The Express. — London, England, 1860-01-26 00:00:00

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Afrlaa. and Yews innerli. Loeb „awl Pram : - AM TM/ Illtlll2lloos walla Udell MON WATIR AT LONDON NAIDON. 4b. fiks. Itsralft. 46. 4r. O. Ow LONDON, THURSDAY, JAN. W. Tim brilliant man about teens of wriest Athos% who appeared ;n the streets of that lively sky ass fine amain with his favourite dog teilvisss, by way of diverting the matlideue gossip of his fiellow-eitisene from his r•thae /am habits of life, and giving time eoweethisg novel to talk about at his expense, woe, it mew, • prototype or the Goverment of Zu Mod is Mr. 1 4 1TY001 FITZGERALD. spooking la the alma city of an rx•Under Beeretary lee Foreign Affairs, le of opinion that the commercial treaty with Franco is intended to divert the palls attention from the riatioas of the British °amount with the Fuck. This is as iagenioes way of patting • very sup:* matter, no doubt, bat is ft even plausible' What imaginable &shooter sea say Raging% Minister Sad in cencrimenti if ooncealment were passible, of its Madam with the French Governors' ? The fereiga /alloy of • liberal Ministry is no mystery, excepting shays to Mr. Recces's letter-writer sad Mr. Duest.t. Noe-intervention is a peltry se else: straightforward, and just, that by its very nature it naoludee the thought of ortermy or &wpm. Thew lo aethleg in it trinket or anossional, partial or sestlitiesal. Them is so need of retiosnee or reser mien. of winking ter whispering, of glom, or sup posing, of abuse of the subjunctive, of non-bataral isarepestatwee of plain writing sod articulate opera. No we knows better than the able and adroit ex-Ueda-Secretary for Fereigo Affairs how Each • weed es "Dentrality," for heolease. may be wished away in wordy and qualms ilsegatehas, mail the very Blas-book looks black wad yellow. Bat • brood and resolute assertion of the right Si every astion to ohome its own constitution sad Amin of government, free from any foreign inter ference, is • policy which, as the men of the Aft French revolution said of their Republic, is like Mel sue—blind are they who cannot see ft. It is a pulley so manifestly and entirely national is ohmmeter, so ooneenaot with the traditions of our own autonomy, that the common sense sad common feeling of all Reglad accopts and mites it, se it wets, by instinct, sod all Earops acknowledges that to Roglaud at last it belongs of right to pronouns this new public law of nations. What, thou, we would ask, Gan there be to mocoal in this rotations with France of a Government whose inter national iscr:icy is so simple and explicit that any English child who ha, read the rudiments of his elosiatry's history knows it to be of Dative growth the spreading blossom and ripened fruit of the old hone tree? A member of a Tory 'wannest. however, may be excused for suppealag that there meet he something Weer the bathes le ear rotation with foreign Power.. For in an Austrian policy the faculty etalyuese le le aeostant and habitual exercise. Am BnlMsh preseumeat attached to the traditions Of CASTLIRSAGIE Lad M meanies, w bile profaning " amorality " where the rights of sovereigns and nations are in question, is naturally and necessarily ' 1 as disposed to be secretive and ambiguous ea aa English government attached to the principles of protection while demar.ding the logical resit s of unlimited free-trade. No man Is his erases of any class or party in this country, is in , sensible to the advantages •et with ear nearest neigbboew on tin Osetineol nisa is insensible to tie assossity of sirslazing kr, he sir dollop with insipsnidlds Potintats• Bat having laid down once for all the principle of non-intervention es the pried* d English policy. we are carious to learn in what Manor oar keens, Secnnty, or independence of oaks OM be amid or compromised by • good, and Madly, and awn intimate naderstinding with a Power which ge OW principles and deters to onr policy, if aol a t *doe, by the force of circumstances sad eased The friendlies relations with the Fronds °evas ions, ad the most cordial agrossisat of quota= idisting the domestic lights d peahen is no way touch the more tainksl asidandiaie dating the balance of power in Zings. Aisarodly, if there be say Power in the world that has a right to speak with the enlihnity of a disinterested and faithful observer of IMO; it is Gnat Britain. But the principle of nosialso• coati= which the gunrooms of England upholds in 1900 is to the principle which the govermonent logimod ocostiesed I. 1916, as the eivillsoisa of ts.day is to the siviliaatioo of forty-fee pine seta Nowisterventioa is • paramount prineipis, ►ecause of its extreme simplicity and its sailing application. It is sot the dream of universal pews folfilled ; bat it is the first step towards the shanties of war. Great States will always have great inte rests te gland. Englaad has her eoltaiss, her sessmares, per India. Empire. There will always be room fir the operation of a national policy sepa rate sad illeaust ; roma monk for honourable rivalry ; is.. enough for the .1 oat infloenos of an snood people sod a matchless fleet. Bat a frank, loyal, and hyenas statesmanship will have done much to obliterate the traces of past discord w►en it bee set its seal upon the declaration of the right of every people to role itself, and drawn closer and skew the mutual Um and interests of all. It may be that the story of the Athenian " fest " man" would be more appropriate over the water. The public of the Boulevards is never unwilling to be compared to the public of the days