The Express. — London, England, 1860-05-21 00:00:00

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REGARDLBS/1 0( the addressed to him from so many iluarters, Lord Maar has de clared his intention of persisting in the support he rashly promised to give Lord MONTTAGLE'S motion to retain the duty on paper during the prevent year. In reply to the deputation who waited upon him on Saturday, he disclaimed all idea of defending the tax on its intrinsic merits. He professed to share the sentiments of those who desire its extinction as vexatious, wasteful, and injurious to trade ; but he disputes our ability to afford its abandonment at present, and declares, if further remissions are to be made, his preference for the extra Customs charges on tea and seer, or an abatement of the income tax. In a word, his lordship proposes to follow Lord MONTIAGLI in hi■ attempt to re consider and revise the Budget as settled for the current year by the House of Commons. The same line is taken in justification of the proceeding by the moat infiu enual of our coteraporariea, who having long opposed Mr. GLADSTONE'S policy now anticipates its partial overthrow. It is not pretended that the abolition of this species of excise would not be in itself a positive good, nor that its permanent retention is possible. Rut it is averred that the Commons, led away by the fantasies and fine language of the i caaA of the Exiirsocca, have miscalculated the urgent wants of the country ; and that the Lords, more discreetly guided by the Comptroller of the 2:chequer, will be justified, as hereditary guardians of the honour and security of the mobil, in interposing their veto on what the representatives of the people have deliberately voted just and necessary. The question put in isue is no longer, therefore, whether the Paper Duty should be preserved or not as an ordinary source of revenue, but whether on the adequacy of the general scheme of finance for the current year an appeal bee from the region- SIDIe to the irresponsible branch of the Legislature. The magnitude of the consequences that may fol 10w from the initiation of such a practice is not disguised from those who are invited to take the step proposed. On the contrary, the selfish inte rmits and prejudices of the Peers are openly appealed to ; and an argument in favour of Lord 31011TRAOLS'S motion is founded on the convenience such a precedent may prove in future sessions, when further projects fur transmuting indirect into direct taxation shall be adopted by a reformed House of Commons We must say we are not mom that the ease should be put thus plainly by those who la bour under the delusion that st this time of day s few scores of great landed proprietors, obsolete diplomatists, and time-serving courtier', will be suffered to constitute themselves, for their own especial benefit, into a Supreme Court of Taxa tion and Expenditure, with the power and for the purpose of setting at nought the national will. Is it nut enough that in the other House of Parliament these very irresponsible' are represented directly and so numerously, while millions of men whose labour is burdened and whose necessaries of life are taxed heavily for the common needs, have not a single representative therein T Is it not enough that nine-tenths of the members of the Lower House who are not the immediate re lations of Peen belong to the class whose sym pathy and social ambition identify them with the titled aristocracy T Is it not enough that the Peen have to deal with a House of Represents . lives in which not one man can be found to call in question a public scandal so gross, a profes sional wrong so sho.:king, as the misappropriation of the Colon°lcy of the Third Regiment of the Line, and its bestowal on the brother of one of the most ostentatiously obstructive mem bers of the privileged Chamber? Constitu tional authorities may differ as to the technical legality of the course it is proposed to pursue ; but the controversy will not be deter mined upon pleas as to the form, or upon special verdicts grounded upon any narrow issue as to antiquated precedents. The inevitable effect of a vote by the Lords assuming the right to overhaul the financial resolutions come to by the Commas for lightening taxation, would be the reconcile. lion of whatever differences may exist between the Middle and the Working Classes- A sense of common danger from the reactionary spirit of an infatuatid oligarchy would speedily infuse new life into the question of Electoral Reform. But will a majority of the Peers actually coin mit their order to a course so ill-advised and venturous I Granting, for argument sake, that they possess the right, it is dill a right to be exercised at the peril of those who may believe that they legally possess it. Each of the estates of the realm is endowed, according to the theory of the constitution, with a somew7..it aaalogous power NIMM THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1860. of absolute negative. The Crown may unquestiona bly veto any bill though it may have been sanctioned by all the best men in both Houses; yet what minister would advise the Crown to draw snob preroilutill , from the gilded and jewelled sheath in which it boa lain since the Revolution of 1688 f So in bite manner the Commons have the undoubted right of stopping the supplies ; but who would resommend seriously that the supplies should be stopped 1 The truth is that these arbitrary methods of asserting co-ordinate authority have gradually bosoms obsolete. They are no longer necessary, because public opinion has learned to recognise practically the just weight which each Estate ought to have in the adoption of legislative mese sures ; and when any one of the three in