The Express. — London, England, 1861-01-29 00:00:00

/ NEWSPAPER • t. - 7( . 4 4 11 rprot • SSalidia .~' ~, , , . • --- e#A-geil P - 0 1 4M - r' 4ii(v7o4--4" , • -;/e No. 4,513.] ▪ R 1.1 )RT PH I LLI P Direct (delivering' nulesy plcr. the remark:ship iasksail. ▪ orai Lkei atop, s;REVS oesc.l i.y licaapa. tt .3 147 tt•us resister. J 11. , N l't4u t.anter I L ytite in the Louden Dock. This doe %coed , hell% in 4. 1 , In' JOchaili4 her Cargo freak Douala" sr Itheut etc. I. ❑tut 116Inie the Nieuwe from Lesion 1.. KaniniS"... n.ttnit tA..onllnnek 1.. 1,441073. 111 aloe months and tecl*c day , . in.l.i.lloar .t o mouths and a half In pet.—Anti) to 1101 I' it ELlEllttiL 11. lea , trithaltalreet. fel I.) the ftr.l.clau skip V. ILH ELilshl" G, lkoo toss. WErfLY STEAM COMMUNICATION to W YORK.-11.0 LIVERPOOL, NKW YORK, and ?MLA I , ELPUIA STEAM 511 P CONIPAN Y Intend deagatclung lbw tuU poi:raved Woo Scram ntasowattips. oath nag at Queenatuvna to sonar% pasenalers aad dapattiwa, al follows : WEAKLY 11011 LIVIAPROL YOR NEW YOGI. we,tnc.tay. EDINBURGH. W ednoolay, Erb 13. Awl every succeeding Wednesday. elmn IPlunntY, /134 IT, and 21 pones.% acc,rdina in the 11170121. I , ...tward pwacr, s amines& Including all provisions ersolnA. Puritans f r Canada and Ow V, rattan make through on very adrastareous terms.—For further yartirolars o tly e WILLIAM INMAN, T.l Watustroet, Llearysul; or to VI and MACEY, 61, Chas Willina4lreet. Litl• GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE, IS 111:611BY 61t T:9. that the neat WULF NIGARLY OEN EitAL MEETING of the Fs. prietons of this cow paat win be bell in London. pennant to Ail of Parliament. at fin rhiditntinn stab*. .e FRIDAY. tbr day of Ifehi nary font. at i P v. 60). for the Election ..1 hair lu the phsee of Viscount ilarrifestoo. Hight Honourable apsneer P . the kart of shelhunie. and I y,11.), 1,4 , rrtlrlag binning. alai for other general purposes tif The chair will he takes' at 1 fielnek precisely. SH /MOURNE, Chairman. BARRIN OTOS. lienity.Chalrman. ' The directors retinue are mrlicOde, wider the pwistuons of the site auJ iu compliant-, witha bylaw. \othn must he iii, to tlw 74ar titan. on ort lotion: the fat day of February neat, of the haw, of any pmforktors who are to be nominated for rho- Von iUrn ton at the raid Hatt-Yearly General Ihe Transfer Books of all !stork aud share, will lw closed ow and from the 31st day of January instant, and will not he m op. ftr,l until after the add lialf•Yeatiy lieneral Menials, an lb, I:4h day ml Febraaryi—by niter of tbe hoard. eIIAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary. Fasbilogton Statin. Jags. laGt. POUL TNT, BUTTER, HAMS, ttc. IMPORTANT TO YAMILILII, HOTF.L-ILLEPERBI, Re. Wenn, Poultry. Eggs, .sal Dairy4e,l Pork fresh boas the country eters , morning.lie4t York Ilaue,, 101. per lb. ; Rllt .tlre Ma 43.11, by the able or half, 01,4 ; flue American Cheese, b 7 Oa hall or quarter, :IL to a 34.: 814. to 104. ; Cheahlre. 01.1. to lift.: (Water, 0.1. to 94. ; Ytflton. la to 1a NI. ; Ornyere. 10.1. per lb. ; roast salt butter. la to Is. 3.L : fresh, lc to lc W. per lb.: young chsckens, la 6.1.: large fowls, (NM SL to. 'IS . young turkeys. Is. a, to. ad.. young pew, t• RI. to Csa 1.4. of pork, 71.1. to St per lb. k4us, ESL to aid. W. and J. L TAYLOR. SS. Mae Pulteospalreet. SOYER'S SULTANA SAUCE, Relish, Secee- Lint, Aronutic tu.tard, &e.—These excellentpreparationa ad which the Lancrt In ft, !tanltary Analytatk.n of Anil. Ica of Wrortelt 110 fat ounthly of their purfty and wholetorneues% are to l• ”lounial of all Trorera and Italian wurehowitaihat in Hu' 11 .• ) are liolo , oatital.le with hall. meat. irt poultry. huithea..tewt. a n d all made dishes. Mlll.l impart ala,i chops, riitiria a moat oirlictutte flavour. 'Wholcaale, and IsLAckWELL, Purveyors to Or quooa, It, Soho- Loo4m. X P P _B_ • X COCOA HOMCEOPATHIC Formes a IX berms awm►. graletol wooottmeaa, and Invigorating power. LIESSRS. GRANT and LACK solicit the stte mi na o f the Nobility and th e ir Cuitotners to the of a large htrehage ..1 BLACK BILMI'Nfi re EN CIIIIIIIN 'llii MILK 111,1124, with a L. d of the richest ABM Y. KS ANTIQUES in mop and all colours, nt three and.nhalf cniocai. Many of Uwe !node an not nowt than had price, neural Lola of paid FANCY SILKM Mau one guises to :t ht 04., and LAJO beautiful Tl(' MTKD MA REC E Itt Mt Et mitncipally light and white ground. satlable S orgattig Duar, at lis. wt. ugu.d price Lnie. to :AA Patters, of egg of the above Menet free ou application. limit egg Gealre me* et nax, INIAL SW. asil .other MANTLES, Is bra wilkag et greet related prima KANT aid (WM, Oemeree Ms" OIL MI. IS, 61, sad td. Orford-street g. 4. end 11. Wellietreet, loadoa. W. poVINTRY RIBAND DREBBIIB.-Ikarrs. ed OWIT sod CAM ere sow imam kw morel ledics rook. NOMA d COMMIT ern she hate M IX I l BIT the with the 114 et bey pettsse th=pesliviber boos\ d lime d time Amer I=6 ta el tee yeti et Oesehle,tehthlL—thesseetwelhe " trated LIONIN• /tree et ha U.) Patterns 04 IlltonJ sad olliff heetemelle• ropeelleg Coventry ritoa4 out hos _ _ Eli:if - sad GAM, Oxford-41nel DRESS FO R *act, .4ecriptlne. 1a as 1 obtidmed as • sauseest 6 notki4 8. d alckerlancker Snits tram 19 2•Blsi e +nits „ 21 0 Eaton s , uoa •utte usaar suds „ II 6 lent lt !ult. .. 10 0 JUVENILES. sal West *AM isag los d. Nordsh Dar boa T 0 Cambria's Salk „ 0 I Inventor Cron „ 7 0 lybune W „ 6 Cambridge „ 10 6 ***** emcizi:T4AND NON. itERCIIANT TAILDEN. WitOLLEN DRAPERN, HATTERS. HMI Etta, WM)T AND IfDK MAKERS. AND GENERAL DI*TYITTRILi. London Mon; Corner Minorlee and Aldgete. Now .hfonl inevet • comer of Dart Week Goner of Tottenham •roanl and Easton-road. ',Amoy fatelehalonents . Thnnatou'obelldstrets. Brlelgestreet, Bradford, Yorkehlro. Eerie" ebefflehl. Shoold any article sot be approved cd, It will be es clanged or the money returned. IftmEN end SON I RULE 1e1117.11111/11111/12.111LNT and Rae ei prime, with pamphlet es the Realyawde Cliebleg Syr Ism (poet end present , enatestlet The !STA 'ILIAD ENTS twee IV Y AY KM IRO at law% until Saturday agesse. ebm bow reeneed 11281111 o'clock. DIIPT 17 R E 14.