whose faithful true-hearted kindness, in whose active and self.denying benevolence they have reposed the most perfect confidence. Mr. Barter had reached' his 70th birthday on the 3nl of July last year. Is*ing the youngest of the three sons of the Rev. Charle- Hater, Vicar of Cornworthy, in Devonshire. Both his paltntd lived to the sue of 96. He was admitted, in early Isobo , dl a scholar of Winchester College, from which he was elected, at an earlier age than is usual, to New College. HaevAire Chronicle. AN IRISH LICIHTHOUSE. —A vessel belonging to this port (says the Dubfix Errning Moil laden with coals from Whitehaven, was wrecked last Tuesday evenim' AO. the entranee of Stvangford Lough, and all on lag' ol perished. This is but one of many cases of destruction to life and property in that place, and might have been averted by the simple precaution of placing a light ..n the Angus }Cock. to indicate the true channel. An called "A Lighthouse" (tars. (I nom larends) iP there, which was erected 'seven or eight years ago by the Dublin Ballast Board ; but it appears to I c noT.ody's business to trim the lamp. The Ballast Board here no authority in the matter ; the Trinity House pleads, in justification of the neglect. that the place is not yet in its jurisdiction ; and their highnesses at the Board of Trade have nut con descended to give any directions or to throw light upon the matter iu any way. Sooth to say, enlightening is not their province. There stand, the c o lumn, a h o ll o w mocks". and the subject of many • taunting jibe against Ireland and Irish lighthouses (or dark lanterns) to the las.in; seaman. VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. —The director; (.f this company, in consequence of the heavy gradients on the line (a breed gauge one), and partly in consequence of certain offers made to them by the directors of the West Midland Company (a narrow gauge line), of running over their line to the port of Neatli or Swansea, have determined on applying to pkrliament for powers to lay down a third rail, so as to make the line available for narrow gauge tratfi . e. The management of the concern not having been sate , factory to some of the shareholders, they iotend at the next half•yearly meeting (on the 211th instant) to move the sub stitution of two new directors for Messrs. Cuthbortaou and Vivian, two of the three retiring directors who offer them• solves for re-election. Accordingly the chairman. Mr. Bruce, M.P., has lined a circular, in which he declares his de. termination to resign should Messrs. Cuthbertson and Vivian be rejected. CRYSTAL PALACE. -- ONE SHILLING DAT. WEDNEADAT,FES 13.—Adtniasions On payment , $l5 ; ditto by semen tickets, 508 ; total visitors, 1,324. Air. He rletast ,pow! , s at tontine closed wit The a the Coal sll Pen° &sec 7 James Ha Lloyd, at btM, et tb bridge, at the suit of the suit of the snit of suit of Joh The net Much. A dock be fo r e longing to 1 worth. It appear eion to tur but Mill, o'clock on h the prison worth-road plaited wil parently as prisoner pn greengrocer wanted to here I'll eel and he said agreement I and Dunn k Thi coamtable ti lie asked h so. 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