addition to this seeks to revive an arbitrary power of dicta tion it violates the existing compact and forsakes the path of safety and of duty. The Budget of 1860 is not the mere caprice of a single commoner, whose sympathies might possibly be supposed to incline him too much towards the interests of manufacture and trade, as contradistinguished from those of land. Before it could be brought forward it was discussed item by item and clause by clause in a Cabinet con sisting of three dukes, the brother of a fourth, and the nephew of a fifth nobleman of that rank; of eight others who are either peers or the near kinsmen of peers • and of but three individuals who are not conn ected by birth or marriage with the nobility. To assert that the present is any other than an essentially and predominantly aris tocratic Administration would be simply absurd. Everybody knows and feels that it is ;o: Yet it is against the financial errors of this aristocratic Cabinet, and its imputed tendencies towards a too democratic system of public imposts, that the Lords are invited to wage unconstitutional war. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE GARIBALDI EXPEDITION. NAPLES, BoiroAT, 9.40 p.m. (orsicam..) No other encounter has titian place between the royal troops and the Garibaldians. Two strong columns are pursuing the remnants of the dispersed Garibaldiana The inhabitants remain tranquiL The ardour and the valour of the troops is beyend all praise. NAPLES, SATURDAY EVENING. It is asserted here that the fight at Calatafani was not decisive. The Neapolitan troops re entered Palermo. Two columns of 3,000 men each have been sent to pursue the insurgents. It is esti mated that 6,000 Sicilians have joined the Usti baldians. The Patric says :—" The volunteers having been attacked with great vigour, energetically defended themselves, and effected a retreat in good order, leaving behind a certain number of killed. Accord ing to the last advisee the insurrection was being extended and organised in a great many directions." The same journal adds that when the detach ments which are being organised will have joined the volunteers who disembarked at Marsala, the whole body will number aboutl2,ooomen, all anued and well provisioned. TURIN, MAT 19. Advises from Naples to the 16th instant state that the 6th Regiment refused to fire at the people on the ()cession of the demonstration of the 13th inst. Government intends to appoint Count Trani Viceroy of Sicily, and to grant a general amnesty when the insurrection is suppressed. EGYPT,_ _ _ ALXXAND Lt, may 13. Heavy rains have carried away a portion of the railway between Cairo and Sues. 'Travellers to and from India have thereby been delayed two days. The official French mission for the exploration of the Red Bea has been well received by Said Pacha. THE BOMBAY MAILS. The Panther, with the above mails, arrived at Mannino at 11 p.m. oa the 19th inst. The mile left for London at midnight. THE UNITED STATES. QUEKNSTOWN, NAT 19. The royal mail deamahm Africa, which left New York on the 9th inst., arrived here at 1.20 p.m. She brings 165 and I,olodols. for inglend. She landed all mriY,except Mom for Liverpool, and proceeded at 1.40 p.m. All welL The Bohemian, City of Washington, and Tentonia had arrived out. A resolution inviting the PAWS of Wales to vitt New York had been adopted by the Bova of Alder men. A resolution had paned the Senate authorieing a vessel to be provided to trearport the astronomers to a point where the eclipse of the can in July next might be best ob. served. The state of affairs in Mexico was still very bad. The clerical party were teaching nothing but revenge. Neither party were doing much. The (mead loans continued. - Advice' from San Francisoo were to the 28th ult. News unimportant. Trade had somewhat revived. Nzw You, Mar 9, EVZNINO. titocks active, and improved. New York Centrals 791 to 74; Erie, 19+; Illinow Central. Exchange on London dull, 1091 to 100 f ;on Peru, 5.14 Cotton improved. Sales, 3,000. IWdling Upland, 114. Flour heavy ; Western States, to 10c. lower. Sugars firm. Pork firm. Freights firmer. ChuiAss, MAT 7.—Cotton firmer; middling, 100. to 11c. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. The Boyd Man steamship Africa has arrived hem. On the Vth inst. she passed a steamer supposed to be the Asia, bound for New Yost The House of Representatives was debiting on the Tariff Bin. The National Convention would assemble at Baltimore on the day the Africa sailed, abd would, it was supposed, nominate General Houston for the Pre sidency. The resolution of the New York Board of Aldermen inviting the Prince of Wales to New York was adopted by nine to three sots A resolution was also passed to send to the councilmen for their amcurreace. Dates from British Colombia were to the Beth April. Mining intelligence was favourable. QTYEENSTOWN, MAT 20. The Royal Hail steamship Arabia arrived here at 6.20 a.m. to-day. She embarked mails and passengers, and proceeded for Halifax and Boston at 6.20 p.m. All well. NEW ZEALAND. XLYXOUTH, 801 MAY. The auxiliary screw steamahip Royal Bride, Captain Alex. Newland', belonging to Wise Brothers and Co., Bristol, mit in here yesterday evening and landed a me from New Zealand. Mao left Canterbury Feb. 11. The principal part of her cargo is wool. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oils ors PAB.I£4. SUNDAY EVILWING. The news of Garibaldi's defeat., the truth of which I grievously doubted yesterday, was indus triously propagated from Naples in no less than ten telegrams, variously worded. It is now as good as confessed by the Neapolitan government itself that those despatches were false. It is ad mitted in tams that the combat of Calatafini, paraded as a victory, was not decisive, and the ex pression that the " royal troops returned to Pa lermo " afterwards may very fairly be construed as meaning that they had the worst of it. The admission that Garibaldi's invading force has been swollen by 6,000 recruits in Sicily, goes far to con firm the assertion from Turin that the whole island has risen in his favour. The Pays, while giving in small print the really latest intel ligence, has the audacity to mislead its readers by publishing, with all the honours of type, under the head of " Latest news of Garibaldi," a repetition of the falsehood of yesterday, which, it says, came from an undoubted source, and is to day "confirmed from the same source." But, as the Prase, speaking of the same false news, very justly observes, it is the "repetition and not the confirmation" of the story of yesterday. The only other news of any interest relative to Garibaldi, is a statement in a letter from Rome of May 16, in the Pays, that 1,500 of Garibaldi's men had landed in the Roman States, near Mon talto and Cornetto, and had disarmed a guard of gendarmes stationed on that frontier. This news must, I think, be considered more than doubtful. It is probably but another ver sion of the affair of the attempted invasion of the Roman States, which we know was prevented bytheSardinian government. Nevertheless the Pays argues from this circumstance that it will be impos sible for the French army to evacuate Rome because General Lamoriciere has been compelled to detach forces to repulse Garibaldi. The constant decep tions about the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome are characteristically depicted by the following passage in the correspondence of the Pays:—" There is not the smallest doubt of the authenticity of the order for the evacuation, but at the same time nobody for a moment believes that it will be acted upon." A Vienna letter in the Debate affirms that the' Emperor of Austria is about to accede to the unanimous wishes of the Maygars by granting them the old Hungarian constitution in all its in tegrity. The truth of this news is doubted. The municipal councils are renewed by universal suffrage every five years. This is the year of the election, which in the ordinary course takes place shortly after the prorogation of the Corps Legis latif, but there is a rumour that the legislative session will be of much longer duration than usual, and may even be prolonged till July ; in that case it is said that the municipal elections will probably be postponed in order that they may not interfere with the harvest. _ _ The Spanish General Elio, who has been set at liberty and is on his way to Paris, refused to take the oath of allegiance or make any promises so long as he was a prisoner. All that he could be got to say before being released was that when he war at liberty he would respond as a man of honour to the magnanimity of the Queen. This conduct stands out in advantageous contrast to the pusillanimity of the Count de Montemolin. Madame Ristori has had a narrow escape of being poisoned. Her physician had ordered her a potion with fifteen drops of laudanum in it, but the chemist who made up the prescription put thirty drops by mistake. The symptoms produced by this overdose were for a short time alarming, but the lady has now quite recovered and her name is in the playbills for Tuesday evening. Stephen Bey, formerly Minister of Foreign Affairs in Cairo, and subsequently director of the Egyptian mission in Paris, died at Auteuil on the nth inst. The Moniteur of this morning announces that in the last sitting of the legislative body the project of law relative to sugar and coffee was agreed to' by 243 %pion 5 Totes. The Moniteur also states that the Emperor, having returned from Motte Beuvron, presided yesterday at a council of ministers. PABIB, SATURDAY Emma. There is great uncertainty about the fate of Garibaldi's expedition, and it I may believe what I hear in all quarters, there is a corresponding hesi tation as to the attitude of the Tuileries with regard to it. A telegram from Rome reproducing " official news" d the 18th from Naples reports in terms nearly identical with those of a despatch published yesterday in London the defeat of " Garibaldi's bands." I learn from a good source that the French government has received &despatch from its ambassador at Naples, M. Brenier, giving similar news in still stronger terms. So far all looks black for Garibaldi. But then it must be borne in mind that all the news of his defeat, fin whatever varied language it may be repeated, is traceable to Naples ; and although M. Brenier doubtless sends his government the most authentic intelligence that he can obtain, it is difficult to sup pose that he can know anything from Sicily beyond what the Neapolitan ministry choose to tell him. It is very possible that some of Garibaldi's " insur genta " may have been defeated " near Calatafani ;" but inasmuch as at this moment there are in the island almost as many insurgents as inhabitants, a check on one particular point would prove nothing as to the general success of the expedition. None of the official despatches venture to state that Garibaldi was personally present with his " defeated bands." Without, therefore, indulging in any over sanguine hopes for the triumph of the gallant patriot against the immense difficulties with which he has to con tend, it may safely be said that the evidence known is insufficient to form the materials for a judgment as to the matter of fact. It is a very remarkable circumstance that Gene ral Lanza, a Sicilian by birth, who passes for the best officer in the Neapolitan service, and who, as I noticed yesterday, was reported to have been sent on a mission