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TUESDAY, APRIL IL Tim Quarterly Review is is despair as to the condition and prospects of the Tory party. Very often of late years it has declared things to be upon the brink of final ruin, and that the only attitude befitting a true patriot of the olden school was that of tragic and inappeasable woe. But always, until now, some consolatory circumstance has turned up to mitigate the bitterness of anguish and to reconcile the periodical Mentor of rConser• elitism to a prolonged life of equivocal hope. Matters have at last come, however, to a pass so desperate that, consistently with the dignity of prophecy and the self-respect of orthodox augurs, then, is nothing for it but that expressive preli minary of suicide, which consists in throwing one's wig into the fire. In the present car that phrenwed act is performed with all the energy of genuine desperation. The only man of genius which Toryism has turned up since its last resolute stand in defence of the Corn Laws—the man upon whose self-reliant courage and inexhaustible fertility of resource a bankrupt and broken party have been fain ever since then to hang—the man who alone has had the sagacity to discern, and the art to devise, bow bit by bit his party might efface somewhat of its long and well-earned unpopu larity, and become a fair competitor with its aris tocratic rival for power—this man the Quarterly now turns upon and openly denounces and reviles as the author of all the misfortunes of Toryism, the evil counsellor to whom is to be ascribed, above all other men, the now inevitable ruin of the British Constitution. It is not merely for the part which Mr. DIARALLI took in bringing about the admission of the Jews into Parliament, or his influential share in abolishing that mighty bulwark of aristocratic rule, the Property Qualifi cation for Members of Parliament ; neither is it by reason of the strong predilection he has uni• formly shown for the head of the House of BONA PARTE, and for the foreign policy which would pre serve this country from a rupture with France to gratify the old and inveterate instincts of dynasty and claw. This latter is perhaps the strongest actuating motive at the present hour against hint ; but this is not the cause ostensibly assigned (..r his deposition from the poet of leader ship, which his ungrateful and unteachable fol lowers now rudely demand. The main charge set forth against Mr. DIARAELI is his hav ing persuaded his party to bid against the Whigs for Reform. When Lord DERBY was called to power just two years ago, it was the right hem member for Buckinghamshire that in sisted, we are told, upon his virtually promising a Reform R.II ; and it was he who, in the following year, succeeded in leading the whole party, with two individual exceptions, not only to vote for the tneaanre he had framed, but to make it their banner and rallying cry at the general election. We are now given to understand that all this was against the sense of right and duty which never fails to animate true Tories. Their greatest and ablest organ solemnly declares, in palliation of that lamentable act of treason to consistency and the constitution, that in all they said and did upon the anhject they were insincere. They knew that they were doing wrong, yet they did it in the hope of retaining power ; and now that they find they miscalcnlatisi, they would not only hark back and declare that property, church, and crown will be each and all undone if any measure of electoral concession he passed, but they turn found upon the statesman they cheered and trusted, followed and flattered, from 1848 to 1859, and Propose unblushingly to throw hint over, as one who has beguiled and betrayed them. Is this, then, the literal meaning of all the fine talk we have so long been used to about the disinterested spirit and honour of Con servatism I What has happened sines the division on Lord HARTINOToNIII motion, in May last, and the introduction of Lord Jour RUARRII:II Bill on the Ist of March, to uutigate the shame of the course thus nakedly proposed I' Had the Whig measure differed in all its vital elements from that of the late Government, there might have been some reason for mystification. But the writer in the Quartette takes pains to prove the opposite. The necessity of dealing comprehensively with the question—of having a new schedule, more or less extensive, of nomination seats to be sequestrated, and of extending the county franchise to ten-pound occupiers —to all this the Derbyite Cabinet and its supporters committed themselves last year. Nothing remained, and nothing now remains as • point of distinction between them and the Whigs, but the extension of the suffrage in boroughs ; and upon this, therefore, it is sug gested that battle may still be made. But the reviewer well knows that as far as Mr. Dials= is concerned the ground would be wholly unten able ; and that is probably the very reason why it is urgently recommended. The ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer repeatedly stated during the de bates of last Session, that the lowering of the borough franchise wee a question for committee. Sir E. BULWILII Lrfrole, Sir JOHN PAILINOSON, Lord Permeter, and Sir STA/NORD NORTHCOTZ said the I same ; and, what is equally important to be borne in recollection, Mr. WALPOLI and Mr. Hs.m.sr, on retiring from the Cabinet, avowed that their advice had been to give a six-pound franchise in towns. Why are not all of these politicians assailed along with Mr. Dessau t Why, if the crime of electoral concession be his real offence, is the right honourable gentleman singled out for obloquyandabuse? Or with what decency