sad the eity of PuicLzs. The Macedonian may have come, bat the mobile and impreesiooable " democracy " still babbles malice and mieeltief. The Parisian, we seelia, is inclemently wanting a new bone to pink. The arty or fifty thousand black militia, stirred ►y half a-dosen bilious bishops and as many die. seeded party chiefs, were theieg into a dame of mutiny, when down upon the missive to the Vatican' same the letter to the Minister of State. Here was a sew faggot in the Are. One half of Frame is raptures of praise, and the other half in a palsy of surprise ; the South illuminating, the North petitioning. Deputations to coagratulate ; agate lions to growl, and threaten, and protest. Bordeaux and Lyons, Havre and Marseilles, Roubaix, Rosen, and Valeaelemaes, and the Creams; have something besides the wrests and sufferings of his HOLINZU to talk of, cad other than Papal dispeasations, indulgences, and execienmankatiens, to occupy their thoughts. Time, the great ianovator, is fairly gained. Bat this is the petty, personal aspect of the question. A more serious esmaderatioa it i< that in France the majority of the manufacturers are bigoted rote.- tionists, if not absolute prohibitionists ; that the , essneile-Genseel and the richer landowsere are blinded by prejudice or ignorance; and that as to the peasantry, they are pauper. in mind as in body, and mere slaves of instinct. Among the reading and intelligent popelation of the towns, especially of the liberal professions, a considerable camber of free-traders by conviction may be found ; for the protectionist press has laboured under the dis advaatage sad discredit of being more than half official. French commerce moreover is proverbially and has few of the qualities of the &nave. The difficulties therefore of even an absolute govern ment, when It presumes to touch a prohibitive tariff, ammenliar in France, as the foliate of theirenmestere sufficiently tostiEea And though tan years of a regime of bow plawir may have somewhat enervated the energies which make an Opposition formidable is a government, it is pertain that the Emperor of the FILIJICZ needs all hie strength to carry out the measaree which his thoughtful intellect approves. Three years since a reform of the French 1 1 tariff wee asuimmeed, and a load outcry arose against it. A eon sines of inquiry was appointed. It sat twice, and nothing more was heard of reform. Bat the " idea" has not slept meanwhile, and this time at least it re-appears under more encouraging auspices. Certaisly of all 13 oglishmes Mr. GLAD nos' woad be Wet liable to the suspicion of any headless. he the hem of government prevailing in Freese i hue the Cmaucatuka of the ILICHZQUIR i. tee SWIM. and peastieel a statesman to suedes the sedating interests of civilisation to *ideal antipathies. Nothing could be more earesseved than kis summit's's in the if.... yesterday an this point, and it in important is Amos that he spoke est in hie own name oily, bat la the name of the malted Ministry. " I say there cannot be too Glow ea ea " derstaadiag between Ragland and France. because "it lies la the nature of this OWN, It lie in the Mr " eareetausse of the two emantriee, it hes ia the eir " cametanose of Europe, that it is hardly a possible " seadageacy that Freese and Ragland should ever "be misdated in policy except for objects that are " Wadable of themselves and beneficial for mankind." Thins words will travel far and be remembered long. and if the (stare fail to ratify them, it will not be the fault et beglaad. IT is caleslated that as the Ist of January, 1880, the Rifle Volumene unmated to 73.794, of whom 6,718 were artillery. It is to be sheseved that a oessickralide 'majority of the compasies are ea wetted, madame of them scarcely kilned, sad the salenlatios may therefore twit out somewhat inacca rate. Bat Mr. DUDLIT BAITER, to whom informa tion those balsam dee, ha. at all events derived his coselssion from the only accessible sourose--the Areig Live and the Newspapers. Again. it is glair that the whets number can hardly be consi dered efiletive. At present no medical exa mination has tested the physical capacities of the Volanteme, aid it would prubably turn out that is ease of sleeks same of the most enthusiastic would have to fall est of the realm. Bat after every deduction it mast be admitted that eves if 80,000 young ton well drilled and well prac tised in the rifle could be collected toge ther, they would form a very formidable addition to tbe regular army and the militia. Lord Msivii.Ls may talk costairaptuoesly of a volun teer fora: but 'simians is against him. These who have read history must remember that at the Battle of Waterloo a very large properties of the victorious troops were Gomm Militia, sad that they ware wooed to some of the beet creeps in Ramp. It k diMmilt to believe that the Rifle Volunteers of Bei/land would be less talkies than a German Militia, or, at all evade, that they would be driven from the lines drawn to &had oar: dockyards or anaaals. There are, however, cartels faits connected with' this Volunteer movement wrathy of sote. 1a the first place, it ate= that out of the whole population of England, Wake, and Scotland, amounting I. and upper classes ; the working people stand aloof. As a striking proof of this, Mr. DUDLEY BAXTER takes the West Riding of Yorkshire. Its population, 1,381,798 inhabitants, is about one-twelfth that of England; nevertheless, the places with reported corps on January 1 were only 91, and their estimated strength 2,180. Moreover, upon looking through the list of places it appears that