The Express. — London, England, 1860-07-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 24, ALL TEAS at ISERCRANTS' PROFITS. The WV ROUC 0, ed, *a 9d. per Ilk 1100111 HERS M on-lorldso, City. • DARIMAN PAP RANGIEGS, at the JILL Wooed dat—M. CHAFFIN, SS sad .11T, OXFOZD SMUT. elms to t . IVlaosm's Theatre. answered o(--hand„ as Mr. Ric Anno and Mr. Hug- BMW answer it, wit► recognised authority, on purely financial grounds. Terminable annuities are, so doubt, not unfairly described ass wasteful mode 011 raising money for the public service. But this it but one, and not the larger, aspect of the ques tion. National expenditure for national defence is a political and moral, as well as a financial question. It may be correct to say that we are providing for the safety of our pos terity ; but our own life interest in the proper execution of this work is more appreciable than the interest of our descendants. Is it not better and juster, and safer, that we should pay, and feel that we are paying, for our peace and safety, than that our posterity should pay for our blunders and our jobs? Lord Pammsurrox has wisely and with a good grace acceded to the request that the discussion of the Ministerial Resolution should be deferred till Monday next. There are probably few English men who, like Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, are afraid of giving publicity to these questions. We shall not be a whit more assailable or defenceless be cause we tell all the world where our weak places and sore points are. We are accustomed to this public flaying and anatomising process, and we manage to survive it. ebt Court. 08BORNT, JULY 23. Earl Granville returned to London thu morning. A meeting of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall was held yesterday at the Duchy-office, Buckingham-gate, St. James's-park. There were present the Chancellor, Lord Kings town ; the Keeper of the Privy Seal, Sir William Dunbar ; the Attorney-General, Sir Wm. J. Alexander, Lord Portman, and the Secretary, Br. James R. Gardiner. A deputation from the National Association for the Pro motion of Social Science had an interview with the Bight lion. C. P. Villiers at the office of the Poor-law Board, Whitehall. Despatches were received at the Colonial•otBce, yester day, hero the Governors of the North American Provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island. Despatches wens sent to the Governor of Canada and the Governors of the settlement, on the West Coast at Africa. The Marquis La Greca has arrived at the Cla rendon Hotel, from Paris. The Prince and Prinoma Koutchikoff and family have left the Brunswick Hotel, dermyowtreet, for Frances Anne Marchioness of Londonderry has left Holdernesaelklooae for Wynyard Park, Stockton•on- Tees. The Earl and Countess of Fife and family have left Groevenor-cieseent for Scotland. The Earl and Countess of Warwick have left town for Kingston-on Thames, where the noble earl has taken a house for a few months. The Hon. Spencer and Lady Harriet Cowper have left Parrance's Hotel for Sandringham Hall, Norfolk. The Wednesday receptions of Mrs. Dallas at the American Legation are discontinued owing to the death of a near relative. Lady Charlotte Watson-Taylor was 'safely deli vered of a daughter on Saturday, at her residence in Grosvenor-square. Mr. R. J. Mulford, M.P., and Mrs. Holford have left Park-lane for their seat, Westonbirt, Gloucester shire. The Lord Bishop of London has appointed the Rev. James Matthew Roberto; ILA., at present secretary to the Church of England Scriptnre Readers' Society, and curate of Grosvenor Chapel, to the perpetual curacy of St. Botolph, Altlgat4, in the City of Loudon, now vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Pease Baker Y.A. . mint conetitutes eatioual wealth—aye, and • proportion of our notions' fool--upon a free communiattion by sea. We ilia port assoally about In millions of quarters of grain. Our importation of cafes, sugar, tea, mod cotton, which is next to vein, for the support of our people ambling them to earn their fond, though not food in itself, to enernious. (H ear , hear.) th ar wea lth depends epos tit; impostation of our manufacturea, and whet we le e ahae a in tie way of aeosseerise. bat mar amen& to somildins. ably more than 140milliseis sew fora no rnent Liverpool, Briatol, Loam, and blockaded by hostile forme Picture to yorassives what would become e 1 the indiratry, the wealth of the oromitry—to say nothisg of the power which a Natio* able to engage you would have of bringing number' of troop& aim to attack you. I ear that is a result which it is inspomilile to contemplate diout fear, alarm, and horror, and a mutt which uu go % el noout and no nation ought, by ita osgiect soil smithy, to ',oiler posaible. (('holera) Some gentlemen think that we isre keeping up excessive military establishmeuta ; but they are far lielow what might be brought against us. If lotelon were iu danger, what you would west would be to tight mo , two, or it might be three battles—l have no Joint the find would be eufficient—(sheen}—but to fight a battle with the greatest possible amount of military force ogainet the forces that might be brought to attack you. Hut for that purpose, in order to have the largest possible woman of military force to meet an enemy in the held, you mint make such arrangemeate that you need have the smallest &unmet pomade of military force to defend those important positions, your dockyards and anneals. If there are no mammal defences, and you axe obliged to keep at such places • force sufficient to meet in the field the forces that might be bright in army against you, it is obvious that to scatter year small amount of military means that yew would probably not be able to concentrate for the defames? of London that amount of forte that would be seceesery to meet an invading army. Therefore it is most important to have fortificatioca for your dockyards, the effect of which would he to equalise, by artificial means, for the purpose of revastanin, & smaller tome within and • larger force with out ; so that those fortifications of your dockyards are, is fact, the means of defence for London, rendering unmet's wiry the coneeutration of a large force for the defence of those arsenals, and leaving • larger force for the defence 44 London by operations in the field. (Hear, hear.) That is an answer to those who say that it is all very well to defend Sheerness or Plymouth, bet why leave Loudon undefended! My answer to that is, that ditches, and walls. and bastions are not applicable to the defence of a vast city like London, surrouMe.l as it is lap suburbs equally pipulous with some large towns in the interior. The real awl only defence of Londee is ea easy in the field ; and those are the only means which will enable von to make that army as large sod effective sa possible. 