The Press. — London, England, 1858-06-12 00:00:00

molts of his countrymen by frequenting horseraces and theatres on the Sunday ; added to which, his recently published book on the Revolution of 1848 prov es that he was utterly incapable of discharging the duties of his office w.th advantage to his country; though his business was to collect information, and that he knew no more—nay, not so much —ot what wa s passing as the meanest newspaper corre spondent. M. de Pene, the gentleman who was wounded in the late melancholy duel, has been a good deal worse during the last few days, and his recovery after all is by no means certain. I hear that the judicial anthorities, after making an investigation into all the circumstances of the duel, havo come to the conclu• sion that no ground exists for prosecuting M. Ilyene, the military officer, De Pene's adversary; but their conclusion is net yet official. The Emperor leaves for I'lombieres on the 20th, and the Empress for Biarritz on the same day. Their Majesties the other evening did Count \Valewski, Alinister of Foreign Affairs, the honour to attend a lite given by him at his chateau near Fontainebleau, where their Majesties are still staying. The Conference has held a new sitting to day. It is believed that the plenipotentiaries are still very far from agreed, but as they observe profound secrecy, nothing positive is known on the subject. jartiga ad 6alattial ',lntelligent. FRANCE. The Moniteur has the following : The Emperor has had the pious idea of securing to France the posvession of the habitation where the Emperor Napoleon I. entled his days, and of the tomb where his ashes reposed. Associating itself with the august solici tittle of his Imperial Majesty, the Legislative Corps has voted an extraordinary credit of 1130,000 francs to be placed at the disposal of the Department of Foreign Affairs. The acquisition of these precious ruins is now an accomplished fact. On the 18th of March last a decree passed by the Legislature of St. Helena, and ratified on the 7th of May following by an order cf the Queen of England, conferred upon the Emperor of the French, and his heirs for ever, the absolute right of property in the domain of Longwood and of the tomb of Napoleon I. Thus, thanks to the willing intervention of the Government of her Britannic Majesty, those sacred localities where incom parable destinies were fulfilled belong henceforth to France. TURKEY. The British Consul-General at Belgrade has been attacked and severely wounded by two Turkish suldiers. A Russian frigate is coming to Ragusa. The Turkish Government is fully resolved to oppose by force the insurrection of the Christians in Caudis. There is much agitation among the people of the island. Many families are emigrating. AMERICA. Two New York regiments have tendered their services to the President in case of war with this country, and an additional appropriation of 50,600 dollars for the Brooklyn navy-yard had been made. The Minister of Marine had given orders for the armament and departure of all the ships of war ; the steamers Artic and Waterwitch included. INDIA. The following telegram has been received : ALKIANDMA, June 4. The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day. with intel ligenve from Calcutta to the bth of May. Madras the 10th, Ce)lon the 14th, Hong Kong April 23rd, and Mauritius May 10th. Sir Hugh Rose defeated the rebels at Bul Sir Kooneh about the 30th of April, killing 404). They are making another stand near Calpee. The Nana, with all the cavalty in Bareilly, was trying to cross the Ganges to join his broTher at Calpee, cnd thence escape to Central India. °tide is quieting down. Mr. Montgomery has restored the talookilar4, and established the ze4 indaree s)stkma, to the content of the people. Jung Bahadoor had reached Azimghur, on his return march. There has been some slight disturbance caused by a bill tribe in Assam. A small detachment of Europeans and Ghoorkas having followed them into the mountains had been repulsed with loss. At Calcutta, imports generally were in active demand. The export market was dull, but without a decline in prices, owing to small supplies. The money-market un ehltiged. Freights had iallen. I.:change, 2s. hl. fur credits, and 2s, lid. to 2s. ltd. for documents. At Madras, there is no change in the market. Exchange his not varied. The Victoria, w i t h th e A u s t ralian mails, started from Ad en for Suez before the Nemuis, but has not yet been bawd of. THE PRESS, JUNE 12, 1858. CHINA. A despatch from Pekin directs the foreign plenipoten tiaries to return to Canton to meet the new commissioner, who, it is said, is gathering forces with the intention of attempting the recapture of Canton. Lord Elgin and his colleagues had left for the Peiho. The transactions in the import market at Hong Kong were very moderate. Exchange, ts. 91. for first-class paper. Prices of tea in the Chinese markets unaltered. SHANGHAI, April 14. Considerable operations in silk at former rates. Mid. filing and inferior somewhat lower. Exchange, Os. lid. to Os. 2d. for credits. (out and tasOion. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompa nied by Colonel I'onsonby, arrived at Dover at eleven o'clock on Monday last from Ostend, in the Admi ralty steam•packet Vivid, Commander Allen, on his return from the visits he has just paid to Coburg and Babelsberg. At the latter place his Royal Highness has been the guest, incognito, of the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia, whom he quitted on Sunday, and, arriving at Ostend on Mon day, embarked in the Vivid, which was placed in command of Captain Seymour, C. 8., of the Victory, who was specially in attendance. The Vivid made the passage to Dover in four hours and' fifty minutes. " It is affirmed that Prince Albert," says a letter from Berlin, "has just signed at Coburg an official document by which he transmits his hereditary rights to the duchy of Coburg to his second son. The reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg has no children ; Prince Albert, who is the next heir, is obliged to live in England ; and as there would be great inconve nience in his eldest son, who is destined to succeed to the throne of England, being at the same time reigning Duke of Coburg, it has appeared right to choose the second son of the Prince to govern this little State. The young Prince will shortly arrive in Berlin, and is to remain some time in Germany, in order to prepare himself for his position of a German Prince." 1)011tItal. CABINET CouNcrLs were held on Saturday and Wednesday at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing•street. The Ministers present were—The Earl of Derby, the Lord Chan cellor, the Marquis of Salishurv, the Earl of Hard wicke, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Secre tary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir E. B. Lytton, General Peel, Sir John Pakington, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, and Lord John Manners. THE STATE PRESS PROSECUTIONS Of Mr. True• love and Mr. Tcherwiski for alleged libels on the Emperor of the French are fixed for Friday, the 18th instant, before Lord Campbell and a special jury, in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Attorney-General. the Solicitor-General, and Mr. Welsby will conduct the prosecution for the Crown. Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Phinn, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, and Mr. Simon are retained for the defence. Ir is stated that Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Jones, of Pantglas, Mr. Christopher, and Sir Charles linightley, are to be raised to the peerage. 3rtIRA A CORRESPONDENCE has taken place between Mr. John F. Maguire, member for Cork, and the Earl of Eglinton, relative to the refusal by the former to be placed on the commission of the peace. Mr. Mac guire assigns as a reason the fact of having political motives attributed to him. He concludes his letter to the Lord Lieutenant in the following words .- 1 enure your Excellency I appreciate your unlooked-for courtesy the more from the fact that the application of the Town-council of this city, over which I presided as major in 1853. was refused in 1854, from motives of hostility, the result of political animosity—the application being made with a view of further rewarding one who, with all his faults, had been sn active chief magistrate. SIR PHILIP CRAMPTON died on Thursday morning, at his residence in Dublin, after a long and painful illness. The deceased baronet, who was a Doctor of Medicine, a Fellow of the Royal Society, Surgeon- General to the !Forces, and Surgeon in Ordinary to her Majesty in Ireland, was born in 1779, and mar ried in, 1802, Selina, daughter of Mr. Patrick Hamil ton Cannon, of Littleton, county Westmeath, late of the 12th Light Dragoons, by whom he has issue. Sir Philip Crampton is succeeded by his eldest son, John Fiennes Twisleton, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, and now Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg, who was born in 180 f. 571 eitttion 3nttiligtut. RE ELECTION OF SIR E. B. LYTTON. SIR EDWARD Iltamea lorrroN appeared before the electors of the county of llertford on Tuesday, in consequence of his appointment to the office of Secretary of State for the Colonies in Lord Derby's Government, and was re-elected without opposition. The proceedings took place in a field adjacent to th• borough of llertford in the presence of a large con course of the townspeople. A semicircle of open carriages filled with ladies, and drawn up in such manner as to inclose the crowd on foot, gave a pleas ing relief to the monotony of the assemblage. The right hon. baronet was proposed by Mr. P. Delme Radcliffe, and Mr. C. D. Dimsdale seconded the nomination. No other candidate being proposed, The