scarcely any of the small towns and villages, containing more than half the population, furnish any men. Again, of the eitise—which contain one-third of the papule doe a Groat Britain—nearly the whole have joined the movement; of the towns, which empties rather lees than a third of the popu lation, nearly half the larger ones and • third of the smaller ones have joined the movement; of the country, which comprises rather more than a third of the population, not one-twentieth part has yet joined in the movement. The mass of this result are by no means inexplicable. The expenses re (inked for establishing a rifle company preclude places very poor or very small from joining. In small pianos there are no men to fill cep a open pany : in poor case there is as money to purchase a drill ground, and to pay drill sergeants. In some esess, and ispesially in Scotland, subscriptions have been raised for the purpose et equipping com panies of working men. But generally the rifle volunteers are persons who can pay for their own uniform and subscription. This hot raises the important question, whether the Government shoal not offer to pay a considerable portion of the annual outlay. Mr. DUDLIT BAXTER seems to think that if the Rifle movement is to be permanent the Government must come forward liberally. Oal onlating the number at 100,000, he demands a public grant of 77,0001. annually. It is certainly true that this sum is a mere flea-bite, as Mr. MA IMS would say, when compared with the sum of 88,0001. spent upon 14,081 yeomanry cavalry. No one can doubt that 100,000 rifle volunteers would not only he much more useful, but much more anaemia'', than the 14,000 country gentlemen and their tenants ea horseback. The calculation of Mr. DtrDLET BAXTER, G correct, seoclusively shows that the sooner the money now voted for the Yeomanry L withdrawn the better for the Treasury. But surely there may still be serious doubts whether the Government would do wisely in voting any such large sum as 77,0001. for the Rifle Volunteers, it is admitted that the movement is almost entirely confined to the upper and middle— the well-to-do claims. It is admitted that cheap as the outfit is it might be cheaper if utility were the only object; but then it is said that Volunteers who give their time and mossy mast be allowed some scope. Most of the corps have no doubt already secured a butt and practising ground, and have the means of paying for them. It can scarcely be said that 11. is. or 10s. Bd. • year is too much to demand from the class of persons who at present constitute the Volunteers. It can scarcely be neemsary to apply the vulgar stimulus of money prizes for good shooting to the members of the corps. It should seem, therefore, that, with a moderate Go vernment allowance for ammunition, the Rifle Volun teers may well pay their own expenses. In short, con sidering the class of the population to which the Rifle Volunteers almost exclusively belong, and the alacrity with which the companies have been tilled up, the MINISTER of WAR can hardly be expected to check the voluntary liberality which is providing the ' country with a national defence by a large grant of public money. Probably the expense to which the country will be put by this Volunteer movement is by far the most interesting question to the CLAW CILLOR of the EXCRIQUIR, and to Mr. Baletirr ; but the public in general may be curious to know some thing of the character of the districts from which the largest number of Volunteers have some. ft appears, then, that Scotland has taken up the movement mach more zealously than England. The counties of Edinburgh and Berwick have 11 Vella teem to every 1,000 inhabitants. The average for the whole of Scotland is 6 per 1,000; wherein no English county reaches a higher proportion than 4 1.3 per I,ooo—tie general average being S pet 1,000. Again, the more important maritime counties, both in Scotland and England, have a higher proportion than the inland counties, Kent, Hampshire, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall, with Gloucester, Somerset, and the Welsh county of Gla morgan on the Severn, Essex and Middlesex on the Thames, Lancashire and Cheshire on the Mersey, and Northumberland, Durham, and the North Riding near the Tyne and Tete, have an average of per 1,000, while the remaining English counties average little more than 2 per 1,000. I Again, it is remarked that, brain to the towns, the highest proportions are reached at Cambridge and Oxford, where the Volunteers are 18 and 14 per 1,000 inhabitants. This is Natural samigh,asesider- 1 ing the fact that the Universities are just the plass which ought to furnish the Wipe* amber of young men. Indeed, it is said that since this Volnntsee movement commenced the billiard-rooms have been deserted, and the Oxford hacks are unsaddled. Probably the fathers and guardians will find the re sults of the change when they come to lira at the bills of their young friends in order to draw the cheques to pay than. Edinburgh and Liverpool have 11 and 10 per 1,000, whilst Glasgow and Man chester have 9 per 1,000. These facts conclusively rove that the chance of a town joining in the Velma. tear movement is in proportion to its size ; and that the ecosittias mast favourable to the development of the new permit are young men and money. MA. COBDth, M.P., MID Tin TRUTT wreak num:la.