The Express. — London, England, 1860-04-10 00:00:00

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Clore Ot Came. t Tram's. tans Awn. —Aid THE MIDDY A4HORIL WWI L Thompson. IAMDCR. Tuts Mims°, A 81)1141111 . 15iIAOL Mr. Y. Robinson.— A CNA %131 r, or %TUTU( Mr r Robb.: M Murray A arm hurlr.itur. rntltle.l LUCIICZIA BURMA AT HOME AND ♦LLABROAU. Mir(' Morytaa—Aud BRITANNIA. Tuft Emma. TH6 It&liiOF itli MILT. or. Tie Denson N The T. , reet •tel The Poor aftedoot —A sew raftsft. eftlll.,l Ll' RIJN The Moo owl lb Mao. Wl oo Welter aft...W. Mrs. & buy. —AM TIER PROGILMIS Or CL/111. HIGH NAT= AT LONDON =IDOL TIM Div —Nwa✓l. O. Ala Tm t. ioasov—iisraits, 86. Ina .AlAwarsat it lOa LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 10. THE most striking proof of the alleged apathy on the subject of Reform is to he found in the weak, irr e levant, and worthless character of the arguments urged against the Government measure. The first Reform Bill excited not only a strong but an intelligible opposition, based on defi nite principles, and maintained with vigour and consistency to the end of the struggle. The opponent, of the measure said boldly that the tAi-poiend hotewholders were utterly unfit to re ceive the suffrage, and that if enfranchised they would inevitably overturn the constitution, and ruin the country. There is something definite and resp,ctable in a position like that. But there is is..iiseerndAe principle at all in the opposition to the pre,ent measure. Nothing that can be fairly called an argument, much less an intelligent and consistent one, has been iir g ud against it. The Conservatives do not venture to assert that the six-pound house hibleri are unfit to receive the suffrage. They do their general intelligence or honesty. They implicitly allow that, as a body, they are not min Ii inferior to the ten-pound householders, and prol.d.ly far superior to the majority of ten househoblers of thirty years ago. But, un able or unwilling to take issue on the character of the class to he enfranchised, they suicidally fall beck on its numbers. They may be quite tit to belong to the electoral body, but then (it is urgerl)they are SO numerous that, however excellent their character, we cannot afford to admit so many. All the opposition arguments against the measure are summed up in the cry of numbers, numbers, " mere numbers," as it is added to give effect to the cry. The Tory speakers and writers echaust their ingenuity in labouring to multiply and etaggerate the number, that it may look as hig as possible. But this ingenuity is entirely thrown away. Every one knows, without any elaltorate proof, that the six-pound householders are a mummers class—hut what of that ? This is trivial and irrelevant question, that really does not affect the man I I argument. The membersof this class, whether few or mail), are either fitted, and therefore entitled, to receou the suffrage, or they are not. • 6. 16 • 86 • 0 • M • li • • L 70 • TO • MD • •• • N • a L SI • IS • 44 • 44 • V • THE . EXPRESS, TUESDAY E If they are really qualified to diagram, the du of good citizens, it does not mattfir b r • ouzo they are. We cannot have Ilfralicat of a thing. If they are not than it dook, matter how few they are : they ought not t admitted within the pal eof the constitution. But to admit the honesty and intelligence of the class, and yet deny them the suffrage simply on account of their numbers, is not only a weak and suicidal, but a most mischievous position for any party to assume on this question. The assumption of thia.position, however, is not confined to the Tories. It is maintained in a far more extreme form and with greater pertinacity amongst reactionary Liberals. The seal of con verts is proverbially great, and as a dissenter in the Church makes the most rabid Episcopalian, so a converted Radical presents the extremeat type of Toryism. The ardent spirit of reac tion naturally exceeds the more temperate bounds of a stable opposition ; and the only real opponents of all Reform are to be found in the ranks of the so-called Liberals. The regular Tories content themselves with opposing Reform on trivial and inconsequent grounds. But indignant Liberals who have suddenly become enamoured of Toryism are satisfied with no such half measures. They are for taking a more determined and thorough-going course. Not satisfied with opposing this particular measure, they denounce all reform. Even this is not sufficient. They must trace it back to its source, and stigma tise not only the principles on which it rests, but the very constitution and form of government out of which it springs. A tone of this sort may be detected in the speeches and writings of the ardent anti reformers who style themselves Liberals. As a specimen of the class, we may quote the most recent manifesto of the school that has come under our notice. For serene self-complacent dogmatism and modest assurance it is, we should fancy, unrivalled even in the reactionary literature to which it be longs. The writer starts by asserting " that the whole Liberal party have since " the agitation for the first Reform Bill been corn " mitted to one or two leading fallacies on the " subject of Parliamentary Representation, which " they are now merely following out to some of " their logical consequences." That is tolerably cool for a beginning, and one is naturally inte rested in listening to the unknown master of poli tical science who never questions his own superior insight and logical acumen as compared with the statesmen of the " whole Liberal party" for thirty years. The continuation of the article does not belie the outset. As we read on we discover that the charge of the opening sentence might have been made more general still. It might and ought to have taken the more comprehensive form, " that the whole constitutional party in this " country has, since the great Revolution, been " committed to one or two leading fallacies