1 say the; nos proposal is directly ouleerrient to the defence of the capital itself. (Hear, haw.) Then we are told that we ought not to confine our arrangements to our dockyards alone-41,d there are other points mom important- Liver pool, • great and wealthy city, Bristol, Newcastle, and other places. My answer to those who make that obeares• Coe is that we hare not neglected those other points. The defences necessary for those groat commercial towns nerd not be of the suave kind and Ammeter as those required for the dockyards. Those towns partake in aped degree of the nature of London —that is to say, they cantatas mat population. for the supply of whisk it would be (11111- cult to provide if they were surronaded by walled Melo sures ; and their suburbs cover • viii space, exte—asilag far beyond what might be canal the town. a'os coald net have there fortiaticeis with open Peaces beyond them free from houses ; and therefore to defent those homes _by lend *uremia forme brought against them by land would be as difficult as to procure the same means of defence for Loos don. (Hear, hear.) Those towns, besides, are tint likely to lo attacked by an army landed for the purpose of invasion. What general skilled in military openitoos would think of eliding a large force to Liverpool, for Matinee—even with the certainty of gaining powaseiou of it! The taking of Liverpool would create a great deal of alarm and injury to the distriet surrounding it ; hot it would not have the same effect on the existence of the country as the capture of London W , llll/1. Therefore it is clear that an enemy who wanted to strike a blow would go at once to the heart of the coun ty to Lotelon—sod not lose time by an attack of that sort on the extremities. (Hear, hear.) Bat we have tame meaeuree to protect, not only Liverpool and Bristol, but ...versa other important oomniereal porta, from the may mush to which they are liable, the attack of small squa drons for the purpose of levying contributions without say large force beiog landed ; and that pestered's would be given either by perriument batteries or by lead-weeks,whieb II') doubt will be amply provided by muse other then those we are new con.idenng. In the plan we propene we an ex actly following the reeommendstiose of the military cow 111111116011 suit strengthening our defensive works at the points which they have Milicated. Many gentlemen think that the sum oitimated by the commissioner, is excessive for the (•• Hear, hear," fo,m Mr. Bright.) We sea only juil,:e of these things by comperion ; and if we find that other countries have spent sums of conespooding mann for purpose. ; wanting them not perhaps so urgently WI we do, it may he thought that the estimate now pre sented is not net of pri to the object to be attained. I lave inquired what other oimetrias have done in this way. I should say, in the first Once, that that portiosi of the esti mate of the nenniarioners which ap es to what they ca al lineaments and Sontag ex i is, to guns and-ibat g latterion—esiosiste of expresso whisk would properly ...we out of the annual votes. la the course of four years it is to be expected that artillery aweigh, la the ordinary ....use of things, would be provided for the works hem pro pool ; and it is not necemery, therefore, to include these 1' riteles in the sum which I propose to raise foe this purpose. ( Hem.) We are of opinion, that imaged of the I I millions additional, the total estimate of the comioiesionms, nine 11111110 O• 11/041111 be sollidest for all the purposes that we rionemplaus at this time. Mid it is to he remembered that that sum, 1,14.13,0001. is included for the purchase of I del, part of which would be required to be covered with ear'oi, but a comoderable portion of which would be avail- Ode for other purresee. I mean for lettiag, as an to produce ono,. sort &usual retain for the many laid oat. That would mane the actual 1111111 for works to 7,154,010. Now, what ha. Fresno dome is regard to defence'? nonce is not couutry so likely to be leveled, or requiring so much de (owe, as England ; He only accessible frontier lies through :oleo reliant! on one side, sod Belgium on the other ; because au attn. k epos Prune by the Alps, or from Spain soil the lorreisees, is now oat of the question. (Hear, hear.) But in 1441 the French Amsenitily voted 13.2vonur. tor works, of which the fortifications of Paris &lose cost ritklaertrol. (Hear, hear.) And that I am told was not thee by contract to he paid a the usual way ; hut the work men employed were soadiers, who prolablv received ally the pay due to them in that overfly. Well, Cherbourg has oat, free, first to last, 1t,e12,000/ (Hear, bear.) trains am feels that the pest isitprtierisent is 016000, the greeter range of mingles, has remlered both Cherbourg and less wore front attack at sea Ulllll May were before. (lime, hear.) Farther works at Cherbourg are goiag on which I have included in that eight millions ; but at Toulon other 1114 ke an in pragreu which will cast 475,0001 In the Netherlands, at the cud of the war, it was deemed right improve aud caked the works on the frostier, and sow f.emisur part of Belgium ; and there was spent on these fortresses. 6,41.10,01 tiff. There was no land to pooches.; a oche already mediae merely hod to be improved; and lees to be dour, comparatively speaking, than we have t, do in the works reopened. Bet bow are the German* id u regunl to Melon., works! Why, the fortresses of ('. , bents, of Ulm, and of Failstadt have 'cost three radians@ sterling- necessary and important for them no doubt those fortresses are ; Peen, Theiroptadt, and another Name, not yet finished, will cost 2,atftoUol. The works .4 Alexandria, is Italy, have oiet Dearly 7 millions of francs. Rorie has laid out ea her (intuit:eines. 7,z5.-...0my., of which ta., millions belonged to ('ronetadt. My bon. awl pliant trawl (sir Napier) will tell us Low effective those (nit'. ti, doitis have been ; for though be lonibardol !eweetrwg .1.• I dest roy ed it, nose of oar naval officer., gallant s. they were, and strung m were their fleets, were able be nose so user Cranston a. to hare any chance sionsufully attacking it. (Heir, hear.) But Rue sin is n o t inactive now. During the whole of this winter most energetic means hare been taken still further to -drengtheu that fortress. Two thousand carts lave been employed all the winter through in conveying over the ice immense IR./IMM of stunt, in blocks of 24 feet square, and placing them upon the ire, so that they may rink whet' the thaw come., and make the barrier more ffoctual to Croastadt on the northern come f ear, then, when every other country is alive i/1 the pmeibility of at tan, and is laying out immense sane in its defence, it really would he criminal in this country to neglect doing some thing of the same kind, for the purpose ilefensliug thous Iniportent positions no our coast. (Hear, hear.) I have so ..mita that if these cocks are completed, a, l trust they will lir, is a oomparatively short epees of time, they will put ns in a paition of comparative safety. The dvetinies of noikees a„• in the hands of a higher