High Sheriff, amid vehement cheers, deeared Sir E. B. Lytton duly elected a knight of the shire for the county of Hertford. Sir E. B. LvrroN then presented himself to the assemblage, and was greeted with loud cheers. He said : Gentlemen, it is somewhere between :100 and 40(1 years ago that an ancestor of mine, who resided at Knehworth, was a Minister of the Crown, and also a member for this county . H e held a considerable station in the councils of King Henry VII., and be was equally honoured by the con fidence of the electors of Hertfordshire. At a somewhat later period another member of my family held a post of great dignity under Queen Elizabeth ; he also had the proud distinction of being knight of the shire of Hertford. And now I stand before you es my forefathers stood before your forefathers, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for having permitted me to - identify the honour which 1 have received from the gracious favour of my Sovereign with the representation of our native county. ( Cheers.) Gentlemen, in my address I stated that they who beat knew me were aware how little at any time in my life I have been actuated by the desire of office in the pact that I have taken in public affairs. Perhaps ion may say that that is a declarer ott which is made by m-iny and believed by few. But it so happened that several years ago, when I was a young man, and at that age when ambi tion is most keen, I refused an introduction into office under a Government which then seemed so firmly established as to offer every inducement to an official career. And I think you will candidly allow that it is less Intely that I should be tempted by office now, when I have arrived at that period of life at which men who have worked as hard and as long as I have done usually begin to desire repose ; when my countrymen have accorded to me some degree of literary reputation, which may have little to gain from the hazarilout experiment of office, and when a fortune which suffices for all my wants, and a country home to which I am strongly attached, would naturally dispose me tow arils that comparative freedom from anxiety and toil which is the happy privilege of an independent member of Parliament. ( Hear, hear.) But you may ask , if that be so, why do yon take office ? Gentlemen, why do Englishmen do many things which they do not like very much in themselves? In that crowd there is, perhaps, some honest tradesman who in the course of his life has given a vote that he need not have given at all, and which lie would rather not have given, as it may have obliged him to offend some powerful customer of his, but by means of which he has, neverths less, sought to serve an up• right cause. Why, again, does the old soldier go forth once more to fight when, perhaps, he would prefer to stay by his own fireside ? Why do many children work fur their parents and many parents continue to work in their old age for their children Is it not because Englishmen are accustomed to believe that the first object of lite is not ease, but duty ? (Cheers.) And, gentlemen, when those by whose aide had acted for many years of Opposition were suddenly called upon to form a Government, and did me the honour to think that I might be of some use in sharing the task which they had undertaken, you will allow it was my duty to do all that might lie in my humble power to assist them in the discharge of responsibilities which they did not seek, and from which they could not shrink. ( Hear, hear.) I have been asked, and I will take this occasion fully to explain, why I did not join Lord Derby's Govern ment when it was first formed. One Wednesday morning Lord Derby, when he was just beginning to construct his Administration, asked me whether I would accept the same office which I have now the honour to hold. I answered "Yes," from the same motives as I have just stated, though with a sincere and painful diffidence of my own capacity. A fee hours atterwinds, on the evening of the same day, I received a sudden and unex• pected intimation that my seat would be hotly contested. did not complain of such a proceeding; it would have been perfectly constitutional. I only say it took me by surprise, because it is not usual when a member has been appointed to office under a Government which has not been tried even for a single day, as that of Lord Derby had not then been. I assure you if I had then been only an independent member of Parliament, with my own safety alone to consult, I should not have feared any opposi:ior. But my immediate thought—and it was my own thought —was this, that the new Government ought not to be exposed to the slightest possible risk of the loss of a single seat on its first appeal to the country for the re-election of its members. ( Hear, bear.) A: that time I had not an hoar before me to decide. the great offices of State were to be immediately n. :ide. MI itely filled Inrwig