The Express. — London, England, 1861-02-21 00:00:00

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Tlm 1CY7511110, TIIX UPI Off A SOLDIER.—And THE TRINCIt AND TIE UGRIC Mayina IN/A. Parr) lean LIM* Rob and Newham. Ilia. C. goapirm man A. IkAmiog, Nit W. 4-tauloraL MOB WATER AT UMW WOOL T DAT —arab& VA. fa.. .. Aftereconu, 11 b. 14n. To•Aosamp—monagig, 111. Ma.— Allersou4 ue. um. IX)NDON, THURSDAY, FEB. 21. NOBODY expects the Emperor of CIOIA, the Grand 'Arne of Tether, or the Emperor of Ausreis to know anything of the common people. From the very moment of their birth they have been taught to believe that they belong to a higher order of beings—that they are not as other men are—and so long as the humbler order of human creatures live euietly and pay their taxes there is no reason why such potentates should trouble them selves any further. But what seems pardonable in a descendant of the Ceases becomes somewhat ludicrous in a nobleman lately elevated from among the people. What right have those who have had their poor relations, their Christmas bills, their days of toil and their nights of weariness, to ignore the existence of such annoyances 1 There is no one in the House of Lords who has more worthily earned his high position than Lord Sr. Le',Nsau.. Without connexions and without fortune, ho has forced himself, by mere merit, into the assembly where he now sits. But, unfortunately, his gaze has so long been turned upward that ho can scarcely look down for a moment to the regions he has left. Hearing his lordship discourse, even upon matters of law, it is difficult to discover that there are any such beings as suitors, or indeed any one under the dignity of a Master of the Rolls. For years it baa been notorious that not only the public but the legal profession—solicitors as well as counsel—have suffered the most grievous inconvenience by the want of proper courts and offices. And this opinion has lately been confirmed by a Report drawn up by Commissioners appointed by Lord Deasv's Government, and including such men as Sir Joss COLERIDOE, Sir W.,Psile WOOD, and Sir GIOADE C. Lewis. After a most elaborate investigation, and after ascertaining the opinion of the whole legal profession, they reported in favour of concentrating into one spot all the courts of law and the offices attached to them. And considering the evidence, it was impossible for them to do otherwise. Of all the elements of expense of litigation there is none more important than time ; of all tho sources of vexation atten dant on it there is none more bitter than unneces sary delay. But look at London. Here we have the Superior Courts sitting at eleven places, often at more, and all at the same time. From West minster to Lincoln's-inn, from Lincoln's-inn to Guildhall, from Chancery-lane to the Old Bailey or Basinghall-street, the same judge, the same solicitor, the same counsel, or the same clerk, may be hasten ing on foot at a useless expense of time, or in scab at the expense of his client. The first thing a manufacturer does is to collect his machinery under one roof. What aro the courts but a vast legal manufacturing machine, and what the decrees aad judgments pronounced but the articles flume lectured for the public! And just sa the cotton goods would cost more money and be inferior in quality if the machine were distributed partly in one place and partly in another, so the legal articles turned out under such circumstancia show similar defects. who has There is not a judge in WI ever felt the sorority of hurrying along the Stroud to chambers in Chancery-lane--there is not a bar rioter who has in vain dawdled away a whole day at Westminster-hall in the expectation of his case being called—there is not a solicitor who has waited in agony for the arrival of his leading counsel from the ends of the legal world—there is not • lawyer's clerk who has found himself too late to get his order or his rule—there is not a client who has ever paid a bill of costs and cursed its items—in short, there is not • single individual who has any the very slightest connexion with litigation, who does not admit the enormous advantages which would result from the various legal buildings being brought if possible under the erne roof, or, at all events, within a reasonable distance. Happily, sot only the Limn ensecimum and the Arroanur- GZXL/LAL, but Lord PAILMIOSTON himself en of this opinion. But Lord Sr. 1.110/11ARbo seems to have taken up his parable against it, and delivered him self the other night at so much length against the proposal that he left himself without an audience. Ignoring the labours of the Commission to which we have alluded, his Lordship says that the Master of the Rolls is admirably accommodated, and that, therefore, no change is required. The unanimous opinion of the legal profession is not worthy to be mentioned. The convenience to the great mom of people is a matter of indifference. Lord by. LEm4seini has probably forgotten that he was once a practising barrister, and all the inconveni ences of useless delay and vexatious loss of time. But he has forgotten something more. The fund out of which the 1,500,0001. required for building the new courts is to come, is an important part of the question, and it is right that the public should clearly under stand it. It is to be observed that when money is paid into the Court of Chancery to await the result, the suitor may either have the fund invested in Government stock or may allow the fund to remain cash. In the former case the suitor takes the risk of the investment—if the funds fall in the meantime, the suitor loses ; if they rise, ho gains ; but in both cases he is entitled to the interest or dividends. This fund no one proposes to touch. In the latter case the cash which the suitor de clines to invest is invested in stock by the court, acting as a banker under the authority of Parlia ment. Like a banker, therefore, the court is entitled to any prniit which may accrue in con- 1 sequence of such investments, but in any event the suitor is entitled, at the end of the litigation, to the precise