The Express. — London, England, 1861-04-17 00:00:00

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SaITAWNIA. TO &T OM TIM ouriliiiixt Mean. J. Reyool.4 m 4T. Demonsoad: Mime I Cl= awl A. lk, ,, ulng —T lIIC DIVILM COMPACT. lln. 11. —ADA MOW, Ilikoli. Mime IL Jambs, 10tue. sad TAProlos. 1:1011_NATIN AT LONDON BRIDGE. ?rm. 70411•10/11—Marsts6 ... Misesschh ;h. 23m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17. THE Burgesses of Marylebone have sometimes had reason to complain of the default of good candidates at Parliamentary elections ; they now know what it is to have too many. Of the three Liberal gentlemen whose candidature we may treat as serious, either would make • fair, and one or two of them an excellent Member of Parliament. Mr. IlAitv Ey Lewes was first in the field, and possessing thoroughly Liberal principles, and having recently fought a good fight for Reform at Hull, he at once rallied many of the accepted leaders Of the local Liberal party to his cause. Mr. Wax (move Coosa is a gentleman of high character and proved ability. His opinions also are most liberal, but he has very fairly told the electors that he is a moderate and prudent politician. He is fighting his own battle with tremendous energy, leaving nothing to chance or " the initiative of public " opinion." If Mr. COOKE saw that the cause of Reform was only to be won, like Marylebone, by resolute and untiring effort, his return would prove an invaluable addition to the Liberal party in Parliament. Mr. MARERMIJr, the third Liberal candidate, in the order of his ap pearance, comes forward under the sanction of Indian celebrities, and with the support of well-known religious interest.. Sir JOHN Law macs enters the arena of politics to take the ehair at one of his meetings, and Sir H. HANN tom, his nephew, speaks for him. The organ of the Evangelical Church party gives him its good word, and Nonconformity is represented at his side in the person of Sir Moarox Pero. The metropolitan constituencies have often done them selves honour by accepting as representatives men who had won distinction otherwise than in political strife, and Mr. Massamsx probably knows more about India and its interests than any other man in this country. Perhaps the num ber of the rival Liberal candidates might have been doubled without tempting • Conservative candi date into the field, had their various merits been lees nearly balanced. We cannot profess to regret that Sir RoBLRT CARDEN has been brought for ward, or that the constitution of his committee promises a strong party fight. The prolonged abstention of an important part of the consti tuency from the borough elections will be termi nated. At the last general election Mr. Euwtx Jamas, who was at the head of the poll, was re turned by less than one-fourth of the number of registered electors. It is not well that a great party should systematically absent itself from the contests of so considerable a borough as Marylebone. Only, let the Liberals in the constituency take heed. Let it not be said to-morrow night that Ittaryleboot has ac cepted the !minims of the Lords ROHR= MON. TAO° and Cecil.. Tee Bill introduced by Mr. MONCLTON for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister is to be read a second time to-day. We earnestly hope it will be passed by a majority sufficiently decisive to deter the Upper House from persisting any longer in the dangerous and obstructive course it has hitherto pursued on this questiom This is one of those subjects on which the House of Lords has in the interest of an extreme ecclesi astical faction, repeatedly opposed the deliberate judgment of the nation. The proposed relaxation of the existing law has been supported by • greater number of pethions than any other popular measure of recent times. Taking into account the petitions presented within the last few days, it may be said that upwards of a minion persons have directly appealed to the Legislature in favour of the proposed obenge. The petition• comprise not only the various bodies of Dissentses throughout the kingdom, not only lay members of the Establishment of all ranks, but high dignitaries of the Church, and the most active section of the clergy. The representative branch of the Legis lature has very naturally responded to this strung and persistent expression of the national will. In the House of Commons • measure for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister has been paned by large majorities no less than four times. The House of Lords has rejected it as often, but each time by narrower majorities. On the lest occasion, indeed% the measure was loetby only every few votes, and the large minority in favour of the Bill included several of the more liberal members of the Episcopal bench. A commission of the Upper House, presided over by • Bishop, had moreover previously reported in favour of altering the existing law. The Hereditary Chamber thus not only opposes public opinion and the Lower House, but the formal recommendation of a chosen number of their own body. It is high time for their own sake, for the sake of the Church, as well as for the sake of public law and order, that this unseemly oonfl.ct between a few bigoted Peers and the majority of the nation should cease. What possible pretext, indeed, can be alleged in favour of the continued opposition of the Peers Nothing that we know of, except, perhaps, an annual meeting such as that held on Friday last at Willis's Rooms by a few well-known opponents of the measure. We fear, however, that a meeting of this kind can scarcely supply to Statesmen who care fur public opiniou even a decent pretence for opposing the Bill. It was, indeed, one of those indiscreet demonstrations of partial friends which do harm rather than good, by exposing the inhe rent weakness of the cause, and its utter want of po pular support. The meeting of Friday was like the one held last year, almost exclusively clerical and aris tocratical in its