on " the subject of government, which they are now " only following out to some of their legi " timate results." This will appear from an enumeration of the fallacies specified. The first fallacy is that all who are qualified to vote ought to possess the franchise, whereas this should be the privilege of only a few amongst the many who are entitled to it. The second fallacy is, that of those who have votes the minority ought to govern the majority instead of the majority go venfing the minority. This is stigmatised as the " majority-fallacy." The third fallacy is, that representative government rests on the will of the nation instead of—but the alternative is not articulately stated. This, how ever, is needless, and might have been offensive to some weak and fastidious minds. We all know what is the opposite theory of government to that denounced as a fallacy, and the opponent of all real Representative Reform very consistently falls back on the doctrine of divine right. This is, at all events, intrepid, and has the negative merit of placing the opposition to Reform on a broad and intelligible basis. The whole reasoning, so far as it has any force, tells equally against our whole system of re presentation as against any reform of it. If amongst the many qualified to vote only a few are actually to possum the franchise, and of the few the minority are to override the majority, it is of course a mere farce to talk of representative go vernment at all. And this is the inevitable re suit of the doctrine in question. It avows that the actual electoral body ought to be a learned and accomplished body, its members being versed in the science of government and legislation. But as even in such a body a few would be more learned than the rest, the minority ought here also to decide. Such a doctrine logically results in a scientific oligarchy, a philosophical monarchy, or in the last resort perhaps a literary despotism. It is needless at this time of day to deal seriously with such reasoners. But though the arguments are not only worthless but ludicrous, it is impor tant to direct attention to them in order to detect the real animus of those who oppose Reform. The reasoning is harmless enough, but the spirit that animates it is mischievous in the highest degree. It is a spirit not only of profound distrust of the nation but of aversion to some of its more im portant social and political elements. Nothing is more calculated to create disunion, to foment jealousy and discontent between the great cismes of the population than such a temper, and such a style of treating a ques tion in which the body of the people are deeply interested. We do not of course say that those who talk in this strain are at all aware of the results which their unpatriotic speculations tend to produce. They have their pet schemes and crotchet. and logical principles of government which they have elaborated in the closet. But Reform is not a question for dreamers and theorists. It is a practical question affecting the whole nation, and grounded in its habits, tradi tions, and institutions ; and it cannot be profitably discussed by those whose qualifications for the task are want of all sympathy with the people, and complete ignorance of the principles on which their rights and liberties are founded. 111 s. & Th 0 a • N • N • •• • U • ID • 4 4 ay: LORD BROUGHAM AND THE EDINBURGH PHILO BOrIiteAt TION. —The foll o wing note hats bees re. calved from Lint Brougham, acknowledging his election aa president of the above institution : " Canoe., 2nd April, 181111—Lord Brougham present* his complimesta to Mr. DOW* and Murk.. him for his letter .4 the 29th March, which be has just receives!. He begs Mr. Bowie to convey to the director% awl meridiem of the Philosophical Institu tion his most resiw:f u ul thanks, and to °sprees the sleep sense of gratit which be entertains fur the unmerited honour that ham • y been confened upon him, in hie having been elected to succeed as president his very &stip pished friend Lord Macaulay. Lord Brougham has ob served with the greatest satisfaction, at different times, the awful labours .4 the institution, and he rejoices to see the account of it. late session and its present state, which Mr. Bowie has been so_ good as to semi hint." HEALTH or R. COBDEN. —Mr. Cobden arrived in London on Tuesday kat, and is suffering from a very severe attack of bronchitis, coupled with slight inflamma tion of the lungs. indeed, the non. gentleman's health is such, that he to forbidden by hie medical advisers to take any part in public matters for the present, not that he could do an if he were ever so much ekeernee, inasmuch an his voice is eo feeble that be can, and then with great iU cult%. may mist, himself indistinctly heard in an online,' sisal rowan. it is thought some weeks must depoe before the hots. gentleman will be able to resume hie duties in the Howe of Commons. I tti st Thwandis sna .t. Uli P% Arm, 9. pealed by _ _ the Priam et Wale., Prisms Um. _ ___. _ Helena, Princess Louieo, Prises ArthvorPrhice Leopold, sad Prisms Beatrice, walked on the Fad Tensor yester day afternoon. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in attentimos. The Queen, with Princess Alice, walked and drove in the Home Park this morning, and visited the Durham of Kent at Frogniore. The Prince Consort, socompsnied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, went to the Wellington College, attended by Captain Du Plat and Captain Grey. The Duchess of Kent and Princess Leiningen visited her Ilaiesty in the afternoon. Despatch.. were received yesterday •t the Wane Lake (mat the Governors of Heligohind, New Brunswick, and the &harries. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort and the youthful members of the royal family intend, according to present arrangements, to leave Wind sor Castle on Monday next for Buckingham Palace. . . Her Majesty the Queen Marie Amelia, his Royal Highness the Duke de Montponsier, and suite, left Gril liou's Clarendon Hotel 013 Saturday evening for Claremont. _ _ His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge made= inspection of the whole of the troops now quartered at Chatham garrison this morning. The review took place onchatham Lines,where the entire force of the garrison were drawn up to await the arrival of his royal highness. His Excellency the French Ambassador and the Countess de Persigily are expected to leave the French Embassy to-day for Paris, on a short visit to that capital. During the absence of Count de Pereigny the Marquis de Chatesemnard will act as chit* cregraire.4 His Excellency the Austrian Ministbr and the Countess Apponyi leave town today to join the circle an sembled at Ashridge Park, Herta. The Earl of Elgin has made arrangements to leave on hie miesion to China by the last mail this month. His lonlahip is daily expected to return from Scotland, where private matters bare detained him. The Earl and Countess Pitzwilliam have arrived at Newmarket, from Wentworth House, Yorkshire. The Earl of Wilton will return to town on Thurs day from Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray. The Earl of Portsmouth has left Howchin's Hotel for Newmarket. The Earl and Counteaa of Portarlington are to leave town to-day for Paris, to pass the holidays. Viscount and Viscountesa Palmerston oome to town to-day from Broadlanda. The noble via:aunt and viscounts., will leave town tomorrow for Brocket Hall, Herta. Lord and Lady Taunton aru passing the holidays at their seat, Stoke Park, Bucks. Lady Ribbleadale has left town for Tunbridge Wens. Lord Ernest Bruce leaves town to-day for Paris. Her ladyship is passing the season at Brighton. A grand banquet is to be given by the citizens of Edinburgh to the 78th Highlanders, in the Corn Ex change there, on the 24th inst. The Lord Provost is to preside, and Sir John 0.C.8., is to occupy the vice chair. About 600 officers and men of this pliant and renowned regiment will be present. The installation of the Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, u Rector of Edinburgh University, is appointed to take place on Monday next, the 19th inst., in the Munc hen there. Major-General Sir James Yorke Scarlett, K.C. B. , Adjutant-General of the Army, and late Lieutenant-Gover nor of Portsmouth. has given orders for the erection, at his own private cost, of a handsome drinking fountain over • celebrated spring on Southsea•common—the exercising ground of the troops of the prrion, and the favourite Ammar promenade of the civiliane—as • testimonial of his feelings and good wishes towards the inhabitants generally, engendered during the period of his command. _ _ Mrs. K B. Browning wishes us (Athencrum) to Mate that the verses in her " Poems before Congress," en titled "A Curse for • Nation," are levelled, not against Engird, r i generally thought, but against the United States ; not on account, she now tells us, of any re miss new ou the Italian question, but on account of the negro question. Every English reader of Mrs. Browning will rejoice in this assurance. We may be allowed to ask, in extenuation of our hasty and incorrect inference, why a rhyme on negro slavery should appear among " Poems be• fore Congress?" We regret to learn of the death, on Saturday last, of rapid consumption, at Malvern House, Great Mal vern, of Jelinger Cookson Symoea, Hai., her Majesty's In spector of Scheele, aged fay. DRATH OP SIR Jil. FORZEINT. —The Edinburgh Daily Courant, in recording the death of Sir James Forrest, of CA , 111111t01:1, on Thursday last, at Plymouth, while on a visit to his ain, Cant. Forrest, says:—" Sir James was born on the 16th of October, 1780, and was thus in his itOth year. Both by birth and by habits he was truly one of our citizens. His father was • writer to the signet. He passed as advocate in 1803, and at his death stood seventh on the list of the faculty. In politics be was a steady adherent of the old whig party, and in 1837, through the influence of that party, he was chosen Lord Provost of the city. At the coronation of her present Majesty in 1838 he was created a baronet. He occupied the civic chair for six years, and although firmly attached to hie party, he suc ceederl by his kindly disposition in securing, to a large ex tent, the affections of men of all shades of politics. It was during his provostship that her Majesty paid her first visit to Edinburgh. At the Disruption, in 1843, Sir James, who had for several years previously held the office of • ruling elder in the established' church of Scotland, joined the free church, of which he remained everafter a conscien tious member. He served long as director of many public Cappetir. end benevolent institutions. lie retained the chairmanship of the Life Association of Scotland tfr the time of his death. He had also the honour of holding the office of Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Freemasons in &attend, now held by his grace the DAte of AtholL --- Llll4lO . AT SERVICHL -LiTTHAM, MONDAY NIOHT. —This afternoon, during a heavy storm, and • terrific sea, the brigantine Nancy, of Teignmouth, Devon, was observed on shore near the Horse Sauk, some miles distant from this place. The life-boat of the Royal National LifeHoat Insti tution was immediately mannedand launched, and proceeded off to her assistance. She was soon reached snd found to be rapidly breaking up, and her crew of nine men were only too glad to jump into the lifeboat, as they must otherwise have perished.. There is no time left before the night post start. to furnish any additional particulars ; but I may add that ' this valuable lifeboat was instrumental last year in rescuing eighteen persons from • watery grave, from three wrecks. It is also mtidactory to be able to re port that our lifeboat station is in • thoroughly efficient state ; and that the promptitude with which our gallant boatmen man