—The PATENT SELF ADJI'97I NG ClEilliat nV sena( eirectualy without esnipilest/one.d reesereeseled by the faculty to the curs wed rthef al hen* The wry quality et • good tear to an Shekel wreleithe pewee without eutheeseary pressu es the Imet libelled. width deeinthe object is akee obtained Is a trues weeseinthered with eirtithiglral aprisqer pad bahlad.—.l. EGO Sal Or. L ifetradllly. M. 'PPARENTS and GUARDIANS.—The roem of youth to their respective boanUng schools In. dam s solicitude for their perennial eoutiort and 'Unction and ZOWLAN lag DIAL Anna It 1114 kw waseleralleg the growth and for intworlig and beautifying the hair: IitOWLIN JULY DON, for Improving the akin end cootplallon, and Tensor ger cutaneous eruptions. and BOWLANDW OW>NT°, or Karl Drutifrlke, foe remirring the teeth beautifully white and pre am tog the gums : are rensittered.ludnprowabie acconpouuntente for the attainment of those personal advantages so universally sought for and anottred--Bold by A. ROWLAND sod 3028, 20, Bagasse/den, Landon, and by Citaftdats and rerfuntere. ZUVLUIDOr frlZTH .hs l ig B6l.—Post free, three stamps, a 7WT LIPLAINECO Marra GABRIEL/I LISPOD SANT tureovintawra la ARTIFICIAL TIiBTU and FLEX LLB COIALITX 0 UMS, whereby one set will wear longer that three onllnary °nu ; and being fitted without wino, wires, metals, and without any operation, prove a valuable desideratum to all who have occasion for the dentist's services. Nue but pate Brat-clue materials and worloasuuhip employed, while the aspens* is even less than half the ordinary cosi—To ta, olitalned sully of Messrs. Gabriel, dentists to the Prince Dottaiana, esta blished 1,1. (see dlyluwa, No. 110, Regentaitreet.W. (nest If eehts . and 33, and 34, Ludgate hill, City. " The avautaor obtainable by Gatniers system render it pre-cminently superior, arid the nedrest approach to perfection yet attained.' —Observer. r. tlabn, I s treatise should be read by all who value health their intern will same much neon.; and more annoyance "—Morning Herald. 1.,r obvious rumps It is necessary particularly to mote the name, and that the entrance to the lit; establisturien Is cep the private pasasea between Bennie, the silversmith's, and the Mate Fire Imaaaee i Peke. Liverpool: ISt, Inakeetnet ; Bir nolegtsain IS. Nerwegreet. rnodCOTACLES, improved by HARRIS and um will mod cots's', the sight Botta =mot & with se Mita, stool, with el=fa to 10s. Gold sad Ildvir sad ltyistilasees t sustsq, at nally low pima Karnes Prospect Glass Tills& MARIA sed NY Olaits to the =M sptit Britt& lm Itunima Wm 4 Lauda& k the ams essoloyed. KKATING'S COUGH LOMENGZEL —What earn re sore lOW Is their esthequessess lass Iseglested Guess OAK esr• Throats or langslor Arsetiese Ilse Int sod Ins. reseedi Is !ESTI NO'S COCO* LOllllOlO. TN=sod sold Homo is lit, sod ts Tat ft, seet t s W Is RIIATI :S 710, sl has lathreepoi. Zasr bl prollilldos SEA SICKNESS PREVINTIED.—JOZZAIPS warm ate eetelebatly retomemootied se Gel ewe Set ma dolma —The tellatttog ketiooodel, w=rs, " elel So aullelest Se prove their eemey • " Sore much plea sure Is beteg Mlle Se Aide diet my lost voyAg• over the eta was esealuelled with taty slams. 1 teak three of firma with per** asossa—Twers. Ate.. J. W.. J. Coe. tug It Nam. I . l2l ... —Clefeetsl Deot, Gall as Jer 4 = Peni6h. busuresall tio• IV WIN It AN EMOTUAL RINIDY.-LANBERTEI LITIMATICSALISAL orealleg ibo bowels of eiloottme a. heat, Wets elteedeee ated perm* It alit'.!' to be the hag =MN= Ihr temelisetft &tortes owed* odds. eielemod ems et Mho" w comempita It tee waft wee poineue Wit the bffele, proeoseoe emoureelo. giaiseal Woes Ike dales prevokoo kowtow{ eoeselne. la oppreedisi oteopilsie No eine' on truly besoeciel Poem= of dew et eves Meg doom for kr el saioca- V, Oll . leg ea toed Ile •Ow malts attar kedge It.— 'wetted NM sold by LAM Oen, ohomist. 4 hewn mroot. flepteereet, oat by ell &meow le belitie net. te. 3d., sled 4a 6d. owl poetitoter and sat Sur lateleore Aillmette betas& 7lto aim fiell agillre Y I...gnmed ea the arm& II3LLNGTOIi PHILHARMONIC HALL, pear the Gate.-31r. George Tedder gap In Norma " and I radian!' nn Tuesdays, Thlinelays, and Satanists. The c..mic talent combines )Ire. Rehm. Ram CAlins. th"orge Ifairitcy. Messrs. 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Thu present Lord Auckland, who is also the Bishop of Bath and Wells, has presented us with some very interesting reading in this publication of the private letters of his father, the first Lord Auckland, who bore an important part in the diplomatic and ministerial transactions of the time of Mr. Pitt. He was not, indeed, one of the commanding spirits of his age, nor a leader of its political movements. By the safe mediocrity of his genius and ambition he was qualified to hold a respectable place in the second rank of party warfare, or to be employed on staff service at home, when not commissioned to perform special bushiest abroad. His administrative diligence, with the tact and discretion which he had exer cised in dealing with foreign courts, obtained for Mr. William Eden the esteem and oonfitlence of Mr. Pitt and of his colleagues in the earliest years of their crusade against the French Revolution. A peerage, with 80111 e more substantial tokens of favour, and the office of postmaster-general after his return from discharging several first-class em bassies rewarded his zeal. Yet Lord Auckland was mainly instrumental in bringing about the retirement of Mr. Pitt, on account of the King's scruple to allow Catholic Emancipation, in 1801, while for himself, he remained in office under Mr. Addington, and afterwards, in Mr. Grenville's cabinet, ho was President of the Board of Trade. The judgment of his contemporaries, on this and on sonic other occasions of his public life, censured his conduct as a departure from the acknowledged rules of personal and partisan fidelity amonpt English political men. In the memoirs of Sir James Harris, the first Earl of Malmeebury, and in those of the Right Hon. George Rose, this un favourable view of Lord Auckland's behaviour is plainly expressed. The two volumes of corre , spnadence which his sou, the Bishop, has hero printed, contain no later date than the and of December, 1793, and of course we can find there no confirmation, nor any evidence for his acquittal, of that