power ; hut it is the duty of 11411 to do all that he reasonably can to realise the designs .1 that power. When theme works are finished we may say, " Be gracious heaven ; For man, laborious man. has ilooe his part." (War ) We shall have done everything that humanly lies in //Of tower to motet ourselve s s o aipe6 invaders (Hear.) believe that we elimild resist :my invader who should some or e, our shores, that the Ftritub nation are, as they always have las n, s-alable of any exertion that nay be re quired of then,. (Near, hoar.) At the hegiuning of the e a .uniption of the cou l d ~rt of the late war see 15aa1470,000 volutiteers, we have now 1:10,41111, but if there was any im minency of danger I have no doubt that the number would he manifold greater time it is MM. (Hear, hear.) I believe we should show that we have that wicon querable will mid coursge °ever to. submit or yield, and what is else, out hi he (Cheers.) But with all that it would be done; iiquidiee to the c,mutry, if the goverumeut haying this report before them, k a ,, w i ng our dander ILIA liabilities, and karma( the looses F. to ,,,y,d e against them, failed to call even the 111.11a1C to give them the means of providing those defences whieh were eie.idered to' be necessary. (Hoc, hear.) 1. I 1 0 say that any goveroment would be betraying its duty. would Ise gullty of a high crime and rumlemeanour, cud would lie/ ...rve, I say it in sober sadness and weriouirove, the peualty of impeachment if it neglected so to call upon the House of 'moron.. ; and that any House of ('amnions to whom th at &pied was mate, and who did not respond to the feeling of the country, but turned to it a deaf ear. would not deserve the confidence of the country. (Cheer..) I now h..- to submit the terms of the reeolutiou with I shall cowhide .—" That it is the cpision 11 thin committee that towards icorkling for the construction of works for the defence of the roval dockyards and arsenal of ports of Dover and Porteinouth and the creation et • c .al arsenal, a sum of money not exceeding 2,1700,01t." 4 6 the seer ear—" set apart for the works of the be ' charged upon the ootailidated fusy( • and that the commissioners of her Ma . %rotary authorised and empowered to raise the sum by annui ties for • term not exceeding 30 years, such annuities to be also to the consolidated fund." The come e ci rti ar ci ed we propose to take is this—we do not ask the house to vote at once the 9.000,0001., which we think necessary for the completion of the works. The works must necessarily be spread over three or four years, and we think that 2,000,000 t are am much as eau be advantageously expended between the present time and this time twelve months. We have therefore limited the prs sent demand to that amount, reserving it to ourselves, if we should be in office, or to those who may mooned us, to apOy to rarlianteut for such soccemive portions of the KOik,oobl/. as may be found necessary in the mule of each soocemive year. There will be an account laid before par liament each year of the appropriatioa of the money so voted. I propose to bring in • bill, which will be an appropriation act, for the purpose, by which the money so raised shall be put into • separate account, to be kept separate from the amount of the ordinary revenue of the country ; that the money shall be strictly applicable to this purpoee, and to no other ; and that an annual account shall be laid before parliament for each instalment. (Hear, hear.) I do not pretend to 'ay exactly what may be the , annuatinteseet payable en these 9,000,0001. ; that will depend upon the mature of the marbet. But it happens that there are terminable an nuities which were raised for a period of 44 years in the year Del, which will expire in 1867. They involve am annual payment of 580,0001. It is quite clear, whatever may be the rate of interest at which these terminable annuities may be disposed of, that the aggregate charge will fall far short of 810,0001. so the only additional charge, beyond that now Mewed: which will arise from this meseare, will be limited M the peeled of time between this and the year INT. In Mg then terminable ammitke will drop in, and frees that pads& te the end of the thirty years the money at present appemprlaind to the payment of these annuities will in part tie chewable with the interest of the money now raised. I think that the course we have proposed is one which, whilst en the one band it provides adequately for the defence el the important positions of the country, involves on the ether hand se small • charge as possible on the country. The 2,000,000/. which we propose to raise a the t year will apply more or less to all the dlferwt places which are pointed out in the report ot the conimssiooina It is obvious that it will not be son cient to undertake all the works ; but, as all are not to be undertaken at noes, we think that 2,0:10,000f. will be suffi cient for the purpose A schedule will be laid before par liament which will sh ow in what proportion that 2,000,0001. will he divided between these different places. I hope the committee will be disposed, notwithstanding the intimation of tic hon. member for Birmingham, to agree to this pro position tonight. There will be ample opportunity, on killing in the bill and on subsequent ortaisiona, for die. at length the whole matter. The session is now far aCnnoed , and this matter is so important that parliamentary authority should be given to the t as soon possible. (Haar, bear.) irth il irt im es am, time we do not wish to deprive any member the hones of • proper opportunity of discussing a measure whisk naturally calls for discussion, and the important, of which cannot be overrated, but 1 hope the committee will awes to the resolution this evening. (Loud cheers.) The question having been put, Mr. HUBBARD tit that if it was necemary to raise this amount of money it mut desirable that it should not be reamed by terminable annuities. (Hear.) It would be impcmible to borrow money on such security without a merilice of between five and ten per oent. By borrowing the money in this way they would receive 1,00%000i. lees eat of the 10,000,00 M. or 12,000,000 f. proposed to be misted. The analogy of the landlord who borrowed money did not hold, became the landlord paid the capital borrowed and the inte rest in a certain number of yearn. It might be an excellent plan to lay the burden on one generation of 30 years, but it implied that they dared not trust the How of Commons and the legislature to repay with prudence what the country pimd year by year. What wag the good of annuities if they were to be anticipated in this way ? They ewer could repay the debt if they were to be in the position of borrowers when these annuities fell in. (Hear.) . - - Mr. BRIGHT—I shall not go into the point to which the hoe, gentleman has referred, nor into the more important mseetion which he. been laid before us by the noble via- Gaunt But I arlirtake to state tide, that during the 17 