suxu—neither more nor less than that which he deposited. The accuintdations of the interest derived from this fund evidently be long to the State, and are applicable to general purposes. And accordingly this is part of the sum which the Government, following the ad vice of the Commissioners, have agreed to appropriate to the erection of the new courts. Lord MT. lAA/MARIA, however, professes to be grievously scandalised at what he seems to regard as a spoliation of the suitors. But how is it that this notion did not occur to him when he was Chancellor of Ireland? In Ireland the funds of suitors in the hands of the Court of Chancery have actually been taken for the purpose of erect ing courts of justice. Lord ST. I.4IOICAILDIS whilst Chancellor in Dublin, wrote an elaborate memo- randum to the Chancellor of the Exchequer of the day, but throughout that memorandum there is not a syllable of remonstrance against the prin ciple upon which these acts were founded. Ac cording to the present scheme nothing what ever will be appropriated which can by the most ingenious interpretation be held to belong to any of the suitors. A portion of the proposed building fund belongs exclu sively to the State, and the rest will be made up by the fees paid by the suitors-about which there can be no question. A capital of 1,500,0001., representing an annual sum of 45,0001., is the sum required for the new buildings, and the Re port conclusively shows that this sum may be had without imposing any burden upon the country. And with the exception of Lord Sr. Law/saes and Lord CRANWORTH,everybody admits the enormous advantage which the new courts— erected in one place—will confer upon the public. If the question at issue concerned some nice, curious point of conveyancing law, the opinion of Lord Sr. LaONARU9 would be valuable; but in a matter of Law Reform it may be safely dis- regarded. His conduct on succeeding Lord TRURO as Chancellor is not yet forgotten. After opposing every alteration before the Equity Commission, he assumed the Great Seal and carried into effect every recommendation of that Commission to the very letter. We are at liberty to believe that if he resumed the seals to-morrow he would follow a similar course, and become a vehement advocate for concentrating the law courts —a step to which be is now so vehemently opposed. Now that Mr. Bantam's Bill for extending the Borough Franchise is in Parliament, we wish to say a word to all Reformers whose interest in the cause does not depend on the fluctuations of party politics. They have now a duty to perform to the courageous and honourable man who, under difficulties such as our Parliamentary report of yesterday disclosed, has undertaken to fight the battle of the unrepresented in the House of Com mons. If in such circumstances they did not sustain his hands by all means in their power, the world would wonder at their folly even more than at their ingratitude. But they willdeso,unless they wholly misconceive the requirements of the occa sion. On Tuesday Lord PA L CRXTON amply justified that patient abstinence from clamour of which so many recreant politicians have taken ad vantage when he referred to the unanimity of all parties in admitting the necessity of Reform. But having seen what this wonderful unanimity conies to—evasion one year, a faction fight the next, then a battle fought to be lost, and finally, an in definite postponement—they must perceive that henceforth Reformers must trust only to their own exertions, leaving administrations and parties to find out their true interests. Mr. Wises has proclaimed in Parliament that " nothing is more certain than that the delibe " r►te opinion of England is in favour of Reform," and the facts he pointed to on Tuesday night are amply sufficient to sustain that assertion as a matter of evidence. But just now something more is wanted. The hon. member must be sustained by Reformers out of doors. Petitions for his Bill must be prepared and sent up to the House of Commons in large numbers. Already we hear from Leeds and Norwich of an energetic com mencement of the good work, and many petitions have already been presented. But we doubt whether the urgency of the case is generally understood. The Leeds working men understand it, and, by the Secretary of their Reform Association, have addressed their fellow eountrymen. They say that they feel earnestly about the abandonment of Reform by the Govern ment, and "are fully resolved to use all proper " means to show their rulers that the people, " whatever the Government may be, are in " earnest in demanding an immediate and " thorough reform of the Howe of Commons ; " and also to teach faint-hearted, if not recreant, " Reformers that an early day of reckoning will " come for their non-fulfilment of their hustings " pledges." They add : " The times are critical, " and such as to call upon all earnest men to " Ann and cordial action on this one question ; " and while it may be desirable to pre " serve intact local organization, it is still more "so that all the different bodies throughout the " land should act in cordial and simultaneous " union at the present moment, and with the " least possible delay, and with promptitude too, " in support of the measure of Mr. BAINIS, if his " scheme should be such as to deserve support." Timm are points on which there must be no mis understanding. Electors and non-electors should join hand in hand to support the hon. Member for Leeds. No point in the Reform programme is un important, but Mr. Banesa's point, the extension of the Borough Franchise, is supremely important. Let, then, the exertions of Reformers be worthy of their cause and its representative. THE. RZVI/UNO Baaiturrzaautra.