charge of self-seeking intrigue and dissembling inconsistency, which some writers, imbued perhaps with the bitter passions of party strife, have been inclined to bring against him. It is quite evident that Mr. Eden, from first to last, regarded his politicalcareer as a profession by which he was to get on in the world. In 1772, by the advice of his relative, Sir A. Weilderburn, then Solicitor-General, and a ft erwar d s L or d Loughborough, Mr. Eden relinquished his practice at the bar to become M.P. for a pocket borough, and Under-Secretary for the Home Department. He wrote letters and pamphlets, besides taking his share in debate, to support the Fox and North coalition government. As a man of practical compromise and conciliation his counsel was valued, and his skill in matters of trade, finance and currency, made him an useful member of several different administrations. In 1778, he was one of the Commissioners sent to America for the negotiations of peace, but wo regret to find in these volumes not a single do cument belonging to that most interesting affair. For a few months also he held a subordinate post in Ireland ' • and he helped to investigate the ques tion of what should be the relations between the imperial government and the East India Company. On this question he was opposed to Mr. Fox, and thought au absolute military governor, dependent only on the approval of the East India directors, none capable of ruling that country than one train mellod by parliamentary control. The subjects, however, that are mostly prominent in the letters addressed to Mr. Eden by his political associates for eight or ten year., during his reedience as British minister in France, Spain, and Holland, are even more nearly akin than this ques tion of Indian government, to the most recent topics of controversy in our own day. It was the peculiar merit of his agency in 1780, as envoy ex traonlinary to the unfortunate KingLouisXVl., to have concluded a commercial treaty with our French neighbours, which was liberally and wisely designed by Mr. Pitt, as the treaty of last year is intended by Mr. Gladstone, to efface from either tariff the irritating marks of International hos tility, and to secure for us an abiding peace.by the mutual benefits of an industrial intercourse on equitable terms for both. Although, by the facti ous jealousy of some of our own politicians, as well as by the ruinous confusion of the Fre nchi finances for some time previous to the great Revo lution, it was rendered a hopeless task to carry such a treaty into effect, the work, so far as it lay in Mr. Eden's hands, was actually completed, and it remained a significant monument of the friendly and humane disposition of English statesmen—a consolation during the dreadful twenty years' war that soon followed and a token of pacific promise for the future. Yet it is remarkable that even at the moment when the chief English manufacturers, such as Wedgwood of Etruria and Bolton of Bir min_gham, were congratulating our plenipotentiary at Versailles upon the successful termination of labours very similar to those in which Mr. Cobden and Lord Cowley have just been engaged, the un settled state of continental politics, the aggressive attitude of Russia and of Austria, the risk of a collision between France and Prussia, but above all, the eternal emberramments of " the Eastern Question," and the difficulty of preserving Turkey from its apparent fate of inglutition by the Imperial Colossus of the North, kept all the quid litOiCS and knowing people of London in a mood of sceptical and sinister distrust, predicting each mo ment a sudden French attack upon our shores, and accusing our ministers of negligence or complicity with the treacherous foe. There is, indeed, no folly or fallacy that is new under the sun. We might extract a whole column of sagacious sentences front the writings and debates of seventy or eighty years ago, to serve equally well for such diatribes as those with which the Tories and Mr. Herman were pleased to divert themselves last session against the frank and amicable demeanour of Lord Palmerston's government with respect to France. Then, too, as now, the great project of creatiug those extensive docks and a naval arsenal at Cher bourg, which were inaugurated with a visit from the King of France in June, 1786, while the tariff negotiations were pending, was the bugbear of our alarmist journals, and would, if the United Service Club had then been in existence, have been the hourly talk of gallant veterans denouncing the mer cantile vulgarity of Manchester as they lounged under the porticoes of Pall-mall. Take the following mention of it, in a letter from Mr. Eden to Mr. Pitt, and then compare likewise the argu ments with which, in writing to Lord Carmarthen, our Foreign Secretary, he anticipates various objec tions to their commercial treaty, with the discus sions of the last twelremonth. There is a curious identity in the state of things. His Most Christian Majesty goes to Cherbourg on the Met. Thu is a sudden resolution, taken on Sunday last. M. de ' Castries is very confident that a port may be made for the ale reception of eighty ships of the line, and great expenses are incurred and greater are proposed, but opinions differ so much as to the success, that he thinks it prudent to have the sanction of the King's personal coacurrenta. Some of the best informed Freedmen, whom mum I am afraid to mention iu a letter, talk of it to me as an its childish project . , and though BOON of them would held that language if their opinions were the reverse, the canner la which they express themselves gives an appearance of sta. cerity. Jobs Ball, however, will rub his eyes upon the opposite comet, and the subject of fortifying Plymouth sad Poets oath will COMO again under discussion. I am not sorry for this Cherbourg journey. The fanfe. von mete of the royal carriages and the guards on the coast opposite to our dockyard, will do us no hum ; nor could it have been exhibited if it had been certain that the work in question had not been a very important me. It will, how• ever, draw our attention to the two paints which the French caked= affect to think expedients-a Mate