years I have lads neat in this house, I have never known a question of this magnitude, involving the payment of such enormous sums of money, to be brought forward without notice, and to be voted in the same evening. (Hear, hear.) The noble viscount spoke of from 9,1100,0001. to 12,000,01.101. It is impassible for any one to read this report end to know what we know of public works, without coming to the conclusion that this question involves an expenditure of at least double the amount. (Hear. hear.) I believe that, as sure as we commence these works, instead of 12,000,0041. you will spend 24,0110,0001. lam not prepared to give my seactka--witliout referring to the principle of the measure at all—to a resolution like that placed on the table of the lionekthe termed which we have heard for the first time from the noble viscount, and whisdi involves this country in such an enormous expenditure. (Hear, hear.) I will not go into the question whether anything ought to le done or not. I protest against being entrapped, or Me rited, or cajoled into agreeing to a resolution of this kind without notice. (Hear, hear.) I shall not even say what I think of the tone and manner of the speech of the noble lord. He will hear et that on other occasions. I shall con tent myself at present with moving that the chairman report pr cream end ask leave to sit again. (Hear, hear.) shell divide the home, and if any gentlemea will support me, the house will have the pleasure of dividing • good many times spinet the resolution, if pressed to-night. Mr. S. HERBERT entered into details of the plan of the fertifications proposed to be erected. At Portsmouth defences by land would be erected as well as by sec The defames of the Needles and of the landing places of the Isle of Wight, and three out of the five of the poiets at Spithead, would be the first operations. The works at Gosport would be completed, and it wee proposed to finish all the defences of Portsmouth at once. At Plymouth the sea defences would be completed. At Pem broke the works would he comparatively small. The Thames and Medway, and Chatham would be strengthened. At Dover the present von is would be hastened, and the mune course would be permed at Portland, although the latter would not be mode a large naval areenel. At Cork works would be commenced which would pat the Mebane hsto a good state of defence. The works proposed to be eistanseucatl this year would ultimately coat 5 5 000,0001. ••- - - . . After some remarks by Otinerel Pert., wbo cousklirred Use government, whoever they might be, responsible, and not in a men, nominal sense, for the safety of the country, Mr. OSBORNE said Lord Palmerston's speech had opened very alarming considerations, and he objected to seam to a vote upon this lineation under a sudden Istria H. recommended that the resolution should be postpooed. Lad PALMERNTON, remarking that he was convineed the room the Louse reflected upon the matter the more ready thee would Le to support the proposal of the govern ment, said he was prepared to yield to the request for de lay, end moved that the chairmin report progress and sak leave to sit again on that day week. After some further conversation, the CHAIIIIAN reported f ees, and the debate was adjourned till the day above. named. Upon the order for going into • committee of supply, hlr. H. SEYBIOUtt moved • resolutiou that the state of the ecclesiastical law in England *ad Ireland, and of the courts in which it is adminietered, awl especially the act commonly called the Clergy Discipline Act, require to be mewled and reformed; sal teat it is incumbent on the government to direct measures to be prepared for that pur. rigb.He rupported hie motion in a speech of considerable concluding that only two commit were open, either to oolong the courts, ex proposed in Issl, or, as he MOM stossia, to abolish them altogether. &r G. OBEY eppeeeil the Motion, which was negatived. CONOLLY nailed attention to the postal arrange ments between Dubai and the district lying north.% ad of Eiontskillee. The house thee west into ecommittve of rupply npco the Civil Service Fetinistee. (hi the rote for public offices cod buildings, the gam of 1,3001., asked for the erection of a building for the recep tion of the Wellington ~ar, was objected to Fy Mr. MILD NAT and other members, rod was withdrawn from the vote by Yr. C..wmta. The other rotes were agreed to without altemtion, bat sot without much discussion and many °Netter's. The MAynooth College Hill and the Sheriff Courthouses (Scotland) Bill inured the committee. The Heritable Securities, Ice. (Scotland) Bill was read a third time cud passed. Other hills were forwarded, the remaining business was deposed of, and th e house adjourned at a quarter pant 3 o'clock. The Scenery MOUNTED lirrtze. —This corps, which is Millet the command of (lintels Walter Moller, stet at their Ilaid.cinarten, Battersea-rise, on Saturday bud, for marching out, and by kind permission ot Major-Gesend Sir Richard Decree, commanding at Woolwich, were headed by the band of the Royal Hone Artillery. The route lay Armagh (Upham, Brixton, Duleich,Camberwell, Peckham. and Deptford to Greenwich. Throughout the march the corps was moat enthuanuitimilly received and touch admired for their soldierly hearing and fine horses. The uniform rcsembles very much the Light Cavalry (Hussars.) At Greenwich the cone dined at the Ship (Quarternmine'e), Major-General the Right Hon. Sir James Yorke Rowlett in the chair. Several ladies honoured the corps with their presence. The gallant general was received with full mili tary honours. The ruses and horse. were inspected by him, ant he was pleased to express his entire satisfaction at their sops -stance. This corps is about to establish a troop at the West-end, with • local doll bout and it is expected by this means a gnat addition will be made to this fine body of men. VoLu !cress Raviews. —lt is announced on autho rity tlwt a review of the volunteers of Glourestervhire sad the nsiritbourin counties win take place in the middle of Septemlier, on th e s p ec i ous niee d ows near Oloutheter. A review by her Majesty of the Scottish Volunteers at 1141 e. LimiL Las hews newt for the ieh of August. Ebe erpreslo. TO CORRESPONDENT& Ldeertleements Intended for ...the Repress" London Evening Pwr, most be et the °nice. 10. Boaterie-sheet, by Two ••dt on the day of yabiltatioa. II AMUCK= TEM TER OVIIILAND WATTS Yews. Clappeo da* CeiraPton, lad C. Vrm. C. Mathew. 11U3 lICSLLZKCY. . sad Mrs. C. Ilaithews.—Awl THE 10AZDING BCllool.—Commoing• at 7. .PI,I7fCENWS. THO VIOMIO, HOME TiVTllB.—The French vaudeville, BELLITAIRE ET PENSIONNAISJL—BOWLED OUT. Mr. H. irlddieoeab.—LA CHIME SENSISLL—And AN AMBUSCADE AT INlCERMANN.—Curatuenee at T. .1111T4EfU. Tin lvsinNa, THE BLIGHT AXD Tas BLOOM.—The great MACK NET will airs Ida resorraol ILSTIETAINIUNT. —RAI MINT AND AGONIES; ar, Spada* Nan %lathe Bleeding Bums —And OLD BOOTY, Till SAX= ON BISHOPSOATL ZION WATiI AT MOON =mos Tani DAT —Honda., 6b. Oat . ... Afternoon, at. Ms. To-molinow—Morning, 66. Ains. ... . Afternoon. 