of peace and conciliation, is now said to be authorised to offer a general amnesty and a prince of the royal family for viceroy. Moreover Maniscalco, the detested director of police, is to be recalled. This telegraphic news dovetails with a report circulating in Paris this afternoon, that both France and England (T) have intimated to the Kinvf t he d Two Sici li a' that it is yet time to save his • om if he will grant a constitution and substan ces reforms. I cannot think that Eng land can have taken part in any such interference. The Bourbons of Naples have never been backward to make fine promises to get out of a strait. What confidence could there be in a constitution granted under existing circumstances ? The King would say in substance to his disaffected subjects—" Gari baldi, who would htve delivered you, I have de feated ; I am obliged to confess that he was right and I was wrong ; but if you will sanction his de feat, withdraw your sympathy from him and rally to me, I will give you my royal promise to govern a little better." . . . The Opinion Nationale learns from a "certain source" that Austria meditates an intervention in the States of the Church. She has now in the Pope's dominions from 6,000 to 7,000 soldiers serving under Lamoricibre. These soldiers are not, as has been pretended, volunteers. They are Austrian battalions, detached from the regular army with all their organisation and officers. These troops simply changed their uniform at Trieste to go into the Pope's service. Neither soldiers nor officers were free to refuse ; they were ordered on regular service, and forced to go. I hear privately that Austria has intimated to the Sardinian government that she shall invade Lombardy if the King of Naples should be forced to fly from his dominions. lam also told that the Russian ambassador at Turin has said that he shall demand his passports if any more volunteers for Garibaldi leave. The Bourse has again been much agitated, but in consequence of the rumours of Garibaldi's defeat the Rente rose 40c. both for cash and account, closing at 69.25 and 69.30. Mobilier rose 7.50. Railways were from 5 to 7.50 higher. ITALY. _.. - SARDINIA_ (nom 017 t OWN CO] )EN'r.) TURLN, MAT 16. Colonel Medici, who it was said had left with a second expeditionary force for some Ligurian or Sardinian port, arrived yesterday at Turin and is here at this very moment. He is considered l to be as a chief next in merit to Garibaldi, and beyond a doubt could soon obtain followers. He has served as a soldier in America, Spain, Rome, and Lom bardy, always in the cause of freedom ; his judg ment is good, his military hardihood great, and his character most honourable. He is a man of about fifty years old, and of commanding presence, but after all has less dash and originality in attack than Garibaldi • on the other hand he is more wary and unflin ching when acting on the defensive. It is certain that, if the colonel could only reinforce the general with a thousand picked men, men previously under his command and on whom he could thoroughly rely, Garibaldi would then be better enabled to meet the dangers with which he is now environed, for the chiefs now with him are less accustomed to the peculiar mode of warfare now adopted in Sicily against the troops of the Bourbon. But, you may ask, what can possibly have brought Medici to Turin ? Ido not know ; he himself says he has been summoned by the government to hear that it will not tolerate a second expedition. But then the first was not tolerated, and yet it took place. How are the authorities to prevent it? and how can they prevent friends from joining the colonel when fairly out at sea and on his way to Sicily ? (MY ANOTHLIt CORIMPONDINT.) TURIN, MAT 17. However desirous to avoid the religicds question the government is unable to remain in a state of passiveness towards the ultramontane portion of the priesthood. Until now the cabinet has behaved with the greatest forbearance towards them ; no difficulties were raised against the public collection of St. Peter's pence ; the -A rnionia, the organ of the priest party, was allowed to denounce the minis ters day after day ; and Baron Ricasoli went even so far as to put a stop to the endeavours of the Wal denses to propagate the gospel in Tuscany. Still all these efforts to allay the wrath of the papal party were of uo avid ; the epiacopacy of the 4Ernilia remained refractory, and mided no op portunity of showing its contempt of the go vernment The bishops even boasted of their want of loyalty, and the administrator of the diocese of Bologna ; the Bishop of Fsienza, and several bishops of Tuscany, defying the law, gave positive orders to the priests to abstain from celebrating the Te Drum on Sunday last, on the anniversary of the grant of the constitution. The ministers could not bear any longer such open disloyalty, and Farini therefore gave orders to arrest the refractory bishops. This sudden and vigorous act brought confusion into the ranks of the priest party ; the Bishop of Piacenza had already, some days before, abandoned his bishopric, and fled to Mantua to be under the protection of Austria. A recent incident seems likely to bring matters to a crisis. Cardinal Viale Prelh, the notorious ori ginator of the Austrian Concordat, died on the 16th, at Bologna, his archiepiscopal seat. The Pope, who has not yet given up his claims to temporal power in the Legations, will of course appoint a new archbishop to the vacant see, whilst the cabinet, resolved not to submit to this exercise of sovereignty in the newly-acquired terri tory, will appoint an administrator. Thus the question will come to an issue, and the priests of the diocese will have to declare which of the two autho rities they are willing to acknowledge—the King and the archiepiscopal administrator, or the Pope and his archbishop. People admit here that this question is serious.