of CALLA TO Tlll Bas—The underrate:aimed gen tlemen wan railed to the bar on Saturday : Middle Temple--Henry Michael Dunphy, Esq., of 3, Dr. Johnson's buildings, Temple ; Thomas Henchman Buckerfield, Esq., of 10, Sonthamplon.ratildings ; George William Paul, Fah of 4, Elm-court ; Alfred Richards, EN., of ; and Thomas Hairy Goodwin Newton, Esq., 8.A., of 4, Hare.court, and St. John's Coll , Cambridge. Inner Temple—John Walter Tyra, Esq.; Them s Heihon Under woo•L Eaq.; Chula Wi li m Mactillop, Req. ; Henry Wil liam Franklyn, F•q., B.A. ; William Henry Mellor, Esq. ; Thomas Grego, E•q. ; Felix Hargmve Hamel, Eaq. ; Henry Brooks, ;John Barker Thonlme, F•q. ; Henry Guild !!. Esq. ; and Joke Martineau, Esq., B . A. Gray' Ins—BacUrd C. Bop's, req. ; Timothy O'Brien ("Feely, Esq., LL.D. ; mid Jdran Boned fralanitme l Esq. Isonwvirr or 1111 BLIND. —There Is at present is this town (nays the Cernerran Herald) a Mind man of a may ingenious tam of mind. Some time ago he made • Welsh harp, but not being satisfied with his production he s oap employed his active mind, and has now completed one Went will hear oumrarison with many produced by these vim; have the advantage of sight. He is likewise very fisSISIS, wads, about the streets with scarcely any berate. sole shrimping on the mnd-banks at the mouth of ghe hsrboer at all hours of the day and night, and does app duties of his cottage without any aid or LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1861. readiness for a mar, rad a system of intercourse and cam• mem to maintain peace. Without going into the details which Mr. Eden had to discuss with M. de Calonne or M. Rayneval, to lower the customs duty on our cotton goods, pottery, and hardware upon their aide, and in ad mitting their produce to retain some protection for British beer and British brandy as liable to excise, we may quote just one passage expressing his wish to make a larger and more liberal application of free-trade principles, and not to insist on a peddling reciprocity : With what face lam to propose the importation of Eneiali cottons and the exclusion of French silks I do not well foresee. By the other mode which was proposed, I could perhaps have carried the ems and maintained the other with little remark ; but in the present mode it would be n startling rand offensive circumstance. Besides, in this specilkation of article., we shall give the treaty an appear sone in the eyes of Ireland, which it would not have had under general provisions and B:pees/jots. It is easy to argue plausibly upon the power of France to render the whole treaty illusory by general prohibitions and general augmentations of the duties, but I believe it to be a much sounder principle that if we obtain from an en lightened nation, pomessmg such energy of government, the same privileges and indulgences as are given to the most favoured nation, we obtain all that we ought to ask, or can expect tom cordially executed. In short, you have now rough t to a point through which Ido not clearly or safely see my way. But I like perfectly the aspect of the business amorg to my own notion of conducting it. I Walt it only etable and right to announce the expedl saw _of fixing dative to partioular articles. I think the idea a izaprovement to my original proja-t, but I cannot see the wisdom of risking the treaty upon the din-unions which this will require. But even in the strict prosecution of your plan, I could now, and with the strictest consistency, conclude all the other parted the treaty ; for nothing can he more con sistent than to my, "We are now formally and authenti cally agreed, in the names of our two sovereigns, to place each other upon the present footing of the most favoured nation. Proeeed then to do it, and to accompany it with all the regulations that at the same time occur to you for the benefit otyour merchants, the security of their pro perty, d.c. We are further agreed to name certain articles the duties of which shall be unchangeable during the period of the treaty. /t is an important consideration and of some difficulty. We will proceed in it wish good faith, but in the meantime do not delay the other benefits, respecting which we have no doubt on either side." This, to my feel ing, is plain sense and solidly founded. I wiII only add that whatever determination you take, it ought not to be delayed, and I shall wait most impatiently for further instructions. It is not safe that this business should languish. Now we have only to refer to the debates of the House of Commons last session, and we shall observe that the course adopted by Mr. Gladstone, in proceeding immediately upon the ratifica tion of the French Commercial Treaty to obtain a parliamentary approval of its principle, leaving the details of our new tariffrt subsequently fixed in committee, gave occasion to the most virulent assaults of opposition debaters, who yet profess to cherish the toryism, while they cannot comprehend the liberalism, of Mr. Pitt— the best peace minister, if peace had only continued in his time, that England ever had, not even ex cepting PeeL It is really a terrible thought that, owing to the radical corruption of the French monarchy and high society in that age (illustrated by the well-known scandal of the diamond neck lace, related here in Mr. Eden's Parisian letters), those fair prospects of a happy agreement and goodwill between the several nations of mankind, which Pitt, like Fox and Burke, delighted to cherish before the Revolution broke out, should have been spoiled by the maddest and bloodiest excesses, the most wasteful and desperate wars that ever dis turbed the morality and civilisation of the world. Such books as this collection of Lord Auckland's correspondence, bearing testimony to the gentleness and equanimity of the most experienced and enlightened minds in that age, when the humane end tolerant maxims of the eighteenth century, as as represented by Voltaire, David Hume, and Gibbon, had prevailed for a moment over the fury of famatisiam and the lust of martial con quest, are deeply suggestive in this point of view. We are assisted by these two volumes to conceive the apparent prosperity and tranquillity of Europe on the eve of