can it now be argued by the Tories that no measure ought to be passed which would enfranchise any portion of the working classes, it being still fresh in the re collection of all men that they were ready to pass a Bill not very dissimilar from the present, for the sake of retaining office, not twelve months ago? The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Ministerial measure was resumed last night. The reactionists and renegade Liberals who for the last three weeks have been trying to raise ground less alarms as to the extent of the enfranchisement to be expected under the Bill, have had their reckless and random assertions brought to the touchstone of proof, and the Government has had the opportunity of vindicating the truthfulness of the data on which they founded their calcu lations. Mr. DISRAELI has saved his party from the disgrace of dividing against the principle of the Bill. If one-tenth of the dangers and hor rors painted in the Quarterly were true, the pious and patriotic Tories ought as honest men to have taken issue on the second reading. If the measure has a tendency, as is pretended, to turn national finance into class confiscation, and our venerable representative system into an abject merciless machine for issuing the murderous edicts of operatives' societies and trades' unions, then it was the duty of every Conservative in Parliament to divide against the principle of so nefarious a measure. Possibly—since the debate stands ad journed to Thursday— it is not too late for a remnant to save their honour after the fashion of the late Colonel Siarnoar and Sir CHARLRA WRTHZRELL. Anything would be preferable to the scandalous hypocrisy of pretending to consider a measure revolutionary, rapacious, irreligious, and anti-legal, and yet at the same time consenting to vote for it. For our parts we should not at all regret to see the mean and mercenary mask of liberality which Toryism was content to wear up to yesterday torn from its unaltered face by its own hinds in a momentary paroxysm of delirium. Not a few impostors scrambled into Parliament last year under the pretence of being Reformers. Let them be tested now. So long as the Oppo mition kept up the cheat of merely differing with Ministers about details there was no party interest in the conflict. Lord DIARY'S speech the other evening in the Lords, and the resuscitation of the Toryism of thirty years ago in the pages of the Quarterly Re r iev, have indicated clearly that the great question of popular representation will after all be fought out by opposing parties on irreconcileable principles. Government has gained more by the firm and manly declaration of Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Friday night in the estimation of its supporters ' and of the people generally than by anything that has been said or done for some time. They have nothing to fear in the coming conflict. Let them but hold on to their course inflexibly ; and even in the present Parliament, called as it has been by their adversaries, they may, if they are only rose- , ute and determined, carry their Bill. TIRE OPTICI or COLONISE. —This morning was Mined the report of the committee appointed to consider the state of the law sad practice as regarding the taking of inquisitions in cases of death, kc. The bill which the com mittee recommend on the subject would contain:-Ist. A declaration of the cases in which coroners' inquests ought to he held. 1. A clause empowering the Attorney-General to make application to a judge in chambers for a rule calling on the coroner to show came why he does not hold an inquest. 3. A clause empowering the Secretary of State for the Home Department to make rules binding on the county police as to the information they are to give to coroners. 4. Clauses giving a power to justices to fix the salaries of coroners for counties. Appeal to Horne Secre tary, and provision for periodical revision. R Clauses as similating, as far as possible, the election for coroners for counties to the election of a member of parliament for a county. F. Clauses directing that the coroners' jurors be henceforth indifferently summoned from the jury lists of their respective counties ; and that all payment to Jaren for attendance on inquests be prohibited. WIRTM I NETER REFORM UNION. —At a meeting of this union, held last evening, in Piccadilly, Mr. W. Barnard in the chair, the following resolutions were tins ! nimously agreed to " That this meeting sees in the committee of the House of Lords, moved for by Earl Grey, • transparent device for getting rid of the Reform Bill for this session, and believes, should this device succeed, that an agitation will arise throughout the country such as must result in the passing of a much larger measure of reform with probably much less difficulty." " That this meeting has heard with deep regret that Mr. Massey, M.P. for Salford, a professed liberal, has sought by a reactionary proposal to impede the progress of the Reform Bill, and thereby to strengthen th e h an d s o f t h e ccaservative opposition . "That this meeting, sensible of the urgent necessity of passing the Reform Bill this session, presses upon the liberal members of the house the propriety of ?Villain:: further votes of money for the public service, until the bill of Lord John Russell has passed the second reading, sod has been considered in committee of the wh o l e house. Ha MAJIIITY'S SHIP EDGAIL-A naval court etartial mesaibleil yestenlay on board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour , for the trial of John Clarke, a vate in the Mariam, belonging to her Majesty's s hip Edgar, on the charges "of having, when the port watch was ordered