the boat often excites our admiration. No matter how dark the night may be, or bow heavy the storm blows, these brave men instantly turn out of their warm beds, leave their wives and children, and proceed on their errands of mercy with unfaltering coarage in the lifeboat, which panesees their entire csinfidence. LOCAL UNIVERSITY E LAM !NATION. —A public meeting will be held in St. George's-hall, Liverpool, on Tuesday next, the 17th inst., for the distribution of prizes awarded to those competitors who were eucceesful at the last Cambridge examination held in Liverpool. Lord Stanley is to Enside on the occasion, and deliver the prizes. TH. LATE PREMIER or VICTORIA AND THE Pore—The Melbourne Armes states that the Right Rev. Dr. Ooold, on his recent return from Europe, brought with him from the court of Rome an Order of the Knight of St. Gregory, conferred by the Pope upon Mr. O'Sleimaxy, as a testimony of his services on behalf of Roman catholicism in this colony. The letter.patent bearing the distinction, which is datal se fat back as December, 1855, is • parch meet MS., setting forth in Latin the reasons which induced his holiness to confer the title. It bears the seal of the Propaganda, and is signed by two cardinals. The order is a double gold cross of eight ban, of • star-like appearanie, and in the centre is a brief inscription. The cross is sus pended from • gold ring, lousing from a red ribbon. THE LANCASHIRE REFORMERS' UNION. —We understand that the demand for tickets of admission to the meeting of the Lancashire Reformers' Union, which is to be held on Thursday evening next, is very great. They have been nearly all disposed of in the short space of two days. Mr. Bright has not spoken in the large nom of the Free Trade Hall since the banquet in December, 1858. V/lIITRY or ST. UROROR'R-IN-THR-EAST. Tle• vestry of this pariah met yesterday, in terms of ad journment from Friday last, for the purpose of taking the result of the poll as to the nomination of parish officers for the year ensuing. Mr. Thompson, the churchwarden, pre sided, and after the numbers voted for each candidate bad been cast up, announced the election to be as follows :—For Mr. W. J. Thompson, 22 ; Mr. J. Dowsett, 15 ; Mr. H. P. P. Garrett, 14. The chairman accordingly declared Mr. Thomp um and Mr. Doweett to be the parties elected for the en salsa year. Mr. E. S. Barnard wee, by a majority of 20 to 6 voles over Mr. Hopkinson, elected as parish constable for the year ensuing, and the trustees were also elected. Con siderable dismission then ensued as to the election of Mr. Dowsett —who is a dissenter as junior churchwanien, and, et the mate time, an one of the Wartime. 'IN G, APRIL 10, *LATEST INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN. MADRID, MONDAY EVEN 1110„ Persona well acquainted with Count Montemolin and his brothers have been sent to Fort Morella to identify the prisoners. Oaberillo Carrion is a prisoner. His son has been killed. A battalion of artillery returning from Africa has arrived here, and waa received with enthueiaam. CHINA. SHANGHAI, Fn. 20. Businews is active, but uneasineea in felt at the departure of four war steamers. Trade uninter rupted at all ports. CANTON, Frs. 27. Affairs in Japan are still in a very unsettled state. It is rumoured that the Chinese have with drawn the guns from the Taku forts, to strengthen with them the Tientsin forts. Kweeliang, chief Imperial Commissioner, has been refused permission to retire into private life. The court of Pekin is alarmed at the preparations of the allies. INDIA. CALCVITA, MARCH 16. (Six days after the departure of the wail.) Outrages by the ryots of Lower Bengal have taken place. The Lieutenant-Governor has issued a notifica tion which it is hoped will be effective. GENEVA, MONDAT. K Laity, French imperial commissioner, who is travelling through the neutralised provinces of Savoy, arrived yesterday at Bonneville, where he was received coldly. To-day he reached Sallanches, whence he will take his departure for Thonon. THE CONCORDAT WITH BADEN. CARLUUSE, MONDAT. A manifesto of the Grand Duke has been pub lished proclaiming the principle of the independenoe of the catholic church, and adding that ita laws are placed under the protection of the constitution. Guarantees shall be given for the sure foundation of the legal position of the church. The contents of the concordat shall be lawfully sanctioned by special laws and other ordinances. The manifesto also promises the free development of the pro testant church, as well as of other public require ments. The Minister of Finanoe, Regenaner, has been pensioned. M. Vogelmann has been appointed as his suc cessor. Other changes of high functionaries are expected. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oui oar COI PARIS, MONDAY Evsamto. Lord Cowley's remonstrances against the absurd accusations which the Pays and Pattie were simul taneously instructed to bring against England have produced the following "communicated note," which these two journals have been compelled to print this evening : On the occasion of the attempts at insurrection which have taken place in Spain and Sicily, two journals, the Paps and the Patric, contain regrettable imputations against a neighbouring power. These journals should the less have accepted these imputations because, as they themselves admit, they are devoid of all authenticity. The Pattie humbly inserts this communique at the head of its columns in the form of a wani ing, and abstains from all comment, but the Puys subjoins the following paragraph, which is in substance a repetition of the charge : We most fully adhere to the idea which dictated this colony niqui, and we shall always be happy to believe that the country alluded to remains everywhere faithful to principles of order worthy of such a government. Revo lutionary ideas have but too powerful an empire, and too many adherents, and it is to be wished that all the great nations should combine to oppose them. The Bourse was very firm, notwithstanding a decline in Consols. Of the contradictory versions' of the news hom Sicily, the moat favourable was believed. It became known, in the course of the day, that the evening papers would contain a note of apology to the English government for the attacks of the Pays and Patrie, and this intelli gence principally tended to the rise which took place. There was, however, no great amount of business done, Easter Monday being a Jews' holi day. The Rente rose 10c. for cash, and 25c. for account, closing at 69fr. 90c. in each case. Mobi lier ruse Gfr. 25c. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. higher. The Patric contains the following allusion to a French refugee, meaning, I suppose, Colonel Charras : Several foreign journals affirm that one of the leading French refugees, a former officer in the army and member of one of our last assemblies, is now exciting the President of the Helvetic Confederation against France. Although we are sorry to believe in such conduct, the presence of this personage in Switzerland seems to lend • certain degree of credit to the rumours propagated by the journals in question. The Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has bied a circular to his clergy, informing them that the special prayers to be read for the Pope are post poned till the Feast of the Assumption. The " di vided duty" of the archbishop towards his Emperor and his Pope places him in a very difficult position and it is no wonder that be should put off the evil day as long as possible, in the hope that something may turn up to make the composition of his form of prayer more easy. Meanwhile he calls upon the faithful to rally more closely than ever to the Wean, sentiments, and desires of the venerated head of the church. General Dien, after several months of extreme suffering, died yesterday in Paris of the wounds he received at Bolferino. The Emperor paid a visit to his bedside only a few days ago. Before his death the general expressed a hope that the 74th Regiment, which he headed at the moment when he fell, would fire a salute over his grave. Narwhal Valliant was to leave Milan on the Bth with hie gaff. The command of the army in Italy devolves upon General d'Antemarre. A decree of the King of Sardinia enacts that the Bags destined for fortresses, and for regiments of infantry sod cavalry, shall bear in the centre of the white part the shield of Savoy, with the white cross on a red field, sur. rounded with blue, the whole surmounted with a royal crown embroidered in silk. A letter front Oldenburg, in the Cologne Gazeue, says :—" An ex•functionary of the Austrian com missariat department, named H—, has just been arrested here, and carried under escort to Mentz. It appears that he was at Milan when the French troops arrived, and being obliged to fly precipitately, be could sot, he declared in a report which he sent in, carry with him the auah•box, containing 60,000 florins. Since then he retired on half - pay, and withdrew to Oldenburg, where he purchased a handsome house. Suspicion was at last excited, and he has been now arrested on the charge of having appro- priated to his own use the money which be said was lost at Milan. At his residence a sum of 220,000 florin* was found." .I. 0 • •• • - • s • se • nee: ITALY. SARDINIA. . _ PION Ora RPCCIAL COIRICEIPONDECT.) TURIN, APRIL 6. To-day the slow and tiresome proceedings of the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies were suddenly interrupted by an unexpected Incident. It was four o'clock when Count Cavour took his seat on the ministerial bench, under the gangway of the house, which was languidly discussing the election of a worthy professor, Signor Bb, one of the members for Genoa. At that moment a distinct voice was heard. It was that of General Garibaldi, who had asked leave to speak. The voice of the general at once hushed the house to the deepest silence. Gari baldi, having obtained leave to speak, said that he wanted to put a question to the President of the ' Council upon a matter of the utmost importance. It was easy to understand that the illustrious member for Nice wished to bring on a debate upon the grave question of the annexation of that town to le,nce. Count Cavour, who was, perhaps, taken aback, saw at once that to accept a discus sion upon this delicate matter would be to put in jeopardy the solution of an affair on which depends the future destiny of Italy. He, therefore, rose with a gesture of disapproval, and in firm and rather sharp language told the house that he would not answer the question, because the verification des pouroirs being not yet fully accom plished, members of parliament had no right to ad dress questions to the advisers of the crown. He added that all the precedents of the house sanc tioned this constitutional principle, and that it would be to infringe the most obvious rules of legislative assemblies to allow one of its members to follow such a course. At that moment Signor Laurenti Robaldi, another member for Nice, rose from hie seat, and, in a voice full of emo tion' told the house that his illustrious colleague wanted to have some explanation upon a ques tion which was of the utmost importance. " What would the house say," added Signor Laurenti, "if the Austrians were on the point of attacking na I The question which my illustrious friend wanted to put to the President is of equal moment." It would be difficult for me to give you an idea of the effect produced by these words, and of the tumult that followed them. Signor Mellen& urged upon the house to allow General Garibaldi to put the question. Linen advised the postpone ment of it till the next day. The confusion was so great, and the speakers So loud and numerous, that it was impossible to follow the discussion. At last Deputy Boggio, one of the secretaries, succeeded in making himself heard, and