—that it is a schism—but un willing to complicate the Italian difficulties by ecclesiastical troubles, and littl e moved by religious stmillotiinveatlethheojpecallthatitthae p:ei li igitit,scmhisinovem, enandmalivey remain in abeyance, and the political question of Italian unity remain uppermost in the . hearts . of the Italians. There is no doubt that religions in difference pervades all the educated classes in Italy, but I doubt very much whet her this indifference is shared by the lower classes. As soon as they begin to think—and the present political schism cannot fail to make them think—they will enter more deeply into those questions which have exercised such a great influence on the development of civilisation in Europe than the upper classes. At the present moment, however, Italy concentrates all her interest in Garibaldi's expedition ; every body in every class of society waits with feverish anxiety for news of him. We have the following details about his expedition. After having orga nised his band at Porto Tahunone, his aide-de camp, Colonel Turr, the Hungarian, presented himself to the commander of the small fort of Orbitello, and summoned him at once to surrender six cannons of the fort with all the required ammunition, telling him that the "Alpine rifles" would otherwise take them by force. The commander yielded at once, and the cannons were embarked. About 1,200 men, who lout an objection to fight under Garibaldi for Victor Emmanuel, were then landed close to the Papal frontier, under the command of Zan Bianchi, and Garibaldi allowed them to shift for themselves. It is net believed that this band will really try to excite an insurrection in the Roman States ; they have probably quietly returned to their homes, since we have not yet heard anything about their exploits. Garibaldi insists upon blind compliance with his orders, and dismissed them as soon as be ascertained their unruly proclivities. Scarcely had the gallant leader left Porto Telamone, when a thick mist, rather rare in May in these latitudes, completely enveloped his ships ; thus he was able to elude the vigilance of the Neapolitan cruisers until he ap proached the coast of Sicily. The small Neapoli tan garrison fled from Marsala, and announced everywhere the arrival of the expected chief of the insurrection. To-morrow we shall probably gut the first letters from the expedition. Nobody doubts that amall as Garibaldi's forces are, they will succeed in raising the whole island. The relations of the French and Italian cabinets are again of the most friendly nature. As long, as it was uncertain whither Garibaldi was bound, and especially when it seemed that he would invade the Papal dominions, the French government loudly blamed Count Cavour ; now that Garibaldi is in Sicily, where Muratist sympathies never could take root, the old friendship is again restored, for at least so long as the movement does not spread to Naples. Since the Oriental question engages the attention of the Tuileries—the Turin Diritto of to day says even that au alliance between France and Russia has really been established—the Italian complications are not likely to lead to a. French intervention. Sicily and Naples will be allowed to settle their quarrel by a fair fight, the one aided by Northern Italian sympathisers, the other by Aus trian recruits. Cbr Court. Visommt Palmerston had an audience of the QM= on Saturday at Buckingham Palace. The Queen and the Prince 00010 A. accompanied by the Princess Alice, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, and the Princesses Helena, Loans, and Beatrice, left Buckingham Palace at five minutes past three o'clock on Saturday after ' soon for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Royal mite consisted of the Dachau of Athol!, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell, Major. General the Hon. Cherie.' Grey, Lord Charles Fiteroy, LieutenantiColouel Poneonby, and Major Elphinstone... . . . . . . . Her Majeirty and his Royal Highness were conducted to their carriage by the Earl of St. Germans, the Marquis of Ailesboxy, Visowot Castleroms, Lord Waterpark, and Colonel F. Seymour, C.B. A detachment of Light Dragoons escorted the Queen from the palace to the private station, at Vauxhall. of the South Western Railway. The royal peaty left by ► special train. Mrs. Duneombe Shaft* was among the company present et the Omen's droving-room, held on Friday last at St. hooses tabs& Vise;iit Sydney, Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's H,weeieli r ems • state dinner on Friday last, the 18th bri., all his raidance in Clevelandermare St. James's, in esiebendan d bat Majesty's birthday. The company con doled of Timm& Gmtlereme, Lard Foley, Lord de Tabby, Lewd Meernem, Lad Hank, Lieutenaat-Colonel Robert Nipl01=1; W. Howie, R.N., the Hon. F. Byre, Mr. amiss Admiral Sir Augustus Cli ff ord, the Hon. Spemear Pumas , Sir W. Martins w Zr i . en = ball (of Way), Mr. Wilbraham Taylor, Beget, Coked the Han. Sir C. B. Phipps, Mr. Thomas C. March, Marquis Tawashend, and Major-Gam& Sir Travail Phillips. The Right 800. W. Hutt, Y.P. was ented being pmment at her Majesty's ball at Be Palace on Wednesday LA, in consequence of a recent domerlie j aMiction. OSBORNE, Seism; NATIO. The Queen, the Prince Consort, the Princes§ Alias, the PROOMIIIis Helena and Locum, Prince Arthur, Pates Leo pold. and Princess Beatrice. landed at Osborne Pier at shout a quarter before 7 o'clock yesterday evening. There arse no addition to the Royal dinner party in the evening. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday attheal cial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The Ministers pent were Via count Palmerston, the Lord hC or, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir Ge orge C. Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the chequer, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. ifilm , Gibson, Sir George Grey, the Right Ham C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Caldwell. A deputation from the Meleopolibut Association of Me dical ()Mons of Health on the Nuisances Amendment Act, had an interview with Sir G. C. Lewis, at the Home taloa on Saturday. Despatches wen sent from the Colonial-cake on Saturday to the Governors of the North American provinces, Ber muda, Hoag Kong, Ceylon, Lohman, Mauritius, Malta, and Gibraltar, and to the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. The Karl and Countess of Dunraven and family have arrived at ■arnaae's Hotel, the new family mansion at Backinglam-gate not being quite reedy for their re- . - Viscount and Viscountess Boyne have arrived Belgrave.equaro, for the season, from Borwartoo, Shrop- Viscount Harding° has taken a residence at Quein'oaarrsar, South Kensington. _ _ Madame Van de Weyer gave her find amernbly ININOU ea Saturday evening, at the residence of the Wean Legation, in Partland.plam Mr. Jones, M.P., and Mrs. Jones, entertained at dinner on Saturday, at their residence in Fatou•square, Him Excellency the Netherlands Minister, the Duke of New castle, the Marquis of Bristql, the Feel and Countess of thither, the Earl ofatthrowsbury and Talbot and Lady Gertrude Talbot, Earl and Donator. of Erne sad Lady Louisa Crichton, the Earl of Redman, the Fart and Countess of Morley, the Earl as& Onniteis of Gosford and Lady Edith Acheson, Lard es& lady Beslan, Lord Ravensworth and the Hoe. Him Weak lay (Ameba, Hon. Mr. sod Mrs. Oovaulay, mad Omani' the Hon. Sir James Yorke Hazlett. Lam Is the maim /be. Jones had an smembly. The CountesOowper entertained at dinner on Betarday last the Earl sad Countess de Grey and Ripon, lad Sefton, Mr. Clare Vyner, Viscountess Sydney, Mr. Bathurst, Lady Constance Grosvenor, Mrs. Warren, the Earl Cowper, Lori Otho Fitzgerald, Hon. Henry Cowper, the Earl and Counter Clarendon sod Lady Constance Vil. hers and Lady Alice Villiers, the Earl and Counter of TAlll kerville, Mr. A. S. Lumley, Viscount and Viacountess Mil kier, Mrs. Oalthorps, he. The Chau*lleeoi the Exchequer and Mrs. Mad stabs had • emir party on Saturday, at their M adam ha Oarlica.terrece. The company inoluded hie Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge sad hie equerry, the Aueni•n Minister and Madame Apponyi, the Marchioness of Londonderry, the Earl of booths*, the Countess Wldegt•ve and Mr. Harcourt, the Earl of Dudley, Lord end Lady Lyndhurst, Lord Taunton, Lord sad Lady de Tabby, Sir Geo. and Lady Theresa Lewis, and the Hon. Mortal Lyttelton. Mrs. Gladstone had after wards an evening party. The Right Hon. El. Disraeli and Mrs. Disraeli entertained at dinner on Saturday, at their residence, Oros- . rover-gate, the Duke of Marlborough, the Duke of Rut land, the Mar: biomes of Hy, the Earl of Wilton and Lady Katherine Prey Egerton, the Countess of Glengall and Lady Matilda Butler, the Bishop of Oxford, Viscount and Vie essattar Ingestre, Viscount and Viscountess Galway, Indy Nobs ANerd, Viscount Elmley, Viscount Minable, and Caked thp Hen. Percy Herbert. The Rev. Frederic Leicester's collection of pic tures was (Unposed of on Saturday at the rooms of Messrs. Abby Manson, and Woods. Twenty-nine pictures in all realised the lane tam of 4,5651. thz Joan Ruin CALIAc i Rutz, M.F. f or Lisllagias (crania), ha* reigned Ina scat on account of health. Leal Gear Lomax, • conservative, lead Mr. H. a. Croatia, • liberal, owl privateesartarf to Sir Pucka Wood, the &crater/ d Slat* for lad* are =adman for thityaeaat spat. _ AT-Amt....Ants? HALL—The following are the mei of gentleness who pawed their examination in the science end of Medians ma received certificates to mai.. co lands] lest Joule, Helm*, Manche/ter; P. Collin" Bridgewater; H. Hall, Shefield C.O. Sprague, Kooboltoo, Hunts. CONCESSION BY THE KING OF NAPLES. A despatch, which has reached K Antonini, at Paris, announces that the King of Naples is to send General Filangieri, charged to offer to the Sicilians a general amnesty, a viceroy, and a separate government. AUSTRIA. THE HUNGARIAN PROTESTANTS. The official Buda Perth Gazette of the 17th con tains an autograph letter from the Emperor to General von Benedek, which in substance is as follows: The patent of the let September, 1859, wan published with a view to the definitive regulation of the eoclesiaatical affairs of my protestant subject' in Hungary, the Berviaz Voivodina, Ban►t, Croatia, Sclavonia, and military frontier districts. It gave to them new rights and privilege' on a Legal bees. Some of the protestant; accepted the patent and the ministerial ordinance. which accompanied it with gratitude, while others made scruples of conscience a plea for objecting to both. For some time past the ordinances have been an excuse fur great and continually increasing agitation among the Protestant. It being my wish that the organisation of the Evangelical Church in Hungary should be completed without unneces sary delay, I am induced to permit those commulutien, seniorats, and superintendeacies *raid' are not yet eoneti treed in accordance with the sense of my plena to hold "Convents," in order that they may take the necessary daps for sending representatives to the General Conferences which, in accordance with paragraph 4 of the 26th wade of the law of the year 1791, will have to make propositimas re lative to the convocation of the Synods ; which peopositions