—The public will lean with phaswe that Mr. Cohan, to whom we ere abbey indebted for this ispertaat .rep towards abre free wale with inane, has sated thrones:or as her Majesty's liselpeleatary, arid is that capacity bee Woad the treaty. At the sews dew we it. confident tbat Lord Cowley has Worded Ids meat haloes wed omeiderete oweperedos, and that the eswee em estal remelt easy be wombed, Is so anaquel Math le the u end ere dielky of the two diplawathh. As as adoiralf of Mr. Cobden we way be shared I. wrest in a stinted phraes the graufloadoa we ad et this fresh ear. vioe which he has readiest' Is his Irmatry. • • home of oar coatemporeriee haws betrayal se beez• pliable desire is 4117 the voles of the teeny will* Mr. Cobden bee jest We bed of thew Is be very praises "ad Milaillai their arMakes, last theiresty, whoa published, should have dam is the lane. We base noses to believe that It will be foul w Notify the meet waver 'apostatise' of thew who are attune, at paned is well ea commordel ersaade, to see eat Owls with Poem eztsuded. Athletics has been toe eseladvdyniossial *that 'arta the Emperor's lOW which Mann the radbasilwo of ditties oh raw a/aerials, le which, of Mae, we bees wily • esoosdery 'street, while the Asir bet repast walesai pointing te the sabeilbarisa el yasSrallee della Ow wake prohibition has bow rewind ep sewessoß Ts* sakes we ere greatly wiltdiva, annininn sonwpar had by hr the meet lachwit of dr issilimbiell reams. It is °balms s wale et the duties to be levisd iv is the of ps=:: they nay be sash sa wail still dr mew isterer le empet• with aware., Is !me trwirste. or they nay be or law se Is sled Y tb sett awes te sites Iredite. we beim it trill pesos sant or pregasstliels waiver Move ems two Mmes. If soy person at soperessorelly lupin' were is worilla SI per per est as Maly te M tit esealemet reap al ilealem ea ell Lae se IBM* ersoltslores, we hove rove Is sewslode oat ho wadi lot be my Ihr olds if whom art.—ltswelselor areesiew. _ CIiTSTAL PALOS. 0141 Swum Davi-- WZDNEGDAT. JAN. 26.—Alasealuaa se pay mem, 816, Mb; by ram limbs* 374.—Teta1 vlsibs, 1,190. ti r Apit trbe Own. , JA WINDSOR CASTLE, JAN. 26. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party yawardar. The Queen and Prinoe Osumi waked la the Home•park thin morning, and visited the Duchene of Kent at Promote. Her Royal Weiner paid a Ault to the Queen in the ante , noon at the Castle. Princess Alice sad Prisms Haim rods in the Riding house. Lord Charles Fits Roy hes sneoseded Colonel F. H. &Jr thou ' es equerry la Toning le the Qum A deputation on lb, oddest d Me Pereira dads m lissa wee had an IMerylaw with de Blight arm T. Maar Gibs son sad the bight Has. W. Omer, yeMerdey at the aloe of she Board if Toads. The isinamila VIII b 7 Mr. Mawr, M.P. it Drogheda, and modeled of Mr. John Hind, Vise-Prosident, Cris/Mar of 01w.., HAM ; Mr. M'Cisre, Bolin; Mr. Preston. Belfast; Mr. Fleming, President M Um Citsailar d Cemimerse, Dundee; Mr. William Small, Deader; Mr. Mossba ll , Lade, sad Mr. Swmn, Leads. Mr. B. 3. Perry had an interview with Lord Jabs RllllllO is Monday. • trots the DormContral BadmenCommay, of Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P., chairmen ; Sir Z. B. Baker, deputy-chairmen; Messrs. H Her Soy- Emir, M.P.. 'George Bard, wad 3. 0. Mead, direstsve; Mr. Gerard Start, M.P. • The Hon. W. H. B. Portman, M.P. ; Mr. Jobs Mel d, lir. Toogood, agent; Mr. C. H. Gregory, the m ild er; Mr. lit e t7 essestary ; aid Mr. Domidme, resident saglasse, had an in terview with the Bight Has. T. Milner Gibson sada* Might Hea. W. Camper, yeedenley, et the Mike at the Baud ot Tiede. - Devotehos won curt from do Cokatol-.m yostonisy to the Gomm. ol Omitls. His Highness the Maharajah Dna lmp Singh has lit Clatidp's Hotel for Windsor Cast* 1111 a viols to bar 1• The Duke of Rutland returned to Belveir Castle yoaterday, from Loolioa. - Ldp Howard de Wales has arrived at Claridge's Hotel. from Brunel'. Lord Lyndhurst has quite recovered from the slight indisposition ha was .booties soda when he Istaniad lo tows freak 84. Iwaasrd'rm•Ma. The mortal remake of Lady Cowley were brought to town early on Tuesday morning, from Hatfield House, ma hue been placed la the holly vault In South Audis,- Wen Chapel, where the Mt* Menai' Wellesley and the Earl of Morangton me interred. The Minds of Salsbury, the Duke of Wellington, and other Mains of the dimmest lady encoded the lowa. Mr. and Mrs. Brumley Sheridan have been enter taining a large party during the putt week at Frampton Court, among whom were the Duchess of &wet, Lady Dam* Lord Beyramar, Has. Mn. Horton, the Berl of Giford, Lard end Lady Peittwo, Hon. Frederick CfSVIO, Lady Frauds Gordo. Ned Mae Gordon, Lord Edward et. Maur, Sir Ivor OW, Lord cad Lady Digby and the Hon. Miss Rigby, Rev. J. Ramon, Re. Yozeir;l4 the wife of Sir. Fitzroy Kelly, 11.1 1 ., mitt** to • lawittior et Dtwor-.trod. - The Times &Miss positively that Mr. T. Stamford Rados has bum gramma stipsadiery magistrate at Liver pad. is the room of Mr. Msaadold. The Cork Reporter pointedly :remark. that "in the liet of Irish sheriffs for the primmest year there are inure Roma estholies than in my jeer 'Wes the IllEarnalpatios." Takeo is ocetossion with the Isms isoosedia et gimllsessa of the sues permeate to the magisterial heath, this dram stenos, Ws the Isparta-, is proof at the itherelity of the present Irish seversaisatt. The Room catisolis potholes appointed this peer es sheriffs are twelve is amber. The Rey. C. H. Spurgeon delivered his first ser mon In Dellis on Tmeday. On Tuesday night Dr. Lyon Playfair delivered his third leotard on the retakes of Chemists/ to the Isdoiariel Arts, to a vegerdwdedsadttoq, fa Qmen-eirest Hail, lid's burgh. The yeasir Fronk mimes were presses, sad were accommodated with seats is the *them. Joan