proposed to the house the resumption of the former discussion, since no member had the right of putting questions to the ministry till the verifi cation des pouovirs bad been accomplished. The house, by an overwhelming majority, decided in favour of Boggio's proposal, and thus put an end to the eager and somewhat dangerous discussion. To bring on a debate upon such a delicate question, on the eve of the voting—which, as I told you yester day, will take place on the 20th of this month—might possibly have overthrown Count Cavour's policy in this matter. In putting the question to the ministers, General Garibaldi was no doubt actuated by the moat generous sentiments ; but to interfere now between the government and its powerful ally would have put in jeopardy the future of this country. Such a delicate question might be freely discussed without danger at Westminster, but not in the Palazzo Carignano. The consummatum eat unhappily has been pronounced. There is nothing to be done now except to bend the head and accept with resignation the sacrifice which has been imposed upon Sardinia. NORTH SAVOY. The following address has been presented to the Savoyard deputies in the Piedmontese parlia ment by the committees of North Savoy, represent ing the 12,000 signatures in favour of Swiss annexation : Messieurs les Dfputie,—The fate of North Savoy is in your hands. It rests with you to satisfy her expectations or to deceive her hopes. Glorious events, the fruits of which free Italy is now reaping, have carried with them political results that seem to render the severance unavoidable of those ties which for centuries have united Savoy to the Sardinian monarchy. These results, which we dreaded but could not foresee, have led us, sin, to consider closely our situation, our interest., our future. In these days, when the people enjoy the happy privilege of having some influence upon their own destiny, it was our right and our duty to study the various prospects that opened before us. This study has shown us that the monarchical unity which rallied us round the constitutional throne of Victor Emmanuel 11. once definitively broken, we became compe tent to choose for ourselves that which accorded best with our sympathies, our habita, our wants, our interests. In all these relations, sin, North Savoy has a life of her own, quite distinct from that of Southern Savoy ; so that, unless the wish is to make the North the slave and a sort of insig. nificant adjunct of the South, nobody can deny her the right to proclaim openly her preferences, and to claim loudly that her wishes be fulfilled. We do not attempt to judge of the preferences of the rest of Savoy, and we do not refuse to recognise them. We are told that they incline towards France. But, if so, lot Southern Savoy speak in her own name and not in ours. She has nodded no mission from us. Much lees had they any, those men who most of them at all time@ enemies of those liberal ideas the triumph of which is now secure in your country, which is still ours— seem to try to punish our constant devotion to the cause of Italy, by smothering our free aspirations, and who, hating taken upon themselves the sorry mission of offering to • foreign master the hos of their itterested desertion—cave arrogated to them sel ves the right of speaking for us. We declare that far from seeing with joy Savoy hoisting a new banner, we could not think, without deep grief that we were going to ahandon the old Sag to whore glory we have contributed. Your justice, sirs, will bear us witness so far. We potent energetically against those soealled wishes that • mock deputation has dared to offer am the expression of the wishes of the whole of Savoy. We may be allowed further to call to your mind that we have acquired, and as Sardinian sublecte still hold, the right to take an interest in the preservation of the Italian independence. It is by this right that we dare to represent to you the future dangers to which possession by a single state of all the paime of our mountains must expose this independence. From the Maritime Alpe to the Penin Alps, from Nice to the Simplon, Italy is opened, if our wishes are returned. Our wishes are these : If we must Mae to belong to • free monarchy, if we mmt cease to be the loyal subjects of the illustrious house of Savoy, our wish is to become independent citizens of the noble Swiss Confederation. More than twelve thousand signatures, which will be laid before you, attest in an un exceptionable way the sincerity of this wish. We sat but for one thing, which is to be allowed to bear witness to it in a still clearer and imposing manner. You have yourselves. sin, just seen the political regenera tion of Italy brought out by universal suffrage freely con. suited. Grant us, to manifest our opinion, the mine forms, the same guarantees, that all the citizens of full age he called upon, each in his own commune, to take part in this solemn act, of each distinct province, and let them be by • vote allowed to pronounce freely among the different alter natives that may offer themselves to their choice. The suffrage already obtained in favour of an eventual union with Switzerland renders it imperative that this union in particular should be seriously submitted to the vote. It rests with you, sirs, to respond to this legitimate re quest, by making a free voting on our part • condition of th ratification of the treaty of ceasion laid before you for ap probation. The treaty stipulate= expressly that the will of the people shall be consulted. It therefore allows you— nay more, it obligee you—to bike care that this consulta tion be serious and sincere, and this can only be in the way we have shown. Universal suffrage in each commune, voting by province, and a fair option among all possible preference—this alone will enable North Bavoy to make known its wishes dis tinctly. This is what we claim from you, sirs—this is what you will pant us. Tu► PRIMIDINTS