composition. But the proceedings of the meeting were, for all public purposes, even weaker sod worse than its composition. Instead of attempting to meet the facts and arguments adduced by the supporters of the Bill, the meeting created its own facts by special resolutions, and pronounced on the exclusive validity of its own one-sided and fanatical reason ings. The facts to be met are the parliament ary and popular support which the measure has commanded during the last ten years. Mr. Bintenroati Hurt undertook to deal with the first fact—the majority which the Bill has secured in the House of Commons—and the way he attempted to dispose of it is certainly amusing enough. Ac cording to Mr. Hor e • decision of the House of Completes repeatedly pronounced is no index whatever of public opinion. "It is folly," he asserts, "to say that the feel " ing of this country is in favour of the " change." Only an anonymous association, and a few individuals who happen to have married their wife's sister, really advocate the measure. These individuals, Mr. Hors asserts, have either bought or intimidated the House of Commons. " In the House," we are told, "there are borough " members who look out for their return again. " On those the screw is put by some influential " voter, who has himself, or whose friend, or " whose partner has transgressed the law. Some " 50 members have been choked off out of the " House of Commons, and some 50 more did not " care to vote against the measure, because their " election turned on their vote. And this was the " secret of the majority by which the bill had " passed session after session." It certainly is a curious secret, and one well worth knowing—that the seats of a large majority of members in the Lower House depend on a single vote, and that the voter has in every case either married his deceased wife's sister, or is connected with a family where such a marriage has taken place. As if this explanation were not quite sufficient, Mr. HOPS further suggests that the anonymous association has gained the majority by its "lavish wealth "—in other words, bought up the majority of English boroughs and their re presentatives. Now, assertions of this kind may do very well for a small aristocratic gather ing at Willis's Rooms. Elderly ladies and weak minded young gentlemen may perhaps believe them, but it would be impossible in an ordinary as sembly of Englishmen to outrage public credulity in this way. Such a fabulous and puerile expla nation of a great parliamentary fact would be sure to excite the scorn and ridicule it so richly deserves. The second fact—that of the popular demand for the proposed change—was disposed of in a still more summary and characteristic manner. This was done by the simple machinery of a motion, the high-born assembly resolving unanimously that the working claws do not desire the change. No evidence was adduced in support of this resolution, except the testimony of five clergymen who are active opponents of the Bill. But at Willis's Rooms the ex parte testimony of five clerical wit nesses was accepted as more decisive evidence of popular feeling than the Report of a Commission specially appointed to inquire into the subject, and the ascertained fact of the number of marriages with a deceased wife's sister that annually take place amongst this class. The friends of the measure point to the multitude of petitions presented to both Houses, signed by about • million persons, belonging mainly to the middle and lower classes. The aristocratic oppo nents of the measure meet this fact by resolving unanimously amongst themselves that these classes do not desire what they petition Parliament to grant. This is very like resolving, in a season of scarcity, that it is impossible the poor can starve as long as curry powder is to be bad. The meeting of Friday was not happier in its arguments than in its facts. The speakers se lected the very weakest point in the attempted de fence of the existing arbitrary restriction—that of Scriptural authority. They paraded again that ambiguous interpretation of doubtful passages which has been refuted over and over again by some of the ablest theologians and biblical critics in the Church. But the leading speakers made up for the want of valid argument by their strength of assertion and bitterness of tone. The Bishop Of SALISBURY, for example, boldly stigmatised the marriages which the Bill before the House proposes to legalise, as " incestuous fornication." Yet these very marriages are justified by the ablest di vines, advocated by the most earnest clergy, and supported by dignitaries and prelates of his own Church. They were first prohibited by the Romish Church for its own purposes ; and this prohibition, resting only on canonical authority, has long since been done away with in most Pro testant countries of Europe. For a Protestant Prelate to denounce them, at this time of day, as the worst form of sin, is the mere excess of fanatical intolerance. Such a declaration will still further alienate public sympathy from the opponents of the Bill, and help forward its pro gress through boll Houses. THE BISHOP OP ELT AND " = Ars AND ssriswa• The following memorial (mays the Bury mod Ifenr,eis Poole) has bees poosseted to the Lord of of this dime's, with the signatures of 141 slorgyeet of the ktobilescoary of illedbory "TO THE MONT SET. TEE LORD BISHOP Or L.T. "The nadeisigned, beiag clergy resident within the Areiriesooary ot Redbury, in your lordship's diocese, Amin to express t. your lordship their deep feelings at sorrow and alarm at the promnigation d 0111141 in opinions recently pat Wilt ins book entitled • Fogeys and Reviews,' views,' asemiters at the amok of England. Can. Wt them opinion@ are soot/sty to Holy =hjo the minis sad to the kemelaries dthe Church, and are in their tendency enisreeelve of the very foundations et Chilstisalty, they view with dismay the feet that ouch views ire by say to wham is canunitted the new of souls, or