Guest, Em., of Dudley, has made the =ini tiated donation of I,OOW. to the fends of the Chased Hos pital at Birmingham The Queen's speech on opening parliament was transmitted to Paris by telegraph in 42 abate& The deownent was divided Who three parte, and shah pert wee onsuitted to a ea/sue wire, the fret words king nut at at MI Wastes past 1, end the lest a quarter put The Universal Agricultural Fahibition of Peril lam place is the week hetween the 17th end gird of Jane amt. It will loge& adds, pigs, poultry, lohplesente, with handsaw money prises, and gold, silver, and brans medals fur the eneemstsl eceupeiluos. IL de Lowers, who has just returned to Paris, ties Coustausirogis, Is shoat to pablloh a pazaphist in sensor to the *edam reload in England against his Wham al Sew .as... The Nihon Garotte weeks of aueserous armee mole by seder of the Modes groversemit at Vaudois rad adealso the amber at shoo 400. Baron Newell has, is an (dada PateraPb Pub lished ha the Masaere Meter of the UM, expressed hie thaeks to the tailless of Flamm for their 9081fmk/caw is noastratioas of afhation for hie perm daring the Lb attimagas at diatarbeace. TIES LAT, CAPTAIN HARRISON. The metal reemaine of the lats Captain Harrison will leave Ibiellempka by the 3 p.m. Wale this 44, as their Pay to Liverpool, hr istenneat. The following °Mobil stelae wee herd yesterdsy, et Sembanaptos, in the ships et s lsadblU, ammessied by a moursiag borer ; irk: " Borough at Ileathamptas —Caste et Caplets Harriers, et the Grist Beautra. At ea amiably of the maid at the liswesith offloatbseeptem, held this day at the Asia-hoses, la Brathamptes, Prederlak Porkies, L I ., mayor, la the chair. it wee remelved masionously : bat, is order le lest* the reepest et the Ishabiteate at tows to the memmy et Me late geoid Cepa& Harries% this cousiel norm--d thee the lesiumess dtb. tem, will, as Thirsday, the WM Wiest, tier their smehlegemeate daring the Mee Captein Banims's resales are bow ors weged le the ad way ; that the alma* tally la Ilse taws do rig a ossified peel at 8 o'clock Is she miming. sad again at $ clank la the mealy: of the semi dayl; that lthe belle do 101 l a muffled knell from half-paet 1 to 3 o'clock as the Is.. day, duriag time the bed of Captain Herders will be massysd from Ida haell to the itallwai la ritee ; that ablaut* gem les Ind from the Platform hem 2 till 3 o'clock of the said cley.'—By order, Citialas DIAOOW, Teen-obwk.—Aadiehause, likarhaseptes, Jaa. 24:" MEATH OF LADY CHAILLOTTE PROBT.—Wei Feint to learn that Lady Charlene Proby died on Monday/loot, ander midden drourastenoss. The lamented lady slid on y afternoon to pay • visit to bee e the Dowers Lady Woolork. in Bloteley-equare, r anr i a Just tarn a &dr tithe tirseing•romn, when her ladyship fell back and soon afterwards expired. The deemed led, wee eldest daughter of Joh. Joshua, first Earl of Croydon, by his second m with third dattgbter the late Right How. Grenville. and woe born in 1788. The Hari of Corydon, Lord and Lady Claud Hamilton, the Bari Fortemooe, and other families of rank sr* plied in moa miag by the sad oocurreses. ROYAL COLUMBAIIIAN CLUB.-11110 third grand cannel row tel pigmies braising to the meenbere of this abeam held as Tomalley at earrtaa's Hotel, Pleetrreet, in i th e e ss Zrade at die bare of the premier. This dub was as the beginning of the rear 1867, sad the an ererenor it bas resolved treat mod of the redeems who to de hewed la the beauty of the pleases aid shape of thus admeally pretty birds grainier well lee ita future welfare. The members meet err' fourth Toads, dation the mouths of Bephosiber to: February isolative, deo on the fourth Tam* la Jane Jely, tor the purpose of showing their birds, and at disseelleg the mo ult mof reciromm erldioll al the Mem* plebe pory r te pig shows throughout the esnetry. Amapa the birds exhibited yes terday were one entredid Was festal* white ditto *Aire, risk and Mil% beat Herded' Weir, Esq. ; carriers ban W. Pry, Ls, el) i ght= ; aim a very motel caddis of herbs, bernees% sad rare, tram P. H. Jose*, Esq. ; dies abort-fauns dewed. sad beanie, fn m Messrs. Pardee', Thema, sad Aral.. H. Morris, Eel., exhibited mom good toys, Inoludleg tartilis, owl., magpies, &a. A. °airs, Esq., mot soots good swallows. jecobines. &I.; H. Tows*, Pr., magpies, aod a capital pair of Bruaswicke, rte. 0. 0, Mira, of Birmbigham, mot about 60 Mrds. Whaling good leatalls, carrier*, Merles, owls, turban., Aka Altogether, the show was most mtisfactory, sad early 600 pram Tilted this capital oakcilon. ASSIGNATION OF THE CHIEF SUPSZINTENDIUIT OF Tn. Brant Pouom—Mr. R. A. &rheas, who has held lee above agpototamot to nearly 20 years, east is his resignation to the retch mormilttas tee Tueday. 11l boatel la the cars. Our correepoodest adds :" If the tows dreaoU does Its daty, It will &mud local prejudice*, and by pit& advertkeerest air the beet are in whatever quarter he may be four." biz AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH Cosirsztir.