711. Ilso. LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 24. Tim Papa Mumma preached to a congrega tion of converts last night when he argued the no- I oessity for Great Britain, in the present anxious and uncertain state of Europe, of a system of self defence. No one could take exception to Lord Pamazaarou'a tone when he touched upon the critical foreign relations of a constitutional govern ment with a despotic neighbour, the risks of a condition of weakness, and the dangers of a policy of concession. Mr. BERNAL OSBORN' was hardly justified in characterising the public feeling to which this language ap pealed, and which it must inevitably strengthen, as " panic." It was nothing more than the bare truth of what is passing around us at this very hour, put into general terms, and clothed with a sense of responsibility. Lord PALMERSTON'S words would have been equally true, if not equally urgent, any day these eight or nine years past; the state of continental politics at the present moment may seem to emphssise their importance, but it gives them no new or alarming interpreta tion. Even should the contingencies against which the nation is invited to guard be averted, history will not fail to do justice to our measures of prevention. But the moat sounding and sincere generalisations hi the mouth of a Minister ought not to persuade us to accept with our eyes shut propositions founded, it is true, on national and acknowledged necessities and supported by un deniable considerations, but involving, first or last, changes in our whole military system, we had almost said in our whole constitutional economy. We may be ready to adopt Mr. SIDNEY HERBRRT'S volunteered disclaimer, on the part of Parliament and the country, of any such popular jealousy of fortresses and forces as obtained in Mr. Prrr's days. But it is ono thing to feel that the liberties of the people are out of reach of harm, and another to accept without hesitation a scheme of defence which, in the recorded opinion of a committee sitting at the Horse Guards, will require a large increase of the regular army, though the commit tee take care to assure us that the increase " would be required to a very much greater " extent if these works were not carried into " execution." With such a prospect it was not unreasonable that the House should decline to leap into a bottomless gulf in the dark, even with the satis faction of hurrying the country to its account with all the liabilities laid upon the head of a single generation. For we are now dealing with a strange crisis : we are standing face to face with a fast neighbour who is " devouring the future," and exhausting capital, for the sake of ono man's momentary flash of imagined omnipotence. But it is only a flash, and it must burn itself out. Calmer times will come for us all, and then when, according to all calculations, the steed should have been stolen, we shall be engaged in carrying out, at an enormous expense, the elaborate devices of committees of locksmiths. This, we say, is the risk we should run if we voted at a sitting the burdens of thirty years. Bit by bit defence sounds as plausible as bit by bit reform ; but as against dangers instant and immediate it has this double disadvantage—it is talked of too soon—it is done too late. The halting and hesitating spirit in which even Lord Patmeiorrow discusses the technical question prey.% once more that we are not, in the conti neutal sense, a " military " nation, though pre eminently a fighting people. The PRIME Mirfurraa and the Sacerraity for Was see clearly enough that our dockyards, at all events, must be thoroughly secured seawards and landwards. But as to the metropolis itself, though they are clear that an enemy would strike at once at the heart of the country, they have not made up their mind. that it ought to be defended, except in the field. The obstacles to any attempt at fortifying London must increase with the increasing area of the capital, and Lord PAL itsitarox points out that difficulty very forcibly. But as to the first line of defence, beyond which our old national superstition was never taught to look, Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT is content to hope that the fortifications of our arsenals will set free our ships, while Lord PALMERSTON expresses a more intelligible doctrine when he maks " what would be "come of the country if we lost the command of the " sea 1" No dockyards, of course no navy ; and therefore the absolute security of the dock yards is the fast and last necessity in the matter of fortifications. But before we fall back upon our fortifications, it becomes a question how much of the nine millions about to be saddled on the middle-aged population of these isles might not be more profitably spent in making the navy itself more and more popular, powerful, and effective 1 The money-question, of providing for these vast emergencies—whether by the creation of Consols, or, as is proposed, by terminable annuities to be paid off in thirty years—is not to be pARD3 FIRST CLASS and LONDON PRIZE MEDALS. WAVIER/TON and !MOODIE, OOLDSMITIM and JEWELLERS. Marabstary, M Erotic ttastrest, Covonagardan, W.C., N. 16. TRU astab ll abment closes at In tbit evanlag, L inden Saturdays at 1 o'clock. BENSON'S WATCHES. firfectfon of soochwolso."—MondatsPost. add woken, 4to WO ream ; stew to MP cabin. lewd Woo drops kr Dom • Illootrotat k= dowelplho of Wcosokoetko wake sow mode. W mot Pail pods of Ur world.--411 14 ladolArdid, LC. Nottedeboi 1740. D OUDNICY and SONS' LIVERIES plow =dui servBoBo 11 1 000assan's Suit NI • • Orooas Btait • 10 • Coachman's Suit • 1$ • DOITDNKY and SONS, Won, 11, Old Deed-olredd ; f, Bwillag. Iowa& ; de. Lanksardairnel—Nslaldhlmol 1/114. QWENT FIIMIGATION.—PIESSE and LUBIN'S MOON of MINIMAL—LW It, blow oat the Same, and as It inteeldevan hermit vapourwW rime Into the air. Enough fore sontlk dap/ nee In a bon, la. (Entered at Ste t/nem' Ilall.)—Perfuntea laden, New Bend-street HARMONIUMS -NEW MODEL.