to fall in on the Marboard gangway, eadeavound to delay and discourage the service by falling In with that watch, when he belonged to the starboard, and by afterwards denying that he knew to which watch he be longed :" and, secondly, " for miscondo himself and disobeying ordery while being conveyed in the s cutter to her Majouv's chip Victory." The Court found that a spirit of insufoolination had been shown by a poetics of the crew of her Majesty's chip Edgar, at Bpithesd, on the 10th inst., and also found the prisoner guilty on the charges brought against him, and sentenced him to two mt. prmonment, with hard labour in her Ma s poi at Winchester, and at the conclusion of that period to be dismissed her Majedy's Royal Marine forces with disgrace. The court was then re-sworn, and immediately psoaeeded to try James Hahne& punier, Royal Marine and John Menzies, Royal Marine, on c harg es of "having pre. vented Sergeant Leshbourne and Corporal Stack trees petting John Clarke, the prisoner in the loot case, in irate, in the fore cockpit, and for having rescued him from their custody." The Suiting of the Court was to the effect that the spirit of insubordination was shown on board the Edgar on the 10th nat., but that the charges were not proved ainst the prisoners , who were acquitted accordingly. The e court win reumernble this morning, and proceed with the trial of the remaining oases, there being yet Al prisoners on board the Victory fur trial, belonging to her Majesty's ship Edgar. CDt Court. The Queen held a wart yeuterday sfternoca at Buckingham laleca - - Le Conunindenr Targion Envoy Extraordinary aad Minister Plenipotentiary from him Majesty the King of the Two Sicilies, had an audience of the Quasi', and delivered his letters of recall. Hia Excellency was Introduced by Lord John Russell, the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, sod conducted by Lieutenant-Gamsral the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies, . _ Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Harris and Limit.- Colonel F. Cavendish, the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Professor Owen had the honour of delivering the first of a eerier of lectures on Natural History at Buckingham P►- lace before the Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Princess Alice, Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the ladies and gentlemen in attend ance. The Princess Augusta of Saxe Coburg and the Duke de Montperuner visited the Queen. Prince Leopold took a carriage drive. A meeting of the Finance Committee of the Royal Com. mission for the Exhibition of 1851 wan held yesterday at South Kensington. There were present, Earl Granville, (Chairman); Mr. C. W. Mks, Yr. T. F. Gibson , and Mr. officer, Edon. Bowing d. (Secretary).7 Mr. H. R. Williams , financial attende Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governors of Canada and British ColumWt, and from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian 14ands. Despatches were sent to the governors of the settlements on the west coast of Africa. We are requested to repeat that an gentlemen and ladies attending the Queen's Levee this day (Tuesday) and Draw ing -room on the 28th instant will be expected to appear in court mourning. HER MAJESTY'S Lava& —{TRIS DAY.)—This afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort left Buckingham Palace, and proceeded in state to St. James's, where her Majesty held a levee. The Marquis end Marchioness of Ailesbury have arrived in town from Bavernake Lodge, Wilts, for the SMOOT/. The Earl of Galloway has taken a residence in Eatoe•place for the lemon. Mrs. Gore, the novelist, who for some time past has been omitted with blindness, has just undergone an operation, which, it is hoped, will eventually restore her to sight. Mr. Benedict'e annual grand morning concert at her Majesty's Theatre, under the immediate patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, will take place on Viedtesday, the 13th of June, not the 13th of May, as &Elltoluboed yesterday. Yesterday, at St. Mary's Church, Bryanstou square, Lord Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P., led to the hymeneal altar Lady Susan Pelham Clinton, eldest daughter of the Duke of Newcastle. After the religious solemnity the newlymarried couple repaired to Holderneme House, Park-lane, the residence of Frances Anne, Marchioness of Londonderry, where a di•jeasier was provided for a select circle, including the Duchess of Marlborough, the Earl and Countess Vane, &c. The noble bridegroom and bride left town in the afternoon for the south coast, to peas the honeymoon. On Friday evening Mr. Mildmay will ask the Secretary of State for India whether them is any truth in the statement (printed in yesterday's Express) as to the conduct of the Indian cadets in passing through Egypt being "systematically outrageous." And, if that state ment be true, whether he is prepared to take steps for dis covering and punishing past offenders, and for exercising more control over those young gentlemen for the future.