instruction of youth in our &diode or universities. Andean to express th• atter diusnt from such tabu and dangeroue riparian, and in the hope that the COW - musiestioa at the teenage at the clergy throughout the lend 'any strengthen the heeds of their bishops is taking each measures to meet this evil as they in their wisdom shoot deem best, the undenigned have thus addremed year lord. ship. For, deeply attached as they Sr. to the principles d teleratiom and highly ea they prime the liberty d free dismission. they feel this there are busies to speudative opi. nice whirls cannot be trusegressul without treason to the gospel of Christ. sad without imminent danger to the church, should she permit such liaises to the authorised teachers of her creed. ' lo reply to which the following letter has bass reasived from his lordship : Cbt Court. " London, 12th April, 1861. "Bev. and dear Sir. —Soon after you were so good as to eaR epee me here, I had a serious attack of ingenues. together with a most painful disorder in my eyes. which I have Dot yet got rid of. The ooneequence was that I really became Jew-Liable of my usual attention to business. I treat that this statement will he accepted as an apology for having de layed to acknowledge the numerously signed memorial of the clergy id the archdeaconry of Sudbury, resusette. the volume of Emmy' awl Reviews,' published not keg ago. I think you mint have perceived that I had derived gnat satisfaction from the memorial, expreieirig strong bathe of the opinions contained i n th a t vo l which bad been censured by the united votes of an the archbishops sod bishops of England and Wales. At the close of a long life, devoted to the atsdy of the scriptures. I newt express my concern on ill Meg SIMS persons educated in our universities—six of them of the church of England--sivowing opinion s which for merly been employed by unbelievers with the indisputable intention of shaking the Christian faith to its very founds tiou. Such opinions, put forth, for whatever purpose, by learned and able mem, have, it is to be feared, ..settled the minds of many persons. who may be driven from un easiness and doubt into a state of reckless infidelity. This is lamentable in the extreme; but, confiding in the decla ratiotis of holy writ. I am well conviocod that the mem el divine truth will still prosper in the (March of this land. Believe ine, rev. and dear sir. your very faithful servant, T. Frio.—Bev. J. Richardson." THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The Queen held a Privy Council, yesterday afternoon, at Osborne. It was attended by the Prince Consort, Fart Granville, Lord President ; and Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain. Mr. A. Helm the Clerk of the Privy Council, ►ttended. Earl Ovenvill• and Viscount Sydney left Osborne at 4 o'clock. crossed in the Fire Queen to Gosport, and returned to London by the South-Western Railway. Her Majesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1%2 hays received communications from the French, Belgian, and Swedish governments, stating that active measures are being taken for the formation of commissions to represent the exhibitors from those countries. The Minister of the Interior in Belgium will in the meantime communicate with her Majesty s commissioners. In Hanover the Directors of the Society of Prides (Gewerbe Verein), and the Committee of the Society ,of .trts (Kunst Verein), will act se the commission for that country. Her Majesty's Commissioners held a meeting at their offices in the Strand yesterday. The Finance Committee held a meetingst the;offices of her Majesty's commissioners in the Strand yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the governors of the North American Provinces. the Lced High Commisnooer of the looian Islands, and the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Despatches were mot to the governors of the West India Islands and British Columbia. ALMACK . S. The first subscription of these fashionable ballshas been appointed by the ladies patronesses to take place on the following alternate Thursdays : Thursday, May 2 ; Thursday, May 16 ; Thursday, May 30. The balls will be given under the same distinguished patronage as last year, and a very full subscription is anticipated. The Archbishop of York and the Misses Longley have arrived at Hereford-street, Park-lane, for the season. The Marchioness of Sligo's first evening dancing• party will take place on Wedneeday next, the 24th lust. The Earl and Countess of Fife and Lady Ann Duff have arrived at Claridge 's Hotel, from Rome. The Earl of Derby left towu yesterday for New market. The Counter of Derby has issued invitations for an assembly on the 24th inst. The Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam and family arrived yesterday at their midenos in Grosvenor-square, from Wentworth Home, Yorkshire, for the season. The Earl of Bantry has arrived at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Bantry Castle, Ireland. The Countess of Sefton had a dancing party last evening, at her residence in Groevenorplace, at which • numerous and fashionable circle assembled. Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses Heatheote have arrival in Belame-Nam, from Norman.. ton Park, liatimid, for the mason. Lady Henniker has issued cards for a dancing party as Monday, the nod inst. _ _ POLAND. THORN, Aran 16, Evrarnto. The negotiations with Count Zamoiski and M. Lewinski have, up to tho present, remained with out mutt. M. Wielopolski will shortly proceed to St. Peters burg, the Emperor wishing to have a personal con ference with him on the state of things in Poland. News from the provinces indicate the existence of an irritable feeling among the presents against the noblemen. Rumours are current of a bloody conflict having takeu place at Lublin. PARIS, Amu. 16. The Prase states that, in the recent disturbances at Kiew, 150 persona were killed and wounded. ITALY. TtTRIN, TIILIMAT EVENT.qO. - Lady Rolle arrived in town yesterday fram her seat. agar Enter, for the season. It is believed that the discussion of Garibaldi's project of law relative to the national armament will commence on Thursday next. The project of law in reference to the new title of government act,' was discussed to-day in the Chamber of Deputies without any remarkable in cident. Sir Robert and Lady Emily Peel enter4ined the Marquis of Tweeddale and Lady Julia Rey, the Marchioness of Ely, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Lord Wynfonl, Ron. Arthur Kinnaird, Sir Roderick Murchison, Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. IL Reeve, M. Du ChMlln, and a select party at dinner last evening, at their mansion In Whitehall-garden', The discussion will be continued to-morrow. TURIN. Ana 16. The health of Garibaldi has improved. NAPLES (vu Emmaus.), Amu 12. Forty persons coming from Rome have been arrested. A depot of arms and very important papers rela tive to a conspiracy have been discovered. AUSTRIAN ITALY. TURIN, Apnrc 16. The Opinion of to-day says :—" The assemblies of the councillors of the communes of Venice, Ve rona, and Vincenza, for the purpose of electing de puties to the council of the empire at Vienna, have led to no result, as there was not the number of councillors present prescribed by law. At Padua not one councillor appeared. The Communal Council of Udine has appointed as deputies three citizens who are, at present, prisoners in the for trees of Olmutz." Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont entertained a select circle at diaper Let evening, at their residiace in Pkeadilly. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, V7iDszaDLY, The second voting in the Istrian Diet for the election of deputies to the Reicharath took place yesterday. The number of votes given not being sufficient to elect any representative, the Diet was prorogued. VIENNA, APRIL 16. An immense crowd of people is assembled in St. Stephen's-square. The palace of the archbishop is occupied by a strong body of soldiers. Numerous mounted patrols and gendarmes are traversing the streets. The people are very quiet. The patrols maintain a calm and watchful attitude. Lady Caroline Meld and Miss Corry are passing a few weeks at the Beulah Spa bydrepathic establish ment. Lord Overstone has been elected churchwarden of St. Martin'rin•the-Fiekle, in the room of Mr. Henry Hoare, ulnae term of °Moe hu expired. On Tuesday, Mr. William Ewart will move— " flat ti. weber of members constituting select commit- tees be reduced—except when it shell seem good to the home to extend their number—to seven, or nice, members ; sod that they may be pained by the committee of selec tion, who shall choose such members ou aexunt of their acquaintance with the subject submitted to their considera tion, and shall adopt measures for insuring, as far es pos sible, the constant attendance of such members in the save , ral committees." Ov CAPTAIN MACDONALD'S IMPRISONMENT AT BONN. This morning 116 pages of correspondence respect ing the arrest and imprisonment of Captain Macdonald at Bonn were issued from the parliamentary printing-office. The lest expression of opinion relative to this rise on the part of our foreign minister is contained in a despatch addressed by his lordship to Mr. Lowther on the 11th Feb. last. In this despatch the noble lord observes that "in a moral point of view, and having regard to the relatiousbe tweenthe two countries, the conduct of the Prussian govern meat In this matter appears to bar Majesty's government to have been in a high degree unfriendly. Prussian law wee enforced with extreme and .necessary harshness, and Ina meaner not required for the purpose of justice. To throw a person of the rank and dation of Captain Mac donald into prison on such a charge, and to refuse hie libe ration on bail, was an act which in England we should ascribe to a malignant spirit, violating the limits of a kin perste administration of justice. The rude rtincal of the Prussian offkial, when informed of the rank held by Cap. tain Macdonald in the body-guard of his Sovereign, war not consistent with ordinary international courtesy, and is • At subject to bo observed upon, because it has not been die• avowed by the Prusnan government. Her Majesty's govern meet feel confident that no Prussian officer or gentleman of the rank of Captain Macdonald would have been treated in • similar manner in England under similar cirvainatances. Her Majesty's government must also observe on the spirit which dictated a prceeention for a publication alleged to be • libel upon • Prussian official, when the very act which that alleged libel condemned had been censured by the imenunsiot of that officer ; and it is further to be ob served that that prosecution was instituted whilst Cap• gain Maoionald's ease was stiU pending between the two governments. The Prussian government has not thought At to temper its justification of these extreme sets by say expression of regret, and her Majesty's government cannot bat regard its conduct as too clearly mincing a disregard at international goodwill." TER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION or 1862, The vinous feed towards the International Exhi bitioe of 1862 was, up to last night, augmented to 372,8001. The foundations of the building have been laid, end the works will be proceeded with uninterruptedly, so that it may be put into the possession of the commissionary at the time stated in the contact. The organisation com mittee, convertive of representatives of the Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, will hold their second meeting this day. Yesterday commits:jealous demanding apace to be appropriated to the exhibition of various breaches of isdu4ry were meeived to an extent espies,- distod, showing the growing interest felt in the proposed new exhildtioe. INDIAN FAIIINI RELICT Ft:MD.