will be made known to me by my Minister for Emiesimetical Maim sad Education. No obstacles ars to tops& the pro paratioos for the General Conferences, and for the appoint ment of superintendential inspectors or curators sad super _ . . intendants. Should the General Conferences wish to hang changes made in the regulations for the composition of the Synods I shall not object to attend to their petitions on the subject. Those parishes, eeniorate, and superintendenciee which . . - . have already conformed to the patent, or are about to do sa, shall be in no way disturbed. Thus, the Lutherans in the, Preeburg and Neu-Verbaas superintendencies who have conformed to the patent, and those functionaries who assisted in bringing about such " conformity," shall be in no way molested. The Seniorata of the &arras super intendency are at liberty to re-unite either with the Penal or with the Eperies senior:its, and the Oedenburg, Eperies, sad Path superintendencies of the Augsburg (Lutheran) con. feasiou shall for the time being reform the superintenilencias beyond the Danube, beyond the Their, and in the mining die tricte— thst is, in safer as the superintendency bet mentioned is not affected by the reservation made in favour of the Prembuts and Verbless supelintendenciee. The Calvinist communities shall be at liberty to retain their ancient roperintendential arrangement& The foregoing resolutions are new proofs to the Hun gsrian protertanta of the paternal kindness of the supreme protector of their church. I grant a full pardon to all per. sHu against whom proceedings have been instituted for °Tering opposition to the patent of September 1, 1869, and also to those who, having been sentenced to punish ' meat, have not yet borne it. Instructions are hereby given to my Ministers of Ecclesiastical Affair, and Justice to quash all suits which may be pending against nonconforming pro testante in Hungary. NAPLES AND SARDINIA. NAPLES, Mir 15 (vet Yamaha). M. de Carats has remitted a circular to the diplo matic corm bitterly accusing the Piedmontese government of having, notwithstanding its pro mise, allowed bands of volunteers to be enrolled, armed, anddespatched to Sicily. M. de Carats adds that this violent attack against international laws exposes Italy to sanguinary anarchy and compro mien the whole of Europe. He throws the respon sibility on the authors and accomplices of such cri minal actions. The Marquis de Villamarina has, in the name of Sardinia ? protested against this accusa tion, which be says is false and injurious. It is believed that Garibaldi will land tin Calabria. SARDINIA. TURIN, MAT 19. The committee appointed by the Chamber of De puties to consider the treaty of the 24th of March bare had a conference with Count Carom. The Dirseto, an opposition organ, says : " The explanations given by the minister are not satisfactory to the opposition party. The minister, on being requested by the committee to communi cate the diplomatic correspondence, replied that he had no other documents than those already published. As regards the questions of the boun dary, the public debt, and the railways of Savoy, Count Cavour declared that negotiations were dm pending with France, but that nothing had been definitively nettled. The committee then demanded the purpose and the influence of the treaty upon the future of Italy. The minister replied that the treaty was a grievous necessity." Besides the Bishop of Farms and the Vicar of Bologna, proosedings are being taken against the Bishop of Imola. The Archbishop of Pisa, having refused to submit to the orders of the government, is to be conveyed by force to Turin. SPAIN. MADRID, HAT 19. Elio embarked to-day for France. The Correspondeneks Autografe says :—" It is not true that government will propose, and the Senate vote, the abrogation of the law excluding Count Montemolin from the throne of Brain." MARSEILLES, MAT 19. Advices from Aleppo to the 28th April state that an address had been posted up at the gates inciting the inhabitants fo massacre the Christians. The governor, who has 800 men and cannon, had inter fered and arrested the principal leaders. The gar rison WM considered insufficient The Christians, being unarmed, feared a fresh explosion of fanaticism. PRUSSIA. An animated cliscusssion took place in the Prussian Chambers on the 15th instant, on the sub ject of the national defences. We have already been informed by telegraph that the government project for an extraordinary credit of nine and a half millions of thalers, for temporarily placing the army on a war footing, was carried by 315 votes to 2. There were only five abstentions. The Prince Frederic William was present during the sitting. M. ROME:IRMO LIPICNIU said that an energetic German policy on the part of the government would stimulate the Prussian nation to fresh sacrifices. Prussia had already obtained great results, and the detestable tendencies in favour of a new Rhenish confederation which were mania faded elsewhere could not but contribute to hasten the union of Germany. M. REICHIMPERGER (catholic) thought the vote of CODS. dance in the ministry, which the chamber was about to pees, was quite justified by the state of Europe, which was full of grave dangers, and imperatively required that Penni& should take measures. " I 'know," mid be, "by sure in. formieion from my province (the Rhine) that the mole 1/1 still at his subterranean work, and that efforts are being made to stir up bad pensions. (Sensation.) The right of the strongest has become the supreme principle of contemporary politics. Even Russia. hitherto the hope and the bulwark of conservative interests, has abandoned her line. Prance is moving out wards in order to prevent the natural results of her