— Mr. Einglake also purposes inviting attention to the sub ject. He intends asking the Secretary of State for India, "• question respecting the outrage upon the religious feel lap of the people of Egypt, alleged to have been committed by persons in the service of her Majesty's Indian govern ment." Sir Harry Verney, in committee on Representa tion of the People Bill, will move a clause repealing the Act 22 George 111., cap. 41, which "disables certain officers employed in the collection or management of her Majesty's revenues from giving their votes at the elections of members to serve in parliament." The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states from Naples, 17th, that all the otudents of the University have been sent to their respective homes by order of the police. The Madrid journals of the 19th give no details of the execution of Ortega, but simply publish two brief telegraphic despatches from Tortoni annottocing the fact ; they state, however, that on being told that the sentence passed on him would be carried out, be displayed great re. *ignition, wrote several lettere, and drew up his will ; also that he was allowed to spend twenty hours in religious pre paration. A Genoa letter says :—" Garibaldi in at present here. On starting from Turin his intention was to proceed to Nice, but he changed his mind and stopped short. A spanned his departure for Sicily had been in circulation, but was quite untrue, as he never had any such intention. The real object of his journey was to visit Nice." A letter from Parma, published by the Corriere ifervezatite, states that on the 17th an ex•lieuteoant of the Psrmese army, noted for having, as a member of the court martial under the old regime, contributed to the condemna tion of many political prisoners, was recognised in the streets of that city. The house in which he took refuge was instantly besieged by the mob, who seem determined to renew the abominable tragedy of which Col. Anviti had been the victim ; but this time the authorities were on the alert ; a file of carbineers arrived, and marched the in cautious lieutenant to the railway station, whence he soon started for Ale..sodria. The modifications which the Emperor of Austria has just signified his intention of introducing into the administrative organisation of Hungary is declared by the DEbals to be more apparent than real, and by no means calculated to satisfy the people of that country. Our con. temporary even goes the length of expressing an opinion that the disappointment of their hopes may lead to additional irritation among the Hungarians. An extraordinary affair is related in the Russian journals. Prince Nesvitzky was some years ago murdered by his servant, who possessed himself of his papers and fortune, and assuming the name of the prince, travelled abroad for some years, living in good style. Afterwards returning, be married a wealthy heiress, named Sokoloff, and had by her several children. Recently, his imposture was discovered, and he has been sent to the mines of Siberia; but the Russian government has authorised the children and the wife to continue to bear the name of Nesvitsky. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1860. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. NAPLES. TURIN, Ann. 23. Letters from Naples confirm the reported assas sination of General Vigils. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. (not on owir ocausromerr.) NAPLES, Aram 17. The Etna left last night at 8 o'clock with cavalry for Messina. At present 18,000 soldiers are con centrated in Palermo. General Cataldi left the city with 8,000 men on Saturday, but the insur gents, of course, retired. It is not their plan to risk any general engagement. Cataldi returned without results. The artillery have destroyed the villas under Monte Pellegino, especially near the barracks Borgognone. Near this spot the cavalry were much cut up by the insurgents. We have no steamer in from Palermo to-day, but one from Messina gives the following intel ligence :—The troops seem to have acted with the greatest caprice, and to have themselves done everything to promote a revolution. On the, night of the 10th and morning of the 12th they began firing without any apparent necessity with both musketry and cannon. Many people were killed in their houses. The soldiers fired right and left as if for amusement, or as if under a panic. The British and French Consuls in the first place remonstrated against a bombardment of the town, but were reassured. However, as a cannonade took place they went to the com mandant with a strong protest, couched in very severe terms. They were informed that if they chose they might enter the arsenal, but that the commandant had no alternative than to fire if the necessity occurred. A Swiss gentleman had been arrested as he was leaving a monastery, where he had been visiting one of the fathers, and had been imprisoned three days without any cause. An officer had been shot by one of his own soldiers, and another soldier had shot himself in his sleep whilst acting as sentinel. Such was the disorder which existed. With all this the town seemed to be somewhat re assured, and people were returning. General Viglia, it was said in the morning, had been shot by a ramrod, and now again I hear that it was a shot fired accidentally ; but it is observed that several rounds had been already fired. The ball entered the right shoulder. He suffers much, but I am not aware that the wound is dangerous. General Viglia served as major in the 10th, in Lombardy, in 1848, was decorated by Victor Emmanuel, and is much esteemed. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, TV DST. The Wiener Zeilung contains a decree provisionally appointing the Councillor of State Ignss von Pleuer to the charge of the Ministry of Finance. The decree also confers upon him the title of Privy Councillor. Prince Crartoryski died yesterday morning. VIENNA, MONDAY APTKRNOON. His Excellency the Minister of Finance, Baron con Bruck, expired at 5.10p.m. ITALY. FLORENCE., MONDAT. The King will be at Leghorn to-day, at Pistoja and Luoca to-morrow ; on Wednesday at Sienna, and on Thursday at Arezzo. THE VOTING IN SAVOY. PAWS, Ann 24. The Paris papers publish the following results of the voting upon the question of the annexation of Savoy to France: Chambery, April 23, 8 pm. The result of the voting in the district of Cham bery is known, and is as follows :—About 30,000 ayes, and 60 noes. The following are the details : In Annecy, 1,127 ayes and 21 noes ; in Aix, 987 ayes and 13 noes-192 abstained from voting or were absent ; in Chambery, 3,688 ayes and 22 noes-200 were absent or abstained from voting. A fate took place at the governor's house, which was ornamented with flags. Crowds were present and musical entertainments were given. Turin, April 23. The Savoyards of the Sardinian army present at Turin have voted as follows : For annexation to France Against Out of 186 natives of Nice, 157 have voted for annexation. Geneva, April 23. The result of the voting in several towns of the proviuoes of Chablais and Faucigny is generally unanimous for annexation to France. SPAIN. MADRID, Aran 22. The Moorish Plenipotentiaries arrived at Tetuan yesterday. The nogotiations have commenced. The following are additional particulars coaoern ing the arrest of Count Montemolin. During the night of the 20th instant the gen darmerie surrounded a house where Count Monte molin and his brother were supposed to be con cealed. After having vainlydemanded admittance, one of the gendarmes entered the house through the window. Tho Princes were dressed, and declared themselves at the disposal of the gendarmes. The majority of the press is in favour of a trial by ordinary court-martial. The Correspondeweia Autograja considers that nothing will be resolved upon until the return of Marshal O'Donnell from Africa, but believes that the conspiracy will be tried by the Senate. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Aran. 23. The Society of Bankers for maintaining the course of exchange on London at 110, and of Medjidiee at 100, commences operations from the Lt of May next. The redemption of the Caimis continues, and is to be completed by the end of May. During the night of the 18th, Mr. G. P. R. James, the well-known novelist, had an attack of paralysis at Venice, where he is Consul-Genera. Preparations are being made to open to the public the new zoological garden in the Bois de Boulogne early next month. Henceforth Paris will enjoy the advantage of two scientific palaces, one at the Jardin dee Plantes and the other in the Bois de Boulogne. Cardinal Szitowaki, the Prince Primate of Hun gary, intends to do bonnur to the memory of Count Ste phen Saecbenyi by means of a Tranerirer (mourning cere mony) on the BArch plain, on which bas been shed the blood of many of the most worthy descendants of Afield. A few days ago the Croatian peasants around Agrem presented a magnificent "bouquet" to the Counter Antonia Barhysay, the widow of the nobleman who was Hungarian Minister-President in 1848. The Illinois arrived at Southampton yesterday with the United States mail. She Mt bew York on the 7th inst. She brought fifty passengers. Amorie gi l d er °Argo was specie to the value of 100.000 dollars for and 200,380 dollars for France. She is to proceed from Southampton to Havre. It is not expected that she will leave for America again until the 28th inst. Her news has been anticipated. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nor on OWN mgr.) PAHL% MONDAY EVIXI/10. The leading news of the day is the following despatch, forwarded from London by M. Reuter, and reproduced by, tho evening papers, "with all reserve " London, April 22. The majority of the powers who signed the final act of the Congress of Vienna have agreed to the following com bination :—An understanding will be come to by ordin' ary diplomatic means for the drawing up of a protocol reserving guarantees in favour of Switzerland. The representatives in Paris of those powers will receive instructions to sign this protocol, after which France will enter into arrange ments direct with Switzerland. The conference will hold only one sitting, confining itself to sanctioning the bases of the direct arrangement between France and Switzerland. The Pays and Patric know not how far this news may be correct, but, considering the "invariably conciliatory spirit" of the French government, they see in it nothing improbable. I send, without comment. the following extract from Bullies's Correspondence, which will be in the hands of every provincial journalist in France by to-morrow : When and where will the conference meet? In what manner will it be convoked? and what powers will be called upon to join it? Now, if lam to speak my whole mind, I think that this conference which is to conciliate the fresh neutralisation of Switzerland with the superannuated treaties of 1815 will no more meet than did the congress which was to have settled the Italian question. Of course the opposition will not come from the cabinet of the Tuile ries ; but the minister [meaning Lord John Russell] who lately said that the conference will "very probably" meet, will perhaps be the first to put a etumbling•block in the way, just as be did with the congress. To come to this conference would be to consent diplomatically to the abro ption of the treaties of 1815. Now, you may be very sure that the powers will never come with really friendly inten tions to make this species of amende honorable to the exile of St. Helena in the person of his nephew. And yet they made a first step towards this consummation when in the Congress of Paris they consented solemnly to treat with the heir of Napoleon I. They must resign themselves directly or indirectly to take a second step in the same ' direction; for when the powers will not come to him Napoleon 111. is in the habit of going to them. In the Congress of Paris our plenipotentiaries and M. Cavour raised the Italian question. M. de