that tremendous convulsion which was to swallow up some incurable ancient institutions, and give an agonising birth to the new. In the ambassador's journal and letters from Madrid, though it presents a great many enter taining incidents, we find less important matter than in the very graphic accounts that M. Huber wrote to him from Paris, in the summer of 1789, relating those wild scenes which opened the Revolu tion, from the meeting of the States General when Mirabean began to thunder, to the virtual de thronement and humiliation of royalty. Lord Auckland himself, though a temperate useful,fand judicious public servant, and an amiable man in his private life, was not a statesman of a high order ; yet his papers are of considerable value, as illustrating within certain narrow limits the social and political condition of our country in his day. MEETING OF THE _CITY OP LONDON CLARGY. (From the Rcrord.) A meeting of the City of London clergy was summoned for Thursday last at Sion College, for tho pur pose of taking into consideration the recent attacks made on the authority of the Bible and the doctrines of Christianity, by clergymen holding high offices in the universities and the public schools of England. The meeting was private, and we can, therefore, only report the general outline of the pro ceeding; as they have been related by those who were pre emit. In the first instance, the Rev. Dr. Rowsell, recently appointed to succeed the Dean of Ripon in s t. Margaret 'd Rectory, ruse, and protested against the summons for the convocation of the London clergy, as implying a libel on the clergymen, whom itcharged with infidelity. He admitted that as no names were mentioned it could not be accounted actually libellous, but that had the names of the seven essay ists and reviewers been stated, it would have been action able at law. It was replied to Dr. Roweell that the transac. lion wee one between the clergy and their bishop, and that such communications were privileged. But Dr. Rows& was not satisfied, and left the meeting, being followed by two junior clergymen, one of them lately appointed to a living in the east of London. After the retirement of Dr. Rawson the proceedings were conducted in a spirit of singular unanimity. An address to the Bishop of London was moved by the Rev. Dr. !Maur., and seconded by the Rev. E. Aown., in which his lordship's attention in called to the peril of the crisis, and to the necessity of some action being taken by the riders of the church, if we are to stem the tide of infidelity which is now setting in, and which is all the more dangerous because no longer proceeding from open ene mies, but from those who profess their assent and consent to the articles of the church of England, and have obtained ofilcial sway over the education of youth by positions of influence which they hold in important educational insti tutions. The Rev. W. Scorr expressed his general assent to the views expressed in Dr. M'Cours &areas, but suggested another, which he thought would more certainly mews unanimity. After a good deal of discussion Yr. Scott's ad• dress was adopted, after some of the clauses in Dr. ll'eaufs address bad been imported into it. The result was that the clergy present, without one dissenting voice, have carried an address to the bishop condemning the essays and reviews, and have appointed ► disputation to wait on his lordship to request him to fix a day for its presentation. Mr. Thwart ox EArrrEg Bum—Mr. Bright, M.P., has forwarded a letter to the association famed at Accrington in opposition to the collection of Easter dues. Yr. Blight says :—" It is amazing that any clergyman, in our day, should attempt to continue an exaction so unjust and so odious, but I hope the spirit of your district will re sist it to the utmost of their power. Ido not know what chance there is that parliament will pant you any relief. Parliament is unwilling to touch the church in any of its ancient rights or wrongs. There is, however, one remedy left, and that is • passive resistance to the injustice sought to be indicted on you ; and this may be employed with effect if you have an association that will support those who are attacked by the clergyman and the law. Perhaps It would be wise to take the matter to a higher tribunal. It would create a greater public interest in the question, and might force parliament to interfere. If you could prevail on either of yourcounty members to introduce a bill to reuied7 the grievance it would do good. I should be glad to give it ant _support in my power. illnintat or PATILITS, 13017 TE KiNSINOTON.— Number of visitors for the week ending dm 28, 2,896,. Total number thine the opening of the Menu free daily oak May, 1868), 316,80. DRAMA. MR. AND MM. CHARLES SEAN. After an absence of eighteen months, during which they have been engaged in a provincial tour marked by the most gratifying results, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean have returned to pay a dying visit to the metropolis, and last night appeared at Drury-lane Theatre, before an audience which crammed the house from floor to ceiling, and which gave them such a reception es is but seldom accorded even to the most popular of our theatrical artists. Hamlet was the play selected, and Mr. Kean's perform ance of the hero is so thoroughly well known to all mem bers of the playgorng public as to require but little somment from us. It would slued sullies to say that all his great points were made in his usual manner, and produced their customary effect (notably the closet scene, where, after having killed Polonius, he throws such awful earnestness into the question "Is It the King " and where his physical and moral energies seem tasked to the utmart) ; but it is ratty of notice that in this same character be made his dEbut at this same house three-awl-twenty years ago ; and that, while retaining the original excellences of his style— force, intensity, and dignity—he has year by year been im proving in classical polish, elegance, and repose. "Amara imam," old Michael A ngelu's motto, seems to have been adopted by Mt. Kean : from his earliest youth he has lost no chance of salbimprovemeut, a practice which has re