- mum. SIAM aad Ow. NI, Negant.atreat. INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL CONGRESS. The committee appointed by the congreea upon the eul jest of ileeinal weights awl measures assembled yes terday at No. ti section room, in King's College. Viscount EsioNwroN presided, and the committee was composed besides of Moms. L. Heywood, Leone Levi, Samuel Brown, J. Yates, H. Bohn, Owen, and Mr. Graham, master of the Mint (England) ; M. Viridian (Belgium) • N. Engel Fouses) ; Dr. Baumbauer (Netherbuids) ; Proiessur Daa rway) ; Dr. David (Denmark) ; and Judge Longstreet Delta States). Resolutions were paused recommending that each government should be requested to make en quiries, with the view of reducing the existing system el weight, and measure to the metrioil system, and organ king a schemeof internatiocal correapoudence on the subject In the afternoon there was a dinner at the Crystal Palen, at which all the foreign and colonial delegates who remained in London attended; Earl Stanhope presided; and the convivial gathering was graced by the presence of the Countess Stanhope and a large number of ladies. Amongst the members of the congress present were Baron Czkernig, M. Vimewhem Count Dubois, Count de Ripaldi, Pmfeasoe Doti Dr. Engel, Dr. Jervis, Sir J. Bowring, Mr. H. Freelmd, M.P. Mr. Milne", M.P., Mears. Jame" Heywood, Edward Chadwick. Michell, J. Brown, Valpy, J. W. Gil bert, Hodge, Hammack. A. B. Carter, - Newmarsh, B. Donaldson (Australia). Drs. Guy, Farr, Shaw, Asher, Sutherland, Captain Galion, Ice. The dejeuner, which was elegantly served in the new mouth wing dining room comprised every delicacy of the sawn ; Madame Laura routs, and Miss Matilda Baxter, who were of the company, volunteered, the one her power. ful vocal, owl the other her exquisitely trained instrumental abilities to the amusement, of the day, and Mr. Toole, as toastmaster, did effective duty iu directing the order of the poet prandial business. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the health of her Majesty, expressed regret that no member of the government was present to take the chair. He had expected that either Mr. M. Gibson. the President of the Board of Trade, or Mr. Cowper, First Commitaioner of Works, would have presided, but unhappily they wine compelled to attend in the House of Commons, where Lord Pidmerston was about to bring forward business of great importance. The CHAIRMAN gave the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and the rent of the Royal Family, and availed him self of the opportunity to pay a warm tribute of gratitude so hie Royal Hightmems time Prime Consort for presiding at the opening meeting, and for tho admirable and cnmprehensive speech with which he inaugurated their proceedings. The Foreign Sovereigns and governments who had seat delegates to the congress was the next toast, with all of whom Lord Stanhope said it was gratifying to know that we were on terms of the closet amity. He believed that the love of peace was common anmonpt the peoples of those nations, and ho hoped the delegates would convey to their respective . governements, and to the people they re. Ented, that It was the earnest desire of the people of nd to maintain peace, to cultivate the arts, and pro. mote the general happiness of mankind. Baran Czatteto, who spoke in French, felt himself highly honoured iii representing at the Statisticel Congress in London the important empire of Austria, and desired to express the hospitable and kindly treatmen t he had met with, from not only the British government, but the British people. He trusted that the policy which had prompted the hospitable reception accorded to the foreign delegates would cement that international union of sympathy and sentiment, which was the bust guarantee of The Comte DUBOIS followed. He had t.'. during the very short period of his residence in Eugland to admire English inatitutimem. (Cheers.) Whatever might be the statistical reaulta of time congrey, he was 'satisfied that these reunions would tend to promote the fraternity of na tion,. (Hear, hear.) M. VISACHERS also acknowledged the toast. The CHAIRMAN gave the health of the foreign delegates, and expressed a hope that they would go away more favourably impressed with the hospitality of the British peo ple than the British climate. Referring to the statement of M. Dubois that the delegates had come here in the cause of pence nod civilisation, he remarked that peace and civilisation were synonymous, and he cordially responded to the idea that peace and civilisation were the objects of the statistical congress. With the toast he begged to join the health of H. Bernataki, the delegate of Russia ; and Dr. Engel, the delegate of Prussia. f. BERNATSEI and Dr. ENOLL returned thanks. The Ottoman give the Colonial Delegates, coupling with it the name of Sir Charles McCarthy. Sir C. McCsanee acknowledged the toast. The Secretaries of the International Congress, Dr. Farr, Mr. Yelp", and Mr. Hammack, was the next toast, which was duly acknowledged by Dr. FARR, who elated that amongst those who hail been most instrumental in arranging the meeting of the Congress in Londou was the present Prime Minister of England. (Cheers.) Sir JOHN BOMBING gave the next toast—" The authori ties of King's College, and the leaned societies who h a ve placed their rooms at the disposal of the Congress." Dr. Goy, el King ' s College, acknowledged this toast. " The Stewards,' which was spoken to by Mr. Hammack, sad "The Ladies—British and Foreign," were the toasts which brought an entertainment, in which all who partici pated appeared highly gratified, to a oonclusiou. Loan CLTML—The member. of the United Service Club Intend to give a dinner to Lord Clyde ou the occasion of his return from India Tuesday, the 31st inst., will probably be the day, and His Royal Highness the Luke et Ousheide will preside oaths male& 1860. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PRUSSIA. THE PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM. BERLIN, HIM Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William has just been happily delivered of a daughter. Her Royal Highness and the royal infant are doing well. The Ptunssische Zeitung publishes the following : "For some time past the relations between the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin have been much more friendly, and now a further step has been taken. In an autograph letter his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph has expressed his eager desire to have a personal interview with the Prince Regent of Prussia. The Emperor left it to the Prince to appoint the place fur a meeting. We hope that the personal interview about to take place between the two rulers on the 26th inst., at Toplitz, will turn out favourably to the best interests of Germany." A letter from Berlin, dated the 20th inst. says : "In liberal circles the interview between the Emperor of Austria and the Prince Regent of Prussia is looked forward to with some anxiety. The Prince Regent declared at Baden-Baden that, under all circumstances, Prussia would stand up with all her power for the integrity of Germany, and thtts, doubtless, for the integrity of German Austria ; and this the Prussian people fully ap prove. But they do not want to see the fate of Prussia connected with the fallen mixed provinces of the Austrian Empire." FRANCE. The Constituti<mnel of to-day publishes an article expressing doubts ou the exactitude of the news of an armistice having been concluded between the Draws and the Maronitee, and hoping that Europe will not thus allow a sponge to be passed over the blood of Christians, and suffer all that has passed to be thus hushed up. NAPLES. Accounts from Naples state that during the dis turbance which occurred there the soldiers struck Admiral Barbier de Tinan, and also the Prussian Minister, the Swiss Consul, and various British sailors. The officers