internal policy. That is why we ought to remain united, and not to recoil from the greatest sacrifices" M. Reichensperger advised the government to revive in Prussia the military spirit, and to folder the union of the German governments. M. DE PRITIWITZ would vote the credit, though he regretted to see that it was only temporary. He combated the objections raised against the measure by the liberal and democratic journals Prussia would, perhaps, soon have to defend her position as a great power against a state whose hankerings after annexation menaced the existence of neighbouring countries. After some discussion, M. DE BUM begged the chamber not to lessen the effect of the sitting be party recriminations. They ought to show that they could keep party differences in abeyance when their object was to strengthen the country against external de bpi patriotic manifestation. (Applause.) n 47 )E Viscee said—" What above everything inducer me to vote the credit asked for is the situation of Europe. (Hear hear.) War is not, perhapa, imminent ; but it ciumol be denied that we ought to he prepared for a crisis. If French ships,. as the Moo deur de la Flot:e announce today, ere leaving for the East, and thew of another power, which I do not wish to name, are to join them, the moment of danger may be nearer than is supposed. The questions of Hesse and Schleswig-Holstein would tbee be of only secondary interest. We should then have to draw closer to our German brethren. We may congratulate our. selves that we are going to meet the crisis with a govern ment composed of thoroughly honourable men who enjoy our entire confidence. It is as a vote of special confidence towards the government that I recommend the voting of this extraordinary war credit." (Lostoontineed applause.) The Moniteur de la Fluke contains the following information relative to the Mediterranean fleet :—" Some journals have announced that the Mediterranean fleet had sailed, some giving Constantinople for its destination, others Sicily. We are informed, on the contrary, that Admiral de Miran has not quitted the anchorage at the Iles d'Hyeres, and we have further reason to believe that he will not leave it unless some unexpected circumstances should arise. One division, however, under the command of Rear- Admiral Jeheune, is about to sail for the Bay of Naples. The Mediterranean fleet is at present composed of the fol lowing ships : The Bretagne, of 140 guns, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral LebarbiZr de Tinan : the Algesiras, 90 guns, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Paris ; the Donawerth, 80guns, bearing the flag of Rear-Admired Jeheune ; the Alexandre, Eylau, Imperial, and Redontable, each of 90 guns ; the St. Louis, of 80 guns ; and the steam frigate Foudre, of 60 guns. The steel-plated frigate Gloire, guns, is being fitted for sea at Toulon." THE laieH EXODUS.—The Cork Examiner bears testimony to the fact that the Irish exodus has not been magnified, and also draws attention to the fact that, as ix abundantly proved by the emigrants' appearance, none but persons of some means are leaving the country :—" The stream of emigration still continues to flow with unabated rapidity through our port, and so far as regards numbers there /11 little or no change to be recorded. Each week sees the departure on an average of 600 persons. the great majority of whom are young men and women between eighteen and thirty years of age. To imagine the effect of this drain upon the community, we might instance that if these 600 were drawn from a town like Bantry, there would hardly be a young man or woman left in it. The actual numbers are greater than the population of many large villages, and a fortnight's draft at that rate would utterly depopulate so considerable a town us ]fill-street. Remembering that almost everyone of these individuals is of condition to be of actual value to the community—the men :is farm labourers or mechanirs, the women either in agricultural labour as servants or, still more important, as the healthy mothers of strong children — it in easy to conceive how terrible is the loss to the country. Nothing can im s this fact upon the mind so strongly as actually witnessing the crowd preparing for their departure. Amongst the entire there is not an indication of squalor of misery—not a single rag on the hack of its owner indicates that he or she is flying from poverty—not a weak limb o r a pole cheek--searcely a wrinkled face indicates that the country is getting rid of a burden. Sturdy athletic young men, healthy and strong girls—often of extraordinary beauty—form the great bulk of this departing crowd." SiR J. W. RAMsDEN, M.P., AND THE REFORM ndcmie has taken place between Sir J. W. Itariuden, MP. for the West Riding, and one of his constituents at Bradford. in refeesnoe to the hon. baronet's conduct respecting the Reform Bill now before parliament. The Bradford gentleman having written to Sir John taxing him with non-adherence to the principles be enunciated at his ele:tioo, Sir John writes in reply that the present bill only deals with the question of reform by lowering the franchise, and therefore does not come up to his desires, and that is the reason why it has leen received with such dissatisfaction "by so many of the most earnest supporters of reform." He concludes by saybig, "As re the future stages of the hill, if it can be amended in committee, I shall then vote for its passing ; hut if not, 1 should prefer poste ring the e . nestion with a view to really enduring settlement next year, rather than passing a crude and temporary measure now. I cannot hut think that you will agree with this view, which s quite consistent with all 1 ever held er expreweil."