—Last evening the total sum forwarded to the Lord Mayor in aid of the Indian Relief Fund amounted to nearly 47,0001. A large number of sums were received during the day, amounting in the whole to considerably more than 3,0001., being earns collected at the different churches in the metropolis. The list of donations will appear in the advertisement. A meeting, very influentially though not largely attended, was held on Monday at Glasgow. The Lord Provost presided, and resalatioas were reseed appointing a committee to re ceive subscriptions in and of the fold. A sum of about 1,4001. had been received up to Monday evening. Meetings for a similar object were also held ou Monday at South ampton and Newcastle-upon• Tyne. tHE KING OF PRUsSIA.—WINDSOR CASTLE, APSE. 12.—The Queen, as Sovereign of the meet noble Order of the Carter, bath been graciously pleased, by letter, latent, under her royal sign manual and the great seed of the order, hearing date this day, to dispenses with all the statute' and reguktions usually observed m regard to in etalatioe. and to grant unto his Majesty William Kiss of Prussia, Knight of the said most noble Order, and duly in vested with the relive t►ereof, full power and authority to Sieroiss all rights sad privileges belonging to a K nig ht Companion of the said most noble Order of the Garter, in es fall and ample a hummer as if his Majesty had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or usage to the cotarary notwithstanding. JACKSONIAN PILIZZ.—At the lost meeting of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Jacksonian Prise wee awarded to Mr. Henry Thomason, P.R.C.8., of Winipole-etreet, one of the surgeoes to the University Cob legs Hospital, for his way on the healthy and morbid anatomy of the prostate &ed. This is the second occasion on which this gentleman has carried off the Jacksonian prise. RUSSIA AND CHINA. ST. PETZEtBBURG, WIDNBIDAT. A resolution of the Imperial Council, dated the 11th instant, and published to-day, permits the merchants of Kiachta to trade unlimitedly with China either by barter or by payments in gold or silver. The same resolution also permits, from April, 1862, the importation of merchandise by sea from Canton into Russia and Poland. INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, WssizaDAy. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer MasaiHa, with the heavy portion of the above made, arrived off the Needles at 1.20 p.m. EXPORT OF SPECIE TO THE WEST INDIES. SOUTHAMPTON, WIDNZISDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Tasmanian which sails to-day for the West Indies, takes 13,0001. in silver coin for the Colonial Bank of Barbados', and 12,0001. in the same coin for the Colonial Bank of Jamaica. THE BRAZILS AND RIVER PLATE. LISBON, Aram 15. The Messagories Imperiales Company's steamer Navarre arrived here at 12.30 p.m. to-day, with 02,000 f. in specie, and diamonds to the value of 98 111 43 T f iravarre arrived at Pernambuco on the 3lat March. At Rio, on the 25th March, exchange on London was quoted 26 to 26k ; on Paris, 362 to 368. Coffee, good first, was quoted 6.000 to 6.100 reis. Shipments since departure of last mail, 84,000 bags, including 21,100 for the Channel. Stock, 50,000 bags. At Bahia, exchange on London was quoted 26k. Cotton, 8.000 to 7.200. Sugar, whites, 2.300 to 2.600 ; browns, 2.100 to 2.200 reis per arroba. Exchange on London at Pernambuoo was quoted 261; sugar was quoted 2.400 rent per arrobs. POLAND. There arrived at Warsaw, on the 12th instant, a brigade of infantry to replace that which was sent to Lublin. Other troops were expected. The army of Poland, which, when the a ff air of Feb. 27 occurred, numbered only 40,000, now amounts to 86,000. The effects of the events at Warsaw have been felt in many parts of the empire, and espe cially in Volliynia. The governor of that province, who received orders to send a corps of infantry to Poland, has not been able to furnish the troops re quired of him, on account of the excitement which prevails in the country. Volhynia, whisih formed part of the kingdom of Poland, was not incorpo- rated with the Russian empire till 1793, and the population sympathises strongly with the move ment at Warsaw. EMMA. A petition to the Paris congress on the affairs of Syria has been very numerously signed by the European merchants, shopkeepers, and other residents at Beyrout, praying for a continuation of the occupation of Syria by French or other Euro pean troops until the more effectual government of the country has been orimnised. La case of such occupation not being decided on by the congress, they pray for timely notice of the course that is to be pursued, in order that they may provide for their own safety. A letter from Vienna states that a Hu ngarian amity regiment in 'anima at Montebello, between Vetaaa and VICODZA, was on the point of deserting and teeming the frontier, when their deign was made known by • 'outride. The letter adds that the regiment will probably be deci mated. The monator atuamer Adriatic will leave South ampton in a day or two for Galway. The fore part of this gigantic ship has been gutted to make room for second and third class psi.sengers. Crowds of persona have visited her since she has been is Southampton deck. Her com mander, Captain Maury, who is an American, is now is loindon undergoing an examination before the Board el Trade to enable him to oomni•nd the Adriatic as a British ship. She has been the most successful steamer that ever crossed the Atlantic. During the five voyages she made last summer, she earned fur her then owners 24,0001 clear. Every seat at her saloon table is numbered, and when a frowsier is booked he secures a particular seat at the table the same the dose a particular sleeping berth. The saloon is on a different deck from that on which the sleepirg berths am, so that the saloon and berths are far beldame sad pleasanter than if they were on the same deck. If decanters and wine glasses are unsteady on the salmis table an apparatus slides down from the ceiling, in which She