Buol would not haute( it. What did Napoleon 111. do? Why he put himself at the head of 300,000 men, and went to the banks of the Mincio to propose an alliance to the Emperor of Austria. A friend of mine, who is addicted to prophetic pleasantries, said to me the other day :—" You'll see the Emperor ; go to the Rhine to offer his alliance to the King of Prussia, coupled with a slight rectification of frontiers." I replied by • quotation from the pamphlet, " Napoleon UL et l'ltalie," " It is better to settle a territorial modification in a friendly way than to have to do it the day after a victory." The long talked of fancy ball at the Hotel d'Albe is positively to oome off to-morrow. The Empress, it is said, will appear as Diana in a hunting cos tume, made after the pattern of one worn by Madlle. de la Valliere at a celebrated fete given by Louis XIV. Among the character quadrilles there is to be one in which air, water, fire, and earth will be represented by the Countess do Morny, Madlle. de Gray, Princess Czartoryska, the daugh ter of Queen Christina, and the Countess Walewslut. The Count de Persigny, as I suspected, when the Pays prematurely announced his departure, re mains here for the ball, and will leave for London the day after. The Grand Duke Nicholas of Rusda is expected in Paris before the end of the month from Nice. The government papers of last evening made an extraordinary exhibition of indiscriminate zeal, apropos of M. Thouvenel's despatch of March 13, the text of which they found in the amt.& de Lau sanne. Fastening upon a paasage in which M. Thouvenel hesitatingly said that the Swiss govern ment Lad "in some sort " proposed to him a secret treaty for the partition of Savoy, they accused Switzerland of having been the first to suggest the despoiling of the King of Sardinia, and had asked for the aid of France to assist in making over Cha blais and Faucigny to Switzerland " long before (see Pays) France had ever thought of such a thing as the treaty of March 24." Unfortunately for theee journals there existed in print at the time they were writing, despatches, kept back from France in order that M. Thouvenel's letter might create a prejudice, in which that minister admitted that Dr. Kern, so far from having taken any initiative, had merely begged to have in writing a promise verbally made to him by M. Thouvenel as far back as February 6, and then merely as an alternative in cue France should be thoroughly decided not to allow the statu quo to be maintained. At the Bourse the London despatch about the Swiss conference made a favourable impression. The Rente rose 10c. for cash and sc. for account, closing very firm at 70fr. 35c. and 70fr. 30c. Mo bilier rose lir. 25c. There is still great uncer tainty and anxiety about the dividend. There was no change worth noting in railways. The government has decided that at the next agricultural show, horses, asses, and mules shall be exhibited, as well as cows, sheep, and hogs. SPAIN. We read in a letter dated Valencia, April 13 : Colonel Epifanio Carrion, who was mixed up in the recent event., was brought here under escort on the lOth. Re wore a uniform and the cross of St. Ferdinand, but no epaulettes. As soon as he was lodged in prison an official personage corns to interrogate him. " Mr. Official," said he rather sharply, "your opinions matter very little to me,end lam much attached to my own—it is useless to pursue this conversation." The next day Carrion was brought before • courtmartial. The charge upon which he was arraigned was very short, but left no doubt of his guilt. When it was read be said at first that he was too much troubled in his mind to follow it ; but immediately afterwards he de dared that he would not seek to deny or to palliate the facts imputed to him, but would ask for mercy. "My crime is great," he said, "but no also is the expiation. I have :oat my eldest sou, a poor innocent boy, whose only crime was that ho loved his father, and would stay by his side to defend him. Will not that innocent blood soften the rigours of justice! Remember that lam the head of a numerous family entirely dependent on me. Send me to the Phillippine Islands,to the remotest possessions of Spain, but in pity for my wife and children let no more blood be shed." This speech made a great impression on the public, and the sympathy for the prisoner increased when on the president asking him to name the person in pursuance of I whose orders he had rebelled against his sovereign, he an swered, "I will never name him ; I have never been an informer, and never will be. It is painful to me to find my word doubted, but I persist in maintaining silence on this subject." The court condemned him to be shot, and the sentence was carried into execution this morning in the pre sence of a great crowd of spectators, whom he asked to pray for him. Re knelt down on one knee, a tremendous die. charge was heard, and he fell dead, his breast bone literally driven in by converging bullets. LAUNCH or THE CAPE MAIL STEAMER CAM BRIA/Z.