or rim Comrirrreer. BAKU, JosaPH, advocate, Bonneville. Betimes, TH. A., engineer, Thonon. FACHAI, HtNat, advocate, St. Julien. March 30, 1860. A superior officer in the French army, who lived in the Rue Moreau, St. Denis, committed suicide the other day wider singularly distr.:wing circumstances. He accom plished his object by lying on kid hack in bed, and discharg ing a musket beneath his chin, by pulling the trigger by means of a string attached to his foot. In a letter a•ldres'ed to the colonel of his regiment, he stated that his re.i.on ass that he had long suffered to dreadfully front woumls --not fewer than twenty-fire in number, received in action—that ►t times his mind was affected. Just before killing himself he sent hie wife and child to Paris. SWITZERLAND AND SARDINIA, The Opinion _gives the text of the despatch hel d, under date of March 21, by Count Cavour to Con. mendatore Jocteau, the Sardinian winister at Berne, in answer to the Swiss note : Turin, March_ 21, MO. Monsieur le ConunertlerV--li t Tell, nee !us?ded me ~ copy of the note you will Mid enclosed, by which the Federal Council directs the attention of the King's government to the juridical position of the neutralised provinces of Savo% . He altos to this end the treaty of 1564 between Savoy and Berne, and the European stipulations of 1815. On leaving with rue a copy of this note M. Tourte addressel to me another, in which, referring to the proclamation. of the governors of Chanthery and Annecy, announcing an approaching general vote concerning the annexation of Savoy to France, he protests, in the name of the Federal Council, against any vote or any other act whatever, the result .4 which might produce a change in the present state of things in Savoy. You will also hnd enclosed a copy of the now from the Swiss envoy ext•rsonlinary. I answered M. Tourte verbally, that I did not und er . stand how the conduct observed by the King's cabinet in this affair could have been a cause of recrimination on tbe part of the Federal CounciL In fact, it would have been sufficient to read the answer, which through the medium of his Majesty's charge. d'affaires at Paris I had given to the communication wherein M. Thouvenel demanded guarantees for the security of France, to convince one's-self that the King's cabinet, unable to refuse to acknowledge the validity of a vote to be legally given by the inhabitant+ of Snyny, had ueverthelLws only made this declaration upon the assurances expressed in the notes of the French cabinet, that it would take into serious consideration the interests of Switzerland. I further observed to M. Towle that I still less understood by what right Switzerland protested against all voting tending to show legally the wishes of the inhabitant.. There is therein a singular forgetfulness of his Majesty's rights of sovereignty, which it is rather iliffts cult to explain, even when taking into account the inter. lestional stipulations invoked by the Federal Council. I do not, then, think it expedient to dwell on this part of the communication made by the Helvetic Confederation, and I shall confine myself to a few remarks on the value attached by the Federal Council to the treaty of 1564 and to the traasections of 1815. The treaty of Lausanne of October 30,11564, between Emmanuel Filibert and the hints of Berne, in stipulating the restoration to the house of Savoy of "the entire lord ship of Gee, ala f Lthe t tl . i f ey th ( e the c trels . of situated district beyond Lake a m nd tte Rhone, also all they had occupied of the GOINVOiII, &c.," declares iu the 14th article that neither party shall alienate these countries to another This limitation of the right of sovereignty was from it* very nature transitory, and would naturally disappear with the causes that had procured its admission. It would cease by the tacit or expressed agreement of the contracting por tico, or else through the effect of the general stipulation that have subsequently regulated the public law of Europe. We see in fact that the clause above-mentioned was in 1601 oonaidered to be abrogated, when by the treaty of Lyons Charles Emmanuel I. ceded to France the lordship of Gex with all its appurtenances, and when neither Berne nor the other confederated cantons offered any remon strance or protest against the use which the house of Savoy made of its right of sovereignty. Moreover, two years later, the stip ul ations in the 14th article of that treaty of 1564 no longer appear in the convention concluded at St. Julien between Cherie* Emmanuel I. end Geneva "with the knowledge and consent" of all the Swine mutant. Finally, in the treaty of June 3, 175.4, stipulated between the King Charles Emmanuel 111. and Geneva, under the kindly mediation of Zurich and even Berne, it is expre-sly said: "By means of the arrangements effected by this treaty and the explanations accompanying it, all other claims of whatsoever nature they may be are herewith can celled and annulled on both aides for ever." The preceding consideratiumi demonstrate moat clearly that the present claims of Switzerland have no foundation. The treaties of 1815 still less furnish any ground for the pretensions of the Federal CounciL By these treaties the provinces of Chablais and Fauciguy were restored to Sar dinia, who had lost them in 1792. Is there in the private treaties, or in the final act, or in the protocols of N remit, any arrangement or word restoring to validity the 14th article of the treaty of 15614? Absolutely nut one. But the Federal Council invokes the 23rd article of the treaty of 1816 between Sardinia and Switzerland. Thin article is thus worded : " The stipulations of the ancient treaties, and especially of that of June 3, 1754, such as are not expressly cancelled by the present treaty, are con firmed." Can any one in good faith believe and maintain that by a vague phrase, having no precise import, Sardinia could have consented to revive