sulted in renderipg bier one of the most perfect tragedians of the British stags. Mrs. Kean, who looked in excellent health, played the Queen•mother admirably, and with a thorough Shakesperian appreciation and artistic rendering. All the sweet womanly feeling with which Mrs. Kean endowed the younger and more feminine Shakesperian women is brought into play in thine wenn where Gertrude's better feelings are Ais played, backed by a power and a pathos peculiarly her own. The applause which from time to time kept bursting forth was checked bythe older playgoers, on the look-out for their well-remembered points : at the end of the seta and at the conclusion of the play it burst forth in tumultuous enthu siasm, and 'damped the return of Mr. and Mrs. Kean as a renewal of former triumphs. MB. BOUPELL, 11. P., AND HIB CONSTITUENTS. Yesterday evening, Mr. Hempen, M.P., met his constituents in the Horns Tavern, Kennington, to give an account of his parliamentary stewardship, and to explain his opinions on political questions. Mr. Wurrximorrom occupied the chair, and the room was crowded. The CHAIIIMAS said Mr. Boupell was there to redeem his pledge when he was elected, that he would annually appear before them to give an account of his parliamentary conduct. Mt. ROUPELL then rose, and was most cordially received. He aid he had not forgotten the pledges he had given on the hustings. The dearest wish of his heart was to prove that he truly represented their opinions in the House of Commons. He wished not only to re present the interests of the entire borough, but also to re present the opinions of the people of England. During the recent frost he had been acutely alive to the sufferings of many of his constituents. It was needless to ask whether their sufferings resulted from their own faults. In England it was said that no man need starve, and he was there to in quire whether that were so or not. He believed that the poor laws had broken down, and that in the metropolis especially their inefficiency bad been most clearly demonstrated. The poor when improvements took place in the wealthy parts of London were crowded into localities like Southwark and Lambeth. He then reviewed the present mode of rating in the metropolis, and Laving asserted that it was the poor who in many cases were rated for the support of the poor, he said that the question of the poor laws, and the equable- Non of the metropolitan rates, was one of the first ques tions with which parliament ought to deaL He then went on to consider the present aspect of European affairs. The conference at Warsaw had been a failure ; and it bad shown the despots that the days of absolutism were on the wane. (Cheers.) It had shown them that the old maxim of the divine right of kings to govern wrong win out of date. It would be interesting to inquire whether Louis Napoleon, when he intervened in Italy,aslcu lated what would Ise the effects of his doings. He had, however, defeated Austria, and given Italy the opportunity of raising her voice in favour of constitutional government. The noble Italian people had found a nobler leader in Ga ribaldi, who was the very incarnation of patriotism, and who had proved himself fully equal to the occasion. ( Loud and long-coutinued cheers.) In Garibaldi's period of rest ha was preparing measures which would consolidate liberty in Italy, and which perhaps would react on Hungary as they hid already reacted on France. (Cheers.) He hoped Louis Napoleon was prepared to grant liberal concessions to his own people, for be thought it impossible that Italy should be free and that France should contentedly remain under an absolute govern ment. (Applause.) He then went on to discuss the foreign policy of England, and said it had been most successful in preserving the peace of Europe. He hoped England would steadily adhere to the policy of non-intervention. As re garded the present position of Austria, he was of opinion that she would be unable to retain Venetia, and that if she did not cede it for • consideration, it would be wrested from her by fores. Prussia had a pet project of her own, and she ought to be advised to adopt • moderate tone with regard to the question of the Danish duchies. France was !prepared to withdraw her forces from Syria, but altogether he believed the present position of Europe was suggestive of danger. It reminded him of a carefully covered powder magamne, which might be tra velled over with a lighted candle but which was ready to be ignited by a single spark. He then expressed hues pleasure that the Chinese war lad ended, and having touched upon the war in New Zealand, from which he said we could derive no honour. lie proceeded to discuss the present position of the United States. The aggressive conduct of the Southern States had compelled the Northern States to take up au attitude which was honourable to them both as men and as Christians. We had nothing to gain by the disunion of the States. We had no right to interfere, and we had scarcely the opportunity of giving advice. Yet the question was moat interesting to us, for four millions of our people depended for employment on the supply of cot ton from the United States. It was a scandal to us that we had been dependent on them so long, and means ought immediately to be taken in order that a supply from other quarters might be obtained. (Loud cheers.) The speaker then touched upon domestic questions, and said that constitutionally we were now in a worse posi tion than at the beginning of the last year. The House of Commons bad sent to the House of Lords • bill re pealing the paper duties. He would not dimmed whether the bill was • wise one or not, but he believed that it was, and that it would have been of great benefit to trade. The great subject for consideration was the inalienable right of the Commons to impose taxation, and the Houns'of Lords in rejecting the bill had virtually imposed a tax on the people. He trusted that the House of Commons would take an early opportunity of vindicating its rights, and hie efforts would be directed for tbe accomplishment of such a remit. (Cheers.) As regarded the subject of parliamentary reform, the bill which had been introduced during