—Mr. J. Fraser Macqueen. on beownieg ow of her Majesty's amulet, has resigned his apposetineot as revising barrister for the metro. pohilan boroughs and the cot of Westminster ; so that the three nwitropolitaa revising pa are amid, the other two having become so by the reason deaths of Mr. tilialwell and Mr. Veen leChristie. These are is the ggi~ft of the Lord Chief Justice, and are the only revising harriahsnhipa given to the Chancery bar, the others resting with the judges of the respective circuits. laitsitovnaLs Pout—The bill introduced into the Meese et Comma= by Mr. Villiers arid Mr. Oilpin, to amend the laws regarding the removal of the poor and the coutribettioe of parishes to the common fund in anima, has bees printed. It provides that three years shall be sub *United fee flee in 9 and 10 Viet., e. 66, a. 1, wed residenee in • union shall be ainiva lent to nisidimos in a parish. Provision is made for ex ' empties orphan children under 16 years of age from reinovaL Where a married woman shall have been or shall be deserted be her husband, and shall after his desertion reside for three years in such a manner as would, if she were a widow, render her exempt front removal, she shall not be liable to be removed from the parish wherein she shall be resident, unless her husband return to cohabit with her. Provision is made for the chargeability of wayfarers, sick persona, and lunatics. Orders in lunacy may be obtained by or appealed against by boards of guardians. The chargeability of union paupers upon the eon* moo fund is made perpetual. Contributions to the common fund are to be calculated according to the annual value of rateable property. The guardians of every such anion, in computing the ainoatit of contribution to the common fund from the several parishes, are to take the annual rateable value of such property In every parish therein horn the valuation upon which such pariah was assessed to the county rate, or, where there is no county rote, to the barengli or ward Mkt, or other rate in the snore of a county rate, is the last amemenent made not leas than one month next pewordieg Use day when the order for such contriba tioa is weds. ONTITAL PALIVIL..-01/1 SHILLING DAY.—WED. NESDAT. Via, 20.—Admissions on payment, ; ditto by season tickets, 440; total 1,275. Ebe Coun. THE LEVEE. Her Majesty held a levee, the second this season, yesterday afternoon in St. James's Palace. The Queen wore s train of black Indio trimmed with black gimp and rosettes. The petticoat of black satin, trimmed in front with black lace and gimp. Her Majesty wore a diadem of emeralds and diamonds as a head-dress. The Foreign Ambasmadors and Ministers were introduced, when the following presentations to the Queen took place in the Diplomatic Circle : By the Persian Ambassador-11km Hassan Khan, First Secretary of the Peruian Embassy ; My Khan, Second Score. tary of the Persian Embassy. By the Brazilian Minister—M. de Collaco Sarmento, Attiich'i to the Legation. The General Circle was well attended, and comprised most of her Majesty's Ministers. One hundred and four noblemen and gentlemen had the honour of being presented to the Queen. Among them were the following: Hon. Major Anson. on promotion and return from China, by the Duke of Cambridge. mirfleorge liowycr, Bart., M.P., on succeeding to the title, by Viscount castierosse. _ The Hoo. George (Welngan, by his father. Viscount Chelsea. Earl de Grey and Ripon. on appointment as Under !Secretary of State for India, by the Secretary of State for India. Major Wilberforce Oreathed, C. 8., on return from service In India sad china and nomination to the Order of the Bath, by Ur Duke of Cambridge. The Very Rev. Dr. Onede. Dean of Ripon, by the Earl of Darnley, in the absence of the Arehblsh•.p of Caisterbery. Deputy Inspector-Gentral of Hospitals A. (.00daU, Madras Ar e inz i ty his brother-Inds,. Mr John M Lawrence. I fgr A. Horsford, ou appointment as Deputy. Adjutant• General of the Yorces, by the General CumniandiandnAltief. Mr. Oeo. JAMMU Hunt, her Majesty's Consul at Puerto Rico, by Lord John Russell Viscount Ktrkaldie, by him father, the Earl of Leven and Melville. The Karl of Leven and Melville, on rucceeding to the titles, by Colonel Hon. Mr Charles Phipps. IJeut.-Colonel Macdonald, by the Doke of Cambridge. Colonel J. D. Macpherson, late Military Secretory to Govern ment of the Arnim'', and ofaciatingguartermaster-General Ben gal Army, by Sir J. Lawrence. The O'Connor lion, M.P., by Viscount Castkrcuse. Mr Laurence Oliphant. on appointment. as Secretary of Legs. ties at Japan, by Hight Hon. Lord John kuassli. General SirChaa W. Pasley, on promotion, by the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Peel, M.P., on appointment as Secretary to the Treasury, by Viscount Palmerston. Jaa L1;;11: • sost RV CaSala • • •• her Majesty' First Commis d between Great glover for determining the line of a ster sinn ary Britain and the United States, by Lord J. Remelt Mr. J. Scott Robertson, Purveyor.iu-Chief, by Lord Herbert of — Colonel Simmons. on retnrn from foreign ser►ice. and appoint ment u Commanding Itoyal Engineers At Aidershott, by the Duke of Cambridge. Captain Tom Taylor (Civil Service Vobuiteers), by Viscount Bury. Dr. B. R. Woodward. on appointment's Librarian in Ordinary to the Queen, by the Lord Chazaberlain. The Queen and Prince Consort returned to Buckingham Palace after the levee. The Prince of Wales, attended by Major-General the Hoe. R. Bruce and Major Teesdale, left Buckingham Palace yesterday forenoon for Maddingley Hall, Cambridge. The Princera Alice, attended by the Hon. Horatia Stop ford, viaited the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary, at Bt. James's Palace. In the evening her Majesty's dinner party included the Princess Alice, the Dulce of Cambridge (attended by Colonel the Hon. J. Macdonald), Viscount and Viscountess Pal. mouton, Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Radcliffe, Lady Fanny Howard, Lady Augusta Bruce, Lord Lianover, the Right Hon. W. E. and Jim Gladstone, and Gemmel Sir Frederick ittovin. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Vis count Palmerton, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke cf Awn, Sir G. Cornwall Lewis, Lord John Russell, the Duke of Newcastle, Lord Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Sir George Grey, the Right Hun. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. Edward Cardwell. Mr. G. Fropier, member of the Legislative Conseil of Mauritius, had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday ►t the Colonial-office. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor of Malta. Despatches were sent to the Governor of Canada. The Marquis and Marchioness of Ails have ar rived at the Harlington Hotel, Cork-street, from Colman Castle, Ayrshire. The Earl of Granord has left town for Ireland. Lord and Lady Colchester entertained at dinner, bat evening, at their residence in Berkeley-square, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marchionem of My, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl and Counter of Darnley, Viscount Holmesdale, Lord Rideable, Lord and Lady Colville, Lord and Lady Chelmsfonl and the Hon. Me Meager, Colonel the Hon. P. W. and Lady Emma Talbot. Lord and Lady John Russell entertained at dinner, last evening, at their residence in Cheriham-place, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Earl Granville, Sir David Dundee, Mr. Motley, M.P., and Mrs. Motley, Mr. Loch, Mr. George Farquharson, Miss Lister, &c. Sir George Oornewall Lewis and Lady Theresa Lewis entertained at dinner, Lust evening, at Kent House, his Kleelleacy the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer and Mies Victoria Vaa de Weyer,the Earl of Clams. dos, Lord sad Lady Herbert, Frances Countess Waßisme and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., Hoe. George Cadogen, Hoo. John Warren, Sir John Ramsdell, Mr. Hayward, &c. Later in the evening her ladyship had an assembly. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave hit second parliamentary dinner last evening to the following mem. bees of the House of Commons :—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Lard Burghley, Lord John Manners,Lord Stanley, Lard Mass, Lord Dwaine, Lord Claud Hamilton, General Lord Hothem, Sight Hos. Henry T. 1.. Corry, Roe. Fred. Lyra, Hoe. Gerard Noel, Right Hon. Colonel Forester, Right Hon. Sir J. S. Pakingtok G.C.8., Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Right Hon. Joseph W. Healey, Right Hon. T. SAheion-Fritcourt, Right Hon. General Peel, Right Hon. C. B. Addetley, Right Han. J. R. Mowbray, Sit Stafford Northoote, Bart., Sir Henry Willoughby, Bart., Sir Wm. Mee, Bart., Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Hugh Cairns, Colonel Taylor, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald, Mr. Whit more, Mr. Henry &Mkt, Mr. Blackburn, Mr. George, Mr. Wray, Mr. Hernia& and Mr. Tolleniache. The Hon. G. L. Wahlegreve and the Rev. Henry Drury had the honour of joining the party. A meeting was held at Willia's Rooms yesterday, to receive the report of two gentlemen connected with the Baptist Missionary Society, who had been seat out to the Wee Indies for the purpose of inquiring iota the actual state of affairs in those colonies. The statement of one of these gentlemen. Mr. Underhill, showed that emancipa. tion bee greatly benefited the great mass of the popula tion, and that the material interests of the colonise Lase not suffered to nearly tho extent that is some. times alleged. The ruin of Jamaica Mr. Underhill attributed, in a large measure, to the evils of absentee ism and bad management. Since the passing of the Act of Enuincipation the negroes of that island have become possessed of property of the value of two and a half millions, A noir& of the National Freehold Land Society was held last night. Many interesting facts, illustrating the success of the institution, were brought forward by the various speakers. Mr. Gilpin, M.P., presided, and Mr. Scholefield also took part to the proceeding+. The meeting was very numerously attended. A large alidieuce assembled last night at Mr. Spurgeon's Great Tabernacle, for the double purpose of hearing a lecture from Mr. layard, M.P., on Nineveh, and of contributing, by their payments for Ildalllll4oo, towards the expense of building this monster edifice. The ap pearance of Mr. Spurgeon, accompanied by Mr. Layard, M.P., was the signal far load cheering. When it had subsided, Mr. Spurgeon came forward to introduce Mr. laiyard, and in doing so said that the connexion of " such • man with such • borough has a tendency to lift it out of it. primeval mud," and that he would make " Horeemonger-lane equal to the hanging prd sas of Nineveh." (A laugh.) Mr. Layanl, he said, was a wan who was such • tenor to all parties opposed to him in polities on account of the terrific onslaughts which be made upon them, that they would have been greatly obliged to anyone who would have kept him out of the House of Commons. After making various references to the influence which he supposed Peace had exercised in the retest elec. tioo for Southwark, the reverend gentleman solemnly 1a• yoked " the blessing of the Moot High co,'" upon the newlpolocial member. _-s . . r TILE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1861. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. HUNGARY. PESTH, Tn. 21. The Judicial Conference demandth;immeiiate re-establishment of the Hungarian laws relating letters of exchange. The municipality of Buda has resolved upon excluding all non-Hungarian residents in that city from the exercise of electoral rights. FRANCE. PARIS, Fs& 20. The payments of the Caine des Chemins de Fir of Messrs. Mires and Co. have been suspended (njournes) until the inventory of the state of the bank is completed. M. Eugene Scribe is dead. RUSSIA. NT. PETERSBURG, Fes. 20. The Emperor has appointed his Aide-de-Camp, General Count Stackelberg, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Russia at the court of the Queen of Spain. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fm. 10. The Levine Herald states that the Ha.snd Tavilia are to be renewed for fourteen years. It also says that a general suspension of the Galata bankers and merchants is threatened. SPAIN AND MOROCCO. MADRID, Fru. 19. The Epee(' says :—" Spain and Morocco have agreed that the Moors shall immediately complete the payment of 200 millions of reale." The Customs of Tangiers and Modagar (Moga dore) will be hypothecated to the Spanish as gua rantee for the payment of the remainder of the war indemnity. The evacuation of Tetuan will take place at a fixed date. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, WEDNINDAT. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Manchester, which sailed to-day for New York, took about 51,000/. in specie. THE PENINSULAR MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, THURADAY. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Alhambra, Captain Steward, with the above mail, arrived oil the Needles at 12.5 p.m. THE OPENING OF THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT. The following is the speech of King Victor Emmanuel at the opening of the Italian Parlia ment ; an abridgment has already been published : Gomm= SENAToss, Gexruagex Diecnza! Press and *early entirely united, by the wonderful aid of Divine Providence, the concordant will of the peoples and the splendid valour of the armies, Italy confides in your virtue and wisdom. To you it pertains to give her common institutions and a firm foundation. In endowing with greater administrative freedom peoples that had various usages and institutions, you will take care that political unity, the aspiration of so many centuries, may never be diminished. The opinion of civilised nations is favourable to us ; the just and liberal principles, now prevailing in the councils of Europe, are favourable to ua. Italy honed', too, will become a guarantee of order and peace, and will onoe more be an of instrument of universal civilisation. The Emperor of the French, firmly upholding the maxim of non-intervention—a 111.411111 eminently beneficial to us, nevertheless deemed it proper to reed his envoy. If this fact was a cause of grief to us, it did not change the senti ments of our gratitude nor our confidence in his affection to the Italian muse. Frame and Italy, having in common their origin, tradi• tines, and customs, formed on the plains of Magenta and HoMerino a bond that will be indissoluble. The government ►od people of England, the ancient country of freedom, loudly took part for our right to be the arbiters al our own destinies, and they have lavishly be stowed on us their good offices, the grateful remembrance of which will be imperishable. A loyal and illustrious prince having ascended the throne of Prussia, I sent to him an ambassador in token of respect fa him personally, and of sympathy with the noble Ger man nation, which I hope will become more and more con- Timed that Italy, being oonstititted io her natural unity, cannot offend the rights or interests of other nations. Gentlemen Senators, Gentlemen Deputies, I am certain you will be anxious to supply my government with the means of completing the armaments by land and sea. Thus the kingdom of Italy, put into a condition of not fearing offence, will more easily find in the consciousness of her own strength • reason for opportune prudence. Once my words sounded bold ; it being as wise to dare in season us to wait in season. Devoted to Italy, I have never hesitated to expose my life and crown, but no one has the right to risk the life and destinies of a nation. After many signal victories the Italian army, increasing every day in fame, acquired a new claim to glory by cap turing one of the most formidable fortresses. I consols myself with the thought that here will close for ever the mournful series of our civil coufiicta. The fleet has proved in the waters of Ancona and Gaeta, that the mariners of Pica, Genoa, and Venice, are revived in Italy. Valiant youths, led on by a captain who has filled with his name the most distant countries, have made it evident that neither servitude nor long misfortunes have been able to weaken the fibre of the Italian peoples. These facts have inspired the nation with great confidence in its own destinies. I Like pleasure in manifesting to the first parliament of Italy the joy I feel in my bead as King and soldier. It will be seen that the reproaches addressed to Victor Emmanuel by the ladtpendance Beige and other papers, on the strength of an imperfect tele gram, for not having alluded to Garibaldi, are unfounded. AUSTRIA. Letters from Trieste Mate that onlers have been received at that port and at Pola to fit out all the sailing vowels of the Austrian navy, without ex ception. These vessels of war are to proceed to the porta of Zan, Spaliar°, Regime, Fiume, and Cat taro, where they will be used as floating batteries. A division of 12 iron-caned gunboats is to be also stationed iu the Bay of Quarnero, and remain there to watch the Hungarian coast. The Viceroy of Egypt, after having landed at Ouech, a small port in the Red Be., proceeded to Medina, where be remained five days praying on the tomb of the Prophet.. The Prince made some magnificent presents to the &florid of Medina and to the Ukrnaa. He was to leave on the 20th of January for Mecca. The Oat-Deuta•h.• P4mt of Vienna makes the obserratiou that while France sod England have published a series of important documents, the Austrians are not made officially acquainted with any act of their govern ment. Advicea from Vienna, in the Augsburg Gazette, date that the Empress of Austria will remain two months longer at Madeira, and will not return until the early part of May. The Queen of England's yacht will bring her back. M. Charles Avisseau, a pottery manufacturer at Tours, of extraordinary genius, and 000 of the modem Ovals of Bernard de Missy, has just died in that city. The Madrid journals state that a duel with swords bad taken place between M. Valero, a writer in the Coorensporoneo, and M. Macana, of the Diario Espanol, and it ended by the former receiving three wounds. Another duel with pistols was to have taken place between the directors of the same journals, M. Alban& sod M. Robert, but it was prevented by the authorities, and the two gentlemen were called on to give their word of honour not to fight in the district of Madrid ; this they did, but they had left for Andalusia with the intention of having a hostile encounter there. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rim ous ows PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Patric is instructed to give, under the taking head of Dernieres Nourelles, the following paragraph : Very many Italian and French journals, treating of M. de la Guerronniere's pamphlet,dniw from it the conclusion that French policy tends to the abandonment of the Pope's tem poral power and the withdrawal from Rome of our troops who protect the Holy Father. We think it useful to declare once again that these interpretations, which seem to result from a mot d'ordre, are absolutely erroneous. The policy of the French government, as manifested by all its acts —byell the documents that have been published—is evidently contrary to the hopes which certain journals so jauntily advertise ; and, as to M. de la Guerronnihs's pamphlet, the spirit of which is sought to be distorted, its conclusion is distinctly stated in the following passage :—" So long as endures the fatal antagonism which has been created be tween the forces whoa& union is essential to so many in terests, Italy and the temporal papacy will never find the conditions of their equilibrium. Let them unite, and from this alliance will proceed their common grandeur." We are convinced that until the catholic powers shall have suc ceeded in fiudinga combination to effect this reconciliation, France will not think herself freed from the duty of pro- tecting the Holy Father at Rome as she is now doing. It is to be observed that the Pattie has, for neve ral days past, systematically misrepresented the news from Italy in a sense unfavourable to the cause of unity. It has aggravated the rebellion in the Abruzzi, spoken falsely of disaffection in Naples, and pretended that the soldiers now prisoners of war in Gaeta had unanimously refused to serve under Victor Emmanuel. The Opinion Nationale recapitulates • long list of the Patties mix-state menu; to order. But it is well known that there are serious divisions among the Emperor's council lors on the Roman question, and that the pamphlet was mutilated at the last moment to please some of them, and the grounds of manifest interest and expediency from which the conclusion was deduced that the Emperor would not long second the obstinacy of the Pope still remain in all their force. I find a confirmation of this view in a rumour of the day, that the catholic party in the Corps Legislatif, which meant to speak in the address of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, have been induced, out of deference to the government, to leave out the word " tempo ral," thereby leaving the question conveniently ambiguous and quite open. I believe I may state that the negotiations be tween the Tuileries and the Vatican are at this moment quite broken off. Baron de Crouseillies, a senator, formerly Minis ter of Public Instruction and Worship, died yester day from excitement, caused by an altercation with Prince Napoleon on the subject of the Pope's temporal power, of which the deceased was • staunch supporter. The Bourse was exceedingly dull, and although there is not so great a fall as might be expected from the very serious event of which everybody is talking, business is almost suspended. The Route fell 15c. for cash and account, closing at GBfr. 100. It is said that there is a run upon the Credit Mobi lier, and the shares fell 13fr. 75c. No alterations 1 1 in railways. The suspension of payments of the Caisse Mir4s is announced officially in the following terms : The provisional admioittrator of the Caisse Generale des Chemins de Per bits the honour to inform the public that, aa a measure of preservation, payments are suspended dur ing the time Deceswary to draw up the inventory, which it is desirable to have made at once. Feb. 20, 1861. COUNT DE The following paragraph appears in the 3funiteur: We lowa with regret that Viscount de Iticheniont, a pri• vete receiver of Paris, died yesterday evening of an attack of apoplexy. M. de Bichemont was connected with the Caisse Mires, and the manner of his death, of the fut of which there can be no doubt, is not thought to be correctly stated by the Monikur, M. Scribe, the veteran eminent dramatist, died at 2 o'clock this afternoon of an apoplectic stroke, with which he was seized while taking an airing in his carriage. The poet Mery is very ill at Marseilles, and will, it is feared, lose his eyesight. INDIA. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we receive papers from Bombay to Jan. 26, and from Calcutta, via Bombay, to Jan. 18. There is very little news from either place. The principal topic is the famine. The Bombay Times and Standard saps : India is again subjected to the scourge. It might almost seem as if the fable of its angry, bloody, deities were verified in its mournful annals, disaster following disaster to desolate its fairest regions. It is not on this occasion the fierce fires of civil war that are enkindled, nor is it the ce which has been so often the dreadful scourge of Vrttil en It is famine with its desolated fields, fugitive thousands, gaunt emaciated forms of misery that supplicate our compassion. How long in,leed the calamity will be limited to famine, who can predict ? If the spring crop foils in the Limb and North-West, se there is reason to fear, we may certainly anticipate from the experience of Mid, the advent of the raging pestilence ; and war too, though not a cloud may betoken it, often follows in the train to augment these calamities, especially if prompt beetling measures he not adopted by the paternal care of government, and the charities of the private citizen, to mit*lte the sufferings of the famishing populations. The Calcutta Gazette informs us, on the autho rity of the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-west Provinces, of F. Williams, Esq., the commissioner of the Meerut division, and of J. H. Prinsep, Esq., collector of Allygurh, of such distressing facts as the following :—" Except in the tract at the foot of the Hills, and those lands which can be irrigated from canals or wells, the new crop has been a com plete failure." " Not a green blade is to be seen in any direction, save, perhaps, half a dozen fields of stunted crop, about as many inches as it should be feet high." "From Anoopshur to Muttrs, from Meerut to the South-Western boundary of the division, the same unmitigated state of drought exists." "The khureef crop is almost a total failure for miles and miles ; no more than a few scatt.