—Yesterday afternoon the launch of the *crew steamer Cambripn, belonging to the Union Steam Naviga tion Company, of Southampton, and intended as a mail ship between that port and the Cape of Good Hope, took place from the ship.trailding yard of Mr. C. Lungley, of Deptford, in the preseoco of a large contour's of persons, including the directors of the company and Sir J. Rennie, Captain S co tt, Captain Durham, &c. The Cambrian is a remarkably fine vessel of her class, and has been built from the lines designed by her builder, Mr. C. Lungley, and will afford excellent aceouunodation for paaseogen.. THE MORTARA CASE. The Tribunal Criminal and Civil of Bologna has jolt been occupied with the trial of Father Feletti, of the Order of St. Dominick, Inquisitor of the Holy Office et Bologna (who, it may be remembered, wee arrested some time ago, on the charge of having carried off by force the child of the Jewish couple Mortara). The rev. father, in answer to the charge, repniseuted that in " sequestrating" the child (so he designated the abduction) he had only obeyed the orders of the Supreme Holy Office at Rome, whose agent he was, and could Dot, therefore, be held personally responsible. In consequence of this defence, the court endeavoured to es certain whether orders really had been sent kr Feletti from the Inquisition at Rome ; and also who had communicated to the Inquisition the alleged fact of the baptism of the child Mortara, on which those orders were bared. It 'further examined the question whe ther, supposing the child to have been baptised, the right existed of taking him from his parents ia order to bring him up as a Roman catholic ; and, lastly, whether the participatioa of Feletti in the affair brought him within the jurisdiction of the law. The public pro secutor demanded that Feletti shruld be condemned to the penalties set forth in Arts. 133 and 200 of the Penal Edict at 1832, wiled magistrates who make an abusive use of their power by arbitrarily arresting and detaining any person ; such penalties being from one to three years' im prisonment, or even double in the event of the case being an aggravated one ; also the payment of damages and c o d s . The tribunal, however, acquitted the reverend defendant. MriItOPOLITAN RAILWAT.—WO (Cif!, Press) be lieve the li. rails of the Metropolitan Railway will be publicly laid very early in June, and that all the share holders will be invited to be present at the ceremony. THE VOTING AT NICE. (nom • 00111111POIDZIf T.) TURIN, Aram 19. We have at last got the details about the ballot at Nice. Since the Italian party had completely given up the game, and resolved not to go to the poll, the French had no opposition to fear, and the few votes against the annexation were most likely given at the command of the wire pullers for de cency's sake, that a complete unanimity should not shock the feelings of those who know how strongly the educated classes were opposed to the annexation. On Sunday morning the population of the neigh bouring villages and of the different parishes of the town assembled in the market-place, shouted " Vive l'Empereur," " Vive la France," stuck the green bill with the word "oui " printed in capitals on their hats, and, led by their priests and syndics, rushed to the polling-places to throw their secret vote into the box. By ten o'clock the busi ness was done, for few of the committees for verifying the identity and the franchise of the voter rarely found it worth their while to look into the electoral lists. Whoever spoke the Provencal was acknowledged as a true Nizzard ; and it is said that Many votes from across the Var were smuggled in in tins way. As soon as a voter was seen to fold up the green bill, and to throw it into the ballot-box l he was cheered ; cigars were freely given to him, with an invitation to tpy nearest public-house, there to celebrate the haphe consummation of the Frenchification of the country in copious draughts of wine. In spite of the often mentioned sobriety of southern populations, the Nizzards soon got drunk, shouting most lustily, " Vivel'Empereur," "VictorEminanuel !" quarrel ling with their hosts, and making a terrible row, until they were by-and-by removed to their homes. The deputies to whom I spoke lately took this annexation for an unavoidable necessity ; they admitted that the Var was no real frontier; that the boundary ran either at Antibes in France, or between Monaco and Mentors ; they regretted only the valley of the Roia, and hoped that the government would suc ceed, at the running of the boundaries, in securing it for Italy, since, as the only road from Turin by Cusco to Ventimiglia and to the seacoast runs across that valley, its loss would be strategically a misfortune which could not be compensated. Be sides, all this valley is Italian, though forming a part of the old county of Nice. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. The Manchester and Leeds express train, which left the King's•crces Terminus of the Great Northern Rail. way at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, met with a terrible accident in passing through the station of Hatfield, by which, we regret to state, two persons lost their lives—viz., Mr. Francis Pyin, son of a late director of the company, and a platelayer. The train comprised mostly first-class carriages, ten in i number, with two break VMS, one in front and the other at 1 1 the rear. It left London punctually at the time appointed, and proceeded at the usual expreas speed until it was about entering the Hatfield station. It is here necessary to remark that a number of platelayers were engaged in repair ing the down line at some points which crossed on to the up line. The ballasting had been removed from off the sleepers, and the men were about to pay up that portion of the permanent way which appeared to have slightly sub. sided. A coal train was approaching the station on the up line for London, when the men, hearing the signal of the express coming up, stepped back on a ailing, and the next moment or so the engineof the express was passing over the portion of the line where they hail bees at work. The engine and four carriages went safely enough, but the fifth was suddenly thrown off the line, dragging with it the remainder of the train in the most fright ful confusion. In this state some of the carriages, being