decanters are secured in niches before the pa Begets. Is each sleeping cabin there is a bell•rope, which, oa Wag pulled, strikes a bell, and mimes a number correspontring to the number of the cabin to appear on a tablet in the senates' WL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor olyz owns PARIS, TIMMY EVI/41140. The excitement produced by the Orleans pamphlet is far from subsiding. Nothing else is talked of. But I must say that, although the mods de euriesial which it has obtained transcends all that the author could have hoped for, its effect as a political demonstration is nil. I speak, of course, of Paris, for I cannot tell what may be thought of it in the departments represented by the Kellers, Plichous, and Flavignys. But in the metropolis, the con stituents of Jules Favre, Emile 011ivier, Picard, and Darimon, although they think the pamphlet fine fun, and read it surreptitiously with infinite gusto, are no whit inclined to encourage the idea of a restoration of the Orleanist dynasty. They make a great distinction betwoen the personal part of the pamphlet and its political programme. That the Orleans princes are personally guiltless of all offence towards their country is admitted, and great sympathy is felt for the clever and dig nified answer which they give to insolent attacks made upon their family by successful rivals. But their programme, which includes the temporal power of the Pope and the disunion of Italy, is altogether obnoxious to the liberal party. The latter have nothing to learn about the Napoleons, but they feel that no purpose is to be served by harping upon the flagitious circumstances which accompanied the restoration of the dynasty ten years ago. The only effect of the Orleans "con spiracy" (for so, I am told, Count de Persigny designates it) will be to strengthen the belief of the liberals that the Emperor must now lean upon them, and to confirm them in their resolution to meet him half way. I am assured that the Procureur-General of Versailles has been dismissed for his negligence in allowing the pamphlet to be printed within his jurisdiction, at St. Germain. It is said that the Orleans family gave M. Bean, the printer, 100,000 fr. at a compensation for the loss of his license, which is sure to follow the publication. The report that the Duke d'Aumale, previously to bringing out the pamphlet, sent a challenge to Prince Napoleon is, I am told, not true ; but I hear that Prince Napoleon has since asked permission of the Kmperor to call the duke out, and has been refused. The Bourse was firm, but with very little busi ness doing. The Rente rose 10e. for cash and account, closing at 67fr. 75c. Mobiliar rose Mr. the dividend, it is said, will be 25fr. Railways were a little higher. Groups of people were discussing at the Bourse the import of a circular from the Minister at War to generals commanding divisions, directing them to warn all soldiers absent on renewable leave to hold themselves in readiness to join their regiments. These men, it is said, will rejoin with their former rank, as was the case ou the occasion of the Italian war. There is again a talk of the concentration of a large army in the eastern departments. Prince Napoleon, about whose movements this spring there have been many contradictory reports, is now said to be positively going to Egypt and Syria. According to the programme accredited he will leave the Princess Clothilde at Genoa, where she will be met by her father, Victor Emmanuel, who will escort her to Turin. A young man named Victor, aged 26. was tried at the Assize Court of Paris yesterday, for having attempted to murder his wife Victorine, aged 18. He stabbed her in nine places, but none of the wounds were serious. The defence was that the pri soner was drunk at the time. Itappeared that he was much attached to his wife, but got on badly with her mother—a very common case. The wife, who had sufficiently recovered to appear in court as a witness, said everything that she could for her husband, and some letters, written to him while he was in prison, so moved the hearts of the jury that they pronounced a verdict of acquittal. In one of these letters she said—speaking with that tenderness implied by the mere use of the second person singular, which the English language does not know—" I am writing with my wounded hand. I would begin with the reproaches which you must expect, but I cannot. . . . Oh ! it is frightful ! Oh ! it is impossible that you should be a prisoner for life. I should die of grief. 1 forgive you, for I cannot believe that you did it on purpose. Oh, no ; justice will pardon you. I cease to write, but not to love." In another letter, re ferring to the fact of her having a child eight months old and being again enciente, she thus elo quently expresses herself : Ten times over I would wish myself dead, wore it not for three voices which I hear, and which say, "Courage !—you shall be happy !" Which is the first of these voices ? Oh ! it is the voice of my husband, whom I have never ceased to love. The second voice is that of my little Marie, who says, "Courage, mother !—I will love you both, and you shall both be happy!" And what is the third voice? Oh! that is a very little one, indeed—one that scarcely breathes as yet—[re see that Victorine, by the use of the ward "breathe," is not an adopt in physiology]—but still it gently heaves in my bosom, and whispers that I am again to become a mother ! French juries--and their weakness is au amiable one—never resist such appeals as these. THEATRICALS AT THE FRENCH COMM.