and non-commissioned officers did not take port in the riot, and, on the contrary, used their arms to bring the rioters to reason. The Neapolitan Minister of the Interior went in person on the 16th to receive the forty-four refugees who arrived in port on that day amid the enthusiasm of the people. . - NAPLES, JULY 23. Neraux, D'Agostino, Nunziante, Debrd, and Sco letta have been sent away from Naples. Messina, Melasso, and Syracuse have been evacuated by the troops, who are being transported to Naples in steamers. SICILY. MESSAGE FROM VICTOR EMMANUEL TO GARIBALDL pion otni owx coampoinnay.) NAPLES, SUNDAY Evriceta. After • conference with Count Cevour, it was resolved this day that the King of Sardinia should send an aide-de-amp carrying an autographic letter to Garibaldi, requesting him not to attack the continental possessions of Francis IL Colonel La Masa, Garibaldi's agent, has loft Turin for England. The Corriere Mereat►tile of Genoa states that up to the present time the number of volunteers who have gone to Sicily from Northern and Central Italy amounts in all to 14,000. A letter of the 20th says : Test night about 2,000 volunteers sailed from this port for Palermo, on board the Turin, a large steamer belonging to the Transatlantic Company, and two smaller vessels. M nine o'clock, a gun was fired as • signal for the em barkation, which took place near the lighthouse in the port, and without any concealment. The men were Lombards and Piedmontese, commanded by Colonel Sacchi. They had no army ; some few only wore the red flannel of the Chasseurs of the Alps, the rest had the usual dress of the working people in Upper Italy. There were some lads not above sixteen, and nearly all belonged to the artisan class. The youth of the middle and upper classes have already supplied their contingent. The calm and reso lute air of these young men was must striking; indeed, from the total absence of shouting and bravado, one would hardly have taken them fur Italians. They do not entertain the slightest doubt of beating King Francis's troops at the first encounter, and of soon being at Naples. Their faith in Garibaldi ahnost amounts to superstition. HUNGARY. VIENNA, JUL' El The evening edition of the official Wiener Zeitung publishes the following telegram, dated _ __ " PESTII, JULY 20. " Last evening a large crowd gathered before the Zrinig Coffee-house. " After the conclusion of the performance in the Hungarian theatres, a man addressed the public in the Hatvaner Gasee. Several seditious cries were beard. The guard who interfered met with strong resistance. Order was re-established at midnight. Ten individuals of the working class were arrested." THE UNITED /MATES. LONDONDERRY, JULY 24. - . . The Montreal Ocean Compauy'm mteaiuer Auglo 9e-ton, Captain litilantine, hoax Quebec, on the 14th, lugs arrived. She landed all nails except those for Liverpool sad Mseehester: ... — The Glasgow had arrived out. WASHINGTON, JILT 12. Advices from Peru to the 12th ult. state that the rela tions of the United States with that republic were approach ing a crisis. The Peruvian minister here has been notified that unless his government accepts the American ultimatum passports will be furnished him. The sloop of war Wyatt noon had arrived in Pe.TU. . _ . . . . Despatches lad been sent to Callao instructing the American minister to demand a settlement of the claim arising out of the seizure of the Lizzie Thompson and Geor gian, awl in ease of non-eouiplimson to clam the legation. The election at Oregon had resulted in the success of Logan, the republican Latalidate. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JULY 13. Cotton : Solar 1,500 hales, prices uncluingiel. Flour ac tive nod firmer. Wheat cuatanued better, and in fair de mand. Corn active and firm. Oats steady. Pork and lard firmer. Money sad foreign exchange unchanged. Stocks active. New York Central, &if to 83f ; Erie, 28 ; Illinois Central, 651 to 65f. Freights firm, and tending upwards. PHILADELPHIA, JULY IL—Stocks firm. Exchange on New York, at sight, par. Flour unchanged. Wheat de ebaed Sc. to Sc. BALTIMORE, JULY 11.—Ptcorisions active and buoyant. Eurrabo, Jur 11.—Flour heavy, prices uncharged. Wheat dull. Coen heavy. NOKTIMAL, JULY H.—Walther changeable. Flour bet tor. Stock greatly reduced. Wheat firm :large sales have taken place. Peas in good demand. Ashes firmer. Pots in fair inquest at 550 ; pearls at WO. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY. The North Atlantic Company's steamship Adria tic, Captain Comstock, with New York mails and dates to the 14th inst., has arrived here. The Adriatic brings 315 warms sad 1,122,556 dollars in specie, of which 250,000 dollars ant for Englaod. She spoke the Vanderbilt 50 =lir from New York, and on the 20th indent at 11 p.m. passed a fleet in close order of riling, supposed to be the convoy of HAUL the Prince of Wales. News received from Mexico states that General Ortega had defeated the forma at Bemires, and taken a number of primmer', as wall as artillery and war materials. Miramou bad retreated to Guadlajam, and was followed by the liberals. . . . The oews from !levees was unimportant. Susses were arm, freights declining. Exchange firm :on London 12 to 134. NEW YORK, JULY 14. Stocks better, and active. Flour firm and quiet. Wheat inn, demand feu. York tiro. Wee smalL EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oom owm comaznowonr.) PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. I hear at a very late hour this evening that the Sultan has protested against the proposed French intervention in Syria ; that, in consequence, coun ter-orders have been sent to the troops which were to have marched from the Ch lona camp, and that a fast steamer has been despatched from Toulon to bring back a portion of the advanced guard of the expeditionary army which had actually embarked. There is not time before the post goes out to verify this news. It reaches me, however, from a good source, and I have reason to believe, taking other symptoms into account, that within a few hours there will be a very great change in the attitude, hitherto so dictatorial, assumed by the government journals on the Syrian question. They will now be reduced to talk of the Emperor's patience and moderation, and his invariable re spect for the opinions and feelings of his neigh bours. This will be a good lesson for them after the insolent boast of the Pays last night that if England had not come in to the French scheme, her dissent would have made no difference what ever. This very Pays says to-night that all the "circumstantial details" published by certain journal? regarding the expedition to Syria are premature, and that, besides being inevitably in correct, these statements " may have other incon veniences which everybody will understand." I am aware that a telegram, dated Marseilles this day, status that orders have been given to hasten the embarkation of troops from Marseilles, Toulon, and Algiers, but assuming this