-red fields of stunted jowra, bajrs, and cotton were visible." The rubbee prospects are extremely discouraging, the springing crop barely above the ground, and in every instance that came under the Lieutenant-Governor's view had a yellow sickly appearance. Courts-martial on the officers chiurd with in sulting conduct in a footsies at Cairo had been held at Calcutta, but bad not been concluded at the departure of the A gunboat of a perfectly new form is shortly expected in Paris, to be submitted to tho inspection of the Emperor. It is compo!ed of iron plates of two centimetres in thickness, and is proof against cannon shot. Its form is oval, sad shot must glance off, not having any tied point to strike. Its machinery is equally invulnerable, being covered with • metal case which turns round when struck. This gunboat was constructed at IA Ciotat. near Marseilles, and is being brought to Paris by the canal of Burgundy. The ice him completely disappeared from the Bound. The Cattegat sailing vessels have left for the North des and the Baltic, and the steamers between Mi nors and Copenhagen, Norao, and Kiel have resumed their merrier& A curious incident occurred in the Italian Chain ben previously to the opening on Monday, a man having coolly taken his place among the deputies without being one. Ile was not arrested without some altercation ; and was conveyed to the Quartos', or prefecture of police, where it was found that he was not in his right mind, and he was accordingly sent off toe lunatic asylum. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.-(YESTERDAY) TRUSTEES OF CHARITIES BILL.--Order for second reading read; motion made, and question proposed," That the hill hs now read a second time :—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words "upon this day six months:"—(M r . Selwyn) :—Question put, That the word now ' stand part of the question :"—The House divided ; Ayes FA, Nom 157. Adair. H. E. Adeane, H. J. Aleoek, T. Anson, Captain Antrobus, E. Ayrton, A. S. Bagwell, J. Baines, E. Ball. E. Bating, H. B. Barnes, T. Bass, Y. T. Baxter, W. E. Barley, T. Beale, S. Beamish. F. B. Bethel], Sir B. Biggs, J. Black, A. Bonham-Carter, J. Bouverie, E. P. Bourerie, P. P. Brand, H. Bristow, A. A. Browne. Lord J. T. Bruce, H. A. Buller. air A. W. Bury. Viscount Butler, C. B. Buxton, C. Calthorps, F. IL Cavendial. W. Childers, H. C. AY ES. Ewing. H. L Miner, W. renwick, H. Mills, T. klinal. A. S. Mitchell, T. A. Foley, J. H. Moffatt, G. Forster, C. Morris, D. Forster, W. E. North, V. Fortescue, F. Lk I ..Cullor non. The Forteecue, C. 8. Widow, G. Fox, W. J. Paget, C. Freeland. H. W. Paxton, 84.1. Garnett, W. J. Pease, H. Osaka, J. M. Pete. Sirs. )1. Gavin, Major , liertrant 011 pin. C. rrklgton, J. Glyn. G. C. Pormonhy, A . Goldsmid, Sir F. H. Powell. W. T. Gordon, C. W. Pryse, E L. Gower, F. L. Remade., sir J, ly, Greene, J. Ricardo, J. L Oration, 8. P.leardo, G. Greaten, C. P. Rich, H. Hadfield, G. a Russell, H. Hankey, T. I Rumen, A. Hanroer, Sir J. Russell, Sir W. Hartingten, Marquis st. Autini. .1. Harter. Sir W. G. Salomon', Nlr. Mini. Headlam, T. E. scholetield. )). Heritage, G.F. Scott, Sir W. Henley. 1.. Seymour, Sir )1 Holland, E. Seymour. W, ino,y Howard, C. W. Shelley, Sir J. t. Ingham, R. Sheridan, R. S Jenols, Sir J. C. (smith, Augnstug E xi t netid‘ rshaw . .. J. W. 71.: 1) , = : :::k r:lit alit ,. 5 s .: 1 .. ri i V i. iL King, P. J. W. W. Kinglake, J. A. Steel, J. Knatchbull-Huges. Stamina, A. . men, L. langton, W. IL Lawson, W Tollerirnche. 1 J Layari, A. H. Trelawny, Sir J. ~ Leatham, E. A. Turner, J. A. Locke, J. Vivian, N. 11. Lowe. R. Warner, E. Lanier. W. Ye. J. Westhead, J. P. Whalley, G. H. Stackinnon.W.Myro) Whitbread, S. Itackinnon,W. , ,ltye) White, J. M . Mahon, P. Williams. W. Maguire. J. F. Woods, IL Marjoribankg, D. C. Wrightson, W. 11, Martin, P. W. WyrilL 31. Martin, J. TELLERS. Massey, W. N. DlliwYn, L L Matheson. A. Melon, J. Clifford, C. C. Clifford, Colonel Clive. 0. CAthbett. I. M. Coke, Colonel Collier • R. P. Crouton', E. N. Crux furd.R. W. Cros•lcy F. Davey. R. Davie, Colonel F. Dent, .7 D. Duff, M. E. Dunbar, Sir W. buncombe, T. Dundas, F. Dunkellin, Lord Dunlop, A. M. Enfield, Viscount Evans, T. W. Ewart, W. Ewart, J. C. Adderley, C. B. Arlmthnot,Gen. Arehdall, Capt. IL Astell, J. H. Ba Noes. Greensll, G. Gray. Capt. Hallburton, 7'. C. Hamilton, Lord C. Hardy. J. Hartopp, L B. Harvard. M. Heslimo* Sir W. Henley, J. W. Hervey. Lord A. Haman, Sir F. W. Heyman. W. IL Raiford. R. R. Helmeadale, Hood, Sir A. A. Hope, G. W. Hopwood. J. T. Montan, T. E. Bowes, E. Hubbard. J. G. Hunt. G. W. Jerilyn, Earl Jervis, Capt. Johnstone. H. B. Kendall, N. Iterriaon, Sir E. C. King, J. K. Knatchbull, W. F. Knox, Colonel Knox. Major S. Loco°, sir E. Lerke, Sir H. Lefroy, A. Leah, W. J. Leighton. Sir B. lentiox, Lord G. Lennox, Lori: H. Lindsay. C. Lockhart, A. E. Long. E. P. Lardnr, Lord Lyall, G. Lygou, F. Macaulay. K. Mainwarine, T. Malvolrn..l. W. Mans. K. Manners, Loal .7. Miles. air W. Miller. T. J. Mills, A. Milford, W. T. Montgomery', Sir G. Moody, C. A. Mordaunt, sir C. Mort= 0 . .r IL Mandy, Mo~lrcy VV.* Murray. W. aaa11474 Horror, W H. Barttelot, Major Bathurst, A. A. Bancroft, 0. M. Bentluck, G. W. Bannock, G. C. Seurat*. R. Bamford. W. Bernard, T. T. Blackburn. P. Bond, J. W. Newdegate, C. N. Niool, W. G. J. Orificr..i;.. Sri s. U. Packs. C. W. Pakitigton. Sir J. alry. Parker, Major W. Patten, Culoarl Paull, H. ki;e7.:47e. n. M. Peel. Geuerel Pugh, D. Puller. C. W. Rolt, J. Rowley, R. T. ltelt, Thomas Shirley, E. P. &billowy, Major Smith, S. Ci. Smollett, P. B. Some, J. Spooner. R. Stanhope, J. R. Stanhope. Loot Stewart, Sir M. R. Stuart, Lt.. Vol. W, Stratroy. Sir H. Taylor, Colonel Thrnue, Lord H. Tothrmache. J. Upton. General Valletort, %lamed Vance. J. Dalkeltl;;FArl of Dawson, R. I'. Ih:egir 4, W. Dlokson Col !i Ri U. B. Du Cxnc. I'. Dunenmhe. A. Fgerton, A. F. E;erton, E C. Egerton, W. rain;Uii,, F.. F. Farquhar, E.lr Y. Fainter, J. Varudttarl, W. Verner. sir W. Walodt. Admiral S. H. %Vanilla:tn, J. W. Wltitru”re, H. Wyndham, 16. lorestm CoL bard, R.