the session had been abandoned. It was not a comprehensive bill, and therefore he had not been able to say anything in its favour. Some of his friends bad 'Token often in the house on the question ; but he did not think that by doing so they had done the muse of reform much good. (Hear, hear.) He would, however, impress upon them that the House of Commons was not alone responsible tor the failure of reform. He most earnestly advised them to pre. sent petitions to the House of Commons in favour of a thorough and comprehensive measure. He had not been entrusted with a petition from them in favour of reform. The question was not to be played with. There were already indications that another ministerial attempt was to be made, and if a real measure was introduced it should have his support. But if it was a smaller measure he would rather that the question was left alone altogether. Hs wanted • good bill which would satisfy the people for at least twenty years. The subject of reform was becoming " small by degrees and beautifully less," until he feared that soon nothing would be left but the name. He then referred to the question of church tares, and said it did not now occupy the position it had previously done. Church rates were as obnoxious to him, as a member of the church of England, as they were to the dissenters. He next referred to the failure of the Bankruptcy Bill, and said he hoped Sir Richard Bothell, who was a most ardent law reformer, would introduce and carry a comprehensive bill in the en suing session. The treaty with France bad been a most valuable measure, and was calculated to benefit both coun tries. Those who had travelled in France must have been struck with the large influx of English commercial travel lers. The measure was yet in embryo, but he had talked to many merchants, and they said that they expected peat advantages from it. In en international point of view it would be very beneficial, for he be lieved it would tend very much to perpetuate peace. Mr. limpid' concluded by referring to the volunteer move ment, and remarked that Louis Napoleon had been our firmest ally since England had armed. England armed was England respected. But, while he had admired the volunteer movement, he hail not been insensible to the het that there was some danger in its being confined to particular dunes. This was • danger against which his efforts had been zealously dimmed. It bad always been his wish that the workiegelasses should partasipate in the seevemsat, and he bad slew* desired to see the elite among them connecting themselves with it. After some further remarks in the same strain, the speaker concluded, amidst loud applause, by saying he would be happy to answer any questions. (Stamped, id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE. Mr. Wmiara sated if Mr. Ronpell lmew any cause of ed Fr disagreement uce? between the people of Enka and the people Mr. Rorritz—li do not. Mr. Wu- Thee why arm? (Hear.) , . . Mr. Iteuratz—That we may preserve peace. ( App l ause. ) Sunda Mr. J trading lWlLL as ? ked what were Mr. lionpell's opinions on y Mr. Moornt. said he regretted that there should be so much Sunday trading, but the question was surrounded by difficulties. He then referred to Lord Chelmsford's bill, and said he had resolved not to vote against it. Mr. JEWELL asked what Mr. Roupell would do if the bill was introduced again? Mr. ROMLL rid if it did not legalise Sunday trading he would vote fur it. Mr. JEWILL was dimtiafied with the answer, and re. pasted his question. Mr. ROUPELL said if the bill were introduced again, either he would rote for it, or, if he could not do that, he would not vote at all. Mr. Wrseorr asked why Mr. Ronpell was not in his place when the estimates were considered, in order that hipmight speak against the squandering of money! W ou ld Mr. Roupell, instead of acting the dummy, speak out! Mr. ROUPELL add he would forgive the way in which the question had IMOD pot. He generally agreed with Mr. Witham; but sometimes he did not. He believed it was of moire importance that he should vote correctly than that he should make speeches. He would always be ready to inlet Mr. Williams when be believed hint to be in the right. On we motion of Mr. Dixon', seconded by Mr. GODDARD, a vote of confidence in the boa. member was carried applause, mingled with some slight expressions of LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM, CLAPTON. The general court of the governors of this insti tution was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Bishops. gate-street, Mr. JAMES CAM, the treasurer, in the chair. The SECRETABT read the 48th annual repet of the board of management. "Since the general meeting of 1860 69 children have left the asylum ; three hare died—two witile under the care of their friends, and one at the Asylum • i 5 have been ad mitted, via :—one Crimean orphan 'front the Patriotic Fund, 12 by purchase, and 62 by election. At the present time, therefore, with the 30 children this day to be elected, there will be 472 orphans under the protection of the cha rity, making the total number benefited thereby 2,629.. As regards the health of the orphans, the medical officer reported very favourably, notwithstanding the occurrence of an epidemic (scarlatina) the last half-year.. In the early part of the year the managers were called upon to oppose the formation of a cemetery on the land in the rear of the asylum, under the apprehension that the water of the asylum well might be injured or diminished, and the health of the children thereby endangered. The Home Secretary having listened to representations from the managers and the principal inhabitants, the sanction of the , government was withheld from the scheme. The following liciefs have been received :—Baroness de Sternberg (residue), 125/. ; Louis Sampson, INK., 451; Mrs. M. A. Worley, 5091. ; Mrs. Ann Beridge, 901. The annual sub scriptions were not only fully maintained, but are even 250/. is advanced the preceding year. The board were not only mailed to meet existing Dibilities, bat to add 5001. to capitaL At a recent inspection, the school committee favourably of the condition of the two schools. 