—M a meeting of the hoe's' of dirostors of this aompasy, held yeetied4,lt wee reeolired to.reesebstisd to the Fisopristare, et the goneral wreaks W birblld'et the Un do' Teossu es the 7tb day of Febrile' y lust, to wakes • • dividerl 3i. 10e. pes mt. /or Use kat hall-yeeri ,ATEST INTELLIGENCE. SARDINIA. The indipoidents of Turin, which passes for being Count Cayour's journal, says, in ita number of the 23rd, that nothing now opposes the Prince of Carig nan's assuming the Regency. It Liao urges King Victor Emmanuel to make a tour through Tuscany and the Emilian Provinces. Count Mamiani, Minister of Public Instruction at Turin, has finned • circular to the members of the Supreme Council of Public Instruction, announcing that he will faro= liberty of instruction daring his administration. TUSCANY. li , LORENCII, WIDNESDLT. The Monitors Toseano publishes an official expla nation of the reasons for the reserve manifested in the decree proclaiming the Sardinian statutes in Tuscany. The Tuscan government only intended to reserve the organic laws of Tuscany on freedom of commerce and industry, and some other special laws. The national parliament will decide whether those laws are to cease in Tummy, or whether, Oa the contrary, they are to be extended for the common benefit. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (mon ors °lnt ooasauPoirDsxri PARIS, WIDNISDAT EVINIXO. The Parse says the commercial treaty was signed by M. Bawds., as the representative of France, and by Lord Cowley, as the representative of Eng land. It hu reason to know that the following are the principal clauses :—The duty on wines in Eng land will be reduced from 160 per cent. to 28 per amt.; silks will be admitted day free ; the duty on iron in France will be 7fr. the 100 kilogrammes; manufactured woollens and cottons will be protected by a maximum duty of 30 per sent —the reduction from that figure to be fixed after inquiry. The raw materials mentioned in the Emperor's letter will be admitted into Freon free of duty on July 1, 1861, and prohibitions will be removed on October 1 fol lowing. The treaty will be executory as far as England is concerned on the day of its promulga tion, which will take place after the exchange of ratifications, early in February. According to the Paris some protectionist menu. !tourers are hterally doing what the satirist About represented them capable of—attempting to stir up the operatives in favour of protection. "In certain places they tell the workmen that the effect of the reforms projected will be the suppression of works, and more particularly in the woollen and cotton factories." The Petrie observes that- the cotton and woollen trades are those which will most immediately benefit by the new treaty of commerce, because they will at aloe enjoy the advantages of a reduction of the datiee on raw materials, and will be protected by prohibitions against foreign competition in various manufactured goods until 1861. It would appear from the above twa paragraphs of the Petrie, taken together, that there is to be an immediate reduction of the duties on raw materials, bet that the duties on them will not be entirely removed till July, 1881, which people had supposed to be the utmost period fixed for the removal of prohibitions ; that inc-abos will, it is now said, remain for three months longer—namely, till October, 1861. The Chamber of Commerce of Calais has sent an address of thanks to the Emperor for the suppres sion of prohibitions as fax as regards the lace trade, which occupies 8,000 heads in Calais and Bt. Pierre. The Calais people say they have now no fear of English sompetition, and refer to the specimens they sent to the Universal Exhibition in London aa a proof of the excellence of their loos. At a ministerial council held to-day, at which the Emperor presided, M. Thouvenel took his seat for the first time. M. Fould left Paris this morning, to preside at the eouneil-general of the Hashes Pyrenees. He will return to Paris on Saturday. M. Delangle performs the duties of minister of state ad interim. At the Bourse the general opinion was that there was nothing in the Queen's speech to justify the sales made yesterday upon the supposed coat/eta of it. M. Marie's financial report, the appearance of which has, without any explained reason, been de layed for at least six weeks, was considered likely to give a stimulus to the funds. The minister shows that the floating debt is reduced to 760 millions, and that the Treasury bonds, which in 1868 had reached the figure of 346 million., are now scarcely 136 millions. A very favourable symptom is the rapid absorption of the Bentes by the savings of the country. The purchases of Ratites in 1869, made by the receivers-gesend, amounted to 187 millions against 40 millions of sales, showing an excess of 147 millions, which is doable that of last year. It wee, however, remarked with surprise that the report says not • word about the 100 millions paid by the Bank of Franco in exchange for 4 millions of Rents Three per Cents. By the treaty made with the Bank in 1857, it was expressly stipulated that these 100 millions should be applied in reduction of old deficits. Notwithstanding the various reasons which it might have been thought would have pro duced a better feeling, the Rents opened with warmly • rise of 10e.; and in • very few minutes the pressure of sales brought the quotations down to a point 20c. below the opening price. This de pression was partly attributed to a report from Naples that the Filanghieri ministry had been re placed by an absolutist cabinet. The closing quo tations were 68fr. 86e. for cash, and 68fr. 66e. for account, being a rise of 6e. ►nd 10c. Mobilier fell 21r. 60c. Railways were much firmer than the Bente. Orl, ens rose 7fr. 60c. ; Northern, Eastern, and Western, 2fr. 60c. each ; Lyons, 6fr. ; and Southern, lfr. 26e. M. About has been fighting a duel. At the end of his last feuilleton in the Opinion Nationale he spoke vaguely of having been grossly insulted in a minor journal, and said that a friend,who met him on his arrival in Paris, took it for granted that he had come from the country to fight. M. About proceeded, in terms which I decline to repeat, to describe his, assailant as person whom no gentleman could think of meeting ; if assaulted be should hand him over to the Amiss Court, but he would not do the hang man's work with his own hands. Two or three days mince, as M. About was sitting in the Neapolitan Calk, on the Boulevard, a M. Vaudic, a writer in the Orpheon, a musical journal, walked in and, calling him aloud by his name, taxed him with cowardice. and spat in his fees. A meeting was the consequence. The parties fought with swords, and I hear that both of them received slight seratehes. Tam CommaaciAL POUCT or FLurcll.