—Th e company of the Theatre Nerd performed at the Tuileries two evenings back, not in the theatre of the palace, which ham not been used during the present reign, but in the Salon Blanc of the state apartments, which bad been fitted up for the occasion. The Salle des Marechaux was the actors' green-room, and Mdlle. lkjazet • s dressing-room was contrived between the maguificent caryatides which decorate this apartment and the baloney towards the garden. The piece selected by the Emperor and Empress was the Trutt Uemins. M. Eugene Dejazet, the author of the piece, and the artiste represent ing the different characters, were the only prawns admitted to the stage. At half-past nine their Majesties entered the Salon Blanc, which was almost too small to contain the numerous guest. The Emperor, the Empress, Prince Na poleon, the Process Clothil.le, the Prumess Mathilde,and the Duke of Brunswick occupied a row of arm•chaira; twenty rows of email chairs were occupied by ladies, while the gentle men stood along the sides or sat on sofas in the em brasures of the windows. When the illustrious audience had taker) their seats, the orchestra, directed by M. Bet. needle, played the overture, and the performance began. Male. Dejazet surpassed herself, playing the part of Pan tan with more than her usual lightness and ■pint. Their Me. *ties several times gave the signal for applause. The ears of '• Vie i Quer Sous" and `•Mardi Gras" were espe. daily successful. The Emperor, at the close, deigned to compliment M. EuPee Dejuet on the success of the per. formance.—Gsligeuni. M. ALEXANDRE DUMAB.—A publisher named Delevier on Friday brought an action before the Civil Tribunal against H. Alexandre Dumas, to obtain payment of 22,600 fr. He showed that be had been engaged with Dumas in the pelgicatiors of the journal called the Moats Cristo, sad that the result was that in 184$ that gentleman was his debtor for 10,29fifr. ; that he subsequently made advances to Dumas for his expedition to Rums, and Cir cassia, and also for the purchase of the brig in which be contemplatedi visiting the Greek Archipelago—the said ad vances, when added to the preceding sum, making the total claimed. He further said that before leaving Italy, Duress bad entered into an arrangement to pay lum in aycar, bet be had not dose so. In reply to the antics Dumas affirmed that is the Monte Crum affair, Warier bid not acted fairly by him, sad be throttles prayed that their partner ship is it should be declared formally et an end, and more over that Dclaviel should be made to pay him damages as an indemnity for having unjustifiably brought the present mum. But the Tribunal rejected Dumas' demand, and ordered hi m t o pay t o the plaintiff 22,600 k. in four instal ments with Wired, shoo to pay him titiOk. damages and the costa. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMON& —(THIS DAY.) The SPIAKIII took his seat at 12 o'clock. BOROUGH OF TIVERTON.—NEW MEMBER. Lord Euricarros took the nun and his seat for the borough of Tiverton. His lordship, who wee received with cheesy from both sides of the house, Ina intrados's' by Sir G. Grey and the Lord Advent.. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Kireudbright Railway and W .. 0 . 1d .. N Railway NIL were severally read a third time and PETITIONS PRESFEID. . . . Several petitions were presented against marriage with a deceased wife's ester, including one from 150 women of Westminster, several others with an opposite prayer, in cluding 14 from the northern counties. Petitions were also tiresentod against the Parochial Assessment Bill ; 17 from Brighton and other places in Same; in favour of marriage with deceased wife's sifter; one in favour of the establishment of county boards; 21 petitions from irl4lloo/1 in Lancashire, and several from Northamptonshire in favour of legalising marriage with de ceased wife's sister; from Abingdon, for an alteration in the marriage law ; one from the guardians of the West London Union ' the Industrial Schools Bill ; 173 petitions from venous in England, Ireland, andlecot• hind, s • gned by 15,000 perms*, in favour of marriage with deceased wife's sister; several from Nottinghamshir e . 120 from various places with the same pray er ; p e titi ons from the women of Bartley, with a contrary prayer ; 115 from various parte of the metropolis, in favour of marriage with dammed wite's sister ; one from Enniskillen, with a oontrary prayer. MONUMENT IN WESTMINSTER SCHOOL. Colonel FRENCH aged the Chief Commissioner at Works whether his department had sanctioned the placing of a mediaeval monument on a classical column at the en. trance of Westminster School. I[r. COWPER said that it he had been consulted in the first instance he should have hesitated to sanction such an incongruity as the placing of a Gothic group consisting of four sovereigns of England and St. George and the Dragon— (a laugh) —on a classical oolumn. Now, however, he thought it would be rather a harsh measure on the part of the com missioners to order the removal of the monument, and he be lieved that the incongruity had arisen from the draggle that existed in the committee between the classical and me: NAVAL D9CICYARDB, Sir F. SMITH gavenainTiOrTtieeday next to can attention to the report of the Commissioners on her Majesty's naval dockyards, and to move that under the pre sent coostitution of the Board of Admiralty it was not expedient that the whole of the naval estimate' for the year should be voted without further inquiry. TRUSTEES OF CHARITIES BILL. On the onler for going into committee, Mr. SELWYN rose to oppose the order, upraising his intention of opposing the bill in sow stage. Mr. Mellor supported the committee. Mr. Hardy opposed it. Mr. Dillwyn explained and defended the bill, which, on the other hand, was opposed by Lord H. Cecil. [Left sitting.] LAW INTELLIGENCE. (THIS DAY.