74:111 1 report recorded the sanction of the 'tanagers to the introduction of the study of the Latin and French languages by the more advanced boys, and it is satisfactory to notify tied' 58 boy. have m ad e considerable progress 111 both branches of education. Drawing has been again cultivated with success. Thirty-five prizes were obtained by pupils last year from the department of Science and Art, but with the view of diminishing the prizes the government raised the standard ; notwithstanding, this year's competition resulted in 42 prizes. The condition of the, girls' school is very satisfactory." The balance-sheet for the year 1860 showed receipts (ia. eluding a belittles from last account, 365/. Os. 6d.) ; total, 11,423/. Is. 10d. Expenditure, 10,8661. 18a. 7d. ; purchase of 5421. Oa. Id. New Three per Coats, 500 f. ; balance in favour of the charity, 261. 3a. 34. ; total, 11,42 M. la. 10d. Stock standing to the credit of the co on :-2901. Be. duffed Three per Cent.. • 2,1471. . Consolidated Three per Cents., and 64,819/. 3a. 6d. New Three per Cents. Of the above mentioned _4,0661. 14a. 2d. is held on aoroald of " presentation fund ;" and 1 , 5641. 9s. on account of"savings bank deposits ;* balance in favour of charity, 26/. le. 3d. SOCIETY POB PROMOTING THE AMENDMENT OP THE LAW. This society met last night, at their rooms Water loo-place, Mr. Collier, Q.C., 11.1'., in the chair. Several gentlemen having been elected members of the society, Mr. Edgar read a paper on some proposed amendments m the law relating to procedure and evidence in criminal trials.. He especially referred to Lord Chelmsford's indictable Offences (Metropolitan District) Bill, Lord Brougham's Plea on Indictments Bill, Mr. Denison's Felony and Minds. meaner Bill, and Lord Brougham's Law of Evidence Further Amendment Bill. Of the first of these measures he entirely approved, considering that its enactments would be the triumph of common sense over common law, inas much as it would do away with the grand jury at the Cen tral Criminal Court, as a superfluous institution, and one well characterised as the hope of the London thief, the pre liminary hearing before the police magistrate serving all the of justice aimed at in the grand jury system. purposes second and third mentioned measures likewise met his approval, not only because they substituted for the plea of not guilty the expression of a desire to be tried, but also be. cause they went a meat length towards assimilating the pro cedure in criminal to that which prevailed in civil causes. gisheering counsel for the accused to sum ep the evidence ven on his behalf, and permitting those who objected to an oath to give their testimony upowan affirmation. Indeed he hoped soon to see the whole system of oaths abolished, as it did not secure a greater amount of truth than a plain declaration would, if those who wilfully gave false evidence were to be punished as perjurers. He considered it an error of the law of evidence in excluding from the conside ration of the jury all inferior matter, such as the occasional acknowledgments made to policemen by the per son accused. The last mentioned bill would allow the prisoner or his wife to give evidence in his exculpation. While he advocated the principle of an unani mous verdict, he considered it opposed to htunanity to keep the jury without food, drink, endinel while considering thew verdict, or to retain thou in the custody of the sheriff during a protracted trial. With respect to an appeal in criminal cases, he considered the best tribunal would ho the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who would enter. taro the question on special reference from the Crown. A long discussion took place upon the several points referred to in the paper, which, on the motion of Mr. Pope Hennessy, M.P., seconded by Mr. Cookson, was ordered to be printed. The proceedings then terminated in the anal meaner. A Ibis Gum err EDlNDUROH.—Precisely at 1 o'clock p.m on Saturday, the citizens were startled by a boom from one of the Castle guns. People on the streets waited in wondering expectancy for the next shot, while those within doors hastily turned up their ahuanacks, but looked in vain for any royal anniversary at the date. The expected succession of peals, however, did not meet the ear ; the salute, if such it were, was eiklendy not a royal one in the ordinary sense, and people not in the secret be came more puzzled than ever. But the feeling of suspense— proverbially undeasint—was not of long duration ; and be. fore many minutes, we believe, the great bulk of the inhabi tants—by reflection, by communicated information, by intuition, or by some other more or less obscure process of ratiocination—had arrived at the eoadusion that the gun which they had heard was the first report of Mr. Hewat'e audible time signal. Further inquiry elicited that this con clusion was nearly correct, and the precise circumstances we understand to have been as follows:—About noon on Satur day, a deputation from the Chamber of Commerce met by appointment with Sir John Douglas, the Adjutant - General. and Colonel Maui, the Commander of the Artillery in North Britain, to arrange about firing the time signal. The deputation was accompanied by Professor Smythe, the astro nomer-royal; Mr. Davidson, superintendent of the Telegraph Company ; and Mr. Ritchie, of Messrs. Ritchie and Son, watch and clock makers, Leith-street, who, it may be here said, have liberally offered to provide, apparatus for discharging the gun, free of expense, the and also the requisite circuit-break at the top of Nelson's Monument. The depu tation was most cordia ll y received, and after the necessity arrangements had been talked over, Colonel M'lean pro posed at once to proceed to the Castle and fix upon the most suitable site for the gun. A gun was accordingly tired as as experiment as nearly as possible simultaneously with the falling of the time-hall on Nelsoe's Monument ; and to-day (Monday) one will be fired hourly, beginning at 10.30 a.m, and ending at 3.30 p.m. The charge at 10.30, 12.30, and 2 . 30 w ill b epiou i az pounds of powder, and at 11.30, 1.30, and S." eight . 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