--Tbe Livoupool Clamber of Ommeree, at their nariting yessur. dipeened • reashilies. remeribig their aseldhotiela at the ez reandy eserrieted by Wei Saperor M the Fresh n hu latter to K. Fonbl, reibliminglod hapertaa• amb its in the connumoiel poi* N inirrae. BouNTLEs To bwax.—An order of her Majesty le roamed appear la Temmiley's airmeito eatemdiegase rhea limited tor permeate baste at ieer pours to *ha am and two pomade to wiliest, ewes freen the let of February lodise of Nardi MIL IMPIRSE4, EVI frivadslaip 30,816,361, ally 3.6 is every 400 ialiabitants take etinent t no part is the movement. Thus It a that mime &zing vie- 10,000,000 of the population remain jeaf to the call. Potentates. The truth is, the movement is confined to the middle Th,,, I'KE 4r410 • 1, THE FRENCH BUDGET. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the financial report of M. Magne to the Emperor. The Minister congratulates himself that the state of the treasury is flourishing. The arrears, which were 886 millions of franc, do not now exceed 660 millions. The Minister says that he has communicated to the Council of State the documents necessary for the preparation of the budget of 1881. The following are his remarks on this part of the report: Mass doonanats would lead us to anticipate an wows of revenue equal to about three millions. Your Majany, wishing to encourage national production and to place industry in a state more advantageous for com petition, hail usoeived a vast programme of internal reforms, among which figures the rename of raw materials an 4 certain articles of great consumption from duty. The redueraca of the dudes might entail a disturbance to the balance of the budget; but your Majesty, so rightly desiring to neaten our finances from all injury and to main tain good order in the budgets, propose* to compensate the momentary low that the treasury will experience by the re source of the sinking fund. As I said to your Majesty in my report of 1867, "to produce its full effect, the sinking fund oughtto molt) from a positive emus of income. If it be otherwise the money It absorbs will °nation a deficit in the budget. This deficit Increases the floating debt, which latter soda wooer or Wier in the creation of °Quoit," that is to say, the sinking fund in this one, instead of extinguishing the public den, tend. to increase it at a loss to the treasury. Consequintly, however good is itself—however just and wise the sinking fund may be, as a measure of foresight especially, se a check upon and obstacle against the buena of the expenditure, It to intelligible that in action may be suspended in the presence of an inevitable deficit. But, since the sinking fend is of itself a guarantee of order, your Ma. testy would not resign yourself to this sardine, though only temporary, save in a eased absolute necessity. I we con vinced that you will be happy to maintain it in ectivity, ' should the low to the treasury be capable of being compen sated, wholly or is part, either by the progressive amount derived feet the tans, or by savings effected in the public expenditure. nothing, in hot, is Impossible with the lasting pesos of which your Majesty beide out the hope in your propamme. Economy keeps in reserve ebundant resources, and in ■ country like Francs, prepared u it now is, it would be difficult to estimate too highly what may be produced by confidseos in the future. To suer up, Sire—Tbe era of pesos inaugurated by the pro gramme traced oat fa yoar Majesty's letter to the Minister of State ogre =dor the followiag financial candidate: The tzars ea the debit side of the old Maple is reduced from 886 to 660 millions. The bodgeta of 1866, 1866, 1857 are balahcod without deficit. The budget of 1868, though deprived of all extraneous eld and charged with the expenses of the Chinese war and of the public work', ends, nevertheless, in an axaese of Mown by more than 12 millions. The denting debt, which threatened to go beyond a mil- Herd, is already reduced to 750 millions, and placed in pre mos of disposable resources, which within a very brief period will make it sink below 700 millions. The Treasury bonds, which in 1868 bad reached the sum of 346 millions, now hardly amount to 136 millions, and the interest lowered from 4 to 21 per Gent. The treasury, notwithstanding the coneiderable reimburse meets ft bee elleady effected on the Meiling debt, is in a state now for miserieg all the ordinary and extraordinary current demands, ter the office was closed yesterday at Paris with 261 million. in cash, and 150 millions in notes. The hum and Indirect revenues advance so steadily that the gravest akearmeemes have aearoely been able to prodeo a cheek, end lave yhhisit, time the reign, ea hearers tbst snrpetwee, not huhuHog the new im pels, the ameeneees and teeny eharsoteristk aunt of 288 mellikne. of this The 'pedal commerce of France with foreign nations hail Incensed daring the same period at the rate of about 80 pm mat. The Shasstary