% • J. wyuie, C. U. __..._, Gladstone, Captain Goddard, A. L Gore, TILLERS. Pena. C. J. )1~. Lord L Oore, W. R iiiiimai,.l4 - ed W. LIFEBOAT tiIEVICES. HOLYHEAD, FEB. 19.—k vessel was observed muted about a mile outside the harbour. It wan blow* • very heavy gale from B.S.W. at the time with a heal eft in her neighbourhood. The signal for the lifeboat tittle Nations! Lifeboat Institution was made from the shine, aril the boat was away in 25 minuted, and proceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the schooner Furnate, of Samos. The muter would not, however, leave his vessel, but begged of the coxswain of the lifeboat to return and seed hint a steam tug, which afterwards proceeded out to his assistance. It is hoped the vessel will be mate in the itri• hour before night. No other boat than a lifeboat could hsve performed this service in the heavy sea and !um; ple. 8 p.m.—The vessel has been brought into harbour. PORTHCAVIL, GLAMORGAN, FRB. 18.—The lifeboat of the National Lifeboat Institution went off early this ruining ta a large vessel anchored outside the Scarweather suds which wu seen to cut away main and minim masts, and to hoist her flag union down. She proved to be the William L. tSellwell , of Frankfort. from Bristol, bound to Swansea. The coxswain of the lifeboat offered assistance ; but it Ms declined, so after a long and hard pull against a flood tide and strong wind the boat returned with the crew well tired. There was a heavy sea before getting clear of the shore, particularly roundinz our • breakwater, hut the boat be haved well. A steamer has gone off to the assistance of the vessel. BURGLARY AT DILWORTH. At the Blackburn Town Hall, yesterday, tics men, Roger Haydock, John Barnes, John Jackson, William Maudelay, and Richard Corbridge, were brought up on re resod charged with burglariously entering the house J. John Bonnie, farmer, Written Stone, Dilworth, betwal three and five o'clock en Monday morning, 11th Mat. Ni. Bourne, who is 76 years of age, proved the huratiof open of his bedroon; door by five or six men, of whoa he could identify all the prisoners except Barnes, woe time between three and five o'clocklian Monday moroig. the Iltb instant. One of the men, Jackson, rushed up to his bedside, and presenting a pistol, demanded his money or his life. He was then covered up in bed, while the men ransacked the drawers in the room, and took from one drawer three 101. and one 5/. Bank of &gland notes, and nine or ten sovereigns. From the pocket of a pair of breeches, which were in a chest in the room, were taken 16s. At the time .Tackson came to his bedside, (*ors bridge held one light .l candle, and one of the other men another. After searching the room the men went down• stairs, and shortly after one of them returned with a single•barrel gun. which Mr. Bonnie recognised as his own, and presenting it at him, demanded his watch and more money or he would blow his brains out. Mr. Bonnie replied that he had none, end, as be bad not loug to live, he did not care if they did kill him. The man who presented the gun he believed to be Corbridge after leaving him the man went to his daughter's bid, who slept in a bed at the opposite side of the room, where he threatened her, demanded money, and then Indecent,/ assaulted her. Margaret Bourne said that on the Monday morning she was awakened by a rattle at the bedroom door, in which she and her father lath slept, and which had been bolted the night before, when they went to bed. She looked out, thinking it was her father, and immediately the door was burst open and five men rushed in, and while three men rushed forward to her father's bedside, two, Haydock and Barnes, stood behind. She corroborated her father's state ment respecting the visit paid to the room by Corbridge with the gun, and also to the ill -nacelle she received from Corbridge. She identified the whole five prisoners as the men who were in the house on the night in question. She also identified the silver spoons produced. It was further proved that in Illvtinek's house were found three loaded pistols, capped, and the silver spoons identified by Mise Bourne ; that one of the pistols found in Haydock's house was bought on the Saturday at Mr. Boyle's pawnshop, by the prisoner 3faudoley. A witness saw Corbridge arid Haydock on the Sunday evening, at six o'clock, going in the direction of lAA tree's house ; anti a potman met the five prisoners coming towards Blackburn from where the burglary was committed, at 7 o'clock on Monday morning. The prisoners Parties, Maudsley, and Jackson were de• fended by Mr. H. Backbones and Mr. Dean, who e..lled witnesses to prove an a/Ai. Haydock pleaded guilty. and said all the rest were innocent. They were all committed for trial. NEW FRIEN.rO AT THE HOLNEN OF PARLIAMENT. —The subject of the new fresco bv Mschse, in the Home of Lords, now being painted, is the meeting of Wellington and Blucher after Waterloo. One of the popular errors in Paria lure long been the belief that persons recognising any dead body pnblielY exposed at the Morgue would have to pay certain expen.es : and the consequence was that many people made s rule of abstaining from communicating with the officials when they happened to know any deceased individual exposed• To remove this error, the prefect of police has had a large *card stook up opposite the entrance to the Nerve. calling on all persons to make known the mune and address of anybody they may recognise, and promising that they shall not be subject to any expense, even if he belonged to their family. Booth,_ Sir B. G. Bottleld, B._ ilidWet - Zo.T. W. Bridges,lr B. W. Bold'dry, Lord Calms. .ft H. Cartwtight, Col. WS. & w. 11..6; ZWein7se.A. D. C,todrington, Sir W. Cole. couh:: T. Corry, U. L cui,ui. c. 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