a stipulation dating three centuries back ? It is enough to put the question to obtain its answer. The stipulationn alluded to in 1816 referred to the trade and the facilitating of communications between the two adjacent countries, and bad no reference at all to the essential rights of sovereignty, which were in the ,ime act defined expressly as far as the neutralised provinces were concerned. For the rest, by this same phrase in the 23rd article, one might have been able, perhaps, to resusci tate the stipulations existing in 1792, but not those which, by the nature of events, by the subsequent facts and coo* centime, had been cancelled for 200 year.. . . It is, - flowerer, fair to acknowledge that the transaction" of 1815 created for the provinces of (labials and Faucigny • special juridical state relatively to Switzerland. The neutralisation of these countries was chiefly established for the sake of Sardinia, who demanded and obtained it as a compensation for a territorial cession to Geneva, and, con sequently, to the confederation, as we have already had occasion to observe in the communications that were ex claimed last year between the two governments. But if ze Switrland believes that this neutralisation is useful to her, we do not oppose the hiking of her interests into serious consideration. France herself had formally de clared it, and we have registered that declaration which has become public. This point ought to be examined sod settled in concert with the powers that awned the treaties of Vienna, for it cannon's the general interest" of Europe quite as much as the private convenience of Su , dinia or Switzerland. The King's government is persuaded that the Helvetic Confederation will be heard at the dia. cussion, and for our part we are disposed to support every proposition calculated to preserve intact the permanent in terests of the Swiss nation. %Ve have given too many proofs of our sympathy with and friendship for Switzerland, for the Federal Council not to be conviumd beforehand that it will find in Sardinia, should the case require it, the sea. timents that have hitherto inspired her conduct. I beg you, IL le Comnuindeur, to mad this despatch to, and leave a copy of it with, the Yresident of the Confedera tion, and to accept, dm, Cavues. THE UNITED STATES. LATEST BY THE ETNA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Cunard screw steamer Btu*. Capta:n Anderson, which left New York on the 29th alt., arrived in the Merry about noon to-day, but brings neither passengers nor specie. In the Senate the Navy Pay Bill wan no amended that captains at sea should receive a salary of 4,000 dole. ; those who were waiting orders and are eu leave, 3,000 dole. ; and those discharging other duties, 3,000 dole. After some other unimportant amendments the bill was read a third time and . An interesting debut,' occurred in the house on passed recently reported from the committee on the judiciary to suppress polygamy in the territories of the United States. Mr. Brencliangegented that if polygamy wee declared criminal, there would lie no reason why the same action might not be taken regonling slavery. He could not vote for this provison of the bill, which' . made penal laws applicable to all the tenitorias of the United States . Mr. Clarke stated that the committee em tern' tories had it in contemplation to report a bill paroellipg out Utah among the neighbouring territories, so that the people themselves might remove the evil of polygamy. A duliosition decidedly favourable to the mess sure under discussion wan shown by the vote on a motive to ley the subject on the table, 19 members recording their names in the affirmative 111111 14$ in the negative. The brig Virginian, of Now York, an alltgeil darer. raw timed on the 10th February, in the Congo River, by the United States sloop-of-war Portsmouth, hail arrived at Charleston. There wee a mutiny among the crew of the brig on the peerage, but the mutineers were secured before they could effect their object. On the 20th ult. a fire broke out iu West Forty-fifth street, New York, by which ten hu 1111 l n beings two mothers and eight chiblret —were burned to death. The building was miserably constructed of wood and four stories in height., with narrow stain**. end no means of egress by way of the roof. The ere was believed to be the work of an incendiary. Dates from Havannalt are to the 25th ultimo. The .tigst market was firm. Freight,' slightly declined. Exchange on London, 12j to 14 prem. Considerable excitement existed rowing the sholitionida in Philadelphia by the snivel in that city of a negro are rested in Harrisburg as a run-away slave. After the CM* elusion of the argument, the fugitive slave was ren",d.ed to his owner. Great excitement prevailed in the viemit7 of the Court-house on the announcement of the judge s decision. A large crowd, chiefly witnisoied of nettp.e. sembled a nd on the fugitive being taken to a carriage. they am-rounded it, and made a desperate attempt at resew , . The carriage w a s broken of , e t !. arrested fugrtice wee. then escorted to prison. A writ of halwan corpus had been Nerved on the Marshal ; in the meautione the fugitive awaits the action of the state court. The number of bunks and ',noodles on the Ist disnuarl throughout the United States, avoonling to the returns at the Treasury department, wits ; the capital pant in. 421880, .000 doh., and the amount of 'genie on leend 83,994,000 doh. The reweave,' of these bunks, including leans, notes, securities, and real estate, is 14.114411 at nearly 1,000,000,000 dols., and their liabilities 531,100k000 doh,. General Elio, who has been arrented in Spain with his secretary and three other !aglow., was formerly an offleer of the Ovant of Ferdinand VII., a.sdhe long re"" in Paris as a political refugee. He. Cabrera, and Ortcp, al e the only peen& of real ability now attached to the cope of Count de Mootemulin. I 1 1 1 • , I 1 .