circulation has been enriched by nearly ono milliard end 600 =Ulnas, griming from the difference between the exports sad imports of the precious metals. The Beak of France I provided with a metallic fund of 66111211110ne, end enabled oat this buds to extend tho circula tion sufficiently so as to promote largely the development of commercial operations. The Bonne has been reorganised, and affords to the public greater guarantees, without depriving bustards of le gitimate facilities and the asosmary intermediate meats. If, owing to the wise foresight of your Majesty, and to the marvellous fertility of the country, It has bean possible I. obtain this favourable situation ha the midst of the complies does, wars, scarcities, crises of every kind, that for five years have impeded the financial orrics of the state, is it net permitted to hope that, with pros and the like proclaim, the general progress will not be arrested, and teat the sad. Boss about to be imposed on the treasury in favour of sgrL ' copses, commerce, and industry, will not fail to naive compsnastkoa that will maintain the good state of the loaner f THE DREAM AND THE PAPAL QUESTION. M. 8. de &icy, chief editor of the looted des DEbals, write, to M. Bertin, managing proprietor of that paper, to protest against the article by M. John Letsoinne on the above subject. The principles of that article, he says, are entirely destructive of the papacy and the catholic, church. Deprived of his temporal power, the Pope as Bishop of Rome would be the subject of the power to whom Rome might belong in the division of the Papal Stated : Let us suppoee that power to be Piedmont : the suppatfon Is not an improbable one. Hem then, is the Pope, the head of the catholic church, become a Flatmates' suect ; that 1 is to my, he 1., with mud le King Victor Emmanuel and Count Cavour, precisely in the position in which the Archbishop of Paris is with regard te the Emperor Gad the Preach miniatry. The Pope, the spiritual hed of two hun dred millions of catholic., • subject of Piedmont. A Pied monts.. subject, in his capacity of Bishop of Rome over all cethelie mattes with the power I have described to you. He will send to them legates and nuncios, and will receive their anabaseadors. By himself or by his representatives be will come among them to elf:maim the highest of juriallotioes. He will govern their conatoleacee in matters of faith and worship, will institute their bishop., conclude ooncordats on the footing of equality with their kings or their emperor,. He will be able to strike them with interdict or excommunication. Do you think that the catholic powers could long endure it, mid that such a state of things would not drive them into schism P Call to mind what toot plate last year at the cora inencsenent of the Italian veer. The bishops of France, ea was their duty, put forth pastoral charges to establish the justice of our cause and to invoke the blessing of God on our arms. The Austrian bishops have done the same on their side to claim the protection of Heaven in 'LWOW of their prince and their country. Nothing more natural ad simple ; Auatrlans or French, these bishops govern only thole dioceses. Suppose, on the contrary, the war should break oat between the King of Piedmont, now become the Pope's kitig, and one of the other catholic powers. As Bishop of Rome, will the Pope publish bulls and order prayers on behalf of his prince? Will his inhl- Mile mouth Renounce to ell the earth that am am. of PM. loont was the mem of God P Will all the oatholice In the world, even those with whom Piedmont will be at nor, he obliged to rewire the Pope's nulls, to join their prayers to the Pope's, end will Piedmont thus unite to temporal arms the spiritual arms of which the Pope Sde vary It Or will the Wilted power of the Pops he s ad during the wet, sad the nation that la opposed to Piedmont apply to another Pops then the Bishop of Rotas for the government of its churches. Once more: is it not certain that schism—near at-hand and Inevitable schism—is the result of this pretended aeperatioa of the spiritual trout the tampers' power, which would task, the head of the catholic church the private sub ject of any one power What is to bedons, then, we shall be asked. It is not for ea, who wish to maintain what is, to answer the question, or rather our answer Is already given. It le for those who wish to overthrow the work of ages, sod goatlike the Pope theoeud from the throne on which God's hand bee placed him, to tell us what secret they hold in tessera tor eon hiving that the Pope should be wither the dependent subject of may one catholic power, nor the placid and humble arrant of till the catholic powers at once. And if many of thus. not having the moderation and th e religious leriftg of Y. John Lerootone, meatier that they snap their gegen et oat WWI.= and the Po; e, shall we not have the right to ea them why, oaring so much se they do for two or three mil lions of lislans, they cars so little for 200,000,0 4 * of oatho lion, amongst whim they reckon, perhaps, 30,000,000 of Tim Wpm DUTIES —The duty levied at our porta ea all foreleg. wises nude, the esieu•tt tariff is 6e. 6d. par &loci, and an additional duty of 6 per cent. On wine the growth and produce of any British pomemiun, and imported direct trues theses, • duty of 2.. 9d. and 6 per cont. addi tional is levied. If lb. statement published in the Petrie of lest events; Is reliable, We duty on French winos will be reduced to about le 2d. a enit"n, wed of wane the duty on whet foreign num, mad, u fortiori, on colonial wines, must