news to have been authentic at the time it was sent, I feel little doubt that the counter-orders alluded to above are of later date. The following letter in the Constitutionnet from the camp of ChA.lona shows the expect of the ques tion there on Saturday 'net : An important piece of news has this moment arrived here ; it is spreading through the camp like ligitniug, and is electrifying the soldiers. The sth and 13th regiments of infantry have received orders to leave fur Syria, and they are already preparing to depart. They are to proceed direct to Marseilles, travelling as rapidly as possible, so as to em bark on the Mrd. In order to complete on a war footing the companies of the two regiments, volunteers have been called for from the other corps in the camp, and on an aver age upwards of 20 men per company of each of the regi ments of the three divisions have already presented them selves. This is ten times the number required. A% in fact, the five brigades of infantry remaining in the camp consist of 20 battalions, each of $ companies, it follows that upwards of 3,000 men have volunteered, though only a few hundreds were wanted. The evening papers announce the sudden de parture of the Emperor for Chillona. This news was altogether unexpected at the present moment. It is said that he returns to Paris on Thursday or Friday. There is a rumour, which I mention with all reserve, that a fortnight after the interview of Tmplitz the Prince Regent of Prussia will meet the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw. The Bourse opened with some firmness under the influence of the note in yesterday's Mouitenr, which was represented as altogether reassuring because it freed the Eastern question from all difficulty by announcing the concord of the powers iu regard to it. Subsequently, however, many people began to perceive that even on the tMoilitcitr's own show ing the intervention depended ultimately upon the decision of the Porte, and a reaction set in from which there was no recovery. The Route, after rising to 09fr. 50c., climes! at 681 r. 25c., both for cash and account, with a fall in each case of 10c. Mobilier rose fir. The railways were com paratively firm ; Orleans rose Bfr. 76c. ; Southern, sfr. ; and the other lines from lfr. 23c. to 21r. 50c. After the regular Bourse hours there was a further decline in the Rents of 15c., on the rumour of the Sultan's protest. Madame Bizet, a schoolmistress of Lyons, has presented a petition to the Council of State, praying for leave to prosecute the Bishop of Algiers and the Curd of Notre Dame des Victoires, in his diocese, for an abuse of power in the exer cise of their sacerdotal functions. BELGiItaL On Saturday, the 29th anniversary of the King's accession, great public rejoicings took place at Brussels. There was a review of the civic guard and the army, and addresses were presented to the King by the chamber, the senate, and the provin cial councils. His Majesty replied as follows : Gentlemen,—There cannot lie a tluer sight than the 111111, 'dishy of a people forgetting all distinctiotis in love for their country. That sight you afford, me to-day, and I ant deeply moved by it. Fur a nationality to be solidly este. blished A must answer not merely the intereeta, but the eentimeutr also and the habits, of a nation, and offer it political e and social elements which hate always the objects of its wishes. An impartial examination of the state of the couttry will prove that it has obtained what it had so long desired. It has liberty with public order, security with the strictest legality; it has made the most remarkable progress in the sciences, the arts, and industry, and at the sumo time its wealth, so admirably developed, is for tile first tune exclusively reserved for Am children. History shoe' uc that our beautiful provinces have often been the MUM of great warn ; more than any other part of Europe they have been watered by the blood of nations, without having their political position definitively decided. In face of these difficulties ince:saintly recurring, Europa thought tlmt by confiding your existence to yourselves that so lung-needed end would be achieved. Yon have, to your peat honour, solved that question ; the task which Europe confided to you has been sonimplished. You ore accordingly on the best terms with all powers, and enjoy the most friendly relatious withyour neighbours. Strong us these honourable results of 'our usitepeudent existence, let US hope that Divine Providence w ill continue its protect/OD tO us. and let us never forget the motto the country Las adopted. " Union is strength." Rio Monody's speech was received with euthueias tic cheering, prolonged for several minutes. In the evening the King was present at a banquet given by the Provincial Councillors, and spoke as follows : I thank the provincial councils for their patriotic address of thin morning, and the epleudid hospitality they offer are this evening. I thank them on behalf of my children, an well as myself. Whet' a country, by its patriotism, has conducted itself with such wisdom through such difficulties and trials, its future is certain. Let me hope that those former years will remain engraved on your memory as they trill eternally on mine. At night Brumela was brilliantly illuminated, and a vast crowd asaembled by torchlight iu front of the Palace, playing and singing the national airs, and cheering with the greatest enthusiasm. The Monitcur of Brussels promulgates the law for abolishing the octroi duties in Belgium, and which came into ovulation on Saturday last. The A nysint rg Gmette states that the international congress of chemists, which was to have been held last spring, is definitively fixed to meet at Carlsrithe on the 3rd Sept. Letters of invitation have been addressed to all eminent chemists, and especially to piefesaors of chemistry in public schools and colleges. LITIERPoOL MAIL DEsrATCHES To NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.—To-day (Tuesday) the mail steamer Australmien will be deepetclwal from Liverpool for New York with mails for the Vetted States, kc. Letters will be - received at the Liverpool Poottoffice till 12.15 p.m., with • late fee of ld. till 12.30 p.m., and with • late fee of tid. wail 1 p.m. Tomorrow (Wednesday) there will be two mail despatches from the Mersey, one to New York by the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia nail steamer Kan garoo, which will take mails for the United Mates, kc. ; and the other to South America, by the mail steamer de em. Letters for the United States, &c., will be received at the Liverpool Post-office till 11.15 a.m. ' with a late fee of ld. till 11.30 a.m., and with an addititsial fee of e,l. until 12 norm. Letters for South America, Lisboa, Cape de Verd, Permunbuco Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, must be directed " per mail steamer Jason," and will be received at the Liverpool Poet-office till 12.15 p.m., and with • late fee of ld. until 12.30 p.m. 1