partly thrown across the road, they came in contact with the loaded trucks of the coal train which was passing at the same moment, and then mounted the platform of the down station, and, after traversing nearly the whole length of the platform, and carrying away some of the roof, the coupling of the sixth carriage broke, and the hinder portion of the train was thrown over on to the line, the carriages being shattered. The foremost part of the train still dashed on at little reduced speed • and the sixth carriage coming in contact with the water crane, broke it away, and was thrown end uppermost. At the same moment it is sup. posed that the wheels and axles of the fifth carriage were carried away, and the body of the carriage was hurled on its side, and in that state dragged a distance of more ' than 200 yards, when it, with the fourth cartage, which was also off the rail., got cliscounectod from the forward portion of the train, and was brought to a stand still by the side of the line. T he engine, tender, break, and three car. riages, which kept the rail, were stopped 140011 afterwards - the distance altogether from where the carriages first left . the metals being 703 yards. The scene, as may be iniagined, was most terrible. The permanent way wax ploughed up nearly the whole dirtance, rail were twisted and bent, and the wrecks of the shattered carriages were strewn over the line in all directions. There were several persons on the upper platform at the time, and for ama meat all appeared paralysed at what occurred before their eyes. The platelayers were almost in the same state, but at length the shrieks and cries for help of the passengers brought them to their aid, and it was not without consider able difficulty that several at them could be extricated. There were about fifty in all in the train, those who were in the hindermost carriages being all mono or less seriously ' hurt, many bleeding from scalp wounds and other con. tusions. Considering the shattered condition of the car riages, it is somewhat marvellous how on many escaped with their lives. All the medical aid that oath( be procured in 1 the neighbourhood was at once rendered to the sufferers, several of whom were removed to the houses adjacent to the station. Mr. Thomas Williams, the inspector of the line, was in the fourth carriage, which seemed to have nearly shared the same fate as the fifth carriage, the fore wheels being driven partly through the flooring. On Mr. Williams alighting, the first thing which attracted his attention was the body of a gentleman lying across the metals behind the remains of the fifth car riage. He was shockingly injured. and appeared to have been killed on the spot. Mr. William. immediately ascer tained that the body was that of Mr. Francis Pynt a gentle man of independence, and son of one of the late directors of the company. He was travelling in the fifth carriage (first class), and, from circumstances which have transpired, it ix believed that the unfortunate gentleman, sating the fearful nature of the accident, and the critical jamiition he was in, attem to escape from the carriage. and fell when it t over on its aide. Having seen to the removal of the body, Mr. Williams took the most prompt means to stop all incoming trains, and a telegraphic message being forwarded to town apprising the officials of the catastiopite, a special train quickly arrived with a staff of niedie.il gentlemen from London. The cause of the accident is as yet unaccountable, al though there is some reason to believe that it arose from • rail breaking at the spot where the platelayer , were at work. An outside rail was found broken after the accident, and it was at this point that the after portion of the train left the metals. It a difficult to see whether it was broken by • blow from the engine passing over it or by the following carriages, but there is a most melancholy proof that it did occur, for as the train passed a fragment of the rail was hurled forward iu a slanting direction, and striking George Venable', one of the platelayers, in the side, killed him on the spot. He was • young man, and hal been recently married. TO THE EDITOR OT ?R? EXPREO4. SIR, —1 think it right to apprise,; , on, for the purpose of publication, that a serious accident oc curred at Hatfield this morning to the 10 o'clock down expresa train from London. . . So far as can be at present ascertained, it appears that the train , in passing through the station, broke, and displaced , some of the material d the road, and although the engine and three tir4 carriages remained on the line, the hinder portion of the tram diverged, and one of the carriages was overturned. I deeply regret to say that Mr. Francis Pym, of Brighton, who was riding in this carriage, was 50 seriously injured, that he died shortly after the accident. Another passenger was hurt, but he was enabled to return home. The remainder went forward to their respective declinations, none of whom, it h; believed, are injured. A platelayer near the spot wan ntrnek by a por tion of the metal, and he also is, I am merry to add, since dead.—l am, tte., HENRY OAKLEY, Sec. Great Northern Railway, King's-muss Station, April 23. Two THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH OT COTTON DEWTRoYED BY FIRE.—On Saturday niondug last a fire oc curred in the Clarence Warehouses, (treat Howardetreet. Liverpool, by which cotton to the amount of 2,000/. wad destroyed. the warehouses are the property of Mr. W. P. Smacker, but owing to their fire.pnsd c onstruction the damage done to then, is but slig t h l t. 'ne mitten deotroyed VIM the property of Memos. 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