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at NMI Priva —(Befor• Mr. Baron Martin and Common Juries.) BILLING O. MUTH. -BREACH OF FROMM& • This was au action brought by the plaintiff, a widow, 35 years of age, who carries on business as a greengrour at 85, Berwick-street, Oxford-street, against the defendant, a widower, of from between 50 and 60, the landlord of the Crown and Sceptre, in the Commercial-road, Peckham, for breach of promise of nianiage, and also for money lent. It is the first case in this court, and an exceptiocal ease in common law, in which the declaration stated a breath of promise of marriage, and also "an account stated,* which is the lepl mode by which money lent is first sought to be recovered. The declaration stated that the plaintiff, knee Billing, and the defendant, George Browne Smith, agreed to marry, and that a reaaon able time had elapsed for the performance of the contract, yet although the plaintiff was ready and willing to marry the defendant had refused to marry her, and had since the breach complained of married another woman. There wu also another count for money lent, of which the following r Par ch , culars were stated: 1858, cash lout 1857, ditto May, 1 . 857, riitto Five years' kilovolt on 30/., from March 20, 1856, to March 20, 1861 7 10 Four years' interest on 200/., from May 10, 1857, to May 10, 1861 277 10 By cash received on account . .. 124 10 Balance due 153 0 The damages were laid at 1,0001. The defendant., in hie pleas, denied the breach of the pro mise of marriage, and as to the motley he denied the debt, with the exception of 1431., which he paid into court. Mr. Berieent Petendorff and Mr. d oyes were counsel for the plaintiff. Mr. Lilley and Mr. Robinson were counsel for the defendant. The /earned counsel for the plaintiff having stated the facts of the case as proved in evidence, the following wit news were called. Elisabeth Warner examined—l kept the Beech lon. I saw the plaintiff and the defendant there in 1&i. They had tea at my house, and seemed very friendly. Joyoe—Anything more! You are a married woman, and ought to know something. (Laughter.) Witness—He put his hand on her shoulder and round her waist. Mr. Baron Martin—That has nothing to do with it. Witnem-1 &eked Mn. Billing were they keeping com• palsy, and she laughed and said she supposed it would cows to something soon. (Great laughter.) They left by the !o'clock ouinibus. Crow-examined— I owed her a little massy for • grocery bill. I knew the defendant's first wife and the plaintiff's husband. The defendant's house was not a licensed public. house. Mrs. Dinah Cumming examined—l have been acquainted with Mn. Billing from the first day ahe was married I saw Mr. Smith at Berwirk•street efkr the funeral of the plaintiff's mother. He took hold of her hand and embraced her, and said " Good night, Anne, dear." Serjeent Petersdorff—Did you notice his demeanour to her since ? Witneas—Nothing more than • respectable tradesmen. Serjeant Petersilorff —But a respectable trulebtruiu may be gallant. (Renewed laughter.) John Longuian—l reside at Great Bolton-street, Kenning• ton-perk, and am a copperplate printer. I PAW defendant at the funeral of the plaintiff's mother. He acted towards her not as a young man but quite as a gentleman. (Laughter.) I went to drink with him, and he said that now the funeral wasover be hoped things would be comfortable and ,ettled. After the funeral Smith paid her every due re pest which s man would pay to any other female. (Greet laughter.) Mr. Robinson—He a a kind-hearted old gentleman—is be not *its:eas—l have no fault to find with him. Mr. Robinsou—The plaintiff is rather a handsome IMF Wither —I don't know. I am no judge of beauty. (Laughter.) Mary Anne Douglas examined--I am the wife of a bate residing in the plaintiff's house. I have Imowo the plaistuf and defendant for three years. I remember the plaintiff was ill in October last. I had always seen a grest friendship between them , and regarded hue as her only friend. Seeing her is despondency, I spoke to him. He saW " I suppose you know what n the matter ; the fact of the matter is, we were to have been married. I have withdrawn my engagement, and never intend to be married." I said I was very sorry. He said, "I am sorry too ; I always found her a woe friend ; if she could ever lend me usistacos she was always ready to do an." On the following Moeda? I saw Smith and told him she was iu bad health nail *lour out of her mind. He said be was of the same opinion. Cross-examined—l was pr es ent when there was a little violence on the p er t o f th e pl a i n tiff. She said " You have driven me mad." She did not illy, " 1 do not want money, but law." She did rat her hand on him and push him. She did nut use violence. I saw nothing in her hands beyond her cap—(laughter) - 50 1 am not sure of that. There was a painter at work in t he house. Mr. Berea Martin—What u the plaintiff! Wither—A greengrocer. Mr. Baron Martin—And the defendant! Witness- - A publican. William Malcolm, a loil in the plaintiff's service, dept that he liesrd the defendant order "the wails " from the plaintiff. Mr. Joyce—Did you hear him say anything about DAP n rinesa—No, air, but I seen it. (Great laughter.) Mr i . to._w Joyce—Will you seen give i them very irsom v eeysil,ply iouttii:i. W covens. tion. (Renewed laughter.) Crosa-emunined--Mrs. Billing was a tenant of Mr. Smith. Hs used to take his tea and dinner there about three tgatd a week. Mr. Orridge—Do you mean to say he came these three times' a week ? Witness--I mean to say he had the gniit sometime!, eel did not come at all. (Roars of laughter.) John Hughes, a 0111•1111, proved that the defendant )44 4 a quiet beerhoun at Peckham, but knew nothing of trade. This closed Use plaintiff's case, and as the learned e 00 ;, 41 for tits defendant did n o t p ro p os e t o call witnemcs, Sergeant Petersderff summed up the evidence. Mr. Lilley then addressed the just for the defence.." ) * tending there was no proof of a breach of promise to nuurY; and that the lending of the money %All a mere commercial speculation. Mr. Baron Martin then summed up. leaving the en , m 6 ,: c of damages to the jury in the event of their finding •erw' plaintiff. !diet fa The jury, after a brief corsultatien, found a re the plaintiff, with damages rill . soul Beni the The one Mar Indi was who and coal (Cie artic We( Soul sent C.l!k Lim time be qi like i leave wont (Groe 1114 thopi 31r, there awes !eeri e afir e , rePrel qUest4